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Thus, a playlist is required and, like any good road tripper, I also have a road trip playlist which has an astonishing 185 songs! When one considers that I had to cover over 10 hour long drives without getting bored, it is not a bad length.
However, on a warm and humid day on the lake, I began to wonder which of those songs define this year's road trips. A couple of songs take me back to the French autoroute ...
As you may know from a former blog post, I am not too on board with the notion that every road trip playlist needs to consists of only 80ies songs. I am fond of dance, electro and chill house music - especially in summer. And all right I admit it, the only exception of this playlist is "You're My Best Friend" by Queen which simply slipped into there because ...
So sit back, plug in your earphones, relax and listen. Or alternatively, sit back, plug your phone into your car and set of on your road trip!
1. Freesol (Dabin Remix) by Seven Lions feat. Skyler Stonestreet:This song had almost made the cut in my last road trip playlist. It has become even more important in this one because where else can you achieve the freedom and state of Freesol (def.: state of mind - a freedom of expression - with a main objective of never conforming to the usual way of doing things) better than during a road trip where you can basically go anywhere where your car takes you, and be nowhere at all during the same time. For me, it is always the best song to start a road trip.
2. Only One (Radio Edit) by Sigala + Digital Farm Animals:For "Only One" it is the vibe that counts. When I listen this song, I can pretty much image two girls driving a Cabrio along an empty road near a beach while dancing and their hair floats in the wind.
3. Around the Fire by Ofenbach:Lived in my mayor road trip playlist since its creation in 2017 but since it played when I rolled into Le Mans after covering a whooping 1.500 km it has a special place in my heart. Thus, I decided to play it when leaving the camping site as well. From then on, it has always been linked to this unforgettable trip.
4. Fast Car ft. Dakota by Jonas Blue:Despite the title, "Fast Car" is a song about anything but road tripping. However, I feel it belongs on the list because on a road trip, I have a sense of being in full control of all my decisions and enjoy the total freedom.
While I am also fond of the original, I picked this for the road because it has a more upbeat flow.
5. Take Me Higher by IlleniumA road trip playlist without Illenium is physically impossible for me, and "Take Me Higher" is one of their calmer tunes. So in the sense that every playlist needs some softer tunes, this song is the perfect pick.
6. Jona Vark by Gypsy And The Cat:Honestly this dream pop song simply flows so well to the image of cars cursing along and when it comes on, I simply can't help to sing along during the chorus.
7. You're My Best Friend by Queen:If I wrote that a mixture of Good Omens, sunglasses, The Girlfriend and the Vösendorfer Knoten are to blame for its spot up here would anyone be surprised? Basically after admitting that I don't really know any "Queen", it was suggested to me that I better get acquainted, and as such, I was listening to this while navigating the intersection on the Autobahn. Incidentally I was also wearing my Ugly Glasses TM - aka Crowley sunnies - and at the same time I recalled that Crowley listens to this song while in the car as well ... Thus, that settled it.
Side-note: this is a love song.
8. Drew Barrymore by Lu2Vyk:While this might sound like the opposite of a reason why it should be on a road trip playlist, this is there due to traffic jams. As someone who uses the Vösendorfer Knoten, used the ring road around Paris, and has been stuck in traffic in four different countries, I learned to cope with the stress of stop-go traffic. I personally feel that this is more stressful than being fully stuck. This is where "Drew Barrymore" comes in, because it has an easy lyrics and a simpler melody I ended up singing along for minutes and on repeat while slow moving on various motorways.
9. Bangalore Streets by Kungs feat. Freia:This song is not on there due to the name, and honestly, I don't even recall the lyrics. But it is just the song you need that can get you into the grove when you have already been on the trott for over five hours. It has a different rhythm and is interesting to listen to.
10. Stranger Things by Kygo [feat. OneRepublic]:When I listen to "Strange Things" a certain image always comes to mind: time-lapse photography of cars at night. Similar to this:
Pretty much exactly this. Tell me I am wrong?
What are the songs that mark your 2019 road trip experiences?


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Nan Kathryn Brazee Stromberg
Nan Kathryn Brazee Stromberg, born January 22, 1928 in Shelby, Nebraska, passed away on May 12, 2014, at the Medical Center of the Rockies at the age of 86. She had been a Fort Collins resident since, 1962, and spent most of her life in the lovely home she shared with her husband, Bill in Poudre Canyon. Nan entered her eternal peace surrounded by her loved ones.
Nan and Bill enjoyed living in Poudre Park for over 30 years. Nan loved the community environment and was known for her holiday parties, hospitality, embroidery, and baking, especially for her homemade cinnamon rolls. Over the years, her 12 grandchildren enjoyed sitting at her breakfast nook and choosing cereal from the special variety packs she always had in the cupboard, and playing with her dogs, Rocky and Sunshine.
Nan was a member and greeter at Faith Evangelical Free Church in Fort Collins, and a participant in various church activities including Women of the Word.
Nana will be sorely missed by her husband, Bill; daughters, Linda Kraxberger and husband, Dave, Vicki Kingry and husband, Howard, Jo Payson and husband, Jim, Connie Sherwood and husband, Tom; son, Will and wife,, Deb. She has twelve grandchildren and nineteen great grandchildren.
One of Nana's favorite Bible verses was Romans 15:13. "May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the Power of the Holy Spirit.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Faith Evangelical Free Church or St. Jude's Foundation in care of Bohlender Funeral Chapel, 121 W. Olive, Fort Collins, Colorado 80524. Friends may send condolences to the family at bohlenderfuneralchapel.com.
A Memorial Service will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday at Faith Evangelical Free Church, 3920 S Shields St.

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It's National Library Week (April 13 – 19) in America – not a global celebration run simultaneously unfortunately but let's take it to our corner of the world, shall we? Libraries have changed from the 'quiet, echoing halls' of bygone days into spaces enjoyed by all ages, classes and cultures. There is investment in new city libraries and fierce support for numerous small libraries in towns and small hamlets alike. As you can read in this article – libraries are well loved around the globe and have adapted to the needs of their visitors. The range of traditional and modern buildings is striking.
I have included images of our new library, which my community is extremely proud of. The original looked like this. It served it's community well and there is still a fondness for the 'old' building.
The interior of the new one is spectacular – as you can see here. With numerous specialized spaces it caters to all.
What is your library like? Do you love spending time there? Does it have a unique feature?
I enjoyed this article and thought we should write our own love letter to our library. So that is the fun prompt for this week. Mine is below.
Love Letter to Strathcona County library, Sherwood Park, Alberta.
With gleaming glass panels reflecting the light and spectacular artwork adorning your walls, you are a vision to behold. A comfortable chair nestled into an alcove embraces the solitary reader while communal study rooms and computer desks cater to the young and senior alike. Your glowing fireplace makes for a cozy reading nook or a place for conversation sitting on low sofas. The story tree changes with the seasons as children read and listen to fascinating words under its branches. You embrace all who enter and feed their minds. It is a privilege to call you my own and I love the hours I spend within your walls.
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The Home Depot in Anaheim Hills just finished a major home improvement project on itself – and it's showing off the complete makeover on Thursday.
The biggest change: It's now like The Home Depot on steroids.
The store, called The Home Depot Superstore, was remodeled and expanded to 205,000 square feet – about one-third larger than a typical Home Depot. Those proportions make it the Atlanta-based home improvement chain's largest store in the West and the second largest Home Depot in the nation. The Union, N.J., superstore is the largest at 217,000 square feet.
But the makeover is more than just about size. Given all that new square footage, the store, which stayed open during the six-month renovation, now features a wider assortment in all product categories, more "lifestyle vignettes" to give people design and decorating ideas, and upgraded customer service areas for both consumers and home improvement professionals. It incorporates products and display elements from the shuttered Expo Design Centers and Home Decorators Collection, the latter of which is primarily a catalog/online division.
Some of the changes:
•The store has a new layout with three main sections: home improvement supplies on one end and in the back, home design in the middle, outdoors/garden on the other end. A large counter dedicated to returns has its own room and corridor, located near one of the entrances.
