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Introducing Windows Recovery Essentials

There have been whispers and rumors making the rounds all over the internet for the past few months regarding the licensing of WinPE. The rumors are, in fact, true: as of January 2012, Microsoft has no longer been renewing any Windows Pre Installation Environment licensing agreements with any partner companies; all of whom are now required to find alternative means of meeting their bootable environment requirements.

As many of you are aware, NeoSmart Technologies is one of the companies licensing Windows PE from Microsoft Corp. Back in August of last year, we revealed that we’d struck a deal with Microsoft wherein we’d be licensing Windows PE for use in our system recovery CDs, making them legally available for download for our users. Unfortunately, that agreement will not be in place for much longer, and the recovery and repair CDs in their current form will soon no longer be available for purchase.

Fortunately, we’ve taken advantage of the advance notice provided by Microsoft to research and develop an alternative for the steady stream of visitors who come to our site in search of a bootable CD to repair their non-booting Windows, having access to neither installation media nor backups.

While working on the next generation of our repair CDs, we investigated the most common points of operating system failure and designed our software to detect, target, and repair these problems. Our goal was simple: make the next version of our system repair CDs in every way better: find more problems, fix more problems, and do so with speed, accuracy, and precision.

The next version of our system repair CDs is not just a replacement for the current WinPE-based repair CDs, but rather a whole new software written from the ground up with the express intent of fixing whatever it may be that stops your PC from booting. Windows Recovery Essentials (WinRE for short) will be a one-stop shop PC repair, fixing common and uncommon problems alike, including those that the Windows installation DVD can’t or won’t fix.

WinRE is currently in private beta and will be available soon. In the meantime, here’s a short peek of WinRE Beta in action:

Make sure to view in high-definition and in full-screen!

If you’re interested in taking it for a test drive, be one of the first to leave a comment saying why you’d like a copy, and if you make it good (don’t forget to follow us on twitter @NeoSmart), we can send one your way.

The current status of WinRE is soft-released. They are available for early adoption, testing, and download from and have been renamed to Easy Recovery Essentials (EasyRE for short). More details forthcoming. (May 19th, 2012)

Download Windows Recovery Essentials

70 thoughts on “Introducing Windows Recovery Essentials

  1. I certainly could use this as much modding and testing as I do on my laptop. Not to mention I love new and useful tools.

  2. Repair Windows is often a pain, with WinPE it will be a pleasure. But before to say this, I need to test it. Thanks to send it me.
    Best Regards from France.

  3. Looks like it will be very helpful. Do you have a list of the bugs? I would like to test drive and provide feedback. Also would like to have a current list of know bugs.

  4. Have been a long time fan of EasyBCD and provided a few bugs too. Had beed looking forward to the WinPE based app and this sounds like a great alternative for adding/repairing BCD in a recovery environment. Would love to add to my utilities for off line repair. Neosmart you can depend on.

  5. Since I am considered somewhat of a comuter expert in the family, I recently had to recover a few operating systems. It’s great that you are working on this wonderful solution. I would certainly appreciate getting my hands on a copy of this new recovery cd.

  6. I’d love one to if you have any left.

    Maybe you could load a copy up online and commenters could be sent a link – it would save your disk supply at least.

  7. I’m sometimes called to check PCs, this would most definitely be a handy tool to have! Thank you!

  8. Since WINTERNALS Administrator’s Pak went down the swannee, & got buried among MDOP, there hasn’t really been anything much, of a corporate release, that Win_x boot troubleshooter SysAdmins were allowed to use – never mind COULD use – on corporate systems ..

    For home systems, the situation is somewhat better, with Linux-based Recovery CD/DVDs. A custom- built recovery boot disc, would, by far, be the best of all possible worlds.

    Will M$ let you do this ? My own experience of them, is that they are, at best, in the position of the non-discursives ( cf. Foucault ). If they do, it will be a major breakthrough for all of us ..

    There is Bart’s PE, UBCD, & UBCD4Win, but these are not too well resourced, as they are a labour of love ( a commodity getting rarer by the month ).

    I’d be glad to try your brand-new shiny NEOSMART Win RE to see how – and if – it could cope with the usual Registry screw-ups, lost hives, corrupted boot sectors ( we all used to sys C; in Win 98 SE – long gone, alas ! ), & misplaced other essentials needed to bring up a desktop for the Admin user to begin to recreate user desktops etc. on a non-networked home m/c, users being mightily twitchy at what has happened to their little box of trix ..

    Please let me get my ( not so grubby today: posted from home ! ) hands on a beta copy, & will test on a dinky little screwed-up VISTA OS – the one we all love to ** hate ** ( 7 being what Vista should have become )

    Perhaps one might rename to Universal Boot & Fix Recovery disc ( UBFR ) ?

    Good day to all @ NEOSMART

  9. I have a constant curiosity habit of ‘lets fiddle under the hood’, without knowing exactly what is always going on and of trying lots of free dodgy utlities software. This has caused me to break my systems on a regular basis over the years with much resultant grief , wailing and then thumbing through pages of downloaded ‘how to recover from my stupidity’ etc. I would give your software a good test . I loved the demo!

  10. looks interesting but no disrespect, what makes your product better than say ‘Spotmau’ or even Ultimate Boot CD 4 windows ? (working in the IT industry I use UBCD4 windows extensively..) both allow you to achieve similar results with the tools supplied. Admitedly not always successfuly. I’d like to give your product a go tho, be nice to recommend to my customers if it does what you say (or maybe as a affilliate if your thinking of that ? ) … glenn

  11. Given the chance I would like to try your repair disk beta .like a lot of people I do a lot of repairs for family & friends at no cost & this disk would make my job easier

  13. Would love give it a try. I fix computer for a living an have a boot flash drive with 65 ISOs. But looks as if I will have to make changes soon.

  14. its stuck on some sending discover for me with a linux penguin in the top corner. no clue how to remedy this.

  15. @Glen: Where did you get your copy from? This is a very well-known issue in stolen copies of EasyRE circulating around the internet. I can also see from your email address that you did not purchase a copy of EasyRE.

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Bill Gates über DRM & Kommunisten

Bill Gates gab dem Gizmodo-Blog ein vierteiliges Interview. Im vierten Teil relativiert er seine Äusserungen Kommunisten und geht auf DRM ein.

netzpolitik.org - unabhängig & kritisch dank Euch.

Gizmodo: What seems to me—what hurts my feelings—I feel like I, as a customer, want Microsoft to be totally on my side. In that, as far as the people that are producing things, that might want more DRM and might make it inconvenient, I don’t understand what it necessarily benefits you to help them.

Gates: No, I’ve said it exactly. We have your interests totally in mind, but that includes having… if there’s content that can only be there if it’s rights protected, we want to be able to have that content available to you. And so all we’re doing… in no sense are we hurting you, because if they’re willing to make the content available openly, believe me, that’s always the most wonderful thing. It’s the simplest.

Take, like, putting soundtracks onto movies using our movie editor thing. If you have unprotected music you can take slideshows, put music to it, encapsulate it in the file, mail it around—it works perfectly. If you have rights management, it’s actually painful because the people you’re mailing it to don’t have the certificate and it’s kind of painful. But because the artists… some things are only licensed to be in that form, it’s hard to put the track on Movie Maker. But hey, we want you, instead of not having that content, to have that content. And in the case that the authors decided it’s rights managed, you can decide to stay away from it or to use it. That, again, is your choice.

Eigentlich würden wir ja gerne …, aber wegen der Künstler (Eigentlich meint er die Industrie = Rechteinhaber) können wir leider nicht, sorry….

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“While at CEI, I reveled in the interactions that I had with small business owners, entrepreneurs, and aspiring entrepreneurs,” Stelios Alvarez said. “The energy and mindset exuded is one that I aspire to channel in my daily work.”

Alvarez worked at the Richard M. And Helen DeVos  Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CEI) in the Seidman College of Business at Grand Valley State University as the editor-in-chief of Neu Magazine from 2010-2011. He earned an MBA from GVSU in 2010 while working for Michigan’s Small Business Development Center. He currently works as the Marketing Performance and Insights Manager for LEGO at the company’s branch in Munich, Germany.

Alvarez has a great appreciation for his time at CEI.

“It was a fantastic experience,” he said. “I interviewed quite a few local entrepreneurs and enjoyed reporting on business plan competitions and the overall entrepreneurial climate in West Michigan.”

