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Healthy growth forecast for plastics caps and closures
Global plastic caps and closures demand is set to increase 4.1% per year to nearly 1.9 trillion units in 2021, according to the latest report by market research company the Freedonia Group.
The report, titled “Global plastic caps & closure market”, projected that gains will be driven by bottled water, which has become the largest application for plastic closures.
The bottled water market, according to the report, also offers the greatest growth opportunities through 2021.
Threaded plastic caps and closures accounted for the largest share of plastic caps and closures demand in 2016 and are expected to hold 67% of the market in 2021, the Cleveland-based industry research firm said.
Competition from value added closure types such as dispensing and child-resistant varieties, will however, be impacting the industry.
“Dispensing caps are becoming increasingly popular in applications once dominated by standard threaded caps, such as single-serve bottled water and sports drinks,” the group added.
These beverages are often packaged in plastic bottles featuring flip-top or push-pull caps that enable easy, on-the-go dispensing without requiring the removal of the cap.
According to the report, the Asia-Pacific region is expected to see the fastest demand growth globally.
http://www.plasticsnewseurope.com/article/20180123/PNE/180129980/healthy-growth-forecast-for-plastics-caps-and-closures
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A new call announced by the JPND network: Linking pre-diagnosis disturbances of physiological systems to Neurodegenerative Disease
Together with the JPND network (EU Joint Programme – Neurodegenerative Disease Research), we are pleased to announce a new call for international research projects to detect early symptoms of neurodegenerative diseases (Linking pre-diagnosis disturbances of physiological systems to Neurodegenerative Diseases).
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Funding can be applied for by international consortia consisting of at least three (and no more than seven) research teams from at least three countries participating in the call. The principal investigator of the Polish research ream must be at least a PhD holder.
Countries participating in the call: Australia, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Israel, Canada, Luxembourg, Latvia, Germany, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Switzerland, Sweden, Turkey, Hungary, Italy.
The application procedure:
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International level: a joint pre-proposal drafted by the Polish research teams in cooperation with the foreign partners (in English) and submitted to the electronic submission system of the JPND network.
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==Event Date and Venue ==
This event is currently postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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1 Event Date and Venue
2 Conference Goal
3 Organizer and Contact
4 Schedule of Topics and Speakers
5 Conference Description
Event Date and Venue
1901 Ft. Myer Drive
Conference Goal
This conference aims (1) to identify the lessons learned from the Referent Tracking methodology, (2) to explore how these lessons might be translated to the domains of the defense and intelligence communities, (3) to identify potential benefits relating to semantic technology, and (4) to explore how these benefits can enhance OBP.
Organizer and Contact
For information or to register contact:
David G. Limbaugh dglimbau@buffalo.edu
Schedule of Topics and Speakers
Day One: Referent Tracking and Object Based Production
9:00am Introduction to Basic Formal Ontology (ISO/IEC 21838-2) and Referent Tracking
Barry Smith, Director, National Center for Ontological Research (NCOR)
9:40am Using the Common Core Ontologies
Ron Rudnicki, Senior Ontologist, CUBRC
10:45am Introduction to Defense Ontologies
Forrest B. Hare, SAIC Fellow, Solutions Architect, Cyberspace Operation, SAIC
11:15am Object Based Production and Living Intelligence
Geoff X. Davis, Program Team Lead, Analytics and Simulation, SAIC
12:00pm LUNCH
1:00pm Recording Reality Using Referent Tracking
Werner Ceusters, Division Chief, Biomedical Ontology, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo
William Hogan, Professor, Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics, College of Medicine, University of Florida
3:25pm Referent Tracking Theory Applied to Object Based Production
David Limbaugh, Intelligence Community Postdoc, University at Buffalo
Alan Ruttenberg, Director of Clinical and Translational Data Exchange, University at Buffalo
Timothy Lebo, Cyber Operations Branch, Air Force Research Laboratory
Nicholas Del Rio, Command and Control Branch, Air Force Research Laboratory
Day Two: Intelligence Community Ontology Foundry
9am – 12:00pm
Purpose: The Intelligence Community Ontology Foundry initiative is an effort to create a governing body that would be responsible for curating a collection of upper- and mid-level ontologies used to tag data in the defense and intelligence domains. The goal of this session is to continue work on the ICOF initiative by discussing how it contributes to the semantic foundation for Referent Tracking and Object Based Production.
The Problem: Ever increasing quantities of disaggregated data pose a problem for intelligence analysis. The problem is magnified when much of the data is sparse, obscure, or ever-changing. A key contributor to this problem is the inconsistency of data management policies. Mutually incompatible data management solutions have been and continue to be adopted not only by organizations but also by different departments within organizations. Data, as a result, is difficult to aggregate, and difficult to discover and to interpret, sometimes even difficult to interpret by those who created the data in the first place. This problem of too-much data inconsistently handled has an analogue in medicine in the realm of patient data. Electronic Health Records, for example, are collections of data about patients which grow and change in ways which make it difficult to track the medical state of a patient as it changes over time, for example as patients move between hospitals.
The Research: Intelligence data is useful only if it is available to decision makers when they need it. The subject of this conference is an Intelligence Community (IC) inter-organizational data architecture that has the potential to rapidly handle the enormous amounts of data collected continuously by the IC. The data architecture –– called ‘Enhanced Object-Based Production’ (E-OBP) –– is based on the Referent Tracking (RT) approach developed and tested in the medical domain over some 15 years [1]. E-OBP takes the object-oriented approach of Object-Based Production (OBP) but expands ‘object’ to any salient portion of reality. This allows traditional OBP to be transformed into an expressive, flexible, and scalable, data architecture.
The governing principle of E-OBP is to structure data that objectively mirrors reality in a way that allows tracking. Reality is made of unique entities with shared features and relationships indexed to locations and times. E-OBP uses 1) unique identifiers to refer to unique entities, 2) terms from a controlled vocabulary to represent features, relationships, times, and places, and 3) time-indexed, first-order logic expressible, assertions to represent when an entity has some feature or some relationship to other entities.
E-OBP applies not only to data about first-order reality – tanks, people, missions, economic transactions, and so on – but also to data about these data, which it tracks using the same information infrastructure. It tracks when data become available, who made it available, the methods by which it was obtained, and whether it should be trusted [2]. It also records when data is discovered to be inaccurate, in a way that allows for more sophisticated error tracking. All of these data are brought together by the system to form a gigantic evolving graph, which forms a comprehensive and continuously adjusted picture of reality structured to allow zooming on identified threats, sensitive areas, government actions, and so forth.
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Harlan’s dedication to providing the best service includes providing the best visual imagery.
Harlan’s experience in photography and real estate make him unique. It gives him insider knowledge on the features of your house that will make it attractive to a buyer. He can also translate that to film. He doesn’t rely on an outside photographer, Harlan is behind the camera making the decisions that show your home off at its very best.
Harlan’s passion for photography began in his college days, and continues today. He stays on top of latest trends in photography and enjoys taking photos for his personal enjoyment – some of which have been awarded recognition.
On average, Harlan’s client home tour videos have 389 average views* per video which far exceeds other local real estate agents.
Harlan’s experience in photography AND real estate make him unique because he knows the features of your house that will make it attractive to a buyer. And instead of communicating that vision to a photographer and hoping they capture it, he’s behind the camera making the decisions that show your home off at its very best.
If a picture is worth a thousand words then imagine the value added to your home with photos that are thoughtfully taken, processed, and properly presented.
Buyers and potential buyers are deciding which houses they want to look at long before they walk through the door.
Harlan spends four to six hours taking photos of your house, editing those and producing images that will make your home’s listing stand out online. They provide a visual signature for your home’s listing in traditional mediums, such as flyers, as well as online via this website and others like Zillow, Trulia and Realtor.com, YouTube and other social media channels.
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WMC Recap: Dim Mak Pool Party + Club Space with Bassjackers and Ferry Corsten
March 22, 2013 Kathy Vitkus Leave a Comment
Thursday it was all about the Dim Mak Pool Party with Steve Aoki and friends at the Raleigh Hotel Pool. His “friends” included DJ Carnage who greeted with a dubstep version of “Save The World.” Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike offered up a mix rendition of “Sweet Child O’ Mine” into Daft Punk’s “One More Time.” Sidney Sampson delivered spot-on blends of electro house, progress house and dubstep.
Dim Mak’s head honcho Aoki set it off with his Afrojack collaboration “No Beef.” It made sense because the surprise guest Afrojack was actually in the booth manning the decks at the moment. Aoki dropped another crowd pleaser with Kid Cudi’s “Pursuit Of Happiness.”
The sets were slathered with water blasts, cryogenics, champagne sprays, crowd rafting and cake — lots and lots of cake. Aoki aggressively burrowed into an oversized sheet cake, mixing it up before offering teaser samplings to front-row fans. With the crowd roaring anticipation to be one of his welcome victims, Aoki heaved the massive cake to the first few rows of willing fans to more uproarious applause and encouraging. All the while he played Borgore “Decisions” or commonly and affectionately referred to as the “Bitches Love Cake.” He spun for maybe 30 minutes then rode in a raft with a buddy. He sprayed the crowd with champagne and went running around for another half hour while the crowd ate it all up (literally). The tracks magically transitioned and one had to wonder how this is possible and who’s manning the decks. Sometimes it was electro house veteran Benny Benassi, sometimes Afrojack and occasionally Aoki. It was a spontaneous team effort. Aoki introduced a new dub-inspired track he said he wrote with Flux Pavillion so that’s one to watch for.
Electro-house DJ/producer Felix Cartel took to the decks in a massive way dishing out energetic and thumping tracks right from the start. He played his own, winning “No Sleep” and wound down with one of many remixes of “Clarity.” He wasted no time instigating the crowd and keeping them engaged even after his follow-up to his Dim Mak boss’s antics. Mr. Cartel also should be another on everyone’s one-to-continue-to-watch list.
The night closed out (or was just getting started) with a cab ride over to Miami’s Club Space for an opening, heaping, lively, earful from Bassjackers. Each and every track was just as kicking as the previous. Note-to-self, look into Bassjackers mixes or podcasts. He dropped a remix of the fun-loving, vocoder-laden “Easy” from dynamo’s Porter Robinson & Mat Zo. When he dropped a remix of “Maximal Crazy” it seemed a subliminal reference to the substantial crowd, ambiguous winding lines and hysteria to get into the venue tonight.
Ferry Corsten followed up with one of his winning archives “Rock Your Body Rock,” last year’s captivating “Check It Out” and his melodic “Live Forever.” Menno de Jong and Giuseppe Ottavianni were also on hand mingling with the A-list VIP’s.
Tritonal was in house rounding out the lineup and celebrating posting the following on Facebook, “Let’s all wish my best friend and awesome partner, David Reed, a HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! Let’s rock this party dude!!” A perfect example of DJ’s partying in true style.
Images by Kathy Vitkus
Featured Post, Features Afrojack, Bassjackers, David Reed, Dim Mak, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, DJ Carnage, Felix Cartel, Ferry Corsten, Giuseppe Ottavianni, Mat Zo, Menno de Jong, Porter Robinson, Porter Robinson & Mat Zo
Booka Shade Join Steve Aoki’s Dim Mak, Drop ‘Honeyslave’ EP
Thanks to releasing a steady stream of quality house tunes over the years, German house duo Booka Shade — Arno Kammermeier and Walter Merziger — need no introduction to Big Shot readers. Yesterday it was announced that the Teutonic duo known for running the mighty Berlin-based Get Physical label have inked a deal with Steve Aoki’s LA-based Dim Mak. The relationship has gotten off to a quick start with Dim Mak just releasing Booka Shade’s Honeyslave EP.
Obligatory press gush from Steve Aoki about signing Booka Shade: “One of the first records that really got me into house and dance music was Body Language. It was at the time when electro started peaking its head out into the world and I became immersed in that culture. Seven years later, I am proud to say that Dim Mak is releasing this incredible EP by the legends Booka Shade. Their sound has been consistent and always getting more and more fresh. This EP is a testament to that.”
Have a listen to the title track below which boasts a cool, phased sound and driving melody line.
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Featured Post Arno Kammermeier, Booka Shade, Dim Mak, Get Physical, Honeyslave EP, Walter Merziger
Mazel Tov! Infected Mushroon Discuss ‘Army of Mushrooms’
May 7, 2012 Darren Ressler 2 Comments
Busting out of Israel’s psy-trance scene with 1999’s The Gathering, Infected Mushroom have continued to evolve and grow. After transforming themselves from DJ duo to touring live band, the L.A.-based outfit composed of Amit “Duvdev” Duvdevani and Erez Eisen took their profile to a new height with 2009’s Legend of the Black Shawarma, which featured Perry Farrell and Korn’s Jonathon Davis. Three years later the pair are back with a new album featuring two covers and experimentations with dubstep and drum ‘n’ bass. We caught up with Duvdevani and Eisen during their recent trip to New York City.
Eight albums.
Duvdev: Yes, a lot of albums. [Laughs]
And it’s your first for Dim Mak.
Duvdev: We met [Dim Mak label owner] Steve Aoki in L.A. where we live. When we were shopping for labels to release the album, because it was a really electronic album, there were really two choices: Dim Mak or Ultra [Records]. Dim Mak is based in L.A. so it was easier to do it so we went with them.
So once again you had free reign with the album?
Duvdev: Free reign. [Nods head] The album was done as we like it. No supervision on the music side. That’s how we like to do it.
Sonically the sounds and textures on the album are very fresh and don’t sound like anyone else’s. I take it that a lot of time was put into these tracks.
Erez: We always try to make our own sounds from scratch. We do this on every album and on almost every track. You’re the first one who’s noticed, so thanks.
Duvdev: A lot of people use sample packs so that’s why you hear a lot of the same sounds. We try to avoid [using these packs]. It takes more work but the tracks sound more unique.
The live element has always been important. Are you always thinking about how a song can be realized live when you’re writing in the studio?
Duvdev: The majority of our music is played live in clubs so we do think how people will react on the dance floor first of all and then how we can add a live element to it. But when we do the track, we just do it. There’s not too much thinking to it; it’s all about the vibe we are thinking and feeling and then we adapt it to the live show.
Over the years your sound has changed and evolved. You were once known for psy-trance, and you’ve since gone on to explore other musical styles.
Duvdev: We didn’t “leave” psy-trance; we just tried new things. This is our eight album, and to do eight psy-trance albums would be boring for us and nothing new. That’s why already on the fourth album, Converting Vegetartians, we went in a different direction. Then came IM the Supervisor, Vicious Delicious….we try each time to do a different direction and to have a lot of variety in our music. Moving away from psy-trance has brought us more fans, but we still do psy-trance once and a while because we love the genre.
How did your interest in rock manifest itself this time?
Duvdev: I really don’t know. This new album is influenced by what’s going on in the electronic music scene over the past two years. That’s why you have dubstep, drum ‘n’ bass and electro. Now we need to translate it into our new show which is a new visual kind of monstrous show that we’ve been working on for the past year.
Let’s talk about the new album, Army of Mushrooms. “Send Me An Angel” is a pretty epic song. My sense is that there’s something special behind that one.
Erez: It’s a song from a huge band in Israel called Mashina, and we collaborated with them in Israel and it’s a favorite song from our childhood. We gave it lots of thought so that we wouldn’t ruin the original song. We tried to make it better for our taste, and we felt that even [if the song is] in Hebrew we must put it on the album.
Is this the first Hebrew track you’ve done?
Duvdev: The first. [Shakes head]
Erez: We had one word on an album but it was a phrase.
Duvdev: A song in Hebrew was a big debate, and Erez wanted to put it on the album not because it’s in Hebrew but because we’d done so much work on it. I wanted to put it on the album because of the Hebrew. We’ve never done it, and we are an Israel band. So eventually after we got the rights to do [the song] we said why not? Funny enough there is another cover on the album…
That was my next question. How did you decide on covering Foo Fighters’ “The Pretender”?
Duvdev: It was our first take on drum ‘n’ bass. After we tested it on our shows we got so much impact from the crowd and we knew it had to be on the album. We went to the lawyers and it turned out okay. So two covers on this album and the first with covers!
The artwork is pretty amazing. Where did you find the artist?
Erez: A great Russian guy…
Duvdev: Anton….whatever! We found him on the Internet. We sent him an e-mail to see if he’s interested in doing a cover and he said yes. We gave him the concept, and he came with this crazy, crazy mushroom idea. We guided him and he went back and did an amazing job. We were super happy with how it turned out.
Erez: Our fans actually posted on our forum about this guy that he should do our next album cover.
Duvdev: He doesn’t speak a word of English. We communicated entirely via Google translate.
The power of the Internet.
Dovdev: Exactly!
Tell me about the live show.
Duvdev: The Unveiling show we’re doing for the first time in L.A. next week. We’ve been working on it for a year, and we’re going to test it out. It’s a big, big thing. After that we’re off to Israel to a major European tour and then back to the States to do a tour that will go through November. There will be a lot of shows to premiere this album, then we go to Australia and South America.
What’s the twist this time around?
It’s just me an Erez without the whole band. There’s a huge structure on stage, kind of like Amon Tobin’s show but bigger. We went with the same crew who did Amon Tobin’s show, and they built our stage in L.A. We’ve been working on it for a year already. It’s big, and I hope people like it a lot.
Infected Mushroom’s Army of Mushrooms is out now on Dim Mak
Featured Post Amit Duvdevani, Converting Vegetartians, Dim Mak, Erez Eisen, Foo Fighters, Foo Fighters cover, IM the Supervisor, Infected Mushroom, Legend of the Black Shawarma, Vicious Delicious
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What Happens When You Don’t Wear Deodorant for a Week?
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For something as fun as makeup, it tends to be at the center of a lot of controversy. Women who choose to wear it are sometimes accused of „lying,” while others are viewed as lacking confidence. It’s a sad reality, but these kinds of accusations often shame ladies from layering on the foundation and mascara that might make them feel a bit better about themselves in the morning (or that they just straight-up love). Beauty vlogger NikkieTutorials is here to set the haters straight, BuzzFeed reports.
“I’ve been noticing a lot lately that girls have been almost ashamed to say they love makeup,” Nikkie states in the beginning of the video above. “Because, nowadays, when you say you love makeup, you either do it because you want to look good for boys, you do it because you’re insecure, or you do it because you don’t love yourself. I feel like, in a way, lately, it’s almost a crime to love doing your makeup.”
Inspired by an episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race, she applies makeup to only half of her face. As she dolls herself up, she walks us through each product and exactly why she’s using it — like picking up a brow pencil because she loves brows, but „doesn’t have them naturally” or brushing on some eyeshadow because she wants to make her eyes look bigger and more awake. The way she openly talks about her insecurities is both comforting and relatable. Toward the end of the video, she makes sure to express that makeup isn’t something you should hide behind: It should serve as a means to help you feel like your best self.
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Rescripted: Artist-led interactive commentary on the state of the arts, including reviews, dialogues, and essays.
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Rescripted Recognized: 2017 in Review
This has been an incredible year for the team at Rescripted. As we embark on 2018, we’d like to take some time to revisit not only some theatre highlights of the year, but accomplishments we have made as an organization in our first six months! The plays mentioned below are honored as Rescripted Recognized, productions that were memorable for their cultural standouts, for their artistic achievements, for their strong performances, and in some cases even for their controversies.
April, 2017: Tanuja Jagernauth and Regina Victor published a Howlround article called The Need for Cultivating Critics of Color and co-facilitated the corresponding conversation at Chicago Dramatists. It was apparent there was a need for more voices in theatre criticism nationally, to reprogram the way our national community critiques art and to try to do so with a more compassionate eye.
May, 2017: Katherine O’Keefe and Regina Victor decided to act on an idea that had been brewing for some time – Rescripted. An artist-led platform for theatre criticism and journalism. We realized only two groups could really analyze art, the people who made it and understand the labor, and the people who view it from the outside. Both perspectives are necessary and valuable, but there was a shortage of artistic voices in the field, and an absence of young and diverse writers. We set about creating our website and aesthetic with the help of graphic and set designer Michael Locher.
RESCRIPTED RECOGNIZED
Photo & Cover Photo by Austin D. Oie
We’re Gonna Die at Haven Theatre, Chicago IL.
We published our first piece by Regina Victor about Haven Theatre’s We’re Gonna Die on June 1st of 2017. A drastic departure from the everyday review, this was a deeply personal critique, baring the emotion of the attendee and therefore hopefully contextualizing the experience. This critique could be considered an experiment in perspective: if you know the author’s voice do you trust them more or less?
“As sure as we are of death, we can also be sure that our full lives will affect those we leave behind, and that our stories will be told. I came to this show with the rawest open heart, and I left with a sense of how important life is, and how important it is to record the history of those lives and immortalize ourselves through art.” – Regina Victor, “We’re Gonna Die at Haven Theatre Electrifies Audiences”
Photo by Michael Brosilow
RESCRIPTED RECOGNIZED:
Bright Half Life at About Face Theatre, Chicago IL.
A beautiful love story about two women, Bright Half Life was an overall success with a clean design, powerful performances, and strong direction. This was former Artistic Director Andrew Volkoff’s last production with the company, and we hope to see more empowered queer narratives under the promising leadership of local director Megan Carney who has since taken the post.
“Bright Half Life believes that it’s not about the result, it’s about the journey.” – Regina Victor, “Love and Talent Burn Fiercely in Bright Half Life“
Pass Over at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago IL.
Monty Cole penned this savvy critique on one of the biggest issues in Chicago criticism, Antoinette Nwandu’s Pass Over and the tone deaf (and in some cases offensive) reviews that followed. Rescripted did not publish a standard review of Pass Over, but rather Monty’s extended critique and comparison of the work. It is recognized not only for Nwandu’s craftsmanship and Danya Taymor’s crisp direction, but because it was one of the most talked about plays of 2017. This dialogue was crucial for moving us forward when it comes to the need for a variety of voices around a piece of art. We are most proud of this piece because it shows how acutely artists observe the cultural and critical shifts around the art in their community and validates our efforts as an organization to uplift that voice.
“We have to dare to evolve — despite our critics.” – Monty Cole, “Pass Over and the Chicago Theatre Aesthetic”
July, 2017: Co-Founder and Editor-In-Chief Regina Victor travelled to California to work with the Bay Area Playwrights Foundation 2017 Festival (http://bayareaplaywrightsfestival.org/). Part of their involvement included representing Rescripted by co-facilitating a workshop on “Season Selection: A Conversation about Implicit Bias, Audience Engagement, and Critical Action” with Daniel Banks, the co-Director of DNAWORKS.
L-R, Editor Regina Victor and playwright Nilan at the Bay Area Playwrights Festival
black odyssey at California Shakespeare Theater, Orinda, CA.
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Marcus Gardley is well on his way to being a part of the classic American Theatre Canon, in large part thanks to his ability to wield enormous worlds of fantasy that he pairs with acute personal character detail. Jerome Joseph Gentes reviewed this play in his review Song of I, Song of Us, reminds us of the importance of heritage and familial bond onstage.
“In my blood Lakota Sioux culture, we call chants of praise honor songs. This is an honor song for Marcus Gardley, and the CalShakes production of his new play black odyssey that opened last night.” – Jerome Joseph Gentes, “Song of I, Song of Us, Marcus Gardley’s black odyssey at California Shakespeare Theater”
RESCRIPTED RECOGNIZED: Muthaland at 16th Street Theater, Berwyn IL.
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Minita Gandhi has been touring her solo show Muthaland at universities across the United States, and the development and rigor put into the piece paid off at its 16th Street World Premiere. A simultaneously romantic and harrowing tale, Muthaland is Gandhi’s coming of age story, relatable in its specificity.
“Muthaland at 16th Street Theater is a one woman show written and performed by the talented Minita Gandhi. It’s a showcase for her dexterity and ability to create and inhabit characters we love, and characters who make our skin crawl, as she goes on a journey to her parents homeland.” – Regina Victor, “Identity, Heritage, and Growing Up in Muthaland”
September 8th, 2017: Rescripted announced The Key: Young Critics Mentorship Program in partnership with Oliver Sava and the Chicago Inclusion Project, hosted by Greenhouse Theater Center. Oliver Sava and Regina Victor co-facilitated the class of four writers aged 16-20 who wanted to learn about the art of journalism. Oliver works for outlets such as Entertainment Weekly, and the Chicago Reader, and could help our aspiring journalists learn how to write multimedia reviews, how to pitch and how to work with an editor. Regina Victor offered an outside perspective as a self-made critic and practicing artist who focused on teaching empathy, compassion, technical knowledge about the field, and worked with the students to get their work ready to publish on Rescripted. The culmination of this program ended with each student having their own online portfolio with which they could apply to future writing jobs, and one student has already written for Rescripted since the class has ended!
RESCRIPTED RECOGNIZED: Lela & Co. at Steep Theatre, Chicago IL.
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One of the most extended plays of 2017, Steep Theatre’s Lela & Co. had standout performances by Chris Chmelik and Cruz Gonzalez-Cadel.
“Lela explicates the economic and political circumstances of war and how they enable the exploitation of women. Lynn’s story also reveals the tragic irony of how third party “liberating” and “peacekeeping” forces in conflict zones participate in crimes against women. No, Cordelia Lynn’s play isn’t easy to watch, but it is essential.” – Hallie Palladino, “A Phenomenal and Heartbreaking Lela & Co. Extends at Steep”
RESCRIPTED RECOGNIZED: Meet Juan(ito) Doe at Free Street Theater, Chicago, IL.
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Playwright Ricardo Gamboa co-directed this exploration of Mexican life in Back of the Yards/Pilsen with the equally talented Ana Velazquez this Fall. Gamboa received a Joyce award of $50,000 to produce community-based programming, provide pay to artists, and create a performance space within the community. Though it extended with sold out shows, that is not the end for the Storyfront Gamboa created (complete with a total renovation) with their peers: it will continue to be a space for art and activism for the forseeable future.
“Ricardo Gamboa’s Meet Juan(ito) Doe at Free Street Theater, co-directed by Gamboa and Ana Velazquez, is a success as one of the most innovative community engaged theatre pieces we will see this season.” – Regina Victor, “Meet Juan(ito) Doe: Brown and Down in Chi-Town”
October 20th, 2017: Editor Regina Victor attended a play at Marin Theatre Company in Northern California called Thomas and Sally. This play generated a significant amount of tension in the theatrical community, due to the portrayal of Sally Hemings many interpreted as a willing participant in a relationship with her owner 20 years her senior. Regina covered Thomas and Sally in one of our longest critiques, combining reviewing with a deeper conversation on this play’s intent, as well as its social impact and messaging in our current moment. “Thomas and Sally at Marin Theatre Company Questions Victims and Consent,” by Regina Victor.
Welcome to Jesus at American Theater Company, Chicago IL.
Janine Nabers’ terrifying take on White Supremacy and Football culture in the United States was described by our reviewer Regina Victor as “a cross between ‘The Blind Side’ and ‘Get Out’.” Actor Rashad Hall is quickly establishing himself as a leading man who can carry a production with empathy and ferocity. American Theater Company ended 2017 on a promising note with this last production, and we are looking forward to We’re Gonna Be Okay, Artistic Director Will Davis’ venture in the New Year starring Chicago favorites such as BrittneyLove Smith and Avi Roque. “Football and White Supremacy Take a Spooky Turn in Welcome to Jesus,“ by Regina Victor.
December, 2017: We had our final session of The Key: Young Critics Mentorship Program, and graduated four writers from the seminar! It was an incredible experience to watch young people flourish once encouraged to share their opinions, and to see their writing voices develop. Check out their reviews of The Heavens are Hung in Black and Two Mile Hollow by clicking here.
The Key: Young Critics Mentorship Program students, facilitators, and guest speaker Ike Holter.
Additionally, we obtained Fiscal Sponsorship from Fractured Atlas to continue growing our program and ensuring our students get the resources they deserve. Donate to The Key by clicking here!
BLKS at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago IL.
Penned by our youngest reviewer and The Key alum Logan McCullom, this review rounded out our 2017. What is notable about this production apart from Barnes’ quick wit and brutal honesty, is that it was a predominantly Black creative team both on and offstage. In 2018, Rescripted hopes to see more leaders taking charge of their own stories on Chicago stages. Clearly, as in the case of BLKS, it pays off.
It has been a joy to celebrate 2017 with all of you, without your devoted readership we would not be able to thrive the way we have. In 2018 and beyond we hope to grow our impact by expanding our amount of writers, generating pay for artists, covering more shows nationwide, and continuing with our young writers program The Key. Stay tuned for application dates in January, we will be taking on a whole new cohort of young journalists this Spring, in partnership with Chicago Inclusion Project and Greenhouse Theater Center.
In 2018 Rescripted will learn more about who we are and what kind of organization we are becoming. The need for trustworthy information is vast, and we are attempting to serve you subjective truth, instead of pretending to be objective observers. Our BIAS ALERTS and Artist Profiles are an effort to make who we are more transparent to you. We must allow several voices to be a part of the conversation, and avoid centralizing power when it comes to what is and isn’t “good” theatre. That is why this list isn’t ranked. This list is about recognition. Recognizing all the gifts given by artists in The Bay Area, Chicago, New York, and everywhere in between as measured in their time and the love they pour into what we critique. Thank you to all the artists who are creating new ways for us to see ourselves and society, and may you have access to everything you dream of creating in 2018.
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Emerging Arboviroses in Mexico: chikunguña and zika
How to cite this article: Del Carpio-Orantes L. [Emerging Arboviroses in Mexico: chikunguña and zika]. Rev Med Inst Mex Seguro Soc. . 2016 May-Jun;54(3):278-9.
PubMed: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27100970
Luis Del Carpio-Orantesa
aDepartamento de Medicina Interna, Hospital General de Zona 71, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Veracruz, México
Communication with: Luis Del Carpio-Orantes
Email: neurona23@hotmail.com
Arboviruses are characterized by being transmitted from animals to humans through blood-sucking arthropod vectors (Aedes mosquitoes abound in our area, primarily Aedes aegypti and to a lesser extent A. albopictus). They have ample worldwide distribution, especially in tropical and subtropical regions of the world where they are considered endemic. We distinguish between 300 and 400 species, of which one third affect people and 40 of them cause defined clinical conditions and generate emergent diseases.1
Arboviruses can generate three well-established clinical syndromes, although they are not exclusive to one virus or another, and one of these alone can even cause the three conditions to a greater or lesser extent. These are:
The febrile syndrome accompanied by myalgia, arthralgia, and rash. Classic examples are non-severe dengue, chikungunya, West Nile virus, Ross River virus, zika, and others.
Hemorrhagic fever with multiple organ damage (renal, hepatic, myocardial, etc.). Severe dengue, yellow fever, Omsk virus, Crimean virus, and rarely chikungunya can present this.
Fever with encephalitis. The classic examples are West Nile virus, Japanese encephalitis, Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus, St. Louis virus, etc.1
We are currently seeing in both Europe and in Americas the emergence of arboviruses that were considered typical of Asia and Africa, probably favored by human migration; but climate change has also been a detonator, as change in climates that were initially cold or non-tropical, with global warming, heat waves, and the increasing polar temperatures, has led to reported cases of purely tropical and subtropical viral diseases, such as dengue, in circumpolar cities and countries. Such is the case of Uruguay and Argentina, which have had cases of this viral disease lately, which was considered rare and unusual, and which it has still not been able to defeat despite ample information on the waves in America during the late seventies and early eighties.1,2
Now, Latin America has been surprised by the advent of a new viral disease that was considered proper to Africa and Asia: the chikungunya virus, characterized by a febrile syndrome similar to dengue, but with greater predilection for polyarticular involvement, which, without prompt treatment, can lead to severe reactive arthritis and become chronic, with great functional limitation of the patient; however, unlike dengue, there is no greater hematologic or organic involvement.
The 2013 outbreak in the Islands of St. Martin in the Caribbean rocked all Latin America, since from that location it affected Central and South America, and is currently touring the southern border of North America; just in Chiapas, Mexico, there have been ten thousand suspected cases; however, through July 2015, only 524 cases had been confirmed. As it was an emerging viral disease and the pandemic was not anticipated, in many cases there is underreporting because the infrastructure necessary for serological diagnosis, which takes days to come back, is not there. However, given the clinical and biochemical features presented by this viral disease, there has been effort to differentiate it from dengue and give it treatment, although the chronicity of injuries and functional limitations this brings remain to be seen.3-5
On the other hand, another virus made its appearance in 2014, zika, which like chikungunya was considered endemic to regions of Oceania, Africa, and Asia. This virus was reported in one case in Chile and one in Brazil in 2015. Zika is a dengue-like viral disease, but with higher conjunctival and skin involvement, and despite registered cases of severe neurological involvement (cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome) during an outbreak in Micronesia, there have been no reported deaths from this cause, so this viral disease has a benign course with mild, self-limited involvement (Table I). It apparently will take the same path of spread as the chikungunya virus, favored by the abundance of local blood-sucking arthropods. However, through February 2016 and after the surge in South America, three confirmed deaths by zika have been reported in Colombia and one in Brazil.4,6
Dengue fever Chikungunya Zika
Vector Aedes aegypti Aedes albopictus Aedes aegypti Aedes albopictus Aedes aegypti Aedes hensilii Aedes polynesiensis
Virus Arbovirus (flavivirus) DEN-1, DEN-2, DEN-3, DEN-4 Arbovirus (alphavirus) Chikungunya virus (CHIK) Arbovirus (flavivirus) Zika virus
Origin (first world outbreak, global expansion, and first outbreak in America) Australia (cases of hemorrhagic fever in Queensland, 1898) First outbreak (Greece, 1928; Manila, 1953) Spread to Europe, Asia, Oceania, and America (Jamaica and Puerto Rico), 1977-1978; Cuba, 1980) Africa (Tanzania, 1952) Spread to Asia America (Island of St. Martin in the Caribbean, 2013) Africa (Uganda, 1967) Spread to Oceania and Asia America (Chile, 2014; Brazil, 2015)
Clinical and biochemical signs Acute febrile syndrome, Myalgia, arthralgia, rash (in addition to leukopenia), lymphopenia, thrombocytopenia, Hemorrhagic syndrome with multiple organ damage (renal, hepatic, hematological, (pulmonary, etc) Acute febrile syndrome, Myalgia, arthralgia, rash. Frequent leukopenia or lymphopenia, rarely thrombocytopenia. Hemorrhagic syndrome with multiple organ damage (rare) Acute febrile syndrome, Myalgia, arthralgia, rash. Frequent leukopenia or lymphopenia, rarely thrombocytopenia Rare neurological involvement
Most characteristic data Headache Myalgia, arthralgia Cutaneous rash -Polyarthralgia -Severe reactive arthritis, can be chronic and simulate Rheumatoid arthritis -Non-purulent conjunctivitis -Severe skin rash (maculopapular)
Diagnosis -NS1 -IgM and IgG - Viral RT-PCR -Viral culture (1-3 days) -IgM and IgG (3-5 weeks) - Viral RT-PCR (first 3 days) -IgM and IgG (5-6 days) - Viral RT-PCR (first 3 days)
Treatment No specific treatment, only symptomatic, can require intensive care No effective vaccine so far No specific treatment, only symptomatic NSAIDs, FARMES, steroids for reactive arthritis have been used No effective vaccine so far No specific treatment, only symptomatic No effective vaccine so far
Prognosis Variable, depending on the severity of signs Variable, depending on the severity of signs Variable, depending on the severity of signs
Given the above, it is important for the medical community to be aware of the appearance of new viral diseases, and not underestimate the incidence of cases, attempting at all times to document the diagnosis for a reliable statistic that helps to generate protocols for timely diagnosis and treatment and limit the damage (secondary and tertiary prevention).
Similarly, we must encourage health authorities to improve health infrastructure for these epidemiological threats as they are emerging pandemics that often leave no time for proper planning, and all health systems must be prepared to face them. At present, the southern region of Mexico does not have the equipment for rapid diagnosis, and it usually takes between seven and 10 days, as it is referred to state and national public health laboratories belonging to the Instituto de Diagnóstico y Referencia Epidemiológicos, whose catalog currently only does chikungunya detection by real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR). This is also not available for the entire population, and one must say that some private sector hospitals only do IgM antibody detection. There is no diagnostic method for zika virus in Mexico, probably because the possibility of a pandemic in this region is remote; however, as has been widely reported, arboviruses have the virulence, infectivity, and pathogenicity necessary to cause pandemics quickly, so it would be good to begin planning rapid diagnostic protocols for better contingency and treatment planning.7
Jaramillo, AC. Infecciones por Arbovirus. MVZ-CORDOBA. 2000;5(1):51-6.
Cao-Lormeau VM, Musso D. Emerging arboviruses in the Pacific. Lancet. 2014;384:1571-2.
Rodríguez-Morales AJ. No era suficiente con dengue y chikungunya: llegó también zika. Archivos de Medicina. 2015;11(2):1-4.
Rodriguez-Morales AJ. Chikungunya Virus Infection: Ecoepidemiological considerations of a new threat for Latin America. One Health Newsletter. 2015;8:7-9.
Musso D, Cao-Lormeau VM, Gubler DJ. Zika virus: following the path of dengue and chikungunya? The Lancet. 2015;386, july 18:243-4.
Organización Panamericana de la Salud. Alerta Epidemiológica. Infección por virus Zika. 2015 May 7.
Secretaría de Salud. Instituto de Diagnóstico y Referencia Epidemiológicos “Dr. Manuel Martínez Báez” (InDRE). Servicios Vigentes del Departamento de Virología. Available from: http://www.indre.salud.gob.mx/descargas/pdf/servicios_vigentes/depto_virologia.pdf
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JOINT PRESS STATEMENT
October 19, 2020 /0 Comments/in News, Uncategorized /by Communications Team
HUDUMA NAMBA TO EXCLUDE MILLIONS OF KENYANS AND VIOLATES COURT ORDERS UNDER NEW REGULATIONS
On 19th October 2020, the Nubian Rights Forum, alongside Centre for Minority Rights Development (CEMIRIDE), Haki Centre, Haki na Sheria Initiative, Kenya Human Rights Commission and Defenders Kenya – Coalition held a joint press briefing to issue a press statement on ‘Huduma Namba’ as titled above. Prior to the joint press, the partners have been working to educate communities on Huduma Namba some of whom still remain clueless on what Huduma Namba is about. Perhaps this serves as an indicator of how poorly the project has been coordinated from onset because there is minimal public awareness and public participation. The press statement followed after the Kenyan government through a special issue of the Kenya Gazette on 13TH October 2020 released new rules and regulations yet the issued regulations still do not address the issue of the risks of exclusion in NIIMS, and the regulations also fail to satisfy the court conditions to be fulfilled before the government can move forward with the Huduma Namba.
The Nubian Rights Forum has been very vocal on the Rights of Minority groups, especially communities at Risk of Statelessness. The Nubian community for example, due to the vetting regulations imposed on the community has numerous cases of delayed issuance of Identification cards or lack of vetting due to request for inaccessible documents. The government recently came up with the Huduma Namba that would see a joint card issued to Kenyans, and this card would be prerogative to getting social services. The civil society saw this as a malicious move by the government that would lock out communities that do not have national identification cards – because for one to register they must have identification cards. The process in itself fell short because despite asking for a lot of personal, and sensitive information, there was no data protection act issued. It also did not include steps that would ensure the inclusivity of minority communities and communities at risk of statelessness who did not have identification cards. Despite the government being aware of communities who have not been issued with identification cards, they still began the implementation of the process, and it took a coalition of partners to use litigation means to ensure the government follows due procedure in issues that carry a lot of national weight.
We found this press statement to be very important because we constantly need to remind the government that Kenya is bigger that a few individuals. The primary mandate of any arm of the government is first to represent and actualize the interests of ALL citizens without discrimination on ethnic lines, religion, age and other demographics. The Kenyan government, however, has been extremely notorious for coming up with projects such as the NIIMS program without following all due procedures before implementations. The programs have either lacked public awareness and public participation, regulations and acts, as well as inclusive policies. The press briefing addressed the issues of four main groups of people
Kenyans without access to identification documents especially minority communities.
Kenyans facing challenges with biometrics
Stateless persons.
The press statement was issued to multiple media houses, we look forward to actionable and tangible responses from the government that will respond to the risk of exclusion, cases of discrimination and the need for fully inclusive and sustainable policies for all people.
Find the joint press statement herein attached.
https://twitter.com/NubianRights/status/1318102235772047365
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HUMANITARIAN WORKS
September 7, 2020 /0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Communications Team
The Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion in conjunction with the Nubian Rights Forum recently held their first Humanitarian Food Distribution event for members of the Nubian Community that is at risk of Statelessness on 3rd September 2020. The food distribution program saw at least 20 families receive donations including maize flour, wheat flour, salt, tea bags, soap, milk and cooking oil. The objective of the event was to cushion families that had been affected by COVID-19.
Prior to the event, the Nubian Rights Forum conducted interviews with members of the community to gain insight on awareness levels on citizenship, including registration and processing of birth certificates and National Identity Cards. The paralegals who conducted the interviews noted a lot of gaps in the level of understanding of the community members on the structural understanding of the process of registration. They therefore took the community members through an awareness training. The project also sought to understand the challenges they faced during the COVID-19 period in an attempt to understand the immediate needs of the community during the pandemic.
From the responses collected, there are a lot of challenges that grass root communities are facing that are rarely prioritized or addressed by the government. Families lack adequate food, there is a challenge in accessing basic education during the pandemic as well as healthcare. The communities also have a challenge with water. With such findings, there is a possibility in rectifying the state of living of the community members, to ensure they enjoy their rights with dignity.
It is therefore up to philanthropic individuals and organizations to take up the mandate to ensure that no one faces the risk of food insecurity, lack of access to healthcare, or access to education. There are diverse basic needs that need to be met, and it is all about addressing an area that an individual or an organization can sustainably cover over a period of time.
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Radio Talk- Devolution with Omar Hamisi
July 20, 2020 /0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Communications Team
While a lot of program activities have been put on standby due to government directives on how to manage control the spread of COVID-19, our radio programs have been ongoing and here is a recap of what discussion was covered this previous weekend on Saturday, 18th July 2020. The awareness session was led by our paralegal Omar Hamisi and he covered Devolution.
Devolution is a concept that is familiar amongst most Kenyans following the public transfer and the decentralization or delegation of power from the national tier to a lower level. It entails the delegation of responsibilities to local governments from the central government.
The objectives of devolution when it was introduced included;
a) to promote democratic and accountable exercise of power;
(b) to foster national unity by recognizing diversity;
(c) to give powers of self-governance to the people and enhance the participation of the people in the exercise of the powers of the State and in making decisions affecting them;
(d) to recognize the right of communities to manage their own affairs and to further their development;
(e) to protect and promote the interests and rights of minorities and marginalized communities;
(f) to promote social and economic development and the provision of proximate, easily accessible services throughout Kenya;
(g) to ensure equitable sharing of national and local resources throughout Kenya;
(h) to facilitate the decentralization of State organs, their functions and services, from the capital of Kenya; and
(i) to enhance checks and balances and the separation of powers.
Decentralization aimed at ensuring that power and responsibility factored the different needs of different geographical areas to ensure all persons in different communities and with different demographics are well catered for and have access to adequate social services, well within their reach.
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June 4, 2020 /1 Comment/in Uncategorized /by Communications Team
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To our esteemed subscribers
Hello, we received complains about a clear direction for making donations through pay pal . Below is a step by step on how to donate using paypal
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Increase awareness of COVID-19 in the community
Educate people as an way of reducing stigmatization against families affected by COVID-19
Provide preventive equipment for families in the community.
Provide food, and sanitary equipments for families in the community that are struggling to provide for themselves
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DEMOLITIONS IN INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS
May 18, 2020 /0 Comments/in Uncategorized /by Communications Team
COVID-19 AND THE DEMOLITIONS AT RUAI AND KARIOBANGI
The conduct of the state during the COVID-19 Pandemic shows the level of consideration the government has for its citizens. While people are fighting challenges such as hunger, insecurity and unaffordable lifestyles, residents in Kariobangi and Ruai in Kenya woke up to new challenges that now threaten the livelihood of residents; including women and children.
With the on going Pandemic, a new challenge hitting a majority citizens is the ongoing demolitions that are happening during night time because of alleged illegal construction on disputed pieces of land. All demolitions have happened during the night.
Currently, the affected areas are Ruai and Kariobangi. The demolished houses in Ruai are alleged to be on a 3000 acre piece of land that is meant for the expansion of the Dandora Sewerage Treatment Plant. At least 200 families have been left homeless. Demolitions in Kariobangi left around 5000 families homeless. Majority of those left homeless say they received no prior notice before the evictions.
While the state may justify the need for the demolitions, the action is wrong because prior ruling from the courts had instructed all parties to maintain status quo until the final determination of the case. The respondents ignoring the court ruling and carrying out the demolitions are in contempt. Upholding of the law in Kenya by the state has always been an issue of concern because most of rulings given to the state by the courts are rarely adhered to- these demolitions being a practical example.
Constitutionally, the government has a responsibility to its citizens to provide for them during these trying times but unfortunately this is not the case. Those approving demolitions of residents during this period should have a strategy that provides for the well being of the people. The risks of demolitions exposes children to cold, exposes individuals to potential COVID-19 infected persons and risks losing lives due to many unavoidable factors.
With restricted movement directives issued by the government, it is impossible for the residents left homeless to opt to go back home. Instead they are stranded in a critical state that exposes them to COVID-19, hunger and insecurity. The actions of departments of the state show the lack of proper planning between the different departments in the government to cater for demolitions and at the same time execute safe evacuations of residents to temporary safe sites. It also shows the level of disrespect of the state for the law and the courts at large.
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Ganoderma Lucidum Pharmacopuncture for Teating Ethanol-induced Chronic Gastric Ulcers in Rats
DOI : 10.3831/KPI.2015.18.008
Author: Park Jae-Heung, Jang Kyung-Jun, Kim Cheol-Hong, Kim Jung-Hee, Kim Young-Kyun, Yoon Hyun-Min
Publish: Journal of Pharmacopuncture Volume 18, Issue1, p72~78, March 2015
The stomach is a sensitive digestive organ that is susceptible to exogenous pathogens from the diet. In response to such pathogens, the stomach induces oxidative stress, which might be related to the development of both gastric organic disorders such as gastritis, gastric ulcers, and gastric cancer, and functional disorders such as functional dyspepsia. This study was accomplished to investigate the effect of Ganoderma lucidum pharmacopuncture (GLP) on chronic gastric ulcers in rats.
The rats were divided into 4 groups of 8 animals each: the normal, the control, the normal saline (NP) and the GLP groups. In this study, the modified ethanol gastritis model was used. The rats were administrated 56% ethanol orally every other day. The dose of ethanol was 8 g/kg body weight. The normal group received the same amount of normal saline instead of ethanol. The NP and the GLP groups were treated with injection of saline and GLP respectively. The control group received no treatment. Two local acupoints CV12 (中脘) and ST36 (足三里) were used. All laboratory rats underwent treatment for 15 days. On last day, the rats were sacrificed and their stomachs were immediately excised.
Ulcers of the gastric mucosa appeared as elongated bands of hemorrhagic lesions parallel to the long axis of the stomach. In the NP and GLP groups, the injuries to the gastric mucosal injuries were not as severe as they were in the control group. Wound healings of the chronic gastric ulcers was promoted by using GLP and significant alterations of the indices in the gastric mucosa were observed. Such protection was demonstrated by gross appearance, histology and immunehistochemistry staining for Bcl-2-associated X (BAX), B-cell lymphoma 2 (Bcl-2) and Transforming growth factor-beta 1 (TGF-β1).
These results suggest that GLP at CV12 and ST36 can provide significant protection to the gastric mucosa against an ethanol induced chronic gastric ulcer.
chronic gastric ulcer , ethanol induced , functional dyspepsia , Ganoderma lucidum , gastric mucosa , pharmacopuncture
The stomach is a sensitive digestive organ that is susceptible to exogenous pathogens to which it is exposed by the diet [1]. In response to such pathogens, the stomach induces oxidative stress, which might be related to the development of both gastric organic disorders such as gastritis, gastric ulcers, and gastric cancer and functional disorders such as functional dyspepsia [2, 3]. One of the most important possible causes of gastric ulcers is oxidative stress, which is involved in the pathogenesis of gastric inflammation and ulcerogenesis, but also in lifestyle related diseases including atherosclerosis, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, ischemic heart diseases, and malignancies [4, 5].
Many products are commonly used to treat gastric disease. The general protocol for the treatment of gastritis is to reduce acid secretion [6]. Nowadays, researchers and companies are inclined to investigate herbal medicines, more and many plants with anti-ulcerogenic properties have been found by different groups [7]. Herbs, medicinal plants, spices, vegetables, and crude drug substances are considered to be potential candidates for use in the treatment of gastric ulcer [8]. Among them, Ganoderma lucidum (靈芝) has been found to have anti-tumor, anti- cancer, immunomodulatory and immunotherapeutic effects, to inhibit platelet aggregation, and to lower blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar [9].
Pharmacopuncture treatment is a new acupuncture treatment combining acupuncture and herbal medicine. Recentiy, pharmacopuncture treatment has been widely used and different types of herbs have been found to be effective for treating various diseases. This study was accomplished to investigate the effect of Ganoderma lucidum pharmacopuncture (GLP) in treating chronic gastric ulcer induced in rats by using ethanol (EtOH).
Ganoderma lucidum caps, 500 g grown in South Korea were washed thoroughly with distilled water, cut into pieces, and submerged in 4 L of 25% alcohol for 10 hours at room temperature to be extracted. The alcohol extract was condensed to 500 mL, by using a rotary evaporator, and impurities were removed with a 0.22 μm filter, The extracts was then, sterilized and stored at a temperature of 20℃. The extract was dissolved in ethanol before administrations, and was diluted with 5% DW (dextrose water, JW Pharmacoceutical) to keep the final concentration of Ganoderma lucidum at 10%.
Adult male, Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats (weighing 220 ─ 240 g, 15 weeks old and housed five rats per cage) were purchased from SAM-Taco Co. They were provided with standard food and water ad libitum and were maintained in an animal house at a controlled temperature (22 ± 2℃) with a 12 hours light/dark cycle. The rats were divided randomly into 4 groups of 8 rats each: the normal, the control, the normal saline (NP) and the GLP groups. The study was approved by the Ethics Committee for Animal Experimentation, Dong-Eui University.
In this study, the modified ethanol gastritis model was used [10]. The rats were orally administrated with 56% ethanol every other day. The dose of ethanol was 8 g/kg body weight. The normal group received the same amount of normal saline instead of ethanol. The NP and the GLP groups were treated with injection of saline and GLP respectively. Two local acupoints CV12 (中脘) and ST36 (足 三里) were used. A pharmacopuncture needle (29 gauge: 1 mL disposal insulin injection syringe from HWAJIN Co. Busan, Korea) was used. A single injection was 1 mL for each animal. All laboratory rats were administered treatment for 15 days. On last day, the rats were sacrificed and their stomachs were immediately excised.
The reactivities, activities and deaths of rats in each group were observed during the experiment. The animals were killed by cervical dislocation after administration of an overdose of ether after the two week experiment. The abdomen was opened immediately. The whole stomach was cut and removed 1.5 cm away from the cardia and the pylorus. For general specimen observation, dissection was done along the greater curvature. The obviously damaged gastric mucosa specimen was rinsed in cold saline solution. Then, the specimen was placed in formaldehyde and glutaraldehyde, and was stored in a liquid nitrogen solution for later observation.
The length and the width of the injured gastric mucosa region were measured with a vernier caliper. The gastric mucosa ulcer index (UI) was determined according to the Guth standard [11]: spot erosions were recorded as 1 point, erosion lengths < 1 mm were recorded as 2 points, erosion lengths from 1 to 2 mm were recorded as 3 points, those from 2 to 3 mm were recorded as 4 points, and those > 3 mm were recorded as 5 points; the score was doubled when the erosion width was > 1 mm.
Ulcers of the gastric mucosa appear as elongated bands of hemorrhagic lesions parallel to the long axis of the stomach. The gastric mucosa of each rat was examined to estimating the damage. The length and the width of the ulcer (mm) were measured. The inhibition percentage (%) was calculated by using the following formula [12]:
To investigate whether GLP had affeced the activity of radical scavenging enzymes, we measured the activity of superoxidase dismutase (SOD) in the gastric mucosa according to the method of McCord and Fridovich [13]. The standard assay was performed in 3 mL of 50 mM potassium phosphate buffer at pH 7.8 containing 0.1 mM ethylene
diamine triacetic acid (EDTA) in a cuvette thermostated at 25℃. The reaction mixture contained 0.1 mM ferricytochrome c, 0.1 mM xanthine, and sufficient xanthine oxidase to produce a reduction rate of ferricytochrome c at 550 nm of 0.025 absorbance unit per min. Tissue homogenate was mixed with the reaction mixture. A kinetic spectrophotometric analysis was started, with the addition of xanthine oxidase at 550 nm. Under these conditions, the amount of SOD required to inhibit the reduction rate of ferricytochrome c by 50% was defined as 1 unit of activity. The results were expressed as units/mg of protein.
After the opened stomachs had been cut into small pieces, they were preserved in 10% buffered formalin overnight. The tissues were processed the next day by using automated tissue processing. Next, the biopsies were embedded in paraffin wax, sectioned into 5 μm thicknesses by using a microtome and then stained with haematoxylin and eosin (H&E). The tissue sections were assessed for histopathological changes such as congestion, edema, hemorrhage and necrosis by using a light microscope.
Tissue section slides were heated at 60℃ for approximately 25 minutes in a hot oven. The tissue sections were deparaffinized in xylene and rehydrated with graded alcohol. An antigen retrieval process was performed in a 10 mM sodium citrate buffer. Immunohistochemical staining was conducted according to the manufacturer’s protocol (Dakocytomation, USA). Briefly, endogenous peroxidase was blocked by using a peroxidase block (0.03% hydrogen peroxide containing sodium azide) for 5 minutes. Tissue sections were washed gently with wash buffer and then incubated with Bcl-2-associated X protein (BAX) (1 : 200), B-cell lymphoma 2 (Bcl-2) (1 : 200), and transforming growth factor-beta 1 (TGF-β1) (1 : 100) biotinylated primary antibodies for 15 minutes. Then, the tissue sections were rinsed gently in wash buffer and placed in a buffer bath. Following washing and counterstaining with hematoxylin for 5 seconds, we added diaminobenzidine substrate chromagen to the tissue sections and incubated them further for 5 minutes.
All photomicrographs were obtained using Infinity Capture imaging software (ver. 3, Lumenera, Canada) at 100 × magnification. For statistical analysis, the densities of immune positive cells were compared. The total numbers of immune positive cells per field (105 μm2) were counted in at least 15 randomly chosen fields at 100 × magnification. All values were reported as mean ± S.Es. The statistical significances of the differences among groups were assessed with a one way analysis of variance (ANOVA, post hoc analysis). A value of P < 0.05 was considered significant.
[Fig. 1] Gross appearance of EtOH-induced chronic gastric ulcer in rats.
[Fig. 2] Gastric mucosal injury index in chronic gastric ulcers.
[Fig. 3] Light microscopic images of EtOH-induced chronic ulcers in rats.
[Fig. 4] Changes in the SOD activity after chronic gastric injury induced by EtOH.
[Fig. 5] Immunohistochemical staining of BAX proteins in EtOH-induced chronic gastric ulcers in rats.
[Fig. 6] Immunohistochemical staining of Bcl-2 proteins in EtOH-induced chronic gastric ulcers in rats.
