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Fairest of the Fair excited to be back at Fair
by seymour • 17 July 2018 • Comments Off on Fairest of the Fair excited to be back at Fair
Morgan Rynish, 2018 Outagamie County Fairest of the Fair, will be at the Outagamie County Fair throughout the week. She will be speaking at various events. Rynish was a former exhibitor at the fair and is excited to be back at the fair this year. Pictured (left to right) Amanda Stingle, 2017 Outagamie County Fairest of the Fair, and Rynish. – Submitted photo
Outagamie County fairgoers will have the opportunity to meet the 2018 Fairest of the Fair as they take in this year’s fair.
Morgan Rynish, Pulaski, was crowned the 2018 Outagamie Fairest of the Fair at the Outagamie County Breakfast on June 10. Rynish will be a senior at UW-Eau Claire this fall and will graduate with a degree in elementary education next spring.
Rynish said coming back to the fair and once again being able to share her passion for the fair is one of the reasons she ran for the fairest of the fair.
“I decided to run for fairest of the fair because I was looking for a way to become more involved in the Outagamie County Fair again,” Rynish said. “I have been out of exhibiting for a couple of years now, prior to having shown exhibits for 10 years, and I wanted to showcase the passion and experiences I gained from those 10 years at the fair.”
During her previous years at the fair Rynish was busy participating with many activities at the fair.
“Fair time was always crazy for me because I exhibited so many things,” Rynish said. “In my busiest years, I would show arts and crafts, foods and nutrition, photography, woodworking, dogs, rabbits, poultry, sheep and goats. So I guess you could say I know my way around the fair.”
Rynish said the fair really helps promote cooperation and teamwork across a wide range of people.
“I believe everyone has something to gain from the fair, not just the youth,” Rynish said. “Come fair week, you can walk through the barns and witness everybody, adults and kids alike, working together to reach a common goal. I think the biggest thing anyone can take away from the fair is that feeling of pride and satisfaction when you work hard and work smart to reach a goal or help someone else do the same.”
This year Rynish said she is really looking forward to one of the new events at the fair.
“I am looking forward to bull riding on Thursday night,” Rynish said. “I have never seen anything like this at the fair, so I can’t wait to experience something a little different.”
While at the fair, Rynish said she will be speaking to many people and sharing her experiences.
“I will be walking around the fairgrounds all week speaking at as many events as possible on stage at grandstand entertainment and at animal judging,” Rynish said. “I will be an advocate for the fair as well as the Fairest program.”
Since she began her reign as fairest of the fair, Rynish said she has been to many events.
“I have already participated in the Mackville Nationals Truck and Tractor Pulls, St. Nicholas Country Fest in Freedom, the Manawa Rodeo parade, and the Kickin’ It with the Cows run/walk in De Pere,” Rynish said.
During her time as fairest of the fair, Rynish hopes to gain experience to help her in the future.
“I hope to gain more experiences with speaking in front of large crowds, as well as maintaining professionalism in all circumstances,” Rynish said. “Since in the near future I hope to be an educator, this will help me be even more comfortable when working with students and adults. I can’t wait to see where my reign takes me personally and professionally.”
The Outagamie County Fairest of the Fair program Rynish said wouldn’t be possible without the support of the community.
“I would like to thank the sponsors of the fairest of the fair program: the Outagamie County Dairy Promotions, Outagamie County Farm Bureau and Outagamie County Fair Association,” Rynish said.
Rynish said she does have advice for anyone who wants to run for fairest of the fair.
“Don’t stress about it, which may seem like hard advice to listen to when the time comes,” Rynish said for any future fairest of the fair contestants. “Just be yourself.”
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Creutzfeldt Jakob : Against The Wall with JJink
USDA quarantines 2 farms in mad cow investigation
May 3, 2012 by JJink
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Two farms have been quarantined by the U.S. Department of Agriculture as the agency continues to investigate last month’s discovery of mad cow disease at a California dairy farm.
Authorities also have launched an investigation at a calf ranch where the initial infected cow was raised 10 years ago, according to a statement released late Wednesday by the USDA.
Last week, the USDA documented the fourth confirmed U.S. case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) — a brain wasting disease affecting cattle — known commonly as mad cow disease, at a rendering facility in central California. USDA officials said the cow was never presented for human consumption and was not a threat.
The farm where the cow was initially discovered has been under quarantine since the discovery, agriculture officials said. Wednesday’s announcement of a second quarantine involves a farm closely associated with the dairy where the sick cow was discovered last month, the USDA said. The agency is still trying to determine if any at-risk cattle are present at either of the two farms.
Eating contaminated meat or some other animal products from cattle that have BSE is thought to be the cause of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. The fatal brain disease was blamed for the deaths of 150 people in Britain, where there was an outbreak in the 1980s and 1990s.
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In people, symptoms of the disease include psychiatric and behavioral changes, movement deficits, memory disturbances and cognitive impairments.
BSE can cause infected animals to display nervousness or aggression, difficulty in coordination and standing up, decreased milk production or weight loss.
It is usually transmitted between cows through the practice of recycling bovine carcasses for meat and bone meal protein, which is fed to other cattle.
In this case, the Agricultural Department reported that the cow had a rare form of BSE not likely carried by contaminated feed.
Since 2004, the USDA has removed the brain and the spinal column, the parts suspected of causing mad cow disease in humans, from the food system.
The USDA says that since the discovery of the infected cow, they have identified 10 different feed suppliers that delivered animal feed to the farm. Determining if the cow became sick from feed is an area where investigators are focusing close attention.
Authorities have determined the infected cow gave birth twice. One calf was stillborn and the other was located on a farm outside of California. That cow was subsequently euthanized and tested negative for mad cow disease.
Unlike most other meat-borne illnesses, such as those caused by E.-coli bacteria, cooking does not kill the infectious agent that causes mad cow disease.
Consumers who wish to exercise extra caution can follow the advice presented by the Web-based consumer advocacy group Consumeraffairs.com, which advises the avoidance of brains, neck bones and beef cheeks, bone marrow and cuts of beef that are sold on the bone. The group also says to choose boneless cuts of meat and ground beef only if it has been ground in the store.
“Evidence shows that our systems and safeguards to prevent BSE are working, as are similar actions taken by countries around the world,” said John Clifford, the Agriculture Department’s chief veterinarian.
Last year, 29 cases of BSE were reported worldwide, down 99% from the peak of 37,311 cases in 1992.
“This is directly attributable to the impact and effectiveness of feed bans as a primary control measure for the disease,” he said last month.
The Agriculture Department confirmed the first case of mad cow disease in America on December 23, 2003, in a cow born in Alberta, Canada, in April 1997, only four months before the United States and Canada began banning the use of brain and spinal cord tissue in cattle feed.
A second U.S. case was confirmed June 24, 2005, and a third on March 13, 2006.
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Douglas Gayeton
Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, Douglas Gayeton lived in a restored sixteenth-century convent in Tuscany, studying Italy's "slow living" culture. Gayeton is a multi-media artist who has created award-winning work at the boundaries of traditional and emerging media for National Geographic, PBS, Warner Brothers and Sony. His documentaries include Lost in Italy, a series Gayeton created and directed for the Fine Living Network, and the full-length film Molotov Alva for HBO. His images, which he refers to as "flat film," are exhibited in museums and private collections around the world. Gayeton lives on a farm in Petaluma, California, with his wife, Laura, and daughter, Tuilerie.
“Reno is very lucky to have an organization which makes it possible for native Italian chefs to be here and teach us so many of their wonderful recipes straight from their home country.”
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The AIM Group was founded in 1990 by Naeem Maniar and is one of Ireland’s largest privately owned wholesale and retail businesses.
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The Group’s founder and executive chairman Naeem Maniar controls the business, while it’s Chief Executive Officer, Tom Keogh is responsible for the day to day running of the group.
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Field Studies Southwest
in Agnese Nelms Haury Program in Environment & Social Justice / Art & Science / Border / Environmental Ethic / Field Work August 4, 2017 August 6, 2017 0 comments
GUEST POST BY ABBY DOCKTER
The Thirty-Thousand-Foot View
When I interviewed Richard Collins, retired Southern Arizona rancher, he asked the first question: “What have you read?”
Specifically, he wanted to know if I was a Sand County Almanac fan or a Monkey Wrench Gang member, and where I fell on the Aldo-Leopold-to-Edward-Abbey scale of ideas about wilderness preservation. “I lean much more towards Leopold and people like Wendell Berry,” he said. “Abbey just wanted it all to himself.” Collins, like the writers he admires, believes there is a way for humans to eat and drink and take up space without wrecking too much. He operated a ranching business for three decades in the Canelo Valley, working first for the Sibold family, then buying some acreage along with grazing permits for surrounding state and federal lands. His background was in epidemiology, which, he said, is the ecology of tiny, disease-causing organisms, so he had a handle on ecological principles. Disease is perhaps the prime example of how humans are part of a broader ecology.
Then an endangered species of fish, the Gila Topminnow, appeared in Collins’ grazing lot. The Fish and Wildlife Service wanted all grazing in the Red Rock Canyon watershed to stop, which would have made Collins’ business a no-go. In many ways, it was a classic conflict between a federal agency and private ranches. But this experience with federal regulation prompted Collins to wonder if there was a way to run his business that also addressed ecological concerns. He and his neighbors formed the Canelo Hills Coalition to see if they could insure the health of the watershed just by adjusting their grazing practices. They brought in George Ruyle, UA’s sustainable rangeland management expert, who set up vegetation surveys. They monitored conditions and put up new fencing and water sources to control where cattle could go in each season. And they were considered successful, says Collins, “by the people who evaluate these things. The federal agencies and the university and my peers in the ranching industry.” Not to say the fish.
Collins reminded me of some of my own family. Retired, but habitually dressed for outdoor work. A busy brain and sturdy opinions. Even his sense of humor and turn of phrase, and the way he pronounced a long period without water “drouth.” But what I liked most about Collins, and so many other people from the Patagonia area that I met during Southwest Field Studies in Writing, was their blend of practicality and idealism. Agriculture is an undertaking with a pretty clear rock bottom. But people around Patagonia think there must be a better way of doing things, and are willing to take a chance to find out.
One evening I wound my way along the Santa Cruz River to talk to Dean Fish, manager at the Santa Fe Ranch Foundation. He situated me immediately: “We’re located about six miles north of the US-Mexico Border, northeast of Nogales, Arizona. The Santa Cruz River bisects the ranch, and so we have what we call uplands on both sides and semi-riparian river valley in the middle. The main ranch is approximately 25 hundred acres of private grazing rangeland and about 65 acres of that is irrigated to provide forage for livestock and wildlife.” He spoke loudly over the hollering goats, and ignored the light rain falling as we sat in front of an adobe wall with peeling whitewash.
Fish is a good communicator, knowledgeable, generous, and extraordinarily nerdy about cattle. Exactly the kind of person you might want at the helm of a foundation that provides not only beef, but also education, a model for management, and even an animal therapy program to the surrounding community. The Santa Fe Ranch Foundation employs people through the Santa Cruz Training Program, which connects developmentally disabled people to opportunities in the county. This ranch is a private business with its own bottom line, but it is operated by people who know how their business fits into something larger. When I asked Fish what principles guide his decisions around here, he talked about “the 30,000-foot view.” From 30,000 feet, this ranch is part of a landscape, these cattle are not the only ones who need the river water, and people who live nearby will always be part of the picture.
I asked Collins and Fish a few of the same questions, and some they answered alike. When asked how they know what to do day-to-day as managers, they both answered, essentially: Go look. Get to know how water moves, how grass responds, how the animals look, and how weather impacts everything. Both Collins and Fish maintained long-term vegetation monitoring programs to make sure they had accurate information for their decision-making. Collins believes “fiction writers and bad movies and songs and all that kind of stuff” that romanticize agricultural life have done real harm to people’s understanding of where their food comes from. But I still find something romantic about this eminently practical, deeply observant experience of a place.
I asked both men what it means for land to be healthy. I am interested in this question both practically and idealistically—the principles that guide decisions, and the practices that create them. I am interested in the 30,000-foot view and the view at the end of a microscope.
Fish said his overarching priority is always to leave the land better than he found it. But he also offered specifics, his picture of ideal rangeland: “I think that healthy land is land that has seen minimal erosion, that has good ground cover and a diversity of plant species on it. And that supports multiple uses: wildlife habitat, livestock grazing, recreation, hunting or camping.”
Collins took longer to answer. He rubbed the back of his neck thoughtfully. “You’re talking about health, and it’s a hard term to get my hands around because it’s so broad and ambiguous.”
“Intentionally so,” I said.
He nodded. “But it does convey the sense that like human health, you have to have all your systems working. At my age they’re beginning to break down a little bit, so I understand. Things fall apart. It has that same sense. But how you evaluate it and describe it is difficult.
“I guess in a nutshell, if you want to summarize my view of land health: It’s got to work for the rancher, got to be able to make a profit. It’s got to work for the health and integrity of the watershed, and that means the plants, the water cycle, and the other animals that are using it, including obviously endangered species. And you’ve got to work very hard to do it. It’s not an easy thing to do.”
“Multiple uses” has a dubious history in the U.S., and there is no hard-and-fast line between use and exploitation. But listening to Collins and Fish, I was imagining an ag industry with these priorities. Imagine for a moment that the economy exists to serve quality of life, and not the other way around.
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Leon Shamroy
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Birth Place: New York City, New York, USA Profession: director of photography, lab technician, mechanical engineer
Distinguished American cinematographer, best known for his lavish color work on epics and musicals of the 1940s and 50s. Shamroy began shooting features films in the late 1920s and, after a seven-year stint with Paramount (1932-39), spent most of his career at 20th Century-Fox. He worked primarily with Henry King and Walter Lang in the 1940s and was influential in the development of Cinemascope in the 50s. (Shamroy photographed the first film to use the new process, "The Robe," in 1953.) He also worked with Otto Preminger on films such as "Daisy Kenyon" (1947), "Porgy and Bess" (1959) and "The Cardinal" (1964).
