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Sixteen-year-old Tamrika Fuller is happy with her life. With good friends and good grades, she's content to keep her options open for her future. But when her parents reveal they've been saving for several years to send her to their Alma Mater for her final years of high school - an old-fashioned boarding academy miles from her home in Vancouver - she's thrown out of her comfort zone. With no friends and a taciturn new roommate, Tammy feels un-moored and deeply out of place. What's more, her new school is heavily science-focused, with little to no thought for arts students. In an attempt to take control of her life and make something positive happen, Tammy starts an art club, while new relationships make her ask what it is she really wants out of life - and how to make it happen.
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Premiere: K The Infinite Wants To Go Back To When It Was "All Good" On Poetic New Jam
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Last year, Camden-born rapper K The Infinite made a stellar debut with his first album, Void, a largely collaborative 11-tracker that still managed to show off his big personality and bold creativity. With follow-up Merkaba just around the corner (October 18), "All Good" arrives as the fifth single to emerge from the project and it's a little different from the laid-back, jazzy cool of the preceding four, instead weaving in club electronics and an impatient energy to match the intensity of the subject matter.
I read somewhere that reminiscing is the first sign of depression, the North London rhymer says in the opening seconds of his new single "All Good". As the poetically-delivered bars unfold, however, we learn why he might want to go back to an earlier time, before the fateful night in question. Painting bold pictures with his bars on the verses, before slipping into something more soulful for the hook, there are certain points that will call to mind the more soulful end of Murkage Dave and The Streets, but K is most definitely his own man.
Speaking with Complex via email, K explained his thoughts behind the album: "Merkaba is a journey reminiscent of good times with songs like 'All Good' and 'Wisdom Of My Youth' painting the narrative. It tackles the death of my father in 'Proud' and conquers fear with 'Such Is Lyfe'. The project represents healing; transforming through pain and finding the beauty in life."
K The Infinite's Merkaba drops this Friday, October 18.
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1. Dear Evan Hansen – Waving Through A Window
The pick for best song of 2017 this year goes to “Waving Through A Window” from the Dear Evan Hansen musical. I haven't seen the musical itself, but I loved this song from the first time I heard it. Ben Platt gives an incredible vocal performance in this emotional song that is as powerful as it is beautiful.
2. Julia Michaels – Issues
One of the breakout stars this year was Julia Michaels, a singer songwriter who stepped into the spotlight with her single “Issues”. Her unique vocal style shines through the minimalist music and all comes together to make a perfect combination. Also recommend is another Julia Michaels song released this year, “Uh Huh”.
3. Lucky Boys Confusion – Name In Lights
Rock band Luck Boys Confusion reunited this year to record their album “Stormchasers”. After taking a long break, the band is back and continuing their streak of releasing great music. “Name In Lights” is my favorite off the album, but the whole album is solid and definitely worth checking out.
4. Lizzo – Truth Hurts
Lizzo is back on the best songs list for the 2nd year in a row with her song “Truth Hurts”. She has an original style and always seems to come up with catchy hits. This one reminds me of the song Black Beatles by Rae Sremmurd.
5. Avicii – Lonely Together ft. Rita Ora
At the number 5 spot is a collaboration between producer Avicii and singer Rita Ora with their song “Lonely Together”. Avicii really knows how to make dance pop hits and Rita matches the song perfectly with her smooth vocal style resulting in a fantastic song.
My Brothers and I – Dream
I had to add one more song as a bonus because it flew under the radar in 2015. I randomly discovered this band in 2017 and so far it looks like they are still under the radar. The song "Dream" by My Brothers and I is radio friendly Pop at its finest. It's the kind of song that would get millions of listens if it got a little exposure. Right now it is under 30k so we'll see if it catches on soon. Also check out their song “In the Stars (AdamHinden Remix)”.
If you liked these songs, or have other favorites for 2017, feel free to leave a comment below.
Also check out the Best Songs of 2016. And Best Songs for 2018.
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Strobilomyces / Archenzo / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 The trio fatally confused the cep (or penny bun), left; with the amanita phalloides (death cap), right
One woman has died and two people have been hospitalised in western France after accidentally eating poisonous, wild mushrooms; prompting health agencies to warn people of the dangers of foraging.
The incident happened in Deux-Sèvres (Nouvelle-Aquitaine) last week.
A couple and a member of their family went foraging for mushrooms, and picked what they believed to be ceps (known in French as "bolets"; also known as porcini or penny bun bolete mushrooms).
The mushrooms were in fact amanita phalloides (also known as the “death cap”), which are extremely poisonous. Just half of one can be enough to kill a human, and the toxicity is not reduced by cooking, freezing, or drying.
The body of the 49-year-old woman was discovered by her husband, three days after the trio ate the mushrooms. The woman, the man, and his sister - who had been staying with the couple - had all been very ill since eating the fungi.
The husband and sister called the emergency services, who confirmed the woman’s death, and took the pair to the Faye-l’Abesse hospital in Deux-Sèvres.
They were then taken to the Anti-Poison Centre at the Tours CHU (hospital), and have now recovered.
An inquiry into “cause of death” has now been opened, and an autopsy is expected.
According to early reports, the trio had been foraging for mushrooms, and consumed what they believed to be edible ceps the same day. They became very ill with violent vomiting and digestive pain several hours later, and for two days afterwards.
Death cap mushrooms are considred to be particularly dangerous, not only for their toxicity, but also because they can appear very similar to edible varieties, and usually smell and taste pleasant.
They can cause gastrointestinal problems within hours of eating, which, if left untreated, can cause heart issues and dehydration; and damage the liver, leading to problems including jaundice, liver failure, kidney failure, pancreatic inflammation, and brain bleeds. Death usually follows within six to 16 days.
In a warning published this week, the Agence Régionale de Santé (ARS) said that people “in even the slightest doubt” about the kind of mushrooms they have picked, should “check with a specialist, pharmacist or mycology centre” before eating.
In France, most pharmacists can check your foraged mushrooms to ensure that they are safe to eat.
Mushroom poisonings on the rise
National health safety agency L'Agence Nationale de Sécurité Sanitaire (Anses) said last week that it had seen a “steep rise” in the number of reported mushroom poisonings in just two weeks of October this year, with 493 cases (including one very severe case).
This is compared to between four and 90 cases reported per week in the three months prior.
The ARS said that this was partly due to “favourable weather conditions” in summer and autumn, which had both increased the number of mushrooms available, and had prompted more people to forage.
Symptoms of mushroom poisoning usually appear within 12 hours of eating the fungi, the ARS and Anses warned, and said that “the state of the poisoned person can worsen quickly”.
People who believe they have been poisoned by a mushroom should seek treatment from a doctor, pharmacist or anti-poison centre immediately, and not wait to see if the symptoms “improve”, the agencies said.
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Cord Blood Stem Cells Stored at No Cost to Families with an Identified Medical Need Provide Therapeutic Options
Tucson Families Qualify for Unique Clinical Trial Opportunity
TUCSON, ARIZ. – February 14, 2013 – Thanks to the Newborn Possibilities Program® by Cord Blood Registry® (CBR®), families facing serious medical conditions with few options may have access to family cord blood stem cell banking services at no cost. This enables them access to their genetically related newborn stem cells for potential future treatment. A unique group of families who participated in the Tucson Medical Center pilot of the Newborn Possibilities Program have had the opportunity to participate in clinical trials using their stem cells. One Tucson mom, Jessica Schaefer, had a difficult pregnancy with complications that qualified her for this program when she delivered her son, Logan. Logan’s cord blood stem cells were processed and stored in CBR’s state-of-the-art stem cell processing and storage facility at no cost, in the event that they may provide a therapeutic option for him in the future.
"I am blown away that this program was available to me when I delivered Logan," says Schaefer. "I am so grateful to CBR for the chance to have my son participate in the Medical College of Georgia’s clinical trial for cerebral palsy. We feel blessed to have the unique opportunity to possibly help Logan lead a happier life, while also helping to advance the science of stem cell therapies."
The Newborn Possibilities Program is a corporate initiative from Cord Blood Registry designed to ensure that families with an identified medical need and babies born after high-risk deliveries have a free option to save cord blood stem cells in the event they may be used in future treatment options and increase a family’s access to clinical trials. Nearly 3,000 physicians have collected units for the Newborn Possibilities Program and CBR has stored nearly 5,000 units under the program since its inception.
Stem Cell Collection Pilot Paves Path to Clinical Trial Enrollment
"We created the Newborn Possibilities Program as a catalyst for medical researchers to advance clinical trials involving newborn stem cells," says Geoffrey Crouse, chief executive officer of CBR. "At the same time, we help identify families with a diagnosed condition who might directly benefit from family banking through a transplant."
Cherie Lennex has also enrolled her son, Nathan, in the cord blood stem cell trial for cerebral palsy in Georgia. She had learned about her options for saving cord blood, but could not fit private storage in her budget at the time. Her pregnancy was routine, but Nathan came early, qualifying her for the Newborn Possibilities Program Tucson pilot.
"When representatives from the program called for a routine follow-up to check on Nathan’s development, we confirmed he was missing milestones and might be at risk for developing cerebral palsy," noted Lennex. "Nathan was my first child and I hadn’t really considered that something might be wrong with his development. Once he was diagnosed with cerebral palsy and we were informed of the study in Georgia, it became immensely clear just how fortunate we are to have his stem cells stored. We are very grateful."
In less than two years under the Newborn Possibilities Program Tucson pilot, cord blood stem cells were collected and stored at no cost from more than 1,100 babies who demonstrated signs of potential neurologic damage based upon predetermined criteria. Following the cord blood collection, CBR program managers contact the families on a regular basis to track the children’s medical and developmental status. Of those who have been evaluated to date, early assessments helped CBR identify seven children within one year of their birth, with conditions where stem cells are being investigated as potential treatments. Three of those children have enrolled in clinical trials and more than 60 children have been identified at this early stage as being at risk for developmental delays by 24 months of age, which can be an indicator of neurological damage.
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From International Relations to Relations International: Postcolonial Essays
Philip Darby
Reference - 164 Pages
ISBN 9781138958494 - CAT# Y206980
Series: Postcolonial Politics
ISBN 9781315661186 - CAT# YE64785
December 22, 2015 by Routledge
This book brings postcolonial critique directly to bear on established ways of theorizing international relations. Its primary concern is with the non-European world and its relations with the North. In advancing an alternative conception of "relations international", the book draws on alternative source material and different forms of writing. It also features short stories, an interview and explores the role of poetics and performance.
The suzerainty of the disciplinary writ is challenged on three primary grounds. Firstly on its Eurocentrism, which leads the discipline to pass lightly over the distinctive life experiences of most of the world’s people. Secondly, on the discipline’s failure to engage in any systematic way with other bodies of knowledge about the international, as for example international political economy, postcolonialism and development. Lastly, it confronts the ‘top down’ nature of the politics of the discipline, and that seldom addresses everyday life.
From squatter towns to the evasions of the poor, from law through to literature, this work raises a number of problems for International relations. It challenges a colonial mindset, de-centres the west and opens the field to new approaches that are far more inter-disciplinary than international relations generally allows. It is a provocative contribution for students and scholars of IR and Postcolonial studies alike.
Introduction Phillip Darby 1. Teaching an Unorthodox IR course Devika Goonewardene 2. Reworking the Ruling Knowledge Bank about International Politics Ashis Nandy 3. Narrating the Nation and International Law Tony Anghie 4. Development and World Order Phillip Darby 5. Glimpses of African Life Sekai Nzenza 6. On Misplaced IR Carlos Morreo 7. Performing Pedagogy: Memory and the Aesthetic turn David Martin 8. The Neglected Shadow Self Christine Deftereos 9. Sea Level: Towards a Poetic Geography Paul Carter
Phillip Darby is director of the independent Institute of Postcolonial Studies based in Melbourne and is a principal fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
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On the road to excellence
IT’S official...the Dane Housing Group is well on its way to being an excellent organisation.
So says external assessor Richard Lloyd-Mullen, the client services director of North of England Excellence which presented the company, which took over the former council houses in Sandbach, Middlewich, Alsager and Holes Chapel with its ‘achievement marque’ award.
He said: ‘The achievement marque is the second stage of the Marques of Excellence scheme which is designed to encourage and support organisations in their drive for further improvement.
‘It was a pleasure to meet such a dedicated and professional team which is not what I experience every day.’
Chief executive Anne Ward received the award on behalf of the company and its proud staff.
Mr Lloyd-Mullen told them: ‘Your team is clearly committed to driving improvement through the business based on a rigorous self assessment process.
‘You have a thorough process for monitoring progress of the identified improvements and taking corrective action when required.’
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Freddie Kitchens on Baker Mayfield’s wrist, his bond with Gregg Williams and other things we learned
Cleveland Browns head coach Freddie Kitchens and quarterback Baker Mayfield talk before a play during day 18 of training camp. (Joshua Gunter, cleveland.com)cleveland.com
By Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland.com
BEREA, Ohio — Baker Mayfield practiced without a wrap on his right wrist Tuesday, and looked good in individual drills open to the media.
Freddie Kitchens said that continued after the session was closed.
“Yeah, Baker’s fine,’’ he said. “He’s good.”
Mayfield suffered what was believed to be a bruised wrist during Sunday’s 43-13 loss to the Titans during one of his five sacks. X-rays were negative and Kitchens doesn’t expect him to miss any practice time this week. The Browns will have Wednesday off before returning Thursday in preparation for the Monday night game against the Jets.
Mayfield will oppose Sam Darnold, whom many experts believed the Browns would take No. 1 last year. Instead, he went No. 3 to the Jets.
Kitchens reflected on Mayfield pulling out the victory over the Jets last year after Tyrod Taylor suffered the concussion.
“He’s relentless,’’ Kitchens said. “He’s a competitor. He just competes. Didn’t really know what the reads were and stuff like that but he just made stuff happen. One of the best things that I can say about a person is just being a relentless competitor, and I think that’s what he is.”
Here are some other things we learned Tuesday:
1. Kitchens appreciates his time with Gregg Williams
Gregg Williams and Kitchens guided the Browns through a tumultuous time, going 5-3 as interim coach and offensive coordinator. Williams interviewed for the head coaching job, but Kitchens got it instead.
“Gregg and I have a bond that will always be that,’’ said Kitchens. “Anytime you get a group of people and guys to believe in you and believe in what you are doing, it’s always special. We were able to do that. The credit should go to the players because they had to buy in and they had to go perform.
“I respect the hell out of Gregg. I think Gregg is one of the best coaches in the National Football League and has been for a long time. It’s not like he just woke up and he was there. He has been a good coach in the National Football League, even going back to going against him when he was in St. Louis and I was in Arizona. I can’t say enough good things about Gregg.”
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2. Browns to face Demaryius Thomas
With Antonio Brown joining the Patriots, they’re trading 5-time Pro Bowl receiver Demaryius Thomas to the Jets — just in time for the Browns’ visit to MetLife on Monday night.
In six games against the Browns, the former longtime Bronco has caught 22 of 36 targets with one TD. With the Texans last year, he caught three passes for 32 yards in a Houston win.
3. Injury report
Safety Damarious Randall sat out Tuesday with a stomach virus and linebacker Adarius Taylor suffered a high ankle sprain against the Titans. Kitchens said he hopes Taylor is a fast healer.
If he misses time, it could mean some playing time for Genard Avery, who was inactive on Sunday. Avery, the Browns’ fifth-round pick last year, slipped down the depth chart while he transitions from linebacker to defensive end.
Kitchens also said backup offensive tackle Kendall Lamm will miss time — possibly a couple of weeks — with his knee injury, meaning the Browns will likely have to sign another tackle.
4. Kitchens was pleased with right guard Eric Kush
Kush may have earned another start Monday night.
“I thought Kush played well,’’ Kitchens said. “I thought he held his own in there. He matched up against a pretty good player for the most part all day, and I thought he played well.”
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Careers at Canonical
Canonical’s mission is to help governments and businesses the world over with migrations, management, and support for their Ubuntu deployments.
In the early 2000s Linux was established as an enterprise server platform, freely available to consumers. That said, most people found it difficult to use. Mark Shuttleworth set out to use one of the Linux projects, operating system Debian, to create a user-friendly Linux Desktop. He called it Ubuntu, an African word meaning “humanity to others”, and founded Canonical to market it in 2004.
Ubuntu was designed to be free for anyone, with funding for its operations coming from sales of other services (e.g., support services). After developing a few different test versions, its official release, Version 4.10, occurred in October 2004. It generated significant attention, and thousands of consumers and industry experts downloaded the free software.
Canonical made things simple for customers by scheduling new releases on a six-month basis. The firm decided that every fourth release would provide long-term support, which included updates for security patches and new hardware, among other things. It charged fees for this technical support. While revenues were brisk, it did not begin reaching profitability until years later.
Business model of Canonical
Canonical has a segmented market business model, with customer groups that have slightly different needs. The company targets its offerings at businesses and governments.
Canonical offers five primary value propositions: accessibility, convenience, pricing, performance, and brand/status.
The company creates accessibility by providing a wide variety of options. It makes Ubuntu available worldwide through retail channels, most major public clouds, and its network of partners. In addition, the platform runs on several devices, including computers, smartphones, tablets, and TVs.
The company offers convenience by making life simpler for customers. It provides employees to assist with all aspects of Ubuntu management, from design and development to training and certification to support.
The company offers a pricing value proposition. Customers can download, use, and share Ubuntu for free. Moreover, they can try its complementary tool Landscape free for 30 days.
The company demonstrates strong performance through tangible results. It helped the Penn Manor school district set up a network of 1,700 Ubuntu laptops. In one year, savings on license fees for the computers (as compared to an alternative laptop) amounted to $200 per laptop, a total of $345,000.
The company has established a strong brand due to its success. It touts Ubuntu as the leading operating system for cloud operations – used by most public cloud workloads, new smart gateways, advanced robots, self-driving c ars, and switches.
Thanks to Canonical’s work with top phone and PC manufacturers, Ubuntu is available on computers sold at more than 3,000 retailers in China, India, and Mexico. All major hardware vendors, software vendors, system integrators and cloud providers have certified their technologies on Ubuntu. Lastly, Canonical has staff members operating in over 30 countries worldwide.
Canonical’s main channels are retail channels, major public clouds, and its network of partners. The company promotes its offerings through its website, social media pages, and conferences.
Canonical’s customer relationship is primarily of a personal assistance nature. The company assists customers with its flagship service, Ubuntu Advantage, through which it does the following:
Plan and Install – The company builds and installs a solution on trial systems, monitors it, then provides deployment recommendations
Deploy – The company configures and then deploys the system
Train – The company trains clients on how to manage their deployments
Manage – The company works with client teams to monitor and optimize their deployments on an ongoing basis, offering 24/7 phone, e-mail, and portal support
Despite this orientation, there is a self-service component. The company maintains the Canonical Knowledge Base, an online library of articles about technical issues. It is available exclusively to Ubuntu Advantage subscribers. It also offers Landscape, a systems management tool designed to monitor and support networks of desktops, clouds, and servers.
It provides features such as automated updates and deployment of its reference architecture OpenStack cloud. Furthermore, the firm‘s website offers the Ubuntu design blog, with articles written by the Canonical design team.
Lastly, there is a community element in the form of a peer forum where clients can interact.
Canonical’s business model entails designing, developing, and delivering its services to its customers.
Canonical partners with other firms to help them sell its offerings or enhance usage of the offerings for the firms’ customers. The types of partners are:
Public Cloud -- As part of its public cloud providers program, Canonical provides optimized Ubuntu images, management, and commercial support to the biggest clouds in the world.
OpenStack – The company uses an integration lab called OpenStack Interoperability Lab to test its cloud partners’ products in various Ubuntu OpenStack configurations.
Charm -- The Charm Partner Program is described as the fastest route for ISVs and solution providers to take advantage of all that the Ubuntu cloud and server ecosystem has to offer.
Software – The company provides a range of tools, programs, and trainings to independent software vendors (ISVs).
Hardware -- The company offers an end-to-end solution for manufacturers of AMD, Intel, and ARM-based servers and client devices, including Dell, HP, and Lenovo.
Phone – Through the Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group (CAG), the company gives handset makers and mobile network carriers the opportunity to help shape Ubuntu’s mobile strategy.
Retail – The company offers marketing materials to help retailers increase traffic, profits, and revenues through the sale of PCs pre-loaded with Ubuntu.
Channel – The company enables channel partners to provide management and support for Ubuntu, expanding their service portfolios.
Internet of Things – The company enables makers of smart devices to sell software to their customers and deliver updates on the open Ubuntu Core platform.
Specific partners include the following: Asus, EMC, Intel, AMD, Emulex, and Amazon Web Services.
Beyond these partners, Canonical also works with developers by providing with Ubuntu sofware developer kits they can use to create relevant applications.
Canonical’s main resources are its human resources, who include the more than 500 designers, developers, and project managers that help design, develop, and deliver its services. Many are Ubuntu desktop, server, and cloud experts.
Canonical has a personal assistance structure, providing a premium proposition through significant personal service and frequent service enhancements. Its biggest cost driver is likely sales/marketing, a variable expense. Other major drivers are in the areas of customer support and cost of services.
Canonical has one revenue stream: revenues it generates from the sale of technical support and other Ubuntu-related services to customers. Sales typically occur through the formation of contracts.
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info: Mark earned a Business Science Finance degree at the University of Cape Town. He previously served as the Founder of HBD Venture Capital and as a security specialist Thawte Consulting.
Jane Silber,
info: Jane earned a B.Sc. degree in Mathematics and Computer Science at Haverford College, an M.Sc. degree in Management of Technology at Vanderbilt University and an MBA at Oxford University. She previously served as Chief Operating Officer of Canonical.
info: Anand Krishnan (EVP, Cloud) earned a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering at Manipal Institute of Technology, an M.S. in Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, and an MBA at Stanford University. He previously served in several leadership roles at Microsoft Corporation.
info: Chris Kenyon (SVP, Cloud Sales and Business Development) earned an International Baccaulaureate at the United World College of the Atlantic and an M.A. in Political Theory at the University of Edinburgh. He previously served as VP & GM, Alliances & OEM Services at Canonical.
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Dr. Viviane Bremer about sexually transmitted diseases 16. January 2020 16:55
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A meter below sea level, the German island of Pellworm is surrounded by towering dikes designed to keep storm surges out. But will they be enough to protect the green island from climate-induced rising waters?
12 German regional 'superfoods' for a healthy year 15. January 2020 09:31
Thanks to the marketing label "superfood," quinoa and chia seeds as well as acai and goji berries have found their way into European consumers' habits. But why not pick local products with just as many health benefits?
SARS - a dangerous viral infection in the lungs 14. January 2020 12:56
The mysterious lung disease that is circulating in China is apparently caused by a SARS virus, according to a German physician. It belongs to the strain of Corona virus. What is known about SARS? DW takes a look.
Autonomous 3D-printed cars made in Germany 14. January 2020 09:03
Berlin startup BigRep has come up with its first fully 3D-printed autonomous electric vehicle. They’re planning to take the prototype for test drives later this year. Could this be the future of cars Made in Germany?
How does a black box work? 09. January 2020 11:23
If you want to establish why a plane crashed, you need to retrieve the black box. This virtually indestructible orange device records all relevant flight data and conversations in the cockpit.
German apes likely traumatized after animal deaths in Krefeld Zoo fire 02. January 2020 20:07
The blaze that killed more than 30 animals in the German zoo will traumatize the surviving animals, primate researcher Antje Engelhardt told DW. It will be difficult for the animals to process the horrific events.
Eating disorders – what the experts say 02. January 2020 09:21
Martina Hartmann works at Berlin's Dick & Dünn advisory center for people with eating disorders. Dr. Christian Thiele is a specialist in psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy, and he's medical director of the Theodor-Wenzel-Werk clinic in Berlin.
Skeptical Germany lags behind on artificial intelligence 29. December 2019 17:55
The US and China are leaders in developing AI applications. But many Germans still have reservations about this technology. Now, German industry is urging greater progress, as Sabine Kinkartz reports from Berlin.
Germany: A survival guide for winter 29. December 2019 15:48
With Christmas celebrations at an end and winter well underway, many people in Germany feel the weather weighing on their spirits. But these tips from residents on how to fight off gloom and spread joy could help.
Epilepsy: A talk with the expert 20. December 2019 12:30
How do people cope with epilepsy? Karl Melzer had his first seizure as a teenager. He tells us about his experience with the disorder. Neurologist Martin Holtkamp also talks about the challenges in treating epilepsy patients.
Power-to-X: The secret to a 100% renewable energy system? 19. December 2019 10:35
By turning renewable electricity into fuel, power-to-X could free transport, heating and industrial process from fossil fuels — once costs fall.
Longest UN climate talks end with no deal on carbon markets 15. December 2019 17:23
Marathon international climate talks in Madrid ended with major polluters resisting calls to ramp up efforts to keep global warming at bay and negotiators postponing the regulation of global carbon markets until next year.
Fears over German sausages as safety checks 'to be reduced' 14. December 2019 15:45
Consumer watchdogs and the German Food Ministry are arguing over new safety reforms, following deaths linked to bacteria-ridden sausages. The organization Foodwatch says the plans will mean fewer health inspections.
LiFi - The internet of light 13. December 2019 18:06
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Pioneer recovers valuable minerals from batteries 10. December 2019 10:33
Nowadays, it's hard to imagine life without cobalt, nickel and lithium. They're essential for electronic devices, especially batteries. And while they‘re hard to recycle, it’s not impossible. As one pioneering German reveals.
COP25: Who are the biggest climate winners and losers? 10. December 2019 09:05
Climate change is a race against time. The Climate Change Performance Index published today shows which industrial countries are in the lead, and which are the biggest losers.
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Vagn Holmboe
Chamber Music (II)
Five works for different chamber ensembles, where the meeting of the instruments creates strong, natural forms
An explosive beginning to the New York Philharmonic’s sensational new series of all Carl Nielsen’s symphonies and solo concertos!
Mozart’s famous Paris Symphony (no. 31) in two versions, as well as Symphonies 33-34
Solo and Chamber Works for Guitar
Transparent, poetic music by Holmboe, who was captivated at a late age by the unique possibilities of the guitar.
Erik Norby
The Rainbow Snake - Orchestral Songs and Symphonic Works
Orchestral magic in one of the most impressive orchestra pieces of the 1970s with sophisticated, almost Late Romantic sounds.
Poul Rovsing Olsen
Piano Concerto and Orchestral Works
Brilliant music from the 1950s by a composer with an unusually international outlook. A real discovery!
Sceneries for percussion and ensemble
Four magical, virtuosic percussion works inspired by the forms of nature and eastern mysticism.
Enchanting vocal music with a vision of a world in ecstatic balance. A vocal tour de force in spectacular sound quality.
Chamber Symphonies
A master composer in concentrated format. Holmboe’s razor-sharp chamber symphonies encapsulate the essence of his art.
Bent Lorentzen
Erotic Hymns
Intense music for baritone and organ, where the religious and the erotic meet to texts from three centuries.
Electronic Music Produced at DIEM 1987-2012
A cavalcade of electronic works created over 25 years by a wide selection of Danish composers at the Danish Institute for Electronic Music.
Katrine Ring, Vagn Holmboe
A Hand for Holmboe
The well known Danish DJ Katrine Ring deconstructs and remixes Vagn Holmboe’s Chamber Concertos from the 1940s.
The Masterworks Vol. 2 — Chamber and Instrumental Works
All Dacapo’s latest recordings of Carl Nielsen’s chamber and piano works, played by Danish musicians with Nielsen’s absolutely distinctive tone in their blood.
Peter Bruun, Jexper Holmen, Torben Snekkestad, Morten Olsen, Thomas Agerfeldt Olesen
Brand new solo works, played by a single flute in the unique medieval abbey church at Løgumkloster.
Will-o’-the-Wisps in Town; Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
Chamber version of Per Nørgård’s left-field cantata based on Hans Christian Andersen’s crazy tale. DVD with documentary film about the performance enclosed!Chamber version of Per Nørgård’s left-field cantata based on Hans Christian Andersen’s crazy tale. DVD with documentary film about the performance enclosed!
A dramatic breakthrough for both Langgaard’s unrestrained quartet art from the beginning of the 1900s and the young female Nightingale Quartet.
Per Nørgård, Ole Schmidt, Anders Koppel, Martin Lohse
Accordion Concertos
The internationally famous virtuoso Bjarke Mogensen makes the accordion an irresistible solo instrument in four energetic concertos from the past 50 years.
Kasper Rofelt
The song I'll never sing - Works for Accordion
Magical new music written specifically for the young accordion virtuoso Bjarke Mogensen. Minimalistic and virtuosic all at the same time.
Finn Høffding
Original, subtle music from Finn Høffding, who was a pupil of Carl Nielsen and became one of the inter-war period’s most important composers.
Bent Sørensen, Johannes Ockeghem
Paul Hillier conducts Ockeghem’s famous Requiem from the 1400s, completed in our own time by Bent Sørensen. A uniquely beautiful encounter.
Ib Nørholm
Tavole per Orfeo
Exquisite, poetic songs for soprano and guitar, written in the 1960s by a classic master of Danish music.
Pioneering works by the American-born composer Wayne Siegel, where the computer interacts with acoustic instruments and the human voice.
Gunnar Berg
Chamber Music Works with Piano
Uncompromising music from the 1950s and 1960s by one of Denmark’s most acute, international modernists.
Dance and Detours
Rhythmic, precise chamber works from the 21st century where princes and mermaids take dangerous detours.
C.F.E. Horneman
Horneman’s most important orchestral works, whose rich colours, moods and infectious temperament are a culmination of the Danish Golden Age.
Jack Body, Anne Boyd, Liu Sola, Lou Harrison, Ross Edwards
A Bridge of Dreams
Unusua music from the Pacific Rim featuring composers and poets from China, Japan, California, New Zealand and Australia recorded by Ars Nova Copenhagen and Paul Hillier
The Complete Narrative Works
Box collection of Paul Hillier and Ars Nova Copenhagen’s highly acclaimed recordings of all of Schütz’s passions and narrative oratorios from the late Renaissance.
The Symphonic Edition Vol. 1
Blændende orkesterværker af Knudåge Riisager, der forenede et fuldtidsarbejde som embedsmand med en omfattende virksomhed som komponist
Niels Marthinsen
Snapshot Symphony
Marthinsen belongs to a generation grown up with comic books, superheroes and science fiction – he welcomes all of these phenomena into his symphonic music
The Masterworks Vol. 1 – Orchestral Music
The Danish National Symphony Orchestra's hailed recordings of Nielsen's orchestral music, including the six symphonies on both CD and DVD, now beautifully boxed
Chamber Music (I)
World premiere recording of rarely performed chamber works by Vagn Holmboe
Simon Christensen
TRIBUTES - Pulse
In this art movie American filmmaker Bill Morrison and Danish composer Simon Christensen explores the theme of ‘pulse’ in both music and film
Seks af Mozarts tidlige og korte symfonier komponeret omkring 1769-1770.
Selma Jezková (Dancer in the Dark)
Poul Ruders' heart-rending opera from 2010 based on Lars von Trier's film \Dancer in the Dark\\\
A long succession of original works, all bearing the mark of a special ability to communicate emotions and energy, powerfully and straightforwardly, between musicians and audience.
Anders Koppel, Andy Pape, Karl Aage Rasmussen
Clatter & Venom – Classical music stories for children
The finest of what new, classical symphonic music can offer children and their parents.
Poul Ruders, Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, Søren Nils Eichberg
Distant Still - Trios for violin, horn and piano
Contemporary works written for The Danish Horn Trio by Poul Ruders, Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen and Søren Nils Eichberg
String Quartets and Mezzo Saxophone Quintet
Jazz icon Benjamin Koppel had a special mezzo-soprano saxophone developed to perform and record this new quintet by his father
Herman D. Koppel, Benjamin Koppel
Works for cello and piano
Expressive cello works by the doyen of the great Danish Koppel family of musicians, rounded off with a fantastical tribute work written by his grandson.