[Fig. 7] Immunoactivities of BAX/Bcl-2 proteins in EtOH-induced chronic gastric ulcers in rats.
[Fig. 8] Immunohistochemical staining of TGF-β1 proteins in EtOH-induced chronic gastric ulcers in rats.
[Fig. 9] Immunoreactivities of TGF-β1 proteins in EtOH-induced chronic gastric ulcers in rats.
The areas of gastric ulcer formation were reduced in the NP and the GLP groups compared with the control group (Fig. 1). The formation of the ulcers was significantly suppressed in the GLP group compared to the control group (P < 0.05). This result was shown by the gastric mucosal injury index (Fig. 2).
In the normal group, the gastric mucosa was smooth, with no significant inflammatory cell infiltration or edema. However in the control group, scattered mucosal damage and local congestion were observed. In the NP and the GLP groups, the gastric mucosal injuries were obviously slightly Lwss severe than they were in the control group (Fig. 3). The treatment with GLP caused a significant increase (P < 0.05) in the enzyme activity of SOD (Fig. 4).
An increased level of BAX protein was observed in the control group, whereas, the expressions of BAX protein in the NP group was decreased compared with those in the control group and those in the GLP group were more significantly decreased compared with those in the control group (P < 0.01) (Figs. 5,7). Bcl-2 protein expression was hardly observed in the control group and the expressions of Bcl-2 protein in the NP group were increased significantly compared with those in the control group (P < 0.05) (Figs. 6,7). Bcl-2 protein expressions in the GLP group were more significantly decreased compared those in the control group (P < 0.01) (Figs. 6,7).
The normal group showed weak TGF-β1 immunoactivities. The control group showed slightly increased immunoactivities compared with the normal group. However, the TGF-β1 activities of the NP and GLP groups were greatly increased. The increase in the GLP group was more significant (P < 0.01) than it was in the control group (Figs. 8,9).
The gastric mucosa is one of the most important tissue in an organism, because of its function, structure, and the pathological processes that can take place in this tissue [3]. The integrity of the gastric mucosa depends on the protection provided by the gastric mucosal barrier, and the gastric mucosa can be damaged by a variety of internal or external factors with the production of a number of inflammatory mediators and cytokines, resulting in secondary mucosal damage [14]. Ethanol is an important external factor. Ethanol is an ulcerogenic agent that is known to produce erosions, ulcerative lesions, and petechial bleeding in the mucosa of the stomach. Ethanol rapidly penetrates the gastric mucosa, causing membrane damage, exfoliation of cells, erosion, and ulcer formation [14].
In the present study, using the chronic injury model, gastric mucosal lesions in rats were induced by using EtOH. The lesions produced were studied to identify the gastroprotective effect of GLP. Administration of an ethanol solution for 15 days induced hemorrhagic lesions in the gastric mucosa in the control group. In the control group, the gastric mucosal surface was uneven and exhibited erosion, ulcers and bleeding. The NP and the GLP groups had reduced areas of gastric ulcer formation when compared with the control group (Fig. 1). In the GLP, compared with the NP group, the formation of ulcers was significantly suppressed (Fig. 2).
Gastric ulcers were induced on the anterior walls of the stomachs in rats by using an EtOH solution. The rats of the control group showed loss of mucosa, but compared with control group, the mucosal losses were less in the NP and the GLP groups (Fig. 3).
In this study, ethanol administration reduced SOD activity in the control group, compared with the normal group (Fig. 4). This might have resulted from the utilization for the decomposition of superoxide anion generated by lipid peroxidation. However, the activities in the GLP group were significantly compared to the control group (Fig. 4).
Apoptosis, programmed death of cells through DNA fragmentation, cell shrinkage, and dilation of endoplasmic reticulum is normally followed by cell degeneration and the formation of membrane vesicles, called apoptosis bodies [15]. Ethanol by itself was revealed to be able to induce apoptosis in the gastric epithelium. The up regulation of the pro apoptotic factor, BAX protein, and the down regulation of antiapoptotic Bcl-2 are two main indicators for apoptosis.
The level of BAX protein was increased in the control group, but in the NP and the GLP groups, the level of BAX protein were decreased compared with the control group. Especially in the GLP group, the level of BAX protein was significantly decreased (Figs. 5,7). On the other hand, Bcl-2 immunoreactivites in the NP group were up regulated compared with the control group. The GLP group also showed enhanced expressions of Bcl-2 (Figs. 6,7). In summary, GLP not only up regulated the levels of Bcl-2 but also down regulated the levels of BAX compared with the control group (Fig. 7). Therefore, we assume that GLP suppressed apoptosis by regulating the mitochondrial damage mediated endogenous pathway, which could be one of the important mechanisms for preventing gastric ulcer disease.
TGF-β1 is well known to be a multi functional cytokine that regulates many biological processes such as cell proliferation, cell differentiation, adhesion, inter cell signaling, and the also production and the degradation of extracellular matrix proteins, thus playing an essential role during wound healing and tissue repair [16]. This indicates that TGF-β1 expression is part of the normal healing response of gastric tissue. In this study, the level of TGF-β1 was significantly increased in the GLP group (Figs. 8,9). injection. On the basis of our test results, a single dose intramuscular injection of DGP is safe. However, repeated toxicity tests are required to increase confidence in these safety results.
The present study indicated the protective efficacy of GLP against EtOH induced gastric ulcer in SD rats. This conclusion was based on gross appearance, histology, and immunohistochemistry staining for BAX, Bcl-2 and TGF-β1.
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unHAPPILY MARRIED
Everything that glitters is not gold!
Part VI - The First Obvious Sign I Chose To Ignore
Lee and I wrote and/or called each other once a week while he was stationed in Cuba. I made sure once a month he received a care package filled with pictures and a video of our son so he could watch him grow up. I started feeling better about myself because I was starting to lose my pregnancy weight and I regularly updated Lee about my progress. It was so nice speaking to him on the phone and he always said how much he loved and missed us, but something felt off. He was distant and didn't have much to say aside from short-lived general chit chat.
Once again I started having dreams of my husband with a faceless woman and they became more frequent. I spoke with Lee many times and he reassured me that his lack of communication on the phone was because he was depressed and sad, missing us so badly. It was also the first time he mentioned wanting to kill himself, February of 2005 to be exact. I begged him not to do it, that I loved him so much and as soon as this was over we could be together again. He calmed down and said it was "just a thought."
He had leave twice that year, once in March and the second time in August. Of course the initial sight of each other was a time of much hugging and kissing. Ryan lit up at the sight of his father and vice versa. After about two days on leave though, Lee's distant side started appearing. Often he was solemn and quiet. Though he held my hand and we spent time together, he didn't seem "there." In March I determined it was due to him being sad that he had to go back and he didn't hold Ryan a lot because he wasn't used to changing diapers and comforting him anymore. We made love a few times, but not as often as you'd think considering we hadn't seen each other for three months. In August my husbands changed demeanor really stood out, as did two scratches on either side of his back, equal in length...
I don't remember "the" day, but I'll never forget what happened on it. Lee came to my mother's in Michigan for Ryan's first birthday. Back to my married weight of 150 pounds, my hubby couldn't stop telling me how terrific and smokin' hot I looked--nor could he stop flirting. But, we couldn't make love when he first got there because "Auntie Flo" was visiting.
Several days later my cycle ended and after feeding and changing our son my mother took charge so mommy and daddy could have some special alone time. We passionately kissed and started ripping each others clothes off. Smack dab in the middle of what I thought was a hot love making session, Lee stopped..."Honey, I can't finish. I'm sorry, I feel like I'm with a new woman." Not surprisingly, I was bewildered.
Lee proceeded to tell me that I had lost so much weight that he wasn't used to me anymore. It was then that he sat up, all sad and depressed, and I noticed two scratch marks equal in length across both sides of his back. With tears in my eyes and a knot in my stomach I asked if he'd been with another women and he said "No." I suppose because I loved him so and was so happy to have him there that instead of going with my gut, I believed him when he told me he had brushed up against something at work.
His vacation came and went in much the same unusual manner as it did back in March. The only difference is that when we said goodbye this time, we knew he'd return to get us in December, our family would be together, and we were going to move down south where he'd be stationed next....
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Part V - The Military Opened Doors For Adultery
Even though Lee tried to be kind with words about my expanding waistline, I tended to overreact as though he said them harshly. I would immediately go on the offense and say something like, "It's hard being here alone all day and we can't afford healthy food" or "I don't have time to exercise" and the real kicker "If you loved me you wouldn't care how big I got." I did not make it easy for my passive aggressive husband and conflict avoider to be something I'd want and require, no, demand, further down line--to be honest.
Many adultery experts will tell you that it is never the fault of the betrayed spouse that their partner chose to have an affair, and they're right. Counseling, divorce and separation are healthier choices. However, I think it's important that I at least accept my share of the blame as to the downfall of our marriage.
We shared spectacular superficial conversations together and were always there for one another through hardships and believe me we've had them, i.e.; deaths in the family, bankruptcy, loss of jobs, business ventures and failures, child rearing issues, etc. But the one thing neither of us were good at was discussing our lack of happiness with the other. He dreaded my over-the-top reactions and I didn't want to risk him having a bad day. This is something we will never do again and we're working really hard at being able to do so in an effort to fix our completely broken marriage.The dreams of my husband running off with a faceless woman continued on and off during my pregnancy. I questioned Lee numerous times and he denied the allegations and comforted me by saying he loved me and was just nervous and out of sorts about having our first child...Ryan was born August 7, 1994, just two and half years after we married.
Happy days followed and my dreams of infidelity had come to halt as we were now proud parents of a healthy baby boy. Lee re-enlisted with the Navy for four more years and we chose Cuba for his next tour of duty. Our house had a for rent sign up, Ryan was four months old and we were excited about the opportunity. But then we received word that there was a prisoner crisis in Cuba and military dependents were being sent home and those scheduled to come, couldn't.
We were devastated and tears of happiness turned to those of pain. As unfortunate luck would have it, an offer was accepted for our house and papers signed before we learned the news. Lee, Ryan and I had no choice but to move into an Econo Lodge until December when he was scheduled to and Ryan and I were set to live with my mom and stepfather in Michigan.
No sooner than Lee had his foot out the door, the dreams of him committing adultery resumed....
To be continued January 30th
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Part IV - Weighty Issues and False Security
It wouldn't be until October 19, 2009, that I learned the nightmare I had of Lee committing adultery, while pregnant with our first child, turned out to be reality. In hindsight, the signs were there. He was still loving and affectionate, but seemed a little more distant. He took on a part-time job as a bartender. At first he was home shortly after closing, then a bit later, and a bit later next time. Now is the appropriate moment to share a bit of back story...
One of Lee's biggest fears (I didn't know this until years later) was that I would gain weight and become a "frumpy" housewife. His stepmother and best friend (at different times) asked, "Lee, are you sure you want to marry Kay? I know you love her but she has the potential to be a 'big girl'." Secure in his love for me and confidant that wouldn't happen, he replied, "Yes, I'm sure. Besides, Kay isn't the type of girl to let herself go."
My weight has been an issue my entire life but when I met Lee I was in pretty good shape; I wasn't tiny by any means though at 5'5, 150 pounds. I gained about twenty pounds before getting pregnant with our first child. Lee used to encourage me to go for walks and take time to exercise but he never teased me or made harsh jokes. And, as irony would have it, around the time I was trying to get serious about losing weight, I got pregnant--and I grew huge. Something I would learn years later made my husband feel embarrassed and ashamed of me and was one reason he used to stray.
Lee and I touched, hugged and kissed on a daily basis, even as I became a virtual balloon. Both of us made sacrifices and were appreciative of one another. I willingly gave up having a career and he willingly supported us on his own. We communicated regularly about current events, work, home life, and all things general from movies to the lives of family members.
I was not the best housekeeper but we didn't live in filth. Everyday when he came home from work he was greeted with a smooch. I cooked his dinners and made him lunch and breakfast each day. I've always enjoyed doing that for him and since I stayed at home, what kind of wife would I be not to? He was not a chauvinist pig, I didn't feel as though I "had" to please him--I wanted to.
Lee's never made me feel guilty for staying home--not even to this day. But, perhaps because he always told me he loved me and showed it through touch, and that we were still communicating, I built up a false security. We didn't have a perfect marriage, but I chalked up my dreams (nightmares) and the slight distance as "normal." What we were missing though was a deeper level of communication. Lee is a conflict avoider and his gentle gestures to help me want to lose weight were actually his first cry that something was about to go wrong, and it did....
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Part III - Dreams of Betrayal
During Lee's Med Cruise we mailed letters filled with hopes and dreams for our marriage and continually professed our love. The months passed by and soon we were both anxious with anticipation to be together once again. When reunion day came we couldn't keep our hands of each other and spent every spare moment listening to music, taking weekend getaways, visiting his folks, etc. On March 8, 1992, Lee came to me and said, "Why wait until June to get married? Let's get married next week!" Stunned but so thrilled he still wanted to marry me I excitedly screamed, "YES!" We married one week later.
Before we married Lee and I had discussed children. Both of us were products of divorce and were still hurt because we missed our mothers as children. We wanted better--I depart the military and would stay home; he would be the bread winner. It wasn't a religious decision, it was one based on our thoughts of what having a happy family entailed.
We bought our first home when we were twenty-one. The love between Lee and I was still very much obvious but we did argue a bit more due to the stress of home ownership and bills. We also had quite a few petty arguments, nothing major, but what married couple doesn't? Our sex life was amazing and we communicated often. In 1993, we decided to try to get pregnant--we succeeded in November.
I woke up in sweats, glaring at my husband through tears because the dream felt so real. He was with a faceless woman, they laughed at me as I cried after him--it was the first in a sequence of nightmares to become reality....
Part II - Drawn to Cheaters
Part I - Support For Those Who've Decided to Stay
Tired of dating jerks, I had sworn off men forever at the ripe old age of twenty. A few weeks later my girlfriend coaxed me to go a club but I didn't want to go. Still in my "man-hating" stage, I reluctantly went but wore no makeup, a pair of shoddy jeans, and pulled my hair back completely from my face. I had put my beer on the bench seat behind me and turned around to grab it for another sip. It was then I saw the beautiful blue eyes that would capture my heart staring back at me.
I was greeted with a smile and for the first time ever I actually made the first move and asked him to dance and he said, "Yes." And that is where our whirlwind romance started. We began dating regularly, doing all the things young people do and then some. A short while later we professed our love for one another and moved into an apartment just four months after meeting.
Lee was due to go on a six month Med Cruise for the Navy. We'd only been living together two months. A week before he was due to leave he asked me to marry him. Without hesitation, I jumped at the opportunity and replied, "Yes!" Lee and I were going to marry the following June.
Looking back, I realize both of us rushed things a bit. Perhaps that was one of our downfalls--we really didn't "know" each other. Between my dad not picking my sister and I up often, after living with a stepfather who shattered my self-esteem with emotionally abusive words, and the fact that every boyfriend I'd ever had cheated on me, I wanted to feel loved--and Lee gave me what I needed.
When I lived in the barracks during our dating period, Lee called me several times daily and would drive forty-five minutes to see me on the weekends, on his motorcycle no less, and despite freezing temperatures. He was gorgeous (still is 19 years later); Lee could have easily spent time with a girl much closer if all he cared about was a piece of ass. In essence, his love for me felt genuine and it was.
He proudly introduced me to his parents, step-parents, half-sisters, and grandma. When he was gone for six months his family took me in. They used to go on about how they were so happy to see Lee finally happy and how excited they were to have me as their daughter-in-law. But, there was one person who questioned the kind of man Lee was--my then best friend Ellen. "Kay, you'd better be careful, he's one of 'those' guys and he will end up breaking your heart." Unfortunately, at the time I thought Ellen was just jealous and didn't give her warning serious consideration. It wouldn't be long before her concerns were justified...
Dreams of Betrayal....coming January 25th
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My intention for sharing my story is not to gain sympathy or pity, after all, I've chosen to stay and try and reconcile my marriage. However, there are other betrayed spouses--male and female--in a similar situation, trying to make their marriage work despite adultery. We share an unfortunate commonality, one that includes tremendous pain and much growth--they are the people I'm reaching out to.
Those, like me, going over repeatedly in their minds:
How could I have prevented it?
How could my husband possibly love me and do this?
Am I responsible for his actions?
Can we really work through this?
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December 19, 2019 at 07:00 AM EST
CALGARY, Alberta, Dec. 19, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ATCO Ltd. (TSX: ACO.X, ACO.Y) / Canadian Utilities Limited (TSX: CU, CU.X)
Canadian Utilities Limited (CU), an ATCO company, along with Quanta Services, Inc. (Quanta) (NYSE:PWR), has completed the previously announced sale of Alberta PowerLine (APL), a partnership between CU (80 per cent) and Quanta (20 per cent).
“We are extremely proud of this world-class project and of the many Indigenous partnerships we fostered at each stage of development,” said Siegfried Kiefer, President & Chief Executive Officer, CU and President, ATCO. “Alberta PowerLine exemplifies a new model for Canada and showcases how industry and Indigenous communities can work together to develop energy infrastructure that benefits all stakeholders. Going forward, this transaction improves our financial strength and positions CU to further grow our global portfolio of utility and energy infrastructure assets, while reliably delivering operational excellence to customers at home and abroad.”
With the completion of the sale, seven Indigenous communities in Alberta now have a combined 40 per cent equity ownership in this essential Canadian energy infrastructure project: Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, Bigstone Cree Nation, Gunn Métis Local 55, Mikisew Cree First Nation, by way of its business arm, the Mikisew Group of Companies, Paul First Nation, Sawridge First Nation and Sucker Creek First Nation.
“The Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, ACFN, is enthusiastic to align itself with the Alberta PowerLine project,” said Chief Allan Adam, Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation. “Through this exciting endeavor, it will further position ACFN as a leader in electricity generation and transmission projects while providing long-term sustainable economic opportunities to the approximately 1300 members of the nation.”
“It is important for a community like ours to be able to become active participants in energy development in our province,” said Chief Silas Yellowknee, Bigstone Cree Nation. “By taking partial ownership of this critical piece of infrastructure, we have become direct participants in Alberta’s energy sector. We know this is a valuable investment for our community and our people that will bring economic development and provide long-term benefits for generations to come.”
"The community of Paul First Nation is looking forward to this great partnership that will provide economic benefits to our members," said Chief Arthur Rain, Paul First Nation.
“Gunn Métis Local 55 (Lac Ste. Anne Métis) is very proud to be an Alberta PowerLine equity partner,” said Murleen Crossen, President, Gunn Métis Local 55. “The commitment shown by Canadian Utilities to walk the talk of economic reconciliation is something we hope to see other companies model. The transformation of the relationship, from stakeholder to co-owner of major energy infrastructure, is key to our efforts to build community economic development capacity for future generations."
The remaining 60 per cent of APL was acquired by a consortium including TD Asset Management Inc., for and on behalf of TD Greystone Infrastructure Fund (Global Master) L.P., and IST3 Investment Foundation acting in respect and on behalf of its investment group IST3 Infrastruktur Global.
CU will receive aggregate proceeds of approximately $220 million for its interest in APL and will remain as the operator of APL over its 35-year contract with the Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO). RBC Capital Markets acted as financial advisor to CU and Quanta.
APL was selected in 2014 by the AESO to develop, design, build, finance, own, operate and maintain the Fort McMurray West 500-kV Transmission Project. The transmission project was energized in March 2019, three months ahead of schedule, on-budget, with an impeccable safety record. The project is the longest 500-kV AC transmission line in Canada and was ranked among the top 50 infrastructure projects in the country.
With approximately 5,000 employees and assets of $22 billion, Canadian Utilities Limited is an ATCO company. Canadian Utilities Limited is a diversified global energy infrastructure corporation delivering service excellence and innovative business solutions in Electricity (electricity generation, transmission and distribution), Pipelines & Liquids (natural gas transmission, distribution and infrastructure development; and energy storage and industrial water solutions) and Retail Energy (electricity and natural gas retail sales). More information can be found at www.canadianutilities.com
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Meet Atique Rehman: Most Penalized Landlord In SF's History And Owner Of Popular Local Restaurant
308 Turk St Atique Rehman Naan 'N' Curry wage theft by Eve Batey | April 9, 2013 1:27 pm | in Business | 8
As the Chron’s CW Nevius notes today, Atique Rehman now has the dubious honor of being one of San Francisco’s “most penalized landlords in city history.” While most of you might not know Rehman as your landlord, you might have done business with him under other circumstances, as he’s also the owner of a popular San Francisco Pakastani and Indian restaurant — one that at least once has been accused of wage theft.
Nevius notes today that as owner of a 20-unit apartment complex at 308 Turk Street, Rehman has gotten “200 Housing Code violations and 38 notice of violation for a total of $38,000 in fees owed to the city – $28,000 of which was assessed since January.”
But if you page back in the Chron archives to 2001, you’ll see Rehman staring proudly from their pages, painted in quite a different light as owner and manager of O’Farrell Street’s Yelp three starred restaurant Naan ‘N’ Curry. The Chron’s review of the restaurant is positive, I think? It is kind of hard to tell.
Ten years later, Rehman seemed a lot less happy in the pages of the Bay Citizen, where in August 2011 he accused his restaurant’s staff of filing false wage theft claims against him.
After city officials awarded a Naan ‘N’ Curry staffer $6000 after allegations that he had not been paid for sick leave or for rest and meal breaks, Rehman told the BC “The Spanish employees are doing that with all the businesses around the neighborhood.” Yikes.
Rehman also told the BC that “he’s started fingerprinting his employees every time they come in to work and leave, and taking pictures and video of his workers while they are on break.”
In January of this year, BeyondChron reported on a protest in front of Naan ‘N’ Curry, in which tenants demanded that Rehman start to address the “lack of heat, lack of security, mold, leaking pipes, broken windows, and rodent infested rooms” of 308 Turk.
According to BeyondChron, “Shortly after the protest, the angry landlord went to 308 Turk and verbally asked some tenants to leave immediately. However, community leaders from Central City SRO collaborative and S.F.P.D intervened and asked Atique Rehman to leave the tenant’s apartment.”
BeyondChron reported in January that Rehman “may soon lose the building in foreclosure.” Nevius echoes that today, reporting that Rehman “reportedly told building inspectors that he’s having financial problems.”
Naan ‘N’ Curry, however, seeme to be doing well — according to a March 30 report from Yelp reviewer Jessica C, “This place is packed, packed, packed. At 3am, this place is like a La Vics in San Jose.”
Eve Batey is the editor and publisher of the San Francisco Appeal. She used to be the San Francisco Chronicle's Deputy Managing Editor for Online, and started at the Chronicle as their blogging and interactive editor. Before that, she was a co-founding writer and the lead editor of SFist. She's been in the city since 1997, presently living in the Outer Sunset with her husband, cat, and dog. You can reach Eve at eve@sfappeal.com.
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A total of 475 medical professionals working on Belarus’ COVID-19 frontline will be celebrated as part of a nationwide charity action, BelTA learned from the Belarusian Peace Foundation.
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Based on the recommendations of chief physicians of healthcare facilities, the awards will be presented to frontline healthcare providers. They will receive letters of commendation, certificates of honor and the Honored Peacemaker Medal.
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It has been a while that I am staring at the options on my laptop screen. The options I have are fair, very fair, whitish, whitish medium, whitish brown and dark. I notice that there is also an "other" option on the list.
I am on a Bangladeshi matrimonial website. To make a profile, I need to choose from the seven complexion options in order to find my prospective wife.
I am fidgeting. I need to make a choice. At one extreme, I have the option of a fair wife. At another, I can go for a dark wife. There are also variations of fair. I can choose a wife who is only fair or very fair.
I am also thinking about the "other" option, but do not know what it means. "Will it be better than a fair wife?" I ask myself.
As I keep thinking about different complexions and imagine myself with a fair wife, a hotchpotch of thoughts race through my mind. But there is one particular thought that I am able to easily separate from the jumble – I have a propensity not to choose the "dark" option.
I feel that I am predisposed to choose a "fair" bride. Moments later, I also realise I do not want to imagine myself with a "dark" wife, and that this is an involuntary response of my brain.
I am among a large pool of Bangladeshi men who zero in on finding a "fair" woman for marriage. There is no official statistic on what percentage of men do this, but it is prevalent across all social classes, perhaps except the poor. A poor man showing stubbornness to find a fair wife is likely to be at a disadvantage from the get-go.
Bangladesh is a monoethnic society. It is not affected by racism like the US or other melting pot societies in the West where people of different colours and ethnicities live together. But what it has is a deep-rooted, centuries-old problem of colourism, and that is no less savage than racism.
This dates back to the period when the Aryan people are believed to have migrated from somewhere in Iran to the Indian subcontinent around 1500 BC. They introduced the idea of supremacy based on complexion. They themselves were fair-skinned with strong facial features, and succeeded in establishing the notion that people who have fair skin are superior than those with a dark complexion.
That era is long gone, but people in this region are still carrying the Aryan legacy. Over generations, this has become deeply ingrained in the Bangladeshi psyche. Colourism continues to be rampant in India too.
In search of a fair bride
The marriage market is the prime domain where Bangladeshi girls are ruthlessly exposed to the soul-crushing effects of colourism. No matter how unpleasant it sounds, a girl's marriage prospects hinge on her complexion. If she is dark, the odds of finding a good, wealthy husband are highly stacked against her.
Even if she is educated and has a career, she will still have a hard time getting a man who is interested in marrying her. Both in villages and cities, a Bangladeshi man wants a fair bride. For him and his family, fair skin is the predominant criterion for measuring a bride's desirability.
Kazi Ashraf Hossain, widely known as Ghatak Pakhi Bhai, is a matchmaking guru with over four decades of experience. Almost a household name in this field, he revealed the raw truth this way, "The marriage market always demands a fair bride."
He said there is a right match for every kind of bride, but a fair bride is and has always been a preferred choice.
Ashraf has been helping people find matches since the time when there was no internet and mobile phone in Bangladesh. Times have changed. The use of technologies has now made Bangladeshis more connected than ever.
Also, there are more options now to meet someone. People can look for partners online instead of directly taking help from friends, relatives, neighbours and matchmakers like Ashraf. Dating apps, although not primarily used to find life partners, are slowly coming into fashion.
Nonetheless, the preference for a fair bride still remains strong. There are, of course, exceptions, but those are negligible, and often include men who are settling because of personal or family problems, or lack of other elements of their suitability.
"Let us call a spade a spade. We do not fall for a dark-skinned girl, do we?" said Rasel Rahman, who works at a private firm in Dhaka.
"We do not imagine a dark girl as our first choice when we think about getting married, do we?"
Rasel's thoughts reflect what matchmakers like Ashraf frequently deal with in their work to unite a man and a woman through marriage. This is common in all strata of the society. However, not every man will admit it like Rasel as this is an unpleasant truth.
How attraction grows for fair skin
For Bangladeshi men, the preference for fair skin is starkly obvious in different stages of life even prior to marriage. Their attraction for women is greatly influenced by the latter's complexion.
Since childhood, among their families, relatives and neighbours, Bangladeshis frequently hear disapproving opinions about dark skin and disproportionately favourable opinions on light complexion. They are often compared with children of the opposite complexion by elders to form a judgment on which child is better. Thus, they internalise associating worthiness with complexion without questioning its rationality as they are too young to do so.
This leads teenage boys to set their eyes on (and also pursue if they choose to) the fairest girls during school and college days. An academically brilliant and intelligent girl with a dark skin tone will have fewer boys showing interest in her than a fair one with less merit.
In other words, when it comes to romantic relationships, a fair woman, since puberty up until marriage, enjoys a distinct edge over her dark-skinned peers. The former will have more men courting her once she reaches the age of marriage, sometimes even before. She will have a lot more men, particularly from well-off families, willing to send their parents to her home to discuss marriage with her guardians.
Another reason to prefer a fair bride stems from the desire to ensure the legacy of fairness in future generations. It is widely believed that a fair mom will give birth to fair babies, but there is no scientific evidence to support this.
The preference for fair women exists in the job market too, especially in jobs that require direct communication with people, such as receptionist and flight attendant. Fair-skinned women not having stellar academic achievements and skills may have a head start in landing some jobs that their dark counterparts will struggle to get.
Veteran actor and social activist Sara Zaker said a dark person has to struggle a lot to get into the entertainment industry. But complexion does not matter much for male actors, she added.
Complexion also carries moral connotations for Bangladeshi girls, according to Dr Santi Rozario, an honorary senior research fellow at Cardiff University.
"Beauty is defined largely in terms of 'light' skin colour. Its opposite, 'dark' (kalo) and ugly, is also kharap (bad), with the connotation of sexual misbehaviour," she wrote in the book Coming of Age in South and Southeast Asia: Youth, Courtship and Sexuality.
"The complexions of girls and women are used by the Bengali society to distinguish between desirable/good and undesirable/bad."
Duality in Bangladeshi minds
Over the years, there have been newspaper writings aimed at raising awareness of colourism among the masses. Companies aggressively marketing skin-brightening products have often been bashed. The majority of people, if asked, will say having a dark skin should never be a hindrance in any stage of a woman's life.
Yet, when Bangladeshi men will think about marriage, they will always look for fair brides. Other credentials of women – such as having a career, excellent cooking skills, and the ability to make art – usually take a back seat in marriage discussions.
One way to describe this dual nature is through Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Dr Jekyll is a good, well-respected scientist while Mr Hyde is his evil alter ego. Jekyll has learned to make a potion that allows him to become Hyde.
For a while, Jekyll is able to keep Hyde under control. But as time goes by, Jekyll gradually loses control and Hyde finally takes over. In the end, they both die.
The main idea Stevenson portrayed in the book is that every individual has two sides in his/her personality. He wrote, "Man is not truly one, but truly two."
Agreeing that colourism is a social plague and then actively looking for fair brides highlight the same extreme contradiction in the psyche of Bangladeshi men that is tantamount to the Jekyll-Hyde case. When this is linked to Unilever Bangladesh's recent announcement to drop the word "fair" from Fair & Lovely in the face of Black Lives Matter protests, it is highly unlikely that this move will succeed in addressing the Jekyll-Hyde phenomenon among Bangladeshi men.
A distinct battle
The company said in a statement that rebranding Fair & Lovely is part of its aim to lead the celebration of a more diverse portrayal of beauty. However, as the obsession for fair skin in Bangladesh had spread widely for ages before the company started operations in 1964, it is highly likely that the situation will largely remain unchanged. Fair & Lovely will still be viewed as a skin-brightening product no matter how they rename it.
Moreover, many other companies in Bangladesh sell skincare products that promise brighter complexions. There are also hundreds of beauty salons offering facials and other skin-whitening treatments to women. Single women, prospective brides and even the married ones receive services in such parlours.
Addressing colourism thus needs a wholly different battle to be fought – one that is mammoth, multifaceted, and full of intricacies. It is a battle against centuries of social conditioning that fair not only represents beauty, but also worthiness and superiority. It is a battle against the permanent fixture of Bangladeshi male psychology that a fair bride is some kind of a prize to win.
Finally, it is a battle to kill my alter ego – the Mr Hyde in me – who grew up in a culture that firmly established in his mind the inclination to choose the "fair" bride option every time he visits the matrimonial site.
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Flight of the Gibbon
Swaying over the treetops
CHIANG MAI PROVINCE. Despite the name, visitors do not exactly brachiate from tree to tree like real gibbons. Nonetheless, gliding down 2-km long zip lines hanging some 30-m over the canopy of a tropical forest must produce a similar feeling to that enjoyed by a swinging primate.
The trip begins with a 50-minute ride from Chiang Mai, with the last
leg up the serpentine road of the Mae Kampong hills. There is a
choice between going early in the morning, at noon, or during the
late afternoon. The whole excursion takes about three hours. The
temperature suddenly drops on entering the densely vegetated
area, and the fun begins there.
After gearing up with straps and helmet, visitors are taken to the first
of 15 stations–wooden platforms built on the tree top, and briefed on
safety procedures. A sample first flight follows, on a short zip line,
to acquaint customers with the equipment and motion. Of course, an
adrenaline surge is the main aim of zip-lining, but equally wonderful is
the sight of the diverse shades of green and mountain-lined horizon
seen while waiting to whizz from station to station. The deeper one
goes inside the forest, the more impressive the size and formation
of the trees. The flight concludes with a drop from a gigantic tree, in
which one can choose to fall head or feet first.
Fun with Benefits
What is greatly appreciated about this adventure is how the company is conscious about community and environmental issues. Before signing the disclaimer form, the staff make sure that visitors go through the recommendations for good environmental practices. In the area around the office, signs give information about the vital roles of the tropical rainforest ecosystem. The company also claims that 10% of its profits go to conservation projects.
Before being driven back to the city, visitors are served lunch, with a stroll at the Mae Kampong Waterfall as dessert. The Waterfall is medium-sized with seven tiers, and it takes about 15 minutes to climb to the top. At the entrance to the waterfall, a number of trees with saffron-coloured strips of cloth tied around the trunks may be seen. These trees are ‘ordained’ and become sacred, so that no poacher would have the heart or dare to cut them down – a perfect example of utilizing folk wisdom as a conservation strategy.
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November 24th, 2013 by Warren Swil
Inequality, instability
top list of global concerns
Sultan Saeed Nasser Al Mansouri of the United Arab Emirates was Co-Chair of the Summit on the Global Agenda. World Economic Forum / Benedikt von Loebell
A SIGNIFICANT DISCUSSION of the most important issues facing the global community went almost unnoticed by most media this week.
The Summit on the Global Agenda hosted by the World Economic Forum in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates arrived at some alarming and pessimistic conclusions about the state of the world.
The trends of most significance to most people were identified as inequality, instability and weak governance, according to the final report from the conference.
Although these issues are of vital importance in many countries, the report elicited little coverage in mass media anywhere.
THE RESULTS OF the conference were summarized in a Nov. 20 news release titled Inequality, Instability and Weak Global Governance Lead to Pessimism, Leaders Warn
“The sixth World Economic Forum Summit on the Global Agenda – the world’s most extensive brainstorming event – ended [Nov. 20], with business, government and civil society leaders warning of the dangers of inequality, instability and the weakness of global institutions, but offering optimism for the future,” the release said.
The web presentation by the World Economic Forum on the top 10 trends of 2014. Click image to enlarge.
The comments from leaders seemed to reflect the top issues of their regions.
“Inclusion and jobs – that is the number one issue for us,” said Donald Kaberuka, President of the African Development Bank in Tunis, in the closing session of the three-day summit.
“The public’s disillusionment with leaders is a problem that must be addressed through concerted action,” said Stefano Scarpetta, of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris.
A report from the conference based on a poll of 1,592 leaders from academia, business, government, and non-profits is entitled What are the top trends facing the world in 2014? And what should we do about them?
Listed at the top of the report are: “Tensions in the Middle East. Rising living standards. Adaptation to climate change. Paralyzed government. Innovative cities.
A map depicting the relative importance of the top 10 issues in various regions of the world. Click image to enlarge.
“The world is changing faster than ever. We’re connected to each other in ways that would have been thought impossible just a generation ago, enabling enormous potential but also exposing our institutions to great strain. If we are to effectively address the challenges we face as a planet, decision-makers need to keep pace and anticipate what lies ahead.”
The background is then explained.
“To foresee the changes awaiting us in 2014, we asked the vast network of Global Agenda Council Members to identify and prioritise the issues that will exert the greatest force on the world in the coming 12 to 18 months. Using a selective survey tool, we began by determining the top 10 global trends.”
These trends were analyzed by the Pew Research Center in its article Experts rank the top 10 global trends in which Jacob Poushter compared the WEF results to surveys previously conducted by Pew on similar topics.
The first item on the list is rising societal tensions in the Middle East and North Africa.
“People in this region were mostly dissatisfied with their country’s direction, according to the Pew Research Center’s survey of people across the globe this year. This includes particular disappointment in Lebanon (88% dissatisfied), the Palestinian territories (87%) and Tunisia (81%),” Poushter wrote.
The Pew Research Center analysis of the WEF findings. Click image to enlarge.
Second was widening income disparities: “One of the most striking findings from [Pew’s] recent survey of general publics across the globe was the degree to which people see the gap between rich and poor as a major challenge. In 31 of 39 nations, half or more of those polled said inequality is a very big problem in their country,” Poushter reported.
Persistent structural unemployment was also found to be “a very big problem. When asked which of the four issues – inflation, unemployment, inequality or debt – the government should address first, 22 of the 39 publics surveyed said jobs.”
The other seven top global concerns listed and analyzed by Pew are Intensifying cyber threats; Inaction on climate change; Diminishing confidence in economic policies; A lack of values in leadership; The expanding middle class in Asia; The growing importance of megacities; and the rapid spread of misinformation online.
The analyses of these issues should be required reading for politicians everywhere.
Few would argue they are indeed the most important issues facing people around the world, even if their exact position in the top 10 might vary among difference regions.
But, perhaps most pessimistic of all is that included in this list is lack of confidence in leadership. Exhibit A would have to be the dysfunctional U.S. Congress, which has been unable to even keep the government open and functioning without interruption.
We have little reason to be optimistic that this will change significantly any time soon. It’s too bad, because all the other issues on the list depend on leaders having the political will to address them.
The WEF should be applauded for focusing global attention on what truly concerns each one of us. Let us hope the politic elites are listening.
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Contact: John Vogel For Release: July 24, 2007
Arango Debuts Cigars Featuring Tobacco Last Seen in Cuba in 1962
Arango Cigar Co. has been appointed exclusive U.S. distributor for premium cigars made by Tabacos de la Cordillera (Mountain Range Cigars). Costa Rica-based Cordillera develops its own seed varieties, cultivates and processes its tobacco, and manufactures its cigars. It is unique in the industry, growing all of its own tobacco from its proprietary bank of over 45 varieties of seeds, directly from Cuba or derived from pure Cuban lineage. Even more noteworthy, these are all "ancestral" seeds that pre-date the 1962 Cuban Embargo.
According to Arango president, Mike Gold, "We are dedicating a generous 100 square feet of our RTDA 2007 booth to Cordillera Cigars, because we are interested in seeing how attendees will accept an alternative to cigars on today's market. Cordillera's director, John Vogel, is a 40-year tobacco agronomist, specializing in the development of new seed varieties. He is in Arango's booth, to showcase his unique product and offer samples for evaluation. I doubt most cigar lovers have smoked cigars like these before, based on media reviews and customer feedback."
Vogel is featuring their new Fundación Ancestral collection of premium cigars, in the four most popular shapes. He is spotlighting Pinar del Rio 1941, the first cigar in the series. Cuban Land, the island's leading tobacco research institute at the time, released the strain to regional farmers in 1941. It became the archetype for Cuban cigars for decades, before vanishing after the Embargo. Only 8,000 cigars total are offered in this first release, in numbered and signed cedar presentation boxes. Packaged 25 cigars to the box or in cartons of 5 cigars, Manufacturer's suggested retail price is in the $11 to $12 range.
Cordillera is also displaying their Cumbres Gold and Colinas lines. Cumbres (Summits) Gold is a long-filler premium cigar with a delicately seductive flavor and aroma, as noted by the cigar press. Value-priced Colinas (Hills) is a medium-filler cigar with a pedigree ... its filler being remnants from top-of-the-line Cumbres production. MSRP for Cumbres, in the four most popular shapes, runs from $4 to $7.50; the Colinas averages about $3.60 for its 5 shapes.
The cigars, plus the entire Tabacos de la Cordillera portfolio, appear on the company's Web site, www.tabacordillera.com. All three brands will begin appearing on retailer's shelves in August.
Arango Cigar Co. is displaying Cordillera Cigars' new
Fundación Ancestral collection, featuring cigars
with tobacco from "extinct" Pinar del Rio 1941 seeds
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Interview with Exonemo
by luca barbeni
Formed in 1996 by Kensuke Sembo and Yae Akaiwa, Exonemo is group devoted to the experimentation of new ways of interaction between art and public.
LUCA: Object B presents, compared to the consumer society, a different kind of immersion between real and virtual spaces. what do you think about the relationships of virtual and real spaces of contemporary world? And what do you want to communicate trough the hacked interactions of Object B?
EXO: When considering about the “real” and “virtual” space, we feel the border between them has been getting more ambiguous than before. It might be no longer an indivisible concept. But actually, not only “real space to virtual space” but also divided world such as “country to country”, “culture to culture” or “person to person” exist around us and make conflicts between them.
The Object B focuses on “communication” between divided worlds.
By multiple approach to the installation, for example, from the exhibit space (physically) or from the game space (as a nonphysical avatar), you will experience an obvious communication gap between two worlds.
We think that’s the interesting point on communication.
LUCA: Which seeds where the starting point to think this piece?
EXO: Maybe at the moment when I doubted if a person on the other side of the internet was a real human being…or not!?
LUCA: What do you think about game industry today?
EXO: Regading the Half-Life, the game company VALVE opens the developement environment partly to get the scene active and also let expert programmer join the company. It’s intersting that we can touch the structure of the game by modification. Game modification has a potential for expansion but we have a limited feeling about the distribution system STEAM because they tighten controls on license. Meanwhile, game industry in Japan seems different. Japanese game companies almost never open the developement environment to the public, but they activate the game scene by allowing re-creation of game characters such as cosplay, fan fiction and so on.
Each environment is open and closed at different point and we see an interesting difference of game culture there.
LUCA: Open source and free exchange are important vectors of innovation, don’t you think that with all this new and specialized hardware and software instrument, that are quite “closed”,that users will have a little range of creative possibilities?
EXO: Focusing on open source and free exchange in art creation, we think it is different from software development.
For the software development, “function” is absolutely imperative and we can share the function by getting source code. So we think the open source for software development is very important but for the art work, “function” is not important thing so there isn’t much point in sharing the source. To represent the concept through an art work might expect
next creativity like open source and free exchange on software development.
LUCA: Water, what makes you thinkin?
EXO: MOST IMPORTANT MEDIA
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SRI MicroFactory Of Microrobots Recalls Dick's Autofac
The MicroFactory is an army of microrobots at SRI International; half-millimeter machines swarm to build complex structures.
(SRI MicroFactory robots at work video)
The setup of the MicroFactory is fairly straightforward. The foundation is a circuit board that generates a magnetic field. The little robots themselves are magnets, which a software program drives around by manipulating the field. Each robot is outfitted with what’s known as an end effector—the tool with which it manipulates its world—which varies depending on the job the bot is assigned.
So say you want to build a lattice. You’ve got robots that hold high-strength carbon rods vertically and some that hold them horizontally, and still others that apply dabs of glue. Working in concert, the robots can build out an intricate structure, some depositing glue while others stick in the rods, constantly gliding from the lattice back to material caches to resupply.
Science fiction fans of the 1950's know all about the idea of an incredibly tiny factory; they recall the autofac from the 1955 Philip K. Dick short story of the same name:
The cylinder had split. At first he couldn't tell if it had been the impact or deliberate internal mechanisms at work. From the rent, an ooze of metal bits was sliding. Squatting down, O'Neill examined them.
The bits were in motion. Microscopic machinery, smaller than ants, smaller than pins, working energetically, purposefully - constructing something that looked like a tiny rectangle of steel.
"They're building," O'Neill said, awed.
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Kid Connection: Jose
September 11, 2018 Fun, Kid Connection, People & Things
Tuesday’s on Twin Cities Live we introduce you to a child in Minnesota’s adoption system – a school aged child that’s been in need of a family for years. In this Kid Connection meet Jose. He’ll soon be a freshman in high school, but has been in and out of the system since he was an infant. Twin Cities Live reporter Kelli Hanson takes Jose to the Science Museum of Minnesota.
Learn more about Jose here.
Jose is anxious about change and that means he’s not too sure of adoption. His adoption recruiter says this is very normal, but there are several resources for families once they welcome a new child into their family.
MNAdopt’s Help Program is available free of charge for Minnesota families. There they can get referrals for therapists and several other services. Learn more about the Help Program here.
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Engineering, Energy, Transport AIC
SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS OF VINNITSA NATIONAL AGRARIAN UNIVERSITY
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Editor-in-chief: Tokarchuk Olexiy A.
Ph.D., Assoc., VNAU (Vinnytsia)
Deputy Editor-in-Chief: Veselovska Nataliia R.
Doctor of Technical Sciences, Full Prof., VNAU (Vinnytsia)
Executive Secretary: Polevoda Yuri A.
Members of the Editorial Board:
Tokarchuk O.A. - Ph.D., Associate Professor, Vinnytsia National Agrarian University
Veselovska N.R. - Doctor of Technical Sciences, Full Professor, Vinnytsia National Agrarian University
Bulgakov V.M. - Doctor of Technical Sciences, Full Professor, Acad. NAAS, National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine
Iskovich-Lototsky R.D. - Doctor of Technical Sciences, Full Professor, Vinnytsia National Technical University
Bandura V. N. - Ph.D., Full professor, Vinnytsia National Agrarian University
Polevoda Yu.A. - Ph.D., Associate Professor, Vinnytsia National Agrarian University
Tsurkan A.V. - Ph.D., Associate Professor, Vinnytsia National Agrarian University
Ivanchuk Y.V. - Ph.D., Associate Professor, Vinnytsia National Technical University
Jordan Todorov Maximov - Doctor of Technical Sciences, Full Professor, Technical University of Gabrovo (Bulgaria)
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Starred in the shelved movie Ghost Ghost Na Raha. She did her schooling from Jamnabai Narsee School in Mumbai, and later, she did her Masters in Media Arts and Computer Technology from the University of Oxford, UK. He also attended her funeral, when she died in 2004 when most actors gave the occasion a miss.
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Ahana Deol is an Indian artist.
She is a qualified Odissi dancer as well as has very good acting skills. The name of his two daughters are Vijeta and Ajeeta Deol they are also known as Dolly and Nonu. We do not know much about Parkash’s current life. Both the sons are interested in acting like their Father and Grandfather (Dharmendra). Has a Masters Degree in Media Arts and a Bachelor Degree In Computer Technology at Oxford University.
In 2011, she debuted in the Kannada films with ‘Care of Footpath 2,’ in which played the role of Meera. She is the daughter of the Indian veteran Bollywood actors, Dharmendra and Hema Malini. Reportedly, she used to play as a midfielder in her school’s football team, and she was selected for the Indian national women’s football team. On 10 June 2019, she welcomed her second daughter, Miraya Takhtani. In 2018, she acted in the Hindi short film, ‘Cakewalk.’ She has received many awards for this short film. Real Mother of Sunny Deol, Bobby Deol, Vijayta Deol and Ajeeta Deol is Prakash Kaur. She is the half-sister of Sunny Deol, Bobby Deol, Vijeeta Deol, and Ajeeta Deol. Esha got married to Bharat Takhtani on 29 June 2012. Her zodiac sign is Scorpio. Hema Malini With Sunny Deol And Bobby Deol. Parkash Kaur Dharmendra is the first wife of Bollywood superstar Dharmendra aka Dharam Singh Deol. He is said to have watched her film ‘Dillagi’ released in 1949 at least 40 times.
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Ferzan Özpetek
Ferzan Ozpetek – Saturno contro AKA Saturn in Opposition (2007)
May 5, 2019 2001-2010, Comedy, Drama, Ferzan Özpetek, Italy, Queer Cinema(s) Leave a comment 1,648 Views
The sympathetically drawn, unthreatening gay characters here are practically an advertisement for this hot political topic. Abroad, the film’s biggest selling point, as with “Steam: The Turkish Bath” and “Ignorant Fairies,” is its relaxed, modern approach to gay characters and lifestyle, unusual for an Italian film. The mix of straight and gay stories, though, should broaden its appeal to a slightly wider niche. Read More »
Ferzan Ozpetek – Allacciate le cinture (2014)
December 31, 2018 2011-2020, Drama, Ferzan Özpetek, Italy Leave a comment 2,469 Views
Elena and Antonio are not made for each other: they are too different, in terms of character, life choices, worldview and the way they relate to others. They are total opposites. However they are overwhelmed by a mutual attraction that they should avoid. Not only because they are not compatible, but also because Elena is engaged to Giorgio, and Antonio is engaged to Silvia, who is Elena’s best friend. Plus Fabio, the young Elena’s best friend, hates Antonio because he is openly homophobic. Initially, between Elena and Antonio, there is physical attraction and this is the first real turbulence in Elena’s life. Everyone will have to deal with the unexpected in a sudden storm of passion that changes all the rules of the game of their relationships. However this will not be the only turbulence in Elena’s life… Read More »
Ferzan Ozpetek – Cuore Sacro AKA Sacred Heart (2005)
October 15, 2018 2001-2010, Drama, Ferzan Özpetek, Italy, Turkey Leave a comment 1,535 Views
Written by Boyd van Hoeij
Nothing less than a double suicide from a dazzling height initiates the fifth and by far best film of Italo-Turkish director Ferzan Ozpetek. With an equally dazzling central performance by another foreigner settled in Italy, Slovakian actress Barbora Bobulova, Cuore sacro (Sacred Heart) could very well win Ozpetek new fans at home and abroad as he forsakes his overly sentimental style for something both more subtle and more resonant.
Co-written and directed by Ozpetek, Cuore sacro is an exploration of goodness and religion and how they interact (and more often than not fail to interact) in Italian society in particular and the world at large. Unlike the director’s previous efforts (such as much laurelled La finestra di fronte/Facing window) there are no homosexual or otherwise marginalised or penniless protagonists; in Cuore sacro it is in fact fundamental that the main character is rich, at least at the start of the story.
Ferzan Ozpetek – La Finestra di fronte aka The Window Opposite (2003)
October 15, 2018 2001-2010, Drama, Ferzan Özpetek, Italy, Romance, Turkey Leave a comment 2,057 Views
Giovanna is a bookeeper in a company which packs chickens. She is married to a man who has a precarious job. First she starts being curious about a young man who lives in the block opposite hers, and then she falls in love with him. The relationship between the two becomes much stronger when she starts to find out more about him from an old man who bursts into their lives. The old man, obsessed with the memories of some things that happened n the long past autumn of 1943, has lost his memory and finds refuge in Giovanna.
“Facing Windows (La Finestra di fronte)” is like a very European and more sophisticated take on “The Notebook,” as it shifts between romantic and culinary past and present through the in-and-out consciousness of an elderly man. The “Rear Window” eroticism is just one element that accidentally brings together tangled, stymied lives swirling around lovely, exhausted, frustrated chef, wife and mother Giovanna Mezzogiorno, where each child, man, woman, friend and neighbor has separate priorities and fantasies that annoying real life interferes with, from the practical to the political. Read More »
Ferzan Ozpetek – Le fate ignoranti AKA His Secret Life (2001)
June 8, 2017 2001-2010, Drama, Ferzan Özpetek, Italy, Queer Cinema(s) Leave a comment 2,821 Views
When Antonia’s husband Massimo is killed in a car accident, she accidentally discovers that he has been having a same-sex affair with a produce wholesaler named Michele. Although she’s initially devastated by the news and hostile toward Michele, she soon develops a friendship with him and his and Massimo’s circle of gay, transgender, and straight friends, among whom are a Turkish immigrant, a playwright and a boutique owner. As she gets to know these people and become a part of their lives, the new relationships dramatically transform Antonia. Read More »
Ferzan Ozpetek – Magnifica presenza AKA Magnificent Presence (2012)
September 6, 2012 2011-2020, Drama, Ferzan Özpetek, Turkey Comments Off on Ferzan Ozpetek – Magnifica presenza AKA Magnificent Presence (2012) 914 Views
The only dream of Pietro is to become a famous actor. 28 year-old Pietro is so obsessed with becoming an actor that he does not mind trying every single way. He comes Rome and starts to work in a bakery. Also, at the same time, he tries to be an actor. At first, he stays with his cousin, Maria , but then he rents a house. Nevertheless, in a short time, something weird happens at the house. As if the furniture moves by itself. Then he realizes that the house was haunted by some ghosts, so with it, the adventure itself begins. Read More »
Ferzan Ozpetek – Harem suaré (1999)
March 22, 2012 1991-2000, Arthouse, Drama, Ferzan Özpetek, Turkey Comments Off on Ferzan Ozpetek – Harem suaré (1999) 5,006 Views
Plot Synopsis by Gönül Dönmez-Colin
Following the success of Hamam, Turkey-born, Italy-based Ferzan Ozpetek delivers another exotic film that delves into the traditions of his origin. Once again, the exotic city of Istanbul is the place of intrigue. But, unlike Hamam, which was a contemporary story, Harem Suare takes place at the turn of the century in the last days of the Ottoman Empire. The locale of this ornate story of love, power, and fear is the magnificent Yildiz Palace, where Sultan Abdulhamit whiles away the time listening to the finale of La Traviata as rebellions rage all over the country. The Sultan cannot stand unhappy endings, so he has asked Safiye, his favorite concubine, who is Italian, to rewrite the libretto so that Violetta does not die. Nadir, one of the black eunuchs, has plans for Safiye, whom he thinks should become the official wife. Nadir’s plans take a different turn when he and Safiye fall in love. In the harem, which is isolated from the rest of the world, life goes on with its plots and subplots, loyalties and betrayals, happiness and tragedies as if time did not exist. The story is told from the point of view of Safiye, concentrating more on human relations than on palace politics. The director plays with mirror images to reflect the two faces of personalities and the complexities of intercultural relations. Mythology is blended with sexuality, emphasizing the delicate nuances of language. The exotic element is not abused and historical details are used sparingly and only when necessary. Acting by young French actress Marie Gillain, who plays Safiye, and Lucia Bose, who plays her in old age, as well as Alex Descas as the eunuch Nadir and famous Turkish actor Haluk Bilginer as Sultan Abdulhamid are all commendable. 52nd Cannes Film Festival, 1999. Read More »
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Jasmina Khanna, who lives with cerebral palsy, has launched an initiative to make Mumbai more inclusive for all by making footpaths more accesible with the help of her NGO ‘Access to Hope’.
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Mumbai resident Jasmina Khanna, 49, loves enjoying her evenings outside under the fading sun. The passing day brings with it a sense of calm and restfulness that she can seldom feel in the day. But unlike most others, Jasmina cannot go to a park or her favourite sunset spots in the city to enjoy her evenings. On most days, she has to make do with the balconies or windows of her office or home.
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US Government Wants To Make Rental Cars More Accessible for Those With Disabilities
NHTSA believes its proposed rule will make life a lot easier for people with disabilities, especially those using a wheelchair. Sean Szymkowski
Hand controls and dedicated wheelchair transporters could be game changers when renting a vehicle.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Monday proposed a new rule that should make mobility far more accessible to those living with disabilities, especially those using a wheelchair. The government agency will move to allow rental-car companies to install hand controls and equip vehicles with rear-mounted transporters for wheelchairs or scooters — essential to so many American drivers.
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Information used by disabled passengers to check if a rail station is accessible is frequently “wildly inaccurate”, and often leads them to book travel to and from stations they cannot access, according to new research.
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The FuelService App: Solving Driver’s with Disabilities Major Problem of Getting Gas
The age-old problem, for drivers with disabilities, of having to find assistance to get Full Service at a Self-Serve gas stations has finally been solved.
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Advocates Fear AVs Will Leave Disabled Riders Behind
December 9, 2020 Editor
For Carol Tyson, a recent proposal that would advance the commercialization of self-driving vehicles brought familiar pangs of frustration.
Like so many others, Tyson, an advocate for people with disabilities, believes autonomous transportation holds the potential to unlock newfound independence and mobility for millions of Americans. However, blueprints for that future are missing vital components, namely vehicle designs and regulatory frameworks that address considerations for riders with disabilities.
