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Markandeya says- After getting married, Swarochi started living happily along with all his three wives at Malaya Mountain. One day, impressed by the mutual love, Swarochi and his wives had for each other, a female ruddy goose told another one- 'Very rarely are found such couples who have love for each other.' But the other female ruddy goose did not agree. She replied- 'You are wrong. Swarochi is not a blessed man. Actually, he deceives all of his three wives. Even his love for all the three wives is varied. When one wife is desirous of his love, he embraces the other wife. So where is the question of having mutual love for one another? In comparison, my husband and I are blessed because we have mutual love and respect for each other.'
Swarochi, who was listening to their conversation, realised how true the ruddy goose was. But still, he did not change his ways and continued to live with his wives for 100 years. One day while wandering, Swarochi saw a deer surrounded by a herd of doe. One of the doe on having a desire to copulate with the deer started sniffing him in anticipation. But the deer became angry and said- 'Do you think I am as shameless as Swarochi? A man, who is sought by numerous beauties, his condition becomes laughable. Not only does the daily routine of such a man gets disturbed, but also his behaviour is never fair towards his wives.'


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Michael Davis: Deathlok Joins The Milestone Universe
Last week we ran part 1 of my ComicMix conversation with J. August Richards. Part two will print next Tuesday, on the same day as the season finale of Marvel's Agents Of SHIELD.
Yeah, that's a fucked-up misleading title, eh?
Well, ask anyone over at Bleeding Cool. I can be a dick sometimes and try as I might, just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in…to being a dick.
So, that happened.
So in the meantime I will answer more Milestone questions and deal with one bold statement, from Steve Chaput and Ryan Dean respectfully.
Please keep in mind these Milestone articles do not run sequentially (like some two part interviews), some questions may require a few sentences and others may require entire articles.
I'm looking at you Doctor.
Ryan asks:
Last time we saw animated versions of Milestone characters was in the great Young Justice series. What are the chances of seeing them pop up in any of the upcoming DC animated features or the DC Nation shorts?
Ryan, I can't say when but I can say I'm pretty certain that will happen. More than one conversation about Milestone animated has happened. DC Animation is just kicking ass and taking names. The stuff that comes out of that studio just gets better and better. Not too long ago when it came to live action movies, Marvel was DC's bitch.
Now? Errr, no.
Today Marvel, maybe not by much, makes the best superhero movies. Possibly they are making the best superhero movies ever made.
Animation? They still be DC's bitch.
I recently saw the Avengers Confidential: Black Widow and Punisher animated movie. I felt I was the one being punished. It was, in my opinion, god-awful. If you're not sure what that means in this case, it means almighty God said it was awful.
Steve really didn't have a question but he had quite the point of view:
I'm with Paul Smith on this one. It just seems to me that it DC, for whatever reason, that is holding things back. I think any other company (Image, Dark Horse, IDW, etc.) would love to have the Milestone characters published under their banner. This would totally separate them from the DCU and the Milestone books could either start over fresh or take up where they left off when the initial titles were ended.
You can't tell me, either, that there aren't number directors, producers and actors that would not love to bring Icon & Rocket or Static to the big screen. Personally, I'd love to see Hardware in 3-D action.
Steve, I answered Paul's question in detail last week. Perhaps you've read it, if not please do. It addresses all of your observations. Because those observations are widespread and considered by many a certainty, I'd like to use your post to underscore a point if I may.
With all due respect, what something seems to some seems entirely different to others. Many people see Ted Cruz and Allen West as reasonable public servants who will only make this country better.
I don't see that.
I see two men who will stop at nothing to roll back civil rights, discard the poor like trash and take away health care from those who most need it.
I see them this way because of what they have done and said. I see them this way because of what I read and witness with my own eyes via media news outlets.
From what I see, these men seem to be at war against anyone that does not think like them. In the case of Mr. West, I see a self-hating Negro giving racists everywhere another reason to believe black people are indeed the shiftless, lazy coons they always thought they were.
I could be wrong. It's possible what I've heard and the context in which I heard it were not how they were intended to be. Perhaps if I met them my opinion would change. I'm not above making judgments only to be proven wrong.
As an example, Ed Catto is a friend of mine who also just happens to be one of the people behind the return of what is to me my favorite thing ever, Captain Action.
Not the greatest toy ever; the greatest thing ever. Ed is not nor did he become a friend because of his Captain Action connection. I don't do that.
A year or so ago before he and I became friends, I spotted something on his Captain Action Facebook page which to me seemed racist.
You could not tell me it wasn't.
I then proceeded to say so on his page and ended up making a complete and utter fool of myself. It was in no way racist and I feel like shit each and every time I think of what I did.
Let me be very, very, very clear. My examples were meant to communicate the earnestness in which I write this. I am in no way suggesting your statement has any semblance whatsoever to the instances I set forth.
They do not.
Your assertion that DC is holding back Milestone suggests there is intent there to do such a thing.
There is not.
I give details on the what, when, how and why I think that in my last article.
I'm confident that Ted Cruz and Allen West are what they appear to be. Having said that I will concede I may be wrong. I don't know them; I certainly was not privy to the genesis of an idea, which by the time it reached me may have became something different.
I wasn't there.
Steve, I'm using your post to say as loudly and as clearly to as many people as I can, DC Comics has no organized agenda to hold Milestone back. I know this my friend as well as I know my own name.
I was there dude, really, I was.
Now you were spot on when you surmised directors, producers and actors would love to bring Icon & Rocket or Static to the big screen. In fact, a film about Milestone
In a meeting at Warner Bros Studios, Chris Rock was mentioned as the actor chosen to play me. DC suggested that role go to Bernie Mac or no one.
That meeting was yesterday. Give that a sec.

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Heath staff; This is a joint statement by employers, trade unions and the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) on expanding the workforce during the crisis.
The four groups of Covid-19 temporary registrants will now be as follows:
1. Nurses and midwives who left the register within the last three years (already invited to join the temporary register).
2. Overseas applicants, including both nurses and midwives, who have completed all parts of their NMC registration process except the final clinical examination (OSCE).
3. Nurses and midwives who have left the register within the last four and five years. This may include those who have left the register up to five years ago who have started but not completed Return to Practice programmes.
4. Nursing students on NMC approved pre-registration programmes who are expected to qualify in the next 6 months. (This group was identified in the first statement but the decision to open up the register to them has not yet been agreed by the signatories of this statement.)


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Big Brother host Julie Chen Moonves has been having fun on social media this past week. Each day, she has been posting images of herself dressed as former Big Brother houseguests. The Halloween theme has drawn attention.
We previously reported that her social media blitz began by posting a photo of herself dressed as Zach Rance. He was a member of the Big Brother 16 cast and part of the infamous Bomb Squad alliance.
Below is the Twitter post that Julie followed that one up with on Tuesday. She posed as Johnny Mac (John McGuire) from Big Brother 17. He was a dentist who finished fourth place that season.
Wackstreet's Back ALRIGHT! ? pic.twitter.com/JZDgbpzH5i
— Julie Chen (@JulieChen) October 29, 2019
Julie Chen Moonves celebrates Halloween
Next up, Julie posed in a costume of a costume. In the image below, Julie is pretending to be former winner Nicole Franzel, who had to wear a costume as part of a punishment during one of her seasons.
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— Julie Chen (@JulieChen) October 30, 2019
Nicole started out on Big Brother 16, which was the same season as Zach. She would be brought back for Big Brother 18, which she won in a decision by the jury while going up against Paul Abrahamian on the season finale.
Nicole has since returned to the show to get engaged and she has also been seen on the most recent season of The Amazing Race.
Ring, ring… it's Julie Chen
On the morning of Halloween Day, Julie posted another fun photo that can be seen below.
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— Julie Chen (@JulieChen) October 31, 2019
This time, Julie was Mike Malin (Mike Boogie), who was a famous member of Chill Town. He was on Big Brother 2, he won Big Brother All-Stars, and he came back for Big Brother 14. As she is switching hands in the photo, she may also be impersonating Will Kirby (Dr. Will) who did the phone prank with Mike and became the Big Brother 2 winner.
Is Julie Chen hinting at Big Brother: All-Stars?
There are a lot of Big Brother rumors floating around the internet that Julie Chen Moonves is hinting at a winter season of Big Brother: All-Stars. It's possible. And it could be fun. But there isn't anything from CBS or Julie to confirm that beyond the fun images that she has been posting on social media this week.
Big Brother will return for new episodes in summer 2020.


