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Memoirs of bullies and summer pools in the days of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
We knew we were dealing with a different kind of animal when he caused the widow Myers to be placed in orthopedic traction. Sure, he strutted around like he owned Waning Years Manor (the senior living community where we've been hung out to dry), like he could ring our necks, and bed any bird he pleased. But there had been no hard proof. Talk on his part and speculation on ours. That is until he put his money where his mouth is. And word had it that the widow Myers had never been happier to be bed ridden. She'd be more than willing to endure the crippling effects of another shag.
After this first incident, me and the boys kept a keen eye on one Zachery Cooper. Or "Coop," as he liked to remind us. "Call me Coop, turd breeches." That was me. He had nicknames for the rest, all following the same adolescent logic: shit knickers, poop bloomers, etc.
It was quiet for a couple of weeks after the widow Myers, that is until the spaghetti dinner. The dinner was hosted by a boy scout troop that comes and bugs us once a month. I was sitting with a couple of the fellas I play canasta with and their wives. We were accompanied by one of the scouts (they plug a kid into every table so they can stare at us like we're lepers, and then we're obliged to tell him he's a good boy for doing so). This particular young man was quite the specimen – he had red matted hair, yellow mucus crusted around his nose, and acne that matched the marinara. I left the dinner hungry.
But before the festivities came to an end, Harold Cummings who was seated three tables away, stood up with his hands around his throat. He was struggling to breath. A group of scouts looking to earn their First-Aid merit badge swarmed around the poor bastard. But before we knew it, Coop plowed through like a bulldozer sending the pee-wees and plates of pasta flying everywhere. Harold was lifted into the air like a ragdoll. Coops arms wrapped around Harold like a pair of pythons and squeezed (I swear Coop looked out into the crowd as if he were posing at a Mr. Universe contest). Not only was the meatball ejected, but so were Harold's lungs and liver.
With disaster 'averted,' Coop disengaged his arms and Harold dropped to the ground like a bag of bones. In a moment of triumph, Coop raised his arms over his head and flexed his biceps. This brought down the house. The old biddies and prepubescent geeks gave him a standing ovation. That evening, Coop had his way with the widow Jenkins.
That one hurt. The fellas knew I'd been sniffing around Mrs. Jenkins' petunias ever since Mr. Jenkins croaked two years ago. I guess Coop didn't get the memo. Not that it would have mattered. What could I have done? Coop was naturally big and in better physical shape than most forty year olds. But on top of that, he had his own Dr. Frankenstein who was shooting him up with all the latest PEDs out of Germany. That was the rumor anyhow (someone had a doctor who knew a doctor who was connected to Frankenstein).
Even worse, Mr. Muscles seemed to be putting on quite the performance behind closed doors. Mona, Mrs. Jenkins, was never the same again. After being with Coop, Mona reverted back to her days as a school girl. She was carefree, nimble, and flirtatious. The medical staff at Waning Years chalked it up to the progression of her Alzheimer's. But we knew better.
The straw that broke the camel's back, which caused the fellas and I to take action, presented itself at the annual pool party. Normally we looked forward to the first pool party of the summer. However, now that Coop would be in attendance, we knew the whole affair would devolve into a showcase for his physique, and result in him being pampered by the female residents. And that's exactly what happened.
I sat at the other end of the pool sipping my Virgin Colada (alcohol interferes with my meds) and watched as Mona rubbed suntan lotion onto Coop's chest and another resident, Mary, held an Arnold Palmer up to his lips to drink. Sure, he may have been seventy years old, but in that moment, he was nothing less than a god. I was seething with envy.
My thousand-yard stare was interrupted when, Jim, my roommate, tapped me on the shoulder. "Check out Saul. He ain't looking too good." I shifted my gaze and saw Saul as he was being escorted back to the clubhouse by his wife Dotty. He was beet red and sweating as if he were in a sauna. Everyone gasped as Saul shook and wobbled while holding onto his walker. He hit the pavement.
Someone shouted, "Heart attack!" But before I could shout back, "Heat stroke, moron!" Coop jumped to his feet and punched his fist into his palm, and announced, "It's Coop time!" Though the proclamation caused me to choke on my Colada, it actually seemed to mitigate the fears of others. Saul wasn't so lucky.
Coop jumped into action and leapt over three chaise lounges. He was crouched over Saul's sunbaked body before anyone else could assist. Coop's massive fists started to rain down on Saul's bird like chest. You could hear his ribs cracking. At one point, Coop grabbed Saul by his shirt collar and lifted him towards his face. "Stay with me little buddy. Don't leave me you bastard!" I'm pretty sure Coop had no idea who Saul was. Coop then slapped him across the face, which caused Saul's dentures to fly out of his mouth and land in the pool. To this day that's where they remain, floating calmly in the sun.
Once Saul was finally brought to the hospital, it was reported that he had five broken ribs, a punctured lung and zero dignity. Coop had little to worry about; he was protected by the Good Samaritan law. When questioned by the officer who appeared on the scene, as to why he slapped poor Saul, Coop replied, "That's how we did it in the Navy." He received a pat on the back.
The following Saturday we devised a scheme to be rid of Coop. The inspiration came from the matinee movie that was playing in the visitor's lounge. That weekend's feature was Cape Fear. You guessed it. We were basically going to hire guys to smash Coop into another dimension. Sure, it doesn't take a genius to hatch that scheme, but when you're over sixty you need all the inspiration you can get.
Jim and I were on good terms with an orderly known as Big Herc. His real name may have been Kevin, but I'm not sure. Anyways, Big Herc looked just as you would imagine. He did not disappoint. Jim and I were always slipping a few dollars here and there to Herc, and he would sneak in contraband. Nothing crazy, just food, cigars, and once in a great while, pills for whatever happened to be your pleasure or pain.
When we presented our proposition, his response was, "Hell no! I need this job. I ain't going back to the pen for beating some old man ass." We asked if he knew anyone who would be willing for the right price. We assured him that we weren't looking to kill Coop, we just wanted him out of commission for a good long while. Herc shook his head like a sad puppy and took a deep breath. "Let me make some calls. I'll get back to your crazy old asses." He returned in less than fifteen minutes. "You want this done, you need to put up six hundred. They want three a piece." And with that, Operation Muscle Relaxer was put in motion.
To our surprise, the ambush was gonna happen much sooner than later; the very next day at 5am, when Coop was to head out for his morning jog. Supposedly, Herc's contacts were already preparing to hightail it out of town on account of some other business. Our payment was a cherry on top. Jim and I scrambled, searching through shoeboxes, sock draws, books, and the contents of our freezers. We scrounged up two hundred and sixty dollars. Herc offered to take our bank cards and drive to an ATM. We graciously declined. Jim made a last-ditch effort and paid a visit to Dotty, Saul's wife. A half hour later, he returned with the remaining balance. "What did you tell her?" I asked. "I told her the truth. She was more than happy. Saul's penis don't work no more," Jim reported. Did it ever?
That night I tossed and turned as if the Cuban Missile Crisis were underway. My mind began to race as I examined different scenarios. What if Herc's associates were to go too far? What if they had weapons? Even worse, I thought back to Cape Fear. It didn't work for Gregory Peck. Mitchum creamed those guys. Could a seventy-year-old man on steroids get the better of two thugs in their twenties who may or may not be on steroids? These were pertinent questions pertaining to my own pathetic survival.
Just as I was beginning to get comfortable, not only physically but mentally with the fact that I had placed a hit on a man, I rolled over and saw that my alarm clock read 4:45 am. Fifteen minutes hence, Coop would go from being an iron man to a man living inside of an iron lung. I couldn't let it happen. Despite everything, he was one of us. And the thought of two youngsters doing him bodily harm, well, it sickened me.