Man's Paradise (1938) Director
Caprice (1967)
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Disney Traditional
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Saludos Amigos (1942)
The Three Caballeros (1944)
Make Mine Music (1946)
Fun and Fancy Free (1947)
Melody Time (1948)
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949)
Cinderella (1950)
Lady and the Tramp (1955)
Sleeping Beauty (1959)
One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961)
The Sword In the Stone (1963)
The Aristocats (1970)
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977)
The Rescuers (1977)
The Fox and the Hound (1981)
The Great Mouse Detective (1986)
Oliver & Company (1988)
The Little Mermaid (1989)
The Rescuers Down Under (1990)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
Tarzan (1999)
Fantasia 2000 (1999)
The Emperor's New Groove (2000)
Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)
Lilo & Stitch (2002)
Treasure Planet (2002)
Home On the Range (2004)
Disney 3D
Dinosaur (2000)
Chicken Little (2005)
The Wild (2006)
Mars Needs Moms (2011)
Big Hero 6 (2014)
Zootopia (2016)
Moana (2016)
A Bug's Life (1998)
Monsters, Inc. (2001)
The Incredibles (2004)
WALL*E (2008)
Up (2009)
The Good Dinosaur (2015)
Finding Dory (2016)
DreamWorks 3D
Antz (1998)
Shark Tale (2004)
Flushed Away (2006)
Bee Movie (2007)
How To Train Your Dragon (2010)
Shrek Forever After (2010)
Megamind (2010)
Puss In Boots (2011)
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012)
The Croods (2013)
Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014)
How To Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)
Penguins of Madagascar (2014)
Zemeckis Motion Capture
A Christmas Carol (2009)
Other 3D
Ice Age (2002)
Hoodwinked! (2005)
Happy Feet (2006)
Monster House (2006)
Open Season (2006)
Horton Hears a Who! (2008)
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (2009)
Despicable Me (2010)
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010)
Happy Feet Two (2011)
Arthur Christmas (2011)
The Adventures of Tintin (2011)
The Lorax (2012)
Hotel Transylvania (2012)
Epic (2013)
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013)
The Lego Movie (2014)
The Book of Life (2014)
Bugs Bunny Superstar (1975)
The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie (1979)
The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie (1981)
1001 Rabbit Tales (1982)
Daffy Duck's Movie: Fantastic Island (1983)
Daffy Duck's Quackbusters (1988)
Charlie Brown Features
A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1969)
Snoopy, Come Home (1972)
Race For Your Life, Charlie Brown (1977)
Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (1980)
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The Prince of Egypt (1998)
The Road To El Dorado (2000)
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002)
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003)
Other Traditional
The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926)
Gulliver's Travels (1939)
Mr. Bug Goes To Town (1941)
Animal Farm (1954)
Gay Purr-ee (1962)
The Phantom Tollbooth (1970)
Charlotte's Web (1973)
Fantastic Planet (1973)
Watership Down (1978)
The Secret of NIMH (1982)
The Last Unicorn (1982)
The Plague Dogs (1982)
The Flight of Dragons (1982)
An American Tail (1986)
The Brave Little Toaster (1987)
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991)
The Thief and the Cobbler (1993)
Titan A.E. (2000)
Curious George (2006)
The Secret of Kells (2009)
A Cat In Paris (2010)
Ernest & Celestine (2012)
Wallace and Gromit
A Grand Day Out (1989)
The Wrong Trousers (1993)
Wallace and Gromit In a Close Shave (1995)
Cracking Contraptions (2002)
Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
A Matter of Loaf and Death (2008)
Other Stop-Motion
The Adventures of Mark Twain (1986)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
James and the Giant Peach (1996)
The Miracle Maker (2000)
Chicken Run (2000)
Corpse Bride (2005)
Coraline (2009)
The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012)
Frankenweenie (2012)
The Castle of Cagliostro (1979)
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds (1984)
Laputa: Castle In the Sky (1986)
My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)
Porco Rosso (1992)
Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
The Wind Rises (2013)
Other Notable Anime
Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
Evangelion: Death and Rebirth (1997)
The End of Evangelion (1997)
Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' On Heaven's Door (2001)
The Animatrix (2003)
Tokyo Godfathers (2003)
Ghost In the Shell 2: Innocence (2004)
Tales From Earthsea (2006)
A Letter To Momo (2011)
Partial Animation
Gertie the Dinosaur (1914)
Anchors Aweigh (1945)
Song of the South (1946)
Mary Poppins (1964)
Tron (1982)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)
Looney Tunes: Back In Action (2003)
Enchanted (2007)
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Entries in Airbrushing (1)
Girl Petitions "Seventeen" Magazine to Feature Un-Airbrushed Photos
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Long lean legs, a teeny tiny waist, perfect skin and glossy hair—these are the flawless features commonly found in fashion magazines. But who looks like this? Nobody, because while models have always been made to look beautiful, never before have they been made to look so skinny, so airbrushed and so impossibly perfect—and some say that can be dangerous.
Julia Bluhm, an 8th grader from Waterville, Maine, has recently become a crusader against airbrushed ads. The 14-year-old traveled to New York City Wednesday to lead a protest, which was set up like a mock photo shoot, on the doorstep of the offices of the Hearst Corporation, which owns Seventeen magazine, one of the biggest teen magazines in the fashion industry.
"We want to show Seventeen that we love our body just for who we are and we don't need Photoshop to fix us ... and we can be pretty without—we can take pictures of ourselves and be pretty," Bluhm said.
Her campaign started two weeks ago when she taped herself asking her friends about airbrushed photos during lunch in her middle school cafeteria. That led Bluhm to start a petition on Change.org entitled "Seventeen Magazine: Give Girls Images of Real Girls", asking the magazine to feature one un-airbrushed photo spread a month. It has over 25,000 signatures from all over the world.
Lynn Grefe, the president of the Eating Disorder Association of America, said she has seen firsthand the negative effects that airbrushed ads can have on young children. Grefe said kids are a "vulnerable population" who look at these ads and think "why don't I look like that." Some develop eating disorders even before they are teenagers.
Youth and beauty have graced magazine covers for decades, but what has made today's images more dangerous is the cutting-edge Photoshopping technology. According to Sara Ziff, a former model and founder of the Model Alliance, in her business, a photo isn't finished until it's fixed.
"Pretty much every image in advertising is going to have some Photoshop and that's not necessarily a terrible thing," Ziff said. "But there are degrees of Photoshopping. You see people whose bodies have been really reshaped to look significantly younger or significantly thinner and I think that's really the source of concern."
Grefe said she is pushing for some controversial legislation that would require warning labels to be put on all images that have been airbrushed, similar, she said, to the tobacco warnings on cigarette packages.
"We're not saying this image is going to kill you, even though eating disorders have the highest death rate of any mental illness," she said. "We want to educate quickly, which means that if a child can read, then the child can see that this is not a real photograph."
In the meantime, Julia Bluhm's protest earned her a meeting with Seventeen magazine's editor-in-chief on Wednesday.
In a statement to Nightline, a spokesperson for Seventeen said, "We're proud of Julia for being so passionate about an issue—it's exactly the kind of attitude we encourage in our readers—so we invited her to our office to meet with editor-in-chief Ann Shoket this morning. They had a great discussion, and we believe that Julia left understanding that Seventeen celebrates girls for being their authentic selves, and that's how we present them. We feature real girls in our pages and there is no other magazine that highlights such a diversity of size, shape, skin tone and ethnicity."
And Bluhm plans on continuing her mission.
"We hope it will be like a baby step to grow into something bigger like maybe it will influence other magazines to do the same thing [on] other pages and maybe even a cover," she said. "That would be really cool."
Thursday, May 3, 2012 at 4:29AM by Rebecca Fenton Permalink
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Enemy Of The Good, The
The Glanvilles are an extraordinary family. Edwin is a retired bishop who has lost his faith. Marta, a child of the Warsaw Ghetto, is a controversial anthropologist. Their son, Clement, is a celebrated gay painter traumatised by the death of his twin. Their daughter, Susannah, is a music publicist recovering from an affair with a convicted murderer. Over three remarkable years, the family goes through a sequence of events that causes it to reassess its deepest values and closest relationships.
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'A total page-turner.' Literary Review
'A powerful, hearfelt novel.' The Times
'His best to date...You could truly say all human life was here.' A.N. Wilson, Reader's Digest
'A writer with quite exceptional gifts.' Paul Burston, Time Out
'Our best chronicler of the rewards and pitfalls of present day faith.' - Philip Pullman
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Egypt Station
Paul McCartney must have been curious to know just what he had left in the tank, said Mikael Wood in the Los Angeles Times. If the question motivating his first album in five years was could he, at 76, still craft a full set of songs that measure up as contemporary pop, “the answer, often enough, is yes.” Egypt Station runs nearly an hour, but it feels “more rigorously quality-controlled” than any McCartney album in years, and it’s “consistent with its pleasures: the tuneful guitar crunch, the swelling piano parts, the crisp vocal harmonies that float just so over grooves that somehow bounce and thud at the same time.” Sir Paul wrote or co-wrote every song and played everything from bass to harpsichord, said Tim De Lisle in the Daily Mail (U.K.). Granted, a few tracks should have been edited out. “The good bits, though, are very good”—particularly the piano tunes. “I Don’t Know,” the lead single, is “a classic McCartney ballad, effortlessly elegant, with a twist—raw vulnerability.” ■
September 7, 2018 THE WEEK
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‘The doctor began asking what was in Kevin’s stomach. I said, ‘Why?’ He said, ‘When we intubated him, a bright lime green slime came shooting out of his mouth.’ My mind went blank.’
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“My husband went in to cardiac arrest while at the gym.
I went into the Y earlier in the morning than Kevin and he was going to drop off our youngest daughter Ivy at our local high school for a cooking class and our oldest daughter Ramona would stay home, sleep in and have some time to herself until we would be home from working out roughly 2 hours later. Kevin came into the workout class I was in and was messing around with me and my girlfriends after he arrived at the Y. He gave me a smooch and said, ‘I would have loved to stay home but I’m here and I’m going for a run.’ I said, ‘I’ll be in by you as soon as I’m done.’ About a half an hour later one of my friends in the class stepped out to use the bathroom and saw a bunch of commotion going on. She went to see what was happening. As soon as she stepped into the workout area where the treadmills are, another friend saw her and said it was Kevin! My friend came and grabbed me in class.
Courtesy of Kevin Carley
All I remember was my girlfriend telling me, ‘Kevin collapsed and had a heart attack.’ I ran into the workout area and saw about 50 people around my husband on a gurney with an oxygen mask on. He was flailing uncontrollably all over the place. I was in absolute shock. He is as healthy, very active 41-year-old man that works out all the time. I had just seen him, joking around with me 30 minutes ago, and now he’s lying on a gurney. Thank God by the time I got in there they had already given him CPR and shocked him with the AED so I didn’t have to see him unconscious and turning blue. Thank God for the immediate action of the people working out, the employees and the first responder so he was only without oxygen for roughly 3-5 minutes, according the people that were in there.
At this point they proceeded to get him into the ambulance and to the hospital. The entire way he was completely combative and mentally was not himself. The nurse in the E.R. told me to wait in the family room and the doctor would be in shortly. Finally, the doctor came in after what seemed like an hour and explained they have no idea what happened, but Kevin had gone into cardiac arrest and because he was without oxygen so long, his brain would not connect with his body. He was so combative they sedated him and were asking me all sorts of questions like did he take drugs, does he have seizures, is he diabetic? All of which were no. They were doing more tests to figure out what was going on, but we could finally go in and see him. I was speechless and felt helpless. Thank God my mom was with me because I couldn’t believe my eyes. He was still slightly flailing; his eyes were rolling in the back of his head and he had a trach down his throat. So many wires and monitors were hooked up to him. (Little did I know the tubes, wires and machines would only get worse.) After other doctors came in to help figure out what happened they decided the best option at this point was to put him in to a medically induced coma for at least 2 days. 24 hours in hypothermia and 24 hours to warm up and see if he would regain his full mental capacity after the loss of oxygen. We would just have to wait and see if he would wake up in 2 days – or it could take longer, it all depended on his body. I was in complete shock and couldn’t believe this was happening.
Kevin was moved from the E.R to the ICU where he would remain in a coma for the next few days. After an hour or so a pulmonologist doctor came in to the family room. He began asking questions about what was in Kevin’s stomach and I said, ‘Why?’ He said, ‘When we intubated him, a bright lime green slime came shooting out of his mouth.’ My mind went blank. I had no idea what he could have possibly eaten or taken as I wasn’t with him in the morning. Then I remembered he would sometimes take a pre-workout drink before the gym, but I had no idea what that would have to do with any of this. A lot of people take pre-workout shakes and drinks and are perfectly fine. She said they needed to know exactly what he had taken and what was in it. I had our neighbor go to our house and take a picture of the packing and label on the cannister. After a while she came back and said the ingredients in the drink didn’t seem to be the culprit, so they were going to continue to do tests on all his organs and his heart over the next 2 days.
Moving forward 2 days Kevin started waking up earlier than expected. He was still extremely combative, so they had to keep sedating him and would slowly keep trying to wake him up. I can’t imagine how scary that had to be for him to be running on a treadmill one minute and the next thing you know you wake up in a hospital with tubes, wires, needles, machines and people standing over you, telling you to calm down and relax. Eventually about 2 hours later he was alert and awake and could nod his head yes or no if we would ask him questions. He still had the tube in his throat. He was also able to move his arms and legs around as well, which was all a fabulous sign. After the tube came out, he was able to talk and told us the last thing he remembered was being at the Y on the treadmill. He was bruised and scraped from all the flailing and combativeness but otherwise was not in any pain. We were so grateful he was totally himself and that he would be ok.
He remained in the hospital for a total of a week. After more tests and a heart cath, they eventually inserted a permanent AED they felt would be the best option for him, as they still had no answers why he went into cardiac arrest that day. The consensus from the cardiologist(s) and the electrical physiologist who put in his AED, was that his heart was overworked and couldn’t handle the amount of excess caffeine and other stimulants that were in the pre-workout drink he took. They said it was the perfect storm! He was dehydrated, had no electrolytes and no sodium in his body the day of his event. The pre-workout drink put his otherwise extremely healthy heart over the breaking point and into cardiac arrest.
At this point it’s been 8 months since his event and he has had zero incidents with his heart, which is monitored and recorded all the time thanks to his AED. His doctors have told him absolutely no energy/pre-workouts ever again. We are so very blessed, lucky, grateful and thankful that Kevin was where he was that morning and that there were people there who responded so quickly. We’ve been told repeatedly, especially by people in the medical field, how lucky he is and that he’s a walking miracle. Our story could have ended so differently. Sometimes we forget it happened just under a year ago – when we’ll be doing small things, like carving pumpkins with our kids, and we both have overwhelming feelings that we have been so blessed he is still here with us.”
Kevin’s thoughts:
“It was just another day. I was hitting the gym and tackling my day. However, that wasn’t how it turned out. Since my event, I have an internal defibrillator, most importantly, the doctor’s stressed to stay away from all energy drinks, pre-workouts etc. and to watch my caffeine intake. I’m truly blessed in the fact it happened where it did and having not only the correct people to help, but an AED to save my life.
While I was in recovery, friends that came to visit mentioned other stories they had recently heard about energy drinks. Soon, while I was home recovering, I started searching the internet and found out I wasn’t the only one. Several people, healthy people, weren’t as lucky as I was.
As a father of two beautiful daughters and husband to an amazing wife, I am truly blessed to be here writing this and I want people to be aware of the dangers of these drinks. Of course, it’s easy to think you are invincible, until you clinically die and come back. All because of a drink!”
This story was submitted to Love What Matters by Daphne Buxman-Carley and her husband, Kevin Carley. Have you had a similar experience? We’d like to hear your journey. Submit your own story here, and subscribe to our best stories in our free newsletter here.
Read another wife’s emotional story about losing her husband to energy drinks:
‘I woke up to hear him gasping. I thought, ‘Is this actually happening?’ As I watched my husband turn blue to gray, I cried to PLEASE not take him! I begged him not to leave me and the boys.’
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‘I stood there holding my 3-month-old baby boy as she sent me pictures of an ultrasound of the baby growing in her stomach. I was speechless. But I also knew. Deep down I knew.’‘I was home alone one night. I was getting into bed when I took off my bra. That was when I felt it. It literally took my breath when I felt it.’
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Future Ready Schools® Encourages Educators to Speak Up!
FRS Urges District Leaders to Lead Conversations on Technology for Learning
Future Ready Schools® (FRS)—led by the Alliance for Excellent Education—is thrilled to support Project Tomorrow’s 2017 Speak Up Research Project for Digital Learning, which provides an easy way for students, parents, educators, and members of the community to participate in local decisionmaking about technology, as well as contribute to state and national dialogues about education technology.
Since 2003, more than 5 million K–12 education stakeholders have participated in the annual Speak Up research project. Data findings are shared each year with federal, state, and local policymakers to inform education programs, policies and funding. Last year, more than 575 FRS districts participated in the Speak Up 2016 research project resulting in more than 110,000 individual surveys from students, teachers, school administrators, district administrators, librarians, tech leaders and parents. That equals a lot of informative data! This year’s survey is open from October 16, 2017, through January 19, 2018, and we are hoping the number of Future Ready districts increases significantly. See a snapshot of the Future Ready data from Speak Up 2016.
Like FRS, Speak Up is a free service to all U.S. schools and districts. Speak Up provides education leaders with
direct feedback from their staff members, students, and the community on needs and aspirations;
insights on how other school leaders around the country address key digital learning challenges; and
information on how others in the education community leverage technology to transform teaching and learning and prepare students for the future.
When asked about the value of the Speak Up survey, Sara Hall, vice president of digital learning at the Alliance for Excellent Education said, “It is not only important for Future Ready Schools to support districts in building their capacity to plan and implement student-centered learning, we must also ensure that students and educators are the center of local and national conversations about the impacts of technology on teaching and learning. Our partners at Project Tomorrow have done an excellent job over the years to collect, analyze, and publish data on ways students and educators leverage technology for learning in and out of school. Future Ready Schools (FRS) is pleased to find new ways to work together to highlight the work being done in FRS districts to improve the learning experience of all students.”
The Speak Up research project is informed by Project Tomorrow’s partners from education, private industry, and research policy fields. The data is often used by the country’s top education advocates to understand more deeply the changes in education technology implementation at the school and district levels. Through the seven FRS institutes in 2017, participants access Speak Up’s data to better understand how their peers are making progress with personalized learning aligned with the FRS framework.
