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Q: Toggle multiple items but wishing to only have one visible at a time? Fiddle
This is what I would like it to do:
*
<|fim_middle|> fails!
$(".description").not(this).next(".description").removeClass("show")
Would anyone be able to help?
A: Change line 4 to this:
$(".description").removeClass("show"),
Since you're new one isn't showing yet, it doesn't matter that you're turning them all off.
A: $(".description").removeClass("show"),
$(this).next(".description").toggleClass("show");
Updated fiddle
A: This should take care of it: http://jsfiddle.net/SMLwc/7/
$(document).ready(function () {
$(".more").bind("click", function () {
$(this).next(".description").toggleClass("show")
.parent().siblings().find(".description").removeClass("show");
});
$(".close").bind("click", function () {
$(this).parent(".description").toggleClass("show");
});
});
| *Each red box ( <span class="more"> ) to show/hide the description (<div class="description"> )
*The "close" link to also hide the description
*If there is already a description open, this needs to close when another opens. So there is only ever one visible at a time.
Points 1 & 2, so far so good. But I'm stuck on point 3 - I've tried to find the other descriptions to hide them, but this | 100 |
Measurement of bioluminescence and thermal fields from humans: Comparison of three techniques for imaging biofields
Katherine Creath, Gary E. Schwartz
All biological objects emit radiation over a large wavelength range as part of metabolic processes. We hypothesize that biofields surrounding living biological objects can be observed by imaging the photonic and thermal radiation emitted. In this paper we compare three different methods of visualizing biofields we have developed over the last 3-1/2 years: imaging of self-bioluminescence with a highly-sensitive silicon CCD array, dynamic interferometry for measurement of subtle thermal microbursts from biological objects correlated with pulse and respiration, and infrared imaging in the 3-5μm region. Although the self-bioluminescence signal is weak from humans, it can be imaged using 10min exposures with a highly sensitive camera. These speeds do not enable tracking of dynamic changes, but they do enable looking at subtle processes that have not been previously imaged. Dynamic interferometry provides a means of measuring subtle variations in refractive index of air currents by freezing them in time. These air currents are related to bursts of thermal energy emitted by the human body. Although the body is not directly measured, it is possible to track cycles in the range of tenths of seconds to many seconds. Infrared imaging has the advantage of both being fast and not requiring a darkened enclosure. Subtle changes in temperature can be tracked, but ambient environmental conditions need to be controlled to get absolute numbers. Tracking relative changes works the best with this technique. Each of these techniques has advantages and disadvantages that are outlined in this paper. The technique of choice<|fim_middle|> variations in refractive index of air currents by freezing them in time. These air currents are related to bursts of thermal energy emitted by the human body. Although the body is not directly measured, it is possible to track cycles in the range of tenths of seconds to many seconds. Infrared imaging has the advantage of both being fast and not requiring a darkened enclosure. Subtle changes in temperature can be tracked, but ambient environmental conditions need to be controlled to get absolute numbers. Tracking relative changes works the best with this technique. Each of these techniques has advantages and disadvantages that are outlined in this paper. The technique of choice depends upon the particular application. The rate at which the technology is developing and improving indicates that soon it will be much easier to apply any of these techniques to a wider variety of applications.
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Creath, K., & Schwartz, G. E. (2006). Measurement of bioluminescence and thermal fields from humans: Comparison of three techniques for imaging biofields. In The Nature of Light: Light in Nature [628505] (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 6285). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.684726
Measurement of bioluminescence and thermal fields from humans : Comparison of three techniques for imaging biofields. / Creath, Katherine; Schwartz, Gary E.
The Nature of Light: Light in Nature. 2006. 628505 (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 6285).
Creath, K & Schwartz, GE 2006, Measurement of bioluminescence and thermal fields from humans: Comparison of three techniques for imaging biofields. in The Nature of Light: Light in Nature., 628505, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 6285, The Nature of Light: Light in Nature, San Diego, CA, United States, 8/16/06. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.684726
Creath K, Schwartz GE. Measurement of bioluminescence and thermal fields from humans: Comparison of three techniques for imaging biofields. In The Nature of Light: Light in Nature. 2006. 628505. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.684726
Creath, Katherine ; Schwartz, Gary E. / Measurement of bioluminescence and thermal fields from humans : Comparison of three techniques for imaging biofields. The Nature of Light: Light in Nature. 2006. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering).
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Read n' Reviewed: Peko Publishing's Panzer III on the Battlefield 2 (vol 18)
The second book featuring the Panzer III during WWII arrived on our doorstep. This book is written by Tom Cockle, and decked out in the usual intuitive format that we had come to expect from PeKo Publishing. After a leisurely afternoon reading, we can share what we found and thought of the book in our review...
Read n' Reviewed: Panzer III on the Battlefield 2
World War Two Photobook Series (Vol.18)
From PeKo Publishing.
Dual Hungarian-English language books
Author: Tom Cockle
No of Photos: 104
Physical: Hardcover, 300x215mm, landscape
Product Link on the Peko Publishing Website
Seeing that this book has just been released we thought we would show you some of the images and give some insight from us into Peko Publishing's second volume in the "On The Battlefield" series that focuses on the Panzer III in WWII.
We have already looked at a book on the Panzer III from the same author and in the same series nearly a year ago here on TMN, so we were happy to check this one with high hopes, but would the quality be here for a second helping?
The Book's Format:
For those not familiar with the series I will go through logically the format and flow of the books in this series that this edition follows also. The hardcover glossy black and white (and grey) with a stiff spine and dimensions of an A4 (11.6 x 8.3 x 0.5 inches). This opens up to one hundred and twelve pages, written in both Hungarian and English languages side by side.
The first few pages of the book are an introduction in both Hungarian and in English in thick block text without illustrations, this gives way to the regular format of the rest of the book which is a picture to a page with dual text below it explaining the scene, the tank, it's surroundings and often time that the picture was taken.
There are one hundred and four pictures in this book, all in black and white, while the photos are often in landscape format, and although they are taken from many (notated) sources in the book, the quality is of a high standard. Most, if not all of these photos I have not seen before, however, I am not the foremost expert on the Panzer III so you may well know them. Several of these shots are in a series which really fleshes out the situation and more about the particular vehicle/s in the frame.
OK, so now you know what the book looks like and the inside format, I will go through it in a walkthrough to show you just what is in the book.
The introduction of the book covers the history of the Panzer III, where Mr. Cockle talks about the various Ausführungs of Pz.Kpfw.III covers in a logical order with some interesting types included in a brief summary. This is followed now by the picture-to-a-page style with large format pictures being the norm. The first few pages have the rarer Ausf.B, D & several Ausf E's before page seventeen when we see our first Ausf.F models on transportation trains in two interesting shots.
The author shows us some more pages of Ausf. E and Ausf F Panzer II's over the next few pages, all the while in the usual style of these books denoting the points of interest on each vehicle, the unusual points about it if any and often the location and circumstances of the photo if that can be pinpointed. From some nasty river crossings in Europe to the tropical surrounds of "Afrika", the book keeps pretty much to a particular model before it moves on throughout the Panzer III timeline.
The author describes the very subtle external differences between the Panzer III Ausf.E & Ausf.F models as the narrative winds through this tank's development and use. We start to see the first tanks with the mantlet and 5cm L/42 gun in these pages, with several variants in many theatres on the Panzer III G & H's including some D.A.K. variants in the field and being loaded on to ships, also an amazing photo series of three shots of an Ausf.G with its top superstructure blown of and flipped landing back on top of the tank. One wonders what happened to its inhabitants...
We are now firmly along the production series into the Panzer IIIH by page thirty-five. Again we get an ongoing narrative of how this version different from previous marques in the series, It is not forced, but naturally comes up as the author points out the various new and removed modules on each of the tanks in these pictures. By Page thirty-nine, we are already progressing on to the Panzer III Ausf.J. Posing with the tanks in several different pictures are some really varied personnel which are of interest to this reader, Kriegsmarine crew in a series of shots, Italian soldiers, DAK troops, SS tankers and later on tankers in winter white next to their charges that were by the winter of 1942/3 wearing "Winterketten" track extensions and in whitewash hastilly applied ot their surfaces.
Page forty-eight sees us travel into the era of the Panzer III Ausf L, with its thick rounded mantlet, 20mm Vorpanzer and even at this point in May 1943 Schürzen on the sides of the vehicles' hull and turrets. It seems that even this extra armour was not enough, as several of these tanks have extra ersatz armour in the form of extra tracks on their front glacis. We see these tanks in Africa and in Russia. Waiting for the enemy, under repair and in camouflage and in the middle of some high corn fields in what looks like Russia in summer.
Page sixty sees us looking at the Panzer III Ausf.M, starting with a Panzerbefelswagen with the signature larger turret ring, with a converted Panzer Ausf.M with Schürzen taken from two different angles in two pictures. You can see the extra features of the deep wading kit applied to the tank which were of interest to this reader.
Wow, Panzer III Ausf.N! it seems like a whirlwind tour of these marques as the author points out the differences and changes as we go model to model. He always informs you in an interesting manner of the changes while keeping the setting and an extra point of interest in the story. Sometimes you wish there was more to these stories as the pictures are enough to draw you into the settings.
A series that fleshes these out a little is this set of five pictures showing the recovery process of an Ausf.F(T) "Tauchpanzer" III as it was known.that fell off a wooden bridge in Russia in 1941, we do get to see this one from most angles! In fact, for the next few pages, we look at various marques of the Tauchpanzer in action in several settings.
We next flip back to the early war period when we look at the Pz.Bef.Wg.III Ausf.D1, with its complicated suspension and the frame antenna on the rear of the vehicle being a dead giveaway.
There are several of these special Panzer II's in the book, with the Ausf.E Ausf.H and Ausf.J vehicles in the series also shown over twenty-eight pages. There are so many types in here it goes past the scope of this review making it interesting to the reader explaining the differences. This is something that the author does with ease, however.
The last two pages of the book feature the Panzer Kampfwagen III Ausf.G (Flamm) tanks, both in worse for wear status (knocked out). This brings us to the prescribed one hundred and eight pages of the book.
OK, so that is all he wrote.
Now I did say this in the last review that covered the Panzer III in that the vehicle itself really does not hold that much interest to this reviewer, however the author's comments, a collection of pictures and insightful knowledge sure to make you sit up and pay attention when reading the book. Once I started I read it all through in an hour or so, and by the end, I knew a heck of a lot more about this versatile tank that I had no idea of beforehand.
This book is another great volume in the series that has had some hard work put into it. The author and Publisher should be proud of the result and the reader or modeller should well be interested in this book.
Adam Norenberg
Thanks to the people from Peko Publishing for sending this book to us to read and to review for you, It is available from their Website now.
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Max Gnar<|fim_middle|> flat, because this trail wants only you finest riding and most durable parts. Expect 3 to 4 6ft. drops and chunky flat sections.
Pucker Up brings in my favorite section of Max Gnar as this is mostly downhill and doesn't require any pedaling until the end. Drops, step ups, and isolated tight techy bits are what you can expect. When you master the lines, this is a trail that will never get old. Speaking of lines, there is a final sketchy line at the end called the Cathedral Drop.
Moto, wraps up Max Gnar. Unlike the previous two trails of straight chunk and jank, Moto is going to give you a chance at fast and flowy conclusion with just a few drops that can be bypassed. The most important bit of information I can give you is to not ride this when wet. It won't last long! Moto also takes longer than other trails in the area to dry out. Finish the ride at the foot of Bentonite Hill and the junction of Tabeguache.
A little debris on the primary line, but conditions are good. The final ramp has been increased making the last drop smoother and the rut into the notch drop is cleaned up.
Clay is too wet completely sticking to your bike. Unrideable as of now until it dries out. | is a triple trial conglomerate of Free Lunch, Pucker-Up, and Moto, though there is a very brief segment of the Tabeguache Trail called "Widowmaker Hill" Max Gnar is the 3rd stage of the local race called The Grand Enduro.
Max Gnar starts with Free Lunch. A violent bike breaking terrain with lots of sketch drops is on the menu for this ride. Free Lunch has cost me more money in component repair than any other trail I've ever ridden. Hence the name, Free Lunch, because there is no such thing. Bring some spare parts and be prepared to fix a | 127 |
South Kern
The communities of South Kern—Lamont, Weedpatch, City of Arvin, and the unincorporated areas of Greenfield—are nestled in the south-easternmost corner of California's great Central Valley. Located in Kern County, Building Healthy Communities-South Kern is home to some of the most productive farmland in the world.
The agricultural richness stands in stark contrast to the abject poverty of the region's vulnerable, predominantly immigrant residents. The area is a destination for people searching of opportunity, including Native Americans who originally lived on the land, Spanish and European settlers, and different waves of migrants, including Dustbowl migrants and indigenous Mexican immigrants. South Kern is a place where people go to get a foothold into the American Dream.
Despite the dreams that drive people to South Kern, some of the barriers facing the communities include poverty, early death, teenage pregnancy, illiteracy, lagging education rates, and waves of discrimination. However, the residents of South Kern refuse to be defined by their barriers. Instead, they define their communities by the sense of hope, resilience, and promise that each new generation of families brings so their children can have a better life. South Kern Building Healthy Communities (BHC) supports residents, youth, and many other stakeholders to ensure that all residents are<|fim_middle|>
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According to the 2010 Census roughly 40 percent of the population is 19 years old or younger.
Nearly 80 percent of the population is Latino.
More than a quarter of the population lives in households where English is not spoken at all or by anyone over age 13.
More than one in three (39 percent) were born outside of the United States.
Half of all residents (47.6 percent) live below 150 percent of the federal poverty line, and the average individual earns $11,556 per year.
An ICE Detention Center? You Picked the Wrong Town, Residents Say
As an undocumented immigrant, Maribel Ramirez does not officially have a say in the affairs of the small agricultural town in California's Central Valley that she has called home for 20 years.
Schools getting more police but at the expense of counselors, nurses: Report
About 14 million students attend schools across the U.S. where they walk the halls alongside police officers but don't have access to counselors, nurses, psychologists or social workers, according to an ACLU report released Monday.
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Sheriff's Office ICE collaboration comes under fire at public forum
Local advocacy groups and private citizens criticized collaboration between the Kern County Sheriff's Office and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency known as ICE during a public hearing at the Board of Supervisors Tuesday morning.
Healthy Parks: South Kern BHC aims to improve access to recreation activities, facilities, and parks by advocating for improvements to local parks, and supporting efforts to make local parks safer and cleaner. Recent successes include completing 5 Master Park Plans and leveraging nearly $1 million for park improvements. Also, under South Kern BHC's leadership, youth successfully advocated for strengthened alcohol and tobacco ordinances in parks.
Health Care Access: South Kern BHC works to increase access to better health care systems by advocating for health equity and enrolling residents in health insurance so they can access preventative and quality health care for themselves and their families. They recently opened a new community health center in Greenfield community—Clinica Sierra Vista—which will serve up to 6,000 families.
Clean South Kern: South Kern BHC aims to create a healthy environment with clean air and water, and equitable land use planning by supporting residents in monitoring and advocating for improved environmental conditions, holding regulators accountable, and enforcing and strengthening environmental laws and policies that impact the area. Recent successes include the installation of water filtration systems serving more than 4,000 students, installing water stations throughout South Kern communities, and creating 1,200 jobs through the Sustainable Communities Strategy Plan.
Healthy Schools: South Kern BHC improves pre-K to adult education with preparation and local access to college by helping parents partner with districts to create healthy school environments and pathways for authentic parent engagement in school wide decision-making processes. Parents now serve on School Wellness Committees. Four districts have adopted strengthened school wellness policies related to nutrition and four districts have adopted initiatives to keep kids in school. As a result of South Kern BHC's efforts, there has been a 309% increase in students enrolled in Bakersfield College since 2009.
Ambar Tovar knew at a young age she was called to help farm workers. It all started when she tutored migrant farm-worker children while she attended Ridgeview High. It was then when she learned about the farm worker movement and the disparities they face.
Now Tovar is the directing attorney for the United Farm Worker Foundation, a local nonprofit that provides resources and services — such as credible immigration legal advice — and acts as hubs for educational outreach and organizing. The UFW Foundation serves about 90,000 immigrants annually, according to the organization's website.
"Moving here to Bakersfield, I feel like that's what inspired me to do something," said Tovar, who is originally from Los Angeles. "To get involved in some way and help alleviate that or to contribute to the solution for (farm worker disparities)."
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3 dead in fire at Hawaii high-rise with no sprinklers
The building is not required to have fire sprinklers, which would have confined the blaze to the unit where it started
Karen Hastings was in her 31st floor Honolulu apartment when she smelled smoke. She ran out to her balcony, looked down, and saw flames five floors below her."The fire just blew up and went flying right out the windows," the 71-year-old Hastings said of the first moments of the high-rise blaze that killed at least three people and injured 12. "And that was like a horror movie. Except it wasn't a horror movie, it was for real."The fire broke out Friday afternoon in a unit on the 26th floor, where all three of the dead were found, Fire Chief Manuel Neves said.The building known as the Marco Polo residences is not required to have fire sprinklers, which would have confined the blaze to the unit where it started, Neves said. The 36-floor building near the tourist mecca of Waikiki was built in 1971, before sprinklers were mandatory in high-rises. It has over 500 units.Late into the night as embers smoldered, firefighters were searching the damaged areas to make sure no additional people perished.Hastings said the fearsome flames drove her and a neighbor to run down 14 floors until they found a safe stairwell to get some air."We actually saw a person laying on a ledge and I don't know whether he made it not," Hastings said.The building is vast and wave-shaped, and has several sections. The blaze was mostly confined to a single section, and only the units immediately above it and to the side of it were evacuated, while many residents stayed inside.The blaze was still burning some four hours after it broke out as the sun set, but it was down to mostly embers by then, official said. A shelter was set up at a nearby school where about 50 residents had gathered late in the evening.Most evacuations went calmly and smoothly, security guard Leonard Rosa said.Cory La Roe, who is from Florida and stationed in Hawaii with the Air Force, works night shifts and was asleep when sirens woke him at about 2:15 p.m."First thing, I was kind of disoriented and confused about what was going on, so I looked out my window and saw people running away from the building, looking back toward it."La Roe said he didn't hear any verbal announcements and there were no flashing fire alarm lights in the building, but "after I saw people running out and went out to the hallway, I knew it was a fire alarm."He saw an elderly couple come down that looked "sooty" who were taken to the hospital. He saw other people brought out on stretchers.He didn't realize that the building didn't have a sprinkler system and was surprised that was the case."That's one thing that I wasn't aware of prior to moving in," La Roe said. "It was definitely shocking for me to know that there weren't any sprinklers installed in the building."Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell said the city needs to look at passing a law requiring older buildings be retrofitted with sprinklers."The biggest argument is the affordability," Caldwell said. "Residents have to pay. It's pretty expensive. But if it saves a life and it's your life, it's worth the cost."No one from the building said they remembered recent fire drills, but Anna Viggiano, who lives on the 6th floor, said there were some after<|fim_middle|> out as the sun set, but it was down to mostly embers by then, official said. A shelter was set up at a nearby school where about 50 residents had gathered late in the evening.
Most evacuations went calmly and smoothly, security guard Leonard Rosa said.
Cory La Roe, who is from Florida and stationed in Hawaii with the Air Force, works night shifts and was asleep when sirens woke him at about 2:15 p.m.
"First thing, I was kind of disoriented and confused about what was going on, so I looked out my window and saw people running away from the building, looking back toward it."
La Roe said he didn't hear any verbal announcements and there were no flashing fire alarm lights in the building, but "after I saw people running out and went out to the hallway, I knew it was a fire alarm."
He saw an elderly couple come down that looked "sooty" who were taken to the hospital. He saw other people brought out on stretchers.
He didn't realize that the building didn't have a sprinkler system and was surprised that was the case.
"That's one thing that I wasn't aware of prior to moving in," La Roe said. "It was definitely shocking for me to know that there weren't any sprinklers installed in the building."
Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell said the city needs to look at passing a law requiring older buildings be retrofitted with sprinklers.
"The biggest argument is the affordability," Caldwell said. "Residents have to pay. It's pretty expensive. But if it saves a life and it's your life, it's worth the cost."
No one from the building said they remembered recent fire drills, but Anna Viggiano, who lives on the 6th floor, said there were some after a 2013 fire that broke out two floors above her. She said since then she doesn't hesitate to evacuate when she hears the alarm.
"It was scary," she said. "It was terrifying." | a 2013 fire that broke out two floors above her. She said since then she doesn't hesitate to evacuate when she hears the alarm."It was scary," she said. "It was terrifying."
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Karen Hastings was in her 31st floor Honolulu apartment when she smelled smoke. She ran out to her balcony, looked down, and saw flames five floors below her.
"The fire just blew up and went flying right out the windows," the 71-year-old Hastings said of the first moments of the high-rise blaze that killed at least three people and injured 12. "And that was like a horror movie. Except it wasn't a horror movie, it was for real."
The fire broke out Friday afternoon in a unit on the 26th floor, where all three of the dead were found, Fire Chief Manuel Neves said.
The building known as the Marco Polo residences is not required to have fire sprinklers, which would have confined the blaze to the unit where it started, Neves said. The 36-floor building near the tourist mecca of Waikiki was built in 1971, before sprinklers were mandatory in high-rises. It has over 500 units.
Late into the night as embers smoldered, firefighters were searching the damaged areas to make sure no additional people perished.
Hastings said the fearsome flames drove her and a neighbor to run down 14 floors until they found a safe stairwell to get some air.
"We actually saw a person laying on a ledge and I don't know whether he made it not," Hastings said.
The building is vast and wave-shaped, and has several sections. The blaze was mostly confined to a single section, and only the units immediately above it and to the side of it were evacuated, while many residents stayed inside.
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Regarding Salerno Medical Associates, Dr. Salerno is the lead physician of a 49-member staff that has served for two generations, 75 years cumulatively, with over 15,000 active patients in the urban communities of Newark and East Orange. This practice has met and exceeded HEDIS and PQRS measures and for three years in a row has been cited by United Healthcare Insurance for its stellar healthcare outcomes. Since January 2014, with Horizon Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Jersey, Salerno Medical has participated with the Horizon Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) program. Based on a March 2015 report, we are very close to achieving level three designation in the short 15 months since the initiative began, once again demonstrating that we meet and exceed healthcare benchmark standards. Salerno Medical operates 6 days a week and Mon-Thursday operates 12-hour days in order to meet the demand of its customer marketplace. So whether it's a house call program, a non-profit health literacy program, or a multi-specialty practice operating nearly 80 hours a week, Dr. Salerno applies his board certification as well as his master's in health administration/public health in order to meet the ever-changing demands of our diverse community.
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Somerset Park, NJ (June 23, 2015) Urban Healthcare Initiative Program (UHIP) has been named a finalist in the Innovation Hero Organization category in the 2015 NJBIZ Healthcare Heroes awards program. The award program produced by NJBIZ, New Jersey's premier business news publication, was sponsored by Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of NJ, Hackensack University Medical Center, CareOne Management, LLC, Comcast Business, Brach Eichler, LLC, New Jersey Hospital Association, and New Jersey Innovation Institute.
The Healthcare Heroes finalists were recognized and the winner in each category was announced during an awards breakfast and ceremony on Tuesday, June 23, 2015 at The Palace at Somerset Park in Somerset, New Jersey. The honorees were also highlighted in a special supplement to NJBIZ.
The Palace at Somerset Park hosted over 400 guests, where everyone came together to celebrate these courageous and noble healthcare specialists and organizations. The event began promptly at 8 AM with networking and breakfast and was followed by the awards presentation. The presenting and major sponsors, Kevin Conlin, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of NJ, Jose Lozano, Hackensack University Medical Center, Tim Hodges, CareOne Management, LLC, Rich Scheid, Comcast Business, and John Fanburg, Esq., Brach Eichler, LLC, presented the awards on stage to each honoree.
The finalists and winners were chosen by an independent panel of judges including: Wardell Sanders, New Jersey Association of Health Plans, Dr. Chadwin Sandifer, Fairleigh Dickinson University | School of Pharmacy and Judy Schmidt, New Jersey State Nurses Association. The three judges evaluated the nominations using a scoring system based on heroic actions or programs, impact of nominee's heroic actions and accomplishments within healthcare.
For more information about the NJBIZ Healthcare Heroes awards program, please visit www.njbiz.com/events or contact Erika Plateroti at erikap@njbiz.com or (732) 246-5713.
Dr. Alexander Salerno has been named a finalist in the Physician of the Year category in the 2011 NJBIZ Healthcare Heroes awards program. The award program, produced by NJBIZ, New Jersey's premiere business news publication, is sponsored by Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, Hackensack University Medical Center, New Jersey Hospital Association, NJTopDocs.com and WithumSmith+Brown, PC.
The Healthcare Heroes awards program recognizes excellence and innovation, honoring individuals and organizations making a significant impact on the quality of healthcare in New Jersey. Finalists were selected in eleven categories: Corporate Achievement, Education Hero-Individual, Education Hero-Organization, Hospital of the Year, Innovation Hero-Individual, Innovation Hero-Organization, Nurse of the Year, Nursing Home/Assisted Living Facility of the Year, Physical Therapy Rehabilitation Center of the Year, Physician of the Year and Volunteer of the Year.
Finalists and winners were chosen by an independent panel of judges including: Donald J. Cinotti, MD, Medical Society of NJ; David Knowlton, New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute and D.N. Lombardi, Ph.D., USMC®.
The Healthcare Heroes awards finalists will be recognized and the winners in each category will be announced during a breakfast awards ceremony on June 21, 2011 at the Palace in Somerset Park in Somerset, New Jersey.
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In addition to being a pillar of healthcare education in New Jersey, Dr. Alexander Salerno also lends his voice to health causes throughout the country by making himself available to speak on key medical issues such as heart disease, diabetes, and obesity, to name a few. To that end, Dr. Salerno has worked on a Kidney Disease awareness campaign with Ogilvy Public Relations and Alonzo Mourning in addition to conducting several PSAs for DSI and ASH.
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Kingstonian are not getting just goals with the return of Andre McCollin, says assistant boss Graham Harper.
McCollin took his tally to five<|fim_middle|>Kingstonian have bounced back from a miserable Christmas period to sit seventh in the table – two places and one point off the top five.
Harper insists finishing in the play-offs remains the priority with Dulwich Hamlet, Hampton & Richmond Borough and East Thurrock United starting to pull away at the summit.
"We need to keep plugging away," he added.
"Dulwich, Hampton and East Thurrock will still be thinking about the play-offs in the same way we are, because it is so tight up at the top.
"We have won three league games in a row and if we can win another three we will be in the mix again.
"We have not got a bad run-in, but we have to keep working hard."
Ks host Grays Athletic on Saturday having beaten them 4-2 on the road last month, but Williams remains wary.
"They don't like playing at home because the surface they play on is not good," he added.
"They will enjoy coming here and they have some talented players who will like playing at our ground. | goals in three Ryman Premier League games since his second coming at Kingsmeadow with a double in Monday's 2-1 win over Wingate & Finchley.
All the goals came in a stellar first half performance from Ks that reminded fans of what they had been missing since his departure to Aldershot Town in October 2014.
Harper believes his side would have reached the play-offs last season had the former Yeovil Town striker stuck around for the whole campaign.
But it is not just the club's management team that are pleased he is back.
Pelayo Pico Gomez has looked a different player with a new strike partner alongside him and Harper believes his team will now start reaching its full potential.
"Andre has taken the weight off Pico's shoulders," he said.
"He has been trying to do too much this season, but with Andre doing what he does it frees up Pico to do what he does best.
"Pico was excellent on Monday – different class – and that is a positive for the whole team.
Boss Tommy Williams added: "Andre has got so much pace he gets in behind defenders.
"He stretches sides which creates more room for the likes of Pico and Dan Bennett to play in.
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Twitch Aims to Open Twitch Camp & Twitch Academy to Train Live Streamers and Develop to Uplift the Live Streaming Industry in Thailand
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Twitch the leading service and community for multiplayer entertainment aims to fully penetrate the entertainment live streaming platform industry in Thailand. Indicating that the streaming industry will continue to grow tremendously especially in the e-sports sector with support from the private and public sector. Twitch reiterated that this year, the company will open Twitch Camp and Twitch Academy to enhance skills for streamers, and train them to create heart-capturing content to expand the audience and become a Professional Live Streamer.
Mr. Nandu Madhava, Regional Manager for Southeast Asia, ANZ, Taiwan, and India said that 2018 was another great year for Twitch as there was an increase of 86% of streamers who were able to monetarize from their channels. Globally 248,000 streamers had become Affiliate members while 7,800 others became Partners. Furthermore, the number of streamers per month rose from 2 million to 3 million streamers in 2018, with almost 500,000 streamers who live-stream every day. As a result, there was an average of 1 million active users at any given time. The time these users spent on Twitch also jumped up to 434 billion minutes from the beginning of 2018 till now.
Resulting in Thailand becoming one of the countries in Southeast Asia that is growing continuously and fast, this is truly an eye captivating market for the online games and e-sport markets. One of the main positive factors that influences this growth is the support from government sector that encourages the establishment of the E-Sport Association of Thailand and continuously drive all privately-owned business related to games to move forward to capture the hearts of new and young generation. The popularity of gaming and e-sports industry also opens new doors for people to adopt this as a career, generate income and gain acceptance in the society, thus the number of streamers in Thailand is expected to grow.
As a result, Twitch will focus its business direction on supporting live streamers by educating and helping the streamers to see how effective Twitch Entertainment Platform and easily<|fim_middle|> Twitch also prepares to open Twitch Academy in partnership with leading University that offers Multimedia Major and E-Sports Major to prepare and support students to become professional and skillful people, as well as to drive the online gaming industry forward.
Mr. Nandu further explained that the main strength of Twitch that has made it successful and popular around the world, including Thailand, is its most powerful and effective live streaming platform. There are many features and tools that support live streaming as well as creating content in various formats. In addition, there is a model for generating revenue for live streamers. In addition to this is the community which is very important as that focuses on creating participation and building a strong relationship between the streamers and the audience. | accessible it is for the millennials. In addition to this support, Twitch plans to strengthen the community by providing them with Twitch Camp and Twitch Academy to train live streamers useful skills within this year. Twitch will continue to progress its cooperation with various partners such as mobile phone network providers, game-makers to organize activities to cater the live streamers and its fans. This gives them an opportunity to meet and talk, exchange opinions and experiences with one another as well as to strengthen the relationship of the community in the country to become stronger than ever before. Recently, Twitch Fan Meeting 2019 was held at Thailand Game Expo by AIS eSports at the end of May and the results are very successful and well received by the participants.
Ms. Jirattikarn Suthiwannarat, Director of Content in Thailand shares that Twitch's streamers will have various levels of memberships ranging from Twitch Rookie to Affiliate and then to Partner level, Twitch has a clear requirements on how the membership ranking works. Members at both levels can generate revenue and build an audience from live streaming on their own channels for the audience to follow, watch and support through various methods such as sending Bits or subscribing monthly or annually. The Live Streaming channels are divided into 2 types: content on games and non-game sector, such as a Talk Show, Travelling, Daily Life, Sharing Opinions and Tips and so on.
Currently, popular games that Thai people likes to engage in on this live streaming platform are First Person Shooter (FPS) such as PUBG and CS: GO; Role-Playing Games (RPG) such as Grand Theft Auto V; Multi-Player Online Battle Arena (MOBA) such as Dota2 and LOL (League of Legend). Twitch also discovered that women live streamers are gaining more popularity such as Jinny_Pinkunotori, MiTHJinNy, xLapisLazulix, Pangchom, dalunahh and Purple Mood E-Sport, a hot new female E-Sport live streamer. This shows that live streamers are not longer limited to just men, but it depends on the skills and preference of the streamers and audience.
With the increasing number of live streamers in Thailand, Twitch sees the importance of preparing the up and coming streamers to practice and learn new skills to maintain and be professional live streamers. Twitch, therefore, marches forward with the opening of Twitch Camp, a learning source for growth and development, this will support streamers to creating interesting and heart-capturing content to attract new audience and expand the viewers which will result in more income and success for the streamers. In addition, | 535 |
X-COM: UFO Defense (aka UFO: Enemy Unknown, or often just "X-Com") is regarded as one of the all-time classic videogames. IGN rated it as the best PC game of all time in their 2007 list of favorite games. Even so, the X-Com franchise as a whole is plagued with mediocre sales, tepid reviews and general apathy from gamers who<|fim_middle|> going to be in the U.S., and in retrospect I think this was a big mistake at the time. Terror from the Deep was practically the same game but larger, harder and maybe the tactical missions were not as focused as the original game." | continue to rave about the original almost 15 years after its release. This strange dynamic underscores one of the great mysteries in the modern gaming world: What is X-Com's secret to success?
Today, X-Com is held aloft as an example of inspired game design. However, it was initially more of a sleeper hit than a blockbuster. Nick Gollop remembers the early days of X-Com. "When Julian [Gollop] went to show the game at MicroProse UK he had a good reaction. However they wanted the game to be more ambitious. They said they wanted a 'Big Game' like Civilization and also one which people could relate to in some way, again like Civilization."
Instead they got X-Com. They weren't even really sure what to do with the game once they had it. "Although the game was being published by MicroProse I don't think the advertising [budget] was very much, as I don't think anyone expected the game to be quite the success that it was."
The X-Com formula was full of strange contradictions. It mixed real-time base management, turn-based combat, science fiction, a near-future setting, conspiracy theory as a theme and believable, likable characters into one game. This blend of gameplay elements was untested, and the game was only moderately popular in the U.K.
It was a different story in the U.S. X-Com was released right when the X-Files television program was becoming popular. Coupled with the release of a gameplay demo, X-Com became an unexpected success. "At the time we were looking in the strategy game newsgroups on the internet, and we noticed more and more people talking about the game. This word of mouth effect from game players also had an effect on the success of the game. At one stage, with the release of the game in the U.S., around one in every two posts on the strategy newsgroup seemed to be about X-Com."
The X-Com phenomenon was borne of a couple of guys pitching the right formula to the right publisher, for the right audience at the right time. Perhaps the success of X-Com was really just an accident.
Players eager to experience more X-Com gameplay snapped up X-COM: Terror from the Deep (TFTD), the second game in the series. They quickly realized TFTD was the same game with new graphics.
Players criticized MicroProse for churning out a hurried sequel, but MicroProse had actually put their plans into motion before the original game became a hit. According to the Gollop brothers, "MicroProse UK wanted another sequel done immediately ... so they persuaded us to license the code to do Terror from the Deep. ... We agreed to this deal before we really knew how successful the game was | 573 |
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The Atlanta Silverbacks looked like a shell of the team that Came to PAETEC Park on August 3rd and came away with a 4-3 win.
Ansu Toure has been traded to Miami FC, Macoumba Kandji, the 2nd leading scorer in the USL 1st Division, was out with an injury, and the team lost in Montreal on Wednesday night.
All that conspired against Atlanta and the Rhinos got goals from Ross Smith and Tiger Fitpatrick in a five minute span and the defense clamped down to earn their first clean sheet since their win in Montreal on July 27th.
The Rhinos now stand in 5th place in the USL 1st Division standings and they have a six point cushion over 8th place Portland. With 4 of their 5 remaining matches against teams behind them in the standings, the Rhinos are certainly in control of their playoff destiny.
- Luke Kreamalmayer's assist on Ross Smith's goal was his 8th of the season and keeps him two back of Jonny Steele for the USL 1st Division lead.
- Hamed Diallo scored a hat trick and Rey Martinez made his Carolina debut. But, it wasn't enough as Carolina fell in Seattle by a 4-3 score last night.