Jim was sound asleep, so I shuffled past his bed and headed out on my own. I had hoped to intercept Coop while still on my floor, but no luck. With my stomach in knots, I waited for what seemed like an eternity for the slowest elevator on the planet. The clock was ticking. Once I arrived on the ground floor, I walked past the front desk where the night nurse was staring down at her phone, too occupied to notice the world around. Coop was sitting in the vestibule; watching, waiting. I noticed that his concentration was focused on two young thugs who were lurking in the parking lot.
"Mornin' turd breeches," Coop said to me as I stepped into the vestibule. "Coop?" I uttered. He raised his hand to stop me. "No worries, I'm just sizing-up these boys. Should make for a helluva finale." "What are you talking about?" I asked. "You guys do this? The thugs?" I became tongue tied as I searched for a reasonable and legal explanation. Coop chuckled. "Don't worry. I'm glad you did." "What're you saying?" "You think I want to die like the rest of you? Have you seen how they die around here? It's disgusting." I couldn't have agreed more.
Coop stood up and began stretching his arms and chest. "This is how it should be. Fight till the last breath. Well, here goes nothin'," he said as he began to walk towards the doors leading out. "Kick their asses," I said. The automatic doors slid open and Coop stepped through. Before they could slide shut I called out to him, "Coop?" He turned to look at me. "Mona Jenkins, how was it? What was she like?" He gave me an earnest look. "She makes a nice cup of tea. You should stop by her room sometime." I smiled and gave him a nod.
There was a part of me that wanted to be at Coop's side walking towards certain death. There was another part of me that wanted to run back to my room and hide under the bed. I split the difference and walked back into the foyer where I hid behind a pillar. Scared but curious, I snuck a peek and watched Coop as closed the distance between himself and his executioners. I told myself that I would look away once he made contact – but he never did. Coop stopped in his tracks and fell to the ground. He began to vomit bile. The two thugs booked it.
It turned out that Coop had stomach cancer and two months later, he was dead. People had mixed feelings about his death just as they did about his life. But one thing was certain, Coop made us feel. And that still beats the perpetual numbness of most days. He was also an inspiration. Through Big Herc we got connected to a Dr. Frankenstein down in Mexico. Any day now, we should have all the supplements we could ever want. And once they kick in, we'll see whose left standing and crowned king of the hill.
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Look There
Scripture Text: Luke 2:49–50
Seek! Search! Look everywhere else. But you will never find Christ Jesus anywhere else but in the holy Scripture. The Spirit will reveal himself there.
Seek! Search! Look everywhere else. But you will never find Christ Jesus anywhere else but in the holy Scripture. The Spirit will reveal himself there.
Take the Word of God "as it stands," as it is written, and be transformed by the Holy Spirit who works through that very Word in all his people.
A Christian glories in the things of which other men are ashamed — in the cross and in his sufferings. For the world will not long endure the Word.
As much as you are able, live in peace with all; spend time with those of humble circumstance. Be a blessing to your neighbor.
Marriage, because it is God's institution, will be a difficult work, as the flesh will resist and rebel, as it always does against doing God's will.
Love desires the best for its neighbor, even when one's neighbor does not desire the best for you, so one must pray for them even when they are not neighborly.
Jesus allowed for believers and unbelievers alike in the church, so that both might be spared, believers from violent uprooting, and unbelievers an opportunity to believe.
Each Christian has been given a calling, and with that calling a particular gift or gifts to fulfill the calling. These do not make her better or happier than another.
God permits us to fail in order to make us seek him in his Word. Do not despair when things do not go your way. God is calling you.
Paul does not put much emphasis on foretelling the future, but on the explanation of the Scriptures, so that there may be faith in the gospel.
May we be content with the gospel, with what is written, for it contains all that God wants us to know about himself, all that we need to know.
Love is virtue pure and precious. It neither utters, nor thinks any evil of its neighbor. It rather covers sin; not one sin, nor two, but a "multitude of sins."
Our worship and good works are to be done for Christ's sake, not because we think that we earn salvation through our deeds or piety.
Good and bad happens to bad and so-called good people alike. The difference is how one responds, and why, and from where their peace comes.
Have we forgotten that in order to be saved, we must have faith in Christ, trusting in God above our own works of religious devotion?
We must consider ourselves with sound and sober judgment, not thinking much of our piety. There is always room for improvement in the Christian life.
Simeon was not impressed by appearances and so, could bless Christ Jesus. If appearances are our motivation, we will not bless Jesus.
Christians are priests, each and every one of them, and as priests, are to offer acceptable sacrifices to God. That sacrifice is self for the honor God.
We must have faith in the Word, not in what our senses tell us. Feelings are secondary (at least) and are to be subordinated to "what is written."
Christians should not curse—in the sense of wishing evil in a person's life. However, Christians are to censure and reprove evil in the hope of good.
God allows suffering to guard against presumption, as example to others to repent, and as preparation for finding Christ, and keeping him.
The sacrifices of the Old Testament are fulfilled in the one sacrifice of Christ Jesus so that we may offering the living sacrifice of faith in everyday life.
Having Christ's Spirit within us, we are to love our neighbors so fully through that it seems as though we are indebted to love our them.
Love of neighbor does not justify us to God. Faith in God does however, compel us to love our neighbor, and this is evidence of faith, and love of God.
The light exposes the darkness of human reason, doctrine, and works, and displays our need of the grace and glory of he who is Light from Light, true God from true God.


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Call MapReduce from another server side script in netsuite
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Map/reduce scripts can be submitted for processing on an on-demand basis from another server-side script. You can submit a deployment this way by using the task.ScheduledScriptTask API. For the call to be successful, the Status field on the script deployment record must be set to Not Scheduled.
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You can also submit an on-demand deployment from the UI. For details, see Submitting an On-Demand Map/Reduce Script Deployment from the UI.
Note that after you submit an on-demand deployment of a script, the script does not necessarily execute right away. After a script is submitted for processing, there may be a short system delay before the script is executed, even if no scripts are before it. If there are scripts already waiting to be executed, the script may wait to be executed until other scripts have completed.
The properties of a map/reduce script deployment. You can use this object to programmatically submit a script deployment for processing.
To use the MapReduceScriptTask object: In the NetSuite UI, create the script record and script deployment records.
Use task.create(options) to create the MapReduceScriptTask object.
Use the MapReduceScriptTask object properties to set the script and deployment properties.
Use MapReduceScriptTask.submit() to submit the deployment for processing.
Use the properties for the task.MapReduceScriptTaskStatus object to get the status of the map/reduce script.
To submit an on-demand map/reduce script instance from a script:
Step 1) Create your map/reduce script entry point script. This process includes uploading a JavaScript file and creating a script record based on that file.
Step 2) In the server-side script where you want to submit the map/reduce script, call task.create(options) to return a task.MapReduceScriptTask object.
var scriptTask = task.create({taskType: task.TaskType.MAP_REDUCE});
Set the MapReduceScriptTask.scriptId and MapReduceScriptTask.deploymentId properties:
scriptTask.scriptId = 'customscript1';
scriptTask.deploymentId = 'customdeploy1';
The system does not require you to set a value for the deploymentId property. If you omit this value, the system searches for and uses any available deployment record for the script record you identified with the scriptId property. For a deployment to be considered available, three conditions must be met: The deployment record must have a status of Not Scheduled, its Deployed option must be set to true, and no unfinished instances of the deployment can exist.
Call MapReduceScriptTask.submit() to submit the script for processing.
