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SUI ZHEN announces new LP & shares lead single and video "Perfect Place"
Album 'Losing, Linda' set for release Sept 27th via Cascine
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Album Artwork by: Agnieszka Chabros
Throughout Melbourne-based artist Sui Zhen's discography and performances, the experimental pop and performance artist has zoomed in on the intersections between human life and technology - how to exist in the digital age, as well as the ways in which we risk losing true sight of ourselves in the process. Today she's announced her latest chapter, Losing, Linda, which is set for release Sept 27th via Cascine and is sharing the first single & video from the record "Perfect Place".
Losing, Linda pairs her signature inquisitiveness with a surreal electronic pop that possesses a dreamlike quality: vivid, uncanny, and upon close examination, revealing of deep emotional and personal truths. It's an album that examines loss on multiple levels - from the death of our loved ones, to our widespread societal tendency to disappear within the ones and zeroes of modern life's tech-driven rush.
Losing, Linda's creation began back in 2016 when she took up an artistic residency in Sapporo, Japan. Zhen originally came to the residency equipped with demos conceived in the wake of her preceding breakout record, Secretly Susan - but real-life tragedy intervened, as her mother was diagnosed with cancer. In the process, a sense of overall mortality was unmistakably infused into the thematic structure of Losing, Linda. The video for lead single, "Perfect Place" introduces the character Linda, a ghostly apparition, representing the fragments of self, the avatars we leave behind after one dies in the physical realm -- but do our digital selves ever fully disappear?
Watch & listen to "Perfect Place" here: https://
After the residency came to a close, Sui Zhen's band members - instrumentalists Ashley Bundang (Zone Out, Hot Palms, Ciggie Witch) and Alec Marshall (Hot Palms, Emma Russack) - joined her in the Tokyo-adjacent city of Matsudo to track full-band demos for the material she'd written back in Sapporo. Eventually she returned to Australia to be with her family, with work on the album becoming more sporadic as her mother's health declined, leading up to her passing in February 2018. "Looking back it was pretty intense," Sui Zhen says. "There's moments that occurred that haunt me still. And some of those moments have been recreated in my video project - turned into art, memories of memories."
After some time away from the album, Losing, Linda was completed near the end of 2018. The resulting record pushes the fascinating sounds and ideas of Secretly Susan further and deeper, drawing equally from the plush realms of Sade, Japanese city pop, the early electronic music of the 1980s, and the mournful swing of Tracey Thorn's early work. Sui Zhen cites a range of forward-thinking artists from past and present as inspiration, from Lizzy Mercier and Laurie Anderson to Holly Herndon and Suzanne Ciani.
On Losing, Linda, Sui Zhen takes the theoretical form of Linda, a digital doppelgänger and avatar invoking the e-learning channel Lynda and its founder Lynda Weinman, as well as the humanoid robot BINA48. The character of Linda is personified on the album's cover by choreographer and colleague Megan Payne, whose literal embodiment of Linda interrogates the disembodiment of online life, and calls into question the possibility of death in the digital age.
"It's an album about missing people after they are gone and trying to pre-empt loss - not only loss of life, but memory and information," Sui Zhen explains. "I see it mirrored in our increasing need for data storage. Why are we collecting and documenting so much, anyway?" "It's also a simple ghost story about being haunted by our other versions and our past selves," she continues. "Our mothers, fathers, ancestors - that possibility that another may exist, intangible in the physical realm, but ever present in memory, so long as memory functions."
The album will also be accompanied by a digital ecosystem, aiming to create an online world for listeners where they can interact in real time with Linda. "It's somewhere between a ghost, a memory, and a digital assistant" Sui Zhen explains. In other words, a perfect evocation of what Losing, Linda represents thematically and musically: a trip through the real and the uncanny. Losing, Linda is a lovingly personal and humanistic document of our ever-changing world, the things we lose along the way, and the insights we gain from loss itself. You can see the first stage of the digital ecosystem here: https://
More on Sui Zhen:
Sui Zhen released her debut album, Two Seas, back in 2012. Beguiling and enchanting, the record proved to be an early indication of her fascinating melodic structures and compelling lyrical themes - but it was 2015's Secretly Susan that would be her breakthrough. Drawing on dub, lounge, and bossa nova influences, Secretly Susan presents as a synth-pop simulacrum, exploring digital life's myriad intersections with the real.
Sui Zhen's musical journey has included involvement in the Red Bull Music Academy, and spanned collaborations with dance and electronic artists like NO ZU, Retiree and Tornado Wallace (featuring on the producer's standout "Today" from 2017's Lonely Planet). She's also been commissioned for scoring and composition work in the ambient sphere, such as creating a "spatially aware soundtrack" to an exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW, and providing the live score for Chris Marker's 1983 documentary Sans Soleil.
She's recently performed at notable Australian music festivals Dark Mofo, Meredith Festival, and Inner Varnika. This year, Sui Zhen will also feature on a new Møzaika EP, and will contribute a track for an upcoming compilation for Munich's Public Possession label.
Losing, Linda track list:
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Thanks to services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime, a lot of us now do not have the patience to wait for our favourite shows. When a new series is released we binge watch it in 24 hrs and crave it like an addictive drug until we repeat the cycle again.
But this now means people are no longer content with the watching a show or movie without spoiling it for themselves by undermining the writers with their stupid theories that are published everyday by media outlets desperately milking you for every like and click.
HBO has just released the Game of Thrones teaser trailer which means we now have the pleasure of article filling our feed with pointless theories, instead of people just waiting patiently for the new season to answer their questions.
Here are some of these pointless articles:
And it's not just the GOT crazies, it's also the Marvel fans who can't keep it in their pants, everyday some idiot journalist has a new idea on how Thanos will be defeated. What is going on in your life that one of your biggest worries is how a CGI thumb will be defeated.
These articles were all released this week, seven months since Avengers premiered, think of all the things that have happened in the past seven months that have been forgotten. Dozens of school shootings, escalation of the Yemen crisis etc, but this is what everyone is preoccupied by.
Well-done world we are now a bunch of mouthbreathers who only care about CGI dragons and magic men with rings. (I feel bad for all those people who were bullied for liking Lord of the Rings way back)

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You wake up early in the morning and flip on the light switch as you get out of bed. You bump into walls like a pinball walking down the hall to the kitchen to turn on the coffee pot. With one eye open and the other shut, you make it back to the bathroom and start a hot shower before work. Sound familiar?
Have you ever got out of bed thinking about how the light comes on? How does the shower get hot? Electric is like the air we breathe; we don't think about it until we don't have it. We only realize how important power really is during a power failure, sitting in a dark room, instinctively hitting the useless light switch.
Power comes from the power plant to your house through a system we've come to know as "The Grid." The power plant consists of a spinning electrical generator. The spin is created by a water wheel in a dam, diesel engine, gas turbine, but most of the time it is a steam turbine created by burning coal, oil, or natural gas. No matter what is used to spin the generator what is produced is called 3-phase AC power. Three phase power is simply three single phases synchronized and offset by 120 degrees. Think of a cooling fan with three blades.
The wires from the generator then enter a transmission substation at the power plant. The substation uses large transformers to convert the voltage, approximately 155,000 to 765,000 volts, to travel long distances, 300 miles, on the transmission grid. In order to distribute the power to your home the voltage must be stepped down from the 155,000 to 765,000 volts to a more usable voltage, typically less than 10,000 volts per one phase. This reduction or stepping down of the higher voltage takes place at local distribution substations you see around town. Ocala has over 20 distribution substations to ensure the reliability of your service.
Residential customers typically only need a single phase for their electrical needs. There is a transformer (the large drum on the pole) which reduces the 7,200 volts down to the 120/240 volts which make up your household electrical services. The 120/240 volts then enters your home through a watt-hour meter, which allows the electric company to measure your usage.
The circuit breakers and fuses inside your home are safety devices. All of the outlets and lights within your home have different wires connected separately to a circuit breaker or fuse. When the circuit breaker is on, power flows through the wire in the wall and to the outlet.
That is a lot of equipment and downsizing of electricity to get power from the power plant to the lights in your bedroom. Now as you go to flip that switch you will have a better understanding of the incredible process that takes place before your lights come on.