- Chase Harrison made his Portland debut in Vancouver on Friday night. Alas, that didn't end well for the former Rhino either as the Whitecaps won by a 2-1 score.
- With the roster freeze date coming up later this week, I wonder if any of the three teams currently tied for last place will have a fire sale? For instance, I'd love to see USL 1st Division leading scorer Alex Afonso in Rochester......
- Steven Goff's The Good,The Bad, and The Coyote Ugly for this week has a bunch of cool links to MLSNet.com's video goal highlights. I especially liked Jimmy Conrad's team leading 5th goal of the season that gave the Wizards a point in stoppage time.
- Freddy Adu made his Monaco debut when he was a late second half sub over the weekend.
- The team is saying that we are a little over a year away from Red Bull Arena opening up. I'll believe it when I see it.
-<|fim_middle|> take on soccer fans in China at SI.com.
- SBI.net wonders what MLS should do about the East-West disparity. The simple answer is a single table and balanced schedule, no? | I got a few chuckles reading Grant Wahl's | 10 |
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Sheree R. Curry, AOL.com<|fim_middle|> cabinetry and floors. There's a dining alcove, deluxe built-ins throughout, plenty of closets, and in-wall iPod ports wired to the kitchen and bathroom ceiling speakers. (See more photos in our gallery.)
Although he loves the view of the financial district from the unit, he will still get his fix of great views from many stories up in his 3,000-square-foot apartment above Hell's Kitchen that was decorated by his wife Sherman, reported Architectural Digest. "What makes me happy about this apartment, however, is that, while the views keep you very much in touch with New York, you're also above it all. I never imagined living 60 stories above the city could be so soothing."
When they are not hanging in the city, they are relaxing with their kids in a 5,000-square-foot cottage in the Connecticut suburbs, reported InStyle.
That suburban house, decorated with warm tones and traditional furniture, has its own unique view: One of the lake and forest. "We wanted something with a country feel. But this is not a farmhouse, so we didn't want rural decor," he says.
With a zip line that stretches across the back lawn and playhouses, and a lake where he goes waterskiing, Meloni told the glossy: "Serenity, beauty and freedom. It only took me 42 years to find all of these things."
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Christopher Meloni of Law & Order: SVU has a buyer under contract on his 1-bedroom, 1-bath New York City apartment that the actor had been using as personal office space since he purchased it last April for $910,000.
"Chris needed a larger work space," listing agent Dan Deutsch of Homestate Properties told AOL Real Estate. Meloni first put the 736-square-footer on the market last fall and then re-listed it for $875,000 in January. It is expected to close in May.
The listing details when he bought the downtown Manhattan unit said the home was worth $1.1 million in 2008, reported Curbed. The previous owners had purchased it for $926,000.
"He loves the views and it is very creative for him. He just felt it was too small," says Deutsch.
Located in an art deco building with full-service concierge and doorman, the unit (pictured) has great views and features a designer kitchen with high-end stainless steel appliances and custom oak custom | 244 |
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Gemma Steel continued her ascent into the top bracket of distance runners by taking first place at Saturday's (11 April) SPAR Great Ireland Run 10K. Victory for Steel - who also tasted success at the event in 2012 - meant Fionnuala Britton was unable to triumph on home soil.
Celebrating its 13th staging, the race is Ireland's largest mixed 10k and is the only event in the country to be awarded silver label status from the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). Famous faces taking part included Tony Audenshaw who plays Bob Hope in Emmerdale, Ryan Andrews who plays Sean Cassidy in Fair City and Irish model, Roz Purcell.
Steel, a late entry to the race, prevailed in testing, windy conditions to cross the line in 33:03, just four seconds ahead of Britton (33:07) and Spain's Alessandra Aguilar, who took third in 33:11.
Britton commented on her close contest with the Charnwood runner: "She (Steel) got that little gap and I knew even warming up out the back whoever gets in front (in the final kilometre) is not going to get caught because you have the wind behind you. I just couldn't get my legs to turn over any quicker. It was hard to close the gap when it's like that."
In the men's competition, Kenyan Japhet Korir retained his title with an impressive time of 28:15, with Ethiopia's Birhan Nebebew second in 28:21 and Kenya's James Rungaru closely following in 28:22. Britain's Olympic marathoner Scott Overall dipped under 30 minutes to take sixth place in 29:59.
Willie O'Byrne, managing director of BWG Foods (owners and operators of the SPAR brand in Ireland) said: "Congratulations to everyone who took part in the SPAR Great Ireland Run today, whether you were trying for one of the top spots against the elite athletes or walked the course for your chosen charity, you should be proud of your accomplishment and we really hope you had a great day in the Phoenix Park."
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I shouldn't need to explain about Gary Miller but for our younger readers: Gary was lead songwriter with The Whisky Priests, a very fine (and rather tough looking) post-punk folk-rock band from the north-east. After a while away from the front line he returned in 2010 with the excellent album, Reflections On War. The first of two projects emerging this year, Mad Martins is a three-CD box set housed in a lavish hard-back book and will later be a stage presentation.
I didn't know much about the three Martin brothers, although I have seen at least one of John's paintings – an enormous apocalyptic Biblical scene, probably The Day Of His Wrath. More of John later. Each of the three CDs is dedicated to one of the brothers and will be one act of the stage play, so we begin with William, the eldest brother. He aspired<|fim_middle|> singer-songwriter should be. It isn't inexpensive, as you might imagine, but it's worth every penny that you spend on it.
Dai Jeffries | to be a renaissance man, sorry THE Renaissance Man, and if you want evidence of his madness, just listen to 'William Martin's Dream'. He had been a soldier and a ropemaker, became an inventor and pamphleteer and the world's greatest natural philosopher – at least in his own mind.
Now you might think that this is an odd subject for a major project but Gary's skill as a songwriter and his construction of the piece is sufficient to draw you in from the start. His style is earthy and robust and his borrowing of traditional tunes adds an extra authenticity. He handles most of the lead vocals and about half of the instruments, most of the rest being played by producer Iain Petrie. Keith Armstrong leads the important spoken word sections – Gary's accent is perhaps a little too strong – with an ensemble including Richard Doran, Mick Tyas, Ann Sessoms and Gary's brother Glenn. There is a separate album, Fair Flowers Among Them All, featuring these instrumental sections.
Next we come to Jonathan Martin: now he was mad! A strange child, by all accounts, he was first a shepherd, then press-ganged into the navy. His naval adventures are quite remarkable if his own accounts are to be believed but it allows Gary to compose a shanty and a hornpipe. Next he became a tanner and then a preacher with a remarkably anti-authoritarian take on religion. He was committed for plotting to assassinate the Bishop of Oxford. 'Shoot The Bishop' recounts the circumstances that brought this about. Remarkably, he escaped the asylum twice and his next plan was to burn down York Minster. He set the fire and escaped but was captured and committed to Bedlam where he died.
Again, Gary blends original songs with Jonathan's own words with two extracts from writings by Charles Dickens and traditional tunes. The whole disc rocks along and you almost feel some sympathy for Jonathan by the end.
John Martin probably wasn't mad but he heard the Word of God. He's probably the most famous and the most enduring of the Martin brothers as his monumental biblical paintings attest. Like William, John was something of a polymath; one of his projects was a sewage system for London, related in earthy relish in 'Drainage Scheme'. His ideas inspired John Bazalgette who designed the system that is still in use. On this final disc, Gary looks to Keith Armstrong for many of the spoken word sections.
As a painter, John was a friend to royalty and Gary's music has an appropriately bombastic tone which is where the orchestration of The Albert Ness Ensemble and The Lick Spittals' horns come into their own. Despite his success, John fell into poverty and the later songs have rather simpler accompaniments but he fought back beginning with The Coronation Of Queen Victoria before died peacefully in1855.
Mad Martins is a magnificent piece of work, transcending both the traditional ideas of folk-rock as represented by The Whisky Priests and the established view of what a | 612 |
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On Saturday, the former Blockbuster store in Abington was transformed into a Christmas shop that featured incredible deals to benefit the Jeffrey Coombs Memorial Foundation. And the shop will open again soon.
On Saturday, the former Blockbuster store in Abington was transformed into a Christmas shop that featured deals to benefit the Jeffrey Coombs Memorial Foundation. And the shop will open again soon.
With more than a dozen artificial, pre-lit Christmas trees left and an assortment of wreaths and decorations, the makeshift store will open again on Saturday, Nov. 29 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
After two days of steady business, the sale raised more than $9,000 to help fund the annual military family gathering the foundation hosts for families of Massachusetts military members who are deployed over the holidays, and families of those injured or killed as a result of service in Iraq and Afghanistan.
About one-third of the proceeds will benefit Abington schools to help reduce the severe budget cuts, which have seriously affected the programs available to the students.
Thanks to a generous donation of artificial trees, garland, wreaths, ornaments and a large variety of decorations from GKI/Bethlehem Lighting of Taunton, and the space donation from Stop and Shop, the Jeff Coombs Memorial Foundation sold the holiday product at deep discounts.
"Besides the fact that we were making money for the Foundation, the best part of the fundraiser was watching everyone's excitement over getting such great deals and helping them get into the Christmas spirit," said Christie Coombs, widow of Jeff Coombs for whom the Foundation is named. "It was a lot of work to set up the fundraiser, but with help from friends, Foundation board members, volunteers from the Abington Boosters and students at the high school, we pulled it off and had so much fun in the process.
Cash and checks will be accepted for payment. All product is first quality surplus from last year's inventory, but all sales are final. For more information on the sale, to make a donation to the Foundation to help fund the Troops' Party, or for information on the event, call Christie at 781/982-1608.
This year's holiday party for military families will be held on Thursday, Dec. 17 at Christina's in Foxboro. Previously held at Gillette Stadium, the Foundation hosted nearly 400 family members for dinner, Santa, gifts, games, crafts, special activities for children, teens and adults, and an opportunity to connect with other military<|fim_middle|> death or other difficult circumstances that challenge them emotionally and/or financially, and assists military families with programs and financial help. It also provides scholarships to local students and mini-grants to the schools for enrichment programs, and supports area programs. Since November 2001, the Foundation has distributed more than $275,000. | families of deployed, fallen and injured service members from Massachusetts.
The third annual holiday gathering for military families will feature the same activities, as well as KISS 108's DJ Dave, a visit from Wally the Green Monster and pro athletes. Families interested in attending should email jwcfund@comcast.net. Log onto www.jeffcoombsfund.org for more information.
The Jeffrey Coombs Memorial Foundation is a non-profit organization in memory of the Abington father of three who was killed in the 2001 terrorist attacks. The Foundation assists families who have been affected by illness, | 123 |
Instaforex participated in ShowFX World financial conference in Slovakia on 16<|fim_middle|> received money bonuses of up to $75 as well as Instaforex souvenirs.
ShowFX world Conference in Slovakia has been reviewed as truly enjoyable, memorable and very useful event. Thanks to all the participants, sponsors and contributors to make the event happen. | th April 2016.
Over 200 traders joined the discussions and workshops and met the representative of Instaforex broker.
The Conference participants attended free seminars lead by market analysts, presenting efficient and profitable solutions in user-friendly manner. Even the most challenging concepts were explained in details and brought to understanding to the most beginners.
Apart from useful tutorials, Instaforex held prize raffles for the lucky winners. 4 traders got $500 and $1,000 certificates to their trading accounts, iPad air and latest Samsung smartphone.
All of the visitors of the financial conference | 123 |
5 Reasons Why investing via Equity Crowdfunding is Worth It
2021 has seen the increase in popularity of many different investment options, such as cryptocurrencies, forex trading, equity crowdfunding (ECF) etc. Equity crowdfunding in particular is getting more and more prevalent within Malaysia. For those who are unfamiliar with ECF, it is a form of alternative financing for a start-up that needs to raise funds and offer their equity within the business to all interested investors through credible crowdfunding platforms. For investors, this is a good opportunity to<|fim_middle|> with Ethis today.
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Next8 Reasons To Invest In Glenn's GrocerNext | gain equity stakes in high potential early stage start-ups. Find out more about ECF on Ethis here.
The establishment of more and more SMEs and start-ups within Malaysia has now made it possible for investors to choose from a variety of deals as part of an ECF investment. According to SME Corp, SMEs in Malaysia consist of 97.2% of overall business establishments in 2020.
Do you have dreams of earning passive income high enough for you to join the FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) movement? Equity crowdfunding may be the right path for you, provided that you invest in the right business.
Equity Crowdfunding: Is it worth the risk?
The appeal of equity crowdfunding
Reason 1: Increase in popularity as a form of alternative financing in Malaysia
Reason 2: High potential returns: searching for the new unicorn
Reason 3: High quality issuers who are vetted through the Securities Commissions
Reason 4: The Transparency of ECF
Reason 5: Pool of innovative ideas
What exactly is equity crowdfunding? ECF is an investment option for investors whereby investors provide small businesses or startups, who are seeking funding to build and expand their business, with funding in exchange for shares. Think 'Shark Tank' but with ECF, this investment opportunity is now available to retail investors as it was only accessible to high net worth individuals. ECF democratises the process and now makes it possible for retail investors to invest in small businesses or startups for as low as RM1,000 for example.
Though ECF may sound exciting, it is a form of high risk, high return investment. It is also a long-term investment, so it is best to think about the feasibility of ECF investing when diversifying your investment portfolio. Becoming an ECF investor means you are investing in an early stage business with high potential, but they have not reached a certain level of growth or size and may need to produce more results. Thus, the return on investment of a business running an ECF campaign varies based on its industry and business strategy.
This investment is also relatively illiquid, as you have to hold onto equity until there comes a chance for you to sell your equity share. This opportunity typically happens if the business wishes to buy back their equity shares, or when there is a buyer willing to buy the equity off your hands. Many times, the business owners will outline the possibility of buying back your shares during the ECF campaign.
Despite its possible downsides, ECF is still a worthwhile investment. Here are 5 reasons why:
The interest of Malaysians in equity crowdfunding has steadily increased. According to the Securities Commission's (SC) Annual Report 2020, the total capital raised in 2020 via ECF grew by 457% to RM127.73mil. This shows the significant impact that ECF has on the fundraising scene, giving business owners a viable and attractive alternative financing option. It also further demonstrates its growth potential as an emerging capital market.
Most, if not all investors, invest via ECF for the potential that the businesses possess. The biggest upside of getting early access to a company as an early-stage investor is buying its shares for a much cheaper price before it skyrockets. Well-established companies like Facebook, Telegram, LalaMove, Airtable and more have all grown in value since their early days as startups.
Before the advent of ECF, the chance to invest in early-stage start-ups were only available for venture capital firms, angel investors and sophisticated investors because of how costly it was and also due to a lack of framework that could make these businesses accessible to retail investors.
Now, with ECF, retail investors have the chance to invest in early-stage start-ups, too. ECF investing offers another alternative or an opportunity to diversify for retail investors who want to make it big by investing in future game-changing start-ups.
In Malaysia, all ECF crowdfunding platforms need to satisfy the requirements in the Recognised Market Operator (RMO) Guidelines set by the Securities Commissions.
Ethis, a registered ECF operator, undertakes a strict due diligence exercise on prospective issuers (SMEs or start-ups seeking funding). Among the steps taken are to ensure that issuers have given a verified disclosure document and on the investors side, to inform them of any adverse changes in the issuer's proposal. This is important to ensure that no fraudulent fundraising occurs on the platform.
Due to regulations in Malaysia, it is important that all ECF fundraising activities adhere to compliance and due diligence to their investors. In addition, after a successful fundraising, the issuer needs to ensure continuous communication with its investors (usually via the ECF platform) by providing updates on business development, or updates on social media and email. This would reassure the investors that the funds are implemented correctly and to show progress on their business.
In addition, shareholders must be informed of any changes to the business. For example, when there is a chance for a buyback period, all shareholders would be informed and this would allow them to plan their exit strategy.
Besides that, potential dividends may also be paid out to existing shareholders. From time to time, if the business does well, more shares will be sold following another round of fundraising and new investors may join. Shareholders must also be informed if there is a chance of acquisition or listing on the stock exchange.
ECF investing is full of early-stage start-ups seeking funds needed to test or grow their products. Some startups or businesses seek funding to validate their business idea and for market validation.Others may seek funds for a good cause, or start-ups offering solutions to current issues faced within our society.
Hence, this creates a pool or flow of innovative ideas within that ecosystem. A successful ECF investment may also induce a sense of achievement in the investors, as they indirectly contributed to the success of startups or businesses that managed to get their ideas off the ground or helped shape the future way of living. For instance, just like how start-ups like Grab and Shopee have revolutionised how we view and use transportation services and shop for goods.
Any investment option has its pros and cons. Despite that, equity crowdfunding is a worthwhile investment as an increasingly popular investment option with high potential returns. It also serves as a vehicle for innovation as early stage start-ups get the access to funding while receiving the chance to test out their ideas to investors who have a vested interest in the success of the product. Ultimately, it is a win-win solution for both parties and it is certainly an investment type that is here to stay. Get started on diversifying your portfolio | 1,356 |
The 34<|fim_middle|>5,000. | .14 metre motor yacht Black Gold, listed for sale by John Varga at Westport Yachts, has been sold with Moran Yacht & Ship introducing the buyer.
A Westport 112 Raised Pilothouse motor yacht she was delivered in 2011. She features naval architecture by Jack Sarin, while her exterior styling is the result of a collaboration between Westport and Taylor Olsen.
Black Gold's in-house Westport interior layout offers plenty of space on board thanks to her 7.24 metre beam. She has accommodation for 10 guests in five cabins, with an on-deck master stateroom along with four additional guest staterooms.
All of the cabins feature en-suite bathrooms. This configuration includes two queen beds, two double beds and one cabin with twin beds making her an ideal layout for charter. She also offers accommodation for up to five crew.
She offers extensive interior spaces for either relaxed or more formal entertaining with a light saloon and an elegant dining area. Having been well maintained she also features an up to date Kaleidescape music and movie player.
Her teak decks offer plenty of space for enjoying the outdoors with multiple sun pads both in the sun and shade. She also has a large dining table aft which is capable of seating up to 10 guests.
She is powered by twin MTU (16V2000) 2,000hp engines and has a top speed of 26 knots. Used sparingly she has only 1000 engine hours and completed a full MTU 1000 hour service in February this year. She has a nautical range of 2500nm at 12 knots and with a draft of 1.6 metres means she has the flexibility to visit shallower cruising grounds.
Black Gold was asking $8,69 | 384 |
Stalls Announce May 17 Wedding
By ohtadmin | on April 16, 2008
Jeffrey (Jade) Dominique and Cassandra Stall
Estle "Butch<|fim_middle|> graduate of Wright State University with a bachelor's degree in marketing. She is pursuing a master's degree in occupational therapy from Shawnee State University.
Her fiancé is a 2000 graduate of Archbold High School and a 2004 graduate of the University of Findlay, with a bachelor's degree in marketing. He is employed by Nutro, as a senior key account manager.
The couple will exchange vows at 5:30 p.m., May 17, 2008 at Country Club of the North in Beavercreek, Ohio.
Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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Honor Students | " and Lynn Stall Jr., McDermott, Ohio, announce the engagement of their daughter, Cassandra Lynn, to Jeffrey Aaron (Jade) Dominique, son of Joe and Deb Dominique, Archbold.
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Post Christian: The Galileo business in 250 words
I prepared these notes for an interview with Brigid Ayer on the Faith in Action Show for Catholic Radio Indy, but ended up using almost none of them. We talked instead about matters in the present day, and why Bill (also on the interview) and I started TSSM. The interview is planned to go up the third week of September, with the podcast version of the episode on their PodBean feed Monday the 16th and the radio broadcast later in the week.
The dominant proximate source for this was a blog post or two from the Vatican Observatory blog, which I cannot even find right now, due to a surplus of riches in their coverage of the subject. For your own purposes, there are also a million books. I loved Galileo's Daughter; I haven't yet gotten up the courage to tackle The Galileo Affair: A Documentary History.
Science, Church, Galileo.
The Galileo affair was a messy piece of work, which a number of people, bishops and cardinals included, inside the Church recognized at the time. Galileo himself remained a Catholic and endured his condemnation with irritation as an obvious miscarriage of justice and a misapplication of the Church's own teachings. At the time, his ideas were considered by a number of people to be heretical both because they contradicted simple-minded interpretations of certain passages in the Bible and because, essentially, they contradicted Aristotle.
Aristotle's philosophy is immensely insightful, and continues to be a viable means of interpreting reality, but not all of it equally. The Scholastics had fought a long campaign to integrate Aristotle into the fabric of Christian doctrine, and the result was a beautiful intellectual accomplishment, but it allowed Aristotle to take too much significance even in matters where his thinking is simply not that insightful or valuable. He took the geocentric universe for granted.
When Galileo set out to prove the geocentric model wrong, it was easy for people at that time of religious turmoil to condemn him. On one side, Catholics who were sensitive to the shrill Protestant shrieking about Scripture were not eager to be forced into reading the handful of passages that seem relevant to the issue poetically or figuratively. On the other, in attacking something that Aristotle taught, essential or not to his philosophical framework, Galileo could be read by others to be trying to overturn all of philosophy and theology along with it.
The condemnations of 1633 were never enforced all that rigidly, and during the 18th and 19th centuries the official proscriptions on his thought and writings were loosened. The popes since Leo XIII have piece by piece vindicated Galileo completely, culminating in two statements by John Paul II (in 1991 and 2000, as I recall, and also belonging on the reading list) that said the cardinals and popes in 1613-1633 had made mistakes and been wrong to treat Galileo the way that they did.
The condemnation of Galileo was never a matter of infallible magisterium. The magisterium of the Church is exercised in the matters of faith and morals, not astronomy or philosophy, and not even social science. Further, the trial of an individual is not the sort of place one would look for magisterial teaching. Some of the Ecumenical Councils were called to try heretics like Arius, and those are the very definition of magisterial teaching, but you only get an E.C. called to debate your writings if you have 1) a massive movement, hence your trial is not really about you, but about ideas wandering at large in society and 2) the issue you are leading people on about is actually squarely in the arena of the teachings of the faith.
Episode 074 - Karin Oberg
Karin Öberg is Professor of Astronomy and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Astronomy at Harvard University. Planetary formation—or stars and stellar evolution—is a focus of her research. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Society of Catholic Scientists. See her CV here.
Öberg spoke of her first academic route to astronomy being via chemistry rather than physics. She discovered the field of astrochemistry while an undergraduate at the California Institute of Technology. She earned her PhD in astrophysics at Leiden University in the Netherlands.
She joined the faculty at the University of Virginia in 2012. One year, later, she received an assistant professor<|fim_middle|> how the story ends. Through her connection to the study of osteopathic medicine at Ohio State, she saw the value of that field's commitment to care for the entire person and to respect each person's inherent dignity.
Another positive sign she has seen is a trend which may be beginning with New York University's plan to offer free tuition to its students preparing to be doctors. It is hoped that leaving graduates unencumbered by debts could make them better able to enter certain fields of care where additional medical personnel are especially needed but remuneration is relatively low.
Among the current research in which de Lacalle wants to spread the word about crucial impacts for human well-being is the study of human physical activity and exercise—their high correlation with brain health through the production of lactic acid, which supports the brain's executive functions in neurons.
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Öberg was baptized as a Christian in her youth but then drew away from the faith. She said she never adopted an atheistic, materialistic perspective largely because of two key principles she holds to: moral realism and one's personal agency as an individual making free decisions.
During her college years, Christianity remained a living question for her partly because of the friends with whom she associated. Books influenced her deeply: Lord of the Rings, The Screwtape Letters, The Abolition of Man, Mere Christianity, and Orthodoxy. This combination brought her back to Christianity, first in the Anglican Church.
After joining the faculty at Harvard, she completed a two-year RCIA program at St Paul's Parish in Harvard Square to join the Catholic Church. One concern she felt in her new Catholic experiences, she said, was that the statements in the Mass did not always seem to line up with personal beliefs articulated by individuals.
Öberg said she has not personally experienced any bias against her Catholicism at Harvard, and indeed she has felt welcomed in the astronomy community and among other colleagues. She helps to mentor some Catholic and Christian students. Some Catholic colleagues have experienced prejudice, in the biology department, for example. She said one factor is that her research does not touch on any controversial subjects. But she wants to let students know they should not be anxious about living out their Catholic faith because of fear of prejudiced encounters. Overall, being open about one's faith has a net positive effect on oneself and others, despite occasional crosses one might have to bear.
Episode 073 – Jonathan Lunine
In this episode we have Jonathan Lunine on the podcast, this time talking to him about his own spiritual journey from Judaism to Catholic Christianity, and from the secular surface of life as a scientist to a deeper life where the beauty of science is one prominent part of a larger whole of human experience. We also get the chance to discuss some of his work in studying the planets during the era when they changed from objects seen through a telescope to worlds we can map and even sample and bring back to our laboratories.
Jonathan Lunine, a planetary scientist at Cornell University, is a member of the board of the Society of Catholic Scientists. He spoke of the influence of reading Carl Sagan's The Cosmic Connection and receiving Sagan's advice for pursuing a career in astronomy.
Dr. Lunine has been on the scientific teams leading several missions of space exploration, including Cassini and, now, the James Webb Space Telescope.
He described his early spiritual journey, seeing how science and religion could be intertwined. The journey took him from Jewish family roots to a Methodist church and then to Catholicism. He spoke of being impressed by the connection between the Catholic faith and its Jewish roots.
Astronomers have been excited to learn of the abundance of planets to be found in our galaxy. As Dr. Lunine pointed out, thanks to initiatives like the New Horizons spacecraft, we have turned our "cosmic backyard" into a place where we can study an enormous variety of geology "and even, potentially, biology."
He expressed gratitude for astronomers and others who became role models embracing the compatibility between science and faith. A key figure, about whom he has made presentations, is the Belgian priest Georges LeMaitre, known as the father of the big bang theory.
This was one of our most enjoyable conversations, and we definitely hope to have Dr. Lunine back on the podcast again.
Episode 072 - Benjamin Rybicki
Dr. Benjamin Rybicki, a member of the Society of Catholic Scientists, is Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Public Health Services at Henry Ford Health System in Detroit. He received his PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Michigan. His research focuses on the epidemiology, demographics and genetics of sarcoidosis, Parkinson's disease, and prostate cancer.
There is a strong humanistic theme in biology, and it does entail a deep concern about human beings, but Dr. Rybicki said his experience suggests the humanistic impulse is separated from religious faith in many cases. His particular interest in epidemiology grew partly from an interest in the application of statistics to medicine. At the Henry Ford Hospital, there is a large population of African American patients, among whom there is a heightened risk from prostate cancer and sarcoidosis.
Berylliosis, which occurs more rarely from beryllium exposure, has a similar genetic susceptibility pattern to sarcoidosis.
background can increase the risk of, and the behavior of, certain diseases as experienced by people, although it's not directly related to race. African Americans tend to have a different inflammatory response to pathogens than people of European descent.
Sarcoidosis is an inflammatory disorder, most commonly in the lungs. It varies in how it progresses and presents itself. The treatment of choice is steroids, and they also have particularly important side effects.
One's Catholic faith is an important element in the practice of medicine. An understanding of the human person made in the image of God will influence one's decisions, including the choice of treatments and the balance of risks and benefits, Dr. Rybicki said. This shows itself, for example, in considering quantity and quality of life and what medicine can provide. We must be mindful of how we're respecting the dignity of the human person through medical interventions. We must think about how to improve the human condition without getting carried away with ideas of manipulating other factors—extending to intelligence and physical prowess. "I can definitely see that coming down the pike." Doctors may enhance aspects of life that have nothing to do with the disease condition they're treating. For example, choosing to change a gene might lower your heart disease but also increase your risk of cancer. We have to be careful. Consider where are we going in the direction of creating a highly medicated society, treating everything with drugs without considering alternatives such as behavioral changes. Tinkering with the human body can have unintended effects. Dr. Rybicki shares this insight with young Catholic doctors: Make your Catholic faith a strong part, a driving force, in the work you do. (Editor's note: By the way, listeners may be interested in the mission of the Catholic Medical Association.)
Dr. Rybicki devoted part of his talk to Jerome Lejeune, a pioneer in genetics and in the understanding of Down Syndrome who took his Catholic faith very seriously. Now declared a Servant of God on the pathway toward possible canonized sainthood, Lejeune made sacrifices in his medical career as he maintained his principles about the dignity of every human life while medical science took a different course regarding Down Syndrome.
The 2019 Society of Catholic Scientists conference was very well done, Dr. Rybicki said. He said he enjoys learning about subjects with which he is not familiar, and conference attendees seemed to share that experience. Videos from the conference are available on You Tube.
Episode 071 - Sonsoles de Lacalle
Sonsoles de Lacalle, a physician and neuroscientist, has recently taken the position of professor and Chair, Health Science, at California State University Channel Islands. She previously served as associate professor of biomedical sciences at Ohio University and Director of the Office of Advanced Studies in Ohio University's Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine.
Dr. De Lacalle, a member of the Society of Catholic Scientists, holds both an MD and a PhD from the University of Navarre in Spain.
Her research focuses on the field of aging and dementia and the effects of estrogen on brain cells. She sees her pursuit of positions in research and administrative support of research advancement as an extension of her Catholic faith. She sees herself as a "builder" of support systems bearing fruits of well-being for all through the advancement of important research.
De Lacalle cites the Opus Dei message of building one's relationship with the Lord and extending Christian values and virtues through one's everyday professional work.
She said there are signs in the world's current culture of a strong, concerted attack against the idea of God and against the idea that we are the mere creatures of a supernatural Creator. Amid the challenges facing believers today, we can draw hope from confidence in the truth and victorious love of the Kingdom of God—we know | 1,693 |
Avidius Cassius (Caius Avidius Cassius) (v./aut. 130 - juillet 175) est un sénateur, consul et général romain de l'empereur Marc Aurèle.
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Fils de Caius Avidius Heliodorus, un haut fonctionnaire d'Hadrien, et de sa femme Julia Cassia, né à Cyrrhus et donc d'origine syrienne, il appartient à l'une de ces grandes familles de notables syriens entrées dans l'ordre équestre et l'ordre sénatorial.
Il commence une brillante carrière militaire dont les débuts sont mal connus. Il fut consul suffect entre 161/163.
Il est envoyé en 162 avec Statius Priscus,<|fim_middle|>89-701.
F. J. Vervaet, « The Reappearance of the Supra-provincial Commands in the Late Second and Early Third Centuries C.E. : Constitutional and Historical Considerations », dans O. Hekster, G. de Kleijn et D. Slootjes, Crises and the Roman Empire. Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop of the International Network Impact of Empire (Nijmegen, June 20-24, 2006), Leiden, 2007, 125-139.
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Gouverneur romain de Syrie au IIe siècle | sous les ordres de Lucius Verus, combattre les Parthes qui en 161 ont envahi les provinces orientales de l'empire. Très vite Lucius Verus abandonne la réalité des opérations militaires à Avidius Cassius, légat de la III Légion Gallica, qui vainquit en tant que commandant de l'armée Vologèse IV en 164 et s'empare de Séleucie du Tigre, puis de Ctésiphon, la capitale parthe, en 165. Il fut accusé, plus tard, d'avoir ramené, avec son armée, l'épidémie de peste antonine. En 166, Avidius Cassius se voit attribuer le gouvernement de la Syrie.
Selon Maurice Sartre qui s'appuie sur les sources antiques, il reçoit à partir de 169 un commandement plus large sur l'Orient romain, mais les limites exactes de sa juridiction ne sont guère précises. Pour Edward Dabrowa la date de 169 ne représente pas un tournant dans la carrière d'Avidius Cassius. Selon lui Xiphilin et Philostrate donnent une formulation générale à la situation particulière d'Avidius Cassius qui avait reçu le pouvoir d'intervenir militairement dans les provinces proches de la Syrie, en particulier l'Égypte.
À partir de 172 il fut bien aussi gouverneur d'Asie. En 172, il entre en Égypte à la tête de ses légions pour mettre fin à la révolte des Boukôloi, bergers du Delta du Nil, qui menacent Alexandrie. Selon le même auteur, il est issu de la dynastie des rois de Commagène. Il est donc un lointain descendant des Séleucides. Son origine et son lieu de naissance semblent pouvoir expliquer son prestige dans les provinces orientales de l'Empire, autrefois domaine de ses ancêtres.
Il croit sa chance venue en 175, quand la rumeur de la mort de Marc Aurèle parvient jusqu'à lui, et se fait proclamer empereur grâce à une vaste conjuration qui s'étend en Égypte et en Syrie. En revanche Publius Martius Verus, le gouverneur de Cappadoce, reste fidèle à Marc Aurèle, ce qui permet à l'empereur de rassembler les légions danubiennes qui viennent de vaincre les Quades et les Marcomans.
Le Sénat déclare Avidius Cassius ennemi public, quoique Marc Aurèle exprime sa volonté de pardon. Au moment où l'empereur se prépare à marcher sur les troupes d'Avidius Cassius, ce dernier est assassiné en juillet 175 par un centurion de ses propres soldats révoltés, après 3 mois et 6 jours de règne. Sa tête est envoyée à l'empereur qui refuse de la voir et exige qu'elle soit enterrée.
Sa femme Volusia Maecina, fille de Lucius Volusius Maecianus, lui survivait. Ils ont eu pour fils Avidius Heliodorus, banni par ordre de l'empereur et Avidius Maecianus, tué après la révolte, et pour filles Avidia Alexandra, qui a été autorisée à conserver sa liberté, bien que ses mouvements eussent été limités, et Volusia Laodice, femme de Quintus Tineius Sacerdos.
Articles connexes
Guerre parthique de Lucius Verus
Notes et références
Bibliographie
PIR², A, 1402
M.L. Astarita, Avidio Cassio, Rome, 1983 (compte-rendu par F. Millar, The Classical Review, 35-2, 1985, 412).
E. Dabrowa, The governors of Roman Syria from Augustus to Septimius Severus, Bonn, 1998, 112-117.
H. Halfmann, Die Senatoren aus des östlichen Teil des Imperium Romanum bis zum Ende des 2 Jahrhunderts n. Chr., Göttingen, 1979, 177-180, n° 100.
R. Syme, « Avidius Cassius : His Rank, Age and Quality », Roman Papers V, Oxford, 1988, 6 | 1,049 |
Drawing Exhibit Curated by BSU's Scott Anderson
What is drawing?
This is the question posed by Ball State Art Professor, Scott Anderson, to fellow facutly members. Fifteen of them replied, and an art exhibit was born. Anderson has his own response, "I believe the most elegant and thorough answer to the question is: "Drawing is the<|fim_middle|> or by appointment.
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AUTHOR cskadmin | act of making marks; mark-making with many different purposes and outcomes. From traditional approaches and mediums to newer investigations, drawing remains the primary tributary to any art practice." Artists who produce drawings, paintings, pottery, sculpture, for the most part, all share the same starting point to their art: the preliminary sketches. They also take notes, via sketches, of things they see, ideas to work out, pieces and parts of the world before them. "Drawing is still the most direct, unfiltered and honest means to record the world around you and to express yourself," offers the curator. Titled, "Drawing Practice," the exhibit will open with a public reception on Thursday, April 4, 2013, in the Gordy main gallery from 5 to 8 PM. Scott will speak about the collected works and answer questions at 6 PM.
Continuing through April 30th, the exhibit may also be viewed during business hours: Monday through Friday, 9 to 5:30, Saturday, 9 to 3, | 217 |
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River Ericht
The River Ericht is a river in Perthshire, Scotland formed from the confluence of the rivers Blackwater and Ardle at Bridge of Cally. It runs south for around 10 miles before discharging into the River Isla, and eventually the River Tay.