After earning his master degree,  Alvarez was hired by Amway Corporation to work in the Marketing Research Department. He spent four years in the position, gaining a wide range of experience in primary and secondary research, consumer needs and behaviors, and global business practices. In 2015 he was hired by LEGO, where he is able to utilize his knowledge of marketing and analytics along with creativity and innovation to evaluate marketing effectiveness in the Direct to Consumer EMA business.

Alvarez is looking forward to launching a Single Customer View database at LEGO, and at some point in the future would like to submit research conducted in LEGO-owned channels to a peer reviewed publications. He would also like to familiarize himself with Munich’s entrepreneurial scene.

He says the environment at LEGO is one reminiscent of the startup culture he grew fond of while working at CEI.

“LEGO is a phenomenal company where EVERYTHING IS AWESOME (see what I did there?),” Alvarez said. “I’m keen on leveraging the skills from CEI, specifically when it comes to networking and finding common ground with colleagues near and far.”


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New York Standards for Eighth Grade Science

NY.1. Analysis, Inquiry, and Design: Students will use mathematical analysis, scientific inquiry, and engineering design, as appropriate, to pose questions, seek answers, and develop solutions.

M1: MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS: Abstraction and symbolic representation are used to communicate mathematically.

M1.1. Extend mathematical notation and symbolism to include variables and algebraic expressions in order to describe and compare quantities and express mathematical relationships.
M1.1a. Identify independent and dependent variables
M1.1b. Identify relationships among variables including: direct, indirect, cyclic, constant; identify non-related material
M1.1c. Apply mathematical equations to describe relationships among variables in the natural world

M2: MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS: Deductive and inductive reasoning are used to reach mathematical conclusions.

M2.1. Use inductive reasoning to construct, evaluate, and validate conjectures and arguments, recognizing that patterns and relationships can assist in explaining and extending mathematical phenomena.
M2.1b. Quantify patterns and trends

M3: MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS: Critical thinking skills are used in the solution of mathematical problems.

M3.1. Apply mathematical knowledge to solve real-world problems and problems that arise from the investigation of mathematical ideas, using representations such as pictures, charts, and tables.
M3.1a. Use appropriate scientific tools to solve problems about the natural world

S1: SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY: The central purpose of scientific inquiry is to develop explanations of natural phenomena in a continuing, creative process.

S1.2. Construct explanations independently for natural phenomena, especially by proposing preliminary visual models of phenomena.
S1.2b. Propose a model of a natural phenomenon
S1.2c. Differentiate among observations, inferences, predictions, and explanations

S2: SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY: Beyond the use of reasoning and consensus, scientific inquiry involves the testing of proposed explanations involving the use of conventional techniques and procedures and usually requiring considerable ingenuity.

S2.1. Use conventional techniques and those of their own design to make further observations and refine their explanations, guided by a need for more information.
S2.1a. Demonstrate appropriate safety techniques
S2.1b. Conduct an experiment designed by others
S2.1d. Use appropriate tools and conventional techniques to solve problems about the natural world, including: measuring; observing; describing; classifying; sequencing
S2.2. Develop, present, and defend formal research proposals for testing their own explanations of common phenomena, including ways of obtaining needed observations and ways of conducting simple controlled experiments.
S2.2a. Include appropriate safety procedures
S2.2d. Identify independent variables (manipulated), dependent variables (responding), and constants in a simple controlled experiment
S2.3. Carry out their research proposals, recording observations and measurements (e.g., lab notes, audiotape, computer disk, videotape) to help assess the explanation.
S2.3a. Use appropriate safety procedures
S2.3b. Conduct a scientific investigation
S2.3c. Collect quantitative and qualitative data

S3: SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY: The observations made while testing proposed explanations, when analyzed using conventional and invented methods, provide new insights into phenomena.

S3.1. Design charts, tables, graphs, and other representations of observations in conventional and creative ways to help them address their research question or hypothesis.
S3.1a. Organize results, using appropriate graphs, diagrams, data tables, and other models to show relationships
S3.1b. Generate and use scales, create legends, and appropriately label axes
S3.2. Interpret the organized data to answer the research question or hypothesis and to gain insight into the problem.
S3.2a. Accurately describe the procedures used and the data gathered
S3.2c. Evaluate the original hypothesis in light of the data
S3.2f. Make predictions based on experimental data
S3.2h. Use and interpret graphs and data tables
S3.3. Modify their personal understanding of phenomena based on evaluation of their hypothesis.

NY.2. Information Systems: Students will access, generate, process, and transfer information, using appropriate technologies.

2.3. Information technology can have positive and negative impacts on society, depending upon how it is used.

2.3.2. Describe applications of information technology in mathematics, science, and other technologies that address needs and solve problems in the community.
2.3.3. Explain the impact of the use and abuse of electronically generated information on individuals and families.

NY.6. Interconnectedness: Common Themes: Students will understand the relationships and common themes that connect mathematics, science, and technology and apply the themes to these and other areas of learning.

6.1: Through systems thinking, people can recognize the commonalities that exist among all systems and how parts of a system interrelate and combine to perform specific functions.

6.1.1. Describe the differences between dynamic systems and organizational systems.
6.1.2. Describe the differences and similarities among engineering systems, natural systems, and social systems.
6.1.3. Describe the differences between open- and closed-loop systems.
6.1.4. Describe how the output from one part of a system (which can include material, energy, or information) can become the input to other parts.

6.2: Models are simplified representations of objects, structures, or systems used in analysis, explanation, interpretation, or design.

6.2.1. Select an appropriate model to begin the search for answers or solutions to a question or problem.
6.2.2. Use models to study processes that cannot be studied directly (e.g., when the real process is too slow, too fast, or too dangerous for direct observation).
6.2.3. Demonstrate the effectiveness of different models to represent the same thing and the same model to represent different things.

6.4: Equilibrium is a state of stability due either to a lack of change (static equilibrium) or a balance between opposing forces (dynamic equilibrium).

6.4.1. Describe how feedback mechanisms are used in both designed and natural systems to keep changes within desired limits.
6.4.2. Describe changes within equilibrium cycles in terms of frequency or cycle length and determine the highest and lowest values and when they occur.

6.5: Identifying patterns of change is necessary for making predictions about future behavior and conditions.

6.5.1. Use simple linear equations to represent how a parameter changes with time.
6.5.2. Observe patterns of change in trends or cycles and make predictions on what might happen in the future.

6.6: In order to arrive at the best solution that meets criteria within constraints, it is often necessary to make trade-offs.

6.6.2. Use graphs of information for a decision-making problem to determine the optimum solution.

NY.7. Interdisciplinary Problem Solving: Students will apply the knowledge and thinking skills of mathematics, science, and technology to address real-life problems and make informed decisions.

7.1: The knowledge and skills of mathematics, science, and technology are used together to make informed decisions and solve problems, especially those relating to issues of science/technology/society, consumer decision making, design, and inquiry into phenomena.

7.1.3. Design solutions to real-world problems of general social interest related to home, school, or community using scientific experimentation to inform the solution and applying mathematical concepts and reasoning to assist in developing a solution.

7.2: Solving interdisciplinary problems involves a variety of skills and strategies, including effective work habits; gathering and processing information; generating and analyzing ideas; realizing ideas; making connections among the common themes of mathematics, science, and technology; and presenting results.

7.2.1. Students participate in an extended, culminating mathematics, science, and technology project. The project would require students to:
7.2.1c. Generating and Analyzing Ideas: Developing ideas for proposed solutions, investigating ideas, collecting data, and showing relationships and patterns in the data.
7.2.1d. Common Themes: Observing examples of common unifying themes, applying them to the problem, and using them to better understand the dimensions of the problem.