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The Warung & My walking journey back to Northpoint @ Mid Valley, Kuala Lumpur
Saturday, on my way walking home from the gym, I decided to make a stop at The Warung for breakfast. Mum said their food no good, but everytime I pass by I saw full of patrons. Such a long time I haven't eaten nasi lemak, gonna order, malay kuih look interesting, will get it - take away and Milo Ice special look good, ok that's my order for breakfast. I like their setting, looks like old school, all those table and chair.Food wasn't bad at all, in fact very good, especially the nasi lemak, mum was wrong or maybe they t ake from a different supplier now. Great breakfast, time to head home now.
6 pcs Kuih Melayu, RM6.00
Nasi Lemak, RM2.50
Breakfast-Amount paid: RM13.15
Food: 4/5
Services: 4/5
Cleanliness: 4/5
Just done my workout, walking home from Celebrity Fitness at Level 3 Northcourt Midvalley
Journey started from the gym, heading home - Northpoint
To the escalator, looking at Level 3 Food Junction (Food, food food everywhere)
Making a stop here at The Warung for breakfast
Right turn, to KTM Train Station, Fruit Stall, Newspaper Stand and Rotiboy Bakery (below)
Direction to Northpoint
Connected Bridge on 1st Floor Midvalley Northcourt to Northpoint Offices and Residences
Northpoint Office Building and Residences
From Northpoint - Looking across, Boulevard Hotel, Midvalley Northcourt and Robinson, The Gardens
Bistro Kanpei
Florist Shop
Courier Service Centre and Laundry Shop
ATM Machine down Block A
Pick up area at Lobby
Lobby Reception Counter
Sony Service Centre down Block B
Garden down Northpoint Lobby area
At 2:00pm, making a move to KL Sentral, getting a taxi from there to LCCT Airport (from KL to LCCT Airport budget taxi fare RM90, Premium Taxi RM130. Arrived LCCT at 3:30pm, 30minutes queued up to check in, baggage overload 5kg (charges paid RM75). Then I check in to the Departure Hall, having my late lunch at Buy & Fly Cafe before taking my medicine, sick...sick. I hate taking Air Asia, cause of last minute booking too expensive to take MAS , no choice.
Maggi Mee, RM7.90 and 100PLUS, RM3.50
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Many roles, including architects, operations and developers, will fundamentally change as new capabilities become available, the market continues to speed ahead and business demands greater levels of operational efficiency.
It is important that every member of these organizations take ownership for their own career growth and identify where their careers are headed. Ownership means understanding what changes mean for future roles, and the execution of training and skills necessary to stay competitive in an evolving workforce. The cloud world is dominated by fast moving companies and roadmaps and a constant barrage of new service introductions. As a technical team member working in this domain, it is up to you to stay up-to-date on new announcements, their impact on your business and the value they can bring to your efficiency and capability.
Figure 1 outlines the changes that come about as part of the cloud adoption journey, and the transition in work efforts by functional areas. The impact will vary by role, but the theme of speed and constant learning will remain the same:
- Architect – As an architect, your role will move more rapidly in a cloud-first world. You will be responsible for the ongoing analysis of new services and capabilities to identify those that will provide operational and architectural advantages to the organization.
- Operations – Operations will move from incident response to constantly tweaking systems, processes and automations, in order to maximize response time, performance and availability.
- Developer – As cloud services become dominant, developers will have to be familiar with all portions of the IT stack, and have the ability to deploy and troubleshoot across a wider range of services, tools and platforms. The role of development teams will be to deploy reusable sets of code, packaged in a way to remove dependencies from underlying infrastructure.
Continuous Learning
The initial learning curve for cloud adoption is steep, and the pace of innovation means a constant flow of new tools, capabilities, features and benefits. Staff across all three areas will need to stay up-to-date with new platform enhancements and determine if periodic updates are necessary for application architectures or organizational standards, in order to take advantage of the new capabilities provided by the public cloud platforms. Below we outline a series of resources that are available by platform for consuming this flow of information.
New Product Announcements
Deployment Models and Reference Architectures
- General: Google Documents
Security: Google Security
- AWS Architecture
- Azure Architecture
Training Resources
Whether you are supporting your organization's cloud adoption initiative as architect, operations or developer, it is up to you to stay current on the rapid flow of announcements that come from the cloud platforms, and apply them to your organization to increase productivity and the adoption of public cloud resources. The market is changing daily, requiring a focused commitment and an investment of time in learning new design paradigms, applying them to your organization and constantly improving the operational models behind your deployed systems.


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Candidates need to prefect & Proper Preparation Plane by using RBI Grade B Officer Syllabus PDF 2018 & Phase I – II Exam Pattern. Reserve Bank of India will be going to conduct the written exam for 166 Grade B Officer Jobs. Exam will held on 16.08.2018 For Phase I & 06th & 07.09.2018 for Phase II. The aspirants interested for the RBI Bank Jobs 2018 exam must be looking for the Syllabus of RBI Officer Grade B. Don't worry, we have provided here the detailed RBI Officer Exam Syllabus & Exam Pattern. Knowing the RBI Group B syllabus will help the candidates to get good marks in exam.
What is RBI Officer Grade B ? : RBI Officer Grade B is the most popular department. After jobs in Reserve Bank of India many people given the respect. The Exam will conduct in Computer Based Mode comprising of objective type with MCQ Pattern. The exam is held in two phases viz, Phase-I and Phase-II followed by Interview. The RBI Grade B Officer Syllabus 2018 Provided here has been released by RBI. Read below to know more regarding the RBI Officer Syllabus PDF 2018/ RBI Group B Exam Syllabus | Check Phase I – II Exam Pattern.
Details For RBI Grade B Officer Syllabus 2018 PDF & Exam Pattern
Name of the Organization : Reserve Bank of India Services Board
Name of the exam : RBI Officer Grade- B Exam
Total Post : 166 Vacacny
Name of the Post : Grade "B" Officer
Level of the exam : National
Mode of the exam : Online
Exam rounds : Phase : I and Phase – II
Downloading of Phase-I Admit Card : 1st Week of August 2018
Phase I Online Exam : 16th August 2018
Declaration of Phase-I Result : August 2018
Downloading of Phase-II Admit Card : Last of August 2018
Phase II Online Exam : 06th & 07th September 2018
Declaration of Phase-II Result : September 2018
RBI Officer Grade B Exam Syllabus 2018 : Available Here
Check RBI Officer Grade B Selection Process 2018 :
Selection of candidates will through online written examination only. Candidates have to attend for Phase-I and Phase-II exams. Applicants who qualify in these phases will go for an interview. Participants will have to secure minimum marks in each test of the Phase-I exam. Qualified candidates will eligible to appear in the Phase- II exam. Interested Candidate can also secure aggregate marks to be decided by the Board. Finally, interviews will be conducted for the Phase-II qualified candidates. Final selection of the candidates will be done on the basis of the performance of the candidates in the Phase-II (Paper-I +Paper-II +Paper-III) and Interview (50 marks). Check Here Also RBI Officer Grade B Notification 2018
How to Prepare for RBI Grade B Officer Phase I & II Exam | RBI Grade B Officer Syllabus 2018
Phase-I Online Examination (GR-B (DR)-GENERAL): Objective Type (Exam Date: 16.08.2018) : The Paper for 200 Marks consists of 4 sections: (i) General Awareness (ii) English Language (iii) Quantitative Aptitude and (iv) Reasoning, with composite time of 120 minutes. The Pattern of the Phase-I examination is as follows :
|General Awareness
|2 Hours
|English Language
|Quantitative Aptitude
Phase-II Online Examination : Descriptive Test (Exam Date : 06.09.2018 & 07.09.2018)
Phase-II examinations will consist of three papers in MCQ pattern (except Paper-I)
