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Last Sunday, the series "Walking Dead" returned on TV for its second season. The start off extended episode proved to remain true to the essence of the show, even though its original creator, Frank Darabont, left at the beginning of this year. Season two starts off with the disappearance of Carol's daughter, Sophia, and the tragic death of Rick's son, Carl.
The show co-produced by Robert Kirkman and based of his comic books, has its second season ran by Glen Mazarra who promised the fans that this change wont stir the show away from its true spirit.
The opening scene presents Rick's announcement to leave Atlanta alongside the other survivors and head to Ft. Benning, hoping as such to put the recent CDC experience behind them. He comes close to actually revealing what Jenner had whispered to him in the last episode of the previous season. The caravan, having Rick driving Lori, Carl, Carol and Sophia and Dale – Andrea and Shane, comes to a halt when it reaches a section of the road overtaken by abandoned cars.
A blown up RV hose forces the group to stop in plain sight. Dale gives Glenn a mechanics lesson while the others look around for anything useful: clothes, food, water, fuel. Doesn't take long before the walkers arrive driving them inside the vehicles for shelter. Andrea is the only one hiding alone in the RV and finds refuge in the bathroom, where she is cornered by one of the walkers who starts clawing manically at the door. Andrea saves herself at the aid of a screwdriver passed over by Dale through the RV roof top which she uses to stab the walker repeatedly.
T-Dog is almost caught as well, but manages to escape the walker attacks when he hides under some corpses. Sophia gets in trouble as well when she rushes out of her hiding place too fast and attracts the attention of a walker. She starts running through the woods when Rick catches up with her, finds a hiding place and advises her to stay hidden while he gets the walkers away then run back the way they came. Even though she appears to be listening immediately after Rick is gone she stands up and runs away.
Neither Dale, not Rick manage to find the girl and return to camp empty handed, planning to go on a more organized search at dawn. The following morning they find a tent with a body in it, then hear church bells ringing. The sound turns out to be a mere recording and Sophia is still nowhere to be found.
Daryl takes the others back to camp, while Rick, Shane and Carl stay back to continue the search. They find a deer in the woods which Carl approaches quietly when a shot comes out of nowhere and takes out both the deer and Carl, in front of his father's desperate yet powerless eyes.


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Access your documents from Google's cloud storage service
Google Drive is a useful option if you want a centralized place to store, access and manage your files from anywhere.
What you can do with Google Drive
Just like services such as Dropbox and OneDrive, Google Drive gives you free space to store your files in the Cloud (15GB at the time of writing). You can pay to get even more online storage through the service.
This official mobile app makes it easy to manage anything you've stored on Google Drive from your device. You can browse all the files and folders you have in your Google Drive through one interface. Files can be sent, moved, downloaded, renamed, or printed through the Google Drive app.
If you have documents stored in Google Docs format, you can open and view them through Google Drive. You can no longer create and edit documents within the app though, so for this you'll need the indivudal Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides applications installed. Likewise, if you want to view documents in Microsoft Office format, you do this through these apps.
Browsing your files
The interface of the Google Drive app is simple enough to navigate. There are options in the pop-out menu to view your entire drive or filter by incoming, starred, recent, or files stored on your device. The upload tool makes it very easy to get files from your device onto Google Drive.
Google Drive is great for browsing images. You can load them up them in thumbnail format then tap to open, before swiping through them at your leisure. Tap the info icon and you'll be able to share, send, star, download or rename the image.
It would be great to have Google Drive automatically back up photos you take on your device to the service, but unfortunately this isn't an option at the moment.
Another area where Google Drive could be improved is when it comes to batch operations. When moving files around or renaming a set of images, for example, you need to perform the operation manually for each file. There's no option to select multiple files, which gets tedious when you want to perform operations with lots of files.
Take it for a drive
Google Drive is one of the best online drives out there, and anyone with a Google account should take advantage of it. You can lament the fact that editing files can't be done within the app itself, but it's still a great service with an easy-to-use app.
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The Supreme Court likely won't take up a case challenging the constitutionality of the health care bill until next year, but legal experts are already beginning to ponder the key questions that will be addressed by the legions of lawyers and clerks as well as the justices who will ultimately decide whether or not the law stands.
The most central of these inquiries is whether the "individual mandate" — the federal requirement that most Americans buy health insurance or pay a penalty — is constitutional.
At a hearing Wednesday, a panel of law professors and attorneys discussed those constitutional issues before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The six who testified have attended and taught at some of the nation's preeminent law schools and have argued a total of more than 50 cases before the Supreme Court.
Here's what some lawyers, judges and lawmakers on both sides of the issue have said this week about some of the basic questions surrounding the constitutionality of the law:
The government can compel me to take actions like paying taxes or serving in the military. So does it also have the power to force me to have insurance?
The case for "yes":Article I of the Constitution lays out the "enumerated powers," a grant of specific authorities to Congress.
One of the "enumerated powers" is Congress' ability "to regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes."
Harvard law professor Charles Fried, who served as Solicitor General under President Ronald Reagan, says the "commerce clause" clearly applies to the health care insurance market.
"Health care insurance surely is commerce, insuring as it does something like 18 percent of the gross national product," he said. "Now if that's so, if health care insurance is commerce, then does Congress have the right to regulate health care insurance? Of course it does."
Duke University law professor Walter Dellinger, a former acting solicitor general who believes the health care law is constitutional,adds that the unpredictability of when or if a citizen will need health care makes the insurance market different than markets for other products.
An uninsured person who is unexpectedly rushed to the emergency room could benefit from millions of dollars worth of medical care, and those costs are passed along to others in the system. He argues that the transferability of those costs justify the government's authority to regulate the insurance market.
"If my team makes the Super Bowl and I haven't thought that they would and haven't provided for a flat-screen television, I can't show up [at a store] and have someone provide it to me," Dellinger said. "But with health care, no one can be assured they won't need it. And when they do it, it is often the case that the cost is transferred to other people."
The case for "no" : Among the enumerated powers are Congress' abilities to collect "taxes, duties, imports, and excises" and to raise armies. Those constitutional powers are what make federal taxes and the draft constitutional.
Civil responsibilities like those — and like filling out a census form or doing jury duty — are "inherent in being a citizen of the United States, each is necessary for the operation of the government itself, and each has traditionally been recognized," argues Georgetown Law Center Prof. Randy Barnett.
But buying health insurance, he says, is none of those things. And forcing citizens to buy a product isn't covered in the "enumerated powers" list at all.
"The [individual] mandate's defenders claim that because Congress has the power to draft you into the military, it has the power to make you do anything less than that, including mandating that you send your money to a private company and do business with it for the rest of your life," he said. "This simply does not follow. The greater power does not include the lesser."
Michael Carvin, a partner at Jones Day, also argues that — while the "commerce clause" of the Constitution allows the federal government to regulate commercial activity, it doesn't say anything about inactivity — the act of NOT buying insurance.
"Sitting at home and staying out of the commercial marketplace is not commerce," Carvin says. "It only becomes commerce if you leave your house and decide to buy or sell goods and services."
In other words, a young person who is healthy and doesn't have health insurance isn't affecting the national health care insurance market at all, Carvin says. So the federal government has no right to force that person to buy insurance.
OK, but it's legal to make me buy car insurance. So is it legal to make me buy health insurance?
The case for "yes" : If you're going to drive a car, there's no way to predict for sure that you'll never be in an accident. The state makes you buy car insurance to protect other people whose property or person you might hurt in a wreck.
Similarly, there's no way to predict that a living human being won't get sick or injured.
Dellinger says: "If you're going to drive, the states say you have to have liability insurance. And [the health care law] says if you're going to use health care, you need to have health care insurance. And since this is a product which everyone will use, or at least no one can be assured that they won't wind up at the hospital, in that sense it seems quite similar."
The case for "no": First, states – not the federal government — have the power to regulate vehicle insurance. But you're only required to buy car insurance if you buy and use a car. As Barnett says,"It's absolutely garden-variety regulation … to tell a citizen that if you're going to do something, here's how you have to do it. That's just something that the government does."
But the difference between car and health insurance, Barnett says, is that no one forces you to have car insurance unless you drive. Making a car owner purchase car insurance is "a fundamentally different proposition" than telling a citizen to buy health insurance simply because that citizen is alive and could one day become sick, he says.
Again, it's the difference between activity (starting a small business that's subject to federal regulation or buying a car that's subject to liability insurance requirements) and inactivity.
If the federal government can force me to buy health insurance, does that mean it can also make me eat healthy foods or go to the gym?
The case for "no" : Dellinger and Fried argue that the "liberty clause" (the part of the Fourteenth Amendment that prohibits government from depriving "any person of life, liberty, or property" without due process) would prohibit the government from forcing Americans to engage in a particular behavior like attending the gym or eating broccoli.
But it's still constitutional for the federal government to require that citizens buy insurance, he says, because the insurance market is governed by the commerce clause.
The case for "yes" : Judge Roger Vinson, the federal judge in Florida who struck down the health care law as unconstitutional earlier this week, wrote in his opinion that the health care market is not so "unique" that it should be viewed as fundamentally different from other markets, like the ones for food or clothes or other goods.
Everyone has to eat, he points out, and Supreme Court precedent has established that the food market is governed by the "commerce clause."
So, under the logic of an individual mandate being legal, "Congress could require that people buy and consume broccoli at regular intervals, not only because the required purchases will positively impact interstate commerce, but also because people who eat healthier tend to be healthier, and are thus more productive and put less of a strain on the health care system."
Would voiding the health care law be "judicial activism"?
The case for "yes." Sen. Dick Durbin, the Democrat (and Georgetown University law grad) who chaired the hearing, argues that the judges who have struck down the health care law are "activists" because they've used a line of reasoning that doesn't appear in any previous Supreme Court cases. He says that Judge Roger Vinson's distinction between the act of buying health insurance and the act of failing to buy health insurance is unprecedented.
"Sometimes lower court judges — many might be characterized as activists by their critics — try to make new law. And this has happened in Florida and Virginia as judges, I believe, have ignored the precedents and created a new legal test distinguishing activity from inactivity — a distinction that can't be found anywhere in the Constitution or Supreme Court precedent."
The case for "no." Taken literally, any time a judge or the justices strike down a law passed by Congress or by a state legislature, it is described as "judicial activism," as opposed to judicial passivism or judicial self-restraint.
But Carvin says that judicial activism really should be defined as a court's taking of the merits of a policy into account rather than the constitutionality of the law. "It's unfair to label activities which strike down laws as unfair judicial activism," he says. "Judicial activism, to me, is striking down a law that is constitutional because you think it's a bad policy."
"No one … is going to tell you it would be judicial activism that strikes down a law that denies women the vote, because we can all look at the Constitution and realize that that's blatantly unconstitutional," he added.