Ardler
Ardler is a small village in Perth and Kinross, Scotland.
Coupar Angus
Coupar Angus is a town in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, 4 miles south of Blairgowrie. Coupar Angus is situated 2 miles southwest of River Ericht. Photo: James Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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Description: river in Perthshire, United Kingdom
Category: river
Location: Perth and Kinross, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
56.5667° or 56° 34' north
-3.2333° or 3° 14' west
128 feet (39 metres)
Cebuano: River Ericht
Egyptian Arabic: نهر اريتشت
French: Ericht
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German: Ericht
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I got these vitamins when they were on promotion for 9.99. These work so well for me. I wanted my hair to grow longer and healthier and after taking these (2 gummies a day<|fim_middle|>Is this product safe for teens 16 years & older?
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Does this product help hair grow longer?
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Do any of your hair skin and nail vitamins have green tea in them or any stimulant?
How fast does this supplement vitamins work?
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Will biotin stop hair from falling out ?
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what about hair?? does it improve growth!!
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HENDERSON, Ky. - Ground was broken Tuesday on a new $8 million, two-story addition to the Henderson County Public Library.
HENDERSON, Ky. - Almost 40 years to the day since ground was broken on the Henderson County Public Library's last major expansion, a new $8 million, two-story addition got underway Tuesday afternoon.
"Here we are taking the next step in offering excellent customer service and library service to our patrons," said Library Director Caleb May. "We are the library of everyone, from the youngest to the oldest."
Joan Hoffman, former Henderson mayor, longtime local educator and the president of the Board of Trustees for the library, evoked both the past and the future in her remarks about the project that should be completed late next year.
"Groundbreakings are sort of sacred, when you think about putting a shovel into the dirt, and that's the first step toward a new facility that will serve the entire community," she said.
"Today is really special, because we're going to turn the dirt of this sacred place and it's going to be the beginning of a whole new tradition and history in our community. So today, yes, is a day of new beginnings. It's a time to remember and it's a time to shovel dirt!"
The two-story library addition will add more than 18,000 square feet to the existing 21,600 square feet of space.
When finished, the library complex will occupy the entire first block of Washington Street from Water Street to Main -- although a small undeveloped green space and patio area will remain along Water Street.
The library expansion will occupy what has been the library's main parking lot. A new parking area is being added to the space next door to that where a heating and air business once stood.
The current library entrance on Washington Street will remain, although the new main entrance to the library will be part of the expansion and will be accessible just off the new parking lot on the side toward Powell Street.
A recent news release from the library said this project will "provide increased library services and opportunities for Henderson County residents. Additions and improvements include an expanded teen department, quiet study rooms, a tech-friendly 'Maker Space,' a dedicated computer training lab, and large<|fim_middle|> a.m.
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April 5, 2019, 2:44 p.m. | -group meeting rooms with a catering kitchen."
On Tuesday, under beautiful spring skies, Hoffman, May and others traced the history of Henderson's library from its proud beginnings in 1904 as a small but impressive facility at the corner of Washington and Main streets funded by noted American philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.
Over the decades the library has crept down the block as it continually broadened its services and offerings.
"Libraries continue to grow and evolve in how they provide for the needs of every member of the community they serve," said Henderson Mayor Steve Austin.
Henderson County Judge-executive Brad Schneider noted the historic Carnegie building is still the proud face of the library more than a century later.
"With its facade of white limestone and towering columns it has been the guardian of the community's information and knowledge for decades, as it has transformed from a collection of 500 books to more than 135,000 books and other physical materials, as well as a wealth of resources that include downloadable items and many of types of media and services," he read from a proclamation.
Library Director May pointed out all the young people in the crowd Tuesday, most of them sporting bright yellow play construction hats.
"We want to make it very clear that we will be the library for the entire duration of these folks' lives," he said.
"We want them to be very successful in their educational endeavors, be prepared in every way possible so they can be very successful and come home to Henderson, Ky., and continue to build and make this the best place in the world to live."
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Welcome home to 301 Meridian Way, spectacular 3 bedroom plus a 3rd floor unfinished bonus room 2.5 bathroom home located in the waterfront community of New River Plantation. Community offers a pool, clubhouse, boat ramp and pier! Perfect fun<|fim_middle|>! The master is sure to please with 2 walk in closets, bathroom features dal vanities, large soaking tub and stand-alone shower. The bonus room is unfinished making for plenty of options for the new owners to make their own!This home sits on .48 acres, is fully fenced, features a large deck with a fire pit and has plenty of room for everyone to enjoy! Hurry and make this home yours today!!
Listing provided courtesy of Jenna Morton of Coldwell Banker Sea Coast Advantage - Jacksonville. | for the whole family! The kitchen is perfect for the chef of the family and the formal dining room is great for the whole family to enjoy any meal! There are beautiful hardwood floors throughout the downstairs | 39 |
Let's start by saying 10 to 15K miles on most cars, that is for soft pads that have less chance of squeaking. Hard pads will have less brake dust and be more prone to squeaking than a softer brake pad. Next, we must consider driving conditions. Are you more likely to drive through hilly areas or more commonly, at least in California, in stop-and-go traffic? Many people are surprised to learn that front pads<|fim_middle|> and for nails or anything else your tires may have picked up. Tire pressure, another important factor, is also checked.
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The balancing act between your tires and alignment Tires are expensive these days, so you want to get the most life you can out of them. El Nino-created potholes exist everywhere these days and just one of them could damage your car's alignment if hit hard enough!
The best way to tell if your alignment is off is to check your steering wheel while driving on a flat surface. Look down at your steering wheel. If the wheel remains even, you're fine, but if the steering wheel veers to one side, you can bet the alignment is off.
before the condition worsens. Depending on the extent to which the alignment is off and the duration of the imbalance, you could be faced with very serious tire wear.
It is best to take a periodic look at your tires to check wear and tear. Include checking the insides of your tires too. You have to get down on your hands and knees, which makes this an especially difficult task. This way, however, you can see across the tires.
You'll be glad to know that whenever you bring your car to Monaco Motors, we make it a point to inspect tires every time a car is put on the hoist. We do this to check wear patterns | 264 |
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"Everybody has to make sacrifices, no matter what!"
"One of my biggest sacrifices was when I stopped trying to become the BEST in the world as boxer, to striving to be the best FOR the world as a community leader."
- Dalton Outlaw
Founded in 2011, following the closure of the last standing boxing gym in Saint Paul, Dalton Outlaw created Element Boxing. Sacrific<|fim_middle|> pioneer in the fitness industry that promotes wellness while also doing good in the community. We want to set the standard on how to create, develop and sustain exercise equality by combining community resources.
This vision continues to evolve and we can't wait for what's next!
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Join UsRent our spaceContact | ing his professional boxing career to give youth a chance or opportunity to achieve greatness through their own boxing. Being a professional boxer and running a successful gym is basically impossible. So selflessly, he chose the later. He credits a lot of his success today to the skills he learned in his neighborhood boxing gym so he knew the importance. Without knowing the true impact the gym would have, the doors were opened to the public. While still working full-time, Dalton knew that the gym would be about more than just boxing so he worked tirelessly make this a success
Over the years, he's managed to attract some of the best personal advisors, community advocates and fitness coaches across the Twin Cities. Because of his hard work and dedication, he was able to formally create the Element Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit with a mission of fitness equity. By adding this counter-part, Dalton has done the unthinkable; he took a little boxing gym and created a social-enterprise that impacts countless lives. The memberships of the organization are part of what help sustain the non-profit so that it can focus on equitable programing and true community impact.
Since its inception in 2016, Element has been able to expand into multiple campaigns, gain national recognition, and gain the respect as a community leader while becoming a force for good in the community. Most importantly, because of this work, children's lives are impacted for the better.
Our vision is to be a | 295 |
Margaux knocked some sense into me today. My weekend would have gone to waste if it<|fim_middle|> | wasn't for her. Thanks, dear!
I asked birthday girl Anikka what she wanted to have for dinner. She said "something fried" so I brought her to this joint. It's a new tonkatsu place that recently opened in Serendra. Visit the official Saboten site HERE or view the menu HERE.
Warm tea for my bum tummy.
I ordered "Yuki" (SNOW). It comes with unlimited cabbage and pickles, 2 appetizers (I picked chicken salad with Bang Bang Ji dressing and radish salad with plum dressing), pork loin Karaage, unlimited rice and miso soup, 2 deep-fried shrimp, rolled cutlet (I picked cheese) and dessert (I picked green tea ice cream). Not bad for 625 pesos!
I enjoyed everything that they served in front of me.
Headed to Prohibition after to check out DJ Teaze and DJ Skratchmark's sets.
The only place I go to Saturday nights for good music.
Birthday girl with Maria and Tini.
Jake Cuenca needs to make sense of all this.
Some girl named Anne Curtis-Smith.
Clam chowder was hella good. The bread? Menh.
What I came here for. Grilled chicken pesto sandwich!
You're down to 89 lives, bruh. | 273 |
Rich joined the Westchester Corvette Club in November 2013.
Corvette and a place where I could learn more about my car".
last) Corvette with around 8,000 miles on his 50th birthday in 2013<|fim_middle|>STER CORVETTE CLUB?
"Most of my friends are not car guys. I really enjoy being with a group of people that understand the internal need to drive the car. I really enjoy our Corvette Runs where we pick a destination and then find the best roads (not necessarily the shortest way) to get there. Going to other Corvette shows and putting on our own shows twice a year at Arroway Chevrolet is also a lot of fun, but I really look forward to going to Corvettes at Carlisle. That's a great 3-4 day event where you see some of the coolest Corvettes on the planet. WCC is just a great group of folks with a common passion." | .
DO YOU HAVE A FAVORITE GENERATION OR YEAR?
CORVETTE(S) WOULD YOU LIKE TO OWN?
"I would probably like to have one from each generation but I would settle for a '63 split window, a '78 Indianapolis 500 Pace Car Edition and a '13 60th Anniversary 427."
WHAT DO YOU ENJOY MOST ABOUT THE WESTCHE | 87 |
GHC has its own<|fim_middle|> with license information, FAQ, download links
and changelogs. Depending on your operating system, there should be a
package made for its package manager, otherwise (e.g. Windows) it will
be an installer.
You can also download the .tar.gz/.zip and unpack and install the
executables and so forth manually.
Or you can even install from source, for which
[there is documentation](https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building).
[Download GHC now →](https://www.haskell.org/ghc/download.html)
### 2. Install Cabal-install
After installing GHC, you will want the Haskell package manager:
[Get the Cabal archive →](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/cabal-install)
Download the tar.gz file, extract and inside the resulting directory,
run:
$ sh ./bootstrap.sh
This will automatically download and install all the packages
necessary to setup Cabal install.
Once complete, you should add `$HOME/.cabal/bin` to your PATH. A
simple way to do this is to edit your `~/.bashrc` and place in there:
export PATH=$HOME/.cabal/bin:$PATH
Now you should be able to run cabal:
$ cabal --version
cabal-install version 1.18.0.2
using version 1.18.1.2 of the Cabal library
You can now update your package set:
$ cabal update
And install packages into a sandbox so it doesn't conflict with other projects:
$ mkdir my-project
$ cd my-project
$ cabal sandbox init
$ cabal install the-package-name
### 3. Installing Stack
Generic stack binary downloads are available from the [stack website](https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/blob/master/doc/install_and_upgrade.md#linux).
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A business model describes how a company does business and what its value proposition (benefits or offering to customer), value creation (resources, suppliers and other partners who help create value) and value capture mechanisms (cost structures and revenue streams) are.
Sustainable business models consider a much wider group of stakeholders than just customers, and explicitly consider society and environment as stakeholders. They go beyond creating value for a customer and<|fim_middle|>. The focus is on turning the negatives into positives. What new positive value might the network create for its stakeholders through introduction of activities and collaborations? What can you learn from competitors, suppliers, customers or even other industries?
Regarding your paper "A value mapping tool for sustainable business modelling" (2013), I am looking for a guide for facilitators with example questions as it is mentioned in the section 5.2.1 (Pre-workshop preparation) of the paper.
It would be grateful if you please help me on this matter. | include concerns about the benefits and harms to society and the environment by the way business is done. This is a much more systemic view on doing business than making money by delivering benefits and value to customers.
I am interested how current business models can become more sustainable and how start-ups can develop sustainable business models from the outset.
Together with my colleagues Sam Short, Padmakshi Rana, and Steve Evans, I developed the Value Mapping Tool, to assist in 'sustainable business modelling' – the process of inventing new sustainable business model ideas.
Customers – perceived and actual benefits and negative impacts. You may want to break this down into different customer segments.
Network actors – in short, the firm and its supply chain responsible for creating value. This may be broken down into particular key suppliers or partners.
Environment – benefits (afforestation) and negative impacts (e.g. emissions to air).
Brainstorm 1: the purpose of the business is discussed. Why is the business here in the first place? What is the product or service offered by the company or business unit? What is the primary reason for the existence of the business (this should not be primarily financial)?
Brainstorm 2: what value is created for the different types of stakeholders? What positive value is created and what negative value do all the stakeholders mitigate?
Brainstorm 3: what is the value destroyed or missed or negative outcomes for any of the stakeholders? Consider for example, waste to landfill or loss of local employment caused by offshoring. Are there contradicting impacts at a global and local level? Is the business missing an opportunity to capture value, or squandering value in its existing operations? For example, are assets, capacity and capabilities under-utilised? Are potentially useful materials going to landfill?
Brainstorm 4: This brainstorm is intentionally put at the end and is about blue-sky thinking | 376 |
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Little Black Dress FYI
We all wear it, sometimes people say their favourite colour is black but I stand corrected in saying black is a colour but a colour without a hue FYI !! I like black don't get me wrong, but why is it such a strong predominate statement in fashion? Is it because of its slimming attributes? The LBD is often an opinionated generalization put towards society, by fashion realists as a must have item in our closets But why black? Why not brown or yellow (my favourite colour) and even why not sometimes red?
Even before the 19th century, black was one of the most popular colours, used in all facets of life. Black is an achromatic colour, a colour without a hue, much like white and grey. Back in the war era women would wear black to mourn the loss of their husbands and were expected to wear it for at least four years. These days this is still evident, coming from an Orthodox background and losing my partner myself, through religion and tradition it's a way of respecting ones passing from the world and remembering them, sort of like a time of solitude and self reflection.
In 1926, the first ever LBD (little black dress) was revealed to the world and made an impact changing the way women would look at the colour forever. Gabrielle Coco Chanel was her name and fashion was her game. The French designer we all know so well and love, published a small drawing in Vogue, of a simple black dress which Vogue called "Chanel's Ford" and which the designer famously said, "A woman needs just three things, a black dress, a black sweater and on her arm, a man she loves." The dress was a simple straight cut dress, calf-length and decorated only by a few diagonal lines. The LBD, Vogue also said, was a "sort of uniform for all tastes...the frock that all the world will wear."
After this more designs were created by the house of Chanel, which helped disconnect black from being associated with mourning and creating the revolutionary staple that would transform society by putting a new label on it, for the wealthy, high class, sophisticated gal. As Coco Chanel herself proclaimed, "I imposed black; it's still going strong today, for black wipes out everything else around."
Other designers were sure to follow suit, as designers did in those days, they followed the leader. Black was the new fashion accessory. It was what they were waiting for, the next new thing to walk the streets and bring all fashion idealists to their feet. Black was the new way, especially since it was so sought after by all because it was a simple yet alluring hue that could be used to create almost anything. Jean Patou a famous French designer was one of them, known for his amazing perfume creations, created a black clothing collection in 1929. Italian designer Gianni Versace said, "black is the quintessence of simplicity and elegance," and French designer Yves Saint Laurent said, "black is the liaison which connects art and fashion." Also one of the most famous black dresses designed by Hubert de Givenchy was worn in the 1961 film 'Breakfast at Tiffany's'.
Black can be considered as a veil to hide behind, shielding your imperfections to avoid public attention and to look overly conservative. Now the LBD on the other hand overrides any limit on age, size and occasion. It's versatile, dressed up or down and flattering on the figure, thus making it a girls best friend. The easy dependable option when you don't know what to wear, when apparently you don't have anything to wear......
As I have discovered, in history that is, black has come along way but was always evident in every century somewhat, with it's own symbolic meaning and approach at the time. It is and always will be a part of our culture, art, fashion, political movements and way of living.
Picardie, Justine (2010). Coco Chanel: the legend and the life. London: Harper Collins Publishers. pp. 92–93. ISBN 9780061963858.
Eva Heller, Psychologie de la Couleur – effets et symboliques, p. 120.
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\section{Introduction}
Magnetic fields are responsible for many aspects of plasma inflow
and outflow in active galactic nuclei (AGNs). Magnetic fields
provide outward angular momentum transport in the accretion
process via magnetorotational instability, with accompanied
dissipative heating that allows further mass-inflow. Strong
poloidal magnetic fields are thought to thread centrifugal winds,
which could carry away angular momentum, while confining and
collimating large-scale outflows and jets seen in many AGNs. The
existence of broad-line region in AGNs may be provided namely by
magnetic pressure. Fig.1 shows a remarkable variety of structure
of typical AGN nearest region including accretion disk, disk
corona, wind stream lines, etc.
First part of our paper is including the short description of new
method of determination of magnetic fields developed in the
Pulkovo Observatory. The main idea of this method is taking into
account the Faraday rotation of the polarization plane in the mean
free path of electron (Thomson) scattering. In a result a
nontrivial wavelength dependence of polarization arises when the
Faraday rotation angle $\psi$ at the Thomson depth $\tau$ (see
Gnedin and Silant'ev 1997)
\begin{equation}
\psi = 0.4 \left(\frac{\lambda}{1 \mu m}\right)^2 \left(\frac{B}{1
G}\right)\tau \cos{\theta}
\label{eq1}
\end{equation}
\noindent is sufficiently large. Here, $\lambda$ is the radiation
wavelength and $\theta$ is the angle between the line of sight and
magnetic field B. We present the results of calculations of
polarized radiation of the accretion disk and accretion outflow
near a supermassive black hole which is thought to be in the
centre of AGNs.
The text of this paper is also including the brief review of
results of polarimetric observations of AGNs and QSOs. The basic
new our idea is to use the future precise measurements of magnetic
fields of AGNs and QSOs for investigating of various cosmological
models and especially for determination of the equation of state
(EOS) of dark energy. The main method for solving this problem is
determination of magnetic field of extragalactic radio structures
using their synchrotron spectra in the region of synchrotron
self-absorption. In this case the magnetic field magnitude depends
very strongly on the value of photometric distance. The last one
depends in this turn on the real cosmological model. It appears
that the magnetic field strength of the given source can be
different in many times for various cosmological models. Thus we
are obtaining the new method that allows us to make the decisive
choice between numerous cosmological models. We expect that this
method could have more advantage over the modern classical SNe and
WMAP methods.
\section{The basic results of polarimetric observations of AGNs}
Fig.2 presents the results of spectropolarimetric observations of
the sample of extragalactic targets chosen by Cabanac et al.
(2005) from Veron-Cetti and Veron (2000) and the Sloan Digital Sky
Survey. The targets included the bright extragalactic sources
having higher probability to show stronger polarization: BAL
quasars and red quasars. The selection criteria of the sample were
detailed by Hutsemekers et al. 2001,2005. To avoid possible
contaminations from the interstellar medium of the Galaxy only the
objects at galactic latitude $b_{gal} > 30$ grad were selected.
Above this galactic latitude the interstellar polarization is
smaller. This sample spans the redshift range $0 < z < 3$
homogeneously. Fig.2 shows the dependence of the quasar sample
polarization on redshift. Overall the quasar polarization degrees
do not correlate with redshift though the slight enhancement of
highly polarized quasars at lower redshift seems to be real. Fig.2
(right panel) presents the histograms of the linear polarization
degree of the quasar sample (black line) and of the star sample
selected over the same region (grey line) are superimposed. Both
panels are used from Cabanac et al. (2005). The star polarization
histogram shows much smaller polarization degrees to that which
corresponds to minor contamination from the interstellar
polarization. Decreasing the number of polarized quasars with
increasing polarization degree may be interpreted as the effect of
depolarization due to magnetic Faraday effect.
Hutsemekers and Lamy, 2001, and Hutsemekers et al. 2005 discovered
coherent orientations of quasar polarization vectors on
cosmological scales. It appears that quasar polarization vectors
are not randomly oriented over the sky with a probability often
excess of 99.9\%. The polarization vectors appear coherently
oriented or aligned over huge ($\sim 1$ Gpc) regions of the sky
located at both low ($z\sim 0.5$) and high ($z\sim 1.5$) redshifts
and characterized by different preferred directions of the quasar
polarization (Fig.3). The left panel shows a map of the
polarization vectors. The right panel shows the logarithmic
significance level of the coherent orientation for the sample of
213 polarized quasars. Hutsemekers et al.(2005) claimed existence
a regular alternance along the line of sight of regions of
randomly and aligned polarization vectors with typical commoving
length scale of 1.5 Gpc. Furthermore, the mean polarization angle
seems to rotate with redshift at the rate of $\sim 30^{\circ}$ per
Gpc. They excluded the effect of contamination by interstellar
polarization in our Galaxy. Though it is not possible to exclude
the intrinsic quasar origin of this alignment, the other
possibility is that both the polarization vector alignments and
the rotation of the mean polarization angles are due to a physical
mechanism which affects the light on its travel on the line of
sight. Such mechanism was considered by Gnedin 1994 and by Gnedin
and Krasnikov 1992 and it consists in photon-pseudoscalar mixing
within a magnetic field. Mixing process produces light
polarization in an external magnetic field. The coupling between
electromagnetic and pseudoscalar fields affects the polarization
properties of the electromagnetic waves as they propagate through
a magnetic field. The value of linear polarization due to magnetic
conversion of photons into pseudoscalar bosons is derived by the
expression:
\begin{equation}
P_l = A \sin^2{(\frac{1}{2} g_{\alpha \gamma} B_{\bot} l)}
\label<|fim_middle|> measurements of magnetic fields
of active galaxy nuclei and quasars will be able make decisive
contribution to solution of the problem of evolution of the
Universe.
\begin{table}
\caption[]{Magnetic field strengths for a number of GPS sources in
various cosmological models (with different deceleration
parameters).}{\small
\begin{flushleft}
\begin{tabular}{|l|l|l|l|l|l|}
\hline
{\bf Object}& & $q_0 = 0$& $q_0 = 0.5$& WDE =& WDE =\\ & & & & -1&
-1 + 2z \\
\hline
1840+3900& $B(l_0 / l)^4$(G)& 0.0015& 0.0195& 0.0035& 0.0286 \\
& $B / B_0$& 1.000& 13.120& 2.381& 19.184 \\
\hline
0646+4451& $B(l_0 / l)^4$(G)& 0.0006& 0.0095& 0.0016& 0.0158 \\
& $B / B_0$& 1.000& 15.758& 2.740& 26.342 \\
\hline
1424+2256& $B(l_0 / l)^4$(G)& 0.0000& 0.0005& 0.0001& 0.0009 \\
& $B / B_0$& 1.000& 18.023& 3.113& 32.993 \\
\hline
1616+0459& $B(l_0 / l)^4$(G)& 0.0000& 0.0004& 0.0001& 0.0006 \\
& $B / B_0$& 1.000& 13.974& 2.463& 21.427 \\
\hline
1645+6330& $B(l_0 / l)^4$(G)& 0.0186& 0.1521& 0.0299& 0.1534 \\
& $B / B_0$& 1.000& 8.163& 1.603& 8.235 \\
\hline
1850+2825& $B(l_0 / l)^4$(G)& 0.0003& 0.0029& 0.0006& 0.0033 \\
& $B / B_0$& 1.000& 9.255& 1.777& 10.537\\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{flushleft}
}
\end{table}
In the Table 3 the results of calculations of magnetic field
strength for the number of the GPS sources are presented for the
cosmological models with different deceleration parameter $q_0$.
The scaling linear dimension of radio region $l_0$ is chosen as
$l_0 = 2$ pc. Our results allows to determine the magnitude of
magnetic field in the close vicinity of the supermassive black
hole horizon. If one suggests the conservation of the magnetic
flux one can estimate this magnitude. The data of the Table 3 show
that this magnitude can reach the value $B_H \sim 10^8 \div 10^9$G
at the horizon of a supermassive black hole.
\section{Conclusions}
The alignment of the polarization vectors of AGNs and QSOs
discovered by Hutsemekers and their colleagues may be explained as
the effect of conversion of photons into pseudoscalar bosons in
the intergalactic magnetic field. Polarimetric observations in
optical range and radio spectral observations of AGNs and QSOs
allow us to measure the magnetic field magnitudes. It is
interesting that the magnetic field strength determined from
radio spectrum in the model of synchrotron self-absorption
mechanism appears to be strongly dependent on the cosmological
model. It means that magnetic measurements are presented a new
test for exploration of cosmological models and for determination
of the basic parameters of dark matter and dark energy.
\section*{Acknowledgements}
This work was supported by the RFBR grant 03-02-17223, the Program
of the Presidium of RAS "Nonstationary Phenomena in Astronomy",
the Program of the Department of Physical Sciences of RAS "The
Extended Structure...", and by the Program of Russian Education
and Science Department. One of the authors (M.Yu. Piotrovich) is
grateful to "Russian Science Support Foundation".
| {eq2}
\end{equation}
\noindent where $B_{\bot} = B\sin{\theta}$ is the perpendicular
component of a magnetic field, $\theta$ is the angle between the
photon propagation and magnetic field directions, l is the
characteristic dimension of a magnetic field, $g_{\alpha \gamma}$
is the photon-pseudoscalar coupling constant. The alignment effect
requires existence of regular magnetic field on the cosmological
scales $\sim 1$ Gpc with the magnetic field strength at the level
of $\sim 1 \div 10$ nG. There is now evidence of existence of such
huge magnetic fields on cosmological scales (Blasi and Olinto,
1999, Dar and De Rujula, 2005). This evidence was obtained via
observations of Faraday rotation of light from distant QSOs.
\section{Measurement of the spectrum of linear polarized
radiation\\ from magnetosphere of compact object - a new method to
determine the magnetic field}
The existing magnetic field of the astrophysical object is the
additional factor in optical anisotropy of a surrounding this
object plasma. The radiation of such object acquires linear
polarization as a result of scattering on electrons. The scattered
radiation undergoes Faraday rotation by propagation in magnetized
plasma. The angle of Faraday rotation $\psi$ is determined by the
expression (1). The integral linear polarization of light occurs
even for a spherically symmetric density distribution of electrons
if the magnetic field has no axial symmetry coinciding with the
line of sight. Fig.4 demonstrates action of this effect. The
radiation only scattered in equatorial volumes is polarized
because Faraday rotation angle is negligible for radiation
direction across magnetic force lines.
Another important effect is the polarization of radiation
scattered from an accretion disk that also undergoes to Faraday
rotation and Faraday depolarization. Photons escape the optically
thick disk basically from the surface layer with $\tau \sim 1$. If
the Faraday rotation angle corresponding to this optical length
becomes greater than unity, then the emerging radiation will be
depolarized as a result of the summarizing radiation fluxes with
different angles of Faraday's rotation. Only for directions that
are perpendicular to the vertical magnetic field the Faraday
rotation angle is too small to yield depolarization effect.
Certainly, the diffusion of radiation in the inner part
depolarizes it even without magnetic field because of multiple
scattering of photons. The Faraday rotation only increases the
depolarization process. It means that the polarization of outgoing
radiation acquires the peak-like angular dependence with its
maximum for the direction perpendicular to magnetic field. The
sharpness of the peak increases with increasing magnetic field
strength. The main region of allowed angles appears to be $\sim
1/\delta$, where the parameter depolarization:
\begin{equation}
\delta = 0.8 \left(\frac{\lambda}{1\mu m}\right)^2
\left(\frac{B}{1 G}\right)
\label{eq3}
\end{equation}
Fig.5 shows the dependence of the polarization degree of outgoing
radiation from magnetized optically thick plasma disk. The maximum
value of polarization is equal to 9.14\% instead of the classical
value 11.7\% corresponding to multiple electron scattering without
magnetic field. The results of our calculations (see Gnedin et
al.2005) polarization for the various models of optically thick
accretion disk with vertically averaged magnetic field are
presented by the Table 1.
\begin{table}
\caption[]{Degree of polarization for the various models of an
accretion disk with vertically averaged magnetic field.}
\begin{flushleft}
\begin{tabular}{|l|l|l|}
\hline
{\bf Model}& $B_{eq}(R)$& $P_l(\lambda)$ \\
\hline
{\small Accretion disk with ion}& & \\
{\small supported flows}&
$\sim R^{-5/4}$& $\sim \lambda^{-1/3}$ \\
\hline
{\small Sunayev-Shakura disk (a)}& & \\
{\small $P_r \gg P_g$}&
$\sim R^{-3/4}$& $\sim \lambda^{-1}$ \\
\hline
{\small Sunayev-Shakura disk (b)}& & \\
{\small $P_g \gg P_r$}&
$\sim R^{-9/8}$& $\sim \lambda^{-1/2}$ \\
\hline
{\small Sunayev-Shakura disk (c)}& & \\
{\small $P_g \gg P_r$}&
$\sim R^{-21/16}$& $\sim \lambda^{-1/4}$ \\
\hline
{\small Hot accretion disk with}& & \\
{\small plasma viscosity}&
$\sim R^{-15/28}$& $\sim \lambda^{-9/7}$ \\
\hline
{\small Payne-Eardley disk}& & \\
{\small $P = P_g$, $\alpha =
1$}& $\sim R^{-21/8}$& $\sim \lambda^{-1/8}$ \\
\hline
{\small Magnetic accretion-jet ejection}& & \\ {\small disk
without equipartition}& $\sim R^{-5/2}$& $\sim \lambda^{4/3}$ \\
\hline
{\small Accretion disk with non-zero}& & \\ {\small torque on
inner edge}& $\sim R^{-15/16}$& $\sim \lambda^{-1}$ \\
\hline
{\small Disk with reprocessing}& $\sim R^{-7/4}$& $\sim
\lambda^{-1/8}$ \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{flushleft}
\end{table}
AGNs and QSOs are characterized with strong outflows from
accretion disks. Punsly (2001) developed the theory that a wind of
magnetized plasma from the nearest vicinity of supermassive black
hole can be driven by the interaction of the black hole
gravitational field and a plasma filled magnetosphere. He
investigated the fundamental process that allows a rotating black
hole to power a magnetized wind. The basic Punsly's idea is that
the poloidal magnetic field is generated in the region between the
inner radius of the accretion disk and the horizon (ergosphere).
Our basic idea is that cooperative action of the wind outflow and
rotation of a black hole can transfer the poloidal magnetic field
in the magnetic field of Parker type:
\[
B_r = B \left(\frac{R_S}{r}\right)^2 \cos{\theta}
\]
\[
B_{\varphi} = B \frac{k a}{M} \frac{1}{1 -
a/M}\left(\frac{R_S}{r}\right)\cos{\theta}\sin{\theta} \equiv C
\left(\frac{R_S}{r}\right) \cos{\theta} \sin{\theta}
\]
\begin{equation}
B_{\theta} = 0
\label{eq4}
\end{equation}
\noindent Here $B$ is the polar magnetic field at the inner radius
$R_S$ of the accretion outflow, $\theta$ is the angle between the
dipole axis and the radius-vector, $a/M$ is the well-known
dimensionless black hole angular momentum parameter, k is the
specific physical parameter $\sim 1$ of a black hole ergosphere.
The results of our calculation of polarization are presented at
Fig.6. This Fig. reveals that if the toroidal component is much
less that and radial one the scattered radiation is nearby
depolarized. With increasing toroidal component, i.e. with
reaching the value $a/M \sim 1$ the polarization spectrum removes
in more hard wavelength region, the width of spectral dependence
being narrow. In principle, the increase of the radial component
makes also shift of the maximum polarization into hard energy, but
in this case much more stronger magnetic field strength is
required. The real conclusion is that more faster rotating black
holes will have higher level polarization compared to slowly
rotating black holes. It means that the level of polarization and
its spectral distribution is acceptable test for distinguishing
between Kerr and Schwarzschild black holes.
The plasma outflow from the magnetosphere and the inner part of
the accretion disk gives rise to an envelope. The radiation
scattered in the envelope acquires the linear polarization. The
region of the formation of broad emission lines observed in AGNs
is a case of such envelope. In the absence of magnetic field the
scattered radiation has to be non -polarized provided the
scattering matter in the spherically shape envelope is symmetric
relative to the line of sight. If the magnetic field is not
symmetric relative to this line, the outgoing radiation (singly or
multiply scattered) has to undergo influence of the Faraday's
rotation effect and become to be polarized. The integral
polarization of radiation is equal to zero if the dipole magnetic
moment M is coaxial with the line of sight or in the case of $B =
0$. The results of numerical calculations of polarization are
presented in Fig.7 as function of dimensionless parameter
$\delta$, where $B = M/a^3$ is the dipole magnetic field on the
surface of radiation source. This parameter changes from 0 up to
100. The peak value of the polarization occurs when $M$ is
perpendicular to the line of sight.
\section{Magnetic fields of the extragalactic radio sources:
exploration of the cosmological models}
We demonstrate the principal possibility to explore the various
cosmological models through measurements of the magnetic field
magnitudes of the compact radio galaxies. The magnetic field
strengths of the compact extragalactic radio structures can be
estimated from the synchrotron spectra of radio sources if one
takes into account the synchrotron self-absorption process. In
this case the most important physical value is the observed
synchrotron self-absorption frequency $\nu_p$ at that the optical
thickness respect to the synchrotron self-absorption becomes equal
to unite. Then the expression for the magnetic field strength $B$
is determined by Slysh,1963, and Hirotani, 2005:
\begin{equation}
B = 10^{-5} b(\alpha) \left(\frac{\nu_p}{1 GHz}\right)^5
\left(\frac{\theta}{mas}\right)^4 \left(\frac{1 Jy}{S_p}\right)^2
\frac{\delta}{1 + z}
\label{eq5}
\end{equation}
\noindent Here $S_p$ is the flux density at the frequency $\nu_p$,
$\delta$ is the boosting factor, the coefficient $b(\alpha)$
depends on the index of synchrotron radiation. Its value lies in
the region $b = 2 \div 3$ for the wide range of values $\alpha$.
This formula was successively used by Artukh and Chernikov, 2001,
Tyul'bashev and Chernikov, 2001, for determination of magnetic
fields of concrete extragalactic radio sources.
Our main idea is to use this formula for exploration various
cosmological models using in this formula the well-known
expression for angular diameter $\theta$ of the radio source:
\begin{equation}
\theta = \frac{l (1 + z)^2}{D_L (z)}
\label{eq6}
\end{equation}
\noindent where $D_L$ is, so-called, the photometric distance.
This distance depends on the real cosmological model. For the
commonly accepted the dark matter (DM) and dark energy (DE) model
the expression for the photometric distance takes the form:
\begin{equation}
D_L (z) = \frac{c}{H_0} (1 + z)\int_0^z{\frac{dx}{H(x)/H_0}}
\label{eq7}
\end{equation}
\noindent Where the Hubble parameter is:
\begin{equation}
H(z) = H_0 \left[\Omega_m (1+z)^3 + \Omega_{\Lambda}
f(z)\right]^{1/2}
\label{eq8}
\end{equation}
$\Omega_m$ and $\Omega_{\Lambda}$ are the ratios of the modern
total matter density and dark energy density to the critical
density, correspondingly, and what is more $\Omega_m +
\Omega_{\Lambda} = 1$. The function $f(z)$ depends on the equation
of state of dark energy $p(z) = w(z)\rho(z)$:
\begin{equation}
f(z) = \exp{\left[3 \int_0^z{\frac{1 + W(z)}{1 + z} dz}\right]}
\label{eq9}
\end{equation}
One can see that the magnitude of magnetic field depends very
strongly on the photometric distance and therefore on the real
cosmological model. The relation (9) means also that the value
magnetic field in the radio luminosity region depends essentially
on the form of the equation state of dark energy. Such dependence
appears to be more strongly that it looks in the classical methods
of SNIa and cosmic microwave background anisotropy (WMAP).