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CTA Releases “What We Heard” report on Phase II of its Accessible Transportation for Persons with Disabilities Regulations
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Former Lawyers File Human Rights Complaints, Allege Accessibility Issues in Manitoba Courts
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MPI Compensation ‘Laughable,’ Senior Says – Not Offering Enough to Replace Electric Wheelchair
October 7, 2020 Editor
Three months ago, Arthur Ray was crossing Main Street in his motorized wheelchair when a vehicle hit him and damaged the wheelchair significantly, leaving the 76-year-old without a way to safely get around.
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Duga / The Rainbow
Joško Marušić
Croatia / 2010 / 74' 0''
This film tells us the story about the hidden war, a war between generations, war in which always children lose. Through dramatic and picturesque tale, we discover two legends interweaving. One is about a father and a son, and the other of a young girl Srna (Doe) who is profoundly affected by the harshness of the world around and decides to take a walk beneath the rainbow to transform into a boy. This film try to tell parents: Talk to your children before it is too late!
Joško Marušić (1952) graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Zagreb. He has since been active in various media: cartoon, caricature, illustration, literature, film production and television. Illustration and animation, however, remain central to his work. Twice the art director of Zagreb Film, he was also the program director of the World Festival of Animated Films in Zagreb from 1992 till 1998, as well as the president of the Festival’s Council from 2000 till 2006. Since 1999, he has served as head of the Department of Animation at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, where he teaches three theoretical subjects, and also acts as tutor. His most important, award-winning films are: Inside and Out (1977), Perpetuo (1978), Fisheye (1980), Skyscraper (1981), Over There (1985), Home Is The Best (1988), Miss Link (1998).
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Corporate Screenings of An Inconvenient Sequel
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, is a Hollywood documentary film featuring former US Vice President Al Gore in his tireless fight traveling around the world training an army of climate champions and influencing international climate policy.
Cameras follow him behind the scenes – in moments both private and public, funny and poignant – as he pursues the inspirational idea that while the stakes have never been higher, the perils of climate change can be overcome with human ingenuity and passion.
As noted by The International Environmental Communication Association, Al Gore is the most distinguished environmental communicator today. We second the opinion and are certain that the documentary An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power along with its accompanying book are the latest and most effective climate change communication tools available.
Following the Indonesia Premiere of the movie we encouraged corporations and organizations to have a nobar with their employees and networks to mainstream the issue of the climate crisis and its solutions.
Nobar, in Bahasa Indonesia, short for Nonton Bareng or literally translated as Watching Together is a group screening, bettern known as Theater Party.
Two companies immediately supported the nobar idea, PT, Bank HSBC Indonesia and Lintas Group, a telecommunication holding company.
PT Bank HSBC Indonesia
Part of HSBC Group that in 1884 opened its first branch in Indonesia, PT Bank HSBC Indonesia offers a deep range of products and services in commercial, wholesale and retail banking & wealth management. It now has 99 branches in 29 cities all over Indonesia, employing 4800 people.
As the finance sector has an important role in efforts to combat climate change successfully, the HSBC Group states that it will play its full part in the critical transition to a low-carbon economy. It has committed to cut annual carbon emissions from 3.5 tons per employee in 2011 to 2 tons by 2020. In its work with communities the HSBC aims at helping young people reach their potential through access to education and entrepreneurship.
Nuni Sutyoko, Senior Vice President and Head of Corporate Sustainability at PT Bank HSBC Indonesia, strongly suggested organizing the nobar immediately after the Indonesia Premier, to keep the momentum going.
PT. Bank HSBC Indonesia describes the documentary as a movie about how close we are to a real climate crisis and to get ready to make a difference for the future of our planet, for the future of our children.
A nobar was successfully held on Monday 18 September 2017 at Studio 2 Epicetrum XXI with a 300-seat capacity. In addition to its employees, PT Bank HSBC Indonesia invited officials from the British Embassy and representative of non-government organizations.
In her remarks at the nobar, Nuni Sutyoko recognized the importance of film as one of the best ways to deliver climate change message. She firmly believes that we all can contribute in understanding the issue and finding the solutions to the climate crisis.
Lintas Group
Since its establishment in 2011, Lintas Group Holding Company have successfully deployed core infrastructure, applications and managed services solutions to major telecommunication operator across the Indonesian archipelago and abroad.
Lintas Group of Companies consists of PT Lintas Teknologi Indonesia (telco industries), PT Logistik Teknologi Indonesia (enterprise industries), PT Informatika Solusi Bisnis (technology training), and PT LT International (overseas ICT market).
Lintas Group who was one of the supporters of the Indonesia Premier organized the nobar in the 300-seat Studio 2 of Epicentrum XXI, in conjuction with its regular Town Meeting on October 6th. The program started with lunch, followed by company update and announcement of its employees of the quarter, and nobar as the finale.
Subagia Handaja, the President Director and Founder of Lintas Group, informed us that the screening was mandatory for all of its 200 employees, including the Board of Directors.
Those who did not attend the movie screening will be noted and have their work performance points reduced, affecting year-end bonus. Employees on field duty were exempted with letters of permission from their managers.
A highlight of the screening was a quiz by the company's Finance Director to all employees: "Write down what Al Gore says in the movie that is relevant to our company.”
Employees put their answers in a box and six people who gave the best answers received US $250 each as gifts from the Finance Director personally (not company funds).
We were all curious on what should be the answer, and found out a week later that the correct answer was: Mother Nature can’t be fooled.
Time and again we mention that nobar of An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power is a powerful opportunity to help raise awareness and to catalyze a global solution to the climate crisis by making urgent action a necessity across every level of society.
Corporations and organizations benefit from the nobar as they are recognized as leading proponents to spread the truth about the climate crisis and the importance of implementing solutions together. Nobar encourages employees and students invited to be in the forefront of the movement to solve climate change problems, by gaining comprehensive knowledge and becoming agents of change.
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Contest alert! It's Woodsy the Owl's 50th Birthday!
The 2021 poster contest is dedicated to Woodsy Owl’s 50th birthday! Students from first through fifth grade are invited to participate in the 2021 Poster Contest! Brought to you by the National Garden Clubs, Inc. and the US Forest Service.
Help us celebrate Woodsy's birthday by observing conservation practices and by participating in the poster contest. The U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and the National Garden Clubs, Inc. are giving students the opportunity to demonstrate their understanding of basic environmental conservation principles through original drawings of Woodsy Owl.
Send 2021 entries to your State Woodsy Owl or State Youth Chair by January 22, 2021.
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There's still a little time to register for this wonderful panel discussion on Dyslexia
Tonight at 6pm we plan on a fabulous program on Dyslexia. Just register here for the Zoom information: https://calendar.libraryweb.org/event/7129596
Can't make it to the panel discussion? Check out some of our books about helping those with Dyslexia that we have at the library!
Our New STEAM Kits are here!
As a parent of an 11 and 15 year old, I have found that my job as Mom has changed quite a bit. That made me think, there are a lot of parents out there who have had to change. That's why when I found these kits I realized that I would be foolish not to purchase these, because we need to adapt and think in different ways. I'm hoping that this is one way that we can do this.
Here are the kits that I purchased:
All About Dinosaurs Kit
Electronics, Coding & Bots Kit
Engineering Gears and Mazes Kit
Everyday Science Kit
Examine Science and Nature Kit
Explore the Outdoors Kit
I Love Animals Kit
Yoga for Mindfulness Kit
Each kit has different items that make the learning experience more interesting. While we don't have all of them ready to check out, we have a few and we are getting more of them ready. We want to make sure that we can make change easier for parents and I think this is one of those ways.
Depending on the popularity we will make sure to get more (unless we run out of space!)
A big thank you to you parents who are having to change and adapt your jobs as parents. You are all awesome!
Two posts in one week? She's Crazy! NO! Its Comic Book Day!
I love comic books. I love that there are now so many topics ... not just superheros, but non-fiction, classic literature and real life happenings! I love that I can learn a little bit about dinosaurs or physics and a second later I can read the Babysitters' Club. Too much fun for one day. :) We have a HUGE collection of comic books just waiting at Chili for you, from Disney to Iron Man. Here are some suggestions that I have been reading recently:
by Telgemeier, Raina
Bats : learning to fly
by Koch, FalynnEvery volume of Science Comics offers a complete introduction to a particular topic--dinosaurs, coral reefs, the solar system, volcanoes, bats, flying machines, and more. These gorgeously illustrated graphic novels offer wildly entertaining views of their subjects. Whether you're a fourth grader doing a natural science unit at school or a thirty-year-old with a secret passion for airplanes, these books are for you.
This volume: In Bats, we follow a little brown bat whose wing is injured by humans on a nature hike. He is taken to a bat rehabilitation center where he meets many different species of bats. They teach him how they fly, what they eat, and where they like to live.
Cheshire Crossing
by Weir, Andy
What happens to Alice when she comes back from Wonderland? Wendy from Neverland? Dorothy from Oz? The three meet here, at Cheshire Crossing -- a boarding school where girls like them learn how to cope with their supernatural experiences and harness their magical world-crossing powers. But the trio -- now teenagers, who've had their fill of meddling authority figures -- aren't content to sit still in a classroom. Soon they're dashing from one universe to the next, leaving havoc in their wake -- and, inadvertently, bringing the Wicked Witch and Hook together in a deadly supervillain love match. To stop them, the girls will have to draw on all of their powers... and marshal a team of unlikely allies from across the magical multiverse.
This whole year should have been Dear Diary Day. So much craziness going on you should have been keeping record of it. I tried to get my kiddos to do it, but could not convince them. I, however write in a journal every night. I do it electronically, but I use a stylus, because I like the act of writing. Since many of you have electronic devices for school, you could do it that way, or just use a notebook! Easy peasey.
It doesn't all have to be words either. It can be doodles or taped on images If you're going the electronic route, emojis, photos or other images could be used.
Need some ideas when writing your diary? Here are some books:
Diary of a wimpy kid : Greg Heffley's journal
by Kinney, Jeff
Can't start with anything but this "classic" ...
Greg records his sixth grade experiences in a middle school where he and his best friend, Rowley, undersized weaklings amid boys who need to shave twice daily, hope just to survive, but when Rowley grows more popular, Greg must take drastic measures to save their friendship.
The Night Diary
by Veera Hiranandani
(this one is available on Overdrive right now!)
It's 1947, and India, newly independent of British rule, has been separated into two countries: Pakistan and India. The divide has created much tension between Hindus and Muslims, and hundreds of thousands are killed crossing borders.
Half-Muslim, half-Hindu twelve-year-old Nisha doesn't know where she belongs, or what her country is anymore. When Papa decides it's too dangerous to stay in what is now Pakistan, Nisha and her family become refugees and embark first by train but later on foot to reach her new home. The journey is long, difficult, and dangerous, and after losing her mother as a baby, Nisha can't imagine losing her homeland, too. But even if her country has been ripped apart, Nisha still believes in the possibility of putting herself back together.
Told through Nisha's letters to her mother, The Night Diary is a heartfelt story of one girl's search for home, for her own identity...and for a hopeful future.
Diary of Sarah Gillespie : a pioneer farm girl
by Huftalen, Sarah Gillespie
Twelve year old Sarah Gillespie and her family struggled to make a life for themselves on the Great Plains. Crops and animals needed constant care. Neighbors depended on one another for survival. Through it all, Sarah wrote down her experiences in a diary. Read her story, and learn about the American frontier from someone who lived on it.
Dear America series
I thought my soul would rise and fly : the diary of Patsy,a freed girl
by Hansen, Joyce
This is just one of the many in this series that uses diary format to discuss what life would be like for kids during that time period.
Patsy, an orphaned slave with a bad leg and a quiet nature, is considered slow by the Davis family. But Patsy's smart -- smart enough to learn to read and write on the sly. After the Civil War ends and slavery is abolished, Patsy believes Master Davis's promise to pay the former house slaves and to educate the slave children. But when the master ignores his promise to establish a schoo, and the Freedmen's Bureau cannot provide a teacher, Patsy steps in to teach the students to read and write.
WE started our fall storytimes today and it was a blast!
We did our first storytime of the season today at 10am and it was so much fun. We started with princesses, because some of our Zoom storytime regulars wanted to start with that, but we didn't use just normal princesses, we had some AMAZING princesses! :) Then we asked what they would be interested in next and one of the boys hollered DRAGONS! So next week we're all about ... you guessed it ... dragons! While its not as much fun as seeing you all live, doing storytime on Zoom makes it easier for our friends to feel comfortable wiggling and giggling a little more. Curious to see what happens? Sign up here: https://calendar.libraryweb.org/event/6860508
Have a younger child between birth-24 months? Why not join us on Facebook for a Live event Tuesdays at 10am. No sign up necessary, just go to our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/chililibrary
Fall is making its appearance
School is almost here, in its new sort of way, and with that comes fall and all of our fall programs. We're still going to be virtual this fall and we're going to take it easy this month so that people can get used to the changes, but in October, November and December we'll have some fun programs to keep you going.
You can look at the programs "calendar view" here, but here are our programs all pretty like. :)
First week of summer reading went great!
We had quite a few excited people show up for their beads and brag tag last week. If you didn't have time to come in and get your brag tag last week, we still have plenty of them, so feel free to come by and get them! We'll have them at the children's reference desk.
Check out our fabulous prizes below!
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Lamborghini Huracán LP 610-4 revealed
December 23rd, 2013 // Posted in Lamborghini
Lamborghini has taken the wraps off its Gallardo replacement, the Cabrera. Except it’s not called the Cabrera at all, it’s been named the Huracan.
As is customary, Huracan is named after a bull, this one fought in Spain back in 1879 and apparently he took no crap from those poncey guys waving capes. And with 448kW (610hp) at 8250rpm and 560Nm at 6500rpm you won’t be easily pushed around either.
Coupled to a new 7-speed dual clutch transmission (Lamborghini Doppia Frizione or LDF) and an all-wheel drive system the Huracan brushes off 100km/h in only 3.2 seconds. The double century is knocked off in 9.9 seconds and it has a top speed of 325km/h.
A combination of carbon fibre and aluminium has been used to form the Huracan’s “hybrid chassis” helping to keep the its dry weight to 1422kg. Not superlight by any means, but a power-to-weight ratio of 2.33kg/hp is pretty handy.
The look of the latest beast from Sant’Agata is very much inspired by the outgoing Gallardo. That’s no bad thing as the Gallardo not only looked fantastic—it still looks great today in fact—but it is also Lambo’s highest ever selling model, with more than 14,000 finding homes.
The Huracan will make its full public debut at the Geneva Motorshow in March. Before then, though, it will be shown to select clientele at a series of invite-only preview events.
When the Huracan comes to Australia in the second half of next year it’s expected to be priced from around $430,000. That’s a drop in price of over $100,000 compared with the top-selling Gallardo.
The new Lamborghini Huracán LP 610-4: A new dimension in Luxury Super Sports Cars
Innovative technology and absolute performance redefine the super sports car experience
Pure and powerfully dynamic design language
New V10 with 610 hp, acceleration from 0-100 km/h in 3.2 seconds, top speed of over 325 km/h
From January 2014: private preview events for qualified prospects
Sant’Agata Bolognese, 20.12.2013 – A new era is beginning for Automobili Lamborghini and the luxury super sports car segment: with the brand new Huracán Lamborghini is not only presenting the successor to the iconic Gallardo, but is also redefining the benchmark for luxury super sports cars in this segment. With its pure and unique design, an innovative technology package, outstanding dynamics and excellent quality, the Huracán offers a super sports car experience on a whole new level. The Huracán combines absolute performance with easy-to-drive road behavior and both luxurious and sport-oriented finish. With the Huracán, Lamborghini is taking a big step into the future, and enhancing the brand’s illustrious history with the next automotive legend.
Starting from January 2014 the Huracán will be the protagonist of over 130 private preview events in more than 60 cities throughout the world.
The Lamborghini Huracán will make its world public debut at the Geneva Motorshow 2014.
With a total volume of 14,022 cars produced, the Lamborghini Gallardo has been the most successful Lamborghini ever and, in its ten-year lifecycle, lifted the Lamborghini marque to a whole new level. Its successor, the new Huracán, has been developed from scratch down to the very last detail and, like the Gallardo and most other Lamborghini models, derives its name from the world of bullfighting. The fighting bull Huracán of the Spanish Conte de la Patilla breed was known for his outstanding courage and strong sense of attack. He fought in Alicante in August 1879, showing his unrelenting character and remaining defiant and invincible, thus entering into the legend of fighting bulls’ history.
The new Huracán revolutionizes the design language of the Gallardo and is pure in its lines: precise technology and top level craftsmanship meet an audacious design with sharp edges, monolithic and sculptured volumes and precise surfaces. The starting point is the silhouette of the Huracán, born out of the desire of creating an automobile, whose profile is defined by only one line that merges the front with the cockpit and the rear of the car. The lateral windows come together to create a hexagonal form inserted like a glass jewel in the car’s profile.
Also by night is the Huracán unmistakably a Lamborghini. Not only are the main headlamps equipped with full LED illumination, but all other light functions also feature state-of-the-art LED technology as a standard feature for the first time in the segment.
The interior is dominated by an innovative cockpit. A 12.3 inch full-color TFT instrument panel delivers all car information to the driver, from rev counter to navigation maps and infotainment functions, and can be configured by the driver in different setups. Fine Nappa leather and Alcantara distinguish the interior, with several color combinations offered to ensure broad individualization options. The design of dashboard and central tunnel underline a new lightness in the interior. Superb craftsmanship guarantees the highest quality and sense of luxury throughout.
Chassis and powertrain
Systematic lightweight design and Automobili Lamborghini’s extensive expertise in carbon fiber come together in the Huracán’s new hybrid chassis – an integrated structure of carbon and aluminum elements. With a dry weight of 1,422 kg it enables not only the excellent power-to-weight ratio of just 2.33 kilograms per horse power, but also guarantees race-car precision with outstanding stiffness.
The new 5.2 liter V10 engine delivers a maximum power of 448 kW / 610 HP at 8,250 rpm and a maximum torque of 560 Nm at 6.500 rpm. In the new “Iniezione Diretta Stratificata” (IDS), direct and indirect gasoline injections are smartly combined. This results in more power and torque with lower fuel consumption and emissions compared with the Gallardo V10 engine. The top speed of over 325 km/h and the acceleration from 0 to 100 km/h in 3.2 seconds and to 200 km/h in 9.9 seconds only partially describe the dynamic experience at the wheel of the Huracán. Also thanks to the Stop & Start technology, the combined EU consumption figure has been further reduced to 12.5 liters per 100 km (290 g/km CO2 emissions). The engine complies with EU6 emissions regulation.
Driving dynamics
The power of the V10 engine is brought to the road via the new 7-speed dual-clutch transmission “Lamborghini Doppia Frizione” (LDF) and fully electronically controlled four-wheel drive system. The different driving modes of the Huracán can be selected via a driving dynamics selector switch in the steering wheel – from traction-oriented on the road to extreme performance on the race track, with three setups of the dynamics system: STRADA, SPORT and CORSA. The different modes ensure extensive modification in road behavior of the Huracán. In particular they influence the set-ups of several systems, such as the gearbox and engine behavior, the sound, the four-wheel-drive system and electronic stability control. The Huracán’s carbon-ceramic brakes are a standard feature for consistently superb braking performance. The “Lamborghini Dynamic Steering” variable steering ratio system and magneto-rheologic suspension damper control are both available as options for further customization of the Huracán’s dynamic behavior. They are also calibrated via the three different dynamic set-ups.
The Huracán is produced at the Automobili Lamborghini headquarters in Sant’Agata Bolognese on an entirely newly-equipped production line. Delivery to the first customers is planned for spring 2014.
3 comment(s) for “Lamborghini Huracán LP 610-4 revealed”
looks too much like the lotus concepts.
http://cdn.caradvice.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/lotus-elan-concept-1.jpg
I like this a lot. Looks better than Lotus concept and it’s real.
600hp+ would be nice!
It is yellow, so is a bit similar to the Lotus. Sexy looking car, though. Enough of a nod to the outgoing Gallardo but still fresh.
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Feb 28, 2014: AUSmotive.com » Lamborghini Huracan ready to march forth
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fingernails down a blackboard.
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Luxor in Egypt.
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2 more Oklahoma St football players positive for COVID-19
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Ohio State QB Fields declares for draft
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STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) Two more Oklahoma State football players have tested positive for COVID-19 since returning to campus for voluntary workouts, bringing the total to three.
Senior associate athletic director Kevin Klintworth wrote on his Twitter account Wednesday that of the 150 staff, administrators and athletes tested, three athletes had asymptomatic positives.
Linebacker Amen Ogbongbemiga announced Tuesday he tested positive after he attended a protest in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The other two players were not identified.
"Positives were expected and the plan for that scenario has been activated," Klintworth wrote. "We will be as forthcoming as possible on the covid issues."
OSU spokesman Gavin Lang said there would be no additional comment.
Marshall University in West Virginia announced Monday two of its football players and one staff member tested positive. Iowa State said Wednesday a student worker in its athletic department tested positive and that four athletes were showing symptoms and awaiting test results.
The three positives at Oklahoma State come two months after Cowboys coach Mike Gundy was criticized for being insensitive in comments about the nation's response to the pandemic. He referenced the financial impact of football while suggesting players should return to campus as early as May 1.
"They're in good shape, they're all 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 years old, they're healthy," Gundy said April 7. "A lot of them can fight it off with their natural body, the antibodies and build that they have. There's some people that are asymptomatic.
"If that's true, then yeah, we sequester them. And people say, `That's crazy.' No, it's not crazy, because we need to continue to budget and run money through the state of Oklahoma."
Gundy apologized four days later, saying he understood his comments offended some people and that his first priority is the well-being of student-athletes.
The Big 12 is allowing schools to bring football players to campus for voluntary workouts beginning June 15.
Oklahoma State this week announced a phased approach for the return of its players.
Under the plan, players who test positive are quarantined in separate housing and treated by medical staff. Contact tracing is done, and all that have been in contact will be instructed to quarantine and have symptoms monitored for a period determined by health and medical officials.
After the determined quarantine time, if the traced contact group is not showing symptoms, the affected player will be retested for COVID-19 prior to resuming activities. Upon receiving a negative test, they will await specific instructions from the team physician and/or the athletic training staff regarding a return to activities.
For most people, the coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms that clear up within weeks. But for others, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, the highly contagious virus can cause severe symptoms and be fatal. The vast majority of people recover.
More AP college football: https://apnews.com/Collegefootball and https://twitter.com/AP-Top25
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A Luxurious Retreat in the Eternal City
Fendi Private Suites is ideally situated right in the heart of Rome—a stone’s throw from the Spanish Steps and Trevi Fountain, and within walking distance to Piazza Navona, the Pantheon and Vatican City.
You can now not only shop at Fendi’s flagship boutique in Rome, but stay there. The third floor of the Maison’s stunning home, Palazzo Fendi, has been transformed into the world’s very first Fendi hotel.
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With enchanting views over the Via dei Condotti and Piazza di Spagna, the bright Palazzo Suite 2 features two separate, connected areas: an elegant master bedroom and a welcoming living area that blend comfort and luxury…
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Deluxe Suite 5 is the best choice for those in search of privacy: a perfect oasis for romance, relaxation or concentration—but just a stone's throw away from Rome’s social life. The sleeping area and living area are…
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So much more than just a store, the grand Palazzo Fendi allows guests to fully experience the magic of Fendi. Palazzo Fendi combines the Maison's commitment to creativity in all forms - from its collections to its architecture to its ever-changing installations created in collaboration with emerging artists.
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Fendi's Flagship Boutique spans two floors, featuring architectural elements that pay homage to the Maison's Roman roots while infusing the space with an innovative energy. Browse the latest collections or learn more about Fendi's almost century-long history of groundbreaking design.
The second floor of Palazzo Fendi has been transformed into a private, luxuriously-curated space reserved only for Fendi's most exclusive guests.
An aperitivo with a view - that's what a vacation in Rome is all about. Visit the top two floors of Palazzo Fendi for an unforgettable meal at Zuma. The Japanese fusion menu is authentic but assuredly modern, with twists and surprises that delight the palette.
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“Carefully Prayerful”
Be careful what you pray for!
In the first chapter of Acts, the prelude to all the Pentecost Day drama, we learn that in the days immediately following Jesus’ ascension, the apostles and other Jesus followers developed the habit of meeting together. And that, as the scripture says, “all these were constantly devoting themselves to prayer.”
In the history of the church, togetherness plus devotion plus prayer seems to be the formula for all kinds of wonderful surprise: wind and fire, Spirit and power, and language that transforms and unites.
On Pentecost Sunday last year, our construction project was just beginning. We thought it would be a simple and straightforward update to this old building. Sure, we hoped it would widen our welcome and bring more and different kinds of people into the building, but also into the healing and transforming love of God.
And so we came together on that day, beginning our worship outside, standing next to a chain-link construction fence. And so we blessed, raising our hands toward this building. And so we prayed, daring to imagine that God was doing a new thing.
“As old structures come down and new possibilities take shape,” we said together, “may all people know this as a place of extravagant welcome. … May God continue to bless this big old building, that it might always be refuge for the homeless, sustenance for the hungry, community for the broken, light in the darkness, and a wellspring of hope, justice, peace, and love for Amherst and the world.”
Little did we know what the next year—the next few months, even—would bring.
In a couple of weeks, we would declare ourselves an immigrant-welcoming congregation. But we had no intention of becoming a sanctuary church, and we had not yet even heard the name Lucio Perez—much less met the man. But Lucio, a hard-working, God-loving father of four from Guatemala, was praying, too—in Spanish.
And the Spirit was moving, the Spirit was connecting disparate dots, the Spirit was doing something new in us and among us.
And so it was on that Pentecost so long ago. Jews from all over the known world had come to Jerusalem to celebrate the feast of Shavuot, a festival of thanksgiving for the spring harvest that comes 50 days after the beginning of Passover, a festival that also includes thanksgiving for God’s deliverance of the law to Moses on Mount Sinai. Jews had come, with their many different languages, to offer sacrifices and worship in the temple. They had crowded Jerusalem’s narrow streets; they created a mighty and messy energy.
The Jesus followers, meanwhile, were separated from all that, huddled as they were behind closed doors, devoting themselves to prayer.
Togetherness plus devotion plus prayer.
And then, all of a sudden, there was a loud noise, like the roar of a tornado. Then there seemed to be fire. Then there was a holy indwelling. And then there was chaotic speech. And things were never the same after that.
Be careful what you pray for—because prayer changes things, prayer changes us, prayer opens hearts, prayer tears down walls. Be especially careful when you pray, “Come, Holy Spirit,” because she is no quiet, heavenly dove. Spirit is the dramatically powerful force that blows the church into being—a church full of immigrants, mind you, a church built out of difference and diversity. Be careful when you call on the Spirit, because she is also the powerfully dramatic force that can blow the lid off the church.
Be carefully prayerful, because the Spirit brings new language when she comes—language that brings people together, language that opens pathways of understanding and compassion, language that enlarges and reshapes community, language that enlivens, language that empowers, language that creates, language that changes the world.
The language of the Spirit is love—God’s extravagant love for us, our love for God, our love for one another, love that calls to love, a love that may not even realize how deeply it longs to love. Love is the language that breaks down barriers. Love is the language that unites. Love is the language all people—all creatures—can understand. Love is the language of openness. Love is the language of community and sharing. And love is the language of justice—for, as the African American professor and thinker Cornel West says, “justice is what love looks like in public.”
Be careful, because the Spirit blows where she will. Be careful, because the Spirit of Love is poured out on all people. Be careful, because the Spirit turns things upside-down and inside-out. Be careful, because the Spirit will call you out of yourself and into something greater than yourself. Be careful, because the Spirit will shake up the church, blurring the lines between in and out. Be careful, because the Spirit will send us out beyond these walls to love the world.
Be careful, and be prayerful, because you never know when you will need Spirit’s power.
Be careful, and be prayerful, because the Spirit of God is not the only force at work in the world. There is greed and racism, there is hatred and violence, all manner of oppression and injustice. There are forces that would separate us from one another. There are forces, too, of biology and bacteria, forces of disease and possible destruction that compel us to heed their power.
Be careful, and be prayerful, because you will need Spirit’s power to reckon with these forces. Be careful, and be prayerful, because in this beautiful but broken world we need God’s Spirit working in and through the young and old, the churched and un-churched, citizens and immigrants, friends and strangers, beloveds and those who work our last nerve. Be careful, and be prayerful, because the day will come when, whether or not the U.S. government is out to tear you away from your family, whether or not you are wearing an ankle monitoring bracelet that tells Immigration and Customs Enforcement exactly where you are at every moment, whether or not you are facing deportation to a dangerous place, you may need the Spirit to make a way out of no way.
Be careful, and be prayerful, because whether or not you realize it, someday you, too, will need Spirit’s love language to be spoken by all people—from your estranged family member to the person you’re asking for a job to the enemy who tempts you to hatred, from the drunk and homeless man berating you from his street-corner perch to the bishop preaching love and power to billions at a royal wedding.
Be careful, and be prayerful, because you will need Spirit’s prophetic power to be exercised by all people—from the hospital CEO, who shows up in sneakers within minutes of your arrival at the ER and for four days does everything she can to protect you, to the surgeon who operates, the church members who play Crazy Eights with your daughter while you are in surgery, the nurse who weeps over the injustice of your situation, the compadres who accompany you every minute you are in hospital, the activists and pastors who strategize your release, and the community that celebrates your return to the safety of sanctuary with a song of thanksgiving to God.
Be careful and be prayerful, gather together regularly in devotion and holy imagination, because we all need Spirit’s help to heal and open our hearts, to see what is possible, to inspire us to follow Christ’s call, to give us courage and hope. Be careful and be prayerful, because, while we may not speak Spanish, we all need to be fluent in the language of love.
Be prayerful and be careful, because we just never know what the Spirit will do next. Be prayerful and be careful, because Spirit moves where and how she will. Be prayerful and be careful, because Spirit love for all God’s children will open our hearts to fear as well as courage, to pain as well as joy.
Lucio and his family, Lucio and all we who love him, experienced it all last week. Even in the pain, Spirit was there. Even in the fear and uncertainty, Spirit was there. Even in the chaos and frustration, Spirit was there.
If our joy in the Spirit seems a bit muted this morning, it is only because some of us are a but wrung out. If our gratitude is quiet, it is only because we weep when we try to speak of it.
But we have no doubt that God’s Holy Spirit is here: surprising us, pushing us, healing us, bringing us together, changing us and the world.
So let us continue to be prayerful. Let us pray that, between now and the next Pentecost Sunday, God’s Spirit will continue to surprise us, continue to expand our understanding of love and church, that Spirit power will continue to overcome the powers of this world, that Spirit will return Lucio to his home and his family. Let us pray, in the words of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as spoken at yesterday’s royal wedding, that we will continue to “discover the power of love, the power, the redemptive power of love. And [that] when we discover that we will be able to make of this old world a new world.”
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Key Liverpool star appears to have made decision over Real Madrid move
June 11, 2019 Samuel Banahene
Liverpool star Sadio Mane has hinted about his decision over a potential switch to Real Madrid, following what was a very successful season at Anfield with Jurgen Klopp’s side.
The former Southampton star finished the Premier League season as the joint-top scorer along with teammate Mohamed Salah and Arsenal striker Pierre Emerick-Aubameyang.
Mane has become one of the most lethal forwards in Europe, ever since he left the Saints to join the Reds, who have featured in the Champions League final for the last two seasons.
The 27-year-old did score of course, when Liverpool lost to Real Madrid in the 2018 final, and the La Liga club appear to have kept their eyes on him ever since.
Spanish source Diario Gol have previously reported that Madrid are keen on bringing the Senegal star to the Santiago Bernabeu this summer, after reappointing Zinidine Zidane as the manager.
Speaking after Liverpool won their sixth European title though, Mane hinted that his decision is to remain at the club as he vowed to the fans that there is “more” to come from him and his teammates.
“We have more things to come,” he said, as per Goal.com
“We will do everything to win [more] trophies with this squad. We are very proud and very happy to win this trophy. The dream has come true.
“I could not have anything better.”
Vickery suggests £142m star could join Tottenham for Pochettino’s sake
‘I might get tested’ – Leeds star hints at building interest over Elland Road exit
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In chapter eighteen, Russell settles down to read. The book is written by Dr. Watson, Holmes' assistant who has lately become too elderly to help. She reads again about Sir Henry Baskerville who comes to the moor to claim his inheritance, Baskerville Hall. Russell catches what Homes had wanted her to find. It was noted that Ketteridge had bought Baskerville Hall complete, as it was from the previous owner. In the book, there's a reference to a portrait hanging in the dining room - a portrait that wasn't there when they'd visited Baskerville Hall. Holmes believes the portrait was removed in the hope that he wouldn't notice the resemblance of Scheiman to Stapleton Baskerville. Stapleton was heir to the estate and had disappeared during the Baskerville Hound case. Holmes says that he has never really believed that...
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Latest Pension Ruling Likely To Create Future Uncertainty
March 14, 2019 By Chris Reed 4 Comments
For the second time in two years, the California Supreme Court has released a ruling on a large state issue that analysts say creates new uncertainty going forward.
Last week, the court issued its long-awaited decision in a court case involving a Sacramento local firefighters union that alleged a provision of the 2012 pension reform measure approved by the Legislature and signed by then-Gov. Jerry Brown was illegal under the “California Rule.” That’s the legal concept stemming from a 1955 state Supreme Court ruling that holds the terms of a public employee’s pension benefit cannot be reduced for years not yet worked, only kept the same or increased.
Cal Fire Local 2881 said that the pension reform’s ban on “air time” – the purchase of service credits to enhance pensions – violated the California Rule. But a unanimous state Supreme Court said “air time” was not a comprehensively bargained or legislatively approved vested right.
Yet in the lead opinion, Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye (pictured) explicitly said she was not taking a position on the California Rule question of whether pension terms could be changed going forward for years not worked.
This mixed message produced media confusion. Some news bulletins declared the justices had approved allowing a rollback of local benefits. Others suggested the California Rule had dodged a bullet.
Was ‘California Rule’ weakened or untouched?
Interest groups were similarly split.
Officials with the League of California Cities saw the court’s willingness to change the terms of pensions on a relatively minor issue as a sign it was open to a significant weakening of the California Rule. The league and many like groups hope for a state Supreme Court ruling that echoes a lower court’s ruling that pensions are not “immutable.” They were heartened by Cantil-Sakauye specifically noting the state had raised the retirement age from 67 to 70 for current as well as prospective employees.
But the Californians for Retirement Security, which represents 1.6 million public employees and former public employees, declared victory after noting that Cantil-Sakauye had specifically said “air time” was changeable because it was not a vested right – unlike basic pension formulas basing retirement checks on years worked times a percent of late-career salary.
The group and others also cited a concurring opinion written by Justice Leondra Kruger and joined by Justice Goodwin Liu that held that government employers could not “withdraw” from the pension terms established upon initial employment by “an implied unilateral contract.”
The state Supreme Court is expected to eventually take up at least two more cases involving union objections to the 2012 pension reform, so the sanctity and extent of the California Rule is likely to remain in the news. In his final year in office, Gov. Jerry Brown repeatedly urged the court to give governments the option to change future pension terms as pension costs have crowded out local, county and school programs and services. Brown’s office defended the 2012 reform law before the high court because of concern that state Attorney General Xavier Becerra was not eager to defend it.
Like 2017 case, ruling seen as murky, not clarifying
But in the meantime, last week’s ruling seems as murky as the court’s decision in the 2017 California Cannabis Coalition v. City of Upland case. Previously, Proposition 218, approved by voters in 1996, had been understood to require that any tax whose revenue would go to a special purpose – building a sports arena, adding libraries, etc. – had to be approved by a two-thirds vote.
Upending decades of precedent, the state Supreme Court held in a 5-2 decision that the two-thirds threshold applied only to ballot measures initiated by local governments. Because they were not local government measures, those qualified by citizen initiatives only needed simple majority support to be enacted.
In dissent, Justice Kruger took square aim at the idea that this interpretation was what voters expected in 1996 when they made it harder for local governments to raise taxes.
Kruger wrote, “A tax passed by voter initiative, no less than a tax passed by vote of the city council, is a tax of the local government, to be collected by the local government, to raise revenue for the local government. None of this could have been lost on the electorate that, also by initiative, amended the California Constitution to set ground rules for voter approval of local taxes.”
This article was originally published by CalWatchdog.com
Filed Under: Top Stories Tagged With: California Rule, California Supreme Court, Jerry Brown, pension, pensions
Bogiewheel says
I assume everyone is completely confused regarding this issue. I guess
this is exactly what the court desired.
TheRandyGuy says
The CA SC has clearly been politicized in favor of the unions that run Sacramento. The obvious problem is as long as the CA Rule is untouched, the debt will continue to grow. More of current day local government revenue will be diverted to pay the unreasonable pension costs. Everybody knows what the unions want – more taxes. Unless the SC actually issues a ruling invalidating the CA Rule, we will get them.
JLSeagull says
Seeing that the CA Supreme Court justices seem to be ignorant of the cuts necessary to balance local budgets due to increased public pension costs, the appropriate action would be to reduce future Supreme Court budgets by a similar percentage as cuts to local budgets. That way they can feel the pain also.
askeptic says
CA is rushing hell-bent to destruction, led by a, at best, myopic judiciary; or, at worst, one that is just plain evil, in the way it maintains the framework of the State’s own destruction.
The People have already suffered through the regime of one evil Chief Justice, and is now saddled with another.
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Policing, Unlicensed Raves and Safer Partying in the UK
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Art Therapy and addiction: Michelle Guinness talks to the SSA
“When a client presents an image to the group, they offer a view of themselves, of their internal world which can be full of symbols and metaphors” | SSA, UK
The War on Drugs with Johann Hari - podcast
The ‘war on drugs’ is a resounding failure. It has perpetuated racially motivated incarceration whilst counter productively increasing drug related harms. So how is it still a politically solid mantra, 50 years after its inception? | Drug Science, UK
Relationship towards alcohol throughout the lifespan on the Isle of Arran
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Make medical care part of the treatment package?
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Phones could detect drinking over legal driving limit
Phones were able to do this with about 90% accuracy when users walked just 10 steps in the study by the University of Pittsburgh | BBC, UK
Dubai loosens alcohol laws to ease economic slump worsened by coronavirus
Liquor sales have long served as major barometer of Dubai’s economy | Independent, UK
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What is Recovery Month?
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New study calculates alarming lifetime risk of death from firearms and drug overdoses in the US
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It Came from the Desert (2017)
Run and evade!
Director: Marko Mäkilaakso
R0 Finland - Black Lion Pictures
R2 Germany - Tiberius Film
* The Film
“Making of It Came from the Desert” featurette (34:13)
“Making of Desert: Game vs. Movie” featurette (21:26)
Discussion between David Riordan & Marko Mäkilaakso (54:15)
VFX breakdown segments (5:59)
Ant Animation segments (1:20)
Theatrical Trailer (1:59)
English, Finnish, Swedish (optional)
English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
Only the two featurettes have optional Finnish subtitles.
Special thanks to Rewind user Markus_Lang for providing these specifications.
Original Trailer (1:58)
German Trailer (2:01)
Bonus Trailers
- "The New Classmate" (2:36)
- "Nightmare" (1:55)
- "The Evil Ones" (1:46)
- "Final Storm" (1:35)
- "Ares" (1:50)
German DTS 5.1
German Dolby Digital 5.1
Finnish release for the Extras.
R0 Finland- Black Lion Pictures - No cuts (87:02 PAL).
R2 Germany- Tiberius Film - No cuts (86:53 PAL).
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The Countdown Library
'Countdown with Keith Olbermann' for Monday October 27, 2008
Video via MSNBC: Oddball, Worst Persons, Campaign Comment
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Guests: Jonathan Alter, Chris Hayes, Chris Kofinis
KEITH OLBERMANN, HOST (voice over): Which of these stories will you be talking about tomorrow? The closing argument: Obama in Ohio. It's not just Bush past, it's McCain future.
SEN. BARACK OBAMA, (D-IL) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: The question in this election is not, "Are you better off than you were four years ago?" We all know the answer to that. The real question is, "Will this country be better off four years from now?"
OLBERMANN: Can McCain possibly be better off eight days from now?
Even by appealing to selfishness and fear?
SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, (R-AZ) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Now, this election comes down to how you want your hard-earned money spent. Do you want to keep it invested in your future, or have it taken by the most liberal person to ever run for the presidency?
OLBERMANN: Full (ph) moose: GOP ticket infighting in the rise of a Palin insurgency with enabler, Elisabeth Hasselbeck. The governor's new clothes still the talking point because the governor continues to point at them.
GOV. SARAH PALIN, (R) VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I'm back to wearing my old clothes in my favorite consignment. And my wedding ring is in Todd's pocket because it hurts sometimes when I shake hands and it gets squished-a $35 wedding ring from Hawaii that I bought myself.
OLBERMANN: The startled McCain senior advisor, who says, those "were not the remarks we sent to her plane." Palin versus McCain and the theory of the rogue diva. Funds debate: The top right-wing thinker who says the White House is lost. The campaign funds ought to go to the GOP senators and congressmen, and the pitch should be: make sure the Democrats don't control all three. Worsts: Joe "Wile E. Coyote" Lieberman suddenly realized there's no more mesa (ph) under him, just dust, telling reporters, "When I go out, I say, 'I have a lot of respect for Senator Obama. He's bright. He's eloquent.'" Membrane: Conflict of interest in Orlando.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE ANCHOR: How is Senator Obama not being a Marxist if he intends to spread the wealth around?
SEN. JOE BIDEN, (D) VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Are you joking? Is this a joke?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE ANCHOR: No.
(END VIDEO CLI)
OLBERMANN: Actually, yes, it is a joke. The newscaster's husband is a Republican strategist. And tonight: a Campaign Comment. The GOP volunteer told police a black man mugged her, and then carved a "B" for Barack into her face. A plea to Senator John McCain, denounce the ugliness and win something in the last week, even if it is only respect.
All that and more: Now on Countdown.
(on camera): Good evening, from Philadelphia. This is Monday, October 27th, eight days until the 2008 presidential election.
The Democrat in the race for president is facing only one challenger still tonight. The Republican, it would seem, is taking on three at a time. Our fifth story on the Countdown: One final week remaining of McCain versus Obama, McCain versus Palin, McCain versus Bush. Good luck with that one, sir. No wonder, the Arizona senator appears to be waging enough hill fight. We begin tonight with Obama and McCain. The Illinois Democrat giving a rousing speech that his advisors call his "closing argument," making an emotional case for electing himself over Senator McCain, and returning to a campaign that has seen absent during the economic downturn-hope. Five different polls released in the last 48 hours giving Senator Obama the lead in-Virginia. Obama by 11 in polling by the Virginia Commonwealth University. Public Policy Polling, a nine-point lead. Survey USA also nine points. "The Washington Post," eight. Even Zogby at seven. With that as the backdrop, Senator McCain is still trying to gain some traction on the economy beginning with the meeting with some economic advisors and an attempt to portray his opponent, actually, the Democratic leadership as a whole, as dangerous on taxes.
MCCAIN: Now, this election comes down to how you want your hard earned money spent. Do you want to keep it invested in your future or have it taken by the most liberal person to ever run for the presidency and the Democratic leaders, the most liberal, running Congress for the past two years-Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid?
(CROWD BOOING)
MCCAIN: You know, my friends, this is a dangerous threesome.
OLBERMANN: Democrats dangerous, check. Distance self from unpopular president, check, check.
MCCAIN: This is the fundamental difference between Senator Obama and me, a fundamental difference. We both disagree with President Bush on economic policy. The difference is that he thinks taxes have been too low. And I think-and I think, that spending has been too high.
OLBERMANN: A claim that might have more credibility, one, were it not for Senator McCain's voting record, and two, had Senator McCain not said on "Meet the Press," just yesterday, of himself and Mr. Bush, quote, "Do we share a common philosophy of the Republican Party? Of course." And that closing argument speech, Senator Obama arguing that it might really help if Senator McCain could define what he's actually for.
OBAMA: After 21 months and three debates, Senator McCain still has not been able to tell the American people a single major thing he'd do differently from George Bush, when it comes to the economy. Not one thing.
(APPLAUSE AND CHEERS)
OBAMA: Senator McCain says we can't spend the next four years waiting for our luck to change. But you understand that the biggest gamble we can take is to embrace the same old Bush-McCain policy that has failed us for the last eight years. We can't afford to take that risk.
OLBERMANN: And about those supposedly dangerous tax cuts.
OBAMA: No matter what John McCain may claim, here are the facts. If you make under $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increase by a single dime, not your income taxes, not your payroll taxes, not your capital gains taxes-no taxes, because the last thing we should do in this economy is raise taxes on the middle class. And we have been saying that throughout this campaign.
OLBERMANN: As for the whole part of the Obama campaign's final stretch, it turns out this election may not hang on to the question of whether you are better off than you were four years ago after all.
OBAMA: The question in this election is not, "Are you better off than you were four years ago?" We all know the answer to that. The real question is, "Will this country be better off four years from now?"
OLBERMANN: Time now to call in our own Richard Wolffe, also, of course, senior White House correspondent for "Newsweek" magazine, who's traveling with the Obama campaign at the other end of this state, joining us tonight from Pittsburgh. Richard, good evening.
RICHARD WOLFFE, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: Good evening, Keith.
OLBERMANN: During the primary, Senator Obama accused of not being able to close the deal. Is this approach to-and phrasing of it as the closing argument speech, is that part of a strategy to address this previous idea that he couldn't close the deal?
WOLFFE: Well, up to a point. I think there are two different sets of phases to the primaries as we think back to that period. This is the Obama of the Iowa period. And he had a closing speech, by the way, before the caucuses there. The candidate's fired up, the crowds are enthusiastic, and he's summarizing some of the big things which turned out, as it happens, to be very similar about McCain as they were for Hillary Clinton, this argument about changing and fixing the broken politics. But the campaign points out that in the later phase, when we think about the arguments that he couldn't close the deal, we're talking Pennsylvania or Ohio or Texas, states where the demographics are against him, where he didn't have much time to get himself known and he was running on an economic message against Hillary Clinton who had a very good lock-hold on that economic message. With McCain, it's a very different situation. So, it's not really the campaign points out about Obama, it's just a very different situation and the close here feels different right now in Pennsylvania and Ohio, earlier this morning, than it did in the primary phase.
OLBERMANN: Now, why Ohio for the rollout for that speech? Was it because that he struggled with working class voters in that state in particular during the primaries? Is it because no Democrats won the White House since Kennedy without Ohio in 1960? Or is it just some symbolism relating to how Kerry lost in 2004 basically in Ohio?
WOLFFE: I don't think anything is symbolic at this stage. This is very focused and targeted. Ohio is an offensive state in the sense that this is a Bush state, of course. It's still very close. You know, most people in the state think you still could go either way.
And then coming to Pennsylvania, at the end of the day, giving the same kind of speech, obviously, the single defensive move that he has in the sense that this is the state, McCain, for some reason, in spite of the public polling, still thinks he has a shot in. But really, most of this period, these last eight days, is going to be on Bush territory. And that's, I think, the relevance of Ohio.
OLBERMANN: And turning to Virginia, those five polls out of that state, all giving Senator Obama substantial leads of some measure. What-do we, at some point, get over the fact that we are actually talking here about the state of Virginia going for a Democrat in a presidential election?
WOLFFE: Well, you're right to point out. This is an astonishing set of events. When the Obama campaign started this general election, instead, listen, we're going to be focused on Virginia here. There was a lot of people in the press and in political class that said, this is really kind of wishful thinking. And at this stage to have that kind of lead, it is a clear sign. They are looking at multiple paths to getting enough votes in the Electoral College. Really, inside campaign headquarters, in Chicago, the Obama folks think that Virginia is the one to watch on election night. If they really winning by these kinds of margins, then, there are going to be lots of Bush states that will fall for Obama. But, you know, again, cautiousness-is that lead really going to hold? They think there's going to be a lot of tightening.
OLBERMANN: The candidate and television is the final topic, Richard. Do we know anything yet about that half hour Wednesday where he's buying every channel but Sci-fi. I mean, he's going to be on half an hour on, I mean, basically, all the broadcast networks, and possibly, many of the cable networks as well. Is this a documentary more than a speech? Is it more like Michelle Obama's performance tonight on the "Tonight Show"? Or what we do expecting out of this?
WOLFFE: Well, they are keeping it under tight wraps here, but this is going to be a professional production. They are working very intensively on it. They've got a number of teams working on it in terms of their advertising guys. And the people who are working on it are known for being meticulous about the execution. So, I think, they are trying to make good TV, but the content, we still going to wait and see.
OLBERMANN: Richard Wolffe of "Newsweek" and MSNBC, in Pittsburgh for us tonight. Thank you, Richard.
WOLFFE: Thank you, Keith.
OLBERMANN: And as for the McCain campaign, quoting here, "Any serious Republican has to ask, how did we get into this mess. It's not where we should be. And it's not where we had to be. This was not bad luck." That from former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
To look at the other side of this equation, let's bring "Newsweek" columnist, MSNBC political analyst, Jonathan Alter.
Good evening, Jon.
JONATHAN ALTER, NEWSWEEK: Hi, Keith.
OLBERMANN: For Senator McCain, this closing argument idea that Obama has raised here, McCain's argument is one of Nazi's, not Bush. They shouldn't elect-the voters should not elect the three Democratically-controlled parts of this government, and also, they should not elect a tax happy liberal. Is that it? Is that the closing argument? Here's what you don't do?
ALTER: Apparently, it is, you know. And this argument has failed. It hasn't worked. It's not as if John McCain hasn't been trying the argument for a while, Keith. And you can tell from Newt Gingrich's quote that there are a lot of Republicans who wish he would focus more on the future. People like Gingrich, whatever you think of what he did in government, he's always talking about things like nano-technology or he just wrote an article with John Kerry about more evidence-based medicine and the need for that. Other issues than just the old liberal bashing that has played out, the old attacks on tax and spend liberals just don't work. So, in that sense, John McCain is not just an older candidate, his ideas and his whole approach are smelling very old tonight.
OLBERMANN: Is the geography here, the physical logistics, the story at this point that both candidates are campaigning almost exclusively in states that George Bush won four years ago? I mean, when McCain literally is defending turf, does that make any kind of cohesive final message even more difficult to craft, let alone sell?
ALTER: Well, remember, you know, except for being in Pennsylvania, which he hopes to pick off from the Democrats, they won it the last time, and also New Hampshire, which went for John Kerry and there are some indications that McCain has a connection there because he won two big primaries up in New Hampshire. Other than that, the McCain strategy is to win the Bush states. And so, it's not surprising that he would try to go to the base and try to reproduce, after all, you know, these many months, reproduce the 2004 victory. The problem is that the Karl Rove play book, even Karl Rove doesn't think that it's applicable to this year's election. So, the only way for McCain to win at this point, and there's still has a chance, is for one of two things to happen. Either if there will be some huge external event, and even that might not necessarily play to his benefit, although he's the default candidate, you could argue that that conceivably help him, or to just play to fear of Obama, fear of the other, fear of electing a president whose middle name is Hussein. All the things we know are out there in parts of the electorate. If they weren't, if Barack Obama was your usual vanilla candidate, this thing would be totally over.
OLBERMANN: Fear and Pennsylvania. I'm in Philadelphia. I'm not going to be here that long. I didn't get the pulse of the city or anything during my time here, but I've heard a few things here. Why-why Pennsylvania when Philadelphia could deliver, conceivably, a seven-digit-the Philadelphia area could conceivably deliver a seven-digit margin for Obama? Does McCain actually have a chance in this state?
ALTER: Well, I think what they are playing on is the James Carville theory of Pennsylvania-that it's got Philadelphia on one side, Pittsburgh on the other, and there's Alabama in the middle. And John McCain is going to win Alabama. They also noticed that, even though he had several weeks, Obama did badly there in the primary. Even Philadelphia, African-Americans didn't turn out in overwhelming numbers for him. He didn't do particularly well in Montgomery County and Bucks County and those areas around Philadelphia. So, the easiest way for McCain to win this thing would be to change everything around in Pennsylvania. But, he's in a deep hole there and he's still digging.
OLBERMANN: Jonathan Alter of "Newsweek" and MSNBC-as always, thanks, Jon.
ALTER: Thanks, Keith.
OLBERMANN: With one week to go, there is something John McCain can do to change the story of this election. My Campaign Comment to him tonight on the alarming silence from his candidacy in the hoax perpetrated by one of his volunteers and pushed by one of his campaign's spokesman. With problems like that when it is no wonder Governor Palin is rebelling against the very McCain handlers charged with keeping her in check. Shouldn't you expect rogue behavior from a self-described maverick?
OLBERMANN: The would-be empress' new clothes. That story of all things is pitting Governor Palin against her own campaign advisors. The RNC's other money problem is putting millions of dollars on the McCain story as the momentum stays in Obama's favor, just throwing away the money.
And in Membrane: The anchor who compared Obama to Karl Marx, Joe Biden asked who helped to write those questions, wait until you hear the possible answer-ahead here on Countdown.
OLBERMANN: A key question from McCain-Palin campaign today: Does Governor Palin really believe John McCain would be a good commander-in-chief? And if so, why is she already disobeying his commands? Our fourth story tonight: Based on multiple reports from multiple sources, Sarah Palin is a rogue GOP elephant. The first trickle of reports of last week of tension, of disloyalty, turned into a flood over the weekend.
Saturday: Politico.com quoting four sources close to Palin saying she has decided to reject McCain's strategy and, quote, "go rogue," specifically ignoring mandates from Team McCain, from chief McCain strategist, Steve Schmidt, and fellow Bush veteran Nicolle Wallace, one of the lead McCain people on Palin's team. Twenty-four hours after that report, Governor Palin did little to dispute it. Less than one minute into a rally in Florida, Palin not only defied the campaign mandate, not to mention that whole $150,000 in clothing money for the Palin family, she also revealed whose advice she was now following instead.
PALIN: This whole thing with the wardrobe, you know, I tried to just ignore it because it's so ridiculous. But I'm glad now that Elisabeth brought it up because it gives me an opportunity without the filter of the media to get to tell you, the whole clothes thing. You'd think, not that I would even have to address the issue because, as Elisabeth is suggesting, the double standard here, gosh, we don't even want to waste our time. I'm glad, though, that she brought up accessories, also. Well, enough about clothes and hairdos, and high heels, though I would say, when I heard Elisabeth speaking, she is one to take the gloves off when the heels are on. That's Elisabeth.
OLBERMANN: Who is this Elisabeth whose counsel has eclipsed that of McCain's most trusted advisors? She's Elisabeth Hasselbeck, who became co-host of "The View" after finishing fourth on "Survivor: The Australian Outback." CNN today quoting an unnamed McCain advisor, saying that Palin's Hasselbeck-ian comments, quote, "were not the remarks we sent to her plane." Quoting another-and I can't stress this enough-McCain advisor, quote, "She," Palin, quote, "is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone." Hasselbeck. "She is playing for her own future and sees herself as the next leader of the party. Remember, divas trust only unto themselves."
Let's turn now to Chris Hayes, Washington editor for "The Nation" magazine, and specialist in political divas. Thanks for your time, Chris.
CHRIS HAYES, "THE NATION" MAGAZINE: Thank you, Keith.
OLBERMANN: To whatever extent it's true that the Obama camp is acting as if there's already a win in the bag, is not the message of infighting from the McCain camp, that the McCain campaign, particularly Governor Palin, they're acting as if they have already got a loss in the bag?