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I put together the top five reasons why facebook seems dull, come lately.
I have been on facebook since April 2005, going on five years now. Back then, in a simpler time, the site was only for college students. No quizzes. No lists. Just the facts. An Atari version of what we now know facebook to be.
And it was fine except for one thing: I could only be friends with people from college. No family. No friends that weren't currently enrolled in a college. I wanted more "friends". I wanted to catch up with the cast of characters that made up my entire life. I wanted to collect them.
So as facebook grew from a dorm room project into a million dollar operation and then to a billion dollar business, I got my wish. Plenty of "friends". Not restricted to colleges.
Since 2005, I have watched facebook defeat Myspace in a tortoise versus the hare race, turning Myspace into nothing more than a creepy old house that no one wants to go inside of anymore. Facebook has for all practical purposes become the new e-mail, the new photo album, and the new substitute to actually calling people on the phone.
Facebook is the undisputed champion. Yet a few nights ago one of my actual real life friends asked in a status update on facebook if he was the only person that thought the site seems like it's getting dull.
I agree with him. But here's the thing. It's not really facebook's fault. Part of it is us and part of it is our "friends". Sort of like a middle school talent show. I can't blame the school if the entertainment itself isn't good. Sometimes there are more baton twirlers than garage rock bands.
I have compiled the top five reasons why facebook seems dull, come lately:
1) Random friends we barely remember from grade school aren't quite as interesting as we gave them credit for in our nostalgic minds. They grew up. They have families. And we've got nothing to say to them. Because everything we would want to know is there on the info tab on their profile.
2) Those same random people tend to be the ones who constantly do those annoying quizzes and games. Yes, I do hide the quizzes and games on my Live Feed. And yes, I could just delete those people altogether. But I don't. Somehow I would feel guilty. Their only crime was making me look at the new pig they got for their farm.
3) The Status Update option causes many people to think that the rest of the world sees them as a celebrity. There are enough reality shows that we are ashamedly addicted to. We don't need another one that tells us when our lab partner from our 9th grade science class is making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Or that it made him thirsty. And we definitely don't need him doing the most cliché thing on facebook status updates: On Monday, saying, "Ugh, I hate Mondays. On Wednesday, "Hey ya'll, it's Hump Day!" And Friday, "TGIF". Sunday night, "Ugh, it's almost Monday again." Thanks Sir Idiot, that really added a lot of value to my life.
4) Just like Wikipedia and YouTube, we eventually milk facebook for all its worth. There's nothing like those first three fascinating months of using facebook. But after reading the profiles and seeing the pictures of everyone we actually care about, the only thing really left to do is come back in a few weeks when they all have new pictures and info.
5) The friends we regularly communicate with on facebook are coincidently our real life friends anyway. Sometimes it's actually easier just to send a facebook message than to send a text or find a convenient time to call. We get distracted by all our facebook friends and their shenanigans but ultimately it comes down to the true core of why we like facebook in the first places. Our actual friends and family.
Like boy bands, social networking websites have an average lifespan of five years. But I see facebook as the exception. After all, facebook gives us the creative control to hide, delete, and regulate the content we see in front of us. For us all to abandon facebook the way we did Myspace, it would take a social networking website that is substantially better than everything facebook currently is and offers.
And I know for me, it took almost five years to get nearly 700 "friends". I'd hate to start that process all over again.


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Are you in a mood to party? Well, if so then Simran Keyz has hit the right notes with her latest desi pop fusion.
Well, after hearing this mashup, you will forget Vidya Vox, the popular YouTube sensation. This mashup video has 3 mind-blowing songs clubbed, "Cheap Thrills", "Attention" and "Gabru".
The Punjabi tadka which she has added with her voice will woo your hearts for sure. Gabru and Cheap thrills are already on the hit list & now that they are joined together, I am sure you can't stop partying.
This mashup song has been shot in picturesque locations of Bangkok. I bet you will watch this video on repeat mode; in fact, when you listen to this, you will keep grooving.
This female version of Lagdi Punjaban has already been added to my playlist. Do you want to hear it too?
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Thorian is a character from The Shadow Raven, a member of the Roenoran council and a friend of Nissa's and Detren's. He's also kind of a flirt and may or may not have something of a shady backstory. Continue reading "Character Interview: Thorian Sedona"
Category: Character Interviews
Character Interview: Solem Anders
Solem Anders is the main character of my short story collection The Mirror-Hunter Chronicles, which I describe as Disney meets A Series of Unfortunate Events, which I plan to publish a week from today. (But so far my plans haven't gone according to plan, so we'll see.) The first story can be read here. I hope you enjoy his interview. :) Continue reading "Character Interview: Solem Anders"
Character Interview: Tristan Wickersham
Tristan Wickersham is the main character of This Is His Story, a short story which I'm set to publish on the 14th. He's a hopeless romantic, a singer, and a widower. Continue reading "Character Interview: Tristan Wickersham"
Guest Character Interview: Emmet Tuteur
Emmet is a character from my friend Sal's currently untitled fantasy novel. He's sweet, a lover of food, and he managed to throw the interviewer off a little bit, which was fun. (The art above was drawn by Sal herself.) I hope you enjoy his interview. :) Continue reading "Guest Character Interview: Emmet Tuteur"
Character Interview: Anaya Morwen
Anaya Morwen is a character from The Shadow Raven, one who terrorizes Detren and rivals Nissa. She's the daughter of Sedric Morwen, owner of the majority of the king's fleet, and thus holds far too much influence and power. Continue reading "Character Interview: Anaya Morwen"


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Sweeping new laws will gag religious and political expression, group says
King Abdallah of Saudi Arabia (picture: Christian Post/Reuters)
A human rights group has decried Saudi Arabia's new sweeping set of laws aimed at counter-terrorism, arguing that they greatly stunt any religious or political expression that appears to criticize the government or Islam.
The new laws, approved by Saudi King Abdullah, calls for prison sentences of three to 20 years for any form of terrorist activity, defined as "calling for atheist thought in any form, or calling into question the fundamentals of the Islamic religion on which this country is based."
The new list of decrees also defines the Muslim Brotherhood and some al-Qaeda factions as terrorist organizations.
The new decrees were formed in part to stop Saudis from emigrating the country to fight the civil war in Syria, as the Saudi government is concerned fighters will return to their native country with newfound thoughts of rebellion and attempt to overthrow the Saudi monarchy. Therefore, the new laws also punish any actions that may "harm public order," and criminalize the "[participation] in hostilities outside the kingdom."
Joe Stork, deputy Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch, has condemned Saudi Arabia's new counter-terrorism laws, saying they seek to further smother free speech and independent expression in the Middle Eastern country.
"Saudi authorities have never tolerated criticism of their policies, but these recent laws and regulations turn almost any critical expression or independent association into crimes of terrorism," Stork said. "These regulations dash any hope that King Abdullah intends to open a space for peaceful dissent or independent groups."
Full Story: 'Atheist Thought,' 'Questioning Islam' Defined as Terrorism in Saudi Arabia; Human Rights Group Slams New Law
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Issue Tracking is an out-of-the-box solution provided by Sharepoint to track issues or problems with a project or item. We can assign issues to users, prioritize and track status. Sharepoint allows user to track, record, document their issues or problems, it also alerts the user according to issues priority.
Creating Issue Tracking in Sharepoint
1. Open your Sharepoint site.
2. Click More Option from Site actions, select Issue Tracking.
3. Click Create button to create Issue Tracking list.
4. We can add issues by clicking on Add new Item.
5. Select Assign To people from people picker.
6. Find users in the people picker.
7. Select other option like priority, category & related issues.
SharePoint Issue Tracking allows end-users to create and manage their Issues or Problems in one place and let users to track and separate issues according to its category. It consists of features like sending alerts to users assigned to via priority and category wise etc.