“District and school leaders use the Speak Up service every year to monitor progress on strategic goals and to identify needs and trends that will guide future plans,” said Dr. Julie Evans, chief executive officer of Project Tomorrow. “We look forward to offering this service and working more closely with Future Ready districts. Speak Up will help district leaders collect feedback on technology and learning from their stakeholders and use that data to inform their work to improve outcomes for all students.”
More information on Speak Up is available at www.tomorrow.org/speakup/.
Cross-posted from Future Ready.
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Horizons Community Board Collection – Emerging 2D Materials for Energy and Electronics Applications
New in 2019, we are delighted to continue a series of post-publication online article collections, led by our Community Board members across both Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons.
The Community Boards that support both Horizons journals aim to provide a platform for early career researchers to share their experiences and ideas on scientific publishing. Working together and sharing their unique expertise, our Community Board members have recommended several key topics where significant, rapid progress has been made in the last 2 years. They have selected top articles published in the Horizons journals to showcase the most important advances in each topic area.
Emerging 2D Materials for Energy and Electronics Applications
Li Li, Tianyi Ma, and Nan Zhang present the second Horizons Community Board Collection:
“2D nanomaterials, including carbon-based materials, metal, metal oxide (sulfide), and black phosphorus (BP) et al., have aroused extensive interests in energy and electronics applications due to their attractive structure-dependent properties.
In this themed collection, we are compiling some noteworthy articles focused on sensors, lithium-ion batteries, supercapacitors, photo(electro)catalysis, photodetector, electronics and optoelectronics. As typical 2D carbon materials, graphene and doping graphene exhibit high performance in these fields, as indicated by Li et al. (DOI: 10.1039/C6MH00587J) and Chua et al. (DOI: 10.1039/C7MH00068E) in their research works published in Materials Horizons. 2D metal and metal sulfide materials as illustrated through the research works of Chen et al. (DOI: 10.1039/C7NH00091J) and Li et al. (DOI: 10.1039/C8NH00419F) have shown two-dimensional geometric structure together with unique physical properties, which make the material quite a promising candidate for applications in electronics and optoelectronics. Lou et al. (DOI: 10.1039/C3MH00077J) provided an effective approach with SnO2 nanosheets to increase the energy density of the integrated electrodes. A review article about 2D BP published by Zhou et al. (DOI: 10.1039/C6MH00358C) summarized the recent developments in the study of BP, which covered the state-of-the-art synthesis methods for preparing single-layer or few-layer BP, the recent advances in characterizing its electronic, optical and mechanical properties, and the reported functional devices utilizing such properties. Since these research works show that these emerging 2D materials have excellent performance and prospect, it will be important to see how they enrich the future of energy and electronics applications.
We hope that readers will obtain valuable information from this themed collection.”
Li Li, Tianyi Ma, and Nan Zhang
Nanoscale Horizons Community Board Member Dr Li Li received his Ph.D. degree from Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in 2012 and finished his two-year postdoc work in Cornell University in 2014. His current research interests include advanced nanomaterials fabrication technology and its applications for energy storage/conversion. He was awarded with 2015 TMS Yong Leader Professional Development Award and serves in the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Nanoscale Horizons Community Board and Editorial Board of Metallurgical and Materials Transactions.
Materials Horizons Community Board member Dr Tianyi Ma received his PhD in Physical Chemistry in 2013 from Nankai University, China. Then he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow from 2013 to 2014 in University of Adelaide, Australia. He was awarded Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) in 2015, and continued independent research on the rational design of nanostructured materials with a large variety of components from carbons, metals, metal oxides, organic polymers, to metal–organic frameworks. He is currently a lecturer in Discipline of Chemistry, University of Newcastle. His current interest lies on the energy and environment related applications of functional materials including catalysis, adsorption and separation, and energy conversion and storage. He authored more than 100 peer review journal articles in this area with an h-index of 39.
Materials Horizons Community Board member Professor Nan Zhang received her PhD degree in Inorganic Chemistry in 2016 at the State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, Fuzhou University, China. Then she worked as a postdoctoral research fellow from 2016 to 2017 at National University of Singapore. She was supported by the National Postdoctoral Program for Innovative Talents in 2017 and worked on the optical property optimization of nanostructured metal materials toward the applications in photocatalysis. She is currently a full professor working at College of Materials Science and Engineering, Hunan University, China. Her main research interests include the fabrication of carbon-based composites and metal nanostructures with scattering-mediated optical response for solar energy conversion.
We hope you enjoy reading this collection.
See our other Horizons Community Board Collection: Nanobiomedicine here.
Update on the nanoscale journal family, 2019
Here’s a quick update on the nanoscale journal family to let you know how we are doing and what to look out for later in 2019.
Following our first (partial) impact factor last year, we are pleased to announce that our first full impact factor is 9.095*!
Other news from 2019:
Alongside Materials Horizons (impact factor 14.356*), we awarded the first Horizons Outstanding Paper Prizes. These awards will be presented annually.
New Scientific Editors: Yves Dufrêne, Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, and Zhiyong Tang
Post-publication online article collections:
Most popular articles published so far in 2019
Horizons Community Board collection: Nanobiomedicine
Horizons Community Board collection: Emerging 2D materials for energy and electronics applications
We are celebrating our 10th Anniversary this year!
Look out for our celebrations at ChinaNANO 2019. In the meantime, why not have a read of these collections highlighting the most highly cited articles published in Nanoscale since we launched in 2009, as well as recent articles by some of our most prolific authors.
Our latest impact factor is 6.970*.
Chunying Chen, Dong Ha Kim, and Umesh Waghmare were appointed as Associate Editors.
We’ve been publishing guest edited online themed collections:
Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals, guest edited by Lakshminarayana Polavarapu, Qiao Zhang, and Roman Krahne.
Nanocarbons, guest edited by Nianjun Yang, Dai-Wen Pang, and Yasuaki Einaga.
Still to come…10th Anniversary Special Issue in October 2019, guest edited by Chunli Bai, Markus Niederberger, Francesco Stellacci, and Dirk Guldi.
We’ve published our first issues and we are delighted to see such a great response from the community. Thank you for supporting the Royal Society of Chemistry’s first journal to be Gold Open Access from launch!
We’ve collated the Most Popular Articles published in the journal so far in an online article collection.
The journal has been accepted into the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), and has also been accepted for inclusion in Scopus and the Emerging Sources Index in Web of Science, Clarivate Analytics.
Come and meet us
Members of the Editorial Team will be attending the following conferences in the coming months. Get in touch if you want to arrange a meeting, or just come over and say hello! You can also keep up to date on where the Editorial Team and our Associate Editors will be by following us on Twitter.
RSC Chemical Nanoscience & Nanotechnology Group Annual Meeting, 22 July 2019, University of East Anglia, UK.
14th International conference on materials chemistry (MC14), 8 – 11 July 2019, Birmingham, UK.
We will be hosting the RSC Nanoscale Journals Symposium at ChinaNANO, 17 – 19 August 2019, NCNST, China
5th International Conference on Perovskite Solar Cells and Optoelectronics (PSCO 2019), 30 September – 2 October 2019, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Get in touch if you have any feedback on the nanoscale journal family: we would love to hear from you so email us at nanoscale-rsc@rsc.org.
Nanoscale Horizons Collections
Nanoscale Horizons publishes urgent short reports of exceptionally high quality & innovative nanoscience & nanotechnology. To help you find the research that’s important to you, we’ve brought together all of our most recent and ongoing online article collections. We hope you enjoy reading them!
Ongoing Collections
Check out the online article collections for our sister journals Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances on this blog page.
Congratulations to the winners of the Nanoscale Horizons Presentation Award at the 17th Annual Meeting of the Society of Nano Science and Technology
The 17th Annual Meeting of the Society of Nano Science and Technology took place from 9 – 11th May 2019 in Kagoshima, Japan. Nanoscale Horizons was delighted to support a Presentation Award at this event, intended for early career researchers, and we would like to congratulate the two winners!
Professor Shinjiro Takano (University of Tokyo)
Presentation Title: “Development of a Precise Transformation Reaction of Gold Superatoms by Hydride Doping: Chemical Modification of Surface ”
Professor Tetsuya Kambe (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Presentation Title: “Superatom Synthesis from Typical Elements Using Dendrimer Templates”
Both winners received a Royal Society of Chemistry book voucher as well as an invitation to join the Royal Society of Chemistry as Members.
from left; Professor Tatsuya Tsukuda (University of Tokyo, President of the Society of Nano Science and Technology), Professor Shinjiro Takano, Professor Tetsuya Kambe, Dr Hiromitsu Urakami (Royal Society of Chemistry).
Nano Korea 2019
By Michaela Mühlberg.
The 17th International Nanotech Symposium & Exhibition
Nanoscale Horizons, Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances are delighted to support the Nano Korea 2019 symposium which takes place from 2-5 July 2019!
Meet the Editor: Professor Dong Ha Kim, Associate Editor of Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances, will be attending Nano Korea 2019.
At Korea’s largest nanoscience and nanotechnology conference, internationally known experts, including industry leaders, will join the four day conference to discuss the most critical technological advances and innovations in the field. The first day of the meeting offers a variety of tutorial sessions followed by talks and poster presentations throughout the rest of the meeting.
The conference programme incorporates symposia covering a broad range of subjects in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, which creates an excellent platform to academia and industry delegates to build up national and international collaborative networks, exchange experiences and benefit from peer support.
The conference topics will include:
Nanoelectronic devices
1D & 2D Nanomaterials
Hybrid Nano Structural Materials
Nanotechnology for Energy & Environment
Computational Nano Science & Technology for Nanomaterials
… and many others. Find an overview here.
Pre-Registration due 31st May 2019
Full Paper Submission due 19th July 2019
More information available on the conference website: http://sympo.nanokorea.or.kr/2019/eng/main/
Nanoscale Horizons most popular articles published in 2018
We wanted to share with you some of the most popular articles published in Nanoscale Horizons from last year. These articles are some of the most highly cited, most read, or most highly shared articles published in 2018.
Our community have published some fantastic research in Nanoscale Horizons during 2018 and we wanted to make it even easier for you to find the best articles.
Nanoscale Horizons most popular articles, 2018
Here are just a few picks from the collection. We hope you enjoy them.
Review on nanoscale Bi-based photocatalysts
Rongan He, Difa Xu, Bei Cheng, Jiaguo Yu and Wingkei Ho
Nanoscale Horiz., 2018, 3, 464-504
Group 6 transition metal dichalcogenide nanomaterials: synthesis, applications and future perspectives
Morasae Samadi, Navid Sarikhani, Mohammad Zirak, Hua Zhang, Hao-Li Zhang and Alireza Z. Moshfegh
Nanoscale Horiz., 2018, 3, 90-204
Nanoscale membrane architecture of healthy and pathological red blood cells
Andra C. Dumitru, Mégane A. Poncin, Louise Conrard, Yves F. Dufrêne, Donatienne Tyteca and David Alsteens
MBene (MnB): a new type of 2D metallic ferromagnet with high Curie temperature
Zhou Jiang, Peng Wang, Xue Jiang and Jijun Zhao
A tumor treatment strategy based on biodegradable BSA@ZIF-8 for simultaneously ablating tumors and inhibiting infection
Qiong Wu, Mei Li, Longfei Tan, Jie Yu, Zengzhen Chen, Liuhui Su, Xiangling Ren, Changhui Fu, Jun Ren, Laifeng Li, Feng Cao, Ping Liang, Yu Zhang and Xianwei Meng
For more articles, see the full collection here.
Welcome Yves Dufrene and Anna Fontcuberta i Morral – New Scientific Editors
We are delighted to welcome two new Scientific Editors to the journal: Yves Dufrêne from Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, and Anna Fontcuberta i Morral from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.
Yves Dufrêne
Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Professor Yves Dufrêne is a Research Director of the National Fund for Scientific Research and a Professor at the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium. He obtained his Bioengineering degree and Ph.D at UCL, and then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Naval Research Laboratory, USA, before returning to UCL. He is interested in nanobioscience and nanobiotechnology, specifically in the development and use of advanced nanoscale techniques for analysing biological systems. His research focuses on studying the nanoscale surface architecture, biophysical properties and molecular interactions of living cells – particularly microbial pathogens – using atomic force microscopy (AFM). The goals are to further understand key cellular functions, like cell adhesion, and to contribute to the development of nanoscopy techniques for the life sciences. He is also an Associate Editor for our sister journals Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances.
Nanoscale antiadhesion properties of sophorolipid-coated surfaces against pathogenic bacteria, Nanoscale Horiz., 2019, Advance Article
Nanoscale membrane architecture of healthy and pathological red blood cells, Nanoscale Horiz., 2018, 3, 293-304
Forces between Staphylococcus aureus and human skin, Nanoscale Horiz., 2016, 1, 298-303
Anna Fontcuberta i Morral
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Anna is an Associate Professor at the Institut des Matériaux, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Anna received her BA in Physics from the Universitat de Barcelona and went on to receive her PhD in Materials Science from École Polytechnique in France working with Pere Roca i Cabarrocas. She then moved to work with Harry Atwater at Caltech as a postdoctoral fellow, where she also co-founded the company Aonex Technologies. She was also a group leader in the Walter Schottky Institute of the Technical University of Munich. Anna joined the faculty at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in 2008. Her research activities are centered on the materials science and engineering of semiconductor nanostructures, specifically nanowires.
Optimizing the yield of A-polar GaAs nanowires to achieve defect-free zinc blende structure and enhanced optical functionality, Nanoscale, 2018, 10, 17080-17091
Photophysics behind highly luminescent two-dimensional hybrid perovskite (CH3(CH2)2NH3)2(CH3NH3)2Pb3Br10 thin films, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2018, 6, 6216-6221
Towards higher electron mobility in modulation doped GaAs/AlGaAs core shell nanowires, Nanoscale, 2017, 9, 7839-7846
Horizons Community Board Collection – Nanobiomedicine
New in 2019, we are delighted to announce a series of post-publication online article collections, led by our Community Board members across both Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons.
Nanobiomedicine
To kick things off, Chandra Kumar Dixit and Christopher M. Proctor present the first Horizons Community Board Collection:
“Advancements in nanotechnology are impacting biology and medicine. In this themed collection, we are compiling some noteworthy articles in the areas related to targeted delivery, vaccines, diagnostics, wound healing, and self-healing scaffolds & materials. Theranostics, which is a new branch specifically dealing with point-of-care, involves diagnostics and therapy in a single agent. Carbon-based materials are proving to be effective agents in this quest, as indicated by Kapil Patel et al. in their research published in Materials Horizons (DOI: 10.1039/C8MH00966J). Anand et al. (DOI: 10.1039/C8NH00174J) emphasized in their review article the potential of carbon-based nanomaterials as antimicrobial agents. Scaffolds and matrices based on nanomaterials, as illustrated through the research works of Yu et al. (DOI: 10.1039/C8MH00647D), Singh et al. (DOI: 10.1039/C8MH01298A), Ooi (DOI: 10.1039/C7MH00373K), and Liu (DOI: 10.1039/C8MH00704G) have shown tremendous potential in surgery, wound healing, controlled release skin patches, etc. Given how all of these materials show potential in their respective fields, it will be important to see how these will shape the future of biomedicine. We hope that the readers find this themed collection informative and useful.”
Chandra Kumar Dixit and Christopher M. Proctor
Chandra Kumar Dixit
Nanoscale Horizons Community Board Member, Chandra Kumar Dixit is a Scientist at Qiagen Sciences working in the areas of IVD and nanodiagnostics. He received a BSc degree in Biology from Bundelkhand University, an MSc degree in Biotechnology from CCS University and was awarded a PhD in Biotechnology from Dublin City University in 2012. His postdoctoral training spanned from Dublin City University, Ireland, Technion IIT, Israel, and University of Connecticut, USA, in areas of microfluidic tools, glycobiology, cell biology, disease diagnosis, electrochemistry, prostate cancer, 3D-printed tools for fluidic devices, and novel nanomaterials. He has published over 40 international research papers including reviews, books, and book chapters in the areas of biosensors, conventional and 3D-printed microfluidics, and disease diagnostics, and has won several international fellowships including the Marie-Curie grant.