|Name of Paper
|Type of Paper
|Paper-I: Economic and Social Issues
|Objective Type
|Paper II: English (Writing Skills)
|Descriptive, to be typed with the help of the keyboard
|Paper-III: Finance and Management
|Objective Type
Scheme for Officers in Grade 'B' (DR) – DEPR (Phase I & II) :
|Name of Paper
|Paper-I Objective (Economics)
|120 Minutes
|Paper-II Descriptive Type (Economics)
Question will displayed on Computer, answer to be written on paper
|180 Minutes
|Paper-III English – Descriptive Type
(To be typed with help of Keyword)
|90 Minutes
Exam Pattern Officers in Grade 'B' (DR) – DSIM- Job :
|Name of Paper
|Paper-I Objective (Statistics)
|120 Minutes
|Paper-II Descriptive Type (Statistics)
Question will displayed on Computer, answer to be written on paper
|180 Minutes
|Paper-III English – Descriptive Type
(To be typed with help of Keyword)
|90 Minutes
RBI Grade B Officer Syllabus PDF 2018 & Phase I – II Exam Pattern | RBI Exam Preparation Guide
Reasoning rbi.org.in Grade B Syllabus:
- Alphabet test, Mathematical operations test, Series test, Analogy. Odd Man out, Classification, Syllogism
- Coding-decoding
- Blood relations RBI Officer Syllabus
- Number, ranking and time sequence
- Causes and effects, Analytic reasoning, Direction sense test. Sitting arrangement
- Decision making, Input output
- Statement and assumptions, Statement and arguments
- Puzzle and conclusions & Statement
- Statement and action's courses. Passage and conclusions
- Assertion and reasoning, Figure Series, Word formation, Series
Quantitative Aptitude RBI Officer Grade B Exam Syllabus :
- Number system
- HCF & LCM, Number series, Problems based on numbers. Approximation Wrong Number, Decimal fractions, Square root and cube root, Simplifications
- Partnerships, Percentage, Ratio and proportions, Average & Ages Ratio & Proportion
- Profit and loss, Simple interest and compound interest
- Time and work, Time and distance, Mensuration
- Permutation and combination
- Probability
- Data Interpretation
- Pie charts, Bar graphs, Line graphs, Mixed graphs
English Language Section RBI Grade B Officer Exam Syllabus :
- Spotting the errors
- Phrase substitution, Ordering of sentences or jumbled up sentences
- Double blanks in a sentence, Fill in the blanks
- Cloze Test, Idioms & Phrases, Choosing the appropriate filler. Synonyms and antonyms
- Reconstruction of sentence & passage. One word substitution, Commonly misspelled words, Comprehensions
General Awareness section rbi.org.in Officer Syllabus :
The questions in this section will asked from the following topics with a special reference to the banking awareness as well as focus on the computer section
- Banking Terms, Current Rates (Bank rate, Repo Rate, Reverse repo rate etc.),Abbreviations / full forms
- Important days / dates, Currency and capital
- Ministers and their departments
- Indian Economy
- International Economy
- Questions related to International Financial Institutions (World bank, IMF, UN, ADB related – Members, recent development, functions)
- Finance, Shares, Various schemes of Government (MNREGA, Swabhiman, Swavlamban, Bharat Nirman etc.)
- Books & Their Authors
- Types of Banks
- GDP related, RBI, Fiscal-Monetary Policies
- Social Function of Banks
- Marketing
- Awards & Honors
- Sports
- Budget
- Agriculture
- Current Affairs (last 6 months)
Check RBI Grde B Officer Syllabus 2018 for Computer
The candidates must also be acquainted with the knowledge of computer to enhance their chances of getting through to the Banking exam and thus they should cover these topics
- Basic computer knowledge (MS Office)
- Operating Systems
- Number System
- Software & Hardware questions (Database & communication)
- History of computers
- Computer abbreviation
- Microsoft-office RBI Grade B Syllabus
- Basic knowledge of Internet & Networking
Check Phase II – Detail RBI Grade B Syllabus/ RBI Officer Syllabus
Paper-I – Economic and social Issues | rbi.org.in Syllabus : Growth and Development
Measurement of growth: National Income and per capita income, Poverty Alleviation and Employment Generation in India, Sustainable Development and Environmental issues. Economic Reforms in India – Industrial and Labour Policy, Monetary and Fiscal Policy, Privatization, Role of Economic Planning. Globalization – Opening up of the Indian Economy, Balance of Payments, Export-Import Policy, International Economic Institutions, IMF and World Bank, WTO, Regional Economic Co-operation. Social Structure in India – Multiculturalism, Demographic Trends, Urbanization and Migration, Gender Issues, Social Justice, Positive Discrimination in favor of the under privileged, Social Movements, Indian Political System, Human Development, Social Sectors in India, Health and Education.
Suggested reference material | RBI Officer Syllabus : Books –
Indian Economy: Uma Kapila.(Series of Books), Indian Economy: Mishra Puri. (Latest Edition), Growth And Development: Devraj Ray, Sociology: C.N. Shankar Rao. News Papers – Economic Times, Hindu, Business Standard, Weekly/Monthly Magazines/Bulletins /Reports, Economic and Political Weekly, Southern Economist, Yojana, Business India, RBI Bulletins. Reports – World Development Report, Economic Survey of India RBI Grade B Syllabus
Paper-II -English (Writing Skills) RBI Grade B Officer Exam Syllabus
The paper on English shall be framed in a manner to assess the writing skills including expression and understanding of the topic.
Paper-III -Finance and Management |rbi.org.in Syllabus :
(I) Finance (a) Financial System – Regulators of Banks and Financial Institutions, Reserve Bank of India- functions and conduct of monetary policy, Banking System in India, Financial Institutions – SIDBI, EXIM, NABARD, NHB, etc.
(b) Financial Markets – Primary and Secondary Markets (Forex, Money, Bond, Equity,etc.), functions, instruments, recent developments.
(c) General Topics (Paper-III ) | RBI Officer Syllabus – Risk Management in Banking Sector, Basics of Derivatives: Forward, Futures and Swap, Changing Landscape of Banking sector, Recent Developments in the Financial Sector, Portfolio Investment, Public Sector Reforms, Disinvestments, Financial Inclusion- use of technology, Alternate source of finance, private and social cost-benefit, Public-Private Partnership, Corporate Governance in Banking Sector, role of e-governance in addressing the issues of corruption and inefficiency in the government sector, The Union Budget – Direct and Indirect taxes; Non-tax sources of Revenue, GST, Thirteenth Finance Commission and GST, Finance Commission, Fiscal Policy, Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act (FRBM), Inflation: Definition, trends, estimates, consequences, and remedies (control): WPI, CPI – components and trends.
Suggested reference material | RBI Officer Syllabus:
An introduction to Economics – A W Stonier and D C Hauge, Monetary Theory and Public Policy – Kenneth Kurihara, Indian Economy – Mishra and Puri, Indian Economy – R. Dutt and KPM Sundaram, Economic Growth and Development – Mayer and Baldwin, Major economic newspapers and Economic and Political Weekly, Public Finance – K K Andley and Sundaram, Financial Management – Prasanna Chandra
(II) Management RBI Grade B Syllabus :
- Management: its nature and scope; The Management Processes; Planning, Organization, Staffing, Directing and Controlling;
- The Role of a Manager in an Organization. Leadership : The Tasks of a Leader ; A Leadership Styles; The Leadership Theories ; A successful Leader versus an effective Leader.
- Human Resource Development rbi.org.in Syllabus : Concept of HRD; Goals of HRD; Performance Appraisal – Potential appraisal and development – Feedback and Performance Counselling – Career Planning – Training and Development – Rewards – Employee Welfare.
- Motivation, Morale and Incentives: Theories of Motivation; How Managers Motivate; Concept of Morale; Factors determining morale; Role of Incentives in Building up Morale.
- Communication: Steps in the Communication Process; Communication Channels; Oral versus Written Communication; Verbal versus non-verbal Communication; upward, downward and lateral communication; Barriers to Communication, Role of Information Technology.
- Corporate Governance: Factors affecting Corporate Governance; Mechanisms of Corporate Governance.
RBI Officer Grade B Cutoff 2018 : Each candidate will have to obtain the minimum marks in each section of the Phase-I and Phase-II examination. Along with that, there will also be minimum aggregate marks in both the exam. Candidates who will obtain the minimum scores as decided by the board will declared qualified for the further rounds.
