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It must be nice to be a baseball owner, and have sportswriters like the St. Petersburg Times' Marc Topkin willing to write stories about how there's no actual news about your campaign for a new stadium. Especially when you then get to say stuff like this:
"It seems clearer to me by the day that we're going to be the last man standing," [Rays owner Stuart] Sternberg said. "And everything I know, and talking to these guys, baseball is just not going to stand for it anymore. And they'll find a place for me. They won't find a place here though. So it's up to us, to everybody, to figure out how to get it right."
But remember, Sternberg says he won't talk about moving the team. So maybe he literally means a place for him as owner of a different team, not the Rays. We'll never know, as Topkin apparently didn't ask.
In addition to the weirdness of Sternberg calling the Rays the "last man standing" in MLB stadium wheedling — ahem, Oakland A's, anybody? — there's also Topkin's semi-editorializing that "there seemingly won't be any real movement until either St. Petersburg Mayor Bill Foster allows the Rays to look at sites outside the city limits, as they've requested, or, conceivably, a plan is presented that works in the city and they accept it." Or, you know, Sternberg decides that maybe he'd be better off trying to sell tickets at his current stadium than working to convince fans that the place is a dump. It might not be as lucrative as a fully paid-for new dream home, but given that his team has appreciated an estimated 100% in the last six years, it ain't chicken feed, either.


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Monday, September 6, 2010
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A perennial favourite, always classic - black and white. The photo above from one of my favourtie books, Simple Home, shows the recycled tyres being put to good use.
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Nile Ranger has significantly blotted his copy book since last summer.
Nile Ranger – will he stay at Newcastle?
Nile must still go on trial in late June to face assault charges, but he has been interviewed by the local press today and he is talking about still making an impact on Tyneside.
The first thing this lad must show, is that he can handle himself off the field, because when he joined in the summer of 2008 from Southampton, he had a murky past and had his run-in with the police during he early teenage years, and was basically kicked out by Southampton, if truth be told.
With his latest misdemeanors that may happen to him at Newcastle, and there;'s a very good chance Newcastle will try to unload the 20 year-old over the summer.
Newcastle strikers Leon Best, Peter Lovenkrands and Sammy Ameobi are all out injured at the moment, and it seems the Londoner is keen to make an impact:
"I just need to keep my head down and work hard – simple. I'm like a forgotten man." "It would be some story if I did come back and get in the team because I've been getting into a bit of bother now and again."
"People think 'This guy just gets in trouble week-in, week-out' but it would be good to get goals and show people a different side." "My outlook is whatever doesn't destroy you makes you stronger – that's definite."
"Hopefully I can get involved here. Peter Lovenkrands is out with a bad one and Besty has done his knee, so it only leaves Demba, Cisse, Shola and Ben Arfa really."
"My focus is to still break into the team – it always has been – but if I don't get games I will have to keep going out on loan." "Hopefully I don't have to and I can stay here."
"The key for me is to make the headlines for the right reasons. People know me for the wrong thing. I just want to play football and keep my nose clean." "My challenge is to show people my talent."
"That's what I wanted to do as a youngster, just go out and show everybody what I'm about. I still want to play for Newcastle – of course I do, it's a massive club."
Those are good words from Nile, but we've also heard them before and we don't know what Alan Pardew's views are on the youngster, and those views will be important.
The Newcastle manager has shown he will not put up with any nonsense from his players, so Alan may have already have decided to unload Ranger this summer.
We don't know what will happen, but it would not surprise us one little bit, if Newcastle move him out.
Let us know what you would do.
Comments welcome.
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I really really hope that your right mate. But i dont think we should get ahead ourselve, theres notthing wrong with dreaming but i just dont think people should get there expectations up too much!
Theres 2 things your forgetting that i think backs my argument up,
a) If we were to sign 4 top top quality players that are premier league proven i would say we had a chance of top 4, but were not going to!! We know were not gonna spend big transfer fees on a player or wages. Which means were relying on GC to find diamonds in the rough. Now the mans a hero and has done exceptionally well so far and ling may it continue, but if he does keep finding them theres 2 worries, reselling obviously and also allowing the players time to adapt to the prem. We all know it takes time, so if he found 4 worldy players i think next season would be too soon.
b) We would catch up if eveyone else stood still, but there gonna be recruiting like crazy too so its a never ending battle to catch up.
Lets assess your dream team and see who in it would get into the Chelsea, Utd, City or Arsenal team starting 11.
GK- Krul, Forster, Elliot – Krul maybe at Utd – No
RB- Santon, Tavernier – Neither of them
CB- Colo, Saylor, Caulker, Streete – Colo and Saylor maybe at arsenal tho there lookin better now.
LB- Izaguirre, Fegie – Not seen Izaguirre but not fergie
DM- Tiote, Diame – Tiote at all i think, Best DM in the league in my view. Not Diame
CM- Cabaye, Guthrie, Abied – Cabaye maybe at Arsenal and Utd, but has been poor of late.
AM- Corgnet, Alamfitano, Vuckic – Dont know enough about the frenchies but i would say none
RW- Benny, Marveaux – Benny i think is good enough for any team in the prem on his day, marv ive only seen glimpses of
LW- Guti, Hoilett – neither
CF- Ba, Cisse, Obertan, Rhodes – Demba at Arsenal (when RVP wasnt fit) maybe chelsea and at a push utd no chance at city tho
So not many players really, and to be in the top 4 i think you need 2 quality players for each position.
Like i say mate i hope your right and im wrong, but i just cant see it.
We all Know that Nile Ranger is a First Class Pratt But He was in the Same Reserve Team as Andy Carroll and The Pair of them were heading for The Big Time at one stage . I would Shove him on the Bench and Give Him a Chance to Proove Himself. Put him in the Shop Window and Sell Him,. if He scores Then Wicked !!!
wingspan I think u are missing the point here mate…if we get 4 more first teamers will defo have a shout for top 4.
we might not get it…but we will be in with a shout.. I disagree you coz….. U dnt/shud never compare players or teams…why coz there are 38 games in a season..about 10 of them with the sides above us..and 28 with the team below us…
What pards shud be looking at is adding quality players (not necessarily top 4 quality…Douglas hoilett etc…this will give us enuf strength to atleast take 4 points from each of the teams below us..and take atleast 1 point from the teams above us… That my good man will make us into a top 4 team…and that to my fellow toon is how mike GC and pards are looking todo…. If we had beaten Norwich Swansea wolves westbrom. Would we not be in the top 4?? We lost coz we had no depth..if we have that….the skies the limit…
Someone at the club took a look at Nile last year and thought he was a promising young striker who was worth giving a five year contract. (Pardew + G.Carr?)