Letters to the Ocean
Prize-winning composer Peter Bruun reveals his passionate relationship with the sea in this collection of inspired chamber works
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Freshman look to fill roles left by graduates
For the newest members of the Cal women’s soccer team, filling the shoes of some of last year’s top contributors was never going to be an easy task. This summer, former seniors Emily Kruger, Rachel Mercik, Nina Pedersen and Genessee Daughetee all left for professional careers in Europe — marking
Power Rankings: Strong recruiting class awaits Cal women’s soccer
Halfway through the 2013 season, few would have guessed that Cal’s women’s soccer team would finish outside the top 10 teams among Cal sports. The team began last season looking like they could make an impressive run in the NCAA tournament. The Bears kicked off the year with an unbeaten
Season snapshots: Cal women’s soccer
When Rachel Mercik stepped onto the storied turf of Cagan Stadium last fall, she carried the memory of three years of defeat. The Cal women’s soccer team had fallen to the Cardinal in its last seven meetings, and Mercik had witnessed three of those losses in her time with the
Bears stomp Anteaters with help from freshmen
The Cal women’s soccer team entered Friday night’s season opener with a roster full of freshmen and hopes of a fresh start. The 3-1 victory over UC Irvine provided the team with just that. The Bears opened the season with a 3-1 win over the Anteaters. The Friday night matchup
Los Angeles road trip to confront Cal’s winning streak
The Cal women’s soccer team has been rolling through the Pac-12 on an eight-game winning streak. But on this weekend’s road trip, the Bears face by far their toughest challenge of the season to date. The Bears are in third place in the Pac-12 but have yet to play either
Bears lead across two games for weekend sweep
In the eighth minute of Friday’s match against Oregon, junior midfielder Kaitlyn Fitzpatrick drew a foul in the box and netted the ensuing penalty kick to give the Bears an early 1-0 lead. The goal set the tone for the rest of the weekend as the Cal women’s soccer team
Bears ready for tough tilt against Oregon State
The Cal women’s soccer team did not live up to expectations in last weekend’s conference opener, but head into this weekend with a chance to redeem itself. The Bears (7-3, 0-1 in Pac 12) dropped their first conference match to Arizona after entering the game as heavy favorites. This weekend’s
Bears look to crash No. 1 Stanford’s undefeated season
The Cal women’s soccer team has only one active player that has more than five goals; No. 1 Stanford has five such players. The Bears (12-5-2, 5-3-2 in the Pac-12) have lost two matches in the last two weeks; the Cardinal have not lost a regular season match since Oct.
Bears head north in critical Sunday match against No. 19 Oregon State
Ever since losing star striker Katie Benz, the Cal women’s soccer team has been searching for the offensive replacements to fill her painstakingly noticeable absence in the front lines. It seemed the Bears (11-4-2, 4-2-2 in the Pac-12) found their goalscorer in forwards Rachel Mercik or Mekenna DeBack at times
Player of the Week: Rachel Mercik
After a season-ending foot injury last October, sophomore forward Rachel Mercik waited until the season started to play again. Two months later, Mercik is not only playing but now she is the lead striker for Cal women’s soccer team.
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Asian American Association hosts open meeting
Angelica Cataldo, Entertainment Reporter
Tuesday evening, the Asian American Association held an open meeting to discuss students’ thoughts and feelings about the results of the presidential election.
Advisor for AAA and chair of Asian studies Jinhee Lee led the meeting that consisted of both students and faculty.
“I came to think that this (meeting) can be one of the best moments to teach and learn and also transform the energy of the post-election fear and anxiety into positive force to examine our social reality, share about our observations through critical thinking, and finally prepare ourselves to do better and be better here and now on our very campus and local community collectively,” Lee said. “I personally felt much time (and) pressure to make this discussion event possible before the majority of our university and community members leave for home for the Thanksgiving break where, I bet, they will talk about the election and the post-election thoughts and some might even encounter difficult, tense conversations with their close and loved ones back home.”
Lee and the members of AAA felt that the election was an important topic to discuss because of the great divide among coworkers, peers, friendships and families.
“The benefits of providing a sort of safe space to express our candid views and share our feelings and responses were not difficult to imagine,” Lee said, “especially after observing the manifestation of the ‘Great Unfriending of 2016’ phenomenon even around my circle of friends over social media during the campaign season and following the election result.”
Also in attendance was economics professor Mukti P. Upadhyay, history professor Lee Patterson, English professor Tim Engles and sociology professor Gene Deerman.
These faculty members were present to gain insight on students’ perspective on the election and be available to answer questions and concerns.
“This topic and this moment is an excellent opportunity to reflect upon ourselves, our campus culture, local community culture and our nation in light of the global reality precisely,” Lee said.
Students shared their theories on the reasoning behind the election results, their feelings on the topic of micro-aggressions and how they have interacted with other people regarding the election results.
Updahyay touched on the aspects of economics and how that played a large role in the election and Patterson offered his own insights on the election and its similarities to events in history.
For the past few weeks AAA has discussed the U.S. presidential election prior to the election night. During these meetings, Lee said she could “gauge the level of their interest in this important election.”
Other than the various social discussions about politics and social issues, AAA also holds activities and events such as museum field trips, food outings and listening to K-pop.
Lee said one of the upcoming events on Nov. 26 is an Asian meal part that she will personally host, followed by a mini-field trip to a local museum to see Asia-related exhibits.
AAA president, junior music major Jessica French said that the group plans to host events next semester including a banquet to close the academic year.
“One of the great benefits and goals in college training is to learn to be an engaged and responsible citizen and train ourselves to be able to engage in civil, informed, and constructive discourse to be leaders in our society,” Lee said.
Angelica Cataldo can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected]
Hello! I’m Angelica Cataldo and I’m currently the entertainment reporter and I am a junior journalism major with a minor in marketing. This is my first...
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Eastern to close in honor of MLK Jr. Day
CAA OKs department adjustments
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Options laid out for MLK Day of Service
New York style play coming to Doudna
College of Liberal Arts dean candidate comes to Eastern
New employee code of conduct proposed by Eastern
Dean candidate campus visits begin with Amundson
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Ronnie Biggs? Let him rot!
ROT in jail! That's the message to Ronnie Biggs from Crewe people outraged at the possibility he could get off lightly for his role in the Great Train Robbery.
For 35 years they have endured stories and TV pictures of Biggs living it up in Brazil, while the family of Jack Mills, the Crewe train driver brutally beaten by the robbers, tried to put the horror behind them.
Now in a prison hospital, after being flown back by The Sun newspaper, Biggs is not likely to face any further charges even though he broke out of jail. His solicitors are expected to appeal against any outstanding sentence on the grounds of his ill health.
The thought that Biggs, no 71, could live out what remains of his life in comfort has angered town leaders and friends of Mr Mills, who never fully recovered from the attack.
Borough council leader Peter Kent said: 'Just because Biggs is old and frail he should not escape the law. He committed a serious offence and deserves to be punished.'
Crewe and Nantwich MP Gwyneth Dunwoody added: 'I have long given up hope of national newspapers like The Sun having any conscience. I have no sympathy for Biggs at all. He was given the luxury of growing old unlike Jack Mills.'
The Chronicle's former editor Colin Roberts was one of the first to report on the robbery's Crewe connection back in 1963.
Now retired, he said: 'All decent-minded people will say put him in jail and throw away the key.'
Mr Mills died seven years after the gang beat him with an iron bar for refusing to drive the train.
His son, John Mills, of Bray close in Crewe, has been sought after by national newspapers ever since.
On Tuesday, a neighbour said he had gone away to escape the media attention.
Cllr Les Davies, a friend, said: 'I know he will be very upset. He has always found it painful when the incident was brought up.'
North Wales WeatherMet office issues yellow weather warning for fog
The forecaster warns of low visibility in the Wrexham area
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Proposal to demolish Bankfoot church tower scrapped
Dispute puts paid to work after structure collapsed
Robbie Chalmers
Auchtergaven and Moneydie Parish Church tower, pic by Ian Sinclair
Plans to demolished a 207-year-old partially collapsed church tower in Bankfoot have been scrapped.
Engineers were due to tear down the structure on Monday after the section of the Auchtergaven and Moneydie Parish Church, damaged in a blaze 15 years ago, came crumbling down during a rain storm at 3.30am on Thursday, December 19.
After church members and PKC officials met with engineers and contractors in the aftermath, it was agreed the tower should be taken down due to a risk of further collapse.
Organised by PKC and the Church of Scotland, a specialist long-reach demolition machine was booked in to knock down the crippled tower.
The surrounding Heras fencing was to be adjusted to secure a reduced exclusion zone, which allow the cemetery to be reopened.
However the move was halted after a dispute with a neighbouring landowner, Irene Hamilton, who blocked access to Highfield Place.
She claims her pavement was left damaged by an eight-wheeled heavy unit vehicle during an inspection the previous Thursday.
Mrs Hamilton said she would only allow access to the road if the pavement was repaired, but demolition specialists JCJ Group say they couldn’t agree to her terms and that they are only contracted to carry out the emergency works.
She said: “The pavement is all cracked and water is coming off the land, which went into the gutter, is now flowing down the pavement.
“If that freezes over that will be a real danger.
“I have the responsibilty as the owner of this land that neighbours and residents use on a daily basis.
“I am accountable to them to ensure their safe passage where possible.”
The ongoing saga comes as a real hammer-blow to church members and locals who have banded together over the years since the 2004 incident, raising money to resurrect the former place of worship, which has stood on the hill since 1812.
A spokesperson for the kirk said: “The demolition has been delayed but the Church of Scotland is working closely with the council to ensure what remains of the tower is demolished as soon as it can be practicably achieved.
“In the meantime, the area surrounding the ruined building will remain off limits to ensure the safety of residents.”
In the aftermath of the collapse, local minister Rev Adrian Lough said: “We are just thankful that no one was hurt.
“It was fortunate that the building collapsed in on itself, so the rubble came down into the body of the church.
“It’s a shame that we have had to close off the cemetery.
“We never wanted to stop people visiting the graves, but public safety is paramount.”
Alan Ilseley, secretary of the Auchtergaven Old Church Community Restoration Group, said: “After some 15 years, it appears the weather has finally taken its toll.”
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Day 11 - Munich to Mittenwald
We slept in until 07:30 this morning and had a lazy breakfast before checking out and using the morning to travel over to Schloss Nymphenburg. Michelle tried two types of Nutella-oid spread this morning, one with the usual hazelnuts and one with almonds that I liked better from a sample taste.
15:41 Train from Munich to Mittenwald
We just said auf wiedersehen to Munich and are on our way south to the Alps. This morning we walked over to the Hauptbahnhof and bought a group day pass good for up to five people to ride the public transport all day. We boarded a number 17 tram at Hauptbahnhof Nord and it took us west then north to Schloss Nymphenburg.
The tram stop was next to a long skinny pond stretching what must have been two or three kilometres across the suburbs of Munich, providing a picture-perfect reflecting approach flanked by tree-lined avenues to the Schloss to the west. The pond flared out into a large circular pond complete with ducks and swans. We circled the pond partway to a bridge in the centre, under which a waterfall connected it to another circular pond above and closer to the Schloss. Some swans were eating near the bank and took no notice of us as we walked up close for a look. There were a lot of tourists around, but the sheer size of the ponds and formal gardens in front of the Schloss dwarfed them into insignificance. The Schloss itself was partially scaffolded around the central part, but still presented a picture of stately beauty, its enormous wings extending hundreds of metres on either side, bridging out over the pond which wound around the central portions of the complex as a shallow square moat.
Lamps outside Schloss Nymphenburg
We had no time to tour the inside of the Schloss, but walked through a gated passage to the rear and the enormous gardens beyond. They began with formal gardens with crushed gravel paths crunching underfoot, leading past beds of purple pansies and bordered with some orange flowers around immaculate lawns dotted with dozens of life-sized statues of various gods and mythological figures on stone podiums, punctuated with giant ornamental stone urns with carved scenes girdling them. A couple of hundred metres down the central path, the pond reappeared, brought around to the rear via the connecting moat, and it extended in a broad straight swathe between flanking trees for as far as one could see. To either side of this formal area, trees pressed against the paths, with narrow walkways splitting off and descending into the depths of the resulting forest.
Badenburg exterior
We followed one path south-west, heading toward a larger irregular lake. It was a good hike to get there; we passed several people jogging, walking dogs, or power walking with double walking poles. We may have seen some carrying food supplies and sleeping gear too, it was that large an expanse of landscape we were walking through. We found the lake eventually, which had geese honking wildly, along with more ducks and swans. Skirting the lake, we approached the Badenburg, an outbuilding of the Schloss designed as a sauna and baths. It was an impressive two-storey building, large enough to be a house in itself. We paid €8 each for admission to it and the three other outbuildings scattered around the grounds, and took a peek inside. The bath itself was a sunken floor a good four metres below ground level, accessed by a staircase behind a hidden door panel in the tiled wall above. The entire thing was about the size of a squash court and had a long marble bench for sitting on along one wall, and two enormous golden taps on a side wall in the shape of a fish or something. It was hard to tell from our vantage point so far above. There were several other rooms too, ornately decorated. We figured one of the ballroom-sized chambers with marble parquetry flooring and ceiling frescoes must have been for getting undressed, and the other for towelling off after the bath.
Badenburg interior
From there we headed back into the depths of the forest again, passing a tiny stream running along the side of the path and encountering some large, friendly geese. We were seeking the Amalienburg, the second of the outbuilding, and a lodge for hunting parties. We got confused by the criss-crossing paths and short sightlines through the dense trees, so stopped to ask a woman for directions, but she didn't know. We pressed on regardless and managed to find it soon thereafter.
Amalienburg exterior
The Amalienburg was astonishing. The first room we entered was lavishly decorated with intricately detailed pictures of dressed pheasants and deer and other animals around the walls, patterned in between with floral bordered designs, all done in delicate blue paint on white. It was like being inside a fine piece of blue and white porcelain. It was only when Michelle pointed out the large cavities in the lower parts of the walls, accessed through open-arched doorways about half a metre high, that we realised this was the kennels. From there we proceeded through to a small antechamber, presumably where the hunters doffed their hats and hunting capes and muddy boots and so on, before moving on to the next three rooms, which were intensely ornamented with silver filigree, paintings of hunting scenes, small decorations in the shapes of hunting horns, bows, arrows, etc., and in the case of the large central octagonal room of the building with windows looking out both sides, vast floor to ceiling mirrors on all the walls rising to a central cupola hovering way above the middle of the room. We presumed this suite of three rooms was where the men sat and smoked their pipes and drank beer after a hard day of chasing down wild animals in the garden/forest outside. The last room was a kitchen with an old stove and open fire, where pans and pots were placed on a grill. We guessed the walk back all the way to the Schloss itself would be enough for a fresh deer to start going off, so they had some women out here in the lodge to turn the animal into venison haunches for the men to hoe into on the spot.
Amalienburg interior
Dutifully impressed, we moved to the third outbuilding, the Magdelenenskrause. This was a chapel, deliberately built in an unusual style meant to evoke ancient ruins, and it indeed looked like a ruin from the outside, with decaying brickwork and concrete all over. Inside, the walls were grotto-like, with uneven lumps of concrete thrown against the walls and ceiling, and hundreds of seashells pressed into it in more or less random designs. The small chapel room was very grotto-like, containing a wailing statue of Mary in what looked like a fountain (free of water). The rest of the building had wooden parquetry and was in the process of being restored. We had to don giant felt überslippers over our shoes to walk around these areas without damaging the floor. They were slippery on the polished wood, and Michelle suggested they were to get visitors to polish the floor for them.
Pagodenburg red room
Our final stop was the Pagodenburg, a Chinese tea room and the smallest of the four Schloss outbuildings. It had only one octagonal room downstairs and a couple of rooms up the steep rectangular spiral staircase - a green silk and velvet bedroom, and a room decorated in red with a chess table in it.
Pagodenburg green room
Done with Schloss Nymphenburg, we walked back out along the front yard pond to the tram stop. Michelle was hungry, so we stopped in at a cafe-bakery on the corner and got some toasted sandwiches: tomato and mozzarella for Michelle, ham and mozzarella for me. Michelle also got a cappuccino. After devouring these, we picked up some pretzels too, ohne salz for Michelle. We ate those, then stepped out to the tram stop to get the next tram back into the Hauptbahnhof.
Munich Hauptbahnhof
There we returned to our hotel on foot and collected our bags. We were held up getting back to our hotel to retrieve our bags by a May Day protest march along the street perpendicular to the way we were walking. I feared it would be a long hold up, but the marchers passed in just a couple of minutes, escorted by a battalion of police vehicles. After using the hotel toilets, we left and carted out bags back to the Hauptbahnhof. We sorted out our travel plans for the next few days and booked Bahn tickets from Friedrichshafen to Rothenburg, and Rothenburg to Würzburg with the help of a friendly Die Bahn woman. She also gave us an option for Füssen to Friedrichshafen, but the connection was via Augsburg and Ulm, and took four hours. We declined since we can surely get a faster bus than that.
Our travel booked, we loitered around the station for a while before boarding our train to Mittenwald.
Nearly there now, and the journey has been an ever more spectacular pageant of rolling hills, distant mountains, more distant and bigger mountains with streaks of snow on them, and even more distant and yet bigger mountains plastered all over with snow.
Approaching Mittenwald and the Alps on the train
20:57 Room 3, Gasthof Alpenrose, Mittenwald.
We are retiring early after arriving in Mittenwald at 17:30 on the train from Munich. We wandered from the station vaguely in the direction of a tourist information sign, but took a random turn when the direction indicated ended at a T-junction. Before heading too far, I stopped an old man on a bicycle and asked him where we could find the Gasthof Alpenrose. He indicated back the way we'd come and onwards, turning left near the church we could see that way. We headed that way and halfway there bumped into the tourist info office, very poorly signposted from the station, I must say. Although it was closed, there was an interactive map showing all the hotels with LEDs activated by a number keyed into a keypad. When we entered 15 for the Alpenrose, a green LED lit up indicating our current position, plus two red ones, one right near the church, and one a good distance down a street to the left. Since I thought the guy we had asked directions from told us to go down a street to the left, we took a diagonal street that would be a short cut. However, most of the way there things looked decidedly unpromising and I couldn't even see an expected cross street at all. So I stopped a young couple pushing a pram to ask for directions again. They pointed us back along a street towards the church! In the end, we had done a three-sided zig-zag about three times the length we needed to get from the station to the hotel.
Gasthof Alpenrose
Our trials were not over however, since they didn't have our room reservation despite me having phoned several weeks ago from Sydney to confirm the booking and give them my Amex number. Still, they had a room free, so checked us in. We climbed up to our room on the first floor and noticed the stale tobacco smell instantly. I went back down and asked if they had a non-smoking room, but the old non-English-speaking woman looked at me as if I was asking for a room without a bed or something - why would anyone want a non-smoking room?! So we opened our room's windows wide as we went out to wander the main street in search of dinner. There was a large table of mildly drunk youths in Bavarian costume at a table outside our hotel, probably at the end of heavy May Day celebrating.
Mittenwald main street
We wandered up the picturesque main plaza of Mittenwald, admiring the intricately painted scenes on the buildings, noting a few open food places, mostly pizza. We stopped eventually at Der Kleine Kartoffelsack, where we ordered potato soup for Michelle and potato cream soup with salmon for me. We also ordered a potato gratin with cheese and vegetables for Michelle, asking carefully to make sure it had no meat in it, me explaining that she didn't eat meat. The waitress (who Michelle said reminded her of my twin aunts) indicated understanding. I ordered a Mittenwald Schnitzel for myself: veal topped with tomatoes and cheese. The soups came and the waitress put the cream soup in front of Michelle and the plain potato soup in front of me. We indicated these were around the wrong way, and she apologised and switched them. I was enjoying the potato cream soup, although it had prawns in it rather than salmon, but no mind - when Michelle said, "I think this soup has bacon in it." Sure enough, there were tiny chunks of bacon. I went up to the counter and asked if it had bacon in it ("Die kartoffellsuppe haben Speck?"), and the waitress confirmed so, then suddenly realised what was up and apologised. We figured she must have assumed Michelle ate seafood so gave her the cream soup, and me the plain potato soup, knowing it had bacon in it, and then gotten confused/forgetful when we swapped the soups. She took the offending bacony soup away and didn't charge us for it later.
The second course was truly without meat for Michelle, as the waitress assured us carefully when she brought it out. While eating, an old woman came in and sat at the table next to us. The waitress cut her food up into small pieces for her and she ate with fork and spoon. She kept sort of semi-talking to us in German and I wasn't sure if she really was or not. It was only after we left that Michelle pointed out that the woman couldn't see very well; she must have been mostly blind. I was a bit worried that we'd been rude by not replying to her, since I hadn't realised that and thought maybe she was a bit weird instead. :-(
For dessert I had an apple strudel, which was really nice. At the end of the meal I told Michelle about something I'd read in the Lonely Planet, that Germans like to end the meal with a dose of digestive bitters, often served on the house in restaurants, and when you order it they prepare the bill. I couldn't remember what it was called, so couldn't ask for it (the waitress only spoke a few words of English). But when we asked for the bill, she asked us if we wanted something, and I guessed it was the bitters she was referring to. I was correct, and received a tiny glass of clear, thick, strong-smelling liquid, which took several sips to get down. Strong and herby, but kind of nice. Dinner done, we retreated for an early night to get some sleep.
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Senators plead with Trump administration to let Haitians stay
The Trump administration is weighing an end to immigration protections for Haitians next January.
Senators plead with Trump administration to let Haitians stay The Trump administration is weighing an end to immigration protections for Haitians next January. Check out this story on DemocratandChronicle.com: http://usat.ly/2pmGSAB
Alan Gomez, USA TODAY Published 3:32 p.m. ET April 26, 2017 | Updated 5:24 p.m. ET April 26, 2017
Cholera Marie Louse Valentin weeps in front of her home shattered by Hurricane Matthew in Morne la Source, Haiti, on Oct. 9, 2016.(Photo: Patrick Farrell, AP)
Sixteen senators urged the Trump administration Wednesday to continue immigration protections for 50,000 Haitians living in the U.S. because of severe hardships back home.
The senators, all Democrats, sent a letter responding to a recommendation by the head of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to end "temporary protected status" for Haitians by January. The recommendation was first reported by USA TODAY.
The U.S. government has granted such protections to foreigners from 13 countries hammered by natural disasters, famine or war.
In the letter written by Sen. Bob Mendenez, D-N.J., to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, the senators said Haiti still hasn't recovered from the devastating 2010 earthquake and last year's Hurricane Matthew.
The temporary protection program was created for foreigners "when extraordinary conditions in their home country pose a serious threat to personal safety," wrote the senators, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. "Given Haiti's many challenges, the United States' focus should be to prioritize disaster assistance and recovery, not to return Haitian nationals to a country lacking the capacity to support them."
"More than seven years after the devastating earthquake and resulting humanitarian crisis, Haiti has yet to recover," the senators wrote.
Kelly, who has the final say, has not decided on the Haitians' fate yet, Homeland Security spokesman David Lapan said.
James McCament, acting director of Citizenship and Immigration Services, wrote on April 10 that "conditions in Haiti no longer support its designation" for temporary protections. He suggested extending protections set to end July 22 through next January.
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McCament wrote that 96% of the people who lost their homes during the earthquake are no longer living in temporary camps. But an agency report in December said that still leaves 55,000 people in temporary camps, and many who left were either evicted or moved back into their damaged homes.
The senators' letter highlighted the difficulties that remain.
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Jayme Closs vanished after her parents were murdered in October. Has the case gone cold?
More than two months have passed since Jayme Closs, but despite the passage of time, authorities stress that the case is not cold.
Jayme Closs vanished after her parents were murdered in October. Has the case gone cold? More than two months have passed since Jayme Closs, but despite the passage of time, authorities stress that the case is not cold. Check out this story on desmoinesregister.com: https://www.postcrescent.com/story/news/2018/12/27/jayme-closs-still-missing-after-10-weeks-but-police-say-case-isnt-cold/2374179002/
Andy Thompson, Appleton Post-Crescent Published 5:57 a.m. CT Dec. 27, 2018 | Updated 9:12 a.m. CT Jan. 11, 2019
Jayme Closs(Photo: Courtesy of the Barron County Sheriff's Department)
BARRON – It’s been 10 weeks and counting since 13-year-old Jayme Closs disappeared after her parents were shot to death at their home. Thousands of leads have been checked, searchers have combed the area and digital evidence has been closely examined.
But Jayme’s disappearance —– and the murders of her parents, James, 56, and Denise, 46 — remain unsolved and uncharged.
That begs this question: Has the Closs case gone cold?
Barron County Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald flatly rejects that notion. Nationally recognized cold case experts agree, saying there are other investigative avenues to explore.
“The case remains the No. 1 priority of the sheriff’s department and we still have the FBI and DCI (Wisconsin Division of Criminal Investigation) on site working on this case with us,” Fitzgerald stated in a mid-December post on the sheriff department’s Facebook page.
“There is nothing new to report but we continue to follow up on leads and we are trying to build a longer timeline of (the victims’) lives through digital and social records in hopes of leading us to a clue.”
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Kenneth L. Mains, president and founder of the American Investigative Society of Cold Cases who has an extensive record of assisting law enforcement in solving cases, said it doesn’t appear that the Closs case has gone cold.
“When does (a) case go cold? That is up to the police department that is investigating it. I am sure they are working the leads they have to the best of their ability,” Mains said. “But when those leads dry up, they have to go generate leads themselves and not wait on information to come in. You have to actively go and generate leads so the case doesn’t become cold.”
Mains declined to address the Closs case in detail because he isn’t completely familiar with the details of the crime.
“But generally speaking, I would say that a stranger abduction from the victims’ home with two murders inside that home is somewhat uncommon,” he said.
“I would focus my investigation on the missing child and her victimology. Why wasn’t she murdered and left there as well? Not knowing the socioeconomic status of the family, it cannot be a kidnapping for ransom as the parents were killed.”
While sex trafficking can’t be discounted as a possible reason for Jayme’s disappearance, Mains pointed out that “you wouldn’t have to kill the parents in order to accomplish this” because she could have been abducted while coming home from school or when she was alone.
“There is a reason the parents were killed and it may not have to be connected to the kidnapping. What I mean by that is that you don’t have to kill the parents to accomplish kidnapping the victim. You may kill them because they know who you are or because the purpose is to kill them and not the kidnapping. It is an extra, extraordinary step and it is done for a specific purpose not related to the kidnapping,” Mains said.
Jim Trainum, a former homicide detective for the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington D.C. who now serves as a consultant on criminal cases, said creating a timeline of the victims’ lives is an important step by police agencies investigating the Closs case.
Trainum said cases generally go cold “after all of the reasonable leads have been exhausted,” but he doesn’t put the Closs investigation in that category.
“I’m sure they will keep working it for some time — until there is nothing else to follow up on,” Trainum said. “I’m sure they have working theories — more than one.”
Timelines of the victims, he said, “give you such a great understanding of what was going on until that point.”
“(Detectives) concentrate on the immediate time frame and start working back. Most murders are committed by a person who knows the victim. Start with associates and work farther out.
“We’re getting better at knowing the victim. What about them made them a victim? The more that you know about the victim, the better.”
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It’s in the bananas: Portugal finds another big cocaine haul
For the second time in 12 months, Portuguese police discovered a large stash of cocaine concealed in a shipment of bananas from Latin America
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Associated Press Published 12:30 p.m. ET Jan. 8, 2020
Lisbon, Portugal – For the second time in 12 months, Portuguese police discovered a large stash of cocaine concealed in a shipment of bananas from Latin America.
This time the haul was 825 kilograms with a street value of more than 30 million euros ($33 million). Last year, the seizure was 430 kilograms and worth around 15 million euros ($17 million).
Cocaine hidden in bananas from South America is not uncommon. Over the past year, authorities in the United States, China and Germany have found large quantities of cocaine concealed in banana shipments.
Portuguese detectives said Wednesday the highly pure cocaine was found in recent days inside boxes in northern Portugal. They say it was heading to other European countries. They declined to provide further details, saying the investigation is continuing.
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Xiaomi Mi 9T goes on pre-sale prior to official unveiling
Xiaomi Mi 9T appeared for pre-order on the Italian Grossoshop priced at €359.99 for the 6GB+64GB configuration, €379.99 for the 6GB+128GB version and €499.99 for the 8GB+256GB variant. The available colours are Carbon Black, Glacier Blue and Flame Red. The device is based on a Snapdragon 730 chipset and is powered by a 4000 mAh battery. It features a 6.39-inch AMOLED display with an FHD+ (1080 x 2340) resolution and a Corning Gorilla Glass 5. There's a 20MP pop-up selfie camera because of which the display manages to offer extremely thin bezels. The screen has a brightness of 600 nits and covers 103% of the NTSC colour space. The trio of shooters on the back includes a 48MP Sony IMX582 primary camera with an f/1.75 lens, a 5MP Omnivision OV8865 unit with an f/2.4 lens and a 13MP Samsung S5K3L6 one with an f/2.4 lens. Xiaomi Mi 9T has a 3.5 mm jack and supports NFC, Bluetooth 5, VoLTE dual-band Wi-Fi 802.11 with MU-MIMO.Източник
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Journos awarded for transgender issue reporting
Tribune Desk
Published at 11:19 pm December 18th, 2016
The Bandhu Media Fellowship 2016, organised by Bandhu Social Welfare Society and funded by the United Nations Development Programme, was handed out yesterday at capital’s Daily Star centre. Presiding over the ceremony, Chief Information Commissioner Dr Golam Rahman said that Hijras could become part of the country's workforce if treated equally. “I cannot even support calling them the Third Gender. Why do not we think of them as ordinary people like us?” Transgender persons would continue to be marginalised as long as the society perceived them as a special minority group, the commissioner said. This year Bandhu awarded 10 media fellows from different organisations. Dhaka Tribune Correspondent Adil Sakhawat was awarded the fellowship for his two stories on ensuring the rights of the sexual minority population. Dr Golam Rahman urged the 2016 Bandhu fellows to continue writing on behalf of the transgender community not for the sake of rewards only but also as a duty. Dhaka University journalism department’s Chairman Mofizur Rahman and Professor Abu Jafar Md Shafiul Alam Bhuiyan were present among others. Dhaka University’s television and film studies Professor Abu Jafar called for the creation of more films based on the transgender community so that people can understand about them and not neglect them any more.
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Best LED TV Under 10000 in India 2020
Watching TV is one common thing that we all do when getting bored, isn’t it? But wouldn’t it be great if our TV can give us numerous options for entertainment rather than the obvious 1-2 channels?
Certainly, this thought would excite anyone and this is what LED TVs have showered on us.
Yes, with many amazing benefits, the LED TVs have surely made our ways of watching our entertainment awesome.
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To overcome that confusion, read along this article and be sure that you are buying the Best Liquid Crystal Display Television for yourself. Yes, it is that simple!
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Thomson B9 Pro 32 inch HD Ready Smart LED TV (32M3277 PRO)
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Thomson B9 Pro 32 inch LED TV is the perfect combination of amazing visual and audio quality. It comes with the resolution of 1366X768 which ensures to offer the desired visual treat to the users. This HD ready display of the LED TV enhances the visual experience of its users by portraying great picture quality on screen.
The refresh rate of 60Hz further assures the users to reduce the blurriness in the images along with enhancing its quality. This TV is powered by A+ Samsung panel and uses the image aspect ratio of 16:9 and image contrast ratio of 200000:1 (dynamic). If you like to keep it big while watching your TV, then the wide viewing angle of 178-degrees of this LED TV would be surely a delight.
Moving to the audio quality that this television delivers, it generates the total RMS of 20W from its 2 free-edge speakers. These speakers combine with the surround sound feature to reduce the surrounding noises. The Dolby digital audio decoder is simply the best support for this LED TV for delivering the finest sound quality to the users.
For being sure with the connectivity feature of Thomson B9 Pro, you get 3 HDMI ports and 2 USB ports as well. You can also connect this TV with its in-built Wi-Fi 802.11 for enjoying a stable and strong Internet connection. If you want more entertainment from this Android based LED TV, then you can also access the preloaded apps like YouTube, Netflix, etc. on this TV.
Supports 10+ local languages
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Enabled with screen mirroring
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You can totally rely on MarQ 32 Inch Smart LED TV as it comes with all the features that any user would expect to have in the LED TV. It offers the resolution value of 1366X768 for its HD ready display which assures the delivery of great picture quality. This TV also comes with a refresh rate of 60 Hz so that the users can enjoy continuous and uninterrupted videos and picture with no blurriness.
This television is also designed to offer the maximum ease in the connectivity domain as well. It comes with 3 HDMI ports and 2 USB ports with which the users can connect various other devices to this TV. Connect your television with the Internet with the help of its in-built Wi-Fi 2.4 GHz.
Other than these features for image quality enhancement, the users can also expect some amazing sound quality from this LED TV. It comes with 2 powerful speakers which generate 20W of total output RMS. To strengthen the sound quality, this TV makes use of Dolby digital audio decoder along with TruSurround sound for balancing the level of outside noises.
