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I am passionate about working with couples and families to create a ceremony that is a perfect fit for them. I particularly enjoy the rich and meaningful connections that occur when I interact with engaged couples as we craft their wedding ceremony together, word-by-word. The conversations and emails exchanged as we seek just the right song or reading or word to express just the right emotion and intention have been, for me, deeply rewarding.
I began my professional life as a Home Economics/Consumer and Family Studies teacher. Eventually, I moved into an elementary school library as a teacher-librarian and retired as an academic coach. These days, I am a Life-Cycle Celebrant certified by the Celebrant Foundation and Institute, a non-profit institution in Montclair, New Jersey. I was introduced to the words "life-cycle" as a Home Economics student at Colorado State University; ironically, now more than ever, my work focuses on the entire scope and range of the family and individual "life-cycle".
I love hearing stories—couple's stories, family stories, life stories of the person whose life we will memorialize and commemorate. I read the sweet words couples write about their partner and I am privileged to tell that same sweet story as part of their wedding ceremony. I am honored and humbled to sit around the table and hear stories of love and loss, triumph and challenge, shared by families and friends. Well-crafted ceremonies can and should enrich our life experience. Over time immemorial, humanity has faced threshold, rites of passage moments.The ceremonies we create to pause as we cross those thresholds inspire and celebrate our lives and our individual and collective journeys; ceremonies remind us that we are part of larger community of family and friends who love and support us.
A Colorado native, I have lived in the Denver-metro area since graduation from CSU. My husband, Gary, passed away several years ago and these days, I share my home with a brown miniature schnauzer named Nikita. I call her my "rescue dog", but the truth is that she rescued me, too. She spends most days curled up in a doggie bed under my desk, and weather permitting, accompanies me on my travels. I have two grown sons in the Denver area, a daughter-in-law who is a great friend and a beloved grand-daughter who is adored by a large extended family.
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Kitesurfing In Madagascar
January 15th, 2011 by David Erickson
Lonely Planet Travel writer John Vlahides has come to Sakalava Bay on the north coast of Madagascar. The warm weather and high winds has made this coastline a favorite for the international Kite surfing community. Found at YouTube from LonelyPlanet.
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The Air Force 270 gets the Triple Black treatment
As we officially enter the holiday season, we're getting so many new colorways to our favorite silhouettes. After launching the Air Force 270 earlier this year, Nike Sportswear updates the solid sneaker with a Triple Black variant. Utilizing tumbled leather to go with the nylon and synthetic material found on the tongue and ankle collar. Aside from the huge Air heel bag, our favorite piece on the AF 270 is the adjustable midfoot strap. The magnetic closure helps keep you locked down but also gives you that utilitarian look that's been en vogue this season.
The Nike Air Force 270 'Triple Black' is now available at Titan for Php 8,095.


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text: You're right. This is a bug. A size zero GC_local_malloc allocation currently just returns a fixed address outside the real heap. The only pleasant property this has is that it can be implemented without an explicit zero check in the allocator. The trivial (untested) workaround consists of enabling the hdr == 0 test in GC_free unconditionally, not just for malloc redirection. That way explicit deallocations of objects outside the real heap will be implicitly ignored. I'm not sure whether that is the best real fix. Hans On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Peter Wang wrote: > Hello, > > The following program crashes at the GC_free() line. I wonder if this > is a bug in gc6.7, or if allocating zero bytes is not allowed. > The crash does not occur with non-thread local allocation, nor with > gc7.0alpha5, though. > > #include <stdio.h> > #include "gc.h" > #include "gc_local_alloc.h" > > int main(void) > { > void *p; > GC_init(); > p = GC_local_malloc(0); > printf("%p\n", p); > GC_free(p); > return 0; > } > > I am testing on a x86-64, linux 2.6 machine. > > Peter > > _______________________________________________ > Gc mailing list > Gc at linux.hpl.hp.com > https://www.hpl.hp.com/hosted/linux/mail-archives/gc/ >


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Bubble music carnival held in ITL Park
Qihang Park, part of the Xi'an International Trade and Logistics (ITL) Park, held a bubble music carnival on July 8 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of ITL Park.
The opening ceremony of the bubble music carnival held in ITL Park. [Photo/itl.gov.cn]
A rainbow bubble run attracted hundreds of participants eager to experience the increasingly popular sporting event.
Originating in the United States, the bubble run provides a chance for people of all ages to unleash their excitement and enjoy themselves rather than testing their endurance and speed.
Three bubble stops were set up along the 5-kilometer track, where orange, green and purple bubbles were blown into the air, representing childhood, love, friendship and family affection.
Participants' clothes were stained with different colors as they ran through the sea of bubbles with pop music playing in the background.
"It's really interesting. I hope to see more of this kind of activity in the future," said one participant.
Participants enjoy themselves during the rainbow bubble run held in ITL Park. [Photo/itl.gov.cn]
ITL park has become the pride of Xi'an over the past 10 years as the new eastern center of the greater Xi'an area and home of the main stadium for the 14th National Games.
"I have worked in Xi'an's Baqiao district for 28 years. It has created a window to the outside world for Xi'an due to its rapid development while it was full of villages before," said Wang Meili, a member of the Baqiao district committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
Participants run amid purple foam during the rainbow bubble run held in ITL Park. [Photo/itl.gov.cn]


