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I understand about depression completely, KC. I don't talk about it much on this blog, but I'll occasionally talk about it on my other. I've had a lot of loss over the past couple of months so I've been more inactive than usual.
I'm sorry to hear about your mom's diagnosis. I'll keep her and you in my thoughts. I live here in PA near the Poconos, so I know the weather's been hell lately. Keep moving forward. There IS a light at the end of the tunnel. I know this to be true.
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Thanks for stopping by Between the Keys. There's always light at the end of the tunnel - and there's always the next tunnel. The strange thing is, the older I get, the less dark the tunnels seem to be. I used to think I'd never get through them. Experience has shown I always do. I suppose it's one of the perks of gaining some maturity.
I, also, don't understand about seasonal disorder, but the is a compassionate post on the subject.
Sorry about your mother's diagnosis. Scary condition.
Thanks for stopping by Between the Keys today. I appreciate your comments.
I think people who haven't been through it will never fully understand what it's like. I don't suffer from it aside from the regular ickiness that comes with staying inside all day. I have a treadmill and I do notice my mood improves if I get a little exercise each day.


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Did GM soy cause allergies to soar? Probably not.
Posted by atomicspin in Anonymous sources do not forgive, Damned lies and statistics, Food is totally science, Health & medicine, Too scientific; did not read, Unpublished research on Thursday, 14th June 2012
So, California's planning a referendum on the labelling of genetically modified food. The Guardian has covered this not in it's regular news pages, but in its Comment is Free section, under the title "How California's GM food referendum may change what America eats".
The article is mostly an opinion piece – fair enough – but there's one statistic buried in there that leapt out at me.
While researchers have not yet found a "smoking gun", which would prove that GM foods as a class are dangerous, there are troubling signs that they may be a factor in the recent epidemic of food allergies. Soon after GM soy was introduced to the UK, for example, soy allergies escalated by 50%.
The link there doesn't go to a scientific paper, but to a piece on "News. Controversy. Opinion." site Opposing Views, and their figures seem to come, ultimately, from American Academy of Environmental Medicine, a group that has some decidedly quackish views on topics like water fluoridation, vaccines and "Multiple Chemical Sensitivity" (a scientifically unfounded belief that everything in modern society contains toxins). It's not impossible to support some outlandish ideas while being right about things, of course, but it does ring some alarm bells.
Neither article links to any of the studies it referenced, but with a bit of digging, I found this piece at Academics Review which seems to be dealing with the same statistic. Go there if you want the full takedown, but in a nutshell, it refers to marketing information from a group called "York Nutritional Laboratories" (which sell food allergy testing kits) the rise was in people with a particular antibody, not those who reported allergies and the study didn't find any connection (the rise simply happened at a similar time to the introduction of GM, although it actually took place before GM soy became mainstream).*
I decided to have a look on Google Scholar for papers looking in the allergenicity of GM soy. There are plenty of studies and review papers looking into this – one, two, three, four, five – and all the ones I've found so far suggest that genetic soybeans and GM soybeans pose exactly the same risk of allergy (though as far as I can tell, these are all animal trials. There isn't much data on human soy allergies out there).
In this case, the claim that GM soy may be responsible for a rise in allergies seems to be simply wrong.
* For the other major claim in Opposing View's piece, about baby rats dying from eating GM soy, see this peer review of the paper, originally from Nature Biotechnology , which expresses grave concerns about the unusually high numbers of deaths in the control group – it looks like bad care killed the rats, not the soy)
Mitochondria donation nonsense
Posted by atomicspin in Conflicts of interest, Disability, Health & medicine, Hypocrisy, Too scientific; did not read on Tuesday, 12th June 2012
For various largely uninteresting reasons, I've not blogged lately. But then I came across this article on The Guardian website today, a for-and-against piece about mitochondria donation with an "against" argument from Peter Saunders that veers from irrelevant to flat out wrong. Let's get started!
To begin with, this is not about finding a cure. It is about preventing people with mitrochondrial disease being born. These new technologies, even if they work, will do nothing for the thousands of people already suffering from these diseases, or for those who will be born with it in the future.
Now, here's the first dodgy argument, one that I'm almost tempted to call a dog-whistle. Mitochondrial donations are not about "preventing people with mitrochondrial disease being born", they're about "preventing people being born with mitrochondrial disease". Just look at how moving that phrase "being born" a few words to the right changed a factual statement about the procedure into a non-sequitur about abortion.
It's of course true that unfortunately, this procedure will do nothing to help people that already have mitochondrial diseases – removing a mutation from the body is perhaps the most impossible thing in all of medicine – but that's no argument against the procedure.
Also, Saunders claims that there is no need for the procedure when egg donation is already possible. Bear this in mind; it'll come up again later.
Will it work? This technology uses similar "nuclear transfer" techniques to those used in "therapeutic cloning" for embryonic stem cells – which has thus far failed to deliver, and animal-human cytoplasmic hybrids ("cybrids"). […] Yet cybrids are now a farcical footnote in history. They have not worked. Ironically, it was in that same act of parliament that provision for this new research was also made.
First of all, cybrids were legalised in 2008. 3-4 years is not that long a time in medical research, especially for research into slow-developing, long-term conditions like Alzheimers and Parkinsons. But I decided to have a look on Google Scholar, to see if cybrids were just a "farcical footnote". Since 2008, there have been at least 362 papers about cytoplasmic hybrids, including 114 in the last year and a half or so. Some of these are papers exploring the ethics of the procedure, but an awful lot are detailing actual breakthroughs made using these cytoplasmic hybrids.
Embryonic stem cell research, being far more mature, is even more successful, with stem cells relieving paralysis in rats and the first clinical trials in humans showing promising results. Hardly a field that has "thus far failed to deliver".
But even if he was telling the truth, and both fields had proved to be dead ends, this would still be irrelevant to mitochondrial donation. All it says is that mitochondrial donation uses one technique which is also used in stem cell research. As far as arguments go, this is up there with "vegetarians are evil because Hitler was a vegetarian".
Is it safe? No. Each technique involves experimental reproductive cloning techniques and germline genetic engineering (that is, it affects the genes passed on to children) – both of which are highly controversial and potentially dangerous. Cloning by nuclear transfer has so far proved ineffective in humans and unsafe in other mammals with a large number of cloned individuals spontaneously aborting, and others suffering from physical abnormalities or limited lifespans.
Well, it's good thing there's no cloning involved with this technique, thus making that last sentence completely pointless scaremongering.
Also, as the Guardian noted last week, any changes, or unpredicted genetic problems (mutations) will be passed to future generations.
This is true, but the thing is: if a woman with a mitochondrial condition doesn't use this technique and conceives a child naturally, there is a 100% guarantee that the mitochondrial defect will be passed to the future generation(s). The whole point of this method is to reduce the number of dangerous mutations being passed on.
Is it ethical? No. A large number of eggs will be needed, involving risky and invasive "harvesting" for women donors. How many debt-laden students or infertile women will be exploited by the offer of money, or free IVF treatment, in return for their eggs? How many embryos will be destroyed?
Ok, so, remember how earlier egg donation was a totally ethical alternative to mitochondrial donation? Well, with a deft sleight of hand Saunders is now claiming that egg donation is unethical!
There are concerns about paying people to donate body parts/fluids – it's one of the most hotly discussed areas of bioethics – but in the UK, donors are not paid to donate eggs. They can have their travel and accommodation expenses paid (up to £750), but that's it. There's simply no room for the kind of exploitation Saunders worries about.
As far as I can tell, there is no difference to the egg donor between standard donation and mitochondria donation. The technique doesn't necessarily require any extra eggs – though I suppose that depends on its success rate, which, since the technique is still experimental, no-one yet knows – and it doesn't require any more embryo destruction that IVF or standard egg donation.
Then there are the issues of identity confusion for the children, who in effect will have three biological parents. Some mitochondrial diseases are much less serious than others. Once we have judged some affected babies not worthy of being conceived, where do we draw the line?
The mitochondria are, as the standard explanation goes, the little power stations that fuel each cell, and mitochondrial DNA has no effect on the wider body outside these power stations. A baby conceived by mitochondria donation is closer to having two parents than than a baby conceived by standard egg donation (since in mitochondria donation, all the DNA that affects what the baby actually looks like comes from the mother, not the donor), and if "identity confusion" is a concern, it's odd that he'd endorse adoption either. And this technique does not mean any baby is "not worthy of being conceived" (unless he's referring to the parents' choice not to conceive naturally in the first place, in which case his argument is grosser and more unethical than I thought) – conception will still happen, it's just that egg will be slightly modified first.