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Tuesday, 23 December 2008
Shavgi Upit
Shavgi upit or Shavya upit is always acceptable and enjoyed for breakfast and loved in the Tiffin box. I enjoy it because it is fast to cook and a no hassle dish. You can add as many different vegetables as you want.
1 cup shavgi or shavya (I prefer the MTR brand to other brands)
4 cups water
½ tsp salt
½ tsp oil.
Boil water with the oil and salt. Add the shavgi in this boiling water and cook till they are just done (About 5 minutes). Drain the water and add cold water, When cold toss about with a tsp of oil. Keep aside.
1 tblspn oil
½ tsp mustard
2 green chillies
1 spring of curry leaf
1 tsp urid dal
1 onion chopped fine
1 carrot diced
1 cup cauliflower cut in small florets
1 capsicum
1 cup green peas (boiled)
Heat oil; add the mustard seeds once they splutter. Add urid dal and wait till it becomes reddish then add green chillies and curry leaves.
Add the onions and sauté till the onions are translucent.
Add the rest of the carrots and mix well. Cook till the carrots change colour. Add the cauliflower and stir fry till a little tender. Then add the shavgi, capsicum, boiled peas salt. Mix well.
Garnish with coriander and coconut.
Can be served hot as well as packed for Tiffin box.
I have not used capsicum and peas in the above recipe as I did not have them now.
The general rule for cooking vegetables is that harder vegetable need longer to cook so carrots, French beans need longer to cook.
Add salt later as the vegetable cooks faster.
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Mantodea. The collection contains ca. 1,400 specimens of praying mantids, which belong to 30 species in 20 genera. The largest Israeli species, Eremoplana infelix, reaches 11.5 cm, in length, while the smallest Holaptilon pusillulum, is only 1.5 cm long.
Blattaria. The collection contains ca. 500 specimens of cockroaches from Israel, representing 15 species in 10 genera: some are synantropic species of cosmopolitan distribution (in the genera Blatta, Blattella, Supella, Periplaneta and Pycnoscelus), while others belong to the local fauna. There is also a small collection of fascinating large and colorful tropical species


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Fishing boats are lovely splashes of colour on a winter's day. I love the way the boat colours match not only the buoys but the amusement arcades in the distance, and how the rope leads your eye towards them.
It's a magical time when the tide goes out and you get a lovely squelchy playground to explore, including these colourful little fishing boats that you can walk right up to. Flash forward a few hours and they will be totally inaccessible. When you see them bobbing up and down on the water, reclaimed as perches by smug seagulls, you'll think it was all just a surreal dream that you had walked amongst them the very same day.
I have learned that when the tide does come back in it does so very quickly. It is easy to be cut off if you focus too much on taking photos and forget to watch the tide. Fortunately it hasn't happened to me as yet, though I have had a couple of close calls.
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A three course lunch menu of exquisite Scottish produce for less than £20 is definitely worth sketching.
When asked if I would like to sketch their new lunch menu I didn't think twice, having recently sampled their Gluten Free Afternoon Tea.
Inside the beautiful oak lined interior of the Scotsman Hotel, once home to the Scotsman Newspaper, is the North Bridge Brasserie, a perfect city centre meeting place for a spot of lunch.
Their menu is constantly evolving and changing depending on the Scottish seasons so take a look at the brasserie website below for the latest information and to book.
When I visited the food was exceptional, starting with a melt in the mouth piece of citrus cured salmon which I would of been happy having three courses of! Instead I chose the slow-cooked pork shoulder to follow. Tender and full of flavour, creating a slightly heavy but very satisfactory main course before our sweet treat of Bitter Dark Chocolate. A rich chocolate mouse formed an S (of the Scotsman?) with dark biscuity chunks and smooth ice cream making a perfect ending to my meal.
Sketch in fine liner with light watercolour wash over the top.
Scotsman Hotel North Bridge Brasserie website.


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NEW YORK, April 10, 2018 – Comedy Central is ready to trade barbs with the ultimate wisecracking action hero. The #1 brand in comedy announced today that international film superstar Bruce Willis will be this year's Roastee. The Comedy Central Roast of Bruce Willis (#BruceWillisRoast) will take place in Los Angeles with the tape and airdate to be announced at a later date.
"This ain't the first time I'll be tied to a chair and held hostage by a group of humorless assholes for a couple hours," said Willis.
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May 31st, 2012
Sorkin on Jobs film: Like writing about the Beatles
Aaron Sorkin is preparing for the June 24 debut of his new HBO series, "The Newsroom," but he also has another huge project on his plate: the Steve Jobs movie he's been tasked with writing and directing.
"I'm at the earliest possible stage with Steve Jobs," the TV and film vet said at the D: All Things Digital conference Wednesday, adding that he had to think about signing up for the gig.
"To be honest with you, one of the hesitations I had in taking on the movie was that it was a little bit like writing about the Beatles," he added. "There are so many people out there who know so much about him and who revere him that I just saw a minefield of disappointment, frankly. ... That's bound to happen."
Sorkin's adapting the film from Walter Isaacson's biography "Steve Jobs," and he said he's anticipating those who'll point out a missing scene here and there.
"All I can say at this early stage of the game is that anytime you are at the movies and you see the words, the following is a true story, you should think of it as a painting and not a photograph," he cautioned.
And while he doesn't yet know who'll play the late Apple co-founder, he did tell CNN that it's "important" to him that he steer away from doing "a straight ahead biography."
"It's very difficult to shake that rigid cradle to grave structure that we have," Sorkin said. "And there needs to be a reason to tell this story, and it has to be funny, and somebody's going to have to teach me how a computer works."
As for the visionary himself, who died at 56 last October, Jobs was "a complicated and dynamic guy" in Sorkin's view.
"I think the reason why he holds such a place in our hearts is that he invented things that we love, that we can put our hands on. I think that Americans have been told so much in the last few years that our future is in service, basically," the screenwriter said. "And I think [Jobs' work] makes us nostalgic for a time when we built cars and we built buildings."
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The holidays are about giving, and giving thanks. The holidays are about children and family. The holidays are about sharing, about joy. The holidays are about being thankful and about faith and appreciation. The holidays are about alleviating suffering for others.
Northern Virginia is among the wealthiest areas in the country. Many, if not most, of us go through our daily and seasonal routines without encountering evidence of the needy families among us.
In Alexandria, more than 8,700 students are poor enough to receive free or subsidized meals. That's almost 60 percent of the slightly more than 15,000 students enrolled.
The city's estimated median family income rose in 2015 to $109,175.
But among Alexandria's families with children, 10.7 percent have incomes below the poverty line. That's $20,420 for a family of three. That's about $1,700 a month. The median monthly housing cost in Alexandria is over $1,700, meaning the cost for half the housing is more than that. Median rent is $1,555.
These are children living in families who may be on the brink of homelessness, families who must choose between medical bills, car repair, heat and food. Some of these are children who may not be sure that they will have a meal between the meals they get in school.
School holidays can bring uncertainty and hunger, a far cry from the celebrations, gifts and plenty that we associate with Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Hundreds of homeless students attend the public schools, and their needs are greater.
Many nonprofits in the city need your help to provide a holiday meal for Thanksgiving or Christmas, to provide children with gifts.
There are literally hundreds, probably thousands, of ways to give locally this season. Here are a few ideas. We will rerun this list again after Thanksgiving, so please let us know what we have missed.
— Mary Kimm
Where to Give Locally:
List of Nonprofits in City of Alexandria
ALIVE! Alexandria; 2723 King St, Alexandria, VA 22302; (703) 837-9300; ALIVE! serves thousands Alexandrians annually with shelter; low-cost early childhood education and childcare; financial help for rent, utilities, medical care and other critical needs; emergency food; and deliveries of donated furniture and houseware. www.alive-inc.org
Senior Services of Alexandria, 703-836-4414,www.seniorservicesalex.org, Support services for elders enabling them to age with dignity.
Tahirih Justice Center, 703-575-0070, www.tahirih.org, Legal services, public policy advocacy, and education for immigrant women and girls.
Animal Welfare League of Alexandria, 703-746-4774,www.alexandriaanimals.org, Pet adoptions, spay and neuter assistance, education and community service and outreach.
Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) of Northern Virginia, 703-820-9001, www.scanva.org, Parent education, public education-re: child abuse and court advocacy for abused and neglected children.
Friends of the Alexandria Mental Health Center, an all-volunteer, 501(c)(3) nonprofit, serves as a safety net for clients of the Community Services Board who encounter extraordinary or emergency financial needs. With no paid staff or rented space, the Friends group is able to devote 98 percent of donations and grants it receives to client support and co-sponsorship of free public educational programs. See bit.ly/friendsoftheAMHC
Rebuilding Together Alexandria, 703-836-1021,www.RebuildingTogetherAlex.org, Home repair and maintenance for vulnerable veterans, elderly, disabled and families with children.
ACT for Alexandria, 703-739-7778, www.actforalexandria.org, Nonprofit and donor services.
Arlington-Alexandria Coalition for the Homeless, 703-525-7177, www.aachhomeless.org.
Carpenter's Shelter, 703 548-7500,www.carpentersshelter.org, Homeless services and programs including education and case management.
The Campagna Center, 703-549-0111,www.campagnacenter.org
Center for Alexandria's Children, 703-838-4381,www.centerforalexandriaschildren.org, Child abuse & neglect and parent support.
Child and Family Network Centers, 703-836- 0214,www.cfnc-online.org
Community Lodgings, Inc., 703-549-4407 Transitional and affordable housing, youth education, adult education, bilingual staff assistance.
Computer C.O.R.E. 703-931-7346, www.computercore.org, Adult education, computer training and career development.
Hopkins House, 703-549-8072,www.hopkinshouse.org, Preschool academy, family budgeting and literacy, family education and youth summer enrichment camp, Early Childhood Learning Institute.
Northern Virginia Family Services, 571-748-2500, www.nvfs.org, Employment and job training, healthcare, housing, mental health, foster care and Healthy Families.
Volunteer Alexandria, 123 N Alfred St., Alexandria, VA 22314; 703-836-2176; http://volunteeralexandria.org; Volunteer recruitment and placement, court-referred community service placement, community awareness events, and volunteer management training. See www.achsova.org.
Bethany House, 6121 Lincolnia Rd #303, Alexandria, VA 22312; (703) 658-9500; http://www.bhnv.org/; Bethany House provides emergency shelter and supportive services to victims of domestic violence throughout Northern Virginia and the surrounding D.C. metro communities.
The Literacy Council of Northern Virginia, 2855 Annandale Road, Falls Church, Virginia 22042, 703-237-0866, lcnv.org, teaches adults to speak, read, write and understand English at the most basic level. The organization has been around for 55 years, and serves Fairfax and Arlington counties and the cities of Falls Church and Alexandria. Most of the students are immigrants, and they are mostly women, and low income.
The Community Foundation of Northern Virginia has launched its Permanent Fund campaign, a community endowment which is a forever source to provide critical support for those in need in the Northern Virginia region; Consider leaving a legacy through a current or planned gift to the Permanent Fund at the Community Foundation for Northern Virginia. http://www.cfnova.org/permanentfund.
Neighborhood Health Clinics www.neighborhoodhealthva.org, To improve health and advance health equity in Alexandria, Arlington, and Fairfax by providing access to high quality care regardless of ability to pay.
Habitat for Humanity of Northern Virginia (Habitat NOVA) helps families build strength, stability, and self-reliance to create better lives for themselves and their children through affordable homeownership. Serving Fairfax and Arlington counties and the Cities of Alexandria, Fairfax and Falls Church. 295 Edsall Road, Suite 120, Alexandria, VA 22312; phone: 703-521-9890; email: firstname.lastname@example.com. Visit www.habitatnova.org. Alexandria ReStore: 703-360-6700.