Christopher M. Proctor
Materials Horizons Community Board member Christopher M. Proctor received a BSc in Interdisciplinary Physics from the University of Michigan in 2008. Following two years as a general scientist at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, he earned a PhD in Materials from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he investigated loss mechanisms in organic photovoltaics (2015). Subsequently, Chris was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from Whitaker International to develop implantable bioelectronic devices for treating neurological disorders at the Ecole des Mines de St Etienne. He is now a Research Associate and Borysiewicz Biomedical Sciences Fellow at the University of Cambridge where his research is focused on engineering devices and developing materials to enable a seamless connection between electronics and living tissue for applications including epilepsy, cancer and pain management.
Outstanding Reviewers for Nanoscale Horizons in 2018
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We would like to highlight the Outstanding Reviewers for Nanoscale Horizons in 2018, as selected by the editorial team, for their significant contribution to the journal. The reviewers have been chosen based on the number, timeliness and quality of the reports completed over the last 12 months.
A message from Professor Harold Craighead, Editorial Board Chair:
I am pleased that Nanoscale Horizons is able to recognize the Outstanding Reviewers for 2018. The quality and impact of our journal depends on the quality and timeliness of reviews. Active researchers have many demands on their time, and providing thoughtful reviews of the work of peers is a significant contribution to the readers of the journal and the scientific community. I want to add my thanks to these outstanding reviewers and also thank all of those who have done reviewed manuscripts for Nanoscale Horizons.
Dr Annette Andrieu-Brunsen, Technical University at Darmstadt, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3850-3047
Professor Katsuhiko Ariga, National Institute for Materials Science, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2445-2955
Professor Dhiraj Bhatia, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1478-6417
Professor Jonas Croissant, University of New Mexico, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0489-9829
Dr Renren Deng, Zhejiang University, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8213-6304
Professor Ali Eftekhari, Electrochemical Research Center, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3568-4812
Dr Wee-Jun Ong, Xiamen University, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5124-1934
Professor V. Prasad Shastri, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5125-9678
Dr Mark Swihart, University at Buffalo, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9652-687X
Professor Jianfang Wang, City University of Hong Kong, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2467-8751
We would also like to thank the Nanoscale Horizons board and the nanoscience community for their continued support of the journal, as authors, reviewers and readers.
Congratulations to the Prize Winners from the Nanoscale Horizons Symposium
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Anacaona: Golden Flower, Haiti, 1490
by: Edwidge Danticat (author)
Edwidge Danticat, the award-winning, best-selling author of THE FARMING OF BONES and KRIK? KRAK! offers a powerful addition to The Royal Diaries series with the story of Haiti's heroic queen Anacaona.With her signature narrative grace, Edwidge Danticat brings Haiti's beautiful queen Anacaona to... show more
Edwidge Danticat, the award-winning, best-selling author of THE FARMING OF BONES and KRIK? KRAK! offers a powerful addition to The Royal Diaries series with the story of Haiti's heroic queen Anacaona.With her signature narrative grace, Edwidge Danticat brings Haiti's beautiful queen Anacaona to life. Queen Anacaona was the wife of one of her island's rulers, and a composer of songs and poems, making her popular among her people. Haiti was relatively quiet until the Spanish conquistadors discovered the island and began to settle there in 1492. The Spaniards treated the natives very cruelly, and when the natives revolted, the Spanish governor of Haiti ordered the arrests of several native nobles, including Anacaona, who was eventually captured and executed, to the horror of her people.
ASIN: 439499062
Publish date: April 2005
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Care for the Future: Thinking Forward through the Past
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ENTANGLED PASTS: 7 things you should know about the recent pasts of France and Britain, in the wake of the attack on CHARLIE HEBDO.
Prof Charles Forsdick (Leadership Fellow, AHRC Translating Cultures) and Prof Andrew Thompson (Leadership Fellow, AHRC Care for the Future)
1. Charlie Hebdo is part of a long tradition of dissent in France. Its genealogy can be traced back to the satirical press at the time of the French Revolution. In February 2006, Charlie Hebdo shot to global prominence with its depictions of the prophet Mohammed. But since its launch, the anti-establishment magazine has had plenty of other targets in its sights. Continue reading →
This entry was posted in News and tagged leadership fellow on 3rd February 2015 by Christine Boyle.
History in the making
The article below was written by Malcolm Lucard and is cross-posted from the Red Cross Red Crescent Magazine. It includes material from an interview with Prof Andrew Thompson, Leadership Fellow of Care for the Future: Thinking Forward through the Past.
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Malcolm Lucard
Internal records from the ICRC’s archives concerning the conflicts of the 1960s and 1970s shed light on a decisive era for humanitarian action.
In a small room in the basement of ICRC headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, historian Andrew Thompson methodically pores through folders full of documents — typewritten mission reports, confidential telegrams and hand-written letters — never before seen by people outside the ICRC.
“It is a process of discovery,” says Thompson, a professor of history at Exeter University in the United Kingdom. “There is a sense of expectation and anticipation not knowing what is going to be there. For a historian, it’s a bit like opening a birthday present, or like going into a candy shop.”
The ‘candy shop’ in this case is the ICRC archives, where Thompson is exploring 40- to 50-year-old records to be released to the public in January 2015 under the ICRC’s policy of making internal documents public in blocks of ten years once 40 years have passed since the events they describe.
This entry was posted in News and tagged History, Humanitarianism, leadership fellow on 27th January 2015 by Christine Boyle.
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The Truth About Bitcoin
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Here is what I love about Bitcoin, other crypto and data-driven currencies. It has finally forced people to think about the concept of money and what money really is.
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An Important Lesson From A Famous Bank Robber
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New Financial Educational Podcast Shares the Secrets of the Rich to Create Monthly Income Streams
New financial educational podcast Cashflow Ninja by leading financial educator M.C. Laubscher shares exclusive insights on how to create monthly income streams and manage and protect your own wealth to survive and prosper in modern Information Age.
NEWTOWN, PA (PRWEB) AUGUST 01, 2016 The recession-hit global economy has greatly threatened the financial security of many. The traditional industrial age mindset of accumulating and saving wealth with Wall Street with the hope of heightened assets in the future is failing many.…
Leadhome: Changing The Home Buying Process In South Africa
Co-Founder of Leadhome, Marcel du Toit, On What it Takes to Solve a Unique Problem, Be a Successful Entrepreneur, and More
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Greg Presents Clancy Consulting Prize for HND Civil Engineering
Article posted on: 25th October 2017
Congratulations to Viorel Fazacas who this year has been awarded the Clancy Consulting Annual Prize for excellence in the HND Civil Engineering course. Viorel has recently completed the HND in Civil Engineering with outstanding grades. His attendance and contribution to the group including student representation has been exceptional. Viorel takes pride in his work and over the last couple of years has been working on residential projects and hopes to get involved with more complex projects in the future.
Clancy Consulting are delighted to join up with City College Norwich in recognising Viorel’s achievements throughout the duration of his course. We recognise the importance of supporting todays’ students for tomorrow’s world and has a longstanding history of sponsoring awards and supporting higher education organisations throughout the UK. Clancy Consulting links up with universities and colleges around the country to recognise the positive impact it can deliver as a national organisation providing local educational support.
Greg Scott, Director of Clancy Consulting’s Norwich office commented: “We are delighted to sponsor the award for ‘Excellence achieved’ in the HND Civil Engineering course delivered by City College Norwich. This is our second year of sponsoring the award for the college and we look forward to working with them in greater depth going forward.”
Clancy Consulting provide a multi-discipline engineering design, building surveying and advisory service across the built environment. Its specialist engineering fields include civil, structural, building services, and geo-environmental. The company works across a diverse range of markets and delivers projects ranging from small appointments for individual clients to large multi-million pound schemes for international organisations.
The Norwich office works on projects across the UK but has been privileged to work on a variety of projects local to Norwich. Recent projects delivered in the Norwich area include:
• Primary Schools – new teaching blocks across Norfolk and Suffolk
• Pre-Planning Services including drainage strategies, flood risk, geo-environmental and
utilities to support master planning for residential and commercial developments.
• University of East Anglia – structural engineering services for alterations and
refurbishment to the existing theatre block.
• Care Homes – civil and structural design services for a new 60 bedroom care home in
Beccles.
• Heritage – Dragon Hall, Norwich – civil and structural services for a new extension.
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So Very Christian
This is the first of probably many posts about the deep felt Christian attitudes of our far right brethren.
Officials at the nondenominational High Point Church knew that Cecil Howard Sinclair was gay when they offered to host his service, said his sister, Kathleen Wright. But after his obituary listed his life partner as one of his survivors, she said, it was called off.
"It’s a slap in the face. It’s like, ’Oh, we’re sorry he died, but he’s gay so we can’t help you,"’ she said Friday.
The church’s pastor, the Rev. Gary Simons, said no one knew Sinclair, who was not a church member, was gay until the day before the Thursday service, when staff members putting together his video tribute saw pictures of men "engaging in clear affection, kissing and embracing."
Wright called the church’s claim about the pictures "a bold-faced lie." She said she provided numerous family pictures of Sinclair, including some with his partner, but said none showed men kissing or hugging.
The 5,000-member High Point Church was founded in 2000 by Simons and his wife, April, whose brother is Joel Osteen, well-known pastor of the 38,000-member Lakewood Church in Houston. Now High Point meets in a 432,000-square-foot facility in Arlington, near Dallas.
So much for supporting the troops.
Labels: Christians, Conservatives
Lies and More Lies
To those wing-nuts in the area who don't realize a fact spoonfed to them should be swallowed with caution. Here's some news: Jeri Thompson is not a lawyer. The Trail has more.
It is a measure of how rapid Jeri Kehn Thompson's rise to prominence has been that there has been widespread confusion about a basic fact of her background: whether or not she is a lawyer.
Several major news organizations -- including USA Today, the Associated Press, Chicago Tribune, and The Post -- have in recent months referred to Jeri Thompson as both a political consultant and lawyer in articles about Fred Thompson's nascent presidential campaign, in which his wife has taken a leading role.
And supporters of the Thompsons have repeatedly invoked Jeri Thompson's status as an attorney to challenge insinuations that the 40-year-old mother of two is a mere "trophy wife" for the 64-year-old actor and former Tennessee senator. On Fox News last week, host Chris Wallace quoted a letter from a viewer attacking NPR's Juan Williams for having previously used the 'tw' phrase in reference to Thompson: "You chauvinist pig. Jeri Thompson is an intelligent, accomplished woman. She is a lawyer. And she has worked in the public policy arena." Added conservative blogger Ed Morrissey last month: "Anyone with access to Google knows that Mrs. Thompson worked as an attorney and media consultant in DC."
Well, presumptuous as it may be to challenge the holy writ that is Google, the hard fact is that Jeri Thompson is not a lawyer. There is no trace in public records of Thompson holding a license to practice law in D.C. or any of the states in which she has resided. And today, campaign spokeswoman Linda Rozett said conclusively, "Jeri Thompson does not have a law degree."
Never mind!
Labels: Conservatives
Because We Don't Want to Play Anymore
courtesy of This Modern World
Finally doing the right thing ... ignore Fox. Let them blather to their shrinking base of angry white men and women who barely understand English.
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Still Clueless After All These Years
After 3,679 American deaths, 27,104 Americans wounded and 60,000+ Iraqi casualites, Patrick McIlheran almost got it, in an ironic sort of way.
Posting about the news that Pvt. Scott Thomas Beauchamp, author of the much-disputed "Shock Troops" article, has recanted his story, McIlheran attempts to use Beauchamp's alleged deceit to question the motives of the (as he calls it) "surrender-now side."
His final sentence of the post, however, was almost a striking condemnation of this entire misbegotten affair and the failure of the McIlherans on the right to honestly view the excursion into Iraq, rather than mouthing platitudes provided to them by this administration. If McIlheran had had the courage, this is what he would have written:
What good can come from the war against the war in Iraq if it's a campaign founded on lies?
That was nearly the first honest thing you've said about Iraq, Paddy! Keep trying.
Labels: Conservatives, Iraq, Patrick McIlheran
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2019 tour dates can be found on the Tour Schedule page.
Bruce was in the studio in March 2019 recording his next album, Crowing Ignites, which is expected to be released on September 20, 2019. Track listing here.
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Eleven all-new Instrumentals
Crowing Ignites, an all-instrumental album, is expected to be released on September 20, 2019. More information on the MEDIA page, first article. Track listing here. Listen to / share “Blind Willie” from Crowing Ignites and pre-order here.
Bruce was interviewed by Vish Khanna on May 10, 2019. Listen here.
Listen to an interview on the CBC program, Day 6. The date of the interview was June 12, 2019.
On October 24, 2018, Bruce appeared on the PBS program, Songs at the Center. It was taped at the Beck Center for the Arts in Lakewwod, Ohio. He played three songs: Forty Years in the Wilderness, If I had a Rocket Launcher and The Gift. The program is 27 minutes long and includes interview segments.You can view the episode here.
Update to the Fox Watson page. Scroll to the bottom of this page.
Photos of Bruce in the studio recording a new instrumental album in San Francisco in March 2019.
Bruce wins Solo Artist of the Year for Bone On Bone at the 2018 Canadian Folk Music Awards.
Information on The Group of Seven Guitar Project, which includes an appearance by Bruce.
Listen to the 1977 Circles in the Stream Tour documentary.
Bruce Cockburn - a view from the Woodpile, contains 120 photos I took at soundchecks, performances and in the studio between 1994 and 2008. It is available at the Apple iBookstore, and in hardcopy at Blurb book publishers.
Bernie Finkelstein's autobiography was released on April 17, 2012.
This site is owned and edited by Daniel Keebler. If you see an error, a broken link or something that you think is incorrect, please let me know. Since 1994 I have received informational support directly from Bruce's record label and management in Toronto (True North Records and Finkelstein Management), with additional support from Rounder Records, Rykodisc Records and Columbia Records in the U.S. and Europe. While True North Records was sold in December 2007, Bruce currently remains with that label. The paper newsletter was first published in February 1994. Ten years later, in December 2003, the last paper issue was published. This site has been on the web since 1996.
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Chinese students' applications to UK universities soar 30 pct
Xinhua Published: 2019-07-11 22:01:33
Applications from Chinese undergraduates to study at British universities have increased by 30 percent since last year, with numbers exceeding those from Northern Ireland for the first time, according to official statistics released Thursday.
Ucas, the university and college admissions service, revealed in its latest report that it had received 19,760 applications from students in China this year, accounting for about three percent of the total. Last year the number of Chinese applicants was 15,240.
A Chinese student [File photo: IC]
For the first time, the Chinese applicants, slightly more than 18,520 from Northern Ireland, has become the fourth largest group after those in England, Scotland and Wales.
It is believed that the real figure will be higher as not all Chinese applications are made via Ucas.
According to the data, non-EU applicants rose to 13 percent of the total, increasing 8 percent compared with last year.
Clare Marchant, Ucas chief executive, said: "The global appeal of UK higher education has never been clearer, with record demographic-beating application rates in England and Wales, and the steep rise in international applications, especially from China."
Welcoming the figures, UK's universities minister Chris Skidmore said: "International students bring huge cultural and economic benefits to the UK. These figures show we are making good progress in our ambition to open up world-leading higher education to anyone who has the potential to benefit from it and I'm confident that we can go even further."
Commentators say that recent tensions between China and the U.S. are further benefitting British universities as Chinese students look at destinations other than America for their studies.
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Tag Archives: Lands Tribunal for Scotland
New Chairman appointed to Scottish Land Court
Sheriff Roderick John MacLeod QC
Sheriff Roderick John MacLeod QC has been appointed by Her Majesty the Queen as Chairman of the Scottish Land Court, the Scottish Ministers have announced.
Ministers also appointed Sheriff MacLeod as President of the Lands Tribunal for Scotland, on the recommendation of the Lord President of the Court of Session.
He succeeds Lord McGhie, who is retiring from both positions.
First Minister Alex Salmond nominated Sheriff MacLeod for appointment as Chairman of the Scottish Land Court on the basis of the recommendation by the independent Judicial Appointments Board for Scotland.
Sheriff Roderick John MacLeod QC graduated with an LLB Hons from the University of Edinburgh in 1975.
He became a solicitor in 1979, an Advocate in 1994, was appointed as a Sheriff in 2000 and as a QC in 2013.
He has been the Deputy Chair of the Scottish Land Court since 2006.
This entry was posted in Scottish Land Court and tagged Alex Salmond, Chairman, Her Majesty the Queen, Lands Tribunal for Scotland, Lord McGhie, President, Scottish Land Court, Sheriff Roderick John MacLeod QC on September 16, 2014 by Brian Inkster.