This debate is not being handled responsibly. The research scientists involved have financial and research-based vested interests, and getting the regulatory changes and research grants to continue and extend their work is dependent on them being able to sell their case to funders, the public and decision-makers.
I don't think "I'm a research scientist and I want to continue my research" counts as a vested interest. It's not like researchers are pretending their research isn't dependent on this technique being allowed. I genuinely wonder how Saunders would prefer this debate be handled – he certainly never explains. Speaking of not handling debates responsibly, though neither Saunders nor The Guardian point this out, Saunders is the CEO of the Christian Medical Fellowship, a group that speaks out against a variety of medical techniques on religious grounds. As Mark Henderson said on Twitter, "Saunders makes many bad arguments vs mitochondrial transplants, omitting real reason he opposes: religion […] Nothing wrong with opposing embryo research for religious reasons, but those who do should admit it, and that no evidence would convince them"
Let's concentrate on finding treatments and providing better support for affected individuals, rather than spending limited health resources on unethical, risky and highly uncertain hi-tech solutions that will most likely never deliver.
We already know that, no matter how difficult mitochondrial donation is, finding a cure for mitochondrial disorders is far far harder still – and perhaps impossible with our current knowledge of genetics. A human body contains billions of cells, each one containing at least one and often tens or hundreds of mitochondria. Replacing or fixing all of them would be far more difficult than replacing the mitochondria in a single cell; if you want an efficient way of spending limited health resources (really, limited research resources – the funding for this research would not be directly linked to the NHS), donation research is surely a better route to take.
(I intended to, for balance reasons, point out any inaccuracies in the response from the Nuffield bioethicist arguing for the procedure, but it already seems pretty sensible and fair. Quelle surprise…)
Edit: Also thanks to Mark Henderson for pointing out that the research is being carried out at Newcastle University and entirely publicly funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Medical Research Council – there are no vested business interests involved either.
The EU, prunes, and the problem with "patent truth"
Posted by atomicspin in Europe, Food is totally science, Health & medicine, Health and Correctness gone Politically Safe, Politicians say the darndest things, Too scientific; did not read on Wednesday, 14th December 2011
Hey! I know it's been a while since I blogged. Hopefully you haven't missed me too much. Anyway.
Prunes are not a laxative, EU rules, says today's Telegraph, endowing the EU with frankly godlike powers. Did someone in Brussels snap their fingers and magically prunes suddenly ceased to be laxatives?
Let's help the Telegraph and suggest a more accurate headline. Perhaps…
Prunes are not a laxative, science suggested two years ago
The laxative effect of prunes is one of those things that "everyone knows". Certainly MEP and frequent talking head Roger Helmer agrees, claiming:
"The euro is burning, the EU is falling apart and yet here they are: highly-paid, highly-pensioned officials worrying about the obvious qualities of water and trying to deny us the right to say what is patently true."
Ignoring the fact that this study was carried out in mid-2009, before the Euro crisis kicked off, Roger Helmer has an interesting definition of "patently true".
The study looked at the scientific evidence for the effectiveness specifically of dried prunes. There were two studies of the effectiveness of dried prunes in humans at the time:
"Daily Consumption of Dried Plum by Postmenopausal Women Does Not Cause Undesirable Changes in Bowel Function" by Edmund Lucas et al and "Consumption of prunes as a source of dietary fiber in men with mild hypercholesterolemia" by Lesley Tinker et al. Lucas found that there was no significant difference between apples and prunes in stool bulk, consistency, frequency or pain, and Tinker found a difference in stool weight between prunes and grape juice, but no effect on consistency or frequency.
A third study they looked at, "Prune juice has a mild laxative effect in adults with certain gastrointestinal symptoms" showed that as you can probably guess from the title, prune juice did appear to have laxative effects – hence why they only talk about dried plums in the report.
Now, it's possible that dried prunes are laxative – a much more recent study (albeit one funded by the "California Dried Plum Board") from 2011 found that prunes appear to work better than the laxative psyllium at relieving constipation – but at the time this report was written, it simply would not have been accurate to say that, based on the body of available evidence, prunes were any better at keeping you "regular" than any other sort of fruit.
(The Telegraph also claims that the EU banned claiming that drinking water could prevent dehydration. Read the actual article, and the very last paragraph reveals that they're talking about clincal dehydration, which is normally caused by disease rather than by not drinking enough fluids and that "This claim is trying to imply that there is something special about bottled water which is not a reasonable claim")
Edit: Just found this excellent post by Martin Robbins about the dehydration claim.
James Delingpole uses quack medicine to prove carbon dioxide is harmless. Er…
Posted by atomicspin in Churnalism, Climate change, Health & medicine on Friday, 7th October 2011
(Hat tip to @rbhinkley for pointing out the original article)
Imagine a world where CO2 was not a deadly poison in need of urgent regulation by the European Union and the Environmental Protection Agency but a hugely beneficial trace gas which helped plants to thrive… If you've read [Delingpole's tastefully plugged book] Watermelons – or indeed hung around this column for any length of time – you'll know that that world already exists.
So begins James Delingpole's latest blog post. Let's start with the slightly less obvious problem here: governments do not control carbon dioxide because it is a poison, they control it because it has damaging effects on the environment. Whether or not it's poisonous has no bearing on climate change.
Secondly, carbon dioxide is poisonous. It's not poisonous at the levels you'll find in the air around you, assuming you're reading this from a reasonably well-ventilated room, but at a concentration of around 3% you'll start to feel drowsy, and as the concentration increases you'll quickly suffer sensory impairment and eventually black out and can even die. Your body does need a tiny bit of carbon dioxide in the blood, otherwise you suffer what's known as hypocapnia, but that's not caused by environmental CO2, that's caused by hyperventilating (it's a big problem with divers, which is why you shouldn't take short, hard breaths before diving).
So why does Delingpole want to claim otherwise? Well, he's discovered something called the Buteyko Method – supposedly a way of breathing which increases the amount of carbon dioxide in your body, supposedly curing collapsed lungs, ME, MS, depression, arthritis, asthma, emphysema and even Crohn's disease.
The only evidence Delingpole gives that it works? Well, it works for him. Fair enough – controlled breathing techniques are widelyknown to reduce stress, and if that helps him personally then fine. But remember he's a journalist – surely before he sells it to his readers (and it does read like a sales pitch – he lists the locations of upcoming workshops… £375 workshops) he should find some concrete evidence that it works – and, crucially, that it has anything to do with CO2?
There's not much research into whether it works, unfortunately, and a lot of it doesn't seem to be fantastic quality. Still, here's a quote from a review paper looking into the method (in particular, its effect on asthma):
Buteyko's theory relating to carbon dioxide levels and airway calibre is an attractive one, and has some basis in evidence from experimental studies. However, it is not known whether altering breathing patterns can raise carbon dioxide levels significantly, and there is currently insufficient evidence to confirm that this is the mechanism behind any effect that [Buteyko Breathing Technique] BBT may exert. Further research is necessary to establish unequivocally whether BBT is effective, and if so, how it may work. (emphasis mine)
Doesn't sound fantastic. Maybe the paper "Strengths, Weaknesses, and Possibilities of the Buteyko Breathing Method" will be more promising.
Studies with the Buteyko Method have found that resting carbon dioxide levels do not change after Buteyko training despite reported improvement in symptoms
Ok, how about a study from the same author, "Investigating the Claims of Konstantin Buteyko, M.D., Ph.D."
The results revealed a negative correlation between BHT and ETCO2 (r = −0.241, p < 0.05), directly opposite to Buteyko's claims.
[ETCO2 is end tidal CO2, the amount of CO2 released at the end of a breathing cycle]
Or how about this large, randomised controlled study* – again into its effects on asthma.
This study, which we believe to be the largest randomised controlled trial and the first to use a global assessment of asthma control as a primary outcome in a non-pharmacological intervention in asthma, failed to show a difference between the intervention (Buteyko) and control (physiotherapy) groups.
Oh dear.
Even Wikipedia, refuge of the lazy journalist, points out that there is no evidence that the CO2 theory is correct and there's little medical support for the technique!