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The Birth Story of Helena Christine
As the warm waters left my body, I felt the first contractions. I called my midwife, LisaMarie, to give her a heads up. After an hour or so contractions kept picking up and I asked LM to come. As my kids slept, Jason and LM bustled around the house making birthing preparations while I tried to get some sleep but felt too excited. In came the tub and water, chux pads and safety equipment, brewing of herbs for post partum comforts, and piles of towels and receiving blankets. I thought I'd have my baby by 5 am. But as the time went on, my contractions waned and I prepared myself for a 9pm baby, like the others.
As the sun came up, my thoughts were on Vera, and I was trying to think of a way to go to her funeral, but labor pains, though spread out, were still pretty hard, and my water was broken so that could have been really awkward! Our baby's heartrate was a bit fast at times and I was beginning to feel worried. I told Jason if it didn't change we were going to the hospital, that I didn't want a home birth just to have a home birth. My midwife felt the same way and we both feel that, in a sense, we laid it down before God. LM sensed that the baby was perhaps waiting for the beautiful Vera's funeral to be over. I believe this was true. The midwives went home for some rest, left us with the doppler and ordered me to rest, rest, rest. The more I rested, the happier the little baby was. My temp. and blood pressure were perfect, and thank God, rest was just what we needed.
Our dear friends Thomas and Maria came and picked up our kids and took them to church for the funeral with plans to keep our daughter Hannah with them, and drop off our boys with my mom. Knowing our kids were in good hands, and that our little baby was just fine got my labor back in business. Contractions got hard and closer together again around noon. It was all so familiar - the rythm of laboring. The waves of intense pain and work fading into the peaceful breaks in between. I tried relaxing my whole body to get through them, allowing myself to do the work without the crippling distraction of tensing up. I got in and out of the tub. I watched tv. I let Jason and LM bring me snacks and drinks. My laboring beverage of choice is diluted cranberry juice with ice. I tried to eat cheese and crackers but really didn't have a huge appetite. I just ate enough for some energy.
Time ticked by and it was the afternoon when I started to get very tired, and labor seemed very intense. I went upstairs to bed for awhile to try to nap. Jason came with me - he wasn't feeling that great and we both dozed off between contractions. I would get a tough one and he would quickly wake up enough to put pressure on my tailbone to help me with the pain. We did this over and over for about an hour (I think.) The midwife picked up her partner Celia, and I came downstairs to get some relief in the tub. I got hit with a huge contraction and draped my arms over my new friend Celia to ride it out. I got in the tub and enjoyed a break as things slowed down again. Then LM suggested I get out for a while and stand up to let gravity take its effect. I was hesitant because I was feeling so sick of the pain, but also wanted badly enough to be done that I took her advise. I walked the few steps to the bathroom and stood up by the towel bar and got hit with those huge contractions that you just know are really bringing the baby down. I couldn't believe we were coming to this point - the point of transition - it wasn't 9pm yet! It was around 4ish. I got through a few big contractions in the bathroom and headed back to the tub. The house next door was being rented out and I remember people coming by to look at it and I was like, "Close the windows!" Can you imagine house shopping and hearing crazy birthing noises going on next door? OMG! How embarassing! I'm convinced that the people who rented the house are the ones that came by that day and they think we are total weirdos. haha.
So anyway...Birthing! I was getting to my absolutely least favorite part of giving birth. Ouchy, ouchy, pain, pain. I was starting to get pushy. I remember standing up in the tub, this time draped over Jason feeling so helpless. As we embraced I felt an overwhelming sense of peace and love. I was in my own home, being loved and supported by the wonderful man who gave me the gift of a baby, of which I was about to bring into the world. Those moments were strikingly romantic. More urges to push kept coming. LM encouraged me to just listen to my body and do what I felt I needed to do. No official check of my cervix and permission - just a gentle support of doing what I felt was best. I made some whimpy attempts at pushing, testing it out and before I knew it, I was in the spot all future mothers who are about to push a baby out find themselves to be: A rock and a hard place. You either push and deal with the pain or you will be pregnant forever. I picked the first option.
I HAD TO PUSH! OMG I AM PUSHING! AAAAH! I slashed around the water in the tub like a caught marlin expending the last of it's energy. It was kind of ridiculous. The midwives had calm faces. They did not panic. I pulled it together. I pushed. And I pushed. And, by golly, it was working. I told the baby not to worry. I was gonna get her out just fine. Come on baby. It's time to be born! Today is your birthday! For the first time in my career of pushing, I felt like it wasn't so completely horrible. Maybe it was the water, I don't know. But this time I felt much more in control. I knew I was going to be done very soon. We saw her head. Jason got that ecstatic look he gets when we have a baby. I grunted and growled and slowly eased her out. She had nuchal hand one of the midwives carefully got out of the way. Her face was out, and then in one big final, epic push I got the rest of our baby out, right into my own hands. I slowly and gently lifted her up out of the water for her first breath of life. She looked like Hannah! She was wide-eyed and stunning. She was chubby cheeked and sweet and all that a newborn baby should be. She was born beautifully without one cry. No trauma. Just joy. We adored her. She checked us out.
She was born on St.s Constantine and Helen day. A dear friend of mine told me she had prayed our baby would be born that day - and her prayers were answered with a yes! And of course I would name our baby for the great Saint Helen. It was meant to be. I felt the prayers of Vera, the prayers of my patron St. Anna as she watched over me while I was in the birth tub.
Everything else went great after that. I got tucked into my bed with our new sweet baby. Hannah came home that night and slept with us while Jason passed out on the boy's bed. In the morning my mom brought the big brother home and they all got to mee their new sister. It's so fun to see the older siblings meet the baby for the first time. They are always so enamored with the new baby. So lovely!
I will not lie and say everything was perfect after the birth. It was by far, my hardest post-partum. Hannah, my firstborn's was difficult in another way, being a cesarean, I had a painful physical recovery, and I believe I had wacky hormones because of it and definitely had "baby blues" with some uncontrollable crying and extreme exhaustion. James was pure elation, being a VBAC and in many ways a taking back of my body, and I felt incredible after. Phillip's birth was long and hard and I felt more tired, but still mostly OK. But after our little love, Helena, I felt completely overwhelmed with everything. I think it was a challenge because she had a weird latch issue and lost more weight than I was comfortable with. Using some creativity I figured out a way to trigger more milk ejection reflexes while she nursed, and she finally began plumping up. I think the worry robbed much of my joy, unfortunately. Thank God for my family, and church family and friends that brought us meals! Managing my house, the big kids, and caring for a newborn that needed to gain weight rattled my nerves. My poor family! The fog really didn't lift until Helena was six weeks and we were churched.
Little Helena is an angel of a baby. She's been so sweet. From birth, she has had the most engaging eyes and face. She makes eye contact with everyone and freely gives her big baby grin. When she was just a month old, she played a cute little baby game that she made up. She sat in her bouncy seat and we would put a blanket over her body. Then we would se how fast she'd kick it off. She did this over and over, much to the delight of the whole S. Family! We are so pleased to be blessed with her and we thank God every day for our dear family.


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Now You Can Hold David Lee Roth in the Palm of Your Hand
Sometimes only David Lee Roth can properly express how you feel. Sometimes a set of circumstances are so complex that it takes a wordsmith like Roth to properly convey your sentiment. Sometimes you just have money to blow and you love Van Halen.
If any of this rings true, then you need the David Lee Roth Scream Box.
Brooklyn, N.Y. basement inventor Dave Rogge created the gadget, and using it is simple. Turn it on, hit a big glowing button, and out comes a Roth-ism, mostly from 'Running With the Devil.'
"I'll tell ya all about it."
"I live my life like there's no tomorrow."
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Eat your heart out, Staples Easy Button. You may in fact be easy, but you're not nearly as much fun.


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Two happy people
January 6, 2008
As we left Ranganathittu on our way home…
She doesn't have an i-Pod, she doesn't own a Merc; Her life, for the most part, is extremely hard work. Two goats, two palm trees, toil all the while… But how can someone be called poor with that simple, happy smile?
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She doesn't have an i-Pod, she doesn't own a Merc; She has never faced the other woman's kind of heavy work. But she is aware of her good fortune, the freedom from strife, She is happy that she can lead such a lovely life.