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Sometimes it can feel like although there is a lot of support out there it isn't right for you and your situation. Lots of parenting advice and support can feel geared towards mothers and as such I have decided to list 5 charities which are specifically catering for the dad in the equation.
1. Dads House – Helping Dads be Dads
Dads House offers accommodation, food banks, a buddy scheme and legal help to single fathers. Dads House was founded by William McGranaghan in 2008 and he was voted one of the Most Influential Dads of the Year on the Trisha Goddard Show and has made numerous other TV and radio appearances since.
"Through 'Dads House' you are bringing together dads to share their experiences and receive practical and emotional support. Drawing on your own experience, you are connecting single fathers across the country and having a profound impact on their lives and the lives of their families."Theresa May
2. Families Need Fathers
This charity strives to help dads, mums and grandparents to have contact and a meaningful relationship with children following parental separation. You can join or register for free and they also provide a helpline (0300 0300 363) for support.
"I have a solicitor who charges £285 + VAT per hour. She's good but she is very expensive. FNF with its £39 membership fee has given me more practical advice and provided me with company of fellow fathers who are striving to achieve contact with their children against all odds. Something my solicitor can never offer. I have had 3-4 sittings and have had more practical advice than I have had from my solicitor (who is process driven and has no emotional connect) for last 6-8 months and I don't even want to mention how much I have paid her in this time. FNF has been amazing for me. I would recommend it to all fathers going through a divorce and wanting contact with their child/children. We are all in this together."Testimonial from their website.
3. Fathers for Justice
Fathers4Justice was founded by Matt O'Connor in 2001 after he was denied access to his two boys, Daniel and Alexander, following a difficult divorce. A design, marketing and PR consultant, Matt was shocked by the cruel, degrading and inhuman treatment of dads in Britain's secret courts. As a result he was left feeling depressed and suicidal. He had, what he describes, as an epiphany when he was standing on a bridge contemplating suicide and thought that instead of jumping off bridges Dads could start climbing up them. They offer help, support and advice to Fathers who are separated from their children.
We will never get back those 12 years, 12 years of heartbreak and hurt. I just hope and pray that we will be reunited soon and Jennifer will realise for herself that I'm not the big bad wolf that she has been lead to believe I am. I'm just a loving Dad who has tried his hardest to be there for her. I long for that day to come. When it will come is anyone's guess.Case study on the Fathers for Justice website
4. Fatherhood Institute
Fatherhood institute is the UK's Fatherhood think-and-do tank. Their work focusses on policy, research and practice. They offer a wide range of training and consultancy services.
Our vision is of a society in which there's a great dad for every child – a society that:Taken from the Fatherhood Institute website
– gives all children a strong and positive relationship with their father and any father-figures
– supports both mothers and fathers as earners and carers, and
prepares boys and girls for a future shared role in caring for children.
5. Storybook Dads
Storybook Dads is a charity that helps Dads who are in prison by recording their voices reading a bedtime story and giving it to their little ones so that they can maintain a bond with them. They also run workshops in which fathers can make personalised memory boxes, challenge charts or calendars for their children. This is a wonderful charity which works on the premise that juts because a father has committed a crime does not mean that a child should be punished.
"Lottie was so delighted to receive the disc. She loved hearing her dad's voice and the background noises were so comical that they had her laughing. She laughed more than she has in a long time. Afterwards there were tears that I knew had to come but it gave her the chance to open up and talk about it – something she hadn't been able to do since he left."Testimonal from website