Where does that leave us? There's not much evidence that it works, no evidence that it increases CO2 levels, and indeed, some evidence that it may have the exact opposite effect. Does it help with asthma? Perhaps, although apparently no better than any other breathing method. Does it prove that CO2 is unequivocally good for you? Of course not.
* Although as the researchers point out, it was not blinded – which makes the fact that it didn't work even more striking.
Human-animal hybrids grown in secret? Well, no…
Posted by atomicspin in Biology, Health & medicine, Health and Correctness gone Politically Safe, Misleading headlines, Politicians say the darndest things, Politics on Sunday, 24th July 2011
(HT @ukenagashi)
Fresh from their sister paper's hard-hitting report into scientific ethics (which then ignored scientific ethics completely in favour of plugging The Planet of Apes prequel (direct link)), the Mail on Sunday today claims "150 human animal hybrids grown in UK labs: Embryos have been produced secretively for the past three years".
Indeed, admixed embryo research was so secretive that it only got a few thousand column inches from tiny obscure outlets like The Times, the BBC and, err, The Mail.
That said, the stupidest thing in the article is not The Mail's coverage, which overall isn't as terrible as I thought it would be*, though there's no attempt at explaining the issues beyond just quoting a spokesperson from each side, and it doesn't make clear that a lot of the experiments in question – implanting a human nucleus into an empty animal cell – don't make "hybrids" (more strictly, chimeras or admixed embryos) at all; they just make what is for all intents and purposes a human egg cell (taking eggs out of humans naturally is slightly dangerous, so it's hard to justify putting women at risk for a science experiment when you can just make egg substitutes in the lab).
No, that prize goes to Lord Alton, who first showed the figures to The Mail. He says:
'Ethically it can never be justifiable – it discredits us as a country. It is dabbling in the grotesque.
'At every stage the justification from scientists has been: if only you allow us to do this, we will find cures for every illness known to mankind. This is emotional blackmail.
And those cancer scientists asking for money to invent drugs that cure cancer! Pah! Terrible! It's emotional blackmail, that's what it is.
Still, if you're going to ban scientists from using "curing disease" as a justification then I guess it is pretty hard to justify.
'Of the 80 treatments and cures which have come about from stem cells, all have come from adult stem cells – not embryonic ones.
'On moral and ethical grounds this fails; and on scientific and medical ones too.'
I'm not sure where he got that awfully precise figure of 80 from. But yes, all currently approved stem cell treatments have from adult stem cells… because adult stem research has been going strong for over 30 years while embryonic stem cell research is far more recent and has had a troubled history (especially in America); the first embryonic stem cell treatments are just starting to be tested. If in 5 or 10 years there are still no working embryonic stem cell treatments, then it will be time to look at whether embryo research is the best route to take. Right now, though, it's much too early to say whether this fails scientifically.
* I have very low standards of "terrible" these days, it seems.
How to inflate figures and scandalise people
Posted by atomicspin in Damned lies and statistics, Does not compute, Food is totally science, Health & medicine on Wednesday, 20th July 2011
A number of papers this week (Daily Express*, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, Daily Telegraph, Wales on Sunday) have all carried the same story, claiming that, in the words of the Daily Mail, "NHS officials pay £32 for gluten-free bread that costs £2.25 in the shops".
Though it's not impossible that a big organisation like the NHS has inefficient bread-buying schemes, it seems a bit unlikely that something as widely prescribed as gluten-free bread is being bought for more than 10 times its shelf price. So where did the figures come from?
Well, it looks like the story comes from this Welsh government data about prescriptions. Sure enough, if you look it says that the 27 prescriptions of a particular type of bread, Lifestyle Gluten-Free High-Fibre Brown, cost £32.27 each.** But doctors aren't prescribing one loaf of bread at a time.
The important column is the one marked "quantity", which tells you how many grams of bread were prescribed. For Lifestyle Gluten-Free High-Fibre Brown, doctors prescribed a total of 123,600 grams. Divided between the 27 people, that's 4,577 grams each, or about 11 loaves of bread per person. So that £32.27 figure is the cost of buying 11 loaves of bread, not 1, and as the Welsh government points out, it works out at around £2.82 per loaf. This is still slightly more than the cheapest online cost of the bread, so I assume there is still room to bring prescription costs down, but NHS Wales is certainly not spending more than £30 on a loaf of bread.
* Turns out James Delingpole writes for The Express too. Huh.
** If you want to check for yourself, it's in section G-O under the name "Lifestyle_G/f H/fbre Bread Brown".


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Plus to this there special programs that help small businesses grow such as Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses, a national program available in South Florida. It includes assistance with capital raising, navigating government regulations, and team building.
There's also a special business education program launched at Miami Dade College in 2013 with $5 million in funding from Goldman Sachs. Applicants should own or co-own a business in operation for at least two years, with at least $150,000 in revenues in the most recent fiscal year. Babson College is also involved locally in launching the Women Innovating Now (WIN) Lab, a new Miami accelerator program that aims to help female entrepreneurs start and grow businesses.
A good opportunity to attract attention to your business and to establish new connections is the trade exhibition Small Business Expo, which takes place every year in Miami. It's the nation's largest business-to-business expo, which has made its mission to help small business owners and entrepreneurs achieve their business dreams.
Interesting directions
One good reason for investment is that Florida offers a number of tax advantages for businesses of various sizes, which is very convenient. Income tax for enterprises here is one of the lowest in the country. In addition, the absence of any local or state taxes on the income of individuals reduces the overall cost of labor. By the way, the prices for residential property in Miami are not that high.
Business Finances, IT and Telecommunication field, Films and Media, Logistics, professional services are the favorite business fields in Miami.
The city has taken significant steps to create an IT-cluster, there are quite a lot of startups with interesting ideas. For example, Guide — a special service for converting text to video. Ironhack coding camp is another good example. It was founded in Madrid, Spain, in 2013, and has now expanded to Miami where the company has 9 employees. Nomads, founded in 2011 by a Bosnian immigrant, specializes in building high-scale video platforms.
Miami also has a thriving food and tourism industry. Service industries also remain very attractive. Thanks to the vibrant nightlife of the city, good profits come from a variety of night entertainment and drinking establishments. But restaurants, food delivery services and food trucks are always a good investment. The Wynwood Yard is probably the most famous of Miami's food startups. Created by Della Heiman, Ohio native and Harvard Business School graduate, it is a "culinary incubator" that provides space and support for food entrepreneurs. It has classes and mentoring programs, organic gardens, food trucks and eco-friendly bar.
You could opt for a different path: buying an existing business. You can purchase without any difficulties small cafes and restaurants, shops, gas stations and auto repair shops, hair salons and massage parlors, and hotels.
For example, you can purchase a gas station with a shop on a busy corner and it can bring a profit of around 30% per year.
A franchise is a particularly interesting option for investors who want to start their own business in Miami. During the first five years after opening on the market there are still three times more franchises than other new business projects.
Additionally, to ensure your success the parent company will take care of the equipment, the space you choose, staff training and implementing customer service processes and management, which will be included in the cost of the franchise.
You can open a franchise of some fast food restaurant, for example, the Miami Grill. Founded by a Greek immigrant, that establishment became Miami Subs in 1988 and is still open and operating today.
Another popular area of business in Miami is the management of real estate. Some investors invest in undervalued or run-down property, including unclaimed property mortgaged to banks, and then renovate it and either resell it or rent it out. Others buy a few apartments near the ocean, rent them and manage the property.
Magic city in the sunshine state
There are plenty of good reasons to consider Miami as the location for your new business. And MightyCall is here to help you get your communications needs under control simply and affordably, so you can start generating business and enjoying the Miami heat.so you can start generating business and enjoying the Miami heat.


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The Rise of Corporate VC in Insurtech – Corey Davis
Insurance Technology or InsureTech is the new "it" sector of start-up land. The narrative around InsureTech goes something like this: Insurance is a $4+ Trillion, capital "T", market opportunity whose "incumbents" have yet to offer a compelling digital tool for their insureds. And so it begins.