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Army Council
Army Council: A committee of experts under the presidency of the Secretary of State for War, which has the final disposition of the defences of the Empire. The Council consists of:
- Lord Kitchener
- General Sir C.W.H. Douglas
- Lieutenasnt-General Sir H.C. Sclater
- Major-General Sir J.S. Cowans
- Colonel Sir S.B. Von Donop
- Right Honourable H.J. Tennant
Each service member is a specialist in some branch of military science, and has had practical experience in the field. [1]
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- ↑ Various contributors (1914). The War Book-of-Facts. 2nd Edition. A.W. Shaw Company, London p.144.
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India in 2013: The Year in Tech
From Narayana Murthy coming out of retirement to rejoin Infosys, the company he co-founded, to Amazon coming to India, 2013 was an eventful year for India's technology sector.
We recap the biggest stories in tech this year:
New Apps for Women's Safety: The gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman in New Delhi in December last year sparked a search for ways that technology could be used by women to alert authorities if they were in danger.
Some apps that were selected by Nasscom were Tech Mahindra's Fight Back and Sentinel by MindHelix Technosol Pvt Ltd, a Kerala-based technology startup.
Amazon launches website in India: American online retail giant Amazon Inc. launched an Indian edition of its website in June, offering books, movies and TV shows. Amazon.in has since expanded its offerings to include kitchen appliances, beauty products and jewelry, among other things.
India's surveillance program stalled: This was the year when India was supposed to launch a new surveillance system -- the Centralized Monitoring System – along the lines of spying programs used by America's National Security Agency. The Indian system is being developed to intercept phone calls and monitor email and other internet communication, in a bid to ascertain security threats.
Best smartphone for less than $100: One of our most popular technology articles this year was a review of three smartphones that cost less than $100: Nokiaha 501, Samsung Galaxy Star and the Micromax A34. Read the blog to see which one gives users the best value for money.
Infosys' revolving door: A string of high-profile executive exits racked Indian information-technology major Infosys Ltd. this year, raising questions about the company's future. Among those who left were Ashok Vemuri, face of Infosys' business in North America, and Basab Pradhan, head of global sales operations.
Co-founder Narayana Murthy came back from retirement to take over the reins and help stabilize the company.
India plans cellphone and tablet giveaway: In a country where more people have access to a cellphone than a toilet, Milind Deora, the junior telecommunications minister, had a new plan to further increase cellphone access. During the parliament's winter session in December, Mr. Deora proposed giving away cellphones to 25 million rural households. He said free tablets could be given out to senior students of government schools. The proposal hasn't been cleared yet.
Sony bets big on PS4 in India: Sony announced the launch of its flagship gaming console Play Station 4 in India this month. Sony's senior management talked to India Real Time about why they expect the new console to win over Indians who have traditionally preferred handheld games. The console will be launched in early 2014.


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A Indústria Eletrônica no Brasil e na China: Um Estudo Comparativo e a Análise das Políticas Públicas de Estímulo a Capacidade Tecnológica do Setor
The world-wide economy has passed for reorganization processes. It having evidenced a set of emergent countries that will be able to become the main productive forces of next the 50 years. These countries constitute the BRIC - Brazil, Russia, India and China. The objective of the article is to compare the development of the electronic industry in Brazil and China, both integrant countries of the BRIC, and to bring elements for the reflection on the public politics of stimulation technological capacity of the sector. This study evidence that the intervention of the government, in form of technology policy, plays an important role in stimulate the national technological capacity of the sector.
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If you're contemplating a trip to Disneyland Hong Kong with your family, especially if you have young children, I would say it's a good choice of destination.
Comparing to other Disneyland parks, the one in Hong Kong is relatively small. This means the little ones will less likely be overwhelmed and the pace will be more leisurely for the whole family.
Here are some tips I've learnt to better enjoy Disneyland HK:
- You can probably finish all the rides and shows in a day but if you prefer to enjoy the fun at a leisurely pace, then make it one-and-a-half day. That way, you can even head to the hotel for a nap before returning for more.
- Go during the weekdays and it will likely be less crowded (translating to shorter waiting time at each attraction). We were there on a Tuesday and the crowd was bearable (we've experienced a much bigger crowd when we went to Japan's Disney Sea some years back).
- Take note of all the show times and then plan the rides around it. From our experience, all the shows were great, though Kenan cried a little at start of the Lion King musical ('Festival of the Lion King', Adventureland), probably a bit overwhelmed by the sounds and lights. For each of the shows, you probably want to go there and queue at least 30 minutes before show starts.
- Make use of your FASTPASS at designated attractions to minimise waiting time (read more about it here).
- You can skip the shops lining the Main Street and come back for them later. Anyway, there's also shops at the hotel where you can continue the shopping experience.
- You might want to save some of the popular rides for later in the day when the queues seem to be shorter.
- Rent a stroller at the Fire Department on Town Square.
- Don't miss the Flights of Fantasy Parade and fireworks!
- Check out the Disneyland Hong Kong website for promotions and special offers.
I'll end off with some photos from our Disney trip!
Kenan enjoying the Flights of Fantasy Parade where there were lots of amazing floats and dancing characters. Crowds already gathered at both sides of the road about half an hour before show starts. Being the kiasu Singaporeans, we found a nice spot and sat down to wait.
The musicals were great! Kenan especially loved the Golden Mickeys show (top pic) and strangely, two days after we returned home, he suddenly asked me to play his music CD - and it's a first! He's never seem to be interested in music before this.
The Fire Dept - where visitors can rent strollers (in blue as seen in photo above). They even put a nice big name tag with your child's name on the back of the stroller for easy identification. You are required to park the strollers at designated area at each attraction.
Enjoying the Tinkle Bell Castle Illumination - a great show of lights and music


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Project Technician
When you work with us, there is no such thing as work
Enjoying your career is our priority
Work with top leaders: We understand that leadership cultivates the foundation of our culture to empower you to achieve the F12 mission. Work alongside the CEO and stakeholders to develop and execute best practices inside and outside of work.
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Never stop growing: We are dedicated to not only the growth and success of our company but of YOU as well. Companies grow when the people inside them grow first. You will join a team of driven individuals who have a boundless capacity to learn and grow.
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- Comprehensive benefits package (Dental, Massage, Orthotics)
- Health Spending or RRSP Matching
- 3 weeks vacation, plus extra Flex days
- Travel opportunities
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Day in the Life as an F12 Project Technician
Engage and lead exceptional customer experiences that extend beyond the scope of the IT project lifecycle. Acting as a true visionary, you will bring to life all phases throughout the technical onboarding process. Beginning from project conception to the follow-up, this role ensures quality execution of end to end IT services and solutions.
- Create and innovate new technical methods of deploying solutions
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- Research and test new products and solutions
- Own project deliverables, project timeline, and project success factors through accurate technical notes and activity tracking
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- Actively participate in making F12 a fun place to work
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build sustainable relationships of trust through open and interactive communication
- A desire for personal growth and technical skill development
- Microsoft Certification – MCSA
- VMWare VCP and WatchGuard Certification are an asset
- Bachelor's Degree or higher, or direct business experience
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In your cover letter, we would love to hear about your experiences related to this position, and how you would like to develop professionally and personally with us. We look forward to hearing from you!


