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A huge thank you to everyone who has continued to engage with my blog this year! It means so much to me and I really enjoy hearing from you. Thank you for sharing your stories and experiences with me.
Many have begun to engage with me via Facebook and so, as it is a time for trying new things after all, I thought I would share Dreaming of the Temple’s page here so you can find it more easily.
Here everything is a little less formal, more relaxed and hopefully a great space to engage with me and one another.
It features links and alerts to the latest content, is more personal and shares topical snippets relating to my passions; mental health and motherhood.
Author Dreaming of the TemplePosted on January 23, 2019 January 23, 2019 Categories BloggingTags A Day In The Life, Blogging, Communication, Lifestyle, Mental Health, Motherhood, Parenting, Recovery, Relationships, WritingLeave a comment on Thank You!
Today, my husband and I announced my pregnancy. As is usual for us we are being unconventional and have not waited until the end of the first trimester to make this announcement.
1. The tradition of waiting until your first scan is because this is considered concrete confirmation of the pregnancy. It is well established that the first few weeks is the time of highest risk of loss. However, any loss before the 20 week mark is classified medically as miscarriage and waiting until 3 months is sadly not a guarantee.
2. Pregnancy announcements are personal. There should not be rules about when and what time is the most suitable to share your excitement with others. You may choose to announce it as we did, in person to family, close friends and work managers and then on a social media platform to more distant friends and acquaintances.
You may feel that it is easier and more equal to tell everyone you know at the same time via a public announcement. This way no one feels that they were the first or last to find out or that another friend was favoured.
There are also those who choose to keep their pregnancy completely private and this is a fine choice too.
3. The physical effects of pregnancy will already be apparent to the expectant mother and her close family. This is a planned pregnancy and as you may imagine of someone who is extremely anxious, I had been researching since we got married various stages of pregnancy and parenting. But even what accumulates to 2 years worth of reading and listening to other women’s stories in no way prepared me for the effects of early pregnancy.
Although there are no outward signs and I have been extremely fortunate to (so far) escape morning sickness; the exhaustion, nausea and digestive occurrences, are more than I ever anticipated. I also did not expect the cramping!
As a result of all of this, and the work that I currently do which involves performance storytelling and entertaining, I wanted my managers and colleagues to be aware that there were occasions that I was suffering intense discomfort and I wanted them to know why. It was also important for me to have my place of work informed of the pregnancy in case there were complications or loss.
As I do not sit at a desk were I could discreetly relieve myself if I developed intense morning sickness (or any of the other delightful digestive effects) I needed them to be aware that this wasn’t a 24 hour sickness bug but something that would go on for months. For this same reason, in the dreadful instance of pregnancy loss I would not be able to put on a smile and entertain and this would impact my work more extensively than in other lines of work.
This may come across as unattached or overly focused on negative outcomes, but rather than seem disengaged, the intention is to demonstrate how your circumstances will inform your personal choices throughout pregnancy, including the announcement.
4. Whilst I completely understand and respect that this is a very private matter, as a blogger intent on exploring her personal mental health and wellbeing more generally, I would always be inclined to be open about any loss during this pregnancy. Of course I hope to goodness that this will not be the case, and we would both be devastated if it did occur. But I advocate being open about all things and miscarriage is still widely treated as a taboo subject. Great headway is being made in conversing about other forms of emotion, grief and mental health, but for something as frequently occurring as pregnancy loss there is still alarming silence.
5. It is common to announce pregnancy on special occasions, public holidays or anniversaries. Whilst any day of the year is a fine time to announce such wonderful and well-received news, such occasions can add an additional sense of celebration and provide more ideas for a fun public announcement.
For instance, in our case, our first midwife appointment fell two weeks after we learnt that we were expecting and just before Easter.
As a religious family, Easter is an important time for us. It is the Christian celebration of Christ’s resurrection after His atoning sacrifice for the sins of the world. Because of the atonement (remembered on Good Friday) we are able to repent and be forgiven. This is a celebration of second chances and new life. It’s one of the reasons for chicks and eggs being motifs of Easter.
Hares, which have become rabbits in modern Easter marketing, are associated with the ancient fertility goddess, Astarte or Ishtar. Again we are looking at representations of new life. New life coupled with fertility symbols made an irresistible possibility for a pregnancy announcement.
6. So don’t hesitate to announce your pregnancy at a time and in a way that suits you because of conventions and traditions. Each individual, pregnancy and family is different and that should be reflected in the way that you choose share your joy with others. There are so many contradictory opinions being continually expressed about the right way to be pregnant and to parent that the sooner you start establishing the best way for you, the better.
Settling on a graveyard tongue.
One of the most predictable triggers for my depression is my period. Typically it showed up in time for Valentine’s Day and I spent most of the morning on an emotional rollercoaster. I woke up feeling lethargic but was perked up by breakfast. Then I did the washing up and sat down to do some writing and lost all momentum again. I had to leave for a meeting in town in the mid-afternoon which was adding a layer of anxiety on top of my low, hormone-laden spirits.
I walked the dog which again elevated my mood and tried to focus on the smaller things, that the sun was shining, that the crocuses had started to bloom heralding the next phase in Spring’s arrival. I take great solace from my dog enjoying her walks, running around the park or local woods, chasing her ball, her tail flying high. This high can be infectious, as long as I keep focusing on the dog and the small details of my surroundings.
I returned home more motivated and ready to start all sorts of home renovation projects but my mood kept dipping. My thoughts wouldn’t focus on the task in hand and instead entered into the downward spirals that sufferers of mental illness are all too familiar with.
For instance, when I was assessing which tasks I had checked off my daily list and which I should do next, my initial thought was ‘Great, I’ve done the dishes, walked the dog and cleaned the bathroom, on to the next household chore!’ But my mind focused in minutely on the dishes, pointing out that yes I had done the dishes, but there was still a huge pile of laundry waiting upstairs.
My brain started to get anxious.
Was there enough space to hang up the next load of washing?
Was the last load dry enough to be put away to make space?
Did it even matter anyway as the laundry upstairs would take at least three loads to clear as there were whites, darks and lots of bulky items like bedclothes and towels?
How had the laundry caught up with us so quickly?
I must have failed to keep up with the laundry.
As I was clearly such a failure at a simple task such as laundry how could I ever hope to do anything more complex?
If I can’t complete simple tasks then I must be useless.
If I am useless then what is the point of my existence, I’m just taking up valuable room that could be being used by someone else far more effectively.
This is a very typical spiral for me, and from my experience volunteering with mental health and wellbeing organisations, for many others as well. I also know from people around me, that these thought spirals that can start to interfere with daily tasks, personal hygiene and physical health, are one of the hardest aspects of mental illness to understand.