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* @NApiVersion 2.x
* @NScriptType ScheduledScript
Define(['N/search', 'N/task',],function(search,task){
Function callMRfromScript(){
* Initial logic of the script
//utilize task module for calling mapreduce
var mapReduceScriptId = 'customscript_test_mapreduce_script';
log.audit('mapreduce id: ', mapReduceScriptId);
var mrTask = task.create({
taskType: task.TaskType.MAP_REDUCE,
scriptId: mapReduceScriptId,
deploymentId: 'customdeploy_test_mapreduce_script'
var mrTaskId = mrTask.submit();
execute: callMRfromScript
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The person in question is Tamás Borka-Szász. He was the chairman of the District Finance and the District Development Committee. For more than ten years he was a member of the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP).
Borka-Szász resigned immediately after a search of his premises by the police. As a result, he is no longer active as a politician. During the search, "several computers" were confiscated that were probably also Bitcoin miners. The local news medium hvg released the news a few days ago.
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It all seems to have been a piece of string. The fire hazard was also reported, because Tamás had made an amateur wooden frame construction. Considering the miners produce a lot of heat, this caused a dangerous situation.
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Government officials react in a statement shocked:
"On the Dark Web, Bitcoin miners exchange the currency they produce with phishers and arms dealers. It seems that the politician was involved in this illegal activity, also stealing electricity from public money".
They obviously still have an old image of Bitcoin. There are now listed companies that are holding Bitcoin on their balance sheet, something they probably don't know about. The story of the 'underworld' is no longer topical.
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"Why is everyone abandoning the party and our ideals? I'm really touched, deeply indignant, I just wasn't prepared for that. I will never allow anyone to steal or commit any lawlessness in or around the municipality".
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Finally, there's the Cab+Mic section: the analog direct circuit. An In/Out switch activates the circuit, while Contour and Emphasis (with an Air/Bite switch) give the ability to respectively adjust the cab and mic simulations. The Output section has a knob to control volume heading out to the mixer or digital interface. In the back, look for an 8/16-ohm speaker switch and 1/4″ outputs (speaker and line-level), plus the Direct Out 1 and 2 sections with both 1/4″ and XLR jacks. If your head is spinning by now, don't worry – the Valvulator can be as simple or complex as you want.
Tested in a home studio, this Fryette performed incredibly well. In short order, guitar sounds ranging from dead clean to wailing overdrive were laid down to several GarageBand tracks on a Mac, and the results were far thicker and richer than your average digital "amp sim." Beyond its meaty, convincing recording tone, the Valvulator has several other uses, including as a guitar preamp for gigging. Send the output to a mixer and PA and the audience will be surprised you're getting such a mighty tone from a small tabletop box.
You can also use it to "re-amp" studio guitar parts – that is, taking an already-recorded track and sending the output through a separate amplifier for better tone. If you're recording direct, but don't want any amp distortion, run your guitar through the Valvulator for its superior tube circuit. As countless producers and engineers will tell you, a good tube preamp makes just about everything sound better in the studio.
The Fryette Valvulator GP/DI is a formidable tool for both recording and concert use. Sure, it's not inexpensive, but with a host of uses, bulletproof construction, and genuine tube tone, there's serious value here. Best of all, like the best tube heads, this small wonder is full of organic sounds that react to whatever you're playing. Play lighter and the tone cleans up; dig in and it gets good 'n' nasty. Fryette has distilled decades of tube-amp building into one killer little recording amp.
This article originally appeared in VG August 2017 issue. All copyrights are by the author and Vintage Guitar magazine. Unauthorized replication or use is strictly prohibited.


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For the platinum Industry, Marikana was a 'Mechanisation Moment'
The Marikana massacre, which took place seven years ago on 16 August 2012, triggered seismic changes in the platinum industry, for better and worse. It is leaner, meaner and more profitable, with a focus on mechanisation. Workers have also done better and ply their trade in safer environments, but there are fewer of them, and capital has a distinct edge over labour at the bargaining table.
In 2012, South Africa's platinum mining industry employed about 197,000 people who collectively earned R34.5-billion, according to the Minerals Council South Africa. So annual average earnings came in at about R175,000 per employee, or about R14,500 a month, at a time when the Marikana strikers were fighting for a roughly doubling of basic monthly wages to R12,500. That underscores the disparities in the industry that existed between the vast majority of semi-skilled guys sweating underground risking life and limb, and the generally air-conditioned world of upper management.
In 2018, a different picture emerges. The industry employed about 167,000 people, a 15% decrease from six years earlier. And their combined earnings amounted to more than R48 billion, or an annual average of R288,000 per employee, about 65% higher. Disparities between the stope and boardroom are still wide if not glaring, but the basic wages of the lowest-paid workers have generally risen by about that much and even more over that period.
AMCU President Joseph Mathunjwa said at a press conference earlier this week that this was testimony to the success of his union. It would be churlish to dismiss this assertion. AMCU managed to wring big pay hikes out of the industry, even when most of the shafts were losing money and the sector was on its knees. But other trends are also at work that are gradually undermining labour's power on the platinum belt.
For the platinum industry, Marikana was clearly a "moment", and one that is still shaking up the sector. Crucially, it accelerated a drive to mechanisation, a key reason why the labour force today is smaller, better paid, and working in safer conditions. For some investors, South Africa's labour-intensive operations effectively became radioactive in the wake of Marikana. Putting a lid on social and labour unrest became a high priority.
Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) has been a leader on this front, making a highly profitable pivot to mechanisation while selling off the bulk of its labour-intensive operations to Sibanye-Stillwater. In July 2012, Amplats reported H1 headline earnings of R713-million. It produced 1.9 million platinum group metal (PGM) ounces in that period and employed 58,000 people, five of whom died on the job. A big spike in debt obligations also led the Anglo American unit to suspend dividends at that time.
Seven years later and you could be forgiven for thinking it was a different company operating in a different country, if not planet. No one died on the job in its latest six-month reporting period, and earnings more than doubled to R7.3-billion from the previous period – a tenfold increase on 2012. Yet in rand terms, the platinum price between 2012 and 2019 is not hugely different. A hefty interim dividend of R3-billion was paid out, and over 2.3 million ounces of PGMs were produced. And the workforce had more than halved to 25,000 employees. Productivity gains are among the advantages that come with mechanisation.
Other platinum producers are making big mechanisation pushes, involving a range of technologies, including replacing rock-drill operators (AMCU's key support base) with machines that can drill and bolt. Massive mechanical rock cutters are also being used for tunnelling, among other innovations. Impala Platinum says its "focus in the short to medium term is to continue its strategic journey to transform into a PGM producer mining mechanised, low-cost ore bodies" while Northam Platinum's new operations are shallow and mechanised. It is also experimenting with state-of-the-art tunnelling technology.
Sibanye, a Gold Fields' spin-off that has since branched out into PGMs, has scored big with its purchase of the mechanised palladium-rich Stillwater operation in the US state of Montana. It now accounts for about 80% of the company's value, while employing a fraction of its workforce.
And speaking of Gold Fields, the ditching of its labour-heavy gold assets that became Sibanye, coincided with its move to mechanisation (and AMCU's move into gold), though its last South African operation, the mechanised South Deep mine, has become something of a boondoggle in the face of challenging geology.
And what happened to Lonmin? It was recently swallowed by Sibanye as it had ceased to be a "going concern". Geology – with reefs too narrow and gradients too steep for machines to access – in the past stymied its costly and generally futile attempts at mechanisation. The company that was the focus of the violent wildcat strike that provided the backdrop to the police killing 34 miners on that fateful day, is now dead.
Marikana was certainly a moment for the industry and a mechanised one at that. Industry executives maintain that they were already moving that way in the face of up and down prices and soaring power (Eskom!) and labour costs, as well as mounting safety concerns. Indeed, for years before Marikana, platinum miners were generally getting above-inflation pay hikes, which highlights just how low their wages were in the past. We have previously highlighted how those pay increases may have made miners easy marks for predatory lenders, a state of affairs that further fuelled wage demands.