This dearth of innovation in the insurance industry has brought an abundance of capital to the sector. This is evidenced by both the number of deals and volume of money being thrown at the problem. In 2010, there were just 15 deals with a total value of $44 million. Fast forward 5 years and the number of deals have jumped by a factor of 10 while the dollars invested have swelled to almost $3 billion. According to CB Insights, there were over 80 InsureTech deals in the first half of the year totaling over $1 billion. While this volume may have slowed from 2014 highs (which had a handful of large transactions), the number of deals continues to climb.
Insurance incumbents have not stood idly by as traditional VCs looked for ways to encroach on their territory. A number of the larger, well-known companies set up their own corporate venture capital ("CVC") arms years ago. However, only recently have some of the carriers focused specifically on making "strategic" investments. The large French insurer AXA launched AXA Strategic Ventures in February of last year with €200 million "dedicated to emerging strategic innovations relevant to insurance, asset management, financial technology and healthcare service industries." Aviva launched Aviva Ventures last December committing £20 million per year over five years to "assist Aviva in identifying new commercial opportunities; the development of innovative business models and new digital insurance services and products which make insurance easier for customers". Just last week, XL Catlin stated that "new technologies are…altering distribution channels and buying trends. How the market responds is going to determine the future survival" of the industry. Lastly, two of the largest players in the (re)insurance market, Munich Re and Swiss Re, launched accelerators to address the innovation dilemma.
Ever since Fred Wilson went on his now (in)famous rant(?) about corporate venture capital, there has been a healthy debate as to whether or not CVCs are good for entrepreneurs. For those of you who like to parse words, Fred did say that while corporations "are good at investing in their business…they are not good at making investments." For further clarity, he added that corporations "investing in companies makes no sense." Taking a somewhat less confrontational stance, several VC/PE investors at a financial services conference I attended several weeks ago, suggested CVC's may be "tourists" – i.e. not in it for the long term. This is similar to the incumbents' argument about hedge funds providing (re)insurance capacity.
So who's right? The answer is that it depends. The startup world could effectively be broken down into two groups: (i) disruptors, and (ii) those focused on solving an existing problem. For the disruptors like an Oscar you may not want a CVC as a partner for fear that you are nothing more than outsourced R&D. On the other hand, for start-ups trying to solve a problem like improving distribution for incumbents such as Trōv or PolicyGenius do, CVCs may be the answer. They not only provide valuable industry expertise, but also provide a platform to test the technology and potentially create an instant revenue stream.
CVCs benefit from having access to a huge war chest, especially relative to the capital sought by start-up firms. As a result, their staying power lasts as long as there is a mandate from the corner office to innovate. While "professional" investors may not be tourists, their investing themes change – just ask anyone in the alternative lending space looking for capital.
For the cash strapped entrepreneur, CVCs should not be summarily dismissed. They provide competition to institutional money and an unparalleled level of operating expertise. In the final analysis, the answer doesn't have to be a simple yes or no. Depending on the need (expertise/testing ground/etc.) there is a middle ground. Instead of issuing equity and potential board seats, start-ups could issue warrants, thus, keeping the CVC out of the cap table. As with most things in life, there are pluses and minuses.


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Question No: 31
TheHR user receives the following error while inserting data into the sales table:
On investigation, you find that the users tablespace uses Automatic Segment Space Management (ASSM). It is the default tablespace for the HR user with an unlimited quota on it.
Which two methods would you use to resolve this error?
Altering the data file associated with the USERS tablespace to ex automatically
Adding a data file to the USERS tablespace
Changing segment space management for the USERS tablespace tomanual
Creating a new tablespace with autoextend enabled and changing the default tablespace of the HR user to the new tablespace
Enabling resumable space allocation by setting the RESUMABLE_TIMEOUT parameter to a nonzero value
Answer: A,D
Question No: 32
You are required to migrate your 126.96.36.199 database as a pluggable database (PDB) to a multitenant container database (CDB).
The following are the possible steps to accomplish this task:
Place all the user-defined tablespace in read-only mode on the source database.
Upgrade the source database to a 12c version.
Create a new PDB in the target container database.
Perform a full transportable export on the source database with the VERSION parameter set to 12 using the expdp utility.
Copy the associated data files and export the dump file to the desired location in the target database.
Invoke the DataPump import utility on the new PDB database as a user with the DATAPUMP_IMP_FULL_DATABASE role and specify the full transportable import options.
Synchronize the PDB on the target container database by using the DBMS_PDS.SYNC_ODB function.
Identify thecorrect order of the required steps.
Answer: C Explanation:
Set user tablespaces in the source database to READ ONLY.
From the OracleDatabase 11g Release 2 {188.8.131.52) environment, export the metadata and any data residing in administrative tablespaces from the source database using the FULL=Y and TRANSPORTABLE=ALWAYS parameters. Note that the VER$ION=12 parameter is required only when exporting from an Oracle Database llg Release 2 database:
Copy the tablespace data files from the source system to the destination system. Note that the log file from the export operation will list the data files required to be moved.
Create a COB onthe destination system, including a PDB into which you will import the source database.
In the Oracle Database 12c environment, connect to the pre-created PDB and import the dump file. The act of importing the dump file will plug the tablespace data files into the destination PDB
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Question No: 33
In order to exploit some new storage tiers that have been provisioned by a storage administrator, the partitions of a large heap table must be moved to other tablespaces in your Oracle 12c database?
Both local and global partitioned B-tree Indexes are defined on the table.
A high volume of transactions access the table during the day and a medium volume of transactions access it at night and during weekends.
Minimal disrupt ion to availability is required.
Which three statements aretrue about this requirement?
The partitions can be moved online to new tablespaces.
Global indexes must be rebuilt manually after moving the partitions.
The partitions can be compressed in the same tablespaces.
The partitions can becompressed in the new tablespaces.
Local indexes must be rebuilt manually after moving the partitions.
Answer: A,C,D Explanation:
A: You can create and rebuild indexes online. Therefore, you can update base tables at the same time you are building orrebuilding indexes on that table. You can perform DML operations while the index build is taking place, but DDL operations are not allowed.
Parallel execution is not supported when creating or rebuilding an index online. D: Moving (Rebuilding) Index-Organized Tables
Because index-organized tables are primarily stored in a B-tree index, you can encounter fragmentation as a consequence of incremental updates. However, you can use the ALTER TABLE…MOVE statement to rebuild the index and reduce this fragmentation.
C: If a table can be compressed in the new tablespace, also it can be compressed in the same tablespace.
Not B, not E: Local and Global indexes can be automatically rebuild with UPDATE INDEXES when you move the table.
Question No: 34
Which two actions does an incremental checkpoint perform?
It signals CKPT to write thecheckpoint position to the data file headers.
It writes the checkpoint position to the data file headers.
It advances the checkpoint position in the checkpoint queue.
It writes the checkpoint position to the control file.
Answer: C,D Explanation:
References: http://www.dba-oracle.com/t_incremental_checkpoint.htm
Question No: 35
Identify three benefits of Unified Auditing.
Decreased use of storage to store audit trail rows in the database.
It improves overall auditing performance.
It guarantees zero-loss auditing.
The audit trail cannot be easily modified because it is read-only.
It automaticallyaudits Recovery Manager (RMAN) events.
Answer: A,B,E Explanation:
A: Starting with 12c, Oracle has unified all of the auditing types into one single unit called
Unified auditing. You don't have to turn on or off all of the different auidting types individually and as a matter of fact auditing is enabled by default right out of the box. The AUD$ and FGA$ tables have been replaced with one single audit trail table. All of the audit data is now stored in Secure Files table thus improving the overall management aspects of audit data itself.
B: Further the audit data can also be buffered solving most of the common performance related problems seen on busy environments.
E: Unified Auditing is able to collect audit data for Fine Grained Audit, RMAN, Data Pump, Label Security, Database Vault and Real Application Security operations.
* Benefits of the Unified Audit Trail
The benefits of a unified audit trail are many:
/ (B) Overall auditing performance is greatly improved. The default mode that unified audit works is Queued Write mode. In this mode, the audit records are batched in SGA queue and is persisted in a periodic way. Because the audit records are written to SGA queue, there is a significant performance improvement.
/ The unified auditing functionality is always enabled and does not depend on the initialization parameters that were used in previous releases
/ (A) The audit records, including records from the SYS audit trail, for all the audited components of your Oracle Database installation are placed in one location and in one format, rather than your having to look in different places to find audit trails in varying formats. This consolidated view enables auditors to co-relate audit information from different components. For example, if an erroroccurred during an INSERT statement, standard auditing can indicate the error number and the SQL that was executed. Oracle Database Vault-specific information can indicate whether this error happened because of a command rule violation or realm violation.Note that there will be two audit records with a distinct AUDIT_TYPE. With this unification in place, SYS audit records appear with AUDIT_TYPE set to Standard Audit.