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Dr Desrosiers Research Laboratory
Dr Desrosiers Research Laboratory
Description of Research
The research trajectory of the Desrosiers laboratory has been largely driven by discovery of new viruses and their development into new models of human disease. Dr. Desrosiers led the team and was senior author on the Science publication that described the discovery of the simian immunodeficiency virus and its association with AIDS in rhesus monkeys [1]. This report followed by almost exactly one year the first descriptions of HIV-1 in humans with AIDS. The Desrosiers laboratory is also credited with the discovery of a gamma-2 herpesvirus of rhesus monkeys that is a close homolog of the human Kaposi sarcoma herpesvirus (KSHV) [2]. My laboratory also described the discovery of new type D retroviruses that are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in macaque monkey colonies [3].
The Desrosiers laboratory was the first to define an infectious, pathogenic, molecular clone of SIV, the first of its kind for any HIV, SIV, or any lentivirus [4]. Virus derived from transfection of this full-length cloned proviral DNA is not only replication competent but also fully capable of causing AIDS in monkeys. This SIVmac239 remains the cloned virus of choice and is widely used around the world. The Desrosiers laboratory has used this clone to make a number of important contributions to the understanding of the relative importance and functional role of individual genetic elements of the virus. Each of the six so-called "auxiliary" genes of the virus have been deleted individually and the properties of these gene-deleted viruses have been defined in cell culture and upon experimental infection of rhesus monkeys [5]. Published work with SIV deleted of its nef gene has probably received the most attention. Working subsequently with physician-scientist John Sullivan at UMass Medical School, The Desrosiers laboratory demonstrated that an HIV-positive long-term nonprogressor who was part of a hemophilia cohort was, incredibly, infected with nef-deleted HIV-1 and only nef-deleted HIV-1 even dating back to his first visit [6]. This remarkable case has been largely superceded by a group of 8 HIV-infected individuals in Australia, all infected by the same blood donor, who are all infected only with nef-deleted HIV-1. The degree of attenuation of nef-deleted SIV in monkeys approximates the degree of attenuation of nef-deleted HIV-1 in people. The Desrosiers laboratory has also used this system to characterize the MHC-downregulating activity of the virus, the NF-kB-inducing activity of the virus, and the genetic determinants and physiologic relevance of macrophage tropism.
In an extensive series of publications, the remarkable protective capacity of live-attenuated nef-deleted strains of SIV, including strains with deletions of multiple genetic elements, has been demonstrated [7]. In fact, the protective capacity of nef-deleted SIV to this day remains the gold standard for vaccine protection in the SIV-rhesus model. Nonetheless, the findings demonstrate that a protective vaccine against HIV-1 is going to be very difficult to develop.
On the herpesvirus front, the principle growth-transforming gene in the gamma-2 herpesvirus of New World primates, an oncogenic herpesvirus called herpesvirus saimiri, has been defined [8]. In subsequent work, equivalent growth-transforming activity of the equivalently-placed gene in the rhesus monkey rhadinovirus and in the human Kaposi sarcoma herpesvirus was demonstrated. The Desrosiers laboratory has also contributed to the understanding of gamma-2 herpesvirus late gene regulation, to receptor usage determined by the gH/gL glycoprotein complex of RRV, and to development of gamma-2 herpesviruses as gene transfer and vaccine vectors.
A good portion of the effort in the Desrosiers lab at the current time is directed to defining ways by which a protective sterilizing barrier may be achieved against SIV/HIV. The current focus is on two approaches: recombinant gamma-2 herpesvirus [9] and use of AAV vector to deliver persistent levels of potent broadly-neutralizing antibodies [10]. Some recent results with recombinant RRV are worthy of further note.
Glycoproteins of RRV and other herpesviruses have a "bad" codon usage (bad for expression) and are naturally trans-induced by the immediate early gene product ORF57. The viral-encoded glycoproteins of HIV, SIV and related lenti-retroviruses also have a bad codon usage and are naturally transinduced by rev. We noticed that the nature of the bad codon usage of RRV gH and gL was different from the bad codon usage of HIV and SIV gp160. We changed the codon usage for six amino acids in a SIV gp160 cassette to reflect the bad codon usage of RRV gH and gL. A total of 10.5% of the codons were changed and the rev-response element (the RRE) was left intact. The effects on expression were astounding. The SIV gp160 with the altered codon usage was no longer trans-induced by rev. However, this codon-altered gp160 cassette was now strongly trans-induced by RRV orf 57. Conversely, gH could be made rev-inducible only when the codon usage was made gp160-like. These results indicate that for both SIV rev and RRV orf57, two completely different virus families, transinduction was dependent on the nature of the bad codon usage. Furthermore, the codon-dependent transinduction appears to be intimately tied to cellular proteins called Schlafens. Rev induction of the natural gp160 sequence was potently inhibited by three of the five known Schlafens and orf57 induction of the codon-modifed version of gp160 was potently inhibited by all five Schlafens. The inhibitory activity of Schlafen 11 against codon-modified gp160 could be overcome by increasing concentrations of orf57 in a dose-dependent manner. Our results suggest that the cellular Schlafens serve as restriction factors for both herpesviruses and lentiviruses and that both orf57 and rev function at least in part to overcome this restriction. These observations have practical applications in attempts to use recombinant RRV as an experimental vaccine approach for AIDS in monkeys. The Desrosiers laboratory has previously published that recombinant RRV-SIVenv with a codon-optimized env cassette and CMV i.e. promoter did NOT elicit detectable anti-env antibody responses in monkeys. However, the new recombinant RRV-SIVenv with altered codon usage and orf57-inducible env expression IS eliciting anti-env antibody responses. Now perhaps this recombinant herpesvirus approach can match, or come close to matching, live attenuated SIV for the degree of vaccine protection that can be achieved.
Dr. Desrosiers has been a strong advocate for the need for more basic, discovery research in the search for an AIDS vaccine, and less government-funded product development, product manufacturing and clinical testing [11,12]. Dr Desrosiers gave a controversial plenary lecture at the 2008 national AIDS meeting summarizing this point of view. The dismal performance of vaccines in the six expensive human efficacy trials that have been carried out to date supports the point of view that we are a long way from finding a vaccine with a chance of showing the kinds of efficacy that we need.
1. Daniel MD, Letvin NL, King NW, Kannagi M, Sehgal PK, et al. (1985) Isolation of T-cell tropic HTLV-III-like retrovirus from macaques. Science 228: 1201-1204.
2. Desrosiers RC, Sasseville VG, Czajak SC, Zhang X, Mansfield KG, et al. (1997) A herpesvirus of rhesus monkeys related to the human Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus. J Virol 71: 9764-9769.
3. Daniel MD, King NW, Letvin NL, Hunt RD, Sehgal PK, et al. (1984) A new type D retrovirus isolated from macaques with an immunodeficiency syndrome. Science 223: 602-605.
4. Kestler H, Kodama T, Ringler D, Marthas M, Pedersen N, et al. (1990) Induction of AIDS in rhesus monkeys by molecularly cloned simian immunodeficiency virus. Science 248: 1109-1112.
5. Kestler HW, 3rd, Ringler DJ, Mori K, Panicali DL, Sehgal PK, et al. (1991) Importance of the nef gene for maintenance of high virus loads and for development of AIDS. Cell 65: 651-662.
6. Kirchhoff F, Greenough TC, Brettler DB, Sullivan JL, Desrosiers RC (1995) Brief report: absence of intact nef sequences in a long-term survivor with nonprogressive HIV-1 infection. N Engl J Med 332: 228-232.
7. Daniel MD, Kirchhoff F, Czajak SC, Sehgal PK, Desrosiers RC (1992) Protective effects of a live attenuated SIV vaccine with a deletion in the nef gene. Science 258: 1938-1941.
8. Desrosiers RC, Bakker A, Kamine J, Falk LA, Hunt RD, et al. (1985) A region of the Herpesvirus saimiri genome required for oncogenicity. Science 228: 184-187.
9. Bilello JP, Manrique JM, Shin YC, Lauer W, Li W, et al. (2011) Vaccine protection against simian immunodeficiency virus in monkeys using recombinant gamma-2 herpesvirus. J Virol 85: 12708-12720.
10. Johnson PR, Schnepp BC, Zhang J, Connell MJ, Greene SM, et al. (2009) Vector-mediated gene transfer engenders long-lived neutralizing activity and protection against SIV infection in monkeys. Nat Med 15: 901-906.
11. Damania B, DeMaria M, Jung JU, Desrosiers RC (2000) Activation of lymphocyte signaling by the R1 protein of rhesus monkey rhadinovirus. J Virol 74: 2721-2730.
12. Desrosiers RC (2004) Prospects for an AIDS vaccine. Nat Med 10: 221-223.