We demonstrate the power of this method on the example of the
sample of the Gigahertzs Peaked Spectrum sources (GPS) that
presents the class of intrinsically compact objects (linear size
at parsec scale). This sample defined on the basis of their
spectral properties (see Tinti et al., 2004): the overall shape is
convex with turnover frequencies of a few GHz and the spectrum at
high frequencies is steep. The best fitting physical mechanism is
the synchrotron emission of the relativistic electrons with the
synchrotron self-absorption (SSA).
The key problem is the determination of the photometric distance
which is really dependent on the basic parameters DM and DE. We
are considering the some examples of the cosmological models when
$\Omega_m + \Omega_{\Lambda} = 1$ and $P_{DE} = W \rho_{DE}$,
where $W > < 0$ for different cosmological models and then:
\begin{equation}
H(z) = H_0 \left[\Omega_m (1 + z)^3 + \Omega_{\Lambda} (1 + z)^{3
(1 + W)}\right]^{1/2} \label{eq10}
\end{equation}
For popular LCDM (Lambda-Cold Dark Matter) model it follows $W =
-1$, for model with noninteracting cosmic strings $W = - 1/3$. In
the Universe with domain walls the DE equation of state requires
$W = - 2/3$. At last, in the so-called phantom model it appears
that $W < - 1$. Our calculations of the Eq.(5) show that the
magnitude of the magnetic field of one definite radio source can
differ at 2 - 3 times for various cosmological models mentioned
here.
\begin{table}
\caption[]{Magnetic field strengths for GPS source 1424+2256 (z =
3.626) in various cosmological models.}
\begin{flushleft}
\begin{tabular}{|l|l|}
\hline
{\bf Model}& {\bf B(mG)} \\
\hline
LA (3)& 0.152 \\
\hline
P2 (4)& 0.129 \\
\hline
Linear (5)& 0.245 \\
\hline
CA (7)& 0.034 \\
\hline
Quiess (8)& 0.079 \\
\hline
MCG (9)& 0.085 \\
\hline
Brane 2 (10)& 0.083 \\
\hline
LCDM& 0.080 \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{flushleft}
\end{table}
We present in the Table 2 the results of calculations of magnetic
fields of the GPS source ($z = 3.626$) for various cosmological
models. The names of the models presented in this Table are: LA
corresponds to the following expression for DE coefficient $W(z) =
W_0 + W_1 z / (1 + z)$ and $W_0 = - 1.40$, $W_1 = 1.66$ (Linder,
2003). Linear means $W(z) = W_0 + W_1 z$ with the same values of
$W$'s. P2 is a quadratic polynomial of $H(z)$ (Alam et al.,2004).
P3 is a cubic polynomial $H(z)$. CA is the generalized cardassian
cosmology (Freese, 2005). Quiess means the DE with constant
equation of state $W$. MCG is a modified form (Chimento et al.
2004) of the Chaplygin gas (Fabris et al. 2001). Brane 2 means
brane world cosmology (Sahni and Shtanov, 2003, Sahni and Alam,
2002).
One can see that there is a real difference in magnitudes of
magnetic fields for various cosmological models. It means that
measurements of magnetic fields of active galaxy nuclei and
quasars allow us to choose the real cosmological model from
numerous theoretical models of evolution of our Universe.
The basic difference between the cosmological models can be
formulated by the following way. Magnetic fields of AGNs in the
phantom cosmological model with $W < -1$ is less than in the
cosmological models with $W \geq -1$, i.e. $B(W < -1) < B(W =
-1)$. We reveal the following relation between magnitudes of
magnetic fields for GPS 1424+2256 ($z = 3$) for Standard Cold
Matter (SCDM) and commonly accepted LCDM models:
\begin{equation}
B_{SCDM} / B_{LCDM} = 7
\label{eq11}
\end{equation}
Magnetic field is greater for brane world model and Chaplygin gas
model compare to classical LCDM model. For curvature theory of
gravity the magnetic field also is strongly greater than for LCDM
model, and what is more $B_{curv} / B_{LCDM}$ can reach $\sim
100$. Our calculations show also that magnetic fields for the same
source in positive curvature universe and in negative curvature
universe can differ each from other, at least, two times.
It is interesting to consider the situation with dynamical
behavior of dark energy. There is an evidence to show that the
dark energy might evolve from $W > -1$ in the past to $W < -1$
today and cross $W = -1$ in the intermediate redshift (see, for
example, Huang and Guo, 2005). The basic question is what explicit
value of transition redshift. There is some evidence from SNIa,
that transition from decelerating to accelerating takes place at
$z \sim 0.6$, but Huang and Guo, 2005, found that this transition
takes at $z \sim 1.7$. We calculate the magnetic field strength
for the radio source GPS 1424+2256 ($z = 3.626$) with and without
transition from decelerating to accelerating. If the transition
takes at $z \sim 0.6$, the ratio $B_{tr} / B_{LCDM} = 5.4$. If the
transition takes place at $z = 1.7$ then $B_{tr} / B_{LCDM} =
2.7$. This result means that it is possible to distinguish two
various transitions: $z \sim 0.6$ and $z \sim 1.7$ via
measurements of magnetic field. For $z = 3.626$ the ratio $B(0.6)
/ B(1.7) = 2.27$. Thus the future | 4,540 |
Apple's Stunning New iPhone Feature Is A Triumphant Success – Forbes
SOURCE: Kate O'Flaherty | Forbes
Apple's recently-launched iPhone privacy feature, App Tracking Transparency (ATT) is proving to be a triumphant success—that is, if you care about privacy.
According to a recent Bloomberg article, iOS 14.5's ATT, as predicted, has really hurt the likes of Facebook and its advertisers. In fact, the latest figures from Branch, which analyses mobile app growth, show that 75% of iPhone users are opting out of being tracked across their iPhones.
Launched in April, ATT effectively spelled the end of the identifier for advertisers (IDFA), a unique code that allows apps to track you across apps and websites you use on your iPhone. If you say no to the new "Allow App to Track" iOS prompt, the app developer will be given a string of zeros instead of the unique code<|fim_middle|> it's a smart move – The Drum
Jack Dorsey steps down as Twitter CEO
YouTube blocks all anti-vaccine content – Reuters
As Events and Meetings Go Hybrid, Can Real-Time Sentiment Analysis Help 'Read' the Room? – ADWEEK
CNN will no longer publish content on Facebook in Australia – CNN Business | .
The impact of this is huge, as the IDFA was used to measure the success of ad campaigns—for example, if someone saw an ad on Facebook, but typed the site into Google and brought up the website, it was possible to track this. Not any more—and combined with the fact there is now less data available to be collected by external websites and sent back to Facebook, it's become a heck of a lot harder to track, profile and target users with ads.
Facebook said a while back that its advertisers would be hurt, and Bloomberg confirms this, quoting people in the advertising industry who say this data removes a "single source of truth" measuring ad effectiveness.
Privacy-focused business model works for Apple
Apple's ATT feature is forcing companies such as Facebook and its advertisers to change the model. This is not a bad thing, since the previous model was broken, with intrusive tracking that was an invasion of people's privacy.
Facebook says it's looking at other ways of measuring ads' success, but it needs to do so with privacy in mind. As Google's proposed and now failing FLoC experiment shows, users won't just take new measures from the big tech companies at face value. It's also about trust—and in that way Apple is winning in the battle with Facebook and Google.
It's fair to say ATT was a great move by Apple, but it's also important to remember that privacy is a business model that works for the iPhone maker. Unlike Facebook and Google, Apple makes its money through its own walled garden ecosystem of hardware, software and services. Its model is not based on data collection and tracking to serve you ads.
It is therefore no surprise that Apple has been making a big deal of the new iPhone privacy feature, with a TV ad campaign showing users just how invasive ad tracking is. Apple CEO Tim Cook says privacy is a fundamental human right—and he's correct.
And while Apple does benefit from its iPhone privacy features and anti-tracking ethos, it is not the only one. The user—you—is increasingly able to access privacy by default and design, and that's certainly something to be happy about.
This article was originally published on Forbes. You can view the original article here.
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-Walk to Downtown Weaverville/Lake Louise! Beautiful Street. PRICED BELOW APPRAISAL, PREINSPECTED, HOME WARRANTY Excellent floor plan allows option of Double Master; nearly-level entry from two-car garage & driveway to kitchen; fantastic outdoor living via screened porch and deck off kitchen/dining room; large, beautifully-landscaped property with gazebo, greenhouse , garden area and storage shed plus two paved driveways.
We love Weaverville because we love living in a small town. We love being able to go to downtown Weaverville from our house in a matter of minutes. We enjoy going for a brisk morning walk or going to Lake Louise and walking around the Lake.
We love the Pizzeria across from the Post office, IHOP, Stoney Knob Cafe, Main Street Grill, La Carretta and Well Bred Bakery to name a few. Also, Ingles has a premium meat department and a great little sub shop too!
There are 2 main grocery stores in Weaverville, conveniently located just minutes from our house. Wal-Mart, Lowes, Tractor Supply, Reems Creek Nursery, are also just minutes away. The Post Office, Police Department/City Hall and Fire Department are close as well. The Weaverville Primary School and Elementary School are within walking distance from the house. There's a Farmers Market on Wednesday afternoons next to Lake Louise, and a wonderful little fruit and vegetable stand on Main Street as well.
We love the location in Weaverville, and close proximity to Asheville, Marshall, and Blue Ridge Parkway. The easy access to the interstate is very important to our jobs.
We love being able to be in Asheville in about 10 minutes, but have the relaxing small town atmosphere to come home to. We were drawn to the floor plan because it has a wonderful guest room/master bedroom on the 1st floor that is always ready for company. We like that the 2nd floor has a master bedroom, walk-in closet, and 2 other bedrooms upstairs. We were excited to have a full basement with easy access outside. The fireplace was also a draw for us. And we liked the 2-car garage. There are many trees on the property with a small creek running next to our property. Also the wonderful screened in porch that we've spent many hours on with friends and family ʺporch sittingʺ as my Dad would say.
The weather is perfect!!! We love watching the leaves change in the fall, watching the flowers and trees bloom in the spring. We love the critters (squirrels, chipmunks, bunnies, birds, raccoons, groundhogs, coyotes and even an occasional bear) visit the property. We enjoy the back way to the Blue Ridge Parkway and the Folk Art Center via Reems Creek. Downtown Weaverville is wonderful with the town square and Clock. Arts in Autumn Festival in September within walking distance, many parades, terrific fireworks.
Our property has a little crab-apple tree that produces wonderful fruit for Jams. Also we have a nice garden spot that produces, great tomatoes, beans, potatoes, lettuce, spinach, corn and squash. We have many trees to include: Hickory, Walnut, Cherry, Red Bud, Dogwood, Mulberry, Crab-apple, Tulip, 2 flowering Magnolia trees and one smoke tree. We planted a Leland Cyprus border, also planted a White Pine border.<|fim_middle|>. Large kitchen with a hard maple island counter top with pull-out trash and recycle containers, pantry, large windows to let the sun shine in!. Fabulous front porch!
We enjoy the nature walking trail, Lake Louise walking trail both within walking distance.
There is a fabulous, highly rated Golf Course just 5 minutes away.
We have wonderful neighbors behind us as well as on up the street. An uncrowded, unhurried, peaceful, friendly neighborhood. Everyone is friendly!
What a great home within walking distance to downtown Weaverville and an easy stroll to Lake Louise. The home has great flow and floorplan. I love how the dining area heads right out to an open porch. The outdoor space is beautifully done. Don't pass this one by.
29 Grove Offers Five things in high demand and short supply all for under $250k!
Best of both worlds! An awesome location and a wonderful house!! This one won't last long.
Enjoy the quaintness of downtown Weaverville, yet live within 15 minutes to downtown Asheville. Beautiful garden, vegetation, trees. Make your own jelly on the property! Enjoy the pretty cabinetry, beautiful wood floors, and exquisite front porch. How nice!
such a cute house for a GREAT price, this will sell quickly! walk to downtown Weaverville, quiet street, tons of room inside and in the garage. really nice layout and in good condition. shows beautifully and would be great for somebody who wants to walk to Weaverville to enjoy all the cute shops and restaurants, yet also wants the convenience of a newer home.
This home is going to move quickly. You can basically walk to Weaverville. Downtown Asheville is only a 10 minute drive. There is so much potential with this home. | Also, we use Weaverville Pharmacy and Rodney's Auto Repair.
Favorite shops are Shop Around the Corner, Wright's Outfitters and Mangum Pottery - again all within walking distance!! Also our water comes from Forks of Ivy, known to be one of the best municipal water sources around. Weaverville has a great little monthly newsletter for all Weaverville residents | 76 |
What's more iconic to Hawaii than the flower lei? I'm kicking off my new Flowers 101 how-to series by showing you how to make your own lei!
The flowers you select need to have a sturdy stem/head.
Plumerias and orchids are the most common flowers used for traditional Hawaiian leis. Carnations, daisies, and roses are also really popular varieties.
I used 44 mini carnation flower heads for this lei. Buying two bunches was more than enough to accommodate this quantity.
You can easily find affordable flower bunches at Costco or Sam's Club wholesalers.
This is what you will string your lei with. You can use thread or fishing line instead, but I prefer dental floss because it is sturdy, easy to use, and convenient.
Starting and ending from the back of your neck, measure how long you desire the lei to be. Once you have established how long you would like the length to be, double it. After you have doubled that length, add an additional 4-5 inches to ensure extra string at the end to tie it off.
Don't stress! There is no exact science for this. Just make sure to have enough string/floss to work with. When in doubt, use more than anticipated. You can always cut off the excess.
Take the floss and string it through the eye of your needle. Place the needle in the middle of the string. There will be equal lengths of floss on both sides of the needle.
About 4-5 inches up one end of the string, tie a knot.
You may need to tie several knots at the same spot so the knot is large enough to block flowers from sliding off.
This is where the first flower of your lei will be strung to.
Ensure there are a few inches of extra string here so you can tie off<|fim_middle|> lei is strung through the flower head"face first". Insert the needle into the face of the flower. Pull the needle through the stem end. Continue pulling both strings through until the flower is in place.
The first flower will stop when it reaches the end knot.
Continue to string flowers until the desired # of flowers is reached.
Once you are done stringing all flowers, tie the two ends of the floss/string together in a double knot (at least).
There most likely will be excess string. You can cut off these loose ends after you have tied off the lei.
Congratulations! You made your very own lei. Sport this beauty around, or share it with someone special. Leis are a great way to show congratulations, support, and of course aloha! | your lei when finished.
Take your needle and begin to string your first flower.
Usually, the | 19 |
Freeform Sets Full Cast For Mystery Drama Pilot 'Close Up' Produced By Peter Nowalk
EXCLUSIVE: Freeform has set the full cast for Close Up, its hourlong suspense drama pilot executive produced by How to Get Away With Murder creator Peter Nowalk and Mary Rohlich (Atypical). ABC Signature, part of Disney TV Studios, is the studio. Production recently kicked off in Vancouver.
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Fivel Stewart (Atypical) is set as the lead, and Anthony Keyvan (Alexa & Katie), Karin Konoval (Planet of the Apes franchise), Yaani King Mondschein (The Resident), Sean Blakemore (Ad Astra), Jennifer Spence (Travelers), Megan Charpentier (It) newcomer Alexander Grant and Van Crosby (Splitting Up Together) round out the series regular cast, joining previously announced Millicent Simmonds (A Quiet Place). Additionally, Natalie Chaidez (Queen of the South) joins as showrunner with Alex Kalymnios (The 100, Titans) set to direct.
Written by Keith Staskiewicz (Three Delivery), Close Up is set in Centreville, NJ, a suburban town just like any other … at least on the surface. Centreville high school student Rachel Guyer (Stewart) is on a mission to expose the truth about her seemingly normal hometown and turn her community inside out. In the vein of HTGAWM, the character-driven drama also features unexpected twists. It's about the strength behind one young woman's act of rebellion and its impact on changing the world.
L-R:<|fim_middle|> Blakemore is repped by SDB Partners and The Rookery. Spence is repped by Play Management and Mosaic. Charpentier is with MGMT Entertainment and RED Management. Grant is repped by The Characters Talent Agency, The X Division, and Felker, Toczek, Suddleson, Abramson. Van Crosby is with The Osbrink Agency and Monster Talent.
Fivel Stewart
Mary Rohlich
Peter Nowalk | Jennifer Spence, Megan Charpentier, Alexander Grant, Van Crosby Freeform
Fivel's Rachel is a natural leader whose ends are as honorable as her means are questionable. Her righteous indignation serves as both her greatest strength and her greatest weakness.
Keyvan plays Jeremy. Smart, athletic, hardworking and genuine, he is used to everything falling into place, which makes his electric and complicated relationship with Rachel all the more intriguing. But he carries guilt over keeping a devastating secret.
Konoval will portray Martine, the caretaker of the Centreville Visitor Center. She has an air of mystery, which will slowly be uncovered, and understands deception is sometimes the only way to expose the truth.
Mondschein is Dr. Reddy, a high school psychologist who is easy to trust, even when you know you shouldn't.
Blakemore will play Sheriff Griff, whose investigation into a recent event forces him to decide between his duty to his town and his obligation to the law.
Spence will portray Tessa, Rachel's mom who was once a powerful lawyer but now finds herself in a cycle of self-destruction.
Charpentier plays Abby, who is smart and endearingly awkward. She can't help but see things from other people's perspective, even those who make fun of her.
Grant portrays Sean, who is confident and appealing, but is smarter than he appears and knows how to look out for himself.
Van Crosby rounds out the cast as Alex, the class clown and classic follower. A bit naïve, he blindly believes what he's been told but slowly discovers the truth about what happened in his town.
As previously announced, Simmonds will portray Jen, who is self-possessed and funny, and tends to retreat into a rich imaginative inner world. A deaf girl, she is a natural observer and knows her town like the back of her hand.
Stewart is repped by Sovereign Talent and TSC Entertainment. Keyvan is with Coast to Coast Talent Group, Protégé Entertainment and Meyer & Downs. Konoval is repped by Trisko Talent Management. Mondschein is repped by TalentWorks and Haven Entertainment. | 440 |
After saving a cruise ship from a bizarre whirlpool Superman settles in for a good night's sleep. Destiny interrupts this declaring that it is time and Superman's fate must be decided today. At first the Man of Steel tries to go back to sleep but Destiny isn't having any of that. Destiny informs Superman that he must decide between two evils; one that leads to destruction and the other that leads to despair. Superman is suddenly in Metropolis where he is faced with a giant named The Dread who is busy laying the city to waste. The Dread blames the destruction on Superman as the Man of Steel has thwarted his other attempts to destroy the world. When Superman fights back the Dread gives him a choice; serve as his solider allowing the people of the Earth to live albeit as mindless, obedient slaves or fight and the world dies. Destiny freezes time and shows Superman images of what the world would be like if he fought back including Batman being broken, Hal Jordan going insane and Superman dying at the hands of a rampaging monster<|fim_middle|> from being held hostage. The next day he meets Lois Lane for their date and after testifying at a trial they finally have dinner. A priest named Father Perez interrupts their meal and asks Superman if he can help remodel the building he saved the previous day which has been given to the Hispanic Children's Aid Society. Superman says yes and then talks with Lois about the fact that everyone has come to depend on Superman. Superman has to leave early to take care of an emergency and when he returns to Clark Kent's apartment he is confronted by Destiny. Destiny explains that he appears before each man only once at the moment when fate may be altered and that Superman must heed the words he now implants within his mind adding that he must obey them or the fate of all those about him will suffer. The following day Superman announces that he is retiring.
A crime wave grips Metropolis in the wake of Superman's announcement. Superman tries to help the police but is stopped by Destiny. Meanwhile Father Perez begins the renovations without Superman and Lois covers the story. The building's owners threaten Perez that he better stop or else but Perez refuses to give in. Thanks to Destiny Superman cannot act when the landlords return to destroy the building and kill Father Perez and the orphans. It turns out that Superman's help wasn't needed at all as Perez and Lois take care of the crooked landlords. In the end Superman learns that he must let humanity take care of some of its own problems.
Story - 5: In SUPERMAN (Vol. 1) #247 the Guardians of the Universe use a heaping, helping dose of non-subtle hint dropping that maybe...just maybe Superman is bad for the social development of humanity. We follow Superman through the course of the story as he wrestles with the philosophical implications of his presence on Earth and wondering if he does too much for the human race. I can write with confidence that this story is a classic because it has been reprinted in a bunch of trade paperback collections including THE GREATEST SUPERMAN STORIES EVER TOLD, SUPERMAN IN THE SEVENTIES, SUPERMAN: THE GREATEST STORIES EVER TOLD VOL. 1 and GREEN LANTERN: IN BRIGHTEST DAY. When a story appears in not one but two trades with "GREATEST STORIES EVER TOLD" in the title it is safe to say that people in power think highly of this tale.
I have never liked it.
I think that story was extremely heavy handed and if you are going to choose a race of beings to tell Superman that he does too much and might be holding humanity back somehow the immortal beings that formed their own interstellar police force and armed their officers with the most powerful weapon in the universe to go off and do pretty much what Superman does on a daily basis seem like a bad choice. Actually it makes the Guardians look like a bunch of hypocrites. This is nothing against the writer of that story. I just didn't care for it.
"Superman's Day of Destiny" has the same premise as "Must There Be a Superman" but handles the idea in a better, more satisfying manner. The idea of questioning Superman's place in the world and wondering if people depend on him too much is a sound one. Like most stories it is hardly ever the idea that I dislike, just the execution. Wolfman takes the ball and runs with it from the first page and I ended up thoroughly enjoying this story. Using Destiny as the instrument of change in this story works so much better for me because Destiny is an enigmatic character that isn't in the same line of work as Superman is. There is a part of me that felt that the story was a tad on the clich�d side but in the end it works.
The one element of this story that I found almost laughable was the fact that Superman retires in the middle of the story and then comes back at the end to say, "I'm back." The fact that no one turned to him to say, "Really? After Metropolis tears itself apart in the biggest crime wave this town has ever seen? Now you come back? You're kind of a jerk, Superman," kind of surprises me but then again I am snarky and cynical at times so maybe I am the only one that had that reaction to Superman retiring. In all seriousness Superman saying, "I'm done," is a pretty big deal and here it is treated like just your average plot element.
There was one scene that really stood out for me. After the city starts to self-immolate over Superman's retirement Lois, Clark and Jimmy talk about it back in the office. Lois suggests that they might be better off without Superman (after reminding us that she loves him) and Clark leaves saying the air in the room is starting to bother him which is Clark Kent speak for, "You're being a jerk." Lois starts to dog on Clark saying that is he not only insufferable but that if you say, "Boo," to him and he runs for cover. Jimmy steps up and says, "And you've been all too anxious to say it to him haven't you, Lois?" This is treated as sort of a throwaway line but it really made me laugh because Jimmy essentially told Lois to shut up and stop being such a shrew.
That, to me, is cool.
Art - 4: As I mentioned in the last Retroactive review I rather like Swan's artwork and have grown to appreciate it more as I have gotten older. The one stand out scene artistically in this issue was when Clark comes face to face with Destiny for the first time in his apartment. It is extremely moody and sold the other worldly nature of Destiny as a character. Other than that I would consider this a fairly standard Curt Swan drawn Superman story. Not the best but definitely not the worst.
Cover Art - 5: I'm going to give this cover a five because I think it is a great piece of art and reminds me of a bunch of stuff that I liked about DC in the '90s. There is a small part of me, however, that wants to call foul on this cover because...well...it says "1980's" right there at the top but Superboy Prime, an OMAC, Bane playing Snappy Spine with Batman and Parallax fill the rest of the image. Reading the story shed the light on this cover...doesn't mean it wasn't misleading.
To be fair...Superman looks pretty awesome. | . Destiny even reveals that Supergirl would die as well.
Superman refuses to believe those are the only two options and swears that he will fight for the people of Earth as long as he can. He also figures out that the Destiny he has been speaking with is not the Destiny he encountered before. Destiny believes that they have made the right choice and returns Superman to his apartment. Superman thinks that it was all just a dream. "Destiny", actually Harbinger in disguise, returns to the Monitor's satellite and they discuss Superman's actions and how the Dread may or may not exist someday. Meanwhile Superman calls his cousin to tell her about his dream and that she should be careful. Kara is confident that there isn't much that can hurt her and notes that there probably won't be any rampages today because a bad storm is moving in complete with red skies.
Story - 4: My first reaction to this story was, "Oh! So that's why Bane and Superboy Prime and Parallax are on the cover. It makes so much sense now."
Seriously. I haven't had a cover fool me like that in some time. It really confused me.
After reading this story I realized how easy it would be for a writer to screw up this sort of thing. This story could only have been written in the here and now and knowing what has happened in the DC Universe for the last two, almost three decades. What makes this particular story stand above the crowd is the fact that Wolfman uses it to make a definite point about Superman. It is all well and good to have Superman see future events like Amazons Attack, Knightfall, No Man's Land, Identity Crisis, Wonder Woman killing Maxwell Lord, Emerald Twilight, Doomsday, the end of the New Krypton Saga, Blackest Night and the death of Supergirl but you need something more to make it a good story otherwise it is a glorified clip show of a comic.
It was the final scene that really made this story "come alive" for me. It was fun (if that is the right word to use) to see the Pre-Crisis Superman see the future but the theme of this story is that no matter what Superman will never give up and I love that. The whole conversation between Superman and the supposed Destiny was fantastic. To me Superman is the type of character that when given two impossible choices will always find the solution. To him there is always another way. The line about him choosing not to kill gave me a little pause because one of my favorite Superman storylines ever stemmed from him killing the Phantom Zone villains but it still worked for me. It implies that this take on Superman sees killing as something that could happen and given his powers would be easy to do but it is the line he doesn't cross. It makes Superman more human to me that he would acknowledge that.
Overall this was a solid and engaging story. The only weakness that I could see is that it didn't exactly reflect the Superman of that era. We saw Supergirl for a couple of panels and it was definitely tied to CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS (which was extremely cool) but in all honesty the story could have taken place in the seventies, eighties, nineties or in the last ten years and still have been as effective. The themes explored are universal to Superman as well. It doesn't take away any of my enjoyment of the story but I thought it was worth mentioning because, well, I am writing a review and that's sort of what reviewers are supposed to do. More than anything it was cool to see Marv Wolfman write Superman again. That alone was worth the cover price of admission.
Art - 4: Sergio Cariello's art in this story was fantastic. His Superman is buff but not overly so. The art in this story reminded me of Jose Luis Garcia Lopez actually in all the right ways. The action scenes were solid and I liked the art choices when it came to showing the major events of the Post Crisis DCU. My favorite moment artistically came towards the end of the story when Superman figures out that the Destiny he has been talking to is not the Destiny he met before, which he actually should have been tipped off to earlier since in their first encounter Destiny tells him that he only appears once before a person. Anyway, the expression on Superman's face is perfect. He has this slight smirk and his eyebrows are crinkled and the whole image says, "I've got your number, whoever you are." A great moment is a great story and the art is what sold it.
Superman rescues several people from a tenement fire. Afterwards he saves a small boy | 955 |
Returning to the main house, I was told that this is the second house on this site. It appears that the first house was burnt down in, at a guess, about the 1700. In 1931 the present house was flanked on either side by two very old wings built of flint stonework.
The last time I visited in about late 1950s the left hand wing had been demolished but the right hand wing was still there. These wings were the remains of the original house. The right hand wing contained a small office, the garage, a stable for the pony and upstairs was a granary accessed by an external staircase.
The left hand wing is shrouded in mystery. I referred earlier to a door in the kitchen. This led into the remains of the left hand wing which was merely a flint built lean-to, very dark and very ghostly. I was terrified to go through there. This, in 1931 housed a derelict dairy,<|fim_middle|> had one big one for Daddy bear, a medium one for Mummy bear, and a little low one for Baby bear.
This contraption was emptied at intervals by a local emptying service! There were rumours of buried treasure in the Green but despite digging by Ken Bowyer none was ever found. My matchbox bedroom had a window overlooking this area and there was ivy up which a cat would sometimes climb into the room. This area is of course all part of the Towers estate and is very historical. | still used for the separator machine and cream storage as it was very cool.
At the other end of this lean-to was the mystery. There was a door out into a small wooded area known as The Green. Out here, there was visible the top of an arched window. The bottom was buried in the ground. This was the erstwhile window of The Dungeon, a deep cellar under this lean-to. This had a well in the floor which overflowed every 6 months or so and had to be bailed out when the water reached about 4 feet deep in the cellar. Access was via a door and rickety wooden steps from the passage above.
In this dungeon were the remains of wooden racking and, most intriguing of all, there were iron rings and chains attached to the walls. What on earth were these used for? Prisoners? Animals would not have been down there! The last time I visited, this had all been filled in and the whole lean-to had vanished. This seems like a cue for a visit by TVs Time Team! Across the Green in a corner was an old privy, earth closet, used by the maid. This had three differently sized seats. Like the three bears, it | 247 |
Warren McCall (né le ) est un homme politique provincial canadien de la Saskatchewan.<|fim_middle|>0.
Biographie
Né à Regina, McCall obtient un baccalauréat en arts en histoire canadienne de l'Université de Regina. De 1997 à 2001, il travaille pour l'équipe de Lorne Nystrom du Nouveau Parti démocratique au niveau fédéral.
Élu lors d'une élection partielle , il intègre le gouvernement de Lorne Calvert à titre de ministre de l'Éducation post-secondaire et de l'Emploi ainsi que ministre du Service correctionnel et de la Sécurité publique
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Naissance en octobre 1972
Naissance à Regina
Membre du Conseil exécutif de la Saskatchewan
Député du Nouveau Parti démocratique de la Saskatchewan
Étudiant de l'Université de Regina | Il représente les circonscriptions de Regina Elphinstone et Regina Elphinstone-Centre à titre de député du Nouveau Parti démocratique à partir d'une élection partielle en février 2001 jusqu'en 202 | 55 |
Viking Blast & Wash Systems announces the release<|fim_middle|> deflagration panels as standard. | of their newest blaster in its Industrial line of Spinner Hanger blasters, the SH 4848. This new and redesigned unit is equipped with 2, VK Powermax 15 HP blast wheels at 3525 rpm.
The air intake is very aggressive and allows for application of more than 2400 CFM yielding cleaner abrasive and a cleaner cabinet. The drum is made of rolled manganese and lined with manganese on the sides and 1/2″ cast chrome/moly directly in front of the blast wheels. Most applications are covered by the standard offering, but can also be fitted with a rotary scalping drum, auxiliary abrasive hopper, additional horsepower and a peening package. Viking uses safety light curtains as standard with two palm buttons yielding the highest level of safety offered in the market. All Viking cartridge style dust collectors are sold with NFPA required | 180 |
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Professional photographers and cameramen have the right skills to take high quality photographs.
They know how to capture moments both candid and posed. In addition, it is simply not about the people who attend the event, but it is also important to capture the environment that is lived.
The environment helps to recreate the same memories and feelings when people will see these photos and videos years later.
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The bride and groom of course want their event to be memorable both for them and for the guests at the place and the most effective way to do it is through photographs and videos. But not just any photograph, but truly quality works capable of making any event transcend generations and | 167 |
Tempus Fugit: You Smell Just Like a Tourbillon!
You Smell Just Like a Tourbillon!
Because there are some things that you just couldn't make up, there is now a perfume to cover the smell of disbelief and bewilderment.
Franck Muller is now, apparently, in the fragrance business. And if that was not goofy enough, they are not offering just one,<|fim_middle|> of you! | but rather several different scents that are all, apparently, connected to different members of the Franck Muller collection.
When master watchmakers meet master perfumers, both accustomed to working with complexity and precision, combined with beauty and fascination, the outcome will immerse you in a rich sensory world with perfect balance.
The brand decided to broaden its reach with a fine fragrance collection created in partnership with some of CPL Aromas' top perfumers Beverley Bayne, Julie Pluchet and Dominique Preyssas. The creative team met in Monaco to explore the worlds of watchmaking and perfumery, discovering similarities and shared passions. The result is a translation of the art of horology into five fine fragrances.
And no watch fans, this is not April Fools. This is apparently very, very real.
So I am guessing that this perfume is meant to be the "antidote" to combat the watch geek's unquenchable thirst for haute horology. Simply dab a bit of "Crazy Hours" behind your ears and that watch geek will forget all about watches, and think only | 228 |
Premiere: Young Summer – "Fallout"
We premiere the dreamy new cut from rising star Young Summer.
Back in 201<|fim_middle|> the rest of the week with its insanely catchy vibes: enjoy.
Premiere: Young Summer - "Fallout" | 4, Washington based singer-songwriter Young Summer (not a rapper, despite her name) began making a profile for herself with hook-laden, synthy goodness that successfully caught the attention of the ever watchful internet. Then she went off the radar for a little while before surfacing this year with a slew of dynamite new releases. First she dropped a modern ballad of unrequited love in the form of "Alright", then came the jazz-tainted, lyrically powerful "Paused Parade". Both of those numbers were taken from Young Summer's upcoming EP – which we're eagerly awaiting, obviously, in no small part thanks to the fact that industry veteran Aqualung's co-penned some the tracks – and now we're proud to be premiering the third single from the record: "Fallout".
A heartfelt slice of beautifully textured pop, "Fallout" is sure to be reverberating around your headspace for | 189 |
In today's article we share the latest advice on the new COVID-19 variant of concern (VOC), Omicron. We discuss where it first emerged, whether it's more transmissible than other variants and if vaccinations are effective against it.
You may have heard that there's a new COVID-19 variant of concern (VOC) on the block: it's called Omicron and there's been lots of media interest.
So, what's all the fuss? At present, the World Health Organisation (WHO) say there is no information to suggest the symptoms are any different to existing variants. Current testing appears to be effective; efforts are now focused on understanding if this variant is more transmissible (i.e. easier to pass on), and how effective both vaccines and immunity from previous COVID infection are against this variant.
For the latest information from WHO, visit their Omicron update page.
Where did Omicron first emerge?
The Omicron VOC (aka B.1.1.529) seems to have emerged over the past couple of months in South Africa and other neighbouring countries. A small number of cases have been identified in the UK, although there's a strong sense that this is likely to be the tip of the iceberg. In response, the UK government has imposed some new travel restrictions and processes to limit the introductions of this VOC into the UK.
Is Omicron more transmissible?
We don't yet have much information on the clinical epidemiology of COVID-19 due to Omicron. The initial reports from South Africa suggest that the main symptoms haven't changed – and the virus isn't more virulent that other types of the virus that causes COVID-19.
However, it does seem that the virus is more transmissible. The reasons for this are not yet clear, but may be due to changes in the proteins on the outer surface of the virus. So, the transmission routes of the virus are likely to remain the same – mainly through prolonged close contact and sharing of respiratory particles containing infectious virus.
This means that the key interventions to control spread remain the same: wear a facemask, frequent hand hygiene, frequent environmental hygiene, and maximise ventilation.
Are vaccinations effective against Omicron?
