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Some 250,000 of the cholera patients had been hospitalized over the past year, the agency’s spokesperson, Tarek Jasarevic, told reporters in Geneva, adding that the disease could infect 75,000 another by the end of the year if the current trend continues, bringing the cumulative total number of cases to about half a million.After a decline in weekly cholera incidents in August, the number of cases rose in September, with South and Nippes departments seeing significant increases, along with Nord, Centre, and the capital Port-au-Prince.Mr. Jasarevic said that with heavy rainfall forecast this month in the departments of South, South-East, North and other parts of the country, conditions favourable to the spread of cholera and other diseases water-borne diseases are expected to arise.There are currently 37 cholera treatment centres in Haiti, 269 cholera treatment units and 766 oral rehydration posts.According to Mr. Jasarevic, a number of WHO’s partners had withdrawn or were scaling down their operations in Haiti due to a lack of funding. The agency has urged the humanitarian community and donors to remain vigilant as long term and coordinated cholera response may be necessary. 21 October 2011Almost 470,000 cases of cholera, including 6,595 deaths, have been reported in Haiti since an epidemic of the disease erupted in the Caribbean country one year ago, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) reported today.
Mandy Leacock treated the woman like a slave, ordering her to cook and clean as an “unpaid skivvy”, punishing her by dousing her with bleach as she sat in a bath.Jurors heard she was also repeatedly punched and kicked by the pair, and swung around by her hair until it came out in chunks.The court was told on two occasions Leacock, 34, forced her to perform oral sex on him at his London flat.The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told police she moved in with Leacock because she “felt lonely and wanted to be loved again” after a previous abusive relationship.Prosecuting, David Povall said: “She was living in a state of fear, oppression, being bullied and controlled.”Leacock, of Paddington, is on trial at Southwark Crown Court accused of two counts of rape and two of assault causing actual bodily harm. She was living in a state of fear, oppression, being bullied and controlled.David Povall, prosecuting A lonely woman who went looking for “love and romance” on the internet was raped and assaulted by a man she met on a dating site, a court heard.The woman moved in with Colin Leacock in 2015 shortly after they met on Match.com.But his domineering sister forced her to live with her instead, to prove she was good enough for her brother. Should dating websites be doing more to protect women?Bumble: Meet the woman revolutionising online dating Jurors were told Mandy Leacock was not on trial but had previously pleaded guilty to assault causing actual bodily harm, including pulling the woman’s hair and using bleach on her. Show more Want the best of The Telegraph direct to your email and WhatsApp? Sign up to our free twice-daily Front Page newsletter and new audio briefings.
The Labour Party is responsible for the rise of “softcore Holocaust denial”, Dr Deborah Lipstadt has said.The American academic won a high-profile legal battle against the British historian David Irving in 2000 after he sued her for libel when she declared him a Holocaust denier. She said that anti-Semitism that has become “embedded” in the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership, adding that it has become more socially acceptable to “make a crack” at a dinner party about Jews. As a result of her high-profile legal battle against Irving, she said: “The kind of Holocaust denial that I fought in the courtroom – what I call hardcore Holocaust denial – has been seriously weakened. And people who engage in it are seen as at best loony, at worst hateful anti-Semites, falsifiers of truth and so on.“But what we see today more of is softcore Holocaust denial. Softcore Holocaust denial is where everything becomes a genocide. Softcore Holocaust denial is where people say ‘I’m so tired of hearing about this, why am I always hearing about the Holocaust, too much about the Holocaust, oh you Jews and the Holocaust, jokes about the Holocaust…’” 
Dr Lipstadt went on to say how Mr Corbyn is at best “blind to overt manifestations of anti-Semitism”, citing his questioning of a London council’s decision to destroy an anti-Semitic mural which depicted a group of Jewish bankers counting money. Mr Corbyn later apologised for his comments. “To talk about a genocide, or to talk about the Nazi-like tactics of the Israeli army is ludicrous,” she said. “Every army makes mistakes, every army does things wrong. There are things the Israeli army does wrong, but to compare it to Nazis is softcore denial.”Dr Lipstadt, who is the Dorot Professor of Holocaust Studies at Emory University in Atlanta, said she believes anti-Semitism and “softcore Holocaust denial” are both on the rise in the UK, in part due to the Labour Party. Dr Lipstadt said that Mr Corbyn is at best “blind to overt manifestations of anti-Semitism” Speaking at the Holocaust Educational Trust’s annual conference in Westminster, London, she described how “softcore Holocaust denial” can also crop up in connection with Israel, where people go beyond criticism of policies and strategy and begin to draw comparisons with Nazi Germany. The Daily Telegraph’s coverage of the Irving v Penguin Books Ltd High Court case in 2000 Want the best of The Telegraph direct to your email and WhatsApp? Sign up to our free twice-daily Front Page newsletter and new audio briefings. “You have a former mayor here in London [Ken Livingstone] who would talk about the cooperation between the Zionists and the Nazis,” she said.“He took one little historical fact and blew it up into something that never existed, completely twisted the truth. Irrespective of how you feel about him politically – its historically rubbish. “But it’s more than that – it’s a form of anti- Semitism. That’s the kind of softcore denial I worry about much more. It’s subtly anti-Semitic and its clearly denial because it rewrites history.”Mr Livingstone was suspended from Labour in 2016 for claiming Adolf Hitler supported Zionism in the Thirties. He resigned from the Labour Party in May, but insisted he was in no way guilty of anti-Semitism. Rachel Weisz as Deborah Lipstadt in the film Denial She said that while anti-Semitism has always existed on the right of politics as well, she said: “It has become more acceptable to have those kind of attitudes, its become more embedded in the Labour Party.”A Labour Party spokesperson said: “Jeremy Corbyn has been absolutely clear that he is a militant opponent of anti-Semitism and is committed to driving it out of politics and our society. Labour has deep roots in the Jewish community and is campaigning to increase support and confidence in our Party among Jewish people in the UK.“Any complaints of anti-Semitism, including Holocaust denial, are taken extremely seriously and are fully investigated, and appropriate disciplinary action, in line with Party rules and procedures. “Labour’s new General Secretary Jennie Formby has made it her first priority to speed up and strengthen our procedures and to develop a programme of political education to create deeper awareness and understanding about all forms of antisemitism.”