NY.CC.6-8.RST. Reading Standards for Literacy in Science and Technical Subjects

Craft and Structure

6-8.RST.4. Determine the meaning of symbols, key terms, and other domain-specific words and phrases as they are used in a specific scientific or technical context relevant to grades 6-8 texts and topics.
The Digestive and nutritionWorksheets :3Study Guides :1Vocabularies :4Ecosystems, food chains and food websWorksheets :3Study Guides :1Vocabularies :5Chemical bondingFreeWorksheets :3Study Guides :1Vocabularies :1Chemical reactionsWorksheets :4Study Guides :1Vocabularies :1Ecology IWorksheets :4Vocabularies :2Ecology IIWorksheets :3Vocabularies :2Chemical Formulas and BondingWorksheets :3Chemical ReactionsWorksheets :3Measurements and CalculationsWorksheets :3Protection, Reproduction and CooperationWorksheets :3Vocabularies :2Moving and Controlling the BodyWorksheets :3Vocabularies :3Providing Fuel and TransportationWorksheets :4Vocabularies :3Food Chains and Food WebsWorksheets :3Vocabularies :2Six Kingdoms of LifeWorksheets :3Vocabularies :3Plate TectonicsWorksheets :3Vocabularies :3Cell TransportWorksheets :2Vocabularies :2Work, Power & Simple MachinesWorksheets :3Vocabularies :2EarthquakesWorksheets :3Vocabularies :3Pond MicrolifeWorksheets :3Vocabularies :3Chromosomes, Genes and DNAWorksheets :3Vocabularies :3MitosisWorksheets :2Vocabularies :2The Study of HeredityWorksheets :2Vocabularies :2Our Solar SystemWorksheets :3Vocabularies :2Earth`s SurfaceWorksheets :3Vocabularies :3Properties and States of MatterWorksheets :4Vocabularies :3Earth`s ClimateWorksheets :3Vocabularies :3Photosynthesis and RespirationWorksheets :3Vocabularies :2RocksWorksheets :3Vocabularies :2VolcanoesWorksheets :3Vocabularies :3MeiosisWorksheets :3Vocabularies :3Forces and MotionWorksheets :3Vocabularies :2Energy: Forms and ChangesWorksheets :3Vocabularies :3SoundWorksheets :3Vocabularies :4Light and OpticsWorksheets :4Vocabularies :3Elements and the periodic tableWorksheets :3Vocabularies :2Chemical ReactionsWorksheets :3Vocabularies :3Atoms and Chemical BondingWorksheets :3Vocabularies :2

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

6-8.RST.7. Integrate quantitative or technical information expressed in words in a text with a version of that information expressed visually (e.g., in a flowchart, diagram, model, graph, or table).
6-8.RST.9. Compare and contrast the information gained from experiments, simulations, video, or multimedia sources with that gained from reading a text on the same topic.

NY.CC.6-8.WHST. Writing Standards for Literacy in Science and Technical Subjects

Research to Build and Present Knowledge

6-8.WHST.7. Conduct short research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question), drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions that allow for multiple avenues of exploration.

Text Types and Purposes

6-8.WHST.1. Write arguments focused on discipline-specific content.
6-8.WHST.1.e. Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the argument presented.
6-8.WHST.2. Write informative/explanatory texts, including the narration of historical events, scientific procedures/ experiments, or technical processes.
6-8.WHST.2.f. Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the information or explanation presented.

NY.L4. The Living Environment: Students will understand and apply scientific concepts, principles, and theories pertaining to the physical setting and living environment and recognize the historical development of ideas in science.

L4.1: Living things are both similar to and different from each other and from nonliving things.

4.1.1. Compare and contrast the parts of plants, animals, and one-celled organisms.
4.1.2. Explain the functioning of the major human organ systems and their interactions.

L4.2: Organisms inherit genetic information in a variety of ways that result in continuity of structure and function between parents and offspring.

4.2.1. Describe sexual and asexual mechanisms for passing genetic materials from generation to generation.
4.2.2. Describe simple mechanisms related to the inheritance of some physical traits in offspring.

L4.3: Individual organisms and species change over time.

4.3.1. Describe sources of variation in organisms and their structures and relate the variations to survival.

L4.4: The continuity of life is sustained through reproduction and development.

4.4.1. Observe and describe the variations in reproductive patterns of organisms, including asexual and sexual reproduction.
4.4.2. Explain the role of sperm and egg cells in sexual reproduction.
4.4.4. Observe and describe cell division at the microscopic level and its macroscopic effects.

L4.5: Organisms maintain a dynamic equilibrium that sustains life.

4.5.1. Compare the way a variety of living specimens carry out basic life functions and maintain dynamic equilibrium.
4.5.2. Describe the importance of major nutrients, vitamins, and minerals in maintaining health and promoting growth, and explain the need for a constant input of energy for living organisms.

L4.6: Plants and animals depend on each other and their physical environment.

4.6.1. Describe the flow of energy and matter through food chains and food webs.
4.6.2. Provide evidence that green plants make food and explain the significance of this process to other organisms.

L4.7: Human decisions and activities have had a profound impact on the physical and living environment.

4.7.1. Describe how living things, including humans, depend upon the living and nonliving environment for their survival.
4.7.2. Describe the effects of environmental changes on humans and other populations.

NY.P4. The Physical Setting: Students will understand and apply scientific concepts, principles, and theories pertaining to the physical setting and living environment and recognize the historical development of ideas in science.

P4.1: The Earth and celestial phenomena can be described by principles of relative motion and perspective.

4.1.1. Explain daily, monthly, and seasonal changes on Earth.

P4.2: Many of the phenomena that we observe on Earth involve interactions among components of air, water, and land.

4.2.1. Explain how the atmosphere (air), hydrosphere (water), and lithosphere (land) interact, evolve, and change.
4.2.2. Describe volcano and earthquake patterns, the rock cycle, and weather and climate changes.

P4.3: Matter is made up of particles whose properties determine the observable characteristics of matter and its reactivity.

4.3.1. Observe and describe properties of materials, such as density, conductivity, and solubility.
4.3.2. Distinguish between chemical and physical changes.
4.3.3. Develop mental models to explain common chemical reactions and changes in states of matter.

P4.4: Energy exists in many forms, and when these forms change energy is conserved.

4.4.1. Describe the sources and identify the transformations of energy observed in everyday life.
4.4.2. Observe and describe heating and cooling events.
4.4.3. Observe and describe energy changes as related to chemical reactions.
4.4.4. Observe and describe the properties of sound, light, magnetism, and electricity.
4.4.5. Describe situations that support the principle of conservation of energy.

P4.5: Energy and matter interact through forces that result in changes in motion.

4.5.1. Describe different patterns of motion of objects.
4.5.2. Observe, describe, and compare effects of forces (gravity, electric current, and magnetism) on the motion of objects.

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Is It Time for a Myspace Comeback?

If Facebook users don’t benefit as they once thought they did—is there a better way?

Read the full story by Matthew Slaughter and Matthew Rees, published by the Tuck School of Business.

How can a company provide a “free” service to more than 2 billion people but generate more than $40 billion in revenue and $16 billion in profit?

This is one of the many thorny questions being asked of Facebook amid the fallout from disclosures that up to 87 million of its users had their personal data harvested for political purposes during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign. This episode has called into question not just Facebook’s privacy protections but, more fundamentally, its entire business model.

Here is how Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg described that model in a recent interview: “If you want to build a service that helps connect everyone in the world, then there are a lot of people who can’t afford to pay. And therefore … having an advertising-supported model is the only rational model that can support building this service to reach people.”

Indeed, Facebook’s business model has always been quite simple. From its user base, Facebook collects an array of data, data that in turn it shares with entities that wish to publish ads targeted at certain segments of the Facebook user base. Those entities then pay Facebook, with the rates dictated by a wide array of factors, such as the number and profile of the people being reached.


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Panasonic launches premium multi-door refrigerator range

Featuring ECONAVI energy savings, convenient food storage compartments, and nanoeX technology to reduce bacteria and odours

Panasonic has launched a new range of premium multi-door refrigerators – with new models in a choice of 653 or 533 litres, a silver or white design, and complete with elegant glass door finishes.

The stunning new range has been developed in line with Panasonic’s goal of keeping food fresher for longer, using less energy. The multi-door design allows for optimal storage of food groups in separate compartments, complemented by nanoeX technology that effectively suppresses more than 99.99 per cent of bacteria and odours1.

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  • The main Refrigerator compartment has strong, adjustable glass shelves to store containers of all shapes and sizes, and cooling surround airflow to preserve freshness.
    – A separate Chilled Case at 0°C is perfect for storing dairy, meat and fish.
  • The independent fully-extendable Fresh Fruit and Vegetable compartment is easy to access and offers optimal cooling at approximately 6°C.
    – Includes a full-width design for extra-long produce and a separate drawer for fragile items.
  • In addition, the bottom freezer compartment allows neat storage with an upper and lower case, and includes a ‘Quick Freezing’ button to preserve freshness and flavour.
  • ECONAVI technology allows for up to 10 per cent reduction2 in energy usage.
  • The new storage sensor detects changes in the amount of food being stored and the ECONAVI technology adjusts the temperature accordingly.
  • Four new models – in a choice of 653 or 533 litres and with a silver or white design.

Chasnyn Ousmand, Product Marketing Manager, Whitegoods, Panasonic, said:

“Australians continue to spend strongly on household appliances3. We have drawn upon more than 65 years of experience in refrigerators to create these multi-door models, allowing consumers to perfectly store fresh food and ingredients to match today’s lifestyles.”