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I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds.
For further study - Philemon 1:1-25
It is true that there is no prophetic passage found in the book of Philemon. However, in this little New Testament book, I find Paul as our example of how to work towards a "crown" that will be given to some at the Judgment Seat of Christ. It is the "Crown of Glory" spoken of in I Peter 1:1-4.
The "Crown of Glory" is given to those who are always ready to step up to "feed the flock", to build them up in the things of the Lord. Peter reveals that we do not serve as "feeders of the flock" for filthy lucre and not by constraint, I Peter 5:2. Peter's exhortation is for us to be an example to the flock.
You know that is what Paul is doing in Philemon. Paul is showing Philemon, by example, how to deal with a former servant of Philemon, the person who stole from him and then fled to Rome, the servant Onesimus.
When Onesimus arrived in Rome, he made contact with Paul and was converted to Christianity. Paul knew the circumstances surrounding the relationship between Philemon and Onesimus, and he is used of the Lord to develop Onesimus into a very profitable brother in the Lord.
Next, Paul having built into the life of the "servant", now wants to build into the life of his former owner, the one who had been violated. Paul writes to Philemon requesting that he take back his former employee, one who could be very profitable to him in the future, verse 11.
Paul is working towards that "Crown of Glory" Peter wrote about, as he works with both Philemon and Onesimus. Paul was ambitious for these crowns, II Corinthians 5:9, because he knew that these crowns would one day be presented back to the Lord Jesus in thanksgiving for what He has done for us, Revelation 4:10.
The "Crown of Glory" is only one of five crowns we can receive at the Judgment Seat of Christ. We receive a "crown incorruptible" for bringing our body under subjection, I Corinthians 9:27. We will be rewarded a "crown of rejoicing" for being a soul winner, I Thessalonians 2:19. There is the "crown of life" for not yielding to temptation, James 1:12. There is also the "crown of righteousness" for loving the appearance of Jesus Christ as the Rapture, II Timothy 4:8.
In Philemon, Paul, by example, helps us to understand how to receive the "Crown of Glory".
PRAYER THOT: Lord help me to work towards attaining all five of the crowns so that I can give them back to you in thanksgiving.
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Stock Grabbing Investor's Attention: Banco Santander Brasil Sa (BSBR)
Typically, the CCI oscillates above and below a zero line. Generally, the RSI is considered to be oversold when it falls below 30 and overbought when it heads above 70. As the earnings date approaches, we can see that insider ownership is now 21.00% shares, and institutional ownership is at 1.20% for Banco Santander, S.A.
Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Off Coast Of Lompoc In Santa Barbara County
The epicenter is about 53 miles west of Santa Barbara, 35 miles southwest of Santa Maria and more than 50 miles south of San Luis Obispo. The U.S. Geological Survey had initially recorded a preliminary 4.6-magnitude natural disaster. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage, but the shaking was felt throughout Santa Barbara County. We will update this story when new information becomes available.
Callon Petroleum (NYSE:CPE) Earning Somewhat Positive Media Coverage, Study Finds
Therefore 90% are positive. A number of analysts have recently issued reports on CPE shares. The brokerage issued a neutral rating and a $16.00 price objective on the stock. Maryland Management owns 4,948 shares for 0.1% of their portfolio. CV Sciences, Inc.is a life science company. The higher the ROE, the better the company is at generating profits.
Winning Powerball Ticket Sold in Eunice, Louisiana
The winning ticket in Wednesday's drawing was sold in Eunice, a small town in Cajun country that straddles Acadia and St. Landry parishes. The owner says they have sold at least two $200,000 dollar scratch off tickets in the past. The winning numbers were 18-22-29-54-57 with a Power Play number of 8. For the latest on Michigan Lottery, check out the official Michigan Lottery site , which also offers more information on instant tickets, raffles and other lottery games.
Pope Francis Places Video Call to International Space Station
Nespoli indicated that while he remains perplexed at humankind's role, he feels their main objective is enriching the knowledge around us. "But on the other hand, an interesting thing is that the more we know, the more we realize how little we know".
Attorney gunned down in front yard
Officials said that Pickert's wife was at home when the shooting occurred, and she found his body on the porch 8 a.m. Wednesday. Officers say Pickert's wife was home at the time and found her husband lifeless on their front porch. The businessman had claimed he shot the homeless man, who was inside his warehouse, in self-defense. Pickert helped Harris win the lawsuit and Jungerman was ordered to pay $5.75 million.
Trump Ups his Endorsement of Gillespie for Virginia Governor
Gillespie has to get a fair number of Stewart supporters to win, so he has taken a more hardline stance on several issues, including the removal of Confederate monuments, over the last two months, even as he has kept the president at arm's length.
Hot gangbanger's mugshot could get her sprung
Police described Ponce of as TRG gang member and said two other gang members were in the vehicle. On searching her auto, officers uncovered a lilac handgun (photo included above) which was fully loaded at the time. Another user noted how great Ponce's make-up looked in her booking photo. Another person encouraged her to turn her life around for her children.
Price Target Focus for Xcel Energy Inc. (NYSE:XEL)
Xcel Energy Inc now has $25.02 billion valuation. Parallel Advisors LLC grew its holdings in shares of Xcel Energy by 1.6% in the 2nd quarter. Financial Architects, Inc owns 434 shares worth $21,000. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 5.8% on a year-over-year basis. Taking a quick look at analyst opinions, we can see that the current average broker recommendation on shares of Xcel Energy Inc .
Ex-Air Force Officer To Oversee Puerto Rico's Power Restoration
The vehicle maker says it's the first of many solar and energy storage projects going live in Puerto Rico. The resources panel oversees Puerto Rico, a US territory. PREPA filed for bankruptcy in July and has put off badly needed maintenance for years. Whitefish officials say they were willing to work for $2 million up front while the other company that PREPA was considering wanted $25 million.
Ganapathy case: BJP demands removal of KJ George immediately
DySP Ganapathy had died at Madikeri in Karnataka under mysterious circumstances on July 7 previous year. Apart from George, who was earlier the state Home Minister and is now the Bengaluru Development Minister, the police officers booked by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) are Additional Director-General of Police (Intelligence) A.M.
Undocumented Girl With Cerebral Palsy Detained After Surgery May Be Deported
U.S. Representatives Henry Cuellar and Joaquin Castro are questioning the circumstances under which Border Patrol agents were given access to 10-year-old Rosamaria Hernandez's hospital room. Border checkpoints along the southern USA border have always been well known. Global News reached out to U.S. Customs and Border Protection for comment.
£2m Apollo Intensa Emozione track hypercar revealed with 769bhp
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$1.3M auction bid buys Albert Einstein's theory of happiness
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Home > Features > Reviews > Penny Pepper: Lost in Spaces
Award winning writer, poet, performer and rights activist, Penny Pepper presented her highly anticipated, unique one-woman show, Lost in Spaces at the Soho Theatre last Monday. Review by Colin Hambrook
Penny Pepper tells an engaging story of a journey through the Disability Arts Movement in 'Lost in Spaces'
Lost in Spaces interweaves poetry, short story, anecdote and diary extracts against a backdrop of images and music, taking the audience on a chronological journey through the life and times of one of the Disability Arts Movements' superbly talented, sexy superstars.
The show lifts off in the 1960s with the moon landing and Penny’s aspirations to be an astronaut: entirely possible in the limitless world of her imagination. Penny describes how it was through her love of words (she was taught to read and write by her father before she went to school) and her love of writing that she came to know herself and to express her refusal to be defined by the tragic but brave stereotypes imposed by a non-disabled world.
Penny’s readings from her diaries, drawn as precious objects from a beautifully ornate, large box in the form of a book, give tremendous value to the act of keeping a diary, as a testament to life’s pleasures and struggles. Penny also talks us through the books that she loved as a child. Heidi and The Secret Garden gripped her imagination, but contained no positive role models for a young disabled girl aching to find a place in the world.
Much of Penny’s storytelling through the show sits within the context of the Disability Movement through the 1980s and 1990s and its strength to empower and inspire disabled people with the Social Model and Art at its foundations. Inspired by the punk movement, the major thread running through the performance is life as an act of defiance.
She tells us about her friend Kay embellishing the side of her shaved head with the words ‘fuck off’. And Penny's poetry mirrors her sense of rebellion: ‘Special breeds/ Special spoon/ Special spunk/ Special sex.’ Penny’s delivery is riveting with the accompaniment of Jo-anne Cox’s cello. The atmosphere changes with just a chord and Penny becomes focused and at her most cogent and powerful as a performer.
The stories give breadth and depth to the poems, although the visuals and recorded music could be reigned-in and given more alignment to the spoken word. For example Penny tells a brilliant story about her pen-relationship with pop star Morrissey. A postcard is emblazoned across the screen showing the musicians famous spiky handwriting: “You write delightfully,” he says, “And yes, I accept the compliments. Believe you me, I need them.” It would have been wonderful to have heard the words read out; to have been given a fuller account of how an emerging pop star came to crave acceptance from a young disabled writer and performer. (I believe this was around the time that The Smiths Meat is Murder album was released in the mid-1980s).
The visuals generally, give a wonderful flavour of Penny's world, with photos of family and friends illustrating changing fashions and attitudes. However, it would help the pacing of the show if Penny could find a simple way of describing the images she uses and linking them more closely to the stories she’s telling. This would provide creative access for visually impaired people, and would also give all of her audience - and especially a younger audience who may not know the references - more engagement. Less is more.
Still in its research and development phase, Lost in Spaces needs more airing. It has undercurrents that cut through so much ignorance. For example Penny reads a couple of extracts from her collection of short story erotica, Desires, re-edited and published by Bejamo Press in 2012 as Desires Reborn. Funny, intelligent and moving, her recital of Girls Wank Too unfolds in a matter of fact telling of how it is for girls when the hormones start to kick in. The context is special school, but it’s a story of girls discovering their sexuality that goes beyond the disability context.
Lost in Spaces is festooned with important bits of history. Penny reminds us that using buses remains a political act for wheelchair-users, given the battles of the Campaign for Accessible Transport and the Direct Action Network in the 80s and 90s. She reminds us how painful and difficult it was growing up without any access to transport, to personal assistance or to work. She reminds us that the key expectation for young physically disabled people during her youth was a life in institutional care.
And of course, with the current closure for new applicants and the planned disposal of the Independent Living Fund, all the implications suggest that as a society we are rapidly making a backward step to a time when disabled people were prisoners in their own homes and in institutions, reliant on families and underpaid, ill-trained care workers for basic care provision.
So, “Come to Cripplegate/ Come to Cripplegate/ Come to Cripplegate Town.” The Ballad of Cripplegate provides a seductive, insistent, double-edged anthem for Lost in Spaces. The words, their rhythm with the striking chords from Jo-anne’s cello leave an indelible mark and an invitation not to be missed.
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Lawyer: Man charged in parents' slayings pleads not guilty
FILE--This March 4, 2019 booking photo released by the Oklahoma County Sheriff's Office shows Michael Elijah Walker. Police say the 19-year-old Oklahoma man told his younger brother that he fatally shot their parents because they were communicating with him telepathically and were Satan worshippers. Walker has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in his parents deaths and his attorney Derek Chance says he will seek to have Eli Walker declared mentally incompetent. (Oklahoma County Sheriff's Office via AP)
EDMOND, Okla. — An attorney plans to seek a competency hearing for a 19-year-old Oklahoma murder suspect whose brother told investigators he said he killed their parents because he thought they were Satan worshippers communicating with him telepathically.
Michael Elijah "Eli" Walker was arraigned Wednesday on first-degree murder charges in the March 4 shooting deaths of Michael Logan Walker, 50, and Rachel Walker, 44, at their home in the Oklahoma City suburb of Edmond.
Walker's attorney, Derek Chance, who entered a not guilty plea on his client's behalf, said he would expect to seek a not guilty by reason of insanity defense if he isn't found incompetent for trial. Chance acknowledged such defenses have rarely succeeded in Oklahoma murder trials.
"He's very mentally ill, and even at this point it's difficult even for us to get through to him in any of our meetings," Chance said.
Michael Logan Walker's sister, Maya Walker, made a brief statement to reporters Tuesday following funeral services for the slain couple, alluding to her nephew's mental difficulties.
"Please see it soon enough before it happens to your family because all of us now in hindsight are realizing the pieces we're putting together now, we didn't recognize," she said.
"We hope and pray for the best possible outcome (and) for Eli, my nephew, to get the best care possible," Walker said.
It has not been revealed whether Walker had been diagnosed with, or was undergoing treatment for, a mental illness.
"We have not confirmed that yet as an official medical diagnosis, not saying it isn't true," police spokeswoman Jenny Wagnon said. "That's something we will likely be asked to do by the DA's office."
Wagnon said two pistols and an AR-15 rifle found in the home shortly after the slayings were purchased by one of the parents but declined to say which parent.
Easy access to guns only slightly increases the risk by the mentally ill of gun violence compared to the overall population, said Dr. William Carpenter Jr., a psychiatric professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
"Sure, violence can be a problem ... gun violence, but with the amount of gun violence in this country it just sticks out a little bit," Carpenter said of violent acts committed by the mentally ill. "Most of the increase relates to before they're diagnosed or treated, or they're not taking their medication at the time the violence occurs."
Wagnon said police were also trying to determine where materials were acquired for four small homemade bombs found in the home and later detonated by a bomb squad.
"We'll be going through phones and computers, looking for receipts to try to find out how they were purchased ... that's part of our investigation," Wagnon said.
Meredith Davis, a spokeswoman for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, said the agency is aware of the case and available to assist if asked.
The insanity defense was successful for Christian Costello, 30, who a judge ruled in April 2018 was not guilty by reason of insanity in the 2015 stabbing death of his father, state Labor Commissioner Mark Costello.
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Columns • Jana Riess: Flunking Sainthood • Opinion
Keeping the faith in an age of anxiety
“Birthing Hope: Giving Fear to the Light” cover and author Rachel Marie Stone. Images courtesy of InterVarsity Press
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(RNS) — I don’t know about you, but these days I’m awash with anxiety. Hyperpartisan politics, raising a teenager … it all contributes to an ongoing sense of waiting for the other shoe to drop.
But faith, as Richard Rohr reminds us, is a relationship of trust between human beings and God, and when I allow anxiety to take the driver’s seat, I am not practicing faith but something else.
So I was particularly interested in reading Rachel Marie Stone’s new memoir, “Birthing Hope: Giving Fear to the Light.” I resonated with a lot of her experiences. How, in an age of anxiety, do we surrender fear to the light?
Religion News Service interviewed Stone about her book. Her responses follow.
RNS: I’m struck by the way your book covers so many themes: anxiety, birth, embodiment, loss. How would you describe it in an elevator pitch?
Rachel Marie Stone: Very briefly, I would sketch it as a memoir of anxiety. It’s also a memoir of living through hard times. And it’s also a memoir of motherhood and hope, or motherhood and fear. But it’s not only a book for mothers.
RNS: You have been dealing with anxiety ever since you were a child. How did that begin?
Stone: I had a lot of big fears I didn’t talk about. Any time my parents would be even five minutes late, I worried so much.
“Birthing Hope: Giving Fear to the Light” by Rachel Marie Stone. Image courtesy of InterVarsity Press
Weirdly, one of my earliest anxieties was that I was very worried about another Holocaust. My mother is Jewish, so I probably knew too much about the Holocaust of WWII when I was really young. I was thinking that there must be something wrong with us Jews that would make people want to get rid of us throughout history.
Also, I was a bit of a hypochondriac. I would notice something on my body and quietly convince myself that it was cancer and that I was going to die. Or I had touched something on the bus that was going to give me AIDS. AIDS is actually a big part of the book. Other people my age have no memory of growing up with a worry about AIDS, but in New York City in 1986, when I was in kindergarten, people would play tag but would tag you with AIDS. And there was a guy in our church, a friend of my dad’s, who died of AIDS.
RNS: How have you coped with anxiety as an adult?
Stone: I’m not taking any anxiety medication now, but I have in the past and it has been very helpful. It’s a really helpful tool for people with anxiety disorders. But I feel like it would be irresponsible for me not to say that they can be habit-forming and they are very powerful substances. Also, they don’t resolve your narrative problem. In people with anxiety, it’s often a story that needs shifting, maybe even more than brain chemicals. The brain chemistry is absolutely real, but there’s reason to be cautious about powerful drugs that doctors prescribe so easily.