HAYES: Yes, absolutely. I mean, what we're seeing is a breakdown of discipline. That's really quite staggering actually. I mean, you always got to be a little careful about stories that are naming on, you know, that come with blind quotes and unnamed sources. But a lot of the reporting that was done over the weekend is done by people I really trust. And at this point, it's pretty clear that there is an all out civil war between the two principal members of the ticket and their staffs. And already, it seems like the main, political fight that's happening internally in the campaign is people's political fight to save their jobs and to save their reputations, most importantly, and their livelihoods, once this campaign is over.
OLBERMANN: The Politico report included this observation that Palin would like to go even, quote, "more rogue." And again, we're saying rogue, and not Rove-although the two things might be similar. But given the result so far, what else could she do between now and next Tuesday to help the Democrats more than going more rogue right now?
HAYES: Well, I have honestly no idea, although, I will say that going more rogue is definitely my favorite phrase thus for of the entire campaign season. I mean, what she did today was, actually, I thought, pretty shocking in terms of the rally clip that you played earlier. You know, at this point, I can't imagine. Look, her negative approval ratings and her unfavorables are so high that I think she's probably bottomed out in certain sense. I think the people that are going to like her, like her. The people who are going to like her, aren't going to like her. And I can't imagine that her going more rogue or, you know, diva-ing it up down the stretch is going to make a huge difference one way or the other.
OLBERMANN: Except for this. I mean, the McCain aides, who are then returning fire here, are taking shots off the record and maybe, by the end of the week, they'll be on the record at Palin. Are they not, essentially, the shots-are they not also boomerangs and that any critique of her reflects still on McCain because, after all, McCain chose her, it's not like she wasn't already there when he got the nomination?
HAYES: Absolutely. It's tremendous selfish and stupid to give these blind quotes that they're giving. I mean, it's really remarkable.
Look-you know, there's a week left in the campaign and you're exactly right. I mean, John McCain-and let's remember as we know from the Draper story in "New York Times" magazine over the weekend, and his staff, were behind the Palin picks. So, they cannot, you know, there is no one to blame but themselves when this is all sort of computed in the final analysis.
OLBERMANN: The "American Spectator" reported today that the anti-Palin stuff is, in fact, coming those who transferred out of the Mitt Romney campaign into the McCain overall GOP effort, you know, hoping to knock her down so that Romney would have a comparatively clear path, I supposed, or is an easier path in 2012. But if that is true, does it not also suggest, (A), that McCain's staff, again, already is assuming this election is over and McCain is done, and (B), that a violation of the Reagan 11th commandment, "Thou shalt not speak ill of the fellow Republican," by itself just suggests that what's ahead for the Republican Party, unless there's a victory next Tuesday, is a serious and long term fracture?
HAYES: I think that's exactly what it represents. I mean, you know, I will admit to some shouting for it (ph), as I watched this spectacle ensue, but the breakdown in discipline from the party that has been, if nothing, ruthlessly disciplined and united often over the last eight years, is really something to see. And it's often the case that an army in retreat loses discipline. And so, it's not surprising that this is what we're seeing. What is surprising is that we're seeing it before Election Day even happens.
OLBERMANN: Chris Hayes, the Washington editor for "The Nation." "More rogue" is the phrase. Many thanks, Chris.
HAYES: Thank you, Keith.
OLBERMANN: Palin's roguery not the only problem for the GOP today. Proud Palin endorser, Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska, becoming only the fifth senator in U.S. history to be convicted of a crime in office. A jury today convicting Stevens on seven counts of lying about the free work his oil companies buddy did in not only in Stevens' home, $250,000 worth of free work. At 84 years old with no priors, Stevens is not expected to do much time, if any, despite the five years in prison prosecutors could seek for each charge. Stevens says he will stay on the ballot next Tuesday for his seventh full term as senator of Alaska, and legally, he could still serve if he wins, but his conviction is not politically helpful for Republicans hoping to minimize Democratic gains in the Senate. Word for Palin who has been running on the claim that she cleaned up corruption in Alaska, today, she called Stevens as an example of the corruption she was elected to fight, without actually calling on him to resign, and declining to answer whether or not she might still vote for him. Meantime, Senator Biden laughs off a question comparing his running mate with Karl Marx, the anchor was not joking. Why was a healthreporter questioning the vice presidential candidate. McCain in the Membrane is coming up. And in Worsts: Senator Joe Lieberman starts his great national backtrack. A week out from Election Day, and suddenly, Barack Obama isn't such a bad guy. All ahead.
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OLBERMANN: May not have seemed that way at the moment, but on this date in 1939 the world got a lot funnier. Besides being one of the driving forces behind the impeccable "Monty Python's Flying Circus", he is a writer, producer, actor and singer and we found out on this program a poet, John Cleese who allowed me to debut his poem "Ode to Sean Hannity" a few weeks ago. If you remember its conclusion, "Oozing with vanity, Plump as a manatee," Happy birthday to John Cleese. Let's play "Oddball." We begin back at the hockey rink. You will recall that on October 11, Governor Palin was showered with boos as she dropped the ceremonial first puck here in Philadelphia for the Rangers and the Flyers. Flyers sources tell me here tonight by the way that at the direct instructions of the team's owner, recordings of cheering was pumped over the public address system as Governor Palin was introduced to drown out any booing. It didn't work and the Flyers lost that game and then lost their next five. Friday, in St. Louis, Palin tried again. Standing on a blue carpet she dropped the puck for St. Louis and the L.A. Kings. But once again the Blues did not escape the Palin curse. Before the governor went out there, watch Blues goalie Manny Legasse (ph) taking the ice for pregame warm ups and slipping on Palin's Blues carpet. The goalie strained his hip. The Blues got shut-out four nothing. They lost again Sunday. Now the rest of the National Hockey League is asking that Sarah Palin she suspend her puck dropping campaign. To Dallas, where they've got some set of balls, beach balls, everybody. These are the world's largest measuring 65 feet tall. And they are about to crush those people. No, they're OK. It's a publicity stunt sponsored by a cruise line trying to drum up some business. Scores turned out to whack at the big shiny objects until just like a day at the ballpark a killjoy 427 foot groundskeeper flattened the balls like pancakes. Finally, to the Interwebs, this is the view looking out from the business end of a Target store, somewhere in America. And a textbook demonstration of how not to unload shopping carts from an 18-wheeler. Ever wonder why you always get the one with the gimpy wheel? It's because they all have gimpy wheels now, thanks, boys. The magic mark of 270, the latest NBC map has Obama vaulting past that figure. Will the Republicans rethink throwing money at the McCain campaign in light of that? Should they? And what John McCain should be doing after the Ashley Todd hoax. A campaign comment on the Republican nominee's missed chance to offer some leadership. But first, the most outrageous or untrue things said by or on behalf of Republican presidential nominee John McCain. "McCain in the Membrane." Number three, change of address. Vice presidential hopeful, Palin tries a new smear against Obama and once again ends up stepping in it.
GOV. SARAH PALIN, (R) VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: "The New York Times" reported that Barack Obama's inaugural address is already written.
CROWD: Booing.
PALIN: Nine days out from the election. Nine days out and yet it's already written.
OLBERMANN: Except it's not. She's lying through her teeth. What she is referring to is a sample inaugural address written by John Podesta, who by the way was working for Hillary Clinton at the time that the address he wrote was published in his book this past summer. Such subtleties apparently are lost on the governor. Podesta, Obama, sample, actual, right, wrong, stuff like that there. Number two, country loving. Governor Palin nearly making the same blunder in Asheville, North Carolina this weekend that she made in Greensboro, North Carolina 10 days ago. That somehow North Carolinians are more pro-America and have more love for America than the rest of us.
PALIN: This is where the goodness and the courage, the best of America is. It's in these areas where you love America. You have never been not proud to be an American. You are proud to be an American.
OLBERMANN: Oopsie. Remember that horrific '70s sitcom, "Love American Style." The governor thought it was a political tract.
Number one, gotcha journalism, Senator Joe Biden finding himself in a truly surreal "interview", with quotes around, with local Florida TV station WFTV in Orlando last week. The reporter, Barbara West, whose station biography lists her primary job as health reporter asking him questions like, quote, "Aren't you embarrassed by the blatant attempts to register phony voters by ACORN, an organization that Barack Obama has been tied to in the past?" And, "Are you forewarning Americans that nothing will be done and America's days as a world leading power are over?" And, "What do you say to the people concerned that Barack Obama will want to turn America into a socialist country much like Sweden?" And even quoting Karl Marx to Biden.
BARBARA WEST, WFTV ANCHOR: How is Senator Obama not being a Marxist if he intends to spread the wealth around?
WEST: No.
BIDEN: Or is that a real question?
WEST: That's a question.
OLBERMANN: So where did Ms. West get her real questions for the Democratic vice presidential nominee, questions that sounded remarkably like every right wing talking point expounded by the McCain campaign and the far right talking heads? Surely, it's just a coincidence that her husband is a GOP media consultant.
OLBERMANN: As Barack Obama continues to make progress across the electoral map over John McCain, that's sparking a whole new unexpected problem within the Republican Party, how to turn around this so-called mess. That was the quote from Newt Gingrich.
Our third story on THE Countdown, the RNC and its campaign coffers. Is John McCain no longer the wisest investment? Here's the map that should be giving them all pause. The MSNBC electoral outlook which shows Obama officially over 270, with a 286-163 lead, up from 264-163 just a week ago. Colorado and Virginia having moved from "toss-up" to "lean Obama." And McCain's home state of Arizona no longer now rock solid in the McCain column. The ripple effect of the dismal campaign being felt down the ballot. The GOP now defending 23 Senate seats. The Democrats 12. In the House, 29 to the Democrat six. Leaving the Republican National Committee, having to decide whether to cauterize the down ballot bleeding or to keep throwing money at a losing McCain campaign. Democratic strategist and former communications director for the John Edwards campaign, Chris Kofinis joins us now. Chris, Good evening.
CHRIS KOFINIS, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST: Good evening, Keith.
OLBERMANN: David Frum virtually wrote this in the "Washington Post" yesterday. He didn't come out and say it but the only conclusion that he had there was, cut the losses, stop spending money on the presidential campaign and just worry about salvaging stuff in the Senate and in the House. Is he right?
KOFINIS: Well, eight weeks ago, when it looked like a close presidential race, he probably wasn't right. But what's happened, especially with the financial crisis, the bottom fell out. And now you're seeing the Bush-McCain dynamic just killing down ballot races, and races Republicans never thought they would have to defend, they're not only defending, they actually may end up losing on election night. This has become a Republican ship that's sinking pretty fast. And they are trying to figure out how to stem the bleeding. What's happening now is everyone is a man for themselves, if you will. And they are trying to wonder how do you stop this political realignment, this map that is now expanded to include battlegrounds they never thought were possible in the Obama campaign. And that is a big problem for them. So I think there are definitely some Republican leaders that want to focus on the Senate races. The question is, are they going to abandon McCain? And that part is going to be an interesting statement. Because if they do, I think you are going to see the ship completely sink and the Republicans are going to face a real tidal wave in November.
OLBERMANN: All right. Obviously the thinking behind this is that's what's going to happen unless things are shifted anyway. So is it worth the possibility of rather than having the only - if the Democrats prevail in the House and they grow the lead in the Senate, if there is 60 Democratic senators, the only power institutionally in this government for the GOP would be the filibuster in the Senate. Is it better to try to put some of the money, A, in the Senate races or B, in the House races? Which is the priority if you were to say, abandon McCain?
KOFINIS: My guess is if they choose to abandon McCain, they are probably going to focus on the Senate. They want to basically stop a filibuster proof majority for the Democrats. You basically have five races that right now are strongly leaning Dem. Colorado, New Mexico, New Hampshire, Virginia, now, Alaska.You have three others, you have Oregon, North Carolina and Minnesota that are leaning Dem and two others, in terms of Georgia and Kentucky with Mitch McConnell, which is unbelievable if you think about it. The minority leader for the Republicans who is in real jeopardy. They want to try to stop those last five from going Democrat. My guess is they are not going to be able to stop all five. They are going to have at least two or three that are going to go Democrat because the tidal wave that has happened now is not simply about Senator Obama and a great campaign, it's a repudiation of the Republican Bush philosophy that McCain has embraced. The American people are screaming across the board in down ballot that they want to go a new direction and the Republicans have gotten swept into this and they are really suffering for it.
OLBERMANN: We are hearing all of these quotes about the GOP mess, the Newt Gingrich quote which I read before, for a refresher. "It's not where we should be. It's not where we had to be. This was not bad luck." What took them all so long to get to this point when others saw this coming? Was it denial? Was it lack of political savvy? Did they simply not want to believe they were going to get to this stage?
KOFINIS: It was denial. I am not sure if they've been watching the McCain campaign over the last many months. Remember, this is the McCain campaign that basically took five months off where they neither defined their candidacy nor did they define their potential opponent.
And then, you've see a campaign dominated by a lack of message, no real strategy, gimmicks and tactics. And unfortunately they have been suffering because of it. So the notion that somehow this came out of the blue and they didn't see this coming, I have a hard time believing. This was a campaign that I think people saw the wheels coming off really early. So unfortunately the McCain campaign is in the state they are in, but they have really no one to blame but themselves. They put themselves in it and the Republicans are going to suffer for it.
OLBERMANN: Not that they are not trying to find other people to blame. Chris Kofinis, the former communications director with the Edwards campaign, thank you Chris, take care.
KOFINIS: Thanks, Keith.
OLBERMANN: McCain facing obviously an uphill battle for any electoral chance. But he could win back a great deal of respect, at least, if he would break his silence on the hoax perpetrated by the young woman who said a black man had mugged her and carved a B for Barack into her face. A campaign comment ahead.
And in worsts, "The Washington Post" succumbs to the will of Bill O., the clown. What could he do, what could he have done, what do they do back? Ahead on Countdown.
OLBERMANN: One of the ugliest incidents of this ugly campaign, a McCain campaign volunteer claiming she was attacked by a black man who carved a B for Barack into her cheek. The story highlighted and disseminated by the McCain team until it proved false.
Tonight a "Campaign Comment", Senator McCain, it is time to speak up about this. That's next. But first, time for Countdown's number two story tonight, "Worst Persons in the World." The bronze goes to "The Washington Post." Last week, the newspaper ran a story about Bill O. the Clown with a photograph and a caption that described him as a right wing pundit. The Frank Burns of news was disturbed by that description. So he raised a stink and got the paper to print a correction stating "a photo caption in the October 22 Style section incorrectly referred to Bill O'Reilly as a right wing pundit. The Fox News host presents himself as an independent." They could have also gone with official loofah inspector or he's a Nielson ratings conspiracy theorist or a bold fresh piece of expletive of second place to Countdown on Friday for the third time in 10 weeks. Thanks, viewer. The silver to the independent senator from Connecticut Joe Lieberman who is reading the polls and beginning to talk out of the other side of his mouth. About the man nominated by his former party Senator Lieberman told the "Hartford Courant" quote, "When I go out, I say I have a lot of respect for Senator Obama. He's bright, he's eloquent." This respect comes from senator who once said, when asked if Senator Obama was a Marxist, quote, "That's a good question." Newfound respect for the senator he accused of voting against funding for troops in Iraq, even though John McCain did the same thing using the same bogus criteria in that first charge. But the winner, Chad Michael Morissette (ph) of West Hollywood, California in a misguided Halloween prank dressed up a female mannequin to look like the Republican vice presidential nominee Governor Palin and hung it with a noose from his roof. Morrissette also fashioned a McCain mannequin to look like it was on fire in his chimney and called the display art in the spirit of Halloween. No, uh-uh, as unacceptable as if it were McCain as if it were Obama. This is not the spirit of Halloween, it's the spirit of violence. Chad Michael Morrissette, today's worst person in the world.
OLBERMANN: Finally, a "Campaign Comment" about the fraudulent race attack claim since acknowledged and recanted by a John McCain campaign volunteer in Pennsylvania. You know the story well, by now. It's a sad and demoralizing tale of a woman who could be summarized by the awful term B actress. Ashley Todd was not sexually assaulted by a big black man. He did not carve the letter B on her face to punish her for supporting John McCain. It apparently never dawned on her it resembled less a cut than an abrasion done by a weapon no more sinister than a nail file. She was not even at the ATM where she claimed the attack took place. It apparently never dawned on her that the machine had security video and she would not be on it. And clearly, somewhere in her mind was a calculation that a story like this one with layer upon layer of racial threat could be some kind of game changer for the presidential candidate she worked to get elected in at least two states for at least two months. Her saga is pathetic. She now claims mental illness. If this too is not true, Miss Todd might think she's pulling another fast one over on the rest of us. In fact her claim seems to be accurate, whether she knows it or not.
And much more disturbingly, so was her calculation. At least until her story, in retrospect a ludicrous confection, fell apart and she had to confess her crime. She had inspired dozens, perhaps hundreds of journalists and bloggers and all those in between on both political sides to stand over this nation's ever present tinderbox of racial prejudice and racial fear and racial hatred. And she had brought them all matches. We already know what the executive vice president of Fox News had written while his organization was perched next to that tinderbox waiting for the slightest excuse to light it and our nation ablaze. The over the top, caveat thrown in for window dressing balance with not the slightest intention that it ever be taken seriously. Quote, "If the incident turns out to be a hoax Senator McCain's quest for presidency is over, forever linked to race-baiting." That is the well-known part of what John Moody wrote. What preceded it was far less publicized and far more important. "Part of the appeal of, and the unspoken tension behind, Senator Obama's campaign," he wrote, "is his transformational status as the first African-American to win a major party's presidential nomination. That does not mean that he has erased the mutual distrust between black and white Americans and this incident could become a watershed event in the 11 days before the election.
If Ms. Todd's allegations are proven accurate, some voters may revisit their support for Senator Obama, not because they are racists, with due respect to Representative John Murtha, but because they suddenly feel they do not know enough about the Democratic nominee."
Moody wrote that. It wouldn't be racism to suddenly blame Barack Obama for an attack on a white woman by a black man intending to punish her for not supporting another black man. It would instead by a watershed moment because it somehow meant, "They suddenly feel they do not know enough about the Democratic nominee." Its only connection would have been racial. But the response would not be racism. The tinderbox again, and a very large match provided by John Moody. I know that man. He is not stupid. Not careless. He has in fact an education background identical to my own, right down to the same college radio station. He knew what he was writing. A rationalization for racism. That Moody should be fired goes without saying. But if not fired that he should resign in shame is also obvious. Neither will happen because there is no one of sufficient authority to reproach him. And the others, who but for Ashley Todd's inability to maintain her inner hoaxster for more than two days would have solemnly and grimly and some secretly, happily set this presidential campaign on its ear and knocked this nation's tenuous grip on the relationship between the races off its axis. Because there was nobody to say, "No. Don't." This is where you come in, Senator McCain. No histrionics from me to you this time, Senator. No yelling. Just a plea. Say something about this. Now. Say something strongly and succinctly about the unacceptability of what happened, and how some of your supporters tried to exploit it. I am not asking you to assume the responsibility for this. No matter how your campaign pushed this story, I have no doubt that in the mirror image scenario many of Senator Obama's supporters would have done the same. But I also have no doubt that by this point in that mirror image scenario, Senator Obama would have said something to try to stop the next Ashley Todd, or the next John Moody. Senator, of all the things I don't like about you or your campaign, I have never thought you a racist. As imperfect as was your moment with that Minnesota woman mumbling about Arabs, I thought it was the finest moment of your campaign. I believe that you feel as I do, that racial prejudice and hatred have no place in this campaign, nor in this country. I believe that you feel as I do, as Clarence Darrow said in a different time and a different context, "I am pleading for the future. I am pleading for a time when hatred and cruelty will not control the hearts of men. When we can learn by reason and judgment and understanding and faith." Sometimes, Senator McCain, it is as if we are almost there. And then some unthinking act like the one by that Ashley Todd throws us back against the rocks and we barely escape with our ship intact. In that time of foundering, Senator McCain, far too few of us have a chance to personally right the ship. To heal instead of to stand idly by. To make a difference in this oldest and most wearying of our struggles as a nation. This chance, sir, is yours. Say something. Or better yet, say something with Senator Obama, about race and how we live with one another and how we can. Let this last week of the campaign be remembered, no matter how it turns out next Tuesday, as something other than the time Ashley Todd lied, and the John Moodys threatened, and you said nothing. Senator McCain, once again, grab the microphone. Thank you. That's Countdown for this, the 2007th day since the declaration of "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq. Up next, RACHEL MADDOW SHOW. From Philadelphia, I'm Keith Olbermann. Good night and good luck.
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The XD Theater is a multi-sensory media-based simulator ride for the family. It can sit up to 32 guests together to experience this interactive attraction, which transports them into fascinating new worlds – a pirate world brimming with aggressive monsters, for example – where everyone must work together to fend off attacks and beat bad guys. Guests must be at least 90cm in height for XD Theater, which was developed by TrioTech in Canada and largest attraction of its kind in Malaysia.
In VirtuGlobe, developed by VirtuGlobe Inc, guests are able to step into a free-moving VR environment. Individuals has the liberty to make the experience as intense or as immersive as they want. Created by Ray Latypov in the USA, VirtuGlobe – originally named Virtusphere – has been used by military agencies worldwide to train their personnel to operate in any possible environment.
The Vortex that centres on a state-of-the-art motion platform, where guests are strapped into a central console with VR laser guns in their hands. Developed by Brogent in Taiwan, Vortex takes up to 12 guests on a rambunctious rollercoaster ride, fending off an invading gauntlet with ultra-realistic graphics as the platform vibrates and shudders to the on-screen action. The first-of-its-kind in Asia, Vortex is open to guests between 100-195 cm in height.
The RoboCoaster, created by Sangwha in South Korea, eschews guns for glorious discoveries. Up to 4 guests can experience a VR rollercoaster ride into an undiscovered robotic realm, filled with amazing structures and curious creatures that can be viewed in full 360 degrees. Guests must be between 130-190cm to experience RoboCoaster, while for VirtuGlobe, a height restriction of 130-200cm and a weight restriction of 35-130kg apply.
And finally, if all guests want to do is soar through the sky like a majestic eagle, then SkyGlider VR provides that very experience. Using a chair strap, feel the amazing sensation of gliding on a paraglider while seeing the world from a different perspective as wind machines simulate the feeling of rushing through the air several hundred metres above the ground. Three levels of skill are available – Beginner,
Intermediate and Advanced – with so much to see you can be assured that no two VR glides experience will be the same. The first of its kind in Malaysia, SkyGlider was developed by FrontGrid; guests must be between 110-190cm and be under 150kg in weight for SkyGlider VR.
SkyVR is located at Level 2 of Skytropolis Indoor Theme Park in Resorts World Genting. Operating from 10am-10pm daily, Sky VR experiences are on a pay-per-ride basis. If that’s not enough for you, we also have Super Saver Combo A where you can purchase a combination of full day pass for Skytropolis Indoor Theme Park and Tap & Play credits for Sky VR. For more information, please visit www.rwgenting.com or call +603 2718 1118.
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The Turkey
Posted on November 5, 2015 by Angelique
The Turkey-By Angelique Duncan
When one thinks of Thanksgiving images of the proud, plump turkey is immediately to follow. The nostalgic symbolism of this magnificent bird at Thanksgiving is so synonymous with the celebration that the holiday is often referenced as “Turkey Day”. How did the turkey become our national symbol of Thanksgiving? The bird has a rich and noble history worthy of acknowledgment as one enjoys their harvest feast.
The turkey was once revered by Mexican and South American tribes as a sacred bird and in some tribes like the Aztecs, Toltecs and Myans was appreciated as a God. The mythologies and symbolisms varied from tribe and region based on observations of the turkeys’ traits and behaviors.
In some Native North American cultures the turkey symbolized fertility, virility as well as pride. The male turkey will show it’s decorative plumes and strut in an elaborate mating dance to attract the female of the species. The dance of the turkey is seen as prideful and arrogant with grand confidence. This mannerism was often imitated by tribes before battle with the wearing of full turkey feather robes and headdresses.
The turkey was also known for being a bird of great wisdom and a messenger of warnings. The turkey has been said to have a sixth sense for awareness of its environment and can warn of danger and predators. They will fluff their plumes and take an aggressive stance if they feel threatened; well before the danger presents its self. The fowl will become intensely protective and never holds back in attack or when confronted with battle.
Turkeys will roost in trees and elevated spaces away from predators and to have a vantage point to oversee their territory. In the sleeping flock one turkey will be “appointed” look out to give warning of danger. Turkeys have very specific calls, gobbles and screams that have meaning for communication among the flock, creating a fairly sophisticated bird language of signals.
To many tribes the turkey was considered a rain spirit for their ability to predict the change in weather. When rain is eminent turkeys will puff their ornate plumes and fluff their feathers and give calls and dance. The rain dances of many North American tribes are an emulation of the turkey’s rain dance.
Tribes attributed the turkey with the symbolism of bounty, sacrifice and generosity. The turkey was given between tribes as a gift of bounty and goodwill. Being one of the hardest of the large fowl to successfully hunt and its ability to feed many when caught, the wild turkey was often the game of choice for ritual and celebratory meals of the Native Americans. Unlike the modern domestic turkeys raised for quantity of meat who are sluggish and cannot fly, wild turkeys can run at speeds up to 25 miles per hour and can fly short distances at 55miles per hour. Making them quite the challenge to catch for a predator or hunter. The turkey was present for harvest meals as a special bounty, well before the arrival of the pilgrims to American soil.
The turkey arrived at its namesake as a matter of mistaken identity from Spanish explorers who discovered the bird thinking they were returning to Europe with Guinea fowl from Turkey. Given the bird was acquired unknowingly from the wrong continent; it was named for its origin of discovery. And so the name was given to the North American fowl after a country the bird had never traveled from.
It is widely accepted that turkey was served at the first documented Thanksgiving meal, although there is no concrete evidence of this. It has been documented that beef and fowl were served at the first Thanksgiving feast, but no bird is specified. Turkeys are natural to the southeast and southwestern states and would not have been prevalent on the eastern seaboard at that time. Some historians say that the intent was to find and hunt a turkey, but the pilgrims were unsuccessful and stories tell that humble crows and fish were eaten instead. There is a historical letter that was written during the era of the pilgrims that mentions a turkey being served as part of a feast, however the document is not in reference to the legendary supper of Myles Standish fame that is romanticized in the Thanksgiving tradition.
Although turkey may have been served at some feasts, it has been accepted by modern historians, that the turkey did not become the traditional meal of the holiday until much later. Many Americans would serve goose, chicken or quail in lieu of the turkey as the centerpiece of the traditional meal. Turkeys may have become popular due to the aforementioned letter written by a pilgrim, Edward Winslow, which referenced a turkey hunt before a Thanksgiving meal. Some equate the popularity of Turkey at Thanksgiving from a proclamation by Alexander Hamilton that “no citizen of the United States should refrain from turkey on Thanksgiving day”. The turkey was a symbolic bird in the nations beginnings and was advocated by Benjamin Franklin to become the national emblem instead of the bald eagle. The historical quote follows:
“For my own part I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly. You may have seen him perched on some dead tree near the river, where, too lazy to fish for himself, he watches the labour of the fishing hawk; and when that diligent bird has at length taken a fish, and is bearing it to his nest for the support of his mate and young ones, the Bald Eagle pursues him and takes it from him.
With all this injustice, he is never in good case but like those among men who live by sharping & robbing he is generally poor and often very lousy. Besides he is a rank coward: The little King Bird not bigger than a Sparrow attacks him boldly and drives him out of the district. He is therefore by no means a proper emblem for the brave and honest Cincinnati of America who have driven all the King birds from our country…
I am on this account not displeased that the figure is not known as a Bald Eagle, but looks more like a Turkey. For the truth the Turkey is in comparison a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America… He is besides, though a little vain & silly, a bird of courage, and would not hesitate to attack a grenadier of the British guards who should presume to invade his farm yard with a red coat on.”
How the turkey became the official sacrificial meat for the modern Thanksgiving meal is truly unknown. However it is now a mainstay of the holiday and one could not imagine Thanksgiving with out turkey. When celebrating all you are thankful for this year and counting your blessings, remember to give thanks to the turkey, a bird of noble and rich history worthy of its own American holiday.
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Published on August 3rd, 2020 | by Zorbz
REVIEW: Destroy All Humans
REVIEWED BY: SNRUB
A blast from the past – probing our memories via our buttholes to remind us of what things were like in 2005… before videogames (and us gamers) grew up. Rebuilt from the ground up, with the original “story, words, and images contained within [which] may be shocking to the human brain!” does Destroy All Humans still work? And can it still make us smile in 2020? It’s complicated.
Story: You play as Crypto-137, a sarcastic grey alien from the Furion race hell-bent on destruction and enslaving the human race, directed from the mothership by another Furion alien named Pox (Richard Horvitz, Invader Zim). During the 23-Mission campaign, you abduct, brainwash, and destroy your way to enslaving the human race by using your weapons and your flying saucer while collecting DNA-stems from the pathetic humans, who carry some small amounts of Furion DNA due to aliens “having some fun on Earth” centuries ago, before they evolved into a genderless, clone-based race.
Destroy All Humans sets you up as something of an anti-hero, a bad guy doing bad things to stupid/bad people including a subplot seeking revenge for what happened to Crypto-136. All of the people in the world of Destroy All Humans are caricatures, both through their original dialogue, and their exaggerated features that come with the brand new look – which helps make the humans… a little less human and much more cartoonish. This lightens the mood when you zap, vaporise, and anal probe thousands of the filthy worm-food.
The story also takes place in a Pulp Sci-Fi parody of postcard 1950’s America, where every alien action can be blamed on those darned Communists. Is it clever? Not really. Is it funny? Not particularly… but hey, it tries. Even though I never got a chance to play this game when it first came out, the game’s classic edgy humour and style still managed to make me feel like I was a teenager in 2005 playing something I probably shouldn’t be.
Graphics: While the graphics probably won’t win any awards, they definitely work to make an old game feel new again. Non-alien faces and lip syncing are stiff and barely emote, but when you’re out destroying humans the details are impressive. Leaving long burning trails with your flying saucer that leave permanent damage (until the level re-loads) is particularly satisfying, as are the explosions, as buildings collapse like slow-motion models in an old B-Grade film with massive amounts of fire.
There are a few minor issues with pop-in at the start of levels, and frame-rate drops when hundreds of enemies/buildings are exploding on screen, but only very occasionally – and for the most part… after two and a half very long minutes to load the game things look amazing. There’s no reason to try playing the original version now that this one exists – everything that needed to be kept intact has been – and everything that needed a visual update is here – including effects on the back of Crypto’s pulsing, translucent head.
The artwork at the start of every level fits brilliantly taking inspiration from films like “Invasion of the Body Snatchers”, but it’s disappointing to see the character models in-game aren’t as impressive with a plastic/wooden look to them, or as another reviewer put it “hair made of lego”.
Overall, the graphics do impress, but still leave me wanting more – especially after being spoiled by other games with more realistic lighting.
Gameplay: The game starts off like a linear 3rd person action game but after the first mission/first area unlocks (there are 6 areas in total) a free roam option becomes available with 4 time-limit challenges in each:
Armageddon – destroy as much of the area as possible with your flying saucer
Rampage – destroy as many enemies as you can on foot
Abduction – throw enemies or items into the floating/moving tractor beam
Race – follow a flying droid through the air and along the ground
Each challenge earns points (and DNA) to help you upgrade your weapons and abilities, which becomes increasingly important towards the end of the game unless you want to grind (or “farm”) for more human brains. I had to go back a few times to be able to defeat the final bosses.
When it comes to the main game, the levels are short but varied between stealth and action – where stealthy infiltration relies on using a hologram to copy other humans. It took me a while to figure out when and why my hologram was losing power, and sometimes it seemed to stop working almost at random but was never too frustrating.
Other missions are more straightforward – getting from Point A to Point B, while either protecting or attacking a certain target with one of your 4 hand-held weapons (zapper, probe, sticky bomb, or blaster) or 3 flying saucer weapons (laser beam, sonic blast, or the rare implosion blast). Each alternating play type includes weapons that automatically recharge which means the action keeps rolling even when you’re low on ammo.
The main story missions themselves also include optional objectives that pop up while you play, so you have an opportunity to get them right on the first attempt and earn bonus DNA for upgrades without being frustrating or impossible – this is definitely something other games with more vague star-rating systems should keep.
Sound: While the graphics have had a massive overhaul, the sound has not. The original voice cast recordings have been restored, with awkward pauses in dialogue still bizarrely kept in. This means that attempted jokes with two characters responding to each other can be disjointed, sounding like the two people speaking weren’t really bouncing their lines off each other.
Other games from 2005 and before had this problem during cut scenes to allow loading time between animations, but it lacks the fast-paced delivery that modern games are supposed to have. Richard Horvitz is just as incredible as his other famous larger-than-life characters (Angry Beavers, Invader Zim, Raz from Psychonauts), which guides you through the game without needing your character to respond – but the cutscenes still feel dated due to the pauses.
In terms of music there’s some great sci-fi use of a theremin in the score, but nothing that makes great use of the 1950’s setting or music that sets any sense of danger or tension. It’s cheesy, if functional and not exactly memorable.
The other issues with the sound include some very annoying NPC dialogue that repeats, and unpleasant fluctuations in audio levels – where one character speaks softly and the next is almost full volume.
Lastly, while talking about the sound it’s hard not to talk about what’s being said. While other satire has lasted decades Destroy All Humans lacks the same level of timeless charm, and the faithful remake was probably not the one we needed – but a ‘New and Improved’ dialogue option would have been nice, instead of being stuck with a few awkward sexist jokes made at a time when certain games were targeted more at boys rather than everybody.
Awesomeness: Hearing the diabolical insanity of Pox was probably the main highlight for me, channelling his inner Invader Zim. He also had some of the more story-driven dialogue and less of the snarky attempts at political satire, so even when he didn’t make me laugh, I was still able to enjoy his constant presence throughout the game.
Final word: If you’re a teenage boy at heart, and you still enjoy jokes about rednecks, butts, and women, then Destroy All Humans! might be the politically incorrect blast from the past against woke culture you wanted… but even if you overlook those things there’s still a unique well-crafted game in here worth trying (I did play it all the way through to the end). If there’s enough interest, maybe we’ll get the Destroy All Humans we really need today. But this one will do for now.
REVIEW: Destroy All Humans Zorbz
Out of 5 Bugs!
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Zerodebug touchAble celebrates 5 years anniversary with special deals
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Zerodebug announces that in honour of touchAble’s fifth birthday, it is offering 5 days of special deals and discounts on its iOS controller apps dedicated to Ableton Live.
Released in 2010, the acclaimed IOS controller which has continuously evolved since its first version, has been updated to version 3.1 today, and marking the 5th anniversary of an app positioned as a serious alternative to hardware controllers.”Just five years ago we launched touchAble, the first complete iOS controller dedicated to Ableton Live and one of the first iOS music Apps massively embraced by pro musicians, djs and producers.
Multi-touch controllers have proven their undeniable utility ever since. With every new version of touchAble we have introduced new features, ideas and new technologies. With the release of touchAble 3.1 today and our apps fifth birthday, we would like to celebrate with our current and future users by offering 5 days of special deals on our complete lineup.”touchable 3.1 brings several new features requested by its user community such as a Modulation wheel for keyboards, a variable font-size, new follow modes, as well as many performance enhancements and bug fixes.
The Live Device Template Pack, which is available as an in-app purchase and adds specialised templates for most of Lives Devices, now offers an additional 13 Templates for Max for Live devices.touchAble 3.1 is fully compatible with LaunchSync and the forthcoming LaunchSync 2 by Isotonik which allows to sync touchAble and all grid-based control surfaces available for Ableton Live, such as Ableton Push, Novation Launchpad, LaunchControl or Akai APC40 series.”If you’ve been waiting to jump on multitouch to control Ableton Live orsimply want to expand your touchAble setup, the next five days is the time to do it. touchAble is THE solution for multi-touch and Ableton Live and we are very proud to celebrate five years of touchAble with our community.touchAble 5 years Anniversary Special
• touchAble for iPad: $4,99 (regular price is $24,99) – This special offer is valid from 17:00 (CEST) to 22:00 (CEST) on October 20, 2015, then $12,99 until 24:00 October 25 2015.• 50% off on touchAble Mini ($9,99 to $4,99)
• 50% off on touchAble Bundle ($30,99 to $14,99)• 50% off on the “Live Device Templates Pack” available as in-app purchase ($21,99$ to $10,99)This special offer is valid until 24:00 October 25 2015.Device/System Requirements:* Compatible with all generations of iPad, iPhone and iPod running IOS 5and above.* Ableton Live 8.4 and above or Live 9.2 and above.* Mac OSX 10.5 and above or Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 and 10.* touchAble PC or MAC server software (downloadable for free).
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Definition of oar:
A light pole with a flat end for rowing boats.
Instrument to row boats.
part of speech: verb
To impel by rowing.
To row.
A pole with a flat or spoonshaped blade at one end, used for rowing a boat; one who rows.
Usage examples for oar:
" Let me take an oar Ben," said Larry, whose experience upon the world of waters was not any too wide. "The Major", Ralph Connor.
Presently they could see one oar put out, in an attempt to steer the boat into the cove. "Roger Ingleton, Minor", Talbot Baines Reed.
Helm put in his oar trying to soften the situation, as was his custom on all occasions, and received from Clark a stinging reprimand, with the reminder that he was nothing but a prisoner on parole, and had no voice at all in settling the terms of surrender. "Alice of Old Vincennes", Maurice Thompson.
The ferry- man came and bade him get in, and when they got to the other shore he put the oar in his hand and sprang out. "Household Tales by Brothers Grimm", Grimm Brothers.
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Book Review Lizard by Banana Yoshimoto
This book is a collection of six short stories including Newlywed, Lizard, Helix, Dreaming of Kimchee, Blood and Water, A strange tale from down by the river.
Although they are all separate stories one gets the impression from reading that they relate to the same characters even though this is not clearly stated that is the feeling you get. Like the writer was in the same mood and all the stories are somehow linked. Translated from the Japanese by Ann Sherif we are lucky to get deep glimpses into the psyche of characters, people, places and events.
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"She told me that she didn't have an aversion to people per se, but simply didn't want to see anyone else after hours. I knew how she felt"p33
"She seemed like a creature of a different species, one who lives quietly in the dark" p35
"the more she gave to others, the more she struggles. Her burden grew heavy by the day. This type of guilt is so fundamental" p41
"Like plants in a greenhouse, we depended on each other, but neither of us enjoyed the feelings of release or openness that one would wish from such a relationship" p43
"Akira didn't like dealing with people at all, so I did it for him" p102
"I am the only one in the world who knows what's best for me. I'm just here, deciding things I need to decide for myself" p113
"I might have been intimidated by his fastidiousness and fled" p130
"I feel like I need to shake you and tell you about the realities of marriage. It's not just some pretty dream, you know" p135
"But I sometimes got a craving for the weak coffee they served at the cafe in Aoyama" p147
A good read with quirky stories, characters and events. Banana Yoshimoto is a great writer who really captures the psyche of Japanese culture with her deep insights, reflections and detailed introspection of what makes people tick.
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NYJFF ’18: The Last Goldfish
Manfred Goldfish (born Goldfisch) preferred to identify as a “citizen of the world.” Having resided in Germany, Trinidad, and Australia, he qualified more than most. When he was forced to immigrate from both Germany and Trinidad, it was to escape escalating nationalistic ethnic violence, but for some reason (likely ideological), his daughter sees little of interest in the parallels. Instead, she focuses on finding the long-lost family members her father forced himself to forget, as a coping mechanism, in the highly personal documentary, The Last Goldfish (trailer here), which screens during this year’s New York Jewish Film Festival.
Her father never spoke of his previous life in Germany, most definitely including his first wife and their son and daughter. Su Goldfish (born Suzanne) only knew her father Manfred and her English-born mother, Phyllis, who is the problematically forgotten person in Last Goldfish, banished to the corner after the first ten minutes. The discovery of her half-siblings understandably gave rise to a host of emotions in Goldfish, but when her initial letter to her half-brother went unanswered, she somewhat bitterly back-burnered her interest for several years.
After misspending the rest of her youth on numerous leftist causes, Goldfish renewed her investigation into her ancestry. However, this time her interest would be reciprocated, especially by her half-sister. Unfortunately, she rekindled memories for her aging father at a time when he was increasingly weak and susceptible to feelings of guilt and inconsolable loss.
Manfred Goldfish’s story is indeed fascinating. Perhaps the film’s most remarkable revelation is the friendship shared by Goldfish’s father and the Jewish German athlete Gretel Bergmann, the subject of the film Berlin 36, whom the filmmaker interviewed as a spry and cogent centenarian before her death last year at 103. Unfortunately, Goldfish is constantly injecting her own thoughts, biases, and neuroses into the film. Frankly, you would expect a memory-film like this would duly analyze the emotional toll it must have taken when Trinidad’s “Black Power” street violence forced a survivor of Hitler’s Germany to once again immigrate for his family’s safety. Yet, Goldfish conspicuously opts not to go there.
There are some nice things that happen in the film, like the placement of stolperstein memorials for Golfish’s grandparents. However, the doc is hampered by its own blinders. This is maybe a case where a film is too personal and Goldfish’s subject, her family, might have been better served if she had taken on a more objective co-director. Far from essential, The Last Goldfish screens this Wednesday (1/10) and next Monday (1/15), at the Walter Reade, as part of the 2018 NYJFF.
Labels: Australian cinema, Documentary, NYJFF '18
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Views of Zion
Joseph Smith's False Prophecies
How could one test whether or not Joseph Smith was a false prophet?
Sample of Joseph Smith's False Prophecies
Mormon God vs Biblical God
Joseph Fielding Smith, the tenth president of the LDS church, said that Mormonism “must stand or fall on the story of Joseph Smith. He was either a prophet of God….or he was one of the biggest frauds this world has ever seen. There is no middle ground”
The Bible clearly warns that there will be false prophets who will deceive many, and gives two simple tests to distinguish the true from the false. These tests are objective, and do not involve praying or internal feelings. First, if they give even one false prophecy, then they are not sent from God, even if their other prophecies come true.
So here is one example. In 1844, Joseph Smith prophesied that his son David would be a church president and king over Israel. David, however, was never even a member of the LDS church, much less a president or king of anything.
And there are dozens more false prophecies about to the return of Christ, the building up of Zion temples, and other cities, the destruction of the US government and other enemies, and the fate of certain church members, etc. Mormon apologists have defenses for all of these, insisting that Smith never made a false prophecy, but also insisting that true prophets can make false prophecies.
But even if one can accept the explanations for each of Smith’s prophetic failures, there still remains the second biblical test of a prophet, false prophets lead people away from the true God. And this test is only impossible if God preserved the record of who he is in the Bible.
So here are some examples of how the prophet Joseph Smith led people to a very different God than did the prophets of the Bible.
The biblical God has been God unchanged since eternity, the Mormon god used to be a man who worked his way up. The biblical God is spirit, and has no physical body, the Mormon god has a physical body just like a man’s. The biblical God is the only God anywhere and forever, the Mormon god is only one of an infinite regression of gods, and men can become gods after him. The biblical God is omnipresent, the Mormon god shares man’s physical limit of one place at a time. The Bible says no man can see God the Father, Joseph Smith claimed that he had. The biblical God created all things by his own command, the Mormon god only reorganized preexisting matter.
So we must take Joseph Fielding Smith’s challenge on the prophetic integrity of Joseph Smith seriously. Remember, right after Jesus warned people to beware of false prophets, he added that some people would call to him “Lord Lord“, thinking they know him, but Christ will reply, “I never knew you”, and they will not enter the kingdom of heaven. www.ldsvideo.org
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Edinburgh Fringe: 'Snowflake' at Pleasance Above, 8th August 2017
Tuesday, August 8, 2017 by londoncitynights
Snowflake reviewed by David James
Jax is fast approaching her 21st birthday and going nowhere fast. Her Mum is off in Spain 'finding herself', she's failed to get a job after 16 interviews (admittedly she didn't turn up for 7 of them), her antidepressants are just giving her a bad stomach, her boyfriend has cheated on her, she's self-harming with a cigarette lighter and, to put a (shitty) cherry on top, her toaster is given up the ghost.
We meet her by degrees, first a shaky hand snaking out from under a duvet to silence a mobile phone, then a puff of joint smoke ominously emerging from under a duvet. Eventually she crawls out to greet an unhappy world, gazing out into the audience and delivering a blistering monologue about the hell of modern life.
Snowflake is the go-to right-wing put down to young people. Originating in Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club ("you are not special, you are not a beautiful and unique snowflake") it's been now used to describe 'Generation Snowflake' - young people with a combination of entitlement, mental fragility and a passion for social justice.
And so, Snowflake serves up a gallery of fucked up millennials. They're agoraphobic, riddled with anxiety, depressed beyond pills, naturally pessimistic, poverty-stricken, furious with baby-boomers and driven to extremes of vanity by social media. They're also pretty much alright people: kind, friendly, supportive of one another and empathetic to a fault.
Frankly it's a wonder that they're so nice. Unmoored in a chaotic world, buffeted by promises of climate apocalypse, getting into crazy debt to pay for a useless education, told they're too sensitive in the same breath as they're told they'll have to work into their seventies (that's if they can even find a job in an increasingly automated world). No wonder they're taking out their frustrations on their forearms.
Written and directed by Mark Thomson and produced by the Scottish Drama Training Network, Snowflake shows us a world caught in a paradox - loneliness shoulder to shoulder with unprecedented interconnectivity. Maintaining a frenetic pace throughout, Snowflake spins Jax through a whirlwind of scenes that rapidly cycle between locations and see her assaulted by personifications of procrastination, her broken toaster, her anti-depressants, the seductive cuddle of her cigarette lighter and the epitome of baby boomer greed and entitlement, President Donald Trump.
Peppered throughout the script are a tonne of well-observed moments. One of my favourites is when the characters take a selfie and upload it to Facebook, saying "That's the truth now". It's almost an incidental line, but it speaks volumes as to what 'truth' is in a world of constant online validation. If there's relationship and there's no-one LIKE it can it really be said to have happened? Similarly, there's a great exchange of dialogue where Jax and her friend Debs are watching a depressing nature documentary on Netflix - Debs runs down all the things she has to be concerned about in the world and cries out in despair "and now there's whales!"
It's an excellent piece of writing, and fortunately the performance quality is more than a match for it. Heather Horsman and Mirren Wilson are particularly wonderful as Jax's friends, and Harvey Reid achieves a lot with the smallish role of nervy Tesco employee Peter.
But the undisputed star of the show is Shyvonne Ahmmad's Jax. That opening monologue instantly proves she's an extraordinarily talented actor, spending the play hurling herself into the role to killer effect. She's the lynchpin at the core of all this: compelling, touching, charismatic and palpably 'realistic', even within the generally stylised tone.
She's so good that the play only really suffers when the focus shifts away from her. About midway through we get an extended Tinder sequence involving Mirren Wilsons' Debs and Michael Johnson's Tom. There's nothing wrong with the writing or performances, but it feels like an unnecessary digression from the central story.
But hey, it's a very small fly in the middle of a lot of very nice ointment. The only reason I saw Snowflake was that one of my comp reservations had gotten screwed up and I was left with two hours to kill. So I decided to go and see the first show that someone handed me a flyer for. I'm glad I did, Snowflake is one hell of an impressive show.
Snowflake is at Pleasance Above Aug 8-14, 16-21, 23-28. Tickets here.
Tags: Above pleasance , Edinburgh Fringe , harvey reid , heather horsman , Mark Thomson , mirren wilson , Scottish drama training network , Shyvonne Ahmmad , Snowflake , theatre
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Acyclovir crystalluria: The utility of bedside urine routine microscopic examination
Puneet Jain, Ramachandran Rameshkumar, Ponnarmeni Satheesh, Subramanian Mahadevan
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Critical Care, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry, India
Date of Submission 25-May-2020
Date of Decision 06-Jul-2020
Date of Acceptance 11-Jul-2020
Date of Web Publication 14-Sep-2020
Dr. Ramachandran Rameshkumar
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Critical Care, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry - 605 006
DOI: 10.4103/jpcc.jpcc_90_20
Acyclovir, an acyclic nucleoside, is commonly used for the treatment of viral infections. Acyclovir is well tolerated in children. However, severe nephrotoxicity has been shown to occur in some children. One of the mechanisms for acyclovir-induced nephrotoxicity is acyclovir-induced crystalluria. Prompt attention to urine microscopy examination can help avoid drug-induced nephrotoxicity. Here, we report a case of a seven-year-old febrile comatose child who received intravenous empirical acyclovir therapy and developed cloudy urine. Bedside urine microscopic examination shows fine-needle-shaped crystal. The urine was cleared within 12 h of stopping the acyclovir and adequate intravascular hydration. A child recovered without evidence of acute kidney injury.
Keywords: Acyclovir, children, complications, crystalluria, microscopy, urine examination
Jain P, Rameshkumar R, Satheesh P, Mahadevan S. Acyclovir crystalluria: The utility of bedside urine routine microscopic examination. J Pediatr Crit Care 2020;7:282-4
Jain P, Rameshkumar R, Satheesh P, Mahadevan S. Acyclovir crystalluria: The utility of bedside urine routine microscopic examination. J Pediatr Crit Care [serial online] 2020 [cited 2021 Jan 20];7:282-4. Available from: http://www.jpcc.org.in/text.asp?2020/7/5/282/295027
Urine microscopy is a low-cost investigation that can provide useful and relevant information in a broad spectrum of clinical situations.[1] The presence of crystals in urine is a common finding in the routine examination of urine. A variety of drugs sulphadiazine, acyclovir, triamterene, piridoxilate, and primidone may cause crystalluria. Although acyclovir is well tolerated, it may lead to severe nephrotoxicity.[2] Acyclovir crystalluria is an uncommon side effect of the commonly used drug. Timely detection of acute kidney injury (AKI) and prompt intervention is necessary to prevent morbidity. Prompt attention to urine microscopy observation can help to avoid drug-associated renal toxicity. We highlighted the utility of art and science of urine microscopic examination in a report of the seven-year-old febrile comatose child who developed acyclovir-induced crystalluria.
A seven-year-old developmentally normal boy with no significant history was brought to the emergency department with a history of fever for the past three days and altered sensorium for one day. There was no history of seizures, jaundice, or recent vaccination. Examination findings were terminal neck rigidity, and upper motor neuron signs but no papilledema. The provisional diagnosis of acute febrile encephalopathy was considered. The child was managed with supportive care, osmotherapy (3%-saline), and intravenous antimicrobials (ceftriaxone, 50 mg/kg/dose every 12 h and acyclovir, 10 mg/kg/dose every 8 h over 1-h infusion). The lumbar puncture was done after finding an unremarkable study of contrast-enhanced computer tomographyof the head examination. The child was on mechanical ventilation for three days for disordered control of breathing.
On the day three of stay, his urine changed to cloudy appearance. His serum creatinine levels were within the normal range (0.6 mg/dL). The specific gravity of urine was 1.020. Microscopy of urinary sediment revealed abundant, colorless, transparent, and fine-needle-shaped crystals [Figure 1]. The macroscopic and microscopic picture of urine suggested acyclovir-induced crystalluria is the most likely diagnosis. The drug was stopped, and adequate hydration ensured to maintain adequate urine output. Renal function and urine output were normal during the stay. Urine was clear of crystals within 12 h. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) examination showed hypoglycorrhachia (CSF sugar 38 mg/dL and blood sugar 84 mg/dL), the protein of 75 mg/dL and 60 cells with 80% neutrophils. Since the CSF picture suggestive of pyogenic meningitis and polymerase chain reaction for herpes virus in CSF was negative, acyclovir was not restarted.
Figure 1: Multiple needle-shaped crystals observed under light microscopy
The urine microscopy is one of the few tests which can be done at the bedside and at a low cost. A variety of drugs such as triamterene, sulphadiazine, acyclovir, piridoxilate, and primidone may cause transient crystalluria.[3] Factors leading to precipitation of crystals within renal tubular lumen are an overdose, dehydration, and hypoalbuminemia.[4]
The incidence of acyclovir-induced renal impairment has been reported to be 16% in adults.[5] Acyclovir crystals are birefringent and needle-shaped[3] [Figure 1], and the abundance of these crystals give urine a silky and opalescent macroscopic appearance. Needle-shaped crystals are not unique to acyclovir drug. Endogenous causes of needle-shaped crystals are uric acid, calcium phosphate, tyrosine, and bilirubin crystals, whereas drug-related needle-shaped crystals are formed by acyclovir, atazanavir, ciprofloxacin, and amoxicillin.[6] As laboratory technicians do not have access to medical records, timely reporting of moderate to abundant crystalluria to clinician is of paramount importance to raise concern for the risk of acute kidney injury (AKI). Therefore, long needle-shaped crystals, with bright birefringence under polarized light microscopy that readily dissolve with the addition of saline, acid, or base in the urine of patients receiving acyclovir intravenously is most likely due to acyclovir crystalluria.
The acyclovir can cause crystalluria though it is an uncommon side effect of commonly used drugs.[7] The occurrence of acyclovir-induced crystalluria increases when high dosages are given intravenously, and when accorded to dehydrated patients.[5] Additional risk factors are preexisting AKI, concurrent administration of nephrotoxic agents, and rapid intravenous infusion.[4] In the index case, acyclovir dose and duration of infusion were as per standard recommendations. The identifiable risk factor in the index case is restricted maintenance fluid (80% of daily requirement) and coadministration of ceftriaxone as a combination of ceftriaxone and acyclovir may result in nephrotoxicity. Vomiero et al. reported that a combination of ceftriaxone and acyclovir resulted in an increased incidence of renal impairment as compared to monotherapy in meningoencephalitis cases. However, they did not find evidence of crystalluria in their cases.[8]
Drug-induced crystalluria may be asymptomatic or in association with erythrocyturia or leukocyturia.[1] In the index case, crystalluria led to cloudy urine. The primary mechanism of acyclovir-induced nephrotoxicity is thought to be because of crystalluria.[5],[9],[10] However, clinical evidence of nephrotoxicity in the absence of crystal formation suggests that acyclovir may cause direct insult to renal tubular cells. Gunness et al. reported that renal biopsies from the patients receiving acyclovir demonstrated flattened vacuolated, bulging epithelial cells, and no evidence of crystals.[2]
Treatment of acyclovir nephrotoxicity is mainly supportive and modification of drug or discontinuation in addition to maintaining a high urinary flow rate with intravenous fluids and furosemide.[4] In the index case, the drug was stopped and good urine output was achieved with adequate hydration. Subsequently, urine was clear of crystals within 12 h, and renal function tests were also within the normal range.
This case highlights the utility of art and science of urine microscopy. Acyclovir is recommended mainly for acute meningoencephalitis in tropical countries. Hence, daily microscopic examination of urine in patients who were receiving Acyclovir may help in early detection of crystalluria, and necessary intervention can be done accordingly. The low-cost investigation and feasibility to perform bedside, it should be more widely used by clinicians. In the clinical context, timely recognition and prompt intervention can prevent drug-induced kidney injury.
The authors certify that they have obtained all appropriate patient consent forms. In the form, the patient's parents have given their consent for images and other clinical information to be reported in the journal. The patient's parents understand that name and initials will not be published and due efforts will be made to conceal identity, but anonymity cannot be guaranteed.
We would like to acknowledge the parents of index patient for giving the consent for publication of their child data in a medical journal and the contribution of Mrs. S. Raja Deepa B. Com, MCA (Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research Campus, Puducherry, India) for grammar correction/manuscript review.