•A large customer service area is located in the center of the store and features a central counter and a waiting area with armchairs. Near the tile display areas are transparent but enclosed meeting rooms where trade professionals such as interior designers can meet with their clients. On one side of the store is an entrance to which contractors can pull up in their trucks, plus a large open counter where they can conduct their transactions.
•In between the two front entrances is a new section devoted to cleaning products such as laundry detergents and commercial-grade floor polishing solutions.
•In the tools section, there's a new demo counter where customers can try sanders and hand drills for fit, size, weight and performance.
•In the outdoor living section, there's a putting green with artificial turf next to a living room setting complete with a synthetic pergola.
•There are several showroom vignettes featuring Kohler and American Standard bathroom products the way they could look in a home.
•A number of products, such as sinks and toilets, were brought down from upper shelves to lower shelves, making these products easier to view.
And, there's free wi-fi in the store.
The store added 50 new employees as a result of the expansion.
The superstore is the result of the original store having taken over the vacant retail space next door formerly occupied by Kmart several years ago, said Louie Salerno, assistant manager at the Anaheim Hills store. The new space was temporarily repurposed to house the outdoors/garden section.
Eventually, officials at the company headquarters saw a unique opportunity to combine and renovate the retail spaces to create a superstore, said Kathryn Gallagher, spokeswoman for The Home Depot in Orange County.
The store's opening comes at a time when consumer spending on home improvement appears to be picking up modestly. About 17 percent of consumers plan to spend more on home improvement this month, the highest figure since May 2011, according to the Discover U.S. Spending Monitor, a four-year-old daily poll tracking economic confidence and spending intentions of nearly 8,200 consumers throughout the month. In February, home improvement spending intentions rose, the highest spike between February and March since Discover Financial Services began tracking this category in 2008.
But where the original store ends and where the new one begins is not readily discernible until you look closely at the change in shade of the polished concrete floor, Salerno said. He added that although there may be similarities to the Union, NJ. superstore, the Anaheim Hills superstore, by virtue of being newer, showcases the latest innovations and improvements in large-scale retailing for home improvement products and is designed for a wide range of customers, including affluent shoppers.
The additional space was the major catalyst for the change and at the moment, the Anaheim Hills store is a one-a-kind in the Western region, Gallagher said. No other superstores are in the works. However, O.C. stores will be renovated or relocated as needed. Up next, the Fullerton store, which will be relocated on Aug. 30 to a new space near its present location at 601 S. Placentia Avenue.
On a national level, the chain announced in February that it was planning 11 new stores. Sales for The Home Depot in 2011 were $70.4 billion, an increase of 3.5 percent from 2010 sales.
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The superstore will conduct preview tours for the public beginning at 1 p.m. on Thursday.
The grand reopening will be on Saturday, with vendor demonstrations, giveaways, prize drawings, how-to clinics and refreshments.
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Happy Valentine's Day!
Not being the most romantic person in the world, Valentine's Day usually means sweets and chocolates to me rather than love. What with Pancake Tuesday and Valentines Day all falling in the one week this year it has been quite a treat filled few days!!!
I must say though I did receive some of my favourite perfume from my Hb!
What a lovely day it is today after what has been a quite grey, wet and cold period, today is bright and the temperature is quite pleasant.
My little primula are very happy indeed!
I'm still waiting for some of my garden bulbs to bloom though, I'm sure I had some out before this time last year.
I was very lucky this week to receive this pretty little brooch which I won in a giveaway. It was made by the talented Claire Garland from Dot Pebbles! If you love little knitted animals and toys you'll love Claire's blog, I have actually been very lucky on Claire's blog because a few weeks back I was also lucky enough to win this beautiful pattern too. Claire has written quite a few books which you can find here. You can also find her here, here and here.
I'm fortunate in that as my name begins with 'V' it means I can wear my little brooch all year round and not just on Valentine's Day!
I've finished my fourth and final Valentine girl, for this year anyway.
Her name is Aimee which is from the French je-taime (I love you) and means beloved friend, quite appropriate don't you think.
Well, as I started with some sweeties for Valentines Day, I thought I'd finish with some too!!
Have a lovely rest-of-the-week and a wonderful weekend, thanks as always for all your visits and encouraging comments!
And again Happy Valentine's Day !!! 🙂


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Library Mobile Web Interface (MWI)
Keeping in view the importance of remote services, Gad & Birgit Rausing Library has successfully introduced the library mobile web interface. The library catalog is now searchable through mobile devices configured to support internet connectivity. Now the patrons can connect to the library portal through mobile devices and use the following facilities through MWI:
Library Resources
Information about library and login ID
Patron Account
Patron can login to the iPortal account using his smart card ID and library account password (Default password is set to DD-MM-YY). He/she can check the library fine details and list of checked out items with the check out date.
Patrons can search the library catalog through author, title, subject and even use the Anywhere option.
Patrons can also use the author, title, subject browse search option to get the results in dictionary order.
Just set your mobile device browser to http://libraryportal.lums.edu.pk/search/query?theme=lums


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Jumping The Shark
We're back! This week, Sam and Lani discuss jumping the shark – how to do it, how not to do it, and… well… what it is. For those of you who are worried, it doesn't involve any actual sharks. We may drink a lot of wine, but we're not crazy. We manage to not answer the question of the week while encouraging cats with bad grammar. Also, we go long. Really long. But that's because we're making up for all those weeks we missed, and not because we can't shut up. Right? Riiiiiiiggggggghhhhhht.


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"It was literally true: I was going through life asleep. My body had no more feeling than a drowned corpse. My very existence, my life in the world, seemed like a hallucination. A strong wind would make me think my body was about to be blown to the end of the earth, to some land I had never seen or heard of, where my mind and body would separate forever."
—From Sleep, by Haruki Murakami, 1989
We've all been there. You go to bed, close your eyes, blanket your mind and wait for consciousness to fade. A timeless interval later, you wake up, refreshed and ready to face the challenges of a new day (note how you can never catch yourself in the act of losing consciousness!). But sometimes your inner world does not turn off—your mind remains hypervigilant. You toss and turn but can't find the blessed relief of sleep. The reasons for sleeplessness may be many, but the consequences are always the same: You are fatigued the following day, you feel sleepy, you nap. Attention wanders, your reaction time slows, you have less cognitive-emotional control. Fortunately, fatigue is reversible and disappears after a night or two of solid sleep.
We spend about one third of our lives in a state of repose, defined by relative behavioral immobility and reduced responsiveness to external stimuli. Cumulatively, this amounts to several decades' worth of sleep over the lifetime of an average person. Ah, I know you're thinking, Wouldn't it be great if we cut down on this "wasted" time to be able to do more! When I was younger, I, too, lived by the motto "You can sleep when you're dead." But I've woken up to the fact that for optimal, long-term physical and mental health, we need sleep.
Humans share this need for daily sleep with all multicellular creatures, as anybody growing up with dogs, cats or other pets knows.
An understanding of sleep's importance can be observed by contemplating the biological process itself. Sleep is homeostatically regulated with exquisite precision: pressure to go to sleep builds up during the day until we feel sleepy in the evening, yawn continuously and nod off. If deprived of sleep, humans experience an ultimately irresistible need to seek repose—they, in fact, become "sleep drunk." An older, 19th-century term, closer to the truth, is "cerebral exhaustion," the brain demanding its rest.
In my last Consciousness Redux column, I described how clinicians define sleep by recording brain waves from a net of electroencephalogram (EEG) sensors placed on the scalp of the sleeper [see photograph below]. Like the surface of the sea, the electrical brain is ceaselessly in commotion, reflecting the unseen, tiny tremors in the cerebral cortex underneath the skull that are picked up by the EEG electrodes. Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep is characterized by low-voltage, choppy, swiftly changing brain waves (paradoxically, also typical of relaxed wakefulness), whereas non-REM sleep is marked by slowly rising and falling waves of larger amplitude. Indeed, the deeper and more restful the sleep, the slower and larger the waves that reflect the brain's idling, restorative activity. These voltage oscillations, referred to as delta waves, can be as slow as once every four seconds and as fast as four times a second (that is, in the 0.25- to four-hertz frequency range). Tuning into the discharge of individual neurons during deep sleep reveals discrete off periods, when nerve cells cease generating any electrical activity for 300 to 400 milliseconds. Such recurring silent periods, synchronized across large parts of the cortex, are the cellular hallmark of deep sleep.