/ The management and security of the audit trail is also improved by having it in singleaudit trail.
/ You can create named audit policies that enable you to audit the supported components listed at the beginning of this section, as well as SYS administrative users. Furthermore,
you can build conditions and exclusions into your policies.
Oracle Database 12c Unified Auditing enables selective and effective auditing inside the Oracle database using policies and conditions. The new policy based syntax simplifies management of auditing within the database and provides the ability to accelerate auditing based on conditions.
The new architecture unifies the existing audit trails into a single audit trail, enabling simplified management and increasing the security of audit data generated by the database.
Question No: 36
Which statement is true about redo log files during instance recovery?
All current, online, and archived redo logs are required to complete instance recovery.
All redo log entries in the current and active logs are applied to data files to reconstruct changes made after the most recent checkpoint.
All redo log entries in the current log are applied to data files until the checkpoint position is reached.
All current, active, and inactive redo logs are required to complete instance recovery.
Answer: C
Question No: 37
Examine the following commands for redefining a table with Virtual Private Database (VPD) policies:
Which two statements are true about redefining the table?
All the triggers for the table aredisabled without changing any of the column names or column types in the table.
The primary key constraint on the EMPLOYEES table is disabled during redefinition.
VPD policies are copied from the original table to the new table during onlineredefinition.
You must copy the VPD policies manually from the original table to the new table during online redefinition.
Answer: B,C Explanation:
C (not D): CONS_VPD_AUTO
Used to indicate to copy VPD policies automatically
/The DBMS_RLS package contains the fine-grained access control administrative interface, which is used to implement Virtual Private Database (VPD).DBMS_RLS is available with the Enterprise Edition only.
CONS_USE_PK and CONS_USE_ROWID are constantsused as input to the quot;options_flagquot; parameter in both the START_REDEF_TABLE Procedure and CAN_REDEF_TABLE Procedure. CONS_USE_ROWID is used to indicate that the redefinition should be done using rowids while CONS_USE_PK implies that the redefinition shouldbe done using primary keys or pseudo-primary keys (which are unique keys with all
component columns having NOT NULL constraints).
To achieve online redefinition, incrementally maintainable local materialized views areused. These logs keep track of the changes to the master tables and are used by the materialized views during refresh synchronization.
START_REDEF_TABLE Procedure
Prior to calling this procedure, you must manually create an empty interim table (in thesame schema as the table to be redefined) with the desired attributes of the post- redefinition table, and then call this procedure to initiate the redefinition.
Question No: 38
You notice a high number of waits for the db file scattered read and db file sequential read events in the recent Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor (ADDM) report. After further investigation, you find that queries are performing too many full table scans and indexes are not being used even though the filter columns are indexed.
Identify three possible reasons for this.
Missing or stale histogram statistics
Undersized shared pool
High clustering factor for the indexes
High value for the DB_FILE_MULTIBLOCK_READ_COUNT parameter
Oversized buffer cache
Answer: A,C,D Explanation:
D:DB_FILE_MULTIBLOCK_READ_COUNT is one of the parameters you can use to minimize I/O during table scans. It specifies the maximum number of blocks read in one I/O operation during a sequential scan. The total number of I/Os needed to perform a full table scan depends on such factors as the size of the table, the multiblock read count, and whether parallel execution is being utilized for the operation.
Question No: 39
Which three statements are true about the working of system privileges in a multitenant control database (CDB)that has pluggable databases (PDBs)?
System privileges apply only to the PDB in which they are used.
Local users cannot use local system privileges on the schema of a common user.
The granter of system privileges must possess the set containerprivilege.
Common users connected to a PDB can exercise privileges across other PDBs.
System privileges with the with grant option container all clause must be granted to a common user before the common user can grant privileges to other users.
Answer: A,C,E Explanation:
A, Not D: In a CDB, PUBLIC is a common role. In a PDB, privileges granted locally to PUBLIC enable all local and common users to exercise these privileges in this PDB only.
C: A user can only perform common operations on a common role, for example, granting privileges commonly to the role, when the following criteria are met:
The user is a common user whose current container is root.
The user has the SET CONTAINER privilege granted commonly, which means that the privilege appliesin all containers.
The user has privilege controlling the ability to perform the specified operation, and this privilege has been granted commonly
Incorrect: Note:
Every privilege and role granted to Oracle-supplied users and roles is granted commonlyexcept for system privileges granted to PUBLIC, which are granted locally.
Question No: 40
Which activity is audited by default and recorded in the operating system audit trail irrespective of whether or not database auditing is enabled?
execution of SQL statements by users connected with the SYSDBA privilege
creation of a fine-grained audit policy
configuration of unified auditing mode
usage of the AUDIT statement
Answer: A
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This week, we turn your attention to the waxing crescent Moon and an enduring mystery that surrounds a unique crater; Aristarchus. About 40 km across, this crater was named after the Greek scientist Aristarchus of Samos by map maker Giovanni Riccioli. This lone crater sits on the Aristarchus plateau amid the Mare Oceanus Procellarum. This crater is near the lunar limb and becomes visible during the early waxing crescent phase, and is markedly brighter than the surrounding lunar plains.
In fact, Aristarchus has an albedo of roughly twice that of ordinary craters, and may be noticeable to a sharply trained eye! The Soviet lunar lander Luna 13 stands as the closest successful landing to the crater, at 275 miles distant. And the mystery you may ask? Well, thats our astro-term of the week: Transient Lunar Phenomena. Over the centuries of men staring at the Moon, anomalous reports of lights, flashes and curious brightenings have dotted observers journals. Aristarchus stands as the most frequent setting for TLPs over the years. These were variously attributed to fires, volcanoes, vegetation, and even intelligence on the Moon; none other than William Herschel believed that our nearest neighbor was inhabited by a race of Moonmen, and almost right up to the Apollo era, no one was truly certain that at least vegetation was absent on the lunar surface. TLPs also make an appearance in Samuel Coleridges Rime of the Ancient Mariner, which also became the subject of what was termed the Coleridge Effect in Richard Baums The Haunted Observatory. An outstanding classic read on this and other astronomical oddities is A Catalog of Astronomical Anomalies by William Corliss. Of course, no moon-men or exotic lunar flora greeted Apollo astronauts; most TLPs have been attributed to observer error or optical illusions. A nagging handful may have been the occasional meteorite impact, or in the case of Aristarchus, an optical illusion coupled with the changing and oblique light angle of a crater near the lunar limb still, its interesting to wonder just what those astronomers of yore might have seen. In 1911, an area just north of the crater on the Aristarchus plateau was analyzed by Robert Wood in the ultraviolet and found to contain a high concentration of sulfur. This patch is occasionally referred to as Woods spot. Even more interestingly, Apollo 15 made a direct pass over the Aristarchus plateau in 1971 and detected a high level of alpha particle emissions, highly suggestive of Radon-222 out-gassing. This was later confirmed by Lunar Prospector. Radon-222 only has a half-life of 3.8 days. Could Aristarchus be geologically active? As the Moon waxes towards first quarter, do give Aristarchus and its surrounding environs a close look!


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EMDR has demonstrated effectiveness in treating chronic PTSD and old trauma memories, yet Early EMDR Intervention (EEI) has received less attention from EMDR researchers or clinicians. EEI may be used to treat acute distress (before trauma memories have been integrated) and provide brief intervention, possibly on successive days, that may prevent complications and strengthen resilience.
The Recent Traumatic Episode Protocol (R-TEP) is part of a comprehensive approach to Early EMDR Intervention (EEI). This workshop incorporates and extends existing protocols within a new conceptual framework, together with additional measures for containment and safety. Checking for sub-clinical sticking points which can obstruct Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) and don't necessarily show up on the DSM radar, the R-TEP may reduce sensitization and accumulation of trauma memories.
The EMDR Group Traumatic Episode Protocol (G-TEP) is a group application of the EMDR Recent-Traumatic Episode Protocol (R-TEP).