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It's finally November 3rd. While this is likely not the end of US election-related mis- and disinformation, we've got your disinfo update from the EU (… mostly).
Disinfo News and Updates
- In the last moments before the US elections, Wikipedia, Twitter, and Instagram introduce more features to slow and preempt dis- and misinformation. Meanwhile, misinformation has been spreading in private messages on WhatsApp, as well as over text messages and email.
- Reporting on Foreign Interference. Clare Wardle reflects on how "the media has overcorrected on foreign interference" since the last US election. Meanwhile Ellen Nakashima weighs in on the risks that come from overstating the threat posed by foreign spies and hackers. Per Thomasa Rid, "both overstating and understating the threat of foreign interference can make you a useful idiot".
- A chilly climate for platform research? The Mozilla Foundation had led dozens of organizations in a letter demanding that Facebook back away from its threat to close down the NYU research project studying political ads on the platform: the NYU Ad Observatory.
- Yandex Transparency Reports. The Russian internet company Yandex has released their first transparency report on requests for user data by the Russian authorities.
- Artificial Intelligence. The intelligence firm Primer is proving the utility of its AI system in dis- and misinformation identification and analysis, notably regarding tensions in Nagorno-Karabakh.
- Lobbying. An internal Google lobbying document details a two-month plan to fight upcoming European regulation, including by influencing the public narrative.
- Section 230. Protocol has a comprehensive overview of last week's US senate hearings with Twitter, Facebook, and Google, understood to be a hyper-partisan disaster.
EU Policy Monitor
In the Parliament
- Enhanced Product Safety. The Internal Market Committee unanimously adopted a resolution to further address the sale of dangerous goods and misleading practices online, as well as the safety and security of artificial intelligence. The plenary vote is scheduled for November.
- Hate Speech. The Commission has sent formal notice to Estonia and Romania for failing to correctly transpose the European Framework Decision on combating racism and xenophobia.
- DSA and DMA. Germany reveals its preferred approach to the Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act, "a combination of the introduction of clear obligations and prohibitions or restrictions of certain unfair trading practices – the so-called blacklist – and the adoption of tailor-made remedies on a case by case basis" as well as "clearly defined quantitative or qualitative criteria" to assess which platforms will fall under the regulation. Meanwhile Margrethe Vestager also gave insight into the components of these regulatory packages.
In Member States
- Terrorist Content. In the continued EU stalemate on terrorist content regulation, the French Minister of Justice has invited his counterparts from the Vendôme Group (Belgium, Spain, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands), to new discussions. Shared agendas include encryption and the ability of states to extend categories of illegal content beyond the base established in the DSA.
- Finland. Finland has released its positions on the role of public international law in cyberspace.
- Spain. A judge in Barcelona has opened an investigation into alleged misuse of public funds to fuel the Catalan separatist bid. The judge claims that a Russian group had offered "support" to former Catalan regional President Carles Puigdemont. Also in Spain, the Spanish Congress has adopted a resolution pressing the Government to address online hate speech.
Other News
- Phishing. Last Wednesday, Microsoft alerted that an Iranian hacker group had targeted government officials with fraudulent invites to the upcoming Munich Security Conference.
- International Law. Over 100 public international lawyers have signed The Oxford Statement on International Law Protections Against Foreign Electoral Interference Through Digital Means, drawing on instruments from the ICCPR to the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.
- Georgia. Two cartographers were arrested on charges of treason last month for allegedly ignoring a 1930s map bolstering Georgia's claims for territory currently part of Azerbaijan.
- The White Helmets. A Guardian long-read looks back at James Le Mesurier, the British co-founder of the Syrian rescue group, the White Helmets, who had been the focus of an online disinformation campaign led by Russian and Syrian officials and peddled by media networks.
Research & Studies
- Deepfakes. A report by Democracy Reporting International examines the potential harm of this new threat.
- 'Fake News'. Richard Rogers from the University of Amsterdam has released a research note on the classification of 'fake news' (a term that often encompases hyper-partisan content), and the effects of stricter source classification schemes on our understanding of the scale of the problem.
- Warning Labels. Research led by Jack Nassetta and Kimberly Gross at George Washington University found that prominently placed social media warning labels could mitigate the effects of election-related misinformation from the Russian media channel RT.
- Influence Operations. The Institute for the Study of Diplomacy has released a new report on Information Operations, following a series of working group meetings on the topic.
- Gendered Disinformation. A report by the National Democratic Institute looks at how online gendered disinformation is being used to "exclude women leaders and to undermine the role of women in public life".
Events and Announcements
- The 2020 Internet Governance Forum began virtually yesterday. Registration is still possible here.
- 4 – 6 Nov. Members of Horizontal Working Party on cyber issues will meet via videoconference. View the provisional agenda.
- 9 Nov. will be the next meeting of the Special Committee on Foreign Interference and Disinformation (INGE).
- 26 Nov. VUB-IES will hold the third installment of their series on the DSA with Dr. Inge Graef. Register here.
- 14 Jan. Data & Society will host a workshop titled Against Platform Determinism. Apply before 21 Oct. More info here.
- Test the DFRLab's Foreign Interference Attribution Tracker (FIAT) beta, an interactive, open-source database that captures allegations of foreign interference regarding the US election.