Epiroc has teamed up with Lazarus & Lazarus to expand its reach into the Honduras mining and construction market.Lazarus & Lazarus will become a distributor of the Sweden-based OEM’s products, Epiroc said.The tie-up is part of a wider plan to expand the service network offering of Epiroc’s CVCA subsidiary, according to Bjorn Tisell, Regional Manager of Epiroc CVCA. Epiroc CVCA serves the Colombia, Venezuela, Central America and Caribbean markets. It is headquartered in Bogotá, Colombia, and has offices, service workshops and warehouses in Medellin and Panama City.Tisell said Honduras has potential in the mining and construction markets that needs to be developed with environmentally-friendly and safe technologies for personnel working in the drilling and excavation processes.One of the more prominent mines in Honduras is the El Mochito mine, in the Department of Santa Barbara. The underground zinc-lead-silver asset has been in almost constant operation since 1948 and was recently re-started by Ascendant Resources. It is expected to produce 85 MIb-95 MIb of zinc-equivalent this year.
Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology has introduced an operator training simulator to provide a compact and flexible solution to safely train operators and maintenance teams on its DD422i, DD422iE and DT922i drill rigs. This latest development provides a low weight safe training tool that is highly portable, enabling it to be used where it is most needed – on site. The new Sandvik Operator Training Simulator has been designed specifically to improve both operator and drilling performance, delivering real benefits for underground drilling applications.The latest development from Sandvik is a fully mobile system which weighs less than 50kg, enabling training to be undertaken anywhere. The simulator delivers ‘real life’ training in a simulated working environment, with drill rig operators and maintenance teams learning about rig capabilities before progressing to the actual equipment. The simulator acts like a real rig, operated with authentic controls and combined with the same control system software as that installed on the drills themselves.The simulator comes with purpose-developed software that includes a range of specific exercises for recording and measuring operator behaviour. The trainer can initiate machine faults, incidents or hazards to train and assess operators, thereby ensuring they are able to respond correctly to any scenario with maximum efficiency. Additionally, training sessions can be conducted for multiple participants in a safe environment, preventing risk of injury or material damage. Furthermore, it facilitates regular operator retraining and the implementation of an operator assessment process without impacting on site productivity.Thanks to its compact size and its wheeled carrying case, the simulator can easily be carried by a single person to wherever it is needed. With a very short set-up time, operator training can begin even before the rig has been delivered and commissioned. This provides increased levels of operational efficiency, with no learning curve required prior to using the rig on site. The simulator has been designed to enable tailor-made training sessions to suit trainee experience levels, using a range of exercises and simulated conditions in a variety of applications and situations. A report evaluates and measures trainee performance, ensuring that the training is of direct benefit to operators.The simulator safely develops and refreshes operators’ skills within a protected environment and significantly reduces the drill start up period. It has been designed to ensure that rig operators are fully familiar with the features and the capabilities of the Sandvik rig from day one. The shorter transition to using the real equipment results in quicker familiarization, improving efficiency and productivity. Additionally, there is no risk of equipment damage, zero consumption of rock tools and fuel, zero emissions and no exposure of the trainees to risk in familiarizing them with a new drill rig.Ensuring that operators can use the drill rig to its full potential safely and productively as quickly as possible is what the simulator is about, with the training simulator performing all boom and feed movements, as well as the entire drilling cycle. It is fully compatible with Sandvik iSURE™ software – Sandvik’s tunnel management tool for accurate drilling, charging and blasting plans.Thanks to the training course management tool, the trainer can customise training and use multiple pre-planned training scenarios. This ensures 100% peace of mind, with training routines and exercises repeated until the appropriate level of knowledge is reached.The use of the simulator is estimated to produce a 5% increase in annual productivity in rig availability alone. In addition, training costs are reduced by up to 35%, with training sessions being easily and safely conducted on site with multiple operators.