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A third Labour councillor pitches to be Brighton Kemptown candidate
A third Labour councillor has put himself forward to be the party's candidate in Brighton Kemptown at the general election on Thursday 8 June.
Councillor Tom Bewick said today (Friday 21 April): "I believe I am the best candidate to take on Simon Kirby, providing a credible Labour message about the need to halt the decline of our local public services and invest in our communities."
Councillor Bewick, who represents Westbourne Ward on Brighton and Hove City Council, said: "In May 2015, I was the only Labour member of the city council to win a traditionally Tory seat in Hove, demonstrating my moderate appeal to residents beyond tribal politics."
He faces a challenge in Kemptown from two fellow members of the council – Dan Yates and Lloyd Russell-Moyle – among others.
Councillor Bewick said: "The Tories want to make this election about Brexit. I will campaign hard to expose their failed economic and social policies that led to Brexit in the first place – stagnating incomes, the crisis in our National Health Service, generation rent and young people unable to get on the housing ladder (and) our local schools that are so strapped for cash they are regularly seeking handouts from parents to pay for necessities.
"And on Brexit, while it is the case that the city voted overwhelmingly for Remain last June, the same cannot be said about large parts of the constituency.
"I spent a lot of time in the east of Brighton, Peacehaven, Rottingdean and Telscombe last summer. A clear majority were for Leave. I also campaigned for a Leave vote.
"But my record on this subject shows that my stance on leaving the EU is in the finest traditions of the Labour Party.
"I've argued for the return of our law-making powers so we can invest in our young people and our economy without the hindrance of Brussels bureaucrats telling us what we can and can't do.
"As a businessman and entrepreneur who works internationally, I see a brighter future for the country being able to strike its own trade deals.
"I've argued consistently for the rights of EU nationals and I believe even after Brexit the country should adopt a pragmatic, managed migration policy based on what our local economies need.
"The Tories want to use Brexit to reduce workers' rights, slash environmental standards and privatise our public services.
"I believe that strong Labour representation in Parliament is the only way to secure the best deal in these negotiations with the EU, including tariff-free access to the single market.
"If I was elected to Parliament, I would be fighting for a more progressive vision of Brexit every step of the way.
"The fact is we are leaving the EU. My focus will be on making the best of it.
"First and foremost, I want to represent the people of Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven as a hard-working constituency MP.
"The brutal truth is that Simon Kirby, as a minister in the government, has failed to bring any real focus or attention to the needs of local people.
"Instead of rolling his sleeves up, for example, over the pressing need to restore Madeira Arches, he went AWOL, allowing this important matter to descend into media cat-calling only after a failed bid.
"As a former lead member for children's services, I wrote to him on several occasions about local and council issues and never even received the courtesy of a response.
"So if I'm the Labour Party candidate for this constituency, I will be explaining to the voters why they deserve a different kind of local representation from what has been delivered by Mr Kirby.
"It will be about standing up for and dealing with the daily concerns of ordinary people.
"It will be about working co-operatively with all political parties and community groups to get the investment we need in business regeneration and local public services.
"Above all, it will be about using my political and business background to improve the life chances and opportunities of every single person in the constituency."
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21 April 2017 at 11.34pm
Cllr Bewick wanted to close down Hove's Carnegie Library and shrink it into the Museum. He kept on and on about wanting to have talks in the Museum and touted the fact that the Museum is opposite "his" house where he lives as a "businessman" (whatever that means).
Talks could equally be held in the Carnegie if he wanted that. I never understood the logic of the fact that the Museum is opposite "his" house (which in fact he rents from the owner of the house next door, as nearby, outraged residents have pointed out).
I think that Labour would be as misguided in opting for cllr Bewick in Kemptown as it would be the rest of those who have have offered their "services". Simon Burgess and Nancy Platts could have won it, hands down, but they are evidently weary of the whole thing (understandably enough).
22 April 2017 at 1.12am
I might be tempted to agree with Cllr Bewick about his chances in Kemptown, but for one thing: if Kirby is deservedly unseated, it will be because he has been an absent and totally invisible, uninvolved MP (with a pompadour haircut as inappropriate as the 1950's greaser punk hairstyling Trump sportsd). And Cllr Bewick had to step back from front bench duties within the Labour Administration here in B & H because of his business interests (involving a lot of travel to the USA). He would struggle to find the time to be an effective, involved CONSTITUENCY MP.
22 April 2017 at 7.15pm
'Credible Labour message'….hate to break it to you bud, but that ship sailed long ago.
Kemp Town is the role.sensible.part of Brighton.
23 April 2017 at 1.38am
Having read his blurb (and seen his photo) it's almost unbelievable that this guy is in the Labour Party! He is a natural Tory at heart. Unless Labour want over three thousand green votes and a few hundred Lib dems to hand the seat to the Tories they had better stand a Remain candidate.
24 April 2017 at 12.10pm
Don't think any of them stand a chance, the now member of the LGBT community who has thrown her hat into the ring makes for an interesting election.
4 May 2017 at 7.32pm
The tories wish to use Brexit to destroy workers rights ? Does this candidate surport the repeal of the Tories anti trade union legislation. Is he behind the railworkers fight to retain guards on trains. Will he speak in favour of a minimum wage of £10 per hour.
Will he live on the average wage so he knows what life is like for the majority and not become part of the corrupt Westminster bubble.
We need an MP in Kemptown who stands for wages and conditions of the millions not the profits of the millionaires. Is he that man.