My last column, "To Sleep with Half a Brain," highlighted the growing realization of sleep researchers that being awake and asleep are not all-or-none phenomena. Just because you're asleep doesn't necessarily imply that your entire brain is asleep. Conversely, as I will describe now, we have also learned that even when you're awake, your entire brain may not be awake.
A case in point for sleep intruding into wakefulness involves brief episodes of sleep known as microsleep. These intervals can occur during any monotonous task, whether driving long distances across the country, listening to a speaker droning on or attending yet another never-ending departmental meeting. You're drowsy, your eyes get droopy, the eyelids close, your head repeatedly nods up and down and then snaps up: your consciousness lapses.
In one experiment attempting to explore this condition, participants had to track a randomly moving target on a computer monitor with a joystick for 50 minutes. While straightforward, this visuomotor task demands nonstop attention that becomes difficult to sustain after a while. Indeed, on average, participants had 79 microsleep episodes per hour, lasting between 1.1 and 6.3 seconds apiece, with an attendant drop in performance. Microsleep shows up in the EEG record by a downward shift from activity dominated by the alpha band (8 to 13 Hz range) to oscillations in the theta band (4 to 7 Hz).
Perniciously, subjects typically believe themselves to be alert all the time during microsleep without recalling any period of unconsciousness. This misapprehension can be perilous to someone in the driver's seat. Microsleep can be fatal when driving or operating machinery such as trains or airplanes, hour after tedious hour. During a microsleep episode, the entire brain briefly falls asleep, raising the question of whether bits and pieces of the brain can go to sleep by themselves, without the entire organ succumbing to slumber.
Indeed, Italian-born neuroscientists Chiara Cirelli and Giulio Tononi, who study sleep and consciousness at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, discovered "sleepy neurons" in experimental animals that showed no behavioral manifestation of sleep. In this research, 11 adult rats had microwires implanted into their frontal motor cortex, which controls movement. Inserted into the cortical tissue, the sensors picked up both the voltage called the local field potential (LFP), akin to the EEG, in addition to the spiking activity of nearby nerve cells. As expected, when awake, the LFP was dominated by low-amplitude, fast waves readily distinguishable from the larger and slower waves characteristic of non-REM deep sleep [see box below].
At the level of individual neurons, the awake animals' cortical cells chatted away in an irregular, staccato manner over an extended period. Conversely, during deep sleep, cortical neurons experienced pronounced "on" periods of neural activity and "off" times during which they are silent. This neuronal reticence occurs simultaneously all over the cortex. It alternates with regular on periods, leading to the rising and falling brain waves that are the hallmark of deep sleep.
Knowing all this, the researchers decided to probe further. Instead of letting the rats go to sleep at their usual bedtime, the experimentalists engaged the animals in a rodent version of late-night video gaming, continuously exposing them to toys and other objects to sniff, explore and play with. They tapped on the cage and otherwise prevented them from assuming a sleep posture or becoming drowsy. After four hours of such excitement, the rats could finally slumber.
As expected from previous animal and human studies, by the end of the sleep deprivation phase, the LFP began to shift to lower frequencies, compatible with the idea that the pressure for the animals to sleep steadily built up. Closer inspection of the electrical signatures, however, revealed something unexpected: occasional, sporadic, silent periods of all or most of the neurons in the recorded brain region [see box below] without the animals showing either behavioral or EEG manifestations of microsleep. These short, off-like episodes were often associated with slow waves in the LFP. The opposite happened during recovery sleep, toward the end of this six-hour period, when the pressure to sleep had presumably abated. At this point, large and slow waves in the LFP became more infrequent, and neuronal activity turned more irregular, as it did during wakefulness.
It appears that when awake but sleep-deprived, neurons show signs of sleepiness, whereas after hours of solid sleep, individual neurons start waking up. Careful statistical analysis confirmed these trends: the number of off periods increased during the four hours the rats were forced to stay awake, and the opposite dynamic occurred during recovery sleep.
One question was whether any one neuron fell asleep independent of any other neuron. Or was this occurrence more of a global phenomenon, whereby all neurons simultaneously transition to an off period? The answer, obtained by implanting a second array of microwires into a second cortical region—the parietal cortex, a quite distinct region from the motor cortex—was "yes" to both questions.
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That is, sometimes neurons in both regions went off together, whereas at other times they did so independently. Yet as the sleep pressure built up, after several hours of being kept awake, neuronal activity during sleep deprivation did become more globally synchronized (as it does in deep sleep). Likewise, the longer the animal slept during the recovery period, the less likely slow waves were simultaneously detected at both cortical sites. Groups of neurons can be more easily recruited to produce the slow oscillations that constitute deep sleep when sleep pressure is high.
These results paint a more nuanced view of wakefulness and sleep than the prevailing one, in which both conditions were considered to be global, all-or-none states of consciousness. Instead these data, buttressed by single-neuron recordings from patients with implanted microelectrodes, as used occasionally in epilepsy treatment, suggest that even when the subject is awake, the individual's neurons can become tired and occasionally check out. The heavier the sleep pressure, the more likely this will happen simultaneously at many places in cortex. Conversely, after many hours of restful sleep, some of these neurons become decoupled from these brain-wide oscillations and begin to wake up.
But with neurons going off-line during sleep deprivation, shouldn't there be some deterioration in performance? After all, these neurons must serve some purpose, and if they drowse, something ought to suffer. To investigate this question, Cirelli, Tononi and their collaborators trained the rats to reach with one of their front paws through a narrow opening to grasp a sugar pellet on a shelf. If done clumsily, the pellet falls off and cannot be retrieved anymore.
Learning this task engages a particular sector of the motor cortex that undergoes change as a consequence of training. Trawling for off periods while the animal reaches out for the sweets, the investigators found these gaps in neuronal firing are more likely to occur in the motor cortex a fraction of a second before a failed attempt to grab the pellet as compared with when the rat successfully picked up a sweet treat. Indeed, the occurrence of a single off period lowered the odds of a successful trial by more than a third. These effects were restricted to the motor cortex and were not seen in the parietal cortex, which is not engaged by the reaching task. As the animals became more sleep-deprived, their overall performance suffered, as is typical for sleep-deprived humans.
Local Slumber
What this study discovered is the existence of local sleep during sleep deprivation: isolated cortical groups of neurons that briefly go off-line while the animal, to all outward appearances, continues to move about and do what it does. Local shut-eye is more likely to occur if those neurons are actively engaged, as they are when learning to grab a sugar pellet. Neurons, too, become tired and disengaged, a microcosm of what happens to the whole organism.
Extrapolating from these data, it seems plausible that as the pressure for sleep increases, the frequency of these off events and their preponderance in the cortex increase until activity in the entire brain becomes suddenly but briefly synchronized and the brain falls into deep sleep—the eyes close, and the head nods. The subject enters microsleep.
Sleep is a fascinating subject, even though we cannot knowingly experience deep sleep, because our consciousness is switched off. Sleep is a finely regulated aspect of our brain's daily cycle as the sun rises and sets, a state whose function remains controversial.
Over the past century clinicians and neuroscientists have discovered different sleep phases (rapid eye and nonrapid eye movements) and the distinct regions of the midbrain and brain stem involved in controlling them. What is more, these researchers have demystified narcolepsy, when patients abruptly and irresistibly fall asleep, microsleep and now local sleep. What will come next?


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At last, the Hindenburg of music festivals has gotten the documentary treatment. Next Friday, Netflix will debut its movie about the Fyre Festival—a 2017 gathering intended to be the ultimate exclusive escape for social-media influencers and their wealthy fans that quickly turned into catastrophe.