In case you were wondering why everyone is talking about a DC comic book villain that wasn’t one of the people appearing in Suicide Squad, it was because Ben Affleck – not Zack Snyder, not Warner Bros, but the Batfleck himself – tweeted out a short video of a monitor showing Deathstroke.https://t.co/0NsNzCtGip— Ben Affleck (@BenAffleck) August 29, 2016Which is confusing for a couple of reasons. First, Ben Affleck is shooting Justice League right now in London. Second, Ben Affleck tweeted this so it’s obviously a well-calculated piece of marketing. Three, it was immediately followed up by a report from The Wrap saying that Deathstroke was going to be the primary antagonist in Ben Affleck’s Batman film: a movie that does not have a release date or title.Everything we’ve been told about Justice League so far indicates that the heroes of Batman V. Superman: Dawn of Justice will meet The Flash, Cyborg, and Aquaman to battle Steppinwolf, an alien warrior who has come to Earth to reclaim some MacGuffin objects called Motherboxes. That doesn’t have any room for a character like Slade Wilson, a former soldier in the U.S. Army, he was enhanced through an experimental super-soldier program, uses 90% of his brain and was originally a villain for the Teen Titans.Then again, there have been rumblings around some parts that Justice League might have a few more villains than Steppenwolf up its sleeve, I just don’t think anyone was expecting Deathstroke to be part of that equation.The Wrap’s assertion that Deathstroke will be the villain in the Ben Affleck written Batman movie seems to leave out that nothing about the Batman movie is anywhere close to being filmed. Right now Ben Affleck is with the rest of the Justice League cast in the process of making Justice League. Is it possible that he is doing screen tests for his solo Batman movie before there’s even a public release date?It’s much more likely that this iteration of Deathstroke is going to debut in Justice League in some way and that’s what we’re seeing. It might be a post credits scene or it might be a cameo like Ezra Miller’s The Flash in Suicide Squad this month, which was also shot on the Justice League set.The character previously appeared on The CW’s Arrow as the major antagonist in season two, but when asked about if that character would return, Executive Producer Marc Guggenheim said “The character of Slade Wilson is currently tied up in another DC project.” That was last February, before the release of Batman V. Superman: Dawn of Justice.Since Dawn of Justice opened, the rumor about the Batman movie was that it was going to feature many Batman villains in what could be an Arkham Asylum like scenario. This new report from the Wrap that says Deadshot is going to be the “main antagonist” is puzzling because…well, you’d assume The Joker would be the head honcho in a multiple villain extravaganza.Although the tweet did come from Ben Affleck, I’m going to wait until we’re hearing Batman movie news from more than one unnamed source. But for sure Deathstroke is joining the DC Cinematic Universe and there’s someone in that costume on the Justice League set.Right now, rumor-money is on Joe Manganiello (Magic Mike XXL, True Blood) who had apparently auditioned for “Deathstroke” in Suicide Squad. Eventually when we learned that Deathstroke wasn’t in the movie, everyone discounted the Deathstroke rumors. Now, Manganiello’s social media presence does suggest he is currently in London, so maybe the gossip mill actually got one right over two years in advance this time.
Hello. My name is Stephanie, and I am a smartphone addict.My handset is more than just a means to communicate: It is a boredom buster, an escape route, a friendly face.I reach for it while watching TV, working at my desk, waiting for tea to brew; there are always games to play, social media feeds to skim, and news articles to weep over.My habits, however, can’t be curbed by a “Substitute Phone.”From Vienna-based designer Klemens Schillinger, the phone clone replicates movements we make “hundreds of times on a daily basis”—but without lights, colors, pixels, or sensors.You might as well fondle some dominos (via Leonhard Hilzensauer)By replacing digital functions with stone beads, the Substitute Phone provides physical stimulation when the real thing is unavailable. (Which seems like the drastic measures of an intervention, not the average adult’s reaction to too much screen time.)Sets of marbled pellets are built into a sleek rectangle in various patterns: two horizontal rows in the center (scroll across), one long vertical line (scroll up and down); one horizontal row at the bottom (unlock/answer call); one long slanted line (zoom); one short slanted line (scroll side-to-edge).The object, according to Schillinger’s website, is to reduce users’ routine to “nothing but the motions.”“This calming limitation offers help for smartphone addicts to cope with withdrawal symptoms,” the site said, offering the toy as a “therapeutic approach.”Even if you practice great restraint (congratulations!), you’re bound to know someone who is always looking at their handset—often for no particular reason other than out of habit.Substitute Phone as a therapeutic approach (via Leonhard Hilzensauer)“More and more often one feels the urge to check their phone, even if you are not expecting a specific message or call,” Schillinger told Dezeen. “These observations inspired the idea of making a tool that would help stop this ‘checking’ behavior.”But I’m not convinced the Substitute Phone will solve the problem. That’s what fidget spinners are for. People who are constantly using their mobile device are accessing what’s behind the screen—the messages, the photos, the apps—not the screen itself.Schillinger’s project was inspired, he told Dezeen, by writer and philosopher Umberto Eco, who tried giving up smoking by exchanging his pipe for a wooden stick.“It was the same thing, but without the nicotine, just the physical stimulation,” he said. “I remembered this and thought to make phones that would provide the physical stimulation but not the connectivity.”The simulated smartphone is not yet available to the public; Schillinger’s online shop is “coming soon.” Stay on target Sir Jony Ive Leaves Apple to Start His Own Design FirmEnter BBC’s ‘Doctor Who’ Fan Art Competition 
If you know someone who has dedicated their life to promoting the soybean industry or membership, you can nominate them for an ASA award. ASA is currently accepting nominations for the Special Meritorious Award, Lifetime Achievement Award (Membership focus) and the Lifetime Achievement Award (Association focus). To nominate a someone, apply online.All nominations, including letters of recommendation, must be submitted online or in writing to to Byron Keelin at bkeelin@soy.org no later than Friday, Nov. 21, 2014. The nominations will be reviewed by the ASA Membership and Corporate Relations Committee. The awards will be presented at the ASA Awards Banquet on Friday, Feb. 27, 2015 during Commodity Classic in Phoenix, Ariz. Feb. 26 –28, 2015.