Supported, in part, by the institutional and departmental fund.
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The Criddle Family
by Lillian Gibbons with postscript by Alice Brown
Manitoba Pageant, January 1961, Volume 6, Number 2
This article was published originally in Manitoba Pageant by the Manitoba Historical Society on the above date. We make it available here as a free, public service.
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"Anywhere the wild rose grows is good crop land," said confident Manitoba Government bulletins circulating in England in 1880. Such confidence attracted nature-loving Percy Criddle and his wife Alice, of Addlestone in Surrey, who with their four children and the Harry Vane family, came to Manitoba in the early 1880s. "Of course the wild rose grows everywhere," notes mild Evelyn Criddle who was eighty-four years old in November, "But it turned out all right," he added.
The homestead of the Criddle family, in the sandy, rolling cattle country north of Treesbank and across the Assiniboine River, grew into a kingdom comprising 6000 acres and 500 head of beef cattle. In 1960 the family sold the homestead and moved to 136 acres on Vancouver Island. The cattle will still bear the brand "C", and the new owners, a business syndicate, hope to develop the place as a dude ranch.
To say farewell to this unique family The Winnipeg Tribune made a special tour last September. The party discovered that finding the place was like discovering the legendary home of Lorna Doone in the English valley beyond Exmoor — and as dangerous. As we approached an ominous booming from the firing range at Shilo filled the air, and no directions were posted to give comfort to the enemy. Suddenly the narrow track led out into an open space. Beyond the white poplars lay an apple-green painted big square house. Out came an applecheeked man with a thatch of white hair, and a gay stride in those high rubber boots. Was this the Criddle place, we asked him. "Yes, I'm one of them," was Evelyn's friendly greeting.
In the kitchen, more a museum than a place for eating and cooking, was his sister Maida, seventy-eight — strong and tall, smiling and self-possessed. "This is St. Alban's" we were told, named in the English manner like "Jalna," Mazo de la Roche's fictional home of the White-oaks family. Because the Criddles were English many visitors are struck with the similarity. "It's Jalna all over again," they say.
Invisible beyond the thick spruce grove was a red brick cottage, the home of brother Stuart Criddle, eighty-three. Through the years his wife, who passed away a few weeks after our visit, learned to accept such things as the yellow plastic pail of baby snakes that were shuffling off their skins in her living room window. "Little is known of their life habits," murmured the naturalist.
Another nearby house is hidden in the trees. It was Norman Criddle's "Lab". Norman was Manitoba's pioneer entomologist. His painstaking research provided a sound foundation for later studies of the life habits of Manitoba's native insect population, and a number of our province's foremost entomologists began their careers under his tutelage. After brother Norman's death his laboratory was used as a house. He developed a grasshopper poison, known as the "Criddle Mixture." "It has saved the West a few million dollar crop losses," said sister Maida proudly.
Miss Maida herself played a part in the family's scientific investigation, for she kept the weather station records since her father's death some forty-two years ago.
Evelyn had helped his brother Norman collect and mount butterflies, and the dining room was piled high with shallow glass-topped cases from the "Lab.". When Norman died his collection of insects went to the Provincial Entomological Laboratory at Brandon.
Stuart Criddle examining giant cucumber experiment
Evelyn Criddle with inlaid cribbage board and homemade golf club
Source: Winnipeg Tribune
Gerald Malaher, Manitoba Director of Game and Fisheries, has been to St. Alban's many times. "The family is outstanding," he said, "in their quiet way as pioneers in this province." Stuart has contributed a great deal of knowledge to entomology, ornithology, archaeology, zoology, mammalogy and botany. His articles have been published in scientific journals and he is an honorary member of the Manitoba Museum Association.
Last summer Stuart's experimental garden produced a new sun-flower with fringed, feathery leaves which he hopes to develop as fodder. They are much more tender than the great smooth-edged leaves.
The Criddles — the four English-born children and the four born at St. Alban's — were an original do-it-yourself family. During the long winter evenings they carved picture frames and inlaid cribbage boards and boxes with ornamental patterns of great intricacy. They used bits of ivory keys from an old piano brought from England — one that Lord Nelson had played on at their great grandfather's house in London. They built their own billiard table out of packing cases, rubber boots supplying the resilient inner edge of the playing surface. Cues, made by hand, hang nearby in a hand-carved wall rack. Maida and Evelyn are still adept, leaning on a newer billiard table to line up the shot. They carved their own golf balls too — from cherry wood and made golf clubs from hard pin cherry wood and the iron from old bed springs. Life was a pleasure — full of challenges. It appears that their father's study of music at Heidelberg, Germany provided a background for endless happy hours of music and composing in their Manitoba home. His knowledge of medicine came in handy as well. "A doctor is not supposed to look after his own family but he attended us," said Maida.
His wife Alice had a degree from Cambridge University, although, as she used to say, "Algebra isn't much use on the farm." Husband and wife both died in 1917, two weeks apart, and are buried on the Criddle estate, along with a son, two daughters, and Mrs. Harry Vane, the widow with five children who accompanied the Criddles to Manitoba.
No dog barked, nor cats stalked on these ancestral acres — for the Criddles could not have the birds frightened from their bird-banding station. As evidence of the bird sanctuary which they provided we watched the purple martins sit thick on the wires, and forty bluebirds were counted from the kitchen window in the pond-sized bath below.
The old log barns are leaning lazily and will soon be burnt down. Pictures show the first house they raised in 1883. It was an eight-roomed log structure, hip-roofed like a barn. They had lived in two tents in the Fall of 1882 when they first arrived. In 1906 the present house replaced the log home. "We all helped. I nailed five thicknesses of newspaper under the tar paper," admitted Maida.
Percy Criddle's diary, which he kept in Latin, English or French, records a visit from Ernest Thompson Seton, who had walked there from Carberry. He writes "... spent the night here in the shanty, much scientific talk ... wish he lived near us, though the simple joys connected with farming might be neglected for noble pursuits."
The Criddles pioneered in sport as well. How many farm homes could boast tennis courts and a golf course in the years before World War I. Many sports-minded people of Western Manitoba remember the exploits of a younger brother, "Tolly" Criddle, golfer and tennis player extraordinary. "Tolly," properly Talbot Criddle, still farms a few miles north of Wawanesa.
Of the children who came from England in 1882 only Harry Vane remains in the Treesbank district. He too followed the family passion for research. At his home, "St. John's" on the bank of the Souris River, a mile south-east of Treesbank, hedged in by a tight-massed bank of sheltering spruce, one may see what is probably the most magnificent display of hybrid roses in all Manitoba. A few years ago the horticulturist at the University of Manitoba reported to inquiring rose fanciers that Mr. Vane had evolved the best method of wintering delicate roses in our climate.
Of the district's pioneers who would remember the very early days and the Criddle's Christmas parties of those years, only Mrs. H. N. Clark survives. Of those parties it has been reported that when the cutters swung up to the door to unload, their hostess — this trans-planted English gentlewoman, welcomed the guests looking gracious and queenly "in a dress as beautiful as Queen Victoria's".
To the old district of Treesbank, (originally Millford), that has said good-bye to them this Fall, the departure of the Criddle family seems the end of an era. They will not be forgotten there.
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Matt McGillivray's First QS Victory
By WSL/Nicolas Leroy
The Seat Pro Netanya pres by Reef came to an epic end today with Matthew McGillivray's victory over Charly Martin in the Final. The day started in remains of yesterday's massive storm, and while the lineup was originally shifty with big, clean-out sets, conditions improved considerably throughout the day and gave way to super clean, three-to-four surf.
Charly was first to capitalize on the glassy peaks with a little cover-up and a good turn to post a 6.5, nothing major but the first decent score of the Final. On the 10-minute mark, Charly and Matthew started on back-to-back waves and surfed them pretty much the same, but Matt got the nod with a 7.2 over Charly's 6.9.
Turning the heat gave Matthew a big confidence boost, and the South African soon launched into a big forehand rotation to post an 8.33 and build a solid lead. Despite many comeback efforts from Charly, the situation remained the same and Matthew walked away with the win.
"This feels amazing," he said. "This is my third year on the QS, I've put in a lot of hard work so it feels amazing to finally get a win. Yesterday was huge with the big storm so we were wondering what was going to happen today with the waves, but it got better and better and there were some amazing waves."
Three years in, Matthew's best results have been just a couple of runner-up finishes in Durban and Tahiti, and today was his first-ever win on the big stage. His path to the Final included an incredible seven consecutive heats with a scoreboard over 14 points, and a near-perfect 18.33 in the semis. Not bad for a first time surfing the Med!
"Israel's an amazing country," he added. "Everyone we met here was so passionate about surfing, there are way more surfers that I could have ever expected. Everyone was super friendly and very supportive on the beach, we've had great food every day, it's really been a great trip."
Charly on the other hand is no stranger to winning. His resume boasts a couple of major wins, and his latest to date came in his final event of 2017 in China. It's safe to say he's on a roll and it's going to be interesting to follow him in the next couple of major events in Australia.
"Obviously I would have loved to win this one too," Charly said. "I felt like I had done the hardest part, but I'm stoked to get a Final at my first event of the season. Last year I didn't get a good result until November so I'm definitely starting a lot better. I've had a blast and the past 10 days just flew by. The people and the country are great."
In the first Semifinal, Kei Kobayashi was all over the place. The Californian, who seemed calm and collected up until then, looked like he'd lost all patience and tried a couple of big rotations, but always came short of landing them clean.
Kei jumped from 328th in 2016 to No. 100 on the QS last season, and seeing as he looked sharp all week in Israel, we can expect big things from him this season.
"Matt surfed really well and I knew I was going to need two big scores," he said. "We both knew we're going to go for airs, and I had a couple I knew could have been very big scores but I made mistakes and didn't land them. The waves were firing in the expression session before our heat and I think I frothed out and lost my calm a little."
In the second semifinal, Charly and Nelson Cloarec went heat-to-head in what was probably the closest battle of the day. Nelson had the upper hand for most of the 30-minute heat but Charly came back with a big rotation and finally stopped the former European Junior champ's run in Israel.
"It's really positive to start the year with a result like that," Nelson said. "I've been coming in for three years and have always managed to get a good result so I'm super happy with this experience again. I think this is the best of all three editions waves-wise and I'll definitely be back!"
What was probably most unexpected were a couple of big losses in the Quarters. Miguel Pupo and Jorgann Couzinet fell to Nelson and Matthew respectively. The lineup was a lot shiftier and hard to read in the morning and the two biggest names in the event couldn't find the right waves while the active tactics of their opponents paid off, big time.
Final Results of SEAT Pro Netanya pres. by Reef
1. Mathew McGillivray (ZAF)
2. Charly Martin (FRA)
3. Kei Kobiyashi (USA), Nelson Cloarec (FRA)
5. Reo Inaba (JPN), Jorgann Couzinett (FRA), Miguel Pupo (BRA), Maxime Huscenot (FRA)
With the first European QS event now completed, the region's Top 5 stands as follows: European Qualifying Series Top 5:
1 - Charly Martin
2 - Nelson Cloarec
3 - Jorgann Couzinet
3 - Maxime Huscenot
5 - Tom Cloarec
Stop No. 2 on the European Qualifying Series, the QS 1,500 Las Americas Pro Tenerife will take surfers to the Canary Islands from January 29 to February 4.
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Cats Are Good At Physics
June 16, 2016 By Tara Hamilton
Cats know Physics.
(Mirror Daily, United States) – Cats have always been amazing creatures especially for the fact that many of us prefer to have one as a pet. These animals are not only beautiful, but they make a great companion especially if you feel lonely.
Recent research has shown that cats are also highly intelligent creatures. In other words, these felines can understand some laws of physics such as the principle of cause and effect.
A team of researchers from Japan made a study in which they involved 30 domestic cats to establish what will be their reaction when some boxes were shaken in front of them. The boxes were empty, or they had an invisible object which the felines had to anticipate.
Furthermore, scientists tried to see if cats could distinguish whether a box is empty or full based on the sound made by the container. Therefore, the team observed the animals repeatedly to make sure that there was no coincidence in their responses.
According to Saho Takagi, lead researcher from Kyoto University in Japan, the boxes were shaken in front of the 30 felines with and without producing a sound.
Plus, the researchers also flipped the boxes during the experiment so the cats could see which of the containers was carrying an object. Based on the results, the boxes that made a rattling sound and had an object plus the silent containers that were empty were related to physics.
In addition to this, the boxes from which an object was dropped and the empty boxes of which no object fell complied with the laws of physics.
It is also worth mentioning that cats stared for a longer period at boxes that made a rattling sound meaning that they were aware that there was something inside the container based on the noise.
Plus, they also stared more when a box was turned over with a falling object meaning that cats also anticipated the content correctly. Furthermore, it is even simpler for these domestic felines because they do not rely on theoretical information. They simply figure out the place where an object is hidden based on a causal-logical understanding of sounds.
These skills help cats and other felines to hunt, especially at night time when their vision is limited. Despite the fact that cats have a much better night vision than humans, they still have to rely mostly on sounds when they hunt at the cover of darkness.
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February 10, 2015 By John Birks Leave a Comment
Predator cats and foxes are on the verge of creating a new calamity: mammal species in Australia are being wiped off the surface of this planet. Experts actually call this strange phenomenon:“extinction calamity.” Foxes and cats brought mostly from Europe by the initial settlers are causing an unprecedented fast extinction rate. These phenomena are usually caused by human hunt or loss of habitat. But with the Australian mammals things stand differently.
“A further 56 Australian land mammals are now threatened, indicating that this extremely high rate of biodiversity loss is likely to continue unless substantial changes are made,”
said the leader of the research, conservation biologist John Woinarski.
This study was published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday. It basically proves that over 10% of the land mammal species endemic to Australia have been wiped out since the European settlement took place, back in 1788. 21% of the mammals are currently endangered, but not yet extinct.
In order to discover the cause of the massive and rapid extinction, scientists tracked the fate of all the country’s land and marine mammals ever since the first European settlers initially arrived in Australia. And much to their surprise they found the decline coincided with two animals arrival onto the Australian land: the feral cat, which was brought by sailors to Australia on ships as they kept the on-board rat populations at a low range, along with red foxes, which were brought to the continent for hunting.
The scientists explained that seven species that used to be widespread on the Australian land now only live on islands that haven’t been colonised by cats or foxes. Moreover they also found that unlike the rest of the world, where the risk of extinction is affecting much larger animals, the Australian mammals that are being killed to extinction are rather small, just a perfect meal size for a cat or a fox.
Another culprit identified by scientists regarding the mammals’ extinction rate is the different way in which the nation’s wildfires are handled and managed. Meaning that during the past years, indigenous Australians used to set small fires on a regular basis, fires that burned away dry brush, which is a perfect tinder for wildfires. But this practice is no longer common today, and therefore wildfires have a tendency to ignite more frequent and to spread more widely, making the mammals lose their food sources and compelling them to hide in places that protect them from the hungry cats and foxes.
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January 6, 2021 By Mike
Stunning flagship’s looks have evolved both inside and out
Enhancements to the interior ambience both surprise and delight
Enlarged 10.25-inch ‘connected’ infotainment system
New advanced driver assistance safety systems added
The price for the new Stinger ‘GT S’ is £42,595
Available to pre-order now
Kia’s high-performance fastback sports saloon, the Stinger, now boasts a refreshed design to amplify its gran turismo character and features a range of technology and safety upgrades.
The upgraded Stinger boasts a re-profiled exterior design and has been enhanced to improve cabin appearance and quality. The upgraded cabin, in particular, reaffirms the Stinger’s credentials as the consummate grand tourer and the flagship of Kia’s European line-up.
The exterior notably gains a more high-tech light signature, with a new rear combination lamp spanning the width of the car. This creates a distinctive new light signature, which mimics the shape of the subtle spoiler integrated into the boot lid. New rear indicators, each comprising of 10 individual LED units, are arranged in a grid pattern – a motorsport-inspired design – which reflects the appearance of a chequered flag.
A new design for the 19-inch alloy wheels is also introduced, with intricate, geometric designs which enhances the sporty, grand tourer nature of the car. ‘Electric Blue’ exterior paint is also introduced to the ’GT S’ for the first time.
Inside, the overall architecture of the cabin remains the same, but subtle visual, material, and textural enhancements create a more luxurious ambience. New additions include a metallic finish to sections of the flat-bottomed steering wheel and a chrome bezel around the instrument cluster. The rear-view mirror is now frameless, creating a classy, modern look and also has the benefit of enhancing rearward visibility. The dashboard features Kia’s upgraded 10.25-inch touchscreen infotainment and navigation system and is further accentuated by new gloss black trim. New mood lighting allows the driver to select from one of 64 colours to subtly alter the character of the cabin.
Available to pre-order now from Kia showrooms, the Stinger ‘GT S’ is priced from £42,595.
State-of-the art technology with concert hall quality premium audio system
The upgraded Stinger is fitted as standard with Kia’s 10.25-inch touchscreen display. The infotainment system also allows Bluetooth smartphone pairing for two phones concurrently, enabling separate phones to be used for phone calls and music, for instance. Its advanced split-screen display lets users control or monitor different vehicle features at the same time, customising the screen with a series of different widgets. Apple CarPlay™ and Android Auto™ are standard, with intuitive voice control for many of the car’s features, such as heating and ventilation, audio and navigation. A wireless charger allows smartphones to be topped up without wires trapsing across the cabin.
The standard touchscreen navigation system has full European mapping and a Traffic Messaging Channel. Stinger also has Kia Connected Services with TomTom™ and UVO Connect, giving access to traffic, speed camera and weather information plus local search details in a number of categories, from the location of Kia dealerships to nearby restaurants.
A concert hall quality 15-speaker harman/Kardon® premium system with subwoofer, external amplifier and front centre speaker is featured as standard on the latest Stinger. It features Clari-Fi, which restores the sound often lost when digital music files are heavily compressed, and QuantumLogic Surround Sound, which redistributes signals from the original recording to deliver multi-dimensional playback.
The upgraded model includes a high-resolution 7.0-inch digital display within the instrument cluster. This full-colour display with vivid graphics for different driving modes delivers crystal-clear information to the driver between the speedometer and tachometer. It is also fitted with a customisable head-up display, which projects driving information onto the base of the windscreen in the driver’s line of sight. The system shows alerts from the car’s numerous driver assistance technologies, details of vehicle speed, and turn-by-turn navigation instructions.
The new Stinger adds features such as a ‘connected car’ Remote Engine Start system, which allows owners to start their car remotely using the Stinger’s smart key. A 360-degree surround view camera system is fitted, as well as front and rear parking sensors, giving the driver a bird’s eye view when manoeuvring in tight spaces. A smart key with button start is standard, and a Smart Power Tailgate takes the effort out of opening and closing the boot when your arms are full with shopping.
Safety systems are enhanced for 2021
The upgraded Kia Stinger carries over the same Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) that it offered previously, as well as a series of new features and updates to provide even better protection for the driver, their passengers and other road users.
The latest cutting-edge safety technology has been added to the new Stinger, including a new Blind-Spot View Monitor (BVM) that acts as a ‘second pair of eyes’ for drivers by eliminating a driver’s left- and right-side blind spots. It displays a high-resolution video feed within the instrument cluster’s digital display if the driver indicates to change lane with another vehicle in their blind spot. The video feed comes from discreet wide-angle lenses hidden beneath the door mirror housings, giving drivers a wider viewing angle of their blind spots.
Lane Following Assist (LFA) helps the vehicle stay in the centre of its lane, while Highway Driving Assist (HDA) maintains a set distance from the vehicle in front on a motorway or A-road, and also keeps the car in the centre of its lane, even on a curved road.
Safe Exit Warning (SEW) detects vehicles coming up from behind on either side of the Stinger when parked and stopped, alerting occupants with a sound and visual warning if they attempt to open the door into oncoming traffic. Rear Occupant Alert (ROA) provides a warning to the driver if they leave behind any pets or children when they exit the car.
Forward Collision-Avoidance Assist (FCA) now offers protection when turning across the road into a junction by identifying oncoming traffic on the other side of the road. Furthermore, it offers increased activation range when detecting a vehicle, pedestrian or cyclist. The Lane Keeping Assist (LKA) is now able to detect the edge of a road, as well as the lines in the road, providing steering assistance to prevent the driver leaving their lane without signalling. Blind-Spot Collision-Avoidance Assist (BCA) provides an enhancement over the existing Blind-Spot Collision Warning (BCW). Instead of simply warning drivers of cars in adjacent lanes, BCA helps drivers avoid a potential collision by applying differential braking.
Intelligent Speed Limit Assist (ISLA) is a new feature for the latest Stinger, with system based on traffic sign recognition. Driver Attention Warning (DAW) now has an increased operating speed of up to 130mph, and also alerts drivers if they fail to notice the car in front move off from a stop. The navigation-based Smart Cruise Control (NSCC) helps drive around curved sections of a motorway or A-road, automatically reducing the vehicle’s speed to an appropriate level before entering the curve. It reverts to the original speed as the vehicle leaves the curve and returns to a straight road.
The Rear Cross-Traffic-Collision-Avoidance Assist (RCCA) has been upgraded and now helps to prevent collisions with crossing vehicles while reversing by taking emergency action, whereas previously the system only warned the driver with a sound.
Stinger range focused on one halo ‘GT S’ edition
There is just one, high-specification version of the Stinger in the UK, powered by the tremendous 3.3-litre V6 T-GDi twin-turbocharged direct-injection petrol engine. Drive is sent to the rear wheels through an eight-speed automatic gearbox.
The 3.3-litre, 3,342cc twin-turbo V6 T-GDi is a member of the Lambda II range of engines and produces 361bhp at 6,000rpm and a huge 510Nm of torque starting at 1,300rpm and continuing uninterrupted until 4,500rpm.
The twin-turbo V6 makes Stinger the fastest-accelerating Kia ever. From standstill to 60mph takes just 4.7 seconds, and the top speed is 167mph where permitted. Yet the extensive testing regime to ensure durability and responsiveness has also helped efficiency: combined fuel consumption is 28.0mpg, while CO2 emissions are 229g/km.
Model Price £ Power bhp Torque Nm 0–60 sec Max speed mph Combined mpg
(WLTP) CO2
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‘GT S’ 3.3 T-GDi 8-speed automatic ISG £42,595 361 510 4.7 167 28.0 229
Class-leading warranty and aftercare
Like all Kia models, the new Kia Stinger will be available with the industry-leading seven-year/100,000-mile warranty.
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Because, my friends, the two go hand in hand. Or eye in eye. Or kit in caboodle, as the case may be.
date-rape detecting nail polish
Four undergraduate students at North Carolina State University have produced a nail polish that will reveal the presence of “date rape drugs” such as Rohypnol and GHB by changing color in their presence.
“With our nail polish, any woman will be empowered to discreetly ensure her safety by simply stirring her drink with her finger,” the Undercover Colors creators said.
Photo credit: Neil Milne BuzzBuzzNailArt.
However, some feminists have been critical of the claims about this technique. They believe innovations like anti-rape nail polish are well-meaning but ultimately misguided. “I think that anything that can help reduce sexual violence from happening is, in some ways, a really good thing,” Tracey Vitchers, the board chair for Students Active For Ending Rape (SAFER), told ThinkProgress. “But I think we need to think critically about why we keep placing the responsibility for preventing sexual assault on young women.”
"Women are already expected to work hard to prevent themselves from becoming the victims of sexual assault. They’re told to avoid wearing revealing clothing, travel in groups, make sure they don’t get too drunk, and always keep a close eye on their drink. Now, remembering to put on anti-rape nail polish and discretely slip a finger into each drink might be added to that ever-growing checklist — something that actually reinforces a pervasive rape culture in our society.
One of the ways that rape is used as a tool to control people is by limiting their behavior,” Rebecca Nagle, one of the co-directors of an activist group called FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture that challenges the societal norms around sexual assault, explained. “As a woman, I’m told not to go out alone at night, to watch my drink, to do all of these things. That way, rape isn’t just controlling me while I’m actually being assaulted — it controls me 24/7 because it limits my behavior. Solutions like these actually just recreate that. I don’t want to fucking test my drink when I’m at the bar. That’s not the world I want to live in.”
"According to Alexandra Brodsky, one of the founders and current co-directors of Know Your IX, a survivor-led group working to address campus sexual assault, well-intentioned products like anti-rape nail polish can actually end up fueling victim blaming. Any college students who don’t use the special polish could open themselves up to criticism for failing to do everything in their power to prevent rape.
Indeed, the argument that women simply need to be more responsible is a common response to the current conversation about sexual assault on college campuses — and one that activists say doesn’t get to the heart of the issue."
“The problem isn’t that women don’t know when there are roofies in their drink; the problem is people putting roofies in their drink in the first place,” Nagle pointed out.
“I think a lot of the time we get focused on these new products because they’re innovative and they’re interesting, and it’s really cool that they figured out how to create nail polish that does this. But at the end of the day, are you having those tough conversations with students, and particularly men, who are at risk for committing sexual assault?” Vitchers added. “Are you talking to young men about the importance of respecting other people’s boundaries and understanding what it means to obtain consent?”
“One of the reason we get so excited about these really simple fixes is because it makes us feel like the problem itself is really simple. That’s a comforting idea,” Brodsky noted. “But I really wish that people were funneling all of this ingenuity and funding and interest into new ways to stop people from perpetrating violence, as opposed to trying to personally avoid it so that the predator in the bar rapes someone else.”
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Reggae in Cleveland
Shaggy at The Grog Shop, 11-16-14
Shaggy, Photo Credit: The Irish Post, http://irishpost.co.uk
Shaggy at the small capacity Grog Shop Club in Cleveland? Even as the start time reached on a chilled, rainy Cleveland evening, it was still a question as to if this would really be “Shaggy.” There is a Reggae singer called “Shaggy Wonder” and it appeared it may be that “Shaggy.” The line of people flowing out of the club and a giant tour bus humming just a few yards away from the Grog Shop entrance was the tip-off that this was Shaggy himself.
The night started out with just two musicians: Justin on violin and Dylan on percussion. Thought was that Shaggy’s group had put together this musical twist on Dancehall, but the Grog Shop was responsible. Both players are classically trained musicians from Cleveland. The duo created a unique sound with violin riffs and a variety of percussive sounds that drew the crowd to the stage to see the source of sound. Justin unleashed a Brazilian percussive instrument in the form of a long tube with metal studs which created some crazy sounds. A rapper by the name of “Tut,” led the vocals which played heavy on call and response. The crowd loved it and was ready for Shaggy.
A six-piece band quickly set up with two harmony singers and Shaggy walked up on stage to greet the energetic crowd, which was accompanied by an audible boom from the Cleveland audience. Shaggy was instantly comfortable with the crowd and voiced his approval of the packed house. Shaggy performed his big tunes “Loverman,” “Summertime,” “Mr. Boombastic,” and a version of “Oh Carolina.”
The show consisted of numerous interludes with Shaggy calling on the ladies and the “party people” in the crowd to dance and display their winery. Humor is a key ingredient to Shaggy. At one point he stopped the music abruptly to question the dancing of the ladies while raising his right eyebrow well above the sunglasses he was wearing. Then he flung his glasses across the stage and whipped into another tune. With the high level of fame that Shaggy hit, this show had a flash and polish reflective of his years of stage experience, unlike the gritty New York style dancehall of the 90’s which was the foundation for Shaggy. Another sequence involve dj “Kue” which involved spinning modern hip hop and reggae tracks to stimulate the crowd further. This was a great night for a huge Reggae star here at the smallest of clubs. A great intimate experience for ReggaeMusikLovinPeople!
Shaggy’s 2014 release involved the “Rhythm Twins” Sly and Robbie. This drum and bass combination are the modern day godfathers of the Reggae Riddim, not to mention influences on the drum and bass” genre.
Haslinden Cricket Club, Cleveland
(l-r, Top): Carol "Black Scorpio" Buchanan, Mr. T, Sarge, Egland, Neville Clarke, Dennis "Wheezie" Reid, Everton. (l-r, Bottom far right): Carlton Buchanan.
The Haslinden Cricket Club is one of the oldest and longstanding Jamaican organizations here in Cleveland, Ohio. Haslinden hosts the Annual Jamaica Independence Celebration in August. The event historically took place ay Kerruish Park off Miles Road. This event started as a gathering of club members and friends. the event has grown into Cricket Match, stage show, food vendors, sound systems, and an event where over a 1,000 people have attended in a single afternoon.
WRUW's Black Scorpio was the President for many years. "Basement" parties were hosted at Black Scorpio's home as well as Russian's home. Very enjoyable times.
(l-r, top): Dobson, Everton Sommers, J.B, Gilbert Curry, Sherman, Soljie, Fitzroy. (l-r, Bottom): Melbourne "Sarge" Dryden, Collins, Dennis Reid, Dunston, Whoppy.
This photo features Haslinden members along with members from a competing club. Photo Credit: Herb Ascherman Photography
Cleveland’s Impact on Reggae QT (aka Cutie) at Sting 2003
This is one of many brushes that Cleveland has had with the world of Reggae music. It involves a youth and unusual timing and opportunity. What are the chances that a youth at age seven would have a chance to perform with Beenie Man on stage and then be offered the opportunity to fly down to Jamaica and perform at Laing’s Sting Concert that same year?
In 2003, Beenie Man visited Cleveland and performed at The Cotton Club on Miles Road. Before the show he had been introduced to a seven year old youth named QT. QT was very young but able to dj lyrics well, understood techniques to get a crowd going and also had charisma. During the Cotton Club show, Beenie Man brought QT out on stage and the crowd loved him – forward upon forward and laughter rang throughout the crowd.
After this show, Beenie Man spoke with QT’s family and invited QT to appear at the 12-26-03 Boxing Day Sting Concert. Later that year, QT appeared at Sting. Beenie Man completed his set and brought out another youth, who appeared to be very young. Next, Beenie called for QT. QT walked out on the stage and was even younger in age and appearance than the former youth. As Beenie Man supplied the introduction, QT stood in front of the crowd estimated at 35,000 and broke into a dance, shaking his body and contorting his face. Then QT gave some lyrics and continued on without hesitation. His eyes lit up and he rocked to the riddim. QT was obviously enjoying himself and was not hesitant or shy – he was there to perform. After that performance, QT walked off stage and was quickly hailed back by Beenie to supply more lyrics. QT took the mic and immediately dj’d “Bun a Chi Chi” lyrics to the pleasure and laughter of the crowd. QT even gave some “Cleveland lyrics,” as he dj’d. What a performance.
It’s not known if Beenie Man ever recorded QT. QT returned to Cleveland, Ohio where he lives to this day.
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BrendAn of A.J. Rocco's Coffee House -
Brendan of A.J. Rocco's Coffee House
Cleveland Reggae has always struggled to find the ideal location where the ownership favors Jamaican music and culture. A.J., Rocco's is a small coffee shop in the center of downtown Cleveland and this shop is a ReggaeMusicLovinCofffeeShop. Since 2001 A.J. Rocco's has been serving coffee, food, and Reggae music at their location on Huron Road in downtown Cleveland, Ohio.
A.J. Rocco's does not feature Reggae on a specific night of the week at the time of this writing, but they did feature Crown Sound System for a long period of time and have featured live Reggae bands over the years. A.J. Rocco's also hosted the first Reggae College Radio DJ session which offered over eight DJs from WJCU, WRUW & WCSB. This DJ session completely packed A.J. Rocco's, the crowd was shoulder to shoulder all night long. Quite a memorable night.
The key is that owner Brendan is a Reggae supporter and when music is the subject, he often reaches for Reggae. It is not by plan, but more by instinct.
To visit the A.J. Rocco's Website - link at: http://ajroccos.com
Cleveland Reggae - Singers & Players
(l-r) Wally , Afi Nur, Anwar Amir, Hornsman of Steel N' Bread, Ras Matunji, Dave Smeltz, Brignite, Choppper.
This photo was taken at the Cleveland Heights Peabody's Cafe on a Wednesday night approximately 1989 in preparation for a Cleveland version of the former reggae Directory magazine. Peabody's was 'the spot" on Wednesday nights from the late 1970's and into the late 1990s. Peabody's stopped running the weekly Wednesday reggae shows and then later closed down. The City always gave the club problems due to noise and disturbance complaints. The club closed and is now the location of the popular Melt. Melt expanded by opening up the wall on the North end. The original club was "boxy" with an open center down to the basement floor. Patrons could line up around the railing on the second floor and look down to see the bands as they would play in the basement.
The list of local reggae bands that played at Peabody's Cafe is quite large. If there was a band that payed reggae at the time, they surely played at Peabody's. The crowds would line up down the street to get in. The club held approximately 800 people (that's an estimate) and went years selling out on a weekly basis on Wednesday's.
Ken Boothe and George -
Alongside Ken Boothe is George Gordon from the historical Ital and presently from Carlos Jones & The PLUS Band.
Star Temple Sound
Father Wayne and Ricky Hype from Star Temple Sound. Both are devoted music lovers who always do their homework.
WRUW's upgrade to 15,000 watts!
These are photos of the day that the new WRUW radio tower was erected. We had updated our power to 15,000 watts, purchased a new transmitter, and then set up the brand new radio tower.
This is the real thing people!
"Salt & Pepper" - Rich Lowe & Black Scorpio (November 2001)
This was the first time that Black Scorpio & Rich Lowe played at The Barking Spider. A perfect night - full of WRUW listeners, warm evening, and sweet Reggae music.
Singers & Players - Ras MatunJi (Bass)
Ras Matunji (left) pictured here with Afi Neur. Matunji is best known as the front man and bassie for Earth Force Reggae Band.
Reggae Jamaica Way
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Mom asks 5-yr-old daughter to grab mask to go shopping cracking up when she sees her mask
By Cedric Jackson
Contributor at Shareably
Around the world, people are either asked or told to wear a mask. Although a lot of individuals find this annoying, it’s for their own good, as well as people they come into contact with. After all, cases of COVID-19 aren’t declining. So, everyone needs to do their part to prevent the spread of the virus.
Tough on kids
As adults, it’s easy to understand why social distancing and wearing a mask are so important. For kids, the situation is a little more delicate. Although even younger children do what they’re told, they don’t have a real concept of why. So, something funny is bound to happen.
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Following orders
One day, a mother by the name of Raena Granberry, told her five-year-old daughter Justice they were going to run an errand to Michaels for some decorations. But before they could leave, the girl needed to do one thing. That’s when her mom asked her to go get her mask.
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An innocent moment
In Raena’s mind, her daughter would get a mask and they’d leave. But then, her daughter came back. There she was, dressed in an adorable tutu with a Barbie doll in hand. And for the mask…she chose the one from The Mandalorian, which is Disney’s Star Wars series.
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So darn cute
To this little girl, the Mandalorian mask was awesome. Realizing that wasn’t going to work, her mom then asked her to wear a cloth mask as well. But not wanting to take the one she chose off, she ended up wearing both masks.
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Big Star Wars fans
Come to find out, the entire family loves anything Star Wars. And as for Justice, her all-time favorite character is Rey Skywalker. She loves this hero so much that she even dressed up as Rey for this past Halloween.
Why Rey Skywalker?
When asked why Rey Skywalker was her favorite, Justice didn’t hesitate to explain. For one thing, “she has a lightsaber.” But there was something else. Justice added, “She has this little robe around her costume so it can protect her. And she lives in the wild.”
A Tweet goes viral
The story of the mask was so funny and sweet the Raena decided to Tweet about it along with posting photos of Justice. It didn’t take long for people to retweet the story. So far, it’s received over 500,000 likes along with thousands of comments.
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It gets even better
But the coolest part was that one individual who read about Justice was Pedro Pascal, the actor who plays the main character in the Star Wars movie, The Mandalorian. How cool is that? In addition to that, Justice’s mask received another accolade.
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Another acknowledgement
This time, it was from Daniel Logan. Not only did he play Boba Fett, who was both the warrior and bounty hunter in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones but he was also the voice actor for the same character in the series, Clone Wars. As you can imagine, this five-year-old girl was over the moon.
One proud mom
Currently, Raena works with the LA Department of Public Health on black maternal health. Having had problems during her pregnancies, this was a dream position. She also understands that the pandemic has been hard on everyone but she’s incredibly proud of how her kids have handled it.
In response to Justice choosing her mask, Raena stated, “Let these kids be who they are. They’re gonna be that anyway, so the more you foster it and love them and let it be, the more awesome they get to be and shine for the world and make them happy.” She’s 100 percent right.
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Fri, 7 May 2010 | Published in Music Reviews
Titus Andronicus: The Monitor
By: Short and Sweet NYC
(XL Recordings)
Do you remember (or maybe you still are in) that period in your early twenties when every seedy bar was cool? The smell of malt liquor and the feel of a basement band’s bass guitar in your stomach felt like fresh air. Titus Andronicus are the type of band and The Monitor is the type of album that can bring that feeling rushing back.
“…And Ever” is a racing song that almost violently moves towards where it is going. There’s even a harmonica to further the point. You can almost hear the wooden floors creaking as people dance to the track. The stunner on the album is “A More Perfect Union,” which has recently gotten its fair share of blog love. The track feels like a raging Piebald song. The song’s raspy tone proclaims “baby, we were born to die.” As a result, the track feels like it’s on fire. The fun doesn’t stop there though. Every track on the album feels alive. “Theme From “Cheers”” even feels like a good old fashion punk song. Quick, someone pass a beer over!
While it’s a bit early to see if Rolling Stone was right in calling this band one of the Top Ten to watch, there’s certainly a reason for that claim; the reason is The Monitor.
Tania Katherine
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Opposites attract. I’ve seen it in real life. In fact, I’m living it. And I prefer it in the romances I write and read. The bad boy and good girl (Kristen Ashley, Motorcycle Man). Or bad girl and good boy (Lauren Dane, Laid Bare). The socially inept science geek and the social butterfly (Delphine Dryden, The Theory of Attraction; my book, Waiting for Ty). The rich girl and the boy from the wrong side of the tracks (Lisa Kleypas, Sugar Daddy). The introvert and the extrovert (Julia Quinn, Romancing Mr. Bridgerton). The soldier and the pacifist (Penelope Williamson, The Outsider). The Republican and the Democrat (the 1994 movie Speechless; my book, Tempting Meredith). Opposite sides of a war (Kresley Cole, any of the Immortals After Dark).
But why do opposites attract? Well…
Is there anything more seductive than wanting something you shouldn’t want, something that is oh-so-bad for you? Think chocolate lava cake when you’re trying to lose a few pounds.
How about something that takes you out of your comfort zone? Like a city dweller on a cattle drive. Or someone without that risk-taking gene jumping out of a perfectly good airplane.
Or curiosity about other cultures and lifestyles that takes you to a foreign country or even a different region of your own country.
Turns out, biology also plays a role. In a study by Claus Wedekind, women were given the t-shirts of six different men who had worn the shirt for two days. They were asked to rate the smell of the shirts. When the women weren’t taking oral contraceptives, they rated the scent of men with MHC different from their own more highly than men with similar MHC. In other words, they were attracted to the scent of men with DNA different from their own.
But what happens after you’ve eaten that cake or checked out China or jumped out of the airplane, or become accustomed to those different pheromones? Isn’t the thrill gone? Is it, as my mom would say, “Been there, done that.”
Falling in love isn’t just about the initial attraction. It’s also about staying in love. It’s about learning from each other, strengthening each other’s weaknesses, and knowing that sometimes those weaknesses are strengths. It’s yin and yang, a balance of opposites.
At least, that’s been my experience.
What about you? Do you subscribe to the opposites attract theory?
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Nature (Impact Factor: 41.6) confirmed high standard of SDI journal and its editors
We are happy to inform that Nature (Impact Factor: 41.6) confirmed high standard of SDI journal and its editors (Article link: http://bit.ly/nature-sdi). As per the article, an investigation found that dozens of academic journals offered ' Anna Szust --Dr Fraud' — a sham, unqualified scientist — a place on their editorial board. Thousands of academic journals do not aspire to quality. They exist primarily to extract fees from authors. These 'predatory' journals exhibit questionable marketing schemes, follow lax or non-existent peer-review procedures and fail to provide scientific rigour or transparency. Crucial to a journal's quality is its editors. Editors decide whether a paper is reviewed and by whom, and whether a submission should be rejected, revised or accepted. Such roles have usually been assigned to established experts in the journal's field, and are considered prestigious positions. Many predatory journals hoping to cash in seem to aggressively and indiscriminately recruit academics to build legitimate-looking editorial boards. The authors of the article conceived a sting operation and submitted a fake application for an editor position to 360 journals, a mix of legitimate titles and suspected predators. Forty-eight journals accepted the application.
One of our journals was also targeted by the authors of this NATURE article as part of the sting operation. They also sent the application. But SDI editorial screening committee rejected that the application as it was very low quality and suspicious. The profile was dismally inadequate for a role as editor. In fact, ScienceDomain International never bothered to send a reply to the applicant. ScienceDomain International has not sent even a rejection mail.
The original mail is here: http://bit.ly/first-mail-1
The source code of the mail is here (for authenticity checking): http://bit.ly/mail-sourcecode
The CV of the applicant is here: http://bit.ly/fake-cv
At ScienceDomain we maintain a very high-quality stringent evaluation process during the selection of editors. Our editors are chosen after a 6 steps checking process. SDI selects the editors, who only pass these six-step evaluation criteria. Additionally, SDI publicly publishes profile link, the institutional link of the editors. To maintain the highest level of transparency, SDI follows ‘open peer review’ process. Along with the published paper, SDI journals publicly publish all the peer review reports, editorial reports, different versions of the revised manuscript. Names of the editors and reviewers are also published publicly along with any published paper.
SDI congratulates all our esteemed editors to maintain the high standard of our journals. SDI is also thankful to the editors, as they do tremendous hard-work in different rounds of peer review process to uplift the quality of published papers. SDI is also thankful to the reviewers of our journals, who relentlessly work to evaluate manuscripts. Without the sincere, dedicated and honest help of editors and reviewers from the very beginning, SDI journals cannot maintain this high quality.
Ms. M. B. Mondal, Ph.D.
Email: director@sciencedomain.org
1. https://www.nature.com/news/predatory-journals-recruit-fake-editor-1.21662
2. http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20170324135257123
3. https://qz.com/940016/dozens-of-academic-journals-offered-a-job-to-a-fake-scientist/
4. https://www.electrochem.org/redcat-blog/investigation-finds-dozens-predatory-journals-recruit-fake-editor/
5. https://retractionwatch.com/2017/03/22/latest-sting-will-predatory-journals-hire-fake-editor-dr-fraud-answer-yes/
6. https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/877938
7. https://thewire.in/science/fake-editor-predatory-journals
ISI Thomson Reuters selected British Journal of Pharmaceutical Research for Emerging Sources Citation Index
We are delighted to inform that ISI Thomson Reuters selected JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL (ISSN: 2456-9119) for Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Following products will be covering British Journal of Pharmaceutical Research (ISSN: 2231-2919)
ISI MASTER JOURNAL LIST (Screenshot1, Screenshot2)
Emerging Sources Citation Index (Screenshot1, Screenshot2)
We hope that all are aware that as per the recommendation of different reputed indexing organizations and following the requests of researchers and editors, title of this journal has been changed. ‘British Journal of Pharmaceutical Research’ continued as ‘Journal of Pharmaceutical Research International’.
We heartily congratulate Prof. Alyautdin Renad N and Prof. Ali Nokhodchi (Chief Editors of this journal) for the success, which is the result of their relentless hard work, sincerity and passion to develop this journal.
We congratulate all peer reviewers and editors for this success. We are extremely thankful to our peer reviewers and editors for making ‘Advanced OPEN peer review system’ a great success. In order to maintain highest level of transparency and high standard of review, this journal presently follows highly respected and toughest Advanced OPEN peer-review system. We hope that you will appreciate this Advanced OPEN peer-review system, which is expected to give doubtless scholarly benefit and impact to the authors in long run. Additionally we strongly encourage and promote “Post-publication Peer review” by our comment section.
SCOPUS selected Annual Research & Review in Biology (ARRB)
We are delighted to inform that famous indexing organization SCOPUS (from Elsevier) selected Annual Research & Review in Biology (ARRB) for indexing.
Following Elsevier products will be covering ARRB
EMBiology
Reaxys
Scopus Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Science
We heartily congratulate Prof. George Perry, Dean, College of Sciences, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA and founding Chief Editor of this journal for the success, which is the result of his relentless hard work, sincerity and passion to develop this journal.
We congratulate all peer reviewers and editors for this success. We are extremely thankful to our peer reviewers and editors for making ‘Advanced OPEN peer review system’ a great success. In order to maintain the highest level of transparency and high standard of review, this journal presently follows highly respected and toughest Advanced OPEN peer-review system. We hope that you will appreciate this Advanced OPEN peer-review system, which is expected to give doubtless scholarly benefit and impact to the authors in long run. Additionally, we strongly encourage and promote “Post-publication Peer review” by our comment section.
Notice: SCOPUS coverage discontinued as per mail 29-01-2018
Index Copernicus Evaluation Result Released
We are delighted to inform that Index Copernicus (a leading indexing organization from Poland) recently selected following SDI journals for IC Journal Master List.
Advances in Research (2348-0394) ICV: 82.17
American Journal of Experimental Agriculture (2231-0606) ICV: 90.55
Annual Research & Review in Biology (2347-565X) ICV: 88.77
Archives of Current Research International (2454-7077) ICV: 83.17
Biotechnology Journal International (2456-7051) ICV: 100.00
British Journal of Economics, Management & Trade (2278-098X) ICV: 84.95
British Journal of Education, Society & Behavioural Science (2278-0998) ICV: 84.67
British Journal of Environment and Climate Change (2231-4784) ICV: 88.75
British Journal of Mathematics & Computer Science (2231-0851) ICV: 87.75
British Journal of Pharmaceutical Research (2231-2919) ICV: 90.27
Cardiology and Angiology: An International Journal (2347-520X) ICV: 84.87
Chemical Science International Journal (2456-706X) ICV: 90.05
European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety (2347-5641) ICV: 87.05
International Blood Research & Reviews (2321-7219) ICV: 85.37
International Journal of Biochemistry Research & Review (2231-086X) ICV: 89.95
International Journal of Medical and Pharmaceutical Case Reports (2394-109X) ICV: 85.15
International Journal of Plant & Soil Science (2320-7035) ICV: 83.67
International Journal of TROPICAL DISEASE & Health (2278-1005) ICV: 85.65
International Neuropsychiatric Disease Journal (2321-7235) ICV: 84.77
International Research Journal of Pure and Applied Chemistry (2231-3443) ICV: 87.75
International STD Research & Reviews (2347-5196) ICV: 81.87
Journal of Advances in Biology & Biotechnology (2394-1081) ICV: 81.67
Journal of Advances in Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences (2394-1111) ICV: 84.87
Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research (2456-8899) ICV: 89.45
Journal of Agriculture and Ecology Research International (2394-1073) ICV: 84.67
Journal of Applied Life Sciences International (2394-1103) ICV: 84.67
Journal of Cancer and Tumor International (2454-7360) ICV: 81.37
Journal of Geography, Environment and Earth Science International (2454-7352) ICV: 84.17
Microbiology Research Journal International (2456-7043) ICV: 90.55
Ophthalmology Research: An International Journal (2321-7227) ICV: 85.37
Physical Science International Journal (2348-0130) ICV: 90.55
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Journal Repository (JR): Permanent Digital Archiving of SDI journals
SDI is happy to announce that all our journals are now permanently archived in Journal Repository (JR). Journal Repository (JR) is among the fastest growing community-supported digital archives in the world.
Working with libraries and publishers, Journal Repository (JR) preserves e-journals, e-books, and other electronic scholarly content to ensure researchers and students will have access to it in the future. Digital preservation is the series of management policies and activities necessary to ensure the enduring usability, authenticity, and accessibility of content over the very long-term.
By partnering with Journal Repository (JR), SDI affirms its commitment towards all processes of quality scholarly publication like transparent OPEN peer review, timely publication, DOI registration, indexing & abstracting, permanent archiving, etc. We want authors, librarians, etc to feel confident that SDI is doing everything possible to assure the content we publish will be available in perpetuity.
SDI journal got 35th ranking in Publons
We are delighted to announce (as of 04/01/2016) that British Journal of Medicine and Medical Research got 35th ranking in Publons as per the number of published reviews (see here: https://publons.com/journal/?order_by=reviews) with 304 published reviews (see the screenshot here). PLOS one (Public Library of Science), ranked first with 5747 published reviews. Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group) ranked 6th with 798 published reviews. BMJ case reports (BMJ publishing Group) got 18th rank with 473 published reviews. PeerJ got 52nd rank with 258 published reviews. BMJ got 60th rank with 244 published reviews. Nature communications (Nature Publishing Group) got 66th rank with 239 published reviews and so on. It should be noted that content of this page and rankings are dynamic and ranking changes with time as per the number of published reviews. Most probably Sciencedomain international is the youngest entity in the first 35, crowded by big names like Nature Publishing Group, Elsevier, Wiley, Taylor and Francis, BMJ, Sage, MDPI, OUP, RSC, ASM, APS, NAS, BioMed central, etc.
SDI journals follow transparent and toughest ‘Advanced OPEN peer review’ system (Detailed general information is available in this link). OPEN peer review system provides the provision to reveal the identities of the authors and reviewers to each other during review process. In order to add transparency further, details of all reviewers and academic editors are published in the first page of every published paper (in the Article Information section: see example). As a final step to provide highest level transparency in the process, all review comments, authors' feedbacks, all versions of the manuscript and editorial comments are published (along with date) with the paper in 'Review History' link (See example 1, example 2, example 3, etc). This transparent process will help to eradicate any possible malicious/purposeful interference by any person (publishing staff, reviewer, editor, author, etc) during peer review. As a result of this unique system all reviewers will get their due recognition and respect, once their names are published with the papers (Example Link).
We are thankful to all reviewers who are actively making this peer review system a great success. Editors are nurturing all the journals with great care, passion and love from the very beginning. Without the hard work of editors and reviewers implementation of this transparent OPEN peer review was impossible. We want to express our sincere thanks to all authors, who show their guts to participate in this transparent OPEN peer review system, where all criticism of reviewers/editors are open in front of the public.
We very much appreciate the efforts of Publons to make scholarly publication field a better world by making it more systematic, measurable and transparent. Publons works with reviewers, publishers, universities, and funding agencies to turn peer review into a measurable research output. (https://publons.com/about/)
Thank you everybody.
Last update: 04-01-2016, Data collected on 04-01-2016.
Data source: https://publons.com
Growth of SDI and world publication market
As of 2014, total 25,064 journals are competing in World market of journal publication. In 2011, total 1.98 million articles were published by 20395 journals. In 2014, total 25064 journals published cumulatively 2.42 million articles. Market scenario of world journal publication industry is provided below.
From 2011 to 2014 four biggies, namely, Elsevier BV, Springer-Nature, Wiley-Blackwell and Informa UK Limited had average market share of 23.4%, 11.1%, 7% and 5.1% respectively. These four biggies cumulatively control 46.7% of the world journal publishing market. See the below figure to get more information.
In the year 2014 Elsevier BV, Springer Nature, Wiley-Blackwell, Informa UK Limited and Trans Tech Publications published 570398, 274936, 152588, 120250 and 58911 articles respectively. World's top 15 publishers cumulatively published 1539950 articles, which is roughly 63.5% of total published articles in 2014 (i.e. 2423122 articles).
Sciencedomain International started its journey in 2011 with a portfolio of 18 journals. In 2015, Sciencedomain international operates total 35 journals. In that time several journals from new publishers as well reputed publishers could not sustain the fierce competition in journal publication industry. Several journals are about to die or already closed. As of 2015, Sciencedomain international controls 0.27% of the world publishing market. Other leading OA publishers like, Public Library of Science (PLoS), Hindawi Publishing Corporation, MDPI AG control 1.4%, 1.2% and 0.5% of the world publishing market, respectively.
Sciencedomain international had 0.01% share in 2011. From 2011, Sciencedomain international is growing with remarkable growth rate. It is really commendable that Sciencedomain international grew from 0.01% to 0.14% in first four years of its operation. It should be also noted that growth rate of Sciencedomain international in first four years of operation is more than that of other leading OA publishers like Public Library of Science (PLoS), Hindawi Publishing Corporation, MDPI AG (as shown below).
We are extremely thankful to our all authors, who are keeping faith on the quality of SDI journals. SDI journals have been chosen by academicians of many famous universities like Harvard, Columbia University, Cambridge, University of Chicago, Yale University, University of Göttingen, etc (Please see here). In order to maintain highest level of transparency and high standard of review, 33 SDI journals presently follow highly respected and toughest Advanced OPEN peer-review system. We are so much thankful to our peer reviewers for making ‘Advanced OPEN peer review system’ a great success. Editors are developing, protecting and nurturing all SDI journals like their 'own baby' with great passion and dedication. We hope that scholarly community will appreciate this Advanced OPEN peer-review system, which is expected to give doubtless scholarly benefit and impact to the authors in long run. Additionally we strongly encourage and promote “Post-publication Peer review” by our comment section. Sciencedomain International sincerely thanks everybody for its present position in world publication market.
Last update: 12-Dec-2015, Data collected on 25-11-2015.
Data source: http://sciforum.net, http://www.crossref.org/
Journal, having CrossRef article metadata, considered in this report.
Publishers with more than 100 papers per year only considered in this report.
Science (IF: 31) report confirmed the high standard of SDI journal
As per a recent report (Link) of Science journal (present Impact factor 31), one of our journal (British Journal of Pharmaceutical Research) passed a stringent test of the quality of Peer review by rejecting a fake article (Link1, Link2, Link3). We applaud the dedication and hard work of our peer reviewers and editors to maintain the high standard of our journals. It was reported that out of total 304 journals, only 20 journals rejected the fake article after substantial peer review. We are happy that our journal was among these few successful journals along with industry leaders like PLoS One, Hindawi, etc. We believe that the result of this experiment also proved the efficacy of our Advanced OPEN peer review and ‘post-publication’ peer review system. Though the report is debated, as it did not include subscription journals, we normally support any effort to improve the quality and transparency of peer review.
Reference: Who's Afraid of Peer Review? Science (present Impact factor 31), 4 October 2013: Vol. 342 no. 6154 pp. 60-65, DOI: 10.1126/science.342.6154.60
SDI introduced Post-publication peer review by its comment section
SDI journals encourage Post-publication peer review by its comment section
Policy details are available below
1. SDI journal Web sites provide the ability for users to comment on articles to facilitate community evaluation and discourse around published articles. Comment section is mainly dedicated to promote "Post-publication peer review". Therefore, all SDI journals strictly follow 'pre-publication OPEN peer review' and strongly encourage "Post-publication peer review". As a result of this "Post-publication peer review", if authors agree and or journal Editors agree (and or SDI agrees) that any correction is necessary, then it will be published FREE of cost by following SDI Correction and retraction policy (http://www.sciencedomain.org/page.php?id=sdi-correction-and-retraction-policy).
2. Users, who want to comment, are encouraged to register in SDI website (http://www.sciencedomain.org/register.php). But if anybody doesn’t want to register, we'll respect the decision. In order to honour 'free flow of thoughts' unregistered user are also welcome to comment. Social login is also encouraged.
3. At the end of every comment, user must identify himself/herself by providing the following information 1. Full Name 2. Name of the Department, University, institute, etc. (These two information will be displayed publicly). We don't like 'anonymous' comments. Comments with 'forged identity' will be deleted.