Multi compartments for optimum food storage

With three separate compartments within the fridge, Panasonic’s new range is geared towards specific food groups being stored in conditions that best suit them.

The main Refrigerator Compartment has adjustable glass shelves to allow for more efficient and flexible storage. The strong, tempered glass shelves can withstand loads of up to 150kg, so casseroles, large bottles and other heavy items can easily be accommodated. The Refrigerator Compartment is complete with cooling surround airflow, which softly envelops items and cools them evenly, helping to preserve freshness.

Panasonic’s full-width Chilled Case preserves the freshness of dairy items and perishables such as meat and fish by maintaining a temperature of approximately 0°C to chill food without freezing.

The independent large-capacity Vegetable Compartment has a slightly higher than normal position and a higher humidity level to the rest of the fridge. It helps protect vegetables from dryness and avoids the unnecessary wastage that costs Australian households thousands each year4. The two drawers are fully-extendable to easily see and access all fresh fruit and vegetables. The bottom drawer is designed for bulkier vegetables (e.g. cauliflower and lettuce), with the top providing the perfect space for more delicate fresh items such as grapes and tomatoes.

The refrigerator’s bottom freezer compartments allow users to store items separately for neat storage – the upper case is ideal for flat items such as frozen pizzas, and the lower case suitable for larger items including home-made frozen meals, chickens or legs of lamb. The compartment is complete with a Twist Ice Tray, ensuring that you will never struggle for fresh, cold beverages in the home.

The Quick Freezing function can be used to preserve more freshness and flavour within food, particularly meat and fish. The greater cooling power freezes food faster than normal freezing, so its cellular structure remains intact. This means that there is virtually no drip containing nutrients and umami components when items are thawed.

Electrostatic Touch Control Panel

Operation of the touch panel is simple, with just a soft touch needed to select the required options. With the panel being external, users can conveniently adjust settings – Refrigerator, Freezer and Quick Freeze – without opening the fridge.

nanoeX Technology – anti bacteria and deodorising

Panasonic’s highly effective nanoeX Technology is also in place throughout the new range of fridges. The antibacterial and deodorising capabilities eliminate more than 99.99 per cent of bacteria as well as suppressing odours.

Smart Cooling with ECONAVI operation

The high energy saving performance found in the new range is even more sophisticated than in previous models. Intelligent ECONAVI sensors detect usage conditions and automatically optimise performance, resulting in an energy reduction of up to 10 per cent5.

The five sensors (fridge door sensor, internal temperature sensor, storage sensor, room temperature sensor and light sensor) work together, allowing for maximum performance. The new storage sensor detects changes in the amount of food being stored using the fridge light, and determines whether a change in cooling power is needed.

653 litre multi-door refrigerator

NR-D655XGSAU – Silver model: $3599RRP
NR-D655XGWAU – White model: $3599RRP

533 litre multi-door refrigerator

NR-D535XGSAU – Silver model: $3299RRP
NR-D535XGWAU – White model: $3299RRP

The Panasonic multi-door refrigerators are available now from selected retailers. For more information, please visit or call 132 600.

1 Tested by Kitasato Research Centre for Environmental Science. Test report No.: KRCES – Bio.Test Report No. 26_0145.
2 Comparison based on in-house testing between Panasonic ECONAVI Inverter models and Panasonic non-inverter models.

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5 Comparison based on in-house testing between Panasonic ECONAVI Inverter models and Panasonic non-inverter models.


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The fashion chain says sales and profit performance have not been good enough to justify continued investment in the country.

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Image: New Look has also been struggling back home in the UK

New Look has confirmed plans to close its remaining 120 stores in China after deciding its below-par sales and profits did not justify continued investment in the country.

The announcement came hours after the move was first reported by Sky News and means the stores will close by the end of the year, with New Look's Shanghai head office shutting shortly afterwards.

New Look is continuing to review its other international markets in France, Belgium and Poland - at a time when it has been fighting to turn around the fortunes of its stores at home.

The fashion chain said it has been gradually reducing the number of its stores in China and now intends to close the remaining 120 by the end of December.

It said: "Despite substantial investments in China in recent years, performance has been below expectations and this business has not achieved the necessary sales and profitability to support the significant future investment required to continue these operations."

Executive chairman Alistair McGeorge said: "Having reviewed the trading performance of our business and the substantial investment required to continue operations in the market, we have made the difficult decision to exit our stores in China.

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"Our priority will be to support all affected staff during this time.

"As our turnaround plans continue, we remain focused on ensuring that New Look is well positioned to drive strong business performance and profitable growth."

The announcement by South African-owned New Look comes seven months after it secured creditors' backing to close scores of its UK outlets.

Most of the 60 stores earmarked for closure under the Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) have yet to be shut, meaning it still has nearly 600 high street outlets across the UK.

New Look's overseas operations lost more than £37m in the year to March, compounding its troubles in its home market.

It is not the only British fashion chain to retreat from China, with Sir Philip Green's Topshop saying in August that it was terminating a franchise agreement with Shangpin, a local partner, "by mutual agreement".

New Look's performance has stuttered during the last two years, with former boss Mr McGeorge returning as its executive chairman last November.

He described the retail environment as "challenging", and said improving its fortunes would not be an overnight job.

The company has been owned since 2015 by Brait, an investment vehicle headed by businessman Christo Wiese, who also has interests in Virgin Active and the Iceland supermarket chain.


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Stanford psychologist's 18-month study of his own brain reveals new relations between brain and body

Russell Poldrack scanned his brain to create the most detailed map of brain connectivity ever. In the process, he and his colleagues revealed strong correlations between brain function and gene expression, and how the brain reorganizes itself when running low on caffeine.

By Bjorn Carey

In this slightly inflated version of the right hemisphere of Russell Poldrack's brain, each colored patch is one area of the brain that was identified through analysis of resting brain connectivity. The colors indicate which regions were mostly strongly connected to one another. (Poldrack Lab)

Every Tuesday and Thursday morning for a year and a half, Russell Poldrack started off his day by climbing into an MRI machine and scanning his brain for 10 minutes. The self-experimentation has made the Stanford psychologist's brain the most studied in the world.

Professor Poldrack, who began the work at the University of Texas and has continued it at Stanford, committed himself to the long-term study in order to expand the understanding of how different parts of the brain talk to each other, an organization known as the connectome, and how that behavior changes over time.

To bolster the results, Poldrack also fasted and drew blood on Tuesdays, which was analyzed to draw connections between brain function and gene expression. This step also showed definitive – and surprising – evidence of just how the brain reorganizes itself when it's low on coffee.

The results are published in Nature Communications.

Mapping brain communication

In any action that a person undertakes, many different regions of the brain communicate with each other, serving as a sort of check-and-balance system to make sure that the correct actions are taken to deal with the situation at hand. These messages are communicated over more than a dozen networks, sets of functional areas of the brain that preferentially talk to one another.

There are multiple networks for vision, a somatosensory/motor network, and there are others that are attributed to attention or task management. Collectively, these are known as the connectome. Because the strength or efficiency of these individual networks can affect behavior, they have become of greater interest to researchers in recent years.

To isolate these connections, researchers examine functional MRI data collected while the patient (including Poldrack) is at rest.

"I would get in the MRI and basically close my eyes and zone out while it took a picture of my brain every second for 10 minutes," he said. "Once we had that data, we could get ideas of which regions of my brain are talking to each other by how correlated they are over time. This tells us how much connectivity there is within each network."

Previously produced connectome maps have consisted of snapshots of individual brains, averaged together to identify general networks between different functional areas of the brain. Poldrack was interested in learning if these connections hold up for the same person over months.

Do they change depending on mood or other environmental influencers? And, if the connections do change, how much would his connectome look like someone else's? Would his activity on a "sad" day look like that of a depressed person's?

Poldrack's connectivity was surprisingly consistent, but it did show some changes over the course of the 18 months which have never before been observed. While this result raises many new questions, the robust consistency showed that the long-term approach has promise for revealing differences between healthy brains and those of patients with neurological disorders that might suffer from disrupted connectivity, such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.

The coffee effect

An obvious piggyback experiment to an 18-month-long study is to examine changes in gene expression. On Tuesdays, Poldrack fasted and gave a blood sample after his scanning session. The RNA from his white blood cells was sequenced to determine his gene expression, which was then compared to his brain function.