But there is little doubt that the big mechanisation wave got rolling after Marikana, underpinned by technological developments. A digital revolution is now also underway in the mines. This includes innovations such as "digital twinning", whereby a "digital twin" mirrors, say, a mechanical drill. If the machine falls behind the "twin", which in its virtual world operates at optimum capacity, that is a signal that something is wrong that requires immediate attention. This has huge implications for productivity and an operation's skills base. It is also surely just a matter of time before such trends begin displacing labour in ways we have not yet conceived.
One of the upshots of all of this is that AMCU's current wage demands and industry offers are not miles apart, with the exception of Sibanye/Lonmin, and even that is not a chasm. Mechanisation has historically undercut the power of labour, and it may be doing so now.
AMCU's demands, while high (hikes of around 40% over the course of three years), are moderate by its standards. And Amplats, and Implats to a lesser degree, can absorb fairly high wage hikes in part because of the profits being reaped from mechanisation.
Another upshot is that the companies generally have robust balance sheets and cash reserves – so they can ride out a protracted strike.
There is still plenty of social unrest on the platinum belt. This is rooted in the understandable grievances of communities that feel excluded from revenue flows, local government failures, unemployment and persistent poverty. But the post-Marikana drive to mechanisation has made the industry leaner, meaner, and more profitable. This will help to contain labour unrest and is translating into higher wages and better working conditions for those who retain their jobs or acquire new skills. DM


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Award-winning composer Meiro Stamm has scored film, television, stage and digital productions for over 20 years. His scores often fuse classical, contemporary and world elements into striking and memorable music.
Notable projects are Xavier Riddle & The Secret Museum the score for which was nominated for a 2021 and 2022 Canadian Screen Award, Super Science Friends which won "Best Soundtrack" at the 2017 Festival Brasil de Cinema Internacional, Princess Sparkly Butt & The Hot Dog Kid which won "Outstanding Achievement in Music" at the 2017 New York City Web Fest, and the short film Bread & Kisses the score for which was nominated for a Remi Award at the 2011 WorldFest in Houston, Texas. Meiro was commissioned in 2015 by R.H Thomson and the National Arts Centre Orchestra to compose a piece for choir and orchestra entitled "Song of the Mothers" commemorating the centennial of WWI as part of Thomson's The World Remembers project.
Meiro has studied and performed on the classical and electric guitar, the Indian tabla drum, and as a member of Gamelan Toronto. Of his varied musical background Stamm says, "I have always been fascinated by similarities in art from different time periods and cultures. It's amazing to see how different artists, separated by thousands of miles and hundreds of years, often give expression to the same idea; a single concept bringing forth a multitude of outward forms. I want to create music that does the same thing in reverse - takes many forms of outward expression and points to the inspiration within."
Stamm served on the Board of Directors of the Screen Composers Guild of Canada from 2002 to 2009 and as its Vice-President from 2004 to 2009.
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The Boeing F/A-18E Super Hornet and related twin-seat F/A-18F are twin-engine carrier-capable multirole fighter aircraft variants based on the McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet. The F/A-18E single-seat and F/A-18F tandem-seat variants are larger and more advanced derivatives of the F/A-18C and D Hornet.
Once updated, the F/A-18E Super Hornet's airframe had increased by 20 percent compared to the F-18C/D, and was 7,000 pounds heavier empty and 15,000 pounds heavier maximum weight. In addition, it carries 33 percent more internal fuel, increasing mission range by 41 percent and endurance by 50 percent over the earlier Hornet," according to Military.com.
The F/A-18 E far surpassed testing and received the highest commendations.
Its first operation was on the USS Abraham Lincoln on July 24, 2002 and it went into combat for the first time months later in Iraq on Nov. 6, 2002.
The F/A in the Hornet stands for its design to be both a fighter and an attack aircraft. The first F/A-18 was used by the Marine Corps, who favored it for being accurate, reliable, and requiring less maintenance than its counterparts. The F/A-18 Hornet was the first tactical aircraft designed to carry out both air-to-air and air-to-ground missions. It is nicknamed the Green Hornet.
This 60 frames per second video is amazingly clear. Take a look a the footage for yourself:
This video, filmed in 2013, shows the United States Marine Corps pilots and crew members with the Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 232 (VMFA-232). They were conducting pre-flight checks on their F/A-18C Hornet fighter jets before taxiing to the runway for takeoff at Tyndall Air Force Base during a deployment for training (DFT).
It can deploy one 20 mm M61A1 Vulcan six-barrel cannon with 570 rounds, plus up to 17,000 pounds ordnance, including bombs, rockets, missiles and drop tanks on nine external points. It can fly at speeds of over 1,360 mph and reach a ceiling of 50,000 feet. It's powered by two 16,000-pound-thrust GE F404-GE-400 low-bypass turbofan engines and is 56 feet in length, Boeing said.
The Super Hornet is made in the single-seat E model and the two-seat F model. The F/A-18E/F is 25 percent larger than the original Hornet and has increased maneuverability, range, and payload, and more powerful engines, according to Boeing.
The jet is even more environmentally friendly than some counterparts. In April 2010, the first Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornet took its flight by the power of "a sustainable biofuel blend of 50 percent camelina and 50 percent JP-5 aviation fuel," Boeing noted.
The F/A Super Hornet has won seven consecutive awards for environmental excellence from the U.S. Navy.


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D No: 212.1
Text - Author or Scripture: Joy Nimnon Kraus (1930 - 2020)
Performing Forces: SATB
Date Published: CE 02
Date of Composition: 2000
Tune Name: NCS CENTENNIAL HYMN
Notes: Same tune as "Glory, Love and Praise" (PERRY) . Joy Kraus was secretary to the Head of the National Cathedral School for Girls and the wife of Cathedral Verger John Kraus.
Categorized as: 200 Hymns & Psalms Published Works


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City 4 Stoke City 0
April 23rd 2016 att. 53,924
A comfortable win over Stoke took City back to third. A changed team with a game against Real Madrid coming up shortly deservedly took the lead at a corner - a good header by Fernando beating the 40 year old Shay Given. Aguero made it two nil from the spot with his 101st goal for City. So that's 22 goals in his last 21 games. Iheanacho was the player brought down and he made it four nil with two goals himself in the second half.
Stoke had a few chances but their finishing was pretty awful and Joe Hart only had to make one good save. Navas worked hard and actually put in some good crosses for once! Toure was a bit below par and limped off towards the end. Silva too is certainly not quite back to his best form and he too was subbed late on. After the very average performance at Newcastle it was good to see better form today but then Newcastle were much more desperate for points than Stoke City.
With the Madrid game coming up City rested several players but it was good to see Iheanacho starting with Aguero up front.
The changed kick-off date and time was probably the reason for a reduced attendance by both City and Stoke fans
The secret sniper made an early start as Diouf went down inured
Aguero on the attack
Aguero managed to get the ball to Iheanacho whose shot only just went wide of the post
City fans are frustrated by the near miss
Given manages to beat Navas
Hart saves from Whelan
Yaya Toure heads the corner clear
Given eventually clears a City corner
But on 35 minutes a further corner taken by Navas is glanced by Fernando......
..... past the diving Given and into the net to give City the lead
It's celebration time by the City fans and Fernando thanks Navas for his corner
Ten minutes later Shawcross blocks off Iheanacho and a penalty is awarded
Aguero belts the ball past Given to give City a two goal lead
Things were now looking a little more comfortable as half time arrived with a two goal lead for Man City
Joselu misses a good chance shooting over the bar
Stoke go back to back trying to stop Aguero!