RBI Officer Grade B Result 2018 : The result of all the phases will be published on the official website of RBI. The list of the qualified candidates will hosted online. Marks secured by the candidates in the Phase-I (On-line exam) will disclosed after the shortlisting of the candidates for the Phase-II exam. The result is usually declared within 15 days of the conduct of the online examination. rbi.org.in Officer Exam Syllabus
How To Download RBI Grade B Officer Syllabus 2018 ? RBI Grade B Officer Exam Syllabus
- Log on to the official site of RBI at www.rbi.org.in.
- On the home page go in the Important News and Alerts section.
- It will provide you the RBI Grade B Officer Syllabus 2018 and Examination Scheme for vacancies.
- Click on the link and RBI Grade B Syllabus will appear on the Screen.
- Download the RBI Grade B Syllabus 2018 and exam pattern from here or from the official direct links mentioned below.
Important Link For RBI Grade B Officer Syllabus 2018 :
Download RBI Grade B Officer Phase I & II Syllabus.
More details for RBI Officer Official Notification.
RBI Admit Card 2018 Download
Conclusion RBI Grade B Officer Syllabus 2018 : Candidate should download Phase I & II RBI Officer Exam Syllabus/ Exam Pattern on here. Phase I Officer Exam will held on 16th August 2018 & Phase II Officer Exam will held on 06th & 07th September 2018. RBI Grade B Syllabus @ rbi.org.in Syllabus.


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|Here we are in October again and NaNoWriMo writers the world over are preparing for the annual madness. I've done NaNo four times, as well as Camp NaNo five times, though for me it's the November event that is the real thing. In November, that target of 50,000 words isn't negotiable, whereas in the April and July camps, you can set your own target.
|50,000 words in a month - it's a considerable undertaking. I remember how, at the end of October 2011, I agonised over whether to take part. Could I really commit myself to that? Eventually I signed up - and then immediately panicked. What had I let myself in for?
|That November 1st I spent the day at work, then came home and wrote 1,400 words, which on any other day would have been a splendid achievement; but in NaNo terms, you need to produce a daily average of 1,667. So there I was at the end of day 1 and already I had fallen behind.
|That pretty well summed up the NaNo experience for me. Some writers surge ahead. The age group that is the most successful is the over-55s - retired people. As for me, I worked jolly hard; I wrote every day and on the days I wasn't at work I tried to produce at least 2,000 words - and usually succeeded.
|I remember one day in particular. I wrote a single scene and the writing swam along. Finishing that scene felt like a real achievement, especially as that day at school was extra long because of parents' evening. Even though I wrote "only" 1,000 words, I remember the satisfaction I felt.
|Did I hit the 50,000 word target? Good grief, no. I managed 32,000 words. I could have written more (though nowhere near enough to get me anywhere near 50,000) except that I fell into the editing trap. When you do NaNoWriMo, the one piece of advice you are given over and over is not to stop. Keep going. Save the editing for later.
|Many writers more than doubled my word count, but I felt I had acquitted myself well. I had written every day for a month. I had worked hard and my average daily word count was over 1,000, which in the context of writing alongside going out to work felt rather good. More than good. I had a feeling of achievement.
|But you know what? In all the NaNos I've done since, I've never repeated that original sense of satisfaction. The second year, determined to hit 50,000, I used NaNo to work on the edit/rewrite of a first draft. That month, I stormed to a glorious 55,000... except that it didn't feel glorious. It felt like cheating.
|Lesson learned. The next year, I worked on something new, but, though I worked hard on it, that first-time sense of achievement didn't return. In fact, all these NaNoWriMos and Camp NaNoWriMos later, I've never recaptured it. I wonder why. Is it because, having done it once, you never again experience that sharp sense of panic? That "What have I let myself in for?" feeling?
|Any ideas, anyone?


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In long is a centuries-old tradition of understanding and use fishing as an asset of a natural resource worth protecting. It is the very essence of what is fish culture in the long and explains why Långå appreciated for its harmonious balance of quality of life and natural quality.
Långå fishery conservation area association committed to Långåfisket to be one of the best sport fishing areas. This applies to fish and their living conditions but even those who fish and their needs! Fish culture is one of quality concepts. Proceeds from the permits goes back to the fisherman by fishing management and investment.
Långåfiskets four major
trout, char, grayling and whitefish called Långåfiskets four large - the big four. The concept mimics the collective name for the five "largest" animals at the Savannah of Africa, that is the most appealing to discover. It's all about game fish that are original and popular sport fish. This is where the 'greatness' is located, not counting the weight in kilograms without the experience of the fish species that has been in place for thousands of years. And that is a bit unique that in certain locations can meet all four at the same time.
In the municipality's fishing information kallas the Långåfiskets Four Noble! There is a good description.
To fish for game fish is a special and great experience. It comes from small brook trout for trout over 8 kilo (Långå-Ljusnan June 2015). On some occasions, maybe even every year, you should indulge in the experience and there are plenty of good water game fish in the Swedish mountains. Långåfisket is a.
Grundsjörödingen belongs to a large char, related to the char in Lake Vättern, and came slightly later than Arctic char. The grayling is Härjedalen fishing and much appreciated. "Ljusnan and Långåfisket is sikflugfiskarna what Emån is the trout fishermen" wrote Lasse Hallberg, in NVT No. 2/2013. This quote speaks for itself.
Roundels in Långåfiskets logo symbolizes "the big four".
Bass & Pike
Perch fishing is the beginning of a lifetime of fishing interest right from childhood and is popular year round, as well as the pike which increased sharply.
Perch are found in many of our waters and the Board have discussed possible measures to increase the supply of perch in some water. Every year, both summer and winter, reported on "record" when someone landed perch over a kilo, even over two. On the ice fishing for perch should have hefty drill. Fly fishing for perch is increasing rapidly, but still dominates the spin- and pole.
In Långåljusnan with its sel and lakes are interesting and exciting pike fishing. Pike has good quality and is more and more appreciated as a sport fish. And even as a food fish. Please read the recipes on this web site / Tips


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Bitcoin Makes Solid Showing Above $10k, First Step Toward Holding - Price Analysis
- Short term: position very tenuous, but a reversal up is possible
- Long term: uptrend still intact, but rapid deterioration is possible if $9,400 is lost
Bitcoin's (BTC) precipitous fall from $12,000, after a loud rejection there, seems to have been held around $10,000. As discussed yesterday, it is very important for the leading crypto to hold here, or at worst around $9,400; and the market seems to have responded with a chorus of support.
We start with a fairly clean daily chart. Yesterday's (August 15) candle closed well above $10,000, after being bought up all the way from about $9,400. This was a very strong response, on high volume, and BTC was pushed back up all the way to the 55-day exponential moving average (EMA), at $10,400.
We could trade today in a narrow range between the 55 EMA and $10,000. Another close above $10,000 today would be positive, and a close above the 55 EMA would be auspicious. Losing $10,000 here would not be good, and imply another retest - and likely break - of $9,400.
A more detailed 12-hour chart shows Bitcoin's movement through a descending parallel pattern (blue). We can see that the countermove back down has begun at time of writing, and there is a real danger that $10,000 could give way.
The bottom of this channel, all the way down near about $7,600, awaits Bitcoin if it cannot hold anywhere between $9,400-10,000. But a defense here would mean a higher low from the last trough, and would lay the first brick in a new medium term uptrend.
Moving to the 4-hour indicators, we see that the RSI is recovering well so far - but that it's still too early to call a higher low. With so much selling on the latest candle, price could well blow through support shortly after time of writing.
MACD/histogram (below) is still in deep negative territory after being kicked down from $12k. This moving average has a long way to go before it can get back into positive territory and signal any kind of uptrend.
The histogram has, unfortunately, closed moments ago in a downward aspect, which may signal another reversal back down. Strength is needed now to follow up yesterday's defense, and things could go badly in the next few hours if buyers do not show up.
In sum, Bitcoin needs some follow up to maintain its foothold above $10,000. This is an important moment - but yesterday's strength during an even more important moment can give us some expectation that the leading crypto will hold.
The views and opinions expressed here do not reflect those of CryptoGlobe.com and do not constitute financial advice. Always do your own research.