When I started blogging a month ago, I was aware of the benefits that it could hold for me, but not those that it could provide for those closest to me. Of course that this personal writing project has instilled a renewed sense of purpose, is something that I enjoy doing and has elevated my emotional baseline to somewhere nearer to where it was before two years ago, is a great relief to my husband and family. But I have learnt that my posts can also assist those who are trying to better understand mental illness.
About a week ago my mother asked if she could read my blog. It’s on the internet so of course doesn’t contain anything that I have concerns about sharing, but my family are no well adapted to sharing feelings. I have never even hugged my grandmother, so it was daunting to consciously expose my mother to the more intimate aspects of my mental illness. In honest truth we have had very few productive conversations about it in the past. There was also a lot about what happened two years ago that I hadn’t made her fully aware of, the events were in the past, there was nothing to be done about it, and until very recently I have not been inclined to open up about them. The #metoo campaign gave me the nudge I needed to express what had happened to me personally and feel that it was ok to talk about it, even though there are others who have endured more traumatic and dangerous experiences. For me it was a lesson in being able to own my story, rather than giving the memories of the event itself the power and control over me.
Blogging has helped me own my story, gain back the control I lost though someone else’s brutal actions, and at the same time, share those experiences. I mentioned before about hoping to create an atmosphere of empathy and solidarity and in the case of my mother that has led to her beginning to share some of her own experiences as well as gain a better understanding of mine and the ways it affected me personally. I have fortunately always been very close with my mum, but our relationship was put under strain when I slid into severe depression two years ago. For the first time I went for weeks without calling to her, I started lying to her and I didn’t even tell her I had met Samuel. My blog has reopened the channels of communication for us and in the words of my mother: ‘reading and digesting [the blog posts]… means I can quietly contemplate what you have experienced and what you feel now… without feeling I need to support with wisdom I don’t have’. I wasn’t sure exactly what my aim was when I started blogging, but I don’t think I could have hoped for a better outcome.
I thought about starting a blog for a very long time. I had lots of thoughts buzzing about in my head and I wanted to write them down. But I already have lots of notebooks full of scribbles and ‘notes to self’ and I either never look at them again or I look back and can never quite remember the whole idea behind the quick bullet point. A blog seemed more meaningful. It also seemed more mindful. Rather than a diary that for me at least would be a continual out-pouring of emotion, without reflection or any consideration as to what happened, why and the outcome; blogposts are usually things you edit, an act which, by its very nature, is reflective. You pour out all the things you feel and ideas you have on a topic and then stop, maybe even walk away for a time, look over what you have written and delete the elements that are too personal, sometimes too painful, to post on the internet. A finished post is essentially composed of the highlights, is a synopsis, of the thought process inspired by a particular thought, event or feeling.
I guess, on some level, this blog is to provide myself with closure. Everyone has difficult times in their lives and the last two years were immense for me. I was assaulted, raped, harassed, diagnosed with anxiety and then depression. I contemplated suicide. Then I got married to a man who I am confident will help ensure that I never go back to the same depths of darkness as I did in April 2016. I used to be a mental health listening support volunteer at university and have always been very passionate about mental health, but now I am much more conscious of my own mental wellbeing. As I mentioned in the post Reflection, I had heard that blogging was a useful tool for those exploring their mental health. I mentioned that I could feel an early benefit of blogging because it made me reflect. Because it got everything out. It doesn’t matter that the final post doesn’t contain everything. That what feel like the most powerful, painful, perhaps even traumatic aspects were typed and deleted. The important thing was that they were written. That they were typed out and effectively looked straight in the eye. They don’t have any control anymore.
Blogging is very cathartic. And I also feel that I am telling my story. We all have a story, whether it is about mental health or mistreatment, or anything else, we all have things happen to us, things that are different and that we react to differently. No two stories are the same, which is all the more reason why they should all be told. So we can all strengthen and empathise with each other. So no one feels alone with what or how they are feeling. That no one feels embarrassed, or isolated or singled-out. That we all know a story from which we can draw hope.
I hope on Monday to be able to find a designated quiet time to finish addressing the darkest part of my story. For my benefit if no one else’s.
For me, the first indication that I am experiencing a dip or decline in my mental health is that I stop communicating effectively. It’s usually regarding friends and family but appears to now extend to blogging too.
A voice in my head was telling me to give up, to stop posting, that I had nothing ‘interesting’ to say. But then I reminded myself that this isn’t about having ‘something to say’ or even about adding to the broadening discussion and increasing openness about mental health (which is really positive and important). This is personal. It’s about being honest with myself.
This is one of the most persistent aspects of my anxiety, and one of the earliest I can remember. It isn’t so much a preoccupation with what people think about me, rather that I have already decided what they think for them.
With friends, people who I have a connection with (frequently longstanding), this involves becoming overwhelmed when texts, emails or other messages come through. I end up leaving them, unread so that they remain highlighted and I wont forget to come back to them later, but then I start to worry that too much time has past. Then they get left for longer, and longer, until I start berating myself that it’s too late to contact them, that I am a terrible friend and convincing myself that no one likes me.
It has taken me an entire year to finally meet up with some friends. I saw one friend when I was back in England who I hadn’t seen and barely spoken to for 5 years. But to me, that is the reminder that I experience true friendship, with the ability to be apart and barely in touch for years, and then just pick up exactly where we left off. But I’ll admit there were many times during that 5 year period that I blamed myself for our lack of contact; for not being at home when she came back to visit from the Philippines and feared that the friendship was dead. That we would never get back what we had at school where we sat next to each other in English class and she drew all over me (and often my assignment).
During university, I worked a lot. I often signed up for extra shifts and frequently missed out on social events as a result. I had acquaintances at work, but few true friendships. During my last relationship I began to become even more distant from my university friends. I was rarely in the flat as I stayed over with my boyfriend as he lived nearer the university. Then we moved in together at the same time many of my closest friends went on years abroad. As my mental health began to decline I contacted these friends less and less. I was also spending more and more time with people who I know realise were very judgemental and competitive, and whilst they were good company, they were not good for me.
Throughout the past two years especially, I have felt that I had done irreversible damage to the friendships I had at school and during the first two years at university. However, writing this post has once again enabled me to revisit past friendships and experiences and to see not only that a number of those individuals who were negatively impacting my confidence and sense of self-worth are no longer part of my life, but also to remind myself that I do have strong friendships.
These friends know everything about me and travelled from Scotland to a small village in the South of England for my wedding reception. They have hosted me in their home countries and let me stay with them when I walked out on my partner and our abusive relationship. I hope that they feel similarly supported by me and I certainly go forward from today with an ever increased appreciation for the friendship they have borne me.


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The Florida Gators 2013 Season opener at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium is going to be a good one! Gators football fans and Florida students are always excited to kick-off the season and see what the new Gators football team will look like.