What has worked for me are therapy, meditation, breathing and yoga — and changing the narrative.
I’ll give an example that may sound stupid to some people but is real. My cat that I adored just died last month at age 15. Because I do this anxiety thing and worry about things that haven’t happened yet, I told myself long ago that I would absolutely fall apart when he died. That was the story that I imagined. I spent so much time imagining a tragic end, but when the moment came and it was clear that he had reached the end, it was tempting to freak out, but I realized that would make his death all about me. Even the narrative of “I can’t live without him” is still about me and my feelings. There was a lot of comfort in focusing on what I did have then, which was having him still alive. I could give him a death and a good burial, and be faithful to what I needed to do. That’s not to say I wasn’t sad, but often the things that bring us suffering are wrong narratives that we cling to but don’t really serve us.
RNS: I’d like to know how your faith helps you with anxiety, or if it does. But first, tell me about your religious background, because you are Jewish and also writing a Christian book for a Christian publishing house (InterVarsity Press).
Author Rachel Marie Stone. Photo courtesy of InterVarsity Press
Stone: My mom converted to evangelical Christianity before I was born. This is always contentious, because some Jews wouldn’t consider me a Jew, but according to the Talmud, a Jew that’s born a Jew can never not be a Jew. Culturally, it’s impossible for me to think of myself and my mother as anything but Jewish. But the Christian narrative is the one I was raised in and continue to live into. I worship at an Episcopal church now and follow the rhythm of the liturgical year.
RNS: How does your faith figure into living with anxiety?
Stone: I think a lot of the quirks of the specific religious tradition that I was raised in actually made anxiety worse, because in that scenario, God and/or Jesus were always evaluating everything I did or even thought. There was encouragement to remember that “Jesus is always watching you!” Kind of like Jesus was a scary Santa Claus who sees you when you’re sleeping.
Also, even the way that evangelicals will often pray can produce anxiety, like, “Fix this thing, God; fix me; take this bad thing away.” Evangelicals talk about prayer as if it’s all about fixing the bad things. There’s often a subtle or not-subtle implication that if you pray hard enough and believe hard enough, that it’s going to get fixed. That there will be a miracle. I guess that’s comforting for some, but it’s anxiety-producing for others to think that if they just work and pray a little harder, they can fix it.
It feeds into an idea that many people with anxiety already live with: that the act of worrying itself is necessary in order to prevent bad things: “If I worry hard enough about this now, it won’t happen later.” Worrying is almost a protective impulse, like you are inoculating yourself against the pain of it actually happening. But the truth is that we’re almost never prepared for the actual bad things that come out of the blue. What do people say about bad things that happen? They say, “We never saw it coming” or “We never thought it would happen to us.” You can’t prevent it or even alleviate it by thinking your way out of it beforehand.
RNS: What else helps you?
Stone: I have taken a lot of comfort lately from a book that’s co-written by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama, called “The Book of Joy.” It’s a great resource for those who suffer in their thinking, or are curious about meditation and what Buddhism might offer. It’s a lot about shifting the narrative. So much of getting well, or even living well with anxiety, is shifting the way we tell the story, and also shifting our attention and compassion to others. That can help so, so much.
RNS: What are you hoping readers will take from the book?
Stone: A sense of wonder and respect for what humans are — and what humans can endure. Not because of what I’ve lived through, but because I point to stories and experiences that reveal something essential about existence. I think that essential thing, which we are very good at avoiding in North American culture, is the reality that joy and suffering always go together. We don’t get to the triumphal, glorious moments in life without struggling for them. That’s why I use the metaphor of birth. When a baby takes her first breath, it’s amazingly wonderful. But it took blood and tears and sacrifice to get there.
(The views expressed in this commentary do not necessarily represent those of Religion News Service.)
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Senior columnist Jana Riess is the author of many books, including "The Prayer Wheel" (Random House/Convergent, 2018) and "The Next Mormons: How Millennials Are Changing the LDS Church" (Oxford University Press, 2019). She has a PhD in American religious history from Columbia University.
I really enjoyed this interview. I think anxiety becomes a superpower for some people. For those who have to deal with it they know simply confronting it does not make it go away, but avoiding it is debilitating. Because they confront a fear that is larger than the threat on a regular basis when others confront perceived threats it’s those who have learned to live with what scares them who teach the rest of us how to go forward.
Daniel ess says:
keeping the Faith, ya its no different than what a buddist practices, ill go for keeping the commandments God’s perfect law of Love. no more putting the horrible abomination of desolation before the creator.
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Fighting Fascism
Fascism was not inevitable in Italy, perhaps not even likely. The fascists were shut out in the parliamentary election of 1919. In 1921, however, they captured 35 seats, including one for Benito Mussolini; still, they remained a decidedly minority party.
But the following year, the fascists were voting with their feet, marching on Rome, perpetrating violence elsewhere in Italy, and threatening the democratically elected government. Rather than ordering the army to put down the fledgling revolt, King Victor Emmanuel III invited Mussolini, 39, to form a new government. It was the beginning of the end of democracy in Italy for more than 20 years.
Mussolini astutely played on Italians’ fears of political and economic turmoil in the aftermath of World War I, their disappointment with Italy’s share of the spoils of war, and an exaggerated dread of communism. Business and industry leaders and right wing parties supported him.
If neither the king nor Pope Pius XI — who later would call Mussolini “the man whom Providence sent us” — nor fractious Italian political parties could stop the fascists, the burden would fall to others, prominent among them the Rosselli family of Florence.
In "A Bold and Dangerous Family: The Remarkable Story of An Italian Mother and her Two Sons, and their Fight against Fascism," bestselling author Caroline Moorehead ably chronicles the struggles of Amelia Rosselli and her sons, Carlo and Nello, against the tyranny that gripped Italy from 1922 to 1943. It was an uneven fight, but one that evinced much courage, sacrifice, and drama.
Amelia was a descendant of Sephardic Jews who had been driven from Spain by Ferdinand and Isabella in 1492. More than 430 years later, Jews were still not safe in Europe. Amelia was a rich and formidable woman, a playwright and a feminist; when her husband had an affair, she sent him packing, much to his dismay. Her eldest son, Aldo, died fighting in World War I. She was devastated, but her sorrows were just beginning.
Born in 1899, Carlo Rosselli became one of Mussolini’s most implacable opponents and was widely thought to be a likely successor to “Il Duce” if the fascist train could be derailed. He spoke well of the Bolsheviks for a time, palavered with Trotsky (they argued), but soon settled on middle-of-the-road democratic socialism.
Carlo and Nello were pursuing academic careers in the early 1920s as the flamboyant Mussolini, who liked to ride around Rome with a lion cub by his side, was tightening his grip on power. The brutal assassination of opposition leader Giacomo Matteotti in 1924 changed all that.
Soon the brothers were founding underground newspapers like Non Mollare (Do Not Give Up), spiriting opposition leaders in Mussolini’s crosshairs out of Italy, and procuring airplanes to drop political leaflets over Italian cities. Soon they would be targets themselves.
Moorehead, who grew up in Italy and speaks Italian, portrays the trials and intrigues of the Rosselli clan in intimate detail: the invisible ink, jailbreaks, coded correspondence, and spies galore. In places, the book reads like a gripping thriller. Elsewhere, the author occasionally can get lost in the weeds and assume the reader is fluent in Italian. Novelistic descriptions of minor players can be excessive, for example: “Dumini was a bland-faced young man, with neatly parted dark hairs and ears that stuck out. He had a small, tidy moustache, but no beard.”
In the main, however, Moorehead hits the mark, bringing creeping fascism, and its impact on average citizens, into sharp focus at a time when its abysmal track record is worth remembering. Mussolini may have made the trains run on time, but he proceeded to bring Italy to its knees before the Italian people finally put an end to his murderous reign.
Before that bloody denouement, Mussolini seemed to many Italians like the answer to their country’s economic and social challenges. Even Winston Churchill admired his “firm hand” in 1927, when the depredations of fascism were clearly apparent. The problem, of course, is when a firm hand becomes an iron fist. The pope and Mussolini came to an accommodation. People found him useful in various ways. For some, riding the tiger seemed like a good idea, at least for a spell, until they discovered what they had to lose.
At his trial, Carlo Rosselli made what the author terms “the most moving speech, long remembered in the annals of anti-fascism:”
“I had a house: they destroyed it. I had a magazine: they suppressed it. I had a university chair: I was forced to give it up. I had, as I have today, ideas, dignity, an ideal: for these I have been sent to prison. I had teachers, friends – Amendola, Matteotti, Gobetti – they killed them.”
Carlo was given 10 months in prison, which actually was a rebuke to Mussolini. But this was fascist Italy in 1927, much admired up north by an obscure German political agitator (he actually was Austrian) named Adolf Hitler: Mussolini stepped in and gave Carlo five years of internal exile on a rocky forbidding island off the coast of Sicily.
The media and the judiciary had been intimidated into acquiescence. Mussolini had become the law. Nonetheless, the Rosselli saga does not end here.
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'Love Sonia' to be screened at United Nations on Int'l Day of Girl Child
Tabrez Noorani's 'Love Sonia' has been invited for a special screening at the United Nations this October.
Inspired by true events, "Love Sonia" is the shocking story of a young Indian village girl whose life is irrevocably changed when she gets entrapped in the global sex trade while trying to save her sister.
It will be screened at the UN on October 11 which is the International Day of the Girl Child.
"It's an honour for us to screen our film 'Love Sonia' for the United Nations. I feel privileged and am looking forward to the screening on the 11th October in New York," Noorani said in a statement.
The screening will be hosted by the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime and Indian anti-trafficking organization, Apne Aap Women Worldwide.
"Art is a powerful advocacy tool to raise awareness and we hope this beautifully acted thoughtful film will move people to take action against the scourge of sex trafficking," said Simone Monasebian, Director of the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime.
Survivors of prostitution from Apne Aap supported and consulted the filmmakers by sharing their life stories with them. They showed the red light areas of Kolkata and were on the set during filming.
"The process has resulted in an authentic film about the horrors of sex-trafficking inspired by real life events. Those who see, 'Love Sonia', will understand the cruel dynamics of trafficking in its truest form. Apne Aap hopes that all the countries of the world who see 'Love Sonia' at the UN will come together to end this evil," said Ruchira Gupta, Founder of Apne Aap.
The film stars Freida Pinto, Manoj Bajpayee, Rajkummar Rao, Richa Chadha, Anupam Kher, Adil Hussain, Sai Tamhankar, Sunny Parwar, Demi Moore and Mark Duplass. The film also marks acting debut of Mrunal Thakur, who is playing the lead character and Riya Sisodiya.
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Manners or a lawsuit?
April 7, 2006 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver
Costco has become a great weekend hangout for the entire family. Where else can you spend hours walking indoors where it’s nice and warm in winter, or cool in summer, and get to munch on all kinds of free food samples? Not only do you find great prices, but it has become a social institution as well, a place the odds are good that you’ll bump into someone you know every trip. On Saturdays when my wife goes one direction, mine is to Costco.
It is also a place where some of the strangest behavior is there for all to see, and as this event illustrates, just how much out of touch with reality certain families have become.
Gimme Some of That Pie!
Some weeks ago–and after my 6 course Costco lunch–samples of Progresso Soup, Hormel Chili, Salmon Spread, breath mints, marinated beef and Welch’s Grape Juice (Just what the gastroenterologist recommended) I wandered into the baked goods department, to a demo station with samples of blueberry pie. As the demo lady was cutting up the pie, a small line of about six customers formed, waiting patiently.
Suddenly, a young and incredibly obese boy–whom I would later learn was 9–ran to the front of the line, bumping people out of the way so that he could be at the very front. I was a few feet away, and this example of morbid childhood obesity had no apparent intention of respecting anyone in line. He had a look about him–almost a driven look. You could read it in his face: “Pie!!!! I am going to get a Piece of that Pie!!” He had all the charm of Dracula waiting for a drink.
“Don’t you think it would be nice to wait in line like everyone else?” said a man about 60, and smiled nicely at the boy. This resulted in the kid instantly running away, to his mother. The following scene would have been funny, were it not sad, as mom and son marched right back to the pie station, to the gentleman who suggested her son merely wait his turn.
“What did you say to my boy?” She yelled. “I just told him that he should wait in line like everyone else,” was his calm reply. “You made him cry!” mom screamed. “You should apologize to him!” His answer: “No ma’am, you should apologize for obviously not teaching him manners.” And at that point, the Demo Lady added, “This happens all the time. Parents who just do not teach manners any more. Good for you, sir!”
“I Can Make This Difficult!”
That should have been the end of this episode in bad parenting, but was not. Within less than a minute, the rest of the family caught up with the gentleman, and the entire situation appeared ripe for confrontation. “My name is Willy. Why did you make my nephew cry?” bellowed a short, slight, thirty-something man, standing with the other family members. They were all enormous people, shopping carts filled the stuff that makes Weight Watchers and Jenny Craig a lot of money. If you needed an example of how morbid obesity is a family disease, this was it. But in this family’s case, stupidity was tossed in as part of the bargain. But the way the older gentleman handled it was professional – cool, plain cool.
He first extended his hand, and, as a reflex, Willy shook his hand. “I’m pleased to meet you, Willy! Now, your nephew barged in front of people who were waiting in line for a sample of pie. That’s what happened, and I just told him that he should wait like everyone else. Was that wrong?”
“Any 9 year old kid would go to the front of the line,” answered Willy. “I expect you to apologize to him.” “No, I’m not going to do that, Willy. He needs to learn manners, not to have unacceptable behavior reinforced,” he said, loud enough so that all the family members standing there could hear. “I could become really ugly!” Willy blurted out. “Ah, you’re a nice guy, Willy,” said the older man, and shook his hand again, giving him a warm smile. Willy stood there, now receiving angry looks from his own family members. He was masterfully cheated out of a fight.
During this exchange, I noticed that the boy’s mother was glancing in my direction, and as the older man walked away, she approached me and said, “I know who you are, you’re Dennis Beaver, the lawyer! Can’t we sue that old man??”
“Sue him? For what? For doing your son a favor? For preventing this silly situation from becoming dangerous; Why even dream of suing him? No, ma’am, you’ve got it all wrong. You should have thanked him,” I replied, noticing that Willy was now glaring at me.
The demo lady handed me my sample of pie, and I in turn gave it to the next person in line.
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Questioning Sexuality
The experts agree: let’s talk about sex, baby — but let’s talk about gender and sexuality, too. “I just think that there has to be more focus on giving people permission to talk about what they like, what they don’t like,” Director of Counseling and Psychological Services Norma Ngo said. “I think there’s a lot of...
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All About Options
On any college campus, condoms are one of the many freebies available to students. But what other forms of birth control are available to students to ensure safe sex? At UH, internal and external condoms are available at the Women and Gender Resource Center and LBGT Resource Center on the second floor of the Student...
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Chicago International Television Awards Announces Call For Entries
Honoring TV & commercial productions in over 70 competitive categories
CHICAGO, IL – Cinema/Chicago and the Chicago International Film Festival announce the call for entries for its 52nd Chicago International Television Awards. With over 70 competitive categories, this annual competition celebrates television and commercial productions from around the world. The submission period runs through Friday, March 11, 2016. Entries are accepted via FilmFreeway and WithoutABox. Complete details are at http://ChicagoFilmFestival.com/tv-awards.
At its core, the Television Awards’ mission is to recognize the enormous technical and creative energy behind Television commercials and productions and to highlight their importance in communications, advertising, and entertainment. Specific submission categories include Television Commercial acting, writing, cinematography, animation; Television Production Public Service Announcement campaign, web series, sketch comedy program, main title sequence; Achievements in long- and short- form productions, sound design, effects, and direction. Upon reviewing submissions, the production budget is carefully considered as is the resourceful use of limited funds.
“Television has always been an important part of global culture. It’s fertile ground for innovation,” says Cinema/Chicago’s Competitions Coordinator Sam Flancher. “The Chicago International Television Awards has a tradition of recognizing exciting new voices year after year.”