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I still need to do my budget for Vestigial Organs, but how can I waste my first entry after arriving in Vermont on project budget concerns?! It just isn't right… I intend to write an entry every day while I am here at the Vermont Studio Center, which sounds insane and maybe like a waste of precious time, but I think it's important. The project that I have planned will be transient and ephemeral; translated, if you aren't here in Vermont to see it, you will miss it. This means documentation is essential. In the same way that my time here is limited and will come to an end, so will this piece, so documenting both the experience and the project itself must go hand in hand and must be ongoing. Even if some days all I can manage is to post a photo of the grounds, or some oddity that catches my eye, that will be enough. The project is as much about time (this time of year, my time here in Vermont, time passing, the destructive nature of time) as it is about anything else. Have I been vague enough? I haven't given away too much yet, have I?
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MCG Industries is a South African premium provider of plastic transport packaging items and serves the beverage, brewing and dairy industries.
MCG was facing continuously increasing cost pressure from raw materials. The solution needed to give MCG a reduction in raw material usage, manufacturing cycle times and energy consumption to create a true competitive advantage.
The solution, MCG invested in three large MX 1000-17200 machines from KraussMaffei, with mold makers Schoeller Allibert partnering in the project to create a sophisticated 2-cavity mold.
Selected technical components include the HPS barrier screw providing exceptionally high throughput with excellent melt quality and allowing shorter cycle times, and a 20 per cent lower energy consumption as a result." said Klaus Zeiler, head of the business unit Logistics/Packaging at KraussMaffei.
The insultating sleeve around the injection unit offers even more potential for saving energy and reduced the heat-up time by 20 to 30 per cent. The total heat energy required reduced by 20 to 40 per cent.
MCG had specified a cycle time of 30 seconds which was quite a challenge for the product size (424 x 334 x 310 millimetres). At machine acceptance, KraussMaffei was able to run a stable process at cycle time of 28 seconds.


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A mystery shopper initiative, supported by WMAHSN and seeking to check amount of paracetamol for pain that anyone can purchase over the counter from non-pharmacy shops, has scooped an international award.
The mystery shopper initiative won second prize in the "Pain-general" category of the Grünenthal Pain Awards. The Grünenthal Pain Awards are open for entries from individuals, groups and collaborative projects that bring together professionals from various disciplines to submit projects in pain management that show innovation and a significant improvement in patient care.
The initiative found that over 20% of non-pharmacy shops in Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent sold more paracetamol than the legal limit.
Dr Ruth Chambers, clinical lead for long term conditions at WMAHSN, Tania Cork, chief operating officer for North Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Local Pharmaceutical Committee and Phill Molloy, year three medical student at Keele University, were on hand to collect the award at the award ceremony in Glasgow.
Ruth said: "The initiative was one of five awards across the UK and we were awarded £3,000 to use on the project. It was a very inspiring award ceremony, with posters and updates from several of the winners from 2012 - 2014 who have taken their projects to the next stage and made a real difference to patients' lives regarding safety and pain relief."
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Shaping the future: AUC joins King's Cross Knowledge Quarter
Published on 28 June 2019 02:50 PM
Age UK Camden are now an official member of Knowledge Quarter, a partnership of diverse organisations in the King's Cross area sharing their cutting-edge expertise and creating exciting opportunities to develop new knowledge.
As experts in the field of ageing, we'll be sharing our knowledge about the needs of older people in an increasingly ageing population and the ways we work with the wider community to meet these needs.
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Monthly Archives: April, 2015
We're rapidly adding to our LF family. Three new LF'ers arrived from around the country mid Spring and arrived in the office right in time to help us celebrate Fiesta in San Antonio. Welcome James, Ryan and Colin! Click to Read More
The American Institute of Architects have selected the Committee on the Environment Top Ten Green Projects for 2015. These buildings are the top ten (plus one legacy project) examples of sustainable design projects in North America. The COTE Top Ten Awards program, now in its 19th year, is the profession's most rigorous recognition program for sustainable design excellence. Congratulations to all of this year's winners. We are very excited to see that two of the winning projects are right here in San Antonio, Texas! Click to Read More
Located on 350 acres in the wooded hills south of Birmingham, Alabama, the Indian Springs School is an independent day and boarding school serving grades 8-12. In 2012, the school engaged Lake|Flato and local architect, ArchitectureWorks, in a master planning effort to transform and invigorate the campus originally designed by the Olmstead Brothers in 1950. The master plan includes new structures for Classrooms, Visual Arts, a Dining Hall, and Administration that are part of a three phase "Springs Eternal" campaign. Click to Read More
The office visited the Austin Central Library construction site on Friday as part of our ongoing Know|How series. We were able take a look at the exposed concrete and steel structure as well as experience 'Austin's new living room' the large atrium space at the heart of the building. As of Friday the concrete superstructure is in place and the steel roof structure is going up. The large 125' long main roof trusses are slated to be craned into place in the next week or so. Click to Read More
The U.S. Green Building Council will now recognize energy and water requirements from the Living Building Challenge green building system within the LEED green building program. USGBC says it shares common goals with the International Living Future Institute, developers of the Living Building Challenge. This move means that projects achieving the energy and water requirements in Living Building Challenge will be considered as technically equivalent to LEED. You can read more about this news in USGBC's press release. Click to Read More


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There are obviously three types of guys- Those who don't cheat, those who cheat and the serial monogamist. The serial monogamist is a guy who is faithful for the shortest possible time that he is in a relationship with you and as soon as he gets bored he finds an excuse to break up and is on to the next relationship in a flash and then the cycle continues.
So how do you spot a serial monogamist?
1) He has more exes than there are episodes on Tinsel!
Every time you step out you meet yet another ex! It's like he's been with the whole town.
2) His longest relationship lasted one month.
He was a very great boyfriend for 30 whole days till he wasn't.
And if for whatever reason his ex wouldn't give up the cookie before 90 days then his longest relationship lasted 100 days!
3) It's always his ex's fault that they broke up.
She was too clingy, too jealous, too crazy, moving too fast, always talking bad about his mother, wanted to get married too soon, didn't like his friends…the list is endless. He always comes off looking like the victim who just had to run for dear life.
4) He is Mr. Right-now in every sense of the word.
He gets this funny look on his face right before he changes the subject any time you talk about any type of relationship goals. Who'd have thought going on holiday together would be such a big deal?
5) He is paranoid about babies and baby mamas.
He disposes of his condom himself, doesn't sleep with you till the first time he catches you on your period and then you find a period tracker on his iPad that's synchronized to your menstrual cycle. He never ever has unprotected sex and if he does, he serves you morning after pills alongside a hot cup of cocoa and doesn't laugh at the joke you made about having a child together. He never leaves a trail and he makes sure his track record stays squeaky clean.
6) He has a very complicated plan for his future that doesn't seem to flow with your plans in the least.
His aim is to ensure that you are not traveling the same path!
7) The texts on his phone to various women seem to all be a prelude to something more.
"Hey babe, you were looking so fly today…wish I wasn't in a relationship…would never ever cheat on bae but who knows dreams do come true…x"
Like wtf???!!!!
8) His family don't seem particularly interested in knowing your name.
He takes you for family gatherings and you think this shows he is considering a long term relationship with you but his family acts funny. They barely ask your name and act like you are nothing more than his plus one at the dinner party not their future in-law. They know the drill!
9) He is all about the romance.
This guy is a hopeless romantic. Breakfast in bed, flowers, songs dedicated to you on cool FM, cupcakes to your office, surprise gifts and just because I love you gestures but as soon as you both start acting like a normal couple he complains about the flames flickering out and is gone with the wind!
10) He never ever does the breaking up.
Now this sneaky fellow has perfected the art of breaking up with you without actually breaking up with you. When he is done with the relationship, he let's it fizzle out. Too busy to pick your phone calls or reply your messages. Way to busy to come see you or be in the same room with you for more than 5 seconds. Avoidance is key to his strategy and sooner or later you break up with him out of frustration possibly via text message.
This smooth, suave, heart breaker would never be labeled a cheater, he prides himself in having great relationships which were fun while they lasted, too bad they are gone in 60 seconds! Ladies beware of the serial monogamist! Check out his track record before you say yes!