Young lads in town-centres across the country make arses of themselves every weekend.
Some end up in court.
Most learn from their mistakes and grow-up.
They all deserve to be given another chance.
You don't right people off at 19.
I hope Nile gets his chance and now his foot injury has healed he starts to behave like a professional athlete and look after himself. Which includes regular sleep patterns – ie not cruising around at 5am.
C'mon Nile lad!!! Grab your chance.
Thats a very good argument and i cant disagree with what youve said. Maybe im just being overly pessimistic, i hope so. i just think this seasons been a bit of a freak one and weve won at the right times and when weve lost everyone else has too. I think my main point is we shouldnt get our hopes up too much because it creates unecessary pressure on the players.
We played our best at the start of the season when everyone was tipping us for relegation and there was no expectation on the team and they were trying to prove people wrong. Its amazing how the mindset of now trying to qualify for europe can change a mindset and it just means more pressure on the players and i think they are feeling it.
We will see wha summer brings.
You can right anyone off at any age for being a recidivist asbo-magnet. Can't think of many jobs where he would have lasted this long and if you can't inspire a young 'un to get his head down for a few grand a week over 5 years guaranteed at the Toon of all places, then you never will. Bye Nile and thanks for all the daily star headlines.
Looks like toys day and early finish for teacher training then btw. 🙁
At the start of the chapionship season he was a better player thn carroll thn got injured n carroll got games and ranger got put on the bench, its obvious for any that he has talent, pace and strenght n hes scored goals for fun in the reserves! He needed to be loaned out at the start of the season and pardew has admitted that he made a mistakenot loaning him out, if anyone watchedhis few games for barnsley he was oneofthebest players on the pitch his hold up play is very good. Hes made mistakes but so did joey barton, craig bellamy and andy carroll. I would rather have him playing up front for a full game than shola because sholas legs give up after 30 mins, ranger proved he can play in th pl inthe games against liverpool and arsenal last year, he changed a few games last year with his pace and hold up play. If we get in the europa lg thn it will be perfect to let him play some games and get some exp, thats how steven taylor, carroll, krul all made their names.
ilovetoon8788 – The only way we could play like Swansea is if we got a new manager in, but im quite happy with Pardew atm even though we play shit football and concede loads and only have 1 goal scorer, out of both cups from lesser oposition and conceded 5 away to spurs and fulham and also got beat at home to West Brom. Im still happy with our achievments this season haha
How about saying sorry for all the things you've done Nile? That would be a start.
You haven't just let down the manager, the club, your fellow team mates and the supporters but yourself too.
If you really show remorse and dedication there's always a way back but the hard work starts NOW.
If you don't grab it you'll never get another chance in the big time and you'll be lost to the game when someone like Accrington or Halifax takes you on.
What to do with Nile ranger?…
I would hand him a set of overalls and a mop and have him clean the toilets for a week. Then he probably would appreciate his football career and not turn up for work late. I would also buy him a watch.
Then I would send him on community service to help victims of gun crime, then he would realise what guns lead to.
Finally I would get him to soend half an hour with Alan Shearer, to teach him how to find the bloody net. 1 in 35 ratio, omg saylors got a better ratio in the last 12 months and he's supposed to be on the other end of the pitch.
Ability x 0 motivation = 0. I would really love dedicated players at the club.
I would rather see us perennial top 6 team than anything else. That is where we can realistically aim at this moment, as we have no financial backing of a Sheikh or Oil Mogul(if only…). Our first 11 is fine, but the lack of quality depth has killed us at times this season. We lost Saylor, and there should have beem a lot more work done to get a replacement in, even a loan deal.
I don't expect much change to our starting XI next season, I think if we get five or six good quality squad players in, without losing any of the core players, we will be a much better side. We need a CB, LB(natural), CM, RM and a CF in minimum, and any youngsters we can get.


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Effects of Cellular Chirality on Competition and Cooperation in Microbial Colonies
Is it better to be left- or right-handed? The answer depends on whether the goal is making a handshake or winning a boxing match. The need for coordination favors the handedness of the majority, but being different could also provide an advantage. The same rules could apply to microbial colonies and cancer tumors. Like humans, cells often have handedness or chirality that reflects the lack of mirror symmetry in their shapes or movement patterns. Moreover, chirality can easily evolve, and a change in chirality is often accompanied by an increase in fitness.
To answer how chirality provides a direct fitness advantage, we developed a minimal reaction-diffusion model of chiral growth in compact microbial colonies. For strains with equal chirality, our model reproduces logarithmic twisting of boundaries between the strains, as observed in the experiments. For strains with different chiralities, our model predicts either the exclusion of the less chiral strain or stable coexistence. Selection for specific chirality is mediated by bulges along the colony edge that appear in regions where the strains with different chirality meet. We developed an analytical framework to study this two-way coupling between selection and colony shape, which is ubiquitous in spatially structured populations, yet remains poorly understood. For chiral strains, the theory of population dynamics is described by the chiral KPZ equation coupled to the Burger's equation with multiplicative noise. We obtain exact solutions for the key features of this theory including the shape of the bulges and their effect on competition between the strains. Overall, our work suggests that chirality could be an important ecological trait that mediates competition, invasion, and spatial structure in cellular populations.