From innovative distribution approaches to groundbreaking storytelling, the Chicago International Television Awards continue to recognize the talented minds of this ever-evolving medium. For over fifty years, the Television Awards Ceremony presents awards to competition winners and pays tribute to distinguished individuals and companies who have made a memorable mark on the Industry. Commitment to Excellence Awards have been presented to Carol Mendelsohn, Leo Burnett, Tom Burrell, Jesse Spencer, Jay Levine, Joe Pytka, and Tom Skilling, among others.
The 52nd Chicago International Television Awards includes the annual Audience Choice Awards. In partnership with WTTW11 (PBS), audiences are invited to view the most exciting and innovative commercials from the past year and vote for their favorite. Participants will be entered to win two tickets to the Awards Ceremony. This year’s annual Awards Ceremony will take place at Loews Chicago Hotel (455 N Park Dr., Chicago). Complete details about the Audience Choice Awards and Awards Ceremony are to be announced.
The Chicago International Television Awards is supported by Cinema/Chicago and the Chicago International Film Festival. Led by Major Sponsors Sound Investment AV and WTTW11 with Media Partner ReelChicago.com. Evening Partners include Stella Artois.
ABOUT CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION AWARDS
When the Chicago International Film Festival was founded over 50 years ago by Artistic Director Michael Kutza, advertising agency heads Leo Burnett, Fairfax Cone, and Dick Needham suggested that, with budgets and craftsmanship equal to the feature films being screened, the Festival should showcase the art of the television commercial. Five decades later, this simple idea has evolved into an international celebration of the best in television and encompasses television commercials, productions, series, and the innovative realm of online television programming.
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Cinema/Chicago is a not-for-profit arts and education organization dedicated to encouraging better understanding between cultures and to making a positive contribution to the art form of the moving image. The Chicago International Film Festival is one of the year-round programs presented by Cinema/Chicago, which also include its Chicago International Television Awards, CineYouth Festival, International Screenings Program, and Education Program. More information at ChicagoFilmFestival.com.
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New technology is freeing consumers from cable and satellite TV companies like never before
Instead, people can use Hulu or run their HD televisions through their PCs
The younger generation is starting to make the switch from cable TV
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(CNN) -- Blogger Jonathan Strickland cut ties with his cable company a year ago, yet he continues to watch all his favorite TV shows. He has saved nearly $700 over the last year and, most importantly, he tasted the thrill of telling his cable provider to shove it.
"We were having poor service, channels were getting cut back and the prices were going up," said Strickland. Although cable companies often lure new customers with special rates, he said it seemed "the longer you were staying with them, the more you were getting punished."
How has Strickland pulled this off? Mostly through a combination of Netflix and Hulu, the Internet TV service he views on his laptop.
And he's had no regrets.
An onslaught of new technology is freeing people from cable or satellite TV companies like never before by allowing customers to get shows via broadband and other means.
Some people use sites like Hulu, and don't mind with waiting a couple days after the show airs on television to watch. Others figure out elaborate set ups to run their HD televisions through their PCs using applications like Windows Media Center.
It's not mainstream yet and far from a perfect alternative, but little by little a younger generation is starting to take notice and make the switch, technology experts say.
"It's a niche audience now, but it's a concern for cable companies because this is the way things are going," said Lance Ulanoff, editor-in-chief of PCMag.com. "They're going to have to figure out the revenue model.
"Right now, there's tension between what people want and what content providers are willing to deliver."
At a recent visit to Google's Silicon Valley headquarters, comedian Conan O'Brien told the tech-savvy crowd what it already knew: The landscape is changing fast.
"I don't know what television is going to be five years from now. There's a lot of people that think you're just going to experience it through your server," said O'Brien, between taking digs at Jay Leno and Google execs.
"People don't even know how the business is going to change. There might not be network television as we know it."
The former NBC talk-show host, who is moving to cable channel TBS this fall, then added, "Wouldn't that be sweeeeet!"
Joking aside, it's something everyone, from consumers to industry executives, is keeping a close eye on.
The cable and satellite-dish giants already have their share of critics. Facebook pages "I Hate Time Warner Cable," "I Hate Comcast" and "I Hate DirecTV" have sprung up, allowing fans to vent their frustrations.
"I wonder how many more channels on my little line-up they are going to continue removing and want me to keep paying their rising rates," one person wrote.
Another said, "All the providers for TV services suck 'cause they are all trying to suck you in and then up your rates."
Yet before consumers pull the plug on cable or satellite TV, people like Strickland say they should be prepared for the change. Internet TV takes getting used to, and there is a loss of picture quality, he said. And if you want a complete home theater set-up, it's extremely hard to accomplish unless you're an electronics whiz and know how to make end-arounds.
Web TV also may not be ideal if you're a major sports fan, experts say. Most pro leagues, most notably the NFL, have exclusive contracts with networks or cable companies.
"This is the hard part about switching to an online-only consumption model," said Ulanoff of PCMag.com. "There are no guarantees [about what content is available]."
Sites like Major League Baseball and ESPN3 have helped fill some of the void with live streams of games, but their offerings pale in comparison to the many choices on cable. Many World Cup soccer games are available on ESPN3, although some, such as the much-anticipated United States vs. England match, were not.
Blogger Sam Grobart tried going cable-less, but he found himself longing for cable TV for a completely different reason. Quite simply, he missed channel surfing.
"This isn't a post about technology," he wrote on the New York Times blog Gadgetwise. "This is a post about behavior."
Strickland, an admitted "all-around geek," understands that sentiment. Yet he says the DVR has already helped with that mentality, freeing people of the belief that they need to tune in at a specific time on a specific day of the week.
Besides the thrill of ditching his cable bill, convenience has been the other biggest benefit, he says. "I'm going to watch a show when I want to watch it."
Strickland uses Hulu and Netflix's streaming capabilities for most of his shows and movies. He watches about half of the material on his television and the other half on his laptop.
He has used a Roku box for his TV, a cost of about $100, to help stream movies. But since he bought the device, gaming consoles such as Nintendo's Wii and Microsoft's Xbox have begun offering Netflix's streaming service, making his Roku less necessary.
In the end, Strickland says he's saved at least $55 a month. Perhaps more importantly, he says he has a new level of freedom.
"I realized how much time I was spending watching television, and now I'm doing other things," he said.
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Scarface (1932)
I love the first words you see on the screen but they really date the picture:
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Howard Hughes has become such a mythical figure it's as if the movie were produced by Zorro. Then there's the below-the-title nod to the book on which the movie is based. Obviously Hollywood cared more for words back then.
What's not dated about the picture is the apparent controversy surrounding it. Public Enemy, remember, began with a wordy pronouncment from the studio condemning gangsters in general, a sort of "We're not really glorifying gangsters even though Jimmy Cagney is electrifying" sheepish proclamation.
Scarface takes the opposite tack. In another wordy pronouncement, it condemns gang violence and then demands of the government: "What are you going to do about it?" The controversy even seeps into the film. Halfway through, a newspaper publisher defends his supposed glamorization of mobster Tony Camonte (Paul Muni) by telling a committee in his office that we can't ignore the problem, that it's up to "the people" to do something. "You are the government," the movie tells us earlier. All of this detracts from Camonte's story but alludes to the probable tensions during the making of the picture. Even back then Hollywood, the media, and the government were all pointing fingers at one another about who was or was not perpetuating violence.
Something else not dated? The direction by Howard Hawks. Not all Hollywood cameras were frozen by the introduction of sound. Hawks gives us some nice angles on street signs and plays well with the black-and-white shadows on the walls. A creepy atmosphere is introduced early as a ward boss is gunned down, in silhouette, by a whistling mobster. This nonchalant whistle prefigures all deaths and is probably a rip-off of Peter Lorre's child-murderer in Fritz Lang's M, but it's still effective.
Hawks' visual symbol for murder is the letter "x." Before and after the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, seven "x's" in the garage's architecture are shown, representing the seven mob leaders gunned down in cold blood. The last mob boss to get it, Boris Karloff's Gaffney, is bowling and has just thrown a strike (an "x" on the scoresheet). Nice image of the final pin spinning and dropping to represent Gaffney. When Camonte sticks it to his former right-hand man, the original coin-tossing mobster, Guino (George Raft), Guino is standing in the dooryway of room ten, or "X," and as he falls a large shadow of an "x" plays against the wall behind him.
Since this is pre-code Hollywood there's an overt sexuality to the picture, particularly in scenes between Camonte and Poppy (Karen Morley), John Lovo's and Camonte's moll.
Where does the picture fail? In its stated purpose to condemn gang violence. Like Public Enemy, the most dynamic figure is Camonte. He is carefree, brazen, almost child-like in the face of death. Gunned at in a restaurant, he shouts admiringly about the rival mobster's weapons. When he discovers his office has been torn apart, he shouts, almost happy, "Hey lookit! They been here, too!" Everything is an adventure to him. He's a big kid and the world is his candy store. There's no one like him in the movie. Everyone else is comic Italians with accents worse than Chico Marx, or puritanical cops and reporters with maniacal gleams in their eyes.
The movie betrays itself, too, by having Camonte who has been fearless throughout, even in the face of death suddenly turn yella. Crying, fleeing, he is shot down by the police. The camera then holds on a neon advertising sign that Camonte had often commented upon. "The World is Yours," it says, and to Camonte it meant "for the taking." With his death, the you has become pluralized and is directed back at the audience. It's up to you to get rid of the entertaining Camontes of the world and leave behind only tight-assed, bullying cops. Another mixed message from Hollywood.
© 1999 Erik Lundegaard
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The unity of Clinical Research of Banfora is implanted within the Regional hospital of Banfora (Province of Comoé, Region of Waterfalls). It was created to strengthen the facilities of CNRFP. This second station of research comes to help the Clinical Tries Center of Balonghin who was the point of convergence of all the clinical tries of the institution. Finally, the unity of Research of Banfora is an instrument which allows to anticipate the possibilities of modification of the epidemiological facies of malaria in Burkina Faso because of the phenomenon of climate change.
In addition to that, in the Region of Waterfalls, the transmission of the malaria is seasonal with a peak between May and November and a period of low transmission between December and April. In that context, the unity plays the role of focal point of the Demographic Suveillance System activities set up by CNRFP in Banfora. Built on a surface of 414m ², the unity was fitted out according to the international standards. It is a site which has rooms of clinical examinations, room of storage, preparation and administration of products for the investigations, room of post-vaccinal observation, a cold room equipped to preserve organic products at very low temperature (150 - 10 °), and laboratories (biochemistry / haematology and parasitology). In addition to these rooms, a space has been fitted out for the processing of biological samples and the cell culture. At last, two rooms were fitted out for the data management and the archiving. A team of researchers, agents of health and data capture work on place for the smooth running of the unity.
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Windmills "Sierra Nevada"
By Sarah Murphy
Published Dec 15, 2016
Cory Myraas makes music out of British Columbia's Okanagan Valley under the moniker Windmills — a name that conveys his ability to convert energy into songs. His latest is called "Sierra Nevada," and Exclaim! is bringing you the exclusive premiere.
The track takes Myraas's experiences from travelling through Central and South America earlier this year and turns them into a lush, moody, synth-driven tune.
"When I returned from my travels I was re-energized and full of inspiration and instantly began writing and creating," Myraas tells Exclaim! "'Sierra Nevada' is a product of that trip, specifically my time spent in Colombia at the end of it, and was inspired by beauty and heartbreak, high above the Sierra Nevada Mountains, hidden above Minca, Colombia."
You can hear Windmills convert that beautiful energy into an equally beautiful song by giving "Sierra Nevada" a spin in the player below. The track will appear on a 7-inch single due out in 2017.
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Regional Cooperation and Economic Relations with other Countries and Groupings
الرئيسية›Home›GCC Achievements›Achievements›Regional Cooperation and Economic Relations with other Countries and Groupings›New Zealand
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In view of the growing economic relations between the GCC Member States and New Zealand, and the desire of the government of New Zealand to develop such relations, the government of New Zealand requested to enter into FTA negotiations with the GCC. New Zealand's request was welcomed and approved by the GCC Financial and Economic Cooperation Committee in June 2006.
Two preparatory meetings between experts from the GCC and New Zealand were held in Riyadh in December 2006 and April 2007, wherein the two sides discussed a mechanism for launching the GCC-New Zealand FTA negotiations and the headlines of the provisions to be incorporated in this agreement. Several rounds of negotiations were held and the initial signing of the Agreement was made in 31st October 2009. The two parties are to review this agreement and prepare it in its final form.
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Charlie Shrem And Why We Need To Change Our Perspective Of Bitcoin
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On Monday, January 27, 2013, Charlie Shrem, the 24 year old CEO of BitInstant and Vice Chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation, was arrested for his role operating a Bitcoin exchange service popular among users of Silk Road. Before being seized and shut down by the United States government in October 2013, Silk Road was a hugely popular online black market which allowed users to buy and sell illegal drugs using Bitcoin as the primary medium of exchange. As described in the Complaint against Mr. Shrem, available here, “[t]he illegal nature of the commerce hosted on Silk Road was readily apparent to anyone visiting the site. The vast majority of the goods for sale consisted of illegal drugs of nearly every variety, openly advertised on the site as such and prominently visible on the home page.”
The Complaint against Mr. Shrem presents the underlying facts in excruciating detail. First, the Complaint makes clear that Shrem was the CEO and Chief Compliance Officer for BitInstant, referred to throughout the Complaint as simply “the Company.” Using his position at BitInstant, the Complaint also makes clear that Shrem helped a third party – Robert M. Faiella, a/k/a BTCKing – acquire Bitcoins for purposes of selling them to his own (Faiella’s) customers on Silk Road. The Complaint also alleges, primarily by quoting email exchanges between Shrem and Faiella, that Shrem knew that the Bitcoins he made available to Faiella would be used for unlawful purposes, and moreover that he circumvented the BitInstant anti-money laundering protocols he was responsible for controlling in order to sell Bitcoins to Faiella without raising any red flags.
Unfortunately, there is nothing new about the Shrem case, and at least as far as the technicalities of the legal case is concerned, not at all surprising. Indeed, given the allegations described above, the actual charges make perfect sense. Count One against Mr. Shrem is a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1960, for operating an unlicensed money transmitting business. § 1960 proscribes the operation of an “unlicensed money transmitting business,” which is defined as:
”¦a money transmitting business which affects interstate or foreign commerce in any manner or degree and””
(A) is operated without an appropriate money transmitting license in a State where such operation is punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony under State law, whether or not the defendant knew that the operation was required to be licensed or that the operation was so punishable;
(B) fails to comply with the money transmitting business registration requirements under section 5330 of title 31, United States Code, or regulations prescribed under such section; or
(C) otherwise involves the transportation or transmission of funds that are known to the defendant to have been derived from a criminal offense or are intended to be used to promote or support unlawful activity;
18 U.S.C. § 1960(b)(1)(A)-(C).
Although BitInstant had registered with FinCEN is required by section (b)(1)(B) and other provisions of federal law, BitInstant was not licensed by any state, and thus the government likely could have brought charges under § 1960(b)(1)(A). However, such a charge would have raised questions about whether BitInstant was required to become licensed and, if so, in which state(s), so the government appears to have taken the easier approach and pursued its case under § 1960(b)(1)(C). The Government’s § 1960 charge against Shrem describes that the Bitcoins Shrem made available to Faiella were “known to Shrem to have been intended to be used to promote and support unlawful activity, to wit, the operation of an unlicensed money transmitting business on Silk Road”¦and ultimately narcotics trafficking”¦”
The question of whether a Bitcoin exchange service like BitInstant can be labelled a money transmitting business may one day prove to be an interesting legal question. For now, the basis of the charge is derived from FinCEN’s March 18, 2013 Guidance Document, “Application of FinCEN’s Regulations to Persons Administering, Exchanging, or Using Virtual Currencies.” In FinCEN’s Guidance, FinCEN does not mention Bitcoin by name, but does include a discussion of “De-Centralized Virtual Currencies” which explains as follows:
A final type of convertible virtual currency activity involves a de-centralized convertible virtual currency (1) that has no central repository and no single administrator, and (2) that persons may obtain by their own computing or manufacturing effort.
A person that creates units of this convertible virtual currency and uses it to purchase real or virtual goods and services is a user of the convertible virtual currency and not subject to regulation as a money transmitter. By contrast, a person that creates units of convertible virtual currency and sells those units to another person for real currency or its equivalent is engaged in transmission to another location and is a money transmitter. In addition, a person is an exchanger and a money transmitter if the person accepts such de-centralized convertible virtual currency from one person and transmits it to another person as part of the acceptance and transfer of currency, funds, or other value that substitutes for currency.