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How to make buckwheat cookies
- 180 g of buckwheat flour
- 100 g 00 + flour for the work surface
- 120 g of cold butter from the fridge
- 90 g of brown sugar
- 1 egg
- a pinch of salt
- 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
- In a bowl, mix flour, sugar, and salt.
- Cut the cold butter into cubes and add it to the dough.
- Work with your fingertips mixing the butter with the flour, creating a sandy mixture.
- Add the vanilla and egg and knead into a loaf, adding little flour.
- Wrap the dough with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- Roll out the dough to a thickness of about 1/5 in and portion your cookies using a cookie cutter.
- Transfer the biscuits to a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
- Turn on the oven at 180 ° C/ 356°F.
- Bake the biscuits for 12/15 minutes, after having sprinkled them with a little brown sugar.
- Let them cool down a bit before transferring them, gently with a spatula, to a rack to cool completely.
- Buon appetito!
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Hi my Friends, a better start than Gürcan Erdem In The Rain? Definitly it is autumn so we need nice music and good company. I invited a lot of artists tonight, some are alive others are gone. Jimmy Mc Shane (Baltimora) sadly died in the nineties but his music will be with us. Alive and present is Peter Zimmermann a multi talented artist who creates lovely music but also other nice creations. Check out his page … you won't be disappointed. Also back on request, The Pet Shop Boys with the Italo version of It's A Sin. The discovery of the Pet Shop Boys made by Bobby Orlando. He will end the show tonight with Whisper To A Scream. Was it a Cover of Unexpected Lovers form Lime or was that the cover … who knows?
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Best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.
When Arun wants to take an important decision he goes to his parents and seeks guidance. He has actually made up his mind but he is lacking confidence. He is just expecting some moral support. He wishes to get an assurance that he will succeed in whatever he intends to do.
What he is looking for is an approval and guarantee that he is taking a right decision.
He does not want to be responsible for the failure so he prefers to ask someone about the decision.
Something important to note here is that Arun is not expecting much suggestions and changes in his plan. He is not seeking guidance for changing the plan. Obviously, he will get burdened, irritated, rebellious or feel cheated if he starts getting negative feedback or his plan gets disapproved.
Arun is not taking his responsibility. He wants someone else to be responsible for his actions. But he also wants to work according to his own wishes without much changes.
This reluctance and need for approval is seen in the handwriting when Arun does not lift the pen/hand after making the t stem to make the t cross bar.
Lifting your hand where necessary in writing shows your willingness to help yourself. Whereas, dragging your hand without lifting where necessary shows that you are lazy and uncertain. You need someone to assure you success.
Realise that your decisions cannot come with a "100 percent money back No questions asked, whatsoever." guarantee.
Expecting someone to guarantee you success and assure you no questions will be asked if your attempt fails is the fear of failure if decisions go wrong. This is a fear of taking wrong decisions. This is lack of confidence in your decisions.
Arun might end up making some changes in his plan with a heavy heart. He might also fight with the people who suggest him change in his plans. Worst, he may start feeling that he is being misguided and cheated by those who should give him support.
If you write this way; you feel that you face this situation and do not wish to get stuck in this feeling, take help of ypur hand and lift the pen to make a cross bar when you write a t. It will make you feel responsible and confident.
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July was red hot with fewer releases than June, but all high profile, especially the record-breaking The Dark Knight, which is likely to reach the 500 million dollar mark, putting it second on the all-time list behind Titanic. Journey to the Center of the Earth and Mamma Mia! have good staying power while moderate hits Step Brothers and Hellboy II: The Golden Army outperformed Space Chimps, X-Files: I Want to Believe, Kit Kittredge, and Meet Dave at the box office. August shows plenty of promise as the final month to a great box office summer begins.
NOTE: All dates subject to change.
America the Beautiful – Documentary on pressures and society's ideals surrounding appearance and cosmetic surgery follows Gerren Taylor's ascension to supermodel fame. Julianne Moore, Anthony Kiedis, Jessica Simpson, and Paris Hilton also make appearances. (New York release)
Midnight Meat Train – A budding photographer encounters a serial killer, played by Vinnie Jones. Based on Clive Barker's short story. (Limited release)
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor – Adventurous couple Rick O'Connell (Brendan Fraser) and Evelyn (newly cast Maria Bello) take off to the Far East on a new adventure, which also stars Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh.
Swing Vote – Comedy where Kevin Costner makes a big difference in the presidential election where Dennis Hopper and Kelsey Grammer play the candidates. Stanley Tucci, Nathan Lane, Paula Patton, and young newcomer Madeline Carroll also star.
Bottle Shock – Based on a true story set in 1976, Bill Pullman plays a man struggling to make ends meet so his dream of the best chardonnay wine can come true. Alan Rickman, Freddy Rodriguez, Dennis Farina, Eliza Dushku, and Bradley Whitford also star. (Limited release)
Pineapple Express – This action comedy has drug themes, crime elements, and murder as screenwriter/star Seth Rogen stars with James Franco, Gary Cole, Rosie Perez, Danny R. McBride, and James Remar. Judd Aptow co-wrote the story and produced.
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 – The girls return in this book adaptation as the original television star cast of America Ferrera, Amber Tamblyn, and Alexis Bledel have grown in popularity and talent.
Beer For My Horses – Toby Keith and Rodney Carrington star and co-write this action comedy about two rural deputies. Ted Nugent, Claire Forlani, Tom Skerritt, and Willie Nelson co-star. (Limited release)
Elegy – Penelope Cruz as an object of desire? Most audiences could agree with that premise in this romance drama written by Nicholas Meyer and starring Sir Ben Kingsley as a college professor. Based on Philip Roth's Pulitzer Prize-winning short novel The Dying Animal. (Limited release)
Hell Ride – Larry Bishop, Michael Madsen, and Eric Balfour (a.k.a. Pistolero, the Gent and Comanche) star this crime thriller directed and written by Bishop. Vinnie Jones, Dennis Hopper, David Carradine, and Cassandra Hepburn. (Limited release)
Tropic Thunder – Action comedy where a group of actors are stranded as they film a war movie. Ben Stiller (who also directs), Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., Nick Nolte, and Bill Hader star in the ensemble comedy cast.
Fly Me to the Moon 3D – The first animated movie created for 3D features three houseflies who experience the Apollo 13 mission to the moon.
A Girl Cut in Two – French filmmaker Claude Chabrol creates a thriller with a young girl torn between two men, an older author, played by Francois Berleand (The Transporter) and a mysterious young man. Inspired by the sensational Gilded Age murder of Madison Square Garden architect Stanford White. (Limited release)
Henry Poole is Here – Luke Wilson stars in this life-changing comedy/drama directed by Mark Pellington. Radha Mitchell, George Lopez, and Cheryl Hines also star. (Limited release)
Mirrors – Kiefer Sutherland plays a former law enforcement officer troubled by mysterious new events. Paula Patton and Amy Smart also star.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Expanded storyline from the previous George Lucas epic leads into this animated springboard for an upcoming television series that premieres on Cartoon Network, then TNT.
Vicky Cristina Barcelona – Woody Allen switches his film settings from Britain to Spain in his latest film, which centers on two women played by Rebacca Hall and Scarlett Johansson who vacation in Barcelona meeting characters played by Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz. Patricia Clarkson and Kevin Dunn also star.
The Rocker – Rainn Wilson plays a drummer who gets a second chance at redemption, fortune and fame. Christina Applegate, Will Arnett and Saturday Night Live comedians Jason Sudeikis and Fred Armisen also star in this promising comedy.
Death Race – Director Paul W.S. Anderson remakes this futuristic prison car racing thriller with stars Jason Statham, Joan Allen, Tyrese Gibson, and Ian McShane.
Hamlet 2 – Dark comedy where a school group tackles the Bard's classic. Andy Fleming directs and writes the film starring Amy Poehler, Steve Coogan, Catherine Keener, David Arquette, and Elisabeth Shue. (Limited release)
The House Bunny – Anna Faris plays a Playboy Bunny who encounters a college sorority in this comedy co-starring Colin Hanks, Katharine McPhee, Rumer Willis, Christopher McDonald, and Beverly D'Angelo.
The Longshots – Fred Durst (a.k.a. Limp Bizkit) directs Ice Cube in this PG-rated family comedy about Jasmine Plummer (Keke Palmer, Akeelah and the Bee), who made Pop Warner football history.
Momma's Man – Director/writer Azazel Jacobs' comedy/drama stars Matt Boren as a family man who stays at his parents' place on a business trip, which then triggers his detachment from life's responsibilities. (Limited release)
Traitor – Don Cheadle and Guy Pearce face off in this international spy thriller written and directed by Jeffrey Nachmanoff. Steve Martin (yes, the comedian) wrote the story.
Babylon A.D. – Vin Diesel returns to the big screen in this mercenary action epic from French director Mathieu Passivity (Assassins, Gothika) featuring Michelle Yeoh, Lambert Wilson, Vincent Cassel, and Gerard Depardieu.
College – This R-rated comedy centers on three high school seniors visiting campuses… probably the direct opposite of Disney's College Road Trip.
Disaster Movie – Another spoof comedy attacks another Hollywood movie genre while lampooning recent summer releases. Carmen Electra and Kim Kardashian make an appearance.