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text: Access To Finance Remains 'Problem' For EU SMEs A New Report Released By The European Central Bank Has Found Access To Finance Remains Poor For SMEs 18.11.2013 David Shirt, Press Officer | 0161 838 3094 A new report released by the European Commission and European Central Bank has found many SMEs still find it difficult to access funding. While the eurozone economy is recovering after a prolonged period of contraction that left some analysts wondering whether the euro currency would still exist in the 2014 financial year, the fact that small businesses still see access to loans as an obstacle to growth shows that governance remains an issue in the area. Research carried out by the two EU-backed institutions and reported on by the International Business Times, found that 15 per cent of the 15,000 survey respondents across 37 European economies reported access to financial backing to be a "significant problem" for their business. All of those surveyed were chief executives, chief operating officers or financial directors of their respective companies and all interviews were done by phone. European Commission vice president Antonio Tajani, who is in charge of industry and entrepreneurship, said: "Since the start of the crisis, evidence has consistently shown that SMEs face large and disproportionate obstacles to accessing the finance they need to survive and thrive." In an attempt to tackle the issue, the European Commission has launched a new initiative called the Programme for the Competitiveness of Enterprises and SMEs (COSME). A panel leading COSME will look at how funding schemes can be extended to smaller companies with less awareness of loan options available to them. A loan guarantee to support SMEs vying for finance will also be launched. While this will operate on a commercial basis and will not be controlled by any particular national government, it will attempt to inform smaller and younger SMEs about the equity and capital choices that are available to them throughout the EU. However, those looking for loans will still have to demonstrate they have a solid business plan as the European Central Bank will be hesitant to expose itself to bad debts as it recovers from the eurozone crisis that hit Portugal, Greece and Spain especially hard. Expert Opinion Access to finance remains to be a huge obstacle for SMEs in the UK. "SMEs are the backbone of the economy and it is vital that entrepreneurial firms are not held back from wealth and job creation. "The Government has announced in recent weeks and months how much it wants to encourage firms to export more and rebalance the economy towards manufacturing. There are plenty of small and medium-sized businesses which share this vision and it is vital that this ambition is matched by improved access to finance." Steven Beahan, Partner Key contact Steven Beahan Partner +44 (0)788 969 4052 Email Steven Press contact David Shirt Press Officer 0161 838 3094 Email David Tags SME Steven Beahan Sheffield Related articles 07.12.2018South Yorkshire Healthcare Manufacturer Completes MBO 07.12.2018Property Lawyer Predicts Brexit Will Increase Dilapidation Claims 06.12.2018Collapse Of The Tesco Fraud Trial Today 05.12.2018Judgment in S Franses Limited V The Cavendish Hotel London Limited 04.12.2018Businesses Urged To Speak To Suppliers Ahead Of Brexit 03.12.2018UK Manufacturing Recovers From Dip According To IHS Markit/CIPS


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Huddersfield Giants' interim coach Chris Thorman is able to bring back five players from injury in Danny Brough, Ryan Hinchcliffe, Kruise Leeming, Alex Mellor and Darnell McIntosh. Making way are Louis Senior, Adam O'Brien and Tyler Dickinson while second-row pair Michael Lawrence and Dale Ferguson are injured.
Salford Red Devils have full-back Niall Evalds back after he missed the defeat to Warrington Wolves with a head knock so Robert Lui reverts to stand-off in place of Jake Shorrocks. Hooker Logan Tomkins also returns, from illness, and prop George Griffin is recalled in place of Luke Burgess.
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"I don't have a 'girl' personality, so it's not like a girl is on the team," Freshman Jodi Madrid said. This year's freshmen football team has an unusual member- a girl. Her name is Jodi Madrid and she says that she is one of the toughest football players on the team. Madrid has been into football for about eight years and plans on playing throughout high school. She's the first girl in a long time to be on the freshmen football team at Greenway.
Madrid explained that she doesn't remember why she got into football. It's just always been a part of her life. "My parents prioritize it. Football and school; that's all they care about."
When asked if she gets discriminated against, she replied, "Yes, a ton. I always hear those jokes about how girls only belong in the kitchen. You just gotta ignore them. I can't quit or they'll think I'm weak." She went on to explain some bad things about being on the team. As the only girl, the guys never realize how much they cross boundaries. "They talk about guy things when I'm around, which I kind of just get used to after awhile," she explained.
Madrid says even though she's a girl, she doesn't get less playing time than the rest of the team. "I hit hard, harder than most guys, and they know that," she said. When I interviewed some of her teammates about what they think of Jodi being on the team, they all say it isn't weird; they're like a family.


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Monthly Archives: February 2016
Who's 'Watching' Over You ?
watch [noun] : a timepiece, a chronometer (worn on the wrist or carried in a pocket)
From when we are born until we leave the planet, time is superimposed upon us and someone or other seems to be 'watching over you'.
We are indoctrinated with the notion of time from birth. Babies have times for feeding, changing, and bathing. Timetables regulate our school lessons. School-time all too quickly morphs into the nine to five of work-time. We intersperse our days with breakfast times, break times, lunch times, tea times, and supper times. Commuters just have to catch that train, right on time, so they can 'clock in' and 'clock out' at the end of their working day.
We have a bedtime and, before we know it, it's time to get up again. Note that between these two times, when we are sleeping and dreaming, time takes on a different and ethereal quality. If you ever end up awake in the small hours, however, time can seem to stretch to eternity.
Our language, too, is littered with temporal references:
- 'Just a minute.'
- 'Give me a second.'
- 'Cometh the hour, cometh the man.'
- 'Another day, another dollar.'
- 'That is so last season.'
- 'Holding back the years.'
Stop the World, I Want to Get Off
It seems that time is imposed upon us from birth right through to death, and that we cannot escape either its forward arrow or its grip. Yet, go back just 200 years or so, and nobody wore a watch. So this obsession with time is actually quite recent. In our so-called modern society, what is making this somewhat worse is that the world is permanently 'switched on'. Before we had electric light, people snuffed out candles and went to sleep when it got dark.
The key to taking time back under our control lies in 'watching' ourselves internally. Firstly, take notice how the speed of time seems to vary depending on what we are doing and thinking. A busy weekend with friends seems to zoom by. An interminable wait in a doctor's surgery seems to drag out forever. When we travel somewhere new, it seems to take longer than the journey back or the return trip. Secondly, reflect on days where you got lots done and on those days where you where pushing water up a temporal hill. Notice how you felt about those days before, during and after.
Synchronising with EMT
The passage of time is subjective and herein lies the clues on how we can control it, as opposed to it controlling us. The practice of mindfulness meditation is what opens the door to a new way of being that I call timefulness. Taking 10 minutes of 'me time' out each day is all that's needed to slow time down and to get more done with less of it. With just a few days practice, we can enter Extended Me Time, or EMT. This is a luxurious state to be in where we become time lords, and of course time ladies.