This portion of the workshop presents a new practical application with a worksheet format for simplified utilization in emergency situations. The EMDR R-TEP and G-TEP have shown beneficial results in controlled studies conducted by Turkish colleagues working with Syrian refugees.
The R-TEP/G-TEP workshop is taught with video case illustrations, live demonstration and a practicum.
Learning Objectives: This course will provide the practitioner with detailed information regarding the Recent Traumatic Episode Protocol and the Group Traumatic Episode Protocol. Specifically, a professional will:
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|Welsh Dragon? Image: Mercury
Mysterious World
Accounts of fire-breathing dragons stretch far back into ancient Welsh history. King Arthur is said to have fought one from an account from the Historia Brittonum, written around 828 A.D.. Now comes this latest incarnation of a Welsh dragon. A photo taken by Michael McMullin during his early April visit to a beach in Tenbay south Wales shows what looks to be small dragon.
McMullin was taking photos of the shore and only later noticed the image, which oddly resembles the dragon that appears on the national flag of Wales.
|Welsh national flag. Image: Getty
Though the image, as the Daily Sun recounts, is nothing more than a trick of light and shadow, the resemblance to the national flag in a place where dragons are part of the distant past and collective experience and pride of the Welsh people, reminds me of the tales of the Tulpa from Tibetan mysticism.
According to Alexandra David-Néel, tulpas are "magic formations generated by a powerful concentration of thought." It is a materialized thought that has taken physical form and is usually regarded as synonymous to a thoughtform; as described in Wikipedia.
|A trick of light, a thought-form or both? Image: Mercury.
Are we seeing an unconscious national thought projection in McMullins photo? A kind of hologram? The combined unconscious thought of a myth projected into our three dimensional reality?
|Thought-form of the Music of Charles Gounod, according to Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbeater in Thought Forms(1901) Image: Wikipedia.
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A St. Patrick's Day first time romance.
Ladies, take it from me, if you have any sense, do not fall for an Irish guy.
Especially a fiery-tempered, muscular, tattooed, bad boy who grew up on the wrong side of the tracks without a father.
That's Shane.
My Shane.
At least, I hope he becomes mine.
When we were in high school I know he liked me. He was going to ask me to prom. We were destined to be together.
And then everything went wrong.
This town was never kind to outsiders, and an Irish fighter like Shane never stood a chance against the creeps who run things around here.
They weren't about to let him make off with me.
So they almost killed him.
They dropped him at a bus station with a one-way ticket across the country, and I thought I'd never see him again.
Now he's back, and there's going to be trouble. Three years in the military has turned him into a dangerous weapon. And he's going to unleash on St. Patrick's Day and reclaim the woman he was always supposed to have.
The woman who's heart has always been his.
The woman who saved her first time for him.
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You know that moment in a film or on TV when a really intense scene is being played out and the perfect music comes on just as everything kicks off and you can feel the drama prickling at your skin? I often try to replicate this feeling while reading books. When I can tell an intense and dramatic scene is coming up in the story I get my ipod classic out and try and find the right song to capture the mood. It's like heaven when I get it right.
Sail – A favourite for intense scenes.
Listening to music makes my reading experience more cinematic and memorable. I am happy to read in silence and sometimes I prefer to do so, but in general I'm quite an audio driven person so it helps me get immersed in the world of the book when I add music. When I listen to that song again I'll remember that chapter as clear as day. I form close associations between the things I hear and the things I read. I used this as a tool for my exams a few moths ago when I ended up combining music with Shakespeare scenes so I could memorise quotes.
Florence + The Machine
Admittedly I often turn to the same group of artists and songs when I'm constructing a book soundtrack on the fly, which means that my book-music associations are shift-able but it also means they are yo some extent webbed together. For example, the sacrifice made by Character A in Book A becomes connected to the death of Character B in Book B because I associate the same music with both deaths. My favourite go-to artists include the likes of Einaudi, Alex Clare, Florence + The Machine and The XX.
The XX
I love it when authors post their own choice of soundtrack for their books and share the songs they listen to while writing, but I generally look at them after reading their book. My favourite thing about checking out the soundtrack authors select is that I can compare it with my own. Sometimes the vibe they were going for is slightly different from the one I engineered through my choice of music. That difference opens up a new way to interpret the book. For example, they may have chosen music from the period they set the book in while I listened to modern music. They may have chosen a big orchestral track for that epic battle scene but I may have chosen a rock song. This subtle difference in interpretation reminds me that there are many potential aural manifestations of 'epic'. It also brings up the topic of how the writer intended the scene to come across while writing it versus how I chose to interpret it while reading it.
Alex Clare
i also like to compare between different readers' soundtracks. I definitely think an interesting discussion could come out of comparing people's personal book soundtracks. We could even compare which sections people chose to back with music and which they were happy to read in silence. As I said earlier, when a scene feels like it's getting intense from my perspective I get the music out, but other people may have different triggers for what let's them know a scene they are going to really want to get immersed in is coming up. Using the 'epic battle' scenario again: Person A may love battle scenes and want to be immersed in the moment so they find a tune, Person B may not be very interested in battle scenes and just want to skim through it and get to the next section of the book so they won't bother with finding some music to go with the moment.
I imagine a lot of careful planning goes into creating the soundtracks used in films and on TV. Where music is placed and the tone it creates are important to how the overall product works. The people that work on films try to choose how you feel and interpret a scene at each given moment through audio elements as much as they do through visual elements. My favourite film for using music at the moment is The Great Gatsby. With books you get to make those decisions for yourself. I love having that freedom because it let's you interact with the book at a creative level on your own terms.


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Back in April of 2014, the first of the H.P.O.'s candidates for music director conducted an awesome performance of Saint-Saëns violin concerto and Beethoven's Pastorale 6th symphony. Her post-concert answers and rationales to queries by yours truly were succinct and coherent. To say that we were impressed would be an understatement and a subtle hint of our selection choice was hidden within the column. We're pleased that she was selected and join the rest of the Hamilton community in welcoming her. Last evening's concert highlighted contemporary (sort of) Russian composers.
The program under Gemma New opened with a modern composition by Kelly-Marie Murphy entitled 'A Thousand Natural Shocks'. Introduced with a dynamic percussion trio and the orchestra effectively enhanced with the woeful sound of conchs, this creation seems perfect for a theme and plot background during any episode of 'Hawaii 5-0'. Under New's rendering, this scribe kept recalling those early demonstrator records that enabled possessors of innovative stereophonic sound equipment to show off. I nearly wore out the 'Aloha Oe'; "Miserlou" & "Whatever Lola Wants" tracks on my own copy of Persuasive Percussion, Vol 1.
The guest soloist was Katherine Chi performing Prokofiev's piano concerto No. 3. Considered the most popular of his five concerti, it is not one of this scribe's favorites but as an exhibition of technical challenge that demands much of both soloist and conductor; the piece serves a purpose. Chi was technically perfect; her tempi changes were smooth and effortless and was textbook andante. This work's 2nd movement is entitled 'tema on varazioni' or cadence variations and she again changed gears like a Ferrari. This was a methodical interpretation that was totally disciplined. Her allegro finale displayed more emotion than scrutinization of the composition. The metronomic cadence was so hypnotic that the audience could notice the percussionists using their sticks to mirror the conductor. Somehow, Miss Chi failed to raise any of those reliable hackles on neck or arm-hairs that denote an emotional response from writer.
The major work of the evening was Shostakovich's Symphony no. 1. This somewhat short (½ hr.) piece is in three distinct movements and was originally composed as the teenaged prodigy's graduation exercise. Shostakovich underwent a love/hated relationship with the Russian establishment. Received awards; then criticized as vulgar and banished from opportunities. Fortunately, no executions like many of his associates and family. This selection was a showpiece for the H.P.O's musicians and its neoteric conductor.
The opening allegretto (with the famous flute solo backed by pizzicato celli & bass) afforded the conversant audience members to discern maestress New's style and conducting personality. She is NOT a Muti or Von Karajan but is definitely in charge. One easily recognizes that there is already a consensus of interpreting and performing. The 2nd movement allegro displays the percussion section; winds as well as piano and triangle proffering the motive.
During the multi-tempo'ed finale there is a solo performed by the concertmaster and Steven Sitarski drew out every scintilla of melodic phrase for which the piece is famous. His accentuation was contributed by the 2nd violins and muted cellos.