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Ashfield Healthcare Communications rebrands
- Former 19-year McCann Health veteran, latterly President of the Americas, Amar Urhekar, joins as Global President of the >1,450 people-strong Ashfield Health network.
- Ashfield Digital and Creative (UK), Cambridge BioMarketing (US) and Pegasus (UK) merge to form Mind+Matter, a new global, data-driven creative communications agency.
- Ashfield Health's 14 medical and scientific communications agencies come together to create Ashfield MedComms, a new 700 strong global powerhouse.
- Ashfield Health agencies unified by common brand identity and shared new purpose to 'make it matter'
Ashfield Health, part of UDG Healthcare plc, announces transformational changes including the unveiling of a new Global President, a rebrand, and the launch of two new global agencies.
Following a healthcare communications career spanning over two decades of leadership in five countries, Amar Urhekar takes the helm as Global President of the >1,450 strong network that is rebranding from Ashfield Healthcare Communications to Ashfield Health. Since joining, Amar Urhekar has led the network through the challenges of COVID-19, resulting in continued growth, and has put a new strategy in place, which sees Ashfield Health emerge as a new agile, dynamic network – data and technology driven, creative, and diverse.
"Ashfield Health is now designed to respond better and quicker to the new challenges our clients face. We encourage independence and entrepreneurialism in our specialist agency teams but also have the unique ability to work as one team when needed. By unifying around our common purpose of make it matter, we have stronger connections that enable us to scale rapidly and provide our clients with tailored expert teams. We can truly deliver life-changing work that matters," said Amar Urhekar, Global President of Ashfield Health.
Central to Ashfield Health's new strategy has been a merging of some of the network's standout acquisitions from the past 10 years to form two exciting new global agencies - Mind+Matter and Ashfield MedComms.
Mind+Matter is a new 250-strong global creative communications agency blending data and technology with emotion to create meaningful experiences. Formed through the merging of three successful Ashfield Health agencies – US-based Cambridge BioMarketing, UK-based Ashfield Digital and Creative and Pegasus – Mind+Matter will span the breadth of health from consumer wellness through to established pharma and rare and novel therapies. Mind+Matter will be led by former President of Cambridge BioMarketing, Ben Beckley.
"We're already using data and descriptive analytics to predict behaviour before it happens, but Mind+Matter will be breaking new ground by significantly investing in new data talent and technology and combining this with emotionally powerful creativity. By bringing these three individual agencies together, we have built a new team that can operate globally and uniquely apply this across the full spectrum of health – a perfect example of how Ashfield Health is answering the big challenges our clients have," comments Urhekar.
Ashfield MedComms brings together over 700 creatives, scientists, strategists, and client partners to form one of the largest scientific and medical communications agencies in the world. Ashfield MedComms' work will continue to span new medicines for diseases where no treatment existed, to paradigm-shifting advances, to precision medicines, real-world evidence and patient-relevant outcomes, to technologies and diagnostics. This new global powerhouse will be headed up by regional Ashfield Health Presidents Richard Lawrence (International) and Matt Jacobson (North America), reporting into Amar Urhekar.
"The scientific strength and leadership in our individual agencies has been built over decades, but the creation of Ashfield MedComms signals our ability to evolve for today. By bringing our agencies together and investing heavily in strategic and creative talent, our clients will have a unrivalled global partner that can help them play a bigger role in shaping the future of healthcare and ultimately patient's lives," said Urhekar.
The Ashfield Health network has grown rapidly in recent years following a series of select – specialist acquisitions, including CanaleComms, CreateNYC, Galliard, Incisive Health, and MicroMass in addition to the former Cambridge BioMarketing and Pegasus agencies. All Ashfield Health agencies are united by a new brand identity and shared purpose to make it matter.
"Central to connecting this great network of agencies is a shared purpose," explains Urhekar. "Our drive to 'make it matter' inspires us to grow, adapt, be more creative and work smarter than anyone else to deliver work that is truly life changing. From making discoveries to making a difference, we will take every opportunity to challenge convention and spark change for better health – this is something that you will see in every Ashfield Health agency."
The new strategy has seen several new positions created to support capability development, growth and innovation – an example of this is the appointment of former Business Unit Head with responsibility for Ashfield Digital and Creative and Pegasus, Simon Hackett, into the role of Global Growth Director, Ashfield Health.
Visit www.ashfieldhealth.com to find out more – live on 26th January 2021.


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All DCMA employees are entitled to 10 paid holidays each year, including:
DCMA employees earn annual leave (vacation) at rates depending on their length of service. For your first three years of full-time employment, you earn 104 hours of vacation a year. From 3 to 15 years of full-time service you earn 156 hours a year. Employees with more than 15 years of full-time service earn 208 hours a year. You are also allowed to accrue leave and carry 240 hours of leave into the next year. All full-time employees accrue sick leave at the rate of 4 hours per 2-week pay period.


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Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
Explanation: A gorgeous spiral galaxy, Messier 104 is famous for its nearly edge-on profile featuring a broad ring of obscuring dust lanes. Seen in silhouette against an extensive central bulge of stars, the swath of cosmic dust lends a broad brimmed hat-like appearance to the galaxy suggesting a more popular moniker, the Sombrero Galaxy. This sharp view of the well-known galaxy was made from over 10 hours of Hubble Space Telescope image data, processed to bring out faint details often lost in the overwhelming glare of M104's bright central bulge. Also known as NGC 4594, the Sombrero galaxy can be seen across the spectrum, and is host to a central supermassive black hole. About 50,000 light-years across and 28 million light-years away, M104 is one of the largest galaxies at the southern edge of the Virgo Galaxy Cluster. Still, the spiky foreground stars in this field of view lie well within our own Milky Way.
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Martin Reeve is a regional advisor to GLO.ACT common european unionUnited Nations Office on Drugs and Crime The program focuses on Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan. He spoke to UN News from his base in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
"As a regional advisor to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, I reach out to police officers and other criminal justice officials to help them improve their responses. Trafficking in persons And smuggling migrants.
Here in Iraq, I have heard credible accounts of trafficking for sexual exploitation, especially young women and girls, and of migrant workers, especially women, for domestic work.
There are reports that men and women from Asia and Africa, who migrate legally and irregularly to Iraq, are subjected to forced labor as construction workers, security guards, cleaners, manual laborers, and domestic workers.
Trafficking for the purpose of organ removal appears to be a significant problem based on anecdotal evidence from law enforcement counterparts.
Trafficking is not smuggling
We spend a lot of time really emphasizing to law enforcement officers in the area that human trafficking and migrant smuggling are actually very different, even though they are often confused, especially in the news media.
Human trafficking is really all about exploiting an individual. It is about creating a human good and then using that person for profit, through their labor, sexual services, or other forms of exploitation.
I first worked on the human trafficking case earlier in my career, when I was based in Vienna. There was a young woman who was sexually exploited in London.
She participated in the rescue operation. This was a moving experience and definitely gave me an understanding of the true nature of this crime and its impact on people.
Migrant smuggling is a relationship between a person who wants to emigrate but cannot do so legally, and an individual or group providing a criminal service.
The immigrant chooses an irregular method and a service provider who is the smuggler. A fee is paid to cross the border illegally. The immigrant, at least in theory, is then free to go.
These are the main differences, but very often the migrants who chose this method of moving from one country to another are very vulnerable.
They have no legal status in the destination country, often do not speak the language, often have very little sources of income or support in the country they arrive in, and are preyed upon by human traffickers. Often immigrants find themselves saddled with debts to those who arranged their immigration.
Growing understanding of trafficking
Over the past 25 years, our understanding of the phenomenon of human trafficking has grown, and we now realize that trafficking is not just about sex but includes other ways in which people can be exploited in all kinds of sectors of the economy.
For example, in construction or agriculture or inside factories, in fact, anywhere you find a lot of low-skilled, low-paid manual workers.
One of the real challenges in forced labor, in particular, is identifying when exploitative working conditions tip the balance into what becomes a criminal case for human trafficking.
There are few prosecutions and convictions for human trafficking cases, in part because it is a hard-to-prove crime. But there are successes and it is not unusual for someone involved in trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation to end up being tried for crimes such as rape, because they are easy to prove, easy for jurors to understand and do not have the complexities that a trafficking type trial might have.
Rights-based and victim-centered approaches are fundamental to everything we do. I find it rewarding when I see that we have made a difference and that our work is producing results. This does not happen every day. One has to be patient and a lot of times it can be frustrating.
Focus on the smuggler, not the immigrant
With migrant smuggling, we shift the focus from the migrants themselves to the people regulating their illegal movements, and emphasize that we should not criminalize the migrants themselves.
Migrants, when transported by smuggling networks, are exposed to enormous personal risks. As we know from horror stories in the Mediterranean and elsewhere around the world, many die en route, in the backs of trucks or on unseaworthy boats.
The smugglers obviously don't care much about this. They are interested in money, which is a very profitable industry.
We have to realize that pressures on immigration are likely to increase, not decrease in the coming years, so criminal networks will continue to seek profit by facilitating irregular migration.
Migrant smuggling and trafficking associated with irregular migration will remain significant threats to human security.


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Father's Day is a special day set aside to show appreciation and love for fathers. It is celebrated in many countries around the world, although the date on which it is observed varies.
Gifts are often given to fathers on this day, as a way of showing how much they are loved and appreciated. So this Father's Day, take the time to show your dad how much you care. He'll be sure to appreciate it!