You can get an unbelievable picture projection on this TV as it comes with an image aspect ratio of 16:9 and image contrast ratio of 3000:1 (static). The A+ grade panel of this TV along with the wide viewing angle of 176-degrees ensures to charm the audiences with the perfect picture quality. This LED TV is also powered by Dual-core processor and offers 0.75GB RAM and 0.5GB of internal storage space to the users.
Offers 5 different picture modes
Crystal clear picture quality
Screen mirroring available
Kodak 32 Inch HD Ready is one of the best TV which comes with simple and elegant design and is supported by many brilliant features for its sound and image quality. This LED TV is designed to offer its users a different and pleasant viewing experience.
To begin with, this television comes with HD ready display resolution value of 1366X768 which portrays the best image quality for the users. To make sure that its users are not disturbed with any interruptions in the images and videos, this LED TV makes use of its refresh rate of 60 Hz. With such specifications, it will surely be a seamless experience delivered by this TV.
The television is powered by the super-fast ARM Cortex A7 core processor to offer an instant and quick response to the request of the users. It also offers 1GB RAM and 8GB of internal storage space to its users for uninterrupted entertainment. The users can also make the use of many pre-loaded apps like Netflix, YouTube, etc. as and when they need.
This LED TV is not just about its picture quality but it also offers 20W of total RMS output with its 2 in-built box speakers. The Dolby digital decoder along with surround sound feature ensures to reduce the interruptions from the surrounding noises while delivering the best sound quality to the user. It is also well-supported by audio equalizer which balances the sound and offers deeper and richer sound.
The users can also make use of its 2 HDMI ports and 2 USB ports along with its in-built 802.11 Wi-Fi for enjoying its connectivity features. It comes with an anti-glare A+ grade panel which reduces the light and contrast, even with a closer look. It also makes use of image aspect ratio of 16:9 and an image contrast ratio of 1000000:1 (dynamic) for delivering the best image quality.
Moisture and dust resistant
Child and program lock available
Automatic audio equalizer and controller
Balanced brightness and contrast
Talking about this LED TV from BPL, it is simply one of the impressive LED TVs available in the market. There is no doubt that this is one of the best LED TV which you can buy at an affordable price range.
This BPL TV comes with the resolution value of 1366X768p which focus on all the desired details without any compromises. The HD ready display resolution along with the refresh rate of 60 Hz combines together to enhance the picture quality and to offer a seamless visual experience. This LED TV is also enabled with a vivid color controller which makes sure to deliver all the sharp and true colors of the images.
Coming to the connectivity benefits, the users can enjoy 2 HDMI ports and 1 USB port for connecting to the various other devices. The users can also connect the in-built Wi-Fi 802.11 with the Internet to get limitless entertainment.
Thanks to the 2 box speakers available in this TV, it can deliver crystal clear sound by generating the total output RMS of 16W. The Dolby digital decoder along with surround sound feature reduces the interference of surrounding noises and delivers deeper sound. This LED TV also offers headphone output for getting cinematic sound experience.
The A+ grade panel and 178-degree wide viewing angle of this television ensure continuous usage of this TV without any disturbance. It also makes use of image aspect ratio of 16:9 and an image contrast ratio of 250:01 (static) for enhancing the picture quality. With its response time of 8ms, this LED TV is quite quick for its user’s actions and requests.
Delivers sharp colors with vivid color controller
Headphone output available
Digital noise controller
Designed to preserve energy
iFFALCON (32F2) LED TV is one of the trusted names in the market as it comes with some of the most expected features at an affordable price range. There are no second thoughts that this LED TV will deliver total value for your invested money.
To begin with, this LED TV comes with the resolution of 1366X768p which ensures that the users can get a focused and detailed projection of the images. To support this feature, this television also makes use of its refresh rate of 60 Hz to minimize any distortions in images and videos during the use. The HD ready display enhances the picture quality in the best possible manner so that the users don’t miss any of the details.
This iFFALCON TV comes with 3HDMI ports and 2 USB ports for connecting with the other available devices in an easy and convenient manner. Thanks to the availability of its in-built Wi-Fi feature of 802.11, the users can also connect this LED TV with the Internet without any hassles. The users can also get quick access to the pre-loaded apps with this LED TV.
To ensure that the users can also enjoy uninterrupted sound quality along with the amazing picture quality, this LED TV comes with 2 speakers. These stereo box speakers are known to generate the total output RMS of 10W. This LED TV uses the Dolby digital audio decoder to focus on the expected sound quality with balanced output.
This LED TV is powered by the Linux operating system and dual-core A9 processor along with 768MB RAM and 4GB of storage space. The A+ grade panel of television combines well with the wide viewing angle of 178-degrees to display a pleasant viewing experience. This LED TV also comes with an image aspect ratio of 16:9 and an image contrast ratio of 6000:1 for better picture quality.
Micro dimming
Sports mode availability
Reflects sharp colors using TrueColor feature
Enabled with screen mirroring feature
Micromax is one popular name when we talk about LED Televisions. It is one of the brands which can be totally trusted and relied upon when planning to buy a LED TV at an affordable price range.
Talking about this particular LED TV, it comes with an HD Ready display resolution value of 1366X768p which ensures high-quality display for the users. Thanks to the refresh rate of 60 Hz, this TV can offer you crystal clear images without any distortions in them. One major advantage of this LED TV is that it uses the latest and trending CLCP technology for delivering the exact sharp and clear colors during the display.
Moving to the connectivity features of this LED TV, it comes with 2 HDMI and 2 USB ports for making smooth connections with the other devices. Apart from this, if you want to connect this LED TV with the Internet, then you can also use the in-built Wi-Fi 2.4GHz of this TV.
To enjoy the magic of enhanced sound, this LED TV comes with 2 powerful speakers which generate the total output RMS of 24W. The Dolby digital audio decoder with surround sound works on delivering high-quality sound without any disturbances from the surrounding noises.
The VA panel type and the wide viewing angle of 170-degrees of this LED TV ensure that the users can enjoy a pleasant viewing experience. Along with this, to complete the overall working of this LED TV, it makes use of an image aspect ratio of 16:9 and an image contrast ratio of 3000:01.
CLCP technology for sharp colors
Delivers deep and rich sound quality
Attractive slim design
Auto volume stabilizer for minimum sound fluctuations
This is one of the LED TV which has made its place right in the heart of the users with its amazing performance. This LED TV would certainly impress you with its visual as well as audio excellence as it delivers total value for your money.
If you like to have seamless picture quality without any distortions, then the 1366X768p HD ready display resolution value will impress you to the core. Thanks to the refresh rate of 60 Hz, this LED TV doesn’t disappoint its users to get crystal clear projections. The wide viewing angle of 178-degree and the eco vision mode of this LED TV ensure to offer the best quality to the users without putting much stress on their eyes.
Just like its ability to deliver the amazing visual treat, this LED TV also makes sure to not disappoint its users with its sound quality. It makes use of 2 box speakers which generate 20W of total output RMS. The Dolby digital audio decoder along with the feature of music equalizer ensures to minimize the noise disturbances and fluctuations of the sound.
This LED TV also comes with 2 HDMI and 2 USB ports which help the users to connect this TV with the other available devices like a gaming console, set-top box, etc. Also, the in-built Wi-Fi 802.11 of this Android 5.1 LED TV forms a secure and stable connection with the Internet as and when needed. Other than this, the users can also make use of pre-loaded apps like YouTube, Netflix, etc. for their entertainment.
This LED TV also makes use of its image aspect ratio of 16:9 and an image contrast ratio of 400000:1 for enhancing its overall display quality.
Enabled with eco vision mode
Screen mirroring and cinema zoom features available
Reflects true colors with TrueColor technology
With its amazing resolution and display quality, this LED TV is one of the most preferred LED TVs available in the market. It comes with HD ready display resolution of 1366X768p which makes it one of the best LED TVs in terms of the visual display strength. Along with this, you can also get the refresh rate of 60 Hz with this LED TV, which makes sure to deliver crystal clear picture quality without blurriness.
If you wish to connect this LED TV with other available devices like a gaming console, set-top box, Blu ray players, etc. then this LED TV comes with 2 HDMI ports and 1 USB port. You can also easily access the pre-loaded apps available on this LED TV. However, if you want to connect this LED TV with the Internet, you can make use of its in-built Wi-Fi 2.4 GHz which offers a stable connection.
This LED TV is also enabled with 2 stereo sound box speakers which are known to deliver amazing sound quality. The speakers generate total output RMS of 16W along with reducing any sound fluctuations by using the smart sound technology. The Dolby digital audio decoder with surround sound feature enhances the sound quality along with reducing the surrounding noises.
The A+ grade panel and 178-degree wide viewing angle ensure to offer the maximum display to the users. It also makes use of its image aspect ratio of 16:9 and an image contrast ratio of 3000:01 for balancing the brightness and contrast and to improve the display quality.
Warranty: 1.5-years
Dynamic picture enhancement
Narrow bezel and slim design
Within very less time, this brand and its LED TVs have made a successful place in the heart of the users. All thanks to the amazing picture display and deeper/richer sound quality that it offers to its users.
Enjoy an amazing and seamless crystal clear image quality, without any distortions, with its HD ready display resolution of 1366X768p and refresh rate of 60 Hz. The A+ grade panel of this LED TV along with the wide viewing angle of 178-degrees and glossy finish ensures to reduce the stress on the user’s eyes by offering them pleasant and sharp quality. It’s pretty brilliant that with the high-quality picture display of this LED TV, you can focus on each and every detail without missing even a single thing.
Along with the visual benefits, the users can also enjoy amazing sound benefits as well. This LED TV comes with 2 box speakers which generate 16W of total RMS output. Thanks to the Dolby digital audio decoder with surround sound benefits, this LED TV can deliver enhanced sound quality with reduced noise levels.
If you want to enjoy sound out feature of this LED TV, you can also make use of its headphone output of 3.5mm. Talking about the connectivity benefits offered by this LED TV, you get 2 HDMI ports and 2 USB ports for that. Along with making use of the available pre-loaded apps, you can also connect this LED TV with the Internet, with its in-built Wi-Fi 802.11, for exploring more options for entertainment.
The LED TV also comes with an image aspect ratio of 16:9 and an image contrast ratio of 5000:1 for balancing the brightness and contrast during the display.
Headphone output 3.5mm
Comes with a PC port
24 stringent quality checks
Talking about this LED TV, it comes with the HD ready resolution value of 1366X768p for delivering amazing picture quality. It also makes use of its refresh rate of 60 Hz for reducing the distortions in the images and to offer long continuous use to the users. It also comes with its eco vision mode which reduces the stress on the eyes of the users so as to offer them a pleasant viewing experience.
The A+ grade panel and wide viewing angle of 178-degrees offer the maximum ease and viewing space to the users. It supports 16.7 million colors and thus reflects the true and sharp color in the projection. To top it all, you can use this LED TV for getting an ultimate gaming experience without any interruptions and interferences.
This LED TV comes with 3 HDMI ports and 2 USB ports for delivering stable and smooth connectivity to its users. Along with the perfect use of the pre-loaded apps, this television can also be connected to the Internet by making use of its in-built Wi-Fi 802.11.
Moving to the sound quality that it offers, it comes with 2 strong and powerful speakers generating the total output RMS of 20W. The Dolby digital audio decoder with surround sound delivers the crystal clear sound along with reducing the surrounding noises.
It is powered by the Android operating system and Quad-core processor for its overall performance. It also offers the benefits of 1GB RAM and 8GB internal storage space.
Enabled with eco vision benefits
Uses TrueColor feature to reflect true colors
Energy efficient with its smart saving energy design
Panasonic is one of the brands which has been in the market for quite a long time and thus can easily be trusted with its brand value and benefits. This LED TV from the Panasonic brand comes with the full HD resolution value of 1920X1080p accompanied by vivid digital pro which improves the viewing experience of the users. It also makes use of its refresh rate of 60 Hz for delivering seamless picture quality without any blurring effect.
The users can also make use of 2 HDMI and 1 USB port for connecting this LED TV with the various other devices available. Along with using the pre-loaded apps of this LED TV, if you want to connect it to the Internet, then the in-built Wi-Fi of this LED TV would do complete justice to that.
Talking about the sound quality, it comes with 2 speakers which generate 6W of total output RMS. The V-audio surround benefits in reducing the surrounding noises along with enhancing the sound quality. The IPS panel and wide viewing angle of 178-degrees along with an image aspect ratio of 16:9 combine to offer the best visual quality along with dynamic sound quality.
One of the great benefits of using this LED TV is that it maintains the resolution of the pixels even when with the reduction of fast motion. It makes use of its 100 Hz BMR to smoothly reduce the fast motion into suitable slow-motion movements.
Dot noise reduction
Vivid digital pro for reflecting true colors
Smooth reduction of fast motion
Slim and sleek design
Samsung has always been one of the best options when it comes to choosing a suitable LED TV at an affordable price range. This LED TV is another amazing masterpiece that you can get from the brand with all the audio and visual benefits.
This Samsung LED TV comes with the HD ready display resolution value of 1366X768p which enhances the image quality to offer a pleasant viewing experience to the users. Thanks to its refresh rate of 60 Hz, it can enhance the continuous viewing experience by eliminating any interruptions or distortions in the image quality. Also, the available wide color enhancer ensures to reflect only the true colors during the display.
This LED TV also offers 2 HDMI and 2 USB ports for ensuring stable and instant connectivity. The in-built Wi-Fi of this LED TV also helps the users to connect to the Internet along with the use of pre-loaded apps.
Coming to the audio quality, it comes with 2 effective channel speakers which generate 10W of total RMS output. This LED TV also makes use of DTS premium sound 5.1 to reduce the surrounding noise and to enhance the expected sound quality for the users. You can expect to get deeper and clear sound quality from this LED TV.
One great benefit that this LED TV offers is that of story replay which allows the users to capture and record their favorite scenes and then to replay them as and when needed.
Highly durable product
Enabled with cinema and cricket mode
Enabled to take screenshots and recording
There’s always a LED TV which stands out and as per our recommendations, the Thomson B9 Pro 32 Inch HD Ready Smart LED TV (32M3277 PRO) would make one of the most suitable choices. The A+ Samsung panel along with the detailed audio and video benefits, this LED TV would deliver the true value for your money. Right from the crystal clear picture quality with true color reflection to amazing sound quality, this LED TV is designed to offer you everything that you expect from your LED TV.
Comment below any of your doubts and concerns regarding the LED TV and we would offer you the best help possible for that.
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By DUX Design, AB • March 2, 2014
Most people treasure sleep as a time of blessed inactivity. But research shows that sleep is very active state. We reposition our bodies throughout the night — which is both normal and helpful for maintaining good circulation. Our bodies release important hormones during sleep. Our immune systems reboot. And the brain engages in a variety of critical housekeeping functions.
The Two Sleep States
Not to be confused with “stages,” of sleep, the two “states” are: REM, which stands for Rapid Eye Movement; and NREM, or non-Rapid Eye Movement.
NREM
As we begin to fall asleep, we enter NREM sleep. NREM-sleep is composed of all four stages of sleep. However, REM-sleep occurs periodically throughout the cycle.
First occurs about 90 minutes after falling asleep and recurs about every 90 minutes, getting longer later in the night.
• Provides energy to brain and body
• Supports daytime performance
• Brain is active and dreams occur
• Eyes dart back and forth
• Body becomes immobile as muscles are turned off
REM a Little Dream for Me
REM gets its name from the darting eye movements that occur during this sleep stage. It’s also characterized by a sudden and dramatic loss of muscle tone. In fact, the skeletal muscles of a person during REM sleep are effectively paralyzed. This stage is marked by a level of brain wave activity similar to a waking state, and is the sleep stage when dreaming occurs. REM-sleep was first document by researchers in 1953. Since dreams were an important subject in the study of psychology, this discovery was considered groundbreaking. This excerpt is from their report:
The vivid recall that could be elicited in the middle of the night when a subject was awakened while his eyes were moving rapidly was nothing short of miraculous. It [seemed to open] … an exciting new world to the subjects whose only previous dream memories had been the vague morning-after recall. Now, instead of perhaps some fleeting glimpse into the dream world each night, the subjects could be tuned into the middle of as many as ten or twelve dreams every night.
(Dement, 1978, p. 37; quoted in Pinel, 1993)
During the deep stages of NREM sleep (Stages 3 and 4), the body repairs and regenerates tissues, builds bone and muscle, and appears to strengthen the immune system. As you get older, you sleep more lightly and get less deep sleep. Aging is also associated with shorter time spans of sleep, although studies show the amount of sleep needed doesn’t appear to diminish with age. If sleep is cut short, the body doesn’t have time to complete all of the phases needed for muscle repair, memory consolidation and release of hormones regulating growth and appetite. Then we wake up less prepared to concentrate, make decisions, or engage fully in school, work and social activities.
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Annual Auburn Fishing Rodeo to be held May 19
AUBURN, Ala. (EETV)- Auburn Parks and Recreation and Evans Realty will come together to host the 26th Annual Fishing Rodeo on Saturday, May 19, from 7 – 11 a.m.
Auburn Navy ROTC members marching to honor fallen Marines
AUBURN, Ala. (EETV)– On Wednesday, May 9, a group of 44 Marines, Sailors and Midshipman of the Auburn University Navy ROTC will depart on a three-day, 209-mile ruck march from Auburn to Navarre, Florida. "Rucking for Raiders" is in memory of the members of Marine Special Operations Team 8231, or The Raider 7, an elite group of Marines who perished in a helicopter crash during a training accident on March 10, 2015. Staff Sgt.
A look into Miss Auburn 2018: Kathryn Kennedy
By Ellie McCoy
Auburn, Ala. - There is a certain feeling that comes with being present at Auburn’s Call-Outs: sweaty palms, butterflies in the stomach and a whole lot of nerves.
Pet of the Week: Amber
AUBURN, Ala. (EETV)- Meet this week's Lee County Humane Society Pet of the Week, Amber. Amber is about two years old, and she's been with the shelter for about two months. According to the shelter she mostly likes to do her own thing, but is definitely a fan of the occasional snuggle session. When she's not loving on you, Amber enjoys taking lengthy naps in the sunlight and snacking on tasty treats.
Warner Bros. wants YOU to be the “life of the party” in Auburn!
By Jordan Langdon
We are excited to bring the LIFE OF THE PARTY World Premiere to YOU! Eagle Eye TV is giving away 50 tickets to this star-studded event on Monday, April 30th at the AMC Tiger 13! Viewers and followers can win by visiting www.wbtickets.com/EagleEye (If prompted, enter the code: EagleEye) to download an admit-one ticket while supplies last.
Annual Auburn CityFest this weekend
AUBURN, Ala. (EETV)– The 18th Annual Auburn CityFest, sponsored by MAX and media sponsored by the Opelika-Auburn News, is less than a month away!
Beyonce makes history at Coachella 2018
By Kennedy Gooden
Auburn, ALA (EETV) - Beyoncé Knowles made history this past weekend by being the first black woman and woman of color to headline Coachella (the valley and music festival). Knowles was scheduled to perform last year at the popular festival, but had to cancel because of the delivery of her twins. The singer/dancer performed for her fans hit songs from her most recent album "Lemonade", "Crazy in Love", "Deja Vu" and surprised the BeyHive with a reunion with Destiny's Child.
Pet of the Week: Rocko
AUBURN, Ala. (EETV)- This week's Lee County Humane Society Pet of the Week is Rocko. Rocko is three years old, and according to the Humane Society staff he's a big friendly dude whose interests include chasing tennis balls (he's working on learning to bring them back), nice long walks, and hanging out with people.
2017-2018 Auburn Involvement Awards winners
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New dog park now open in Opelika
By Katie Brown
A new dog park, named Floral Dog Park, is now open in Opelika.
Pet of the Week: Crystal
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Auburn Glomerata distribution this week
By Ken Ward
AUBURN, Ala. (EETV)- The Auburn University Glomerata, the official campus yearbook, will be distributed to students starting Tuesday. The Glomerata team will be passing the books out on the Haley, Thatch and Roosevelt concourses. The books are free for Auburn University students with a valid TigerCard.
Campus Legend, ‘the Nun’, Reflects on Her Time at Auburn University
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City of Auburn offering 'Trash Amnesty' during April
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Final Lecture: Dr. Mark Wilson
AUBURN, Ala. (EETV)- The Auburn University Student Government Association hosted its annual Final Lecture Monday night in the Mell Classroom Building. Dr. Mark Wilson, Director of Civic Learning Initiatives for the College of Liberal Arts and Director of Auburn's Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities, was this year's speaker. Wilson was selected by the student body for the honor earlier this year during the spring SGA elections.
Chicks and ducks hatching at Wrapsody
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Applications are out now for SummerNights 2018
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Alabama health officials bring awareness to Sexual Assault Awareness Month with ‘Alabama Goes Teal’ campaign
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Health department reminds residents of the potential health risks associated with chicks and ducklings
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City of Auburn Library to host annual book sale April 7-9
AUBURN, Ala. (EETV)- The Friends of the Auburn Public Library will host the Big Book Sale on Saturday, April 7, from 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday, April 8, from 2 p.m.-6 p.m.; and Monday, April 9, from 9 a.m.
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Home / Motorsport / World’s fastest Commodore? Kiwi squad reveal wild V8 beast
World’s fastest Commodore? Kiwi squad reveal wild V8 beast
By Matthew Hansen • 21/03/2018
The newly rebuilt Wet & Forget Racing Holden VF Commodore, to be driven later today by Simon Evans and Callum Quin. Photo / Simon Chapman
This Saturday's three-hour ENEOS New Zealand Endurance Championship finale at Pukekohe Park sees the return of a familiar squad, and a familiar — though almost entirely revamped — championship-winning touring car.
Owen Evans’ Team4 outfit, now sporting primary backing from Wet & Forget, has returned to the Kiwi motorsport fold with their ex-NZ SuperTourers Holden Commodore and drivers Simon Evans and new recruit Callum Quin.
Their car looks vastly different to when it last raced, thanks to a series of visual and performance upgrades. It now wears Holden VF Commodore Supercars Championship panels, as well as pumped out guards sourced from 'Fanga Dan' Woolhouse's VF Commodore drift car to accommodate a wider track and tyre set-up.
Under the bonnet is a whopping 7.0-litre LS7 V8, which is linked to a paddle-shift Hollinger gearbox. With ABS and traction control also thrown into the mix, the newly built Commodore ranks as one of the most ambitious cars to ever wear a Holden badge.
Though it's yet to be tested on track, expect the beast to lap the Pukekohe facility faster than the Supercars Championship regulars. It's hoped that the car will get a shakedown on Thursday, prior to first practice on Friday.
The Wet & Forget Racing machine lines up against six FIA GT3 or former–spec racers; including two Audi R8 LMS’, Clark Proctor and Andrew Porter’s Nissan Nismo R35 GT-R, and the Carter’s Tyres Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG driven by Dwayne Carter and GT ace Andrew Waite.
“The platform that we had with our NZ SuperTourer was really good, so we thought ‘why don’t we just leverage off this?’” Simon Evans told Driven.
“It would be quite cool if we can make it as fast as a GT3 car — then you don’t feel like you’ve just gone out and bought the fastest car off the shelf … You’ve actually put thought into it and developed something here to take on some of this bigger manufacturer cars.”
The three-hour grid features a total of 29 cars, with the best finishers from the ENEOS North Island Endurance Series and Carter’s Tyres South Island Endurance Series completing the line-up. The variety on show includes SsangYong’s ‘Super Ute’, the first TCR-spec touring car imported to New Zealand, and a McLaren 570S GT4 headed by Hayden Johnston — not to mention a separate full grid of cars competing for supremacy in the one-hour showdown.
The grid also includes another highly modified touring car in the form of Nick Chester's ex-V8 Supercar Holden VY Commodore. The two cars approach this weekend as outside favourites to give the GT3-runners a firm scare.
For Evans, this race kicks off his 2018 season after he and his team elected to not return to the BNT V8s — having won the previous two championship crowns as well as the 2014–15 BNT NZ SuperTourer title.
“It’s the first time off that I’ve had basically since the start of my career, and my brother was back here for a bit so it was good to catch up with him,” he said.
“But I’m still a racer at heart, so I’m itching to get back out on track and start rubbing some doors with people.”
With Evans’ former teammate Gene Rollinson switching over to International Motorsport, former BNT V8s rival and Toyota 86 Championship campaigner Callum Quin joins the squad.
“The good thing with Callum is that he’s got good experience in the cars. But he’s also a good consistent driver too, and you know that he’s going to bring the car home in one piece.
“He’s a fast, consistent driver, and that’s exactly what we’re after.”
Racing begins on Saturday with the one-hour event at 10.10am. A 1hr 30min SsangYong Racing Series enduro follows at 11.30am, with the three-hour feature race kicking off at 1.35pm. It will also be livestreamed on Driven.co.nz.
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OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media urges Azerbaijan authorities to set Rauf Arifoglu free
On December 4, Freimut Duve addressed a special letter to Azerbaijan Foreign Minister Vilayat Guliyev in which he expressed concern about the case of editor-in-chief of the Yeni Musavat newspaper Rauf Arifoglu.
Several events devoted to Caucasus to take place in Czech Republic
There are several events planned in the Czech Republic for the period between December 8 and 13 that will be devoted to the Caucasus: its culture, history, tradition, as well as a current situation in the Caucasian republics. These events are also aimed at helping Chechen refugees.
Large-scale "purges" in Grozny
The republican population is extremely alarmed with what is happening and express indignation about the continuing high-handedness from the direction of security agents.
Day of mourning for victims of terrorist act in Essentuki
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President of Azerbaijan: "There are terrorist camps and drug plantations in Nagorny Karabakh"
"The Azerbaijan party has information there is drug trafficking through Nagorny Karabakh. It is possible that drug plantations as well as camps to provide training to international terrorists are situated there," noted Mr. Aliyev.
Government building blocked by mothers of abducted Chechens
Mothers whose sons were abducted or disappeared without a trace during the second Chechen war have blocked the building of the Government and let nobody in or out.
Dismissal as instrument of putting pressure on electorate in Kabardino-Balkaria
The administration of the Kabardino-Balkarian State University gathered all the university staff in the rector's office, gave them a task to vote for the United Russia party, and threatened to dismiss those who would not follow the instruction.
Martin Ennals Award goes to coordinator of Memorial Office in Grozny Lida Yusupova
The Grozny Office of the Human Rights Center "Memorial" is one of the few human rights organizations still operating in Chechnya and providing the world with crucial information on violations of human rights in this Russian republic.
Explosion in electric train in Essentuki left 42 people dead
35 people died at the site of the terrorist act, the other 7 died in a hospital.
Russian Embassy to Georgia demanded that Georgian authorities inquire into attack on Russian diplomat
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Abductions of people in Chechnya can be stopped
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No less that 300 thousand Russian soldiers involved in hostilities in Chechnya
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Explosion in Kislovodsk-Minvody train
According to the preliminary data, 4 people were killed and 50 were injured.
Project of Stavropol Regional Library for the Blind marked in Moscow
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Nino Burdjanadze discussed ways of Georgian-Abkhazian settlement with Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Georgia
The parties stressed it was necessary that negotiations between Tbilisi and Sukhumi on the conflict settlement should continue, Heidi Tagliavini told journalists after the meeting.
Appeal by human rights activists in Kuban region to the territory's governor
The round table "How Not To Be Afraid of the Militia" took place in Krasnodar on December 2, 2003. It was organized by the Fund "School of Peace", the Novorossiysk Committee on Human Rights, and the Krasnodar Club of Civil Education of the Krasnodar Regional Public Organization "Creative Union "Southern Wave".
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Get All Hornt Up For These Very Sexy Movies in 2020
Here's a safe space to look ahead at a year of hot movies.
By Justin Kirkland
The year? 2020. The state of the world? Perilous.
And yet, here we are, reading an internet post about the sexiest movies of 2020. To that I say, good for you. No—good for us. Long gone are the days that we apologize for searching out what the sexiest movies of a given year are because 2020 is the year of clear vision, and it's time someone said it without shame. We know you people search it. That's fine! Sex is good. Being sexy is good. Watching sexy things is good, so let's treat this list like a safe space where good people looking for sexy movies can congregate.
In this sex club, we'll meet to list out the sexiest movies of the year. Movies featuring sexy ladies? They're in. Sexy dudes? They're in, too. Someone does something sexy-adjacent, but it strikes you in a way that only Freud would understand? We'll consider it. And yes, it's the beginning of the year, so we don't have a lot to go off of, but we have a lot to look forward to. Trailers for Wonder Woman and Top Gun: Maverick are out and it's already getting pretty warm in here. So scroll through the list of what's to come, and then, think of all the things we don't even know about yet. It's going to be a hornt up year, dammit. Welcome to the club.
1 Underwater (Jan. 10)
The first of the canon! Underwater features a whole bunch of sexy sea explorers who happen to be trapped in the ocean with an insane sea monster. Naturally, as things escalate, they lose some clothes, and I guess there's something kind of sexy about fear?
2 The Gentlemen (Jan. 24)
Guy Ritchie's upcoming gangster movie about a weed empire in London may not strike you as a romp fest, but sometimes the sexiness is all in the view. With a cast featuring Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, Henry Golding, Colin Farrell, and Michelle Dockery, it's hard to imagine there's not going to be a touch of sexual tension in there.
3 Birds of Prey (Feb. 7)
Again, we're not casting judgment, but there's a very particular kind of person who is attracted to Harley Quinn. If that's your jam, she's getting her own movie with a whole cast of femme fatales backing her. And yeah, they're here to kick ass.
4 Sonic (Feb. 14)
You roll your eyes like this isn't applicable, but hear me out: Sonic is a fox. Not literally. Technically he's a hedgehog, but he's a handsome hedgehog. He wears no pants. He was redesigned for your aesthetic pleasure, and he's fit as hell. Consider it, and for the furries: you're welcome.
5 The Photograph (Feb. 14)
If Sonic isn't your speed for a romantic holiday film, then a) how dare you? and b) here's a second option. In a sexy, sexy movie about romance and, um, death, Issa Rae and LaKeith Stanfield star in this drama where a woman and journalist presumably fall in love while piecing together the past of her photographer mother.
6 No Time to Die (Apr. 8)
No matter how you identify, James Bond is aspirational. If you don't want to look like him, you want to be with him. Pair that with the likes of Naomie Harris, Lashanna Lynch, and Rami Malek, and you have one of the best looking casts of the year. And sorry... spy movies are always going to be sexy. It's just in their nature.
7 Wonder Woman 1984 (Jun. 5)
Five words here: Gal Gadot and Chris Pine.
8 Top Gun: Maverick (Jun. 26)
Thirty-one years after the original, Tom Cruise is back in the pilot seat for a Top Gun sequel. Joining him is Val Kilmer, Jon Hamm, Jennifer Connelly, and Miles Teller. If they even veer toward a new beach volleyball scene, then this movie will enter the Sexy Movie Canon.
Justin Kirkland Justin Kirkland is a writer for Esquire, where he focuses on entertainment, television, and pop culture.
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The Warren-Sanders Tiff Is a Gift to Joe Biden
The Democratic Debate in Des Moines is shaping up for the ex-veep despite new questions about his Iraq War record.
By Jack Holmes
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No one will be quite so pleased with the collapse of the Bernie Sanders-Elizabeth Warren non-aggression pact as Joe Biden. Maybe Pete Buttigieg will feel some sort of positive emotion, but it's not all that easy to tell. The Sanders and Warren camps are in a significant tiff heading into the Democratic debate Tuesday night in Des Moines, less than three weeks out from the inexplicably important Iowa caucuses, and high-flying centrists Biden and Buttigieg look like the debate-stage residents most likely to benefit.
After a dispute over whether and/or how severely Sanders campaigners had gone negative on Warren, CNN cited anonymous sources to report on a private meeting between the two senator-friends back in 2018 where Sanders allegedly told Warren a woman could not win the presidency. This was a grenade dropped into the Online Primary electorate, a significant chunk of which still believes Sanders critically damaged Hillary Clinton's campaign in 2016, and that misogyny—at least among his supporters—played some role. Sanders supporters deny that. Sanders himself denied this new claim, saying instead that he'd told Warren that, "Donald Trump is a sexist, a racist, and a liar who would weaponize whatever he could."
Warren's campaign went quiet on the issue until late on Monday, and it remains to be seen whether the candidate herself was involved in making this public. BuzzFeed News reports the campaign is trying to "de-escalate" the situation, though the damage appears done. When Warren did comment publicly, she couched the following in some talk about how they're great friends fighting for the same things: "I thought a woman could win; he disagreed."
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This clashes with Sanders' public record—he has long encouraged women to run for office and said a woman could be president—but it is possible he said this in private. It also seems possible he meant a female candidate would run up against the same misogyny in media coverage and public perception that was a factor in Hillary Clinton's defeat, or—as he now claims—that Trump would weaponize these forces to his advantage once again. Biden, for his part, has made this real politik argument explicitly in public as part of his general electability pitch.