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It's a Whole New Old World
By Lisa Birnbach
with Chip Kidd
Illustrated. 248 pages. Alfred A. Knopf. $19.95.
In 1980 "The Official Preppy Handbook" arrived as a field guide to the habits of the cotillion-hopping, madras-wearing, loafer-shod upper crust. Was it a valentine, a joke or a prophecy? This much is clear: It began life as a $3.95 paperback and stayed on the New York Times best-seller list for more than a year. Copies were plentiful, yet asking prices for used ones today can easily top $100 and sometimes exceed $1,000. Somebody must think it contains useful information.
When Lisa Birnbach co-wrote and edited it, she was in some ways prescient: the J. Crew catalog wasn't even a gleam in a marketer's eye. But much of "The Official Preppy Handbook" just codified widely known information about high-WASP habits and affectations. (It also borrowed from "Take Ivy," a 1965 style guide published in Japan.) Its original readers, whether they were knowing or curious, were apt to be of boarding-school age or a little older. Now they're pushing 50.
After the handbook's huge success Ms. Birnbach helped bring forth a wide array of less necessary titles. (Among them: "1,003 Great Things to Smile About" in 2004 and "40% Off Is the New Black" in 2009.) And the world changed — a lot. Among the post-1980 phenomena with which "The Official Preppy Handbook" could not conjure are the Internet, the McMansion, the cellphone, synthetic fleece and the emergence of famous rehab facilities as today's new boarding schools.
So Ms. Birnbach has returned to the subject she knows best. Together with Chip Kidd, the graphic designer and writer with the certifiably preppy first name, she has come up with "True Prep: It's a Whole New Old World," a surprisingly worthwhile sequel to the now-creaky "Handbook." This new compendium moves beyond school days to address matters newly relevant for the core readership: how to remarry, how to dress for a funeral and how to deal with the collateral damage caused by decades' worth of the party-hearty behavior described in the first book.
"Good luck does not favor the preppy," "True Prep" says. But then again, luck was always beside the point when it came to preppy status. It's good connections that count, as in: "We know people who know the head of the hospital board. We know the D.A. We know the very best lawyer for that. We know the cardiologist who helped the president. We know the head pro. We know the maître d'. We know Aunt Chapin's orthopedic surgeon, and he is the knee man." The royal "we" of "True Prep" also knows that the Zoobilee in June is one of the charity parties that matter in Philadelphia.
Since not all readers of "True Prep" can be expected to care about that, this book touches many bases. And it's funny without exactly being satirical. The authors take their mission sort of seriously and approach the prep ethos with obvious affection.Continue reading the main story
Don't expect this book to skewer snobbery or question the herd mentality behind certain prep habits. "Every single one of us — no matter the age or the gender or sexual preference — owns a blue blazer," it simply proclaims.
In a book filled with lists, drawings and photographs along with a good deal of text, Ms. Birnbach does her best to anoint new prep personalities and define adult prep tastes. Both are epitomized by a new edition to this book's grosgrain-columned pantheon: Stephen Tyrone Colbert, who went to what "True Prep" deems "the preppiest college in the United States," Hampden-Sydney. (Though his television alter ego, also called Stephen Colbert, has the noxiously un-prep habit of loudly announcing that he went to Dartmouth.)
Other new additions include Thomas John Brokaw, who has called himself "anti-preppy" but has also said that in college he "majored in beer and coeds," which the book deems "so prep it hurts"; A. R. Gurney ("our leading playwright"); Erich Wolf Segal (for using "preppy" as a noun in "Love Story"); Martha Helen Kostyra Stewart (though she's a little too hardworking for this book's taste); Tory Robinson Burch (for her ballet flats); and Alan Stuart Franken. "You might think he was admitted to the Pantheon only for his unwavering choice of tortoise-shell glasses," the book says of Mr. Franken, the not terribly prep-minded senator from Minnesota. "In fact, it was his understated restraint as he waited through the endless recount of his 2008 election vote that wins our admiration." President Obama and his wife, Michelle, are on the haute prep list too.
"True Prep" makes a point of flaunting the sexual, racial, ethnic and class diversity that were in short supply the first time around. And when Ms. Birnbach has to address anything tricky, she gets someone else to do it for her. (In a guest essay Edmund White calls Yale "definitely the gayest" Ivy.) Ms. Birnbach is best suited to the shopping guide and flagrant product plugs that are a large part of this book's raison d'être. And she has strong opinions about how to deploy the "thingy" that has become an essential part of 21st century behavior. No wearing a Blackberry on your belt, please — not even if you're president of the United States.
Is there a full book's worth of this kind of advice to deliver? Yes, for the reader who doesn't mind rehearing the obvious and who thinks that Nantucket Reds never get old. And yes, for the reader who doesn't mind the occasional contradiction or two. First Ms. Birnbach explains that job titles in the prep household have changed: the cook is now a chef, the chauffeur a driver. Then she writes about "The Cook's Day Off" anyhow. She writes that oceans are preppier than lakes "because they are natural and uncontrollable." Three sentences later she writes that oceans are controlled: "by jetties, the moon and the club's beach committee."
Then again, prep style is averse to nitpicking. And isn't caviling rather rude? It isn't prep at all.
It's a Whole New Old World
By Lisa Birnbach
with Chip Kidd
Illustrated. 248 pages. Alfred A. Knopf. $19.95.
The Books of The Times review on Monday, about "True Prep: It's a Whole New World," by Lisa Birnbach with Chip Kidd, a sequel to "The Official Preppy Handbook," misstated the handbook's price when it was published in 1980. It was $3.95, not $4.95.