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When Ben and I first moved into Studio C3 on a cold December in 2005 we inherited these awful looking green wicker chairs from his mom. We also inherited an equally awful looking and equally green carpet to match. We decided to give the chairs a redesign. We bought a lot of vintage retro ties with paisley and other funky patterns for $2 from Salvation Army. They looked pretty sweet so I even kept some for personal wear for when I want to look formal, yet retro stylish. Each chair has 10 ties weaved in a cross pattern stapled to the chair. We definitely improved its looks and they ended up being strong enough to sit on, but they were still equally uncomfortable. At the time of this writing my now ex-roommate Ben has moved to Portland, OR and is living on a farm, taking care of sheep, delivering birth to baby calves and making paintings. This project was done in collaboration with Ben Kaplan, Holen Katz and Karen Yung.
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What if we had a system mirroring the cross-talk between microbes and complex ‘super-organisms’ like humans or animals? Understanding the relationships between hosts and commensal bacteria might help fighting gut flora associated chronic diseases such as diabetes type II, Morbus Crohn, Colitis Ulcerosa. By that, the necessity for multifaceted medication could be cut and animal trials reduced. Establishing unique microbiome-databases, personal tests are thinkable and the creation of individual ‘avatars’ possible. Furthermore, animal-specific chips could mimic diverse livestock groups. The future not only lies, but also fits in our hand with a microbiome-on-a-chip lab device.
Symbiotic super-organisms such as humans and other mammals have a shared inheritance with commensal microorganisms since approximately 50,000 years. This means that gut indigenous microbes are closely related to their host in such a way that the intestinal homeostasis and therefore the host’s health is depending on these bacteria. Gastrointestinal simulation platforms are model systems representing the digestive tract of e.g. monogastric mammals to study the solubility, stability, and release profile of drugs, specific formulations or the nutritioning effect of functional food (pre-/pro-/synbiotics), and animal feed and their impact on the gut microbiome analysed by state-of-the-art omic-analyses.
Potential community shifts caused by a certain specimen are revealed by the comparison of microbial fingerprints before and after the treatment based on Next Generation Sequencing, proteomics, metabolomics and transcriptomics, providing and even forecasting (modelling) information about the digestion performance and individual metabolism dynamics by unravelling black-boxed challenges: Who is still there? What and how is a certain substance metabolized? Which treatment is needed to supplement and re-establish a functional flora?
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Baptism in the Holy Spirit occurs when a Christian receives an empowering for service from the Holy Spirit. (Acts 1:5,8). Baptism in the Holy Spirit 'actualizes and revives' our baptism. To illustrate this consider a glass filled with milk (baptism), take some chocolate syrup and stir it into the milk (the action of the Holy Spirit), now you have chocolate milk. The Holy Spirit takes the life you have given to Jesus and transforms it into a completely new life empowered to work for the salvation of souls. We need a power beyond ourselves for service and ministry in Christ's Kingdom and for this to happen the Holy Spirit needs our 'YES'.
How does Baptism in the Holy Spirit occur?
The Holy Spirit is already present, poured out, through our baptism by water and confirmation, but we need to 'stir it up', if the chocolate milk is not stirred up it remains at the bottom of the glass and it seems to make no difference to the flavor or color of the milk. But if it is stirred up (through prayer and accepting Jesus as Lord of our lives; an act of our will) it permeates and transforms everything.
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The aim of the review was to analyze current literature data and the results of own studies on the synthesis of auxins, cytokinins, and gibberellins by plant-associated microorganisms (living in rhizosphere, endophytic, nitrogen-fixing, and phytopathogenic), and by those not involved in symbiotic interactions. Many microorganisms can generate phytohormones, and microbial synthesis of indole-3-acetic acid can be enhanced which can be used in producing it instead of extracting it from plants or by chemical synthesis. Recent progress in intensifying the synthesis of gibberellic acid in deep and solid-phase producer cultivation allows substantially reducing the prime cost of biotechnological production of that phytohormone. The ability of microorganisms to simultaneously synthesize phytohormones and other biologically active compounds with antimicrobial, nematocidal, and other various effects enables creating complex polyfunctional microbial preparations with various biological properties for use in crop production to stimulate plant growth and pest control.
The aim of this research was to analyze recent scientific literature, as well as national and international legislature on manifacturing process validation of biopharmaceutical production, in particular devices for serological diagnostics. Technology validation in the field of medical devices for serological diagnostics is most influenced by the Technical Regulation for Medical Devices for in vitro Diagnostics State Standards of Ukraine – SSU EN ISO 13485:2015 “Medical devices. Quality management system. Requirements for regulation”, SSU EN ISO 14971:2015 “Medical devices. Instructions for risk management”, Instruction ST-N of the Ministry of Healthcare of Ukraine 42-4.0:2014 “Medications. Suitable industrial practice”, State Pharmacopoeia of Ukraine and Instruction ICH Q9 on risk management. Current recommendations for validations of drugs manufacturing process, including biotechnological manufacturing, can not be directly applied to medical devices for in vitro diagnostics. It was shown that the specifics of application and raw materials require individual validation parameters and process validations for serological diagnostics devices. Critical parameters to consider in validation plans were provided for every typical stage of production of in vitro diagnostics devices on the example of immunoassay kits, such as obtaining protein antigens, including recombinant ones, preparations of mono- and polyclonal antibodies, immunoenzyme conjugates and immunosorbents, chemical reagents etc. The bottlenecks of technologies for in vitro diagnostics devices were analyzed from the bioethical and biosafety points of view.
The purpose of present research is to demonstrate some trends of development of modeling methods for biotechnology according to contemporary achievements in science and technique. At the beginning the general approaches are outlined, some types of classifications of modeling methods are observed. The role of mathematic methods modeling for biotechnology in present époque of information computer technologies intensive development is studied and appropriate scheme of interrelation of all these spheres is proposed. Further case studies are suggested: some mathematic models in three different spaces (1D, 2D, 3D models) are described for processes in living objects of different levels of hierarchic organization. In course of this the main attention was paid to some processes modeling in neurons as well as in their aggregates of different forms, including glioma cell masses (1D, 2D, 3D brain processes models). Starting from the models that have only theoretical importance for today, we describe at the end a model which application may be important for the practice. The work was done after the analysis of approximately 250 current publications in fields of biotechnology, including the authors’ original works.