You remember the stories, right? The Ja Rule-co-founded island getaway melted down seemingly overnight, transforming into something out of a disaster movie. The festival sold out within 48 hours—but instead of bungalows, attendees were given wet mattresses and dwellings that looked like FEMA tents. Gourmet cuisine? Try bread with cheese next to tomato slices. And Blink-182, the band set to headline the festival, backed out before it even began. All of this and more come front and center in the Netflix doc trailer released Thursday.
As festival organizer Billy McFarland faces down his six-year federal-prison sentence, you can enjoy the disaster he sowed in the Bahamas from the comfort of your living room. Netflix describes the doc as an "exclusive behind-the-scenes look" at Fyre's self-immolation.
Emmy-nominated director Chris Smith helmed the film, which interviews the festival organizers themselves to try and figure out how it all went so wrong. As one interviewee puts it in the trailer, "Powerful models built this festival—and then one picture of cheese on toast ripped down the festival." But, what can we say? You live, you learn, you probably never go to the Bahamas again.


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One last-ditch effort to lure Revis back, as Ryan and Jets owner Woody Johnson flew to South Florida on Saturday to meet with the star cornerback. The Jets had previously expressed little optimism that they would be able to strike a deal with Revis in the near future, even as their season opener approached. This is an intermediate step to what we hope is an entire career of Darrelle as a Jet," he said. "For him to retire a Jet, for him to hopefully go to the Hall of Fame one day as a Jet and for him to be in our ring of honor."
The Jets' front office seems willing to take its chances against Baltimore without Revis. The Ravens' passing attack should be improved with the addition of wide receiver Anquan Boldin, but they're not a spread-the-field, air-it-out offense. One NFL personnel executive, who didn't want his name used, believes a Revis-less secondary would hold up against the Ravens.There were several references to Revis on the third episode of the show, including Bart Scott's crack during a magic show on the team's final night in Cortland.


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- 4 GB RAM, 64 GB inbuilt
- 3400 mAh Battery (Li-ion)
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● Huawei P30 Lite Display:-The Huawei P30 Lite armed with a 6 inch IPS LCD display which exhibits 1080 x 2340 pixels of screen resolution. It results in 430 PPI of quality pixel density.
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● Huawei P30 Lite Configuration (Expected) :-The Huawei P30 Lite is powered by dual quad-core processors such as 2.2Ghz Cortex A73 and 1.7Ghz Cortex A53 processors. The smartphone also gets 4GB RAM, which easily accessible the entire process of multitasking. For fulfilling the requirements of the Huawei P30 Lite, an Mali-G51 MP4 graphics processor is also present. The whole combination is work on a HiSilicone Kirin 710 chipset. The operating system is used by Huawei P30 Lite is the Android v9.0 (Pie) the Latest OS from Google.
So this is the only Configuration of Huawei P30 Lite Specifications
■ Huawei P30 Lite Connectivity and battery:-So now talk about Connectivity and battery
● Huawei P30 Lite Connectivity:-Huawei P30 Lite also features some more connectivity features like 4G with VoLTE, Wi-Fi, Mobile Hotspot, GPS, Bluetooth, etc.
So this is only Connectivity features of Huawei P30 Lite Specifications
So, guys, this is Huawei P30 Lite specifications article... now let's see who need to Buy and who need to Don't Buy Huawei P30 Lite.
● Huawei P30 Lite Battery:-A 3400 mAh Li-ion battery powers Huawei P30 Lite which is enough for this phone and its hold the battery for 24+ hours. It's comes with Quick charging.
■ Huawei P30 Lite Price in India :-This is 4GB RAM /64GB internal storage variant of Huawei P30 Lite which is expected to available in black Colour.
Huawei P30 Lite Price in India ₹32,990
■ Huawei P30 lite Launch Date in India :-
Now let's talk about Huawei P30 Lite Launch Date, Huawei P30 Lite Expected to be launched in March 26, 2019. (Expected)
■ ADVANTAGES:-Now let's talk about Advantages Huawei P30 Lite :)
- Excellent Cameras
- Impressive Display
- Good Performance
- Good Battery Backup
■ DISADVANTAGES:-Now let's talk about Disadvantages of Huawei P30 Lite :(
- Non-Removable Battery
Below are some more specifications of Huawei P30 Lite.
■ My Opinion for Huawei P30 LiteSo it's time for my Opinion:-
The Huawei P30 Lite has an amazing set of camera and the superfine display reveal its feature prowess. The battery is decent enough to provide a backup though out the day. It comes with a premium looking design so it looks good in your hand. If the smartphone is used a lot then the user needs to plug this phone to charging and The processor is strong and enough to handle any sort of multitasking and high-end gaming. Overall the phone looks Excellent.
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ModelP30 Lite
Front Camera24MP
Front camera featuresHDR
Rear Camera20MP + 16MP + 2MP
Display size6 inch
Processor2.2GHz, HiSilicon Kirin 710,
Octa core processor.
Resolution2340 x 1080 pixels
Video Recording quality4k @ 30fps
SIM SizeDual SIM(nano + nano) Smartphone that accepts a Nano SIM and 4G(support Indian bands), 3G,2G.
Internal Memory64GB
SIM Slot(s)Dual SIM(GSM + GSM)
OSAndroid v9.0 (Pie)
Rear flashYes, LED flash
Face unlock--
Fingerprint sensorYas
Product Price in India₹ 32,990
Release dateMarch 26, 2019 (Expected)
Fast chargingYas
Screen typeIPS LCD
Expandable MemoryNo
BatteryNon-removable Li-ion 3400mAh battery.
GPUMali-G51 MP4
Audio JackYes, 3.5mm
Wireless charging----
Aspect ratio----
Video type4k video, slow-motion video, height frame rate videos.
Inbox ContentsMobile, Adaptor, micro USB cable, warranty card, SIM card ejector, quick guide, screen protect film, case.
SensorsG -sensor, Proximity sensor, Light sensor, Accelerometer, compass.
ConnectivityWi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, and OTG.
Pixels per inch (ppi)~430
ChipsetHiSilicon Kirin 710
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1953- Bernacchia Brothers begin bus service with 4 vehicles
1956- Bernacchia Brothers Bus company became Liberty Coaches Inc.
1969- Bus Associates Inc is founded and acquires West Fordham Trans. Co., Mount Vernon, and White Plains Routes from Westchester Street Trans. Co. Ray Murphy (Westchester Street Transportation) joins forces with Bernacchia Brothers
1970- Liberty and Westchester County form partnership
1972- Yonkers Transit Routes are acquired by Liberty Coaches, Inc., Club Trans., and Westchester Street.
1975- Liberty acquired Riverdale Transit.
1981-Club Transportation Corp.1981- Liberty acquires Club Transportation.
1982- Liberty designs and coordinates re-construction of a Central Maintenance and Operations Facility in Yonkers, NY to consolidate all its transit services, officially opened in 1982.
1983- 60 Foot articulated buses are introduced to Westchester and the NY Metropolitan area.
1985- Liberty transfers Charter and Atlantic City services to Vanguard Tours.
1993- Liberty begins operating North-County services from Westchester County's Cerrato Facility in Valhalla
1998- Liberty received two awards from the NYS Public Transit Safety Board; the first in recognition of Superior Achievement in Preventive Maintenance , the other in recognition of the implementation of an Innovative Safety Program.
1999- Liberty acquires Hartsdale Bus
2005- Liberty transfers express services between the Bronx and Manhattan (Liberty Lines Express) to MTA Bus Company
2006- Low Floor-Hybrid (diesel-Electric) buses are introduced to Westchester


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Recently I found myself in a place torn between climate change and migration, lacking in knowledge, looking for a bibliography, seeking out what might speak to my questions. That was hard to find. There is no lack of materials on climate change and global warming nor of literature on all types on migration and refugees. There is less on the conflation between the two, and I find most of the material unnecessarily abstract and fluffy, or hyper-pragmatic, catastrophic, and situation-specific. I am pulled between two equally distancing possibilities, looking for voices that bring these two issues closer together and to me, that work against distance and empathize across time and space. Where to go between Donna Haraway and disaster activism in Northern Greece?