When we sync with EMT, here's what happens:
- We get our creative tasks done, in what seems like 'no time at all'
- Interruptions are minimised
- External events seem to happen 'just in time'
- Our stress levels reduce whilst our productivity increases
- People want to learn our secret
p.s. I haven't worn a watch for years and am rarely late 🙂
If you'd like to know more about how to manage the passage of time, as opposed it it managing you, get a copy of my new book Managing Time Mindfully. It comes with free guided meditations to give you the luxury of 'me time'.
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Extended Me Time – EMT
People of the world work to all sorts of different times standards. For some of the year, the UK is on GMT, at other times it shifts by an hour to BST. I interview guests for the Zone Show podcast on AEST, EDT, PST. The five time zones of China are harmonised, for simplicity, into one with the whole territory falling under Beijing Time, or CST.
International travellers sometimes don't know what day it is, with their body clocks jumbled by the shifting of hours!
I'd like to propose a new common and simpler time standard that all humans switch to called EMT.
EMT stands for Extended Me Time. It is the 'time zone' we switch to when time elongates and we get more done in less time. It is a magical and creative space where we are both 'in the zone', while also 'zoning out'.
We can enter EMT simply by beginning each and every day with 10 or 20 minutes of 'me time' in meditation. This is far from a waste of time. I discovered in my mid-40s that the days I took this time out when so much smoother and I got so much more done. There are also many benefits to our health and wellbeing such that it is thought every minute we spend meditating gets added to our life expectancy. If true, it's a kind of madness not to meditate.
Throughout the day, and especially while working on creative tasks, with a little practice it becomes then possible to enter the meditative state with your eyes open. We truly enter EMT when we do this as time elongates. Simply put, we begin to control the speed at which time passes by and we get more done in less time.
There is more magic to unfold when we live in EMT. We begin to tap into aha moments on demand where bright ideas that change our world arrive in less than a second. They come from 'inside time' and 'outside space'.
The regular practice of meditation, and adoption of EMT, also makes us luckier. We begin to notice serendipities that might otherwise slip by. People and events start turn up just at the perfect time. This of course all saves bags of time.
If you'd like to enter EMT and start meditating then I get the free Insight Timer app and I have uploaded a number of free meditations to help you get into EMT.
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I don't know much about actor James Roday, I've never seen an episode of PSYCH, the USA Network show he starred on from 2006 to 2014, but I do know that he's a fan of horror, and of the FRIDAY THE 13TH franchise in particular, so much so that he was interviewed for the HIS NAME WAS JASON documentary. So when I saw the news that he had made his feature directorial debut, I wasn't surprised to see that he had made a genre film.
The film is GRAVY, a "demented blend of horror and comedy" that follows
a trio of costumed misfits with very special dietary requirements on Halloween night. The group seizes a Mexican cantina and forces the staff to engage in a late night of gluttony. The only caveat is what's on the menu — and who will survive til morning.
Roday co-wrote the screenplay with Todd Harthan and assembled a cast that includes Michael Weston, Jimmi Simpson, Sutton Foster, Lily Cole, Molly Ephraim, Paul Rodriguez, Gabriel Luna, Gabourey Sidibe, and Sarah Silverman to bring his story of "cannibals, pop culture, and Mexican food" to life. Special effects artists Greg Nictero and Howard Berger provided the bloodshed.
The North American distribution rights for GRAVY have been picked up by Shout! Factory, with the company planning to give it a rollout release on multiple platforms (theatrical, VOD, home video) through their genre label Scream Factory.
The movie sounds like a lot of fun to me, and its imagery of people in Halloween costumes tormenting each other reminds me of one of my favorite movies to come out in recent years, Jeremy Saulnier's MURDER PARTY. If GRAVY turns out to be as cool as it seems, I could be calling myself a James Roday fan.


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Sunday, January 31, 2010
What a lazy day!
I've occomplished nothing so far today, and I just feel drained. Jer's watching "The Alamo", and the kids haven't left the couch. Dink (Venus) curled up in her wooly blankey, and Jack made a bed on top of her and her blanket. Maybe I should re-organize some stuff from the move?
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Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins
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PSCO Presentation: 11 February 2016
"The Seleucid Context: Some Thoughts about the Past and the Future"
Paul Kosmin (Harvard)
Prof. Paul J. Kosmin is Assistant Professor of Classics at Harvard University. His first book, The Land of the Elephant Kings: Space, Territory, and Ideology in the Seleucid Empire (Harvard University Press, 2015), examines the relationship between the kings of the Seleucid dynasty and the landscape, from Bactria to Thrace, over which they ruled. More generally, Paul is interested in Hellenistic kingship and imperialism, ancient ethnography, interactions between the Greek and Near Eastern worlds, and Greek epigraphy. Current projects include a study of the role of magical rituals in city-state politics and an investigation of newly emerging temporalities in the Hellenistic world.
Audio Recording
In order to protect intellectual property before publication, no audio recording is posted.
Suggested Readings
Book of Daniel.
fragments of Berossus' Babyloniaca.
Reinhard Koselleck, Futures Past: On the Semantics of Historical Time (NY: Columbia UP, 2004), 9-25.
For PDFs of the latter two, please see the "Files" section of our PSCO Facebook page. If you would like to receive the files by email, please contact firstname.lastname@example.com.
Meeting and Dining
All are welcome! As usual, those interested are also welcome to join us for an informal dinner prior to the session. Those wishing to dine together before the seminar will meet at 6:00 p.m. in the Second-Floor Lounge of Cohen Hall and then walk next door to the food court in Houston Hall. Or, just meet us in the Houston Hall downstairs food-court between 6:00-6:45 p.m.
As usual, the PSCO seminar will begin at 7:00 p.m. and end at 9:00 p.m. We meet in the Second-Floor Lounge of Cohen Hall.


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In March 2006, the FSA announced a review of funding for the FSCS in order to ensure the funding of the scheme was fair and proportional and, most important for the regulator, sustainable.
At the time, FSA managing director David Kenmir said: "We hope to design funding arrangements which apportion the cost of compensation between regulated firms as fairly as possible.
"Discussions about this issue tend to focus on today's problems such as endowment misselling but the scheme must also be capable of providing compensation for tomorrow's problems."
In the discussion paper that was launched, the FSA set out several options for the future funding of the FSCS. First, firms would be divided into five categories according to the type of business they are involved in. These categories are: life and pensions; securities, mutual funds and derivatives; deposits; general insurance; and mortgages.