Offering a good-quality pension scheme that goes beyond the legal minimums can be an effective tool to recruit, retain and engage employees.What is the value to employers of offering a good-quality pension scheme?There is a very strong and increasing focus on pensions. With the move away from defined benefit schemes, a lot of employees have become aware of the quality of what they are losing and the quality of what is replacing it in a defined contribution scheme.The other side to that is auto-enrolment. Overall awareness of pensions is increasing. So the value to the employer is people realising, first of all, they have had a pension scheme for longer than most people or that they have a good pension scheme compared to most people. Employees valuing it in the same way as they value their salary could be really powerful.What does a good pension scheme look like?Awareness is going to increase, ultimately, of what a basic pension looks like. People will start to become aware of that because everyone will be in a pension and everyone will be auto-enrolled each time they move jobs.If people become aware of what the bare minimum is, then anything above 8% contributions before any government makes it mandatory will look better than the average. Employers will start to be able to say: ‘here’s what we pay in salary but we’ve actually got a better than average pension scheme’. They can comfortably say that if most organisations are offering the bare minimum.How can employers measure the value they are getting from their scheme?This is the million-dollar question. It remains very difficult. One way to think of it is that if people value it alongside income in their benefits package, then think about how people value income. Employers pay a salary which has to be at least commensurate with market rates if they want to attract people. If they pay more than market rates they might attract good people. If they have a good meritocracy where they reward people based on their performance, they are more likely to keep people. It is the same with pensions. If pensions start to become valued to the same depth as income, employers can probably measure it alongside the return they get on things like paying salaries. We are not there yet, but we could be over the next three to five years.It is getting much easier to do pensions benchmarking. First of all, ask how good it is, what people think of it and how much they value pensions over salary. It will be easier for organisations with older workforces to measure it because people aged 50 plus are more likely to be focused on what they are getting back from pensions, particularly when they have got access at 55. So employers with an ageing workforce will probably find it easier to ask people and get a favourable response on the importance of the pension.What key compliance issues do employers need to take account of? The compliance issue, for larger firms, is more likely to be around ensuring the scheme remains up to date. How do they manage people who want to start withdrawing money and exercising their retirement freedoms? Is there a route to doing that which does not leave the organisation liable in any way?There is the ongoing theme of contributions and re-enrolment, the triennial reviews coming up over the course of this year for the big employers that staged first in 2013. Getting that wrong could result in compliance notices or even fines. These are quite significant for larger organisation, especially as they rack up on a daily basis once a breach has been identified. Most big employers are very used now to paying contributions and getting that done accurately and on time every month but re-enrolment will be the first big test of how well embedded auto-enrolment is.Similar to auto-enrolment the first time round, data and employee records need to be up to date. It is a bit more complex when employers have got to take into account people who have opted out, when they opted out and their current eligibility, so do not leave it too late.It will not be as much work because employers have got the scheme in place, but they should carry out the same checks.How can employers overcome a compliance breach? The key thing is to tell The Pensions Regulator, the provider and adviser immediately that they have spotted the problem and try to rectify it. The longer the breach goes unrectified, the more likely the regulator is to take action and the more difficult it is to correct.Usually, mistakes compound over time so the quicker they are rectified and the quicker employers engage the provider and the regulator, the better the outcome.Jamie Jenkins is head of pensions strategy at Standard Life
Former state senator and gubernatorial candidate Mike Dunleavy talks to the audience during a Juneau Chamber of Commerce forum on Thursday, September 6, 2018, in Juneau, Alaska. (Photo by Rashah McChesney/Alaska’s Energy Desk)As Gov.-elect Mike Dunleavy prepares to take office on Dec. 3, there are still a lot of unknowns about how he’ll approach his campaign priorities — a big one being education. What a Dunleavy administration might do on the issue of public education is a big question looming over rural schools across the state.On Tuesday, the governor-elect’s transition team responded to a request for comment on rural school funding with a “no comment” for the time being. Dunleavy and his transition staff are “busy at the moment,” slowly unveiling the incoming administration’s priorities and Cabinet appointees. A member of the Dunleavy transition team, Sarah Erkmann Ward, said in an email to KYUK that, “Education is one of the governor-elect’s passions, and all Alaskans will hear more about his ideas for improving outcomes soon.” For now, KYUK’s questions don’t have answers.A former rural educator, Dunleavy hasn’t been specific about what steps he’d take or the changes he’d like to see for state-funded schools. As reported by KTOO and Alaska Public Media reporter Andrew Kitchenman, during Dunleavy’s time in the state Senate he supported cutting state funding to prekindergarten education, supported a proposed constitutional amendment allowing state money to go to private education, and has campaigned on wanting rural areas to have access to regional schools in hub communities while somehow not taking away from village schools.“Public school choice first is important, meaning we have a situation in Alaska right now that we have public monies going to private education as part of the vendor process for public home schools. We have private individuals that get paid through the allotment process to help educate kids in our public schools. We already have this process going on,” said Dunleavy, in response to whether he’d support school vouchers from the Oct. 25 debate with Democrat Mark Begich. He’s on record supporting what he calls “public and private partnerships.”According to unofficial election results, rural Alaska and most of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta voted Democratic on Election Day, with 67 percent of the vote in Bethel going to Begich.The Lower Kuskokwim School District is the largest school district in the Y-K Delta and its budget, like all Regional Educational Attendance Area, or REAA, schools, relies wholly on state funding. The Legislature forward-funded education for the next two years, with a boost of $20 million for fiscal year 2019, and $30 million for fiscal year 2020, which LKSD says has helped keep up with staffing and fuel costs. But come 2021, it will be a big concern for the district if the Legislature does not take action to avoid another flat funding year. When funding has remained static in the past, the district has had to cut funds for staff positions and increase the student-to-teacher ratio.Last month, when outgoing state Education Commissioner Dr. Michael Johnson visited the LKSD board, he made it clear that he likes the direction their district is currently taking.“I also very much like your mission statement and how you tie culture to the work that’s happening in your schools, and that’s something I think every school board in the state wants to happen,” said Johnson.Johnson pointed to the use of Yup’ik language in the classroom and a strategic thinking model that the district is using. The state Board of Education prioritizes every student being proficient in reading by the end of third grade. For the Walker administration, that has meant proficiency not just in the English language.“Because we know that students who are proficient at the end of third grade in reading, whatever language that is, outperform students that only learn English by the end of sixth grade on the standardized tests,” Johnson said. “So it’s a wonderful thing you’re doing. It’s a wonderful thing you’re offering to our state.”Johnson hoped that the LKSD model will spread to other districts. As for the next administration, their stance on the issue has yet to be determined. Gov.-elect Mike Dunleavy will take office on Dec. 3.