Milady is off to a strong and impressive start. We may have to share her with New Jersey; Maryland and Los Angeles, but this paper hopes that she makes Hamilton her 'home base'.


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For those living in South Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore, you would most probably have seen people carry the LG G Flex around already, which so happens to be the first smartphone in the world that was specially designed for it to follow the curve of the human face. Hmmm, this certainly brings back memories of the Nokia handset that Neo used in the Matrix, where it had a curved bottom, no? The Banana Phone, if I am not mistaken. Well, this just goes to prove how fashion recycles trends from before, although the LG G Flex is light years ahead of Nokia's archaic device in terms of hardware technology. We now have word that LG is preparing to roll out the LG G Flex to over 20 countries in Europe soon.
Among the major European markets where you will find the LG G Flex, they would include the U.K., Germany, France, Italy, Sweden and Austria, among others. This is a surefire way of attracting attention, as the LG G Flex sports a 6″ display that relies on Plastic OLED (P-OLED) technology, and it will also make use of the world's first curved battery. Apart from that, there is another feather in its distinguished crown, that is, this is the first handset that boasts of a self-healing coating on the back cover. This means you need not worry yourself sick too much about minor scratches and nicks happening, as just like Wolverine's body, it ought to shrug off such scratches without batting an eyelid.
Other hardware specifications of the LG G Flex include a quad-core 2.26GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 (MSM 8974) processor with an Adreno 330 450MHz GPU, a 1280 x 720 resolution 6″ curved P-OLED (Real RGB) display, 2GB RAM, 32GB of internal memory, a 13MP shooter at the back with a front-facing 2.1MP camera, a 3,500mAh battery, and Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean as the mobile operating system of choice. Connectivity options include Bluetooth 4.0 and WiFi (802.11 a/b/g/n/ac) alongside NFC support.
Press Release
[ LG G Flex to arrive in Europe soon copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]


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The Moto Guzzi custom bike MGR 1200 is a real eye-catcher: created by German customizer Radical Guzzi for Essenza Sprint and Design challenge, the MGR 1200 already made it 3rd winner on the legendary Glemseck 101 race track at 1° Essenza sprint race.
Engineer Stefan Bronold and designer Kai Riemann have a greater aspiration for their Moto Guzzi MGR 1200 project than to just get an amazing custombike onto the road. The MGR 1200 shows how legendary and timeless Moto Guzzi technology gets optimized with high-tech components to form a coherent and contemporary whole.
On Saturday October 8th 2016 during Intermot Customized event the 16 bikes of the Essenza project will have their second sprint competition. Exciting races and breathtaking sound will be guaranteed during the event on the Kölnmesse fair ground.
Hurry up: vote for the MGR 1200 now and make Moto Guzzi win the Essenza design challenge. The voting closes on 4th of October.
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You no doubt work hard to build credibility, awareness, authority and to make sales on your chosen social media platforms, however to succeed you need to identify the best social media investments for the highest "Return on Investment" (ROI) for your business.
Unlike many ROI measurements with social media you need to realize that you cannot use profits to judge and measure ROI of social media. Why? Simply because people aren't on social media to make purchases, they are there to be social. Instead, you need to look at engagement, traffic referrals, reach and influence.
You can't base return on investment on income or profit when it comes to social media. Instead, look at engagement, see how many times people are clicking through on the links you share, and how far your social media posts are reaching. Are they shared a lot? What happens when they share your posts? Are they liked a lot? What impact are your posts having are they increasing your influence in the eyes of your audience.
There is no way you can be on all social media platforms without hiring a large team of people to get all the work done. So if you're doing this alone, you will need to choose. The best way to do this is to choose the top three networks for your niche and focus only on those. In fact, three is perhaps too many… I'm a firm believer in working one or perhaps two social media platforms exceptionally well, rather than more than this average or poorly.
Each network has its own issues and problems when it comes to using it to promote your business. The best thing to do is to learn all you can about each platform. Conduct searches to find your audience, try to determine how many of your audience are there, and how friendly the network is to use.
This is the most important factor of all before choosing which social media platform to place your focus on. Is your target audience there? Are they there in large enough numbers for the work you have to do to matter? It all depends on your particular niche. For example, if you're an accountant, it's hard to imagine Instagram working out for you, but easy to see how LinkedIn may. Oh and everyone should be on Twitter, that is a given in my opinion.
If you're not going to outsource, the time investment is an important part of the equation of choosing which social media offers the best ROI. If you focus on three networks, it's going to take a lot of time to affect any sort of movement at all. Do you have that kind of time?
Even if you don't outsource, you'll have expenses if you want to use social media marketing fully. You might want to run advertisements, you may also need to pay someone to help you, such as a social media marketing firm. You might need specialist social media tools which save you lots of time but they come at a price.
If you are time poor and don't want to outsource your social media, they are ways to automate many social media tasks. For example, I run my own social media accounts, if your look on my Twitter account you will see that it is extremely popular and that content is constantly being shared, liked and commented upon. Further … every new follower is sent a message helping me to boast engagement. Different platforms allow for different levels of automation, take this into account.
Once you've chosen a social media platform (or two) to work with based on the information you've gathered, you'll need to give it time. Social media marketing will not deliver results overnight; it is a long-term marketing strategy. You can boost the results by running ads, but getting engagement and activity on the platform could take more than 90 days.
Once you've run social media campaigns over 90 to 120 days, take a look at your numbers to see if you're seeing movement. If you are, keep it up for at least a full year. The trick is to have a plan of action going in, and then sticking with it for the long term in order to see the full return on investment you can have marketing on social media.


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Chikballapur district is a newly created district in the state of Karnataka, India. It was carved out of the existing Kolar district by moving the taluks of Gauribidanur, Gudibanda, Bagepalli, Chikballapur, Sidlaghatta and Chintamani into the new district.
Chikballapur is the District Headquarters of the newly created (2007 August) District of Chikballapur. The town is approximately 50 km (31 mi) north of Bangalore, the silicon plateau of India. The north-south National Highway NH 7 goes through the town. The town contains a bus headquarters, train station, and is the origin of several national Highways. As a result, it is a key transport link in North Bangalore. The town is within 3 km (1.9 mi) of Muddenahalli (the birthplace of eminent engineer and statesman Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya) and its nearby town, Kanivenarayanapura, the sites of the upcoming Sri Sathya Sai Baba University and College of Medicine, IIT Muddenhalli, 600 crore Visvesvaraya Institute of Advanced Technology, the 3500 crore Olympic Quality "Sports Village", 200-acre (0.81 km2) Special Economic Zone comprising commercial and residential zones, and a 70 crore "Silk City". As a result of this rapid development, land prices in this area are at an all time high, hovering well over 2 crores per acre.
The name
In the regional language, Kannada, the city is pronounced Chikkaballapura. "Chikka" in Kannada means "small", while "balla" means the measure to quantify food grains, and "pura" means "town". Thus, its a place where people used to use small measures to quantify the food grains in ancient times. The place has always been known as an agricultural center for the region.
The ruler of Avathi Mallabiregowda's daughter Marigowda was hunting one day in Kodimanchanahalli forest. A rabbit stood in front of the fierce hunting dogs without fear. Seeing this, ruler was elated and told his son that the strength of the rabbit is due to the valor of the region's citizenry. As such the ruler took permission from King of Vijaynagar and built an elaborate fort and formed a city which is now known as Chikballapur. Baichegowda, King of Mysore later attacked the fort but had to withdraw due to the valiant efforts of the Chikballapur citizenry and aid from the Marathas. Sri Dodda Byregowda who came to power after Baichegowda acquired the land, which was taken by Mysore king. In 1762 during the ruling of Chikkappanayaka, Hyder Ali captured the town for a period of 3 months. Then Chikkappanayaka agreed to pay 5-lakhs pagodas, and then the army was taken back.
After this, Chikkappa Nayaka with the help of Murariraya of Guthy tried to restore his powers. He was hiding at Nandi Hills along with Chikkappa Nayaka. Immediately, Hyder Ali acquired Chickballapur and other places and arrested Chikkappa Nayaka. Then with interfere of Lord Corn Wallis, Chikballapur was handed over to Narayanagowda. After knowing this, Tippu Sultan again acquired Chikballapur. In 1791 British occupied Nandi & left Narayanagowda to rule the town. Due to this trechery, a fight broke out between the Britishers and Tippu Sultan. Narayanagowda lost his administration. Later, the British defeated Tippu in a bitter battle which led to tremendous loss of life on both sides. The citizens of Chikballapur, however, refused to be subjugated and maintained their warrior pride. Chikballapur later came under the administration of Wodeyars of Mysore, who later merged with the present state of Karnataka.