These five categories are the same for all the options proposed.
The first option proposed was for firms operating within each category to pay towards compensation claims arising from that area of business. Each categories would stand alone, with no cross-subsidy between them.
The second option proposed a general pool of funding, in addition to the five broad classes, and this would act as a reserve in the event of catastrophic losses in any one class.
The third option was for the creation of subclasses within in broad business class but without a general pool of funding to act as a reserve.
The final option was for a system of sub-classes within each of the five broad classes and a general pool as well.
Despite initially leaning towards the second option, the FSA has come up with something very similar to the last of the initial options.
The structure for the new funding system will see the five broad business classes remain and each of these, with the exception of deposits, will have two sub-classes within it. Finally. above this there will be the general pool.
The cost of claims will initially be met by the relevant sub-class, up to an annual threshold, with any further claims met by the general class.
Only in the event of "significant default, or series of defaults" would the costs of compensation then spill over into the general pool.
The FSA says it expects that the new system will increase the capacity of the FSCS to meet compensation claims to £4bn a year.
FSA director Graeme Ashley-Fenn says: "The new model is more rational, fairer to the various players in the market and provides greater levels of funding. It will be capable of meeting current issues, such as endowment misselling, and will now also provide compensation for any future potential and unexpected claims."
Aifa welcomes the reform of FSCS funding. Deputy director general Faye Goddard believes the scheme was in need of urgent reform. She says: "Aifa has lobbied for reform on behalf of its members for a number of years and we are pleased with this outcome. The new model is structured in a way that should see fairer distribution of costs across all parts of the financial service industry and provide better levels of consumer protection."
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N. Kitaichi, A.W. Taylor; The Regulatory Cells That Emerge in Autoimmune Uveitis Prevent Memory Immunity to Retinal Autoantigens . Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2003;44(13):1051.
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Purpose: We have demonstrated that regulatory T cells (Treg cells) emerge in the spleens of mice that have recovered from experimental autoimmune uveoretinitis (EAU). Their presence in the spleen is dependent on an intact eye and the expression of melanocortin 5 receptor (MC5r). We examined the possibility that such Treg cells are involved in the resistance of mice to a reoccurrence of EAU. Methods: EAU was induced by immunizing C57BL/6, MC5r knockout (MC5r-/-), and B10.RIII mice with specific immunodominant peptides of human interphotoreceptor retinoid-binding protein (IRBPp) with complete Freund's adjuvant (CFA). After the uveitis resolved, C57BL/6 and MC5r-/- mice were reimmunized with IRBPp emulsified in synthetic adjuvant . For adoptive transfer experiments, T cells from spleens of mice that have recovered from uveitis were activated in vitro with antigen-pulsed antigen presenting cells. The T cells from the cultures were enriched for CD4(+) T cells, and adoptively transferred into syngeneic EAU-susceptible mice. The course and severity of EAU was observed and scored. Adoptive transfer of T cells into EAU-susceptible B10.RIII mice were depleted of CD25(+) T cells with antibody coated magnetic beads before the adoptive transfer. Results: Following reimmunization the MC5r-/- mice expressed an accelerated onset and severe uveitis compared to the delayed and mild uveitis of reimmunized wild type mice. Moreover, the adoptive transfer of CD4(+) T cells from wild type mice that recovered from EAU suppressed the severity of EAU in the MC5r-/- mice. The Treg cells in the spleens of wild type mice that have recovered from EAU are CD4(+) CD25(+) T cells and are present only after the uveitis begins to show clinical signs of resolving. Conclusions: Mice recovering from EAU express Treg cells whose presence prevents development of a memory immune response to retinal autoantigen. Our results suggest that the reestablishment of the ocular immunosuppressive microenvironment to resolve autoimmune uveitis mediates induction of regulatory T cells specific to retinal autoantigens.
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Monday, Jan 11th, 2010:
Wanted to have an easy day, so went on an rather uninspired 45 min. run before noon and basically just relaxed the rest of the day. Brett's working everyday from 10 a.m. - 6 p.m., except Wednesdays and Sundays and Jenny is trying to log some base miles and listening to her body if she starts feeling too tired. I wish I could do the same, but it's hard to keep the mileage down when you have all day and the weather is brilliant outside. I saunter over to Trader Joe's for food and then read a little bit at Bookmans, where you can sit in comfortable chairs and read books and magazines for free. I don't have a camera for the moment, but I've borrowed Jennys for a few gallery shots.
Tuesday, Jan 12th, 2010:
Hill ride with SWHC and some easy spinning up around Rancho Vistoso afterwards; 125 km/4.40 hrs. American television is really awful and I have absolutely no urge to turn on the TV and luckily my roomies seems to feel the same way so it's pretty quiet in the evenings and usually we're all sleeping at 9-10 p.m.!!! As Brett says:" Early in, early out", so he gets out of bed at 6 a.m., eats his cereals, rests for a while and then go for a morning run. He managed to get lost the other day, which takes quite some effort regarding the grid system over here! The other morning a pretty mean coyote stared him down...
Wednesday, Jan 13th, 2010:
Went trail running with Brett in the morning and went out for lunch afterwards. I had my favorite: The Overstuffed burrito at La Salsa; a huge meal for 5 USD. I've set up a Skype account and try and juggle the time difference and getting in contact with Katrine and Peter on a daily basis. I've even talked to Mom and she seems to be doing just great and she doesn't complain about the weather, which we totally understandable, considering the unusually long lasting snow and cold over there in Denmark. It's pretty sweet to read all the complaints on Facebook, but hey it's a free country, so why not do like this guy: http://mortenogemil.blogspot.com/. Escape the Scandinavian Fimbul winter and enjoy running at altitude in sunny and warm South Africa.
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The Star Online: World Updates
- Sanctions easing can be reversed if Iran does not deliver - Obama
- Syrian air raid kills rebel commander in Aleppo - activists
- Philippine typhoon death toll jumps; U.S. helicopters boost aid effort
Sanctions easing can be reversed if Iran does not deliver - Obama
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama sought to reassure sceptical U.S. lawmakers on Thursday that any easing of sanctions on Iran that emerges from negotiations could easily be reversed and "ramped back up" if Tehran fails to curb its nuclear program.