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The ultimate thing is that no one is entitled to your life. No one is entitled to be your friend, to be your boss or employee. Ultimately you are in total control of how you live your life. Life is too short and too full of stress to draw the line of what's acceptable at facial hair. If wearing a beard makes you happy; if wearing a beard is part of who you are, then fuck it – grow your beard and don't look back.
To buy the most influential product, you will have to carry on an in-depth market research. Where the market is cluttered with competitive products introduced by different brands, to buy the best professional beard trimmer requires your special attention. And below we mention the factors, which contribute a prominent role in letting you pick the most efficient product.
Still, beards remained rare among the Romans throughout the Late Republic and the early Principate. In a general way, in Rome at this time, a long beard was considered a mark of slovenliness and squalor. The censors L. Veturius and P. Licinius compelled M. Livius, who had been banished, on his restoration to the city, to be shaved, and to lay aside his dirty appearance, and then, but not until then, to come into the Senate.[26] The first occasion of shaving was regarded as the beginning of manhood, and the day on which this took place was celebrated as a festival.[27] Usually, this was done when the young Roman assumed the toga virilis. Augustus did it in his twenty-fourth year, Julius Caesar in his twentieth. The hair cut off on such occasions was consecrated to a god. Thus Nero put his into a golden box set with pearls, and dedicated it to Jupiter Capitolinus.[28] The Romans, unlike the Greeks, let their beards grow in time of mourning; so did Augustus for the death of Julius Caesar.[29] Other occasions of mourning on which the beard was allowed to grow were, appearance as a reus, condemnation, or some public calamity. On the other hand, men of the country areas around Rome in the time of Varro seem not to have shaved except when they came to market every eighth day, so that their usual appearance was most likely a short stubble.[30]
With a full line of "beard control" products that includes a beard wash, beard control conditioner, beard oil and a boar bristle beard brush, Billy Jealousy is not messing around. The Gnarly Sheen Refining Beard Oil has a blend of sunflower, avocado, almond and jojoba oils, and has a sweet smell that's hard not to like (all the more reason to slap it on your face – though you'll only need a drop). It conditions both beard and your skin, and helps get rid of dryness and flakes.
This oil is generally used for commercial uses wherein the oil is further refined and purified, and then sent for packaging and sold in several countries for different uses. The reason is that during the purification procedure impurities and odour of the oil is removed. Though, this procedure makes the extracted oil unsuitable for consumption, the coconut oil produced in this method also helps in production of lauric acid, which we're going to analyze it a bit more.
Many of the best trimmers are good for wet and dry use, i.e., you can both use it in the shower and/or with shave gels, lotions, and foams. Waterproof trimmers are usually easier to clean, as well. In most cases, you simply wash them with water from your faucet to remove excess hair trimmings. That kind of convenience is hard to beat.
Start by rubbing it between your hands until the grains dissolve, then work it through your beard and onto your skin. Not all of it will come off of your hands, so it's encouraged to put the excess in your hair or on dry spots of your skin. Utility Balm isn't only for your beard – its deep conditioning effects apply to your hair and your skin as well (to read up on all the different ways you can use Utility Balm, check out this article).
Art Naturals Organic Beard Oil & Leave-In Conditioner comes in a 2-ounce bottle with an included dropper for easier and safer application of the oil. This product is an awesome moisturizer which will hydrate your skin perfectly, and it will treat any harmful conditions like itchiness or flaky skin in no time. This beard oil will also treat coarse hair, and it will transform your beard from rough, hard-to-touch hair into a very soft, loveable beard.
One more thing sets utility balm apart from its oil-based cousin: versatility. Beard oil is fantastic for keeping the skin under your beard and your beard healthy, but utility balm was designed to use as a skin moisturizer, too. You can use it as a daily moisturizer, something to keep your tattoos bright, or you can save it for dryer months that require some extra TLC.
Try it out for a few weeks and see how it fits into your busy schedule, if it works then good for you but if not consider a different beard style that won't take as much time and effort to take care of.
After all, combing your beard does involve employing specific techniques to make the most of your grooming experience. Your comb should have both wide and narrow teeth arrangements. The wide teeth are for your beard – which is obviously thicker – and the narrow teeth are for your mustache.
While most manmade chemicals for topical use in the US aren't inherently dangerous—and there are laws to prevent companies from using them—there's still something refreshing about a company that uses natural ingredients. Wild Willies doesn't use manmade chemicals, which means no synthetic fragrance or preservatives or dyes. What you get is what you see (and smell).
Tip: It may seem counterintuitive when you're trying to grow your beard out, but you can use a beard trimmer to keep all your facial hair trimmed to a shorter length closer to your face, which will help make those sparse patches less apparent while they're filling in.
Our cellulose acetate combs were designed to prevent breakage and snagging on your beard. The combs are made in a little-known way: the shape is cut out of an acetate sheet, then the teeth are rounded off with a sanding stone. This makes the teeth tapered and smooth for maximum comfort while combing your beard.
This men's beard trimmer is a product that could be rightfully tagged as "one for all". Possibly containing no cons, the only discomfort that could bother the users is, understanding the different attachments.
The jojoba and argan oil in The Mod Cabin's beard balms will help with beard dandruff and so will our beard oil. Some people find it is easier to get beard oil to penetrate dry areas so they prefer that for moisturizing/dandruff prevention. For stray hairs we recommend Backwoods beard balm as it will provide a light hold allowing you to shape your beard.
Length Settings: Do you like your beard long and luxurious, or kept to a short stubble – or anywhere in between? Whatever you are going for, you should make sure that your trimmer has the length options available to cater to your preferences.
Do everything in your power to lower stress. The stress hormone; cortisol directly lowers testosterone and DHT levels and causes weakened hair growth all around the body, including the facial hair area.
While I was looking at each beard oil company, I noticed that just about every one offer a true unscented one. They were called, unscented, nude, bare etc…etc. You just have to look at the whole catalog of each company. Lucky Scruff offers one, Dream Beard does, as well as Blacklabelbeard and Beardoilshop.
During the first month of trying to grow your beard, you are going to find it looks like a wild forest growing on your face. This is when you are going to want to trim it up and start shaping it to look cleaner.
During the early nineteenth century, most men, particularly among the nobility and upper classes, went clean-shaven. There was, however, a dramatic shift in the beard's popularity during the 1850s, with it becoming markedly more popular.[37] Consequently, beards were adopted by many leaders, such as Alexander III of Russia, Napoleon III of France and Frederick III of Germany, as well as many leading statesmen and cultural figures, such as Benjamin Disraeli, Charles Dickens, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Karl Marx, and Giuseppe Verdi. This trend can be recognised in the United States of America, where the shift can be seen amongst the post-Civil War presidents. Before Abraham Lincoln, no President wore a beard;[38] after Lincoln until Woodrow Wilson, every President except Andrew Johnson and William McKinley had either a beard or a moustache of some sort.
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At various times in its history and depending on various circumstances, the Catholic Church in the West permitted or prohibited facial hair (barbae nutritio – literally meaning "nourishing a beard") for clergy.[42] A decree of the beginning of the 6th century in either Carthage or the south of Gaul forbade clerics to let their hair and beards grow freely. The phrase "nourishing a beard" was interpreted in different ways, either as imposing a clean-shaven face or only excluding a beard that was too long. In relatively modern times, the first pope to wear a beard was Pope Julius II, who, in 1511–1512, did so as a sign of mourning for the loss of the city of Bologna. Pope Clement VII let his beard grow at the time of the sack of Rome (1527) and kept it. All his successors did so until the death in 1700 of Pope Innocent XII. Since then, no pope has worn a beard. Most Latin-rite clergy are now clean-shaven, but Capuchins and some others are bearded. Present canon law is silent on the matter.[43]
Don't give up! Set a target date. For example, give yourself a minimum of six weeks' growth before deciding to abandon your beard-growing effort. Commit to not shaving before that six weeks is up. When you've reached the six weeks date, then you can decide whether you want to continue with the beard or get rid of it.