The researchers found a strong correlation between brain activity and changes in the expression of many different families of genes. They also found that expression of genes related to inflammation and immune response matched Poldrack's psoriasis flare-ups. Because the data set is so massive, there are still many questions to ask, which is why Poldrack is making all of the data publicly available.

Fasting for the blood draw also revealed a surprising bonus result: "Easily the biggest factor we found in terms of affecting my brain connectivity was whether I had had breakfast and caffeine or not," Poldrack said.

On Tuesdays, when he hadn't drunk his morning joe before the scan, the connectivity within his brain looked very different from his caffeinated brain. Anecdotally, this makes sense. But such an influence had never been observed before. In particular, the connection between the somatosensory motor network and the systems responsible for higher vision grew significantly tighter without caffeine.

"That was totally unexpected, but it shows that being caffeinated radically changes the connectivity of your brain," Poldrack said. "We don't really know if it's better or worse, but it's interesting that these are relatively low-level areas. It may well be that I'm more fatigued on those days, and that drives the brain into this state that's focused on integrating those basic processes more."

The signal and the noise

The results are evidence that long-term analysis is a useful tool, Poldrack said, and hopefully make it attractive to a larger population of subjects. In many ways he was an ideal subject – he was available, committed to the long haul, and could sit still in the scanner – but diversity will ultimately lead to more interesting discoveries.

"I'm generally a pretty happy and even-keeled person," he said. "My positive mood is almost always high, and my negative mood is almost always non-existent. It would be interesting to scan people with a wider emotional variation and see how their connections look over time."

In the meantime, Poldrack and his colleagues have made the entire data set and the ready-built tools to analyze it available online. The data set is so large and deep, Poldrack said, that he hopes people will approach it from innovative angles and uncover connections that will help advance the research.

Poldrack, meanwhile, plans to hone software to elucidate the interplay between brain function and gene expression.

"It's a hard data set to know what to do with, because it's hard to tell if something is noise or if it's real with just one person. But there's potentially some really interesting stuff here," he said. "There are a ton of relationships between brain connectivity and gene expression in the blood, that are clearly there and seem to be strong, but we just don't have a way to understand them based on current neuroscience."

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Fall Contract Training Deadline Is Nov. 12

The Office of Contract Administration is hosting the Contract Administration Training (Course Code BUS102) on Nov. 14 and 15 for fall 2018.

Sessions are available from 10 to 11 a.m., Wednesday, Nov. 14, or from 2:30-3:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 15, in One Main Building, Room N1099.

All individuals who participate in the contracting process should attend. The training will cover key contracting policy requirements, address issues regarding noncompliance, and review areas that typically raise questions.

Participants must register online by Monday, Nov. 12.

For more information, contact Dewana Ferguson or LaShonda White by email.

About the University of Houston-Downtown

The University of Houston-Downtown (UHD)—the second largest university in Houston—has served the educational needs of the nation’s fourth-largest city since 1974.

As one of four distinct public universities in the University of Houston System, UHD is a comprehensive four-year university led by Dr. Juan Sánchez Muñoz. Annually, UHD educates more than 14,000 students; boasts over 50,000 alumni and offers 44 bachelor’s and eight master’s degree programs within five colleges (Marilyn Davies College of Business; Humanities & Social Sciences; Public Service, Sciences & Technology; and University College). In 2018, UHD grew its First Time in College student population by 11 percent and transfer students by 14 percent.

UHD has the most affordable tuition among four-year universities in Houston. It also is ranked among 15 U.S. universities with lowest net price to students (according to the U.S. Department of Education). The University is noted nationally as both a Hispanic-Serving Institution and a Minority-Serving Institution. For more on the University of Houston-Downtown, visit www.uhd.edu.


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Manner of walking may be key to early dementia detection

Paul Mayne//Western News

Through examining an individual’s manner of walking, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry professor Dr. Manuel Montero-Odasso believes it is conceivable we will be able to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias before people even have significant memory loss.

Something as simple as walking and talking could lead to early dementia detection and, potentially, to halting its progression, according to one Western researcher.

In a Western- and Lawson Health Research Institute-led study, researchers have shown that a person’s manner of walking – or gait – when combined with a cognitively demanding task may be an effective predictor of dementia. There is currently no definitive way for health-care professionals to forecast the onset of dementia in a patient with memory complaints.

“We believe gait, as a complex brain-motor task, provides a golden window of opportunity to see brain function,” said Geriatric Medicine professor Dr. Manuel Montero-Odasso.

Montero-Odasso and his team are assessing up to 150 seniors with mild cognitive impairment – a slight decline of memory and other mental functions – to detect an early predictor of cognitive and mobility decline.

“Finding methods to detect dementia early is vital to our ability to slow or halt the progression of the disease,” said Montero-Odasso of his study, Association of Dual-Task Gait with Incident Dementia in Mild Cognitive Impairment, recently published in the journal JAMA Neurology.

“One of the problems now with Alzheimer’s and other dementia is, we realize treatment, once it has been established, never worked. Neurons are already damaged and there is no magic treatment. A shift is now going to an earlier stage focus.”

Following the same group for six years, researchers asked participants to walk while simultaneously performing a cognitively demanding task, such as counting backwards or naming animals. Those individuals who slowed down more than 20 per cent while performing the task were at a higher risk of progressing to dementia.

“While walking has long been considered an automatic motor task, emerging evidence suggests cognitive function plays a key role in the control of walking, avoidance of obstacles and maintenance of navigation,” said Montero-Odasso, whose funding was recently renewed by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research for $1 million over five years.

The ‘gait cost’ – or difference in speed at which participants completed a single task (walking) versus a dual-task – was higher in patients with mild cognitive impairments.

“Our results reveal a ‘motor signature’ of cognitive impairment that can be used to predict dementia,” Montero-Odasso said.

The next step is engaging the health-care community to potentially create guidelines for creating prediction models.

“It is conceivable we will be able to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias before people even have significant memory loss. Our hope is to combine these methods with promising new medications to slow or halt the progression of mild cognitive impairment to dementia.”

Moving forward, Montero-Odasso said, unlike the early years of the study, all participants will be able to take part in blood work and imaging, creating a prediction model for everyone. This will help determine if the ‘walk/talk’ test alone is enough of a predictor or if it needs to be combined with other characteristics such as age, sex, blood pressure and other markers to further the specificity.

“The nice thing about research is the excitement of the discovery,” said Montero-Odasso, adding should the study lead to earlier detection and treatment of dementia, it could also create significant financial benefits on the health-care system. “Every day we have a new discovery. Sometimes research can change pathways.”


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Amal Alamuddin Clooney can help expose the Aquino government’s human rights abuses

International human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin Clooney has confirmed what some of us have been saying all along – that former President and Congresswoman Gloria Arroyo‘s human rights are being violated by the Philippine government under the leadership of President Benigno Simeon (BS) Aquino.
As early as 2011, concerned individuals have already highlighted how the cases against Arroyo seem to have been rushed just to meet the criteria needed to prevent her from leaving the country in her bid to seek medical treatment for her problems with her cervical spine. Despite the fact that there was still no pending case against Arroyo at that time, her right to travel and her right to presumption of innocence have been trampled upon by the Aquino administration.We recall that there was pandemonium at the Manila international airport in November 2011 when Department of Justice Secretary Leila De Lima panicked after she found out Arroyo was leaving the country and ordered officers at the airport to help bar her from leaving for Singapore. And with the assistance of the media in inciting anger against Arroyo, some members of the public also joined the fray – besieging her at the airport. Her frail and helpless appearance on a wheelchair did not stop them from acting like a lynch mob. The scene resulted in a standoff because Arroyo’s supporters insisted on her right to travel abroad as stated in the Philippine Constitution.

De Lima’s initial violation back then was in defying the Supreme Court’s temporary restraining order on the travel ban against Arroyo. De Lima even risked disbarment for ignoring the highest court’s order. Senator Miriam Santiago likewise questioned De Lima’s action citing the DOJ had no legal basis to issue a watch-list order against Arroyo since there was no pending case against the former President and was only a respondent in a joint DOJ Comelec investigation on electoral fraud at that time.

3 thoughts on “Amal Alamuddin Clooney can help expose the Aquino government’s human rights abuses

  1. Let her help thier country ..they need her help more than we do ! We have our new president now who is confident to clean up the government and crimes.