The aim of the research was to investigate diseased fish species Labeo (Labeo bicolor) and Sack-gill Catfish (Heteropneustes fossilis) by testing several diagnostic systems targeting fish herpesviruses in purpose to determine the etiology of the outbreak infection in aquarium fishes at the Kуiv Zoo during summer 2017. During a fish health inspection of aquariums in Kyiv Zoo, an Cyprinid herpesvirus 3 − CyHV-3 was detected in Labeo and Sack-gill Catfish. Preliminary examination of infected fish revealed a range of lesions particularly in internal organs and tissues. The gills of diseased fish were characterized by hyperaemia and necrosis. The infringement of liver color and structure, kidney swelling and gallbladder necrosis were observed in both fish species. The virus did not grow in fish cell lines of RTG-2, FHM and EPC, that was evident by absence of any morphological changes in appropriate cell lines. Also initially fish were tested for parasitic and bacterial infections and they were determined to be non-infected. Our results demonstrated that specific oligonucleotide primers for thymidine kinase gene of CyHV-3 were successfully amplified the specific DNA fragments. The length of polymerase chain reaction product, as expected, was 264 nucleotide pairs. The amplified specific fragments were identical to the area of thymidine kinase gene CyHV-3, as was shown by sequence analysis. The identity of nucleotide sequences composed 97‒99%. The same positive results were obtained using primers that recommended by the International Epizootic Bureau, fragments in size of 409 and 292 were also obtained. In our opinion, CyHV-3 was brought to Ukraine by import of aquarium fish avoiding sanitary control of transboundary transportation. Therefore, the uncontrolled import of aquarium and cultured fish species is a serious problem because imported fish could be as a source of highly pathogenic infections for industrial aquaculture.
The aim of the research was to study the accumulation of yeast lipids in the process of cultivation of strains P. anomala IMB Y-5067 and R. gracilis IMB Y-5075 with the use of peat as growing substrate. The object of researches was strains P. anomala IMB Y-5067 and R. gracilis IMB Y-5075 from “Collection of strains of microorganisms and plant lines for food and agricultural biotechnology” of SE “Institute of Food Biotechnology and Genomics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine”. As a raw material, lowland peat which was preliminarily processed with the help of cavitation or explosive autohydrolysis was used. The accumulation of lipids over the course of cultivation P. anomala IMB Y-5067 and R. gracilis IMB Y-5075 on non-food substrate ‒ lowland peat was shown. The effect of pulp explosive autohydrolysis and pulp cavitation processing on biomass accumulation and lipids synthesis by strains P. аnomala IMB Y-5067 and R. gracilis IMB Y-5075 was researched. It was found that the maximum lipids accumulation by strains P. аnomala IMB Y-5067 (9.7 g/dm3) and R. gracilis IMB Y-5075 (8.9 g/dm3) was over the course of cavitation processing of peat pulp and additional application of salts and yeast extract into cultivation environment.
The purpose of the work was to study the ability of test systems DIA-HIV ½ and DIA-HIV-Ag/Ab produced by PJSC “SPC “Diaproph-Med” to detect HIV infection. Reference blood serum of HIV-positive patients was tested using immunoassay analysis. It was shown that early detection of HIV infection is more effective using test kits of the fourth generation, which should be used for primary screening for HIV, and third-generation test systems should be used to confirm the positive results of primary analysis.
3Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv The aim of the research was establishing a cell culture from a minimal human endometrial biopsy and assessment its conformity with the criteria for multipotent mesenchymal stromal cells. It was shown that cells in the culture possess adhesion to plastic, have characteristic fibroblast-like morphology, express CD73+CD90+CD105+, and are negative for hematopoietic markers (CD34-CD45-HLA-DR-), have the ability to directed adipogenic, osteogenic and chondrogenic differentiation. Due to these properties, the cell population isolated from the minimal endometrial biopsy can be attributed to multipotent mesenchymal stromal cells.

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I would, however, be reluctant to characterise the exception as an opportunity for a unilateral retraction or withdrawal of a notice of resignation or dismissal since that would be to allow the exception to operate inconsistently with the principle that such a notice cannot be unilaterally retracted or withdrawn. In my judgement, the true nature of the exception is rather that it is one in which the giver of the notice is afforded the opportunity to satisfy the recipient that he never intended to give it in the first place – that, in effect, his mind was not in tune with his words.
In short, employment law has recognised a kind of legal fiction – where a person unambiguously says they resign but this is in the heat of the moment and is promptly retracted this may actually mean there was no resignation at all, even if this is made without notice.
This brings us to the case of Walker Smith. The important facts in the case are that the claimant was a longstanding employee who on 4 June attended a disciplinary investigation meeting and, after this, was invited to a disciplinary hearing on 8 June. In response to this decision Mr Walker Smith wrote resigning his employment but also confirming that he would work his notice period of 3 months. It appears that Mr Walker Smith thought that, by resigning, the employer would not hold the disciplinary meeting, but that was not to be. The hearing on the 8th was held and on the 13th of June Mr Walker Smith was dismissed, having had a proven case of gross misconduct made against him. He was summarily dismissed on that date (and so never got the chance to work his notice period).
Can a resignation be retracted?
What if the employee breaches the contract and resigns without notice.
As was the case for Mr Walker Smith when faced with a notice of an imminent possible dismissal, or some other unwelcome decision of an employer it is a common response for an employee to want to resign. It is certainly not unknown for an employee in a pique of anger at the employer’s decision to respond by resigning, only to regret that later.
As set out above, and in my earlier post, the basic position appears to be that if the resignation was not properly thought through and was made in haste then, if an employee then promptly retracts that decision then there is no resignation – and the contract of employment is either revived or the employee is dismissed (with the possibility of the employee claiming unfair dismissal).
However, the employee needs to act quickly. In Mr Walker Smith’s case it noted that even if the resignation was in the heat of the moment (the Appeal Tribunal was not convinced) the resignation was retracted a full 12 days later – in these circumstances the resignation must be treated as effective.
Is resigning with notice a way to avoid disciplinary proceedings?
One of the more interesting arguments I have had with a HR adviser for an employer arose out of just this situation. An employee resigned in response to a disciplinary proceeding against her (against my advice) and worked her notice but the employer could not complete the investigation before the end of the notice period when she left employment. Unbeknown to me or the employee the investigation continued and in due course some weeks later a letter was sent to the employee explaining she had to attend a disciplinary hearing where she may be dismissed. How, I asked (with as straight a face as I could muster,) did the employer think it could dismiss an employee who no longer worked for them and had fully complied with her contract. Remarkably, the HR adviser did not really see the problem and asserted a dismissal was still possible. In the event, a senior manager did what I often recommend they do, ignore the advice they receive and apply some common sense.
Mr Walker Smith evidently thought that resigning employment would avoid the disciplinary proceedings. In his case this was not successful. If an employee is working their notice then for that period they are subject to the contract of employment and the disciplinary proceeding can continue; if there is sufficient time in the notice period for the whole process to run its course then an employer can (if they have reasonable ground) dismiss for gross misconduct and this has the effect of overriding the resignation. However, if under the contract the notice period is short then a resignation may well have the effect of ensuring an employer is unable to complete a disciplinary process.
The benefit if this happens is that there is no formal proven finding of misconduct or sanction applied and so any subsequent employment reference should not make any reference to any proven misconduct, although an employer may legitimately explain that their employment ended while there was an unresolved disciplinary action being progressed against them.
As a general rule however, while a well timed resignation might help an employee avoid a disciplinary hearing it is not something I recommend. By doing so an employee avoids the opportunity to put their side of the case, appeal against any disciplinary decision and mean they were not dismissed and so have their opportunity to challenge any disciplinary proceedings severely curtailed, if not completely removed.