Whilst there is some evidence that COVID-19 vaccinations are less effective against Omicron, vaccine protection against COVID-19 isn't a binary thing. So one of the best ways to stay protected against Omicron and other variants is through getting vaccinated.
Yesterday the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has updated its advice on the COVID-19 vaccine booster meaning those aged 18 to <|fim_middle|> against the Omicron variant. This is an important way for us to reduce the impact of this variant on our lives, especially in the coming months".
The data continues to emerge, and we know more and more each day – so we'll try to keep you posted on key developments. For our latest efficacy information, please read our Clinell efficacy against coronavirus (COVID-19) article.
Dr. Phillip Norville
Clinical & Scientific Director, GAMA Healthcare | 39 will also be eligible for a booster when the NHS calls them forward.
Professor Wei Shen Lim, Chair, COVID-19 immunisation, JCVI said:
"Having a booster dose of the vaccine will help to increase our level of protection | 51 |
Satellite and the Harpoonist
As the great poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow once stated, "The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain." And so, in January 2020, as the city's longest spell of precipitation in over five decades threatened to wash Vancouver into the Pacific, four musicians from disparate sonic territories did just that. Not that they had a say in the matter, they let it rain while gathering at Afterlife Studios to conduct an experiment as radical and historic as the weather outside.
SHAWN HALL of the acclaimed maverick blues duo The Harpoonist and The Axe Murderer was the progenitor, his notion being to assemble three talented friends with whom he had previously worked, yet that had never met each other. Then, during an intense three-day exploration of alchemic creative collaboration within a self-imposed pressure cooker environment, they would record a 6-song EP – all under the gaze of a film crew<|fim_middle|> trippy, groove-heavy, rock 'n' soul lead single, Ballet in a Phone Booth is any indication of what to expect, come summertime it will be accolades rather than the wet stuff raining down on this compelling new outfit.
Satellite Man
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Tariq → | . So, as the rain smashed down on the City of Glass, SATELLITE and the HARPOONIST was birthed, with every labour pain and its exhausting entry into the world captured on celluloid.
Joining singer/harmonicist Hall in this extraordinary project – his "people that want to play in the sandbox" – are GEOFF HILLHORST (Hammond organ/piano/synthesizers) of award-winning alt. country-folk dreamers, The Deep Dark Woods; THEO VINCENT (percussion/congas/vocals) from Vancouver's funk-soul powerhouse The Boom Booms and, on drums and Pencilina, Brooklyn's BRADFORD REED, of out-there art-rockers, King Missile III. The Pencilina, an incredible double-necked zither-like contraption, is Reed's own one-off invention, making Satellite and The Harpoonist the world's only band to feature it.
Such is the diversity of the four individual musical backgrounds comprising this Canadian-US supergroup that just about anything, good or not so, could have transpired at Afterlife during those wet West Coast days, but the triumphant result is an assured, robust new rock 'n roll for a new decade. There are no obvious influences worn on sleeves, and scant evidence present of the bands whence they came.
Satellite and The Harpoonist make their live debut at the Rivoli, Toronto, on May 8th, with the EP to be unveiled in August. Released in March and featuring a guest appearance from Royal Canoe's MATT PETERS, if the | 330 |
• Planets and the Solar System: An interactive talk suitable for children aged 5 – 10 using a set of inflatable planets, and linked to my exoplanet story book (Oogle-Flip and the Planet Adventure). Needs a room the size of a school hall, and suitable for groups of up to 100.
• The Life and Death of Stars – we are<|fim_middle|>+ or for astronomical societies, which describes the remarkable new theories concerning the origin and evolution of the Universe.
• Magnetic Compact Stars: A more technical talk suitable for advanced astronomical societies looking for something linked closely to ongoing research, concerning white dwarfs and neutron stars. | made of star-stuff!: A demonstration lecture suitable for children aged 10-15, or for family audiences, which explores the life cycle of stars and the origin of the chemical elements.
• Exoplanets and How to Find Them: A demonstration lecture suitable for ages 16+ or for astronomical societies, or family audiences. Various models are used to illustrate the techniques by which planets around other stars are detected and a brief summary of the recent discoveries in this area, including those from the SuperWASP project.
• Gamma-ray Bursts: an astronomical detective story: A highly illustrated talk suitable for ages 16+ or for astronomical societies, which describes how the mystery of the origin of gamma-ray bursts was solved.
• The New Cosmology or How the Universe Works: A highly illustrated talk suitable for ages 16 | 170 |
When temperatures drop<|fim_middle|> today. | , things start to change at home. Your allies become your foes. Your space heater becomes your secret weapon. Your family is deep in the trenches, armed and ready for the annual thermostat war!
Before you fight it out, we want to offer a promising compromise. Families across California are calling a truce thanks to HVAC zoning.
With this technology, you can control the temperature in each individual zone. No more hot and cold spots or dusting the thermostat for fingerprints. Family members can control their own zones and feel comfortable in their space. Whether you want to add zoning features to your existing system or you want it included in a new one, our HVAC contractors in Palm Desert, CA, are here to help. We've ended thermostat wars in many other homes and we're happy to do the same for yours!
Energy conservation. Does your home have unused rooms? With central heating, you're paying to heat these empty rooms. But with a zoning system, you can set these rooms to a lower temperature and save money in the process.
Programmable thermostats. We're NATE-certified installers of programmable and "smart" thermostats. In other words, we can give you more control over your comfort. Use your programmable thermostat to heat your home around your schedule. If you have a routine work schedule, you can keep your home cooler during the day and warmer at night. You can also adjust your home's temperature remotely from any location that has Wi-Fi. We install leading brands such as Nest and Honeywell and can help you choose the perfect product for your needs.
Longer lasting system. Since zoning doesn't require you to heat your entire home, this means less wear and tear on your HVAC equipment.
Improved indoor air quality. Central heating distributes air throughout the entire home. On the contrary, a zoning system reduces the airflow between different areas. This helps to control the spread of allergens such as dust mites, pet dander and more. We also install ductless mini-splits that are ideal for home additions and remodels.
Tension at the Office? Say No More.
Work can be stressful enough. You don't need a thermostat war on top of the usual hustle and bustle. If your staff is starting to divide and prepare for combat, consider your options for commercial zoning. This is a great way to keep all of your employees happy and show that you care about everyone's comfort. Instead of bonding over toe warmers and portable fans, your team can bond over coffee breaks instead.
The holidays are a time to be warm toward each other, not heated! If you're bracing for yet another thermostat war, consider the alternative. HVAC zoning is the ultimate crowd-pleaser and can help you save more money over time.
Tackle all of your heating needs this winter with the experts at Timo's. Whether you need heating repair in La Quinta, CA, or a new furnace in Palm Springs, CA, we do it all. More importantly, we do it right.
To schedule service for your home or business, call Timo's Air Conditioning & Heating at 760.475.9542 or contact us online | 647 |
Committed to keeping alive their home town and their nation's rich maritime heritage, they dress in period costume and put their songs back on to the decks of the<|fim_middle|> work shanties with gentle forebitters & heartbreaking laments delivered with pathos.
Their interaction with their audience makes every performance unique and when not playing high profile events such as The Tall Ships Regatta and the Olympics or at corporate functions, they regularly enthral audiences in theatres, folk clubs, harboursides, pubs and festivals across the UK and Europe.
In 2014 they gained international recognition when they were presented with the "Stan Hugil Award" for the 'most authentic shanties' at the highly respected Krakow International Shanty Festival in Poland.
These boys have now sailed many a voyage together and it shows in every note and gesture, with their jiggery - and indeed their pokery - widely known to be highly infectious.
They are described as "just sensational" by the BBC's Judi Spiers who is known to the crew as Sheila Blige. | tall ships or into the dockside taverns where they rightfully belong; splicing together hard-bitten, hard-sung | 24 |
Home News Terrifying dashcam footage shows moment family escaped death by inches when drink-driver's car came flying towards them
Terrifying dashcam footage shows moment family escaped death by inches when drink-driver's car came flying towards them
Terrifying dashcam footage shows a car driven by a drunk driver flying through the air and missing a family by inches.
Patrick Williams, 33, had been seen driving recklessly at up to 80mph before his blue Peugeot skidded, rolled and then hurtled towards the family's car, which was being driven by a learner driver.
Police say the family were lucky not to have been killed in the crash on the A433 between Cirencester and Tetbury in Gloucestershire, on Good Friday last year.
The footage was released by police who condemned Williams' actions after he was given a suspended prison sentence yesterday.The victims, the Musty family, were taking their 17-year-old son on a driving lesson at the time.
Speaking after the case, Andrew Musty said they were all still very<|fim_middle|> the alloy wheel, blue paint transfer from the glancing blow, dents from flying debris, a spare wheel and a 6 inch bolt that had been in the boot. The car was also sprayed with fluids from the Peugeot as well as grass and mud.
'I'd like to thank all of the witnesses who helped with our investigation as their comprehensive accounts of what happened have resulted in a successful prosecution and ultimately a guilty plea to all charges.
'Mr and Mrs Musty can be incredibly proud of their son for his actions that day, had it not been for his quick reactions and peace of mind that day he and his family could easily have been killed. He showed a level of calmness above his 17 years.'
Terrifying dashcam footage shows moment family escaped death by inches when drink-driver's car came flying towards them Reviewed by free heip on February 15, 2022 Rating: 5 | shaken up by what happened and had been within seconds of losing their lives.
He said: 'My 17-year-old son was a learner driver and his quick reactions saved our lives.
'If he hadn't swerved onto the verge, Williams' blue Peugeot would have crashed through our front windscreen as it flew through the air, and my son and my wife in the back of the car would probably have been killed.
'Immediately after the impact, I turned my head expecting to see my son motionless and covered in blood, but by some miracle Williams' flying car somehow skimmed us, leaving only blue paint marks, scratches, and bullet-shaped dents from the flying debris, and my son escaped unscathed.
'This was a traumatic experience for all of us, and the flashbacks and nightmares are a constant reminder of how lucky we are to have survived.'
Gloucestershire Constabulary released footage of the blue Peugeot being driven by Patrick Williams somersaulting towards the Musty family's car
Gloucestershire Police said a number of witnesses at the scene had stopped to help and reported how Williams, of Dorchester, Dorset, was abusive, sounded drunk and smelt strongly of alcohol, so they believed he had been drinking.
One witness told officers how they had previously been overtaken by Williams on the outskirts of Tetbury and believed that he was driving recklessly, going around 80mph on a blind corner.
Williams' car was written off following the crash on Good Friday last year
Due to Mr Musty's son's lightning-quick reactions, his car suffered only minor damage
Investigating officer PC Tim Griffiths said: 'The Musty family are incredibly lucky to be alive today. They were literally inches away from being killed or very seriously hurt'. Pictured, Williams' wrecked car
Officers attended the scene of the collision and asked Williams to provide a sample of breath for analysis at the roadside but he refused and was arrested.
He was later charged with dangerous driving, driving otherwise than in accordance with a licence, driving without insurance and failing to provide a sample of breath.
He was due to stand trial at the end of March but pleaded guilty to the offences at the beginning of January.
Appearing at Gloucester Crown Court on Monday, Williams received a nine-month sentence, suspended for 12 months, was ordered to do 45 hours' unpaid work and 10 days of rehabilitation, as well as pay £1,000 in compensation and a victim surcharge of £156.
He was also disqualified from driving for 18 months and required to take an extended driving test after this time.
Speaking after the sentencing, investigating officer PC Tim Griffiths said: 'The Musty family are incredibly lucky to be alive today. They were literally inches away from being killed or very seriously hurt.
PC Griffiths added: 'Mr and Mrs Musty can be incredibly proud of their son for his actions that day, had it not been for his quick reactions and peace of mind that day he and his family could easily have been killed. He showed a level of calmness above his 17 years'. Pictured, the blue Peugeot driven by Williams
'Williams drove that day with a total disregard for other road users, driving from Cirencester to Wotton-under-Edge and back again, in a manner which can only be described as dangerous.
'Surprisingly the only visible damage to the Musty's Corsa was the chunks that were taken out of | 721 |
Little Breton: French Footbridge Refurbishment
The small Breton village of Le Bono is located on the banks of the Sal River. A suspension bridge, a modest structure just 100 m long which was built in 1840 was originally the only link between two sides of the village<|fim_middle|> I24: Design of Bridges and Retaining Walls; | . Because of its bad state of repair, the bridge was closed for vehicles in 1995, and even for pedestrians in 2003. The construction of another bridge further upstream that allows motorists to cross the Sal has made the old suspension bridge no longer essential, but it is still part of the village's history, and local residents have remained attached to it. The article follows the process to raise the funding needed to restore the bridge and reopen it to walkers. The winning bid presented to the call for tenders involves a complete reconstruction of the bridge deck using a galvanized structure, and the replacement of the 12 suspension cables. The work on the contract began October 2004, and the work was completed and the bridge reopened in February this year.
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TRT Terms: Cable stayed bridges; Footbridges; Historic bridges; Reconstruction; Suspension bridges
Uncontrolled Terms: Refurbishment
Geographic Terms: France
Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Design; Highways; | 240 |
The more familiar you get with a friend or spouse, the better you know them. You know how they think, how they react in certain situations, what answers they give to common questions.
A forklift driver of many years can also develop the same type of relationship with his forklift. After driving one for many years a person can become very familiar with it. You know when it isn't moving quite right; you notice that the noise of the engine just doesn't have the same tone or tenor. In short, you know when it is experiencing a problem.
Familiarity can help drivers troubleshoot forklift problems.
Once you have sensed that the forklift has a problem, how do you fix it?
A forklift can suffer a whole lot of problems. A good<|fim_middle|> battery. He would assure himself that the battery is properly connected in the forklift and that there is no corrosion present on the battery terminals. If things look right, then the driver would test the battery's capacity. If the battery is functioning at less than 80 percent of its total capacity, then it may have to be replaced. If the battery overheats during an attempt to charge it, then there could be low electrolyte levels in the cells and the battery may need water.
These are just a few problems that a forklift operator may encounter as he drives a lift. A good forklift driver would be aware of every possibility, know how to identify the problem and then perform the proper action to fix it. | forklift driver can figure out what the problem is and then knows how to fix it. However, at times a driver may sense that his forklift has a problem, but he's not quite sure exactly what the ailment is. At this point, the driver must have troubleshooting skills to be able to diagnose the problem.
So, lets say that a forklift driver is guiding his machine up and down the aisles of a warehouse picking products for shipping. All of a sudden, he realizes that the engine of the lift is overheating. Knowing his lift, the driver understands that there can be literally dozens of reasons why the problem is occurring. However, in order to fix it properly, he has to identify the specific cause. He can do this through a process of elimination. That is, he can check the various causes for an overheating engine until he finds the one that is causing this particular event.
One of the most common reasons for an overheating engine is that the radiator is blocked. Over time, it is possible that dirt or debris could be blocking a port in the radiator. A driver can start his troubleshooting by checking if such a blockage is occurring. Checking for a blockage requires the driver to look for caked on mud or dirt that could be clogging a port. If this is the issue, then a simple cleaning of the radiator with fresh water will solve the problem. Corrosion can also cause problems with a radiator. Under this circumstance, the radiator needs to be replaced.
If the engine-overheating problem persists after dealing with the radiator, then the next thing a driver can check is the thermostat. The engine could overheat if the thermostat doesn't open properly when the heat from the engine reaches a particular temperature. The thermostat may not be performing properly because the sensor is broken. If this is the case, then the thermostat must be replaced.
Now suppose you are operating your forklift and you attempt to lift a heavy load, but the machine does not respond properly. A driver who is familiar with his machine would probably guess that a hydraulic issue is causing the problem. Hydraulics can become a problem if they leak, if they are cracked, or if there is damage to the hoses. A good forklift driver would run a clean cloth down the hoses and lines to see if there is a leak. If hydraulic fluid ends up on the cloth, then there is obviously a leak. If everything appears okay, then the driver would wipe the rods with a clean cloth to check and see if there is more than a thin coat of oil there. If there is a lot of oil build-up, then there could be a leak of the seals. In this case, the damaged seal or seals need to be replaced.
Another common issue that can frustrate forklift drivers is when the forklift doesn't start. If this occurs, an experienced driver would first check the | 591 |
ZorAMagazine.com 2002 Interview
SPIRITS IN THE BASS Joseph Patrick Moore Shares With ZoraMagazine.com
Bassist/Composer Joseph Patrick Moore's life journey has been consumed by pursuing the sounds, colors and rhythms of music. He started with alto saxophone in the fourth grade, switched to drums in the eight grade and finally found his voice through the bass, in his high school years and beyond. His fascination with music and his chosen instrument led me to contact him about the the bass, its sensual appeal and to talk about his recording of Alone Together.
"I loved the low rumble and thunder of the bass and I was immediately attracted to the tones and frequencies of this instrument." – Joseph Patrick Moore
For both the Double Bass and Electric Bass Guitar, the role of both is to provide a foundation for accompanying instrumentation, while occasionally being featured as a solo instrument. The<|fim_middle|>eman | bass is in part responsible for music's steady pulse and is used in most styles and genres of music.
Joseph Patrick Moore Shares With Zora: As a composer, I tend to write tunes that are instrumental in nature. When you don't have lyrics conveying your message, it ís challenging to tell a story without saying a word. For me, instrumental music should express that which cannot be spoken. Sometimes I write from the bass, other times I write from the piano or occasionally I will write without an instrument in my hand. With most of my music, I try to convey a mood or set the scene for the listener. The bass can be a very powerful force in dictating the mood and emotion of a song.
Composing instrumental music that features the bass throughout can have its own set of challenges. This became evident when I embarked on my third CD journey titled, Alone Together (released on Root Cellar Records-2002). My first two CD's featured many instruments, musicians, and friends. However on the recording of this particular project, I wanted to try a new approach. I wanted to release a solo bass CD featuring nothing but the bass. I wanted to try to explore the possibilities of the instrument – combining the Contrabass, the Fretless Bass and the Electric Bass – both bowed and plucked. I composed solo, duo and trio songs. One of the most challenging aspects in creating this CD was how the low frequencies would sometimes cancel each other out. I refer to this as "Spirits in the Bass". I had to really use my imagination and explore the possibilities and range of each instrument. It forced me to think differently about the "role" of the instrument. It proved to be both therapeutic and liberating.
Regardless of what instruments are used in the music creation process, music should be created with the hands of love, the ears of perception, the heart ofpassion, and the spirit of inhibition. When this is achieved, music can help stimulate and arouse ones spirit and invigorate the senses. It can open that door to the enchanted land. This is something I always try to be aware of and strive to do with my music.
Recording and Touring Artist Joseph Patrick Moore, currently resides in the Atlanta, GA area. He is an active performer, educator and he is currently completing his 4th CD with his group scheduled for release in August 2003.
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West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame inductee Frank Secrist won titles, set speed records at Daytona
(Note: This is the sixth of a series of press releases on the 2017 inductees into the West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame. The 14th Annual Induction Ceremony, presented by Gateway Motorsport Park, will be held June 22 at the Meritage Resort in Napa, Calif.)
PHOENIX (June 15, 2017) – Frank Secrist of Oildale, Calif. won 1951-54 jalopy championships – then the top weekly racing division – at Bakersfield Speedway as well as the 1953-55 jalopy titles at Hanford, Calif. Secrist won the 1960 modified sportsman championship in Bakersfield and finished third in NASCAR's California standings in 1961.
He also competed at the then-new Daytona International Speedway, setting modified sportsman track records in 1961 and 1962 – in the latter event erasing NASCAR Hall of Famer Cale Yarborough's speed from the books. Starting from the pole in his No. 86 Studebaker/Ford, Secrist finished fourth.
He won nine of 11 super modified races in 1963 and won the first United States Auto Club (USAC) midget race he entered in 1966.
Secrist, 88, competed in eight NASCAR premier series races winning one pole at the 1.4-mile Marchbanks Speedway in Hanford. His best finish was fourth at Sacramento's old state fairgrounds mile track in 1961. Secrist also made several USAC sprint car appearances with a best finish of second in 1966 at Ascot Park in Gardena, Calif. He attempted to qualify for USAC championship car races.
"Frank Secrist was a natural in anything with four wheels," said Richard Woodland, a 2017 West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame nominee. "He helped me as my mentor in my NASCAR modified driving days plus he would hop into my car, when asked, in order to help sort things out for me. Later, he drove off for me for several years in CRA and NARC sprint cars.
"In other words, I both drove against him and he drove for me. He was, without a doubt, one of the hardest charging drivers I know of while, at the same time, one of the cleanest."
Secrist joins Walker Evans, Michael Gaughan, Joe Leonard, Gene Price, Scott Pruett and Kenneth Takeuchi in the 2017 WCSCHOF class of inductees.
The 2017 induction ceremonies, presented by Gateway Motorsports Park, are open to the public on a limited, space-available basis. Reservation information is available by emailing the West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame at jwentzel@phoenixraceway.com.
About the West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame:
The West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame was conceived in 2001 as a means of recognizing significant contributors and contributions to the sport of stock car<|fim_middle|>2 and third in 1994 championship standings.
Diamond Ridge fielded full-season entries in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series from 1994 through 1997 with Steve Grissom, Greg Sacks and Robert Pressley among others. The team's best finish, fourth, came with Jeff Green in 1997 at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
Diamond Ridge's greatest success came in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, posting 10 victories with Elliott Sadler (five), Grissom (three) and Sacks and Green.
The team merged with Joe Gibbs Racing in 1999 with Jeff Purvis finishing sixth in the championship.
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Joe Ruttman
Al Schmidhammer
Owen Kearns
Chuck Parkko
Tim Williamson
Marvin Burke
Chuck Stevenson
Roger McCluskey
Cary Agajanian
Ron Hornaday Jr.
Freddie Agabashian
San Francisco native Gary Bechtel formed Diamond Ridge Racing in 1992, competing in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West with series veteran John Krebs.
Richard (Dick) Woodland
Bryan R. Sperber
Greg Pursley
Oren Prosser
Joe Garone
Larry Albedi
Warren Razore
John Cardinale
Jason Leffler
Jerry Baxter
Jim Thirkettle
Al Pombo
Johnny Key
Mike Duncan
John Bickford
Joe Leonard
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Scott Pruett
Michael Gaughan
Kenny Takeuchi
Gene Price
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Clyde Prickett
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George Bignotti
Bill McAnally
Vic Kurten
Butch Gilliland
Fred Steinbroner
Bob Phillipi
B.L. Marchbanks
The Justice Brothers
Derrike Cope
Buddy Jobe
Chad Little
Randy Lynch
Ron Eaton
Mike Skinner
Marshall Chesrown
Steve Page
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San Francisco native Doug Richert formed Diamond Ridge Racing in 1992, competing in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West with series veteran John Krebs.
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San Francisco native Pat McElreath formed Diamond Ridge Racing in 1992, competing in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West with series veteran John Krebs. | racing. The mission of the West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame is founded to preserve history and heritage of the important role west coast stock car competitors have played in the sport's development and continuation and to recognize, through annual enshrinement, of outstanding individuals and groups within the sport such as, but not limited to, designers, engineers, mechanics, drivers, race track owners, promoters, publicists and members of the motorsports media.
About Gateway Motorsports Park
Gateway Motorsports Park is the home of INDYCAR, NASCAR and NHRA racing in the St. Louis region. Located just five minutes from downtown St. Louis and covering more than 340 acres, Gateway Motorsports Park is the largest outdoor entertainment facility in the area. Gateway Motorsports Park's facilities include a 1/4-mile drag strip, 1.25-mile superspeedway, 1.6-mile road course, a state-of-the-art Karting facility and a 14-acre, multi-purpose dirt off-road venue.
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San Francisco native Gary Bechtel formed Diamond Ridge Racing in 1992, competing in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West with series veteran John Krebs.
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WannaCry ransomware showcases government's disdain for cybersecurity
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The world of information technology is reeling from last week's massive ransomware attack that affected machines all over the globe. The WannaCry program is a malicious software that infects Windows computers taking advantage of a security flaw that was made public earlier this year by a hacking collective called the Shadow Brokers. The flaw is believed to have been created by the NSA to exploit a flaw in the Windows Server Message Block (SMB) protocol, which allows an attacker to gain control over the computer's main functions. The WannaCry software infects computers and encrypts all of their contents, displaying a warning message telling users to pay a ransom in Bitcoin to regain access to their files. At the time of writing the spread of the malware had been devastating, infecting more than 230,000 computers in over 150 countries, and particularly affecting the UK's national health service badly.
It is possible to learn many lessons from the attack. The security flaw was released over two months ago, which prompted a quick response from Microsoft to plug the exploit with a quick update. However, it has become clear that millions of machines were left unpatched, making it easy for hackers to target them and take control of the systems. People do not update their systems regularly, particularly old Windows systems that are still widely in use all over the world. Patching and keeping a system updated must become a priority of anyone with a computer, and businesses should be particularly held to account over failures to perform such actions.
The UK government has been particularly neglectful in this regard. It is incredible that hospital computers performing vital functions such as X-rays and storing test results were using outdated software and were left unpatched. It boggles the mind that any mildly competent IT department would leave such important services open to attack, and it tells a story of just how low of a priority cybersecurity is for many people in power. Things are even worse when we consider that the government was warned last year about precisely this issue, and still failed to take action.
The US government is guilty of making it easier for hackers to massively take advantage of security flaws by reportedly stockpiling such exploits to gain access to enemy systems. It has become clear that the NSA either created the EternalBlue flaw, or it learned about it and kept it secret until it was leaked. Either way, this shows a disregard for collective cybersecurity of monumental proportions. To stockpile vulnerabilities and keep them in less than secure locations is akin to keeping missiles where they can be easily taken by the public.
But perhaps one of the most interesting aspects of the WannaCry attack is that it serves as a reminder of why we should continue to deny those who favour the creation of government-mandated backdoors to technologies. If you recall, the UK government was very vocal not long ago about the fact that they do not have access to encrypted conversations from potential terrorists. The problem with that argument is that to gain access to those communications, you need some sort of backdoor that could very easily be leaked by hackers, just as the EternalBlue fault was leaked. The argument that only governments will use exploits has been shown to be the big fat lie that many of us warned against in the first place.
Perhaps the next time a terrorist atrocity takes place, politicians will not rush to score quick political points by asking for access to communications. If they do, we can point out to WannaCry as evidence of just how misguided they are.
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Richard Johns · May 18, 2017 at 1:08 pm
Speaking as someone who works in one of the "mildly competent" NHS ICT departments, the issue isn't that we don't bother to patch, or don't care about the impact of not patching. The issue is that some of the older applications that the NHS uses cannot be patched so one could say that the fault on the part of the government is in not making the necessary level of funding available to replace said systems. When it's a choice between spending £2M on a new Laboratory IT system or replacing a few hundred hips where's the public going to expect the money to go?
When you consider what a business like Telefonica spends on ICT systems and cyber security resources in comparison to the NHS (not to mention the fact that telecoms and the associated security is actually their core business) and then look at how WannaCry affected them and other multinationals, I'd be bold enough to suggest that given the comparatively rudimentary tools we have to work with, and the very limited budgets, the fact that the outbreak affected such a small proportion of NHS networks and systems is actually testament to what a bloody good job my team, and the rest of my mildly competent colleagues across the country, manage to do.
Andres · May 19, 2017 at 11:01 am
Thanks for the inside information, absolutely correct, it is part of the underfunding of the service. I was at an NHS hospital recently and was amused by the software, I even commented it to the doctor, who sort of rolled her eyes and said that they had the same system since she had been there.
I still think that IT should be considered a priority investment, it helps everything else.
arjaybe · May 18, 2017 at 4:45 pm
Richard Johns, you're right. Yet another case of the people who stint on the resources they make available blaming the people who rely on those resources.
On another note, I remember when we (the people) expressed our concerns about the increasing invasions of our privacy — such as these back doors — and were cynically reminded that privacy is passe, get used to it. And besides, they said, if you're not doing anything wrong, then you've got nothing to worry about.
Can I start worrying now?
Ryan · June 5, 2017 at 4:35 am
To prevent WannaCry, you must: 1. Install and use an up-to-date antivirus solution (such as Microsoft Security Essentials) 2. Make sure your software is up-to-date 3. Avoid clicking on links or opening attachments or emails from people you don | 1,313 |
Here at Source One, we have an ongoing commitment to volunteering and giving back to the community. Our sourcing experts collaborated with Brandywine Valley S<|fim_middle|>-site programs. We can't wait to see what our coordinators have planned for us for the rest of 2019. | PCA once again to demonstrate that commitment.
On March 7th, consultants and other members of Source One's Willow Grove office gathered after work hours to bake yummy treats and make toys for some deserving cats and dogs at the SPCA. This has been our third collab with the SPCA for some do-gooding and this time around we had some great little helpers join in on the fun. Lindsey's daughter, Mary Jean, lended her hand in making some delicious treats, while Andy's daughters, Sara and Julia, tagged along to help hand deliver the goodies over in Brandywine.
One of our marketing sourcing specialists, Megan Connell, taught the crew how to make fun DIY cat toys from a ball of yarn. We enjoy these events, for not only the rewarding feeling they bring, but also the opportunity to build as a team.
Our Chicago office is excited for their chance to make some doggy biscuits and cat toys for some loveable shelter animals on April 17, as they partner with Safe Humane Chicago. At Source One, we enjoy gathering at the office for give-back events, as much as we look forward to traveling to local charities and volunteer facilities for their special on | 241 |
The ROI of Search<|fim_middle|> | Engine Optimization, Usability, and Analytics.
I'll tell you why I love what I do. I love helping other people be successful in their business. This industry provides the tools people need to make an impact on their bottom line. Right here. Right now.
These three factors nearly always result in increased traffic and conversions on websites; but when combined, they are results are even more powerful. Whether your web site focuses on sales, leads or sheer traffic volume, optimizing for just one of the three will experience a drastic change for the better, as each one provides significant direction to improve your website.
With that in mind, let's break things down by category and take a look at the expect return on investment you might see from each of these tactics.
In a report released last summer, Forrester research showed that a company that brings in a dedicated analyst can see an increase in the realm of 900% - 1200% ROI. Now that's something to get excited about! While that may sound like a staggering number, think of all the little things that might be wrong with your web site. Shoppers might be dropping out of the check-out process because you don't share shipping information until after they give up their credit card information. The page that draws the highest search traffic might have a huge abandon rate because your content isn't targeted properly, or fails to encourage users to dive deeper into your web site.
In my experience, that return can usually be experienced within the first few months of implementing the changes that the analyst recommends. As a side benefit, the biggest issues tend to get identified first. This means that while analytics is a time consuming process, you often see strong ROI early on in the process. A few simple changes can make a dramatic difference in terms of conversions and sales.
Tactic #2: Usability = 80% to 200% increase in desired metrics.
According to Jacob Nielson, usability improvements six years ago averaged 135%. That means you could more than double your metrics simply by making your site a little easier to use. These days, the average improvement is lower, but still a strong 83%. (To note, it's higher if you look at specific metrics.) That said, 83% is nothing to scoff at.
The main reason the number has dropped over time is that designs are getting better than what we were accustomed to viewing in the 90's. Based on my personal experience working with web sites and their usability issues, I can assure you website sales on ecommerce sites can improve dramatically with a simple usability review. I have worked on some projects were usability changes resulted in an ROI increase of 4000%. Simply removing a few simple obstacles from the path of the user does wonders in helping them move through the process.
When it comes to low-cost ways to make your business recession proof, the real wild card is search engine optimization. Unfortunately, the improvement from this tactic varies wildly. Some sites respond very quickly to simple on-page optimization techniques, while others require more attention to detail and additional off-site or on-site optimization help. Some sites require a full scale search engine marketing campaign in order to see strong results. It really just depends on how well optimized the site already is and how saturated the market is. That said, you can't get around the fact that a simple optimization project on a website can result in dramatically increased rankings and traffic.
It's important to note that while analytics makes it possible to get a good feel for the success of search engine optimization campaigns, it's difficult to measure the full impact of SEO. Factors like "the long tail," ranking positions, and tracking systems can make it difficult to calculate the true return from an SEO campaign. Not the least of these issues is the fact that search engine optimization campaigns have grown far beyond what they were even a few years back. Search engine optimization is no longer limited to the simple research and placement of keywords and links. It's now part of an all encompassing online marketing plan designed to drive traffic, exposure and targeted links using a wide range of tactics. That makes true ROI for a search engine optimization campaign hard to nail down.
Not surprisingly, each of the three tactics I've outlined here play off of each other to produce even stronger results. Combine any two or three of them and you'll see ROI increase exponentially. Combine search engine optimization with usability analysis and you'll see a significant change in website navigation and architecture. These changes will result in stronger search rankings and higher conversions from the flood of new traffic.
While attending last week's Search Engine Strategies event I saw first-hand how the possible recession we're facing is on many marketer's minds. Nonetheless, a recession doesn't have to stop business, and it doesn't have to stop online marketing. Savvy marketers will take this opportunity to improve the customer experience and get the most out of their websites.
This is why I love what I do, and why I focus on these three areas first when marketing websites. Most companies want to run headlong into the social media game, when they have not even taken the first steps to get the most out of their own websites. I'm quick to caution them of the need to improve the experience at home before then invite more people to the party.
Matt Bailey is the founder of SiteLogic, a web marketing consulting company. He leads seminars and teaches companies how to use their sites more effectively and to build a web business by applying common sense sales and marketing techniques. He is a specialist in interpreting web site statistics into practical usability.
Matt has been in the search marketing industry for ten years, and started leading classes in the late 1990's. One of his first opportunities was as a regular speaker for the Ohio Innkeeper's Association, teaching practical web site marketing techniques. Since that time he has worked with hundreds of companies, instructing them in web marketing principles.
Matt takes a very holistic view of website marketing, including accessibility, which has become a passion and a crusade. His goal with The Web Site Accessibility Blog is to teach companies that they can easy apply search marketing and accessibility techniques to their web sites.
Wonderful piece, Matt! Excellent point about usability and removing the barriers. It's amazing how a few simple adjustments can yield significant results.
Right on Matt. If anything, in the case of small business the recession will drive them to leverage the web even more. Sinking their resources into SEO (Attracting business), usability (converting business) and then tracking it (measuring business) is the most bang for their buck due to the visibility of it all.
I particularly liked the point about how the tactics reinforce each other. It's a point that often gets lost. We keen on the idea at http://www.CyberSiteSearch.com where we view e-commerce success as the result of a process of increasing conversions via effective e-commerce product site search reinforced by increased search visibility. It's becomes a self-reinforcing process of business and sales improvement.
Another tip. Don't spend more than what you earn. Less debits, easier life.
Awesome article Matt! Such a nice informative article to read. Whether during times of recession or recovery, your customers need to be aware of what added values your company provides them – extras that save them money, time, and frustration. Businesses must work on creating competitive advantage for themselves to stand out from their competition. | 1,506 |
Starting last weekend, Christmas Fantasy was held in Okinawa Kodomo-no Kuni (Children's Land) zoo pasrk in Okinawa-city. Although the weather was unfavorable for a festival, surprisingly large crowd of people attended the event.
At the venue, there were impressive illumination displays featuring millions of light bulbs attracting visitors. On the stage, people enjoyed watching salsa and street performances by Latin Soul and Teeda Family. Mami & Coche Canela presented a Christmas concert to the enthusiastic audience.
Yoshinori Morimoto, a resident of Uruma-city, attended the Christmas Fantasy with his girlfriend. "I came here last year too. I like this event very much," he said.