One weakness of that pitch was garnering some new scrutiny before the Bernie-Warren blowup, and that's another reason the former veep is likely chuffed about the development. Biden has in recent months started to fudge the historical record on his vote for the Iraq War, the same vote that damaged Clinton in 2016. (Trump lied relentlessly about his supposed opposition to the war before it began, while slamming Clinton for her support.) Biden does not deny his vote outright, but he's started to offer self-exonerating explanations for it. He's said he thought the purpose of the resolution was just to get nuclear inspectors into Iraq. He's said he turned against the war effort as soon as the Bush administration engaged in "shock and awe" early on in the invasion. After Sanders suggested that "it is appalling that after 18 years Joe Biden still refuses to admit he was dead wrong on the Iraq War," Biden surrogate John Kerry said on Face The Nation this Sunday that Bernie was distorting Biden's record.
.@JohnKerry on @BernieSanders criticism of @JoeBiden’s vote authorizing the use of force in Iraq: “Bernie is distorting Joe’s record,” adds “he doesn’t have what Joe Biden has.” pic.twitter.com/FgNdNGDGak
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) January 12, 2020
But the fact is that in the lead-up, Biden backed the Bush line on WMD and floated the possibility Saddam Hussein could "share them with terrorists." That's a nod to the false al Qaeda link, too. He chided Democrats who failed to support the war, and suggested of Bush that "the President of the United States is a bold leader and he is popular." In 2013, Peter Baker reported in his book Days of Fire that Biden's support was vociferous indeed, and included talk of a Nobel Peace Prize for Bush if he could avoid a lengthy stay in Mesopotamia. In July 2003, well after the war had begun, he maintained open support for the war in a Senate hearing. "I personally think this job is doable, or I wouldn't have voted for us going into Iraq in the first place," he said. "I think it is doable, but I think it's going to require a much more intensified and urgent commitment of resources. And beyond that, I think it's going to take a lot of time, a lot of troops, and a lot of money."
That last part was accurate: the war took up 18 years and cost well over $2 trillion and lost thousands of American lives—not to mention hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. But Biden's claims in this campaign are increasingly not. He's undoubtedly trying to spin out of this because he watched in 2016 as both Sanders and Trump buried Clinton in talk about her Iraq war vote. Clinton acknowledged it was a mistake, and maybe Biden has taken a page—or perhaps a paragraph—out of the new political playbook in the age of Trump and decided that just never admitting wrongdoing is the way to go. But the truth, in the end, is simple: Biden supported the Iraq War, even after the occupation began to go south, because he thought it was the right thing to do. If he wants to tell the truth now, he could acknowledge that.
Tuesday’s debate dynamic has been altered considerably.
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Or maybe he just won't, and will hope that CNN—which broke open the Sanders-Warren tiff yesterday and just happens to be co-hosting the debate featuring both of them tonight—will concentrate on the progressive wing onstage. The way things are shaking up, Biden could well continue to make the case he's the Safe Choice all the way to the nomination, even as Ukraine lingers in the background. Biden still does not have an answer for why his son was getting paid six-figures by a Ukrainian oligarch to sit on the board of Burisma, and The New York Times reported Monday that Russian intelligence engaged in cyber attacks on the Ukrainian energy firm timed to an explosion of Ukraine talk in November of last year.
The writing really is on the wall. There isn't a shred of evidence that Joe Biden himself committed any act of malfeasance with respect to Ukraine or Burisma, but there will be a slow drip of information about it—the Russian hackers were reportedly looking for emails and financial records—until the end of time. Conservative media will eat every morsel up with glee. The mainstream media, terrified of accusations of bias from the right and continually seeking Balance in a hopeless effort to defuse those claims, will dutifully report on the allegations and the shadows descending on the Biden campaign. Social media will be a festival of mudslinging, egged on—as surely Sanders and Warren supporters are today—by bots and trolls stationed...abroad.
In this way, the same real politik Biden used to argue for his candidacy's immunity to misogyny could be deployed against him: he will, without a lick of doubt, get ratfucked on the Ukraine issue. It will be another sequel to The Emails (2016). Is that a telling argument against his candidacy, or will any Democrat get ratfucked just as bad? Clinton suffered from what political scientists call "priming," where the electorate had been conditioned over decades to believe claims about her corruption. Biden is getting a dose of the same, albeit on a much shorter timeframe. Would other candidates prove as susceptible? Are there Emails and Benghazis lurking in the future for each of them? Perhaps the best candidate is whichever one has the singular focus to weather the inevitable storm of insane bullshit. They'll likely get some practice in Des Moines tonight.
Jack Holmes Politics Editor Jack Holmes is the Politics Editor at Esquire, where he writes daily and edits the Politics Blog with Charles P Pierce.
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EPD Crime Analysis Unit reports that over the first three months of 2013 there has been a 33 percent increase in Weapons Offenses, with an 89 percent increase in weapons possessed illegally and a 19 percent increase in weapons being carried concealed.
There have been recent incidents that illustrate this: on Friday May 10 through Saturday, May 11, EPD Officers handled at least three incidents involving firearms, where multiple handguns and a semi-automatic rifle were seized, along with methamphetamine and cash.
One case yielded multiple firearms and arrests: at 2:14 p.m. on May 10, Eugene Police assisted Lane County Parole and Probation in the 800 block of Skipper to make an arrest of Jett Levi Faribault, age 27, on warrants. EPD found a stolen handgun and evidence of narcotics delivery. EPD also found Faribault had a large gun safe and after a search warrant was obtained, found an AR-15-style rifle, a shotgun and currency. Faribault was arrested on Unlawful Delivery of Heroin, Unlawful Possession of Heroin, Unlawful Possession of Cocaine, Theft in the First Degree. Other arrests were made this week.
On May 11, at 2:30 a.m., two EPD officers stopped at vehicle near the 2100 block of Cubit, as the driver seemed intoxicated. The driver was found to be Driving While Suspended and an inventory of the vehicle yielded a concealed and loaded .22 caliber pistol, a set of brass knuckles that have taser prongs on them, and methamphetamine. Two people were arrested:
Ramon Najar, age 24, of Eugene, was arrested and charges include:
• Unlawful Delivery of a Controlled Substance (Meth)
• Unlawful Possession of a Controlled Substance (Meth)
• Unlawful Possession of a Firearm
• Carry Concealed Weapon
• Driving While Suspended (Misdemeanor)
Ramon Gonzales Moreno Hedras, age 24, of Springfield was arrested and charges include:
• Possession of a Weapon by Felon (Restricted)
• Unlawful Delivery of a Controlled Substance (schedule III)
• Unlawful Possession of a Controlled Substance (schedule III)
The third incident was previously sent out over the weekend as a news release:
Jack Edward McDowell (age 30) was arrested at his home at approximately 0322 hours after neighbors reported hearing gunshots from within the home.
Neighbors in the area of 18th and Columbia woke to gunfire early this morning. Neighbors pinpointed the noise as coming from McDowell’s home at 1804 Columbia prompting four 911 calls. The Eugene Police Department responded and called McDowell outside where he was taken into custody. McDowell is a Graduate Teaching Fellow at the University of Oregon. The investigation revealed McDowell was shooting guns into the ceiling of his home. Later this afternoon, investigators seized several firearms and other evidence from inside the residence.
Investigators discovered at least 39 gunshots fired into the ceiling of McDowell’s home. He was lodged at the Lane County Jail on 39 counts of Unlawful Use of a Weapon and Disorderly Conduct 2.
EPD REPORT - WEAPONS OFFENSES 2013
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Sony secures trademarks for PS6, PS7, PS8, PS9 and even PS10
Life service.
News by Wesley Yin-Poole, Deputy Editor
You've got to think ahead if you want to stay ahead in the video game business - and that's exactly what Sony's doing. Far far ahead.
The company behind PlayStation has filed trademarks for PS6, PS7, PS8, PS9 and PS10. Yep, even PS10.
Sure, this is just a forward-thinking protective measure from Sony suits in Japan. But let's do some quick maths: let's say we have a console transition every five years (could be longer, could be shorter) - then we're looking at PS10 in 2045.
Presumably we'll all be living in some sort of post-apocalyptic dystopian society by then. So it's kind of reassuring to think Sony reckons we'll still need video games in our lives even as we scratch each other's eyes out for petrol.
As Gematsu notes, Sony's got form when it comes to forward-thinking trademarks. It put its name down for PS5, due out in 2020, back in 2006. See! They know what they're doing, don't they?
Unless! What if Sony plans to go for a mobile phone model in the post-PS5 world, selling less meaningful new consoles more often? And then you could upgrade, like you do with your phone, each year. If that's true, perhaps I'll live long enough to see PS10.
It's more fun to imagine PS10 in 2045. What will video games look like then? If it's not the Holodeck then we've messed up big time somewhere along the way, haven't we? Whatever PS10 looks like, I'm sure Gran Turismo 7 will be a launch title.
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National Archives News
By Lauren Eisenstodt Premium
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has declassified and opened to the public approximately 180,000 pages of materials from the Nixon Presidential Materials Project. The documents, which formerly resided in National Security Council (NSC) Institutional Files, include NSC committee and intelligence files, as well as policy papers.
In other NARA news, the Truman Presidential Museum & Library announced last week the discovery of a handwritten diary, dating from 1947, with 42 entries by President Harry S. Truman. “This is probably the most important document the Truman Library has opened in 20 years,” said Michael J. Devine, director of the library, which is in Independence, Mo, “Once again, in this diary, we are able to hear that strong personal voice that Truman almost always projected in his writing. We learn something new both about his presidency and about him as a person.”
Truman writes about presidential ghosts in the White House, his early-morning ritual, the resignation of James F. Byrnes as secretary of state and appointment of George Marshall to succeed him, and his mother’s death. You can see images and transcriptions of each diary entry on the Truman Library Web site, <www.trumanlibrary.org>.
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Real Madrid star, Gareth Bale, ruled out of Wales world cup qualifi
Real Madrid forward, Gareth Bale, ruled out of Wales world cup qualifiers
Real Madrid forward ,Gareth Bale ,has been ruled out of Wales' World Cup qualifiers against Georgia and the Republic of Ireland due to a calf strain.
Real manager Zinedine Zidane had played down concerns about Bale's fitness, saying he rested him for Sunday's win over Espanyol as a precaution.
Bale joined the Wales squad on Monday and, despite sitting out training, it had been hoped he would be fit.
However, the 28-year-old's injury means he will not travel to Georgia.
Barnsley striker Tom Bradshaw has been called up to Wales the squad in his place.
Bale's absence in Tbilisi on Friday and in Cardiff for the visit of the Republic of Ireland three days later is a huge blow to Welsh hopes of qualifying for a first World Cup since 1958.
Wales are second in Group D, trailing leaders Serbia by four points with two matches remaining.
In order to secure a play-off place, Wales would realistically need at least four points from the games against Georgia and the Republic of Ireland.
Their chances of doing so will be harmed by the injury to Bale, who has scored four goals so far in this campaign. Wales have failed to win a match without the Real Madrid forward since 2013, drawing three and losing three matches in his absence.
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Prototyping a Social Movement with a 3D Printer
Jul 29, 2014 by Gared Jones, Points of Light
I arrived in Lagos a few weeks ago as part of Points of Light’s partnership to support GE Garages Nigeria, an initiative through which GE is using the leading edge of its business—principles of open innovation and technologies in advanced manufacturing—to spur job growth and build entrepreneurship in Nigeria.
The launch platform in which I participated was a pop-up, three-week innovation and manufacturing center where aspiring makers, entrepreneurs, and students could go to develop new skills and learn about advanced manufacturing technologies.
Points of Light’s job is to help connect the volunteer skills, talent, leadership, innovation, and compassion of GE employees to the development of the power-sector workforce and the growing number of tech manufacturing entrepreneurs in the country.
GE understands that building Nigeria’s human capital will be critical to solving the near 25,000 MW shortfall of power generation capacity in its recently privatized power generation sector—a critical issue that GE has also committed to address.
The last time I was in Africa was nearly 15 years ago when I was working for Deloitte as a strategy consultant in the energy sector. It was there that my passion for volunteering took root through a connection I made with Paradise for Street Kids, a shelter for 120 boys age 4-18 in the heart of Johannesburg, South Africa. I helped with math and English homework, got other colleagues involved, and adopted a “little brother,” Tinashe, who is still part of my family today. It is uncanny how life has brought me full circle.
During the week I spent as part of the Nigerian Garage, I was privileged to witness the powerful beginnings of a social change initiative that exemplified the best of what companies can do to address broader social issues where they do business.
GE Power & Water executives met with government ministers and business partners to discuss their shared commitment to building both infrastructure and human capacity in the country. Tech entrepreneurs and angel investors met within the Garages space to develop strategies for catalyzing start-up growth with the support of GE resources.
Leaders from one of Nigeria’s top technical institutes and Dangote Foundation formulated plans with GE for the long-term skills-building initiative that the three-week Garage will launch. And school children designed a lighter-weight prototype for a generator they had created that converts urine to power. They also prototyped easy-to-make tiaras.
All the while, GE field engineers, operations managers, power generation salespeople, and HR and finance professionals worked on plans to engage the skills and passion of GE Volunteers, 300 strong in Nigeria and 60,000 strong around the world, to improve the lives and capabilities of the mechanical and electrical engineering trainees, tech entrepreneurs, and students.
The currency across all of these connections—and something that had not been known to me—was how quickly Nigerian people are to laugh. Many times throughout the days, ebullient outbursts drowned out the noise of the manufacturing equipment.
It’s clear to me that there is a lot of work to be done. It’s also clear that there is excitement, creativity, passion, and laughter—in equal measure—to sustain this effort along the way and to ensure its success.
Gared Jones is vice president of global service at Points of Light, the largest organization in the world dedicated to volunteer service.
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The 2013 Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Season (LOORRS) started in dynamic fashion at Firebird International Raceway in Chandler, AZ and Team GT’s, Carl Renezeder, picked up right where he left off in 2012…on top of the podium. Renezeder made a statement from the word go when he powered his way to the front of the field in Pro 4 action to capture his 105th career win, 40 seconds ahead of second-place Kyle LeDuc. In Pro 2 competition Robby Woods started from the pole but it was Renezeder who came from mid-pack on his red letter Grabber’s to finish second.
The Pro Lite race on day one had a mixed bag of rookies and veteran’s. Team GT’s, Casey Currie, sliced and diced his way through the field inching closer to the front lap after lap. It was in the closing laps that he surfaced in fifth and quickly moved his way to third where he would finish the day.
Day two at Firebird was filled with thrills and spills. In Pro 4 action, while making a strong run to the front, Josh Merrell made contact with another truck and flipped multiple times landing right side up. Watch the video to see Merrell emerge from the truck and talk about the accident that he walked away from. A true testament to the safety innovations in racing and the hard work of Merrell’s race team.
The accident brought out a lengthy red flag for clean up but then it was back to business for the remaining trucks. Renezeder put on a spectacular show for the fans picking up where he left off Saturday, in the winner’s circle. If you’re counting, that’s career win 106 for Renezeder…but he wasn’t done yet.
In the final race of the weekend it took drivers 33 laps to complete 20 green flag laps in Pro 2 competition. Following an early race incident that sent him off-track, Renezeder used the traction of his Grabber’s to quickly move himself back into the fray. By lap 27 of 33, Renezeder was at the front of the field and getting out his broom, as he was about to sweep the day with another win, this time in Pro 2. The win brought Renezeder’s total on the weekend to three wins and a second place. Not too shabby for the California-native.
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I had a good friend who carried his family and friends he grew up with like a millstone around his neck. It seemed he was destined to be swallowed up by all the drama and bad behavior they supplied since he was unwilling to get the heck out of Dodge (as I more colorfully advised).
This made me wonder if it was truly possible to escape your heritage. Regardless of our hopes and dreams, are we truly destined to fly no higher than the people we surround ourselves with?
This is the central theme of the new film “The Fighter.” It is the true story of working-class boxer Mickey Ward who rose to greatness from working on a road crew in Lowell, Massachusetts.
Before you say to yourself, “Hey, this rags-to-riches storyline sounds familiar. I know, it’s every boxing movie ever made;” know that “The Fighter” is less about the man in the ring and more about those who surround it. They are the ones who make this movie great.
Mickey is played by Mark Wahlberg, whose acting strength is the role of the everyman. He nails it here and is able to take his performance to even greater heights thanks to the absolutely killer supporting cast he gets to work with.
Christian Bale plays Mickey’s half-brother Dickey Eklund, a local-boxing legend who once knocked down Sugar Ray Leonard in a fight (although the odds are pretty good that Sugar Ray merely tripped.)
Dickey is Mickey’s trainer and a functioning crack addict to boot, so he’s not the most reliable guy to have in your corner.
Bale lost a crazy amount of weight for this part and when you get past the initial shock and thoughts like “Wow, this dude’s committed” or “I hope he doesn’t have to play Batman again any time soon or the Joker is going to kick his butt,” you forget all of that as Bale disappears into Dickey.
It’s hard to imagine anyone beating Bale out for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar this year, I just hope he puts on some weight before then so he can fill out a tux.
Not to be outdone is Melissa Leo as Mickey and Dickey’s mother Alice. Leo conjures up a storm of white-trash drama as Alice ignores Dickey’s problems while acting as Mickey’s manager.
In Alice’s wake travels a posse of seven adult daughters, each a bleach-blonde multiplier of Alice’s influence, forming a clone army with “Baaaastan” accents.
Between Dickey and Alice, Mickey’s career is headed nowhere fast. Blind loyalty to his family keeps Mickey tied down to bad fights and flimsy paydays, much to the chagrin of Mickey’s mentor Mickey O’Keefe, played, incidentally, by the real Mickey O’Keefe. How’s that for authenticity?
Mickey’s life changes when he meets Charlene, a local bartender played in yet another powerhouse performance by the usually cute and cuddly Amy Adams. Best known for bubblier roles, Adams sinks her teeth into Charlene, a tough customer in her own right whose love for Mickey allows her to stand toe-to-toe with his family to battle for his best interests.
Adams hits the bullseye on the “vulnerable-yet-tough” target. Charlene is the type of woman you would want on your side if a bar fight started going south. Both Adams and Leo are sure to be on several Best Supporting Actress short lists.
“The Fighter” becomes most rousing not in the ring, but when Mickey stands up for himself and shapes his own destiny instead of letting others sway it one direction or another.
Director David O. Russell is best known for showier movies like “Three Kings” and “I Heart Huckabees,” but he shows a lot of maturity here in knowing when to get out of his own way.
“The Fighter” is like a punch to the gut, but in a good way. The performances wallop you but its Mickey’s journey that lingers days later. Plus it won’t make you throw up on your shoes. What more could you ask?
“The Fighter” is rated R for language throughout, drug content, some violence and sexuality.
Mat DeKinder (mdekinder@yourjournal.com) was once described by a guy named Nate as “the Jackie Moon of film critics.” He appears courtesy of Suburban Journals of Greater St. Louis.
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The GO Malta eSports Festival 2016 - LoL Warmup Open #1
Tournament Starts: July 5th, 2016 at 7:00pm
Tournament Ends: July 5th, 2016 at 7:00pm
General & Game Settings
Competition Method: 5 vs. 5
Maps allowed: Summoner’s Rift (summer)
Mode: Tournament Draft
Tournament Mode: Single Elimination BO1, final BO3
Bans per team: 3
Game Length: Until the winner is determined
Game Winner: The team who completely destroys their opponent’s nexus or forces their opponent to surrender.
Champion Selection: Draft mode will be used. Players may only select champions that are unlocked via any means. Players need to have a minimum of 14 champions available for draft mode.
Restrictions: There are no item/champion restrictions at this time. At the discretion of the Head Admin, restrictions may be added.
Match Setup: Top or Home Team Captain will create matches and provide game names/passwords to both teams.
Draft Rules
Draft Options: Tournament will be using the draft mode feature. Team will only have 5 members, subs can be used but may only play for one team throughout the tournament.
Draft Order: The team listed as the home team will have the
choice to select their side as blue (first pick) or purple (second pick).
The home team will be chosen with a coin toss before a match starts. In a multiple game
series, the loser of a game will receive first pick for the next game.
Draft mode proceeds in a snake draft format as follows:
Blue Team = A; Purple Team = B
Bans: ABABAB
Picks: ABBAABBAAB
Stoppage of Play
A player, who experiences technical issues, may call for a game Pause. The player must be experiencing a hardware malfunction (e.g. monitor, peripheral, etc), or a physical disruption (e.g. fan interference, table or chair breakage). The player must declare the issue in public chat or to a tournament administrator and then intentionally disconnect.
If an unintentional disconnection occurs –OR– a player’s client crashes or fails to load after champion selection,
then the match must be paused.
If a player intentionally disconnects without specifying a reason, then the game will continue as normal.
If a server crash occurs, then the tournament director or head referee will decide either between (a) restarting the game or (b) awarding the game to one of the teams. As a guideline, a game victory will only be awarded in a situation where one team was on the verge of certain defeat (e.g. A nexus was about about to be destroyed).
Pausing the game unintentionally is not permitted.
If done the game must be resumed
immediately and if a team does it more than once he can face disqualification form the tournament.
The following actions will be considered unfair play:
The use of any cheat program and/or map hack program.
An intentional disconnection without a proper and explicitly stated reason.
The use of any settings exceeding the standard and permitted settings.
Intentionally allowing an opponent to win a game.
Unsportsmanlike or disruptive behavior such as inappropriate and/or unprofessional actions directed towards another player or tournament official.
The use of a game bug that is determined by the board of referees as being unfair.
The use of an ineligible player (aka “ringing”) upon discovery of any player committing any violations regarded as unfair play, the offending player, at the sole discretion of the tournament director or a group of referees, may receive a warning, a forfeit loss, disqualified from the tournament. During the course of the event, the tournament director or group of referees may determine other actions to embody unfair play.
When a match starts from the champion select onwards no one is allowed to communicate with the 5 playing players. Should someone be caught talking to the team he or she cannot spectate the team again and if the problem persists he will be asked to leave the venue. Should a team use someone to seek information regarding the opposing team while playing, that team can be disqualified immediately. It is up to the match admins to decide and take action when such rule is breached.
Plays TV
Players are required to have a Plays.tv account (http://plays.tv) and record the match. In case of a conflict, the referenced video will be used to determine the winner.
Smurf Accounts
The use of Smurf Accounts is strictly prohibited and if caught will result in an immediate ban from the current tournament and future ones.
The Administrators reserve the right to modify the rules as needed. This includes changes due to software updates or releases, event organizer decisions and all other changes deemed necessary to run a successful tournament. Players are responsible to check the rules on a regular basis and prior to the event to ensure they are in complete compliance. Players must understand that rules listed are guidelines to ensure fair and competitive play and are subject to interpretation by the administrators based on the spirit of the game.
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Letter Quest: Grimm’s Journey Remastered Review
Kim Snaith
Have you ever played a side-scrolling beat ’em up and thought to yourself, “what this game needs is more spelling”?
No? Well, me neither actually. But apparently that’s exactly what developer Bacon Bandit thought when they created wordplay-meets-brawler game Letter Quest: Grimm’s Journey. It may seem like a very odd combination, but somehow, it really works.
Originally released in 2014 on PC and mobile, Letter Quest: Grimm’s Journey has recently had a bit of a facelift for a re-release on console, now known as Letter Quest: Grimm’s Journey Remastered. The new version contains a new game mode, completely re-recorded music and polished animations. The core gameplay remains unchanged, so if you’ve already played the game, the Remastered version probably doesn’t offer enough to warrant purchasing it again, but if you’re new to it, like me, then it’s a delightful title with plenty of addictive gameplay on offer.
Playing through the main campaign of the game will see you work your way through 40 levels, each of increasing difficulty. Every level has a series of enemies for you to defeat, but rather than simply hitting an “attack” button and wielding a blade in the face of your foes, your weapon in Letter Quest is the written word. Presented with a grid of Scrabble-like squares, every attack sees you spell a word; the more points your word scores, the more damage your attack will do. Much like Scrabble, letters are graded by their rarity, so using J, K and X will net you a lot more damage than A, E and S, for example. Letter Quest laughs in the face of that old adage, “sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me”, because here, words do hurt.
Letter Quest: Grimm’s Journey Remastered is presented in 2D, with a simple but wonderful visual style. Very cartoonish, the art perfectly complements the tone of the game, never taking itself too seriously. Enemy designs are wonderful, and although you’ll soon see the same models again and again, it’s hard to tire of the funky and chunky foes, such as a giant bunny holding a feather duster (the “Dust Bunny”, obviously) and “Little Orphan Granny”. Playing out very much like an old-school side-scrolling beat ’em up, Letter Quest sees you progress through a series of levels by defeating enemies before you can move past them. The earlier levels of the game may have just one fairly easy enemy to destroy, but as you progress you’ll be faced with several enemies in succession, some with much higher HP and some with special abilities. “Boss” enemies may be immune to certain types of damage, and have special attacks that affect your letters. For instance, some enemies will only take damage from words longer than five letters, or only from words that include at least one corner letter. Others will attack your letter grid, infecting your tiles with poison which inflicts damage on you if you use them, or turning your tiles into stone so that they can’t be used. There are a variety of different effects on offer, all adding a new layer to the challenge, and as you progress through the game these will only get more persistent and harder to avoid.
Killing enemies grants you coins, which can be spent out of levels on permanent upgrades. Much like a lite-RPG, your character in Letter Quest: Grimm’s Journey Remastered has a series of stats that can all be upgraded as you collect more coins. All the typical upgrades can be bought, such as improved attack and defences, and you can even swap out and upgrade your weapon – although the options are fairly limited. You also unlock additional skills in the form of books as you go along. You can equip up to three of these at any one time (starting with one; extra slots unlock as you progress) and each offers a unique perk to aid you in your quest. Considering its very basic premise, Letter Quest is filled with a lot of unexpected and welcome depth.
There’s a surprising amount of content in this seemingly small title, too. Although the main campaign of the game is limited to 40 levels, each of these levels has four game modes attached to it, offering an abundance of gameplay. Once you’ve completed the standard level, earning yourself one star, you can earn a further two stars by completing the time trial and the challenge mode (enemies are slightly harder and will have some special ability), and a special platinum star can be bagged by beating the level on ultra-hard mode. Enemies deal a significantly higher amount of damage, have a great deal more HP and have more special skills up their sleeves, so expect to level up your character a lot before you can think about tackling these.
Alongside campaign mode, there is an Endless game mode, which is new to Letter Quest: Grimm’s Journey Remastered. The gameplay remains the same to that found in the main campaign, but rather than working your way through levels, it’s a case of seeing how long you can survive by facing an endless run of enemies with increasing difficulty. Just like the main game, you’re also rewarded coins for defeating an enemy, but these don’t carry over between games and can only be used in your current run of Endless mode. After every few enemies, you’ll be greeted by a shopkeeper who lets you spend your hard-earned coins on useful items like potions, damage upgrades and health refills. You’ll need to carefully balance your available funds against keeping your health levels buoyant if you want to succeed.
Going into it, I didn’t expect much from Letter Quest: Grimm’s Journey Remastered, but I was pleasantly surprised. I enjoy a good word game now and then, and the unique twist that Letter Quest offers with brawler and RPG elements makes this a truly engaging and addictive title. If you’re not a fan of wordplay, then perhaps you won’t get the same level of enjoyment from it than someone who spends inordinate amounts of time on Words With Friends, say, but the blend of genres coupled with the great art style makes this a much more accessible and enjoyable game than your bog-standard game of Boggle.
Letter Quest: Grimm’s Journey Remastered is available on PC, PS4, Xbox One and PS Vita. We reviewed the Xbox One version.
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Purchase Your New Chrysler Vehicle From Foster Motors In Middlebury, Vermont
When you're looking to lease or loan a new Chrysler in Vermont, you'll want to take a closer look at the wide array of new Chrysler vehicles that Foster Motors has in their new vehicle line-up. These luxury sedans and minivans will transport you around Middlebury VT, Rutland VT, and Burlington VT with a sophistication and power that's not normally found in many other vehicles. No matter which new Chrysler car or van you choose, you'll be sure to leave a lasting impression wherever you go.
Why Buy A New Chrysler?
Since its humble beginnings in the early 1920's, the Chrysler brand has seen its ups and downs, but has always remained a strong competitor in the automotive industry. Always considered a classy brand, Chrysler models were sought after for their exterior and interior design, well-built vehicles, and, more recently, their innovative technological advancements. If anything can be said for the challenges that the Chrysler company has been through, it's that its vehicles are tough, stunning, and ready to provide all drivers in Vermont with a long-lasting and exhilarating life.
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Chrysler 300 Sedan - When you're looking for a sedan, this is the one to consider. From the brilliant exterior design that features a muscular overture and the gorgeous cabin that combines premium materials with many technological features and programs to the ready-to-go powertrains and protecting safety systems, the Chrysler 300 will get you where you need to go while providing a safe and relaxing environment for both the driver and its passengers.
Chrysler Pacifica Minivan - You may think about driving a minivan and immediately be reminded of the clunky old minivan that your Mom used to drive you around in when you were a kid. The Chrysler Pacifica is not that type of van. While still containing plenty of space for up to eight people and a plethora of versatile cargo volume, this minivan also offers a modernized design, both inside and out, many technological features for front and rear passengers as well as for safety, and a multitude of helpful amenities, like the included in-vehicle vacuum and easy tilt seating. Bottom line: the Pacifica will help make you stand out in the crowd while also transporting your family as safely and calmly as can be expected.
Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid Minivan - Yes, you heard us right, a hybrid minivan! What's better than bringing your family to and from school, work, and extra-curriculars in a stunning, entertaining, powerful, and safe van? Saving money while doing so. The Pacifica Hybrid combines gas and electric motors to gain an EPA estimated efficiency rating of 84 miles-per-gallon-equivalent with a total driving range of 566-miles per fill-up. Think of all the money you'll save as you bring your daughter's soccer team to the out-of-state finals, head off on a road trip across Vermont to visit the extended family, or drive back and forth throughout Burlington, Middlebury, or Rutland for your everyday errands!
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US official expects 'hundreds more' cases of vaping illness
US official expects ‘hundreds more’ cases of vaping illness
A House committee held an emergency hearing Tuesday to look at the growing number of deaths and diseases attributed to vaping and e-cigarettes.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of vaping-related illnesses in the U.S. could soon climb much higher, a public health official said Tuesday.
Dr. Anne Schuchat, of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told a congressional subcommittee that she believes "hundreds more" lung illnesses have been reported to health authorities since last Thursday, when the CDC put the tally at 530 confirmed and probable cases.
"We are seeing more and more cases each day and I expect the next weekly numbers will be much higher," Schuchat said.
Nine deaths have been reported.
The CDC is investigating the little-understood outbreak but has not yet identified a common electronic cigarette or ingredient.
The cases, which resemble an inhalation injury, have helped trigger a swift backlash against e-cigarettes, including a proposed federal ban on flavors by the Trump administration, state-level restrictions in Michigan and New York, and an end to sales in Walmart stores nationwide.
On Tuesday, Massachusetts ordered a four-month halt to sales of all vaping products and devices. The temporary ban is the first of its kind in the nation. Michigan and New York have targeted their bans to vaping flavors.
Under questioning from House Democrats at the first congressional hearing on the emerging problem, Schuchat emphasized how little is known about the effects of inhaling various oils, flavor particles and other ingredients in vaping products.
"We don't know enough about the aerosol that vaping produces in terms of the short and longer-term health impacts," said Schuchat. "It may indeed be that the process itself is risky."
Many patients reported vaping THC from marijuana, but Schuchat and state health officials have cautioned that some said they only vaped nicotine.
One theory is that counterfeiters started adding something new to knock-off vape products this year. Lab tests of some of the suspect vape products found vitamin E acetate. That lines up with what's known about the additives some counterfeiters are using to "cut" THC oil.
The CDC is recommending people who vape consider not using e-cigarettes at all while authorities investigate.
Subcommittee chairman Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi slammed Food and Drug Administration regulators for not requiring more testing of nicotine-containing e-cigarettes.
"When a product is released onto the market without safety testing or clinical trials, this is what we fear," said the Illinois Democrat, who chairs the economic subcommittee of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.
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The FDA gained authority to regulate the products in 2016, but repeatedly pushed back the timeline for reviewing their health effects. The current deadline for submitting products is next May.
Lawmakers also heard from the mother of 18-year-old Piper Johnson, who was rushed to the emergency room in mid-August with chest pain, difficulty breathing, coughing and nausea.
