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TV Star Anushka Sen first short film is thought provoking

TV Star Anushka Sen short film is an engrossing family drama and heart warming




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Eggplant, Green Olive, and Provolone Pizza

From Gourmet 2009. Delicious. The dough cooks so well on the grill. -- posted by Vicki Kaye




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Is Egypt trying to provoke Turkey in eastern Mediterranean?

Although Egypt has stopped liquefying and exporting liquefied natural gas due to the global collapse of prices as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, it is still expanding its gas production in the eastern Mediterranean.




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Viktor Orban provokes neighbours with historical map of Hungary | #TheCube

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Network Effect review: A glorious thought-provoking Murderbot tale

Martha Wells's action-packed novel Network Effect puts you inside the head of a Murderbot. It raises fascinating questions you will think about for a long time, says Sally Adee




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Cough-provocation tests with hypertonic aerosols

Recent advances in cough research suggest a more widespread use of cough-provocation tests to demonstrate the hypersensitivity of the cough reflex arc. Cough-provocation tests with capsaicin or acidic aerosols have been used for decades in scientific studies. Several factors have hindered their use in everyday clinical work: i.e. lack of standardisation, the need for special equipment and the limited clinical importance of the response. Cough-provocation tests with hypertonic aerosols (CPTHAs) involve provocations with hypertonic saline, hypertonic histamine, mannitol and hyperpnoea. They probably act via different mechanisms than capsaicin and acidic aerosols. They are safe and well tolerated and the response is repeatable. CPTHAs can assess not only the sensitivity of the cough reflex arc but also the tendency of the airway smooth muscles to constrict (airway hyper-responsiveness). They can differentiate between subjects with asthma or chronic cough and healthy subjects. The responsiveness to CPTHAs correlates with the cough-related quality of life among asthmatic subjects. Furthermore, the responsiveness to them decreases during treatment of chronic cough. A severe response to CPTHAs may indicate poor long-term prognosis in chronic cough. The mannitol test has been stringently standardised, is easy to administer with simple equipment, and has regulatory approval for the assessment of airway hyper-responsiveness. Manual counting of coughs during a mannitol challenge would allow the measurement of the function of the cough reflex arc as a part of clinical routine.




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Network Effect review: A glorious thought-provoking Murderbot tale

Martha Wells's action-packed novel Network Effect puts you inside the head of a Murderbot. It raises fascinating questions you will think about for a long time, says Sally Adee




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On World Press Freedom Day, Malaysia investigates journalist over 'provocation'

Police in Malaysia confirm they are investigating a journalist over her reporting on mass raids targeting migrants and refugees amid the COVID-19 pandemic.




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South Korea’s THAAD decision: Neither a surprise nor a provocation


At a news conference in Seoul today, the United States and the Republic of Korea jointly announced the decision to deploy a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile defense system on the Korean Peninsula, with operational deployment planned by the end of 2017. Though many details are still pending, the decision is not a surprise, and the purposes of the deployment are wholly transparent.

As elaborated in the official announcement, the THAAD deployments are intended to defend the infrastructure and citizens of South Korea, and to protect core military capabilities underpinning the U.S.-Korea alliance. It is not a panacea for South Korea’s potential vulnerabilities to North Korean missile attack, but it will appreciably buttress Seoul’s still-limited air and missile defense capabilities, and explicitly link them to the far greater assets of the United States. 

Seoul did not undertake this commitment lightly. In recent years, South Korean strategic analysts have hotly debated the missile defense issue, but the political-military leadership has proceeded very deliberately. It was only in the aftermath of North Korea’s fourth nuclear test in early January and a long-range rocket test that soon followed that President Park Geun-hye’s administration agreed to initiate consultations on the “earliest possible” deployment of a THAAD missile battery. The North’s accelerated missile testing program, evident since April, reinforced the need for a meaningful response to Pyongyang’s actions.

Neither China nor Russia seems mollified by today’s announcement. Beijing and Moscow both perceive a malign U.S. strategic design, purportedly intended to detect and intercept Chinese and Russian strategic missiles, thereby invalidating their respective deterrence capabilities. But these worst-case estimates attribute technical reach and refinement to the Raytheon radar system likely to accompany the THAAD deployment that substantially exceeds even the manufacturer’s claims. 

China and Russia also contend that the THAAD deployment will further complicate the larger goal of denuclearization and threat reduction on the Korean Peninsula. But this places the cart before the horse. Pyongyang’s determination to expand and diversify its nuclear and missile programs has triggered the THAAD decision. Without the North’s accelerated military efforts, it is very doubtful that sentiment in Seoul would favor deployment of THAAD. Beijing and Moscow assuredly know how to connect the dots, but they seem unwilling to do so. 

At a time of increased Chinese wariness about U.S. military strategy along China’s periphery, it is not a surprise that Beijing has paid little heed to American and South Korean assurances.

Beijing also calculates that warning South Korea of unspecified consequences will convince Seoul to forego the THAAD decision. But this underestimates the South’s determination to proceed with missile defense, which will tie Seoul even more integrally to longer-term cooperation with the United States. This decision is unwelcome in China, but it is wholly within Seoul’s sovereign right to defend its vital interests by all appropriate means; China routinely does the same.

In meetings with Chinese counterparts, senior Korean officials have repeatedly stated that the THAAD deployment serves one irreducible purpose: the protection of South Korean vital national security interests. Seoul is keenly aware of Chinese strategic equities, and will remain very mindful of Beijing’s concerns as it moves ahead with this program. 