Haugaard ( on for Given) saves from Iheanacho
Diouf heads wide at a corner
A Toure effort is easily saved by the sub keeper
on 59 minutes Amautovic beats Otamendi.....
.......but Hart brilliantly saves his shot and Mangala clears
A shot from Iheanacho goes wide
Stoke manager Mark Hughes hopes for better things!
Amautovic was proving difficult to stop
On 64 minutes Zabaleta overlapped down the right and crossed.....
....to the waiting Iheanacho who passed the ball into the net
Heavens above - that is three nil to City and the North Stand enjoy the moment
Toure and Amautovic tussle for the ball and both end up on the floor!
Otamendi has an effort blocked at a corner
After 74 minutes Bony passed to Iheanacho .....
...who rounded the keeper and shot for goal....
The Stoke defenders could not catch the ball as it crossed the line much to the delight of the City fans
4 nil to the home side and two goals for Iheancho
The ref has a chat with Kolarov and Imbula
a free kick by Imbula just goes over the bar
Bony evades Charlie Adam
Yaya Toure is down again but carries on
Home time again after an easy three points and a boost to the goal difference -
roll on Tuesday and Real Madrid!
Back to City
Hart 6.5: Zabaleta 7, Otamendi 7, Mangala 7, Kolarov 7, Navas 7.5, Fernando 7.5 (Demichelis) , Toure 6.5, Silva 6.5 ( Delph) Iheanacho 8.5, Aguero 7 ( Bony)
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Kush Aroma Exports stays ahead as a reckoned supplier and manufacturer of Jasmine Grandiflorum absolute oil that features clear aromatic notes of Jasmine grandiflorum, thereby making it an exceptional ingredient for perfume blends, body gels, baths and lotions. Other than just expressing fruity aroma with well-rounded feminity, our absolute oil also has strong anti-depressant properties that soothe nerves, cure severe depression, produce a feeling of optimism while revitalizing energy.
Owing to its aromatherapy properties, it has uses in anti-depressant, antiseptic, aphrodisiac, anti-spasmodic, expectorant, sedative and uterine. It also has a beneficial effect on respiratory system.
Owing to its powerful aroma, we recommend diluting it before amalgamating it with other oils. Its aphrodisiac properties are helpful in treating a variety of sexual problems like impotence, premature ejaculation and frigidity. Other than this, it also has popular uses in child birth. It strengthens contractions and relieves pain, thereby easing child birth.
Can also be used as a great toner for dry, greasy, irritated and sensitive skin. Helps in elasticity and often used to get rid of stretch marks. Its anti-scarring properties make it a top pick amongst Moms-to-be.
Precaution: For those trying this oil for the first time, we strongly recommend to evaluate in dilution. Otherwise, the complexity of the fragrance, particularly the rare and exotic notes becomes lost.
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What we love about Prefolds!
- Can be used from birth to toilet training age
- Can fit any baby no matter of size, weight or body shape
- Add a prefold to a waterproof shell for double the protection from leaks
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Course Description
Course Name
Grass and Forage Production
Host University
University College Dublin
Dublin, Ireland
Area of Study
Language Level
Taught In English
Course Level Recommendations
ISA offers course level recommendations in an effort to facilitate the determination of course levels by credential evaluators.We advice each institution to have their own credentials evaluator make the final decision regrading course levels.
ECTS Credits
5 -
Recommended U.S. Semester Credits2
Recommended U.S. Quarter Units3
Hours & Credits
This module is designed for students in Animal and Crop Production/Animal Science/Animal Science Equine. This module will outline the importance of grass at a national, EU and worldwide level. Seasonal and regional variation in grass growth will be discussed. Grassland management including sward establishment, management fertilisation, weed control and utilisation will be discussed. Grazing systems and forage conservation techniques will be outlined. The role of nitrogen in grass production, the potential for loss from the system and strategies (including clover) to reduce inorganic nitrogen inputs will be detailed. The role of grazing management in the maintenance of sward quality and the advantages and disadvantages of grass based animal production systems including economics will be discussed. Opportunities for grassland in the future and the potential alternatives will be dealt with.
Course Disclaimer
Courses and course hours of instruction are subject to change.
Credits earned vary according to the policies of the students' home institutions. According to ISA policy and possible visa requirements, students must maintain full-time enrollment status, as determined by their home institutions, for the duration of the program.
ECTS (European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System) credits are converted to semester credits/quarter units differently among U.S. universities. Students should confirm the conversion scale used at their home university when determining credit transfer.
Please reference fall and spring course lists as not all courses are taught during both semesters.
Please note that some courses with locals have recommended prerequisite courses. It is the student's responsibility to consult any recommended prerequisites prior to enrolling in their course.


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All Trade HandyMan Service Receives 2018 Best of Willoughby Award
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All Trade HandyMan Service Receives 2018 Best of Willoughby Award
Willoughby Award Program Honors the Achievement
WILLOUGHBY October 4, 2018 -- All Trade HandyMan Service has been selected for the 2018 Best of Willoughby Award in the Remodeler category by the Willoughby Award Program.
Each year, the Willoughby Award Program identifies companies that we believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. These are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and our community. These exceptional companies help make the Willoughby area a great place to live, work and play.
Various sources of information were gathered and analyzed to choose the winners in each category. The 2018 Willoughby Award Program focuses on quality, not quantity. Winners are determined based on the information gathered both internally by the Willoughby Award Program and data provided by third parties.
About Willoughby Award Program
The Willoughby Award Program is an annual awards program honoring the achievements and accomplishments of local businesses throughout the Willoughby area. Recognition is given to those companies that have shown the ability to use their best practices and implemented programs to generate competitive advantages and long-term value.
The Willoughby Award Program was established to recognize the best of local businesses in our community. Our organization works exclusively with local business owners, trade groups, professional associations and other business advertising and marketing groups. Our mission is to recognize the small business community's contributions to the U.S. economy.
Awarded Best Of Houzz 2020
The Annual People's Choice Award from the Houzz Community Highlights Home Remodeling and Design Professionals with Most Popular Designs and Top Ratings
All Trade HandyMan Service Willoughby, Eastlake USA has won a "Best Of Houzz" award for Customer Service, on Houzz®, the leading platform for home renovation and design. The 45-year-old Home Improvement Company was chosen by the millions of homeowners that comprise the Houzz community from among more than 2.5 million active home building, remodeling and design industry professionals.
The Best Of Houzz badge is awarded annually, in three categories: Design, Customer Service, and Photography. Design awards honor professionals whose work was the most popular among the Houzz community. Customer Service honors are based on several factors, including a pro's overall rating on Houzz and client reviews submitted in 2019. Architecture and interior design photographers whose images were most popular are recognized with the Photography award.
A "Best Of Houzz 2020" badge will appear on winners' profiles as a sign of their commitment to excellence. These badges help homeowners identify popular and top-rated home professionals in every metro area on Houzz.
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"This year's Best Of Houzz awards go to an incredibly talented and service-oriented group of home remodeling and design professionals, and we're proud to highlight the winners on the Houzz website and app," said Liza Hausman, vice president of Industry Marketing for Houzz. "This award is particularly meaningful as it reflects the sentiment of the millions of homeowners in the Houzz community who are hiring home professionals for their projects across the U.S. and around the world."