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Malad-based digital print shop, Leepee, has recently upgraded its printing capabilities with a Ricoh Pro C5100s production printer. With the new addition, Leepee now has a total of three digital printers—a Ricoh Pro C5100s and two Xerox Docucolor 242—on the shop floor.
"Earlier this year, we went to see the demo of the printer at another Ricoh customer's establishment in Mahim. We were highly impressed with its performance and with the quality of jobs we saw it producing so we placed the order. The printer was then installed in September," says Vinayak of Leepee.
The Ricoh Pro C5100 series was launched in July 2013 and is aimed at customers with light to moderate print volumes. The Ricoh Pro C5100s/C5110s prints documents with up to 1200 x 4800 dpi image resolution for industrial high-quality print results. The printer features Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VCSEL) technology for precise reproductions. It emits laser beams to adjust to sheet expansion and contraction, which minimize color shift and produces up to 80 color prints per minute for impressive throughput in any environment.
Although it has been just a few months since the Ricoh was installed, Leepee has received positive feedback from its customers, says Vinayak. The print shop caters only to corporate clients and has brands such as Raychem RPG, Aristo Pharma, Trident Electric, Veto Switchgear India, and Ganga Pharma, amongst others as its customers.
Leepee prints brochures, annual reports, certificates, calendars, visual aids, posters, danglers, business cards, invitation cards, stickers, and cartons for its customers. It is averaging about 10,000 to 12,000 impressions every month on the new Ricoh Pro C5100s.
Further modernization planned
Leepee plans to again modernize its print technology assets early next year. According to Vinayak, the plan is to bring in the Ricoh Pro C5200s series by May or June of 2018 and to replace the two Xerox Docucolor printers. "We will get rid of the two old Xerox printers and make way for the Ricoh Pro C5200s early next year. We also plan to buy a half cutting machine and a full cutting machine," shares Vinayak.
The Pro C5200s series was launched recently and is also aimed at printers with light to moderate volumes. The Pro C5200 series includes the Ricoh Pro C5200s and Ricoh Pro C5210s. The Pro C5200s operates at 65 ppm while the Pro C5210s has a speed of 80 ppm. The printers support media up to 360 gsm (simplex) and 300 gsm (duplex) and media sizes up to 13 x 19.2 inches as standard, with optional over-size media support of 13 x 27.5 inches. Both printers have a maximum resolution of 1,200 x 4,800 dpi and use an EFI Fiery RIP in the digital front-end to drive the printer.


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A survey was conducted on Swarna cultivar (MTU 7029) of rice during Kharif 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 at Nadia district of West Bengal to record the fungal disease and their respective yield loss. Ten diseases (Leaf blast, Sheath blight, Sheath rot, Brown spot, Brown Leaf Spots caused by Curvularia lunata, Stackburn disease, Leaf spot caused by Nigrospora oryzae, Stem rot, Rotting by Choanephora cucurbitarum and False smut) were based on visual observation on Swarna rice cultivar and yield loss due to respective disease was calculated by measuring test weight (gm) of rice grains. Leaf blast was noticed in mild form at Madanpur whereas, Sheath blight were noticed in severe form at Jaguli and Chakdah. Among eight spots (Madanpur, Jaguli, Gayeshpur, Kalyani, Chakdah, Ranaghat, Santipur and Krishnagar) of Nadia district, the disease incidence of sheath rot was recorded maximum at Jaguli and Kalyani, while moderate infection was observed at Chakdah and Santipur. Brown spot was more severe at Chakadah and Jaguli. Mild and trace infection was recorded due to Leaf spot caused by Nigrospora oryzae, stem rot and rotting caused by Choanephora cucurbitarum and the false smut was more severe at Jaguli. Two bio metrological parameters (Temperature and relative humidity) were recorded during Kharif 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016. The different diseases were favoured by different growth stages of rice.


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Rice to meet you was inspired by a nostalgic Filipino breakfast, called champorado. It was the breakfast my mom would make during snow days after coming in from the cold. My siblings and I would come home to a warm bowl of champorado.
Champorado is basically sticky rice with a deep, dark cocoa, sweetened only by a swirl of condensed milk. The way my mom made it had the consistency of oatmeal, but everyone has their own take on it. For the adventure-seekers, it is topped with dried fish called "tuyo" for that sweet and salty factor.
This cookie has that same deep champorado flavor with a sweetness for those non-dark chocolate lovers, using four different kinds of chocolate: dark cocoa, black cocoa, 60% chocolate and 72% chocolate. In the middle, there is homemade champorado filling, made with cocoa, sticky rice, and condensed milk. Then, we mixed in rice crispies to pull the experience all together.
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Moneyline: Marquette -126 | St. John's +108
Two teams in need of more momentum face off on Saturday.
Both Marquette and St. John's were winners back on Tuesday. The Johnnies dismissed Butler in Queens while the Golden Eagles took the Musketeers down. Now, the two programs, each sitting at 7-6, are set to square off in a pivotal showdown.
Marquette's prodigious offense has kept them in games this season. But have shown to be prone to defensive lapses from time to time. Notably, they gave up an 18-point lead recently to UConn and did leak a bit to Providence before holding firm. They have been skittish since starting off 4-1, going 3-5 over that stretch of games. In fairness, they have collected two wins in the last three times they've taken the court.
St. John's, meanwhile, has been struggling in Big East play as well. They've gone 2-5 but have rallied a bit since an 0-3 start. They've gone 2-2, with an aforementioned win over Butler in their last matchup. That was an encouraging performance, especially after an uncompetitive loss to Creighton back on Saturday, January 9.
Frankly, one should expect points to be scored in bunches in this game. Both teams have been horrible at defending the 3-point shot. Marquette ranks 245th in the nation, while St. John's ranks 293rd. In Big East play, the two teams rank dead last and 8th respectively in 3-point defense. The Golden Eagles sit fourth in conference play in 3-point FG% while St. John's is 7th, but is still above the nation's average (33.5) by nearly 1.5 percentage points (34.9).
One point of attack that could be scary for St. John's is on the interior. They are dead last in Big East play in 2-point FG% allowed. Marquette ranks fifth in the conference, having made over 50 percent of their opportunities. With the likes of Dawson Garcia and Theo John to worry about, that tandem may wreak havoc. MU's interior defense has been awesome, ranking second in the conference at the moment in league play. If St. John's can't finesse their way around that, then MU could find a huge exploit to attack on.


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India loses nearly 38 percent every year of its total harvest due to a variety of reasons, mainly related to the lack of an efficient market linkage system as well as absence of a large scale climate-proof storage capacity.
This leads to rotting of harvest due to non availability of refrigeration facilities as well as poor availability of electricity.
Energy expenses account for about 28-30 percent of total expenses in cold storage in India. This means that electrical energy is a major running cost to maintain the cold storage facility so farmers often shy away from them.
With the rise in use of solar power, several Indian companies have developed storage rooms and cubicles, powered by solar energy, increasing the shelf life of the harvest nearly 10 times and boosting farmers' incomes.
The solar-powered cold storage offers an ideal response to the needs of Indian farmers as it adequately addresses the problem of post-harvest losses in fruits, vegetables and other perishable food.
In these, the crop is placed in clean plastic crates, which are then stacked inside the cold room. This extends the freshness of fruits, vegetables and other perishable food from two days to about 21 days.
Cold rooms are well insulated in order to maintain the necessary temperature, often up to 8°C. The energy comes from the solar panels that are mounted on the roof-top of the cold room and is stored in high capacity batteries that feed an inverter, which in turn feeds the refrigerating unit.
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Opera mini vs Opera
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Is it real that Opera mini cannot provides the smooth experience as compare to Opera only.....because I heard it from my some close friends...So kindly verify it.
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@susan-robert Opera Mini is basically a browser for those who don't have/can't afford a powerful phone and/or have a (very) limited data traffic quota.
Therefore, Mini does not have the same functionalities of Opera for Android.However it should allow you to to surf the web without major issues.
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hi. does opera and opera mini have any built in VPN service feature ? like in UC browser we can open any domain in any region even if its banned !!!
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@adnanck919 Opera for Android has a VPN, Opera Mini doesn't.
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Opera mini in comparison to opera has limited functionalities as it is made for devices that have limiting system configurations. Opera on the other hand is a full-fledged browser that can be run on all advanced devices such as systems, Laptops, Tablets, and smartphones.
Rest it is entirely the choice of the users that if they need to use opera or opera mini. Therefore, if it is concerned with a smoother user experience, it is very likely that the device used by your friend prevented them to enjoy the browsing since every opera software is only launched after achieving all the benchmarks of quality assurance.
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@susan-robert as I used Opera Mini 2 years so according to my experience Opera Mini is best option for the low end devices, You Can download, Browsing with best speed no hung issue no force stop issue.