Medchal: District Collector M V Reddy on Wednesday directed the municipal commissioners to be ready for the ensuing civic elections to be held shortly.Addressing a video conference from the collectorate with municipal commissioners, MPDOs. EOPRDs, panchayat secretaries on municipal elections and ‘Haritha Haram’ programme, Reddy sought details of the municipality-wise details by July 5 of claims, acceptance of objections, draft notification, final publication, identification of polling stations. Also Read – Secunderabad: Major General N Srinivas Rao makes farewell visit to AOC Advertise With Us The DC directed that a gazetted officer and a non-gazetted assistant should be appointed for three wards each. He wanted the polling stations to be identified and a report on ballot box requirements be prepared. The staff needed for poll duty should be identified along with a review of conduct of polls municipality-wise. Speaking on ‘Haritha Haram’, Reddy stated that it was very important along with the civic polls. He asked officials to make the programme successful. ‘You should get ready for planting of saplings in view of the commencement of the monsoon season. The spots where icon/avenue plantations are to be taken up should be identified. Agreements for raising saplings should be signed with recognised and empanelled firms. Also Read – Kolkata artists giving final touches to 24 ft clay Ganesh idol Advertise With Us He directed officials to secure six ft saplings from Kadiyam Nursery for plantation, with metal tree guards. Money should be secured from donors for raising plants with a provision for boards listing the names donors/organisations. Reddy stated that plantations should be taken up in gram panchayats, roads on either side in municipalities, temples, mosques, churches for providing a green look. The saplings should be planted in villages and municipalities under the aegis/supervision of Haritha Haram committees, with active participation of members. Advertise With Us He suggested that the saplings from the grampanchayat nurseries to be handed over to each house should be given only to those who have already dug up pits, with stress on not wasting saplings raised after Herculian effots. Steps should be taken for taking up plantations by farmers as part of MGNREGS programme. Daily reports on the status of sapling should be submitted. Those present at the video conference included DRO Madhukar Reddy, DPO Sudhakar Reddy, DRDO Koutilya, district-level officials.
Ongole: Prakasam District Collector Dr Pola Bhaskara said that if the tahsildars and VROs do their duty at ground level, there will not be many complaints from the public at the weekly grievance cell Spandana on every Monday. Speaking at the Kandukur division revenue officials review meeting on Thursday, the collector said that there is strong criticism from the public that the revenue department is not performing up to the expectation. Also Read – DGP Gautam Sawang warns over objectional posts on social media Advertise With Us He said that the tahsildars and VROs are not responding to the pleas of the public at the ground level and that is the reason they are turning up at Spandana programme. He ordered them to put the focus on the redressal of urges received through the Mee Seva immediately and bring good name to the department. He advised them to utilise the latest available technology in speedily solving the applications. He advised the tahsildars to not depend on the data entry operators and supervise the records entering work. Also Read – AP Cabinet to meet on September 4 Advertise With Us He warned them to not make unnecessary changes in adangals and if any instances are found to be made for profit of others, he said that the legal action will be initiated against the officers. He warned them to not let the tanks and ponds encroached in the villages. The Kandukur RDO KS Ramarao, DRDA PD Narasimhulu, tahsildars, deputy tahsildars and VROs from the Kandukur revenue division participated in the meeting.