4. Comments should be used to make additions or clarifications, identify and link to material, and are designed to lead to discussions concerning the content, conclusions, and consequences of a specific article.
5. Be respectful, and do not attack the author or other commenter. Take on the idea, not the messenger. Don't use obscene, profane, vulgar, illegal, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, pornographic, or offensive language or content; or that infringes another's rights, including any intellectual property rights. Language that is insulting, inflammatory, or obscene will not be tolerated. Unsupported assertions or statements should be avoided. Comments must be evidence-based, not authority-based. When previously published studies are cited, they must be accurately referenced and, where possible, a DOI and link to a publicly accessible version supplied. Unpublished data should be provided with sufficient methodological detail for those data to be assessed. Alternatively, a permanent Web link to such information should be provided. Arguments based on belief are to be avoided. Discussions should be confined to the demonstrable content of articles and should avoid speculation about the motivations or prejudices of authors. Questions about experimental data are appropriate, but need to phrased in a way that does not imply any misconduct on the part of the authors. If a reader is concerned about potential misconduct, such concerns must always be raised with senior editorial staff at SDI (contact@sciencedomain.org). All contributions must conform to the norms of civilized scientific discussion. Any contributions that do not meet these standards will be removed. Any users who consistently transgress these conventions may be banned. Stay on point. Comments that stray from the topic at hand may be deleted.
6. SDI advises that Comments are first written in a word-processing program that allows for spell checking before they are copied and pasted into the Comment field. When you are satisfied with the text, click "Post" to attach the Comment to the article.
7. Two kinds of Corrections are encouraged to be posted to an article: Minor Corrections and Major Corrections. Minor Corrections indicate small errors and clarifications to the article, whereas Major Corrections are reserved for errors that significantly affect the utility or understanding of the article. In both cases, the decision to indicate a posting as a Minor or Major Correction is the responsibility of SDI staff.
8. Authors or interested parties are encouraged to respond to a Comment or Correction.
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Hotmail, Bing, Office Web Apps, Security Tweaks Made Microsofts Week
Microsoft tweaked its cloud offerings this week, with new features for Office Web Apps, Bing and Hotmail. The company also unveiled an HPC server and adjusted a security software agreement.
Microsoft tweaked its cloud offerings this week, introducing new features to Office Web Apps, Bing and Hotmail designed to give those services further advantage over Yahoo and Google.
Technology Has Spawned Industries
The technical search giant, Google, alone is the inspiration and sole cause behind the creation of thousands of new businesses. There are now companies dedicated solely to Pay-Per-Click campaign management. Thousands of individuals and companies now make money through search engine optimization and outsourcing their services to improve website rankings, specifically to see that a website ranks well in Googles organic search results. There are now software applications that can determine what keywords to use in optimizing a website for search engine rankings, and other software programs that assess and evaluate website traffic and popularity. These products and businesses were all brought to fruition as a result of Googles Internet search domination and technical stature.
Regis College Campus Security Beefed Up
Regis College students will resume classes today, but in the wake of a murder on campus early yesterday morning, security will be stricter, according to a release from the college.
Elhadji Malick Ndiaye, 18, of Waltham, was stabbed to death around 3:30 a.m. in a parking lot at the college yesterday. A 22-year-old Waltham man was also stabbed. His condition is unknown and authorities have not identified him.
The pair were not students and no one has been arrested for the attack.
As part of the beefed up security, the college said the campus will remain open for students, staff and only their identified guests, and all access will be monitored.
The gates near the athletic complex and the stamp museum will be closed and locked.
The main drive will be closed by police from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m.
Security Vulnerabilities Decline
Is the number of new IT security vulnerabilities growing? According to a new report from HP TippingPoint and Qualys, the total number of newly discovered IT vulnerabilities peaked in 2006 and has yet to return to the same level.
Intel Fall Out
Intel has spent the past several days dealing with fallout from the discovery of a master key for the High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection HDCP protocol, ending a busy week in IT security news.
The HDCP protocol was developed by Intel to protect digital video and audio content as it is transmitted between devices and to verify the device receiving the content is licensed to do so. On Sept. 14, a report surfaced that a master key for HDCP had been revealed on the Internet. The master key can be used to generate keys for devices.
Social Media Security Issues
The head of Interpol has warned that cybercrime is the 'most dangerous criminal threat we will ever face after fraudsters stole his identity on Facebook.
Security chief Ronald K. Noble revealed that two fake accounts were created in his name and used to find the details of highly-dangerous criminals.
Police beefed up security at Tempe Beach Park for the Fall Frenzy Saturday, after police and the bomb squad were called out to the entrance of the concert Friday night.
Five suspicious packages were found, but they turned out just to be backpacks left behind by concertgoers who learned bags were not allowed in.
Expansion of Security Council
Washington favours a modest expansion of both permanent and non-permanent memberships to the United Nations Security Council UNSC, the most powerful UN organ, to reflect the realities of the 21st century, Assistant Secretary of State Esther Brimmer said here on Saturday.
How to Subscribe to An RSS Feed
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How to Subscribe to RSS
7 Mistakes that Cost You Money
Many website visitors now have JavaScript turned off or disabled in their web browsers, due to ever-increasing security concerns. If you are using JavaScript in your navigation menus, some potential customers may be unable to navigate your website. More often than not, this means that potential customers will click away and turn to a competitor. In addition to avoiding JavaScript navigation, you should also avoid using JavaScript in the ordering process. Ordering systems that require JavaScript to function may also result in your customers being unable to purchase, and going somewhere else instead!
Impact of Terror
U.S. Sen. Scott P. Brown, speaking at a newspaper editors meeting on the ninth anniversary of the 9-11 terrorist attacks, compared the impact of the attacks to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and called for continued tough measures against Iran, which he called the leading state sponsor of terrorism.
Apple Update
Apple has released patches which seem to take care of number of security concerns associated with iPhone and iPod Touch devices that were tagged along with iOS 4.1 update.
It was through a report posted by the Telegraph, it was listed that the update takes care of number of security concerns which were thought to be vulnerable, after the release of iOS 4 on Wednesday.
Taliban Surge
Even as more American troops flow in, Afghanistan is more dangerous than at any time since this war started in 2001.
Security has deteriorated in recent months, according to international organisations and humanitarian groups, and large parts of the country that were once safe, including most of the northern provinces, now have a substantial Taliban presence - even in areas where there are few Pashtuns, once the Talibans only supporters.
As NATO forces poured in and shifted to the south to battle the Taliban in their stronghold, the Taliban responded with a surge of their own, greatly increasing their activities in the north and parts of the east.
Security Firm Warnings
Computer security firms issued warnings on Friday over a computer virus that arrives by email offering downloads of free sex movies or documents.
PDF Security Flaw Addressed
Microsoft and Adobe Systems have announced that a recently released Microsoft toolkit can be used to block zero-day attacks targeting a security flaw in Adobes Acrobat and Reader programs.
In an advisory published Friday, Microsoft detailed how its Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit 2.0 could be used to short-circuit the threat. Adobe, which has not yet released a patch, updated its original advisory to reflect the new information.
No Strategy for Homegrown Terror
The government has failed to anticipate the danger from homegrown terrorists, some of whom immigrated to the United States, and now faces the most complex set of threats since the Sept. 11 attacks, analysts on an organization headed by the two 9-11 Commission co-chairmen warned Friday.
Google Settles Lawsuit
Googles agreed to pay $8.5 million to settle a class action lawsuit over claims that its Buzz social networking service violated users privacy, and has agreed to further simplify its privacy policy.
Fifteen experts from around the world have been enlisted to help to help formulate policies to ensure food security and avoid a repeat of the food crisis of a few years ago.
They will serve as advisors to the Committee on World Food Security, an inter-governmental body of the United Nations.
Travel and Terror Alerts Ignored
The alert level for U.S. airline flights is at orange, indicating a high risk of attack, but officials say most Americans ignore it and don't find it credible.
The color-coded Homeland Security Advisory System, created after the Sept. 11 terror attacks, has been at orange, the fourth level in the systems five levels and colors, since 2006, the Detroit Free Press reported.
The concern, security experts said, is that many Americans are indifferent because the system lacks credibility -- a sentiment generally shared among airline travelers.
US Pays for Afghan Security
The United States expects to spend about $6 billion a year training and supporting Afghan troops and police after it begins pulling out its own combat troops in 2011. The estimates of U.S. spending through 2015 are detailed in a NATO training mission document.
Science or Security Breach
A scientist detained at Miami International Airport on Thursday night because of a suspicious item in his luggage had once been charged with illegally transporting bubonic plague, a senior law enforcement official said.
Officials shut down most of the airport overnight, roused hotel guests from their beds and detained Thomas Butler, 70, until Friday morning, when he was released without charges, the official said.
Tests on the canister found nothing dangerous, said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information. Nicholas Kimball, a Department of Homeland Security spokesman, said the item resembled a pipe bomb.
Simulated Subway Attacks
Simulate terror attack subway by DHS. Department of Homeland Security wants to simulate a terror attack using the Boston subway. The subway test will simulate a terror attack on how toxic chemicals and biological weapons might spread.
They began the study at the oldest subway system in the country, the MTBA. Friday the scientists simulated a terror attack on the subway system in Boston. This study is commissioned by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to figure out ways to quickly minimize the impact of an airborne assault on the nations 15 subway systems and protect the nation's infrastructure.
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New Girl 4.09: "Thanksgiving IV"
“Your plan sounds a little kidnappy. What’s the rule on that, Winston?”
While I haven’t loved every episode of “New Girl” recently, I do appreciate that the creative team continues to come up with very different Thanksgiving plots each year. This year is one of the more superficial plots, but it was different from everything that has come before. I mostly make the comparison to “How I Met Your Mother.” Their first Thanksgiving episode was amazing, but that creative team dragged out the slap bet one too many times. This year, Schmidt decides to basically turn Thanksgiving into a singles sex party, and he calls it “Bangsgiving.” Since it’s “New Girl,” though, there’s a bit more to it than that. Most everybody learns something from the dates with whom they are pared. And Jess continued to awkwardly sort-of pursue Ryan, which was just unfortunate. I will be very happy when that particular plot has run its course.
Anyway, like I mentioned, this Thanksgiving, per Schmidt’s decree, shall be “Bangsgiving” for the roomies. Schmidt declares to the group that he warned them winter was coming, and it has now arrived. They need to unite in their effort to get a little more sex before 2014 comes to a close. Schmidt declares “Bangsgiving.” He wants to get all the roomies laid Secret Santa style. They all draw names out of a hat, and they’re supposed to bring a date for the person whose name they drew. Schmidt draws Ceces name, which understandably makes Cece suspicious. Schmidt promises, however, that he won’t make himself Cece’s date. Jess is especially excited about this idea because she hopes that she will meet someone who will help get Ryan out of her head. Coach thinks that this is silly and that Jess should just date Ryan, rules be damned.
Soon enough it’s Thanksgiving, and we meet all the dates for the evening. For Winston, Jess brings a woman named Pearl who works at the school. Winston thinks she is hot, and he’s pretty excited about his date, until he finds out that Pearl isn’t a teacher, she’s a lunch monitor (or “lunch lady” as Winston keeps calling her). Winston is one of the more successful of the roomies (he had his sports radio career, and now he’s successful at the police academy), so I guess it’s okay for him to be a little career snobbish, but it’s definitely not attractive. For Coach, Winston brings Pepper, one of his police academy classmates. Pepper is extremely ripped and strong, and Coach is extremely intimidated by her. It’s kind of gross, really (the Coach being intimidated part). By the end of the episode, they both come to appreciate their dates, of course. Coach in particular feels better after Pepper lets him win an arm wrestling contest.
At his request, Schmidt’s date is Lucy, who apparently dated Nick for a couple months a few years ago. For some reason I don’t quite get, this really upsets Nick. I have a feeling it has more to do with still hurting over the breakup with Jess than anything else. He purposely makes a pass at Cece to make Schmidt jealous (and it works). As for Nick’s date, he pulled his own name out of the hat, so he decided to just bring his friend Tran. By the end of the episode, Nick gets the phone number of Tran’s granddaughter, so it all works out for him. It was a nice coincidence that she came to pick up a very drunk Tran just as Nick had made the choice to really put himself out there again. As for Cece, for most of the episode, she had no date. Schmidt swore he invited a guy named Geoff, but there was no Geoff to be found. Apparently he was stuck in peacock-related traffic. By the end of the episode, Cece decides she’d rather just hang out with Schmidt for the evening (apparently he’s on her “Never” list), and at that moment, Geoff actually does show up. And Cece shuts the door in his face so she can keep hanging out with Schmidt. Go figure.
As you can probably guess, Coach is in charge of finding Jess’ date, and he brings Ryan. At first, Jess is very upset about this, because she specifically wanted to not think about Ryan anymore. She goes back to playing the avoid Ryan game somewhat. At one point, she takes him into her bedroom. To talk to him about how they can’t have a relationship. Ryan has a hard time taking her seriously since the buttons on her dress keep unbuttoning themselves somehow. And in a way, that is why I have such a problem with the Jess and Ryan plot. As Jess herself says at one point in the episode, she loves her job, and she worked hard to get it. Jeopardizing her ability to command respect from her staff is just foolish. Anyway, apparently the rest of the roomies disagree, because they hold a vote and decide that Jess needs to have sex with Ryan. The hope is that it will really get him out of her system. Or get her a sexual harassment lawsuit. One or the other. Or both.
Anyway, Jess calls Ryan into her bedroom again, and he is thrilled to see her dressed in nothing but an apron. He is not happy, however, when Jess says that she just wants to “bang one out.” He wanted something more. Eventually, Jess comes to the realization that she wants something more, too, and she (like Nick) has just been afraid to really put herself out there since the breakup. She goes to Ryan’s house to apologize. Even though Jess ate the entire pie she brought as a peace offering before she even got to Ryan’s house, Ryan decides to forgive her anyway. Jess says she wants to take things slow, but Ryan has other ideas. He pulls her into a kiss, and as the episode comes to a close, they are post coital and watching television. So I can start counting down the episodes until this ill-advised relationship goes down in flames.
Posted by Jen the TV Junkie at 9:41 PM
Labels: New Girl
The Librarians 1.05: "And the Apple of Discord"
Doctor Who 2014 Christmas Special: "Last Christmas"
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Selfie 1.09: "Follow Through"
The Librarians 1.03: "And the Horns of a Dilemma"
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Selfie 1.08: "Traumatic Party Stress Disorder"
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Once Upon a Time 4.11: "Shattered Sight"
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It is the Christmas of 1794. The townspeople are downhearted because Napoleon has declared Christian worship against the law. Determined to celebrate Christmas, eight-year-old Jacques sculpts his own manger scene made of clay. As he meets neighbors along his travels, he depicts them in his Nativity set. Jacques develops a friendship with a Revolutionary soldier, giving him gifts, and teaching him about the Christ Child.
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Eleanor Ricks left her Idaho home and journeyed to Salt Lake City to enroll at the University of Utah. Entering the freshman girls' dorm, she got on the elevator from the front. At the same moment Nancy Colton entered the back of the elevator, with her brother Sterling, who carried her luggage. Both girls punched the third-floor button. When the elevator opened, Sterling dropped Nancy's suitcases and picked up Ellie's, carrying them to her room.
"I liked him right away!" said Ellie. After a five-year courtship, Sterling and Ellie were married. "Her mother sent her to the 'U' to find a husband," quipped Sterling. "I was fortunate that she was not very picky and chose the first boy she met." Ellie said, "He has been carrying my luggage ever since."
Rarely do two people complement each other so perfectly and are so completely in love.
Sterling is serious and responsible. Ellie is full of fun and occasionally irreverent. Both are excellent leaders. Their life together has unfolded over seven delightful decades. They have raised four outstanding children––three boys and a girl––traveled the globe, assisted numerous needy individuals, and spearheaded a variety of good causes.
Sterling and Ellie were born and reared in the Rocky Mountain West. They remained there as a couple and family until 1966 when J.W. Marriott, Sr. recruited Sterling to Washington, D.C. to head his company's legal team. The Coltons began an adventure-filled new life in the nation's capital.
As Marriott International's general counsel, Sterling became widely known among colleagues as the "conscience" of the company. J.W. (Bill) Marriott, Jr., who succeeded his father as company leader, called Sterling his best friend and relied on his legal judgment as Marriott grew from a relatively small enterprise into the world's largest hotel company.
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At home the Coltons were a cohesive, all-American family––working side by side in their house and yard; volunteering community service; supporting their daughter's creative activities; cheering their sons' basketball and football teams. The Coltons skied; visited Disneyland; fished in Alaska; and soared over France's Loire Valley in a hot-air balloon.
Sterling bungee-jumped in New Zealand; Ellie rode a camel into the Egyptian desert with her "Sheik." Together they sailed the Mediterranean on a romantic cruise ship, Sea Cloud; safaried in southern Africa; rode elephants in Thailand; and watched for birds from Canada to Antarctica.
The Coltons adopted as their family motto: "Choose you this day whom ye will serve...but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." (Joshua 24:15) All three sons served two-year missions for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and were married in an LDS temple. Sterling and Ellie presided over a variety of local Church organizations as well as a mission and a temple.
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Yet during his lifetime Jim rose to rare heights as an inventor, entrepreneur, and one of the world’s richest men. The dyslexia that made reading extremely difficult early in life sowed seeds of genius in his mind. Jim invented dozens of medical devices that continue to save lives and lessen suffering for millions across the globe. They include disposable surgical masks, non-invasive plastic venous catheters, blood recycling and infusion systems, and the first real-time heart monitoring systems.
Jim was an American original––eccentric and complex, who preached teamwork but was utterly incapable of being anything but the leader; insistent on his rules but indifferent to everyone else’s. He played a pivotal role in pioneering entire industries, launching some forty companies.
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Jim was also a philosopher and an idealist. He poured a fortune into a quest for world peace. He brought antagonistic religions together in international conferences, and gathered 100,000 human DNA samples from across the globe. He believed that if diverse peoples were shown they are related by blood they would learn to live in harmony.
Jim and his remarkable wife of six decades, Beverley Taylor Sorenson, had eight children and fifty-one grandchildren. A billionaire by the end of his life, Jim weighed his numerous accomplishments and repeated what he had written years earlier in a book called Finding the Better Way. He wrote just one sentence in bold-face type: "True wealth only comes through health and family and friends.”
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ELLIS KACKLEY Best Damn Doctor in the West opens as Dr. Kackley is graduating from medical school at the University of Tennessee and prepares to face unknown frontiers in the small, lawless town of Soda Springs, Idaho. Surrounding him in his new home are vibrant characters: his wife Ida, J. Edward Beus, who rented a baby; midwives like Dorthea who tore up her petticoats for bandages; Ashler, sinister proprietor of the hotel-turned-hospital; Jenny the prostitute, and many others. This unforgettable portrait of an early western doctor in small-town America is filled with humor, warmth, tenderness and sadness. Ellis swims the Bear River to deliver a baby, takes out a man's kidney in a sheep camp, and attracts patients––including outlaws from across the U.S.
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Hugh Colton had an idea. In his mid-20s and looking to make his mark, he had already accomplished a lot—served a volunteer two-year mission for his church, graduated from college, married a trophy wife, Marguerite Maughan, and now had a civil service job and was in law school in the nation’s capital.
Busy as he was, something still tugged at Hugh. Early in 1927 he wrote his good friend J.W. (Bill) Marriott, back home. Root beer, a new-fangled drink that was the rage in their native Utah, might be a hit in muggy Washington. At Hugh’s suggestion, Bill secured a franchise from A&W Root Beer for the greater capital area. On May 20, 1927 three young men on the East Coast took off: Charles A. Lindbergh, to cross the Atlantic solo for the first time, and Hugh and Bill, who opened their nine-stool root beer stand that same morning. Lindbergh, of course, made it—and so did Hugh and Bill. They charged just 5 cents for a frosty mug of root beer. Not a lot, but enough to launch what became Marriott International.
The following year something else tugged at Hugh: a longing to be back home in the West and, especially, to be with his beloved horses. Failing to talk the Coltons out of leaving, Bill bought their half of the business for $5,000. Hugh and Marguerite returned to Vernal, Utah. Hugh became a rancher and country lawyer, while Marguerite took the lead in rearing their four children and tending to numerous civic causes.
As World War II crept closer to America’s doorstep, Hugh, at 40, organized a local unit of the Army National Guard. He had a ranch, a law practice, and four children to guide, but could not deny the call of his country. For the next five years, as Marguerite kept the home fires burning, Hugh led combat engineer troops in the US, the UK, and from the shores of Normandy to the heart of Germany. One correspondent called Hugh and his men the “bravest of the brave.” Hugh received a battlefield commission to full colonel from Supreme Allied Commander Dwight Eisenhower, and returned to Utah as one of its most decorated heroes. He and Marguerite dedicated the rest of their lives to lifting their country, their community, and their family.
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How I Escaped Hitler, Survived CBS, and Fathered Viacom by Ralph M. Baruch with Lee Roderick
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If you get more than a handful of television channels, thank Ralph Baruch. Facing great odds, Baruch—once a top executive at CBS and founder of Viacom—led the pivotal battles against broadcasters, regulators, and legislators that pried Washington's fingers from the neck of cable television and set it soaring.
CBS spun off tiny Viacom, led by Baruch. The parent had 28,000 employees, the child 200. CBS and federal agencies piled on oppressive conditions that nearly strangled Viacom in its crib. But Viacom survived to become the world's largest entertainment company—returning nearly three decades later, in 1999, and buying CBS. Tightrope is also an intimate memoir. As Nazis poured into Paris in World War II, teenaged Ralph led the escape of his family, carrying his grandmother over the Pyrenees Mountains to Spain and then freedom.
Ralph’s first wife died tragically, leaving four young daughters. Years later he fell in love with a remarkable woman who would anchor Ralph through all the turbulence ahead. He had survived Hitler, CBS, feckless government bureaucrats, and greedy outsiders who coveted Viacom. But—until too late—he failed to see the slash of the knife wielded by some insiders bent on buying and carving up the company Baruch had led since its birth. Ralph, however, had not yet played his last card. In the wings was Boston businessman Sumner Redstone. In a titanic takeover struggle, he wrested Viacom from the cabal of insiders. It remained to be seen if Redstone would also carve up and sell off Viacom—as analysts predicted—or continue to build the global enterprise envisioned by Ralph Baruch.
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If every member of the Senate was like Orrin Hatch, we'd be arguing over how to deal with a federal surplus...I like to think of Orrin as 'Mr. Balanced Budget.'
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At a time of turmoil in Washington, Senator Orrin Hatch is needed more than ever, writes author Lee Roderick. The Utah conservative has written some of the nation’s most important laws—and stopped some of the worst ideas from becoming law.
Hatch is the Senate’s leading consensus-builder for conservative ways to solve national problems. Recently named one of America’s 21 best leaders, U.S. News & World Report explained that Hatch “has demonstrated that a member of Congress can work to pass meaningful, bipartisan legislation without compromising his core principles and strongly held ideological convictions.”
The Utahn is the Senate’s No. 1 sponsor of constitutional amendments to balance the federal budget, and a leading foe of Obamacare and other wasteful government spending. Courage shows in plain terms the greatest challenges facing the United States—and how to meet them. It is unusually reader-friendly, with over 100 pages of photos, many with page numbers where the reader may learn more on that topic.
...(Hatch can) fight to set the country right; to save it from financial ruin.
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Utley not talking during his streak?
Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by BYH, Aug 4, 2006.
BYH Active Member
My humble apologies if this is a d_b, but I heard last week he wasn't talking about the streak anymore and the last several wire stories I've read had no Utley quotes.
If he's really not talking, or just channeling Crash Davis, it makes him sound and look like a dope.
BYH, Aug 4, 2006
HeinekenMan Active Member
If it were me (which is quite a stretch given that I can barely swing a bat these days), I wouldn't talk to the media, either.
Why build the drama when it's probably just going to add pressure and take away from his concentration?
There will be plenty of time for putting it in perspective after the streak is over.
HeinekenMan, Aug 4, 2006
beefncheddar Guest
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/sports/15183692.htm
Moved a day or so ago.
Apparently last night, or the night before last, the reporters had some fun with it. Instead of asking him streak questions, they all just started asking him all kinds of random shit.
beefncheddar, Aug 4, 2006
HoopsMcCann Active Member
ok, if he's just not talking about the streak but is talking about other shit, that's fine to me. if he'd cut it off completely, that'd be a pretty dick move. but hell, if he'll talk about individual at-bats and the game, you can still do your job. especially if everyone is aware that he's not talking about the streak.
HoopsMcCann, Aug 4, 2006
Oz Well-Known Member
EmbitteredNeuticles said:
Why? Dude's superstitious, like a lot of other baseball players, when it comes to streaks. This simply falls in line with who he is on the diamond every day. He will talk about anything else, just not the streak.
And really, when you think about it, not talking to the media about the streak every day would probably help him keep an even keel while the streak is still alive.
Oz, Aug 4, 2006
hondo Well-Known Member
Bullshit all around.
You're not maintaining a hitting streak because you don't talk to the media or keep wearing the same socks or have the garter belt with the rose in the front.
You're doing it because you're good enough to. Quit hiding behind idiotic superstitions.
hondo, Aug 4, 2006
Crash Davis: I told him that a player on a streak has to respect the streak.
Annie Savoy: Oh fine.
Crash Davis: You know why? Because they don't -- they don't happen very often.
Annie Savoy: Right.
Crash Davis: If you believe you're playing well because you're getting laid, or because you're not getting laid, or because you wear women's underwear, then you ARE! And you should know that!
Is he just not talking to the media about or is he talking to no one (not even friends, family, teammates, etc.) about it?
Freelance Hack, Aug 4, 2006
To anyone. From the story linked above ...
By Jim Salisbury
ST. LOUIS -- Ask Chase Utley about the 33-game hitting streak he carried into Wednesday night's game and you're liable to hear how hot it is.
Not how hot he is.
How hot the weather is.
Utley isn't trying to be rude or impolite. He just refuses to talk about the streak. With anyone.
"I tried to talk to him about it one time," teammate Jimmy Rollins said Wednesday. "He had just gotten a hit in his last at-bat against Atlanta (on July 21). We were out in the field, and I said something to him. He just gave me those big eyes.
"I looked at him and said, `Are you superstitious?' He said, `Yeah.' That was the end of that. I haven't talked to him about it since."
Neither has anyone else. Utley dodges reporters' questions on the streak, quickly changing the topic to the weather or how well a particular teammate played that night.
Oz said:
I don't have a problem with that. And, if anything, this makes it a more interesting story. Superstition has always been a big part of baseball.
Had a chance to interview him when he was with the Red Barons. On getaway night, the game is halted by a 2+ hour storm and doesn't end until around midnight. While everyone else is rushing around trying to get out as fast as they can, Utley was very accomodating.
One of the nicest pros I've dealt with.
Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member
Superstition is Utley's right. But if he does something else extraordinary in a game, like being part of a triple play or hitting three homers, will he discuss THAT?
Michael_ Gee, Aug 4, 2006
Michael_ Gee said:
From what I read in that linked story, yes. But not the streak.
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Favorite Scene Friday - Oscars Edition! Black Narcissus: Lipstick Duel
Our Oscars month continues this week with a scene from Will from Exploding Helicopter!
What’s the greatest movie duel you’ve seen? Is it Obi Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader, apprentice versus master, in Star Wars? Perhaps it’s Keanu Reeves' reality-bending martial arts fight with Agent Smith in The Matrix. Or maybe it’s the elaborate, operatic showdown between Charles Bronson and Henry Fonda in Once Upon A Time In The West.
While all those movies have their merit, none comes close to the dramatic intensity of the duel in Black Narcissus (1947). It features no guns or kung-fu. No-one even throws a punch. It's just two nuns sitting in a room looking at each other.
The film tells the story of a small group of god botherers sent to the Himalayas to establish a missionary in a remote village. They set-up their convent in an old, abandoned palace that locals say was once home to a harem.
But the straitlaced nuns slowly find their prim spiritual resolve dissolving. Seduced by a mysterious, never defined, exotic Eastern force – characters variously blame the wind and the old palace – their minds become occupied by more temporal and carnal concerns.
This takes human form in the shape of Mr. Dean (David Farrar), a British ex-pat working in the area as a trader. He becomes the forbidden object of desire for Sister Clodagh (Deborah Kerr) and Sister Ruth (Kathleen Byron).
Slowly, a mentally destructive jealousy begins to consume Ruth (which eventually sends her mad). She believes that Clodagh is using her position as the head of the mission to inveigle herself into Mr. Dean’s affections. And it’s the scene where these tensions finally burst forth that I’ve chosen as my favourite.
In this supercharged sequence Clodagh confronts Ruth about her decision to leave the order (in a doomed attempt to pursue Mr. Dean). For the first time – a shocking moment in the context of the film - we see Ruth dressed in something other than her plain nun’s habit. Ruth’s change in costume symbolising the surfacing of her long suppressed sexuality. For Clodagh it is a threat, representing the part of her character that she’s struggling to control.
The air crackles with an almost delirious combination of sex and madness during their tense and bizarre showdown. Ruth is almost like a wild animal. Prowling the room, her crumbling psyche flickers across her face.
Clodagh tries to persuade Ruth not to leave the order. A plea she answers by provocatively applying lipstick with a languid trance-like precision, her vacant intensity creating an unsettling atmosphere. Seemingly in fear, Clodagh picks up her bible almost as if it’s a shield against Ruth’s unhinged sexuality.
The giddy, emotional intensity is heightened by the superb score by Brian Easdale (who a year later would win an Oscar for his soundtrack to another Powell & Pressburger film, The Red Shoes). But what really lends the scene its power is the masterful lighting and photography by Jack Cardiff.
Rarely has colour photography either before or since looked so beautiful. Pause the scene at any moment and you could hang stills of Kerr and Byron’s exquisitely framed and lit faces on the walls of a portrait gallery.
The use of close-up in this sequence is sensational. The image as Byron applies her lipstick and the camera slowly pans up to her eyes sears itself into your memory. I’ve never seen such a simple gesture convey such a malevolent threat.
For his work in this film, Cardiff won the Oscar for best cinematography in 1948. As did Alfred Junge for his art direction.
Nearly 70 years on, it remains a startling scene and has lost none of its dramatic power.
What's your favorite scene from Black Narcissus?
Posted by Robert at 10:48 AM
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Presumably one of the most intriguing international locations in Europe, Ukraine makes a really compelling case for those who search the trail much less travelled. Yet, there’s a new each day practice from Przemysl (Poland) that takes around 3 hours to get to Lviv and eight hours to get to Kyiv. I was as thorough and accurate as I can be, however likely individuals may have had different experiences touring in Ukraine.
A disclaimer – this Ukraine journey guide is based off my experiences dwelling in Ukraine for a yr and a half, together with extensive journey around the country and conversations with other foreigners and locals. Travellers who enter Crimea without first crossing by Ukrainian immigration danger a ban and prosecution.
In February of 2014, after three months of street protests in Kyiv and all over Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych was deposed after he had refused to sign a deal with the European Union the earlier November. Cities like Kiev, that haven’t only survived Soviet oppression however at the moment are thriving, are anticipating visitors.
While Chernivtsi is best achieved as an overnight trip from Lviv, it is closer, won’t take you through Moldova to get to Odessa, and can give travelers an opportunity to see one other predominantly Ukrainian metropolis (Odessa is more Russified and speaks Russian).
You can see that in western Ukraine, individuals predominantly use Ukrainian and in Kiev each languages are interchanged. Tours to Ukraine also needs to soak up Odessa, on the Black Sea coast, which provides a laid-again Riveria vibe to your holiday. In reality it’s Europe’s largest country (not counting Russia, which isn’t totally in Europe) and packs quite a lot of diversity into its borders.
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Thank You for Not Reading by Dubravka Ugresic
Title: Thank You for Not Reading: Essays on Literary Trivia
Author: Dubravka Ugrešić
Genre: Non-Fiction (Essays / Western Literature / American-English Publishing / Eastern European Literature / American Pop Culture)
Publisher/Publication Date: Dalkey Archive Press (9/1/2003)
Source: My public library
Rating: Liked a good deal.
Did I finish?: I did -- the essays are short but punchy.
One-sentence summary: Essays on the Western book industry, from publishers to readers, self-promotion, celebrity authors, and everything in between.
Reading Challenges: Dewey Decimal
Do I like the cover?: I adore it! It's so droll and funny and kitschy, and fits: Ugrešić has an essay about women's work being, literally, smoked. Brilliant.
First line: Anyone who has been through the experience known as completely renovating one's apartment knows that everything is in the hands of the workmen. from "The Seventh Screw"
Buy, Borrow, or Avoid?: Borrow if you're interested in non-fiction about publishing, especially from a disenchanted outsider's view.
Why did I get this book?: I learned about Ugrešić via BookSlut, who featured her newest collection of essays, Karaoke Culture. The library didn't have Karaoke Culture, so I went with this one instead!
Review: My two-word review for this book would likely be, 'Oh, snap!' because Ugresic pretty much rips on everyone in the literary/publishing world: readers, writers, publishers, agents, advertisers -- everyone but book sellers (sort of, more on that later).
Ugrešić's writing style is wonderful: poetic, biting, passionate, and fiery, and there's nothing in the publishing world she won't attack. From grocery stores selling books to the passion for Umberto Eco among vacationers in Greece, Ugrešić critiques, muses, and skewers the publicity machine that commodifies books and reading. She also looks at the identity of the ex-pat writer, especially Eastern European writers following the fall of the Soviet Union and dissolution of Yugoslavia.
While of the essays feel dated -- they range from the late '90s through 2000 -- they're a lovely insider's/outsider's view of the publishing world and literary machine. Reading Ugrešić, I wondered what she'd think now, a decade later, so I'm wicked impatient to get my hands on her new collection of essays, Karaoke Culture.
Serena February 2, 2012 at 11:57 AM
this sounds interesting.
Ann Summerville February 2, 2012 at 3:12 PM
Lovely review -
Zibilee February 2, 2012 at 3:28 PM
I'm not sure this one is for me, but it does sound like it's very well written and thoughtful. I am glad that you enjoyed it and provided such a balanced and nuanced review! Thanks!
Audra February 5, 2012 at 9:33 PM
I'm not typically a fan of essays, but having gotten so in to book blogging this last year, I appreciated her insights and opinions about the publishing world. It was an education!
Belle Wong February 2, 2012 at 3:39 PM
This sounds like such a fun read! I'm very curious about KARAOKE CULTURE now ...
It was really great -- a few times I gasped out loud -- I can't imagien what the response was when this came out as Ugrešić is pretty merciless. It was wonderful to read her, though -- I really appreciated her sharp writing.
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TELLING THE WORLD ABOUT THE REAL PERSON CALLED RAPHAEL LEBEANYA UWAZURUIKE
On the 11th of January 2017, we (the undersigned) on behalf of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), gave Raphael Lebeanya Uwazuruike four days to provide evidence to support his claim that Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB members are fraudsters who are out to deceive gullible people. We further discovered that Uwazuruike stated on TheCable.ng online news media that: “When I met him (Kanu) in London he had no job and no certificate; he was into internet crime.” This quote can be confirmed by clicking on the following link:
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The four days given to Raphael Lebeanya Uwazuruike has elapsed, but he has not been able to provide any evidence to support his baseless accusations. Like the Hausa Fulani Islamic Jihadists he is now working for, Uwazuruike peddle allegations which he knows to be a lie and definitely has no evidence to substantiate. The same thing Buhari did with Nigerian judges, by intimidating them into believing that Nnamdi Kanu is guilty of some phantom treasonable felony as charged without proof, is the same thing Uwazuruike is hoping to do with brown envelope and the help of hostile Yoruba media implacably opposed to Biafra restoration.
Ralph Lebeanya Uwazuruike having betrayed his people the same way Ifeajuna did during the war, is hoping to destroy this present earth shattering resurgent global agitation for Biafra spearheaded by Nnamdi Kanu out of shame, envy, greed and jealousy. He hopes to damage the global standing of IPOB and that of our leader by impugning his and our collective integrity. Anybody who has been privileged to listen to Nnamdi Kanu preach his gospel of Biafra restoration on Radio Biafra or any of his numerous stress interviews will know that only very few people alive today in this world can be said to be his equal or match intellectually.
How can a man that taught millions of people on radio and television not be educated? All you need to do is watch one of Nnamdi Kanu's interviews on Biafra Television or on YouTube to validate this claim. Can anyone point to one single stress interview granted by Ralph Lebeanya Uwazuruike that received international acclaim throughout the decades he was left all alone to pilot the affairs of Biafra restoration? Predictably, the answer is a resounding no.
We did promise to unmask Uwazuruike to the entire world should he fail to respond with evidence within four days. We will start with Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s journey through the academic world to put the records straight. We would invite Uwazuruike to be so forth coming with the history of his academic pursuits to let the world judge between Nnamdi Kanu and Ralph Lebeanya Uwazuruike who is educated and who is not.
Nnamdi Kanu started his academic journey at Cameroun-Road-End Primary School, Aba in the present-day Abia state. His teacher then was Mrs. Akpa, the mother of the then Miss Nnennaya Akpa. Before the Nigeria/British war of genocide on Biafra, this school was known as Dick Organ Primary School and currently the school has been renamed Green Street Primary School. After completing two years at Cameroun-Road-End Primary School, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu proceeded to the best primary school in Umuahia known as Library Avenue Primary School where he completed his primary school education.
For his secondary education, the IPOB leader attended the prestigious Government College Umuahia formerly called Fisher High School which boasts of the likes of Chinua Achebe, Cyprian Ekwensi, Ken Saro-Wiwa, etc. Throughout his stay at the school, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu was a boarding student and his dormitory was Cozens House, which is the hostel named after the co-author (Stone & Cozens) of a popular secondary school Biology textbook. He completed his secondary education and went further to the Rivers State School of Arts and Science popularly known as School of Basic Studies in Rumuola Road in Igweocha (Port Harcourt) for his advanced level studies.
Mazi Nnamdi Kanu started his tertiary education at the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) where he was admitted into the Department of Geography, having agreed with his father to study Geography as a precondition to attending the Sowell Aviation College in Panama City Florida where he had a slot waiting for him to come and train as a pilot. While at UNN, he lived in the hostel, specifically in Akintola Hall and one of his closest friends was Samuel Ude from Abiriba who is now resident in the USA, Chinyere Asuzu resident in Aba Abia State, Chidiebere Iwebuka Asaba Delta State and many more who can be reached for confirmation. After two years at UNN and having received several theoretical lectures on rocks and typologies of rocks without setting his eyes on any practical example of these materials, Nnamdi Kanu felt that he was not getting the real training he yearned for and decided to persuade his father His Royal Majesty (HRM) Eze Sir Israel Okwu Kanu to send him overseas to obtain an education that is evidence-based and experiential.
Mazi Nnamdi Kanu traveled to England and was admitted to London Guildhall University now called London Metropolitan University (LMU). At LMU, he studied Politics and Economics and graduated with Second Class Upper Division, missing First Class Division very narrowly because of his publicly confessed difficulties with Applied Mathematics that accompanied Economics studies. It is on record that for the entire teaching life of Professor Ann Philips (Professor of Politics at London Metropolitan University), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu was the only student who achieved a perfect score of 100% (16/16) in her course because of the exceptional quality of his research work and the term papers produced by him.
We state without equivocations that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is the first and only person to work on a Thesis that provided an academic critique of the popular orthodoxy of “Dependency Theory” propounded by the renowned Political Economists Samir Amir and Walter Rodney. Supervised Dr. James Chiriyankadath, Nnamdi Kanu made his choice of a thesis based on his strongly-held belief that Africans should not blame Europeans or the Western World for their woes. His contention is that Africans are responsible for their lack-luster performance in leadership and governance and not people from other continents. In the history of academia till this day, no other African scholar has offered an academic critique of the Dependency Theory only Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, partly because of the penchant of most Africans towards finger-pointing instead of conducting dispassionate critical self-evaluation and introspection.
While at LMU, Nnamdi Kanu was part of a group of black students who came up with the idea to engage in post-graduation works that would transform Africa from its current stage of stupor to a continent and society where leadership and good governance will be the ethos of existence, human relationships, and transactions. The following were members of the group; Jacques Tobo (Cameroon), George Ogunka (Ikwerre-Biafraland), Ayodele Dalghety (Guyana), Lolade Cameron-Cole (Oduduwa), Mului Mpopo (Tanzania), and Chris Kehinde Olopo (Oduduwa). These individuals can be contacted for the veracity of this claim.
Having produced this abridged version of the academic history of Nnamdi Kanu, we invite the public to contact the individuals mentioned to ascertain the correctness of the information. On the other hand, Raphael Lebeanya Uwazuruike should provide the public with the name of the University where he studied Law and at least two names of his former classmates at the University. We would like to know the title of Uwazuruike’s Thesis and the name of his supervising professor.
Finally, Uwazuruike should provide the public with his Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) enrollment number since he claims to be a lawyer. Also, he should let us know the name and location of the Law Chambers where he worked or still working. From all indications, Raphael Lebeanya Uwazuruike is the person that does not have any certificate and therefore a fraudster. Had Uwazuruike Uwazuruike remained faithful to the cause of Biafra restoration and not engrossed in defrauding and deceiving unsuspecting Biafrans, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB would not have emerged.
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Awesome presentation. Signed, sealed and delivered. Our Leader, Generallismo Nnamdi KANU is an academic guru. There is no iota of dout about it. Uwazuruike the entire world awaits your rebuttal. Disclose to the world your Call to Bar number now. If not you be perceived as an academic fraudster. And an academic fraudster can never lead Biafra. Everything about Biafra must be anchored on truth and not fraud.
God brought along Mazi Nnamdi Kanu to be eye opener of Biafrans and the entire world and to rescue Biafra & Biafrans from impostors, thugs, traitors and thieves like Raphael Lebeanya Uwazuruike. For Uwazuruike to be working closely Mohammadu Buhari, the Yoruba propaganda media is clear signal that Uwazuruike is a bunch of no-good whose only interest it is to get rich quick and be wealthy fast playing dirty games the Biafra agitation. Uwazuruike, Obiano, Okorocha, Ameachi, Buhari, Obasanjo, Obama, Britain are all birds of the feather who are out to see what they can do to spoil the Biafra restoration. But low and behold, they have all failed. Thank God for Nnamdi Kanu whom God sent to save Biafra and Biafrans from the self centered wicked claws of Uwazuruike and his Buhari team thugs!!!
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Why the "40 Years of Goth Style" Video Fails
So this video has been bouncing around the internet lately, have y'all seen it? My grandmother posted in on Facebook, and if she could find it I'm sure you all have. It's a "recap" of the evolution of Goth style, kind of/sort of related to those 100 Years of X Fashion videos. Someone on Tumblr asked me what I thought, so I figured it was time to explain why it just doesn't work for me.
So for starters, the continuity of this video is weird. It seems like they were stuck half-way between wanting to do one of the aforementioned 100 Years videos and wanting to recreate the Goth types drawings by Megan Balanck that have been around forever.
Let's start with the obvious. Steampunk and Rockabilly are not Goth. Yes, they can be tangentially related, but they're not part of the Goth umbrella. What you can say about them is that Goths do cross over and borrow styles from each, but they are interesting subcultures with their own histories that should be explored. The Death Rock one has a similar problem in that it evolved more or less alongside Goth, rather than springing from "Batcave" style.
Side note: what is that Death Rock hairstyle? Yikes.
Really, Goth style is best discussed not has one style taking over another (like the video implies) but as the ebb and flow of trends that some Goths participated in and the influences of other, simultaneously evolving, subcultures. It also ignores revivals, like the recent TradGoth revival we've been having.
The biggest problem I have with this is that they picked a non-Goth model and she looks "off" in every look, except for the pin-up inspired style (which is the closest to her real-life style which you can see on her Instagram. Go figure.) It's hard for me to put my finger on why. Bad wigs? Makeup not suiting her face? General sense of unease? I was trying to figure it out when I mentioned the video to my father.
Me: So whenever a non-Goth tries to dress like a Goth, they look "off." Even if they're being dressed and having their makeup done by a real Goth.
My dad: Maybe it's not the black on the outside that matters, but the black on the inside?
Probably true, dad.
But really, if you had a Gothic Lolita on set they would have been able to stop you from doing... whatever you did to this poor woman's mouth.
I'm not trying to be mean to the people behind the video, but I would love to see one of these staffed entirely by Goths, before we get overwhelmed with even more videos from Buzzfeed of normal people "trying out" Goth as clickbait.
What do you all think of the video? Have you been struck by how weird some non-Goths look when they try Goth fashion? What would you have changed?
5th Avenue Goth June 29, 2016 at 7:57 PM
I thought it was pretty accurate for the most part, esp the order. They didn't have the most jaw dropping looks from each time, and some of them were half baked, but I thought it was good for what it was trying to do. And I don't really care if she's a normie. It'll be impossible to find one person who looks authentic in each genre. I'd like to see the cyber goth who's Lolita lol.
Aji LaStrange June 30, 2016 at 1:04 AM
I thought the video was okay. Didn't really care for the hair used in the deathrock look. When I saw that hair, I automatically thought of Madonna. I was also wondering why they called the gothabilly look pin-up. It would of been nice if they actually used goth models for this video. Can probably find plenty by checking out goth related videos on youtube.
BlackKitty June 30, 2016 at 2:49 AM
I think it was nice that non-goths are trying to discover and explain the subculture to others. Yes, there's no continuity, mainly they showed types of fashion because the style didn't have a linear evolution, rather it branched into all the stuff they showed. I as a goth understand they picked the style most popular for each period, but non-goths may not understand that all these styles coexist to this day and they didn't evolve from one to another as the video suggests. Overall I think it was a good initiative but they should recruit actual goths for this type of project.
In the UK the steampunk crowd are very much part of the goth crowd. They attend the same events, the same festivals and gigs and mingle very happily on the whole - part of the broader subculture. It's a joy to see the coggies at Whitby Goth Festival because they have so much fun with their looks - but the same folk can be SP one day and trad goth the next. There is no box that they have to stay in. This is repeated at my local goth monthly goth night - you can be princess of darkness one month, airship pirate queen the next. Alternative is as alternative does.
Could have used Toxic Tears aka Kaya Lili
Little Black Car June 30, 2016 at 9:46 AM
This is . . . fun, but it has that feel that these videos usually do, where you get the idea somebody did some Googling and made a checklist of traits for each look but didn't do more than superficial research. Those "100 years of fashion" videos do the same thing--you get a general impression but they're still a bit off. "Late 1970's? Uh . . . Siouxsie, right? Yeah, that one's easy!", even though it's a specific look and not necessarily generally representative. It also doesn't take into account parallel subgenres (yes, looks have trends over the years but cybergoth didn't totally replace Romantic, or whatever. It's not a linear progression).
I can kind of understand that since in any subculture, getting it really right usually means you've been in it for a long time and know the subtleties. But it's also kind of patronizing.
OddGhoulOut June 30, 2016 at 5:49 PM
I have the same problems with this video that you mentioned. I would have liked to see a couple of iconic or popular looks from each decade rather than divisions by style. I also think copying two of Sioxsie's looks was getting off too easy...All in all though, I think making a video like this is a tough job. I'd like to see others take a crack at it.
Basically agree with the above, but would like add that I think the Goth/ Steampunk overlap is heavy in small scenes/ smaller cities. I mean this more in terms of people than style (though there is intersection there too). Neither is a subset of the other, but 80% of the people at the heart of either scene in a place like Salem, MA are the same people. For example our Goth/ Industrial Dance Night, Darq does an after party for our Steampunk gathering.
Liisa Ladouceur - author of Encyclopedia Gothica you think the creator of this book she be a little inform than on goth
I love the fact that we're being recognised as a group of people rather than a bunch of pathetic, moody kids, Buzzfeed is great since they try to incorporate different kinds of people so that we can start recognizing the world as diverse and tolerant since it hasn't been like that earlier.
Anthony N. Emmel July 1, 2016 at 6:39 AM
Mid 80s looked way off to me, but then I lived through it so....
DeadOldGoth July 1, 2016 at 10:02 AM
Yes thought it was OK but feel that models dressing goth don't really properly pull it off, just never seems natural. I think the two assistants were more goth than the model. But agree is't not easy to do this, so still a positive.
Mar Qaroll July 1, 2016 at 10:36 PM
...I really...REALLY...disliked this video. Something about it all just bothered me. And many of the clothes, I agree, looked entirely "off" on the model, somehow. Some of the clothes were bad choices in general, though. Like...that strappy thing on the batcave look? HELLO? That's...just...not right.
Meagan Kyla July 2, 2016 at 10:55 AM
The model is an alternative model, Kassandra Love. I have worked with her on photoshoot's early on in her career.
I agree that some of the looks were a bit 'off' and the deathrock hair had me screaming, "NOOOO!"
The HouseCat July 3, 2016 at 3:45 PM
I dismantled this video in detail as a comment on it.
Personally I feel that Deathrock is Batcave's American cousin and that they are both things that flowed into creating Goth, so it deserved its place there. However, I didn't feel like the look was authentically deathrock. Yes, fetish stuff was certainly used then, but it was a time when getting ahold of anything made for any form of alternative market was much harder than it is now, and there was much more DIY and improvisation. Neither of the two proto-Goth/early Goth/trad-Goth-ish sorts of things looked anywhere near DIY'd and thrifted enough.
The bigger problem is that they tried to break it down into substyles rather than show how Goth evolved and branched out. Romantic Goth has had its own evolution over the decades, at times preferring a more fantasy/Morticia/medieval look, at other times preferring a more Victorian and post-Renaissance period-fashions influenced look. A history of Goth fashion isn't a linear progression, it's a stylistic family tree that is always branching out.
I agree that in the UK there's a lot of overlap between Goth and Steampunk, but it's still a separate thing; there's plenty of Steampunks who aren't Goth and have come from the nerd/geek/sci-fi/LARP scene, for example, and there's Goths who might love anachronistic stuff, but aren't into Steampunk (me, for example).
The biggest problem I had with it all were the wigs; they made each look seem cheapened and costume-y.
All this talk and no mention of industrial?
Teh Feral Hamster August 17, 2017 at 8:23 AM
I think it got lumped in with Cyber...
This video is way off in its goth fashion history for sure. Mixing up generas. Its kool to see videos like that but hurts when you know they f*ck up the information. I also agree about the wigs! Did they buy those outfits at Spirit?
Princess Luna August 12, 2016 at 1:57 PM
Eugh that "Goth Lolita" look is just...no
THAT CYBERPUNK DANCING!!! XD
Seriously though, what the fuck? They all look like bad eBay Halloween costumes - - probably where they got the names as well...
The Midnight Moth September 8, 2017 at 4:44 PM
Did you see the men's version?
Emo. Is all I'm gonna say.
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Neither side budging in Wisconsin union fight
MADISON No resolution appeared imminent Monday to the stalemate over union rights in Wisconsin, leaving Senate Republicans resigned to forge ahead with less-controversial business such as tax breaks for dairy farmers and commending the Green Bay Packers on winning the Super Bowl.
As the standoff entered its second week, none of the major players offered any signs of backing down in a high-stakes game of political chicken that has riveted the nation and led to ongoing public protests that drew a high of 68,000 people on Saturday. Thousands more braved cold winds and temperatures in the 20s to march again on Monday, waving signs that said, Stop the attack on Wisconsin families and Solidarity.
The 14 Senate Democrats who skipped town Thursday to indefinitely delay a vote on Republican Gov. Scott Walkers bill, stripping most collective bargaining rights from nearly all public employees, remained missing in action for a fifth day.
Walker refused to back down and again called on the Democrats to return and vote on the bill
For those 14 Senate Democrats, youve had your time, he said. Its time for them to come back and participate in democracy.
The Democrats have been far from in hiding. Theyve done numerous television interviews and two of them even participated, via telephone from an undisclosed location, in a brief meeting to schedule the Senates session on Tuesday.
You have shut down the peoples government, and that is not acceptable, Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said to them during the meeting.
Both the Senate and Assembly planned to be in session on Tuesday to take up the bill, but at least one of the missing Democrats needed to show up for a vote to be taken in the Senate. Assembly Democrats planned to offer dozens of amendments that could push a vote into Wednesday or later.
Although Tuesdays list of items, including the resolution honoring the Packers, is largely bipartisan, Fitzgerald hinted that he might try to push some more controversial ones later, even if the Democrats arent back. Among the possibilities is a vote on the question of whether voters should be required to show identification at the polls.
Democratic Senate Minority Leader Mark Miller said Democrats were waiting for Walker to compromise.
Its right in front of the governor, Miller said. He just needs to pick it up and allow us to move on. … This is a no-brainer.
Under one deal, the unions said they would accept paying more for benefits as Walker wants but still retain their collective bargaining rights. Another compromise offered by Republican Sen. Dale Schultz would remove collective bargaining rights for two years.
Walker has repeatedly rejected both offers, saying local governments and school districts cant be hamstrung by the often lengthy collective bargaining process and need to have more flexibility to deal with up to $1 billion in cuts he will propose in his budget next week and into the future.
As he spoke under heavy guard at a late afternoon news conference inside his conference room, thousands of protesters could be heard through the doors blowing whistles, banging on drums and chanting Scott Walker has got to go!
This guy is power drunk and were here to sober him up, said Bert Zipperer, 54, a counselor at a Madison middle school who was among the protesters. He wants to do it unilaterally without any compromise. He wants to be a national conservative hero and he thinks he can get away with this.
But Walker and Republicans are showing no willingness to budge while the Senate Democrats say they are prepared to stay away for weeks if thats what it will take.
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VGB 2007 Holiday Gift Guide: PlayStation Portable
– November 14, 2007Posted in: Features, PSP, Sony
If you STILL don’t own a PSP, you’re missing out on a great deal, especially now that it’s at an affordable base price point of $169.99 and comes in two loaded bundles running $199.99, including the Daxter pack containing a copy of said game, an Ice Silver-colored PSP and other goodies, and the Star Wars Battlefront pack containing a special edition Ceramic White PSP imprinted with Darth Vader’s mug on the back and a copy of Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron. There are quite a few excellent first-party games that more than justify picking up the handheld and the unit makes a fine multimedia player that happens to have excellent connectivity functions with the PlayStation 3. Not only that, the unit has been redesigned into a slimmer, lighter unit that, thanks to the new video-out port, can play all your favorite media (and PSP games) on your TV! That alone is reason enough to stay home and blow all your holiday cash on the following titles:
Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters (E 10+) – Shrinking the popular franchise down onto the PSP in no way lessens its impact and Size Matters manages to look and feel like a PS2 game from start to finish. Fantastic graphics, about a dozen or so hours of solid gameplay and plenty of trademark R + C humor abound throughout this blast of platforming and action that’s easily one of the best games on the handheld. Weapons galore, as usual and for those of you who crave multiplayer action, you’ll get some run & gun stuff to sate your deathmatch needs just fine.
Dead Head Fred (M) – D3Publisher’s US arm has been taking some fun chances with a wild assortment of PSP releases mixed in with some quirky console stuff. This action adventure, an all-new IP, features a mix of horror, humor and film noir aesthetics and hours of gameplay that’s pretty decent on the handheld. As Fred, a guy who’s lost his head to a crime boss, you’re set on revenge (with 9 interchangeable heads!) in this supernatural action game. Definitely geared toward the more mature gamer, as there’s some gore and a few M-rated swear words sprinkled liberally throughout the adventure.