The event continues from this Friday through Wednesday, Dec. 27. It<|fim_middle|> and Awase Seaport as the parking at the Okinawa Zoo Park is rather limited. A shuttle bus will run continuously between the additional parking and the zoo during the event. | is open every day from 4 to 10 p.m.
Organizers highly recommend that visitors use additional parking lots located in Okinawa City Office | 31 |
'He was everything:' Family struggling to cope after beloved preacher dies in crash
By Aaron Maybin
Family coping with man's death
Family coping with man's death
MILWAUKEE -- A beloved Milwaukee preacher was killed when the car he was driving struck a tree near Sherman and Florist on Wednesday, Nov. 21. Troy Lanier's family is struggling to understand how this happened to such a good man.
Cellphone video shows Lanier at a pulpit, preaching the word with a purpose.
Troy Lanier
Danie'a<|fim_middle|> Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 21 when the car he was driving hit a tree.
Crash near Sherman and Florist in Milwaukee
Vigil for Troy Lanier
"He just passed away the day before Thanksgiving," said Lanier's niece, Yala Lanier.
The family gathered for a vigil on Thanksgiving day to remember the life Lanier lived.
"He was everything. Very lovable, a hardworking man," said Yala.
The aftermath of the crash haunts his niece, Yala.
"It was just, it was bad," Yala Lanier said.
Milwaukee police say it appears speed was a factor in the crash. Lanier's loved ones hope time will help unraveled the mystery of what happened.
Yala Lanier
"That crash is under investigation. We don't know what caused the crash," said Yala Lanier.
Lanier's loved ones hope time will help unraveled the mystery of what happened.
A beloved preacher killed, leaving behind a legacy family and words that will live on.
"I wish I could sincerely tell him truly I love him," said Danie'a Lanier.
The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office will perform an autopsy on Saturday, Nov. 24.
Milwaukee police continue to investigate the crash. | Lanier says spreading the gospel was what his oldest brother was called to do.
Danie'a Lanier
"When I saw my brother do it, it was the most awesome feeling I've ever had in my life," said Danie'a Lanier.
Lanier's loved ones say he served as an elder at Bethel Tabernacle Church on Hampton Avenue on Milwaukee's north side.
Family members say only recently did faith become the foundation of Lainer's life.
"He changed his life. He found God," said Danie'a Lanier.
Lanier was killed in a crash near Sherman and Florist | 124 |
These speculoos cookies are crispy on the outside and chewy on the inside. They are delicious on their own, but the salted caramel buttercream puts them over the top.
I made these cookies a few<|fim_middle|> who, they're still getting eaten b/c the flavor is fantastic. Thanks for your response & sharing the recipe.
Just tried these because I had a jar of Biscoff in my pantry. The taste was good, but I found that the cookies just spread too thinly when baking. It was difficult to even pick up, and I ended up not being able to put the creme filling in the bulk of the cookies to make the sandwiches. I think the batter is a bit too thin. I chilled the recipe for 2 hours, but perhaps it needed more? I also used only a small tablespoon scoop.
The caramel filling was good, though. I was sad to have so much left over because I wasn't able to fill the cookies with them.
I've updated the recipe for longer chilling time, so sorry that you had a bad experience with the dough! I'm going to try them again when I have a chance.
Also, you can freeze your extra buttercream for another use (up to 1 month). Defrost it at room temperature and put it back in the mixer if it needs to be "whipped up" a bit before use.
Oh my….these Cookie Butter & Salted Caramel Cookie Sandwiches are calling my name all over. You've got me craving for some right now. I adore sweet and savory flavor combination. :) Can't wait to try these.
Well these look pretty much like my ideal cookie sandwich!
Talk about love at first sight :) these look amazing!!
Is there really only one cup of flour in the recipe? The butter/sugar/flour ratio seems a little off. looks wonderful otherwise!
You had us at cookie butter and caramel! Cookie butter makes cookies so yummy, but adding caramel is going to make the irresistible! Thanks for sharing! | weeks ago, and while I froze some extras, I may or may not have eaten them straight from the freezer. Oops! Next time I'll make extra cookies without buttercream to use for ice cream sandwiches.
The cookies themselves are crisp on the outside and chewy in the middle. If you slightly underbake them you can keep them completely chewy. The flavor, well, if you like Cookie Butter or Biscoff, you will be in love. They have that great flavor that is somewhere in the middle of a graham cracker and gingersnap with an extra touch of salt. Plus the salted caramel buttercream. Yes, heaven in a cookie sandwich.
Beat butter with an electric mixer for several minutes or until light and creamy. Add sugar and beat until light and fluffy. Beat in caramel sauce until combined.
If you prefer a chewier cookie, err on the side of underbaking them.
Ooooooh yes. Obsessed. GENIUS idea!
The flavor combination sounds incredible, and I am in love with the crunchy on the outside, soft in the center aspect!!!
My mouth is open and ready to consume these delights… seriously, I don't think I've heard of a better cookie sandwich.
Thanks, Brian! They are definitely one of my favorite new cookies!
Oh hello delicious. Can I be sandwiched in between those?
I haven't baked with cookie butter in forever – I am long overdue, and holy yum do these sound good!! Love the salted caramel buttercream in the middle!
I'm going to have dreams about these cookies tonight!
Guess we're on the same wavelength–I just made and posted cookie butter snickerdoodles that I'm sure you'd also love, but I really can't wait to try your recipe :) bookmarked!
Oh, that sounds amazing… going to check out your cookies!
I've been hearing so much about cookie butter and biscoff maybe it's time I give them a try. These cookies look amazing. I love how you cream filled them.
Cookies + buttercream are always a win in my book. It's almost the same feeling of cookies and milk–a little sweet extra moisture for the cookie!
Have I ever told you how much of a cookie butter addict I am?! These cookies are my heaven.
Just tried these & I don't know where I went wrong, but mine were an epic fail! I chilled for 2 hours, but maybe should've chilled longer. I used parchment & mine ran into each other…a big gooey blob.
For my second batch, I put them 4 inches apart. The cookies still spread soooo thin. The taste is great, but they look awful. May give one more go & try chilling for 4 hours.
Hi Laura- I'm so sorry they didn't turn out for you! Did you change anything in the recipe? Also, I used my smallest cookie dough scoop (~1 tablespoon) to make the cookies. Let me know how it goes if you give it another try. The only other thing I can think of is to make sure your oven is fully pre-heated when you make them.
I used half cup of TJ's cookie butter & half cup of biscoff spread. My oven was fully preheated. I will let you know when I give it another go, I thought my scoop was a tablespoon, but I'd prob chill longer & go even smaller on my scoop.
Any | 698 |
Lady Catamounts lose a heart breaker to the Davidson Wildcats
January 27, 2014 12:00 am by Joshua Turner Views: 7
On Jan. 27 the Western Carolina University Catamounts women's basketball team hosted the Davidson Wildcats.
The game had a special tip-off time at noon to host their annual education day. Over 1,000 area school children were in attendance for the game. The children helped provide an electric fan atmosphere for the game.
The first half brought about stingy defense by both sides with neither team seeming to gain an edge. At the ten-minute mark of the game the score was Davidson 10, WCU 9.
At the end of the first half the score was WCU up 26 to 22. The first half provided exciting action and a close game with the lead never reaching more than five points.
The Catamounts were led in the first half by Justin Taylor and Hana Haden who both recorded six points. The Wildcats were lead by Hannah Early who recorded six points as well.
WCU shot 30.3 percent from the field and hit two three pointers, while Davidson shot 27.3 percent with no three pointers.
The second half began with a strong start for the Catamounts; forward Shauna Terry recorded four points in the first minute of action to put Western Carolina up by 8.
Davidson came charging back on a hot streak of their own to tie the game at 37 points with 14:36 to play in the game.
The game would remain a one possession game for much of the second half and came down to the final minutes of play.
With one minute left in<|fim_middle|> the game is that Davidson made 18-21 free throws while Western Carolina only went 5-9.
Next up for the Lady Catamounts is a 2 game home stand. They play the Furman Paladins on Feb.1 at 2 p.m. and then the Wofford Terriers on Feb.3 at 7 p.m. | the game the Wildcats were up by 3. The game was sealed when Davidson's Alex Long put Davidson up 69-65 with a critical free throw at 2.2 seconds left in regulation.
The Lady Catamounts were unable to recover from that lead and would lose by four points.
With the loss WCU falls to 9-11 on the season, with a record of 3-6 in the Southern Conference. The Davidson Wildcats would reach .500 on the season becoming 10-10 on the season with a 7-2 record in the Southern Conference.
WCU had three players score in double figures, Makensey Campbell and Kristen Lyon both had 10 points while Taylor had 12. Campbell also led the team in rebounds with 8. Terry was key in the defense game with 4 steals.
Davidson had four players that scored in double digits with Laura Murray leading the Wildcats with 18 points. Dakota Dukes and Shneeka Center both recorded double-doubles with double digit rebound and scoring totals.
The Catamounts shot 26.5 percent from the field for the game while Davidson shot 39.7 percent. A key statistic for | 252 |
After almost twenty years in retreat, in 1977 at the behest of his own Spiritual Guide, Kyabje Trijang Dorjechang, Geshe Kelsang graciously accepted an invitation from Manjushri Centre in the Lake District to travel to the West and become the Resident Teacher at what was then a fledgling Buddhist centre that had recently acquired Conishead Priory as its base.
Since that time Manjushri Centre has been Geshe Kels<|fim_middle|> the age of eighty he continues to work tirelessly to spread the precious teachings of Kadampa Buddhism throughout the world with the intention that each and every living being will eventually experience the supreme permanent mental peace of enlightenment. | ang's spiritual home, where he has given thousands of teachings. Many of these teachings have been published in 22 highly acclaimed books on Buddhism and meditation, including his latest title, Modern Buddhism.
Though he has now formally retired as Spiritual Director, even at | 52 |
Quality is at the forefront of<|fim_middle|>forming products or systems through constant monitoring at each review.
To continually review quality processes as a result of client feedback and management review.
To provide a comprehensive service to clients, including analysis of their requirements, expert design and comprehensive testing, to deliver a high quality end product.
To ensure that everyone at Seraph InfoTech has access to all the training they require to carry out their work to a high standard.
To encourage the sharing of ideas within our organization, in a supportive and nurturing environment.
We ensure that we fully understand all of our client's requirements in order to provide the high quality end product they expect. | everything we do. We take the lead in the professional development of innovative web solutions, using all of our experience and expertise to deliver the on time, to budget and with exceptional level of quality that our clients expect.
Our quality assurance regime supports not only our internal practices but also the complete satisfaction of our clients.
To provide a level of service that adhered to all industry codes and procedures and fully matches all client requirements.
To continually update our technical knowledge in order to provide our customers with an end product which is highly relevant and effective in the current market.
To successfully manage all time and resources during project execution.
To embed the quality process throughout the entire organization, across all members of the team.
To eliminate non-con | 143 |
Ah, stucco. So many finishes<|fim_middle|> you have a skilled craftsman, you can truly have a one-of-a-kind look.
If you are considering a stucco finish for your home, look no further than the expert team at Renovation by Burbach. We have applied hundreds of stucco finishes for happy homeowners all over the Salt Lake City area. Call us to set up a free consultation to see what kinds of beautiful stucco finishes would look best on your home. | , so little time. Stucco has been a beloved home exterior cladding material since the early 1800s. Advances in mixing and applying the substance have made it faster and easier than ever to apply, and if it's done correctly, it's extremely durable. If you're sold on stucco, the only questions you have to answer are what style and color you want.
First let's look at color. Time was the word "stucco" brought to mind a hacienda with a Spanish-tiled roof. Colors were desert-inspired: Sand. Sierra. Adobe. Puerto Rico's stucco homes are a sherbet rainbow of colors — mint, marine, peach and coral — and if you can't find a particular color of stucco in San Francisco, it doesn't exist.
But today's popular "colors" for stucco are neutral — leather, canvas, tumbleweed. Creams, grays and pale yellows are still favored as well, but if you're a terra cotta or a burnt orange type, it's not considered that out of the ordinary.
As important as color is texture, as any good designer will tell you. Stucco can be styled in endless ways, but most can be categorized into four main textures.
Smooth, scraped, Santa Barbara — these are all names to describe the same style: flat. Achieved by scraping with a steel tool, this look is clean and even, and it gives your property a smart, sharp look.
Float or sand finish brings just a touch of texture to your exterior, and it goes on quickly and easily. It's also easy to patch or repair, should any damage come to your finish.
Lace or cat face is a combination of smooth and textured. With this design, the wall is smoothed, then indentations are made at regular intervals to form a pattern. In another version of this pattern, most of the wall is smoothed, leaving small portions in their original rough state.
Dash texture can resemble some sprayed-on ceilings — bumpy and knobby. The look is created by leaving the stucco in its rough state; however, some finishes are much rougher than others — it depends on your tastes.
Though these are the most basic stucco finishes, variations on each are virtually limitless, and if | 471 |
by Damayanti Mukherjee SAEVUS
The 3rd edition of the HCMF Wildlife Warrior Awards, organized by the Hem Chand Mahindra Foundation and Saevus Magazine was hosted on April 3rd 2021. The awards seek to recognize, celebrate and felicitate the bravery and sacrifices of the oft-unsung foot soldiers protecting our wilderness: forest guards and foresters.
The event may be accessed here: https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=1072590709817680&ref=watch_permalink
The morning of 3rd April 2021 saw the culmination of months of detailed planning and intense hard work as Saevus hosted the virtual award ceremony of the Hem Chand Mahindra Foundation Wildlife Warrior Awards, 3rd edition. The plight of the Forest Guards in our National Parks has often been ignored or forgotten, and yet, the very survival of the denizens of the wild depends on their commitment and dedication. The Wildlife Warrior awards is a step towards building a positive future for our green unsung heroes. Hem Chand Mahindra Foundation(HCMF) in association with SAEVUS magazine has been motivating and strengthening this crucial group of individuals through the initiative of the HCMF Wildlife Warrior Awards. In its third edition, 12 Forest Guards at DNP and at Manas Tiger Reserve were rewarded with INR 50,000 each.
Awardees from the Manas Tiger Reserve (top) and Desert National Park (bottom) being felicitated by the IFS officers of the respective regions.
Forest Guards are the frontline defence for the protection of our wildlife — be it the Desert National Park (DNP), the Manas Tiger Reserve or anywhere else in the country. They are the first to know of breaches in the form of poaching, illegal grazing or other unlawful activities that may be taking place. "The desert-like, inhospitable conditions at DNP, with an acute shortage of Forest Guards, leads to chowkis being often managed by only one guard. This scarcity spells doom for the safety and survival of the various species they can watch and protect" commented Shri Ashok Mahindra, founder and trustee, HCMF.
"The forest camps, in Manas Tiger Reserve, only have basic facilities such as a hand pump for water, a room with a camp cot, a kitchen and a toilet. Due to their remote locations, electricity and running water are luxuries and may not be available. Malnourishment, exposure to malaria and water-borne ailments are some of the causes for concern from prolonged stays in these camps. There is the threat of poachers, timber smugglers, grazers, and various armed groups. The compulsion to use 0.303 rifles or DBBLs as the only weapon of defense makes them extremely vulnerable while<|fim_middle|> guards at DNP are as endangered as the GIB that they are protecting." Shri Amal Sarmah, FD of Manas NP presented the certificates to the winners who had gathered at his office to attend the award ceremony. He promised that while the people from Manas had face great challenges as well as opportunities, they will work harder to improve the situation at Manas.
Dr. Sonali Ghosh, former deputy director, Manas and DIGF, Central Zoo Authority congratulated the winners and thanked them for their hard work. She gave a heartfelt plea to all saying "As a fellow forester, it is my humble submission to everyone in policy-making, that we need recognition for our forest frontline, probably the same we give to our armed forces, … probably a basic insurance, probably a ration, probably free education for their children. The kind of facilities that the armed forces are able to provide to the families are unparalleled in terms of the support, and I think that we need to do the same for our forest frontline, to motivate them and keep up the incentive. Initiatives like this from Saevus and HCMF go a long way."
Dr. Sonali Ghosh, former deputy director, Manas and DIGF, Central Zoo Authority, addressing the gathering
Shri AM Singh, PCCF and HOFF Assam was also present and had to say that "Life is so difficult for the frontline forces in the national parks… seeing their sincerity and dedication… from the core of my heart, I would like to congratulate each one of them (winners) for getting this recognition which will definitely give them a lot of motivation to work harder in their future."
Dr AJT Johnsingh, foremost field biologist, retired Dean, Faculty of wildlife sciences at WII, NCF, and WWF India and Dr Kedar Gore, Director, The Corbett Foundation were present and congratulated the winners while commending HCMF and Saevus for organizing the initiative to award the forest guards. | defending their territory against a mob of encroachers or militants" said Dr. Sonali Ghosh.
The winners were selected by an eminent and independent jury consisting of eminent conservationists Dr. MK Ranjitsinh and Dr. Asad Rahmani, Trustees of HCMF, Mr. Ashok Mahindra and Mr. Vinod Mahindra, and CEO and Editor-in-chief of Saevus, Ms. Sree Nandy. Dr. Naveen Pandey and Dr. Sutirtha Dutta, senior researchers and conservationists, were the Field Scrutinizers for Manas Tiger Reserve and the Desert National Park respectively. In a first of its kind, the programme attempted to sensitize the young generation by involving children as School Jury from two schools, Don Bosco in Guwahati, Assam for Manas Tiger Reserve and Cambridge Court High School, Jaipur for Desert National Park.
The eminent panel and guests
The awardees from DNP were Durgaram, Danveer, Hajara Ram and Kamlesh Kumar Jani. The awardees from Manas TR were Jaydev Narzary, Amit Boro, Lachit Borgoyari, Manu Pathak, Pranjal Talukdar, Buddhiswar Boro, Jaisron Basumatary and Jatin Brahma.
Dr. MK Ranjitsinh, visionary conservationist and the writer of the Indian Wildlife (Protection) Act was present in the award ceremony and addressed the Forest Guards in Hindi, "Many a times, you, the forest guards do the sacrifice, do all the work, but the credit is given to the officers… Whatever of our wild animals are being saved and protected, are only there because of the Forest Guards efforts. We thank you for your hard work."
Eminent conservationist, ornithologist and ex-director of BNHS, Dr. Asad Rahmani commented that he had been visiting the Desert National Park for 40 years, since 1981, and has seen the hardships of the guards at close hand. While a lot of development of infrastructure has been made, the hardships by the guards remain the same." While commenting on the flagship species of DNP, the great Indian bustard, or Godawan which are being helped to reproduce in the protected areas and enclosures, he commended the researchers, officers and guards for their dedication and service.
Dr. Asad Rahmani, conservationist, ornithologist and ex-director of BNHS, addressing the gathering
Shri Kapil Candrawal, DFO of Desert National Park couldn't attend the event due to his responsibilities in the field, and sent a video message, where he mentioned the challenges faced by the foot soldiers at DNP and congratulated the forest guards. Shri Sagar Pawar presented the certificates to the winners who had gathered at his office to attend the award ceremony. He mentioned that "The forest | 602 |
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Man Utd to meet financial goals after "turbulent season"
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LONDON (Reuters) – English soccer club Manchester United said it would meet its financial forecasts for 2018-19 despite what it called a "turbulent season" that ended with only a sixth place finish in the Premier League.
Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) for the three months to the end of March fell to 41.2 million pounds ($52.8 million), down from <|fim_middle|>, an increase of 9.7 million pounds from a year ago, mainly due to investment in a playing squad which includes French World Cup winner Paul Pogba and Chilean Alexis Sanchez.
Calls to rebuild the squad have grown louder after the 20-time English champions missed out on a berth in next season's lucrative UEFA Champions League competition.
"Preparations for the new season are underway and the underlying strength of our business will allow us to support the manager and his team as we look to the future," Executive Vice Chairman Ed Woodward said, after what he called a "turbulent season".
Despite a brief upturn in form after replacing manager Jose Mourinho with former striker Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, the team stuttered in the last few weeks and ultimately finished in sixth place in the domestic league, a whopping 32 points behind champions Manchester City.
The club continues to expect revenue of 615-630 million pounds and adjusted EBITDA of 175-190 million pounds for the year to the end of June. | 45.7 million a year earlier, the club said on Thursday.
That reflected in part the impact of wage costs of 84.8 million pounds | 32 |
I don't know what you are going through right now. Perhaps you are in the middle of difficult storm in your life. Someone has hurt you deeply, or you are victim of some circumstance. You have suffered job loss, property loss, a divorce or a medical issue. Maybe you desperately want something, but you have been unable to achieve that dream. During these times the world seems to be a very dark place. Our spirits are dampened. We feel like God is absent,<|fim_middle|> but are always too busy with the ways of this world to go out and find God's light. Many of you are already Christians, but are missing out on all the richness and fullness a close, intimate relationship with Christ will bring you, for whatever reason.
Whatever your situation, know that the light we see with our eyes is just the beginning. God's light is all around us, protecting us, guiding us, pushing us to the perfect plan He has laid out for us, even if we don't see it at the time. God's light is so bright; it cannot be seen with the eye.
God's light is so bright and so pure, it transforms everything it touches, if we let it.
You don't have to be perfect to experience God's light, His grace and His love. You don't have to wait for anything to happen. You can have this experience with God right now.
Let your spirits be lifted by God's perfect light. Open your heart to receive this gift from God. | because we don't see the light.
Perhaps you are lost in your own sin and feel unworthy to see out God's light. You have hurt someone, told a lie, or damaged a relationship. Maybe you have caused your own misfortune. You want to punish yourself even further because of your sin. You feel like God is absent because you think you don't deserve His light.
There are those who are just getting by, living out life in a fallen world, knowing that they are missing out on something, | 104 |
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NATO AWACS helps protect European Union Summit in Romania
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NATO AWACS surveillance aircraft will help guard the airspace over the European Union Summit in Sibiu on Thursday, 9 May 2019. NATO AWACS routinely patrol the skies during major events, including meetings of world leaders and other high-profile public events, such as international football tournaments.
"NATO AWACS provides an important capability and we are proud to deliver support to this event", said United States Air Force Brigadier General Andrew Hansen, Deputy Chief of Staff Operations at Allied Air Command, Ramstein. "This shows the close cooperation between NATO and the European Union".
Today's mission comes at the request of the Romanian government, which is hosting the Summit of EU leaders in Sibiu.
NATO has fourteen E-3A AWACS aircraft, which are modified Boeing 707s, easily identifiable from the distinctive radar dome mounted on the fuselage. The E-3A usually operates at an altitude of around 10 km. From this altitude a single E-3A can constantly monitor the airspace within a radius of more than 400 km and can exchange information – via digital data links – with ground-based, sea-based and airborne commanders. An E-3A flying within NATO airspace can distinguish between targets and ground reflections and is therefore able to give early warning of any low- or high-flying aircraft operating over the territory of a potential aggressor.
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In July 2018, Kenneth Cooper was on vacation with a friend, doing something he loved: biking around the Spittal of Glen Muick on the Balmoral Estate in the Cairngorms National Park, Scotland, looking for archeological sites.
As Cooper, 77, descended from the glen and approached the visitor center, he suddenly collapsed, falling from his bike. His friend called for help, and Cairngorms National Park Volunteer Rangers Keira Macfarland and Leo Hunt quickly responded.
"He was lying on the ground against an outdoor bench. Keira tried to get a response, but he was white. He was not responsive, he was not breathing, and I turned to get the AED," said Leo.
Kenneth was experiencing sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). Fortunately, a ZOLL® automated external defibrillator was only a few yards away, where it had been installed on the visitor center wall by the Sandpiper Trust, an organization that works to place AEDs in remote locations.
"The AED was so helpful; it confirmed that we had the right diagnosis. It gave me a lot of confidence."
– Keira Macfarland, Volunteer Park Ranger
"I was out looking for signs of illegal whiskey stills. I spent all day walking and cycling, looking for these things, and then, boom! I actually fell next to the defibrillator," said Kenneth.
"The AED was so helpful; it confirmed that we had the right diagnosis. It<|fim_middle|> Trust on Kenneth's behalf. | gave me a lot of confidence," Keira said.
Teamwork results in a successful remote-location rescue
Ten miles from the nearest town and up a one-lane access road, Kenneth was far from traditional emergency services. While Balmoral staff member Sonja Hastie called emergency 999, Keira applied the AED to Kenneth. The device recommended a shock, which she administered. After the shock, Keira continued with CPR, and on the next heart analysis the AED advised another shock. By this point, a group of doctors who were hiking the trail had stopped to help and took over Kenneth's care.
"One of the doctors found a weak pulse after the second shock, and they moved him to a recovery position. At that point, we could see he was breathing. It was superb," recalled Leo.
Sonja's call for emergency transportation was answered in the form of a helicopter, a Scottish Charity Air Ambulance. A mere 15 minutes after his collapse, Kenneth was airlifted to Ninewells Hospital in Dundee, where he woke up four days later.
"I would tell anybody, if they get a chance, to support [installing] more defibrillators. I wouldn't be here without that thing."
– Kenneth Cooper
Reconnecting with his heroes
One month after his SCA and now fitted with an internal defibrillator, Kenneth made the trip back to Glen Muick to meet and thank his rescuers.
"It was good fun," says Kenneth, although he notes, "There are no adequate words to say to someone who saved your life." He could not express enough gratitude for the amazing team effort led by Keira and Leo, whose training clearly paid off.
Keira was touched by the meeting as well. "It was a special moment. There were a lot of other people there, but for myself and my colleague, it was quite emotional."
Since his SCA, Kenneth and his family have worked to spread the word on the importance of having AEDs in remote areas like Glen Muick.
"I would tell anybody, if they get a chance, to support [installing] more defibrillators. I wouldn't be here without that thing. Support these charities that do good work; give something back to the system that saved your life."
In recognition of sharing his story and advocacy for AEDs, the ZOLL Heroes for Life Program will be donating a ZOLL AED to the Sandpiper | 501 |
New Jersey solar EJ plan: National model or warning?
By David Iaconangelo | 10/27/<|fim_middle|> look at reducing barriers to entry in all states," he wrote in an email to E&E News.
Other supporters of community solar broadly say it can spur employment in disadvantaged communities and reduce pollution.
Rob Sargent, campaign director for Local Solar for All, said in a statemet: "By making rooftop and community solar a priority in President Biden's plan for 80% clean energy by 2030, we can save money and create more jobs, while building the foundation for a more equitable, consumer-focused energy system powered entirely by clean electricity."
In New Jersey, community solar isn't far from the core of the state's energy future. New Jersey's energy master plan, released in 2019 by Murphy's administration, says that solar should become the biggest single power resource in the state by 2030, surpassing 12,000 MW of generation in the least-cost scenario — more than its nuclear plants and future fleets of offshore wind turbines, respectively.
The realization of that vision could hang on the results of next week's gubernatorial election. Murphy has consistently polled ahead of his challenger, former Republican state Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli, but in recent weeks, the gap has closed notably, hinting at an unpredictable outcome.
Ciattarelli, whose campaign did not respond to inquiries from E&E News, has criticized Murphy's energy plans in broad strokes as disastrously expensive, and called for accelerated investments in natural gas.
Another, less partisan critic — the Division of Rate Counsel, which is the state's official watchdog for energy consumers — has also spent years criticizing New Jersey's solar subsidies as exorbitant handouts to developers that came at the expense of the public.
The community solar program, with its focus on equity, cracks open a way for the state to improve its record, wrote the division's officials in a filing to the BPU last spring.
"We've suggested the grid-scale solar is a better way to meet our goals" for emissions reductions than building out distributed solar, said Brian Lipman, acting director of the Division of Rate Counsel. "Obviously rooftop is more expensive than grid supply."
"On the other hand, you don't want solar to be just for the rich," he added.
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Two solar installers working on a roof in Williamstown, N.J. AP Photo/Mel Evans
The Biden administration and clean energy advocates are pushing for solar power to be a key environmental justice tool, but New Jersey's experience is showing that won't be easy.
The state has one of the nation's most ambitious experiments for bringing community solar to lower-income households, winning praise from many industry watchers. But it is also coming under fire from critics who say that solar companies are being set up for failure, raising questions about other emerging programs nationally.
The focus is New Jersey's community solar pilot, which is one of over 20 state programs around the country that encourage developers to propose and build solar panel installations while reserving capacity for nearby apartment tenants and local residents who can't afford their own rooftop units. Those local subscribers get to save money on their power bills, and developers scoop up renewable credits offered by the state.
The income-based framework of New Jersey's program make it a national test bed for community solar's use as an energy equity tool, observers say. According to a September report from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the state has twice as many megawatts of community solar waiting to be built for low- and moderate-income subscribers as any other U.S. state.
"New Jersey is the leader there," said Jenny Heeter, a markets and policy researcher for renewables at NREL. "They've set a pretty strong policy for including low- and moderate-income customers in their projects."
The pushback is coming from some state-level trade associations and solar companies that say proving that a given subscriber has low or moderate income involves too much sensitive paperwork and ends up scaring away prospective customers from those tax brackets. Regulators also haven't sufficiently planned out where the grid will need to undergo expensive upgrades, raising the specter of unexpected, project-killing costs for developers, they say.
The state "has a very robust program for community solar," said Fred DeSanti, executive director of the New Jersey Solar Energy Coalition. The special emphasis on reaching lower-income parts of the public is "dead on," he added. "But doing it has become a little more difficult than anyone had originally envisioned," he said.
Regulators at the state's Board of Public Utilities, which runs the pilot, have defended the program, pointing to an outpouring of project proposals from developers that appeared to embrace the challenge of signing up lower-income New Jerseyans. All but one of the 410 proposals sent in for the latest round, the BPU noted in April, would include carve-outs for low- and middle-income customers.
Joseph Fiordaliso, the BPU's president, said at the time that the pilot had allowed the state to "further the promise of environmental justice for our most underserved communities while deploying the renewable energy necessary to reduce our emissions and improve public health for all." And Phil Murphy, the state's Democratic governor, called the pilot "historic" and a "national example for its focus on clean energy equity."
In early October, the BPU announced it would make the program permanent, while targeting 150 megawatts of annual project approvals. By 2030, roughly one-tenth of New Jersey's solar capacity should come from community solar under the state's energy master plan, a document drawn up chiefly by the BPU.
"I think the core elements of the program have been exceptionally successful," said Ariane Benrey, the BPU's program administrator for community solar, in an interview with E&E News.
Too much upfront grid planning, she added, would have discouraged applicants and delayed the program. Developers can use utility-provided capacity maps to figure out where the grid might be weakest or strongest.
The New Jersey developments come as the Biden administration also pushes for growth of community solar, which is a small-scale companion to the grid-scale solar farms pursued by utilities.
On Oct. 8, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm announced that the Department of Energy would undertake a new target of bringing community solar to some 5 million households, up from 600,000 at present.
"We want to see community solar really expanded," she said then at a meeting with solar industry advocates, adding that programs are "a way for all kinds of communities to be able to have access to solar… and reduce their energy costs."
The target could be a key way for the Biden administration to fulfill its pledge of devoting 40 percent of all clean energy investment "benefits" to environmental justice.
Solar advocates and civil rights groups are pushing for a far bigger federal commitment, with clear carve-outs for lower-income people.
In April, a 14-group coalition wrote to Congress urging it to support community solar policies that would reach 15 million low- and moderate-income households, while reserving 50 percent of the new solar installations' capacity for those subscribers.
The groups' letter didn't specifically mention New Jersey, but their 50 percent target mirrored the state's plans.
'Perfect is the enemy of good'
In New Jersey, at least half of the community solar capacity being built out is destined for low- and moderate-income residents.
The program has a simple cornerstone: a lucrative payday for solar developers, in exchange for ramped-up equity provisions.
Ratepayer watchdogs in the past have criticized the price of New Jersey's solar credits — the key source of developers' profits — noting that they were often several times more generous than in other Mid-Atlantic states.
In order to claim them, though, community solar developers have to come out on top of a crowded field of competitors. In the first round of awards, developers sent in proposals for over 250 projects, of which 45 were ultimately chosen.
Built into the BPU's evaluations was a points system that gave extra favor to projects sited on repurposed land — an important consideration in the country's most densely populated state — and to developers that had buy-in from local governments and nonprofits.
However, the biggest source of points was related to income levels: At least 51 percent of a given project's subscribers had to have low or moderate income, in order to win those points.
That ended up becoming, effectively, a requirement. Every single one of the community solar projects chosen by New Jersey's regulators, thus far, will include that income carve-out.
Convincing low- and moderate-income people to subscribe, however, has been one of the hardest parts of building the projects, according to some solar developers and nonprofit partners.
"Unfortunately, the way things are set up, it's extremely difficult to meet the requirements to bring LMI [low- and moderate-income] customers into these projects. And that's something we're really hoping to change," said Gary Skulnik, CEO of Neighborhood Sun, which helps developers find and manage subscribers for the community solar program.
When prospective subscribers have to provide proof of income — a step that can involve submitting tax returns from past years — many of them give up, Skulnik said. Some low-income residents also lack credit cards or bank accounts, a requirement for participation, he noted.
Solar groups and environmentalists have long pushed for greater laxity on income verification. One letter to New Jersey's BPU from June 2020, signed by 13 groups, provided a list of ways that the process could made easier, like requiring a single year of tax returns rather than three years' worth.
"[R]equiring sensitive income documents like tax returns is intrusive and does not set up a respectful process," particularly since low- and moderate-income subscribers aren't guaranteed a bigger reduction on their energy bills than wealthier participants, the groups wrote.
One possible change backed by New Jersey solar groups would allow anyone within a low- to moderate-income census tract to qualify automatically.
"If you know there's an area in a city where there's a preponderance of people that are low-income, why go through the nonsense of asking?" said DeSanti of the New Jersey Solar Energy Coalition.
"Is it going to be perfect? No. But perfect is the enemy of good. We've got to get bureaucracy out of this. It's weighing it down," he added.
Tomorrow, the BPU is expected to announce which projects it has picked from the 410 recent proposals from solar developers. It may also announce changes to the New Jersey plan that could placate developers — including, possibly, by paring back the amount of paperwork that low- and moderate-income subscribers need to provide in order to qualify for lower energy bills.
"The objective going forward is, how do we take these lessons from the pilot … and turn that into a program that is, over the long term, permanent?" said Benrey of the BPU.
Multistate battles
New Jersey is not alone in facing growing pains over community solar.
In some states, the main battleground has pitted utilities against developers, and revolves around the cost of connecting to the grid. In others, consumer advocates and regulatory staff have criticized community solar programs for benefiting too small of a slice of ratepayers. Last year, staff at the Florida Public Service Commission found that just 1.5 percent of ratepayers served by Florida Power & Lilght, for instance, would be able to take part in a $1.79 billion slate of community solar projects that was ultimately greenlighted (Energywire, March 3, 2020).
As in New Jersey, Maryland regulators faced calls to simplify subscription requirements for lower-income Marylanders, after launching a pilot in 2017. Regulators eventually agreed, allowing people to automatically take part if they're already enrolled in state or federal assistance programs.
Matt Hargarten, campaigns director for the Coalition for Community Solar Access, noted that several other states with community solar programs, like Illinois, Massachusetts and Maryland, have taken steps to simplify income verification. "For LMI customers to realize the benefits of community solar programs, we need to | 2,048 |
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Advanced Security, initially launched in January 2019 as an optional $5.99 upgrade, was developed based on customer feedback requesting a way to protect IoT devices in this smart home era. It uses AI and machine learning technology to monitor and analyze WiFi traffic in the home, and automatically blocks identified suspicious activity in real time.