I feel out of my depth in these subjects, having given them not much more than general interest and concern in the past. I am by no means on anyone's list of whom to contact if they were setting up a project on related issues and think: Which artists have been looking at…? Therefore this contribution, as well as some recent projects of mine on the subject, are part of a larger desire to educate myself.
A recurrent strand in my work of the past decades brought me to look as this more closely: I am interested in the disconnect, in how certain things remain hidden in plain sight, in forms of blindness—to disturbing phenomena, to evil, to violence—but also in the disconnect between thinking and action, between so-called good will and injustice in everyday life, in the banal forms of alienation. Part of the challenge lies in reconnecting, making things close, tying them back to an immediate present, to tangible possibilities. Drawing out, outlining, and explicating this chain of connections links us and our conception of our surroundings (contingent, partial, intimate, small-scale, fragmented) with larger forces at work: global phenomena, world politics, and abstractions that we might be able to comprehend in intellectual terms but not in personal or actionable ones. I feel these to be the most urgent issues around climate change and migration: the mapping of coordinates that tie us to large abstract notions like extraction, the distance between an individual's perception and the global scale of climate change, the zooming out from the tangible and the abstract. The lectures and films I have selected are all in some way singular movements of connection that practice the difficult task of linking our acts to their consequences, reducing distance much like Charles and Ray Eames's Powers of Ten allows one to grasp infinity by connecting it to two people having a picnic on a sunny day.[1]1
Charles and Ray Eames, Powers of Ten: A Film Dealing with the Relative Size of Things in the Universe and the Effect of Adding Another Zero, 9 mm, 1968.
In her introduction to the conference "Extraction: Decolonial Visual Cultures in the Age of the Capitalocene," Laurie Palmer said:
Extraction can be understood in general terms as the withdrawal of shared and vital resources, not just material and land, but also time, energy, labor, data, without reciprocity or return. And it is intimately tied to the logics of colonialism and of capitalism. The scale of earth's disturbance at literal material extraction sites dwarfs our bodies and creates a feeling of utter helplessness and inconsequence, which can be similar to the feeling invoked by just mentioning the word 'capitalism.' The seeming totalizing nature of that word tends to freeze up any sense of possibility that things could be different than the obscene capitalocene moment we seem to be in now, with its racial and environmental violence and its reduction of all value to profit. [2]2
Quoted from the introduction to the two-day conference "Extraction: Decolonial Visual Cultures in the Age of the Capitalocene," UC Santa Cruz, May 12, 2017, organized with T. J. Demos.
But how to deal with the consequences of living in a dangerously warmer world for people, animals, and environments? Confronted by the ever disappearing limits of capitalism's logic of extraction, of raw materials, of labor, of shared resources, of life and kinship, for those subjected to exclusions and destructions, whose way of life is threatened beyond recognition or survival, there is no possibility other than to challenge these limits, resist capitalism's advance, refuse one's given role in the existing order of things—and become, in some or all ways, a fugitive.
Part of this research was developed through the project Cinema Zagara, with Filipa Ramos, itself within Geometries, curated by Locus Athens.
—Céline Condorelli
Céline Condorelli is a London- and Lisbon-based artist, a professor at NABA–Nuova Accademia di Belli Arti Milano, and a founding director of Eastside Projects, Birmingham. She is the author and editor of Support Structures published by Sternberg Press in 2009.
Recent exhibitions include Zanzibar, a permanent installation for the Kings Cross Project, London, and exhibition at Vera Cortes, Lisbon; Proposals for a Qualitative Society (spinning), Stroom Den Haag; and Corps á Corps, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, which featured a sculpture garden that received The Australian Institute of Architects Art and Architecture Prize. Her work was included in the 2016 Gwangju, Liverpool, and Sydney biennials. bau bau, her first monograph, was published by Mousse in 2017.
Preview image: Céline Condorelli, Cinema Zagara, 2018. Photo: Andreas Souchis.


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A few weeks ago, a small biotech company called Entasis published a small paper in The New England Journal of Medicine reporting on a successful Phase 2 trial of a new drug called zoliflodacin. Though the drug is still in its early days—it requires a larger Phase 3 trial and FDA approval before reaching the market—zoliflodacin is based on an exciting premise: It cures gonorrhea with a single oral dose.
Gonorrhea may not seem like a big deal. Aside from HIV, sexually transmitted diseases seem like solved problems, relics of some long-ago time when sex wasn't discussed and sexual health care was difficult to access.
In fact, gonorrhea is surging back, along with its equally forgotten partner, syphilis. In August the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that cases of all STDs have risen for four straight years, to the highest levels in a decade. A sizable portion of that spike is due to gonorrhea, which has become resistant to all the generations of antibiotics that have been used to treat it.
Maryn McKenna (@marynmck is an Ideas contributor for WIRED, a senior fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University, and the author of Big Chicken.
If zoliflodacin makes it through its last trials, it could provide an alternative treatment, one unhindered by resistance. But there's another story buried in the zoliflodacin news that's larger than any single drug. The edifice of STD control that has stood since World War II is crumbling. Funds have been cut, tests are proving inadequate, public health workers are being laid off, and any new compound—such as zoliflodacin—is likely to cost far more than the old antibiotics that have lost their power. One way or another, the era of inexpensive, uncomplicated STD treatment is probably over for good.
Let's backtrack. STD control is founded on a health care structure that is otherwise unusual in the United States: freestanding clinics, often publicly funded, that allowed patients to avoid stigma by seeking care from doctors who may not know them. The ability to treat infections quickly, ideally with a single antibiotic dose, was crucial to that structure, since there was no guarantee patients would return for followup. STDs were so common that inexpensive drugs were paramount.
The edifice of STD control that has stood since World War II is crumbling.
For decades, this combination of cheap drugs and accessible care worked pretty well—except that gonorrhea, which develops drug resistance quickly, was churning through almost every category of antibiotic used against it: sufas, penicillin, tetracycline, and then the fluoroquinolone class, leaving just one group, the cephalosporins, still effective.
Medicine missed some of that emerging resistance because beginning in the late 1990s, it adopted rapid tests. These tests returned results more quickly than old-style assays, which required growing organisms in culture, and thus sped up care to keep costs low. But, lacking a bacterium to test, rapid tests sacrificed the ability to tell whether an infection was antibiotic-resistant. Thus people with STDs received drugs that couldn't cure their infections, allowing resistant strains to spread as if they'd never been treated at all.
About 10 years ago, highly resistant gonorrhea began to spread from the Pacific Rim to California and Europe, forcing STD clinics to change treatment regimens from a single round of cephalosporin pills to an injection, bolstered by several days of a second oral antibiotic, azithromycin. That took away "partner-directed therapy," an important aspect of STD control in which an infected person delivered antibiotics to their sexual partner—because civilians can't be expected to administer shots.
And the injections didn't stop the spread of resistant disease: Cases of "super gonorrhea," resistant to that last two-drug therapy, were identified in the United Kingdom in March, and the CDC has been anxiously watching for it in the US since.
Cases of syphilis and chlamydia, the other important STDs, have been increasing just as gonorrhea has. "We have increasing rates of gonorrhea—we haven't seen rates this high since the pipeline construction days of the 1970s—and we've had a dramatic increase in syphilis," says Jay Butler, a physician and the commissioner of health and social services for Alaska. Though they don't develop resistance as rapidly as gonorrhea does, they have accumulated enough defenses against antibiotics to force the World Health Organization to update its global recommendations for most effective treatments. Their spread has been enabled by a different mechanism: the collapse of public health funding for STD control.
"Investments in STD prevention, at the national level, are effectively at a 40 percent decrease from what they were in 2003," says Matthew Prior, director of communications for the National Coalition of STD Directors. Throughout the US, most states have had to cut staff and programs, he added.