Gurumin: A Monstrous Adventure (E 10+) – One of the best PSP games, period. A fun story, super cute 3D graphics, fast-paced monster smashing gameplay and some wacky costume changes highlight this action/RPG from legendary developer Falcom. The sound production, voice acting and superbly charming score are home console quality, which makes me wonder if we’ll see this game show up on the PS2 at some point before that console gives up the ghost. By the way, the replay value here is off the charts, as the game coughs up tons of bonus content!
Metal Slug Anthology (T) – SNK’s super smash arcade series gets the PSP treatment with pretty solid results. Seven great Metal Slug games packed onto this UMD guaranteed endless replay value for a surprisingly low price point. The games all look great in the new widescreen format and a re as tough to beat as ever. Some very brief moments of loading during gameplay aside, the conversions are superb and a great way for SNK fans to take these 2D classics on the road anytime they need a fix.
After Burner: Black Falcon (T) – No-frills, balls-to-the-wall flight combat is what this bad boy is all about. With Black Falcon, Sega has modernized the After Burner franchise to take full advantage of the PSP hardware, while remaining faithful to the series’ arcade roots with pulse-pounding, tough-as-nails on-rails aerial warfare that’s sure to leave any action junkie creaming in their underpants well into the New Year.
M.A.C.H. Modified Air Combat Heroes (E 10+) – Combining lightning-fast, Mario Kart-style jet racing and intense aerial dogfighting, M.A.C.H. is one of the most pleasant surprises of the year. Graphically, it’s among the top showpieces of the PSP’s technical might, while its intuitive, action-packed gameplay will have you grinning from ear to ear as you soar past rival jets or smoke them out of the sky (or both!) It’s just a shame the mode lineup is so thin…
Burnout Dominator (E 10+) – While it’s not as smashing-looking as its console counterparts, the wickedly fast drive ‘n smash car action Dominator provides will get your adrenaline pumping each and every time you hop into a single or ad hoc multiplayer game mode. Slick controls and a great soundtrack add to the immersion factor while making up a bit for the occasional tough to see traffic off in the distance. Definitely one of the more thrilling ways to liven up an otherwise dull commute to work or school, that’s for sure…
Smash Court Tennis 3 (E) – Surpassing Virtua Tennis as the king of the court, Namco Bandai’s third Smash Court Tennis installment is as good as tennis gaming gets on the PSP right now. VT still has a slight edge in terms of sheer accessibility, but SCT3 dominates overall with greater realism, deeper gameplay, crisper visuals and a fuller mode count, including a collection of fun mini-games inspired by old Namco arcade favorites like Pac-Man and Galaga. PSP’s sports game of the year if you ask me.
Sid Meier’s Pirates! (E 10+) – Yo, ho, ho, and a barrel of fun (or something like that), this great conversion of 2004’s hit PC game comes off even better than the Xbox version by a mile plus tax. Less loading times than the console build (shocking!), and tailored to fit the PSP’s control setup, once you start playing, you’ll find it ridiculously hard to stop. The mini-game structure is perfect for commutes and when playing this in public, you’ll probably not only miss your bus or train stop, you’ll more than likely come across someone who remembers playing the original game to death way back when. Just let them know that the PSP is a mere $169.99 now before you dip your head back down to play some more…
Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron (T) – A huge improvement over the last PSP Battlefront entry, the new single player campaign features an actual storyline that keeps things percolating throughout. Of course, the meat of the game is in the deep customization and multiplayer action, which has been kicked up to eight players this time via ad hoc or 16 online. Definitely a great thing when you find yourself facing off against a bunch of like-minded Star Wars fans… all you need to do is look for those limited edition white PSP’s with Darth Vader’s mug on the back.
Silent Hill Origins (M) – The game that put psychological survival horror on the landscape for console owners finally creeps onto the PSP with this prequel that’s surprisingly as dark and terrifying as a Silent Hill fans should expect. As Travis Grady, a trucker that ends up in the not-so-quaint town while making a delivery stop, you’ll face off against his fears and a disturbing collection of freakish monsters the franchise is known for. Phenomenal lighting effects, nicely rendered characters and environments make up for the occasional control quirks. Play this one on the bus or subway and you’ll not only freak out anyone who’s looking over your shoulder, if you happen to be wearing headphones, you’ll come away with a few white hairs yourself thanks to the spine-chilling audio and haunting soundtrack.
Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles (M) – Finally, after far too long as an exorbitantly priced Japan-only exclusive for the long defunct PC-Engine, we get the Castlevania game fans have clamored for in two different styles. The original game (Dracula X: Rondo of Blood) has been tweaked with voice acting and a great full English dub, but you’ll need to unlock it by playing the stellar remake. Not a bad trade off at all, as the remake’s beautiful graphics along with more balanced controls make an excellent companion piece that shows how well the game has held up over time. You’ll also get the stellar sequel to Rondo, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night as a second unlockable, this time with a new translation and re-recorded voice acting plus a few more touches that make the game even better than the original. Definitely worth buying a PSP for if you’re a hardcore Belmont fan.
Jeanne d’Arc (T) – Surprise, surprise. Level-5’s latest RPG is yet another classic. This historically-inspired strategy-RPG draws from the legend of Joan of Arc and infuses the timeless tale with magical armlets, demons, cutesy big-headed characters and colorful cel-shaded art. It’s an odd mix, but it all meshes beautifully to form a 30-plus-hour portable epic that’ll suck your attention away from any other game until the end. Best of all, it’s fast pacing and intuitive command interface make it far more accessible than most turn-based strategy games.
Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions (T) – Whereas Jeanne d’Arc is the go-to choice for the RPGer searching for something a bit easier to pick up and play without a daunting learning curve, The War of the Lions is the game to get for the strategy-RPG veteran who loves a stiff tactical challenge to grind away at for hour after hour after hour. This remake of the all-time classic PSOne hit is nothing short of remarkable, keeping the tough, thought-provoking battles, insanely deep and customizable job system, memorable characters and plot and sweeping music of the original fully intact while revitalizing the experience anew with voice acting, gorgeous CG cinematics, extra jobs, missions and hidden characters, and both competitive and cooperative Ad Hoc multiplayer. Need I say more?
Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness (T) – Taking the original game and adding some great new PSP exclusive content, Afternoon of Darkness is a must-buy for strategy RPG fans, no questions asked. Funny as hell, often downright bizarre and supremely addictive right from the first battle, the tale of Laharl, Etna and their assorted foes and allies will have you cracking up as your armies of custom troops are cracking skulls. You’ll probably want to buy an extra PSP rechargeable battery or two, as the game has the possibility of hundreds of hours of play for the truly dedicated. Pick this one up and tell the person it’s for to call in sick for about a week or two… or maybe a whole month – the game is that good.
Dungeon Maker: Hunting Ground (T) – While not as deep as most other RPGs on the system, Dungeon Maker is endless fun for hack & slash fans with a creative side. The ability to make your own nicely sized dungeons and attract a wide assortment of beasties to bash is certainly fun and while the graphics aren’t super flashy by any means, they get the job doe just fine. This one should appeal to both fans of PC and console style role-playing thanks to the edit function and a nice assortment of genre staples that are part and parcel of he genre. The ability to share dungeons via Ad Hoc mode is a great touch, as it’s a safe bet that no two monster-packed keeps will exactly be the same. Someone needs to bring this one to home consoles in some form, as the possibilities for some great fan-created dungeons available for download is an exciting option that could extend this franchise indefinitely.
Brave Story: New Traveler (T) – When your girlfriend vanishes into thin air while you two are enjoying a day in the park and you find yourself going after her into a wild fantasy world, what’s there to do but grab a sword and team up with a sexy cat-gal and burly lizard man to get her back? Brave Story takes its standard console RPG formula and wraps it up in absolutely gorgeous graphics and great production values. Battles are random, combat is full of cool special moves and yup, there’s even an animal raising/fighting side quest that’s good for a diversion from the main quest. Stuffy types might find the game too shallow on the surface, but there’s some fine writing here as you get deeper into the game. True fans of the genre will eat up what’s here like a plate of freshly-baked cookies and come back for more again and again.
Sonic Rivals 2 (E) – Sega sends Sonic soaring in this super sequel that feels more like the classic Sonic we all know and love from the Genesis days. “2.5 D” style straightforward run to the finish action with your favorites and a few new faces along for the ride. Excellent pick up & play non-stop action highlights this entry and the wonderful graphics and music do their thing as the game sucks you in for level after level of ring collecting, boss-battling goodness. Welcome back, Sonic!
Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology (T) – Geared toward the hardcore fans of the Tales series, this one is packed to the gills with in-jokes, cameos, and cross references to other games in the long-running franchise. That means new players will be lost unless they can play along until they start to get things, but those of you who know what’s what should be pleased. The combat is still fast paced real time button killing stuff, scaled down a bit more for the PSP. Tons of side quests, an often funny script and a lighter feeling than many other doom and gloom games the genre is packed with help this one become the perfect traveling companion for stress-free play.
Riviera: the Promised Land (T) – As always, Atlus simply rocks when it comes to bringing out some solid RPGs and here’s one of the better releases. If you missed out on the Game Boy Advance version of this beautiful and surprisingly well-written RPG experience, definitely seek out the PSP update. Additional content, redrawn art that makes excellent use of the PSP widescreen, a lovely score and of course, great gameplay round out a fantastic purchase. There’s even a bit of dating simulation happening here as you travel throughout the game, but it’s both amusing and sweet simultaneously, so it never feels like it’s interfering with the overall plot.
Final Fantasy Anniversary Edition (E 10+) – Square Enix celebrated the 20th anniversary of its flagship Final Fantasy franchise this year and to commemorate the grand occasion released a duo of anniversary remakes exclusively for the PSP, starting with the NES classic that started it all oh so many years ago. This enhanced port sports sharper visuals, widescreen presentation and a brand new dungeon to conquer, but beyond that remains the same Final Fantasy experience we all fondly remember. Surprisingly, the basic, dated gameplay mechanics hold their own remarkably well and are perfectly suited for on-the-go grind sessions through the game’s deadly dungeons and frequent random encounters. Should you own any one of the previous remakes (or better yet the original version), there’s not much reason to buy it again, but for new PSP owners this is a solid starter RPG.
Final Fantasy II Anniversary Edition (T) – Like the Final Fantasy anniversary edition, Final Fantasy II is a revamped port featuring a shiny new coat of smoother sprites, redrawn art, updated cut scenes and modernized music, with its original gameplay composition left fully intact. FFII is one of the more obscure and debated entries in the series — mostly due to its unique level progression structure — and as such has more of a niche appeal essentially limited to collectors and old-school RPG enthusiasts only.
Syphon Filter: Logan’s Shadow (T) – As unbelievable as it may sound, Sony Bend has taken Dark Mirror, last year’s instant-classic Syphon Filter PSP debut, and ratcheted everything up one more notch, and the result is the even-more-impressive Logan’s Shadow. Narrative intrigue, stealth, run-and-gun action, intense cover-based gunplay, smooth controls, impeccable system-pushing graphics and physics, fully-featured online play – this game has it all, and then some. Quite frankly, it’s the best PSP game of the year, so make sure to beg Santa real good for this one…
Monster Hunter Freedom 2 (T) – Over in Japan, gamers eat up Monster Hunter titles like the games’ massive monsters gobble up their beast-slaying avatars, but here stateside they aren’t received as highly. To be honest, Monster Hunter Freedom 2 isn’t going to change that, sadly, but for fans of this ambitious action/adventure series it delivers another knockout performance in its second PSP outing. As Capcom puts it, MHF2 is overflowing with a 50% increase in content since the last game, including over 250 new quests, eight new maps, 70 creatures, 700 weapons, 1,400 armor pieces and much, much more. But where it matters most – the gameplay – there are no grand changes or improvements, so like past Monster Hunters you’ll either love it or hate it.
Crush (E 10+) – It’s quite the rare occurrence when a game comes along with true innovation and originality in all facets of its design, but with their platform-puzzler Crush, Sega and Zoe Mode have managed to do just that. A true gem in the PSP’s star-studded 2007 lineup, Crush stands out for its revolutionary “crushing” mechanic that enables you to change the game world from 3D to 2D and back again in the blink of an eye completely in real-time. In an age where most games retread and expand upon old concepts, this little beauty challenges you to look at level design in a refreshing new way and think outside the box to solve its mind-bending environmental puzzles. Oh, and did I mention it has an awesome story and super-stylized graphics?
Call of Duty: Roads to Victory (T) – Bringing the Call of Duty series to the PSP for the first time, Activision and Amaze Entertainment have delivered a real winner here. First-person shooters on handheld systems are tricky to pull off, but with its quick-snapping targeting system and signature Call of Duty production values, Roads to Victory manages to succeed where many before it have failed. It’s not without a fair share of flaws – the brief campaign and lack of online multiplayer being the most pronounced – but ultimately the fun factor is enough to lead this shooter onward to victory.
Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops Plus (T) – Portable Ops Plus, being the expansion pack that it is, won’t do you any good by itself. Pair it with last year’s award-winning original Portable Ops, though, and you get a whole lotta new content for an attractive $19.99 price tag. Extra multiplayer maps, playable characters, gameplay modes, tutorials and enhanced in-game support are all packed onto this must-have UMD. And if you don’t own Portable Ops already, add that to your list too and make it an extra-jolly Christmas of portable Metal Gear Solid espionage goodness.
Monster Kingdom: Jewel Summoner (T) – Cozy Okada (the Shin Megami Tensei series) and his team take a break from teen angst in apocalyptic Japan to bring you this slightly more fantasy-based RPG. While it might look and play a tad like Pokemon for the older crowd, this monster capturing and battling game has a richer overall storyline and is yet another entertaining RPG from Atlus. Featuring excellent visuals and music along with a well-implemented battle system and some interesting characters, this is one of those nice surprises RPG fans can count on for hours and hours of entertainment.
Tomb Raider Anniversary (T) – Crystal Dynamics does it again, this time with a portable port of the awesome remake of the 1996 action adventure that brought Lara Croft to the gaming scene. The redesigned stages make the whole thing seem fresh and despite a few issues with the controls and frame rate on the PSP , the game is just as challenging and intense as the home console versions. Sorry Angelina, but the team here does a much better Lara then you ever could, but hell, video game movies are never going to be better than the source material because the folks who make the games put all the best stuff in playable form.
Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Heroes (T) – As good as the PS2 version was, the PSP kicks its ass down up and down the block from a technical standpoint. Levels that are larger than the console version, some with an additional plane for fighters to hop to and from, wickdly fast controls and tons of content to please even the most hardcore Naruto fan. This is no mere button masher either, as you’ll need to pay attention to thrown objects, which plane your opponent is on and when to utilize your stored charge moves. Sure, it’s not Virtua Fighter 5 (hell, what is?), but if you come into the game looking for a quickie kiddie beat ’em up, your fingers will be as black and blue as your on screen avatar is.
Test Drive Unlimited (E) – One of the best “hop in and go” driving games on next-gen comes to the PSP with absolutely surprising results. Surprising because all the single player content is here and the online modes run ridiculously smoothly despite the huge area you’re racing around in. Hit the beautiful island of Oahu and hit the road in a bevy of exotic cars and motorbikes as you race for cash, clothing coupons and glory. The game manages to not only look spectacular, it also controls great and feels right at home on the system. From a purely technical standpoint, this is a hallmark on the PSP, yet Atari didn’t hype this version as much as the Xbox 360 game, which is too bad. However, don’t pass it by when you see it, as it’s definitely the racing game you’ll get the most gameplay out of on a handheld until we see a Gran Turismo game come around.
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Turner Prize
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by Turnip Prize » Thu Apr 25, 2013 10:16 am
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22278106
Shrigley: new yorker cartoonist manque
"Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, who lives and works in London, is shortlisted for her Extracts and Verses exhibition at the Chisenhale Gallery.
Born in 1977, she attended Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, Falmouth College of Arts and the Royal Academy Schools.
According to the prize's organisers, Yiadom-Boakye's "intriguing" paintings "appear traditional but are in fact much more innovative"."
i.e. art school art
Tino Sehgal, tedious performance bore with sociology thrown in.
Laure Prouvost film maker.
Turnip Prize
Re: Turner Prize
by Jiminy » Thu Apr 25, 2013 10:34 am
I was surprised to see Shrigley's name on the list just cos i would have thought he had been nominated before. Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's work is not very good at all, is her getting nominated for prizes a race thing?
by CAP » Thu Apr 25, 2013 2:59 pm
Yawn - Two female finalists, two male finalists...
That's just coincidence of course....
This year's jury is chaired by Tate Britain director Penelope Curtis and includes the curator Annie Fletcher and the writer and lecturer Declan Long.
Race? Why not? Along with age, region, education, network and insider trading...
I mean it's not like they've any coherent criterion against which to measure the four bodies of work, apart from, you know, prior approval, peer pressure and market farces...
Long said the each of the four shortlisted artists represented "remarkable developments" in art.
Like this remarkable photograph by Shriggsie.
And Yiadom-Boakye's 'portraits depict subjects who do not exist outside of her paintings'!!!!
OMG - is that like - FICTION?
Location: Off-world
by Jiminy » Thu Apr 25, 2013 3:50 pm
You cynical, cynical man.
Really though, her work is shit isn't it?
by CAP » Fri Apr 26, 2013 12:35 am
I'm tipping Tino in a close finish with the Shrigster.
Tino Sehgal - Tino Sehgal (born 1976) is a British-German artist of partly Indian origin, based in Berlin.
Steven Segal - Steve is a former martial arts movie star - his performances were pretty 'remarkable' as well.
George Segal - Comic Hollywood performance artist from the 60s - too old for the Turder Prize now - but about as British as Tino.
Ty Segall - Awesome American Indie rocker! - Would have been my nomination, if some equally flimsy evidence for British heritage could have been found....
The Seg-All Prize! - Hand that man a SegHar!
Black people winning prizes
by jasperjoffe » Fri Apr 26, 2013 1:11 pm
A common sentiment expressed or implied is that black people who get art prizes/ do well in art world are only there because of racial tokenism or political correctness.
Let's examine this idea.
Firstly its converse: Every time a white male middle class christian origin human is given a prize do we feel the need to mention the inherent socioeconomic privileges and permissions that such people start with, and somewhat discount their achievement?
Secondly the actual assertion: What evidence do people saying that it's easier for black people to be successful artists have (substitute women, gays, disabled or mix thereof if you like)? Have they got one single iota of data showing that this is the case. I believe (and feel free to double check this) that black people and other minorities still face daily discrimination and prejudice, assumptions about their potential. Certainly educational outcomes for black kids in the UK are worse than for other groups.
Thirdly the history: Clearly there has been masssive prejudice and barriers to black people becoming visual artists in the past, there are few example especially in the painting field. Ditto other minorities. It is a profession which largely consists of white middle/upper class males and has done for a while. So it seems unlikely that is has suddenly become really easy to become an artist if you're black.
So next time you hear someone say "ah right she's black is she", tell them they're talking racist crap.
jasperjoffe
by Jiminy » Fri Apr 26, 2013 5:01 pm
Are you accusing me of being a racist JJ?
by jasperjoffe » Fri Apr 26, 2013 10:08 pm
Better to deal with the arguments than take it as a personal attack. Try to refute what I mentioned. It's a common enough sentiment (black people win prizes cos they are black).
by Jiminy » Sat Apr 27, 2013 7:00 am
Have the courage of your convictions. Are you referring to me when you talk about people "talking racist crap" or not? I wont refute your argument because I think its nonsense, your characterization of people doesn't sound familiar or even plausible to me (I don't believe people say "ah right she's black is she" when they hear about people winning prizes). Your reaction assumes loads of things that I don't relate to at all. However, it was me who originally mentioned race here so I can't help thinking your response was directed at me. Let me know if it was and I'll respond to it.
by jasperjoffe » Sat Apr 27, 2013 8:06 am
Yes. clearly it was in response to your comment ( sigh I hope we don't get a lot of angry you calling me a racist posturing- but perhaps I am a pessimist)
by CAP » Sat Apr 27, 2013 4:09 pm
Here is a online sampler of Yiadom-Boakye’s work. Tell me what you think the predominant feature to the content is – if not a racial or ethnic mileu?
Even her snotty elitist gallery Chisenhale minces around this one, claiming on one hand –
Yiadom-Boakye’s figurative paintings are drawn from her own fictitious set of characters and allude to traditions of European portraiture. The way in which an audience might project meaning on to these figures is a key point of interest for Yiadom-Boakye, addressing the very problem of representation – particularly with regards to black subjects – in figurative painting and public spectatorship at large.
(my emphasis)
But in the very next paragraph –
Yiadom-Boakye’s paintings suggest a narrative but the people and places depicted are carefully ambiguous ciphers of the imagination. Occasionally there are small traces of specificity, such clothing or hairstyles, but largely the figures and scenarios appear unfixed to any clear associations of race, class, gender or location.
Well which is it, is the race card played here or only feigned?
This is just more coy, smug curatorial bullshit – a way of finding distinction in sociology as a way of avoiding aesthetics – As Jiminy bluntly puts it – the work is shit – AS PAINTING IN 2013 – and the only reason he looks for some ulterior agenda is because this ain’t Kerry James Marshall, Kara Walker, Chris Ofili, Cheri Samba or even Hurvin Anderson. You want to play the race card these days, you better make sure you can really paint and have something to say. The competition is stiff. Yiadom-Boakye is just tame lame academic stodge trading under multicultural hypocrisy – ripe fare for the Tate of course, you’ll notice even during the show back in March-May last year Tanya Barstool from the Tate Modern was already simpering her way around the show.
Yeah I just love art prizes – they’re so illuminating.
Re: race card
by jasperjoffe » Sun Apr 28, 2013 12:08 pm
What do you mean by race card CAP?
She makes work about race? OK. You might dislike her work... (ditto most of the artists on the list may not be very good) but how do you get to the point of assuming that she is on the list because of her skin colour. Where do you find evidence for that inference?
Many of the arists might have pseudo=philosophical/sciological spiels attached to their work, but you don't assume that they are there because of positive discrimination.
by CAP » Sun Apr 28, 2013 1:11 pm
I haven't said the artist is chosen because of her race - I've said her WORK is chosen because of its racial content.
I've said this is one of several social agendas - feminism being more prominent - and is conducted in combination.
My complaints are entirely with the choices of the selectors.
I've quoted from the Chisenhale site - from the show in 2012 which won Yiadom-Boakye nomination in the Turner Prize - indicating as clearly as I can that the press release there - the work of either a sympathetic curator or close consultant of the artist - expressly mentions the terms 'black subject matter' and 'race'. Again this concerns the works, not the artist's ethnicity.
Neither I nor Chisenhale make any inference about the relative merits of the artist's race.
My complaint is entirely with the way certain issues are given priority and treated in a doctrinaire or unproblematic way. This seems counter to the spirit of art and really the province of social science.
At no time have I assumed a policy of positive discrimination operates - and it's hard to see how it could. All the works are so varied it's not as if one could discriminate purely on grounds of race say (or religion or star sign or whatever...) and still comply with grounds for an art prize. Art is not like say SAT scores or A levels, where numbers can simply be juggled.
I think you're getting your wires crossed here JJ
by jasperjoffe » Sun Apr 28, 2013 1:32 pm
Ok I am trying to understand. You're saying she's on the list because her work's about black people. And others are on the list because their work is about some other "issue" perhaps. And that curators like issue based work. In some part I agree that public galleries prefer art about hot topics rather than hot art about art, perhaps because it's easier to explain.
However most art is at some level about the artist themselves, and I think one needs to be precise and careful not to fall into the quite common unthinking and offensive assertion that minority artists get on lists because their work ticks some sort of box. I think that this is a common way of undermining artists that probably have had more not less struggle to get their art seen/ become artists. And to assume that their achievements are based on them filling curatorial agenda rather than the combination of factors that other artist achieve success through it reductive, wrong, and racist in the sense that people are making incorrect assertions because of race.
'most art is at some level about the artist themselves'...
Yes absolutely! And when an artist makes art about crude social stereotypes they implicitly announce a seriously stunted view of themselves. This is a grave social problem as well as an artistic one - but not one I think art needs to encourage.
But just to go back to the tokenised nature of The Turner - I think the selectors most definitely have an agenda - they want a new media artist, a performance or relational artist, a 2D bod - whether painting or photo or other print and then an installation or 3D artist. But this has nothing to do with the spread of talent in any given year in the UK - there's no reason why they couldn't have three painters or three installationists if the talent is there at the time, but they don't want to offend different camps so we always get this compromised - tokenised - cross-section. It tells us more about art world politics than it does about what's been shown in the last year. And I definitely think they are anxious to make sure half the sample are female - irrespective of other categories. This is not to say female artists are less talented or deserving, but again the consistent even-handedness tells you they don't really trust their judgements of the work either.
Personally I'm crushed that Cath Pilkington still hasn't made the cut, but art world politics eh?
Also I think the box Yiadom-Boakye is ticking is probably the Post Colonial tip - may or may not reflect her background - but I'm betting it's a quite deliberate choice on her part - just as her career path (via Harlem etc) uses options available to her, even when other paths are not. This is true of everyone! We have some choices, but whether they will really get us where we want to go is another matter. Whether her struggle is any greater than someone who failed to get into St Martins, Falmouth and The Royal Academy School or couldn't afford the trifecta is moot. How do you compare people's lives anyway?
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Atray also worked as Advisor KPMG & PwC on a sabbatical from the Government. He organises the annual All India JP Atray Cricket Tournament. Vivek himself was an under-19 cricketer at the national level. He is a founder of the Vibrant Networking Forum, the Chandigarh Literary Society & is Co-Convenor of INTACH Chandigarh.
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Atray as Director IT won much acclaim for his role in developing the Chandigarh IT Park. He also spearheaded the national award-winning e-SAMPARK e-Governance project. He was quoted by the New York Times during this period. He also played a role in placing Chandigarh on the Heritage Tourism map.
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The Final Fantasy XIV will be the gender lock, the participant is not happy.
During the Paris Fan Festival recently, each time a new rabbit contest called Viera was revealed because the final imagine XIV's upcoming Shadowbringers expansion, just the female version was shown, but players hope which the male version of Viera are typically in the past. Tokyo Fanfest ...
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MMore is a lot like this: FFXIV is just about the best MMOs on the PC.
In comparison to its support talent, we are able to see the dancer rotates the flashing color to activate - we assume - is often buff or possibly a halo. It's hard to mention exactly what they did, but also in the last show, it'll show beautiful red colors, that might suggest some type of attack ...
How to get the FFXIV Regalia mount
How to get a Regalia mount in Final Dream 14? The ultimate dream of XIV and XV interspersed activities is now stopped in the excellent MMO of Square Enix, allowing you to show off some of Eos's broad open world in Eorzea. However, when it comes to this special FFXIV Noctis event, everyone...
Final Fantasy XIV: Microtransaction Review
For all those who have not yet entered Final Fantasy XIV, you may use level boost potions and story skips - but at a price. I would state that the micro-transactions utilized in this way aren't bad muscle strength, nevertheless, If you want to buy Final Fantasy 14 Gil Welcome to MMOAH web...
Final Fantasy XIV is usually a fan of the franchise
Final Fantasy is among the few MMOs that work well on consoles. This is not the ability to use hotkeys effectively, it's not exactly the ability to cross-platform games. For players with played a number of the previous Final Fantasy console games, this can be fun but has never yet entered the M...
Final Fantasy XIV: Do I have to pay to sign up for the competition?
Final Fantasy XIV requires users to cover subscriptions. Although this is one common practice for almost all MMORPG games nearly 10 years ago, today's information mill almost completely wearing free-to-play games, even "pay-as-you-go", something That requires users to cover games beforehand a...
How can I level up my gatherers and crafters fast in FFXIV?
When the player reaches the 30th level in any production career, he can complete the following tasks and get the decomposition skills. After learning the decomposition skills, we can remove the equipment, props, and fish that are marked as decomposable according to the profession. The occupati...
Final Fantasy XIV: Easy Way to Make Gil
Try and find an active linkshell that calls out hunts. 4.0s hunts have a chance of dropping a cracked cluster, which can be traded in for level VI materia. Thats a great way to earn gil as high end materia usually sells for a decent amount.Challenge log:Don't bother trying to do everything on it....
Where can I buy cheap Final Fantasy XIV Gil?
If you’re completely serious, just google your question and click virtually any link. Most of them will work, and be “legitimate”. Buying gil causes a number of problems, both for you, and for your server, though. First off, gil farmers don’t tend to earn their...
If you’re completely serious, just google your question and click virtually any link. Most of them will work, and be “legitimate”. Buying gil causes a number of problems, both for you, and for your server, though. First off, gil farmers don’t tend to earn their cash le...
Final Fantasy XIV: Will we get a new Final Fantasy MMO?
Final Fantasy XIV debuted in 2010 and was relaunched in 2013 as Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, and since then it has enjoyed great prestige. Despite this, the MMO has been running for six to nine years, depending on how you calculate it. Is it time for us to hear about the FF14 Gil seq...
Final Fantasy XIV's "2019 Rise" event announced
It appears as if Square Enix failed to give Final Fantasy XIV players lots of time in seasonal events. As the game's Moonfire Faire event ends on Monday, August 26th, players can seamlessly transition to your 'The Rising' event that could begin on the same day. So what can we expect? Well, you on...
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Deyalsingh: T&T will be in position to start receiving COVID vaccines from March 2021
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T&T will be ready for any potential delivery of COVID-19 vaccines from March next year, as there is storage equipment already in the country, according to the Health Minister.
Speaking at this morning’s Health Ministry media briefing, Mr Terrence Deyalsingh notes that it is not yet known which vaccine will be approved for use in the region.
However, he believes that this does not mean T&T cannot prepare and already has five freezers to work with.
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Mr Deyalsingh says more will be acquired.
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The COVAX facility, to which T&T is a signatory, recently announced that it signed four new deals for vaccines from AstraZeneca/Oxford and the Janssen candidate – the latter is currently being investigated as a single dose vaccine.
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Nick Saban Has Still Got It!
Nick Saban landed a big fish today when he got a verbal commitment from a 6'1", 210-pound linebacker named Ian Jackson from Prattville, Alabama. The speedy coverage specialist chose the Crimson Tide over LSU, Georgia, and Oklahoma, and he is listed as the state's second best linebacker.
Jackson told AL.com, “I committed to Alabama because of the coaching staff and how much they put me as a priority. Ever since Coach Saban came down in February, they’ve done nothing but show tremendous love. It was definitely a hard decision to make with all the schools recruiting me, but it feels like the right fit for me. The staff thinks that I can be a major contributor to the team if I come in and work hard. They see me as more of a Rashaan Evans type guy on the field. I plan to come in and adjust to whatever is thrown at me, be an unselfish player and do whatever I can for the team.”
This is great news for Bama fans like myself. I love it when we cultivate home-grown, in-state talent like Prattville's Ian Jackson. I'm thankful he didn't go to LSU. For years, Prattville has been an incredible source of talent for Bama. With Jackson's commitment, Saban and the Tide now have the 2 top linebackers in the state headed to Tuscaloosa.
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Bill Clinton Visited Jeffrey Epstein’s Private Island, Unsealed Documents Suggest — Did He Know About the Crimes?
July 31, 2020 World
According to an unsealed interview with the Epstein’s accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre, former US President Bill Clinton was among the high-profile guests at Jeffrey Epstein’s private Caribbean island.
In a 2011 phone interview with the lawyer Jack Scarola, Guiffre said that Clinton arrived to the Little St. James island with Gislaine Maxwell, herself, and two other young girls from New York.
Guiffre said she remembered asking the disgraced financier what Bill Clinton was doing there. He laughed out, saying that the former President owed him a favor.
The late billionaire did not share more details with Guiffre back then. She then recalled that orgies were continually taking place at the Caribbean mansion, but she did not specify whether Clinton also participated.
Guiffre went on to say that the former President and his Vice President, Al Gore, also joined Epstein on his private plane. According to Guiffre, the top models Naomi Campbell and Heidi Klum, were also aboard too at one point when she was.
According to the flight logs from the now-inactive website Gawker, Clinton had taken 11 flights to Europe, Asia, and Africa on the Lolita Express, a nickname for Epstein’s private plane. Clinton’s former personal assistant Sarah Kellen and Ghislaine Maxwell were also traveling with him, data showed.
Last year, Bill Clinton said in a statement that he had never visited Little St. James island. He also highlighted that he ”knew nothing” about Epstein’s crimes.
However, he confirmed that he traveled with Epstein on his private jet on four trips related to the Clinton Foundation in 2002/2003. In a letter to the federal authorities in 2007, Epstein lawyers wrote that the late financier was one of the Clinton Global Initiative’s founding members, part of the Clinton Foundation. The main aim of the initiative was to connect global leaders for solving the world’s biggest problems.
Despite that the Maxwell’s lawyers filed an emergency motion to stop the release of the documents from a 2015 civil suit, they were unsealed on Thursday evening. As per the lawyers, the move would eliminate Maxwell’s chance at a fair trial. The legal team also noted that the documents could also influence witnesses or alleged victims.
Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite and Epstein’s closest friend, faces six countrs of sex trafficking involving minors between 1994 and 1997. Due to pandemic, her trial will begin in July 2021. Her lawyers, Laura Menninger, said that the indictment was ”meritless.”
What do you think? Do you believe that Bill Clinton did not know anything about Epstein’s crimes?
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On May 10, I trekked downtown to the Rayburn Building to witness Allergy & Asthma Day Capitol Hill 2012, sponsored by AANMA (Allergy and Asthma Network Mothers of Asthmatics). It was inspiring to see a room crowded to overflowing with doctors, concerned parents, and congressional staff, all talking through the FDA's proposed changes to how allergy medications are prescribed. To summarize the dilemma at hand: kiosk consultations and over-the-counter distribution of such medications as EpiPens would ease access for some, but could undermine the critical infrastructure of diagnosis and advice tailored to the patient.
I met Charles G. Thiel, who invented the metered dose inhaler in 1956, and the four amazing girls in the photo above. They were the under-18 finalists for this year's "Ultimate Inhaler Contest," in which the AANMA invited inhaler designs that were more attractive, efficient, and fun. My favorite was the "Unisaur," an "Inhaler/Holding Chamber Combo" designed by twelve-year-old Rachael Blaine, of Manchester, PA. (She says unisaur; I say narwhal.) Holding chambers, also caused spacers, were introduced to inhaler usage in the early '90s. Until then kids like me tended to jam the inhaler tightly in our mouths, depressing the spray in a way that coated the back of the throat rather than dispersing and reaching the airway it was designed to help. What can I say? That silver taste was comforting, especially when in the grip of an asthma attack. With a spacer, the metered dose has a chance to aerate post-expulsion and be breathed in, rather than pseudo-swallowed.
This year's theme was celebrating "Innovations in Technology," so AANMA had set up a table display of outdated medical treatments for asthma and allergies. Dr. R. Schiffman's Asthmador Cigarettes, "to relieve the distress of bronchial asthmatic paroxysms." (Active ingredients: Stramonium and Belladonna.) Clima-maske, anyone? It all seems so surreal and awkward as to be a joke.
But then, under glass, I saw it: first spacer I'd ever been given. A baby blue, collapsible canister that predates today's rigid aerochambers. I'd hated that thing. O how it wheezed like an accordion. O how spit crusted around its poorly-designed mouthpiece.
If you'd have told me in MFA days that my career as an author would bring me down to Capitol Hill on a Wednesday morning, or have me posing for photos with kids, I'd have thought you were crazy. I never expected this part of my identity--the perils and hoop-jumping of asthma and allergy--to be on the pages of a book. For that matter, I never expected to be memoirist; I thought I'd always have that veil of poetry, no matter how flimsy and artificial, protecting me from intrusive interpretations of my work.
Now my creative life and my personal life are one. On a bad day, that leaves me feeling exposed, or in over my head--asked to counsel beyond my qualifications. On a good day I make incredible, insightful connections with people who are so excited to see sympathetic experiences on the page. And I find myself wondering where to go from here. These conversations, these meetings, these days of advocacy: they change lives. Including mine. But I have to let it all aerate before I breathe it in, and before I decide what the next book will be. This summer is my spacer.
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2014 delivered a bunch of well-crafted films aimed at a savvy audience. Here are my ten best of the year. (Click on the title of each movie to read my original review.)
Films with budgets large and small took aim at social issues affecting ordinary citizens. Siddharth powerfully explores poverty through the experience of a man searching for his missing child. The divisive intersection of politics and religion is skewered both by indies — Filmistaan and Dekh Tamasha Dekh — and the year’s biggest hit, PK.
Other films put creative spins on existing formulas. Highway turns a typical damsel-in-distress scenario into a young woman’s journey of self-discovery. Dedh Ishqiya features a budding romance between a middle-aged couple, played by Madhuri Dixit-Nene and Naseeruddin Shah. I thought I’d seen enough gangster movies for a lifetime until Kill Dil revitalized the genre in stylish fashion.
Ankhon Dekhi challenges the notion that a movie has to be “about” a specific theme, instead presenting itself as a movie to simply experience.
My sentimental favorite film of 2014 is Queen. Watching Kangana Ranuat as charming small-town girl Rani gallivanting about Europe on her solo honeymoon is a joyous experience. It’s a movie I look forward to revisiting.
Yet one movie stood out from the rest because of its riveting story and immaculate direction. The best Hindi movie of 2014 is Haider.
I’m a huge fan of director Vishal Bhardwaj, and even with high expectations going in, I was still blown away by Haider. It’s gorgeous, thanks both to the natural beauty of Kashmir and Bhardwaj’s use of a bold color palette against a snowy backdrop. Kudos to cinematographer Pankaj Kumar as well.
Bhardwaj — who also wrote the film’s music — maximizes the potential for song as a narrative device in a sequence in which Haider (a modern Hamlet, played by Shahid Kapoor) publicly implicates his uncle in his father’s disappearance. The scene is much more effective as a musical performance than it would have been as a speech.
Bhardwaj also deserves credit for placing his version of Hamlet in such a politically and emotionally charged environment. Notes at the end of the movie highlight how ongoing tension between India and Pakistan have cut off a beautiful place like Kashmir from the rest of the world, to the detriment of regular people simply trying to exist. Placing a 400-year-old story within the context of a modern conflict emphasizes that quelling the dangerous temptations that come with political ambition is a problem humans haven’t yet solved. Haider is a magnificent piece of visual storytelling.
Haider — Buy/rent at Amazon or iTunes
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Charlie January 6, 2015 at 7:41 am
Enjoyed reading this and the Worst of 2014! I’m especially interested in checking out Queen now.
Kathy Post author January 6, 2015 at 10:23 am
Thanks, Charlie! I hope you enjoy Queen. It’s so much fun.
Parth January 8, 2015 at 11:10 am
i still haven’t watched Filmistaan, Kill Dil, Dekh tamasha Dekh and siddharth. But all other movies definitely deserve top 10 list. For me Haider too is on the number 1 movie. It’s just great. i had a second viewing of it on DVD. and I discovered some new things that i had missed first time like Shradha Kapoor’s father’s role was based on real life Ikhwani Person who was a pro government militant. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikhwan_(Kashmir) ).
Dedh Ishqiya was one of the best script of the year. Layered characters and story line. And i wanna thank Vishal Bhardwaj and Abhishek Chaubey for bringing back Urdu to the bollywood.
I’ll also put Khoobsurat here because it was an entertaining movie with really good female characters.
Khoobsurat was 16th out of 54 on my 2014 list, Parth. I need to watch it with my 10-year-old niece.
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Jim Carrey Didn't Audition for 'Saturday Night Live' Because of Suicide Drama
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In an interview, the 'Sonic the Hedgehog' star recalls the time when he witnessed someone trying to commit suicide the moment he got out of NBC building in San Fernando Valley.
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personal chromebook managed by school
This is normal. even signing out and ctrl+alt+shift+R doesnt work. Double-click on the icon that’s called Zemana.AntiMalware.Setup as displayed in the figure below. Managed by your organization cannot be removed using the standard Chrome capabilities, but this does not mean that you must use anti-virus or anti-malware utilities. Open a directory in which you saved it. They are generally are not a useful Chromebook to somebody … Once setup is done, you’ll see window like the one below. If you do not want to manually remove the Managed by your organization malware, then just use free malware removal tools. When the install starts, you will see the “Setup wizard” which will help you install Zemana Anti-Malware on your PC system. Drag an unwanted application to the Trash bin. Your child’s personal Google account is managed by Family Link. This can occur if you’re using a Chromebook, PC, or Mac that your organization controls—but other applications on your computer can set policies, too. While the MalwareBytes Free is scanning, you can see number of objects it has identified either as being malware. Free antispyware software, Online Scanners, Instructions on how to remove spyware and malware. The following video explains step-by-step instructions on how to remove malware with MalwareBytes. Unfortunately, malware authors use the “Managed by your organization” feature to install malicious browser extensions, set homepage and search engine, block browser settings from changes an so on. Follow the on-screen steps. Now click the “Scan” button . A parent’s Family Link parental controls will apply to a school account if: Important: If you add a school account as a new user on your Chromebook’s sign-in screen, Family Link parental controls will not apply to that user account. it will reset, but during the setup it will re enroll. First, please go to the link below, then click the ‘Download’ button in order to download the latest version of MalwareBytes Anti-Malware. Some kid in my class managed to remove it and was able to install Ubuntu onto it. You’re on a Chromebook with Chrome OS versions 83 and up. Press “Windows” (a key with Windows logo) and “R” on your keyboard at the same time. This is another reason why a browser hijacker should be removed ASAP. When this mode is activated, the “Managed by your organization” message appears in the Chrome main menu, and the user is deprived of the opportunity to enter the browser settings and make changes to them. Be very attentive when installing any programs and make sure you deselect any options for bundled software that you do not want. Find and select ‘Programs and Features’ or ‘Uninstall a program’. As well as unwanted browser redirects to a fake search engine, a browser hijacker can collect your Internet surfing activity by saving URLs visited, IP addresses, internet browser version and type, cookie information, Internet Service Provider (ISP) and web-pages visited. Press and hold Windows key and hit X key. Malware that changes browser settings is called ‘browser hijacker’. Locate and remove Chromium and Chrome folders. rd /S /Q "%WinDir%\System32\GroupPolicyUsers". To remove “Managed by your organization” makware, delete the “Google” folder. on managed chromebooks that setting isnt there. To approve the addition of a school account, a parent will need to give permission. Most likely, these programs are related to the Managed by your organization malware. Don’t worry. Scammers use malicious software to take control of your computer’s web browser and change how and what it displays when you’re surfing the Web. Open a directory in which you saved it. One of the easiest ways to remove Managed by your organization is to completely reset the Chrome browser settings. When a school account is added as a secondary account for a Family Link user, a child can: Switch between accounts while on some Chrome Web Store extensions and Android apps, like Google Classroom, to do schoolwork under parent supervision. Moreover, this tool will help you to remove malware, potentially unwanted programs, adware and toolbars that your computer may be infected too. So before you do this, make a backup. Select Settings . If the Chromebook has been enrolled and is managed by a school, and the correct settings are activated (which consist in turning off developer mode and forcing re-enrollment after the Chromebook has been wiped), then you cannot. Google Chrome says it’s “managed by your organization” if system policies are controlling some Chrome browser settings. After the scan get completed, MalwareBytes AntiMalware (MBAM) will create a list of security threats. Review the scan results and then press “Quarantine Selected” button. Add a school account as a secondary account. At the bottom right, select the time. It will open a menu. First, visit the following page, then click the ‘Download’ button in order to download the latest version of Zemana Free. Myantispyware is an information security website created in 2004. It states a bunch of scary text about the possible damage you could do your device if you proceed. Press “Windows” (a key with Windows logo) and “R” on your keyboard at the same time. If you’re using a Chromebook at school or work, it might be managed, or set up and maintained by a school, company, or other group. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); If you are using an Apple computer running Mac OS, then use the following guide How to remove browser hijacker, pop-ups, advertisements from Mac.
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Florence Day Trip from Rome with Lunch
Discover the “Cradle of the Renaissance” at your own pace on an 8-hour trip from Rome, with round-trip transfers by air-conditioned coach. Explore the city independently, or take a guided tour to see Ponte Vecchio, Duomo and more.
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Any accomodation inside the Aurelian walls.
Explore the "Cradle of the Renaissance" on a full-day tour to Florence
See art and architecture by Michelangelo and other Renaissance masters
Cross the covered Ponte Vecchio for stunning views of the Arno River
Admire Renaissance sculptures in Piazza della Signoria
Discover some of the leather shops of Florence
Marvel at the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore and Giotto's Belltower
Explore the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance and one of the most romantic cities in Europe on a full-day trip to Florence, driving across Italy to walk along medieval streets and admire art and architecture by Michelangelo, Brunelleschi and more. Relax on the transfer from Rome. Upon arrival you are free to explore to see sights such as the impressive Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, topped by Brunelleschi's majestic dome. Go to Piazza della Signoria to see Renaissance sculptures in the square, including a copy of Michelangelo's “David” in the courtyards of Palazzo della Signoria and the Uffizi Gallery. Stroll along the banks of the Arno River, crossing the covered Ponte Vecchio for some of the best views of Florence. Florence is also a great city for shopping, and there will be plenty of time to discover leather markets and stores selling Italian and international goods. Providing comfortable air-conditioned transfers by 8-seat minivan, the tour allows the flexibility to explore at your own pace, or join a guided tour for an additional fee.
Tour escort / guide
Hotel pick-up and drop-off (hotel inside the Aurelian walls)
Small-group tour
Round-trip shared transfer
Optional gratuity
Entrance tickets
Please note that the trip from Rome to Florence takes about 3 hours. You will board the shuttle for your return journey at 15:30
Please wear comfortable walking shoes, and bring a bottle of water, umbrella and/or jumper, camera, and money for additional costs
No refund will be given for cancellations made less than 48 hours prior to departure
Pickup is only provided for hotels located in the center of Rome. It is important to communicate as soon as possible the name and address of the hotel where you are staying
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written by Maylis de Kerangal, translated by Sam Taylor
Just before dawn on a Sunday morning, three teenage boys go surfing. Returning home, exhausted, the driver lets the car drift off the road into a tree. Two of the boys are wearing seat belts; one is sent through the windshield. He is declared brain-dead shortly after arriving at the hospital. His heart is still beating.
THE HEART takes place over the 24 hours surrounding a fatal accident and a resulting heart transplant as life is taken from a young man and given to a woman close to death. In gorgeous, ruminative prose it examines the deepest feelings of everyone involved --- grieving parents, hardworking doctors and nurses --- as they navigate decisions of life and death. As stylistically audacious as it is emotionally explosive, Maylis de Kerangal's THE HEART has mesmerized readers in France, where it has been hailed as the breakthrough work of a new literary star.
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Confirmed candidates for the Roscommon-South Leitrim and Dublin South West by-elections
Posted on July 16, 2014 by Adrian Kavanagh
Adrian Kavanagh, 16th July 2014 (regularly updated)
Following the elections of Luke Ming Flanagan (Midlands-North-West) and Brian Hayes (Dublin) at May’s European Parliament elections, vacancies have arisen in their two Dail constituencies of Roscommon-South Leitrim and Dublin South-West respectively. These are to take place on Friday 10th October 2014. But candidates have been selected/have declared themselves as candidates to contest these by-elections in the months and weeks leading up to the passing of the writ for these contests on 17th September 2014. This post aimed to list all of the candidates that will be contesting these two by-elections, as and when they are officially confirmed. The official closing date for candidate nominations (12.00pm on September 25th 2o14) has now passed and it is now confirmed that eleven candidates will contest both of these constituencies.
Roscommon-South Leitrim will cease to exist as a constituency come the next general election, with Roscommon joining with parts of east Galway to form a new Roscommon-Galway three-seat constituency while Leitrim will join with Sligo and parts of Donegal and Cavan to form a new four-seat Sligo-Leitrim constituency. Dublin South West will be enlarged (and gain an extra seat) at the next general election with the addition of the old Rathfarnham electoral area (2009 boundaries), which is currently part of the Dublin South constituency. These boundary changes are likely to impact on the selection decisions ahead of the by-election contests – as evidenced, for instance, in the selection of Rathfarnham-based candidates to contest Dublin South-West with a view to the next general election, given that this area is not currently part of the Dublin South-West constituency and will not be part of it at the holding of this upcoming by-election.
The Carlow-Kilkenny by-election, to fill the vacancy arising when Phil Hogan takes up his appointment as EU Commissioner, will not take place until Spring 2015. Malcolm Noonan (Green Party) and Kathleen Funchion (Sinn Fein) – both councillors based in Kilkenny City – have expressed an interest in contesting this election.
Roscommon-South Leitrim constituency (3 Seat constituency):
Fine Gael: Maura Hopkins
Fianna Fáil: Ivan Connaughton
Sinn Féin: Martin Kenny
Labour Party: John Kelly
Independents/Others: Emmet Corcoran, John McDermott (Hospital Action Committee), Gerry O’Boyle (Independent Land League West), Tom Crosby, Michael Fitzmaurice, Des Guckian
One of the ten candidates selected/declared to contest this constituency is female (10.0%). Seven of the candidates are based in Roscommon, while two are based in Leitrim. One other candidate is based outside of the Roscommon-South Leitrim constituency – Fitzmaurice, who is based in north Galway.
Aged 22, Strokestown-based independent candidate, Emmett Corcoran, is likely to be the youngest candidate in the field.
According to the Leitrim Observer, Cllr. Des Guckian (IND) – who represents the Carrick-on-Shannon electoral area – was considering whether to contest this by-election or not. He announced that he would be doing so in September. If the other major candidates in this contest had all mainly hailed from Co. Roscommon, he would have been well placed to poll very well in South Leitrim as a result. But Martin Kenny, who is also based in south Leitrim, has been selected to contest the election for Sinn Fein. A further Leitrim-based independent candidate – Denis O’Brien- joined the list of candidates just before the close of nominations, but then withdrew just before the closing date for doing so. Other independent candidates were considering whether they will run in the by-election, including Roscommon councillors Valerie Byrne and Tony Ward, as well as Tuam-based councillor Michael Fitzmaurice. Former independent councillor, Tom Crosby, was also included amongst the group of independents thinking of running in the by-election, with his candidacy have now been confirmed. Valerie Byrne however is now supporting the candidacy of John McDermott (see above). The candidacy of Michael Fitzmaurice was confirmed on 9th September.
Labour Senator, John Kelly, is considering his position before making a decision on whether to contest this by-election or not. The 2nd September issue of The Roscommon Herald is however reporting that he is putting his name forward, as was also confirmed by a report on the Shannonside radio website. His candidacy will be confirmed at a party convention on September 8th.
Roscommon councillors, Eugene Murphy and Ivan Connaughton contested the Fianna Fail selection convention on Wednesday 23rd July 2014, which was won by Cllr. Connaughton on a 298-157 vote margin. Cllr. Sinead Guckian from South Leitrim had initially been also nominated to contest that convention but, as noted by Shannonside Radio, has claimed however that she withdrew ahead of that convention taking place.
The Fine Gael convention took place on 2nd September. Cllr. Maura Hopkins confirmed her intention to contest this. It had looked likely that she would be opposed at this, but a recent report in the Roscommon People newspaper suggested that former councillor, Micheal McGreal, would also be contesting this nomination. The Shannonside radio website confirmed that a third candidate has been nominated to contest the Fine Gael selection convention, Sean Finan. McGreal and Finan, however, withdrew their names at the convention, leaving Maura Hopkins to be selected unopposed.
Martin Kenny, a councillor in South Leitrim who previously contested the constituency for the party, had expressed his intention of contesting the selection convention to be the Sinn Fein candidate. This convention was due to be held on Monday 8th September and this did confirm the candidacy of Martin Kenny.
Dublin South West constituency (4 Seats):
Fine Gael: Cáit Keane
Fianna Fáil: John Lahart
Sinn Féin: Cathal King
Labour Party: Pamela Kearns
Anti Austerity Alliance/Socialist Party: Paul Murphy
People Before Profit Alliance: Nicky Coules
Green Party: Francis Noel Duffy
Independents/Others: Tony Rochford, Declan Burke, Ronan McMahon, Colm O’Keeffe
Two of the eleven candidates selected/declared to contest this constituency are female (18.2%)
To date, a good number of the candidates appear to be hailing from the Templeogue and Rathfarnham parts of the constituency (or rather the new constituency that is to come into force at the next general election given that Rathfarnham is currently part of the Dublin South constituency and will be until the 2012 Constituency Commission new boundaries come into effect at the next general election). Further illustrating this point, it seems likely that the Green Party candidate here will be Francis Duffy, who contested the 2011 General Election for the party in this constituency but who also is a councillor representing the Rathfarnham electoral area. (His candidacy has now been confirmed.) With independent councillor, Ronan McMahon, now included and with Colm O’Keeffe also contesting this election, more than half of the current number of candidates are councillors (and senators!) representing/hailing from either the Templeogue-Terenure or Rathfarnham electoral areas.
After initially indicating that he would not be seeking to contest the nomination, thejournal.ie reported that Cllr. Cathal King would be contesting the Sinn Fein selection convention. Maire Devine, another Tallaght-based councillor, may also be contesting this. King subsequently won the nomination on 31st August.
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Time Warner has confirmed that it is to introduce UltraViolet, the technology that bridges a single piece of content to a variety of devices, to its home movies the coming autumn.
Jeffrey Bewkes, Time Warner’s chairman and chief executive, told analysts during a conference call that two movies, Horrible Bosses and Green Lantern, would be the launch films for UltraViolet, the pan-Hollywood initiative for allowing content to be stored in the cloud, then viewed on a variety of different devices.
Time Warner will be basing the initiative on the Flixster app, thus far primarily used as a site and app to catch up on movie news and watch trailers of upcoming films. “Beginning with the releases of Horrible Bosses and Green Lantern in the fourth quarter, the vast majority of our future home video new releases will be UV enabled,” Bewkes said. “The key part of our plan is to drive use of the UltraViolet is Flixster, the preferred system there.”
“Today, Flixster is one of the most popular applications for finding information about movies, and over the coming months we’ll begin to roll out new upgraded versions of the Flixster service, which will be deeply integrated with UltraViolet,” Bewkes added.
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“We believe that this could fundamentally change how people manage and watch their movie collections and it could significantly improve the value proposition of digital ownership,” Bewkes said.
UltraViolet members include Sony Pictures, Warner Bros., Paramount, NBC Universal, Lionsgate, and Fox Entertainment.
“Remember, with UltraViolet, what will happen is, if you go and buy a physical DVD, you will have it in the cloud as you walk out of the store,” Bewkes said. “If you buy an electronic copy of a movie from either a cable operator or any electronic retailer, you’ll also own a copy that’s up in the cloud that you can move from device to device. If you want to take your old DVDs into retailers and have them put them into the cloud and therefore be available for you to move from device to device, you’d be able to do that also.”
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Port of Waterford Rail-Freight Contract Ceases
#Ports&Shipping - Port Waterford has confirmed that the contract held by DFDS with Irish Rail to operate a freight train between Belview Port and Ballina, Co Mayo ceases tomorrow (today, 29 May).
As RTE News reports, the Port of Waterford Chief Executive Frank Ronan said they were sorry to see the end of the service.
"It was a nice addition to our portfolio and it was great to be able to provide a port service to stakeholders in the northwest region.
"As the volumes involved were relatively small and likely to be replaced, we do not expect that our throughput of containers will be negatively impacted.
"However, it is a shame to see something that can take trucks off the road and reduce carbon emissions ceasing rather than growing and prospering.
For more on the storey click here.
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Irish Rail's Freight Increases Again in 2016 Including Sea-Connected Operations
#Railfreight - It was another year of increases to rail freight traffic on Iarnród Éireann / Irish Rail (IÉ) during 2016 according to MultiModal, with the number of freight trains operated being up 6% and tonnes carried up by 8% on 2015.