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X: The Threat is of a new generation of space simulator games, you play the role of Julian Gardna who continues the story set by X: Beyond The Frontier. The updated graphics engine gives the universe a fresher feel with newly designed ships and stations adding to the complexity of the universe.
- Explore: You can explore over 130 beautifully designed sectors occupied by nebulas that affect your ships and stations, asteroids you can mine for materials you can later sell on for profit.
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- New Upgrades: Upgrade your ships systems with many more upgrades, and download new upgrades that make use of the new scripting engine designed specially for X.
- New Weapons: Add new weapons to your ship including the Ion Disruptor and Mass Driver, but also build factories that will develop these weapons and sell them to make a profit, expanding your own empire among the universe.
- New Missions: Take part in missions offered to you on each stations bulletin board, make money by defending convoys and destroy incoming Xenon fleets intent on destroying everything in their path.
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The Souper Bowl of Caring takes place on or around the Super Bowl every year. This is a great way for middle and high school students to serve those in need and earn service hours, as well. Families with younger children are also invited and encouraged to participate! Using our specially decorated soup pots, we collect donations outside of Mass to help fight hunger and poverty in our area.
Here's their Mission Statement:
Using the energy of the Super Bowl to mobilize youth in a united national effort to care for people in their local communities who are hungry and those in need.
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Transform the time around the Super Bowl into the nation's largest celebration of giving and serving.
Souper Bowl of Caring February 10 - 11, 2024!
If one of your family's New Year's resolutions was to get more involved in helping others, we have your chance! Super Bowl Sunday is also the day of Souper Bowl of Caring (Tackle Hunger - Home of the Souper Bowl of Caring). All over the country, organizations collect money and food to help alleviate hunger in their communities.
Every year, St. Catherine's youth and families participate. This year our proceeds will go to Circle of Hope Community Center and Food Pantry.
Your generosity helped our youth raise $2,762
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CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Illinois-based "White Rabbit" militia has already been described by federal law enforcement officials as a domestic terror organization.
Their alleged leaders have been arrested.
Now, court records newly obtained by the ABC7 I-Team reveal a wider campaign of violence than first disclosed by authorities.
The group had plans to unleash right-wing and white power-motivated attacks across several states, federal agents say.
What authorities have already charged the three White Rabbit leaders with is bad enough according to prosecutors. There was a 2017 firebomb attack on a mosque in Minnesota, allegedly to send a message to Muslims that they aren't welcome in America.
There was an attempted attack later in 2017 on an abortion clinic in downstate Champaign.
Michael Hari, 48, is now charged as the leader of the White Rabbit movement, based in the small Illinois town of Clarence.
Hari faces federal cases in Minnesota and in Illinois that could land him in prison for 40- years. Now the I-Team has learned that authorities have evidence the militiamen were backed up by an arsenal of machine guns. Investigators say the weapons were bought as legal semi-automatic rifles and converted to illegal full-auto.
Newly obtained court records from Minnesota also reveal that the White Rabbit playbook called for future attacks in several states;
-the bombing a Planned Parenthood location in Saint Paul;
-a ransom scheme against Canadian National Railway-threatening to damage tracks in Illinois if the company didn't pay up;
-the armed robbery of a Bank of America branch in Missouri-because the militiamen allegedly associated that bank with George Soros, the billionaire liberal philanthropist.
The FBI shut down White Rabbit militia leaders in March of 2018 after they say an investigation linked the men to that Minnesota mosque attack and the attempted clinic bombing...collecting this weaponry and the explosives that authorities say was to be used in a much wider scheme than they first believed.


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Zach Wilson met Wayne Gretzky at a workout with teammates in Idaho
Zach Wilson was training with teammates in Idaho recently as the Jets get ready for training camp to open later this month. And while working out up there, Wilson came across one of the greatest athletes of all time.
Hockey legend Wayne Gretzky shared a photo of himself and Wilson on Instagram, saying how great it was to meet Wilson and watch him practice with his teammates. Gretzky called him "a great young man" and wished the Jets luck this upcoming season.
Wilson enters Year 2 with high expectations, and he's obviously not taking this season lightly. He's been working out all offseason and it's great to see him training with his teammates away from the facility before camp starts.
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A decaying sperm whale carcass has been floating in Hawaiian waters since Thursday, drawing in schools of hungry tiger sharks. But compared to the scene's newest visitors, they look positively puny.On Sunday, divers spotted a famously huge great white shark named "Deep Blue" feeding on the whale near Oahu. The rare sighting was reported by HawaiiNewsNow based on footage shot by local divers."If you asked me a few days ago what the most amazing thing I've ever seen in Hawaiian waters the answer probably would be pretty different," freediver Kimberly Jeffries, who first saw the shark, wrote on Facebook."If you asked me yesterday the answer would be freediving with Deep Blue, a great white, the largest ever documented, who was last seen in 2013 in Mexico," Jeffries added.In a Facebook post, fellow diver Mark Mohler said at least three great whites were visible, and that Deep Blue could only be seen on Sunday."Based on photos I can confirm there have been three distinct females recorded over the past few days," Jeffries told Motherboard in an email.Deep Blue became an icon several years ago during Shark Week on the Discovery Channel, though her remarkable size and age—roughly 20 feet long and 50 years old, according to many media reports—are up for debate.Her sensational reputation as the "biggest" shark on record can be attributed to a 2014 Shark Week episode (shot in 2013) in which Mauricio Hoyos Padilla, director of the shark nonprofit Pelagios-Kakunjá, and others filmed the large female near Mexico's Guadalupe Island. In 2015, Padilla wrote on Facebook that she was "the biggest white shark ever seen in front of the cages in Guadalupe Island," which somehow became "the largest great white shark ever caught on film."Deep Blue is indeed very large, but shark researchers can't say for sure that she's the largest."I lead the white shark research project at Guadalupe Island and first documented Deep Blue in 1999, 20 years ago," Michael Domeier, president and executive director of the Marine Conservation Science Institute, told Motherboard in an email."The claim that she is the largest white shark in the world is just a Discovery Channel gimmick," Domeier added. "Deep Blue has never been measured, so how could anyone make that statement?" (He cited another huge shark approaching Hawaii named "Murphy Jean," described as "massively girthy/fat.")As for Deep Blue's age, Domeier said we can only estimate."Deep Blue was an adult when we first encountered her 20 years ago," Domeier said. "So she is likely at least 40 years old, possibly older. Unfortunately the only way to accurately age a white shark is to kill it and look at the rings on the vertebrae, but no mystery is worth solving at that price!"The shark's measurements were similarly questioned by George Burgess, director emeritus at the Florida of Natural History's Florida Program for Shark Research."It's a big girl," Burgess told Motherboard over the phone. "Looks like maybe 18 feet. Hyperbole is part of Shark Week so you gotta be worried about some of the facts."So is the shark in Hawaii really Deep Blue? Domeier and divers say yes.Mohler wrote on Facebook that the identity of Deep Blue was confirmed "with the white shark authority, SharkPix.com," a repository of shark photos managed by hobbyist wildlife photographer George Probst who works with researchers to ID great whites.Great whites possess unique pigment patterns that are commonly used to identify them."The line of demarcation between the white color on the underside and the grey color on the upper side is like a fingerprint," he explained. "We particularly look at the pattern of demarcation near the gills, the pelvic fins and the caudal fin (tail)."Great whites are a rare sight in Hawaii, but they're not unheard of; their presence is even documented in Native Hawaiian ceremonial objects. Satellite tracking data suggests that most originate near California and Mexico, and that female sharks will roam the deep while pregnant before returning to the coast to give birth.Domeier theorized that Deep Blue may be one of these pregnant sharks. "She has likely been at sea since the late fall of 2017, [for the gestation period,]" he speculated. "She will give birth to 8 to 12 pups this spring, and then return to Guadalupe Island in the fall to mate and start the cycle over again."Burgess agreed that she could be pregnant. Or perhaps Deep Blue's belly is simply a food gut. Maybe she's "fartin' like mad," he added.
On Saturday, local and federal authorities towed the sperm whale 15 miles offshore after it drifted onto a reef. People have been asked to stay away from the carcass. Signs now warn beachgoers that "whale material" could be in the area.Both Domeier and Burgess discouraged thrillseekers from diving with the sharks."Most of the time, that shark won't turn around and bite you," Burgess said."But when it does, you'll end up as a statistic on the International Shark Attack File, and the news headline won't be 'Stupid human dies chasing a 20 foot shark,'" Burgess added. "It will be 'Shark kills human,' and that activity is very bad for conservation efforts."Read more: We Now Know Why Great White Sharks Gather in a Mysterious Ocean Void