    • No, I don’t agree with you Mr. Anonymous. We need an international celebrity to easily catch the attention of the world about this blatant violation of the human rights of a former President. You should be fair with your comments Mr. Anonymous. You are a very big COWARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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First to respond, India re-affirms its position as the most relevant neighbor

By P.K.Balachandran/Daily Express

Colombo, May 29: India’s swift delivery of relief supplies and personnel to flood and landslide-hit Sri Lanka has re-affirmed its position as Sri Lanka’s most relevant neighbor, and also its primacy as a power in the South Asian region.

No other country in the region, Pakistan and China included, can act with such speed, and deliver men and material in such high volumes at short notice when natural or man-made disasters strike Sri Lanka. Pakistan is yet to respond materially and China announced late on Sunday ,that it will send US$ 2.2 million worth of relief goods.

Pakistan, India’s rival in Sri Lanka and the South Asian region, woke up to the need to respond to Sri Lanka’s global call for help, a tad too late. Awakened by the media blitz on the arrival of the Indian naval vessel INS Kirch with relief material and workers, the Acting Pakistan High Commissioner, Dr.Sarfraz Ahmd Khan Sipra, issued a press release in the afternoon saying that Pakistan is discussing with the Sri Lankan authorities the kind of relief they want, and these will be delivered soon. He made it a point to recall that only recently, when Sri Lanka was facing a drought, Pakistan sent 10,000 mt of rice.

But Pakistan’s response paled into insignificance in the light of what the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and India’s new High Commissioner in Sri Lanka, Taranjit Singh Sandhu, did within 24 hours of Sri Lanka’s global appeal. More than a 100 had died and over 200,000 had been displaced in 14 districts in the floods and landslides caused by a particularly virulent South West Monsoon. .

INS Kirsh a corvette laden with relief material and relief workers, docked at Colombo harbor early in the morning on Saturday to be received by none other than the new Foreign Minister of Sri Lanka, Ravi Karunanyake. INS Shardul ,a tank carrier with more relief material on board, docked on Sunday; and INS Jalashwa,  a landing craft and the biggest of the three vessels, is expected on Monday. The India team will have helicopters besides inflatable boats.

Recounting the sequence of events, High Commissioner Sandhu said that following a request for help from the Sri Lankan government on May 26, the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi (who was in Guwahati in Eastern India on tour) was contacted. The Prime Minister immediately directed the Indian navy to rush aid to the disaster struck neighbor.

Indian naval doctors treating a young Buddhist monk in flood ravaged Kalutara

“In less than 24 hours, relief materials were assembled, the vessel INS Kirch was diverted from its deployment, loaded with the assembled material, and bought to Colombo,” Sandhu said underlining the swiftness of India’s response.

The envoy said that India’s speedy response stemmed from good neighborliness a “a value  grounded in Indian and Sri Lankan cultures,” as he put it.

“In the traditions of India and Sri Lanka, when one is in trouble, it is the neighbors and relations who rush to his help. India’s response is in line with that tradition,”  Sandhu explained.

The envoy pointed out that India has always been the first to respond to Sri Lanka’s call for help in facing natural disasters.

“When tsunami struck Sri Lanka in December 2004, India was the first to arrive with medical and other relief material. Indian naval doctors even set up a clinic in Galle,” he recalled.

Asked if he could indicate the quantum of aid that India plans to give, the High Commissioner said that it would be too early to give precise figures.

“All we can say now is that it will depend entirely on what the Sri Lankan authorities request for. But we can assure you that we will provide all the assistance that  Sri Lanka seeks,”  he said.

The envoy said that the deployed Indian naval personnel will work in close cooperation with the Sri Lankan authorities and the Sri Lankan navy.

“And once the task is done, they’ll quit,” he added, to assure Sri Lankans that the Indian armed forces personnel have come only to help the Sri Lankan government face a difficult situation, and when help is no longer  required, they will leave.

INS Kirch, with around 125 personnel on board, offloaded supplies, including inflatable Gemini boats with diving teams, and a mobile medical team with supplies. The second ship, INS Shardul,  a tank landing ship, is carrying additional relief material including more inflatable boats.

The third ship, INS Jalashwa, an amphibious transport dock, carries larger amounts of relief material .It is ideally suited for conducting Humanitarian Assistance  or Disaster Relief Missions.

Immediately on arrival, the Indian naval medical teams fanned out into the disaster hit areas. In Kalutara, they set up medical clinics while relief workers distributed supplies like drinking water and food. The work was being done in collaboration with the Sri Lankan navy and local authorities.

(Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Ravi Karunanayake and Indian High Commissioner Taranjit Singh Sandhu speaking to the media after the arrival of INS Shardul on Sunday)


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• Encompassing AirAsia and AirAsia X’s fleets across all of the subsidiaries in Malaysia, Thailand, India, Japan, Philippines and Indonesia.
  • Extending current usage of Skywise core platform

Singapore, 8th February 2018 – AirAsia Group has confirmed that its existing and future A320 and A330 fleet will be powered by Airbus’ Skywise Predictive Maintenance services. The scope encompasses AirAsia and AirAsia X’s fleets across all of the subsidiaries in Malaysia, Thailand, India, Japan, Philippines and Indonesia. The airline currently has around 230 aircraft in service. This is complemented with an order backlog of around 470 Airbus aircraft – which includes 66 A330neos and over 400 A320/A321neos yet to be delivered. All of these aircraft will thus become Skywise-enabled.

The sheer breadth of aircraft information which AirAsia will soon be able to unlock thanks to Skywise, will be used to gain deep insights, create bespoke recommendations and apply state-of-the-art analytics for enhanced decision-making. In turn this will allow AirAsia to anticipate, with higher levels of accuracy, the needs for maintenance before an event happens, and thus maximise the operational reliability and utilisation of its aircraft assets. As part of the five years contract, AirAsia’s entire fleet will be equipped with *FOMAX – a new on-board data-capture / transmission module, which is a key enabling component of Airbus’ Skywise Predictive Maintenance services.

In addition to this new premium predictive maintenance service, AirAsia continues to benefit from Skywise Core – a cloud-based environment which offers unparalleled visibility into its fleet operations.

Tan Sri Tony Fernandes, Group Chief Executive Officer of AirAsia, commented: “We eagerly look forward to unleashing the power of Airbus’ Skywise big-data analytics and predictive technology to obtain superior operational advantage for AirAsia Group’s entire A320 and A330 Family fleets. Skywise will enable us to reach new insights into the operation of our aircraft, optimise our maintenance, engineering and flight operations decision-making and reduce our costs.”

Marc Fontaine, Airbus Digital Transformation Officer, commented: “We are honoured to work with AirAsia with their forward-thinking approach and for helping to shape our vision together in this digital adventure. As the aircraft ‘architect’ and integrator, we naturally thrive in our role of building digital continuity across the aviation ecosystem.”

Eric Schulz, Airbus EVP, Chief of Sales, Marketing & Contracts said: “This is a very significant endorsement for the Skywise platform. In particular we are excited that this will enhance further the economics of the future A330neo fleet at the airline.”

Airbus launched its new aviation data platform Skywise in collaboration with Palantir Technologies – pioneers in big-data integration and advanced analytics – during the Paris Air Show in July 2017, after experimenting substantial benefits when applying its technologies to its own internal processes for two years. Skywise aims to become a leading user-centric open data platform for all major aviation players to improve their operational performance and business results and to support overall aviation digital transformation. The deliverables will be tailored for each user and will include scalable services (such as analytics, apps and APIs) which can be used by Airbus, customers, and suppliers – ensuring complete data continuity with benefits across the entire value chain.


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Greenidge says repossession of concessions from BaiShanLin “unfortunate”; should not affect relations with China

The Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) will be moving to repossess concessions currently being held by BaiShanLin International Forest Development Inc. following the company’s failure to pay its debts.

Weighing in on the matter today, Foreign Affairs Minister, Carl Greenidge said this should have no effect on the relationship between Guyana and China.

“The laws of Guyana are paramount in Guyana and if a company has encountered financial difficulties there are processes by which the company has to treat with those to be able to either change their status or …in order to establish their financial viability,” the Minister noted.

He made it clear that the Government of Guyana has done nothing to render BaiShanLin financially unstable.

It was reminded that, like in any other country, companies have to abide by the laws and regulations they agreed to embrace when they entered the territory.

Greenidge said, “they have not been applied in any discriminatory manner against BaiShanLin, the responsibility of the company is to live within the laws and you don’t send a Guyanese businessman to Beijing or any other country or capital in the world and expect them to operate outside of the law.”

The Minister said it is unfortunate that the company had to encounter difficulties , but it is the expectation that the Chinese officials will maintain cordial relations regardless.

The Guyana Forestry Commission in a statement on Tuesday said the decision to repossess the concessions came after the company failed to deliver on agreed actions to introduce investors to the Commission.