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President Obama signed the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 (the "Act") into law on December 17, 2010. The Act provides several tax and estate planning opportunities. Keep in mind that the Act sunsets on January 1, 2013, so its opportunities will only last for two years and some for only one year. Therafter, the provisions of prior law reappear unless Congress makes more changes. Clients should therefore take advantage of these opportunities while they last.
One important change made by the Act is the unification of the gift, estate, and generation-skipping transfer (GST) tax lifetime exemption - all at $5 million per individual or $10 million for a married couple. Another important change is the reduction of the top estate, gift, and GST tax rates to 35%.
Since these rates are much lower than the previous rates which could exceed 55%, for the next two years, clients should consider lifetime transfers during these next two years, 2011 and 2012. For persons who had used up their $1,000,000 exemption through gifts prior to 2011, such person can give another $4,000,000 in assets without paying any gift tax (a gift tax return must be filed for the gift). Better yet, the gift can be to grandchildren or to a dynasty trust for the benefit of children and their descendants, not only are estate and gift taxes avoided, but generation skipping taxes are avoided too as long as the total lifetime gifts do not exceed $5,000,000 per donor.
Assuming there are no changes to the tax laws before 2013, the exempt amount for estate and gift tax purposes will revert to $1,000,000 per donor and the GST exemption will revert to $1,300,000 per donor. The maximum marginal rate will revert to 55%. This is therefore a tremendous opportunity for gift planning now.
A totally new concept to the estate laws that was introduced for the next two years by the Act is called "portability." Portability permits the use of an unused exempt amount in a predeceasing spouse's estate in the surviving spouse's estate. To achieve portability, an estate tax return must be filed by the estate of the first spouse to die and such estate must elect the portability option. With portability, couples can pass a total of $10,000,000 to the next generation free from federal estate tax regardless of the size of each respective estate. Portability does not apply for purposes of the GST tax.
For estates of decedents dying in 2010, the Act provides beneficial options. Such estates may elect to either subject the estate to the estate tax, with a $5,000,000 exemption amount and a maximum tax rate above that amount of 35%. If such election is made, the Estate also receives a step-up in basis of the decedent's assets from the decedent's basis to their fair market value on the date of death. Otherwise, the Estate may elect not to pay estate tax at all but receive only the limited basis step-up of up to $1,300,000 of the appreciation inherent in the estate, and an additional $3,000,000 of stepped up basis for assets passing to the surviving spouse. The decision regarding which election to make is based upon a number of factors including the size of the estate, the amount of estate tax that would be due, the amount of appreciation in the assets and the time frame that the assets would be anticipated to be sold.
The use of discounting through family limited partnerships and family limited liability companies are still not disallowed by the Act though there had been a great deal of speculation that these devices would be legislated out of estate planners' tool kits. Also Irrevocable Life Insurance Trusts ("ILITs") for multiple generations can be accomplished by leveraging the $5,000,000 exemption for even more spectacular savings. The premiums can be paid with GST exempt dollars so that when the policy matures and pays out, they are received estate, gift, income, and GST tax free. Grantor retained annuity trusts (GRATs) with less than a ten-year term and "zeroed-out GRATs" (those with no gift component) were also not legislated out.
New Jersey like many states, has decoupled their estate tax from the federal estate tax. New Jersey allows only $675,000 of an estate to pass estate tax free for its estate tax. That leaves a $4,325,000 spread between the amount allowed by the federal exemption and the amount allowed by New Jersey. If not properly planned, the estate may be subjected to a state estate tax on the death of the first spouse, even if the couple desired to defer all taxes until the death of the second spouse.
Congress had various bills pending (but never enacted) that would have eliminated discounts, and short term GRATs but the Act does not do so. The fact that those restrictions were not enacted is yet another reason to act now to revise one's estate plan.
The time for planning is now.


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After over 12 months preparation the inaugural strategic HRH course was conducted by HRDA. The course at the end of September was run in the magnificent and almost new facilities of the University of Notre Dame (UNDA) clinical school on the grounds of Hawkesbury District Health Service, in the picturesque semi-rural outskirts of Sydney. The […]Read More
Solomon Islands Leadership and Management Programme
A course design workshop was held in Sydney from 1-5th October 2017 to engage with the cultural and regulatory contexts and to employ methods of adult experiential learning based on scenarios developed for the context of real work. In attendance from the Solomon Islands were: the Undersecretary for Heath Care, Dr. Gregory Jilini and the […]Read More
HRDA at the AAAH Conference – Colombo, Sri Lanka
Last month the Asia Pacific Alliance for Human Resources for Health (AAAH) held their 9th conference in Colombo Sri Lanka. The theme of the conference, 'Global HRH Strategies 2030: from strategy to implementation' was a call to action to address the HRH challenges being faced by the Asia Pacific region and globally. Carla Cowles, HRDA's […]Read More
Building HRH Capacity in Ukraine
One of HRDA's Directors, Lee Ridoutt, recently completed a project funded by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). The project involved supporting the growth ambitions of a Ukrainian private sector health services company called Mamin Dom (Mom's House), which started with a small shop in the centre of Kharkiv (the second largest city […]Read More
Health Information Systems in Ireland
HRDA Team members Lee Ridoutt and Victoria Hirst completed a project in Ireland critical to that country's future health financing as they move to a 'Money follows the patient' process of service payment – more widely understood as activity based funding (ABF). The project overall, managed by a HRDA partner Pavilion Health, had many components […]Read More
Future Trends for Human Resources for Health in the Asia Pacific Region
Graham Roberts & John Dewdney, HRH Knowledge Hub, August 2013 This article is reproduced here by permission of the authors, Graham Roberts (HRDA Principal) & John Dewdney (HRDA Associate). It was originally written while both were working within the HRH Knowledge Hub in August 2013. Introduction: Forecasting the trends in human resource for health and […]Read More


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Team Obama: China is acting responsibly on Iran, for real
The common perception on Capitol Hill is that China is not doing its part to support the international community's drive to halt Iran's emerging nuclear program. Not so, two senior administration officials said on Wednesday, as they praised China's action on Iran in a conference call with reporters on President Hu Jintao's visit to Washington. ...
The common perception on Capitol Hill is that China is not doing its part to support the international community's drive to halt Iran's emerging nuclear program. Not so, two senior administration officials said on Wednesday, as they praised China's action on Iran in a conference call with reporters on President Hu Jintao's visit to Washington.
The Chinese have stopped new investments in Iran's energy sector, improved their controls over weapons technology exports to Iran, and Chinese state-owned corporations are not backfilling business opportunities left open by other countries that are leaving Iran, the senior administration officials said. The officials also explained that the Iran issue has been at the top of the agenda on the U.S.-China relationship and that's partly why Beijing's behavior on Iran has improved.
"In all the meetings between the president and President Hu and our high-level interactions, there was no issue that occupied as much time and attention as Iran. It was absolutely at the top of the agenda in pretty much every meeting," one of the senior administration officials said, explaining that recent Chinese action vis-à-vis Iran "demonstrates positive results of that focus."
One of the top concerns in Congress right now about the U.S.-China relationship is that Beijing is not enforcing international arms sanctions against Iran and that Chinese companies have not stopped doing business with Iran's energy sector. Last week, two leading senators wrote to President Barack Obama warning that if the administration doesn't enforce U.S. sanctions law on Chinese companies, Congress will act.
"In fact, in the last seven months since the passage of the resolution I'm not aware of any new Chinese investments in the energy sector," another senior administration official said, apparently not counting ongoing deals between China and Iran to develop gas fields as "new". "That's an important development and it's an important signal to Iran."
"You do not see the kind of backfilling that might undercut the sanctions regime," the first official said.
Regarding exports of missile technology to Iran, one of the officials said that China "essentially adhere[s] to the guidelines of the Missile Technology Control Regime," which is meant to stop sensitive weapons transfers, despite the fact that China is not a member of that regime.
"China has done a great deal to improve its export control regime in order to try to block such exports," the official said. "There are gaps in China's enforcement. China's enforcement is still problematic… We don't see that as willful action by the Chinese government but as gaps in their system, which we urge them to correct."