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Praise the Seven Gods, Game of Thrones is back for its seventh season, and the premiere episode, "Dragonstone," was a great start for this shortened season. Like we've done in the past, and for The Walking Dead, I will rattle off what I deem to be the key moments from each new Game of Thrones episode in a video counting them all down.
There is no ranking, they're just listed in the order that they took place in the show. These moments are ones that are key to the episode, the season moving forward, and/or for that matter the ones that will have lasting impacts until the show ends after its eighth season.
In "Dragonstone" I marked six key scenes, as well as four assorted musings, which are more for little things I noticed that may not have a huge role on the show's plot going forward. You can see which six moments made the cut below. If you haven't seen the episode yet, then please don't watch due to SPOILERS. Duh.
Top 6 Moments
- Walder Stark
- Bran's Arrival at the Wall
- Jon and Sansa in-fighting
- Lion Squid team up
- Sam's discovery
- The Queen is home
Assorted Musings
- Giants as zombies for the Night King
- Lyanna Mormont continues to bitch slap various Northern Lords
- Sandor Clegane is finding his soul and visions from the Lord of Light
- Jorah Mormont's nasty arm is at the Citadel???????
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Researchers and practitioners from over 20 countries discuss prevention in sport
Last weekend the 5th IOC World Conference on Prevention of Injury & Illness in sport took place in Monaco. The HITG team was represented by Professor Jiří Dvořák, Dr Evert Verhagen and Annika Prien.
It is the third time that the conference takes place in Monaco. The main topic of the conference is how to improve injury prevention and health in athletes. International experts and scientists from over 20 countries discussed this question and related topics in various presentations, workshops and open debates. Especially HITG member Dr Evert Verhagen, who was involved in more than 15 presentations and workshops, contributed enormously to increase awareness for the importance of prevention in sport. One of his talks dealt with the question, whether athletes' performance can be optimised through prevention and continuous health monitoring. Contrary to popular belief, Verhagen advocates that prevention may indeed further not only health, but also level of performance.
If you are interested in further information regarding the studies presented at the conference, you can find all abstracts in a special edition of the British Journal of Sports Medicine.


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The general election has returned a hung parliament and pressing questions abound today: is this the end of a hard Brexit? Could unpopular austerity measures now be tempered?
But equally pressing is this: what is the future of blonde, zesty ale? A philosophical question that has plagued the greatest scholars throughout the ages. Well, now Robinsons Brewery in Cheshire has the answer.
It proudly presents Robohop, billed as the future of blonde, zesty ale. This 3.6% abv seasonal brew takes inspiration from the ultraviolent 1987 satirical film from Paul Verhoeven and arrives with a hybrid of American and English hops, which have been engineered to create a strong, blonde, triple hop flavour.
Wherever thirst is detected, Robohop works with the prime directive to deliver zesty, citrus and pine notes, giving drinkers a refreshing ale to indulge in, says the brewery.
Robinsons is also behind Iron Maiden's Trooper ale, which has taken the nation by storm since its release a couple of years ago, and it calls itself 'one of the most advanced and sophisticated breweries in the UK'.
Gill Yates, brand manager for Robinsons Brewery, says: 'For our latest seasonal beer, Robohop, we decided to continue to play on our popular TV and film series theme, as from our customer's feedback we know just how well this works.
'We wanted to provide our customers with a brand new blonde zesty ale that they find fun and exciting to drink, and one that they can relate to and have conversations about. We designed the pump clip to resemble Robocop himself, with a focus on his silver helmet, and I must say, it really does look great on the bar alongside our other beers.
'We've had some wonderful feedback at Robinsons Visitors Centre about the liquid itself and about the innovative pump clip design, and we hope that everybody gets a chance to enjoy this fantastic seasonal beer.'


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Toloja Orchards
Natural to the Core
Now although this is not our award it is an award given to two of our children, so it is definitely worth shouting about.
March 30th saw a 490 mile round trip to the House of Lords for both Tom and Lottie as they were shortlisted into the National Finals of the Countryside Alliance Rural Hero Award..... and they won!
Hunter Rural Hero (age 15 and under) Tom and Lottie Sweet, Lampeter, Ceredigion. "This Award is being given to two rather than one heroes because we could not choose between them. Our heroes are also from the same family, so there must be something in the water in the Lampeter area!
Tom Sweet is 15 and took the exceptional step of setting up his own herb and spice business at the age 12 to help him build up his confidence. Tom works incredibly hard to supply more and more shops within Wales and beyond and is about to launch his own curry kits. Tom has already received a Blue Peter badge but now he is also a Countryside Alliance Rural Hero.
Meanwhile Tom's sister, Lottie, is an 11 year old with an entrepreneurial flair that most people in this room would love to match. Lottie saved up for three years to realise her ambition of owning reindeer. Having saved up for two reindeer calves she now hires them out for events and finds they cause a stir at food and craft fairs. Lottie is now looking for sponsorship in order to buy a horsebox, showing that her company, "Sweet Deer", is only the beginning of her plans.
Congratulations to Tom and Lottie, our Rural Heroes of 2010, for your hard work, your love of the countryside and your great ideas."
See our Sweet Herb Mustard on You Tube!
Master Chef, Gareth Johns of the Wynnstay Hotel is a bit of a fan of our mustard, calling it his secret weapon on Channel 4's Iron Chef, he now features on Vive Le Cheese making Comté, leek and mustard fritters, using our Sweet Herb Mustard, have a look..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L40GtQMn0k
Invited to meet HRH Prince Charles and presented him with a hamper including his favourite mustard that we produce.
Finalist in True Taste Awards for our Gooseberry & Elderflower Jam & Apricot & Cider Jam
Our products were all used at this Regent's Park event resulting in sales to some top London restaurants.
Garreth Johns of the Wynnstay Hotel appeared on the Channel 4's Iron Chef and described our Sweet Herb Mustard as his 'secret weapon'.... He went on to win!
Regional Finalist in ITV's Britain's Best Dish using Toloja's Cider Brandy, Sweet Herb Mustard & Drunk Dewi cider.
True Taste of Wales – Sweet Herb Mustard
Barclays Trading Places National Awards – Gold
Press Release: The Sun 2008
A Ceredigion couple, who triumphed over personal adversity to successfully establish their own business, have been named Gold Winners of the 2008 Barclays Trading Places Awards
Kevin Sweet (39) and Nikki Crewes-Sweet (40), who started Toloja Orchards three years ago, were presented with a cheque for £10,000, courtesy of Barclays, at a black tie dinner at the Marriott Hotel, Grosvenor Square, London. Kevin and Nikki also walked away with £3,400 worth of Microsoft desktop and server software
Ceredigion Business Awards – Winner
Welsh Perry & Cider Championships
Gold - Drunk Dewi Cider
Bronze – overall Champion
True Taste Awards – Commendation for Wassail
Ceredigion Business Awards
2nd Food Producer Category
Silver –Welsh Perry & Cider Championships
True Taste Awards
Commendation for Drunk Dewi Cider
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In 2017, the first Tokyo Dome performance was held, the first record award was won (the award song is 17th single "Influencer"), And, for the third consecutive year NHK Kohaku singing fight appeared and it made a remarkable leap Nogizaka 46. The first single will be completed in 2018! In …Read More »
AKS Worth Watching, September 14th
Every week we take a look at some of the many shows the 48 groups have to offer, and we pick out what's worth watching. There's some must-watch episodes this week so take a look after the cut!Read More »
[Review] Nogizaka46 – Natsu no Free & Easy
(NSK trainee Quiana gives her impressions on the latest song and PV from Nogizaka46; "Natsu no Free & Easy".) Nogizaka46, AKB48's official rival group, has a pretty big name to live up to. Their last single "Kidzuitara Kataomoi" sold a little less than 25% of what AKB sold with their …Read More »


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Five Iranian short films will be shown at the 42nd Annual Atlanta Film Festival, April 12-April 22, in Atlanta, state of Georgia in the US.
'Lunch Time' directed by Alireza Ghasemi, 'To Be', a co-production of Iran and Denmark, directed by Farzaneh Omidvarnia, 'Highlight', by Shahrzad Dadgar, 'White House' directed by Arastoo Mafakheri, and 'Retouch' by Kaveh Mazaheri are taking part in the event, Mehr News Agency reported on its Farsi website.
Ghasemi's 16-minute film 'Lunch Time' is the story of a 16-year-old girl who has come to hospital to identify the body of her mother, but is not allowed to enter the morgue because she is underage.
The 6-minute puppet film 'To Be' brilliantly depicts a part of human society seeking a place to live.