In 2015, 96.4 million tonne kilometres of freight were moved by rail in Ireland and this increased by 5% to 101.5 million tonne kilometres in 2016. In that same year multimodal trains serving DFDS Logistics (shipping container operator) increased by 6%. The railway operation is run by Dublin based International Warehousing and Transport (IWT).
IWT commenced their rail operation on 19 August 2008 with just two return trains per week from Dublin Port to Ballina in County Mayo and now with up to seven return trains per week the 2000th train was operated for the company by IÉ on 16th August this year. Two return multimodal services per week are also operated for DFDS Logistics between Port of Waterford (see 2016 overall figures) and Ballina, with shipping connections to Europe via Rotterdam.
Multimodal traffic has been steadily increasing on IÉ now for several years with soft drinks and medical supplies for export being amongst the staple loadings. Rail routes from Dublin and Waterford ports are both cleared for conveying 9’6’’ hi-cube containers on standard platform wagons.
The number of bulk trains carrying pulpwood and zinc ore were also up by 6% on 2015. Pulpwood trains are operated for Coillte from Waterford and Ballina to Waterford where the timber is used for the manufacture of building products, most of which are exported. The ore trains operate twice daily from Navan to Dublin Port from where the product is exported.
During 2016 IÉ successfully completed the trail run of a 54 TEU multimodal freight train, the longest ever freight train run in Ireland.
Other initiatives during the year include ‘Rapid Rail’, a rail parcels service and also parcels collection lockers at principal stations on the network. The IÉ freight sector also operate ‘Navigator’, which specialises in the collection and distribution of automotive car parts. Navigator is amongst the best service of its kind in Europe with 99.6% of all deliveries arriving on time throughout the island of Ireland.
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DFDS Group Raises Outlook after Strong Q2
#DFDSgroup - European shipping and logistics operator, DFDS Group, writes LloydsLoadingList.com has raised its outlook for 2016 after a strong performance in the second quarter in which its freight volumes were up 33%. The increase is thanks to its much-expanded English Channel ferry capacity and 9% growth in other parts of its network.
The expanded ferry capacity in the Channel business unit supported 63% higher freight volumes and 23% more passengers, while freight volumes were up by 9% in all other parts of the network. “The Logistics Division achieved strong earnings growth through higher volumes and efficiency in both trailer operations and contract logistics,” the Copenhagen-headquartered group said.
Revenue for the three months to 30 June increased by 7%, year on year, excluding revenue from bunker surcharges, while reported revenue increased by 4% to DKK 3.6 billion (US$548 million). EBITDA operating profits before special items increased by 27% to DKK 699m following higher earnings in both the Shipping and Logistics divisions.
As for the UK & Ireland, DFDS Logistics (container services including out of Belfast, Dublin, Cork and Port of Waterford) business, the number of transported units in Q2 increased by 43.2% compared to 2015 mainly driven by new contract logistics activities for cold stores in England.Since the commencement of the contract for one cold store in Q4 2015, a further two cold stores were added during Q1 2016.
Volumes were reduced by optimisation of traffic between N. Ireland and England and the Continent as well as lower temperature controlled and steel volumes in the UK. EBIT decreased by 9% to DKK 15m mainly due to the impact of lower temperature controlled and steel volumes as well as the loss of a logistics contract for a food manufacturer in 2015. The result was, moreover, negatively impacted by the depreciation of the British pound.
For much more about the DFDS Group's performance across the Benelux, North Sea and Baltic regions, click here.
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#SeaRailFreight- A year has passed since Afloat.ie reported on the revival of container rail-freight services between Waterford Port and Ballina, to link in with DFDS Logistics sailing schedules to Europe.
According to multimodal.org.uk which has more on this, since the re-launch in early March last year of the DFDS Logistics liner trains between Ballina rail freight terminal and Belview Port at the Waterford of Port (onward shipping to Rotterdam) the service has moved over 2,500 containers.
The service, operating twice weekly in both directions, departure from Ballina at 11:05 on Tuesdays and Fridays and from Port of Waterford at 11:30 on Mondays and Thursdays.
DFDS to Shed 60 Jobs in Belfast Operation
#DFDSBelfast – Shipping and logistics company DFDS are to let go 60 jobs in Belfast at the end of this year as it shifts its finance centre to Poland.
Danish owned company DFDS said Belfast would be the first location to lose its finance department out of the 21 countries in which it operates.
The office on West Bank Road in Belfast will close in December, DFDS said. However its other Irish operations, including DFDS Logistics in Belfast and Dublin, are not affected.
For more on this story the Belfast Telegraph reports.
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New Waterford Port – Ballina Container Rail-Freight Service Opens
#SeaRailFreight- A new container rail-freight service between Waterford Port and Ballina began operating this week, to link in with DFDS Logistics sailing schedules to and from Europe.
The container trains are running to a twice weekly service in each direction linking the Belview Port terminal downriver of Waterford City and the northern Co. Mayo town.
According to Irish Rail (Iarnród Éireann), the new service will benefit customers in the west and north-west of Ireland in particular, providing them with a cost effective alternative when compared with a road based shipping. Coupled with this, the customer also reduces their carbon footprint.
The trains are scheduled to meet DFDS lo-lo vessels sailing from Belview Port to Rotterdam, which allows for onward delivery into Europe. Customers can now load in the west of Ireland on Tuesday morning and deliver in The Netherlands on Thursday pm/Friday am.
Rotterdam also provides access to DFDS sailings to Norway, and rail connections to Italy, allowing for a rail-sea-rail connection from Ballina to Milan.
DFDS will utilise a significant amount of available rail-wagons, but have left scope to develop the service further by introducing new customers, both internal Irish traffic and import / export traffic.
This is an important addition to the DFDS services in Ireland, and as a customer for Irish Rail's freight division. The new service is covering a longer distance, guaranteed volumes and direct port access.
The introduction of the service will see freight volumes increase from 91m tonne kilometres in 2012 to 105 m tonne kilometres approximately in 2013.
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Seatruck Sailings Start on Dublin-Heysham Route
It was a Valentine's Day start for Seatruck Ferries opening of the Dublin-Heysham freight-only route, writes Jehan Ashmore.
Initiating the service, the port welcomed back a familiar vessel, the chartered Anglia Seaways which only a fortnight ago had operated the same route before DFDS Seaways closed Irish Sea operations.
The vessel has accommodation for 12 drivers. Most of the daily sailings depart Dublin at 15:15hrs and return from the Lancashire port at 02:15hrs. On certain days the schedules vary, to view the timetable click here.
In addition to the new route for Seatruck Ferries, the freight-only operator has a fleet of 8 vessels on routes between Dublin-Liverpool, Warrenpoint-Heysham and Larne-Heysham.
Anglia Seaways arrived into Dublin yesterday morning from Avonmouth Docks, where the 120 unit capacity vessel went into temporary lay-up period, since departing the Irish capital on 31 January (see related posting and photo).
The 13,073grt vessel revived the 8-hour route yesterday with an afternoon sailing bound for Heysham. The vessel was originally reported to be relocated to Baltic Sea operations, but with its charter to Seatruck, the DFDS Seaways funnel symbol of the Maltese cross was painted out.
Though, the Maltese cross can still be seen in Irish ports with calls made by sisterships, Dana Gothia (ex. Maersk Westland) and Dana Hollandia (formerly Maersk Waterford) which are part of the DFDS Group container subsidiary DFDS Logistics.
In total the Lo-Lo shipping division operates four vessels on several routing options with weekly calls to Belfast, Dublin, Cork and Waterford to Rotterdam and Zeebrugge.
The German built sisters originally operated Dublin-Rotterdam and Waterford-Rotterdam routes for Norfolk Line (a subsidiary of Maersk / A.P. Moller Group).Incidentally Maersk /Norfolkline also owned the Anglia Seaways until DFDS Seaways purchased the vessel last year.
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About Dublin Port
Dublin Port Company is currently investing about €277 million on its Alexandra Basin Redevelopment (ABR), which is due to be complete by 2021. The redevelopment will improve the port's capacity for large ships by deepening and lengthening 3km of its 7km of berths. The ABR is part of a €1bn capital programme up to 2028, which will also include initial work on the Dublin Port’s MP2 Project - a major capital development project proposal for works within the existing port lands in the northeastern part of the port.
Dublin Port has also recently secured planning approval for the development of the next phase of its inland port near Dublin Airport. The latest stage of the inland port will include a site with the capacity to store more than 2,000 shipping containers and infrastructures such as an ESB substation, an office building and gantry crane.
Dublin Port Company recently submitted a planning application for a €320 million project that aims to provide significant additional capacity at the facility within the port in order to cope with increases in trade up to 2040. The scheme will see a new roll-on/roll-off jetty built to handle ferries of up to 240 metres in length, as well as the redevelopment of an oil berth into a deep-water container berth.
Dublin Port FAQ
How old is Dublin Port?
Dublin was little more than a monastic settlement until the Norse invasion in the 8th and 9th centuries when they selected the Liffey Estuary as their point of entry to the country as it provided relatively easy access to the central plains of Ireland. Trading with England and Europe followed which required port facilities, so the development of Dublin Port is inextricably linked to the development of Dublin City, so it is fair to say the origins of the Port go back over one thousand years. As a result, the modern organisation Dublin Port has a long and remarkable history, dating back over 300 years from 1707.
Where was the original Dublin Port located?
The original Port of Dublin was situated upriver, a few miles from its current location near the modern Civic Offices at Wood Quay and close to Christchurch Cathedral. The Port remained close to that area until the new Custom House opened in the 1790s. In medieval times Dublin shipped cattle hides to Britain and the continent, and the returning ships carried wine, pottery and other goods.
How big is Dublin Port?
510 acres. The modern Dublin Port is located either side of the River Liffey, out to its mouth. On the north side of the river, the central part (205 hectares or 510 acres) of the Port lies at the end of East Wall and North Wall, from Alexandra Quay.
Who owns Dublin Port?
Dublin Port Company is a State-owned commercial company responsible for operating and developing Dublin Port.
What is Dublin Port Company?
Dublin Port Company is a self-financing, and profitable private limited company wholly-owned by the State, whose business is to manage Dublin Port, Ireland's premier Port. Established as a corporate entity in 1997, Dublin Port Company is responsible for the management, control, operation and development of the Port.
Name someone famous connected to Dublin Port?
Captain William Bligh (of Mutiny of the Bounty fame) was a visitor to Dublin in 1800, and his visit to the capital had a lasting effect on the Port. Bligh's study of the currents in Dublin Bay provided the basis for the construction of the North Wall. This undertaking led to the growth of Bull Island to its present size.
Is Dublin the largest Port in Ireland?
Yes. Dublin Port is the largest freight and passenger port in Ireland. It handles almost 50% of all trade in the Republic of Ireland.
Who handles the Cargo in Dublin Port?
All cargo handling activities being carried out by private sector companies operating in intensely competitive markets within the Port. Dublin Port Company provides world-class facilities, services, accommodation and lands in the harbour for ships, goods and passengers.
Who is the Chief Executive of Dublin Port?
Eamonn O'Reilly is the Dublin Port Chief Executive.
Who is the Harbour Master of Dublin Port?
Capt. Michael McKenna is the Dublin Port Harbour Master
How many passengers come through Dublin Port each year?
In 2019, 1,949,229 people came through the Port.
How many cruise liners arrive in Dublin Port?
In 2019, there were 158 cruise liner visits.
How many tonnes of exports were shipped by Dublin Port?
In 2019, 9.4 million gross tonnes of exports were handled by Dublin Port.
How many ships arrive at Dublin Port each year?
In 2019, there were 7,898 ship arrivals.
What is the total throughput of goods at Dublin Port?
In 2019, there was a gross tonnage of 38.1 million.
How many tourist vehicles come through Dublin Port?
In 2019, there were 559,506 tourist vehicles.
How many trade vehicles come through Dublin Port?
There were 98,897 lorries in 2019
Can pleasure craft enter Dublin Port?
Boats can navigate the River Liffey into Dublin by using the navigational guidelines. Find the guidelines on this page here.
What is the VHF Channel for Dublin Port control?
VHF channel 12. Commercial vessels using Dublin Port or Dun Laoghaire Port typically have a qualified pilot or certified master with proven local knowledge on board. They "listen out" on VHF channel 12 when in Dublin Port's jurisdiction.
Is there a Dublin Bay webcam?
A Dublin Bay webcam showing the south of the Bay at Dun Laoghaire and a distant view of Dublin Port Shipping is here
What is Dublin Port’s 'distributed museum'?
Dublin Port is creating a distributed museum on its lands in Dublin City.
A Liffey Tolka Project cycle and pedestrian way is the key to link the elements of this distributed museum together. The distributed museum starts at the Diving Bell and, over the course of 6.3km, will give Dubliners a real sense of the City, the Port and the Bay. For visitors, it will be a unique eye-opening stroll and vista through and alongside one of Europe’s busiest ports: Diving Bell along Sir John Rogerson’s Quay over the Samuel Beckett Bridge, past the Scherzer Bridge and down the North Wall Quay campshire to Berth 18 - 1.2 km. Liffey Tolka Project - Tree-lined pedestrian and cycle route between the River Liffey and the Tolka Estuary - 1.4 km with a 300-metre spur along Alexandra Road to The Pumphouse (to be completed by Q1 2021) and another 200 metres to The Flour Mill. Tolka Estuary Greenway - Construction of Phase 1 (1.9 km) starts in December 2020 and will be completed by Spring 2022. Phase 2 (1.3 km) will be delivered within the following five years. The Pumphouse is a heritage zone being created as part of the Alexandra Basin Redevelopment Project. The first phase of 1.6 acres will be completed in early 2021 and will include historical port equipment and buildings and a large open space for exhibitions and performances. It will be expanded in a subsequent phase to incorporate the Victorian Graving Dock No. 1 which will be excavated and revealed. The largest component of the distributed museum will be The Flour Mill. This involves the redevelopment of the former Odlums Flour Mill on Alexandra Road based on a masterplan completed by Grafton Architects to provide a mix of port operational uses, a National Maritime Archive, two 300 seat performance venues, working and studio spaces for artists and exhibition spaces. The Flour Mill will be developed in stages over the remaining twenty years of Masterplan 2040 alongside major port infrastructure projects.
Source: Dublin Port Company ©Afloat 2020.
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Profile / Early Life
Judo Career
MMA Career
Mixed Martial Arts career
Name: Andreas Tricomitis
Born: August 26 1991 Larnaca Cyprus
Nationality: Greek Cypriot
Height: 1.77 (5.8 feet)
Weight: 170 lb (77 kg; 12 st 2 lb)
Division: Welterweight
MMA Head Coach: Ozzy Haluk
Judo Coach:
Stanislav Jankovic (2001-2008)
Cédric Taymans (2005-2007)
Amir Ghomi (2004)
Michalis Skouroumounis (1995-2001 & 2008-2011)
Years Active Mma: 2012 – present
Fighting Style: Judo, Sambo, Submission Wrestling, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Muay Thai, Boxing
Rank: 3 rd Degree Black Belt (1st Dan Japan Judo Federation 2nd & 3rd Dan International Judo Federation)
University: Manchester Metropolitan University
Semi-Pro MMA Career – Unified MMA Rules
Throughout his semi-pro career he fought in four different shows in two different countries. His experience and background in judo facilitated his transition to MMA and proved to be the effective culmination in many of his fights. In 2016 he won the Title of the biggest all-in amateur mixed martial arts competition of its kind at the time, which was structured in order to provide Cage Warriors organisation with the best and most legitimate stars. It offered exposure, credibility and experience unlikely to be found in any other amateur MMA show in the world. While fighting at an amateur level he fought twice the ranked No.1 amateur in Europe and in 2014 the No.2 in the world an IMMAF Silver Medallist in a fight where he won by unanimous decision. During that time, he had received the “fight of the night” award and twice the “performance of the night” award.
Professional MMA Career
Tricomitis made his professional debut in 2017 at AFC 5 and took on a very tough Slovakian fighter with six wins and two losses which was 4-0 as an amateur and 2-2 as a pro, where he won the fight by unanimous decision. In just his second professional bout he fought for a European MMA Title under the ISKA against a French mixed martial art Champion at the PFC 3, in which he won by 1st round submission. In 2018 he became the first ever mixed martial artist from either Greece or Cyprus to fight and win in Cage Warriors which is under the UFC. At the fight he fought the two-times British Champion who was previously 7-0 as an amateur and ranked No.1 in Europe by Tapology. He won while showcasing some spectacular judo techniques which are very rarely seen in mma. Towards the end of 2018 he fought at the AFC 10 and won by TKO in the first round and in 2019 he fought for the MCP EuroBalkan MMA Title against a former K1 Champion where he won by TKO in the Co-Main event.
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Wishing for home
You typically don’t get invited many places when you have four children under the age of nine. Especially when it is known that if someone in the Western hemisphere even thinks of pouring a drink, one of the four (no names, no pack drill, but usually the second-born) is going to manage to knock it over.
Visits are typically restricted to those in similar straits, whose homes also boast that slightly off-kilter décor favored by the design school of parents of young children. The small rug not quite centered in the room, because it is covering a large stain on the carpet. The picture that hangs slightly low on the wall, to best hide the dent of a flying toy with sharp edges.
So Silvija’s invitation for lunch was both unusual and a little bit unnerving. We didn’t know at the time that she was actually applying for the role of surrogate grandmother.
We’d grown to like her on the few occasions we had spoken after Sunday services at the Anglican church we’d begun attending since moving from England to Amsterdam. Tall and still striking in her seventies, she wore her long silver hair swept up, held in place with a pearl comb.
With her East European-accented English, and tales of fleeing the Nazis, seeing World War II out in England before resettling in Brazil, later making a home in Holland, she carried herself like a royal in exile—and with a twinkle in her eye.
Silvija lived in the old Jewish quarter of Amsterdam. She welcomed us “dahlinks” warmly to the apartment that had been her late husband, Martijn’s home since he was a young man. Our children were wide-eyed as she showed them the overhead cupboards in which Martijn had helped hide Jewish children from German round-ups during the war.
Then it was time to eat. Silvija led us into the dining room, and my heart sank. Upholstered, dark wooden chairs were set around an elegant table. Soft tablecloths and napkins as white as snow on the Russian Steppes. Silverware that sparkled. Cut-glass goblets. And a small carton of chocolate milk at each of the kids’ places.
I felt as though I was leading the cast of The Little Rascals onto the set of Dr. Zhivago.
My wife and I seated the children as Silvija excused herself and went to the adjoining kitchen. I leaned forward, and in my best effort at a Dr. Dobsonly mix of warmth and warning suggested, quietly I thought, that they might want to be really, really, really, really careful when they drank, because we wouldn’t want to make a mess for Silvija, would we? They agreed.
Silvija returned with some bread rolls and laid them in the center of the table. Standing up tall, she picked up one of the chocolate cartons. “Dahlinks,” she said to the children. “Please do watch out when you drink, because these could make a terrible mess if you are not careful.”
She shook the carton from side to side, and some of the chocolate splashed onto the virgin tablecloth. “But oh,” she shrugged. “It’s happened now, so it won’t matter so much.” The children looked at her with eyes bigger than the dinner plates in front of them. Silvija had the job.
She placed the carton back on the table, winked at me, and went back into the kitchen.
It’s been said that hospitality is occasionally the art of making someone feel at home, but often the practice of making someone feel at home when that’s where you wish they were. That day, Silvija showed me that hospitality is actually the gift of making someone wish that where they are was home.
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One Response to “Wishing for home”
Tom Lacey March 27, 2013
Another story well told and message recieved. Real life messages shared with humor are refreshing and multiply their educational value.
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Performance Analysis & Financials
Performance Analysis & Financial Statements
2019-20 Halifax Convention Centre Annual Report
Chair - Board of Directors
East Coast Hosts
A National Kick-Off
Convention Centres of Canada Meet Halifax
The Largest Transportation Expo in Canada
Feast of the East
More is Possible
Attracting the International Market
OCEANS 2024
Life Sciences - World Health Day
Plan to be Different
Putting the Customer at the Center
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Bringing the Halifax Waterfront to Downtown Toronto
Summer Welcome Series
Celebrating 10 Years with Hal-Con
Elevate Atlantic Canada
SHARE THE REPORT
1800 Argyle Street
Halifax, NS B3J 2V9
In the Centre of it all.
Photo credit: Discover Halifax
As Nova Scotians, we take our role as warm, authentic hosts seriously.
We pride ourselves on helping make connections between our local experts and our visitors, creating benefits that go far beyond the event itself. Luckily, it’s not hard to make an impact when you have some of the most innovative, accomplished experts in the world, right in your backyard.
With over 23 universities and college campuses throughout Nova Scotia, we’ve become a world-class research hub with innovation centres, like COVE and the Creative Destruction Lab, making us a centre of excellence in the life sciences and ocean sectors. By attracting international events in those sectors, we have the opportunity to showcase our local experts and connect them with their global counterparts, helping create partnerships, research, and business opportunities that might not have happened otherwise.
When we welcome international visitors to our Centre and city, time and time again, they tell us how much they love our small, thriving city and amazing, talented people. That’s why we genuinely believe that more is possible when you host in Halifax.
Photo credit: OceanPredict19
Halifax has an award-winning venue, destination, and a team with the experience to attract more events, visitors, and investment to our city. So we’re focusing on international conference attraction to bring more events and visitors to Nova Scotia and connect them with our local and national experts.
The international convention market is vast and competitive. That’s why, together with our partners, we’ve created a sector-based international event attraction strategy, allowing us to stay focused on key areas of strength for Nova Scotia, including oceans and life sciences.
“Collaboration and partnership are key differentiators for us when attracting events to this region,” said Suzanne Fougere, executive vice president of strategy and business development. “By coming together to leverage our collective expertise, we stand out from the crowd and position Halifax as a unique host for international events.”
With partners like Halifax Partnership, Discover Halifax, and Dalhousie University, we are working together to build Halifax’s profile on the international stage by leveraging our collective programs and funding to position Nova Scotia in our sectors of strength.
“As a research-intensive university that is active in many global networks, Dalhousie is often in a position to attract or convene national and international conferences. The team at Halifax Convention Centre has been an engaged partner in developing compelling event proposals and delivering great experiences for visitors and delegates,” said Matt Hebb, AVP government relations and economic development, Dalhousie University.
Nova Scotia has over 300 companies in ocean-sector businesses, making it a significant area of expertise for our province and partners to collaborate.
Through a partnership between Discover Halifax, Nova Scotia Business Inc. and Halifax Partnership, our city won the opportunity to host OCEANS 2024 at our Halifax Convention Centre. The bidding process was a huge undertaking for all our partners, and we are all very proud that our city will serve as the backdrop for this amazing event in 2024.
“We are excited to host OCEANS 2024 in Halifax, and to welcome ocean technology and industry thought leaders from around the world to Canada’s ocean city. The ocean drives Halifax’s economy and culture, attracting visitors who enjoy our east coast lifestyle and Maritime hospitality, and companies that benefit from our talent, location, cost, and innovation advantages.” Wendy Luther, president & CEO, Halifax Partnership.
The event will take place September 23-26, 2024, bringing over 1,500 international and national delegates to Halifax and Nova Scotia.
Over the past year, our Centre has hosted several local and national events in the ocean sector that align with our international event attraction strategy:
The UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development 2021-2030
H20 Exhibition & Conference
ArcticNet Annual Scientific Meeting
Nova Scotia Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture Minister’s Conference
"We can’t wait to welcome Oceans 2024 to our state-of-the-art Centre and our amazing city. This event aligns perfectly with our strategy to attract conventions that showcase Nova Scotia’s sectors of comparative advantage to the world,” said Carrie Cussons, president & CEO, Halifax Convention Centre.
To celebrate World Health Day on April 7, 2019, our Centre worked with our community partners to highlight the 25+ life-science events we hosted this past year including:
Society of Rural Physicians
Dalhousie Medical Research Day
Canadian Association of Wound Care
Operating Room Nurses Association of Canada
Blood & Beyond Conference
These events attracted more than 10,500 delegates who engaged in important health-related discussions with our Centre and city as the backdrop.
By showcasing these events, not only are we celebrating our successes with our community partners, but we’re highlighting Halifax’s position as a hub for excellence in life sciences, helping to attract more national and international events.
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Elisha Sill family papers
Identifier: 1997-24-0
Scope and Contents The papers of Dr. Elisha Sill (1730-1808) of Goshen, Conn., consist of his diary and account book, 1771-1783, and his copy of a 1776 letter to Col. Oliver Wolcott in which he asked to be relieved of service. The collection also includes two 1774 letters from committees of correspondence and papers related to Dr. Sill's son Elisha Eaton Sill (1774-1812) and grandson William Eaton Sill (1806-1888). After graduating from Yale College in 1754, Dr. Sill settled in Goshen, Conn. and eastablished a...
Dates: Created: 1771-1825; Other: Date acquired: 02/08/1999
Found in: Litchfield Historical Society
Lyman Beecher Stowe speech
Identifier: 00-2010-226-0
Scope and Contents Speech delivered by Lyman Beecher Stowe at the celebration of Litchfield's bicenennial. He remarked on his ancestors and their connection to Litchfield and his appreciation of some of the memorable citizens of Litchfield, including Sarah Pierce, Charles Loring Brace, Oliver Wolcott, Benjamin Tallmadge, Tapping Reeve, James Gould, and John Pierpont.
Dates: Created: 1920 Aug 2
Wolcott family collection
Scope and Contents Correspondence chiefly between Frederick Wolcott (1767-1837), his wife Elizabeth (Betsey) Huntington Wolcott (1774-1812), his brother Oliver Wolcott (1760-1833) who served as Secretary of the Treasury and Governor of Connecticut, and Jabez W. Huntington (1788-1847) who served as a U.S. Senator from Connecticut. Topics include domestic news, local, state, regional and national politics, business affairs, church activities, trade with China and the merchant vessel Trident, raising merino sheep,...
Dates: Created: 1740-1844; Other: Majority of material found in 1790-1837; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1906
Names: Wolcott, Oliver, 1726-1797 X
Subject: Litchfield (Conn.) X
Account books 2
Litchfield (Conn.) 2
China -- Commerce 1
Connecticut--Politics and government 1
Goshen (Conn.) 1
Litchfield (Conn.) - History 1
Military commissions 1
Speeches 1
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783 1
United States--Politics and government--1775-1783. 1
Woolen and worsted manufacture 1
Brace, Charles Loring, 1826-1890 1
Freeman, Hannah Huntington Wolcott 1
Gould, James, 1770-1838 1
Huntington, Jabez Williams, 1788-1847 1
Litchfield Female Academy (Conn.) 1
Litchfield Law School 1
Pierce, Sarah, 1767-1852 1
Pierpont, John, 1785-1866 1
Rankin, Laura Maria Wolcott 1
Reeve, Tapping, 1744-1823 1
Sill family 1
Sill, Elisha, 1730-1808 1
Silliman, Gold Selleck, 1777-1868 1
Stowe, Lyman Beecher, 1880-1963 1
Tallmadge, Benjamin, 1754-1835 1
Wolcott, Betsey Huntington, 1774-1812 1
Wolcott, Frederick, 1767-1837 1
Wolcott, Oliver, 1760-1833 1
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fantasy, Fiction, graphic novels, historical fiction, science fiction
Mighty Women
January 7, 2021 January 4, 2021 cgoodallmyapl
Fighting the forces of evil. Defending truth, justice, and freedom. Some of the strongest heroines in the comic-verse are featured in these female power comics for adults. Curated by Samantha Matherne.
Batwoman Vol. 1: Hydrology by W. Haden Blackman III, J. H. Williams III
hoopla comic
Issues #0-5
Part 1 of the Batwoman (2011-2015) series
The creative team of J.H. Williams III and W. Haden Blackman launch the ongoing Batwoman series, as Batwoman (a.k.a. Kate Kane) faces deadly new challenges in her war against Gotham City’s underworld–and new trials in her personal life. Who or what is stealing children from the barrio, and for what vile purpose? Will Kate train her cousin, Bette Kane (a.k.a. Flamebird), as her new sidekick? How will she handle unsettling revelations about her father, Colonel Jacob Kane? And why is a certain government agency suddenly taking an interest in her? These are some of the questions that will be answered in this long-awaited series!
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Vol. 1: High School is Hell by Jordie Bellaire
freading comic
Part of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series
This is the Buffy Summers you know, who wants what every average teenager wants: friends at her new school, decent grades, and to escape her imposed destiny as the next in a long line of vampire slayers tasked with defeating the forces of evil. Only this time around, her world looks a lot more like the one outside your window. But the more things change, the more they stay the same as the Gang faces brand-new Big Bads, and the threat lurking beneath the perfectly manicured exterior of Sunnydale High confirms what every teenager has always known: high school truly is hell.
Captain Marvel Vol. 1: Re-Entry by Kelly Thompson
Part 1 of the Captain Marvel (2019-) series
Captain Marvel comes home! Carol Danvers has spent months in space protecting the planet, but now she’s back on Earth. And New York City has never looked so good – until a powerful villain turns Manhattan’s Roosevelt Island into an apocalyptic wasteland! Cut off from the rest of the world, Carol needs a new crew – including Spider-Woman, Hazmat and Echo – to kick-start a revolution! But which face from her past is about to reappear and change everything? The life of every man, woman and child on the island rests on Carol’s shoulders. It’s time to show exactly why they call her “Earth’s Mightiest Hero!”
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Vol. 1 by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
Part of the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina series
On the eve of her sixteenth birthday, the young sorceress, Sabrina Spellman, finds herself at a crossroads, having to choose between an unearthly destiny and her mortal boyfriend, Harvey. But Madame Satan, a foe from her family’s past, has arrived in Greendale, and she has her own deadly agenda. Archie Comics’ latest horror sensation starts here! Compiles the first five issues of the ongoing comic book series Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.
DC Bombshells Vol. 1: Enlisted by Marguerite Bennett
Part of the DC Bombshells (2015-2017) series
The incredibly popular DC Collectibles line is brought to life in these stories that reimagine the course of history! As Word War II rages across Europe, the Allied forces issue a call to arms for the greatest heroines the world has ever known, The Bombshells: Kate Kane, the all-American Batwoman; Diana of Themyscira, warrior Princess of the Amazons; Kara Starikov and Kortni Duginovna, defenders of Mother Russia; and Mera, royal daughter of the legendary Atlantis. With aid from their allies at home and abroad, these mighty women will turn the tide of war and defend those inviolable rights of Truth, Justice and Freedom. From writer Marguerite Bennett (Batgirl, Earth 2: World’s End) and featuring artists including Marguerite Sauvage (Hinterkind), Laura Braga (Witchblade), Bilquis Evely (Doc Savage), Mirka Andolfo (Chaos) and Ming Doyle (Constantine: The Hellblazer) comes DC Comics: Bombshells Vol. 1: Enlisted.
Fables Vol. 1: Legends in Exile by Bill Willingham
Part 1 of the Fables series
When a savage creature known only as the Adversary conquered the fabled lands of legends and fairy tales, all of the infamous inhabitants of folklore were forced into exile. Disguised among the normal citizens of modern-day New York, these magical characters have created their own peaceful and secret society within an exclusive luxury apartment building called Fabletown. But when Snow White’s party-girl sister, Rose Red, is apparently murdered, it is up to Fabletown’s sheriff, a reformed and pardoned Big Bad Wolf, to determine if the killer is Bluebeard, Rose’s ex-lover and notorious wife killer, or Jack, her current live-in boyfriend and former beanstalk climber.
Harley Quinn Vol. 1: Hot in the City by Amanda Conner, Jimmy Palmiotti
Part 1 of the Harley Quinn (2013-2016) series
There are eight million stories in the naked city. Here’s one you might have heard: an out-of-town girl moves to the Big Apple after a bad breakup, looking for a new job, a new love, and a new life. Oh yeah, and she’s a criminally insane super-villain who just got jilted by a psychotic clown. Did we not mention that yet? She’s Harley Quinn, and she’s come to Coney Island looking to settle down and cut loose. But where Harley goes, trouble follows. Someone’s put a price on her head so big every bounty hunter in Brooklyn is looking for her. Now this newly minted Noo Yawker has to count on her motley crew of new neighbors and a few of her good old bad-girl friends to get the last laugh on whoever’s gunning for her.
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Pink by Tini Howard, Brenden Fletcher, Kelly Thompson
Part of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Pink series
The original Pink Ranger returns! Featuring an introduction by Amy Jo Johnson, the actress who portrayed Kimberly Hart. After leaving the life of a Mighty Morphin Power Ranger behind, Kimberly Hart finds herself pulled back into the fray. With her parents missing and their village overrun by monsters, she must reclaim her destiny and discover the power that lies within. She’ll have to call on some old friends if she’s to unravel this mystery and save this once sleepy village. From writers Brenden Fletcher (Batgirl, Gotham Academy), Kelly Thompson (Jem and the Holograms, A-Force), and Tini Howard (The Skeptics), and artist Daniele Di Nicuolo (Mirror’s Edge: Exordium), the Pink Ranger embarks on her first solo Power Ranger adventure!
Rat Queens Vol. 1: Sass and Sorcery by Kurtis J. Wiebe
Part 1 of the Rat Queens series
Who are the Rat Queens? A pack of booze-guzzling, death-dealing battle maidens-for-hire, and they’re in the business of killing all god’s creatures for profit. It’s also a darkly comedic sass-and-sorcery series starring Hannah the Rockabilly Elven Mage, Violet the Hipster Dwarven Fighter, Dee the Atheist Human Cleric and Betty the Hippy Smidgen Thief. This modern spin on an old school genre is a violent monster-killing epic that is like Buffy meets Tank Girl in a Lord of the Rings world on crack!
Saga Vol. 1 by Brian Vaughan
Part 1 of the Saga series
From New York Times bestselling writer Brian K.Vaughan (Y: The Last Man, Ex Machina) and critically acclaimed artist Fiona Staples (Mystery Society, North 40), Saga is the sweeping tale of one young family fighting to find their place in the worlds. When two soldiers from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war fall in love, they risk everything to bring a fragile new life into a dangerous old universe. Fantasy and science fiction are wed like never before in a sexy, subversive drama for adults.
Spider-Gwen Vol. 0: Most Wanted? by Jason Latour
Part of the Spider-Gwen (2015) series
Also collects Edge of Spider-Verse #2. The breakout character hit of the year is Gwen Stacy: Spider-Woman! In one universe, it wasn’t Peter Parker who was bitten by the radioactive spider, but Gwen Stacy! She’s smart, charming and can lift a car – just don’t tell her father the police chief! And now, in the wake of Spider-Verse, Gwen swings into her own solo adventures! And she soon finds herself between a rock and a hard place when the Vulture attacks, and NYPD Lieutenant Frank Castle sets his sights on bringing her down. Then, still haunted by Peter’s death, Gwen visits his only family: Ben and May Parker. But what really happened the day Peter died? Find out right here as the spectacular Spider-Gwen steals not only the spotlight, but also the hearts of comic fans worldwide!
Thor. Vol. 1, The Goddess of Thunder by Jason Aaron
Mjolnir lies on the moon, unable to be lifted Something dark has befallen the God of Thunder, leaving him unworthy for the first time ever. But when Frost Giants invade Earth, the hammer will be lifted – and a mysterious woman will be transformed into an all-new version of the mighty Thor. Who is this new Goddess of Thunder? Not even Odin knows, but she may be Earth’s only hope against the Frost Giants. Get ready for a Thor like you’ve never seen before, as this all-new heroine takes Midgard by storm. Plus: the Odinson clearly doesn’t like that someone else is holding his hammer. It’s Thor vs. Thor! And Odin, desperate to see Mjolnir returned, will call on some very dangerous, very unexpected allies. It’s a bold new chapter in the storied history of Thor. COLLECTING: Thor 1-5
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Powers of a Squirrel by Ryan North
Part of the Unbeatable Squirrel Girl (2015) series
Eating nuts. Kicking butts. No ifs, ands, or buts. Thanos. Fin Fang Foom. Deadpool. They have all fallen to her squirrel-based might – all completely, indisputably in canon. Now the Squirrel super hero is about to face her biggest challenge yet: majoring in computer science at Empire State University! Oh, and also Galactus. But that college thing is the really hard bit. Can the bright-eyed, bushy-tailed Doreen Green balance her studies with battling bad guys like Kraven the Hunter, Whiplash and – yes! – the Devourer of Worlds? And can she pull it all off without her new comp-sci friends seeing through her seemingly foolproof secret identity? With furry pal Tippy-Toe by her side and the best theme song in comics burrowing into your head, you’re about to find out why you just can’t beat Squirrel Girl!
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What replaces x86 intrinsics for C when Apple ditches Intel CPUs for their own chips?
There are whole industries founded on the use of Intel Intrinsics for CPU parallelisation (with SIMD). For example, the community of Lattice QCD physicists depend on that for boost in the efficiency of lattice simulations.
Intel-based macs can be and are routinely used by such professionals to do their job. However, there are rumours about Apple replacing Intel CPU with ARM cpus in future Macs. Will these professionals have to replace Macs with other Intel-based computers, or are there alternatives to Intel Intrinsics for C that are supported on ARM-based CPUs?
mac hardware development cpu macos
jksoegaard
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Comments are not for extended discussion; this conversation has been moved to chat. – bmike♦ May 8 '19 at 19:23
Intel Intrinsics are really just a library that provides easier access to a number of Intel instructions sets - such as SSE (Streaming SIMD Extensions), AVX, etc. - for C programmers. The goal is to be able to utilise these instruction sets for parallelisation, etc. without having to do low-level assembly programming by hand.
The ARM platform has similar instruction sets that serve many of the same purposes. For example NEON is the ARM alternative to SSE on Intel. NEON gives you SIMD instructions that you can leverage to increase parallelisation.
And similar to the Intel Intrinsics, you have the ARM Compiler Intrinsics, that serves the same purpose. You can include "arm_neon.h" in your C program to be able to use NEON instructions with a C interface without having to resort to low-level assembly programming.
It is worth noting however, that the instructions available on Intel and ARM are not identical. So similar to "ordinary programs", you cannot use SIMD instructions for Intel on ARM (or vice versa) directly. In practice, software programmers often use software libraries with ready-made higher level operations that are able to take advantage of both Intel instructions as well as ARM instructions. A good example is the "Simd" image processing library (https://github.com/ermig1979/Simd) which offers high level operations that have seperate, optimized implementations for SSE, AVX, VMX, VSX and NEON (i.e. Intel, PowerPC and ARM).
As far as I can see, the growth in new parallisation features is very high on both Intel and ARM platforms - it is essential to providing next generation performance for some users. On newer ARM chips you have access to for example the SVE instruction set (Scalable Vector Extensions, which is essentially an even better SIMD instruction set for 64-bit ARM processors). There's no inherent advantage to either the Intel or ARM platforms in terms of providing new and enhanced SIMD instruction sets for programmers in the future.
Apple's own processors (in for example iPhones and iPads) have had the NEON instruction set for many years. The A5 CPUs and later also have the Advanced NEON set. The newer A11 CPUs have the SVE instructions, and the very latest A12 CPUs add SIMD support for complex numbers on top of that.
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Worth pointing out that ARM SIMD intrinsics aren't source-compatible with SSE/AVX/AVX512 intrinsics at all. There are some cross-platform SIMD wrapper libraries that try to portably expose the simpler operations like vertical add/sub/fma, but different asm instruction sets provide different shuffles and other operations. Porting x86 intrinsics to AArch64 is not always straightforward, and is a lot of work even when it's simple. But probably most scientists are using libraries that already have x86 and ARM SIMD code, instead of actually using intrinsics directly. – Peter Cordes May 9 '19 at 0:51
Yes, they're not source-compatible - that's why I wrote that they are similar in purpose, but they're definitely not "identical". It's really hard to try to make them cross-platform, as in doing so you would most likely loose the performance gain, you were trying to achieve in the first place. And yes, lots of software libraries already exist with SIMD code for ARM CPUs - including for standard math like linear algebra, but also specific purpose for machine learning, computer vision, etc. – jksoegaard May 9 '19 at 8:26
Yes, exactly. Since this is an Apple question, not Stack Overflow, I thought it was important to say that more clearly and explicitly for people that don't themselves write code using intrinsics who might miss that phrase. It's a pretty obvious point to people who understand how C compiles to asm and runs on CPUs, but then they wouldn't be asking the question. (Nice update, exactly the kind of thing I was thinking) – Peter Cordes May 9 '19 at 8:34
The Apple M1 supports Neon SIMD instructions but not SVE. You can use sse2neon which clones the x86-64 SIMD intrinsics (MMX, SSE, AES) with their Neon counterparts.
Here are some benchmarks using this simple program. The only change made to the C code to allow compilation on the M1 was this conditional:
#ifdef __x86_64__
#include <immintrin.h>
#include "sse2neon.h"
This allows you to use the same intrinsics for both architectures. Intel provides a great guide for using the x86-64 intrinsics.
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Neuronal Function and Dysfunction of Drosophila dTDP
Meng Jau Lin, Ching Wei Cheng & C. K. James Shen
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{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/768761"], "description"=>"<p>(A) Organization of the six-exon <i>dTDP</i> gene in the <i>dTDP<sup>ex26</sup></i> line. This semi-lethal <i>dTDP</i> was generated by imprecise excision of the P-element KG08578 leading to a 932 bp-deletion (the hatched block) in the 5′ end of the <i>dTDP</i> gene. The primers used for PCR in the RT-PCR analysis are indicated. Also shown is the most neighboring gene CG4585 located at upstream of dTDP. Lower panels, RT-PCR analysis of <i>dTDP</i> gene expression in the wild type (<i>yw</i>, left panel) and homozygous <i>dTDP<sup>ex26</sup></i> (right panel). Note the absence of dTDP signal in the <i>dTDP<sup>ex26</sup></i> samples. (B) Immunostaining of the third instar larval segment A3 muscle 6/7 (a,b) and the third instar larval ventral nerve cords (c,d) from <i>yw</i> control and <i>dTDP<sup>ex26</sup></i> mutant with anti-dTDP antibody (green). The nuclei were visualized by DAPI (blue), and the actin cytoskeleton was labeled by phalloidin (magenta). The neurons of the ventral nerve cords were also stained with anti-elav (red). Panel rows a and c show the nuclear localization of dTDP in the <i>yw</i> control and panel rows b and d show the lack of anti-dTDP signals in the <i>dTDP<sup>ex26</sup></i> mutant. (C) Larval movement assay. The movement of the wandering third instar larvae on the agar plate was monitored for 2 minutes and the average distance of the larval trails was calculated. Note the severe movement defect of the homozygous <i>dTDP<sup>ex26</sup></i> mutant in comparison to the <i>yw</i> control, and the partial rescue of this phenotype in <i>dTDP<sup>ex26</sup></i>;<i> D42>dTDP#18-1</i> (<i>N</i> = 15, ***, <i>p</i><0.0001). (D) Comparison of the bouton number/muscle area of <i>yw</i>, <i>dTDP<sup>ex26</sup></i> and <i>dTDP<sup>ex26</sup>; D42>dTDP#18-1</i>. The A3 NMJs on muscles 6/7 of the late third instar larvae were co-stained with antibodies against HRP (red) and Synapsin (green), respectively, as exemplified in the right 2 panels. The <i>dTDP<sup>ex26</sup></i> mutant had higher bouton number per unit area of the muscle than the <i>yw</i> control, and this phenotype of <i>dTDP<sup>ex26</sup></i> was rescued in <i>dTDP<sup>ex26</sup>; D42>dTDP#18-1</i>. *, <i>p</i><0.05. The averages of the total bouton numbers are: <i>yw</i>, 67±17 (N = 18); <i>dTDP<sup>ex26</sup></i>, 94±14 (N = 16); <i>dTDP<sup>ex26</sup></i>;<i> D42>dTDP#18-1</i>, 75±8 (N = 12). The means of the muscle areas are: <i>yw</i>, 63,187 µm<sup>2</sup>; <i>dTDP<sup>ex26</sup></i>, 62,565 µm<sup>2</sup>; <i>dTDP<sup>ex26</sup>; D42>dTDP#18-1</i>, 64,310 µm<sup>2</sup>.</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["imprecise", "excision", "mutant"], "article_id"=>439129, "categories"=>["Physiology", "Cell Biology", "Neuroscience", "Genetics"], "users"=>["Meng-Jau Lin", "Ching-Wei Cheng", "C.-K. James Shen"], "doi"=>"https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0020371.g001", "stats"=>{"downloads"=>0, "page_views"=>1, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_Characteristics_of_the_dTDP_imprecise_excision_mutant_dTDP_ex26_/439129", "title"=>"Characteristics of the <i>dTDP</i> imprecise excision mutant <i>dTDP<sup>ex26</sup></i>.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>1, "published_date"=>"2013-02-20 17:50:36"}
{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/769019"], "description"=>"<p>The performance indexes of the control <i>OK107>+</i> flies and flies with mushroom body-specific knockdown (<i>OK107>38377</i> and <i>OK107>38379</i>) or overexpression (<i>OK107>dTDP#5-1 and OK107>dTDP#18-1</i>) of dTDP were measured by the olfactory learning tests. Note the dramatic lowering of the indexes of the <i>dTDP</i>-overexpressing lines (***, <i>p</i><0.0001) and the relatively small but significant lowering of the index of <i>OK107>38377</i> knockdown line (*, <i>p</i><0.05). All value represented mean ± SD. <i>N</i> = 8 performance indexes per group.</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["knockdown", "overexpressing"], "article_id"=>439391, "categories"=>["Physiology", "Cell Biology", "Neuroscience", "Genetics"], "users"=>["Meng-Jau Lin", "Ching-Wei Cheng", "C.-K. James Shen"], "doi"=>"https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0020371.g003", "stats"=>{"downloads"=>1, "page_views"=>4, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_Learning_tests_of_Drosophila_dTDP_knockdown_and_overexpressing_flies_/439391", "title"=>"Learning tests of <i>Drosophila dTDP</i> knockdown and overexpressing flies.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>1, "published_date"=>"2013-02-20 17:52:05"}
{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/769336"], "description"=>"<p>(A) Whole-mount immunostaining analysis of the larval ventral nerve cords. (a), control flies <i>D42>+</i>; (b) <i>D42>dTDP#18-1</i>; (c) <i>D42>dTDP#5-1</i>; (d) magnified pictures of the boxed area in (c). Red, dTDP; blue, DAPI; green, mCD8::GFP. Note the predominant nuclear localization of dTDP in (a). (b), in the low-level <i>dTDP</i>-overexpressing flies (<i>D42>dTDP#18-1</i>), dTDP was distributed in both the nucleus and cytosol. (c) and (d), in the high-level <i>dTDP</i>-overexpressing flies (<i>D42>dTDP#5-1</i>), dTDP became predominantly localized in the cytosol (arrows in d) and often formed dTDP (+) aggregates (arrowheads in d). (B) Histograph of the densities of the bouton numbers. NMJ staining of the third instar larvae was carried out for <i>D42>+</i>, <i>D42>dTDP#5-1</i>, and <i>D42>dTDP#18-1</i>, and the densities of the bouton numbers were counted and compared. Note that a decrease of the bouton number was observed only in the high-level <i>dTDP</i>-overexpressing fly line (<i>D42>dTDP#5-1</i>), **, <i>p</i><0.001. The averages of the total bouton numbers are: <i>D42>+</i>, 80±4 (N = 20); <i>D42>dTDP#5-1</i>, 46±15 (N = 12); <i>D42>dTDP#18-1</i>, 74±17 (N = 20). The means of the muscle areas are: <i>D42>+</i>, 75,925 µm<sup>2</sup>; <i>D42>dTDP#5-1</i>, 56,177 µm<sup>2</sup>; <i>D42>dTDP#18-1</i>, 71,189 µm<sup>2</sup>. (C) Larvae movement assay. Parallel to data of (B), only the larvae with high dTDP overexpression (<i>D42>dTDP#5-1</i>) showed severe movement defect. (D) and (E) Pathogenesis of adult flies with motor neuron-specific overexpression of dTDP. (D) Movement defect of fly line <i>D42>dTDP#18-1</i>. Phototaxis was performed at three different ages of the adult flies and the movement indexes were normalized to that of the control line <i>D42>+</i>. Note the age-dependent declines of the performance of the <i>dTDP</i>-overexpressing flies. <i>N</i> = 5, **, <i>p</i><0.001. (E) Whole-mount immunostaining of the thoracic ganglia of day-9 adult flies. Red, dTDP; blue, DAPI; green, mCD8::GFP. (a) Control flies (<i>D42>+</i>). Note the predominant nuclear localization of dTDP. (b) <i>D42>dTDP#18-1</i> flies. Two regions under the confocal microscope are shown. Note the presence of cells with mainly cytoplasmic distribution of dTDP, as exemplified by cells pointed with the arrows. The dTDP (+) aggregates in the cytoplasm are exemplified by the arrowheads. (F) Western blotting analysis of soluble and insoluble proteins in the heads and thoraces of 13-day old <i>D42>dTDP#18-1</i> flies with the motor neuron-specific overexpression of dTDP. Different fractions of the protein extracts were isolated from the heads and thoraces as described in the <a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0020371#s4\" target=\"_blank\">Materials and Methods</a>, and analyzed by Western blotting with use of anti-dTDP and anti-tubulin. T, total protein; R, RIPA-soluble fraction; U, urea-soluble fraction. Note the presence of dTDP in the urea-soluble fraction from <i>D42>dTDP#18-1</i> but not <i>D42>+</i>.</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["flies", "neuron-specific", "overexpression"], "article_id"=>439707, "categories"=>["Physiology", "Cell Biology", "Neuroscience", "Genetics"], "users"=>["Meng-Jau Lin", "Ching-Wei Cheng", "C.-K. James Shen"], "doi"=>"https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0020371.g005", "stats"=>{"downloads"=>1, "page_views"=>18, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_Pathologies_of_flies_with_motor_neuron_specific_overexpression_of_dTDP_/439707", "title"=>"Pathologies of flies with motor neuron-specific overexpression of dTDP.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>1, "published_date"=>"2013-02-20 17:53:55"}
{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/769179"], "description"=>"<p>(A) Lower locomotive activity of larvae (<i>elav>38377</i>) with knockdown of dTDP than the control (<i>elav>+</i>) (N = 15, *, <i>p</i><0.05). (B) Quantitative comparison of NMJ bouton numbers of <i>elav>+</i> and <i>elav>38377</i> larvae after normalization to the total muscle 6/7 areas. Note the higher bouton density of the knockdown larvae (<i>elav>38377</i>) than the control (<i>elav>+</i>). *, <i>p</i><0.05. The averages of the total bouton numbers are: <i>elav>+</i>, 95±14; <i>elav>38377</i>, 117±14. The means of the muscle areas are: <i>elav>+</i>, 69,937 µm<sup>2</sup>; <i>elav>38377</i>, 65,166 µm<sup>2</sup>. (N = 12 in all cases). (C) Whole-mount immunostaining analysis of the larval ventral nerve cords with <i>dTDP</i>-knockdown in the pan-neurons. (a), control flies <i>elav>+</i>; (b) <i>elav>38377</i>. Red, dTDP; blue, DAPI; green, mCD8::GFP. Note that the pan-neuron-driven dsRNA did not completely knock down the dTDP expression since there were still some dTDP signals in the larval ventral nerve cords of <i>elav>38377</i>.</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["locomotive", "nmj", "staining", "larvae", "knockdown"], "article_id"=>439549, "categories"=>["Physiology", "Cell Biology", "Neuroscience", "Genetics"], "users"=>["Meng-Jau Lin", "Ching-Wei Cheng", "C.-K. James Shen"], "doi"=>"https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0020371.g004", "stats"=>{"downloads"=>0, "page_views"=>11, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_The_locomotive_activity_and_NMJ_staining_of_larvae_with_dTDP_knockdown_in_the_pan_neurons_/439549", "title"=>"The locomotive activity and NMJ staining of larvae with <i>dTDP</i> knockdown in the pan-neurons.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>1, "published_date"=>"2013-02-20 17:53:00"}
{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/768896"], "description"=>"<p>(A) Distribution of the endogenous dTDP proteins in the mushroom bodies of the <i>OK107>+</i> flies as analyzed by immunostaining with anti-dTDP (red), DAPI (blue), and mCD8::GFP (green). (a) a low-magnification photo; (b), higher magnification photo of the boxed area in (a); (c), higher magnification photo of the boxed area in (b). Note the predominant nuclear localization of dTDP. (B) Western blot of the total head protein extracts from the adult flies. The blot was probed with anti-dTDP and anti-tubulin. Note the decreases, by approximately 46% and 23%, of the dTDP levels in the heads of <i>OK107>38377</i> (lane 2) and <i>OK107>38379</i> (lane 3), respectively, with mushroom body-specific dsRNA-knockdown of dTDP. Also, dTDP levels in the <i>dTDP</i>-overexpressing lines <i>OK107>dTDP#5-1</i> (lane 4) and <i>OK107>dTDP#18-1</i> (lane 5) were 7- and 3 fold, respectively, higher than the <i>OK107>+</i> control (lane 1). (C) GFP-lighted morphologies of the mushroom bodies in <i>OK107>+</i> (a), <i>OK107>38377</i> (b), <i>OK107>dTDP#5-1</i> (c), and <i>OK107>dTDP#18-1</i> (d). The α, α′, β, β′, and γ lobes were indicated in (a). Note the smaller lobes in (c) and (d). (D) Immunostaining of dTDP in the brains of <i>OK107>38377</i> flies with mushroom body-specific knockdown of dTDP expression. Note the significantly reduced signals of dTDP in the mushroom bodies when compared to the <i>yw</i> control in <a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0020371#pone-0020371-g002\" target=\"_blank\">Fig. 2A-a</a>. (E) Subcellular distribution of dTDP in the mushroom bodies of the <i>dTDP</i>-overexpressing line <i>OK107>dTDP#5-1</i>. (a) a set of low magnification pictures; (b) and (c), high magnification pictures of the immunostaining patterns of the <i>OK107>dTDP#5-1</i> mushroom body, with (b) from the boxed area in (a) and (c) from the boxed area in (b). Note the presence of cells with mainly cytoplasmic dTDP (the arrow in b) and cells with cytoplasmic dTDP (+) aggregates (the arrowheads). (F) Western blotting analysis of soluble and insoluble proteins in the heads of 3-day old <i>dTDP</i>-overexpressing flies. Different fractions of protein extracts were isolated from 3 days-old fly heads as described in <a href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0020371#s4\" target=\"_blank\">Materials and Methods</a>, and analyzed by Western blotting with use of anti-dTDP and anti-tubulin. Note the presence of high molecular weight dTDP species in the urea-soluble fraction of <i>OK107>dTDP#5-1</i>. T, total protein; R, RIPA-soluble fraction; U, urea-soluble fraction.</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["brains", "3-day", "mutant"], "article_id"=>439271, "categories"=>["Physiology", "Cell Biology", "Neuroscience", "Genetics"], "users"=>["Meng-Jau Lin", "Ching-Wei Cheng", "C.-K. James Shen"], "doi"=>"https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0020371.g002", "stats"=>{"downloads"=>0, "page_views"=>5, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_dTDP_in_the_adult_brains_of_3_day_old_wild_type_and_mutant_Drosophila_/439271", "title"=>"dTDP in the adult brains of 3-day old wild type and mutant <i>Drosophila</i>.", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>1, "published_date"=>"2013-02-20 17:51:24"}
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