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The House Judiciary Committee, led by Democratic congressman Jerry Nadler, is moving steadily toward initiating impeachment proceedings against President Trump. The president's repeated assertion of executive privilege in his legal conflict with Nadler is the latest example of his alleged disregard for the rule of law. Nadler previously subpoenaed former White House counsel Don McGahn and former White House communications director Hope Hicks. Corey Lewandowski, Trump's first campaign manager, along with Rick Dearborn and Rob Porter—both former White House aides—were also recently summoned to testify. They join a long line of targeted administration officials, including Jeff Sessions, Rod Rosenstein, John Kelly, and Jared Kushner. Undoubtedly, Trump will assert executive privilege to prevent his administration officials and advisors from testifying before the congressman's committee, as he did with McGahn and Hicks—and the media will find lawyers to claim these assertions are overbroad, baseless, and dangerous.
What's lost in these talking points is definition, context, and rationale. As a threshold matter, executive privilege is neither novel nor sinister. Its historic pedigree was established by George Washington, who, in 1792, reserved the right to withhold from Congress the content of White House deliberations and records that it sought regarding the death of 600 U.S. soldiers in a Native American ambush along Ohio's frontier. Washington asserted it again, in 1796, when he refused to disclose to the House of Representatives documents related to the Jay Treaty, which sought to resolve outstanding issues with Great Britain. Washington's example reminds us that executive privilege is not some obscure legal theory manufactured by Richard Nixon to conceal his duplicity in connection with Watergate.
In discharging his responsibilities, the president must receive candid, and often unpopular, advice from his advisors. In United States v. Nixon, the seminal case on executive privilege, the Supreme Court reasoned that "the importance of this confidentiality is too plain to require further discussion. Human experience teaches that those who expect public dissemination of their remarks may well temper candor with a concern for appearances and for their own interests to the detriment of the decision-making process." The specter of public disclosure would chill open deliberation among the president's men and, as a result, impede energetic executive action.
For Congress or the courts to compel disclosure of these discussions would allow co-equal branches of government to infringe on the unique role that the president plays in the American constitutional order. Unlike congressmen, senators, and judges, the president alone is vested with executive power. Though the Constitution is silent on the matter, the Supreme Court reasoned that "the privilege can be said to derive from the supremacy of each branch within its own assigned area of constitutional duties. Certain powers and privileges flow from the nature of enumerated powers; the protection of the confidentiality of Presidential communications has similar constitutional underpinnings."
Executive privilege has limits. Like the executive, Congress has "its own assigned area of constitutional duties." Under its Article I legislative power, Congress holds the authority to investigate and conduct oversight of the executive branch and compel the production of testimony and documents to this end. Congress's implied power to investigate emanates from its express power to legislate. As the Supreme Court put it in McGrain v. Daugherty, in 1927: "The power of inquiry—with process to enforce it—is an essential and appropriate auxiliary to the legislative function."
This authority enables Nadler's committee to issue subpoenas for Trump's cabinet officials and advisers. And if one is on the business end of a congressional subpoena, one does well to take it seriously. Failure to comply may result in a visit from the House of Representatives' Sergeant at Arms—a man empowered to arrest and imprison contumacious witnesses unless and until they comply with the subpoena. Alternatively, Congress can cite the disobedient witness for contempt and refer the matter to the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia for criminal prosecution. Finally, Congress can request a court order commanding the subpoenaed target to comply.
The validity of executive privilege claims is rarely litigated because the threat of constitutional crisis hangs over any assertion of power by one branch over another. Politics is thus the primary method of adjudicating these competing claims—and politics favors the popular. The American president, however, should not be hampered in executing his critical functions just because he's out of favor with the MSNBC crowd.
The solution, as it were, is a call to statesmanship—or appealing to the better angels of Nadler's nature and, to a lesser extent, Trump's. If Nadler can resist the temptation to investigate Trump, in the words of Earl Warren, "solely for the personal aggrandizement of the investigator or to punish those investigated," then he has a patriotic opportunity to transcend petty partisanship. "Through the normal political process of confrontation, compromise, and accommodation," as one expert on executive privilege explained, Congress and the president can "resolve their differences over executive privilege" disputes. We will not cease hostilities in the misguided partisan constitutional warfare of the last two decades by "resorting to the solution that was rejected by the Framers—that is, by demanding constitutional certitude."
The Supreme Court has made clear that executive privilege commands that Congress and the courts bear a "very heavy responsibility to see to it that Presidential conversations . . . are accorded that high degree of respect due the President of the United States." The president is subject to the rule of law, but the dignity and demands of his office afford him protections unavailable to others. John Marshall alluded to this status at the trial of Aaron Burr for treason, writing that "in no case of this kind would a court be required to proceed against the president as against an ordinary individual."
Executive privilege, however, is not designed to serve the president's personal interests, but those of the public. It recognizes the presidency's unitary and unique constitutional commitments. Federalist 70, written by Alexander Hamilton, explains "energy in the Executive is a leading character in the definition of good government. It is essential to the protection of the community against foreign attacks . . . to the steady administration of the laws . . . [and] to the security of liberty against the enterprises and assaults of ambition, of faction, and of anarchy." There is only one chief executive.
Nadler, on the other hand, for all his pontificating on Trump's "richly deserved" impeachment and his condemnation of the president's claims of executive privilege, is one of many. The Constitution does not charge him with defending the nation, prosecuting foreign wars, receiving and acting on intelligence briefings, or appointing Supreme Court justices. He should execute his oversight responsibilities with the dignity, humility, and seriousness befitting his office. After all, he is easily replaceable in his next election. I ought to know—I'm one of his constituents.
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For those who believe in the power of film to change the world, the Broadway has a treat in store for you later this month. For on 19 June, for one night only, the Letchworth Broadway is hosting an event that lifts the lid off the scandal of formula baby milk and how international corporations are exploiting developing nations – and killing babies in the process.
Films that change lives
Because sometimes a film is just a film. And sometimes it is much more than that. Sometimes a film tells a story so shocking, so direct that it can cut through public indifference and bring about change. Sometimes it is a mainstream film with a big name star, like Victim (1961) starring Dirk Bogarde or Philadelphia (1993) with Tom Hanks. Both these films helped change attitudes towards gay people.
Other times, it is more niche, factual. Good examples of this genre include Super-Size Me, a comic-documentary looking at the effects of od'ing on the products of the amiable Ronald McDonald and the much darker A Girl in the River, which is a short documentary about honour killings and which led, directly, to a change of heart on the part of the Prime Minister of Pakistan
And sitting somewhere between the two is Tigers, a drama documentary highlighting in heart-breaking fashion how Nestlé, one of the world's largest corporations is complicit in the untimely death, every year, of hundreds – perhaps even thousands – of babies worldwide through its irresponsible approach to the sale of formula milk.
An evening of film - and hard questions
The film, which I review over on EyeforFilm, tells the true story of a Pakistani salesman, employed by "LastaVita", who learns that his promotion of baby formula to doctors is causing babies to die. It is about what happens when he blows the whistle: but it is also about how difficult it is to get such stories out into the open. The difficulties of making a film, when the object of your film-making employs some of the fiercest lawyers in the world.
And even when you have made the film, how difficult it is to get it out into the public arena. Tigers is now receiving a limited release in the UK through showings in independent cinemas this year. But what you will see if you come along on the 19 June is a film that is yet to obtain a release in India, where, objectively, these issues are massive. And the problem explored is one that just keeps on coming back. From Africa in the 70s to the Indian sub-continent in the 90's and since, denial kills.
And because the Broadway is not just any old cinema, this showing comes with an opportunity to explore the issues further. Also there to take part in an audience Q&A session after will be co-writer and producer Andy Paterson and Patti Rundall, Policy Director of Baby Milk Action, who also appears as a character in the film.
Yes. Sometimes a film is just a film. But Tigers is much more than that and if you come along and watch it and take part in the session after, you will understand why.
If you would like to read more about the background to this film, check out this interview with Tigers Director Denis Tanovic.