To the extent that Mr. Shrem may ever challenge the § 1960 allegation against him, he may argue that the FinCEN guidance document is not binding or legally enforceable and therefore should not be used in the government’s case against him. He may also argue that the allegation – which turns an exchange service into a transmitter without the presence of a third party recipient of funds – should be dismissed as a matter of law. Whether Shrem will pursue any defenses in court remains to be seen.
Mr. Shrem was also charged for participating with Faiella in a conspiracy to commit money laundering in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1956(a)(2)(A), which provides that “(2) Whoever transports, transmits, or transfers, or attempts to transport, transmit, or transfer a monetary instrument or funds from a place in the United States to or through a place outside the United States or to a place in the United States from or through a place outside the United States ”” (A) with the intent to promote the carrying on of specified unlawful activity” is subject to inter alia a twenty year prison term. This provision of the federal money laundering statute requires an international movement of money, and the government’s complaint therefore alleges that when Faiella ordered Bitcoins from BitInstant, Shrem “filled the orders by causing funds to be transferred to an account that Faiella controlled” at Mt. Gox in Japan. This will be a very difficult allegation for Mr. Shrem to defeat.
Finally, Mr. Shrem – BitInstant’s Chief of Compliance – was also charged with wilfully failing to file suspicious activity reports in violation of 31 U.S.C. § 5318(g) and 5322(a), and 31 C.F.R. § 1022.320. Again, given his position at BitInstant and his understanding of Silk Road, we see this as a very difficult allegation to defeat. Worse, with all of these charges, given Shrem’s sophistication and the manner by which he made use of that sophistication, the Federal Sentencing Guidelines do not play in his favor. Mr. Shrem will likely do real prison time here.
When the news about Mt. Gox broke in May of last year, we wrote not only about the case itself (which was primarily based on Mt. Gox’s alleged deception of its U.S. bank, Wells Fargo), we also discussed the widespread media attention it received. Seemingly within minutes of the government executing the Mt. Gox seizure warrant, the story was picked up by Gawker, CNN, PC World, the Financial Times, and a host of underground websites. We commented at the time as follows: “Tragically for this upstart currency, the mainstream will learn of Bitcoin for the first time as a fringe currency under attack by the federal government. Whether Bitcoin will survive this attack and shed itself of the stigma associated with this seizure is a matter for another day and another article. We certainly hope that it does.”
Those who had never heard of Bitcoin before Charlie Shrem was arrested have certainly heard of it now. Once again, seemingly within minutes following his arrest, the Shrem case was picked up by virtually every major news outlet, from Time, to the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, Bloomberg, the International Business Times, Reuters, Wired, and literally hundreds of others. If the mainstream had not heard of Bitcoin after the Mt. Gox story broke or after Silk Road was shut down, it has heard about it now, and the context is terrible.
That said, our concerns about this stigma potentially destroying Bitcoin are different today than when we commented last May. Indeed, in the intervening months, we have spoken with (and in many cases, represented) numerous players in the Bitcoin space and educated ourselves about some of the emerging technology. For instance, we attended the North American Bitcoin Conference last week in Miami Beach and had the opportunity to hear Vitalik Buterin speak about Ethereum, described by Wired as: “an online service that lets you build practically anything in the image of bitcoin and run it across a worldwide network of machines. At its core, bitcoin is a way of reliably storing and moving digital objects or pieces of information. Today, it stores and moves money, but Buterin believes the same basic system could give rise to a new breed of social networks, data storage systems and securities markets ”” all operated without the help of a central authority.” In other words, Ethereum borrows the concept of the Bitcoin blockchain, but allows users to interact with one another ways that are far more advanced than a typical Bitcoin transaction. We see Ethereum as a “Web 3.0” of sorts, and Buterin’s lecture in Miami Beach was simply mindblowing. We frankly had no idea that the technology – or even the vision of what the technology might someday be – was as far along as it apparently is.
For Buterin’s discussion, we sat next to Jay Postma with MSB Compliance Inc.. Buterin ended his discussion to a standing ovation, and Jay turned to us and said, “this is the future.” We agree. Our chief concern when the Mt. Gox story broke, and even more so when the Silk Road story broke, was that the stigma could prevent Bitcoin from ever being used on a mass scale. But after hearing Buterin speak, we had to change our perspective in two critical ways. First, we need to stop looking at Bitcoin solely as an underground medium of exchange. It is so much more than that. Yes, it is a medicum of exchange, but it is also a cultural movement and radical technological development based upon the idea that people should be able to communicate directly with one another – in customizable language – with neither the involvement nor interference of anyone. And second, we need to stop looking at Bitcoin as meek and vulnerable to the taint that comes with stories like Mt. Gox, Silk Road, and Charlie Shrem. Bitcoin – as a medium of exchange but much more importantly as a totally radical idea of direct communication – is not going anywhere. We need to embrace it and take it very, very seriously.
The attorneys at Fuerst Ittleman David & Joseph, PL have extensive experience in anti-money laundering compliance with a focus on non-bank financial institutions, including all varieties of money services businesses and Bitcoin dealers and exchangers, as well as white collar criminal defense, complex commercial litigation, tax compliance and tax litigation, international trade and corporate transactions. You can reach an attorney by emailing us at contact@fidjlaw.com or by calling us at 305.350.5690.
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GMG 41: Upright Citizens Brigade: Changing The Game
By Bailey Pennick on October 2, 2012
There is a mysterious allure surrounding comedy. It’s an amazing talent to be able to make people laugh, but no one really knows what it takes to keep jokes flowing unless you’re on the inside. The Upright Citizens Brigade—a Chicago comedy troupe originally composed of Amy Poehler, Ian Roberts, Matt Walsh and Matt Besser—founded its first improv and comedy theater in New York in 1999, before setting up a branch on the West Coast in 2005. The UCB sometimes seems almost as indefinable as the dedicated talent that puts on sold-out shows seven nights a week. Started as a response to the stifling nature of the brick-wall world of stand-up, as a school as well as a theater, it has transformed into a launching pad for some of today’s biggest names in comedy, including Los Angeles branch veterans Aziz Ansari, Maria Bamford, Doug Benson, Ed Helms, Aubrey Plaza, Paul Scheer and Jenny Slate. It is inclusive and exclusive all at the same time, while continuing to redefine what is funny in a new age of technology. For us outsiders, the question begs: What is the Upright Citizens Brigade really? And where is it going from here?
A Safe Haven
“I never thought that I’d have a theater,” says Matt Besser, as shrieks of laughter echo down the labyrinth-like halls of the Upright Citizens Brigade’s Los Angeles theater. He looks right at home, albeit a little tired, after his weekly improv show ASSSSCAT. “We never planned on having [a theater]; it almost just came out of necessity. So the fact that we have one is a surprise to me.”
When moving to New York from Chicago, the UCB troupe didn’t predict instigating a comedic movement; they just wanted to get their unique brand of sketch-comedy noticed.
“The stand-up clubs were really a bummer. Either they were really expensive or they were really unfriendly to sketch and improv,” says Besser of the UCB’s beginnings. “Our theater came from a selfish place… I think the fact that it’s not just a stand-up club but also a place that has improv, sketch and other shows is what makes the theater great.”
A School of Thought
While freedom of creativity separates the UCB from its comedy troupe predecessors, each of UCB’s performers has one strict principle instilled in their very being as they step onto the stage.
“We teach finding ‘the game’ here, which is essentially what makes a piece funny, whether it’s a single joke or a half-hour show,” explains Besser. “By learning that kind of analysis, an actor working on a scripted show can do the same thing [they learn here]. If I’m going to ad-lib, I’m still going to respect the writer’s ‘game.’”
Neil Campbell, UCBLA’s artistic director, praises the improv school’s teachings—not only as an administrator but also as a graduate of the system. “[The school] gives you a shared vocabulary, training and approach to all types of shows,” says Campbell proudly. “That shared approach is UCB. [The classes] can make you funnier or take what’s funny about you and show it off!”
An Addiction
Highlighting the talent of pupils has given the UCB notable alumni, but what happens when these performers hit the big-time? Besser ensures that once you join, you can never escape the Brigade.
“Well, they don’t really go,” he says with a smirk. “They have so much fun because this isn’t a job, this is just a place to have fun and do your craft. Even if you are in movies, or on a sitcom, you always come back because you need the feeling of a live audience.”
With the theater providing the perfect rush, there is never a shortage of takers looking for a fix. The latest is an incredibly tall and abnormally sweaty comedian named Nick Thune. While getting his start in the solitary world of stand-up, Thune couldn’t resist the UCB. “I really love what happens at UCB and I wanted to have my own show… I literally just called them up and asked.”
Nick’s BIG Talk Show, Thune’s monthly UCB offering, showcases the theater’s commitment to innovative comedy. “I love The Larry Sanders Show and Fernwood 2 Night; I started thinking, I’d love to have a fake talk show live. I bet UCB thought I was going to do stand-up instead,” laughs Thune to himself as he double-fists a beer and tea in the UCB hallway. “I think that [the show] has made me a better actor.” It’s hard to imagine the UCB not rubbing off on Thune when he’s surrounded by world-class comedians like Bob Odenkirk (Mr. Show, Breaking Bad), who was a BIG Talk Show guest earlier this month. “I’ve met more of my idols here than anywhere else,” Thune says, in reverence. “UCB creates this sense of community, because we are all in this business together.”
A Supportive Community
“A big part of improv is making each other look good,” says Campbell, when asked about camaraderie. “People are supportive and laugh at each other. I think that all comes back to having to work together onstage. If you can’t do that in real life, you probably can’t do it onstage.”
The endless support of the UCB community is what keeps the theater expanding, at least in LA. “A space for our school is definitely going to happen,” says Besser, addressing new ambitions. “A second theater in LA would be nice, too.” Campbell confirms this goal: “We want to become more of a production entity as well; where it’s just as easy to make a video here as it is to put on a show here.”
The growth into multimedia production only reiterates how much the UCB wants to dominate through innovation and passion. Besser, for one, is still coming to grips with its popularity.
“For better or worse, when I go up on stage, part of my intro is ‘co-founder of UCB.’ When I was a kid, I never dreamed of being a ‘founder.’ It’s a little weird. I’d rather be known as a comedian, but that is my lot.”
While the UCB has moved well past anything that the original foursome could have imagined, it still thrives on that tried-and-true, rebellious desire to perform. And while we might not be able to fully understand all of its inner workings, we’ll always enjoy the show. F
Photo of Upright Citizens Brigade by Liezl Estipona: (L-R) Amy Poehler, Matt Walsh, Ian Roberts, Matt Besser
Photo by Hawkey Photos: (L-R) Chad Carter, Owen Burke, Rob Riggle, Paul Scheer (at computer) in "Facebook"
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Dr. Priti Gupta is a Senior Consultant in Fertility & IVF services. She graduated from Maulana Azad Medical College winning the prestigious Dharamveer Gold Medal for the best student throughout in MBBS. She went on to pursue her post-graduation at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and won the Gold Medal in MD (Gynecology & Obstetrics) in 2002. She passed the membership of Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (MRCOG) at London, UK with flying colors.
She has been a faculty at various national and international conferences, read scientific papers and presented posters. She has written book chapters and is actively involved as a teaching faculty for MRCOG courses.
She has trained at Wayne State Medical University, Detroit, USA in IVF and Reproductive Medicine. She is a decorated roller skating champion at state level and counts cooking, dancing and shopping as her hobbies!
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Dr.(Mrs.) Santosh Gupta She has been practicing Obstetrics & Gynaecology for 40 years. She has helped to deliver more than 7,000 babies in her long and illustrious career. She has been instrumental in guiding many doctor in Delhi and inculcating the value of honesty and hard work in them. She is an inspiration for many who have interacted with her, whether doctors or patients.
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He is a member of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) (Doctors without Borders) and is actively involved in his old college (Maulana Azad Medical College) and school(Mount St. Mary’s, Delhi Cantt.) alumni associations.
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Marijke van Warmerdam -- The Flower Show
Marijke van Warmerdam
Marijke van Warmerdam is internationally renowned for her short films. In the early nineties she made her first non-narrative film loops, which led Daniel Birnbaum to call her the "Loop Guru of the eternally flowing present." Together with her photographs and sculptures these form a consistent body of work. With a typically light touch, the work combines a deceptively naïve approach to the act of seeing with straightforward strategies such as dramatic shifts of scale and rhythm, doubling and reflection to urge us to look with our eyes wide open in order to stress that not everything is what it seems. Nowadays she has developed this retinal openness to themes which deal more explicitly with perception.
Marijke van Warmerdam’s exhibition The Flower Show includes a film loop called Trembling, 2008, which is surrounded by a number of painted film stills. ‘Trembling’ shows nothing but a trembling bunch of white petunias, with a road surface rushing by in the background. The film stills are printed on linen and have white flowers painted on them by the artist in a vigorous and rapid manner. By means of fast Tai-Chi-like movements she has obtained a striking separation between foreground and background. Her apt painterly gesture brings about a doubling that occurs in all sorts of ways in her work. What is special is that in both the Trembling film loop and in the paintings, called Flower and Flowers, white flowers hover in the foreground, while a quieter background image produces a counter-movement. A disturbance of the rhythm or the movement effects a splendid contrast of ‘here’ and ‘there’ in the work.
Van Warmerdam uses the themes of repetition and movement above all as a means of evoking a feeling of lightness and an uninhibited future. These are always in the service of an infectious optimism. At the same time her feel-good art broaches the difference between pure ‘looking’ and the more cerebral ‘seeing’, inviting the viewer to think about what and how he perceives.
Born in Holland in 1959, she has lived and worked in New York and Berlin, and is now based in Amsterdam. Her work has featured in numerous important international exhibitions, including the Sydney, Berlin, Kwangju and Venice Biennials, and Documenta X. She has had retrospective exhibitions at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, Migros Museum in Zurich, ICA in Boston, Muhka in Antwerp, MAC in Marseille, The Fruitmarket in Edinburgh and IKON in Birmingham.
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The Lao Kip is the current currency of Laos. Currently, its code is LAK, and the currency sign is ₭ or ₭N (encoded). Between the years 1945-1946, the Free Kip Government in Vientiane printed a series of paper money in 10, 20, 50 Att denominations. Even 10 kip was issued then, before the French took control and created the French Indochinese Piastre as the currency of Laos. The Royal Kips were introduced in the year 1952. Coins were also circulated.
The Institut d’Emission des Etats du Cambodge, du Laos et du Vietnam, Laos Branch issued notes in two currencies, the kip and piastre, in 1953. They were both made at 1, 5 and 100 denominations. Four years later, the Laos government printed solely kip notes – the notes were of 1, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 and 500 denominations. In 1963, 200 and 1000 kip notes were joined and 5000 kip notes were added later in the year 1975. During this time, the banknotes were printed in France.
A year later, another kip was introduced, called the Pathet Lao Kip. Banknotes with the denominations of 1, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200 and 500 kip were circulated. This time, the notes were printed in China. Pathet Lao kips replaced the Royal kips throughout the country when Pathet Lao’s took over Laos. The exchange rate for the kip was 1 Pathet Lao kip = 20 royal kip.
In 1979, Pathet Lao kips were replaced with Lao PDR (People’s Democratic Republic) kip due to currency reformation. Banknotes were dispatched in denominations of 1, 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100 kip. Added in 1988 were 500 kip banknotes; then by 1000 kip in the year 1992; 2000 and 5000 kip in 1997; 10,000 and 20,000 kip in 2002; and 50,000 kip last January 2006.
Coins were once again circulated in the year 1980’s at denominations of 10, 20 and 50 Att. When the country celebrated its 10th Lao People’s Democratic Republic, 1, 5, 10, 20 and 50 kips were issued. Currently, due to heavy inflation, no coins were dispatched around Laos.
Last November 2010, the government issued a 100,000 kip, commemorating the 450th anniversary of the founding of Vientiane and the 35th celebration of Lao People’s Democratic Republic.
As of February 23, 2011, 1 Lao Kip = 0.00012 U.S. Dollar. When a dollar is to be converted in Lao kip the value is 8056.0000 Lao Kip.
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