What if the employee breaches the contract and resigns without notice?
Where a notice period is worked any disciplinary proceeding an proceed during that period. If an employee such wants to avoid the disciplinary hearing completely then they can resign immediately and not work notice. Sometimes if the disciplinary procedure is unfounded then a constructive dismissal claim may be made. More commonly however, they simply leave employment. If an employee does this then they will almost certainly have broken their contract of employment and the employer could (but unless large figures are involved probably won’t) sue the employee for breach of contract to recover the costs arising from the breach. I say almost as I recall one case in which by a quirk of contract a persons over a certain age could resign with no notice under contract and so the day before a misconduct hearing at which the employee would certainly be summarily dismissed the employee resigned and so avoided the dismissal (I am not sure this is healthy but I took some satisfaction from that, especially as the employee was also prosecuted for the same offence).
In practice, notwithstanding the erstwhile HR adviser’s delusions, a resignation without notice will mean an employee is recorded as resigned rather than dismissed and many employers, knowing that an unfair dismissal claim from such a situation is very unlikely, will be happy with this. An employer may however, still be minded to make reference to this in any references, especially if the alleged offence is one of dishonesty or they are employed in a regulated profession.

industry_corpus2: Law & Justice


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Pragmatic, policy directional and balanced - this is my understanding for Union Budget 2015/16 . Proposals such as abolishment of wealth tax, rationalisation of corporate tax structure, removing uncertainty over DTC, with clear roadmap for financial discipline and consolidation are the need of the hour.
This Budget has been presented when the Indian economy has embarked upon a high growth trajectory and the global economy is facing a downturn.
With GDP growth expected to be 7.4 per cent, inflation in terms of WPI touching negative level, CAD (current account deficit) moving towards less than 1.3 per cent of GDP and maintaining budgeted fiscal deficit of 4.1 per cent of GDP in 2014/15, the Indian economy is expected to achieve dream double-digit growth in near future.
The Union Budget used tax as an instrument to achieve 'minimum government and maximum governance', and introduced a series of measures, including simplification of tax procedures.
On the direct taxes front, increase in monetary limit by Rs 10 lakh for a case to be heard by a single member bench of ITAT (Income Tax Apellate Tribunal) will declog cases pending before the Tribunal.
Abolition of wealth tax is a welcome measure. Increase in domestic transfer pricing threshold limit would reduce compliance burden and would also considerably reduce the administrative hassles of the small taxpayers.
The ambiguities in the provisions relating to indirect transfers have been suitably addressed in this Union Budget to eliminate scope for discretionary exercise of power.
The clarification that the presence of fund manager in India would not constitute Permanent Establishment (PE) would encourage offshore fund managers to relocate to India, without fear of any adverse tax consequences.
Also, the steep reduction in the rate of income tax on royalty and fees for technical services from 25 per cent to 10 per cent would have the positive effect of promoting inflow of technology to small businesses at low costs.
Reassurance that the government would avoid resorting to such provisions would surely boost investor confidence.
As regards indirect taxes, the facility of providing online central excise and service tax registration within two working days will promote ease of doing business.
Further, allowing central excise and service tax assessees to issue digitally signed invoices and maintain electronic records will significantly reduce paperwork and red tape.
Being a profession directly connected with tax payers, I strongly feel both these steps will revolutionise the tax administration. Stringent penal and prosecution provisions are in the right direction to deal with black money and its concealment effectively and forcefully.
A series of steps were taken to attract domestic and foreign capital for creating jobs by reviving growth and investment, and promoting domestic manufacturing as part of the government's 'Make in India' campaign.
The most significant one is the deferral of the applicability of General Anti-Avoidance Rules (GAAR) by two years. To clarify that even when implemented, the same would apply prospectively to investments made on or after April 1, 2017 reflects intentions of a predictive tax regime.
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industry_corpus2: Finance & Economics


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industry_corpus2: Film & Entertainment


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industry_corpus2: Politics & Administration


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30 September – 8 October, 2015 – After four days in Samarkand of which Johan spent almost two days in bed with a severe diarrhoea it was time to move on for the 270km- distance to Bukhara, another well-preserved Silk Road town. The first day passed uneventful on good and undulating roads, through a boring cotton field landscape and in the afternoon against the wind. The first night we stayed at a huge house with an Uzbek family and for the first time we successfully refused sweets and bread. And for the first time there was a bathroom – basic, but we could wash ourselves and go to sleep clean. The second day begun uneventful. At a monument we met a funny Korean guy who works for Korean Air at the huge International Airport we just passed. He walked with a golf club to protect himself from chasing dogs in the villages. We had a very funny conversation and could have talked much longer but we had to move on as it was already getting late and we had to look for a place to sleep.
Johan was getting concerned about being on the wrong road as he couldn’t find Buxoro (which is Bukhara) on his map!
Which turned out to become a challenge. We dismissed the luxury 4-star-hotel on the way because we didn’t want to pay 60$. If we had had the second sight we would have just stayed and made use of a luxury stay. But we continued instead and stopped at a brand-new village to try to find a camp spot. We asked a few people but all refused and sent us away. One woman belonging to the local police asked 50$ to stay at her home but we also dismissed this ‘friendly’ offer and moved on to the next village. A few questions and a few more refusals later, one family finally invited us in. We showed them our instant noodle soup as we didn’t want them to cook for us – this time the place looked rather poor – and for the first time the whole family would join us for dinner. We of course would get our noodle soup but also had to eat their food – cabbage with saussages. All evening neighbours and more family members would pass by to say hello and at around 8pm we could go to sleep. About an hour later there was a knock on the door, our host came in repeating several times: “Palatka, you go, go!” Someone must have told the police about us and our hosts were getting into trouble. We quickly packed up our stuff and cycled in our pyjamas into the dark back to the very busy main highway. There was no way to pitch our palatka (tent) in the fields around us, that we knew from when we arrived here. We though remembered a small platform next to the highway and a house where we now wanted to ask to pitch our tent. As we couldn’t see anything, we cycled slowly on the shoulder against the traffic and reached that place after a few hundred meters that felt like kilometres. Unfortunately we were directly refused and couldn’t convince them to let us pitch the tent anywhere near the house. Instead, they sent us back to the expensive hotel. Grudgingly we moved to the right side of the road and cycled another five kilometres back to the hotel through the eerie darkness to where we’ve been a few hours ago, checked into a very nice, clean and luxury room with a soft bed, white bed sheets, soft pillows, and a perfectly working bathroom with white towels, a real shower, a sink and a Western-style toilet and still went to bed dirty at around 10:30pm. The shower had to wait until the next morning.