Those cuts keep people from getting tested or treated fast enough to keep STDs from spreading, and prevent health departments from deploying the public health workers who would track their partners down. You can see the effects in a spike in babies born in the US with syphilis, which reached a 20-year high in 2017, and in syphilis outbreaks among adults in Texas, California, and Georgia.
With the accumulation of all those dire circumstances, a new drug for gonorrhea ought to be a bright spot. If zoliflodacin makes it all the way through trials, it might well improve STD care; but it could also change it. The compound is new intellectual property, financed by an IPO that took place in September. To be successful, it will need to compensate its investors. So unlike every other STD drug before it, it's unlikely to be cheap.
Manos Perros, Entasis's CEO, declined to discuss how the drug might be priced, saying it's still too early in the approval process to propose hard numbers. But he agreed that its eventual cost is unlikely to be at the bargain-basement level of the generics that have held up STD care for so long.
An inexpensive drug garners revenue when it's administered to many millions of patients, as broad-spectrum antibiotics are now. But zoliflodacin was developed with a new molecular mechanism to treat only gonorrhea—which means it will likely be administered to tens of thousands, not millions. If it's not prescribed at a high volume, it can't stay at a low price and recoup its R&D.
A more expensive drug isn't the only hurdle that lies between society and lower STD rates. Clinics can't reopen without federal and state support. Preventing congenital syphilis requires investments in prenatal care. Tracking resistance will only be possible with molecular diagnostics that deliver susceptibility results—which are under development, but predicted to cost twice as much per test as the ones used now.
It all adds up to quite a bill, for a problem that was supposed to have been solved long ago. But as generations of grandmothers warned kids who were thinking about having sex: You have to pay the piper if you want to call the tune.


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A reminder from the maverick
I received an email today from a politician that routinely emails me. I routinely delete those emails before reading them. Today though I read it, and was very happy I did ... it included this quote attributed to John McCain and I wanted to share it.
"Before I leave, I'd like to see our politics begin to return to the purposes and practices that distinguish our history from the history of other nations. I would like to see us recover our sense that we are more alike than different. We are citizens of a republic made of shared ideals forged in a new world to replace the tribal enmities that tormented the old one. Even in times of political turmoil such as these, we share that awesome heritage and the responsibility to embrace it."
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How to Live When You Die
Mark 10:17-22
Vs17 – GOOD – agathos – excellent, distinguished, honorable; MASTER – didaskalos – teacher
- If NOT God – why all Drama – Most IMPORTANT question ever – How not to die when I die?
- Why the question: 1) Has the answer wants APPROVAL 2) He felt something MISSING
Vs18 – Response is peculiar. Some think He was drawing a comparison, leading man to equate God/Jesus
- DISAGREE – doesn't fit story. Jesus Answering Question w/Question.
- Jesus had two answers – told the man to get rid of the obstacles that are standing between God
- Relied on BEING GOOD
- This was answer #1 – Told him that he was NOT Good
- Jesus INCLUDED Himself – WHY? – Phil 2:6-10
Vs19 – Tough to interpret / discern Jesus' intentions
- Jesus was TESTING the man – Gave Him what HE WANTED
- Saw in him that Being Good was Important – Gave him "GOOD" things to do
- Social part of 10 Commandments – DEFRAUD not a commandment – Jesus wasn't buying yet
Vs20 – DIFFICULT to Understand the man's Response
- Is there EMOTION – If so What emotion?
- Was he EXCITED?! Because he had been doing EVERYTHING JESUS listed!
- Was he DISAPPOINTED ☹ Because Jesus (GREAT TEACHER) didn't give a new SECRET?
- Probably a little DISAPPOINTED and showed some HUMILITY – based on Jesus response.
Vs21 – Jesus SAW CONCERN on his face, HEARD DISAPPOINTMENT in his voice
- The man was SINCERELY concerned about his RELATIONSHIP with God
- He was on his Knees
- Jesus responded EMOTIONALLY – SPURNED him towards love for the man
- Loved EVERYONE so it had to be something MORE
- After he passed the test – Jesus gave him the KEY to the 2nd obstacle – GET RID of Idols, gods
- Really starts to FIT US now! This was about gods and idols – which for the man was his $$$.
Vs22 – The man was sad and he grieved as a result – VERY STRONG WORDS
- This describes how we feel when we BURY a loved one.
- This is TOUGH to understand – HE HAD HIS ANSWER
- Satan USED him, got what he wanted, then LEFT the man HEART-BROKEN
- Told how the man responded and felt – NOT told how Jesus felt. How do you think HE felt?
- For all the man's sorrow – I think Jesus' sorrow was 10x greater.
- The ANSWER is right there and MANY people RESPOND the same way


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I wrote the following about a week ago. I was feeling really depressed, and I wanted to get some thoughts out while I was in that state. It didn't go far:
There's something that a lot of people don't understand about depression. It's not about feeling sad. Sadness is okay. Sadness and happiness are like your left and right hand, each equal in dignity, each wonderful in its own clumsy, apeish way.
It's not grief. Grief is an expression of joy turned on its head, a recognition of the ripple left in the world by a beloved person or thing. Anger is passion denied, hatred is love forsworn. The line between these concepts is so thin as to be imaginary, a product of our lack of self-knowledge.
So what is depression? Sadness, you see, would be too kind. Sadness would mean wistfulness, a longing for things lost and for things never to be. Sadness is a comfort that we create in the lulls between ecstasy, a burial shroud meant to be folded and kept with our other treasures. When we are sad, when we grieve, it's the moment our feet touch the ground between leaps.


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This adorable small cookie is a gem. Just like its shape, it is a childhood snack that Singaporeans deeply enjoy. Some would eat it as a whole while others would split the halves, enjoying the salty base and the sweet top with equal pleasure. Always in a large packet, the snack is great for sharing with the gem topping available in different colours of joy.. Always in a huge packet, this snack is great for sharing and the gem comes in different colours of joy. Even for adults, this snack still plays a huge part in their life and it is a happy moment that no one would ever forget. Popping one into our mouths would light up our day as we take a trip down the memory lane.
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Solar posts big gain (week ending 8/22/08)
Author: Mark Henwood
Emerging markets, EAFA, and the US market (S&P 500) were little changed on the week, commodities (DJP) rose 2.8%. Sustainable energy stocks created some excitement but overall were mixed:
Solar raced ahead for the week rising 9.5% driven by a variety of positive developments. Three of the index components China Sunergy (CSUN), Suntech Power Holdings (STP), and Rensola (SOLA.L) all rose over 25% for the week..
On the cost side silicon supplies are expected to increase in 2009 resulting, according to Suntech Power Holdings (STP), in a potential price drop of up to 20%. This may allow margins to increase while lowering the cost of the final product.
Demand continues to be strong with expectations that Italy, Germany, and other countries will offset any reduction in the Spanish market. Demand seems to also be growing for larger scale plants with announcements for a 10MW plant by Yingli (YGE) and an 800 MW project by Pacfic Gas and Electric in Calornia. Note that this one project is larger than the annual production capacity of most solar companies. Solar companies are also executing well with China Sunergy (CSUN) leading the way with an earnings suprise this week of 125% which drove its 29.%5 increase for the week. The triple play of expected lowering of costs, strong demand, and good financial execution created over USD 9 billion in increased market cap.
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The highest level of health organisation in a state or territory, encompassing specialised and non-specialised health services which would be reported using the Establishment—Australian state/territory identifier, code N data element.
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The highest level of specialised mental health organisation in a state or territory which would be reported using the Specialised mental health service organisation—organisation identifier, XXXX data element.
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The legal entity, Local Hospital Network (LHN) which would be reported using the Establishment—Local Hospital Network identifier, code NNN data element.
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Innoson vs GTBank: Debunking The Lies And Smear Campaigns
After the immediate release of the illegal and unlawful arrest of Chief Dr Innocent Chukwuma OFR popularly known as Innoson by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on December 20, 2017, there have been two major publications on the Innoson vs GTBank saga. One was written by one James Osaremen and published by Premium Times on Dec 20th 2017 with the caption- Innoson EFCC arrest and the GTB Loan: The facts behind the saga. The other was published by Sahara Reporters on Dec 23rd 2017 with the caption- Innoson vs GT Bank: How Industrialist Defrauded Bank And Bullied The EFCC, The Police And Courts With his Political Connections.