×Actors Reveal Their Favorite Disney PrincessesSeveral actors, like Daisy Ridley, Awkwafina, Jeff Goldblum and Gina Rodriguez, reveal their favorite Disney princesses. Rapunzel, Mulan, Ariel,Tiana, Sleeping Beauty and Jasmine all got some love from the Disney stars.More VideosVolume 0%Press shift question mark to access a list of keyboard shortcutsKeyboard Shortcutsplay/pauseincrease volumedecrease volumeseek forwardsseek backwardstoggle captionstoggle fullscreenmute/unmuteseek to %SPACE↑↓→←cfm0-9Next UpJennifer Lopez Shares How She Became a Mogul04:350.5x1x1.25×1.5x2xLive00:0002:1502:15 Atlas V, the Paris-based immersive-entertainment studio recently launched by Antoine Cayrol, Pierre Zandrowicz and Arnaud Colinart, will be presenting three VR experiences – “Spheres,” “BattleScar” and “Vestige” (pictured) – at the Tribeca Film Festival.Atlas V will roll into Tribeca’s Immersive program with new episodes of Eliza McNitt’s science-themed “Spheres” and of Nico Casavecchia and Martin Allais’ animated experiment “BattleScar.”“Spheres” is an interactive journey inspired by the iconic “Pale Blue Dot” image of planet Earth. The new episode to be shown at Tribeca explores the sounds of the universe. An earlier episode played in January in the New Frontier section at Sundance, where “Spheres,” was snapped up in a seven-figure deal. “Spheres” is made in collaboration with Darren Aronofsky and Ari Handel at Protozoa, Oculus, Crimes of Curiosity and Kaleidoscope. The first episode of “BattleScar,” a coming-of-age immersive experience narrated by Rosario Dawson and set in the burgeoning New York punk scene of the 1970s, also played at Sundance. Comprising three episodes of 10-to-12 minutes, “BattleScar” is being co-produced with 1st Ave Machine and will be made available on Oculus Rift by Arte at the end of the year. “BattleScar” follows Lupe, a Puerto Rican runaway who gets introduced to the punk world of Alphabet City by a woman she meets at a juvenile detention center.Aaron Bradbury ‘s “Vestige,” co-produced with British banner NSC Creative, is a non-fiction experience using volumetric technology to capture what goes on in the mind of a Utah woman as she grieves her lost love and shares memories of their relationship until the day he died.Both “Vestige” and “Spheres” weave non-fiction with strong creative elements, a hybrid genre which Zandrowicz sees as an emerging trend in virtual reality. “The VR field is blossoming and allowing us to explore different narrative forms and blur real and fictionalized images,’” said Zandrowicz, who directed “I, Philip,” among others.All three experiences – “Vestige,” “Spheres” and “BattleScar” – were made with international partners and underscore Atlas V’s ambition to broaden its scope beyond France. As the commercial market for VR opens up, Cayrol said the company is aiming to work with different sales companies. Besides MK2 ,which handles various AtlasV experiences, the company is working with CityLights, the new L.A.-based financing and distribution studio dedicated to VR, and Dogwoof, the British outfit handling documentary production, international sales and exhibition.The combined track record of AtlasV’s founders at festivals has already attracted many international technology players such as Oculus and high-profile filmmakers and producers, ranging from Aronofsky to Jan Kounen and Gaspar Noé, who will be making their VR debuts with Atlas V.
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Forged in 90s hellfire, the Gwar mythos is a violent, ongoing fart joke starring a crew of space orcs known as the Scumdogs of the Universe. Gwar fight, freebase, and fornicate their way through an idiotic galaxy of robot clowns, battle popes, and kaiju. All this lore is a wrapper for what is a criminally underrated metal band. Each album has a theme, a big bad to fight and scummy humor that would make Deadpool blush.There’s a long tradition of Gwar comics that date back to the earliest incarnations of the band. Comics were a great, low-cost medium for the human artists behind Gwar to get their mythos out to their fans. The comics allowed the band to workshop ideas that eventually fueled the storylines of their albums and gonzo straight-to-VHS (old!) movies. Building off that tradition, Gwar is about to unleash upon this toilet Earth, a new comics venture. Behold GWAR: ORGASMAGEDDON!GWAR successfully raised over $45,000 from 666 auspicious backers on Kickstarter to fund a 5-issue miniseries published by Dynamite Studios. Orgasmageddon is the brainchild of comic writer and life-long Gwar fan Matt Miner. Miner had found success writing comics (check out Critical Hit!) and had a dream to convince Gwar to hire him to write new Gwar comics. Dave Brockie, the human insides of Gwar’s singer and alpha-Scumdog Oderus Urungus was a friend of a friend and Miner, concocted a brilliant pitch to take to his idol. Then Brockie went ahead and died like a jerk. Life sucks. But it goes on. Thankfully, so did Gwar.19 year old Miner after X-Cops.Miner was undeterred. Through another comics connection, he was introduced to Gwar’s lawyer and artist Matt Maguire. Maguire has been a part of Gwar and their production company Slave Pit Inc. for thirty years. “Matt and I just hit it off,” recounts Miner “even at the table while I was pitching we had this collaborative energy.” The two Matts found each other. New Gwar comics will be made.“What people don’t necessarily understand is that Gwar’s a bunch of smart, intelligent nerds. They love comics, they love D&D, they love sci-fi.” gushes Miner. So it’s no surprise that the ORGASMAGEDDON story sends the current incarnation of Gwar on a trip through time where we’ll see “Gwar’s influence on modern reality. You’ll see how Gwar is really responsible for all the major turning points in history.” This is interesting because according to the lore, Gwar was frozen in Antarctica for thousands of years until they were thawed out in the late 1980s/early 90s. So while the original Scumdogs are frozen, this modern incarnation of the band is out there, bumbling through history, messing things up.The original Gwar comics were illustrated by Brockie, Maguire and several other artists from the Slave Pit collective. In keeping with that tradition, many of them will return to provide back-up stories and illustrations. Everybody working on the main story of ORGASMAGEDDON are big Gwar fans, including lineart by Jonathan Brandon Sawyer, color by Marissa Louise and letters by Taylor Esposito. Trust in these nerds.Interested? Tell your local comic shop to order a thousand copies of GWAR: ORGASMAGEDDON in Previews. Use order code APR171582 is for the standard cover A.To help get you excited, here’s an exclusive page Matt provided us (not final colors) and two covers: Cover A (the group shot with everyone + Sawborg) is art by Jonathan Brandon Sawyer, color by Josh Jensen Cover B (the one with Blothar front and center) is art/color by Scott WygmansView as: One Page Slides1. Exclusive!!!2. Cover A3. Cover B4. Order Details
People with coloured hair need to take extra care during summer as there is a possibility of the colour fading faster, says experts. Here are a few tips by experts for coloured hair during summer: Choose hair care products made especially for colour treated hair eg. colour safe shampoo and conditioner, use serum or live-in conditioner with SPF and UV protection specially for coloured hair. Try to avoid exposing your hair to direct sunlight as much as possible as it may fade your hair colour. You can cover it up with a cool scarf or a cap. Also Read – Add new books to your shelfAlso use a wide-tooth comb to avoid breakage. If you have colour-treated hair or chemically processed damaged hair, a sulphate free shampoo is a lot gentler. Curly, frizzy hair retains a lot more moisture with a sulphate free shampoo. Other shampoos that have sulphates can strip the hair and scalp of its natural oils and make it dry. If you have dry, flaky scalp opt for regular hot oil massages. Leave the oil in for 40 minutes and wash off. Eat iron and calcium rich foods. Ensure you are eating enough protein. Minimise stress. Get a good eight hours sleep every day.