text: I celebrated my last birthday at Arancino with one of my favorite pairings, uni spaghetti and champagne. The service at the Kahala Hotel is excellent, and while Arancino at the Kahala is the only restaurant on property that does not have a view of the ocean, you can enjoy a walk and the view on property and the beach afterwards, so I recommend going at lunchtime. Also because the restaurant has a fabulous lunch deal: a three-course lunch costs $39, though you'll definitely want to get the uni spaghetti, which is worth the $8 supplemental charge. The uni cream sauce is dreamy and one of the best I've tasted, with each ingredient of garlic, tomato, white wine and cream distinct, while working in unison to create a balanced profile.


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When the forecast is calling for snow, don't fight it, get out there and enjoy all that winter has to offer with these 4 Must Try Winter Outdoor Activities. With a slow start to Winter in our area I am super excited to get some snow and get my boys out there enjoying all of the fun activities. Whether we are doing something traditional or they are playing with their diggers in the snow, the fresh crisp air is always so refreshing.
4 Must Try Winter Outdoor Activities
Grab a sled and trek to the top of your local hill. Whether it is a steep challenging hill or a simple driveway snow drift, tobogganing is a great family activity that everyone can enjoy. Nothing beats the thrill of sliding down the hill as fast as you can. What's your toboggan of choice? The classic wooden style? The faster and more unpredictable flying saucer, or maybe a crazy carpet? Or my personal favourite from childhood, the GT Racer! Little ones can enjoy tobogganing too with the help of a parent and a nice safe hill. (https://flathatnews.com)
For a calmer experience, a nice skate around a local outdoor rink is a great way to enjoy an afternoon outdoors with your kids. If you don't have your own skates look for a local spot that can rent you some for the day. If you're new to skating go with friends that can teach you or sign up for skating lessons.
If the snow is particularly deep, why not try snowshoeing? Modern snowshoes are inexpensive, snap onto all boots and are a fun and interesting way to walk across deep snow without sinking. In fact, snowshoes are a great way to get to the top of a toboggan hill safely and quickly. We love snowshoeing in our family and look forward to more opportunity to do so as the boys get older. Great exercise and super fun too!
Snow Fort
If staying closer to home seems more appealing, building a snow fort with the kids in the yard is a classic winter activity. Packing snow into bread tins is fun way to make snow bricks for building the best fortress on the block. Buy a premade brick mould for easy fort building or go the old fashioned way and dig out a tunnel in a snow bank. Make sure to double check that it's safe and sturdy.
When playing in the snow, there's bound to be slips and falls, and not every toboggan run ends in a fluffy pile of snow, but that's part of the fun. So when your day is done reach for Rub A535™ to soothe and relax tense muscles so you can do it all over again tomorrow. For the little ones, natural source Rub A535™ Maximum Strength Arnica Gel-Cream is an effective all natural product that makes it the ideal treatment for bumps, bruises and swelling and it's great for when you're on the go. When you're all warmed up at home, you can top off a fun day in the snow, with a nice cup of hot chocolate!


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Found 4 collections related to AIDS activists -- United States
Testing the Limits (Firm)
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 3614
14 linear feet (22 boxes); 13 audio files, 1824 video files, 132 vhs tapes
Testing the Limits was a video collective formed in New York in 1987 to document AIDS activism. The collective produced a short work, Testing the Limits : NYC, in 1987 and a feature-length documentary Voices from the Front in 1991. The...
Sonnabend, Joseph A.
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 6223
9.4 linear feet (24 boxes)
Joseph A. Sonnabend is a physician, laboratory scientist, clinical researcher, and community activist who contributed immeasurably to the fight against AIDS. As a pioneer in community-based research, he co-founded the AIDS Medical Foundation...
Davis, Tony
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 5987
13 linear feet (29 boxes)
The Tony Davis ACT UP records contain files collected and maintained by Tony Davis, an active member of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) from 1989 to 1996. Davis had a leading role in ACT UP's Treatment and Data Committee, attended...
McKean, Aldyn
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 5986
3.4 linear feet (8 boxes)
Aldyn McKean (1948-1994), a gay rights and AIDS activist, was a founding member, spokesman, and grassroots organizer for ACT UP. He represented that organization, among others, at international AIDS conferences and demonstrations. His papers...


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All things considered, I'm pretty happy with the work I accomplished in 2013. I wanted to focus more on painting, so I turned down more illustration gigs than I accepted this year and about that, I have no regrets. Along with the daily editorial cartoons, I worked on a number of pet portrait commissions, added more Totem paintings to my portfolio and managed to squeeze in a couple of portraits of people, too. Regardless of subject, each painting was a thoroughly enjoyable experience and as soon as I finished one, I was itching to start another.
If I were to choose the top three personal highlights of this year, they would be two portraits and one Totem.
At the very end of 2012, my painting of Martin Sheen as Tom from the movie, The Way, had come to the attention of his son, Emilio Estevez, who wrote and directed the movie. I had tagged him on Twitter, but didn't really expect anything from it. Much to my surprise, he contacted me the same morning asking about buying a print, then the original. He said, "…the image is gorgeous and you have captured my father in a way that few have."
Over the next few weeks of back and forth and having the canvas produced, it was delivered to Estevez at the beginning of February and he gave it to his father as a gift. I had asked them both to sign a paper print for me as well, which I've now framed and have hanging in my office. I was pleasantly surprised to later receive a copy of their co-written book 'Along the Way,' personally signed by both of them and a 'Thank You' note from Estevez. The card is still tacked to my bulletin board. What can I say, I'm a fan.
While the story received some attention in a number of media outlets, that sort of thing is fleeting and in the long run, just another blip in a rapidly changing entertainment news cycle. But, what I enjoy most about the experience is that each time I come up the stairs into my office, the first thing I see is the signed painting and it frequently makes me smile. It is still one of my favorite pieces both for the enjoyment I had painting it and the story that goes with it. And I still love that movie.
In the Spring of this year, astronaut Chris Hadfield became the first Canadian to command the International Space Station. With his daily tweets and seemingly endless supply of jaw dropping photos taken from a place few have ever been, he captured the imagination and excitement of the world, including me. I was inspired to paint his portrait and was thrilled when I received a complimentary tweet from space from Hadfield himself. If that weren't enough, I drew an editorial cartoon about his taking command and in the toon, I mentioned Flin Flon, Manitoba. This prompted an interview from that town's local paper which again caught the attention of Hadfield and I received a second short message from the I.S.S.. Apparently all it takes to make a 43 year old man feel like a ten year old kid again is getting messages from an astronaut in space. That was just cool.
Finally my favorite painting from this year was the Coyote Totem, because it's one that's been waiting to be painted for 20 years, even before I knew how to paint. For reasons I don't wish to share publicly, and couldn't even explain if I did, this is the most personal of all of the Totems I've painted and the only one I've had printed on canvas and framed for myself. It hangs in my office on the wall to my right, where I can easily see it. I look at it often and it reminds me how fortunate I am and how I got from there to here.
I just wasn't skilled enough to do it justice until this year, but of any image I've created, it's the painting I love most. And I'm grateful that the personality showed up.
I would like to give honourable mention to my most recent portrait of Anthony Hopkins as Bill Parrish from 'Meet Joe Black.' This was another personal painting because I did it just for me. I started the year focused on a painting of a character and actor I admire, an image that got a lot of attention and ended the year with a painting of a character and actor I admire, an image that got very little. And yet, I loved working on both portraits equally, the work itself brought me the most joy.
That's the lesson I learned this year and the one I'm taking into the next.


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As a woman, I never expected to play Falstaff – but that meant I didn't feel daunted by the part. You're not following in anyone's footsteps. That's quite freeing.
Falstaff's often this old man with a white beard, bumbling around the stage – a fool and a jester. I saw him differently, as an old soldier who'd slipped into villainy. He's getting older and can't get away with the things he once did. I saw a man looking for a way out. I'm from a working-class background and my family's got its fair share of villains. Falstaff's got the same charisma and brutality that they do. They're very funny, but they can turn at any second. I wanted to come up with a Falstaff you'd want to have a pint with, but you wouldn't like to meet down a dark alley. You can't take your eyes off him for a second. Falstaff's smart. Playing him like an idiot is a mistake.