The facts stated in these two publications are filled with half-truths, fabrications, false allegations and mis-representation of facts. At first we wanted to ignore and wait for the outcome of the supposed investigation by the EFCC on GTB complaint on Innoson. But in this social media era where silence may be seen as an admission of guilty as charged, we have deem it fit to present with factual evidence the true story on all the allegations raised on the two publications.
Under letter of credit transaction, in international trade, bills of ladings are consigned to Banks not because the Banks – consignees – are the owners of the goods but rather that ensures that the seller is paid and the buyer receives the goods.
Mere consignment or endorsement of a bill of lading does not confer title in the goods covered by the bill of lading to either the consignee or the endorsee. Where consignment or endorsement of a bill of lading is intended as a security for loan, consignment or endorsement in such circumstance, does not transfer title in the goods to the consignee or the endorsee: Sewell v. Burdick (1884) 10 APP CAS 74; J.F. Wilson: Carriage of Goods by Sea, 5th Edition, page 135, paragraph c.
NOTE: All Innoson's letter of credit transactions, through GTB, were confirmed LCs. In letter of credit transactions (LC), particularly but not exclusively confirmed LC, the term is cash against documents. Shipping documents are not released by the advising/correspondent Bank to the Issuing Bank until the Issuing Bank pays for the goods. At all material times, Innoson paid 25% of every LC value before it was opened.
GTB's LOAN TO INNOSON AND THE SECURITY
GTB never granted any loan of N2.4 billion to Innoson in 2009 but rather a loan of N500 million through its offer letter of 17th December, 2009. The last loan transaction between GTB and Innoson was in 2011. Thus, through its letter of 2nd March, 2011 GTB offered a loan of N1.7 billion to Innoson. The principle terms and security for this loan were: Legal/Tripartite Legal Mortgage over Innoson's properties valued at N1.1 billion in 2010 by GTB appointed valuers; 25% equity contribution by Innoson on each letter of credit (LC) transaction; and shipping documents worth N500 million shall be released at any point in time to Innoson.
From the offer letter of 2nd March, 2011 the following are clear:
a. Innoson contributed 25% of the N1.7Billion. By this Innoson contributed N425Million and GTB N1Billion, 285Million;
b. the N1Billion, 285Million which GTB lent to Innoson was secured with Innoson's properties valued at N1.1Billion in 2010 and by necessary calculation in 2011 the value of the properties were valued at over N1.3Billion.
As could be seen from the introduction above:
a. the shipping documents referred to in the offer letter of 2nd March, 2011 are at best, security for the loan and as such did not transfer title to any good covered by it to GTB. Therefore, GTB is not the owner of the goods evidenced by them and title in the goods did not pass to it.
b. since in a letter of credit transactions, shipping documents – bill of lading – cannot be released except cash (the price of the goods) is paid, for every bill of lading consigned to GTB, Innoson paid 25% of its value before it is released to GTB.
The statement by James Osaremen and Sahara Reporters that the goods belong to GTB shows that from the beginning GTB was out to defraud Innoson and this is demonstrated thus:
a. 25% of the price of all the goods were paid for by Innoson and if upon consignment the goods belong to GTB it means that GTB had taken what Innoson paid in respect of the goods. What a cheat!!;
b. Innoson gave the title documents of its properties worthing over N1.4 billion to GTB as security and denied itself the use of it.
Therefore, from the loan transaction GTB got the following:
Innoson's properties
Innoson's N425Million contribution; and the goods.
EFCC's INVESTIGATION IN 2011 AND THE OUTCOME
In September 2011, GTB through a letter to EFCC, alleged that Innoson defrauded it about N1.4 billion out of a loan transaction it had with it. EFCC investigated the allegation and discovered the following:
GTB stole N560 million from Innoson's current account with it – though Innoson maintained that GTB stole N780 million from its account;
Innoson collected all the Bills of Lading consigned to GTB with the consent of GTB;
before collection, Innoson wrote letters to GTB asking it to endorse the bill of ladings to it and to pay the duties necessary for clearing the goods from the seaport;
GTB paid Customs duties for all the bill of ladings Innoson used to clear the goods, including the ones GTB claimed were forged or that the signatures of its staff thereon were forged;
GTB released all the Bill of Ladings including the one in issue to Innoson and that Innoson signed for each of the bill of Ladings in a register kept by GTB – GTB released the Bill of Lading after Innoson signed the register;
GTB failed to produce the register claiming that it was destroyed by the fire that razed its office;
after clearing each good including the ones evidenced by the bill of lading in issue, Innoson returned the foreign exchange control copies to GTB and GTB transmitted them to Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN);
a GTB staff – Mr. Okechukwu Okeke – who transacted with Innoson's staff gave evidence that he released the bill of ladings in issue to Innoson's staff;
The shipping company – Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd. – whose ship carried the goods confirmed that the bill of ladings – including the ones in issue – were not forged and that none of GTB's staff's signatures endorsed thereon was forged.
Consequently, through its letter of 20th September, 2012 (copy enclosed) EFCC informed Innoson that "further to our investigation and resolve that your account be reconciled from inception, the final outcome of the Commission's reconciliation of the account" is that you are indebted to GTB in this matter, and therein, EFCC requested Innoson to pay about N1Billion to GTB. EFCC never stated in that letter that Innoson forged any shipping document or GTB's staff's signatures thereon to clear the goods evidenced by the bill of ladings.
Innoson rejected and declined EFCC's demand contained in its letter of 20th September, 2012 on the ground that GTB shall pay it interest on the N560 million at 22% being the rate at which GTB lent it money. This resulted in a stalemate and Innoson headed to the court.
Consequently, Innoson commenced Suit No: FHC/AWK/CS/139/2012 against GTB at the Federal High Court, Akwa Division, in respect of the money GTB stole from its account claiming 22% interest thereon from the date GTB started the stealing. In this suit, GTB was represented by an eminent Senior Advocate of Nigeria. However, on 16th May, 2013 the trial Court rendered judgment in the sum of N4.7Billion in favour of Innoson against GTB.
GTB appealed against the judgment to the Court of Appeal, Enugu Division, vide Appeal No: CA/I/288/2013. In this appeal, on 9th December, 2013 the Court of Appeal ordered GTB to pay the judgment debt which then stood at about N6 Billion into an interest yielding account. (The Court of Appeal's order is enclosed.)
Again, on the 29th July, 2011 in Suit No: FHC/L/CS/603/2006, the Federal High Court, Ibadan Division, ordered GTB – by way of Garnishee order absolute – to pay over N2 Billion to Innoson. Rather than pay to Innoson, GTB appealed to the Court of Appeal, Ibadan Division, vis – Appeal No: CA/I/258/2011. However, in a unanimous decision on 6th February, 2014, the Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal and ordered GTB to pay the ordered sum of over N2 Billion to Innoson.
Rather than pay the judgment debt to Innoson, GTB deposed in paragraphs 3 – 7 of an affidavit it filed on 12th December, 2014 at the Court of Appeal (copy enclosed) that if it pays the judgment debt, it will collapse and be out of business.
Also, interestingly, GTB commenced Suit No: FHC/L/CS/1119/2014 against Innoson at the Federal High Court, Lagos Division and thereat, through an ex parte order, frozen Innoson's account in 18 Banks in Nigeria for 9 months. However, in a considered judgment delivered on 10th June, 2015 the learned trial Judge dismissed the suit and set aside the ex parte order.