In October, the Washington Post reported that U.S. officials had given the Chinese government a list of Chinese companies believed to be breaking international sanctions on arms transfers, including by giving them technology to help their missile and nuclear programs.
Both officials also touted Chinese support for U.N. Security Council resolution 1929, which one official described as "much stronger sanctions than anyone anticipated would pass, or that China would sign on to."
The senators don't agree that the Chinese government is willingly moving to end those abuses and in their letter, they cited numerous reports that China is supplying crucial materials to aid Iran's nuclear and missile programs and alleged that Beijing continues to give monetary and material support to Iran's energy sector, including the delivery of refined petroleum products, which does not violate U.N. sanctions but could provoke penalties under U.S. laws passed by Congress, including the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions Accountability and Divestment Act that Obama signed into law in July, 2010.
The senators specifically named the state-owned China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) and the China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (SINOPEC) as firms that could be subject to U.S. penalties.
"We urge you to warn President Hu that the U.S. will be forced to sanction these companies if they do not quickly suspend their ties with Iran," the senators wrote.
Last October, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a new report that identified 16 companies as having sold petroleum products to Iran between Jan. 1, 2009, and June 30, 2010. Of those 16, the GAO reported that five have shown no signs of curtailing business with Iran. Three of those companies are based in China, one in Singapore, and one in the UAE.
But the joint statement issued on Wednesday by Obama and Hu made no mention of the U.S. sanctions law that could result in congressionally imposed penalties on Chinese companies. Here's the totality of what it said on Iran:
On the Iranian nuclear issue, the United States and China reiterated their commitment to seeking a comprehensive and long-term solution that would restore international confidence in the exclusively peaceful nature of Iran's nuclear program. Both sides agreed that Iran has the right to peaceful uses of nuclear energy under the Non-Proliferation Treaty and that Iran should fulfill its due international obligations under that treaty. Both sides called for full implementation of all relevant UN Security Council Resolutions. The United States and China welcomed and will actively participate in the P5+1 process with Iran, and stressed the importance of all parties – including Iran – committing to a constructive dialogue process.
UPDATE: A senior GOP Senate aide responds to the administration officials' comments with considerable skepticism:
"These senior Administration officials continue to obfuscate and misdirect. Chinese entities are clearly in violation of the Iran, North Korea, and Syria Nonproliferation Act (INKSNA) and the Comprehensive Iran Sanction, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2010 (CISADA)," the aide said. "If the administration doesn't act soon, it faces the loss of its waiver authority and investigatory discretion on these matters."


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Euphoria is just as controversial and salacious as it's been advertised, but the most shocking thing about it is how tender its storytelling can be.
We're four episodes into Euphoria's inaugural season and I'm still not sure what kind of show it's trying to be.
Is it meant to shock us with its obscenity, with its tendency to go there? Because in that regard, it's exactly the kind of sensationalized show it's been reported to be — one that seems to rejoice in its literal and figurative dicks.
Euphoria gives us a protracted look at a high school locker room in all its nakedness, an informative slideshow of dick pics, and a main character who could only ever be described as a prick of the highest order.
Is it a show meant to show the true state of adolescence in our world? Because Euphoria — while being as controversial as its been advertised — is also an accurate glimpse at a Post 9/11 generation, one who grew up with social media and school lockdowns as part of their academic experience.
As a middle school English teacher of many years who was privy to my student's stories and gossip (oftentimes even when I didn't want it), I was… let's say saddened or upset, but not surprised at the teenage journeys presented on screen.
Or is Euphoria meant to be neither of these and just be a journey into the absurd? Because it — at times — rather absurd, like hard R version of Riverdale.
Nate's menace runs the gamut from genuinely terrifying to almost campy, Kat finds self-empowerment from a micro-penis and Cassie takes a very interesting ride on carousel because — ? I'm still trying to figure out the storytelling purpose of that last one.
Euphoria veers wildly from one identity to the next — at times a show that wants to shock us, to a show that tries to level with us, and then a show which attempts to titillate us.
But sometimes — at its very best moments — Euphoria is a show that gives us a tender portrayal of adolescent friendship and first love.
And it is this last type of show that I wish we got more of.
Woven in between scenes which feature Nate's best Patrick Bateman impression, the business practices of a 10 year old drug dealer, and a vast array of trippy drug sequences and seedy sex scenes are stories about the strong bonds of friendship between teenage girls and the overwhelming headiness of first love.
There's nothing particularly shocking or salacious about either of these things – they certainly wouldn't grab your attention the way a headline about a scene with 30 dicks in it might – but it is these very storylines in Euphoria which are the most deserving of attention.
The female friendships in this show – though frequently taking a back seat to more dramatic storylines involving questionable boys and shitty boyfriends – are genuine and delightful to watch. They aren't moved along by the catty pettiness which so many TV shows seem to delight in, but instead highlight the way these girls support and care about one another despite their differences.
More than that, the friendship between these teenage girls show the girls actually having fun, enjoying each other's friendship and reveling in being young and carefree. Kat and Jules' friendship is a delight to watch, as is Jules and Rue's, and Maddy and Cassie's molly-fueled time at the town carnival together in the most recent episode was one of my favorite parts.
Euphoria – when it lets itself indulge in human emotion rather than manufactured drama – gives us a picture of female friendship that is extraordinary and affecting in its familiarity.
Perhaps it's no coincidence, then, that it's when the girls separate from one another throughout the show that their storylines tend to drift into the show's more scandalizing and shocking tendencies.
While the show takes a rather blasé stance on nudity and sex, it treats the slow slide into genuine affection with a tenderness and sensitivity that almost feels like it belongs on another show.
The gradual build of Jules and Rue's relationship has been one of the most consistently strong parts of Euphoria — and the one in which the show uses the most restraint.
While Jules and Rue's individual storylines frequently swerve into the sensational and controversial, their shared narrative arc has been – at turns – both relatable and commonplace.
Jules begins Euphoria as the rather mysterious new girl in town, while Rue is some mix of pariah and bad girl. When Jules cuts her own arm in a display of absolute do-not-fuck-with-me at McKay's party in the first episode, it's absolutely game over for Rue, who immediately finds herself drawn to Jules (although she might have been anyway, as Fezco initially describes Jules as someone Rue would be friends with).
It's not the most conventional of meet-cutes, but somehow it seems to fit who both these characters are.
From there, the two embark on a fast and deeply connected friendship, all-consuming and wholly committed. Jules' sunniness counteracts Rue's tendency towards sullenness, while Rue helps to ground Jules when she's in danger of getting lost in daydreams.
Jules is a person who helps Rue embrace her emotion and vulnerability. As a person who has long sought to dampen her emotions and harden herself, this is a dramatic turn for Rue.
More than this, Jules is someone who pushes Rue to fight her demons; she is someone who makes Rue want to.
Amidst the cacophony of Euphoria's louder storylines, Jules and Rue's storyline is quiet and soft, both literally and figuratively. Most of their scenes take place away from the tumult of parties or insistent buzz of high school – in the quiet of Jules' bedroom as Rue wraps her bleeding arm or as Jules pleads with Rue not to put her through any more trauma; in an open field during lunch or riding through an orange grove on a sunlit day.
Even the fallout of the kiss in Jules room is soft (between the two, that is – Rue's individual fallout is loud and heartbreaking).
Between the two, there are no dramatic fights, no wild declarations, no loud pronouncements during their reunion post-kiss. Instead, there is a tight hug away from the hubbub of the carnival, with Rue's younger sister, Gia, quietly saying, "I think Rue's in love with her."
The kiss shared between Rue and Jules at the end of the most recent episode — complete with a dizzying look back at their more tender moments — felt more momentous than it had any right to given the fact that we've been with these characters a mere four episodes.
A large part of that has to do with the performances of Zendaya and Hunter Schafer (in her first acting role!), both of whom are bringing their A game to every single episode of Euphoria and whose chemistry is absolutely tremendous – genuine and tender and affectionate in all the best ways. If there isn't an Emmy nomination for one or both of them next awards season, there is no justice in this world.
But part of that is also because of the writing and the narrative work for their shared storyline. Rather than dipping into melodrama or vulgarity, the scenes with and between Rue and Jules have been wonderfully understated. They are ordinary scenes of two girls finding each another, figuring out what they mean to one another and grappling with just what exactly to do about it.