In his most direct appeal yet for more time to pursue a diplomatic deal with Iran, Obama urged Congress to hold off on imposing any new sanctions despite concerns on Capitol Hill and among U.S. allies Israel and Saudi Arabia that he is giving away too much.
Obama spoke a day after Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State John Kerry and other top U.S. officials warned senators that implementing new sanctions could scuttle the delicate negotiations between Iran and six world powers due to resume in Geneva next Wednesday.
Some lawmakers said after Wednesday's meetings they were not convinced, and there was no immediate sign that Obama - seeking better ties with Iran after more than three decades of estrangement - had won converts on Thursday either.
"If we're serious about pursuing diplomacy, then there's no need for us to add new sanctions on top of the sanctions that are already very effective, and that brought them (the Iranians) to the table in the first place," Obama told a White House news conference.
"Now, if it turns out they can't deliver, they can't come to the table in a serious way and get this issue resolved, the sanctions can be ramped back up," he said.
An initial agreement seemed close last week, when Kerry made an unexpected trip to the talks in Switzerland. But the negotiators failed to reach a deal and are returning for another round of talks.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Wednesday that a "bad deal" with Iran could lead to war. His aides challenged U.S. assertions that Iran was being offered only limited relief from sanctions.
Underscoring the many obstacles, U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel staunchly defended Obama's approach. "I felt sorry for Secretary Kerry because so many people have jumped into this (saying), 'Well he didn't get anything and he didn't get a deal.' Wait a minute!" Hagel told a defense conference.
"We have political issues. Our partners have political issues," he said. "So this is going to take time if we're going to be able to move to somewhere onto a higher ... plain of possibility."
At the White House, Obama sought to answer critics who accuse him of preparing to ease sanctions prematurely. He said that in return for Iran's agreement in a "phase-one" deal to halt its nuclear advances, "we would provide very modest relief at the margins of the sanctions that we've set up."
"But importantly, we would leave in place the core sanctions that are most effective and have most impact on the Iranian economy, specifically oil sanctions and sanctions with respect to banks and financing," he added.
Obama said that would give world powers a chance to test how serious Tehran is about negotiating a final deal to dispel Western suspicions that it wants to develop a nuclear weapon, something Tehran denies it is seeking.
"It also gives us an assurance that if it turns out six months from now that they're not serious," he said, "we can dial those sanctions right back up."
Speaking later to a Washington think tank, Susan Rice, Obama's national security adviser, said continued enforcement of the bulk of existing sanctions would mean that "the amount of revenue that Iran will lose during the next six months would far exceed any amounts of relief they might obtain as part of a first-step agreement."
Obama reiterated that he was leaving "all options on the table" for dealing with Iran - diplomatic code for possible military action. But he warned of "unintended consequences" from any military conflict.
Obama is facing resistance from lawmakers wary of letting up the pressure in negotiations with Iran.
"Sanctions remain the best way to avoid war and prevent a future of Iranian nuclear weapons," said Senator Mark Kirk, a Republican from Illinois.
Senator John McCain, an Arizona Republican and frequent harsh critic of Obama's foreign policy, expressed scepticism about the Geneva talks and said the Senate Banking Committee should move ahead with consideration of new sanctions.
But he told Reuters: "I'm not so hell-bent on enacting additional sanctions (by the full Senate), although I think they're entirely called for. But I am willing to give them a period of time."
The Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed its version of a new sanctions bill on July 31, just days before Iran's new president, Hassan Rouhani, took office. Rouhani was elected in June on a platform of conciliation, saying he wanted to ease Iran's international isolation.
Senators have been debating behind closed doors their version of the bill, which could slash Iran's oil exports to no more than 500,000 barrels a day. However the banking committee acts, some senators said they might sidestep the panel and insert tough new Iran sanctions into the annual defense authorization bill, which Obama might find hard to veto.
(Additional reporting by Steve Holland, Jeff Mason, Roberta Rampton, Susan Heavey, Patricia Zengerle and David Alexander; Editing by Mohammad Zargham and Peter Cooney)
Syrian air raid kills rebel commander in Aleppo - activists
AMMAN (Reuters) - A Syrian rebel commander in a main Islamist brigade was killed and two others were injured in an air strike by President Bashar al-Assad's forces on Aleppo, activists said on Friday, in a setback to rebels defending the city against a loyalist attack.
Aleppo, Syria's commercial hub and most populous city before the uprising against Assad erupted in 2011, has been witnessing heavy fighting since Assad's forces, backed by Shi'ite militia from Iraq and the Lebanese party Hezbollah, launched an offensive two weeks ago to retake rebel-held areas in the city.
The opposition Aleppo News Network said in a statement that the raid on Thursday targeted an army base that rebels had captured, killing commander Youssef al-Abbas of the Qatari-backed al-Tawhid Brigades, one of the biggest armed opposition groups.
Abbas was known by the nom de guerre Abu al-Tayyeb.
Tawhid's leadership was holding a meeting in the base when the raid occurred, the statement said.
It said Tawhid's head, Abdelqader Saleh, was injured and taken to a hospital in Turkey, 45 kms (28 miles) to the north, along with Abdelaziz al-Salameh, another top commander. Both were in good condition, the statement said.
The report could not be independently confirmed.
Video footage taken by activists showed the body of Abu al-Tayyeb after being transported to his hometown of Mareh in the countryside north of Aleppo. His father was shown kissing the body and crying.
Al-Tawhid issued a statement earlier this week, along with other Islamist formations that included al-Nusra Front, an al Qaeda affiliate, declaring a emergency and summoning all fighters to head to the fronts.
Opposition activists said the declaration was an indication of how grave rebels regarded the possibility of Assad, boosted by his Shi'ite militia allies and Iran, wresting back Aleppo.
Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Thursday his group will keep fighting in Syria alongside Assad's forces as long as necessary.
The conflict has polarised the Middle East between Sunni Muslim powers such as Turkey and the Gulf Arab states, who support the Sunni rebels, and Shi'ite Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah.
Assad belongs to Syria's Alawite minority, an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam that has controlled the country since the 1960s by dominating the army and security apparatus. Assad's father had forged a now weakened alliance with the Sunni merchant class in Aleppo and Damascus and with Sunni tribes in the east of the country.