SUIT NO: FHC/ABJ/CS/68/2014 – During the police investigation of GTB's allegation, Innoson discovered that GTB was influencing the investigation through one Mrs Onabolu. Thus, in paragraph 12(a)-(b) of the statement of claim, Innoson averred that:
During the currency of the handwriting/signature analysis/Forensic test, the Bank through its Solicitor Mrs. Onabolu in conjunction with the 3rd Defendant were in constant communication and association with the unit or the party or person or group of persons particularly but not exclusive to Retired DSP Ayo who conducted the investigation or forensic test or handwriting analysis; and the 1st – 3rd Defendants influenced the test/analysis and its expected outcome or result;
At the trial, the Plaintiffs will rely on the call logs of calls/conversation messages between Mrs. Onabolu, the 3rd Defendant and Retired DSP Ayo through their various mobile telephone numbers which include but not limited to 08027825760, 08037018448, 08033015977, 08129131499."
To ensure that justice is done, Innoson prayed in this suit that the court orders that the forensic examination of the specimen signatures of the persons involved be conducted by an independent body like FBI or Scotland Yard. Hence, in paragraph 4 of the writ of summons (copy enclosed) Innoson claimed thus:
"An order of mandatory injunction mandating the 1st – 3rd Defendants either by themselves, agents, privies, servants, affiliates to send the various specimen signatures they collected from parties with the one in issue to either FBI or Scotland Yard for forensic analysis/test."
Interestingly, Innoson's above claim which is not offensive was stoutly opposed by the GTB and the police.
CHARGE NO: FHC/L/565/2015 – This Charge was commenced in December, 2015 in this present regime and not in Goodluck Jonathan's regime as GTB and Sahara Reporters falsely stated. At the investigating stage of the GTB's allegations which led to this Charge, the then Inspector General of Police – MD Abubakar – was very angry and disappointed when he discovered that: there was a register kept by GTB in which Innoson's staff signed for and collected all the Bills of Ladings including the ones in dispute and that GTB claimed it could not produce the register because it was destroyed by fire; a GTB staff – Mr Okechukwu Okeke – who dealt with Innoson's staff in respect of the Bill of Ladings gave evidence to the police that he gave Innoson's staff the Bill of Ladings in issue and that they signed for them in the GTB's register. Consequently, the then IGP ordered that the case be closed and subsequently warned its men and GTB and concomitantly apologised to Innoson for the embarrassment his men caused him. He also ordered for a reinvestigation.
However, given the retirement of MD Abubakar – the then IGP – and change of guard, GTB, characteristically – convinced police officers who were not aware of the outcome of the investigation to file Charge No: FHC/L/565C/2015. Nonetheless, when the police became aware of the real and true facts and the directive of the then IGP – MD Abubakar –, it withdrew the Charge, through its notice of withdrawal dated 17th February, 2016 duly filed at the Federal High Court Registry (copy enclosed) and in the notice stated that the police needed "to further investigate the case".
On being aware of this withdrawal, again, GTB characteristically got the then Director of Public Prosecution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria – Mr Diri – to claim to have taken over the Charge/case using the name of the Attorney General of the Federation. Interestingly, Mr Diri's involvement in this matter and his complicities therein led to his removal as the Director of Public Prosecution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
On 20th December, 2017, Innoson filed Suit No: FHC/L/CS/1962/2017 at the Federal High Court, Lagos Division against EFCC and five others to enforce his fundamental human rights. Innoson commenced the application with a motion ex parte. The application was accompanied with an affidavit of urgency. As a result, Innoson's lawyers enquired from the court's registry when the case will be assigned and were asked to check the next day being 21st December, 2017. They did and on 21st December, 2017 were further asked to check on 22nd December, 2017 and also, they heeded to the directive.
Neither Innoson's lawyers nor the bailiff of the court served GTB with the motion ex parte or any of the process in this suit. Moreover, the suit was commenced by a motion ex parte and by the rules and practice it is to be and shall be kept secret; and other party(ies) – Respondents – shall not be heard until the ex parte motion is determined.
Again, in its characteristic manner, GTB became aware of the pendency of this suit, got all the copies of the processes filed in the suit including the motion ex parte filed by Innoson's lawyers. Also, GTB filed a counter affidavit deposed to on 21st December, 2017, got the suit assigned to a judge of its choice and got it fixed for hearing without Innoson's lawyers knowing.
GTB's lawyers attended the hearing of the ex parte application and therein disclosed the information stated above and as well started making submissions in respect thereto. As a result, Innoson's lawyers withdrew the suit and Innoson is taking steps to get the judiciary as well as the Acting Chief Judge of the Federal High Court to investigate what happened – how GTB became aware of the suit and got all the processes filed therein that were not served on it.
Till date, EFCC never told Chief Innocent Chukwuma – Innoson – why he was arrested except to say on pages of newspapers that he was arrested because of his fraud at SEC and forgery of documents to obtain tax waivers.
None of Innoson's companies nor Chief Innocent Chukwuma – have forged any document to secure tax waiver. EFCC had never invited Innoson in respect of any tax waiver issue and has not investigated Innoson in respect thereof.
Again, none of Innoson's companies nor Chief Innocent Chukwuma is involved in any security or share issue. None of Innoson's companies is quoted at the Stock Exchange Market and Innoson does not have any company that deals on shares. EFCC never invited Innoson at any time nor investigated Innoson for any related security fraud.
From the above it is clear that:
Both James and Sahara Reporters misrepresented the facts to mislead the public; the misrepresented facts by James and Sahara Reporters are from GTB.
GTB had previously denied that it was not the reason why EFCC arrested Innoson and that it was not a party to that.
The questions arising from James and Sahara Reporters' articles are:
i. is GTB now saying that those were the reasons why EFCC arrested Chief Innocent Chukwuma;
ii. if the answer to the question above is yes, does it not show that GTB engaged in double speaking?;
iii. if GTB double speaks, does it not portray it as an unreliable and irresponsible organisation?
Who is sure that GTB did not in its characteristic manner create, generate or manufacture the Bills of Lading, no one has investigated this, given that:
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd – the shipping company whose bills of lading are in issue confirmed that the bills of lading used in clearing the goods were genuine;
Mr Okechukwu Okeke – the GTB's staff that dealt with Innoson's staff at all material times confirmed and stated in his extra judicial statement to the police that GTB released the bills of lading in issue to Innoson's staff and that the release was endorsed in GTB's register;
GTB alleged that the register was destroyed by fire.
Yet again, in its characteristic manner and style, GTB got the police to conceal Mr Okechukwu Okeke's extra judicial statement to the police because it is unfavourable to GTB. The Nigerian Police and EFCC have till date refused to produce Mr Okechukwu Okeke's extra judicial statement. We therefore challenge the Nigerian Police, EFCC and GTB to produce Mr Okechukwu Okeke's extra judicial statement and to authorize Sahara Reporters to publish it so that the whole world will know the truth. Same applies to the register – the Nigerian Police and EFCC should compel GTB to produce the register in issue.
Finally, with respect to N559 Million which Sahara Reporters and James Osaremen referred to and classified in their respective articles as default charges; may we invite their attention to the fact that that was litigated in Suit No: FHC/AWK/CS/139/2012. In that suit, the trial Judge came to conclusion that the charges were excess charges, unlawful and illegal. GTB was represented in that case by an eminent Counsel – Senior Advocate of Nigeria. The learned trial Judge at pages 7-8 of the judgment of 16th May, 2013 in that suit (copy annexed) held thus:
"Since any money belonging to a customer is credited to his account, and that which is paid out of the account debited as well as that which the bank earns from or through the account. In the instant suit there is nowhere the 1st Respondent have shown the reversal of the excess charges made on the account of 1st Plaintiff with it by crediting the 1st Plaintiff's account which it debited illegally by way of excess charges. Equally no evidence is led by the 1st Defendant to show that the excess interest charges is within the Central Bank of Nigeria guideline and therefore, illegal pursuant to Section 15 of Banking Act. See First Bank of Nigeria Plc. –vs- Odaudu Uwada (2001)1 FWLR (Pt.50) 1696 at 1709, First Bank Plc. –vs- Mamman Ltd (2001) FWLR (Pt.31) 2890 at 2907."
Maybe James Osaremen and Sahara Reporters are reversing the above quoted judgment of the Honourable Court.
Cornel Osigwe
Head, Corporate Affairs,
Innoson Group
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