It's so relatable, so ordinary it might even be mundane – except that in a show like Euphoria, it is the mundane which becomes shocking, the commonplace which becomes the most moving.
I don't know where Euphoria will end up in terms of its identity crisis – and perhaps that's the point. Perhaps Euphoria's search for identity is meant to mirror its own character's journeys, and I'm meant to enjoy the process rather than search for an endpoint.
I can live with that.
I just hope that along the way, Euphoria manages to continue to carve out those tender moments of softness. If it is the shocking moments that give us all something to talk about, it's those softer scenes which actually have something interesting to say.


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Fuji Bank, one of Japan's largest city banks, is plunging into film financing in a drive to invest in the production of entertainment software, including films, animation and music.
By the end of 2000, Fuji plans to expand its entertainment investments, reaching a year-on total of $9.5m. The bank is also devising a scheme for securitizing its entertainment software rights and selling shares to investors.
The first target of its new investment strategy will be five animation projects. Starting this September, Fuji will back each project with up to $950.
The production partners will transfer Fuji's revenues from the projects, including a portion of the box office earnings, to a trust managed by Dai-Ichi Kangyo Fuji Trust and Banking.
Among the animation houses receiving investments from the bank are Production IC, which made the cult hit Evangelion SF films. Another recipient is Studio Pierrot, which owns animation rights to the hugely popular GTO comic, about a biker who becomes a school teacher.
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This course teaches students how to scope and prepare thorough and accurate estimates on residential dwelling damage using their choice of leading automated estimating systems. All phases of residential construction are introduced including framing, windows and doors, interior and exterior finishes, roofing and mechanical systems. Hands-on scoping and estimating exercises are incorporated into the instruction.
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This course begins with a proficiency exercise to determine the skill base so the course can be tailored to address content. Scoping and estimating exercises are discussed and assigned on structural components, roofing, electrical, HVAC, plumbing, and flooring. Attendees prepare automated estimates on the latest versions of electronic estimating software.
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Beginning with the California Earthquake Authority (CEA) claims investigation procedures guidelines, participants learn the definition of an earthquake and how one is measured. They also review the four policy types defined by the CEA: Homeowners, Renters, Mobile Home and Condominium.
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In February 2018, Google has made the online payments a lot easier. The organization announced its combination of different payment approaches into a unified brand, Google Pay. The team is planning to roll out the updates to offer you more with it.
Now, you can pay friends, save boarding passes and concert tickets, and manage your info in one place. Since its inception, Google always tries to put something new on your platter to make your life simple. These updates are worth looking at in brief:
Google is combining the Google Pay app with Google Pay Send apps. Now, it is possible to send or request money from Google Pay itself if you live in the U.S. It will be soon available in the UK as well. Moreover, if you lift the tab with Google Pay, it's even simpler to split the bill. You just need to tap on recent purchase and request money from up to 5 people instantly.
Save your tickets from places, such as Southwest and Ticketmaster to have them always on hand. As soon as your tickets are stored, you'll find them with your gift cards, offers, and loyalty cards on the new 'Passes' tab of Android apps. You just need to use your phone as your ticket, without printing them. You will soon be able to save the boarding passes and event tickets from more places. This includes Singapore, Eventbrite, and Vueling.
You can use Google Pay on iOS or on the desktop, on transit or in stores, by your assistant or your phone. The company has also made it simpler to maintain your payment info on the web or in the app at pay.google.com. All the things are synced with your Google Account. Therefore, any updation on your payment info on the web will be reflected on your phone.
Only a handful of organizations, like Singapore Airlines, Southwest Airlines, Eventbrite, etc, are participating in the rollout. But, you would see more firms and the features in the upcoming months.
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We've written extensively about Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man. It's difficult not to, when you have a studio like Insomniac Games, developers of the Ratchet & Clank franchise, handling the IP. But just as we're excited for Marvel's Spider-Man, we're also excited for Eidos Montreal's Shadow of the Tomb Raider. It's kind of crazy that there is just one week between the two games' release dates—Marvel's Spider-Man debuts on September 7, 2018 and Shadow of the Tomb Raider launches on September 14, 2018—but comments from Eidos Montreal make it sound as though the team isn't too concerned.
In an interview with COGconnected, Eidos Montreal's Game Director, Daniel Bisson, and Lead Writer, Jill Murray, were asked if the studio was concerned about Marvel's Spider-Man potentially stealing Shadow of the Tomb Raider's thunder. Murray replied, "This has been a great year for games."
Though this response didn't indicate if Murray is worried about Marvel's Spider-Man, Bisson chimed in to share his thoughts on the webslinger's game. "Yea, exactly that. I'm not worried about Spider-Man,"
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I have friends working on it, so I'm very happy for them too, and I think, you were saying it, it's a great year. And for me, Spider-Man and Shadow of the Tomb Raider can co-exist. It's a different experience. One's way more about movement, the city and things, and this one is way more about exploring and finding things that make life special.
Eidos Not Worried About the Proximity of Tomb Raider and Spider-Man
Murray isn't wrong to say that 2018 is a great year for games, especially when you consider the success of titles like Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy and God of War. As Murray also said, "Only one game has Lara Croft."
Shadow of the Tomb Raider will be available for the PlayStation 4, PC, and Xbox One on September 14, 2018.
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The Gallery of Regrettable Food
ISBN10: 0609607820 ISBN13: 9780609607824 Publisher: Clarkson Potter Published: Sep 1 2001 Pages: 192 Weight: 1.55lbs. Height: 8.50" Width: 7.75" Depth: 0.75" Edition: 1st Edition Language: English
This is not a cookbook. You'll find no tongue-tempting treats within -- unless, of course, you consider Boiled Cow Elbow with Plaid Sauce to be your idea of a tasty meal. No, The Gallery of Regrettable Food is a public service. Learn to identify these dishes. Learn to regard shivering liver molds with suspicion. Learn why curries are a Communist plot to undermine decent, honest American spices. Learn to heed the advice of stern, fictional nutritionists. If you see any of these dishes, please alert the authorities.
Now, the good news: laboratory tests prove that The Gallery of Regrettable Food AMUSES as well as informs. Four out of five doctors recommend this book for its GENEROUS PORTIONS OF HILARITY and ghastly pictures from RETRO COOKBOOKS. You too will look at these products of post-war cuisine and ask: "WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?" It's an affectionate look at the days when starch ruled, pepper was a dangerous spice, and Stuffed Meat with Meat Sauce was considered health food.
Bon appetit
The Gallery of Regrettable Food is a simple introduction to poorly photographed foodstuffs and horrid recipes from the Golden Age of Salt and Starch. It's a wonder anyone in the 1940s, '50s, and '60s gained any weight. It isn't that the food was inedible; it was merely dull. Everything was geared toward a timid palate fearful of spice. It wasn't nonnutritious -- no, between the limp boiled vegetables, fat-choked meat cylinders, and pink whipped Jell-O desserts, you were bound to find a few calories that would drag you into the next day. It's just that the pictures are so hideously unappealing.
Author James Lileks has made it his life's work to unearth the worst recipes and food photography from that bygone era and assemble them with hilarious, acerbic commentary: "This is not meat. This is something they scraped out of the air filter from the engines of the Exxon Valdez." It all started when he went home to Fargo and found an ancient recipe book in his mom's cupboard: Specialties of the House, from the North Dakota State Wheat Commission. He never looked back. Now, they're not really recipe books. They're ads for food companies, with every recipe using the company's products, often in unexpected and horrifying ways. There's not a single appetizing dish in the entire collection.
The pictures in the book are ghastly -- the Italian dishes look like a surgeon had a sneezing fit during an operation, and the queasy casseroles look like something on which the janitor dumps sawdust. But you have to enjoy the spirit behind the books -- cheerful postwar perfect housewifery, and folks with the guts to undertake such culinary experiments as stuffing cabbage with hamburger, creating the perfect tongue mousse when you have the fellas over for a pregame nosh, or, best of all, baking peppers with a creamy marshmallow sauce. Alas, too many of these dishes bring back scary childhood memories.