(Reporting by Khaled Yacoub Oweis, Amman newsroom; Editing by Bill Trott)
Philippine typhoon death toll jumps; U.S. helicopters boost aid effort
TACLOBAN, Philippines (Reuters) - The death toll from a powerful typhoon doubled overnight in one Philippine city alone, reaching 4,000, as helicopters from a U.S. aircraft carrier and other naval ships began flying food, water and medical teams to ravaged regions on Friday.
President Benigno Aquino has faced mounting pressure to speed up the distribution of aid and also come under criticism over unclear estimates of casualties, especially in Tacloban, capital of hardest-hit Leyte province.
A notice board in Tacloban City Hall estimated the deaths at 4,000, up from 2,000 a day before. The toll, written in blue marker on a whiteboard easel, is compiled by local officials who started burying bodies in a mass grave on Thursday.
Tacloban mayor Alfred Romualdez said some people may have been swept out to sea and their bodies lost after a tsunami-like wall of seawater slammed into coastal areas. One neighbourhood had a population of between 10,000 and 12,000, and now was completely deserted, he said.
The City Hall toll is the first public acknowledgement that the number of fatalities would likely far exceed an estimate given this week by Aquino, who said the loss of life from Typhoon Haiyan would be closer to 2,000 or 2,500.
Official confirmed deaths nationwide stood at 2,357 on Friday after the typhoon, one of the strongest ever recorded, roared across the central Philippines a week ago. Adding to the confusion, the United Nations, citing government figures, put the latest overall death toll at 4,460.
On Tuesday, Aquino said estimates of 10,000 dead by local officials were overstated and caused by "emotional trauma". Elmer Soria, a regional police chief who made that estimate to media, was removed from his post on Thursday.
A police spokesman said Soria was due to be transferred to headquarters in Manila. But a senior police official told Reuters he believed Soria was re-assigned because of his unauthorised casualty estimate.
Survivors have grown increasingly desperate and angry over the pace of aid distribution, which has been hindered by paralysed local governments, widespread looting, a lack of fuel for rescue vehicles and debris-choked roads.
The dead are still being buried. Many corpses remain uncovered on roadsides or under splintered homes.
Foreign aid officials have called the disaster unprecedented for the Philippines.
"There is utter devastation. People are desperate for food, water, shelter, supplies and information about their loved ones," U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told reporters on Thursday during a visit to Latvia.
"We are doing everything possible to rush assistance to those who need it. Now is the time for the international community to stand with the people of the Philippines."
The nuclear-powered USS George Washington aircraft carrier and accompanying ships arrived off eastern Samar province on Thursday evening, carrying 5,000 crew and more than 80 aircraft.
The carrier moved some fixed-wing aircraft ashore to make more room for the helicopters on its flight deck.
"One of the best capabilities the strike group brings is our 21 helicopters," commander Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery said in a statement. "These helicopters represent a good deal of lift to move emergency supplies around."
U.S. sailors have brought food and water ashore in Tacloban and the town of Guiuan.
The carrier is moored near where U.S. General Douglas MacArthur's force of 174,000 men landed on October 20, 1944, in one of the biggest Allied victories of World War Two.
Another U.S. aircraft carrier, the USS Abraham Lincoln, led a massive aid operation off Indonesia's Aceh province after the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004.
Aquino has been on the defensive over his handling of the storm, given warnings of its projected strength and the risk of a storm surge, and now the pace of relief efforts.
He has said the death toll might have been higher had it not been for the evacuation of people and the readying of relief supplies, but survivors say they had little warning of any seawater surge.
Tacloban city administrator Tecson John Lim, who on Sunday also estimated 10,000 likely died, said Aquino may be deliberately downplaying casualties.
"Of course he doesn't want to create too much panic. Perhaps he is grappling with whether he wants to reduce the panic so that life goes on," he said.
The preliminary number of missing as of Thursday, according to the Red Cross, remained at 22,000. That could include people who have since been located, it has said.
Tacloban's main convention centre, the Astrodome, has become a temporary home for hundreds of people living in squalor. Families cooked meals amid the stench of garbage and urine. Debris was strewn along rows of seats rising from dark pools of stagnant water.
"We went into the Astrodome and asked who is in charge and just got blank stares," said Joe Lowry, a spokesman for the International Organisation for Migration, which is setting up camps for the displaced.
Survivors formed long lines under searing sunshine, and then torrential rain, to charge mobile phones from the only power source available - a city hall generator. Others started to repair motorbikes and homes. A rescue worker cleared debris near a wall with the spray-painted words: "We need food".
Outside Tacloban, burials began for about 300 bodies in a mass grave on Thursday. A larger grave will be dug for 1,000, Lim said.
The city government remains paralysed, with an average of just 70 workers on duty, compared with 2,500 normally, he added. Many were killed, injured, lost family or were too overcome with grief to work.
More than 920,000 people have been displaced, the United Nations said. But many areas still have not received aid.
"It's true, there are still areas that we have not been able to get to where people are in desperate need," U.N. humanitarian chief Valerie Amos told reporters in Manila. "I very much hope that in the next 48 hours, that will change significantly.
"Yes, I do feel that we have let people down because we have not been able to get in more quickly."
(Additional reporting by Rosemarie Francisco and Eric dela Cruz in Manila, Michelle Nichols at the United Nations, Phil Stewart in Washington, Greg Torode in Hong Kong and Aija Krūtaine in Latvia. Writing by Jason Szep. Editing by Dean Yates)
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- sasa999Asked on March 18, 2013 at 03:40 AM
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North Eastern Venda stretches from Thohoyandou to the Kruger National Park boundary in the east and the Limpopo Valley in the north. You can drive north from Thohoyandou to Masisi, Thengwe and Sagole; or drive south from the Tshipise-Pafuri road. The roads and signage in this area are poor! The vegetation types that dominate this area are Arid Mountain Bushveld and Mopane woodland.
Lowveld riverine forest with elements of semi-deciduous forest can be found along the major rivers. This area is where the only isolated patch of Brachystegia woodland in South Africa is situated. Interesting birds that can be seen here include Southern Hyliota, Crowned Hornbill, Pink-throated Twinspot and Blue-spotted Wood Dove. More common species are: White-browed Scrub Robin, Bearded Scrub Robin, White-crested Helmet-Shrike and Golden-breasted Bunting. Look out for Mottled Spinetail at the Sagole Big Tree.