Her mother, Ruby Johnson, told lawmakers the problems emerged while driving Piper to start her freshman year of college in Colorado.
"What started as an exciting rite of passage turned into a terrifying near-death experience that involved a weeklong hospital stay," said Johnson, detailing a battery of drugs and medical interventions used to treat her daughter, including oxygen, intravenous fluids, steroids, anti-nausea drugs and pain relievers.
Johnson said her daughter had vaped THC but was mainly using nicotine e-cigarettes such as Juul in the weeks before she became sick.
Johnson, of New Lenox, Illinois, blamed e-cigarette manufacturers for targeting teens with appealing flavors and the FDA for allowing vapes to "proliferate, flourish and remain for purchase," without formal review.
The FDA's acting commissioner, Ned Sharpless, is scheduled to appear Wednesday at a hearing on the outbreak before a different House subcommittee.
Public health officials have labeled underage vaping an epidemic and new survey data shows the problem worsening. Nearly 28% of high school students reported vaping in the last month, according to preliminary CDC figures for 2019. That number is up from 21% last year and 12% the year before.
Krishnamoorthi has been investigating the vaping industry's biggest player, Juul Labs, since April, collecting tens of thousands of internal documents dealing with the company's marketing and business strategy.
The maker of small, pod-based vaping devices has been besieged by scrutiny for its alleged contribution to a dramatic rise in underage vaping. The company faces separate investigations from multiple federal agencies, including the FDA, and state attorneys general.
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Eric Gordon re-aggravates broken finger in Pelicans' loss to Jazz
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- New Orleans guard Eric Gordon has again broken his right ring finger during Saturday night's game against the Utah Jazz.
Gordon left the game in the first half after a collision with Jazz center Rudy Gobert. He headed toward the locker room and did not return with the team when the second half began. The Pelicans announced his latest diagnosis during the third quarter.
Gordon missed 16 games with a fractured right ring finger before returning Feb. 27. He provided an instant scoring boost, averaging nearly 23 points during his first three games back in the lineup. He has averaged about 15.4 points this season.
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Portable Battery-Powered X-ray Machine Guarantees You'll Always Find the Best Kinder Surprise Toys
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Developed by a Japanese company called Mikasa for emergency medical use in the field, particularly when there's no power after a disaster, the TRB9020H portable x-ray machine weighs just 7 kg and can take up to 300 images on a single charge.
You're probably also thinking it's the perfect tool for scanning scratch-off lottery tickets for a winning card, or scoring a crapload of prizes the next time Coca-Cola holds a look-in-the-can sweepstakes. But with a price tag of around £14,500, you're probably going to want to choose a more profitable scam than just winning t-shirts and iTunes songs. [DigInfo TV]
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eGain to Host Online Seminar Featuring Leading Independent Analyst Firm and CRM Publication on the 2008 State of Customer Service in North America
Webinar to Focus on the Performance of Large North American Businesses in Single-Channel, Multichannel and Multi-Agent Customer Service Across Phone and Online Channels
April 17, 2008 07:45 ET | Source: eGain
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA--(Marketwire - April 17, 2008) - eGain Communications Corporation (OTCBB: EGAN), a leading provider of multichannel customer service and knowledge management software for in-house or on-demand deployment, today announced that it will host an online seminar featuring Chip Gliedman, VP of CRM Research at Forrester, and Bob Fernekees, Publisher at Destination CRM. The webinar is scheduled for Wednesday, April 23rd, from 11:00 am to noon Pacific Time and will focus on the "state of the industry" in customer service offered by leading North American businesses.
"Pressures from increased competition, smaller and narrower product categories, transparency of product and pricing information, and a general decline in customer loyalty are forcing both business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) organizations to maximize every customer interaction and evaluate every aspect of the service delivery model," wrote Chip Gliedman, VP of CRM Research of Forrester, in his report "The Forrester Wave™: Customer Service Management, Q2 2007," dated May 2007.
However, when eGain assessed the state of today's customer service by evaluating the choice, responsiveness, quality, consistency and capabilities offered by 120 major North American businesses in this area, 60% of the companies received a "poor"(1) or "below average" score in their Service Quotient™, a holistic measure of customer service competence.
The webinar will provide details of the research findings as well as best practices that companies can use to address customer service deficiencies uncovered by the study. Attendees will also receive a complete report of findings.
Date and time of event
Wednesday, April 23rd, from 11:00 am to noon PST
To attend, fill out the registration form at:
http://www.destinationcrm.com/webevents/details.asp?eventid=283&src=eg3
About eGain
eGain (OTCBB: EGAN) is a leading provider of multichannel customer service and knowledge management software for in-house or on-demand SaaS deployment. For more than a decade, the world's largest companies have relied on eGain to transform their traditional call centers, help desks, and web customer service operations into multichannel customer interaction hubs. Based on the Power of One™, the concept of one unified platform for multichannel customer interaction and knowledge management, these hubs enable dramatically improved customer experience, end-to-end service process efficiencies, increased sales, and enhanced contact center performance.
Headquartered in Mountain View, California, eGain has an operating presence in 18 countries and serves more than 800 enterprise customers worldwide. To find out more about eGain, visit www.eGain.com or call the company's offices: 800-821-4358 (US headquarters), 1753-464646 (UK and Continental Europe).
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Contact Information: eGain media contact Connie Pheng Phone: 650-230-7449 Email: pr@egain.com
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Date of visit: 5 March 2019
Prison type: Female
Managers said staff were ‘caring’ and reported good relationships with prisoners, and among staff of all disciplines. They said a high proportion of staff had completed trauma informed training and this had had a very positive impact on management of the women and relationships with them. They rated the Prison CouncilCommittee of prisoner representatives meeting with senior management to discuss issues relevant to the management and care of prisoners in the jail and the Mother & Baby unit was ‘fantastic’. They highlighted the ‘excellent’ care team, and support for staff after an incident, as well as monthly training days, regular full staff briefings, staff recognition, yoga & meditation for staff, six-monthly staff well-being days and twice-yearly staff-family events. The grounds, including trees, gardens and ducks, were a positive for all.
The Officers said relations with the women were good and valued the full integration of vulnerable prisoners across the establishment. They highlighted reception and induction, and the role of staff and peer mentors in caring for new prisoners, and the monthly family days (run by POPSCharity supporting prisoners and their families www.partnersofprisoners.co.uk and Phoenix FuturesAddiction treatment charity - www.phoenix-futures.org.uk) and twice-yearly lifer days. Recycling LivesRecycling company providing employment and training for prisoners in custody and after release – they also help find housing for the homeless www.recyclinglives.com, who provide housing and employment on release, were ‘fantastic’, and the ClinkCharity running restaurants and training prisoners in hospitality and catering in a number of jails theclinkcharity.org restaurant, staffed by ROTL’dRelease On Temporary Licence – the mechanism through which serving prisoners are allowed out of prison on a temporary basis, including for work women, and links with local employers, were highlighted too, as were the gym, and the PT qualification they offer, and the ‘excellent’ hair & beauty course. Staff, too, valued the grounds and gardens, and felt they had a positive impact on everyone.
The women valued the Enabling EnvironmentAccreditation by the Royal College of Psychiatry for places with “a positive and effective social environment”, “where healthy relationships are seen as the key to success” provided by a ‘semi-open’ regime, living in houses rather than wings, catering for themselves, and getting themselves to where they need to be. They too highlighted reception and induction, and the staff and peers working there, and valued the range of peer mentors generally, as well as the elected wing reps (who meet bi-monthly with SMTSenior Management Team). And they also rated Recycling Lives, The Clink, and links with outside employers, and agreed about the positive impact of the grounds (including the ducks!).
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Retail and Recreation
Transport and Movement
Heritage and Environment
Leisure and Public Space
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The way we shop and the way that local people use their high streets is changing. We are shopping more online, changing the nature of what makes the high street successful.
Through the regeneration of Hailsham town centre, we hope to meet this changing demand by improving the overall visitor experience.
Maps to show the proposed area being considered for regeneration, and the land ownership amongst the different organisations who are working together to ensure this regeneration can be a success, are available here
We want to engage with the Hailsham community to understand local opinion.
This is your opportunity to tell us what you think Hailsham Town Centre should aspire to be for the next 25 years and beyond.
The first phase of consultation ran from 12 August 2019 to 12 November 2019, focusing on the key themes: Retail & Recreation, Leisure & Public Space, Heritage and Environment, Transport & Movement, Housing and Access to Public Services.
We are currently compiling all the feedback from the first phase of consultation and this will be reported in due course. To keep up to date on project developments please sign-up for updates below.
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Hamburg and Israel expand research co-operation
Research into new ULTRASAT satellite planned - one of several projects
Closer co-operation on research projects in particle physics have been agreed during a trip by a delegation to Tel Aviv (September 3-6, 2019). Efforts will focus on e.g. the search for dark matter and the study of gravitational processes.
Global collaboration boosts partial physics
Particle physics has a long tradition at Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron in Hamburg where important scientific milestones such as the discovery of the elementary particle gluon have been made. The Israeli structural biologist, Ada Yonath, also did pioneering work there on the structure of the ribosome, for which she received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009. Particle physics thrives on international co-operation,” said Katharina Fegebank, Senator for Science, Research and Equality. Joint projects with Israeli institutions such as the Weizmann Institute of Science, Tel Aviv University and the Technion Institute of Technology will expand this co-operation.
Plans for new research satellite
Plans are also being laid for German-Israeli collaboration on research into the Ultraviolet Transient Astronomy Satellite (ULTRASAT), which will observe ultraviolet radiation and revolutionize the understanding of dynamic objects in the universe, such as the collision of stars that the satellite will detect and monitor. “The know-how that DESY brings to the project is essential for the functioning of ULTRASAT, which will help us answer some of the big questions in astrophysics,” said Prof. Eli Waxman, Weizmann Institute of Science.
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B2B ecommerce gaining steam?
Mjunction is the largest player in the field. It is a privately held company, and is a joint venture between Tata Steel and the Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL). Founded in 2001, the company has so far carried out transactions worth 350,000 crores INR. Walmart which operates its online B2B sourcing portal in India will be investing an additional 360 crores INR in its India business this year to open more physical retail outlets,
Amazon has launched Amazon Business in May 2015 in an invite only model, but towards the end of 2015, Amazon has opened its doors to businesses in Bangalore and Mangalore. Metro Cash and Carry India has indicated an investment of an additional 400 crores INR for the same
Tolexo is a fairly new kid on the block. Started in 2014, the company offers last mile delivery, apart from a payment gateway. Alibaba-backed Paytm is working to ramp up its B2B platform over the next two quarters with some help from Alibaba to build on global sourcing.
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Sculpture symposium is the ultimate heavy metal experience
Published 4:52 pm EDT, Wednesday, July 18, 2012
The recent Grassroots International Sculpture Symposium, which was held at Roger Sherman Baldwin Park, captured the fancy of photographer Lee Paine. "When I saw the spectral figure that you see in (this) picture of a disembodied face on the ground with a long arm reaching out, I was hooked!" Paine says. less
The recent Grassroots International Sculpture Symposium, which was held at Roger Sherman Baldwin Park, captured the fancy of photographer Lee Paine. "When I saw the spectral figure that you see in (this) ... more
Have you heard any good stories lately? I did, the other day, down in Roger Sherman Baldwin Park, where I had gone to take another look at the large and wonderful sculptures being made right there in the park as part of the "Grassroots International Sculpture Symposium." The event, dreamed up and hosted by Greenwich resident Mary Gibbons, brings prominent artists from Europe here to Greenwich to create sculpture from scratch right in the park.
I stumbled on to the sculpture symposium when I went to the park earlier in the week to see Shakespeare on the Sound's "Romeo and Juliet," (excellent, by the way), and I had wandered around the sculpture site. When I saw the spectral figure that you see in my picture of a disembodied face on the ground with a long arm reaching out, I was hooked! I had to go back and find out what that figure was going to turn into!
I'm so glad I did go back, because that's when I ran into Swedish sculptor Kent Wahlbeck, who told me about a place in Sweden where there is a ring on a mountain, where, legend has it, the Devil came upon a group of musicians playing their fiddles while people danced. So the Devil stole a violin from one of the fiddlers and began to play so furiously and so well that the people danced and danced until they danced themselves to death. This left a ring of trampled earth in which later were found the skeletons and skulls of the dancers. His sculpture, "Dancing in Circles," illustrates this legend in a marvelous way.
You can see Kent in person in my picture doing a little dance with his much larger-than-life-size and still unpainted sculpture, and the face and arms of frenzied dancer that loom over him are the pieces that I had earlier photographed on the ground. The sculpture is multi-dimensional, however, and as you walk around it, you'll see the Devil himself playing the fiddle, a fierce dog, who represents a messenger between life and death, according to Kent, and skulls and other representational forms. What a great story and what a wonderful sculpture to illustrate it!
One of the very best things about this symposium was that the sculptors were working right in the park for several days and were happy to talk to anyone. They were enjoying each other's company and pitching in and helping each other in the most wonderful ways. On the first night I caught a photo of Javier Opazo from Chile, in a welder's helmet, and Dave Ruane, with heavy gloves on, welding a joint on a sculpture Javier called "Blue Peter," which he then went on to paint red! When I took this picture, the sparks were really flying, and I was amazed that no one got burned.
The second time I went back, I was lucky enough to catch a group of artists and assistants getting together to lift a huge square metal tube that dwarfed the six or so men who were struggling to get it to an upright position. You can see them putting all their weight into heaving it upward in the picture. I'm sorry I didn't get to see the finished sculpture for that piece -- it must be fascinating!
Perhaps the piece that most captured my fancy, although I enjoyed every one of them for different reasons, was "She's All Screwed Up," by Benny Ekman of Sweden. That's Benny you see looking at you from under the chin of his fanciful woman with flowing hair. What I love about her is her attitude (he had her sticking her tongue out, which he later removed) and the way her cheeks reflect the colors of anything near her, so that she always looks as if she has special make-up on. She was particularly beautiful at sunset when she had the rosy color of the setting sun high on her cheeks, and then she developed an aura of mystery as her face became flushed with the deep blue/purple of the night sky. I could be very happy living with her!
It was just a few minutes after sunset, when the sky still had a bit of light, that I caught Peggi de la Cruz admiring the lighted sculpture, "Full Circle," by Ben Rousseau of England, created in homage to Ake Larsson, the architect of the Ice Hotel who recently passed away. The sculpture was lovely at night, standing by the edge of the inlet, and I loved the way its soft light illuminated Peggi's profile, which you can see in the picture.
Mary Gibbons really had a vision when she started the "Grassroots International Sculpture Symposium" in Greenwich. She had met all of these artists over the several years that she had been working to help in the construction of the famous Ice Hotel that is built from scratch every year in the Swedish village of Jukkasjarvi, which is located 160 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Knowing that many of those artists were looking for summer projects, Mary had the idea to bring some of them to her hometown to give them an opportunity to create sculptures. They were delighted to come and all have been hosted by Greenwich families.
Their residency in the park during the Shakespeare production was a delightful coupling of the arts, but best of all is that all these sculptures are available for sale! Mary plans to donate one sculpture to the town through the Greenwich Arts Council, but you can find out about purchasing the rest by calling Mary at 203-943-4753, emailing her at www.marygibbonspresents@gmail.com, or find out more about the project on Facebook at Mary Gibbons Presents Greenwich Harbor Arts. There will be a website because Mary already has plans for another sculpture symposium next year. What a delightful prospect!
Lee Paine of Riverside is a professional freelance writer and photographer. She teaches, lectures and judges in the photographic field. You can visit her website at www.leepainefinephotography.com.
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The Juliana Hatfield Three Stream "If I Could" and "Ordinary Guy"
The Juliana Hatfield Three will release their new album, Whatever, My Love, Tuesday, February 17, via American Laundromat Records.
Below, you can stream two tracks from the album, “If I Could” and “Ordinary Guy.” As always, be sure to tell us what you think of the songs in the comments below or on Facebook.
Whatever, My Love comes 21 years after the release of their Atlantic Records debut, Become What You Are, which secured the band a permanent place in alt-rock history with the radio hits “My Sister” and “Spin the Bottle.” It was an influential force of uncompromising, original, melodic guitar pop/rock.
The new album was recorded at Hoboken, New Jersey's Nuthouse Recording with Hatfield and Tom Beaujour co-producing. "We haven’t totally reinvented the wheel or anything," Hatfield said in a statement. "But I am a lot more confident now than I was with the first album…"
With the original lineup of Todd Philips (drums), Dean Fisher (bass) and Juliana Hatfield (guitar, vocals, keyboards, percussion), the Juliana Hatfield Three will embark on a U.S. tour beginning February 26 in Portland, Maine, with additional tour dates added in San Diego, Atlanta, Charlotte and Carrboro.
For more information, visit julianahatfield.com.
Confirmed Juliana Hatfield Three tour dates as follows:
February 26PORTLAND, MEPort City Music Hall
February 27BOSTON, MAThe Sinclair
March 1NEW YORK, NYThe Bowery Ballroom
March 3PHILADELPHIA, PABoot & Saddle
March 4WASHINGTON, DCBlack Cat
March 6CLEVELAND, OHMusic Box Supper Club
March 7CHICAGO, ILLincoln Hall
March 8ST. PAUL, MNTurf Club
March 11SEATTLE, WATractor Tavern
March 12PORTLAND, ORDoug Fir Lounge
March 14NAPA, CACity Winery Napa
March 15SAN FRANCISCO, CAThe Chapel
March 16LOS ANGELES, CAThe Roxy Theatre
March 18SAN DIEGO, CABelly Up Tavern
March 22ATLANTA, GA Terminal West
March 23CHARLOTTE, NCNeighborhood Theatre
March 24CARRBORO, NCCat’s Cradle
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‘Gambling in the dark’ pier architect unhappy at entertainment centre plan
The man who designed Hastings pier has hit out at a decision by local planners to allow a ‘family entertainment centre’ to be developed right in the middle of the Stirling Prize winning structure.
In the latest edition of Architects Journal dRMM co-founder and the man behind the design of the pier, Alex de Rijke, says that turning ‘education and interpretation spaces’ on the award-winning pier into an amusement arcade was like ‘inviting children to learn to gamble in the dark’.
Last week the pier’s owner Sheikh Abid Gulzar was granted planning permission by Hastings Borough Council (HBC) for the conversion of the former visitor centre into a ‘family entertainments centre’ despite receiving more than 30 letters of objection having been received opposing the plan.
Conceived as an exhibition and meeting space part of the former Visitor Centre will now house a ‘family entertainments centre’ that will include slot machines and arcade games.
When the new pier was reopened after a £14m rebuild, following the devastating 2010 fire, it was hailed as an exemplar of community-focused regeneration and in 2017 it went on to scoop British architecture’s most prestigious award, the Stirling Prize.
De Rijke has previously said that the practice’s redesign of Hastings Pier was based on replacing an ‘outdated amusement arcade model’ with the principle of community-owned public space.
Speaking this week he said: “Hastings Pier Visitor Centre was paid for by the Heritage Lottery Fund, whose criteria was that the building be used for education.
“The building is all about space, light, views and social inspiration. Its conversion to slot machine arcades is inviting children to learn to gamble in the dark.”
The building in the centre of the pier was previously used as an exhibition area with space for community groups to meet and also a gift and souvenir shop.
At their meeting last week members of HBC’s planning committee agreed to grant a change of use of the existing visitor centre function room into a “family entertainments centre, which will include the provision of amusement arcade machines”.
Councillors were told there would be no alterations to the internal layout or external appearance of the building. The store rooms, WC, kiosk and service lift will all remain and only the educational and interpretation spaces at either end of the building will change to an amusement arcade/entertainment centre.
While there were no objections to the plan from HBC’s Conservation Officer, Historic England or Natural England planners had received 37 letters of objection and two of support. In recommending approval of the plan officials said: “The proposed change of use to an amusement arcade/entertainment area is not considered to cause any harm to the significance or setting of designated heritage assets or residential amenity.
“It will increase footfall on the pier and contribute to the local economy and strategic objectives relating to the seafront as a whole.”
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5 thoughts on “‘Gambling in the dark’ pier architect unhappy at entertainment centre plan”
Jonathan Melson says:
It’s about time we have something different on the the pier it’s so dead on it at moment, not like it was before the fire.
We need to be more imaginative the fruit machines and candy floss and tacky toys.
This is a great community space.
Why don’t we have a local competition with a prize for the best idea based on age groups
Ideas for.
Toddles,
People with disabilities.
We could have food fairs, dancing, mardi gras, carnival. Live music events, cycle events, displays. Christmas market, Carol singing.
Craft and Skill Demonstrations.
Events to compliment the wonderful diverse ethnic and music scene we have in the town.
This could be done under a covered or semi-covered marquee.
I am sure there a lot better ideas than the few I have suggested above..
Kay Emmens says:
Hastings pier needs to have something done to attract people to it.
Howard Seaton says:
This is not what the pier needs, it will fail to generate the revenue needed to save the pier. Lazy unimaginative thinking will not stop its decline, the pier needs an investor with enough cash and vision to turn it around. Slot machines are not the answer.
This of course is a standard theme with piers. However, one also has to take into account the Sheikh is not exactly someone rolling in money as observed by looking at this various businesses. Therefore this is a easy low cost means to generate some income.
It is a pity this building could not have been used for a more cultural come entertainment pursuits. And looking at Eastbourne pier that he owns this Sheikh will be looking only at what is a money maker.
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Home News Research & Innovation News Adrenomed’s Adrecizumab: the septic shock study that’s passed analysis
Adrenomed’s Adrecizumab: the septic shock study that’s passed analysis
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Adrenomed’s septic shock study introduces Adrecizumab, a first-in-class antibody targeting Adrenomedullin, to restore and maintain vascular integrity in early septic shock.
Hennigsdorf, Germany, 21 March 2019 – Adrenomed AG, the vascular integrity company, announced today that the phase II AdrenOSS-II trial, evaluating Adrecizumab in patients with early septic shock, will continue as intended after successful completion of a planned interim analysis for 50 % of randomised patients. The decision was made after the evaluation of the Sepsis Support Index (SSI) – a secondary efficacy endpoint – indicated a positive outcome for the whole study.
Details of the septic shock study
Proffesor Dr. Peter Pickkers, Radboud University, Department of Intensive Care, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, explains: “As we expected, the study has successfully passed this important interim assessment point and will continue as planned.”
“By focusing on restoring and maintaining endothelial barrier function, Adrecizumab treatment pursues a unique and logical strategy to counteract vascular leakage, congestion and shock.”
The biomarker-guided, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled AdrenOSS-II trial (NCT03085758) is currently running in 28 centers throughout Germany, Belgium, France and the Netherlands in order to assess safety, tolerability and efficacy of Adrecizumab in 300 patients with early septic shock and elevated blood levels of the vasoprotective peptide Adrenomedullin (bio-ADM®). Primary endpoints of the trial are safety and tolerability of Adrecizumab over a 90-day period.
A key secondary endpoint is the Sepsis Support Index (SSI) defined as days with organ support or death within 14 days.
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“Sepsis is affecting millions of people around the world every year with a remaining high, mortality rate at about 30%. Once the patient develops septic shock, due to loss of vascular integrity, the mortality rate rises significantly. Currently, patients diagnosed with this life-threatening disease have limited treatment options,” said Dr. Jens Zimmermann, Chief Medical Officer of Adrenomed.
“The positive outcome of the interim analysis is very encouraging for us, and we are looking forward to the further continuation of the study.”
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Title Rilpivirine vs. efavirenz-based single-tablet regimens in treatment-naive adults: week 96 efficacy and safety from a randomized phase 3b study.
Authors van Lunzen J, Antinori A, Cohen CJ, Arribas JR, Wohl DA, Rieger A, Rachlis A, Bloch M, Segal-Maurer S, Garner W, Porter D, Bosse M, Piontkowsky D, Chuck SK, De-Oertel S
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Date Published 2016 Jan
Keywords Adult, Anti-HIV Agents, Antiretroviral Therapy, Highly Active, Benzoxazines, CD4 Lymphocyte Count, Drug Resistance, Viral, Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions, Female, HIV-1, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Quality of Life, Rilpivirine, RNA, Viral, Tablets, Treatment Outcome, Viral Load
OBJECTIVES: To compare efficacy, safety, tolerability, and patient-reported outcomes between two single-tablet regimens, rilpivirine/emtricitabine/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (RPV/FTC/TDF) and efavirenz/emtricitabine/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (EFV/FTC/TDF), in HIV-1-infected, treatment-naive adults.
DESIGN: This was a phase 3b, 96-week, randomized, open-label, international, noninferiority trial.
METHODS: A total of 799 participants were randomized (1 : 1) to receive RPV/FTC/TDF or EFV/FTC/TDF. The primary efficacy endpoint evaluated proportions of participants with HIV-1 RNA less than 50 copies/ml using the Snapshot algorithm. Additional assessments included CD4 cell counts, genotypic/phenotypic resistance, adverse events, patient-reported outcomes, and quality of life questionnaires.
RESULTS: At week 96, trial completion rates were 80.2% (316/394; RPV/FTC/TDF) and 74.0% (290/392; EFV/FTC/TDF). Overall, RPV/FTC/TDF was noninferior to EFV/FTC/TDF [HIV-1 RNA <50 copies/ml: 77.9 vs. 72.4%, respectively; difference -5.5; 95%CI (-0.6, 11.5); P = 0.076]. RPV/FTC/TDF was significantly more efficacious compared with EFV/FTC/TDF in participants with baseline HIV-1 RNA equal to or less than 100 000 copies/ml (78.8 vs. 71.2%; P = 0.046) and in those with CD4 cell count greater than 200 cells/μl (80.6 vs. 73.0%; P = 0.018). There was no significant between-group difference in the CD4 cell count increase (278 ± 189 vs. 259 ± 191 cells/μl; P = 0.17). Few participants developed resistance after week 48 (1.0% RPV/FTC/TDF; 0.3% EFV/FTC/TDF). Compared with EFV/FTC/TDF, RPV/FTC/TDF was associated with fewer adverse event-related discontinuations (3.0 vs. 11.0%; P<0.001), significantly fewer adverse events due to central nervous system issues and rash, greater improvements in patient-reported symptoms, and significant improvements in the SF-12v2 quality of life questionnaire mental health composite score (P = 0.014).
CONCLUSION: In treatment-naive, HIV-1-infected participants, 96-week RPV/FTC/TDF treatment demonstrated noninferior efficacy and better tolerability than EFV/FTC/TDF.
DOI 10.1097/QAD.0000000000000911
Alternate Journal AIDS
PubMed ID 26684822
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Celebrity lookalikes: celebrities that could be twins!
Uncanny resemblances...
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From Margot Robbie and Jaime Pressly's identical bone structure and lip shape, to Rupert Grint and Ed Sheeran's similar hair, it is not hard to understand why these famous faces have been mixed up in the past. HELLO! have collated the doppelgangers of some of the most popular celebrities to understand why some of them have been so easily mistaken.
Margot Robbie and Jamie Pressly
The I, Tonya star and My Name Is Earl actress could easily be related. With fans on Twitter being sent into a frenzy over their similarity, one user stated: “Margot Robbie and Jaime Pressly are not the same person and how did I not know this? Are we sure?”
John Barrowman and Tom Cruise
I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here!'s John Barrowman's mega-watt grin and boyish good looks are just like those of 56-year-old Tom Cruise.
Melanie Chisholm and Kate Middleton
Former Spice Girl Melanie Chisholm's tumbling brunette tresses could rival the Duchess of Cambridge's famous mane.
Katy Perry and Zooey Deschanel
New Girl’s Zooey Deschanel may be an actress but the 39-year-old has tried her hand at being a musician just like her doppelganger pop star Katy Perry, 34. These ladies have both rocked eyes that pop and dark hair that would have people look twice if they were in a room together.
Chris Hemsworth and Chace Crawford
Chris Hemsworth already has two brothers who share his rugged, surfer boy looks and fellow actor Chace Crawford could easily be the fourth Hemsworth boy.
Ed Sheeran and Rupert Grint
"People think I’m Ed Sheeran!" Harry Potter star Rupert told BBC Match of the Day Magazine. "They compliment me on my music career and I just play along with it!"
Andy Murray and Andrew Garfield
Tennis ace Andy Murray is eerily similar to Spiderman and The Social Network actor Andrew Garfield.
Daniel Radcliffe and Elijah Wood
Boy wizard Daniel Radcliffe takes it as a compliment when fans mistake him for Lord of the Rings hobbit Elijah Wood. "Often people shout out, 'Hey, FRODO!' as they think I'm Elijah - who frankly is a very good-looking guy," he says.
Hilary Swank and Jennifer Garner
Ben Affleck’s wife Jennifer Garner, 46, dabbled in TV before getting into big movies just like Hilary Swank, 44. The pair are also known for their similar smiles.
Natalie Portman and Keira Knightley
Some people may not know but English rose Keira Knightley played American star Natalie Portman’s character’s younger self in Star Wars.
"Natalie Portman I get a lot, and I get chased through airports," she told the Graham Norton Show in 2014. "I feel quite sorry for her because she must get chased a lot because it's happened like five times where someone's been like, ‘Natalie! Natalie! Natalie!' And I'll sign and take a picture as Natalie."
Chad Smith and Will Ferrell
Will Ferrell, 51, and Chad Smith, 57, have actually made fun of the looks by taking part in a drum-off during an episode of the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. The pair have similar shaped eyes and noses but thankfully with Chad's musical life in Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Will's comedy film career, they don't often cross paths.
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St Albans Podcast: Entrepreneur discusses penning chapter of collaborative book
What's on this week's St Albans Podcast? It is available from July 10. Picture: Danny Smith
A St Albans entrepreneur, who has written about her traumatic past in a collaborative charity book, will feature on the St Albans Podcast this week.
Angela Peart is one of 12 women to pen a chapter of When She Rises, a book about women overcoming pain and adversity to live their dreams.
Podcast host Danny Smith learns more about the book, which is raising money for charity One Woman at a Time.
He is also joined by theatre correspondent and chair of OVO theatre company, David Widdowson.
David, who also manages the Maltings Arts Theatre, will share with listeners everything that is happening on the local theatre scene.
Kicking off the whole episode is Herts Ad reporter Franki Berry, who goes through a selection of local news stories.
This complements the podcast's weekly Hot Topic - a weird and wonderful news story from around the world which is sourced by podcast producer Sam Rolfe and local stalwart Ian Rogers.
The episode is available from 7pm today (July 10).
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History of the valley
Hetch Hetchy today
Our plan for restoration
Restoring Hetch Hetchy and National Soul
Posted by Adolph Rosekrans on December 27, 2016
We Can Turn This Around: Restoring the Lovely Hetch Hetchy Valley Restores More Than A National Park-It Restores National Soul
By Professor Barbara Mossberg, December 24, 2016 - the anniversary of John Muir's Death, and posted from the desert outside Los Angeles where he was before going to the hospital. (Professor Mossberg is a friend and former boardmember of Restore Hetch Hetchy.)
For days of infamy-Pearl Harbor, Newtown school, today's news headlines, December has a handful. In this list of national anguish two anniversaries of deaths loom. One hundred and three years ago, on December 19, 1913, Congress passed 43-25 (with 29 abstentions) a law drowning the natural twin of Yosemite Valley in Yosemite National Park, in order to provide water and power to the proximate city of San Francisco. On December 24, 1914, 102 years ago today, John Muir died.
Everyone and everything dies, from gnats to galaxies, but people believed the famously indefatigably ebullient John Muir died of heartbreak. Yes, he was hardy. Known for first ascents, he climbed steep high mountains with his bare hands. He crawled through jungles on his knees. He went without sleep, without food, without blankets, on freezing nights. He was a Tarzan prototype, fearless, jubilant, an action hero. Yet his conviction of wilderness as holy and intrinsic to our nation's health led to his determination to help save it, and the way he sought to do this was by inspiring others to love it. If we loved it, he reasoned, we would care for and protect it. This man wrote about what he "beheld" in the wilderness, a place the dictionary defined as "barren" and "wasteland," being destroyed relentlessly by timber, mining, and ranching, with belief that words of enthusiasm for it could shape the positive way we think and feel and act. And somehow words had failed. He had failed.
The man who is on California's quarter as symbol of the state for his wilderness advocacy efforts had fought for the establishment of Yosemite National Park since he entered this land on foot in 1868, only four years after President Abraham Lincoln had signed into law the Yosemite Grant. This was an unprecedented act to protect a valley and forest forever, by giving it to the care of a state in the name of the people. Muir saw that the new state of California was powerless to protect this land--it was already being desecrated. Thousands-year old trees were being cut down, meadows razed, streams polluted. He wrote letters home: "it needs legislative interference!" He believed in letters, he believed in words, and he believed in legislation.