The GFC informed that BaiShanLin was also given time to prove that it had an acceptable plan to clear an approximately 80 Million dollar debt.

The Commission says the actions being taken against the company are in keeping with Forest Governance Practices.

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Home Alterations Leaholm

For all your home alteration needs you can count on us, Home Alterations Leaholm, to assist you to the best of our ability. We understand that your house is more than just a “valuable asset” and that it’s a HOME filled with tons of memories and stories of the past and present- and there will be tons more memories and stories in the future to come.

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Apart from transitioning homes into what you desire, we’re also able to provide our expertise to commercial projects.

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ANN: FeedDemon 2.0 Beta 2 (Build

FeedDemon 2.0 Beta 2 is now available, and as promised in this post, the synchronization features are now much faster than in previous versions. In fact, I think you’ll find beta 2 a lot faster in a number of areas. And, of course, it also features a nice assortment of bug fixes and additions.

Other than the performance boosts, I think my favorite change is the ability to schedule the desktop alert so that it “bundles” new item alerts and only displays after a certain number of minutes. In other words, if you’re subscribed to a lot of feeds, you no longer have to be interrupted by an alert every few minutes :)

Other additions of note include:

  • FeedDemon’s search definitions now use the OpenSearch description format
  • Support for IE7’s tabbed browsing shortcuts, and the ability to import your feeds from the Windows Common Feed List
  • Drag-and-drop of multiple feeds from within the subscription list
  • The “Find new feeds” feature of the subscription wizard now orders results by the number of subscribers in NewsGator Online

Standard scary warning: Keep in mind that this is a pre-release, which means it’s not done yet! So please don’t download it unless you’re comfortable using unfinished software. If you do download it and run into problems, I hope you’ll let us know by posting in the FeedDemon Beta Forum.

6 thoughts on “ANN: FeedDemon 2.0 Beta 2 (Build

  1. Good stuff, Nick! The first “Update All Feeds” after starting up in the morning is blazing. Great user experience!

  2. FeedDemon 2.0 Beta 2.0 introduces ability to import your feeds from the Windows Common Feed List

    Long headline, I know – but I couldn’t think of anything else.
    FeedDemon 2.0 Beta 2.0 introduces ability…

  3. Hmm, syncing is so fast that it’s not picking up any unread changes from NGOL… basically if I go to NGOL, mark an item as read, then sync in FeedDemon items are not updated. However, if I manually force a feed to be updated then they are marked read.

  4. New FeedDemon beta released

    Beta 2 of FeedDemon 2, the RSS aggregator for Windows, was released this week. If you’ve been testing FD’s development versions since release 1.5, this latest beta is worth getting. I’ve just installed it and the first thing I notice

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Wells Fargo Pays SEC Fine Over Investment Sales Misconduct

by Ike Obudulu Posted on June 26th, 2018

Washington, D.C., USA: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced today that Wells Fargo Advisors LLC agreed to settle charges of misconduct in the sale of financial products known as market-linked investments, or MLIs, to retail investors.

According to the order, the SEC found that Wells Fargo generated large fees by improperly encouraging retail customers to actively trade the products, which were intended to be held to maturity. As described in the SEC’s order, the trading strategy – which involved selling the MLIs before maturity and investing the proceeds in new MLIs – generated substantial fees for Wells Fargo, which reduced the customers’ investment returns.

The order further found that the Wells Fargo representatives involved did not reasonably investigate or understand the significant costs of the recommendations. The SEC found that Wells Fargo supervisors routinely approved these transactions despite internal policies prohibiting short-term trading or “flipping” of the products.

“It is important that brokers do their homework before they recommend that their retail customers buy or sell complex structured products,” said Daniel Michael, Chief of the Enforcement Division’s Complex Financial Instruments Unit. “The products sold by Wells Fargo came with high fees and commissions, which Wells Fargo should have taken into account before advising retail customers to sell their investments and reinvest the proceeds in similar products.”

Without admitting or denying the findings in the SEC’s order, Wells Fargo agreed to return $930,377 of ill-gotten gains plus $178,064 of interest and to pay a $4 million penalty. Wells Fargo also agreed to a censure and to cease and desist from committing or causing any violations and any future violations of certain antifraud provisions of the federal securities laws. The order recognizes that Wells Fargo took remedial steps to address the allegedly improper sales practices.

Wells Fargo said in a statement it has made policy and management changes related to the SEC charges, and is committed to helping customers achieve their investment goals.

Wells Fargo has been plagued for nearly two years by scandals over how it treated its customers, including by selling them products they did not need to meet internal sales goals.

It has overhauled management and is trying to regain trust, including through an ad campaign saying that Wells Fargo was established in 1852 and “re-established” in 2018.

Market-linked investments are fixed-maturity products whose interest rate is determined by the performance of a particular asset or market measure, such as equity and commodity indexes.

Today’s SEC fine comes not long after Wells Fargo & Co. paid $185 million to resolve claims by U.S. regulators that the bank’s employees opened deposit and credit-card accounts without customers’ approval to satisfy sales goals and earn financial rewards.

The lender opened more than 2 million accounts that consumers may not have known about, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said in a statement. Wells Fargo, which fired 5,300 employees over the improper sales practices, agreed paid a record $100 million fine to the CFPB, $35 million to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and $50 million to the Los Angeles city attorney to settle the matter. The San Francisco-based bank also will compensate customers who incurred fees or charges, the agencies said.

“Wells Fargo employees secretly opened unauthorized accounts to hit sales targets and receive bonuses,” CFPB Director Richard Cordray said in his agency’s statement. “Because of the severity of these violations, Wells Fargo is paying the largest penalty the CFPB has ever imposed.”

The bank also agreed to resolve the allegations in that earlier case without admitting or denying the agencies’ accusations, and said in a statement that it had set aside $5 million for customer remediation.

Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified, community-based financial services company with $2.0 trillion in assets. Wells Fargo provides banking, investments, mortgage, and consumer and commercial finance through more than 8,300 locations, 13,000 ATMs, the internet and mobile banking, and has offices in 42 countries and territories. With approximately 263,000 team members, Wells Fargo serves one in three households in the United States.

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Versatile Certified Fraud Examiner, Chartered Accountant, Certified Internal Auditor with an MBA in Finance And Investments who has both worked for and consulted with some of the world's largest companies on main street and wall street in over 20 countries, Ike brings his extensive reporting and investigations experience to bear on his role as Chief Editor.

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We believe in core American values: Integrity, Honesty, and the Entrepreneurial Spirit.


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But in this case is it really pareidolia or has Solo been found on Mercury?  Click to compare with a “Empire Strikes Back” Han Solo prop.

From the Messenger site:

If there are two things you should remember, it’s not to cross a Hutt, and that Mercury’s surface can throw up all kinds of surprises. In this image, a portion of the terrain surrounding the northern margin of the Caloris basin hosts an elevated block in the shape of a certain carbonite-encased smuggler who can make the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs. This block may be part of the original surface that pre-dates the formation of Caloris, which was shaped by material ejected during the basin-forming event. The act of seeing a meaningful shape in random landforms is a form of pareidolia—and has been seen for Mercury more than a few times before…

Image(s) credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington/UPI/Johnathon Hordle/Rex Features

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  1. Where can I report about a recent “green fireball” sighting? Two different occasions.

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Greenhouse gas in Netherlands much higher than expected

greenhouse gas emissions Frank J. (Frank John) Aleksandrowicz Wikimedia commons.

Emissions of greenhouse gas methane is much higher in the Netherlands than existing figures would suggest, according to De Correspondent. Since 1990 methane emissions did not decrease by 43 percent, but only by 20 percent, the newspaper reports based on measurements in the field by journalist Han van de Wiel.

Methane gas is a much stronger and more dangerous greenhouse gas than CO2 and is especially released by cattle. Existing figures on this gas are based on estimates and unverifiable claims from the industry - not actual measurements, according to the newspaper.

De Correspondent can't give an exact explanation for the high levels of methane. It is possible that more methane is released by peat meadows, ditches and ponds. It is also possible that the industry releases more methane than reported.

The Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment will investigate the higher measurements, which could affect the Netherlands climate goals. This may mean that the government will have to take additional measures in order to achieve goals set in the Paris.

GroenLinks and animal party PvdD insist that the government takes new, objective measurements.


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NOC 2018 Fall Schedule

NOC 2018 Fall Schedule

Click HERE to download a copy of the schedule.