It is the latest addition to Comcast's Xfinity xFi platform, which gives customers a simple, digital dashboard to set up and manage their home WiFi networks and see what devices are connected, set parental controls, get notifications about activities on the home network, and even pause WiFi access to certain devices during dinner or bedtime. xFi users can also ensure whole-home WiFi coverage by adding xFi Pods; small, easy to install devices that plug into any electrical outlet and extend connectivity to hard to reach areas of their home. And, now with Xfinity Flex, customers can easily manage streaming entertainment and connected devices on the television using the award-winning Xfinity Voice Remote.
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Xfinity Internet power users are connecting on average 50 devices in the home per month and, globally, an additional 100 million smart home devices are expected to be added to home networks by 2023 (Strategy Analytics). The xFi Advanced Gateway is designed for high-performance users to handle more capacity for even more smart home devices coming online today and in the future. This gateway delivers exceptionally lower latency for an unrivaled cloud and online gaming, 4K video streaming, and VR and AR experiences, as these applications increasingly become mainstream.
The gateway also provides unprecedented WiFi signal range, blanketing the vast majority of most homes with ultra-fast speeds. Combined with xFi pods, customers can create their own personalized mesh WiFi networks throughout their home.
"We designed the next-generation Advanced Gateway to be the fastest, smartest and most powerful WiFi device on the planet to continue to deliver on our promise of bringing our customers a great broadband experience," said Kunle Ekundare, Director of Product and Hardware Management, Comcast. "The xFi Advanced Gateway is truly the best Internet product we've ever built, and we're thrilled to be bringing our customers into the future with Wi-Fi 6."
Not only is the xFi Advanced Gateway one of the best performing gateways on the market, but it also comes with xFi – a simple, digital dashboard for Xfinity customers to control their home WiFi network. In addition to parental control features like pausing WiFi and screen time scheduling, xFi provides content filters that ensure younger children can only access age-appropriate content. xFi now also comes with xFi Advanced Security, that protects all the devices connected to a customers' home network from malware and other security threats. xFi can be accessed via the mobile app (iOS and Android), website, or on the TV, on X1 and Flex, with the Xfinity Voice Remote. The feature is available at no extra cost to the more than 18 million Xfinity Internet customers who lease a compatible xFi gateway.
The new xFi Advanced Gateway will be available in the coming months to customers that subscribe to Xfinity Internet speed tiers of 300 Mbps or faster.
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PopSci Goes to the Movies: In the Shadow of the Moon
The premiere party for the year's best astronaut film brings together moonwalkers, Stephen Colbert and a whole bunch of Tang.
By Abby Seiff
It's not every day that five of the astronauts who walked on the moon and Stephen Colbert are seen chilling in the same room, but that was the scene at the New York premiere of In the Shadow of the Moon, held at the Hayden Planetarium last week. The documentary, directed by David Sington (not Ron Howard, despite the prominent placement of his name in every poster), follows the unfolding of the Apollo missions and the men who made that pipe dream possible. Gathering together for the first time 10 of the 11 living members of the moon-bound missions (the notoriously reclusive Neil Armstrong opted out), the film describes the wholly unique shared experiences of "the only people to have been to another world."
Once the pre-screening, red-carpet surge was through (Buzz Aldrin was a particularly popular target), the premiere was surprisingly hushed. Gasps came at the appropriate moments-during, for instance, a clip of Nixon reading a contingency speech that would be aired should the first lunar module fail to lift off the moon: "Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace." Applause, too, when the Apollo 11 astronauts landed successfully. But mostly there was quiet as the impossible odds piled up: Here are the men with miles of paper and wood models in front of them; here they are with their lander that looks as though a gust of wind could snap it in two; here, the spacesuits scarily flimsy. To upbeat music, a snappy montage of spacecraft blowing up flashes across the screen. "At that point," laughs Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell, "boosters were blowing up every other day at Cape Canaveral."
"To me, it's very difficult to explain," Charlie Duke, the lunar-module pilot of Apollo 16, told PopSci before the screening. "It's such a unique experience, there's nothing we can compare it to down here." Apollo 12 lunar-module pilot Alan Bean added, "You're so far away from home. Your neck's out there. You're betting your life on this hardware." He paused. "But it's a lot of fun if you're willing to take that risk." Onscreen, the men struggle no<|fim_middle|> Lunar Module Pilot, being interviewed on the red carpet at the premiere.
Charlie Duke collecting lunar samples during the Apollo 16 mission. The photo was shot by fellow astronaut, John Young, at the rim of Plum crater. The Lunar Roving Vehicle can be seen in the distance.Courtesy NASA
At the premiere.
The official Apollo 11 portrait. From left: Commander, Neil Armstrong, Command Module Pilot, Mike Collins, and Lunar Module Pilot, Buzz Aldrin.Courtesy NASA
The premiere was hosted at the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History.
Charlie Duke at the premiere party.
Edgar Mitchell, left, with fellow crewmen and Navy rescue swimmers after the successful completion of Apollo 14. The men wait in a raft in the South Pacific, for the helicopter that will deliver them to the U.S.S. New Orleans, prime recovery shipCourtesy NASA
Shots from the movie, which included never-before-seen archival footage, played in the background at the premiere party.
Alan Bean, Apollo 12 Lunar Module Pilot, descends the Intrepid.Courtesy NASA
The Earth through the window of the Apollo 11 Command Module as it neared the Moon.Courtesy NASA
Director David Sington addresses the audience. "The Apollo program was the moment where we finally got to see where we came from, and, in a way, to know ourselves more fully."
Charlie Duke, Apollo 16 Lunar Module Pilot, at the premiere. | less to describe the feeling. Their own footage, unearthed from NASA's liquid-nitrogen-cooled archives, lends depth. We see their first shots of Earth from above, hear their disbelieving, awed laughs.
After the screening, the astronauts took a bow. Their wives joined them onstage. Standing ovations ushered them off. And then the men who had walked on the moon and the people who could only dream about such stuff shuffled out to down martinis and space food beneath some plastic models of the universe.
**For photos from the premiere and of the astronauts then and now, launch the slideshow here.
John Young, Apollo 10 Command Module Pilot, and later, Apollo 16 Commander, is suited up prior to takeoff.Courtesy NASA
Astronauts, director and various producers before the New York premiere of In the Shadow of the Moon. From left to right, are the astronauts, Harrison Schmitt, Charlie Duke, Edgar Mitchell, Alan Bean, and Buzz Aldrin. The director, David Sington, is second from right.
Buzz Aldrin is suited up prior to the Apollo 11 flight.Courtesy In the Shadow of the Moon
Buzz Aldrin, Apollo 11 Lunar Module Pilot, being interviewed at the premiere.
Jim Lovell, Commander of the Apollo 13 mission, reads a newspaper account of the troubled mission hours after the entire crew safely returned to earth.Courtesy NASA
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Today, Alan Bean is an artist with hundreds of works to his name. The bulk of his work has a spaceman's slant. Images of the moon, astronauts and the earth from afar dominate his canvases.Courtesy alanbeangallery.com
President Nixon greets the three Apollo 11 astronauts upon their return home.
Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 | 380 |
The phrase '<|fim_middle|> essential steps on the road to success! | contact centre culture' often conjures up some fairly negative connotations – think row upon row of drab grey cubicles, fluorescent lighting and zombie-esque agents stuck in an endlessly monotonous cycle of robotic conversations with disinterested customers. In reality, there's no reason why the modern contact centre can't be a fun and inspiring workplace with a strong corporate culture that keeps agents feeling motivated and engaged. Below are a few simple and easy tips for boosting workplace morale (which can in turn boost productivity, employee engagement …and your bottom line!).
Decorate. How's your workspace looking? Is there room for improvement? Whether consciously or subconsciously, our physical environment can have a huge impact on our state of mind. While it's important to keep your workspace professional and free from unnecessary distractions, increasing natural light wherever possible, using light, bright colours and including some healthy living greenery can go a long way to improving the overall look and feel of your offices – and create an environment where your staff can thrive.
Motivate. A little friendly competition never hurt anybody and can be a great way to put a little extra fire under your team. An inter-office contest with a desirable prize will give your agents a reason to go above and beyond and create a fun competitive buzz around the office (just make sure it's friendly competition).
Celebrate. Taking a moment to celebrate and reward both team and individual achievements – even the little ones – will make your staff feel like their hard work is valued, and inspire them to keep it up! A box of fresh-baked treats in the break room because Eric doubled his daily target yesterday or Kirsty landed a particularly challenging client won't break the bank but it will go a long way to making your team feel recognised and appreciated.
Move. Countless studies have proven that physical activity can have a dramatic effect on workplace performance. As little as 15 minutes of light exercise during the workday can improve focus, concentration and productivity, reduce sick days and increase employee engagement and satisfaction. There are plenty of fun ways to encourage your team to get moving: table tennis in the break room, afternoon yoga or stretching sessions, or consider turning small group meetings (2-3 people) into walking meetings.
Smile. This one might seem extremely simplistic but teams will often unconsciously adopt the energy of their leader/s, so if you're not happy and energised at work, chances are they won't be either. Lead by example and focus on the positives, expect the best from people and recognise mistakes and setbacks as | 512 |
Q: Line detection in python from a picture I am currently trying to do a line detection on an image of this type:
The top and bottom black bars are just due to where I took the picture, not due to resizing or anything.
I used the following code:
image = cv2.imread('test_2.jpg')
gray = cv2.cvtColor(image, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
edges = cv2.Canny(gray, 100, 250)
lines = cv2.HoughLinesP(edges, 1, np.pi/180, 25, minLineLength=100, maxLineGap=50)
hough = np.zeros(image.shape, np.uint8)
for line in lines:
x1, y1, x2, y2 = line[0]
cv2.line(hough, (x1, y1), (x2, y2), (255, 255, 255), 2)
cv2.imwrite('hough.jpg', hough)
And I got those lines at the end:
Is there any concept I could use that would help me?
I have tried changing the different parameters to the Canny and HoughLinesP calls, but it doesn't seem to help.
Edit: I'm trying to detect all the lines on the picture. The 3 horizontal lines, as well as all the vertical lines(crossing or just on top of the horizontal line) as well as the slanted lines.
My main issues are that some of the vertical lines aren't appearing, and every line<|fim_middle|> deal with the double line issue, but I'm not sure how to deal with the missing lines.
A: Hough is looking for edges, and you have ridges instead. This explains the double lines.
As your image is easy to binarize, you can try by edge thinning. You will get nice, continuous stretches of pixels from which you can infer line segments. But you may have to "repair" those that are crossed by a long line.
| has 2 hough lines instead of just one, which is what I need.
I think I can easily | 22 |
Altruism and Prosocial Behavior in Groups Vol: 26
Edward J. Lawler
Advances in Group Processes
In this volume scholars from a variety of disciplines address a range of phenomena related to the general question of when people behave in an altruistic fashion. The specific topics addressed in this volume include how empathy induced altruism can actually be a threat to the some larger collective good, the role of egoism in the production and maintenance of social order, the basis of cooperation in social dilemmas, an evolutionary account of sex differences in the propensity to cooperate, a theoretical analysis of when individuals experience gratitude versus indebtedness in response to receiving help, a new status-driven theory of large scale collective action, a cross-national analysis of institutional versus generalized trust in societies, and how individuals develop expectations for the sanctioning of particular kinds of behaviors. Overall, the volume includes papers that reflect a wide range of theoretical approaches to altruism and prosocial behavior in groups from sociologists and psychologists who work in the general area of group processes.
List of Contributors<|fim_middle|> threat to the collective good. The problem of social order: Egoism or autonomy?. Common fate, crisis, and cooperation in social dilemmas. Sex differences in cooperation and prosocial behavior. Differentiating between grateful and indebted reactions to receiving help. A status theory of collective action. Prosocial behavior across cultures: The effects of institutional versus generalized trust. Metanorm expectations: Determining what to sanction. Advances in Group Processes. Altruism and prosocial behavior in groups. Copyright page. | . Preface. Empathy-induced altruism: A | 11 |
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Is It Native?
Considerations for SW Ontario Gardeners
Sky-Blue Aster (Symphyotrichum oolentangiense), one of several asters native to Southwestern Ontario. Photo credit: Joshua Mayer, Flickr
The surge of interest in native plants is a welcome development for gardeners interested in supporting pollinators and wildlife. Whether we're trying to attract birds and butterflies, to provide habitat for at-risk native pollinators and other wildlife, or to increase biodiversity for garden health and resilience, native plants are in demand. For many gardeners the world of native plants represents a fork in the road of their gardening journey. Becoming a native plant gardener is far more than just buying different species—it's a new way of thinking about what makes a garden healthy, beautiful, and even useful. But as we learn about the "why" of ecological gardening, we are faced also with the "what." What IS a native plant? How can we tell if a plant is native or not?
Pervasive ≠ Native
The wild-looking plants and shrubs we see all over the place—in ditches, fields, and conservation areas—surely they're native, right? Not necessarily. Many roadside and forest wildflowers (dandelions, dames rocket, Queen Anne's lace, mullein, blueweed, scilla, chicory, ditch lily, celandine poppy and coltsfoot, to name a few) are ubiquitous. But they've not always been here. They're naturalized but they're not native. Some, such as garlic mustard and plantain, are escapees from gardens planted by early settlers. Some, like Achillea millefolium (white yarrow) have been here so long and have such inconsistent genetics that no one is really sure if they're native or not. Other popular plants that are often mistaken for native include: common mint, thyme, clover, periwinkle, hosta, lily of the valley, forsythia, lilac, rose-of-sharon, and miscanthus.
Plants that are native to a different continent are called "exotics". In North America, goldenrod (Solidago spp.) is native; in England, it's exotic. Some exotics are benign, well-behaved garden residents—your delphiniums, Jackmanii clematis, and peonies are never going to show up on an invasive species list. Several exotics are invasive, doing damage to forests and natural lands when they escape from gardens, which they regularly do. Some of them, such as Buddleia (butterfly bush) are being closely watched for signs of invasiveness, as climate change provides new growing conditions and southern invasive species move north.
Many meanings of "native"
How can we tell if a plant is native or not? Unfortunately there is no easy, cut-and-dried answer. "Is it native" might be rephrased as "Is it native enough"—for our own gardens and gardening goals. "What is native" can depend on one's area of specialization or interest. Botanists will see the concept differently than, say, ecologists or restoration professionals, but that's another long and fascinating discussion for another time. We're going to look at native plants from a southwestern Ontario gardener's perspective.
So let's use the wide-angle lens and look at definitions. Here is a fairly straightforward one: a native plant is one that was here before colonization. And here is a more nuanced and equally correct definition: native plants co-evolved with a community of flora and fauna and have functional relationships with them.
Author and activist Lorraine Johnson's definition is probably the most inclusive, seeing the big picture in all its complexity: "Native plants are species that evolved in association with all the features of a place and developed specific and important functional relationships and interactions that contribute to the specificity and identity of that place." Lorraine's "features of a place" leaves room for the abiotic (non-living) aspects of a place such as rocks and geological features (a 200-foot limestone cliff for example) as well as the bodies of water, aquifers, climate, and other things that make one place distinct from all others.
It's about place
Place is the key to understanding native plants. When we say "native plant" we must always include the place it's native to. Penstemon strictus, for example, is native to the southern Rocky Mountains, originally inhabiting subalpine zones, valley sagebrush and conifer forests in only a handful of states. Since colonization it's been spread by humans, becoming naturalized in a wider area in the US southwest. Similarly, some alpine plant species are found only at a certain altitude on certain mountains in the Himalayas.
This excerpt from http://www.canadiantreetours.org/ shows how murky the "native" concept can be:
Eastern redbud's status as a native plant in Canada is based on a single observation on the south end of Pelee Island in 1892. Although officially regarded as extirpated in Ontario, eastern redbud has been successfully planted in various parts of Southern Ontario as an ornamental tree. Offspring of these trees have escaped cultivation and spread to natural areas so eastern redbud can once again be found growing wild. Eastern redbud is native to a large area of the United States, as far south as Florida, and in Mexico. Its exact range pre-European settlement is not clearly known because it has been cultivated for so long and has naturalized in the wild.
Our beautiful Sundial Lupin (Lupinus perennis) is native to oak savannas, a rare habitat in Ontario. If you really want to kill a Sundial Lupin, plant it in clay in your home garden. But seriously, this lupin is a specialist and some restoration professionals argue that every native lupin seed should go to wild habitat where it can actually thrive. Not all native plants are appropriate for commodification.
Here in the northern reaches of North America's Eastern Deciduous Forest region (in Ontario we sometimes call this the "Carolinian Zone") we have the most plant diversity in all of Canada. Occupying less than 0.25% of Canada's landmass, the Carolinian forest provides habitat for over 40% of Canada's plant species and probably an equally large proportion of vertebrate and invertebrate fauna. Situated at the convergence of three great North American regions (the Boreal Forest to the north, the Great Plains to the southwest, and the Eastern Deciduous Forest to the south and east), this area's biodiversity is truly amazing—2,545 vascular plants are native here! But because we're also the most heavily developed, populated, and farmed area in Canada we also have the most species at risk due to habitat loss. The Carolinian zone's exceptional abundance, as well as the huge threats of species extinction, are what make native plants so fascinating and so important.
Ecosystems, not hardiness zones
Ontario ecozones and ecoregions
For gardeners, the concept of "place" is often connected to plant hardiness. "Growing zone" or "plant hardiness zone" describe whether plants are likely to survive our winters, using average (cold) temperatures as the main criteria. Although the Federal Ministry of Natural Resources' excellent climate zone maps have been improved to include heat, precipitation, humidity, and other important determinants of plant hardiness, in the world of native plants, hardiness is not the most appropriate lens.
We need the concept of ecosystem to really understand whether a species belongs to a place. An ecosystem is a community of plants, animals and abiotic (non-living) features that comprise a distinct place. Ecologists have categorized places with similar ecologies into broad groups (ecozones) which are then subdivided into smaller groups (ecoregions and ecodistricts). Ontario's Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry has defined three ecozones: Hudson's Bay Lowlands, Ontario Shield, and Mixedwood Plains. Within the Mixedwood Plains, which comprises most of Southern and Eastern Ontario, there are two ecoregions: 6E (Lake Simcoe-Rideau) and 7E (Lake Erie-Lake Ontario). Each region is made up of smaller ecodistricts. Grimsby ecodistrict (7E-3) at 74,000 hectares is a narrow strip of land below the escarpment from roughly Campbellville to the Niagara River. Visit https://files.ontario.ca/mnrf-ecosystemspart1-accessible-july2018-en-2020-01-16.pdf for a fascinating look at all of Ontario's zones and regions.
Moving plants
So, to know what plants are native to your area depends on the level of precision (ecozone, region, or district) you're okay with. Some gardeners will accept "anywhere in the province." Some want plants that would have been found in a typical ecosystem within a 50 km radius of their backyard. Others will include "near natives"—plants that are not found in southwestern Ontario but are common in the states directly south of us and might have made the leap across Lake Erie or Lake Ontario given another few thousand years. Relying on wind, birds, insects and sometimes waterways to transport seeds, plants simply don't move very fast.
Even fast-moving plants cannot outpace climate change. Because, unlike animals and insects, plants cannot walk or fly away from areas becoming too hot, dry, or wet for them, some ecologists want to introduce plants into areas north of their native range. Assisted migration, as it's called, is a controversial practice. The Biodiversity Institute of Ontario at the University of Guelph (https://biodiversity.uoguelph.ca) is a hub for research in this area. There's a good teaching resource from the Association for Canadian Educational Resources that looks at ecosystems with reference to climate change: https://www.acer-acre.ca/resources/climate-change-in-context/the-presentrecent-past/impacts-2/ecosystems.
Vinca / Periwinkle escapes gardens and invades forests. Photo credit: mwms1916 (Flickr)
"Helping" species travel is a job for professionals. Conservation and restoration ecologists look at plant origins in a very specific way, noting variations in disparate local populations and identifying naturally occurring genotypes. Plants that evolved in a certain geographical region have coadapted gene complexes, making them more likely to survive and reproduce there. Well-meaning gardeners who add plants to conservation areas and other naturalized spaces, whether public or private, can do more harm than they may realize. Just as we should never remove plants from the wild, neither should we introduce them. To learn more about the genetic aspects of plant diversity in Ontario, visit https://fgca.net/, the Forest Gene Conservation Association.
Doing the research
Being aware of issues around plant conservation may help us decide what to plant in the backyard garden, but let's return to the question of "what is native." For recent enthusiasts looking for native plants, the catalogue of a local native<|fim_middle|> provide insight on plants whose "nativeness" is unclear.
Suitable habitat
With a basic understanding of where your plant evolved, you can decide if it's right for you and your garden. You may want to consider the specific environment in which the plant evolved. For example, if your home is located on a former swamp, river delta, or in a creek valley, plants that are adapted to the thin limestone soils of the Niagara Escarpment probably will not be happy there. In conventional gardening we might call this concept "right plant / right place" and try to provide a species' preferred conditions for soil moisture, soil texture, soil pH, amount of sun or shade, and wind exposure. In the world of native plants this roughly translates to habitat. There are five major types: woodland garden; dry prairie meadow; dry alvar/rock garden, and wet meadow/rain garden. For some great southern Ontario plants listed by habitat, visit the Ontario Plant Restoration Alliance website: http://www.opra.ca/plant-features.html
Be sure to consider your larger surroundings. If your property is adjacent to a conservation area or forest, you may decide to plant only those species that are native within a radius of a hundred kilometers or so. If you live in the middle of a large urban centre there's less need for concern.
Spotted Joe Pye Weed Eutrochium purpureum aka Eutrochium purpureum subsp. maculatum. Image credit: Sarah A. White, Clemson University
Eutrochium dubium is a species of Joe Pye weed native to the East Coast of North America. In Canada it is found only in Nova Scotia. This species' mature height is only about 4′– 'Little Joe' is one of the many named varieties.
If you have existing, low-functioning nativars (cultivars of native plants) consider removing them gradually. Perhaps you planted the right genus but the wrong species—for example Eutrochium dubium 'Little Joe' instead of an Ontario native Joe Pye species. Your thriving patch of Penstemon digitalis 'Dark Towers' can stay until your seed-grown Penstemon hirsutus is ready. As your gardening journey continues, don't let it turn into a joy-spoiling quest for perfection. Your garden can teach, inspire, and guide, if you give it time and attention. Seeing native plants bring life to your garden will boost your momentum and interest but, ultimately, you get to decide when your garden is native enough.
Plant identification:
GoBotany keys: https://gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org
USDA keys: https://plants.sc.egov.usda.gov/java/
Plant Lists and databases:
VASCAN: https://data.canadensys.net/vascan/search?lang=en
Michael Oldham's List of Vascular Plants: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317731067_List_of_the_Vascular_Plants_of_Ontario's_Carolinian_Zone_Ecoregion_7E
NatureServe Explorer: citizen science database https://explorer.natureserve.org/
FOIBIS (at University of Guelph): https://www.uoguelph.ca/foibis/
Ontario's Natural Heritage Information System: https://www.ontario.ca/page/get-natural-heritage-information
Ontario Plant Restoration Alliance habitat lists: http://www.opra.ca/plant-features.html
Conservation and Restoration:
Ontario's Natural Heritage Information Centre: (https://www.ontario.ca/page/natural-heritage-information-centre)
Forest Gene Conservation "Woody Species Diversity": https://fgca.net/ https://fgca.net/species-conservation/native-species-learn/
Ontario Plant Restoration Alliance: http://www.opra.ca/
Conservation Ontario: https://conservationontario.ca/ (excellent resources available from Halton Region and Credit Valley)
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Next What's Eating My Plant? | plant supplier might be the first port of call. Unlike most general growers doing retail, these specialty nurseries are conscientious about sourcing their plants. Some can even point to the local population from which their stock originated. Specialty growers who propagate from seed (and most of them do) will be able to tell you whether the seeds were ethically harvested from wild populations, harvested from "captive" or purpose-grown populations, or purchased from a bulk/wholesale supplier.
But contacting growers can be a lot of work for someone who simply wants more native plants in her garden. An easier way to learn what species are native to your area is to consult one of the many authoritative lists available online. Here's how to go about learning whether a certain plant, perhaps one from your own garden, is native or not.
Before tackling the lists we need to accept, perhaps grudgingly, some botanical Latin —binomial nomenclature—into our vocabulary. Pronunciation doesn't matter so much, but the species name does. Among the many online resources for learning the basics, this short-and-sweet one from the Wisconsin Master Gardeners is easy to understand: https://mastergardener.extension.wisc.edu/files/2015/12/plantnames.pdf .
If you only have a photo, try using the iNaturalist app to help provide an identification. Recommended by professional botanists and naturalists, iNaturalist has stringent verification protocols and a huge user group, making it an excellent tool for citizen science. Reliable identification is also possible with a dichotomous key. GoBotany (https://gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org), the web site of the New England Native Plant Trust, has a very good key. So does the USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service https://plants.sc.egov.usda.gov/java/.
You can also use social media for help with plant ID. Facebook has some reliable groups. Try https://www.facebook.com/groups/156706504394635 "Plant Identification" or https://www.facebook.com/groups/742678512517908 "Plant Identification Southwestern Ontario." If you choose this route, be sure to provide your location (not just hardiness zone), your soil type (clay/silt/sand/loam), details of the site (sun, exposure) and several high-resolution photos showing the plant's overall form as well as the leaf arrangement and leaf shape. IDs obtained on social media should be checked and verified.
Is it local?
The fastest way to find out whether you've got an exotic or something else is to do a quick Google search with the terms [species name] and "native range". If your plant is native to North America, check the maps that show up on Google image results.
Canadensys is a national online database of plants.
Finding out whether your plant is native to Ontario is the next step. The online Database of Vascular Plants of Canada (VASCAN) is searchable by species name. Although the range maps are not detailed (province level only) VASCAN is a good place to start: https://data.canadensys.net/vascan/search?lang=en
Ontario's Forest Gene Conservation Association (FGCA) has an excellent online resource that lists trees and shrubs (but not herbaceous plants) by eco-district. https://fgca.net/ https://fgca.net/species-conservation/native-species-learn/. The list includes information on the prevalence (common, uncommon, rare) and is organized by type (evergreen/deciduous and size (tree/shrub).
The Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry 2018 research report (available online here: https://files.ontario.ca/ecosystems-ontario-part2-03262019.pdf) on ecodistricts is an excellent resource. Find the chapter on your ecodistrict and read about its unique plant communities. Even if your plant is not mentioned, you can learn all about your ecodistrict and its flora. Many of the plants could be great options for your garden.
This is a page from Michael Oldham's "List of the Vascular Plants of Ontario's Carolinian Zone". It provides county-by-county information, as well as the Ontario "S-rank" indicator code, which denotes the frequency of occurence.
Michael Oldham's 2019 List of the Vascular Plants of Ontario's Carolinian Zone (Ecoregion 7E) complements the FGCA list but looks at all herbaceous plants, both introduced and native. A comprehensive scholarly report, Oldham's list is alphabetical by species name and includes a prevalence code for each county as well as the S-rank (conservation status). The list is available here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317731067_List_of_the_Vascular_Plants_of_Ontario's_Carolinian_Zone_Ecoregion_7E
For a detailed look at native shrubs, an excellent but older resource is Shrubs of Ontario by James H. Soper and Margaret Heimburger. Now in the public domain and archived by the Royal Ontario Museum, it's available here: https://archive.org/details/shrubsofontario00sope. Another great resource is Gerry Waldron's classic book Trees of the Carolinian Forest.
A few additional databases are included under "Resources" below but this is far from an exhaustive list. Institutions (Royal Botanical Gardens in Burlington for example) and Conservation Authorities may have their own. Checking a plant in several lists can | 1,173 |
New research shows that perhaps the link between childhood willpower and adult achievement isn't as strong as we once believed.
In college, I studied psychology. In the twenty-five years since I left school, I've spent a lot of time reading about psychology in my spare time. I'm fascinated by the human condition, by the things that shape us, motivate us, give us happiness and fulfillment.
No surprise then that when I write about money, I do so through a psychological lens. I used to find a lot of finance advice frustrating because it ignored psychology. The books I read seemed to assume that humans are purely rational creatures who make only logical decisions with money. These assumptions didn't match my reality.
Although it's not a popular opinion, I believe there are very real differences between the rich and the poor. There are certain wealthy habits that lead to better odds of success with life and money. But here's the thing: If you're not raised in an environment where these habits are prominent — say you're the victim of systemic poverty and are never exposed to how wealthy people think and act — it becomes much<|fim_middle|> than another. The new study says that ability doesn't matter much at all to later success. Instead it is just a marker for other demographic attributes that do.
Exactly. I can guarantee that my first son at age 4 would have waited, while my second son at age 4 would have gobbled up the marshmallow in about 15 seconds.
My twin and I lived in a household where Mom worked 2 jobs and Dad worked 1 job. They saved money to the point where $10,000 was the limit of savings. The rest was spent. Whenever us kids asked for something, the answer was usually "no" or "wait until it goes on sale." In our teens, we had jobs and my sister spent on clothes. I borrowed clothing and paid my bills.
In our 20's, she had a spending problem. Every month, she would call a family member and ask for money to pay for the car lease. I paid my bills (like in our teens). Eventually, her car was going to be repossessed. Mom said she put enough money into that car and if it got re-po'd, she would lose all of that money. So Mom paid it off. I bought my used van for $4000 in full.
When Mom passed, my sister got all of Mom's possessions. I was given the lovely gift of responsibility. I was responsible for my sister's children's money. I could invest it until they turned 18, at which point , it would be given to them for educational purposes. Um, yeah.
We do speak to each other about our plans/resources for retirement. They are both very different. I'm not sure if one is better than the other, but I guess we'll find out. | more difficult to learn them.
When you live with lack for a long time, it changes how you approach life. If you're a kid whose family has struggled to get by, when you're given a marshmallow, you're going to eat it now. (Can you really trust it'll be there later — let alone that you'll get the second one you've been promised?) If you were poor as a kid, when you manage money as an adult, a scarcity mindset can lead you to do things like immediately spend a windfall instead of saving it for the future.
If I had participated in the marshmallow experiment as a four-year-old, I can guarantee I would have eaten the treat as soon as the researcher left the room. I'm nearing age fifty now and I still have to fight this sort of behavior. My scarcity mindset is real and it's damaging — even though I know it's present.
I'm not trying to use my money blueprint as an excuse for my behavior but as an explanation. I acknowledge that I'm responsible for my actions; I just want to know why I choose the actions that I choose.
There are 15 reader responses to "What the marshmallow test can teach us about money".
I visited my family last week and noticed this scarcity mindset with many of them. I guarantee if most of them came into a bunch of cash, they'd quickly spend it on some "toy". I think part of that is simply that none of them have been shown any other way. They can't see how that money could potentially be used to grow more money if they invested it. Humans will always behave in interesting ways for sure, but when so few people have even a basic grasp of how finances work, it leads to lots of problems for them as individuals, and to us as a society.
Thank you for bringing up the point that with the marshmallow experiment, you have to trust that the marshmallow will still be there for you later, and that there's actually an additional marshmallow in the pipeline. Life teaches the kids of systemic poverty exactly the opposite.
I saw a discussion on Reddit's povertyfinance (which I browse because I find tips for my student workers) about how the "standard" financial advice you see won't allow you to save yourself out of poverty if you have a low-wage job that barely covers food, housing, and transit, but what it *will* do for you is teach you habits that keep you from digging yourself a deep hole and will let you get ahead when your ship finally comes in. But that's the hard part … developing a new mindset and habits that don't have an immediate/short-term payoff, but may take several months or years to bear fruit.
I like /r/povertyfinance. It's pretty good for being such a new subreddit.
I am the oldest of four children of parents who never had a clue about money. And yes, when they got a windfall they went right out and blew it. My oldest brother and I grew up in a time of scarcity. The two younger brothers grew up in a time when my parents had more money because my dad got a better job. I saved every cent I could get my hands on, which wasn't much. I still do. My brothers all tend to spend money if they've got it and not put it in the bank for other days. Today we're all in our 60s and I still have more money than they do because I don't spend every cent I get.
One of my brothers…. well, if they'd put him in front of a marshmallow he would have eaten it before the tester had even gotten out the door, on the grounds that the tester might never come back.
Too much sympathy/empathy isn't good for people.
Good stuff JD. The scarcity mindset is also prevalent with depression-era people such as my Mom. She's 89 and even though she hasn't gone "without" since the 1940's that mentality never really left her psyche.
Yes, I thought of my Depression-era grandparents who were life-long savers to the extreme. I guess this is the other side of the "scarcity mindset" spectrum versus spending every windfall? Or because the Great Depression was an "economic event" rather than systematic poverty, it produced a generation with distinct money habits? So interesting to consider….
I wonder if this is a cultural thing. Has anyone tried this test outside of the US? I wonder if poor people in other countries can handle the marshmallow test better.
I like the new interpretation. People don't act logically. We are very emotional. If you go through life thinking people will act logically, you'll be sorely disappointed.
I found an article on NPR. They did the test on Cameroonian kids. They did much better although they're poor. Pretty good read.
Interesting questions…but what poverty means will vary greatly from country to country. It's not just a number, but also a set of cultural values and patterns.
I'm sure that 3rd world countries have people that survive on 1/4 of what Americans do, but I'm not sure that makes them impoverished unless they have a mindset akin to what JD is talking about.
No, poor people are poor because they don't have any money, or at least less than the amount required to maintain the local standard of living. There is no particular "set of cultural values and patterns" that will tell you if someone is poor, nor a particular "set of cultural values and patterns" that prevent someone from being poor.
I grew up in a large family.
If you didn't eat one marshmallow and waited for two marshmallows you'd find that someone had eaten all three and you'd get none.
Maybe kids who are disadvantaged and know what hungers like can not afford to wait to see if a bigger prize is there if they wait.
That isn't what the new study found. It found there was no correlation between early childhood willpower, as measured by the marshmallow test, and teenager behavior.
And its important to remember that all statistical studies tell us something about the populations studied, not the individuals. There are more kids with the ability to delay gratification in one population | 1,270 |
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Taiwan and Phillipines
1948 Taiwan's history begins
Holy Name Province of Taiwan came about with the evacuation of our Sisters from the Mission in China. From 1931 until the deportation of the final 6 Sisters in 1952, 37 Sisters worked with great zeal and commitment in an evangelization by word and service. In an effort to conduct the Sisters to safer places -some who were already under house arrest, some who were deported to their<|fim_middle|>itas Kroger). The Sisters made their home in a classroom until they were taken to Kaohsiung.
It was in Kaohsiung that plans were made to establish themselves for mission in Taiwan (then Country was then called Formosa. The Sisters met with Msgr. Arregui, OP, Apostolic Prefect of Formosa to contract for the perpetual use of a building on the Street named Wu Fu, thus giving the Community its name.
In 1951, the SMIC Formation House was established in Kaohsiung: The first 7 postulants (name given to those beginning formation) entered in December. In May of 1953, this first group became novices.
In 1967 Tainan was established as a Regional headquarters also where the novitiate formation House was established . After becoming a Province, it became the site of the Province headquarters.
Pastoral works have always been linked to evangelization, education and health care where the Sisters continue to make significant contributions in these areas. In education, the Sisters are well established in kindergarten services using the Montessori method. The Sheng Kung School in Tainan is renowned for its educational quality to the mid and high school level. St. Joseph Hospital in Kaohsiung is a general hospital that has extended many services to the care of the elderly which is a new area of social concern for the country. Several social services are provided with after school assistance as well as with protective care of children and youth. More recently a program to assist immigrants and their families with inculturation was begun at the bequest of the Church.
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Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception
47 Garden Avenue Woodland Park, NJ 07424 USA | home countries, the Congregation made plans for the final evacuation of the Sisters to Formosa, now called Taiwan.