And so he wrote his heart out.
In 1913, in part directly due to his passionate writings, Yosemite was a national park. But it was in trouble. He lifted his inextricably connected spirits and pen as he always did, and tried to rouse our national spirit in defense of the valley. In days when words held sway, he wrote The Yosemite, which was published in 1912. He describes the majestic wonders of the park, building up to his last pages, the case for preserving the valley from destruction.
"Hetch Hetchy Valley, far from being a plain, common, rock-bound meadow, as many who have not seen it seem to suppose, is a grand landscape garden, one of Nature's rarest and most precious mountain temples. As in Yosemite, the sublime rocks of its walls seem to glow with life, whether leaning back in repose or standing erect in thoughtful attitudes, giving welcome to storms and calms alike, their brows in the sky, their feet set in the groves and gay flowery meadows, while birds, bees, and butterflies help the river and waterfalls to stir all the air into music-things frail and fleeting and types of permanence meeting here and blending, just as they do in Yosemite, to draw her lovers into close and confiding communion with her.
Sad to say, this most precious and sublime feature of the Yosemite National Park, one of the greatest of all our natural resources for the uplifting joy and peace and health of the people, is in danger of being dammed and made into a reservoir to help supply San Francisco with water and light, thus flooding it from wall to wall and burying its gardens and groves one or two hundred feet deep. This grossly destructive commercial scheme has long been planned and urged (though water as pure and abundant can be got from sources outside of the people's park, in a dozen different places), because of the comparative cheapness of the dam and of the territory which it is sought to divert from the great uses to which it was dedicated in the Act of 1890 establishing the Yosemite National Park."
No one writes like John Muir-well, except for the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare, Milton, Thoreau, Wordsworth, because those are the writers who fired the neural moxie of this botanist/geologist. His words on why drowning Hetch Hetchy was unthinkable were meant to make this act unhappenable. The last words ring with sermoniac fervor:
These temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism, seem to have a perfect contempt for Nature, and, instead of lifting their eyes to the God of the mountains, lift them to the Almighty Dollar.
Dam Hetch Hetchy! As well dam for water-tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.
In a decision that was so controversial at the time that many believe its backlash led Congress directly to the creation of legislation for our National Parks in 1916, Congress voted to build a dam to drown the valley as a "water tank." Muir couldn't believe it. He literally couldn't believe that-given the words, given the obvious case-a valley owned by the nation's people would be drowned.
On Christmas Eve, 1914, the anniversary of the Raker Act a fresh wound in his mind, John Muir died, surrounded by pages of a book in progress. Many people said-and still say-it was from a shocked and broken heart from this legislation he could not prevent. We can't change history. But we can make it. Sometimes we have a second chance to undo something and make it right. We amend laws as a way of marking our progress as a society. When city and state and federal leaders restore the Hetch Hetchy Valley on behalf of the American people, we can change two dates of infamy into good-or as John Muir would say, glorious--news. The Raker Act wound will be healed, as the valley itself begins to reestablish its flowers and falls and flowing streams and fauna. These dark December dates for our country, the 19th and the 24th, will be days of redemption and hope. The anniversary of John Muir's death will be a celebration of his role as a writer of above all of light, whose beauty of language proved indomitable. His rousing ending of
The Yosemite will be read as a successful call to conscience, courage, national heart. And we can get joy and comfort from his Christmas eve words Muir was writing and reading as he lay dying, the pages of his book on Alaska. The last words describe his gratitude and awe at the northern lights:
I had seen the first bow when it stood complete in full splendor, and its gradual fading decay. Now I was to see the building of a new one from the beginning. Perhaps in less than half an hour the silvery material was gathered, condensed, and welded into a glowing, evenly proportioned arc like the first and in the same part of the sky. Then in due time over the eastern mountain-wall came another throng of restless electric auroral fairies, the infinitely fine pale-gray garments of each lightly touching those of their neighbors as they swept swiftly along the under side of the bridge and down over the western mountain like the merry band that had gone the same way before them, all keeping quivery step and time to music too fine for mortal ears.
While the gay throng was gliding swiftly along, I watched the bridge for any change they might make upon it, but not the slightest could I detect. They left no visible track, and after all had passed the glowing arc stood firm and apparently immutable, but at last faded slowly away like its glorious predecessor.
Excepting only the vast purple aurora mentioned above, said to have been visible over nearly all the continent, these two silver bows in supreme, serene, supernal beauty surpassed everything auroral I ever beheld.
To "behold" something is to see it with reverent wonder. Muir wanted us to behold nature, modeling his own ecstatic, exuberant and exhilarated response to nature's light. At the anniversary of his death, and the possibility of new news for the fate of Hetch Hetchy Valley, which lies like Sleeping Beauty's castle under a hundred-year-old spell, we can imagine the valley restored, and Muir's faith in words to save our world.
c Barbara Mossberg 2016
Dr. Barbara Mossberg
Professor of Practice,
Clark Honors College, University of Oregon
President Emerita, Goddard College
Founder and Host, The Poetry Slowdown,
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Poet in Residence, City of Pacific Grove
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After proving himself as one of the best in the industry, Myers harvested multiple nominations and awards. In 2003, the comedian was inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame. His name was put onto the Hollywood Walk of Fame at Hollywood Boulevard and in 2017, Governor General David Johnston named him as an Officer of the Order of Canada because of his extensive and acclaimed body of comedic work as an actor, writer and producer.
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Insidious: Chapter 2 – Blu-ray Review
Todd Anderson
Discussion Starter • #1 • Dec 26, 2013 (Edited)
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Title: Insidious: Chapter 2
Movie: :3.5stars:
Video: :4.5stars:
Audio: :5stars:
Extras: :4stars:
HTS Overall Score:88.5
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At this point it’s safe to say the Lambert family is going to be in therapy for years to come. In the first installment of the Insidious series, the family’s son, Daulton (Ty Simpkins), plummeted down an attic ladder and fell into a coma. Then their home became a haunted house complete with a ghost and thumps and bumps in the night. Desperate for answers, they sought the help of a ghost-whisperer, Elise Rainier (Lin Shaye), who discovered their son was trapped in a middle ground between life and death called “The Further.” The father, Josh (Patrick Wilson), was sent to the The Further to find his son and bring him back. The family was eventually reunited, but Josh became possessed by a demonic entity and killed Elise. End of chapter one.
Insidious: Chapter 2 is director James Wan’s second installment in the Insidious terror series. If there’s one thing Wan has proven, it’s his ability to terrify audiences with disturbing visuals. He pulled it off with Insidious (2010) and, again, with another spooky horror fest called The Conjuring (2013), both of which are laced with jump-out-of-your-skin moments. Let’s not forget his 2004 film, Saw, which was so terrifyingly popular that it spawned a series of six more Saw films with an eighth installment just recently announced.
With Insidious: Chapter 2, Wan manages to return the series’ original cast for another jaunt of spine tingling fun. The story picks-up where Insidious left off; the Lambert’s are setting-up camp at Loraine Lambert’s (Josh’s mother) house, hoping to escape the specter that tortured them at their home. Josh’s wife, Renai (Rose Byrne) is shaken and vulnerable. She’s extremely suspicious of her husband’s motivations, compounded by the fact that the police have tagged Josh as the primary suspect in Elise’s murder investigation. Renai tries to tell the police about their home’s haunting, but they aren't buying it.
It turns out that Loraine’s home is no safer than the Lambert’s abandoned house of horrors, and the haunting demon is willing to follow them just about anywhere. It doesn’t take long for Renai and her baby to get physical with a nasty white ghost, while Daulton and Loraine have ghostly encounters of their own. Meanwhile something bizarre is happening with Josh. His behavior doesn’t fit the situation and he’s constantly downplaying the danger his family faces. This forces Loraine to secretly reach-out to Elise’s former coworkers, Specs (Leigh Whannell) and Carl (Steve Coulter), for answers. The klutzy duo drag one of Elise’s former colleagues into the mix and he uses paranormal communication dice to communicate with her spirit to see if she can help them save the Lambert’s once again. All of this leads to an epic Shining-esque showdown of terror.
Some horror films require more of an audience commitment than others, as is the case with Insidious: Chapter 2. Those viewers that enjoy letting go of reality and forgiving some silliness will be pleasantly surprised as the film wraps them with tension and nerve-wracking scenes. Others? They’ll probably roll their eyes and grow impatient while finding the film’s scare tactics to be tacky and redundant. The film is crammed with creepy visuals (many of which flash on the screen accompanied by shrieking sounds) and builds anticipation by concealing rooms, hallways, and openings with a veil of darkness and shadows. These techniques work fairly well (despite being excessively used), preying on basic fears of evil lurking in the unknown. Director James Wan also effectively injects unease with the use of spooky sounds like creaking floors, ticking clocks, a creepy piano, crackling static on a baby monitor...all contributing to an atmosphere of evil.
The plot weaves itself into the storyline of the series’ original installment with flashbacks that explain some of the action in Insidious, and reaches even further back and visits Josh as a young boy. These techniques give the two films continuity and leads to a few fun a-ha moments. Unfortunately the storyline becomes slightly too complicated (narrowly becoming its ultimate failure), tiptoeing a fine line of fear-inducing and completely absurd. Viewers able to ignore that noise will find a fairly decent horror flick that provides thrills and scares on its way to a cliffhanger ending.
PG-13 for intense sequences of terror and violence, and thematic elements.
Video :4.5stars:
Sony Pictures delivers yet another fantastic encode with it's MPEG-4 AVC hi-def transfer of Insidious: Chapter 2. The image features beautifully subdued colors that result in an extremely even image. The film’s brightness is also subdued, but not to a detriment. It’s lack of brightness helps to bolster the film’s sinister feel and hides the evil that lurks throughout the story. Black levels and contrast are nearly perfect, while shadow detail is excellent. The image remains razor sharp for the duration of the film and fine details are readily visible. The only noticeable flaw is banding seen around a lantern bulb surrounded by blackness (visible during the opening credits and again near the end of the film as Josh makes his way through the The Further). This flaw, however, is minor and almost silly to highlight.
Audio :5stars:
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Violent...explosive...dynamic...goose-bump inducing...and creepy as all get-out. That pretty much describes Insidious: Chapter 2’s hair raising HD-DTS 5.1 MA audio assault. It’s one of the top audio presentations of the year, nearly worthy of six stars, knocking it clear off the rating scale! I can almost guarantee, without a doubt, it will send chills up your spine. Directionality is simply fabulous with multitudes of evil sounds like creaking doors, ticking clocks, thumps and bangs, cries, moans, breathing, and whispers pouring through all five channels creating a terrifying swirl of sound that appropriately shift as characters move about rooms and camera angles change. Some sounds seem to come from within the ceiling, creating an eerie claustrophobic effect. Fear is consistently heightened by clashing violins, piano discord, and other dark and distressed noises; these sounds occasionally explode with a crack. Joseph Bishara’s (Insidious, The Conjuring) dark original score is excellent and finds prominent time in the rear channels, helping to heighten the scare. Fear is further perpetuated by devastatingly low bass pulses – the sub line is fed plenty of LFE and it digs deep! Dialog, for the duration of the movie, is well balanced and pleasantly throaty.
While not as thunderous as some of 2013's blockbuster action movies, Insidious: Chapter 2 provides a marvelous audio experience.
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Overall: :4stars:
Most horror films reach a critical juncture at which the scares stop inducing fear and become plain absurdity. The best ones (think Silence of the Lambs) clear this hurdle and are gripping until the bitter end, while the worst unravel into a pile of senseless action and nonsensical explanations that are entirely disappointing. Insidious: Chapter 2 comes close to making it the distance – so very close – and it might just work for those that are able to completely ignore some obvious flaws. Its exceptional audio presentation helps to pull it along to a fairly decent place, if only the story had been slightly stronger. It’s safe to say that this second installment isn’t as good as the original Insidious, however fans of the original should definitely give this one a viewing (as should enthusiasts that simply enjoy being bathed in fantastic audio).
Starring: Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Barbara Hershey
Directed by: James Wan
Written by: Leigh Whannell (screenplay, story, characters) and James Wan (story)
Audio: English: DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1, Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1
Studio: Sony Pictures
Blu-Ray Release Date: December 17, 2013
Buy Insidious: Chapter 2 on Blu-ray at Amazon
Recommendation: Watch It!
JBrax
Thanks for the review Todd. I enjoyed the first and plan on adding this to the library.
chaluga
Don't add. Movie is 2 out of 5. Doesn't hold a candle to conjuring . Quite boring
ericzim
Thanks Todd, this movie was quite a good follow up to Insidious. The audio track gave me goose bumps.
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perfect audio on a horror movie? I'm in. I didn't end up seeing this one just yet, but combine horror with perfect audio and I'm in.
Mike Edwards said:
It carries the movie...you'll love it.
Diamonddelts
#7 • Jan 3, 2014
This movie was insidiously hideous in my opinion. The special effects were non existant. Bad makeup resulting in gray skin and thick eyeliner which is supposed to pass as a ghost. And the entire focus of the movie was basically a possession. This was more of a possession flick than a ghost/horror movie. I laughed throughout the entire movie and could not take it serious for one minute. One of the worst horror movies I've seen in a long time. I'd give it one out of five stars. It was painful to finish. Wanted to turn the movie off after the first absurd 20 minutes.
But I tried to be patient and wait for the movie to get better as things progressed. It never did.
asere
I will watch this one this weekend ..hopefully if we can get the kids to go to bed early enough :bigsmile:
I want to :hsd: but wife won't like that LOL!
Diamonddelts said:
I'm not surprised to see an impression like yours...as I eluded to in the review, I believe this one will quickly go one way or the other for viewers. Hopefully Insidious 3 will treat you better. :T
Discussion Starter • #10 • Jan 3, 2014
asere said:
If you're looking for dynamic audio, this one will give it to you. Just don't expect something over the top, such as Pacific Rim. This one is slightly more nuanced.
#11 • Jan 3, 2014
Todd Anderson said:
Good to know thx!
Finally saw Insidious 2 and yes the audio was great. The movie was also worth watching.
I wonder how part 3 will be since they left it open for a possible new one.
primetimeguy
Pretty much my thoughts too.
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A guide to conquering peak TV
What To Watch On Netflix That’s New This Week (Dec. 8-14)
The not very good, high-octane Ryan Reynolds movie "6 Underground" debuts.
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Ryan Reynolds in "6 Underground."
The Netflix Highlight: “6 Underground”
What’s up: Netflix’s “6 Underground” is an action movie about vigilante justice. It’s a bit of a return to form for director Michael Bay (both a good and bad thing) after his long focus on the “Transformers” franchise. Ryan Reynolds stars as a billionaire vigilante who leads and funds a team of globe-trotting super soldiers.
Be forewarned: The plot doesn’t make sense. Reynolds and his vigilante squad all fake their deaths so they can thwart people they deem to be bad while staying off the grid for unclear reasons. Also, the characters’ flashy missions destroy cities, kill passersby and otherwise gain a high level of attention ― so it’s unclear how these people stay off the grid.
Basically, don’t think too much about it, because it’s clear Bay and the writers didn’t. Much like Bay movies of the past, this movie is just a vehicle for action sequence after action sequence.
The movie begins with a shot of the clouds and then various shots of a rusting plane. “What if I told you I know what happens when you die,” Reynolds says in a self-serious voiceover. “You become a ghost, trapped in a shadowland.” All right.
More shots of the plane, and the voiceover continues: “A world of whispers. Invisible except to other ghosts. Orphaned. Unable to return to those you loved. But with loneliness comes freedom.”
A song by the band Muse starts playing as a functioning plane rips through the sky over tall, red rocks and a body of water. The voiceover continues and Reynolds is seen piloting the plane wearing a Red Bull helmet, the first of the movie’s many product placements.
Reynolds stars with Adria Arjona, Dave Franco, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Ben Hardy, Corey Hawkins and Mélanie Laurent.
“6 Underground” runs 2 hours, 7 minutes.
Corey Hawkins, Adria Arjona, Ben Hardy, Ryan Reynolds, Mélanie Laurent and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo in "6 Underground."
Sum-up: This is not a good movie. The story makes no sense. Tired, unimaginative jokes fill the script. The characters are morally bankrupt. Watching this movie should elicit one big “yuck.”
But the movie doesn’t intend to concern itself with clarity or morality ― it’s just a series of action shots. As such, these action shots succeed in being far superior to others in the genre and provide a glimpse of how action movies may look in years to come.
Bay has mastered various toys of technology, such that his trademark explosions and car flips can happen with even more frequency than when he first developed that style. The action sequences appear to tear up famous cities on a granular level ― meaning that a CGI building doesn’t simply collapse like in other movies: Five things are breaking every second while construction poles fly into heads and something else explodes, and on top of this, each shot has interesting coloring and lighting choices. It’s just so much at all times.
The movie tries to inject some comedic balance and character work into the action sequences, mostly through Reynolds bringing his Deadpool-inspired comedy persona to the role. Basically, that just means the movie formula is one explosion, then an out-of-place Reynolds joke, then another explosion, then an out-of-place Reynolds joke. The blending of comedy and action doesn’t make the movie richer, it just makes the scenes more jarring ― perhaps, most generously, adding to the what-am-I-watching spectacle.
You may want to aggressively turn off your brain to watch this, but the hyper-overstimulation will keep bringing you back in.
Heads up: Nationalistic fascism runs through this movie. This celebration of (mostly white) vigilantes using militaristic force to thwart “bad guys” does not hold up to any scrutiny. The movie should only be watched for the pure spectacle of special effects, which are truly on a best-in-class level.
Close-up: The movie begins with an action sequence that lasts over a dozen minutes and has a different special effect every few seconds. The vigilante team drives at high speed through Florence, Italy, killing bad guys and pedestrians, destroying art in the museum (and stopping to gawk at the size of the penis on Michelangelo’s “David”), and at one point attempting to avoid running over a baby and some puppies. Amid this craziness, the driver pulls the car (a bright-green Alfa Romeo) over so Reynolds’ character can hold a dangling eyeball over a stolen phone to access its contents. The gross, realistic eyeball (and cord) gets much screentime. While Reynolds is dangling the eyeball and the car is paused, birds poop on the windshield. In the backseat, a “doctor” tries to stop one team member’s wound from gushing blood. This is a movie of hyper-maximalism through and through.
History: Using vigilante justice as a plot point has a long history in storytelling, going back to Zorro and Robin Hood. Bruce Wayne, a capitalist billionaire funding his own vigilante justice in the “Batman” comics, iterated on that concept in 1939. Reynolds’ protagonist in “6 Underground” certainly comes from that lineage as a less dark and more comedic Wayne.
Comparable Movie: Although the storytelling is different, it’s notable that Netflix ultimately had multiple high-budget action movies this year. “Triple Frontier” from March also follows a crew of action hero-types as they go on a mission that’s not aboveboard. The spectacle of “6 Underground” far surpasses “Triple Frontier,” though.
The Characters And Money: The protagonist is a billionaire who uses his money to enact vigilante justice around the world. While other stories also feature ungodly rich people ruling the world, “6 Underground” visually expresses the perversion of extreme economic inequality by using the money for violence and active decisions about what’s right or wrong — or who lives and who dies. Tellingly, many pedestrians die in the collateral damage of this billionaire’s missions.
Bonus: In September 2018, Reynolds tweeted a video of himself on the set of “6 Underground.” He casually leans against a wall while a car explodes and flips behind him. Watch here:
.#6Underground @netflix pic.twitter.com/jPvk3PhQpf
— Ryan Reynolds (@VancityReynolds) September 19, 2018
“6 Underground” Trailer:
A Couple Of Netflix News Stories From This Week
1. Netflix earned 34 Golden Globes nominations this year, a record for a single company. The nominations come from both the television and movie side. “Marriage Story” (six nominations) and “The Crown” (four nominations) dominated the movies and television categories, respectively.
2. I wrote my annual ranking of the best Netflix Original shows for the year. I had a hard time keeping the list short.
And here are the shows and movies that joined Netflix this week:
Dec. 8
“A Family Reunion Christmas” (Netflix Family)
“Michelle Wolf: Joke Show” (Netflix Original)
“Outlander” (Season 3)
“Especial de Natal Porta dos Fundos” (Netflix Film)
“Jack Whitehall: Christmas With My Father” (Netflix Original)
“6 Underground” (Netflix Film)
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What Is a Ground Fault?
By Chris Deziel Updated March 18, 2019
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A ground fault can turn an ordinary electrical cord into a shock hazard.
The term ground fault is very common, but understanding exactly what it means requires that you know a little bit about the principles of electricity.
Electricity is a form of energy that exists due to unbalanced charges in electrons and protons in a conducting material. This energy flows because of a natural impulse to return neutral balance to the unbalanced charges in the atomic particles. In residential wiring circuits, this flow of electricity is conducted through established metal circuit wires. The natural impulse of electricity—the goal of its flow— is to "return to ground" in order to equalize the uneven charge. This natural phenomenon is what causes static electrity in storm clouds to neutralize their charge through lighting strikes to to the ground. In a residential electrical circuit where electricity is harnessed, the outgoing flow occurs in "hot" circuit wires, while the flow back toward ground occurs through the neutral circuit wires, which are are literally connected to the ground back at the power source. The energy of that current flow from power source, through hot and neutral wires, and back to the source is what causes lightbulbs to illuminate and appliances to run when they are tapped into a circuit.
However, when an electrical circuit malfunctions, it can seek a path to ground outside the established wires of the system, and such a situation is known as a ground fault. It is a dangerous situation, because when such a problem occurs, a human in contact with the wiring may suddenly become part of the easiest pathway to ground.
Causes of Ground Faults
The causes of a ground fault in a circuit may include loose connections, worn wire insulation or miswiring that causes the hot wire to directly connect with another pathway to ground. During a ground fault situation, it is possible for a person who touches a live wire, a metal electrical enclosure, or a damaged plug to provide that direct ground path if they are in direct connection to the earth. These conditions are most often met in damp locations, such as bathrooms and kitchens, since water is a very good conductor of electricity. These conditions can also be met outdoors, where a person stands directly on the earth.
When a ground fault occurs, the pathway to ground immediately becomes unrestricted, with no resistance, and this causes an enormous sudden increase in current flow. When a ground fault causes current to spike in this way, the circuit breaker for the circuit trips and shuts off the power. If a circuit in your home immediately falls dead, there is a good chance that a ground fault has occurred.
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Homes built before 1970 may still have ungrounded circuitry.
Understanding Grounding in Circuits
All it takes to make a complete AC circuit is a hot wire leading from the power source and a return (neutral) wire that goes back to the source. The neutral wire is technically a grounded wire, since it is connected to ground at the power source. Connect these wires properly to the various devices in the circuit, and electricity flows. In the early days of electricity, these were the only these two wires in the residential circuits, but there was a problem in these early systems. If the hot wire came loose, or the insulation wore through, it could contact metal electrical boxes and metal components of devices such as switches and light fixtures and energize them. People touching the devices could get a shock, and frequently did. Gradually, various methods of improving circuit safety were introduced to residential wiring.
The mandatory introduction of an additional ground wire to each residential circuit has greatly reduced the frequency of such shocks, as well as the incidence of electrical arcing and fires. The ground wire connects each device to a earth via a ground rod or a water pipe, giving residual electricity a safe escape route. In normal operation of a circuit, the bare copper ground water does nothing whatsoever, but in the event of a ground fault, it provides the easiest path for electricity to flow back to ground, ending any danger. With an easy pathway to ground, leaking electricity is less likely to cause shock or fire.
Grounding also protects sensitive electrical equipment. If the current surges because of a short circuit, a lightning strike or for some other reason, the ground wire provides a path to ground so the power surge doesn't burn out the equipment and create electrical arcs that can start fires.
Circuit Breakers Protect Against Ground Faults
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When a ground fault occurs, a breaker in the panel should trip.
Electrical systems have always included some type of automatic shutoff system. In days gone by, fuses served this function, and today this function is served by resettable circuit breakers. The fuses or breakers are designed to stop the flow of power when the current exceeds their rating, which is is exactly what happens when there is a ground fault.
When a ground fault occurs, it's as though the electricity in the hot wire is suddenly released from its cage. It's always trying to complete the circuit, and can do so only partially when flowing through high-resistance loads. The sudden appearance of a low-resistance ground path opens the floodgates, and the current flow jumps dramatically, heating up wires and arcing between loosely connected wires. The circuit breaker is designed to detect just such an anomaly. It has a heat-sensitive switch that shuts off as soon as the current spikes. Once it trips, you can't reset it until you've corrected the conditions that made it trip. That may involve some detective work searching for a loose connection or wires touching each other.
Because standard circuit breakers are relatively crude devices, there exists the chance that the circuit breaker will not instantly interrupt the current flow in the event of a ground fault. For this reason, there are special GFCI circuit breakers that are much more sensitive to changes in current flow. Where circuits serve especially vulnerable locations, it may be protected by one of these special GFCI circuit breakers, which will protect every light fixture, outlet, and appliance powered by the circuit.
GFCI Receptacles Provide Extra Protection
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If the circuit breaker doesn't detect a ground fault, the results can be disastrous.
Suppose you plug in an appliance with an internal wiring problem that causes a ground fault. The heat generated by the surge could be enough to melt the plug or start a fire before the breaker notices the surge and shuts off. If someone is touching the plug and happens to be barefoot, power could just as easily flow through that person. It could be fatal; even a millisecond of high-voltage electricity can stop the heart.
To prevent either one of these disasters, the electrical code now requires GFCI outlets in certain parts of the house, including bathrooms, kitchens, laundry rooms, basements and all outdoor locations. The GFCI functions like a circuit breaker, but it has a lower current threshold and will shut off sooner than the breaker.
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A GFCI outlet has a resettable breaker that trips when the current surges.
If you have a power outage in part of the house, and none of the breakers have tripped, a GFCI is usually the culprit. When a GFCI trips, it cuts power to all the devices wired after it in the circuit. You may have to press the reset switches on all the GFCI outlets in the circuit to find that one that clicks, but it's usually the one closest to the main circuit breaker panel.
Dealing with Ungrounded Circuitry
Houses built before 1962 were not required to have grounded circuitry, and many still don't. If you live in such a house, there's no time like the present to start planning a panel upgrade and new wiring. If that's not in line with your or your landlord's budget, there are other ways to get the protection of grounded circuitry.
Replace all the circuit breakers with GFCI breakers. This doesn't protect your equipment from a power surge, but it can prevent fires and electric shocks. You can't do this if your house has a fuse box. In that case, proceed to the next two options.
Install GFCI outlets. You don't have to replace all the outlets in your house. If you can identify the first outlet in each circuit, replacing that one will provide ground fault protection for all the others.
Purchase and use only double-insulated tools, appliances and light fixtures. If a fault does occur, the insulation protects you from shocks.
Chris Deziel
Chris Deziel is a contractor, builder and general fix-it pro who has been active in the construction trades for 40 years. He has degrees in science and humanities and years of teaching experience. An avid craftsman and musician, Deziel began writing on home improvement topics in 2010. He worked as an expert consultant with eHow Now and Pro Referral -- a Home Depot site. A DIYer by nature, Deziel regularly shares tips and tricks for a better home and garden at Hunker.com.
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Government to review CO alarm regulations
1 May, 2018 By Neil Merrett
A number of potential amendments will be considered during process, including whether to require CO alarms to be fitted wherever heating systems are in place
A government review of carbon monoxide alarm regulations that is set to launch later this year will consider whether a blanket requirement should be introduced that would require the devices to be in place for all forms of heating systems. This would include both gas and oil appliances.
The proposal will be among a number of considerations to be reviewed by government over what kinds of changes may be needed to existing laws, as well as understanding what impact the current cost of alarms is having on installation rates. Research into carbon monoxide poisonings will also be considered as part of the review’s remit, with ministers than considering what reforms may be required going forward.
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has announced the review after ongoing discussions with MP Eddie Hughes, who has been pushing for regulatory reforms on CO alarms to extend their use to all social housing tenants and forms of combustion heating appliances.
Mr Hughes has previously proposed fresh legislation to parliament to introduce these changes through a Private Member’s Bill.
Housing minister Dominic Raab said it was important to look at the current adequacy of laws to ensure they can protect residents.
He said, “Carbon monoxide can be a silent killer and my top priority is to ensure people remain safe and protected in their own homes.”
MP Eddie Hughes welcomed the review as an important step to tackle the issue of CO poisoning.
He added, “I look forward to the outcome of the review and will continue to campaign for improved safety to protect others from the threat of carbon monoxide poisoning.”
The government has added that any potential amendments introduced following the review will also be subject to the outcomes of the separate review of building regulations being overseen by Dame Judith Hackitt and a government consultation on alarm use in private rented properties.
A ministry statement said, “In 2015 the government introduced new regulations requiring private rented sector landlords in England to have a carbon monoxide alarm in any room used as living accommodation where solid fuel is used.”
“Whilst there is a downwards overall trend for carbon monoxide poisonings, the government has continued to raise awareness about the risks posed by combustion appliances and the measures available to reduce the risk of poisoning.”
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With effect from 1st January 2012, all Holiday or Business travelers to Sri Lanka must have Electronic Travel Authorization (ETA) for entering in to Sri Lanka. Please visit http://www.eta.gov.lk for more information.
The facility for applying Business Purpose Visa is at present available only at the Head Office of the Department of Immigration & Emigration and the Sri Lankan Overseas Missions.
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Acceptance of all applications -8.30 a.m. to 1.30 p.m.
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The office closes on weekends and Public Holidays.
What is a Sri Lankan Visa?
A Sri Lankan visa is an endorsement on a passport or a similar document to facilitate the legal entry of non Sri Lankans into the country and to regulate the period of their stay and the conditions governing such stay.
What are the Types of Sri Lankan Visas?
There are four kinds of visas which permit a person to enter and/or stay in Sri Lanka.
A Visit Visa is an entry permit signifying the consent of the Sri Lankan Government for the admission of a foreign national to the country. The Visa contains details of the period of time and the condition/s of the stay.
There are two sub-categories which come under visit visas :-
1. Tourist Visit Visa
A Tourist Visa is issued to bona-fide tourists who want to enter Sri Lanka for sightseeing, excursions, relaxation, visit relatives or yoga training for a short period of time.
2. Business Purpose Visa
A Business Purpose Visa is issued to foreign nationals who visit Sri Lanka for business purposes for short period of time. This visa may be issued for single or double journeys.
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A residence visa is a permit for a non-Sri Lankan to obtain residence facilities for special purposes.There are eight sub-categories which come under residence visas -
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A Transit Visa is an entry permit granted to a foreign national for admission into Sri Lanka for a brief period which is incidential and in the course of his journey to another destination.
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Sri Lanka Immigration and Emigration may grant or issue a visa to you if -
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You hold a passport valid for a minimum period of six months from the date you arrive in Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka Immigration & Emigration is satisfied that you have adequate funds for your maintenance whilst in Sri Lanka and for the payment of your return passage to the country which issued your passport.
You are in possession of a written assurance (ticket) to return to the country of domicile or a visa to the next country of destination if you are a visit visa holder.
What are the general conditions of a Visit Visa?
You should not engage in any form of employment, paid or unpaid, or in any trade or business other than that specified in the visa during the period of your stay in Sri Lanka.
Your visa must be utilized before the date of expiry noted on the visa.
Validity of your visa is subject to entry into Sri Lanka during the indicated entry period.
Applications for the extension of all visas should be made to the Department of Immigration and Emigration.
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MUSAM-LAB is an experimental laboratory directed by Prof. Dr. Ing. Marco Paggi and complementing the modelling and computational facilities of the research unit MUSAM - Multi-scale Analysis of Materials.
The laboratory located in the ex-Officina Aromataria of the Convento San Francesco (XIII Century) is supported by the Starting Grant IDEAS CA2PVM from the European Research Council.
Experimental research is devoted to thermo-mechanical testing of heterogeneous materials and surfaces by investigating the complex mechanisms taking place at different scales of observation. A list of experimental failities and some illustrative applications are provided below.
3D confocal-interferometric profilometer (LEICA, DCM 3D)
Non-contact optical profilometer based on confocal and interferometric methods with vertical resolution ranging from few nanometers up to several millimiters. It is able to deal with very rough but also super-smooth surfaces. Applications regard morphological characterization of surfaces and interfaces at multiple scales, analysis of coatings, wettability. Measured surface data can be treated by a research software developed in house for the statistical and fractal analysis of roughness and for the simulation of the contact response of rough surfaces (prediction of the real contact area vs. load, contact stiffness and thermal contact conductance, frictional response).