Given our blackmarket exchange rate we only had to pay 30$ for our hotel room including breakfast, as the hotel used the official exchange rate. After a long shower we raided the breakfast buffet. In fact Johan ate so much, that the toilet seat broke into 100 pieces when he sat on it later. Back in our room we also noticed that there wasn’t neither electricity nor water anymore – we once again had to use our headlights and drinking water for brushing our teeth. At the check-out I told the receptionist about the problems and all she replied was “Yes”. When I said that she didn’t even tell us about these issues, she again replied with “Yes”. Johan then told me that she doesn’t speak English and I gave up complaining. Five minutes later she approached us asking in perfect English for 25.000 Sum (5$) for the broken toilet seat! If it comes to getting money people suddenly know how to communicate. After a short discussion we left without paying the fine and reached Bukhara around lunch time. The following day was Johan’s birthday which we spent sightseeing in Central Asia’s holiest city with buildings spanning a thousand years of history. As per our travel guide Bukhara is one of the best places for a glimpse of pre-Russian Turkestan.
While we were having a short coffee break this family stepped out of their car, sat next to us to take pictures. The boy was nicely dressed up in a velvet suit.
One of the few surviving hauz (ponds) in Bukhara created in the 16th and 17th century which was in the past the principal source of water but also notorious for spreading disease.
Knowing that it would be unlikely for us to return to Uzbekistan we took a taxi to Khiva, 600km North of Bukhara. The Silk Road town is famous for its slave caravans, barbaric cruelty, terrible desert journeys and steppes infested with wild tribesmen. The town itself is like an open air museum with well preserved minarettes, medressas, mosques and boring museums and feels a bit like stepping into another era, if it wasn’t for the many tourist shops and cafés mainly catering for groups. We met Christian from France again and decided to have dinner together. We had met him first in Samarkand, he has been travelling through Central Asia from France with his 4WD car and was now on his way back home on more or less the same route as we were. Earlier that day we had made a reservation at the best restaurant in town and thought it wouldn’t be a problem to dine with one more person. We could not have been more wrong. It took us 15 minutes to convince the waiter that we would either eat all together or not at all at this place. We were almost about to leave when they finally agreed and angrily put a third chair at our table. After weeks of Laghman (noodle soup), Plov (fried rice) and Manty (dumplings filled with meat) we happily ordered hamburgers. Our mouths were watering by the thought of yummy juicy hamburgers American style. The bigger was our disappointment: two meat patties with some rice and mashed potatoes decorated with a leave of lettuce. We were bemused about our own naivity but enjoyed a nice evening with Christian. To our surpise we got a free dessert from the kitchen – maybe they understood that their earlier reaction wasn’t appropriate.
The next day we continued sightseeing in the morning and got annoyed by the poor service culture once more. We entered a café and the first question they asked us was “do you belong to a group?” Our usual answer, “Yes, we do, we are a group of two and sometimes even our group is too big!” didn’t amuse the waiters and we could see their disappointment. We got seated but nobody served us, despite us desperately trying to order coffee until finally a group arrived who got served immediately. Normally we would have left but as this was a place where Wifi reception was good and I had work-related emails to be sent we endured and stayed. We spent the afternoon in the taxi back to Bukhara to reunite with our bikes.
It was once more time to leave the country as our Turkmen transit visas started on 9 October. With only five days to cross the country we wanted to make sure to pass the border as early as possible. We now had two days for the 100 km to get to the border and we only left Bukhara in the early afternoon, cycled until 5pm and pitched our tent in an apple orchard. That night we noticed that our matresses were deflating and by midnight we were both laying on the hard ground. Not a very good prospect as we had to cross the desert in Turkmenistan and would have to camp the coming days with no possibilities to repair the matresses. After a bad-night’s sleep we woke shattered and bad tempered as on top we were facing headwinds. By midday the wind was becoming a sand storm, the air was completely yellow and sandy, our sight very limited and the atmosphere eerie. We struggled to get to the border on time even though we had only a distance of around 60km to cover. But this time our delay turned to our favour as the customs officers wanted to go home and hardly checked our luggage and within 20 minutes we were officially checked out of Uzbekistan.
We had a lot of nice experiences and a few bad ones in Uzbekistan. Despite opening up for foreign tourism, the country is still a harshly governed police state. Nonetheless we felt genuinely welcome by people be it through their greetings when we cycled through villages, their gold-teethed smiles, their tea invitations, their children running or cycling happily with us, by those who invited us to stay at their homes and who shared their meals with us and of course by those who gave us fruit or bread when we cycled past. We were deeply impressed by the cities of Samarkand, Bukhara and Khiva with their fabulous architecture, positively surprised by the beautiful landscapes up until Samarkand and less impressed by the landscapes as from Samarkand dominated by vast deserts and cotton plantations. Dating back to Russian times – at least that’s what we assumed – the state administers itself to death. Our passport was stacked with little hotel slips, neatly filled in by the hotel managers, stamped and signed and when Johan got money from a bank he had to sign endless papers that were handed from one person to another, before they would retrieve the dollars.
Once again, you’ve enthralled us with amazing pictures and stories. Can’t wait for the next installment. Glady you’re safe, but especially happy to be cycling the world. Thank you for sharing. Hugs from Milan… Back to Brussels later today. Elisabeth.
Glad you liked it! Safe travels yourself and say hello to Brussels.

industry_corpus2: Travel & Geography


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This restaurant felt quite dark even though we were seated near the windows and we were there at lunchtime. The staff came and asked us a few times, quite frequently, if we were ready to order. But then after that, when we were actually ready to give our order, we had to wait quite a while to get the attention of the staff.
The basket of pesto and tomato pizza bread was really good. They were six big pieces. We could definitely taste the quality of the pesto that was used. I would not recommend having the pizza bread as a starter if you were going to have a pizza for the main meal, as they are very similar.
I chose to have the starter of the gnochhi instead of the main course. The portion was the more like a main dish so I wasn’t disappointed. The gnocchi came with cherry tomatoes, cheese and a tomato sauce. It was a nice alternative to pasta although I don’t think the dish really needed the cubes of cheese.
Originally, one of the dishes that we wanted to order was the green vegetable risotto. But then the waiter came and told us that they had run out of that. So the next best alternative was the pumpkin and butternut squash risotto. This risotto was really tasty and it also had wilted spinach and pine nuts. We had it made without the panchetta so that it was a vegetarian dish.
The other risotto that we got to taste was the seafood one. It was also a good choice and had plenty of fish in it. A nice side dish was the rosemary roasted new potatoes. A small portion but enough to go with the main meal.
On this occasion, we could not have any hot drinks as both the hot water machine and the coffee machine was not working.
All in all, I liked the food at Strada but felt that dining here would have been nicer if the decor was a little lighter.
We have also tried one of the pasta dishes and a pizza at Strada!
The Bufala pizza had toppings of buffalo mozzarella, tomato and basil. The pizza was of a good size. The tomato sauce was tasty. The only problem with this pizza was that it was sloppy. The tomato sauce was quite runny and so made the pizza base soggy.