At the same time, Seoul and Washington have repeatedly conveyed their willingness to impart to officials in Beijing the limited purpose of the THAAD deployment. It will be directed entirely towards the North’s threats against the South; it will be exclusively bilateral in design; and it will not be targeted against the capabilities of any other party. 

At a time of increased Chinese wariness about U.S. military strategy along China’s periphery, it is not a surprise that Beijing has paid little heed to American and South Korean assurances, at least publicly. But officials and analysts in China must quietly grasp the reasons for the THAAD decision. The North’s nuclear and missile programs worry China deeply, as well. 

The need for a quiet, private conversation about the risks to stability on the peninsula has never been greater. The United States and South Korea are surely ready for this conversation. Whether China is ready remains to be seen.

      
 
 




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SRD Change09: Students Seek to Inspire, Provoke and Change Design

SRD Change is the annual exhibition of new graduate design and ideas that address our those issues which will impact our future. Like issues of sustainability, environmental change and responsibility, social equity and community. The Society for




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Gray Area: Provocations on the Future of Preservation

The mixing of old and new is one of the toughest things to deal with in architecture. Do you try to blend in, doing faux old, or stand out in contrast? Does everything get perserved in amber or can




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Provocative Global Warming Rug Creates a Stir in the Blogosphere

This little boy looks like he might be blogging over spilled milk, in fact he's concerned about the future of his environment. The Global Warming Rug by Mexican design cooperative NEL, featuring Emiliano Godoy, has created quite a




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World Food Programme head warns Covid-19 pandemic could provoke 'famines of biblical proportions'

The UN's World Food Programme (WFP) is warning of potential famines of "biblical proportions" as the Covid-19 pandemic affects countries in an already dire situation. In an interview with FRANCE 24, the United Nation's WFP Executive Director David Beasley said he was especially worried about a breakdown in the supply chain that allows his agency to provide food to dozens of millions of people around the globe.




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Music Provokes 13 Fundamental Emotions

Music is the most common language, and evokes 13 overwhelming emotions in people, say researchers who have mapped the most extensive array of emotions that are felt worldwide.




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Provocative moment Turkish forces unfurl their flag over former Kurdish HQ in Syria

WARNING - GRAPHIC CONTENT: The Turks and a group of Syrian rebels displayed their emblems in Ras al-Ain, a border town where Kurdish fighters have been forced out by Turkey's offensive.




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The Pussycat Dolls' Nicole Scherzinger defends the pop groups 'provocative' costumes

The Pussycat Dolls' Nicole Scherzinger has spoken out about the costume controversy that followed their recent raunchy UK television performance.




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Miley Cyrus' Hannah Montana mom Brooke Shields weighs in on THAT provocative MTV VMAs performance

The 48-year-old admitted on the Today show this morning that she was among the many who were left stunned by the former child star's routine at the Sunday night ceremony.




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Far-right provocateur who was banned from Twitter will run for Congress in Mar-a-Lago district

Laura Loomer, a far-right activist and conspiracy theorist, announced she is launching a congressional bid to become a U.S. representative in the district just north of Miami, Florida.




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Outrageous. Provocative. Unapologetic. Nigel Farage finally clears out his Brussels bunker

Everything Nigel Farage has been working towards is about to come to fruition when Britain leaves the European Union at 11pm tonight. What has he got planned next?




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VAR means 'provocative' Ramos and Costa don't faze Russia - Ignashevich

Russia defender Sergei Ignashevich says he is not bothered by potential provocation from World Cup opponents Sergio Ramos and Diego Costa because of the Video Assistant Referee system.




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The Renaissance Nude exhibition at the Royal Academy is not just enjoyable, but thought-provoking

Our ideas about what the naked human body means probably amount to two – sex and suffering. Either the concentration-camp victim or the centrefold.




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Don't Use Reyaz Naikoo's Death to Provoke Violence, Protest: Omar Abdullah

Former J&K CM Omar Abdullah said Hizbul Mujahideen commander Reyaz Naikoo's destiny was decided the moment he picked up the gun and adopted the path of violence and terror.




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Pessimism in international relations: provocations, possibilities, politics / edited by Tim Stevens and Nicholas Michelsen

Online Resource




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Purity and provocation : Dogma 95 / edited by Mette Hjort and Scott MacKenzie




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Advances in modeling and interpretation in near surface geophysics Arkoprovo Biswas, Shashi Prakash Sharma, editors

Online Resource




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Drama research methods : provocations of practice / edited by Peter Duffy, Christine Hatton, and Richard Sallis




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In the grip of cup fever: This year in Brazil isn't the first time, the game has always provoked passions and violence

On the face of it the Fifa World Cup is all about quality football, generally recognised as the greatest sporting showpiece on earth.




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To build a city in Africa: a history and a manual / edited by Rachel Keeton & Michelle Provoost

Rotch Library - HT169.57.A35 T63 2019




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Case against activists for ‘provoking’ workers

The Sampigehalli police registered a case against two Swaraj Abhiyan activists, R. Khaleemullah and Zia Nomani, for allegedly “provoking” workers at a




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Provost Carl Riggs




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Provost Carl Riggs and Interim President William Reece Smith, Jr. at Sun Dome groundbreaking




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Sailing in South China Sea not provocative, says US