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2019 Chevy Cheyenne Ss
Shifting up a league doesn't all the time bring success. The rewards could also be larger, however the competition can be more durable. So it is for the 2019 Chevy Cheyenne Ss. The one-time Nissan Qashqai and Kia Sportage rival has been reinvented as a costlier SUV, so now it's up against formidable prestige-badged competition such as the BMW X1.
Happily, the new 2019 Chevy Cheyenne Ss builds on the strengths of the unique, providing more space, a classier feel and improved efficiency. It is still designed primarily for on-road use, but four-wheel-drive 4Motion versions now feature adjustable drive modes that enable you sort out different circumstances.
Engines vary from a 1.4-litre petrol with 123bhp to a 2.Zero-litre twin-turbo diesel with 237bhp, although the lowest-powered fashions come with front-wheel drive and a guide gearbox only. If you would like an automatic 'field and four-wheel drive, you'll want to have a look at engines with 148bhp and above.
Learn on over the next few pages for every little thing it's worthwhile to know about the 2019 Chevy Cheyenne Ss, together with which engine and trim to decide on. And do not forget to go to our new automotive offers to see if you may get a decent low cost off a 2019 Chevy Cheyenne Ss.
One of the best-selling 2019 Chevy Cheyenne Ss is the 148bhp 2.Zero-litre diesel model (badged 2.0 TDI 150) and it is easy to see why; it provides a effective blend of efficiency and gasoline financial system, whereas the cheaper 115 model (with 113bhp) feels a little bit in need of puff. There's additionally a 190 version of the two.Zero TDI engine that delivers loads of punch but is slightly pricey, while the range-topping 240 version brings yet extra pace for an much more eyebrow-raising value.
If you're extra concerned about petrol power, the entry-level 125 model places out 123bhp from its turbocharged 1.4-litre engine. However, while it is the most inexpensive mannequin in the range, it struggles a bit up inclines, especially when loaded up to the gunnels. The 150 version is healthier, however still lacks the low-rev pulling energy of the diesels.
As for the 2.0-litre 180 petrol engine, it feels quick and is quick off the line, thanks to all-wheel drive coming as customary. It doesn't fairly have the in-gear flexibility of the diesels, though, but around town you'll have little issue with the first rate efficiency it presents and out on the motorway there's no drawback overtaking.
By small SUV standards, the 2019 Chevy Cheyenne Ss rides very well certainly. It smooths over greater imperfections, similar to speed bumps, higher than the BMW X1, yet the suspension remains to be agency sufficient to stop the body from bouncing up and down too much alongside undulating roads.
Patched up roads and broken Tarmac can unsettle the 2019 Chevy Cheyenne Ss a bit of – particularly if you select a model with large alloy wheels – but in contrast with its key rivals the 2019 Chevy Cheyenne Ss is snug. Even the sporty R-line trim is bearable, if not as good as lesser models. In order for you a extra settled journey, you'll want to choose one thing with a decrease centre of gravity, equivalent to a VW Golf.
We would not trouble with the 2019 Chevy Cheyenne Ss non-compulsory adaptive suspension. It doesn't enhance the experience that much and there are extra worthwhile extras to spend your money on.
The 2019 Chevy Cheyenne Ss handles more like a standard hatchback than lots of its SUV rivals; it's genuinely pleasing to drive. Some may feel the steering is a little bit too gentle, nevertheless it's precise, making the automobile easy to put on the street. There is not an excessive amount of body roll through corners and all versions have plenty of grip, although the four-wheel-drive 4Motion fashions unsurprisingly offer higher traction in slippery situations.
True, the X1 and Seat Ateca are much more agile through the twisty bits, but the 2019 Chevy Cheyenne Ss outshines most other small SUVs, together with the Nissan Qashqai and Kia Sportage. The R-line model is on the market with sports suspension however this doesn't make the 2019 Chevy Cheyenne Ss any more enjoyable.
4Motion fashions add a dial subsequent to the gearlever that permits you to select different modes depending on the terrain and initiate a hill descent system. An additional possibility is adaptive chassis control – this allows you to stiffen or soften the suspension to prioritise either trip comfort or flatter handling.
The petrol engines are particularly smooth, even when being worked hard, and while the diesels sound a bit clattery at tickover and while you actually put your foot down, they're nonetheless muted at a cruise and much from raucous when accelerating. That mentioned, the diesel engines within the rival X1 are barely quieter.
At high speeds, you'll hear a flutter of wind noise across the 2019 Chevy Cheyenne Ss door mirrors, however nearly no street noise until you opt for a version with really big alloy wheels. The manual gearbox is mild and easy to use, while the DSG automatic is clean and soothing the vast majority of the time, with solely the occasional jerk at low speeds.
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The Vampire Diaries Spoilers: Who Will Survive the Series?Paul Dailly at .
The Vampire Diaries will go off the air on March 10, 2017.
That much was confirmed yesterday when The CW revealed its midseason 2017 schedule.
Yes, you guys, after eight seasons of back and forth relationship drama, The Vampire Diaries is really ending.
It's currently unclear what will happen to The Originals. That show will return one week after The Vampire Diaries ends.
Julie Plec previously teased at Comic-Con that she would like to send some of the characters from Mystic Falls to the New Orleans set spin-off.
The first actor to appear after the conclusion of The Vampire Diaries will be Matt Davis.
Matt has played Alaric since the first season of The CW hit. It sounds like his appearance will be as a guest, but there will probably be room for more appearances down the line.
Details are sketchy about why he's actually in New Orleans, but we're hearing that it involves giving a mysterious artifact to Elijah.
This also means that Alaric will be surviving The Vampire Diaries Season 8.
He's currently facing off against two sirens, who will apparently serve as the final villains for the show.
Thus far, Alaric has been integral in getting close to the truth about these villains due to Bonnie's lack of magic.
It's great the series is trying to embrace not using magic to get the characters out of trouble.
For far too long, Bonnie was the person who always seemed to find loopholes and it was getting tiring.
With the Original vampires basically in an alternate reality due to Freya's latest magic trick to try find a cure for her siblings, this casting news probably confirms they will all be back in the land of the living when the show returns.
Hayley was off looking for a way to save them after everyone in New Orleans turned against them.
The Originals killed off a number of key cast members during The Originals Season 3, so the show should probably snap up Caroline Forbes for an arc.
She would be great.
As you probably know if you watch The Vampire Diaries online, Tyler Lockwood won't be staging a return to the spin-off.
You can thank Damon for that one.
What do you think of this casting news?
Who else would you like to appear?
Sound off below!
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Benoy Shanghai celebrates 10th anniversary
- Written by Benoy
HONG KONG, CHINA - Media OutReach[1] - 4 September 2018 - Following a momentous 70th year in 2017, Benoy celebrated its 10 year anniversary in Shanghai on 30 August. Alongside a newly unveiled design studio and a collection of openings and completions, Benoy Shanghai has also shown it is looking to the future with a portfolio of significant projects which aim to shape the next decade for the design studio in China.
Tom Cartledge (Benoy CEO), Qin Pang (Benoy Director, Head of Shanghai Studio), Graham Cartledge (Benoy Chairman), John Edwards (British Consul-General in Shanghai) and Simon Wong (Benoy Director) cut the ribbon to officially open Benoy's expanded Shanghai studio
Shanghai on the rise
Benoy established its first studio outside of the UK in Hong Kong in 2002, opening the gateway to the Asia Pacific region. Building upon a suite of successful collaborations and projects being delivered in China from Hong Kong, Benoy founded its studio in Shanghai in 2008. Established by a small team, Benoy set down roots on Nanjing Road with support from colleagues from the Hong Kong and London studios. Today, this small founding team is still with Benoy -- Qin Pang, now Director and Head of Shanghai, alongside Emi Wang, Carrie Mei, Wei Tang and Sherry Wu.
Shanghai ICC and iAPM -- Designed by Benoy and home to Benoy's Shanghai studio
From a small team of five, the Shanghai studio has undergone immense growth over the last decade. The team now numbers almost 80 and works from a newly refurbished studio within a development designed by Benoy, ICC Shanghai.
"I am incredibly proud to have been one of our first founding members and to still be working alongside the same team that joined Benoy Shanghai back in 2008," said Qin Pang. "The milestone we celebrate today is a testament to Benoy's culture as a global family as well as the talent and commitment of our team and the partners we work with."
A compelling portfolio
The expansion of the Shanghai studio and team reflects the growing portfolio of work undertaken by Benoy. The team has celebrated a number of project completions in 2018 including the twin tower development The New Bund World Trade Center (Phase I)[2] in the Qiantan Central Business District, the innovative retail village Joy City in Hangzhou[3], as well as the upcoming Alibaba HQ in Hongqiao.
"To see so many of the Shanghai team's designs coming to completion in the 10th anniversary year is a wonderful moment for Benoy. There's no better way to celebrate their success over the last decade than to see this work, both completed and on the drawing board, actively shaping the cities in which we work," said Tom Cartledge, CEO of Benoy.
Benoy's Shanghai team is also busy designing its next generation of projects. The conversion of a waterfront ice factory into a retail-led destination in Nanjing[4], an Arts Center in Hangzhou[5] and a Science and Innovation Park in Shanghai[6] are just some of the many projects on the drawing board which look to bring Benoy's brand of commercial creativity and engaging 'Places for people' to cities across China and beyond.
Anniversary celebrations
The Benoy team commemorated the anniversary with a ribbon-cutting ceremony to officially open the newly designed studio in ICC Shanghai. Benoy Chairman, Graham Cartledge CBE and Benoy CEO, Tom Cartledge joined the celebrations alongside the Asia Directorship and special guest John Edwards, the British Consul-General in Shanghai. The event was followed by an evening reception hosted within another of Benoy's developments, iAPM.
Benoy will also celebrate its 10th anniversary in Singapore later this year.
Read more: Ten projects to celebrate ten years of Benoy Shanghai[7]
About Benoy
Benoy is a global family of designers specialising in masterplanning, architecture and interiors.
- ^ Media OutReach (www.media-outreach.com)
- ^ The New Bund World Trade Center (Phase I) (www.benoy.com)
- ^ Joy City in Hangzhou (www.benoy.com)
- ^ waterfront ice factory into a retail-led destination in Nanjing (www.benoy.com)
- ^ Arts Center in Hangzhou (www.benoy.com)
- ^ Science and Innovation Park in Shanghai (www.benoy.com)
- ^ Read more: Ten projects to celebrate ten years of Benoy Shanghai (www.benoy.com)
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Nina Power
Love and War
"The less you eat, drink, buy books, go to the theater, go dancing, go drinking, think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save and the greater will become that treasure which neither moths nor maggots can consume—your capital … all passions and activity are lost in greed. The worker is only permitted to have enough for him to live, and he is only permitted to live in order to have." Karl Marx
We have a frankly impoverished idea of love these days, though the possibilities for loving each other are also a source of great wonderment and possibility. We would like—no, love—to be loved, and we are told that to be the "object" of someone else's adoration and worship is the highest goal in life. But here we run into our first problem: If everyone is busy being an object to be loved, who is left over to do all the loving? Can an object love in return? We might then try to divide up groups of people—well, here are the people who should be loved, and here are the people who should do the loving. We could call one group "women" and another "men." Or we could call one group "young men" and another group "older men."
Or we could call each other 'comrades' and love each other to the exact degree and in-tensity that we desire, regardless of other roles we are told we must play. And when we say love we must remember that we have lost all the other meanings of this word, or at the least, we have given this one word too much to bear: is the love between a mother and a child, between two friends, between a group, between the whole of humanity and a stranger in the street able to be captured in this one word—love? Perhaps it can bear it, perhaps it cannot. We confuse affection and love, though they might well be the same thing, and we most certainly confuse sex and love, though they too might well be the same thing, sometimes.
But we are up against large, abstract enemies of love: greed, capital, nations, war. We can of course "love" money, exploitation, borders, and violence and indeed, politics on all sides would encourage us to do so. But usually we can see when we are being forced to love against our will. The problem comes when we no longer know what our will is, when we are being forced to love things that can never feel, work that can only damage, ideas that will end only in bloodshed. Love and war are themselves at war: to be a soldier of love is to recognise humanity above all else.


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Harkin: ISU has damaged its reputation
Saying he is "heartbroken" about the likely dissolution of his namesake institute, Sen. Tom Harkin addressed the future of his Congressional papers during a conference call Thursday with Iowa reporters.
Two days after announcing that he would not donate personal documents from his 40-year Congressional career to Iowa State University — from where he graduated in 1962 — Harkin said he hasn't made a decision on where those papers will end up.
"I don't see anything imminent," Harkin said.
Harkin said he had an informal conversation about the disposition of his papers with Drake University President David Maxwell at a Christmas party in December.
"No decisions were made,"Harkin said. "At that point I was still assuming things were going to work out at Iowa State."
Drake, nor any other school, has approached Harkin since Tuesday's announcement, he said.
Iowa State University President Steven Leath told the Tribune Tuesday is was "unrealistic" that the institute would continue in its current form given that Harkin's papers will not be housed there.
The institute was plagued by controversy since its inception in April, 2011.
A minority of the Board of Regents opposed forming it noting that a sitting Senator making decisions about higher education funding and other issues shouldn't have his name on such an organization.
In September of 2011, a memorandum of understanding outlined the areas of research the institute could pursue. Agricultural research — a topic included in the institute's original charter — was excluded. The same memorandum stated that such research was the domain of Iowa State's Center for Agricultural and Rural Development.
Harkin said today that the memorandum was "totally unacceptable" and the creation of that document was "when this whole thing began to unravel."
Leath issued two subsequent memos trying to smooth over the standoff between CARD and the Harkin Institute. The second, issued in January, 2012, said the institute should coordinate with other ISU entities on any public policy research that overlaps with research already being conducted on campus.
Bristling at the potential loss of academic freedom, the institute's advisory board voted 5-1 to recommend Harkin take his papers elsewhere. Harkin announced he would follow that advice about an hour later.
"This is my alma mater. My two brothers and I, the first in our family to go to college, that's where we went," Harkin said. "I'm heartbroken by this. It's very sad for me, especially with all the work I've done, and my staff has done, for Iowa State all these years."
Harkin said he fears Iowa State's reputation for research and academic freedom will be damaged by the controversy.
"The ability to have different voices, different ideas … the last place you want orthodoxy is a university," Harkin said. "It does concern me, beyond my own deal with the institute."