Scanning Electron Microscope (ZEISS, EVO MA15)
SEM with dectectors for secondary and back-scattered electrons allowing a maximum resolution of 3 nm and automated pressure regulation from 10 to 400 Pa to work with metallic and also non-metallic samples without the need of metallization. The microscope can be used to visualize microstructures, defects and cracks for any kind of material (metals, ceramics, paper, polymers, etc.) at different resolutions.
Micromechanical testing stage (DEBEN, 5000S)
Tensile/compression stage for forces up to 5 kN specifically designed to perform mechanical tests within the SEM chamber to allow real time observation of the microstructure evolution of materials. It is also possible to test dog-bone specimens with holes or without holes, as well as compact test specimens. SEM images acquired during in-situ experimental tests can be processed according to the digital image correlation technique and compared with numerical simulations, see below.
The stage for micromechanical testing and an image of the bridging mechanism of cellulose fibers in paper tissue.
Universal testing machine with a thermostatic chamber (Zwick/Roell, Z010TH)
Universal testing machine for tensile tests, compression tests and three-point bending tests on notched beams for fracture mechanics characterization. Two load cells of 1 kN and 10 kN are available. Testing can be made inside a thermostatic chamber in the temperature range from -30°C up to 250°C.
System for 3D displacement correlation technique (Correlated Solutions, VIC3D)
System for displacement and strain measurement using the displacement correlation technique in 3D. It can be used together with the universal testing machine as a virtual strain gauge and for 3D or 2D digital image correlation at 30 Hz. The software can also be used to process images acquired during mechanical tests inside the SEM.
Thermocamera (FLIR, T640bx)
IR thermocamera with 640x480 pixel of resolution for thermoelastic tests in the laboratory and for in-situ inspection of hot spots in photovoltaic modules and electric circuits.
Photocamera for electroluminesce tests (PCO, 1300 Solar)
IR photocamera specific for carrying out electroluminescence tests in the laboratory. This type of IR camera is able to detect microcracks in photovoltaic modules.
Composed of engineers, physicists and mathematicians, the unit aims at studying the deformation, fracture, fatigue, contact and the structural integrity of heterogeneous materials and structures with multi-scale and multi-physics computational and experimental methods.
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Home / News / Stand For Israel / ‘In Spite of Our Pain’
‘In Spite of Our Pain’
December 13, 2019 | By Stand for Israel | Border Police | Hamas | History | IDF | Israel | kidnapping | Nissim Toledano | Terrorism | Yitzhak Rabin
While Hamas uses many different tactics to spread terror across the Holy Land, one of their most vile is kidnapping. In 2014, of course, Hamas terrorists kidnapped and murdered three Israeli teens, ultimately resulting in that summer’s Operation Protective Edge. And in 2011, Hamas at last released IDF soldier Gilad Shalit, who had been kidnapped five years before and held in captivity that entire time. But today we remember an Israeli hero who lost his life in an eerily similar Hamas plot.
Before the sun rose over the Holy Land on the morning of December 13, 1992, IDF Border Policeman Nissim Toledano was walking to work. That’s when a squad of Hamas terrorists nabbed him. The terrorists demanded that Israel release their leader, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, who was serving a life sentence for terror attacks that included the murder and kidnapping of two IDF soldiers during the First Intifada. Israeli authorities would not negotiate with the terrorists, at least until they received proof that Sergeant Toledano was still alive.
But Toledano was not alive. His body was later found bound and stabbed, murdered at the hands of the terrorists he’d sworn to protect his homeland from. Israel mourned her hero’s death. But Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, seen grieving above, promised that “in spite of our pain we will continue along the path of peace.”
Even as she longed for peace, Israel responded to Sergeant Toledano’s murder. It took months, but his killers were apprehended and given life sentences. Israeli authorities also arrested many Hamas members, expelling more than 400 to neighboring Lebanon. Lebanese authorities, of course, didn’t want these murderers, either, and refused to allow them into their country. In limbo, the terrorists set up a tent camp between the Israeli-Lebanese border, and in doing so received much attention from the biased anti-Israel media, with many then returning to either the West Bank or Gaza.
But for those of us who stand for Israel, these murderers’ terrorist acts will not be forgotten. And neither will brave Sergeant Nissim Toledano. May his memory be a blessing.
Tags: Border Police Hamas History IDF Israel kidnapping Nissim Toledano Terrorism Yitzhak Rabin
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There’s a reason the History Channel has produced hundreds of documentaries about Hitler but only a few about Dwight D. Eisenhower. Bad guys (and gals) are eternally fascinating. Behind the Bastards dives in past the Cliffs Notes of the worst humans in history and exposes the bizarre realities of their lives. Listeners will learn about the young adult novels that helped Hitler form his monstrous ideology, the founder of Blackwater’s insane quest to build his own Air Force, the bizarre lives of the sons and daughters of dictators and Saddam Hussein’s side career as a trashy romance novelist.... Show More
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#NewHoustonRap: GT Garza Keeps the Machine Moving
Brandon Caldwell | May 27, 2016 | 11:53am
At the beginning of his brand-new album, MM3, GT Garza admits to taking antidepressants and being lost, enjoying solitude in most cases because he doesn’t feel like being bothered half the time. It’s not a strike to highlight mental health as much as it is Garza narrating the checks and balances of his life. When he’s not fighting battles by his lonesome, the Brown By Honor rapper has put both of his feet forward, clutched his rosary and spoke his truth. People listened.
Garza has gone from being broke to being moderately healthy in financial terms. And yet, he still has aspirations of moving to the next step. There’s no schism in his plans for the future, no separation between being an old-school hardhead and a new jack who would rather plant a flag for charisma over actual bars. It’s why most of MM3, which underwent a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it release in April, is surrounded by dark productions from a gang of producers who zeroed in on a simple concept. GT Garza is a rapper trapped inside his own head and ambitions, and he’ll tell you about it every chance he gets.
The happier, less combative tracks released before MM3, such as the Big Moe-inspired “U Remember,” are nowhere to be found on the final product. In its place are records populated by singular topics of survival, self-preservation and victory. R&B singer Shun Ward is the lone feature on the album, appearing on “We Won” & “Ride,” and Garza may like it that way. Previous albums, such as 2015’s La Maquina and 2014’s The Legend of Ritchie Valens, were packed with Houston rappers from Mookie Jones to Z-Ro all helping lift the bar with Garza.
Now he bears all of it alone, discussing paranoia and wisdom from the family matriarch. Death isn’t a strange subject for Garza; after all, his friend Leonard Carter lost his life some 15 years ago at Lamar High School. “I got too much on my mind,” he raps on “We Won” while tap dancing over piano keys in a double-time rhyme pattern. It’s beyond the childhood raps and the squeaky timber he first burst on the scene with. Now everything from him rests squarely on his faith and finding a middle ground.
Mexican rap stars in Houston have a fan base that exists in the way that Screwheads used to maraud around the city. If you heard anybody banging old dusty gray tapes, you knew exactly who was on it and would ask where to cop one for yourself. Garza’s fan base frequently flocks to Warehouse Live every year when he stages a major show, often surrounded by a cast of fellow Mexican rappers who carry the torch of not only national pride but culture as well.
It’s scary to believe we’ve been writing about GT Garza as a rapper on the verge of breaking through since 2009, back when he was a 24-year-old still looking back with the intent of looking ahead. On “Moment to Vent 3," he offers more admissions of prayer for not just his supporters but those who don’t believe in him. To his fans in the Valley, the stretch of South Texas that contains larger pockets of Mexicans who settled beyond Mexico and never planned on leaving their small, uncomplicated lives. To the OGs who tried to keep his knucklehead ways in check.
Two years ago on Ritchie Valens, he spoke highly and often of his faith, constantly praying to God and hoping that others would do the same in order to find salvation. It’s not “Christian rap," though Chance The Rapper and others recently have bucked the closed idea of who can actually participate in “Christian rap." In a city where a former cathedral for Hakeem Olajuwon is now home to the city’s biggest megachurch, Garza just aligns himself in the same world of Z-Ro, Scarface and others. God lives in them; the message just comes out a little differently.
“Got diamond tears on my Jesus piece,” MM3 standout “Diamond Tears” recites. Without any of the calamity or pressure, GT Garza sticks to what he knows best. What’s gotten him beyond being a precocious teen freestyling on the back of school buses and on the precipice of standing higher than he did the day before. What’s Garza’s cross to bear now that he's in his thirties? Being human, and the aspect of leading himself to a higher plane — not just for himself, but his people too.
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Jackson puts it all together, takes out GlenOak
Chris Easterling IndeOnline.com Sports Editor
Polar Bears have it working inside, outside and off bench in getting payback for December loss to Golden Eagles.
JACKSON TWP. It was a game which could've fallen between the cracks for Jackson.
The Polar Bears were coming off arguably one of their best performances of the season in a Tuesday night win over Copley. Awaiting them Saturday night is a showdown with Federal League co-leader Lake.
So Friday's home game against GlenOak was all set up to be the kind to get lost in the shuffle. Except that the Polar Bears already knew what the Golden Eagles were capable of doing, with a December loss to show for it on their record.
Jackson came out in the rematch on its home floor ready to go. The result was a 76-51 win over GlenOak on Friday night.
For the Polar Bears, it's three consecutive wins since a Jan. 5 loss at Green. Now 9-4 overall and 4-2 in the Federal League, Jackson is beginning to find its rhythm on both ends of the floor.
"We got our rotation down a little bit," Polar Bear forward Spencer Stanton said. "We're getting back into the flow of things, how Jackson basketball should be played. We're definitely going up-hill from here."
That was evident against the Golden Eagles, who fell into a 7-0 hole three-and-a-half minutes into the game and never were closer than five the rest of the way. GlenOak, now 7-7 overall and 3-5 in the league, would be as close as 12-7 in the first quarter, but never had a defensive answer for Jackson.
That's because of the way the Polar Bears played for large stretches of the game. If it wasn't Ethan Stanislawski knocking down five first-half 3-point baskets on his way to a game-high 21 points, then it was Jaret Pallotta, Will Hyde or Stanton providing points inside.
"I told (Jackson coach Tim) Debvec, and I really mean it, when their system is clicking, I appreciate watching it as an opposing coach," GlenOak coach Matt Hackenberg said. "They run their lanes hard. They get wide; they spread you out; they move the ball around; they have shooters all around. They are tough to beat when they're playing like that."
Those four Polar Bears played a huge role in the game-changing 15-4 Jackson run. That run turned a 17-11 lead with less than 20 seconds left in the first quarter into a 32-15 advantage with 5:29 left in the half.
The run started with Pallotta actually draining a 3-point basket as part of his 16-point evening. Stanislawski would have eight points in the burst, while Hyde and Stanton each had a basket.
"This is how we were supposed to play all year," said Debevec, whose team led 40-23 at halftime and 59-40 after three quarters. "We've had some guys banged up. We're finally coming together."
Hyde would finish with 10 points, joining Stanislawski and Pallotta as double-figure scorers in the starting lineup. However, he was also in foul trouble in the first half, which opened the door for Stanton.
Stanton took advantage with a 15-point, six-rebound effort off the bench.
"Coach Debevec always talks about the spark off the bench," Stanton said. "Every time I go out there, I just kind of have a little chip on my shoulder almost. I try to play for my team and play for everybody."
Kindal Richardson led GlenOak with 16 points, 10 of those in the third quarter. Corvay Chapman added 13 points.
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Judge rules against conservative groups in challenge of RFRA nondiscrimination 'fix'
A Hamilton County judge said the case made by three conservative groups had no legal standing.
Judge rules against conservative groups in challenge of RFRA nondiscrimination 'fix' A Hamilton County judge said the case made by three conservative groups had no legal standing. Check out this story on IndyStar.com: https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2019/11/26/judge-sides-cities-challenge-rfra-nondiscrimination-fix/4312005002/
Crystal Hill, Indianapolis Star Published 5:00 p.m. ET Nov. 26, 2019 | Updated 6:15 p.m. ET Nov. 26, 2019
In a victory for supporters of LGBTQ rights, three Christian conservative organizations have failed in their legal fight to invalidate local ordinances in Indianapolis, Carmel, Bloomington and Columbus that provide specific LGBTQ protections.
A ruling filed Friday by Hamilton Superior Court Judge Michael Casati granted motions of summary judgment sought by attorneys for the four cities and the state of Indiana. Casati found that the case made by the three plaintiffs — the Indiana Family Institute, Indiana Family Action and American Family Association — had no standing or "ripe claims." The order did not elaborate beyond that.
The groups filed a lawsuit in 2015, arguing that changes made to the state's Religious Freedom Restoration Act that allowed the cities to leave intact local ordinances with specific protections for the LGBTQ community are unconstitutional.
Those changes — often referred to as the RFRA "fix" — were adopted amid concerns that RFRA could result in discrimination.
The "fix" was, in essence, a compromise that allowed the law to move forward statewide. But it prevents the law from overruling local ordinances in those four cities that prohibit discrimination based on a person's sexual orientation and gender identity.
The four cities, and Indiana, are defendants in the suit. Both sides sought summary judgment in the case.
A hearing was held on the matter in Hamilton County on Oct. 3, during which the plaintiffs' attorney, James Bopp Jr., argued that the RFRA amendments "stripped some religious beliefs from the protection of strict scrutiny."
Bopp rebuked what he called the “grotesque stripping of rights" enabled by RFRA. He argued that what the religiously affiliated organizations require from their employees — a belief in biblical teachings and an adherence to pro-traditional marriage views — could make them vulnerable under the local ordinances. The groups, Bopp said, exclude from their programs employees who are in same-sex marriages, participate in “same-sex activity,” and/or advocate for same-sex marriage.
It's unknown if Bopp plans to appeal Casati's ruling. IndyStar has reached out to him for comment.
The cities’ arguments boiled down to this: The plaintiffs don’t face current or imminent harm because they likely would not be subject to the ordinances. And in the several years that have passed since the lawsuit was filed, nothing has happened to any of the groups.
Carmel said its ordinance only applies to companies with six or more employees. The Indiana Family Institute, for example, has one employee. Indiana Family Action has no employees, attorneys said.
The defendants argued that the groups aren’t participating in any discriminatory behavior, so they’re not actually at risk. Attorneys pointed to depositions during which leaders of the groups reportedly said they wouldn’t turn away from their events attendees who don’t subscribe to their views but are interested in learning more about them.
Court records show that a trial set for next year has been canceled.
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State college basketball: IUPUI gets a road victory
Jaguars defeat Omaha in Summit League play
State college basketball: IUPUI gets a road victory Jaguars defeat Omaha in Summit League play Check out this story on IndyStar.com: http://indy.st/2kQg3mD
IndyStar Sports, sports@indystar.com Published 10:11 p.m. ET Feb. 8, 2017 | Updated 11:20 p.m. ET Feb. 8, 2017
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IUPUI 89, Omaha 78: Kellon Thomas scored 25 points in lifting the visiting Jaguars (11-14, 5-6 Summit) past the Mavericks (13-12, 6-6).
Darell Combs added 18 points, Matt O'Leary 17 and Aaron Brennon 11 for IUPUI, which scored the game's first 11 points and never trailed.
Marcus Tyus had 20 for Omaha.
Evansville 60, Loyola 58: Jaylon Brown's basket with 2:04 remaining gave the host Purple Aces (12-14, 3-10 Missouri Valley) the lead for good. Dru Smith added another basket before Loyola (16-10, 6-7) scored in the closing seconds to make the final score.
Ryan Taylor led Evansville with 16 points, Brown added 11 and Smith 10. Clayton Custer scored 18 for the Ramblers.
Indiana State 56, Bradley 54: The visiting Sycamores (9-16, 3-10 Missouri Valley) scored the game's final five points. Emondre Rickman's basket with 28 seconds left proved to be the winner.
Matt Van Scyoc scored 19 for ISU, making 5-of-9 3-pointers. Donte Thomas scored 13 for Bradley (9-17, 4-9).
South Dakota 93, Fort Wayne 82: Tyler Flack made 13-of-15 shots on the way to 29 points for visiting South Dakota (17-10, 8-4 Summit), which scored 56 points in the second half.
Bryson Scott scored 20 points and Jon Konchar had 14 for the Mastodons (16-9, 5-6). Mo Evans added eight points and 10 rebounds.
Michigan 72, Purdue 62: Kysre Gondrezick hit four 3-pointers and scored 10 of her career-high 25 points in the fourth quarter, Hallie Thome added 15 points with two steals and two blocks, for visiting Michigan.
Katelynn Flaherty scored 13 points, Jillian Dunston tied her career best with 15 rebounds and the Wolverines (20-5, 9-2 Big Ten), who earned their fifth straight win, outrebounded the Boilermakers 38-24.
Gondrezick put Michigan up for good 13-12 with a layup, sparking a 9-2 run for a 22-14 first-quarter lead. Purdue closed to 22-18 on Ashley Morrissette’s layup, but the Wolverines pulled away on an 8-2 run in the second quarter and led 38-30 at halftime on Flaherty’s layup.
Purdue closed to 48-47 on Andreona Keys’ layup in the third quarter, but got no closer. Nicole Munger and Gondrezick hit back-to-back 3s and Michigan built its largest lead of 15 points with 1:54 left in the fourth and held on.
Bridget Perry scored 15 and Keys and Dominique Oden added 10 apiece for Purdue, 15-10, 6-5). Keys and Perry had three steals each and the Boilermakers got 13 steals for the third time this season.
Indiana 63, Rutgers 52: Amanda Cahill scored 20 points and Tyra Buss had 17 points and nine assists for the visiting Hoosiers (16-8, 6-5 Big Ten).
Rutgers (6-18, 3-8) led 29-27 at halftime.
Ball State 91, Bowling Green 70: Renee Bennett had 20 points and 15 rebounds, and Carmen Grande scored 20 points for the host Cardinals (16-7, 9-2 Mid-American).
BSU led Bowling Green (6-16, 2-8) 19-12 after the first quarter and 51-29 at halftime.
IUPUI 67, Denver 45: Danielle Lawrence scored 18 points for the Jaguars (18-7, 8-4 Summit), who broke open a game they led 27-25 at halftime. Caitlyn Tolen added 15 points for IUPUI.
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Noah Broyles
Noah has been writing since 2012. He tells stories across many genres and landscapes, from the silent wastes of rural Argentina to the dim edges of Temporality, his fantasy universe. He is majoring in Business at Carson-Newman University.
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A failing magazine writer and a nightclub hostess take a break from the world on a derelict plantation in rural Tennessee. As the ghosts of the past thicken the atmosphere, each suspects their partner of plotting murder.
The Island of Wolves
High mountains, silent valleys, misty plains, white sand beaches, forgotten houses and ancient grudges. Welcome to the Scottish Hebrides. Enjoy the isolation, savor the fine food, immerse yourself in the rich history. And avoid the Island of Wolves.
Green Falcon
A novel of the Argentine Dirty War.
In 1969, 8-year-old Kevin Rian disappeared during a game of hide-and-seek near the Appalachian Trail. Determined to discover his fate, Kevin’s friends set out each year to hike the trail.
The Minister of Loneliness
After the discovery of a shocking murder in the nearby Nantahala Forest, pastors in the small town of Noonday, North Caroline begin committing suicide.
Summer of Rain
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Mina Harker
At the cusp of WW I, through letters, telegrams, newspaper clippings, and diaries the story of an ancient evil rebirthing into the world unfolds. As Mina Harker approaches her "Silent Passage," she and her rapidly maturing son transition . . .
The opening chapter is exceptionally well written and curiously intriguing.
Four Moons
A woman lives with her strange family on a mysterious island that has the power to bend the will of its inhabitants to its own, and she must discover whether it is for her or against her as she finds herself driven toward a bloody fate.
A great premise backed up by great writing. I hope to see this in print someday soon.
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WWE News: Vince McMahon Does Not See NXT Talent As ‘Stars’ For The WWE
Joe Burgett
Vince McMahon has seemingly been out of touch for some time now. The material we see on television is not all on him, however, as he has an entire creative team to help him come up with ideas for the normal programming. However, he is being outshined by a product within his own company. Triple H has taken over all of talent relations with WWE. He is responsible for the hiring and firing of everyone we see.
It is not the best job to have, but it is one of the most crucial. Jim Ross did it for years and was able to give us some absolute legends in WWE and then he helped to get them over while on the announce table. Triple H does this by wrestling with them. There’s a reason why he let The Shield demolish Evolution and has allowed Roman Reigns and Daniel Bryan to beat him in the past and make him look like a joke.
The idea of the Triple H burial has been buried, and there’s nothing more to say about that. Now, the guy is signing great talent and really proving with his work out of NXT that he can book a show well from top to bottom. Due to this, many of the stars from NXT are becoming household names. People know the stars across the world and with the rise of the WWE Network, most would assume that NXT would only grow in popularity.
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Don’t let Vince McMahon know about how good NXT is, or the fact that the stars of the show are becoming a massive success. The following is according to the Wrestling Observer.
“Vince isn’t going to step aside, but there is a lot of concern about the rigid decision making and limited viewpoint on who can be real top stars. While publicly HHH will say Vince loves NXT, the internal perception is very different, seeing it as a touring brand filled with so many guys Vince doesn’t believe are money.”
This is quite a big problem for WWE and especially Triple H, as The Game has pretty much given the fans who they want to see in WWE. People like Seth Rollins among others have become major stars and he was the first real NXT success. After him, no star from NXT has been given a chance at the WWE World Title on a regular basis. Even The Wyatt Family have been pushed down a good bit.
We do know that Vince does like people such as NXT Champion Finn Balor, but while Balor is the star of NXT, he would most likely not get the same opportunities on the main roster. Triple H has been trying to protect Balor as he feels Vince will get a hold on Balor and take all of the momentum away that Triple H built up. Balor even told Sam Roberts back in December that, “going to the main roster might be a step back for my career right now.” WWE NXT Women’s Champion Bayley echoed the same thought with the Independent, telling them that “I want to be part of it, but I’m in no rush right now.”
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Clearly the goal for most is to make it to the main roster as it means more money if nothing else. It is also means more popularity globally and it allows them an opportunity to become a legend. However, there is a lot of risk clearly.
When the champions of the NXT brand feel that they are safer down there than on the main roster, that says a lot. Vince not seeing most of them as stars is an issue, because NXT is the future of his business and without the brand, he may not have the stars of tomorrow. The real issue with NXT as far as top talent goes is the age. Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns were in top WrestleMania matches before their 30th birthday, and people like Finn Balor are not even on the main roster, and he is in his mid-30’s.
Many see the case of Tyler Breeze and realize there is a problem, because the company built him up on the WWE Network show Breaking Ground only to pretty much job him out. Of course, there were rumors of heat he sustained. This surprised many, as most see him as a polite and respectful guy. Breeze was just a case of Vince not knowing how to use the talent Triple H gives him pretty much. Until he hands over booking to someone else, this is going to happen with even no-brainer stars.
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A Science Bridge Between the Eurasia Countries; IU FAMER
Istanbul University Farabi Eurasia Studies Application and Research Center (FAMER) continues to improve cooperation and unity between the Eurasia countries by contributing training scientists that our country and the countries in Eurasia needs.
FAMER, founded in 2016 with the aim of perform mutual projects and scientific activities with the Eurasian pioneer universities and share the acquired knowledge through various activities in an international environment, continues studying the country and the region in terms of language, history, social and cultural. Improving the relationship between our country and the countries in the region, FAMER contributes training scientists. Farabi Eurasia Studies Application and Research Center Head Prof. Dr. Abdullah Kızılcık gave information about the aims of FAMER and activities within it.
Cooperations with the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University
Stating that alongside the mutual seminars, conferences and symposiums that FAMER and Al-Farabi Kazakh National University organize together, there are also readings, panels and language courses that let hundreds of scientists work together, Prof. Dr. Kızılcık said that, “Hundreds of post-graduate and doctorate students from Al-Farabi Kazakh National University joined the internship and research programs that are coordinated by our center. In return, tens of undergraduate students from IU Faculty of Letters are sent to Almaty for a Kazakh and Russian language course which was organized by Al-Farabi Kazakh National University in summer. We organized the first International Eurasian Studies that is about Turkish World Within the Context of Islam Civilization Symposium on 27-28 July 2017 and we organized the second one Turkic and Oriental Studies in Eurasia on 4-6 July 2018”.
Underlining the fact that they aim to bring up academicians and researches that have vision and mission with the activities that they organize, Prof. Dr. Kızılcık said, “We want our country to be the pioneer on educational tourism by increasing the international scientific studies.”
Courses within FAMER
Giving information about the courses within the center, Prof. Dr. Kızılcık sorted them like so, “Practical Arabic Course, Arabic Speaking Course, Media Course in 4 different languages, Translation Course, Arabic Story-Writing Course, Manuscript Scrutiny Course and Academic Spelling Rules Course.”
Farabi Center Library is open to researchers
Stating that the Farabi Center Library, which keeps growing with new books from day to day, is now open to researchers, Prof. Dr. Kızılcık said that, “The preparation phase of the projects such as providing counsel and coordination for Middle Asian and Middle Eastern Media Center, constituting the archive files of the countries in Ottoman era geography and completing the Farabi corpus is continuing. Besides, international symposiums have been organized for the last 3 years.”
You can find further information about activities within FAMER here: https://famer.istanbul.edu.tr/tr
You can find the bulletin of 3-years of activities here: http://cdn.istanbul.edu.tr/FileHandler2.ashx?f=01_bu%CC%88lten-2016-2018_637093449793311954.pdf
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DJI Spark Is The Smallest, Smart Drone
By Angelie Jill , May 26, 2017 06:31 AM EDT
DJI take the wraps off its tiny Spark drone on Wednesday and is being touted as a personal drone designed to users that can literally take it anywhere to capture video and stills. Not only can it take off and land in the palm of your hand, but Spark has also been designed to interact with the user by using basic hand gestures.
The diminutive DJI Spark only weighs in at a modest 300 g (0.67 lb), measuring 14.3 cm (5.6 in) each side and 5.5 cm (2.1 in) tall. Like a lot of the other micro drones in the market, the idea is that you can take it with you on your adventures and get it into the air with minimal effort.
The drone launches from your hands and while it can be controlled by remote control or through DJI's mobile app, it can also be controlled entirely by hand gestures. This allows users to send Spark to fly up and away, take selfies and come back again simply by moving their hands. It can also hover at up to 30 m (98 (ft) and sense obstacles 16 ft away.
More so, Spark also comes with a new feature called Coordinate, that can send the drone flying to a certain location and on which users can just tap on their smartphone screen, along with a couple of new shooting modes and also the PanoMode, which automatically adjusts the gimbal and camera to capture a series of shots and stitch them into a panorama. The other mode is ShallowFocus, which makes a bokeh effect. It also features DJI's ActiveTrack tech that allows it to track objects on the screen.
The Spark will be available in blue green, white, red and yellow, and pis priced at $499. If you're looking to include the remote controller, that kit will cost $700, including an extra battery, bag, extra propellers, and guards. Available for pre-order now, DJI says it will start shipping the Spark in June.
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9 December 2019 at 6:08pm
A city split by Brexit and home to one of the most marginal seats in Britain
Norwich is a city divided by politics and by Brexit with two constituencies - one Labour and one Conservative.
Norwich is a city with two election battles - Labour hold Norwich South with a comfortable majority while Norwich North is one of the most marginal Tory seats in the land.
Conservative minister Chloe Smith held onto Norwich North by just 507 votes in one of the closest results of the 2017 General Election.
After Thurrock in Essex, it is the second most vulnerable Tory seat in the Anglia region which would switch to Labour on a swing of just 0.6%.
Not only is the county town of Norfolk divided by politics - it is also split on Brexit.
The Norwich City Council area was one of the few local authority districts in the Anglia region to vote to remain in the European Union in the 2016 referendum.
Academic analysis of that result for the parliamentary constituencies suggests Norwich South, which is dominated by the city centre and the University of East Anglia voted 60% to remain while Norwich North, which contains leafy suburbs outside the city boundary, voted 57% to leave.
Click to watch a Battleground Anglia report about the contest in Norwich North by ITV News Anglia's Natalie Gray
Since the Norwich Norfolk constituency was created in 1950 it has swung back and forth between Labour and the Conservative although boundary change in recent years have seen the seat taking in more suburban areas.
Labour held the seat from 1950 until 1983 when the Conservatives took over for 14 years.
University academic Dr Ian Gibson won it back for Labour in 1997 and the Conservative won it back in a by-election in 2009 and have held it ever since.
Most of the city centre plus the university campus is in Norwich South while the northern and eastern suburbs plus the airport are in Norwich North.
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Katherine Bouman waits to speak during a House of Representatives committee hearing on the Event Horizon Telescope in Washington on Thursday. | AFP-JIJI
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Imaging black hole like listening to broken piano, scientist Katie Bouman says
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WASHINGTON – U.S. computer scientist Katie Bouman, who became a global sensation over her role in generating the world’s first image of a black hole, has described the painstaking process as akin to listening to a piano with missing keys.
Testifying before Congress on Thursday, the postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics also suggested that the technology developed by the project could have practical applications in the fields of medical imaging, seismic prediction and self-driving cars.
A photo released last month of the star-devouring monster in the heart of the Messier 87 (M87) galaxy revealed a dark core encircled by a flame-orange halo of white hot plasma.
Because M87 is 55 million light-years away, “This ring appears incredibly small on the sky: roughly 40 microarcseconds in size, comparable to the size of an orange on the surface of the moon as viewed from our location on Earth,” said Bouman.
The laws of physics require a telescope the size of our entire planet to view it.
Japanese scientists play a role in capturing first photo of black hole
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration spent over a decade building an Earth-spanning computational telescope that combined signals received by telescopes working in pairs around the world.
Because there are a limited number of locations, the telescopes are able to capture only some frequencies, leaving large gaps in information.
“As an analogy, you can think about the measurements the EHT makes a bit like notes in a song; each measurement corresponds to the tone of one note,” said Bouman.
“Observing the black hole with the Event Horizon Telescope is a bit like listening to a song being played on a piano with over half of its keys broken.”
The approach led to numerous gaps that could be filled with infinite possibilities consistent with the data.
“But just as your brain may still be able to recognize a song being played on a broken piano if there are enough functioning keys, we can design algorithms to intelligently fill in the EHT’s missing information to reveal the underlying black hole image,” she concluded.
While the images were captured in 2017, the final result had to be independently validated by four EHT teams working around the world to avoid shared human bias.
The four images they produced varied slightly, but they all contained the same basic structure.
“Seeing these images for the first time was truly amazing and one of my life’s happiest memories,” recalled Bouman, who maintained a broad smile throughout her testimony.
The final image, released to the public on April 10, was a composite of the four images further tuned by algorithms designed to eliminate human preferences.
Bouman said she first began working on the EHT as a graduate student studying computer vision at MIT and found the problem shared striking similarities with work she had done on brain imaging based on limited data from an MRI scanner.
“Thus, although the project was well outside of my core area, and I had no background in astrophysics let alone black holes, I hoped that I might be able to make a difference.”
She also hailed the early-career scientists who had come to the project from various fields and ranged from post doctorates to undergraduates whose work was vital to the project.
“However, like black holes, many early-career scientists with significant contributions often go unseen,” she said.
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Boy mistaken for dead, parents sue doctors for hospital errors
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Every parent’s nightmare is hearing a doctor tell them their child has died. Certainly the last thing parents expect when they take their child to a hospital is for doctors to mistakenly declare their child deceased. This is the kind of situation that may even surprise a seasoned New York City medical malpractice lawyer. That’s what happened to the parents of an 8-year-old boy at a Chicago hospital after doctors alleged the boy was dead and took him off his ventilator. According to the parents and other relatives, it appeared the boy was very much alive with his eyes and body moving. Doctors initially claimed that the movements were from lingering effects of medication. Yet finally, after nearly five hours off the ventilator and at the incessant urging of the family, the hospital performed a cardiac ultrasound and concluded the boy’s heart was indeed beating. The parents claim that the hours off the ventilator worsened the boy’s already fragile condition. The boy had preexisting brain damage, and now the family is suing the Mercy Hospital and Medical Center for making the boy’s condition worse. According to the boy’s father, the 8-year-old could smile and hear family members before the incident at the hospital. Now the boy is less responsive. The family is suing the hospital and seeking damages in the amount of $200,000 for what they claim is hours of severe emotional distress. Whenever a family suffers financial or emotional distress because of medical negligence, they are often entitled to compensation. The compensation may be for past and future medical expenses or, like the Chicago family is seeking, for the emotional cost of suffering through the tragic mistake. Source: KOAM TV 7, “Suit: Doctors mistakenly declared Chicago boy dead,” Oct. 20, 2012
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’Peter’ is the local colloquial name for enchanting, bohemian St. Petersburg, one of the greatest artistic cities in the world. We offer a fascinating tour through Peter’s most famous galleries, starting with Pushkinskaya 10, a symbol of the city’s famous spirit of resistance. This dates back to the Decembrist revolt of the early 19th century, and was shown again with Siege of Leningrad in WWII, and the underground artistic movement of Soviet times.