Miombo (Brachystegia) woodland is common in Zimbabwe and countries further north, but this is the only known patch in South Africa. Special bird associated with Miombo woodland that have been seen here are White-breasted Cuckooshrike and Southern Hyliota, Pink-throated Twinspot is frequently seen and you might find Blue-spotted Wood Dove. There are unconfirmed reports of Red-throated Twinspot and Spotted Creeper. There is a community campsite with a basic ablution block at the entrance, and a marked trail into the woodland.
Directions from the south: Travel east from Louis Trichardt / Makhado on the R524, drive through Thohoyandou to Sibasa and to then to the T-junction indicating Donald Fraser Hospital (left) and Masisi (right).Turn right towards Masisi, continue for 12 km, then turn left towards Thengwe. Continue for 5.1km, then turn right towards Mutale. Continue for 21 km until you see a signboard and turn-off to Gundani to the right, after 3km you will arrive at the campsite. Travelling time from Thohoyandou is around 45minutes.
Directions from the north: Travel from Pafuri / Musina on the R525, then turn left to Sagole Spa and the Big Tree. West of the Big Tree is a road to the south marked ´Sibasa´. Take this road, pass Shakadza, then see the start of the tar road. Continue on the tar road until you see the signboard and turn-off to Gundani on the left.
Golwe Picnic and Campsite is a large shady site situated in a secluded valley in Venda off the Masisi Road. There is good bird watching in and around the campsite; African Broadbill can be heard calling at dawn. Other special birds are Pink-throated Twinspot, Scaly-throated Honeyguide and Crowned Hornbill. Marked circular trails lead from the campsite up the valley and to a waterfall. The campsite offers a convenient base from which to visit Mpaphuli Cycad Reserve, Makuya Nature Reserve and the Gundani Brachystegia Woodland. We recommend that you book local bird guide Christopher Nethonzhe to guide you along the trails; he can be contacted at 076 302 9383. Golwe is owned and run by members of the Vhurivhuri community; all proceeds go towards the development of the community. The campsite has four campsites, ablution facilities with hot and cold water and flushing toilets, braai stands and picnic tables; firewood is for sale. The site is accessible to 2-wheel drive vehicles and caravans.
Directions from the south: Travel east from Louis Trichardt / Makhado on the R524, drive through Thohoyandou to Sibasa and then to the T-junction indicating Donald Fraser Hospital (left) and Masisi (right). Turn right towards Masisi, continue for 37 km, then turn right towards Lambani / Gunda and follow the signboards to the site for another 1.8 km.
Directions from the north: Travel from Pafuri / Musina on the R525, turn off towards Tshikondeni Mine at Masisi. Do not take the left turn to the mine but continue straight towards Sibasa / Thohoyandou for another 25km; then see the sign to the site on the right.
This magnificent specimen has been recorded as the largest Baobab tree in the world and is the best place to see Mottled Spinetail in the late evening and early morning.
Directions: Travel on the R525 and follow signs to Sagole Spa (Klein Tshipise). The tree is west of Sagole Spa and the turn-off is marked with a sign ´Big Tree´.
Makuya Nature Reserve is situated near Pafuri Gate of the Kruger National Park. This 16,000 hectare conservation area on the Luvuvhu River is open to Kruger's Nyalaland Wilderness Area; big game roams freely and Makuya is known for its impressive buffalo herds. There are many varied and unique plant species; major habitats in the reserve include sandstone outcrops, riparian woodland, Lebombo Ironwood thickets, Mopane woodland and Baobab ridge communities. Birdlife is abundant with over 370 species recorded in the area, including some 'specials' such as Böhm's and Mottled Spinetails, Meves's Starling, Black-throated Wattle-eye, Mosque Swallow, Grey-headed Parrot, African Yellow White-eye and Tropical Boubou.
Directions: Travel on the R525 to Tshipise, continue to Masisi; or travel on the R524 through Thohoyandou to Sibasa, then to Masisi. At Masisi turn right to Tshikondeni Mine; then follow the signs to Makuya Nature Reserve.


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Stop being afraid of hunger, eat when your hungry savor the flavor and stop before your full. Don't eat again until your hungry. Do not pass go Do not collect $200
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Losing the pounds for good
Getting healthy and losing weight are two different things. This blog is about losing weight and hopefully in the long run you will become healthier. By not stuffing yourself your body is able to operate better. This plan is for people who do not have any health issues. Always follow your doctors advice.
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First up on stage were a band that I've heard a lot of good things about. Having first been introduced to Poem (7) inadvertently by their PR rep, Lars (cheers for everything by the way) last year around the time their second album came out, I was looking forward to seeing how the songs would stand up in a live situation. With a set comprised of songs from Skein Syndrome and their first album, the band set to work warming up the people that had come out that Easter Sunday evening.
Whilst initially the room was a bit quiet, by the time the band finished their third song, the room was awash with people who were having a great time. Frequently thanking the masses that had appeared, frontman Giorgos Prokopiou delivered a somewhat Joe Duplaintier inspired style of being able to switch between soothing cleans and face-melting 'shrieks' almost instantaneously. Deciding at the end to ditch the guitar and just go for the microphone, the frontman decided to 'get down and dirty' with the audience and this only served to elevate everyone's spirits. Finishing to a thunderous applause, it's safe to say the quartet earned quite a number new fans given the numerous comments of "They were really fun".
Source: http://www.moshville.co.uk/reviews/gig-review/2017/04/persefone-poem-the-underworld-london-16th-april-2017/


text: In the "World Leaders, Past & Present" series, a biography of Chile's last freely-elected leader, a socialist. Following a brief history of Chile, Garza details Allende's political life, including his famous relatives, boyhood, and his career as a party leader, member of Congress, Minister of Health, and--after losing three elections--his three-year span as president before being assassinated during Pinochet's military takeover. The US government and firms like ITT are shown as responsible for wreaking economic havoc in Chile, and sending money and the CIA to oust Allende in order to protect Yankee interests. While fairly thorough and up-to-date here, Garza fails to define such important terms as "left-wing," "socialist," and "communist" in this context, making the plethora of political parties hard to tell apart. Personal triumphs that might have added interest, like winning the decathlon in Chile's Youth Games, are mentioned only in passing; the textbook style makes for dry reading. Still, this will be a good resource for reports, lllustrated with photos; supplemented with quotes; list for further reading; chronology; index.