Our production's set in a women's prison. We're all playing prisoners first, who are performing Shakespeare's play, so we interpret the characters as they might. It takes a while to get your head around. My Falstaff is a reflection of the men in this woman's life, how they've treated her over the years; men that have been laughing with her one moment, then grabbed her by the throat the next.


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Title: Cyclic homology and S^1-equivariant symplectic cohomology
Speaker: Sheel Ganatra, Stanford
Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Time: 2:30pm-3:30pm
Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center
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What I already knew: Dehydrated apples have less Surface Revalued ratio Regular apples have water in them from their juice, meaning that in order for the rate of osmosis to balance out, there wouldn't be as much osmosis occurring as in dehydrated apples because they have little to no water/juices. Why choose to use apples and dehydrated apples for the experiment: When we were given the experiment, I had eaten an apple only a few minutes ago. So when we were asked to pick a fruit or vegetable for the experiment, apples immediately came to mind.After deciding on apples, I instantly thought of dehydrated apples because they were the only other form of apples that I have had before. Question: What is the change of rate of osmosis of sugar in apples when the apples are dehydrated? How I came up with the question: When decided that wanted to use apples to see the rate of change of osmosis of sugar, I realized needed some sort of independent variable.
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Says will also incentivise firms who set up facilities only for export
Ensuring that 'all is well' in the economy, the government on Monday said it will support electronic manufacturing in India and told global companies that they will get all the support in making India an export hub.
Giving example of Apple, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister of Electronics and Information Technology, said the company is manufacturing in India in a big way now and it has also brought in components manufacturers.
"India offers a huge opportunity with programmes like Make in India and Digital India… India will offer you human resource, friendly policies and incentives. And, we are absolutely open if you (global companies) want to set up facilities only for exports," he said after a round-table meeting with 54 Chief Executives from electronics and mobile phones companies here.
Citing the example of Apple and Samsung, Prasad said, "Apple is finally on board in India's growth story… Apple has started iPhones and components for exports from India. This is just the tip of the iceberg. I want a robust presence of Apple and a super robust presence of Samsung in India. NITI Aayog is working on industry-friendly policies, which, should come at the earliest and I myself will follow up on it."
Apple and Samsung are global players and should work as a team with domestic companies to transform India into a global powerhouse, he said, adding that he did not foresee any conflict of interest between the two companies.
Prasad also asserted that India must become a hub for 5G, and for such an ecosystem to flourish, it needs to be backed by intellectual property, patents and research and development. He instructed his Ministry to set up an institutionalised mechanism in the form of a task force that would regularly interact with the industry, take their suggestions and address concerns.
The task force to be chaired by NITI Aayog, will have five Secretaries from different departments (MeitY, DIPP, Commerce, Economic Affairs and Revenue) as members. The plan to incentivise manufacturing in a big way that would entail various aspects including sops by States as well as favourable policies related to land and energy, he said.
Earlier in the day, Prasad had a closed-door meeting with the CEOs from these 54 companies and eight industry bodies.
Some big names in the electronics and manufacturing industry including Vivo, Oppo, Qualcomm, Xiaomi, Dell, HP, Bosch, Cisco, Flextronics, Foxconn, Nokia, LG, Panasonic, Intel, Wistron, and Sterlite Technologies attended the meeting.


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Jonathan Lavine, Managing Partner of Sankaty Advisors, LLC, an affiliate company of Bain Capital, LLC, was recently elected as Chair of City Year's National Board of Trustees.
City Year provides mentors and role models for children studying at many of the nation's highest needs urban schools.
Accepting the honor at the organizations annual general meeting, Lavine stated that City Year has an exciting plan to address the nation's dropout crisis and help turn around low performing schools by tapping the civic energy of young people. "It is an honor to chair the board of an organization that helps students and schools succeed and develops those who serve into lifelong leaders – that's a double bottom-line investment that the nation needs." Concluded Lavine in his statement.
Jonathon Lavine will be succeeding Stephen G. Woodsum, who completed seven years as National Board Chairman for City Year.
The role of the City Year Board of Trustees, who are all volunteers, is to provide strategic direction and perform a series of necessary fiduciary responsibilities on behalf of the organization. Additionally the Chairman as well as the other members of the board provide strategic counsel to assist the City Year project in implements its ten-year Long Term Impact (LTI) plan, designed to address the nation's ongoing high school dropout crisis. The organization, founded in 1988, has succeeded in making a considerble impact through the deployment of City Year AmeriCorps members, through high need urban schools.
City Year partners with public schools to help keep students in school and on track to graduate, through the the innovativion of public-private partnership that brings together teams of young AmeriCorps members. These young people are obliged to commit to a year of full-time service in high-need urban schools, in order to provide support for students by focusing on attendance, behavior and course performance, regarded within the school system as being the first warning signs that a student is liable to drop out of the school system. When these signs begin to emerge in a particular student, an AmericaCorps member will take the student " under their wing" and help them to overcome their study crisis through in class tutoring, mentoring as well as introducing them to a series of programs out with the day to day curricular activity of the school. .
According to Cohen, a long term supporter of City Year, the program not only helps those liable to " fall between the cracks" of the school system, but also those young adults who volunteer to become AmericaCorps. At the end of their years' service they emerge as highly effective citizen leaders, having provided a service to the community in a profound and life-altering way."
2013 marks the 25th Anniversary of the founding of City Year's, celebrated with its largest corps to date, comprising of 2, 700 committed young adults serving in 25 US cities nationwide, in more than 250 high-poverty urban schools, with plans to out to 150, 000 students on a daily basis.
Jonathan Lavine was born and raised in Providence, Rhode Island. After completing High School in 1984, Lavine went on to attend Columbia College where he earned a BA Magna Cum Laude as well as him being awarded the prestigious David Truman Award for outstanding contribution to the academic affairs of the college.
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After completing his university education, Lavine began his professional career as as a consultant for McKinsey & Company, until moving on to Bain Capital. Lavine was responsible, in 1997, for the establishment of Sankaty Advisors , an affiliate of the Bain Capital group. Sankaty has grown to be a national concern, with more than $20 billion in assets under management, in a broad portfolio of investments and securities. Sankaty Advisors employ over 180 people in offices in Boston, London, Chicago and New York.
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Man arrested for distributing Oxycodone.
On 07/05/2012, at approximately 1738 hours, the Frederick Police Drug Enforcement Unit conducted a covert operation in the 500 Block of East Church Street. During the operation a controlled purchase of Oxycodone was made from a residence. Following the controlled purchase a search and seizure warrant was executed and the resident was arrested. As a result of the search marijuana, paraphernalia, and US Currency were seized.
The resident, identified as Robert Brown Sr., was transported to the Frederick County Adult Detention Center to appear before a District Court commissioner.
Arrested: Robert V Brown Sr.DOB: 03-25-1942Address: 500 Block of East Church Street, Frederick, MD
Case Report #: 2012-041682
Charges: Distribution of Oxycodone Possession with intent to distribute Oxycodone Possession of Marijuana Possession of paraphernalia
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Franklin's Gardens will host three tournament finals this week, with teams from across the region battling it out for silverware as the season draws to a close.
The Oceanic Trophy final is first up, taking place tomorrow (Tuesday) at 6pm, with Olney playing Buckingham. This season, Buckingham reached the fifth round of the National Colts Cup, whilst Olney U17s were beaten at the semi final stage of the National U17 Cup, so it should be a well contested final.