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African American Cemeteries Forum
Re: Frederick Douglass Cemetery in Staten Island,
In Response To: Re: Frederick Douglass Cemetery in Staten Island, NYC ()
Hello, my name is Tyrone Harris, I'm not sure how this works. I pray I receive a response. My father Willie J. Harris, born 2/8/1945 - died 12/20/1977. He passed away when I was 6 yrs old. I am just finally getting a copy of his death certificate and searching for any of his relatives. I have been completely cut off from my fathers side of the family. It's noted he is buried in this cemetery on his death certificate. I have been trying to call this cemetery to confirm he has been buried there. If someone knows the phone number to this cemetery please contact me with the number. Ty Harris 757 240-0093
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Justin Baba's Interview
Cindy Kelly: I'm Cindy Kelly, Atomic Heritage Foundation. It is Wednesday, April 25, 2018. I am in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and I have with me Justin Baba. My first question for Justin is to please state your full name and spell it.
Justin Baba: Justin Shekwoga Baba. That is J-u-s-t-i-n, Shekwoga is S-h-e-k-w-o-g-a, and Baba is B-a-b-a.
Kelly: Thank you, Justin. My first question is to tell us something about yourself. Where were you born and how did you get interested in becoming a scientist?


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Disease Recapture after Drug Discontinuation and Flare in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
"Over the course of my daughter's JIA journey, we have been blessed with very long periods of medicated remission. We are grateful for those periods, but we have never opted to discontinue or reduce her medication. While we would love to give her little body a break from treatments, we don't know much about her future. If her disease were to flare, it is still unknown whether or not we would be able to get her JIA under control again with the same medication and quickly. If families had these answers, they could better make decisions about continuing, reducing, or withdrawing medications."
This project will study children who have a flare of JIA after stopping their medicines for well-controlled disease. The study will measure how often the JIA flares can be controlled within 6 months of restarting medicine and will identify children whose flare may be more or less likely to be well-controlled quickly. The information from this project will help children with JIA, families, and providers make better decisions about when to stop medications.
No one wants to take medicines forever. Shots, infusions, storage of medicines, high costs and even the routine of regularly taking a medicine can be a burden. Therefore, doctors and parents often decide to stop using medication when children are well controlled for a long time. But what happens if the child flares when the medication is stopped? Recapture JIA looks to learn if you can regain control with the same medication you used before.
This proposal will generate much needed information for providers and families to make more informed decisions about the risks and benefits of continued medication use versus stopping once inactive disease is achieved for children with JIA. The data collected during the study period will identify children with lower rates of successful recapture who may benefit from alternative management strategies, such as dose reduction instead of complete discontinuation. This study will also lay the groundwork for future research on biologic predictors of recapture and facilitate the development of personalized regimens for both discontinuing and re-initiating treatment following flare once initial remission is achieved.
This study aims to enroll 150 children with JIA who have stopped their medication(s) due to inactive disease and then flared and are restarting medications. Data will be collected during the clinic visit at the time of flare. Follow-up data will also be collected at the time of routine clinic visits approximately every 6 months. The study will be conducted at all CARRA sites participating in the Registry and data will be collected using the CARRA Registry.
There will be also be an optional blood collection at the time of disease flare.
Principal Investigator: Sarah Ringold, MD MS (Seattle Children's)
Parent Partner
Recapture-JIA is funded by the American College of Rheumatology Rheumatology Research Foundation. The project is also supported by collaboration with UCAN (Understanding Childhood Arthritis Network: www.ucan-u.org).


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it started Yesterday (well, it started earlier), the Guardian gives us 'British-Iranian relations strained as oil tanker is seen off Syria', with the by-line "Adrian Darya, previously called Grace 1, photographed near Russian navy facility". the starting quote "Britain is seeking to establish whether Iran has sold oil to Syria in breach of written undertakings given by Tehran to authorities in Gibraltar", we can go with the speculative 'yes' on that answer, but it is not a given at present. The quote "Since leaving Gibraltar the ship had taken a peripatetic route towards Syria, but was last photographed off the Russian navy port of Tartus in Syria. TankerTrackers, a firm that monitors oil tankers, has seen no evidence that its 2.1m barrels of oil have been discharged" is no guarantee that it is not happening, or that it will not happen.
The issue is not the oil, the issue is what Al Jazeera reports (at https://www.aljazeera.com/ajimpact/saudi-arabia-enrich-uranium-190909144444127.html), I tend to be in favour of 'Saudi Arabia wants to enrich uranium but the US may not like that', I support the setting as the EU and the US no longer have any balls in dealing with Iran and Saudi Arabia has no choice but to be ready to deal with Iran. It is the consequences of inaction. We see the quote: "Saudi Arabia wants to enrich uranium for its nuclear power programme, the kingdom's new energy minister said on Monday, potentially complicating talks with Washington about an atomic pact and the role United States companies might play in the arrangement." We might think that this is the barricade that works, but you would be wrong, both Russia and China are chomping at the bits to deliver high technology power plants that can work with enriched Uranium, this is a billion per place and Saudi Arabia would need 4 straight off the bat. Two power plants to power the growing power needs of Neom City and One for Riyadh power needs and one for other power needs. Do you think that in this age where American and European abilities are downgraded time after time that both Russia and China do not stand a chance? The fact that in both the EU and US larger discrimination and anti-Saudi needs have been fuelled for almost two years, the Saudi government needs to find a solution that is best for Saudi Arabia, not a solution that makes them seem the nicest. That time has gone, that time was 2017, the actions of media since have shown that the anti-Saudi rhetoric is slightly too strong and the Saudi government knows that. In light of all information available, it is the Chinese government that has the strongest position of the three (when we include the US) giving them another benefit. The US has downplayed several parts and now that we see that the Chinese government is ready to step in, we also take notice of an earlier stage in October 2018 where the SCMP gave us 'China may seek to boost ties with Saudi Arabia but it 'can't fill US arms sales gap'', I was never certain that it was ever completely true. I believe that China needed time to set things in motion, I also believe that in the gap between July 2018 and August 2019 they have been able to set that stage to a much larger degree and within a year that gap can completely be filled. One issue that was resolved was the Chengdu J-20, the Chinese answer to the F-35. the rumour is that the three weaknesses Canopy, fuselage and engines have been resolved, there was still some questions on the stealth coating, yet that would not prevent them from starting, there would merely be an upgrade of a delay in fulfilment of foreign orders.
With that larger issue out of the way, China is seemingly ready to hand out larger contracts, they might be in the running to aid Saudi Arabia in getting them on the road to keep the 50% promise of making SAMI products export ready, the question is which arms are the most viable ones at present. With the growing concerns and the fact that Saudi Arabia is ready to deliver gives a much larger concern that the US has been playing the wrong game for well over 2 years at present. Even now, less than a day ago, CNBC gave us 'US wants energy dominance regardless of what happens to oil prices, deputy energy secretary says', a quote and a claim that is both flaccid and exaggerated. As such the quote: "The U.S. deputy energy secretary told CNBC Monday that America wants to achieve energy dominance regardless of what happens to oil prices" falls short on a few levels. It falls short not merely because of the additional "It just simply means that we are going to produce as much energy as we can, as cleanly as we can and as affordably as we can", there is seemingly a line that goes from the US to all other nations, that is besides the issue that 'clean' and 'affordable' tend to be opposite in scope, clean power is not cheap and affordable power tends to be not clean. In there the balance is already out of whack when they want power creation dominance and if China is affirmative to the 4 nuclear power plants, the need for US power will fall to some degree, so the option of dominance goes out of the window. Not dealing with matters is what got the US in this stage, not dealing with Greece (via Wall Street), not dealing with Brexit (through arrogance), not dealing with Iran (through indecision) and not standing strong with their claimed ally (Saudi Arabia) has pushed them on a sliding scale of mind over matter. It is becoming more and more clear that nobody minds because the US no longer matters. As the EU and the US are downplaying the impact and chances of the next recession, or as the recession is used to create Brexit fear, we see a population that has had enough. That is the setting the US is facing and all the non-evidentiary stance on Jamal Khashoggi was not helping, that journalist's missing cadaver has been milked for anti-Saudi media coverage for far too long.
In this stage, as we realise the factors we look at the stage where we see: ""We are proceeding with it cautiously … we are experimenting with two nuclear reactors," Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman said, referring to a plan to issue a tender for the Gulf Arab state's first two nuclear power reactors. Ultimately, the kingdom wanted to go ahead with the full cycle of the nuclear programme, including the production and enrichment of uranium for atomic fuel, bin Salman told an energy conference in Abu Dhabi." and his royal highness has to, he has little choice, it is not only because of the power requirements of the kingdom, Iran is still a threat and that threat can only be countered by having equal solutions at the kingdom's disposal and in all this, the total lack of actual actions against Iran by both the EU and the US do not help matters. In this, when we consider "The tender is expected in 2020, with US, Russian, South Korean, Chinese and French firms involved in preliminary talks about the multibillion-dollar project" we need to realise that the US and the EU nations now have a disadvantage to this tender. So whoever wins the multi-billion dollar tender, the losers are going to get confronted on how their tender fell flat due to inaction. It also made me wonder on some of the processes and I know that the World Nuclear Association is the best source.
So I had a look at some of the information, and the stage is set at: "Uranium-235 and U-238 are chemically identical, but differ in their physical properties, notably their mass. The nucleus of the U-235 atom contains 92 protons and 143 neutrons, giving an atomic mass of 235 units. The U-238 nucleus also has 92 protons but has 146 neutrons – three more than U-235 – and therefore has a mass of 238 units". With the centrifuge principle of "The counter current flow set up by a thermal gradient enables enriched product to be drawn off axially, heavier molecules at one end and lighter ones at the other" and when you consider the image I wonder if it is the most efficient path. I wonder what happens, when we consider "heavier molecules at one end" it seems to me that the outer part (heavier molecules) when it is siphoned off, more uranium could be processed making the process faster. It was just a thought I was having, I remain in a creative stage. There is equally the option to see other solutions when we consider the Roman bath houses and 2 phase compressors. They did not get to their destination in one step, the compressor goes from zero to 5 atmosphere, the second stage takes 5 atmosphere and pushed it to 25 atmosphere, in the old days it was a lot more effective, even now we see the path where the centrifuge at its speed can do it in one go, yet consider a centrifuge park with 50% more units, yet creating enriched Uranium at twice the speed. I am not sure if it works, but I do know that we need to upgrade the technologies to make the Iranian technology obsolete, making the Iranians stop their intended steps, or being able to take the steps to end their actions altogether. People might not like that approach, but the stages we now see involving the Syrian delivery, the Houthi arms and drone supplies, it is clear that Iran has no peaceful intent in any direction. It is our responsibility to choose, either we support Saudi Arabia, or we move out of the Middle East altogether. Either way
This matters, because if we are to stop Iran, we need processes that are more advanced to give the clear signal that the actions of Iran should no longer be tolerated. There are two options in any war approaching disagreement, either you overwhelm them or make their solution obsolete. We have seen that advancing stronger gives the option for a peaceful edge and that should always be embraced, that is as long as you are willing to use that advantage effectively, the EU and US have shown that they are unwilling to do that. So another option is required. That path is seen in the Al Jazeera article with "Reuters has reported that progress on the discussions has been difficult because Saudi Arabia does not want to sign a deal that would rule out the possibility of enriching uranium or reprocessing spent fuel – both potential paths to creating a nuclear bomb", whilst the intent might sound noble, it isn't. This solution will not work because no one has a handle on Iran and no one is willing to deal with Iran and that is where the problem lies. As long as Iran is around the problem remains that much has been shown several times in several direction, only the arrogant and delusional political players in the EU and the US are still of the mind that a nice solution can be found, the problem is that Iran has been most effective in tailoring to those ego's and it is time to give light to those tools and find a way to stop Iran, we have to because their willingness to transgress on nuclear limits has now been shown three times over. That is seen as the New York Post gives us less than a day ago: "The United Nations' nuclear watchdog confirmed Monday that Iran has installed advanced centrifuges and is moving toward enriching uranium levels — another violation of the 2015 nuclear deal brokered by world powers". I believe that the best solution now is to make sure that Saudi Arabia gets to the Iranian destination faster, or we allow an open war with Iran, what would you chose? I believe that war is a last resort, yet I am willing to go there if needed, which makes me a better and more ample decider than either the EU or the US, indecision is the only agenda point they procrastinate on, a stage that is too dangerous for anyone at present.