The Panzerotti Porcini was a good pasta dish. These were pasta parcels filled with Porcini mushrooms, ricotta and grana padano. They were served with sage butter. The flavour of the mushrooms was really flavoursome and had quite a strong taste. It made a change to normal ravioli pasta dishes that you get in some restaurants, as these are usually not very tasty.

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What the Frak is Going On With NASA’s SLS Rocket?
The latest installment of PA’s semi-regular and quasi-popular series, “What the Frak is Going on with…”, arrived today from our home office in Oshkosh, Wisc. via carrier pigeon. (We’ve had some cutbacks.) This one looks at NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS), which has been back in the news this week.
So tell me, what’s happening with this SLS thing?
NASA officials say they hope to make an announcement on a design by the end of the summer, although it might take longer. Administrator Charles Bolden told the House Science Committee this week that he selected a design on June 14 that he believes to be the best path forward. NASA is running an internal cost assessment in parallel with an independent analysis being conducted by Booz Allen Hamilton.
That schedule has infuriated Congress, which wanted a plan back in January. (Of which, more later.) Bolden and other NASA officials say they need time to develop a program that will fit within the tight budget and schedule laid down by Congress. They also say they were hindered because Congress was about six months late in passing a final budget for the current fiscal year.
Yeah, yeah. Congress is complaining. Again. The other day it was fluorescent light bulbs. So, what’s this thing going to look like?
Bolden has chosen the Spawn of Shuttle plan: a big orange fuel tank with solid-rocket boosters on the side, only with the main engines below the tank and cargo on top of it. There are some key differences from the shuttle system: the external tank will be elongated and strengthened; the SRBs will have five segments instead of four; the main engines will not be reusable; and the new J-2X engine developed for Constellation will be used as an upper stage. Bolden said this week that SLS will use ATK’s SRBs at the start. Those boosters might be replaced later by newer rockets selected through a competition.
SLS would initially launch 70-100 metric tons into low Earth orbit and would evolve to 130-150 metric tons, Bolden told legislators. Language in the House spending bill says that this two-phase approach is acceptable. The Senate has yet to weigh in but would likely go along. One of SLS’s key goals is to launch the Multipurpose Crew Vehicle (aka, Spawn of Orion) on voyages into the great BEyOnd (beyond Earth orbit). Although NASA has no definitive plans for such missions, much less the money to carry them out.
Sort of. Congress wants the first flight to take place by the end of 2016. Bolden told House members that testing would likely not take place before 2017. That’s pretty much on time. By NASA standards, at least. Bolden mentioned the possibility of using a 2017 test flight to send an unmanned MPCV around the moon.
My guess is that once the program is approved and money starts flowing into Congressional districts, the schedule won’t matter that much.
So when will astronauts fly on it?
Bolden says SLS would not be human-rated until the late 2010s or early 2020s.
Yeah. And that’s a big problem. SLS and MPCV are supposed to be backups for the commercial crew vehicles. The schedule blows that plan out of the water.
But, MPCV would be ready long before the rocket, right?
Correct. NASA could always launch the MPCV on another vehicle such as the Delta IV in the interim, although that option wouldn’t be cheap. Bolden told Congress this week that MPCV would not be used for Earth orbit operations unless the commercial crew program failed completely.
So what’s the purpose of SLS?
Jobs, mostly. NASA wanted to delay building a HLV until it could develop some cheaper technologies and define some clear missions, but Congress said no. They want it built now, using the technologies and workforce we’ve been using for 30 years.
What about extra money for SLS? Would that help with the schedule?
Probably not. Taking a bunch of flight-proven shuttle-era hardware and adapting it for another vehicle sounds simple enough, but as NASA discovered in building the problem-plagued Ares I rocket, it’s not always easy or cheap. Some experts believe NASA would have been better off starting from scratch. Which is what NASA wanted to do with SLS in the first place.
Twice. Right. And at a cost that’s a rounding error in SLS and MPCV programs.
As for the budget, the House measure provides SLS and MPCV with a combined $3 billion for FY 2012, up by about a quarter billion from the President’s request. That’s already a lot of money, and it’s not clear where any additional funds would come from in NASA’s tight budget. The House measure already cuts the President’s request for NASA by $1.9 billion.
So, Congress must be giving a lot of money to commercial crew to close the spaceflight gap?
No. The House budget keeps commercial crew spending flat at $312 million instead of the $850 million sought by the Administration, a reduction of over a half billion dollars. Legislators say it is premature to ramp up spending given all the uncertainties in the program. How they will resolve all the uncertainties without proper funding is anyone’s guess.
Right. Bolden said that the gap would widen by an “untold amount” if the House budget becomes law. Any delays would be costly down the road and also leave the ISS reliant upon a single transport, the Russian Soyuz, for sending crews to and from the station far longer than planned.
The cost of a Soyuz seat has been going up and up. The price NASA pays has increased from $27.7 million to $43.4 million per seat this year. The cost would gradually rise to $60 million by 2015, the year that NASA hopes to have commercial crew vehicles up and running.
So, we would continue sending hundreds of millions of dollars to Russia that we could use for our own space program? That makes no sense at all.
That’s the argument that Bolden keeps making. It hasn’t convinced many people on Capitol Hill to fully embrace commercial crew, though.
Aren’t the Russians ripping us off?
Welcome to commercial space – monopoly style. It’s funny, the NewSpace crowd has long held out the Russians as the model for space commercialization. This is what you get when the market doesn’t develop. The decline in the dollar and rise in the value of the ruble haven’t helped keep prices down, either.
So is this our fault?
Pretty much. The U.S. government canceled the space shuttle and then fraked up the Constellation program. The plan was to have no gap, or at least a small gap, in spaceflight that could be easily managed. These failures have left the ISS dependent upon a single crew transport system, which is far from ideal from an operational standpoint. The Russians are really not happy with the increased risks and responsibilities this brings.
But, they’re making a lot of money.
Yes. But, keep in mind that the loss of the shuttle’s ability to transfer crews to and from the station has forced the Russians to put their lucrative space tourism business on hold for years. (To restart that service, Russia is ramping up Soyuz production from four to five per year, which is not cheap to do.) NASA’s payments will make up for that loss – and then some. But, the money probably comes with more duties than there are for launching individual billionauts to the station.
Having sole responsibility for ISS crew transport is also a challenge at a time when Russia is trying to carry out a very ambition space agenda. Major projects include: building a new spaceport from scratch; developing two new rockets; beginning Soyuz rocket launches from Kourou; designing a successor for the Soyuz spacecraft; and restarting the planetary exploration program. The strain has already begun to show. Long-time Roscosmos Head Anatoly Perminov was fired earlier this year after two launch failures and complaints about long delays in building new satellites.
You mentioned earlier that Congress is angry over NASA’s slow progress on defining the SLS design. What’s up with that?