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I am currently an Associate Professor at Systems and Control Engg., IIT Bombay.
My current areas of interest are decentralized control, cooperative and network control, optimal control, formation flight and consensus.
I am interested in nonlinear control theory for space and cooperative systems applications. We have and continue to make key contributions in line of sight based spacecraft synchronization, estimation of convergence rate to consensus, design of sparse optimal controllers, event-triggered and biased-feedback consensus, opinion dynamics in social systems and attitude constrained control for quadrotors. We are also interested in developing hardware capabilities for control implementation in quadrotor like platforms.
I am a visiting Max Planck Fellow in the Control Systems Group (Fachgebiet Regelungssysteme) at TU Berlin
Below are my GoogleScholar$^\circledR$, ResearchGate$^\circledR$ and Scopus$^\circledR$ profiles,
Notable Links:
https://spectrum.ieee.org/bivacorheart0919 - The cool maglev artificial heart
EECI Graduate School (adaptive control course in Madras) -
- Course Structure: http://www.eeci-igsc.eu/doc/users/395/bib/summariesepg3184.pdf


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This year's Economics Graduation Reception & Ceremony will be held on Sunday, May 13, 2018 at the Fedex Global Education Center.
Families of our majors are welcome to arrive at the reception immediately following the Kenan Ceremony. The Economics Department Ceremony will begin at 1:00pm.
For more information about the Economics Department Reception & Ceremony, and how to register, click here.


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June 16, 2019 – Joshua 5:1-12 "Miracles, Obedience and Hard Work"
Posted on June 10, 2019
The Israelites have now crossed the Jordan River into the Promised Land. God faithfully provided food and water for them for 40 years while in the wilderness. Now it was time for the Israelites to use what God had blessed them with in order to faithfully serve Him.


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SOURCE: Afrol News
April 19, 2010
The Islamist armed group al-Shabaab is subjecting inhabitants of the large tracts it controls in southern Somalia to "killings, cruel punishments, and repressive social control," according to new documentation. Women are especially targeted. This is concluded in a 62-page report released today by the US-based group Human Rights Watch, looking into systematic human rights violations in war-ravaged Somalia. Based on over 70 interviews with victims and witnesses, the report describes harsh punishments including amputations and floggings, which are meted out regularly and without due process.
The report finds that al-Shabaab forces are committing grave human rights abuses against the local population, especially women. "People accused of being traitors or government sympathisers – often on flimsy pretexts – face execution or assassination. Al-Shabaab fighters had threatened some of those interviewed with death simply because they lived in government-controlled areas of Mogadishu," the report says.
"While al-Shabaab has brought stability to some areas long plagued by violence, it has used unrelenting repression and brutality," said Georgette Gagnon of Human Rights Watch. "The population under al-Shabaab's control is paying a very steep price."
But not only al-Shabaab was committing abuses. Key international actors had often played a counterproductive role in the crisis and have played down abuses by African Union (AU) troops deployed to Mogadishu to protect Somalia's weak transitional government, the human rights group said.
Many local al-Shabaab authorities devote extraordinary energy to policing the personal lives of women and preventing any mingling of the sexes. Several women told Human Rights Watch that they had been beaten, flogged, or jailed for selling tea to support their families because the work brought them into contact with men.
In other cases, women were beaten for failing to wear the precise type of abaya – a bulky head-to-toe garment – prescribed by local edicts. Women often fail to wear the abaya not out of defiance but because their families simply cannot afford them.
"He was raising his hand back and counting, 'One, two, three, four, five …. '," one woman told the Human Rights Watch researcher, describing the beating she got when she ran out of her house after her toddler without an abaya. "It felt so painful that if I had a gun I would have killed that man," the Somali woman added.
Al-Shabaab had also subjected young men and boys to abuses that, according to the report, "include forced military recruitment and strict social control." One young man had seen his uncle murdered by al-Shabaab fighters because he refused to reveal the whereabouts of another nephew, a 15-year-old, who had deserted their ranks after being wounded in combat. "Beatings or public humiliations are commonly meted out to men for a broad range of offenses such as failing to go to mosque, having long hair, or wearing clothes that al-Shabaab considers Western," the report says.
"Alongside abuses in al-Shabaab-controlled areas, all sides are responsible for laws-of-war violations that continue unabated in Mogadishu," Ms Gagnon said. "Many Somalis confront indiscriminate warfare, terrifying patterns of repression, and brutal acts of targeted violence on a daily basis," she added. In Mogadishu, the transitional government and the 5,300-member AU mission in Somalia are squared off against a powerful opposition dominated by al-Shabaab.
"There is no easy, obvious way to solve the crisis in Somalia," Ms Gagnon said. "But outside powers should address abuses by all sides instead of ignoring those committed by their allies," she advises.


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Fadel Zayan is Alfanar's Investment Director, with specific responsibilities over expansion to Libya. After graduating in History & Politics at the University of Kent, Zayan worked in communications in Cairo, before doing a Master's in International Politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies. He later worked as a Programme Analyst at the United Nations Development Programme in Tripoli, Libya, where he was in charge of managing various portfolios, including Gender, Poverty Reduction and HIV/AIDS. Zayan returned to London in 2009 to work in a political & risk consultancy firm, and was in Egypt in 2011 during the revolution. Following that, he consulted for Human Rights Watch in Libya over the course of the revolution


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Globalization, suggest the authors of this collection, is creating new opportunities-some legal, some illicit-for armed factions to pursue their agendas in civil war. Within this context, they analyze the key dynamics of war economies and the challenges posed for conflict resolution and sustainable peace. Thematic chapters consider key issues in the political economy of internal wars, as well as how differing types of resource dependency influence the scope, character, and duration of conflicts. Case studies of Burma, Colombia, Kosovo, Papua New Guinea, and Sri Lanka illustrate a range of ways in which belligerents make use of global markets and the transnational flow of resources. An underlying theme is the opportunities available to the international community to alter the economic incentive structure that inadvertently supports armed conflict.
Profiting from Peace: Managing the Resource Dimensions of Civil War
In contemporary civil wars, combatants' access to lucrative natural resources has been both a means and a motive for armed conflict and thus has often served to counter incentives for peace. Profiting from Peace offers the first comprehensive assessment of practical strategies and tools that might be used by both international and state actors to help reduce the illicit exploitation of natural resources and the related financial flows that sustain violence