Pushkinskaya 10 was established in 1989, when a group of artists occupied a building that was due for demolition, but somehow survived in the turmoil of Perestroika and was left without an owner. The building has served for several years as living space, workshop, party scene and performance stage, and has brought together the painters, musicians and writers of the underground.
The Pushkinskaya 10 Art Centre has since become one of Russia's best known cultural centers. Under its bohemian roof you’ll find art galleries, museums, studios, shops, a café, Fish Fabric, one of St. Petersburg's most famous alternative nightclubs, –and even a shrine to John Lennon.
If you’re interested in Russian contemporary art, the Pushkinskaya 10 is where it's all happening.
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Social TV: Understanding brand affinity with Instar Social
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Solution: Audience Measurement, Consumer and Audience Targeting, Social Media Intelligence
Social TV engagement goes beyond conversations with other users and high-profile celebrities on Twitter; it often extends to engagement directly or indirectly with brands. The Kantar Twitter TV Ratings brand affinity module provides an interesting snapshot into Tweeters’ connections with both brands and live TV programming, helping agencies and advertisers connect with potentially unexpected audiences. Through our web-based dashboard, Instar Social, we can understand the level of affinity that an audience Tweeting about a particular programme has with categories of brands such as cosmetic and clothing brands or food brands, as well as actual brands, and there are some interesting symmetries that occur in the UK.
The measure of Tweeters’ affinity with brands or brand categories is given through an affinity index. The affinity index is a measure of the relationship between users who Tweet about a programme and the brands or brand categories they are more likely to engage with. The higher the affinity score, the stronger the association between the viewers of the programme and the brand.
The top shows associated with Tweeters of property brands are unsurprisingly home, lifestyle and DIY centric programmes, including Channel 4’s Location Location Location with the second highest ranked affinity, scoring an index of 789. Household-hits Grand Designs and The RHS Chelsea Flower Show also make the top 10. Specifically, online Property site Rightmove saw strong affinity with Location Location Location with an Affinity Index of 1447. More surprisingly, Tweeters with a high affinity with property brands also Tweet heavily about political programmes. The televised Chancellor’s Autumn Statement was first past the post, coming top with an Affinity Index of 816. The Daily Politics Election Debates, behind the scenes exposé Inside the Commons, and Channel 4’s investigative documentary series Dispatches also made the Top 10.
Unsurprisingly, food brands saw affinity with culinary delights including the BBC’s Celebrity Masterchef and ITVBe’s Dinner Date making the Top 20 list. Household-name brands including Marmite, Ribena, Cadbury and Waitrose all scored high affinity with Tweeters about Celebrity Masterchef. However, some more unexpected top-scorers included Channel 4’s artificial intelligence drama Humans which was the 8th most Tweeted with an Affinity Index of 231, and BBC3’s reality wedding show Don’t Tell the Bride which was 2nd with an Index of 262 - proving that it’s not just culinary-themed shows that appeal to Tweeters of food brands. In fact, the two brands with the highest affinity for E4’s popular teen drama My Mad Fat Diary (6th with an Index of 233) were Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream and Doritos Crisps.
When it comes to Tweeters about cosmetics and personal care brands, Live from the Red Carpet on E! Entertainment was the cream of the crop with an Affinity Index of 562, Gillette being the brand with the highest affinity associated with this program. Female-fronted daytime programming including ITV’s Lorraine and BBC2’s Victoria Derbyshire also both made the top 20. Clothing and accessories brands proved to forge affinity with audiences of music-based entertainment shows, with the MTV Video Music Awards scoring top with an affinity index of 328, and E4’s gritty urban drama Empire, cantered around New York’s hip-hop scene, also making the Top 10 with an affinity of 239. Specifically, designer brands including Ralph Lauren, Dior, Gucci, Chanel and Louis Vuitton frequented the list of brands with high affinity for these two programs.
However, Tweeters of cosmetics and clothing brands like Gillette and Ralph Lauren also forged strong affinity with a more unexpected genre - Sport. Cosmetics and personal care scored highly with Tennis programming with Tennis from Queens and the Live US Open Tennis both making the Top 5 with indexes of 435 and 341 respectively. Additionally, Tweeters of clothing and accessories brands like Adidas and Nike also Tweeted overwhelmingly frequently about sports events with live FA Youth Cup Football, live NBA, Match of the Day, MOTD2 Extra, live EUFA Europa League Football and live UEFA Champions League all making the Top 10 most Tweeted shows for clothing and accessories brands. Additionally, although perhaps not surprisingly, gambling brands like William Hill, Bet 365 and Paddy Power all saw strong affinity with Tweeters of sporting events, along with alcohol brands like Carling, and the café chain Costa Coffee.
Tweeters of games and console brands like Nintendo, Nokia, Warner Brothers, Sony and Sony PlayStation showed affinity with a variety of hit fictional entertainment shows, showing that this social audience is attracted to comedy and sci-fi storyline-driven programming with a strong sense of escapism. Animated classic The Simpsons had the highest affinity with an index of 288, whilst geeky sit-com The Big Bang Theory scored in the Top 10 with an index of 216. Fast-paced dramas Doctor Who and Gotham, plus blockbuster hit Marvel’s Avengers Assemble, also all ranked highly. Additionally, the Lego brand saw high affinity with all three of these programmes, scoring the top-spot out of all brands for affinity with Tweeters of Gotham, with an Affinity Index of 442.
There are clear symmetries that can be observed between Tweeters about brands and Social TV Audiences, but also some unexpected affiliations that can be uncovered. Brand Affinity helps highlight and dissect those potential connections, providing new opportunities for agencies and advertisers to target and engage with their desired audience, and providing new insights into the ever-changing Twitter conversation around both brands and TV.
Affinity is calculated based on a minimum duplication (Tweeters Tweeting about a particular programme and a particular brand) of 1%. For more information about the methodology or Instar Social, contact us using the details below.
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Please note: Entries to the 2020 Into Film Awards are now closed. We'll be revealing the nominees early in the new year.
The Into Film Awards is the best place to showcase young filmmaking talent, with categories designed to highlight the large pool of young creatives in the UK. Setting out to discover and honour the most talented filmmakers, reviewers, Into Film Clubs and educators, we encourage children and young people aged 5-19 from all backgrounds and with all abilities to get involved. The Into Film Awards is also designed to be a lot of fun, with famous faces and incredible talent from across the film industry on hand to present the Awards.
The 7th annual Into Film Awards will take place 18 March 2020 at London's ODEON Luxe Leicester Square, and will be hosted by David Walliams OBE.
This year sees some exciting new changes. Entering the Awards now not only gives you the chance to be nominated and join us at our star-studded ceremony in London, but this year, every single verified submission will also be entered into a prize draw to win £1,000 worth of filmmaking equipment for the filmmakers, film clubs or schools!
That means that even if you don't get nominated, there's still a chance you could walk away with heaps of new equipment to enhance your filmmaking potential for next year's Awards!
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‘Once more unto the beach, dear friends!’
Channel swimmers join Network Rail to celebrate reopening of Shakespeare Beach
For decades, Channel swimmers have begun their epic journeys towards France from Shakespeare Beach in Dover. Now for the first time since Boxing Day 2015, when a massive storm damaged the sea wall behind the beach and the railway above it, swimmers can return to the shingle shore and enjoy one of Dover’s hidden gems after a new footbridge restored access to the beach.
Network Rail engineers were today joined by Dover MP Charlie Elphicke and members of the Channel Swimming Association to officially open the bridge and mark the completion of a mammoth project to rebuild the sea wall protecting the railway between Dover and Folkestone.
Repairs began in January 2016, when the first of 90,000 tonnes of granite rock armour was delivered to site. Since then, Network Rail engineers have been working to place the rock armour along a 375m stretch of the wall and put the new footbridge in place across the railway and down to the beach.
The railway and sea wall itself were opened in September 2016.
Network Rail’s director of route asset management, Alan Ross, said: “We knew from the minute we arrived in Dover on Boxing Day 2015 that this was going to be a huge job. We not only had to rebuild and protect the railway between Dover and Folkestone, but we also had to protect the cliff itself.
“It’s great news for the local community that the beach is back open and I’d like to thank them for their support and understanding while we carried out our work. I’ve never known a project where everyone in the area has helped and supported us in the way that Dover did, from MP Charlie Elphicke to Dover District Council and businesses and people in the town.
“We all felt responsible for making this project as good as it could be and finally we can say we’ve achieved our aim and the beach is back open.”
Dover and Deal MP Charlie Elphicke, who chaired the sea wall repair task force after the storm of Christmas 2015, said: “Our fight to fix the sea wall just goes to show what can be achieved if people work together and get on with the job. Dedicated workers from Network Rail and Costain grafted round the clock – and the rail line was back on track three months ahead of schedule.
“It’s fantastic to see the new footbridge and the historic Shakespeare Beach reopen today. I’m delighted our incredible Channel swimmers have now got their beach back.”
Michael Read, who is president of the Channel Swimming Association and has swum the Channel 33 times, said: “I’m delighted that the beach is back because it was always the traditional starting point for swims and Channel swimmers have such an affection for it. Over the years we have also been able to use Samphire Hoe and now the pilots can choose a beach depending on the tides and how they will affect the swimmer.
“The feeling of completing a crossing and walking back on dry land is the most wonderful feeling in the world.”
Tim Ingleton, Dover District Council’s Head of Inward Investment, said: ““We are very pleased to hear this news from Network Rail, and welcome the completion of this important work, which will reconnect Shakespeare Beach with the community.”
The project to rebuild the railway and part of the sea wall at Shakespeare Beach began immediately after Christmas 2015 and cost £39.8m. More than 90,000 tonnes of rock armour was shipped to Dover by barge, arriving at the port and latterly on a barge anchored offshore.
The railway was rebuilt on a 235m viaduct supported by 138 columns and the rock armour was arranged along the beach to protect both it and the cliff face behind it from the power of the sea.
At its peak, more than 1,000 people worked on the project at Dover, with around 150 working on the beach works and the footbridge. Companies involved were Network Rail and principle contractor Costain, along with Suttles Projects, who opened their quarry the day after Boxing Day, Tony Gee and Partners, who designed the viaduct; Brett, concrete; Pipex, footbridge; FP McCann, steps to the beach; Ovenden, beachworks; and Stema Shipping UK, rock supply. All told more than 180 suppliers helped bring the project to completion.
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U.S. forces have been instructed to take all measures needed to protect American interests in Syria, including military measures, as part of an effort that comes after top officials in the Trump administration assessed that Iran is deliberately probing American weaknesses and reactions on the Syrian battlefield, according to senior Trump administration officials who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon.
Washington Free Beacon, By Adam Kredo
Iran-backed forces, including Hezbollah, have already initiated multiple encounters with the United States by violating agreements worked out between Washington and Moscow aimed at preventing the various factions targeting ISIS inside Syria from coming into conflict. This is part of a campaign that analysts inside and outside the White House believe is aimed at testing the Trump administration's resolve, sources said.
"That was very clearly a process of the Iranians and Hezbollah and [the] Syrian regime probing and testing our limits, and testing how much we were willing to do," one senior Trump administration official said. "In every case, it was a matter of them testing and probing, and us responding by defending ourselves."
These clashes were the result of pro-Syrian regime forces, including Iran and Hezbollah, "violating a de-confliction measure that had been worked out with the Russians," the official said. "The forces violated the measure."
The Trump administration has instructed U.S. forces to respond to Iranian attacks with force if necessary.
"What they found out very quickly," said the official, was "us responding by defending ourselves. What was established was that we're determined to defend ourselves."
This defensive action is being implemented at the same time the Trump administration turns its attention to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), the Islamic Republic's paramilitary force that coordinates operations in Syria and other warzones.
Trump administration officials view the IRGC as being part of "every malignant protrusion of the Iranian regime," according to one administration official, who said the White House is dually focused on choking off this force.
The actions by U.S. forces are part of a broader pushback against Iran, ranging from battlefield responses to diplomatic action, according to a veteran Iran policy analyst who has been briefed by the White House both on parts of the Syria strategy and on parts of an ongoing Iran policy review being conducted by the administration.
The Free Beacon first reported many details of the review several weeks ago, including actions by the Trump administration to potentially block the sale of U.S. commercial aircraft to Tehran.
"For the first time since the U.S. intervened into the Syrian conflict, American forces have been authorized to do take all measures to defend U.S. interests against Iranian provocations and aggression," said the source. "This is part of a concrete strategy that has already been implemented in part, and is being bolstered every day, but very senior Trump officials. No more of watching U.S. forces get rolled in Syria, and also no more of thanking Iran after they seize our sailors in the Gulf.
One senior Trump administration official familiar with the Iran policy review said the White House is currently "in the thick of it," evaluating a range of options to confront Iran's global terror operations.
The review expands far beyond the landmark nuclear deal, according to the administration officials.
"The tack we've taken is not to put the [Iran deal] at the center of the policy," one senior administration official said. "The goals we set out focus on how to neutralize the threat the Iranian regime poses to the US and its allies in the region."
U.S. official see the nuclear deal as secondary given Iran's continued terrorist operations and pursuit of illicit arms. This is why the IRGC's activities have become a source of concern in the White House.
"You find the IRGC in every malignant protrusion of the Iranian regime," the senior administration official said. "They're in Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Hezbollah in Lebanon," and elsewhere.
As the U.S. plots its course with Iran, the Islamic Republic continues to invest in a massive military buildup that many believe has been partially funded by the economic sanctions relief granted under the former Obama administration.
Iranian military officials announced on Monday that the country will soon implement its own version of Russia's advanced S-300 missile defense system, which Tehran purchased in a controversial arms deal opposed by many Western nations.
"Steady work efforts are being made on Bavar 373 missile system and a number of tests have been carried out on this system, and these tests will continue until the date of delivery," according to Iranian military officials, who predicted the system would be perfected by March of next year.
Update: This piece has been edited to clarify U.S. operations against Iran-backed forces in Syria.
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McCarthy slaps £50m price tag on Doyle
Friday, July 16, 2010 - 01:49 PM
Wolves boss Mick McCarthy has admitted it will take a £50m offer to persuade him to sell star striker Kevin Doyle.
McCarthy insists there has been “no approach” from Arsenal for the Republic of Ireland international.
He has stressed all along that he wants to keep club-record signing Doyle who moved from Reading for £6.5m around 12 months ago.
McCarthy is adamant that it will take an outrageous type of bid for him to off-load Doyle.
McCarthy said: “When Kevin said recently that he was pledging his future to Wolves it suddenly caused a stir.
“The reality is that he was saying it to get everybody off his back.
“Leave him alone and let him play his football.
“Look, if Manchester United come in and offer the club £50m and give him 200 grand a week, I can’t keep him.
“Then I’ll have to say: ’Thanks, Kevin, all the best, see you’.
“But no, there’s not been any approach from Arsenal – I can’t be any straighter.
“Doyle will be a player for us unless someone comes in offering the earth, moon and stars for him.”
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Being anointed with the gift to create beauty is one thing, but actually fulfilling what you consider your "calling" is truly a phenomenal gift! Joie Wallace is a premiere stylist in every aspect of hair design. She has been servicing clients in the Hampton Roads area for over 23 years. She has also educated a multitude of stylists (in- state and abroad), Through representation of "numerous companies in the hair industry" Through years of obtaining great skill and workmanship, she has propelled to excellence in her career field" A majority of her success is attributed to continual education, innovation, and creativity.
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As the CEO. of Sessions By Joie she teaches professional "hairstylist" on hair color She knows that hard work and dedication is the platform for success. Phenomenal gift! Joie Wallace is a premiere stylist in every aspect of hair design. She has been servicing clients in the Hampton Roads area for over 20 years. "As" a licensed instructor "she" has also educated a multitude of stylists (in- state and abroad), through representation of numerous of the top companies in the hair industry. Through years of obtaining great skill and workmanship, has propelled her to excellence in her career field. A majority of her success is attributed to continual education, innovation, and creativity.
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Ofer Shelah: Netanyahu wanted another election from the first day
Shelah has previously been outspoken on Netanyahu's political conduct.
By TAMAR BEERI
MK Ofer Shelah speaks at a Saturday event in Beersheba.
(photo credit: BEERSHEBA MUNICIPALITY)
Blue and White MK Ofer Shelah spoke at a Saturday morning event, telling the audience that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "was solely focused on another election" from day one.
He explained that "the Likud's negotiation team did not budge from its three demands: Netanyahu goes first in the rotation, a 55-member immunity block and no changes to the things that are important to us, primarily protection of the rule of law and religious and state affairs."
Shelah accused the Likud party of not taking part in negotiations, but rather "a game of time and placing blame."
He further called out against Netanyahu's various recent declarations, including the annexation of the Jordan Valley, which he said cannot happen because of Jordan's opposition.
"There will be no defense pact with the United States because it is a bad think that every professional system opposes," Shelah added.
He concluded that Netanyahu is the first prime minister to use "such cheapness for political and security reasons for his own political needs."
Shelah has previously been outspoken on Netanyahu's political conduct. In early November, he said that Netanyahu "wants direct elections to buy [himself] a few more months of immunity."
"Everything else is lies and deception."
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Theresa May Announces Snap General Election for 8th June
Em Morley - April 19, 2017
Theresa May announced yesterday morning that she plans to hold a snap general election on Thursday 8th June, despite repeatedly ... https://www.landlordnews.co.uk/may-announces-snap-general-election/
Theresa May announced yesterday morning that she plans to hold a snap general election on Thursday 8th June, despite repeatedly claiming that she was against the idea of an early vote.
The next standard general election is scheduled for Thursday 7th May 2020.
In a surprise statement outside Downing Street yesterday morning, the Prime Minister claimed that opposition parties were jeopardising her Government’s preparations for Brexit.
“We need a general election and we need one now,” she insisted. “I have only recently and reluctantly come to this conclusion, but now I have concluded it is the only way to guarantee certainty for the years ahead.”
May claimed the decision she will put to voters would be about “leadership”.
In her statement, May said her Government is trying to deliver on last year’s EU referendum result by ensuring that Britain regains control and strikes new trade deals.
“After the country voted to leave the EU, Britain needed certainty, stability and strong leadership,” she stated. “Since I became Prime Minister, the Government has delivered precisely that.”
May later repeated her claim that she was taking the decision reluctantly, arguing that she had decided to go for the election last week.
She explained: “Before Easter, I spent a few days walking in Wales with my husband, I thought about this long and hard, and came to the decision that to provide for that stability and certainty, this was the way to do it.”
She added that she was asking the British public to put their trust in her.
Pressed on the notion that the decision was more about personal and party interest than for the sake of the country, May argued: “This is a decision that I’ve taken reluctantly in the national interest.”
She believes that a decisive election victory would strengthen the Government’s hand in Brexit negotiations.
Under the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011, May cannot call a general election directly, but she said she would lay down a motion in the House of Commons. This will require two-thirds of MPs to back it.
Commenting on the announcement, the Policy Director of the Residential Landlords Association, David Smith, says: “As the campaign progresses, this election needs to put housing first.
“Over recent years, the private rental market has been hit by tax hikes, benefit cuts and growing regulations, all of which are making it more difficult for tenants to access and afford a place to live. The same changes have made it harder for good landlords to provide the quality accommodation that tenants have a right to expect, and have discouraged further investment in new homes.”
He urges: “We need a housing market that works for all. The majority of landlords provide good quality housing and a good service to their tenants. The political parties need to recognise this, and deliver for tenants and good landlords alike.”
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As Associate Laboratory Director for Physical Sciences, Antoinette Taylor directs programs that develop and apply materials science and experimental physics capabilities to programs and problems of national importance.
Antoinette Taylor
Antoinette (Toni) Taylor serves as the Associate Laboratory Director, Physical Sciences for Los Alamos National Laboratory.
She previously served as the Deputy Associate Director for Chemistry, Life and Earth Sciences at LANL.
Toni’s background is in nanophotonics and ultrafast dynamics of quantum and nanoscale materials. Following a postdoc at Cornell University in ultrafast dynamics of condensed matter systems, she became a staff member at AT&T Bell Laboratories in the Lightwave Systems Department.
Toni came to LANL in 1986 to work on the Los Alamos Bright Source, one of the first ultrahigh intensity lasers used to investigate light-matter interactions in the high field regime.
Following that program, she became Project Leader for Advanced Diagnostics for the Pulsed Power Hydrodynamics Program at LANL, responsible for diagnostic development activities at the Atlas Pulsed Power Facility.
Toni then served as the Director of the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, a joint LANL/Sandia nanoscience center funded through DOE Basics Energy Sciences and as the Division Leader for Materials Physics and Applications.
She is a Fellow of the America Physical Society (APS), the Optical Society of America, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Laboratory. Toni is a former chair of the APS Division of Laser Science and is currently the Vice-Chair of the APS Division of Materials Physics.
Toni received her B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from Stanford University where she was a Hertz pre-doctoral and doctoral Fellow.
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David Young Kim’s Journey with Renaissance Artists
What were Renaissance artists doing when they were not painting? Video interview with David Young Kim
by Javier Suarez
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What is the importance of places? Can they have an agency? The Travelling Artist in the Italian Renaissance reevaluates and reconfigures the importance and sense of settings in the works of art of the Renaissance. Throughout the book, Professor Kim develops a critical approach towards the idea of “influence” as a building block of art history. Acknowledging the importance of “influence” as a general term, Kim describes and analyzes how “mobility” can be disruptive and simultaneously call into question and open new paths of interpretation.
The book shows how the production of diagrams (colorful and sometimes chaotic) that have tried to create order and genealogies can invisibilize other ways of understanding a work of art. The book also deals and questions the preeminence of the author (a biographical approach) in the studies of the Renaissance, approach that is highly indebted to Giorgio Vasari’s Le vite de’ più eccellenti architetti, pittori et scultori italiani; instead, mobility makes it possible to rethink the artist as a traveler and economic agent who moved around Europe not only for aesthetic reasons but also looking for economic improvement under the protection of an important bishop, noble or monarch.
Travelling, in this sense, is not just going for point A to point B. There is an intentionality in the travelling artist that recreates the place that he depicts; thus the representation of travelling is always part of a complex network of interconnections that gave form to the journey. Mobility also makes it possible to understand the artist not only as an introspective intellectual that paints closed in a room or workshop: mobility offers a cinematic portrait of artists in the Renaissance as sensorial subjectivities that enjoyed their time falling in love, drinking, eating and being exposed to diverse cultures; it is in this sense how Professor Kim introduces the idea of leisure in its analysis.
I highly recommend The travelling Artist in the Italian Renaissance for his creative methodology but also because it is an example of a highly interdisciplinary approach that can be helpful for everybody who wants to understand any historical mobility from the Renaissance artists to the Italian diaspora.
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New Mexico settles lawsuit over immigrant tax refunds
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New Mexico settles lawsuit over immigrant tax refunds SANTA FE, N.M. Check out this story on lcsun-news.com: http://lcsun.co/2eEGyb4
The Associated Press Published 4:21 p.m. MT Oct. 28, 2016
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SANTA FE — The New Mexico tax department has agreed to stop automatically withholding income tax refunds from many foreign nationals without Social Security numbers who file under alternative identification numbers provided by the IRS, a New Mexico state senator said Friday.
Sen. Gerald Ortiz y Pino said he co-signed the settlement as a plaintiff that says state tax authorities will no longer withhold refunds based solely on discrepancies between a taxpayer's individual taxpayer identification number, or ITIN, and any Social Security number submitted on corresponding W-2 income forms.
The Taxation and Revenue Department and other parties to the settlement declined to comment or acknowledge the agreement.
The agreement resolves a lawsuit against the department alleging a practice of withholding tax refunds owed to foreign nationals starting in 2012 based on mismatched tax identification numbers.
The lawsuit was filed last year by the immigrant rights groups Somos Un Pueblo Unido and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Plaintiffs have estimated that thousands of tax filers were affected.
At court hearings, the department and agency Secretary Demesia Padilla denied targeting immigrants. She acknowledged that the agency used an automated software system to flag inconsistencies on tax returns and withheld returns to seek more information as a precaution against fraud.
Ortiz y Pino said the department has agreed only to withhold refunds from tax filers using the alternative ID numbers when told to do so by the federal government, or if identification discrepancies are linked to documented instances of fraud.
He said foreign nationals would be less likely to see their refunds delayed or denied.
"All the immigrant families that don't have a Social Security number, who have been told to use this number, they would be fine," he said.
Somos Un Pueblo Unido has posted a message on its website warning tax filers using ITINs of a mid-November deadline to appeal any additional assessments linked to delayed returns.
A representative for Somos Un Pueblo Unido declined to speak about new arrangements with taxation officials.
The group's website said 2015 tax filings by foreign nationals using individual taxation identification numbers will be automatically re-run and refunds sent to those who qualify, and that those taxpayers also have the right to pursue refunds withheld from 2012-2014.
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Intimation on Children in Family Actions in Scotland
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Where there is a dispute involving a child before a court in Scotland, the law provides that the court ought to allow that child an opportunity to express his or her views. The court must have regard to these views in making a decision, bearing in mind the child’s age and maturity. The law provides that a child aged 12 and over is presumed to be of sufficient age and maturity to form a view. This does not prevent a younger child from expressing his or her view, however the older the child is, the more weight a court is likely to attach in coming to a decision.
If a child is considered sufficiently old enough, they will be asked to complete a form to confirm whether they wish to provide such a view. In Sheriff Court actions, it has, until now, been unclear whether a copy of the court pleadings should also be provided to the child. There has been a difference in approach throughout the legal profession in relation to this issue.
A change to the Sheriff Court Rules will now make clear that the pleadings ought NOT to be provided to the child. This should avoid any upset that sight of the pleadings may cause, at a time when the child may already feel vulnerable.
It is hoped that parents can resolve matters relating to the children outwith the court process but where a court action is necessary, the new rules on intimation on children make the process clearer.
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Gilbury Hill wins Residential Project of the Year award
The Gilbury Hill housing development completed this year, providing affordable homes to families with a local connection to the town, has won an award for Residential Project of the Year (40 Units and Under).
The Michelmores/Western Morning News Annual Property Awards were held on 8th May at St Mellion International Resort and hosted by Dominic Holland.
The homes were built by Wycliffe Estates, a family run business specialising in property development based in Cornwall.
Situ8 planning consultancy secured planning approval for the 32 houses, associated parking and access roads on land off Castle Hill in Lostwithiel.
Working in close partnership with Lostwithiel Town Council, they identified over 50 local people who were eligible for these houses. The scheme provides 16 affordable dwellings and 16 open market dwellings.
A full list of winners and further information about the Award is available here.
Pictured: Angela Warwick from Situ8 far left, Christopher Taylour from Wycliffe Estates fourth from right.
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Red Bull Arena & Training Facility | Harrison and Hanover, NJ, US
Soccer’s Red Bulls get an arena to call home
The New York Red Bulls are a U.S. Major League Soccer (MLS) team and one of the league’s 10 original franchises, founded in 1997. Based in New Jersey, the team draws more than 600,000 fans yearly and is the only MLS team in the New York area.
The Red Bulls needed an arena built for soccer, having played for years in a National Football League stadium at the Meadowlands Sports Complex. The Red Bulls also wanted a training complex that included practice fields and a new team headquarters.
The Red Bulls retained Louis Berger to assist in the development of an arena in Harrison, N.J., and a training complex in Hanover, N.J. Louis Berger served as owner’s representative, prepared project cost estimates, reviewed design and construction documents, and managed environmental remediation.
Red Bull Arena opened in March 2010 before a sellout crowd of more than 25,000. The Red Bulls Training Facility opened in June 2013. Project features include:
Translucent partial arena roof that covers upper and lower bowl seating.
30 private arena suites on two levels, shops, concession areas and the latest in audio–visual technology.
A training center with full-sized practice fields, team offices and a one-story field house.
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Casbah (1948) DVD-R
Starring Yvonne De Carlo, Tony Martin, Peter Lorre, Marta Toren, Hugo Haas, Thomas Gomez
Directed by John Berry
Pepe Le Moko (Tony Martin) leads a gang of jewel thieves in the Casbah of Algiers, where he
has exiled himself to escape imprisonment in his native France. Inez (Yvonne DeCarlo), his
girl friend, is infiriated when Pepe flirts with Gaby (Marta Toren), a French vistor, but Pepe
tells her to mind her own business. Detective Slimane (Peter Lorre)is trying to lure Pepe out
of the Casbah so he can be jailed. Against Slimane's advice, Police Chief Louvain capture
Pepe in a dragnet, but his followers free him. Inez realizes that Pepe has fallen in love with
Gaby and intends to follow her to Europe. Slimane knows the same and uses her as the bait
to lure Pepe out of the Casbah.
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Football players are highly esteemed for their physical and mental toughness. Playing through pain, getting up after taking a devastating hit, not to mention the years of preparation it takes to perform at the highest level in their sport. And that's all before the weather forecast comes in and adds yet another layer of adversity. The NFL schedule stretches into the coldest season of the year, and the January playoffs can clash with teeth-chattering conditions. Braving the cold has always been a part of the game. Before stocking up on Christmas gifts for sports fans, warm yourself up by taking a look back at five of the coldest games in NFL history.
Bone-Chilling Loss
Below-freezing temperatures and a threatening wind chill set the scene for one of the biggest upsets in NFL playoff history. The Kansas City Chiefs went into the playoffs with a league-best 13-3 regular season record. Facing an underdog Indianapolis Colts team that fought their way into the playoffs with a 9-7 record, the Chiefs had home field advantage and everything going for them as they prepared for their January 7th matchup in 1996. But the Chiefs might have been better off playing on the road. The temperature in Arrowhead Stadium was a staggering -6 degrees, with a binding wind chill of -15. The Chiefs quarterback struggled, tossing three interceptions, and a missed field goal in the closing seconds of the game allowed the Colts to escape with a 10-7 win, advancing them to the conference championship.
Red Right 88
In the 1981 AFC Divisional Playoff, the Cleveland Browns might have also favored playing on the road instead of Cleveland Municipal Stadium. The temperature was -5 degrees with an icy wind chill of -20 at its lowest point. Unlike the difference between the Chiefs and Colts, the Browns and Raiders shared an 11-5 regular season record. The Raiders had the momentum coming into the game after beating up on the Houston Oilers in the Wild Card Playoff Game the week before. The freezing conditions held both offenses in check, but it was the interception in the end zone by Raiders safety Mike Davis that kept the Browns from finishing their final drive of the game. Down by only two points and on the Raiders' 13-yard line, the Browns called a passing play, the now-infamous Red Right 88, instead of kicking the easy field goal and sealing the win.
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If it weren't for the new covered stadiums in cold-weather cities like Indianapolis and Detroit, there would probably be more cold-weather games making the top of the list in recent years. But not every stadium is covered. The 2016 NFC Wild Card game between the Minnesota Vikings and Seattle Seahawks became the third-coldest game in the history of the NFL, at -6 degrees with a -25 degree wind chill. Another low-scoring game with most points coming off field goals, it also came down to a last minute chip shot through the uprights. This time, the Vikings missed what might have been an easy 27-yard field goal if the icy wind wasn't gusting, allowing the Seahawks to advance to the next round and warmer conditions in Carolina.
Anyone who doesn't think wind chill plays a factor in the overall temperature should ask one of the players from the AFC Championship matchup in 1982. The Cincinnati Bengals played host to the San Diego Chargers in what came to be known as the Freezer Bowl. The temperature was a frigid -9 degrees, but the wind chill was a daunting -38 degrees, the lowest ever recorded in the history of an NFL game. According to the final score, the weather seemed to play a larger role in slowing down the Chargers. The Bengals coasted to a fairly easy 27-7 win, despite the icy, record-setting conditions.
The Ice Bowl
The most famous cold-weather game in NFL history is known as The Ice Bowl. Praised as one of the greatest games in NFL history, it pitted the Green Bay Packers against the Dallas Cowboys in an exact rematch of the 1966 NFL Championship. In 1966, the game was played in Dallas. But in 1967, Lambeau Field was the setting. The temperature at game time was -15 degrees, and the wind chill was around -36 degrees, so cold that the referees refused to use their whistles after finding out they froze to their lips early in the game. Unlike the Bengals-Chargers matchup that would unfold years later in temperatures nearly as cold, The Ice Bowl was a classic, with the Packers edging the Cowboys on a Bart Starr touchdown with only 13 seconds left in the game.
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