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Samira Moran, President and CEO
Samira is a dedicated executive with over 20 years of extensive experience and proven track record within the pharmaceutical Industry. Her accomplishments include key roles such as Chief Operating Officer and former positions in the areas of business development and strategic account leadership. In her current role as President and CEO, Samira is responsible for overall business and operational oversight at National Research Institute. In addition to her undergraduate studies at the University of Texas and Bachelors of Science Degree in Psychology, she has training through the Dale Carnegie Leadership Program, a mini MBA certification through Bentley University and Harvard Business Management courses making her skills in leadership, communication and organization superior. Samira is published in many scientific journals including the Journal of Clinical Pharmacology and Biomarkers in Medicine.
Mark Leibowitz, M.D., Chief Medical Officer
Mark Leibowitz, M.D. is an experienced and skilled Investigator with approximately 25 years of research experience. Dr. Leibowitz has participated in an estimated 500 studies from Phase I-IV across a variety of different indications.
As part of his research portfolio, Dr. Leibowitz has conducted highly complex studies in healthy subjects and diverse patient populations including continuous cerebrospinal fluid studies, First in Human, Single and Multiple Ascending Dose studies, Ethnic bridging programs, QTc studies, as well as, serving as Principal Investigator for many adaptive trial designs. His experience includes leadership roles such as Medical Director for research sites located in California and Texas. In addition, he is currently a contributing member for a Data Safety Monitoring Board.
Juan Pablo Frias, M.D., Medical Director
Dr. Frias, a native of Chile, completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Florida and received his medical degree from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. After serving 5 years as a General Medical Officer in the US Navy, he completed his training in Internal Medicine at Vanderbilt University and the University of Tennessee, and his Fellowship in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Frías has held leadership positions in Clinical and Medical Affairs at Eli Lilly, Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Pfizer, and Johnson and Johnson, where he served as Chief Medical Officer and Global Vice President of Clinical and Medical Affairs, Diabetes Care. Dr. Frías has held academic positions at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes, and the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, where he is currently on the clinical faculty. He is also active in the non-profit organization Taking Control of Your Diabetes (TCOYD), where he lectures at the organization's Latino Initiative patient conferences and provides continuing medical education for healthcare providers. Dr. Frías has been involved in diabetes and metabolism-related research for over 15 years and has authored numerous publications in this field.
Mike Delgado, Site Director, Westlake
Mike is a highly qualified Clinical Research professional with over 12 years of experience in the research field. His experience ranges from study coordination to site management across all phases of research. Mike has worked across a spectrum of indications including Metabolic Disease, Women's Health, CNS and many other therapeutic areas. His current position as Site Director includes a hands-on approach to study coordination, staff mentorship, leadership and training. He is a certified Medical Assistant.
Rosa Bonilla, Site Director, Huntington Park
Rosa is a seasoned leader having more than 20 years of clinical research experience with National Research Institute. Rosa has served many different roles at National Research Institute including as a Clinical Research Coordinator, Project Manager and now as the Site Director at National Research Institute's Huntington Park location. She is a certified Research Coordinator with an extensive list of certifications including GCP, FDA guidelines, CDUs in Diabetes, as well as, EDC certifications across multiple systems.
Modesto Carrillo, Site Director, Panorama City
Modesto received a degree in Fire Science. In addition, he is a trained Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) with over 9 years of experience in the medical field. Modesto's knowledge as an EMT broadened his vision and helped launch his career in research. As Site Director, Modesto is dedicated to operational excellence and staff development through strategic mentoring. He is a warm, compassionate and highly motivated leader supporting his staff in the conduction of research studies across multiple therapeutic indications.
Minie Mercado, LVN, Site Director, Santa Ana
NRI welcomes Minie Mercado, LVN, a highly seasoned research professional. She has conducted studies from Phase 1-4 for the past 25 years. Some of her experience expands CNS, Metabolic and Liver Disease. Prior to NRI, she was head of NASH research with a local Hepatology center. We are very excited to have her join our NRI team and help us launch our Santa Ana site.
Evelyn Alvarez, MS, Employee & Public Relations
Evelyn leads both employee and public relations at National Research Institute. She graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz with a Bachelor of Arts in Intensive Psychology and holds a Master of Science degree in Applied Psychology from the University of Southern California with concentrations in Consumer and Organizational Psychology. Part of her dual role at NRI includes managing employee development and mentoring, keeping up with laws and regulations, and supporting employee best practices. She also focuses in increasing awareness and understanding of NRI's vision, mission, and accomplishments.
Susy Munoz, Patient Recruitment Director
Susy has more than 10 years of experience in patient recruitment, engagement, and retention. Areas of therapeutic experience include, Diabetes, Hypertension, Hypercholesterolemia, NAFLD/NASH, Women's Health, and others. Susy was awarded a Master of Arts Organizational Psychology degree from Alliant International University and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology. She uses both her educational and professional experience to strategize for the success of the patient recruitment teams through creative recruitment strategies for all NRI sites.