Immediately after the first match is the Lewis Shield final with Bletchley, in only their first appearance in this competition, taking on South West 1 East table toppers Towcestrians at 7:45pm.
The last of these three tournament finals takes place on Thursday at 7:30pm as Old Northamptonians, looking to continue their winning streak in the competition which stretches back to 2004, take on Bugbrooke, winners of the Lewis Shield in 1991 and 2011.
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"They'll have committees," McCarthy said at his weekly news conference. "They may have other committee assignments, they may have better ones. … Taylor Greene, she was just a freshman. She has a right to serve on committees."
The California Republican also hinted that a GOP majority may kick some House Democrats off their committee seats and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
"Pelosi has set new policies here. Those same members that I talked about in my speech … voted for these new policies," McCarthy said, alluding to Democratic Reps. Maxine Waters of California, Adam Schiff of California, Eric Swalwell of California and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota. "This isn't about threats, but it's about holding people accountable.
"I think the majority is going to have to approve any of those members on the committees on which they can serve," he added.
Pelosi told CNN's Manu Raju earlier Thursday that she is not concerned that Republicans plan to retaliate and strip Democrats from their committee spots should the GOP win the House majority next year.
Asked by CNN if she was at all concerned about retribution, Pelosi replied, "No, we would not walk away from our responsibilities for fear of something they may do in the future."
Gosar was censured for posting a photoshopped anime video to his Twitter and Instagram accounts showing him appearing to kill Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and attacking President Joe Biden. He eventually took the post down but retweeted a tweet that contained the video hours after being censured Wednesday.
Greene was stripped of her committee assignments in February in the wake of incendiary and violent past statements that were unearthed shortly after she was sworn in.
She also pushed back on the possibility that Republicans take the chamber, saying that "their behavior on the floor says they shouldn't have a gavel anywhere near them."
At his news conference, McCarthy bristled at the suggestion that the GOP is only willing to punish members of their conference who defy Donald Trump. He disputed the idea that Republican Rep. Liz Cheney — who was booted from GOP leadership for calling out Trump's election lies — was punished, saying she just "lost an election."
"We hold our members to a high standard," he said. "It's interesting to me how the Democrats want rules for thee, but not for me. That's not right. And we'll change that when we're in the majority."
McCarthy said the last time he talked to Trump was earlier this morning, saying the former President called him up from the golf course.
"Catching up," McCarthy said of their conversation. "Wasn't even campaign [related] either. I have lots of friends. I talk to lots of people."


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luestocking Edith Wharton is acclaimed for her clever, middle-brow satires that expose the mildewing morals and impossible conventions that bound old New York's waspy elite. Yet the author of "The House of Mirth," "Ethan Frome" and "The Age of Innocence" — for which Wharton became the first woman in history to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1921 — was also an erudite travel writer and fervent Italophile.
Wharton, née Edith Newbold Jones, was born in New York City on Jan. 24, 1862. Her Gilded Age family was so wealthy that the saying "keeping up with the Joneses" is said by some to refer to them. When their fortune suffered a small plunge in 1866, family patriarch George Frederic Jones moved Edith, only four at the time, and the family from New York to the more dollar-friendly Europe. After living between France and Italy for six years, the Joneses returned to the United States in 1872 with 10-year-old Edith speaking French, German and Italian.
These early years abroad stoked Wharton's unquenchable passion for the Continent, in particular for Italy. When Wharton married Edward "Teddy" Wharton in 1885 (they would divorce in 1913 at which time Wharton became a permanent expatriate, settling in France), they began making an annual sojourn to Italy that would last until 1903 – coincidentally, the same year Wharton befriended fellow literary Italophile Henry James and rode in a car for the first time in Rome.
Italy's influence on Wharton is manifested everywhere in her fiction of the time. Her first full-length novel, "The Valley of Decision" published in 1902, is an historical fiction set in the 18th century about a faux duchy modeled on Parma and Mantua. In short stories, including "The Muse's Tragedy" (1895), "Souls Belated" (1899) and "The Duchess at Prayer" (1900), the peninsula is a complex, corrosive and quasi-mythical Old World where displaced Americans might discover or purge themselves of the carnal and the taboo that is simply impermissible back in the New World.
"Roman Fever," Wharton's most popularly anthologized short story written three years before her death in 1937, is one of her finest portraits of Italy's hand in coaxing les liaisons dangereuse from her weary American characters. While overlooking the ruins in Roman Forum one of the protagonists, Mrs. Slade, confesses a plan she had concocted years ago to lure her nemesis, Mrs. Ansley, to the Coliseum at night in hopes that she would contract malaria and stop sniffing around Mrs. Slade's husband, then her fiancé. In response, Mrs. Ansley implies that her daughter Barbara is Mr. Slade's love child — conceived inside the venerable Coliseum, of course.
Italy as a symbol and facilitator of decay permeates the milieu of Wharton's fiction, but her exceptional travel narratives depict a country with an entirely dreamy landscape, an unmatched artistic heritage and, especially with the Baroque, the most sublime of architecture. It is travel writing intended to contribute to the hot 19th century debate on notions of culture, but overall to enlighten Wharton's readers with her finely cultivated ideas of good taste.
Published in 1904, "Italian Villas and Their Gardens" is an illustrated, scholarly study of more than 75 villas and their relationship to their gardens. Wharton scours sites from Lombardy to Tuscany to Lazio, putting forth her aesthetic preference for the "ineffable Italian garden magic" to the then-in-vogue English garden. Written with a detailed and historical approach to garden analysis, the book boasts a biography of 55 landscape architects, a bibliography in four languages and an astonishing catalog of three centuries' worth of landscape architects.
Clearly, Wharton was not just another Grand Tourist "doing" Rome or Florence. Her 1904 tome "Italian Backgrounds," a collection of previously published travel articles, is at once her ultimate panegyric to Italy and an argument against mechanized tourism. "The foreground," she writes in the final chapter, "is the property of the guidebook and of its product, the mechanical sightseer; the background that of the dawdler, the dreamer, the serious student of Italy."
Wharton's off-the-beaten-path connoisseurship and keen observations on art steal the show in Italian Backgrounds.
In a chapter titled "A Tuscan Shrine," it is with "the thrill of explorers sighting a new continent" that she and Teddy set out to San Vivaldo where Wharton, who received no formal education unless one counts the books she read in her father's library, remarkably identifies a group of terracotta sculptures long-believed to have been made by 17th century sculptor Giovanni Gonnelli as belonging instead to the much earlier Della Robbia School: "Indeed what chiefly struck me in the group was that air of devotional simplicity which we are accustomed to associate with an earlier and purer period of art." (Professor Enrico Ridolfi of the Florence's Royal Museums confirmed Wharton's insight).
This sort of pioneering insight is what sets Wharton's travel narratives not only apart, but also above those of American travel writers in Italy before her. Mark Twain stuck to the Grand Tour circuit and was wholly disenchanted, complaining that there was "nothing whatsoever" to discover while in Rome. Nathaniel Hawthorne was utterly bewildered by the Vatican Museums, noting a few "wonderful works of art" before being overwhelmed by the "perception that there were a thousand other wonders around me."
In contrast, Wharton sails out to the Borromean Islands, explores Italy's rural hermitages, waxes poetic on Correggio's Parma, discerns in landscapes a "pastoral of Giorgione's," in northern Italian lakes the "eighteenth century of Longhi, of Tiepolo and Goldoni," and, in the frescoes at the church of the Madonna of Saronno near Milan, arrives at Dante's Paradiso.
Despite all of her years of travel in Italy, and despite the burgeoning threat of homogenized tourism, Wharton remained a consummate pilgrim among tourists.