Technology | Radiographic Fluoroscopy (RF) | August 09, 2019 Shimadzu Medical Systems Receives FDA 510(k) for FluoroSpeed X1 RF System Shimadzu Medical Systems USA, a subsidiary of Shimadzu Corp., announced they have received U.S. Food and Drug… read more News | Oncology Diagnostics | October 13, 2015 Sectra Highlights Cancer Care Workflow at RSNA 2015 Company will demonstrate associated PACS, VNA and reporting modules among other offerings News | Mammography | August 14, 2019 Imago Systems Announces Collaboration With Mayo Clinic for Breast Imaging Image visualization company Imago Systems announced it has signed a know-how license with Mayo Clinic. 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Highlights include functions to speed up oncology workflows such as anatomical linking and support for reviewing complex multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies such as MRI breast, female pelvis and prostate. The latest release also has improved support for hybrid modalities within nuclear medicine. Sectra PACS also features functionality for breast imaging workflows. News includes integration with Volpara to enable driving workflows based on breast density.Timely and actionable reportsSectra’s reporting module is developed with complex oncology cases in mind. It facilitates overview of relevant priors together with the current request and report text. It also offers support for resident workflows and embedded links to images in the report. All in all, this increases radiology efficiency and the ability to communicate and collaborate on actionable reports.Integrated diagnosticsThe digitization of pathology is an enabler and a prerequisite for increased collaboration across specialties. Sectra’s solution for digital pathology is built on the same platform as its radiology PACS, enabling bi-directional sharing of images and reports, which creates a transparency across cancer care pathways. This transparency allows for correlation of findings and provide a broader view of patient disease for physicians to conclude more accurate diagnosis and treatment decisions.Efficient multidisciplinary team meetingsSectra’s solutions for radiology and pathology both include functionality for preparing and presenting at multidiscipline team meetings. The joint platform enables pathologists and radiologists to add images to the same list during the actual review work. 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Related posts:Music legend Rubén Blades writes Editus to praise Costa Rica’s World Cup achievements ‘Cathedrals of Soccer’ worships the stadium Final World Cup showdown, viral theater, and other happenings around Costa Rica Costa Ricans racked up credit card debt on TVs, travel during World Cup In 2013, three photographers decided to fly to Brazil and take pictures of the people there. They knew about the impending World Cup, and they knew thecontroversial politics of FIFA in Brazil. They wanted to document regular folks – especially in poor communities, which have benefitted little from the international soccer championship.The fruit of their labor is “Fora Dos Estadios” (“Outside of the Stadiums”), a photo exhibit now on display at Maya’s Lounge in Ciudad Colón. The collection of 12 large prints and 50 or so smaller photographs illustrates their journey to the South American nation.“The project happened so fast that I didn’t really have expectations about the things I would find there,” says Leticia Perelstein, a 32-year-old Argentinian who has spent several years in Costa Rica. For the project, Perelstein collaborated with documentary photographer Alison Domzalski and Roberval Almeida, a native Brazilian. “I’ve always been interested in art. Photography for me has always been more about people. So we all decided to join forces and do a project in Brazil.”Two years ago, Perelstein earned a master’s in Peace Education from the University for Peace in Ciudad Colón, and she has done community work in Costa Rica ever since. As an extension of that work, the trio’s goal was to conduct photography workshops in the favelas of Pernambuco, near one of the World Cup stadiums. Their goal was to give instruction, hand out digital cameras, and put together a final portfolio. Perelstein estimates that between 180 and 200 students participated in these workshops.Ultimately, they plan was to contribute to a public art series called the Inside Out Project. The project was established by French photographer J.R., who displays massive collages of portraits in urban spaces. Perelstein, Domzalski and Almeida wish to extend the project to Pernambuco, and they have begun an Indiegogo campaign to fund the endeavor. Courtesy Leticia PerelsteinAlthough Perelstein grew up in a nearby Argentina, she had never visited Brazil before, and she speaks only basic Portuguese. (In contrast, having spent much of her life in New York City, Perelstein’s English is flawless). She and her collaborators decided not to wait for funding, as the grant-writing process could take forever. They spent their own money and organized the workshops themselves.Initially, Perelstein expected to use photography to condemn the World Cup and FIFA’s presence in Brazil. “At first our intention was to criticize,” she said. But as they spent more time spent in the country, the tone of the project evolved. “Once we started to work in the communities, it became more of a celebration and less of a criticism of the World Cup. They were proud, of course. They’re Brazilian. They love soccer. Now [the exhibit] has more of a neutral perspective.”Perelstein was also pleasantly surprised by the openness of the people – not because she doubted Brazilian hospitality, but because she knew the power of her lens. “I tend to sometimes be judgmental about foreign people coming in and taking photos,” she recalls. “But I was surprised by their warmth. I admired the welcome we received from everyone.”At the same time, working in Brazil has affected Perelstein’s lifelong relationship with soccer. “I’ve been reflecting on it a lot,” she says. “I grew up watching the World Cup. It’s always been a big affair for me, even though I don’t watch soccer the rest of the year. But this year I’ve been less enthusiastic about it. I’ve been thinking a lot about the other side – the other realities that I think are disappointing.”“Fora Dos Estadios” continues through July at Maya’s Lounge, Ciudad Colón. Free. Info: “Fora Dos Estadios” Indiegogo site. Facebook Comments