Geography and Transportation
The town of Chickballapur is approximately 56 km north of Bengaluru (formerly Bangalore), the silicon plateau of India. Chikballapur has a high elevation located in the center of the Nandi Hills region. "Panchagiri" is a common descriptor of Chikballapur as it is surrounded by 5 picturesque hills among which Nandi Hills is the famous one (The five hills are known as Nandi Giri, Chandra Giri, Skandagiri, Brahma Giri, and Hema Giri). The Kalavara Halli hill Kalavaara betta, is becoming famous because of the trecking involved to reach the top of the hill. The north-south Six-lane National Highway NH-7 as well as the East-West State Highway 58 goes through the city. The city is also a transportation hub comprising a new major bus terminus and train station headquarters. It is well connected to important towns by the state run buses as well as private taxis and autos. The nearest airport is at Bengaluru International Airport at a distance of 20 kilometers.
Places to visit
Nandi Hills is situated nearby and within the jurisdiction of Chickballapur taluk. The nearby region of Muddenahalli-Kanivenarayanapura is the birthplace of legendary engineer Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya). Many historic temples are situated in and near Chikballapur. There are several reputed educational institutions situated in the region. SJCIT is a famous engineering institute established in 1986 and imparts degree and graduate education. Sri Bhagavan Sathya Sai Baba's school, university, and hospital are about 3 km from Chickballapur. Chickballpur has a small, pristine lake called Kandavara Lake.
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Sleeps 6
Bedrooms 3
Bathrooms 2
Pets Yes
- Off road parking
- Open fire
- Smoke-free
- Garden / Patio
- Cot available
- Highchair available
- Washing machine
- Seaside
- Broadband / WiFi
The property
The sensational coastal views from this adorable cottage will linger in the memory.
Occupying prime position above the turquoise waters of the harbour, Kerbenetty (previously known as Harbour Cottage) could hardly be closer to the sea.
Few experiences are more pleasurable than sitting on the wide sun terrace that runs with width of the cottage and watching the activity of the harbour below, be it crashing with waves or still as a mill pond.
Children will love to play in the sheltered cove which has a small sandy beach and rock pools at low tide creating a natural playground for swimmers and snorkelers.
Portloe sits on the eastern side of the Roseland Peninsula; with a Mediterranean feel there are pretty coves, quiet sandy beaches and hidden creeks to explore.
Flip flops and walking boots are essential. Visitors to Kerbenetty will be transported back in time in this pretty fishing village where the landscape (and probably some of the residents) have hardly changed over the years.
Once a busy fishing port and smugglers haunt, the village is now a favourite with film and television producers.
Working fishing boats still depart daily to catch crab and lobster which are served at the upmarket Lugger Hotel (with restaurant and a spa) at the top of the slip, providing the perfect alternative to barbecuing on the terrace.
There is also a pub in the village offering good local fayre whilst basic provisions can be bought at the nearby Veryan Stores. Inside the cottage offers accommodation with a chic nautical feel and there are incredible sea views from every room.
The stylish sitting room is snug but all three first floor bedrooms are spacious and flooded with sunlight.
Pretty fabrics and period pieces blend effortlessly throughout.
Over two floors. Three bedrooms: 1 x double with en-suite bathroom with bath, shower over, basin and WC. 1 x double. 1 x twin. Bathroom with bath, shower over, basin and WC. Sitting room with wood burner, dining room, kitchen.
- Electric heating with wood burning stove
- Electric oven and hob, microwave, fridge, freezer, washing machine, TV with Freeview, DVD, WiFi, iPod dock
- Fuel and power inc. in rent
- Bed linen and towels inc. in rent
- Cot and highchair provided
- Off road parking for two cars
- Garage for bike storage
- Garden with patio, furniture and BBQ
- Two dogs welcome at £15 each per week
- Sorry, no smoking
- Harbour beach 1 min walk
- Pub 1 min walk
- Note: the unique setting and position of this property mean that children should be supervised
- Note: As a traditional Cornish cottage, this property has internal steps throughout and the stairs are steeper than those found in a more modern property
- A handrail is fitted to one side.Note: There is a good housekeeping bond of £100 on booking this property
Note: This property has a Good Housekeeping bond of £100.
About the location
Truro 12 miles; St. Austell 13 miles; Newquay 20 miles
Often described as 'the jewel in the crown of the Roseland Peninsula', and rightfully so. Portloe is a very pretty, picturesque coastal village well-known for its fishing and walking opportunities. It boasts a delightful harbour with 3 working boats that go out to catch crab and lobster. Portloe was the filming location for a number of different films and TV series in the 20th century including the comedy series 'Wild West', featuring Dawn French and Catherine Tate. It is a small village with not much in terms of amenities, however it does have a very highly-rated food pub as well as a the Lugger Hotel with similarly positive reviews. Portloe proves itself to be a fantastic base for exploring some of Cornwall's most beautiful places. Truro, St. Austell and Newquay are all within easy reach, all with a fantastic choice of amenities and things to do. All three are well worth the visit whilst you're in this part of the country.
Note: the unique setting and position of this property mean that children should be supervised. Note: Check in time for this property is 4pm
Note: As a traditional Cornish cottage, this property has internal steps throughout and the stairs are steeper than those found in a more modern property. A handrail is fitted to one side.
Note: There is a £100 good housekeeping bond on booking this property.


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Hello and welcome to the Trunk kitchen. This part of the website was born when me and Derek got pissed on a Thursday or, for true Trunk fans - by a Thursday. We got a bit bored with the original 'Trash' section so we decided on cooking - after all sex, food and music do go very well together, which ever room of the house you may be in. Well it seemed a good idea at the time. First it was going to be the trunk cooking section, but then kitchen is a better word. This is an area of the site we would like you to help us with too. If you have any cooking vinyl, good recipes, amazing foody pictures and of course shockingly bad (normally just post war) recipes or better still, photos, please email them. As with any normal kitchen, it has cupboards to open.
Thanks to Lilla for this picture.


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Ex-IMF head Rato in preliminary corruption probe
[MADRID] The home and office of former International Monetary Fund chief Rodrigo Rato were searched on Thursday as part of a tax and money laundering investigation into his personal wealth, Spanish judicial officials said.
Earlier, cameras showed Rato, a former Spanish economy minister, wearing a suit without a tie and being escorted from his home by police and tax officials amid heavy media presence.
He was later released after cooperating with authorities who seized documents relevant to the investigation, a judicial source said.
Rato was quoted by news agency EFE as saying he had"confidence in Spain's judicial system" and had been helpful to officials who carried out the search.
Judicial officials will now decide on the basis of those documents whether suspicions of money laundering, fraud and asset stripping have any legal basis, the judicial source said.
They will then decide whether or not to name a magistrate to open formal proceedings against him.
Rato's lawyers, Oliva-Ayala, confirmed they represent him but could not immediately comment, while several calls and an email seeking comment from someone who has acted on his behalf in the past were not returned.
Spain's state prosecutor had requested a search of Rato's home as part of an investigation focused on the former IMF managing director as well as "other people", according to a brief court statement in which further details were not provided.
Rato is a former Spanish deputy prime minister who was long a leading light of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's centre-right Popular Party (PP) before being implicated in two other judicial cases.
Magistrates are investigating the alleged widespread misuse of company credit cards for personal expenses during Rato's tenure as chairman of the bailed-out Bankia.
Rato is also one of several former managers under investigation for fraud as courts separately decide whether Bankia's 2011 stock market flotation was flawed. He denies wrongdoing in both cases.
Spain holds regional and local elections next month and a general election towards the end of the year in which the PP is expected to suffer heavy losses because of the implication of big party names in graft investigations in recent years.
Coming at a time in which unemployment affects almost one in four and most ordinary Spaniards are poorer than before an economic downturn six years ago, graft cases cause particular public outrage.
Opinion polls consistently show corruption is among Spanish voters' top concerns, and discontent with the political class has fostered the rise of two new parties, Podemos and Ciudadanos, which are predicted to win significant voter support this year.
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