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Like other Android powered smartphones, such as Samsung, Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, you can easily cast screen from your Huawei mobile to a Windows computer with the built-in option, no third-party apps required. This feature may have different names across different devices, like screencast, cast, mirror, wireless projection, etc.
Connect to the same Wi-Fi
In order to cast screen from Huawei phone to Windows desktop or laptop, you have to firstly connect both devices to the same Wi-Fi network.
Turn PC into wireless display
On the computer, Windows 10 or Windows 11, you can use the Connect app or wireless display feature to turn the computer into a wireless external display for your mobile phone.
On Windows computer, click the Start menu, then choose Settings > Apps > Optional features, see if you can find 'Wireless Display' feature here, if not yet enabled, add this optional feature.
Go to Settings > System > Projecting to this PC, click on the 'Launch the Connect app to project to this PC' link. The Connect app opens and says the computer is ready for you to connect wirelessly.
Huawei phone wireless projection
On Huawei phone, go to Settings > Device connectivity > Wireless projection, your smart phone will start searching for external display and list your PC name in the Wireless projection dialog, simply tap on your PC name to start projecting or mirroring your Huawei phone to PC monitor.
Mobile phone can't find computer and troubleshooting
Make sure both your Huawei mobile and Windows PC are connected to the same Wi-Fi network. Same Wi-Fi name (SSID) does not mean same network, as many dual-band wireless routers allow users to configure both 2.4G and 5G Wi-fi networks with same SSID and password. See how to find out if a Wi-Fi network is 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz here. Make sure no proxy server configured or activated on either computer or phone.
Control phone from computer
If you see the UIBC prompt when you initiate the wireless projection on Huawei phone, it means you will be able to control the projecting device, phone or tablet, from the receiving device, TV or computer. During projection, it lets you control your Huawei phone using a keyboard, mouse, remote control, or other input devices that are connected to the receiving device.
What devices are supported by Huawei Wireless projection?
Miracast supported devices, like Miracast-enabled smart TVs, TV boxes, Miracast-enabled computers. So you can not only mirror Huawei phone to PC, but also those smart TVs that support Miracast.


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Anne Sobel's two volume graphic novel series, Asra & the Orphan Moon, was recently picked up by Bloomsbury Qatar Publishing. The first book is due out in early 2018 and will be published in Arabic, English, and French. Her writing has also appeared in The Huffington Post, Jezebel, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Anne is an Associate Producer on a feature length documentary, The Workers Cup, which had its World Premiere at Sundance in 2017, where it was selected as the Opening Night film. The Workers Cup is set to screen at three of the largest international film festivals in 2017: Hot Docs in Toronto, CPH:Dox in Copenhagen, and Sheffield Doc/Fest in the UK.
Anne's Arab language short, Laish La, was the recipient of a Lipton Middle East Grant and garnered over 3 million views on social media and YouTube. Her film, Rocket to Danger, received Northwestern's Barbara & Garry Marshall Media Award and was screened at Boston International Film Festival, Athens International, and Miami Short Film Festival, to name a few. It was also a part of the "How We Roll" exhibit at the California African American Museum. Anne has directed music videos that were distributed via Essay Records, Planet-X Records, and Mint Records respectively.
Anne spent six years living in the Middle East, where she was a Lecturer in Residence at Northwestern University in Qatar. She taught Cinematography, Directing, and Intro to Film Production.
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Caught a tweet and made it to the last few hours of the brilliant KP Brehmer exhibition at Raven Row. Added bonus, apparently the proper catalogue wasn't finished in time so they were giving out a really nice John Morgan Studio designed pamphlet filled with loads of interesting interview extracts and stuff. This one jumped out:
Georg Jappe: Do you see yourself as a man who changes the system from the inside?
KP Brehmer: I believe that is the only possibility for producing a qualified change, ie. one with an organic foundation. All revolutions have shown that: one can't easily abolish things which have developed in the course of the history of humanity. To say now that something new is being created from the outside – this total 'outside' doesn't exist. If an artist wants to change a society, she can work only with the foundation – to make it broader, more stable. For this reason, changes from the outside are flashes in the pan.
Georg Jape, interview with KP Brehmer in Studio International 191, Apr 1975. Cited in the pamphlet for KP Brehmer, Real Capital-Production at Raven Row
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Newsletter: Two Iranian American food writers talk Persian restaurant menus and home cooking
The world is insanely small.
I'm sitting outside a bakery-cafe in Tallinn, Estonia, called Røst; it makes amazing, elaborately latticed cardamom buns. A couple just sat down next to me. They live in Orange County. The husband, Sol, mentions he is Iranian. I tell him that this week The Times published a story I wrote about eating through Persian restaurants in Southern California with Middle Eastern food expert (and friend) Anissa Helou.
I ask him if he has a favorite Iranian restaurant in Orange County. "Hen House," he says, "for the dizi." The dish is named for the traditional vessel used to serve ab-goosht, a lamb and chickpea stew. I'm happy he mentions the place; it was a favorite among the restaurants that Helou and I visited.
One thread I pursued while writing the story was mostly cut for space: Why do the menus at Persian restaurants tend to be focused on kebabs (and their accompanying rice dishes) and only a handful of stews? The Iranian culinary repertoire is incredibly vast; one immersive work on the subject is "Food of Life: Ancient Persian and Modern Iranian Cooking and Ceremonies" by Najmieh Batmanglij.
For insight, I turned to two Iranian American food writers: Bon Appétit senior food editor Andy Baraghani and Naz Deravian, Angeleno and author of the award-winning "Bottom of the Pot" published last year. Both of them graciously shared recommendations with Helou and me during our restaurant tour.
Baraghani was raised in the Bay Area. "Growing up, I was eating Iranian food only at my home or my extended family's home," he said. "The soups, the braises, the stews; those are what I think of as the backbone of Iranian food. We didn't dine out that often, but if we went out for Persian food it was typically a kebab house, whether it was in San Francisco or Los Angeles.
"The khoresh, or stew, is highly seasonal. There are stews made with cardoons and with apples or quinces in the fall, and with peaches in the late summer. The home-cooked dishes have a lot more variation to them than most restaurant dishes; some stews will be made sweeter or more bitter, or richer and fattier, or lighter and leaner. There's too much room for error for most restaurants to practice these subtleties. It takes time to prep a stew made of fresh artichokes and tons of fresh herbs. Fresh sour cherries, a Persian favorite when in season, need to be pitted. Of course there are short cuts, but the labor of these dishes tends not to work in the restaurant medium."
Deravian's family too goes out to Persian restaurants in the Los Angeles area specifically to eat kebabs. "We're still a fairly young immigrant community — around 40 years — and many of us were forced to relocate in distress," she said. "The majority of the population came to escape or to set up a better life. They started businesses to make money. Restaurant owners designed their menus for universal appeal." She notes a certain standardization helps ameliorate expectations. "Everyone will have their own opinions about how a dish should be made, especially if you're Persian."
She cites a family variation on gormeh sabzi, a dish that in restaurants often shows up as kidney beans flavored with lamb or beef and simmered with dried lime and herbs. Her mother makes the stew using black-eyed peas; it's a traditional version in the northern Iranian province of Gilan where Deravian's mother was raised, though when Deravian has written about the dish she says some readers have responded with skeptical surprise.
Few Persian restaurants across America veer from the kebab-centric model. For divergence, Baraghani points out Sofreh in Brooklyn; Nasim Alikhani opened the restaurant last year; the mains on her menu lean toward stews and dishes such as chicken served in plum and saffron sauce.
Deravian can see the possibility of more innovation on the horizon. "In Los Angeles, many of the Persian restaurants have been open a long time, and kebabs are what people expect. As the diaspora matures, people sometimes want a grab-and-go taste of home. But there is also a community here that wants the rhubarb stew and peach stew, and California is obviously the perfect place to taste the seasons."
Ultimately, though, Baraghani sums up what both he and Deravian conveyed to me: "If you really want a broad taste of Iranian food, you have to go to a home."
Ask the critics
What is something most wouldn't guess is important in your review process?
— @princessemargaret, Instagram
This is a great question I could answer eight different ways. The answer that comes right now is: tablemates who get me and what I do. I rarely go to restaurants alone; the biggest exception is when I'm reviewing an extremely pricey tasting menu where I can arguably have the same experience with or without company. Most of the time, I'm dining with one to three other people. Much of it comes down to practicality: I want to try as many dishes on the menu as possible, and I'm noticing how the restaurant interacts with groups of different sizes.
This is an extremely social job. Restaurant critics play out their lives in restaurants. I cultivate friendships with people who are open-minded in terms of what they're eating and where they're eating. I sit on the cusp between introvert and extrovert; I have to bring an almost double state of presence to dinner. There's the part of me that's holding up his end of the conversation, and the other part whose radar is noting what's happening three tables away, and dictating mental notes about the sear on the lamb and the textural play of the deconstructed layer cake. My friends learn to be patient when my mind occasionally disappears into the plates and the action around us; they understand that I'm working. I'm grateful for it.
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