Sponsored Stories “I don’t know why they are inciting people now. Right now, villagers from outside our place are gathering,” the priest said, adding, “God help us.”However a neighbor who tried to resolve tension said that Islamists from outside the village came and held a conference in the mosque calling for revenge for insulting the Quran, but security officials intervened and prevented escalation. The priest and the resident spoke on condition of anonymity, fearing reprisals.Rights groups say allegations of contempt of religion are on the increase. Many are made against Coptic Christians, showcasing the tenuous position of a minority estimated to make up 8 to 10 percent of the population.Some of the accusations are made by members of radical Islamist groups, whose political clout has risen since the 2011 popular uprising that overthrew President Hosni Mubarak.A flurry of criminal investigations in recent weeks comes amid heightened tensions over an anti-Islam film produced in the United States, which sparked protests across the Muslim world.The most recent case is a rare example of minors being accused of contempt of religion. Local cleric Sheik Gamal Shamardal said residents of the village of Ezbat Marco saw the boys, ages 9 and 10, bring pages of the Quran behind a local mosque and urinate on them. Associated PressCAIRO (AP) – Egyptian authorities on Thursday released of two Coptic Christian boys taken into in juvenile detention for allegedly urinating on the Quran, but they will remain under investigation, a security official said.Even as news spread that the boys would be freed, their village remained tense.According to priest in the village, located in the province of Beni Suef south of Cairo, local leaders of Gamaa Islamiya _ once a prominent militant group _ took to mosques, rallying Muslims to rise up against the order to release the boys. How Arizona is preparing the leader of the next generation (Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.) Comments Share Construction begins on Chandler hospital expansion project Police on Tuesday arrested the boys, and a crowd of angry residents gathered outside the police station. Fearing violence, security forces surrounded the village and the boys were taken to a nearby juvenile detention facility.The neighbor said that the boys are illiterate and could not have recognized the Quran.“We brought one boy and asked him if he knew this is the Quran. He didn’t know it was the Quran. He can’t even read or write, like most kids in the village. They are illiterate and even those who go to school don’t know how to read. If you bring a Quran, he wouldn’t recognize it,” he said.When police officer came at night to take the boys, “we begged him to leave the kids. They can’t spend night outside their home. The officer said he feared for their lives and he wanted to keep them with him.”He said a third of the villagers are Christian and the rest are Muslims.“We visit each other, we are together in weddings, funerals and everything,” he said. “We became a target. When anything happens outside, we bear the results.”Father Abdel-Qouddos Hana, deputy of Archbishop Estafanous with whom the boys’ village is affiliated, believed that the over-reaction to the boys’ action was related to the anti-Islam movie. Mary Coyle ice cream to reopen in central Phoenix Four benefits of having a wireless security system Arizona families, Arizona farms: A legacy of tradition embracing animal care and comfort through modern technology Top Stories Bottoms up! Enjoy a cold one for International Beer Day Former Arizona Rep. Don Shooter shows health improvement “I think this is all about the movie,” he said. “We stood by our brothers here in their protests, but some people have bad souls,” he said.Security chief Gen. Attiya Mazrou in Beni Suef province south of Cairo said that authorities ordered the boys to be released after five days in detention, and they were taken to a police station to await their parents.It was not immediately possible to reach the boys’ family for comment.Seventeen cases of alleged contempt of religion have been filed since the January 2011 uprising, including at least five in recent weeks, the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights said.The cases include a Christian teacher in the southern province of Assiut who received six years in prison for posting anti-Islam material on his Facebook page.A female Coptic teacher in another southern town was also summoned for interrogation last week and detained for a night after her students accused her of speaking offensively about the Prophet Muhammad in class. The teacher was released from detention, but prosecutors are still investigating her, human rights activists said.A Coptic Christian activist, Alber Saber, is facing trial for posting material on his Facebook page deemed offensive to religion. He was first detained after neighbors complained he had posted the anti-Islam film, but investigators didn’t find it. Nonetheless, within days he was put on trial on charges of contempt of religion. His trial began last week.