NOC 2018 Spring-Summer Schedule

NOC 2018 Outdoor Sched

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To download a copy of the schedule click HERE.

Download the schedule HERE

NOC 2017 Outdoor Training Schedule

Spring is here and with it we embark on our outdoor season at NOC! This year’s Outdoor Training Schedule can be found, HERE!

NOC 2017 Indoor Schedule

With 2017 just around the corner be sure to download the practice schedule for the upcoming months!

You can download the schedule HERE!

Reminder! School Training Permits!

With Spring rapidly approaching and with it the return to outdoor practice, NOC would like to remind all High School teams that a training permit is required to use the NOC Track and Field Facility. Please submit your application (can be found HERE) in a timely manner to Sharon Stewart at

2016 Outdoor Season Training Schedule

With March right around the corner it’s time to think Spring and Outdoors!

You can download the Spring Training Schedule HERE!

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snow day

Happy Groundhog Day! Spring is coming, just don’t look out the window yet!

Happy Snow Day for the kids.

Practise is cancelled for today.

Training at home!!!
Shovel!!! Put that core strength to the test. Upper body work out. Drills in the biggest snow drift you can find.

Help your neighbours! Stay safe! Stay warm!

Sharon Stewart
905 933-2762
Coach, Niagara Olympic Track and Field Club

It’s Official – NOC receives major Ontario Government Trillium Foundation Grant!

Trillium Award at NOC 2014 04 26

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Yes, last Saturday (April 26th) our club was awarded a capital improvements grant of $110,000 for:

1. New bleachers (clubhouse will be moved further south).

  • 300 seats, Accessible, with up-to-date safety features, moving close to the track straightaway finish line.
  • 2 sets of 30 seats in the Jumps and Throws area.

2. A new paved 15′ wide road/path from the main (south) gate along the 100m straight between the new bleachers and the track fence. This achieves full accessibility for athletes and spectators. This will also make damp weather spectating a much less muddy experience, and will allow club maintenance and meet equipment to be transported more reliably.

3. And lastly – New hurdle carts for easier setup and take down during training and meets.

I think we can say a huge Thank You to The Ontario Trillium Foundation! This gives our athletes, in fact all junior athletes in the Niagara Region, a new level of facility for training and competition. Thank You to Minister Jim Bradley, MPP for St. Catharines, Mayor Brian McMullan, and Mr. Harvey Hagerty of the Ontario Trillium Foundation, for presenting the award, accompanied by such kind and positive words of real encouragement for our athletes.

Another huge Thank You has to go out to the Team at the Niagara Sport Commission, who helped us compose, verify and support our bid, through each of the not-so-easy steps. Bram, Chris and Matt, we could not have achieved this without you. We look forward to collaborating in so many more ways to enhance our sport over the coming months and years.

All of the volunteers working on the club’s behalf should be rightly proud of this achievement. Impossible without your incredible efforts!

Here are a few pics from Saturday’s ceremonies. We look forward to your support as we enter the project execution phases, to ensure that the money is wisely and frugally spent.

Can you take an hour to celebrate with us on Saturday April 26th?

The Ontario Government's Trillium Foundation

This coming Saturday, at 11am, we’ll be doing some concentrated celebrating at the Club for an hour or so.

Join us in celebrationThe Honourable Jim Bradley, MPP, with Mayor McMullan of St. Catharines, and a member of the Ontario Trillium Foundation (the Government of Ontario’s OTF) evaluation committee, Mr. Harvie Hagerty, will be joining us for a formal announcement that will help us to radically revamp our great facility later this year.

Please come and join us (we’re even providing coffee and some sweet treats!); invite your family and friends. It’s your opportunity to say thank you to the OTF, and the City for their financial and in-kind support for our athletes, and indeed young athletes from right across the Region, who use our unique facility every year at about this time and through to the summer.

We hope that you can come out and join us in celebration.


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The NEELD 100 Club is run by members of North East Essex Liberal Democrats and gives supporters of our party, be they members or otherwise, a fun way to help contribute to the costs of running our local campaigns while at the same time giving them a chance to win monthly prizes.

More details will be added here, but in the meantime if you'd like to join the monthly draw please contact one of the organisers who can supply you with an application form:

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Cooperating organisations host discussions in Belfast (Liberal International)

Cooperating organisations host discussions in Belfast
LI News Issue 88 (Liberal International)
June 2008

Aside from the main theme panel discussions at LI’s 55th Congress in Belfast, Northern Ireland, numerous workshops were sponsored by LI cooperating organisations.

CALD (the Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats) and RELIAL (the Liberal Network of Latin America) organised a very ambitious timetable which saw discussion between the two networks about the state of liberalism in their respective regions of the world.

Chaired by LI Bureau Member Josep Soler, an African Environment Panel took place in which panellists were given the opportunity to discuss the severe environmental ramifications of climate change, which affect Africa in a manner that is often eclipsed by the humanitarian struggle in the region.

Professor Ingemund Hägg, coordinator of LI’s think tanks, hosted a think tank workshop on Migration.

The Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Liberty hosted a CALD-RELIAL-ALN (Africa Liberal Network)-ALDE (Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe) Freedom Roundtable which discussed the theme of: “Retreat of freedom and weakening governance: How do we safeguard democracy worldwide?”

The INLW (International Network of Liberal Women) also conducted their annual meeting after which a panel took place during which speakers from African and Northern Ireland discussed the role of women in conflict situations.

The Northern Ireland Foundation presented a workshop entitled “The Cost of Conflict: 10 years after Good Friday” which, while discussing the tremendous improvement in the situation in Northern Ireland, stressed the fact that there was still a long ways to go before peace is firmly entrenched in the region.

According to LI Secretary General Emil Kirjas: “Workshops are a very important forum through which delegates from our over 100 member parties can learn about the very important work of LI’s cooperating organisations. Unlike member parties, cooperating organisations have the ability to operate on a supra-national level and serve as important conduits through which member parties can work.”


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Vitamin K is one of the different types of vitamins required in regular small quantity by a human body. Vitamin K is a group of vitamins that are structurally alike in their formation and are fat-soluble in nature. The Vitamin K group is constituted of Vitamin K1, K2, K3, K4, and K5. Vitamin K1 and K2 are natural vitamins while Vitamin K3, K4 and K5 are synthetic vitamers.

Phytonadione, Phylloquinone or Phytomenadione are the other names used for Vitamin K1. Vitamin K1 has its involvement in photosynthesis and thus is found in abundance in vegetables that are green in color. This vitamin takes active part in the body of animals and even performs some of the recognized functions of Vitamin K such as generating proteins for coagulation of blood. Animals have the capability of internally converting Vitamin K1 into K2.

Role Of Vitamin K1

Vitamin K1 is regarded as a naturally occurring coagulant and has an immense role to play in clotting of blood.

Apart from this, Vitamin K1 is also used in skin treatments as this vitamin is found to limit the effect of certain types of bruising. In fact, some doctors are of the opinion that if this vitamin is used as an element in a compound then it can help reduce dark circles (a growing complain of many).

Vitamin K1 finds its use in pediatric causes as well. The infants, according to research, have a tendency of suffering from excessive bleeding due to lack of sufficient Vitamin K1 in their body. Thus, US doctors have instructed that each new born, mainly the premature babies should be injected Vitamin K1 in order to avoid complications arising due to problems in blood clotting.

It has also been found that low amount of Vitamin K1 in a diet raises the risk of hip fracture in a body. It can also result in hip pain. Gla proteins require Vitamin K1 for their formation and active functionality. Osteocalcin, also known as Gla protein, after carboxylation with Vitamin K1 allows binding of calcium to bone matrix. Again, the Gla protein, matrix Gla-protein, prevents the calcification of soft tissues by binding to calcium and thereby stopping the calcium from settling down in the vessels of smooth vascular muscles. These facts tell us that both the Gla proteins are required for breaking down of calcium but are incapable to function properly without sufficient amount of Vitamin K1. It is evident from the above facts that Vitamin K1 has a vital role to play in keeping calcium out of the vascular muscles of the heart and in turn keeping calcium in the bones of the human body.

Sources Of Vitamin K1

Vitamin K1 is abundant in sources coming directly from plants. That is to say leafy vegetables that are green in color are the highest source of Vitamin K1. Some of them to be named are- kale, broccoli, cabbage, parsley, spinach and such other. A Temple Terrace Chiropractor can help you further in identifying the sources of vitamin K1.

A measurable amount of Vitamin K1 if taken in regular diet can effectively increase the bone density in a body and keep away certain diseases pertaining to bones.