Last September, Congress agreed to cancel the Constellation program in exchange for NASA building the SLS and MPCV. Under the plan, these programs would evolve from the shuttle-derived Ares V rocket and the Orion capsule that were part of Constellation.
Legislators expected NASA to go full bore on the SLS to minimize any disruptions in the transition from the canceled Ares V heavy-lift rocket. A key concern involves jobs; legislators wanted to preserve the existing contracts held by companies working on Constellation. The contractors would also be able to keep together teams working on the old programs, thus minimizing layoffs.
However, NASA went in a different direction, awarding study contracts to 13 companies to determine how to build SLS within the funding and time constraints stipulated by Congress. Legislators ordered NASA to produce a report on the SLS design by January. The space agency delivered only a preliminary document outlining options and promised a final report in the spring. That schedule has since slipped into summer and possibly fall.
NASA’s new found candor. Previous administrators would have presented a plan long ago, agreed to build the rocket on whatever inadequate budget Congress and the Administration deigned to provide, and then watched the whole thing unravel confident that the program would be too big to cancel. Bolden told legislators this week that he is specifically trying to avoid that scenario so that NASA had a rocket it can afford to build and operate.
That’s refreshing. How’d that go over with Congress the other day?
It didn’t. Rep. Ralph Hall told Bolden the lack of a final SLS design “almost an insult to this committee”, that legislators have run out of patience, and that the House might to launch an investigation into the delays. The Senate already ordered NASA to turn over all program documents. On Wednesday, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison called upon the Administration and Office of Management and Budget to immediately approve NASA’s SLS plan. This seems unlikely and constitutionally dubious. I mean, can Congress really order them to do that?
I don’t know. But it sounds like Congress is trying to design a rocket. Isn’t that NASA’s job?
So, let me see if I get this straight. Congress is upset over a delay in a program that won’t be ready to carry astronauts for 8-10 years for which NASA has no immediate need. Meanwhile, the House is slow rolling the commercial crew program that could Americans back into space within four years at a fraction of the cost. And that would force NASA to continue paying a small fortune to the Russians to keep sending our astronauts to a space station that U.S. taxpayers largely funded?
Yep, that’s about the size of it.
No, it’s worse than crazy. Way worse. Crazy plans actually work occasionally. If they’re like brilliant crazy. This is just insane.
Look, the bottom line is that Congress simply doesn’t trust the commercial providers. The SLS and MPCV programs are known quantities that employ a lot of people in their districts and states.
But what about this whole American leadership in space thing? Everybody’s complaining about it now that shuttle’s ending.
Everyone complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. Including the House. It just cut NOAA’s budget.
Look, leadership costs money. And right now, Congress has been focused on debt reduction and is unwilling to raise taxes to pay for programs it wants to fund. And many of them can’t define leadership as anything less than massive government projects like the SLS. The future is commercial, if we want to do anything serious in space….
But that future isn’t here yet. So, what’s next?
The House budget is just the opening salvo in a long fight. The Senate has yet to weigh in, and it is controlled by the Democrats. The President also has leverage in this matter. So, we’ll see what eventually emerges from the legislative sausage factory on Capitol Hill.
I’m getting a headache from all this.
Well, I’m getting a beer. Care to join?
Sure. Maybe if I drink enough, maybe all this will make sense.
This was written very well and quite entertaining!
Entertaining, yes – true representation of the facts, questionable – slanted to commercial, definitely. It is a shame that US citizens don’t get it; this administration and NASA leadership is not interested in space exploration.
You got an specifics of where this piece is wrong, F Duce?

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It has been confirmed that Clark Gregg will reprise his role of Agent Phil Coulson in the upcoming Marvel movie Captain Marvel.
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An acclaimed ramen restaurant from Fort Worth is growing the family with a new location in Dallas, in the oh-so-hot neighborhood of Deep Ellum. Oni Ramen, from vaunted chef Jesús García, will open its second branch at 2822 Elm St., across from Cafe Brazil.
García opened the original Oni in Fort Worth's West 7th District in 2016, after having worked as a sushi chef at restaurants such as Little Lilly, Shinjuku Station, Blue Sushi, Five Sixty By Wolfgang Puck, and Sushi Yoko. He submerged himself in the art of ramen via educational trips to Japan, and tenures at ramen restaurants in Seattle, including famed chain Kizuki Ramen.
Oni's ramen menu is extensive, with three broths including chicken and dashi, which are less common than the popular pork. The menu has at least seven kinds of ramen, such as tonkotsu ramen and tsukemen, the ramen cousin where noodles and other ingredients are served separately from the broth.
At Fort Worth, he also does poke.
Deep Ellum represents his second effort to open in Dallas County; he was previously set to open a location at the CityLine complex in Richardson, but that fell through.
"Our original idea was to open in Richardson, but that involved taking on some debt, and I wasn't ready to do that," he says. "And then the Deep Ellum spot opened, and honestly, I feel like it's perfect. In Japan, you see ramen places staying open until 4 am. The ideal location is an area with a bar scene and music venues."
In Fort Worth, he's open until 10 pm on weekdays and 4 am on Fridays and Saturdays. "We do 25 percent of our business in Fort Worth on Fridays and Saturdays, between 11 pm and 4 am, it's crazy," he says.
In Dallas, he aims to be open unti 2 am on Thursday and Sunday, and until 4 am on Fridays and Saturdays. At about 1,200 square feet, the Dallas location is smaller than Fort Worth, so he'll be doing a slightly different menu.
"In Fort Worth, we do so many variations, but for Dallas, I'm going to trim it down to just pork broth," he says. "Our signature is miso, but we won't mix it with chicken broth like we do in Fort Worth, and we also won't do poke. I want to return to my sushi roots and do hand rolls. We'll bring in sushi-quality big-eye tuna and coho salmon."
It'll be different, with its own vibe, he says. "It'll have elements that are similar to Fort Worth, since they are sister restaurants," he says. "But they won't be tied to each other. I'll treat it as its own restaurant."
He'll have a kiosk for to-go orders, where guests can place orders and then pick up at the kitchen window. A combination of seating options will include stand-up-only ramen counters as well as chairs and tables.
"Half will be like Ten Ramen at Sylvan Thirty, where you just have a bowl," he says. "But we'll have a few tables, too. I've been where I wished I had somewhere to sit, so we'll have both options."
And they'll keep prices Fort Worth-style — nice and low. "I'm not charging $15 for a bowl," he says.
The restaurant will open in mid-summer, hopefully by August. Decor-wise, he'll keep the beautiful exposed brick that the building has, but add a Japanese touch: "We're doing Japanese-style graffiti, which fits with the Deep Ellum neighborhood. And we're also adding neon; neon and lights are a big part of the neighborhood. The inspiration is a cross between Deep Ellum graffiti and lights and the feel of the Kabukicho and Roppongi neighborhoods of Tokyo."


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