After being expelled from China, the 32 Sisters arrived on November 15, 1948 in Taipei Songshan Airport from Shanghai . Having no place of their own, they were sheltered at the Spanish Dominican Sisters' Blessed Imelda High School. The comment written for the chronicle by Sister Veneranda who said: "the Sister in charge kindly received us, a group of refugees and brought enough chairs for us to sit on. Then a priest from the Divine Word Congregation took us to the conference room of the Catholic Church where we enjoyed our first lunch (sandwiches prepared by Sister Car | 148 |
Racing Luck is a 1935 American action film directed by Sam Newfield and written by Joseph O'Donnell and George Wallace Sayre<|fim_middle|> by Sam Newfield
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1930s American films | . The film stars William Boyd, Barbara Worth, George Ernest, Esther Muir, Ernest Hilliard and Onest Conley. The film was released on November 19, 1935, by Republic Pictures.
Plot
After the horse Life Belt is disqualified for a drug violation, trainer Dan Morgan is suspended from horse racing. He goes to work in a lesser role for June and Jimmy Curtis at their stables and tends to Color Sergeant, an injured horse.
A rival stable owner, Walker Hammond, is willing to go to any lengths to win. His men set fire to the Curtis stables, and when his horse Carnation scores a narrow victory over Color Sergeant in a big race, Morgan proves that Carnation is actually another horse, entered illegally. Hammond is now the one banned from the track.
Cast
William Boyd as Dan Morgan
Barbara Worth as June Curtis
George Ernest as Jimmy Curtis
Esther Muir as Elaine Bostwick
Ernest Hilliard as Walker Hammond
Onest Conley as Mose
Ben Hall as 'Knapsack'
Henry Roquemore as Tuttle
Dick Curtis as 'Dynamite'
Ted Caskey as Fred Millan
Joseph W. Girard as Commissioner
Robert McKenzie as Rancher
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@skopemag news for Tuesday October 22, 2019 @ 9 am est
by Skope • October 22, 2019
SARCASM – release official music video for "The Great Calm Embraced"
New music video by SARCASM. The last and fastest track of the new album "Esoteric Tales Of The Unserene". The video was shot in one day in an old rotten basement somewhere in Uppsala. No other crap included, only the band just raging in this cold decaying environment that suits perfectly with the music. Enjoy! Music Video recorded and edited by: Anton Humphreys.
Skope video submission: Space Cadet, "Good Mood". J.Lately collaborator strikes out
"When I was done with it, I immediately started writing to it, which isn't normal for me. That same energy transferred over into the lyrics so I just kept the title the same, which also isn't normal for me. The concept itself is pretty self explanatory, like waking up in such a good mood you don't let bad energy or worries you normally would have effect or ruin it." Cadet is currently working on his third solo project.
Original Music with a Celtic Flavor featuring "I Pull Me Down" (The Maids of Michelstown)
Americana/Folk singer/songwriter and musician, Debra Lyn and Producer Jeff Silverman are VERY excited to present her new single "I Pull Me Down (The Maids of Mitchelstown)" from her BLUE SUN RISES album.
"BLUE SUN RISES," Debra Lyn's third album for Nashville-based Palette Records, brings together traditional music that clearly speaks to Debra's Irish/Scottish<|fim_middle|>Boston Is 2019's 3rd Best City for Halloween – WalletHub Study
With Halloween just around the corner and total spending on related expenses projected to reach $8.8 billion this year, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its 2019's Best Places for Halloween report as well as accompanying videos, along with fun and interesting stats about the holiday in its Halloween Facts: Tricks & Treats By the Numbers infographic.
To help Americans decide where to spend the most spook-tacular time of year without frightening their bank accounts, WalletHub compared the 100 largest U.S. cities across 21 key metrics. They range from candy and chocolate stores per capita to average price per Halloween party ticket to share of potential trick-or-treat stops.
GRAMMY® WINNER TORI KELLY ANNOUNCES Inspired By True Events Tour
Two-time GRAMMY winner Tori Kelly will kick off 2020 with a tour in support of her new album, Inspired By True Events. The North American leg, produced by Live Nation, will kick off on January 28 at the House of Blues in Cleveland, OH. The headline run will include shows at Manhattan Center Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City (January 31), Nashville's Ryman Auditorium (February 12) and The Wiltern in Los Angeles (February 26). Audrey MiKa will open on all dates.
Lyric Video Released in Support of Recent Single, "Along The Way," by Promising Innovative Singer / Songwriter Allie Colleen
"If melody takes on the body of a song, the lyrics are the spine. An intricate system that holds all the important parts together to bring the song to full form. Without lyrics, a song is just noise," shares Allie Colleen. "I encourage you to dig into the lyrics and ask yourself what this song means to you. I hope you find what you're looking for along the way."
← South-African Songstress Bijou Bijou Is 'Feeling Bad'
Tate McRae – "all my friends are fake" → | /English heritage and intricately weaves these influences with original material. Inspired versions of songs such as the Scottish favorites The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond and The Parting Glass, a popular American Folk/Gospel song, Wayfaring Stranger, and a lesser known British folk song, Billy Taylor with an upbeat feel, are also included.
PALACE OF THE KING release their single & video for 'Move Through The Fire', out now on Golden Robot Records.
Many doomsayers have been writing rock's obituary. But they obviously forgot to tell Melbourne band Palace Of The King. During the past few years, Palace Of The King have played hundreds of gigs all around the world and released two EPs and three acclaimed albums, with a fourth on the way.
The editor of The Age's entertainment section, Martin Boulton, applauded the band's blistering debut, White Bird/Burn The Sky. In a four-star rave, he wrote, "Just a little over two years into life as a band, Palace Of The King have played a staggering 200-plus shows. All that time on stage and hanging out together has honed a mighty sound hellbent on rattling the rafters, shaking speakers and, quite frankly, emulating their many obvious influences."
Sydney rockers FLICKERTAIL release new single 'CONTACT SPORT'
FLICKERTAIL play guitar-fuelled rock and roll exactly the way it's supposed to be played. Drawing inspiration from the likes of Thin Lizzy, the Dubliners, Airbourne and The Darkness. Since their inception, the band have played relentlessly and are reaping the rewards. An incendiary live performance honed in the booze dens and back yard of Australia's Eastern coast was refined on stages shared with Aussie legends Buffalo and the Superjesus, before international support slots with the likes of Supersuckers, Zak Starkey (Oasis, the Who) and Living Colour.
Nuela Charles – 'Got It Bad'
"Melt is the culmination of two years of creative work where I regained control of the recording process, diving into aspects of production and mixing that I never had before. My producers worked with me to mold each song into its final form, refusing to settle and ensuring that I believed in what I was doing 100%. It was a period of realization and re-affirmation that I do know what I'm doing, and that I should trust my artistic abilities more."
INTERNATIONAL QUEEN OF BURLESQUE, DITA VON TEESE, RETURNS TO THE ORPHEUM IN LOS ANGELES TO RING IN 2020 WITH HER ANNUAL NEW YEAR'S EVE SPECTACLE
Internationally renowned Queen of Burlesque, Dita Von Teese, will ring in 2020 with a spectacular New Year's Eve Gala at the historic Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles.
For her third year in a row, Von Teese will present her annual New Year's Eve Gala show, an evening of high glamour, raucous comedy and showbiz surprises with the magnificent backdrop of the gilded Orpheum Theatre in the heart of downtown Los Angeles. With tickets starting at just $49.50, the 1,967 seat theatre sells out every year for this extraordinary event. Dita's shows feature the very best in burlesque and variety acts from all over the world, and have always been on the forefront of the body-positivity movement, showcasing inclusivity and diversity in an authentic way.
TAYLOR HAWKINS & THE COATTAIL RIDERS: "GET THE MONEY" TITLE TRACK OUT NOW
Featuring Taylor's vocals accompanied by none other than Chrissie Hynde, a sick Joe Walsh lead, and the inimitable Duff McKagan on bass, "Get The Money" is the second taste of its namesake album, to be released November 8 by Shanabelle/RCA Records. Previously the track "Crossed The Line" was released to enthusiastic acclaim including:
MOGUAI steps up to the challenge with 'Green Sally Up'
MOGUAI has had a strong first half of 2019, with standout releases coming in the form of his collaboration with Heldeep label boss Oliver Heldens,' Cucumba', and more recently 'Don't Stop' ft. Moe Mitchell, now the German native wastes no time in following up those stellar releases with 'Green Sally Up', released via Big Beat. Using the infamous vocal originally released in the 1960's, and more recently made famous on Moby's 'Flower' and by the viral 'Sally Up' workout challenge, MOGUAI once again proves his studio prowess and ability to breathe new life into existing elements, as fans are now challenged to take it to the next level with an up-tempo anthem that will have listeners pumped from the first listen.
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We took a look at the claims made on the Herbalizer's web site before beginning our own tests | 57 |
Maintaining a beautiful garden takes time and passion. When you add kids to the mix, you may wonder how you can upgrade your yard to make it kid friendly. Elements such as swimming pools, fire pits and sharp fences pose dangers for toddlers that call for baby-proofing.
There are several small steps you can take to make your garden kid friendly without sacrificing the landscape design you've worked so hard to achieve. Here are some of best ideas to get you started.
Creating expanses of space for young ones makes it safer and easier for them to play. As well, you get to keep an eye on them. Flat, grassy surfaces are soft and allow for lots of moving without the<|fim_middle|> Hang a rope swing from a tree or build a wooden climbing wall. You can blow up a pool and fill it with plastic balls for a ball pit and set up a slack line- which is fun for kids and adults! | worries of steps, elevated surfaces that can trip and tons of bushes blocking your line of supervision.
If children are very young, consider installing rails along elevated areas and durable netting that surrounds pools, ponds or trampolines. If you have equipment that utilizes propane gas or a shed where chemicals are stored, take care to keep supplies out of reach, doors locked and windows fastened.
A great way to incorporate your kids into the care and keeping of the yard is to start a family vegetable patch. They'll love helping out and learning how to plant their own food. Plus, it encourages them to eat healthy, home grown vegetables! Soon, you'll have the next generation of garden lovers on the way!
There are tons of awesome DIY ideas out there to build an activity center in your backyard. You don't need to spend heaps of money on giant structures that kill grass where they sit for months. Instead, opt for easy, portable play structures. | 192 |
Federal, provincial and municipal government officials and members of the Armenian Genocide Centennial Committee for Canada waited in<|fim_middle|> history and the importance of education," said Armen Yeganian, ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the Republic of Armenia to Canada.
Many argue the Armenian genocide set a precedent for other mass killings such as the Holocaust during the Second World War as well as events in Kosovo and Rwanda in the 1990s. The Forest of Hope is one of about a 100 projects to commemorate the genocide's anniversary across the country started by the Canadian arm of the Armenian Genocide Centennial Committee, which was founded four years ago.
"And this is the best one, because it calls for hope and peace," Yeganian said.
The Forest of Hope is located in Ashton Meadows Park near Woodbine Avenue north of 16th Avenue. The park was designed by renowned landscape architect Haig Seferian and consists of 100 different trees, with different blooming time throughout the year.
"Despite being displaced, the Armenian community is determined," said mayor Frank Scarpitti.
Earlier this week, the Armenian community celebrated the 25-year anniversary of Armenian independence. | anticipation as the Forest of Hope was unveiled. The new Forest of Hope will be a place of peace and hope for the Armenian community across the GTA.
"This small forest conveys an enormous message of new life," said provincial minister of international trade, Michael Chan, during the official opening ceremony of the memorial.
More than one-and-a-half million Armenians were systematically massacred by the Ottoman Empire starting in early 1915. Canada is one of two dozen countries that recognize the events as the first genocide of the 20th century.
"We know the meaning of genocide, its | 118 |
"Tonight"<|fim_middle|> Showtime.
Track listing
Digital download
"Tonight" – 3:44
Mixes
"Tonight "
"Tonight " (released in the UK)
Personnel
Shaun Morgan – lead vocals, rhythm guitar
Dale Stewart – bass, backing vocals
John Humphrey – drums
Troy McLawhorn – lead guitar
Brendan O'Brien – producer, mixer
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
References
Seether songs
2011 singles
Song recordings produced by Brendan O'Brien (record producer)
2011 songs
Songs written by Troy McLawhorn
Songs written by Dale Stewart
Songs written by John Humphrey (drummer)
Songs written by Shaun Morgan | is a song by South African rock band Seether. It was released on 7 June 2011 as the second single from their fifth studio album Holding Onto Strings Better Left to Fray. This is also one of the last songs the band recorded with lead guitarist Troy McLawhorn who left the band prior to the album's release. Two remixes of this song appeared on the band's Remix EP.
Background
During an interview, drummer John Humphrey stated that "Tonight" is one of the last songs the band wrote. "Shaun had put together a demo for the song, and he was playing it for Dale [Stuart, bass player] and I. We were sitting in line at Starbucks, and Shaun started playing the demo off his iPod, and we were like, 'this song is awesome, man.' It's a super strong song. It was very melodic and just the best of pop-rock for Seether. I think it's a really strong song and a great single."
When asked about which songs were the favorites Shaun Morgan talked about how the song almost didn't make it onto the album since he hadn't shown it to the band yet and later explained "But one morning I woke up before dawn, in a really good mood, and completely changed the lyrics to positive lyrics. It just started coming together. Later that day in the studio, I asked Brendan to check it out. We only had two days left in the studio, but Brendan said, 'We've got to record that song right now.' I think it captures and summarizes the hopeful sentiment of the album." Dale Stewart then says that "'Tonight' is almost nostalgic, yet optimistic sounding. It's a really strong song and I'm excited for it to possibly go to radio. I think it could be a big song for us."
Remixes
A remix contest for Seether's Remix EP, an EP release that has six remixes of Seether's songs from their album Holding Onto Strings Better Left to Fray, was held for the song through Indaba Music's website. Won by popular vote as grand prize winner, Neon Feather's remix of the song appeared on the EP and DJ Schmolli, though his or her song was not on the EP, was chosen by Seether as the runner-up for the contest.
Music video
The music video directed by Seth Dennemann premiered on 31 October 2011 on Vevo and on iTunes the next day. The video mainly shows live footage of the band's performance of the song at the 2011 Uproar Festival in Indianapolis, Indiana that was filmed on 17 September 2011 along with backstage footage.
Appearances in other media
Immediately following the conclusion to the 16 September 2011 edition of WWE Smackdown at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on 13 September, the song appeared in a video tribute to Toronto native Edge during an appreciation night commemorating his career that was filmed as a Blu-ray exclusive for You Think You Know Me: The Story of Edge. A shortened version of the video resurfaced three months later on the 9 January 2012 edition of WWE Raw when Edge was announced as the main headliner for the 2012 WWE Hall of Fame.
The band recorded a Simlish version for the video game The Sims 3: | 698 |
The popularity of gin in Ireland is constantly growing, and what better way to enjoy the drink of the moment than in a glass from Waterford's brand-new Gin Journeys collection. Featuring six different crystal patterns, the collection is not only striking to look at and enjoyable to drink from, it is steeped in history with inspiration being drawn from County Waterford's heritage in gin. Since the Victorian era, spices and botanicals have been transported along its roads and rivers to distilleries and the great houses throughout Ireland.
Developed in collaboration with industry experts the collection has been specifically created to enrich the aromas and infuse the flavours of the botanicals within the spirit so that gin connoisseurs can enjoy an enhanced drinking experience. The collection features two new shapes from Waterford, designed for the ultimate enjoyment of the spirit: balloon glasses with a short stem which are perfect for gins with a 39% and above ABV, due to their bowl-like shape trapping the aromas inside the glass and allowing the spirit more room to breathe as well as space for garnishes and ice, and<|fim_middle|> much-loved spirit. | slim hi-balls which are ideal for lower alcohol gins and cocktails.
The crystalware itself has been designed using three Short Stories barware patterns, which also launched this year. These include Olann, which boasts a dramatic diamond design inspired by the classic diamond stitch on Olann knitwear originating from the Aran Islands; Cluin, which showcases a masculine square-cut design reminiscent of the bookshelves in Dublin's 18th Century Gothic Marsh's Library and Aras, which draws inspiration from the architecture of ancient castles found on the rolling hills of the Irish landscape, with its dramatic yet classic vertical-cut design pattern.
In addition to this, the collection includes three more timeless designs including Waterford's signature Lismore design, which is renowned for its brilliance and clarity; Elegance, which is the epitome of exactly that – ideal for entertaining and transforming any event into a special occasion, with its sleek lines and sophisticated pattern; and Elegance Optic, a smooth, crystalline design that would be a welcome addition to any gin connoisseurs' barware collection.
The Waterford Gin Journeys collection has something for everyone from dramatic designs to sleek, minimal pieces – offering a sophisticated way to enjoy and truly appreciate the flavour of the | 256 |
The Society of FSP now has a<|fim_middle|> | group E&O plan that is available to members at extremely affordable rates. This new benefit is being offered by CalSurance of Orange, California, an E&O specialist since 1979. Coverage is provided by Fireman's Fund, which is rated A (Excellent) by A.M. Best.
Most FSP members who have switched their Errors & Omissions (E&O) coverage through the Society's Member Discount Program have saved hundreds of dollars a year.
This coverage is available to Society of FSP members. If you are not a member, now is a great time to join. New members joining the Society of Financial Service Professionals (FSP) in the months of January through June can take advantage of lower prorated dues.
FSP has the advanced education you need and is the only credentialed multidisciplinary organization in financial services. That's what makes FSP unique and more powerful when it comes to networking and referrals—and member benefits.
For more information about membership in the Society of FSP call 800-392-6900 or email awhicker@financialpro.org. You can also go to www.financialpro.org and use the Join/Renew link at the top of the page. | 258 |
William F. O'Neil, "W.O." and his partner, Winfred E. Fouse, founded the General Tire and Rubber Company on Sept. 29, 1915. General Tire began as an<|fim_middle|> the company's name was changed to Continental Tire North America, Inc. | outgrowth of the Western Tire & Rubber Company, organized by the two young Akron businessmen. "W.O." and Fouse were convinced that, with a quality product, there was a place for them in big league tire manufacturing. Continental is the second largest European tire producer. In recent years it has recorded substantial gains in both sales and earnings. For 1989, Continental reported U.S. dollars equivalent sales of $4.9 billion. Today, General Tire is a leader in the development, production, and marketing of quality tires for automotive applications. The company continued to operate as General Tire, Inc. from March 29, 1984 through December 31, 1994. It then changed its name to Continental General Tire, Inc. from January 1, 1995 through April 30, 2000. As of May 1, 2000, | 193 |
In the UK alone we<|fim_middle|> be thriving and the envy of your neighbours – even if it is a dainty window box or a pocket handkerchief. | have lost up to 97% of our native wildflower meadows since the 1930's. Bees, in particular, have been hit hard with this loss, whilst also being put under attack by pesticides, monoculture and intensive farming, including the loss of hedgerows as vital wildlife corridors.
You'll be surprised by how many crop plants require bees in order to be pollinated, 75% in fact, subsequently putting our food systems under threat. The ones most commonly found in our kitchens include Onion, Broccoli, Cauliflower, Kiwifruit, Brussels Sprouts, Coriander, Cucumber, Lemon, Carrot, *berries, Apple, Avocado, Cocoa (that's Chocolate!), Tomato – plus many, many more!
There are many organisations jumping on the bandwagon to help save bees and the wildlife that supports them, one of them is Friends of the Earth with their "Bee Cause" Campaign. I made a donation to the cause and received an amazing "Bee Saver Kit", which was packed with everything I needed to create a bee-friendly meadow in my garden. The pack included a Bee Guide, British wildflower seeds, a Bee ID chart and a garden planner to help you create the perfect haven all year round.
FOE Bee Saver Kit – Make a donation and get everything you need to get buzy for bees.
…which means there's no excuse, no matter how big or how small space you have. For me, it's likely to be the "Urban Seedball Mix" or the pack, especially for planters. I also suffer from quite a bit of shade due to my garden area being to the rear of the house only catching the afternoon sun, whilst being blocked by large walls and other buildings. So the other seed option for me would be the problems solvers "Shaded Area" mix. I can sew these now too (Autumn) whilst my 'planters mix' will have to wait until Spring.
Another company called "Simple Sowing" have an easy way to sow your seeds by creating convenient wildflower 'seed mats'. Made from biodegradable paper, each seed is spaced at the optimum distance for perfect germination and growing. The seed carpet can be cut to fit any size and simple to lay down.
You can also go on mini training courses with various organisations to help you be wildlife savvy with your garden. The Wildlife Trusts host a wide range of course for free for members of the public so check out your local trust and see if they have some wildlife gardening or seed sowing sessions that you can attend. You can also check out Roots, Shoots and Leaves for their gardening workshops.
Creating a haven of flowering plants throughout the year won't just be fantastic to look at and great for bees, but beneficial to many other bugs and creepy crawlies, which will then attract bigger wildlife like birds and hedgehogs. Soon enough your garden will | 600 |
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Taken 3: Kim Gets A New Boyfriend
Jonny Weston has joined the cast of the action sequel Taken 3 says Variety.
Liam Neeson has reportedly closed a near $20 million deal to return as Bryan Mills, the retired CIA agent who likes to beat up bad guys. Famke Janssen will reprise her role as Lenore Mills Maggie Grace is set to reprise her role as as Kim Mills as well.
Weston will play the part of Kim's boyfriend.
Forest Whitaker also stars.
"Taken 2" helmer Olivier Megaton will return to direct while Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen are back working on the script.
Beeson will produce the film.
Production aims to begin shortly.
The first "Taken" had good reviews and took in $226 million worldwide from a $25 million budget. Taken 2 despite having poor reviews, still made an impressive $376 million from its $45 million budget.
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Trio Join "Tumbledown" As Shooting Starts
Dianna Agron, Griffin Dunne and Richard Masur have joined the rom-com "Tumbledown" says Deadline.
Rebecca Hall ("Iron Man 3") plays a woman unable to move on after the death of her husband. She eventually meets a brash New York academic who has a different take on her husband's life -- and death.
Hall takes over for Rose Byrne
Jason Sudeikis, Blythe Danner and Joe Manganiello also star.
Sean Mewshaw's directing from a screenplay by Desiree Van Til
Kristin Hahn Aaron L. Gilbert and Margot Hand are producing the project.
Production has begun in Devens, Massachusetts
Norman Reedus Ready For "Triple Nine"
"The Walking Dead" star Norman Reedus has joined the crime drama "Triple Nine" says Deadline.
The term 999 is a police code that refers to an officer who needs immediate assistance.
The story follows a group of thieves (led by Chiwetel Ejiofor) who plan to kill a young LAPD officer (Casey Affleck) to divert the police away from a daring heist they're perpetrating across town.
Woody Harrelson co-stars as Sergeant Detective Jeffrey Allen, uncle to Affleck's fellow officer.
Michael B. Jordan, Aaron Paul, Gal Gadot, Teresa Palmer Kate Winslet Anthony Mackie and Michael Pena also star
Affleck replaced the previously linked Charlie Hunnam.
Matt Cook wrote the script from which John Hillcoat ("Lawless," "The Road") is set to direct.
Keith Redmon, Bard Dorros and Steve Golin are producing.
Production begins this summer.
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Trio Joining "Terminator: Genesis"
THR says that Byung-hun Lee, Michael Gladis and Sandrine Holt have joined the sequel reboot Terminator 5 aka Terminator: Genesis.
No details were given about any of these new cast members' roles, but the trade reveals that Lee's role, "promises to be a doozy."
Jai Courtney has won the role of Kyle Reese. The Good Day to Die Hard star beat out Boyd Holbrook his nearest competitor who is to have tested twice--while Sam Reid, Wilson Bethel, and newcomer, Thomas Cocquerel were also contenders for the role of Reese. All 5 actors tested for the role last month. Seemingly, both Nicholas Hoult and Garrett Hedlund were studio favorites but have declined to enter negotiations for the role.
The film will apparently "end the story of Skynet's battle with the resistance".
Australian actor Jason Clarke ("Zero Dark Thirty," "White House Down") is in early talks to play the role of John Connor in the upcoming reboot. Hedlund Tom Hardy and ironically Holbrook ("The Host") were said to be up for John as well. Emilia Clarke is set to play a young Sarah Connor in the film. She beat out Brie Larson for the role. Former "Spider-Man" scene stealer J.K. Simmons will play a weary and alcoholic detective who has followed a bizarre case involving Sarah Connor and robots for more than three decades starting in 1984 and the events depicted in The Terminator. Dayo Okeniyi (The Hunger Games) has signed on to play the part of Danny Dyson--the son of Miles Dyson, played by Joe Morton in "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" who designed the neural-net processor that would lead to the creation of Skynet.
Arnold Schwarzenegger will return while cohorts Linda Hamilton and Michael Biehn have been rumored to be involved as well.
No other story details have been offered but we do know that the new pic is the chapter of a stand alone trilogy. Laeta Kalogridis and Patrick Lussier wrote the script from which "Thor: The Dark World" director Alan Taylor is all but set to call action. Clarke has experience working with Taylor on the cable drama "Game of Thrones". She also has a six degrees connection to the franchise: Clarke's Thrones co-star Lena Headey played Sarah Connor in the TV series "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles".
David Ellison's going to produce the film
Production begins at the end of April in New Orleans to meet a July 1st 2015 release.
Scott Caan Gets Shia's "Rock the Kasbah" Role
THR reports that Hawaii Five-0 star Scott Caan is poised to replace Shia Labeouf in the comedy "Rock the Kasbah".
The story follows Bill Murray as a burned out music manager who goes to Afghanistan on the USO tour with his last remaining client. When he finds himself abandoned, penniless and without his passport, he discovers a young girl with an extraordinary voice, who stows away with him back to Kabul to compete on the popular television show, the Afghan Star.
Bruce Willis Zooey Deschanel, Danny McBride, and Kate Hudson also star.
Caan will play one part of a military duo opposite McBride
LaBeouf's departure was said to be amicable. Shia has no other acting jobs lined up.
Barry Levinson will call action using a script from Mitch Glazer, who also wrote Murray's 1988 underrated holiday comedy Scrooged and the 1998 adaptation of Great Expectations.
Bill Block, Steve Bing and Jacob Pechenik will produce the film. Brian Grazer and Tom Freston serve as executive producers.
Production begins this June.
Darren Aronofsky Talks Almost Directing "Man of Steel"
"Noah" filmmaker Darren Aronofsky came close to directing a superhero movie twice. First it was an ambitious hard-R adaptation of Frank Miller's "Batman: Year One" an idea abandoned once Warner Bros. opted to go for Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy instead.
DA was also set to helm the more recent "The Wolverine," a job that he left allowing for filmmaker James Mangold to take over.
But he was potentially going to do another one - Zack Snyder's "Man of Steel".
Speaking with MTV, Aronofsky revealed that he had "a few conversations" with both producer Nolan and WB about the film but was very happy with Snyder's selection and approach:
"I thought Zack was a great choice, and I loved his Watchmen movie. I thought it was great. I thought that as a fan of the comic, you couldn't hope for a better interpretation. I liked the orthodoxy of it. It was interesting to add the pathos that they put into the character. It's a hard one to do. You look at what Christopher Reeve did, and it was perfect, because it captured that 'good old boy' thing. But to try and redo that again and bring that for a modern audience is tough in a post-'Batman' and 'Wolverine' world. It's hard to do that."
Aronofsky added that he would have "absolutely" taken the job under the right circumstances.
Renny Harlin Picks Up A "Fallen Cross"
THR reports that Renny Harlin is set to direct the action-thriller "Fallen Cross".
The story follows Timothy Cole, a reformed ex-mafia enforcer struggling to protect his family from the Chicago Cross crime syndicate he once served. Confined to prison, he's forced to return to his ruthless killer ways to dismantle the Cross before they can get to his children.
David Christopher O'Neill wrote the screenplay
Adrian Politowski and Karl Richards will produce.
Production would begin next winter.
Andy Serkis Talks Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes Again
Andy Serkis talked with Collider about the sequel Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and confirmed a third film in the series is in the works:
"The idea would be that this [Dawn] will segue into a third movie, which will lead us back to the origins, which leads us back to the very, very first movie."
"Dawn" will continue the action from Rise of the Planet of the Apes. The film is set a decade after Rise's post-credits sequence where the global human population has been substantially reduced due to the Simian Flu. Meanwhile, Caesar and his fellow ape sanctuary escapees have spent the past decade expanding to a community of about 2,000 apes on the outskirts of San Francisco. The enhanced find themselves threatened by a band of human survivors. A fragile peace proves short-lived, as both sides are brought to the brink of a war.
The tone is also "completely different" from the first film, as is the central message:
"The ape community, where Caesar has, you know, set up and galvanized all the apes, the chimpanzees and the orangs, and the chimps into one family, one tribe that he's the ruler of. But he's an egalitarian leader, and so you really think you're watching a tribe at the beginning, and I'm really excited about people seeing that, and then suddenly having the rug pulled from out under their feet when the humans turn on them. I think it's really powerful, and I think important film about identity, about tribalism, about fighting for what you believe is right and being able to empathize. As it always was with these 'Apes' films, they are always about something else, the metaphor is very clear, and it's – this particular time around it's about these two families fighting for survival, but yet knowing that if you just fight for your own family it's not necessarily the way to peace and not necessarily the way to survival."
Serkis also confirms that with advancements in Mo-Cap technology, around 90% of the film is shot on location. 'Rise' boasted a lot of 'on-set' pieces and a smattering of locations, this time it's the other way around.
"Rise" helmer Rupert Wyatt chose not to return reportedly due to the fact that the director wasn't comfortable with making the May 23rd 2014 release date the studio had originally announced. "Cloverfield" director Matt Reeves takes over.
Rise star James Franco does not return instead--Zero Dark Thirty actor Jason Clarke Keri Russell Serkis, Gary Oldman Judy Greer and Kodi Smit-McPhee star.
Mark Bomback ("Live Free or Die Hard," "Unstoppable") is set to rework Amanda Silver and Rick Jaffa's script. Bombeck is expected to turn in something more suited to the new director's style. This is Deja Vu On 'Rise' Silver & Jaffa wrote the initial script and then Bomback did an uncredited script rewrite.
"Contagion" scribe Scott Z. Burns took a crack at the "Dawn" script as well
Peter Chernin Dylan Clark Silver and Jaffa will produce.
The film is now targeting a July 11th 2014 release.
Brosnan Tipped To Join "The Expendables" At Some Point
Pierce Brosnan told The Independent that he has been offered a role in a future installment of the action film series "The Expendables":
"Oh, the offer has come in for the next Expendables. I just worked over in Bulgaria with [producer Avi Lerner] who makes them. He said, 'Would you like to be in The Expendables? I'd love to have you', and I said, 'Why not?' So we'll see. I have no idea which one it would be. I just said yes. It could be [Expendables 7]!"
The film in Bulgaria he's referring to is James McTeigue's thriller "Survivor" in which Milla Jovovich plays an U.S. Department of State employee working in London who becomes caught in a conspiracy and turns her into a fugitive. She sets out to clear her name and stop a terrorist attack on New York's Times Square before New Year's Eve.
Cash Grab "Fantastic Beasts" Becomes A Trilogy
Warner Bros is expanding its plans for the film version of author J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Hogwarts textbook "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" .
When the adaptation was first announced in last September, WB Chief Executive Officer Kevin Tsujihara. said the studio had hoped it would serve as a potential franchise launcher.
In a profile on Tsujihara that was published over the weekend, The New York Times revealed that the plan now is to make a trilogy.
And you thought turning the 310-page long "The Hobbit" into a film trilogy seemed like a stretch. The idea of Rowling's 54-page Hogwarts textbook being turned into "three megamovies" seems far worse.
Set some seven decades before the start of the Potter books, the films will follow magizoologist Newt Scamander.
The same article also says "a film series will be announced in the near future" based on DC Comics properties, and "it is expected to include a Justice League movie".
Bruckheimer Hasn't Given Up On "Top Gun 2"
Despite reports to the contrary "Top Gun 2" is still gonna happen...
Appearing on HuffPost Live last Friday to discuss the book When Lightning Strikes - Four Decades of Filmmaking, producer Jerry Bruckheimer told Ricky Camilleri that it's gearing up again.
"We've been trying to get that movie made for 30 years, and I think we're getting closer and closer. Don [Simpson] and I tried to develop something, we didn't succeed. [Star Tom] Cruise took over, and he tried to develop something, and he didn't succeed. Now we're back at it."
Tony Scott, Top Gun's original director, came up with the story before his tragic suicide in 2012. Jerry says the follow up is quite relevant to today's world:
"The concept is, basically, are the pilots obsolete because of drones. Cruise is going to show them that they're not obsolete. They're here to stay. It's just getting to the starting place. Fortunately for Tom, he's very busy, so you have to find a slot he can fit into and get a budget that Paramount feels they can make the picture."
The studio hired Peter Craig (The Town) to pen the script at last report but no director is set to take over for Scott.
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Avengers 2: Video Of Captain America In Seoul
Last week we got to see photos and video from the Italy set of Joss Whedon's superhero team up sequel "The Avengers: Age of Ultron"--Now just ahead of Friday's release of Captain America: The Winter Soldier--A three-and-a-half minute set video is online of filming taking place in Seoul, South Korea for the "Phase 2" topper.
Captain America (Chris Evans) is on hand for these scenes on the famed Banpo Bridge offering us a glimpse at Cap's slightly different costume for the movie. The threads include new shoulder pads and appears to be a slightly darker blue.
The sequel DOES NOT follow the Age of Ultron comics storyline--in which the big bad Ultron was created by Hank Pym who becomes Ant-Man. James Spader will both voice Ultron, and he'll have to do some kind of motion-capture as well--This news puts to rest the most popular theory suggesting that Tony Stark's (Robert Downey Jr,) robot but<|fim_middle|>4 million from 1,733 locations.
Last year, Schwarzenegger's Escape Plan opened to $9.9 million before topping out at $25.1 million domestically. The Last Stand, also released in 2013, debuted to $6.3 million, and only earned $12.1 million.
Pantelion Films and Participant Media's biopic Cesar Chavez placed No. 12 as it opened in only 664 theaters, grossing $3 million. Diego Luna directed the movie, which stars Michael Pena as the famed civil-rights leader and labor organizer Cesar Chavez.
Among holdovers, Summit Entertainment's YA film adaptation Divergent enjoyed a respectable hold in its second weekend, falling 51 percent to $26.5 million and coming in No. 2. The movie crossed the $90 million mark to finish Sunday with a cume of $95.3 million.
Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel continued to shine as it expanded nationwide, grossing $8.8 million from 977 theaters and pushing its total cume to $24.5 million for Fox Searchlight.
And Warner Bros. and Legendary's sequel 300: Rise of an Empire jumped the $100 million mark domestically in its fourth weekend, finishing Sunday with grosses of $101.1 million.
At the specialty box office, Gareth Evans' Indonesian action film The Raid 2 commanded all the action, opening to $177,000 from seven theaters for a location average of $25,286 -- the best of the weekend. The movie looks to be a win for Sony Pictures Classics.
Here are the top 10 estimates for the weekend of March 28-30 at the domestic box office:
1. Noah, 1/3,567, Paramount/New Regency, $44 million.
2. Divergent, 2/3,936, Lionsgate/Summit, $26.5 million, -51.5%, $95.3 million.
3. Muppets Most Wanted, 1/3,194, Disney, $16.5 million, -33.1%, $33.2 million.
4. Mr. Peabody & Sherman, 4/3,299, Fox/DreamWorks Animation, $9.5 million, -19.7%, $94.9 million.
5. God's Not Dead, 1/1,178, Freestyle/Pure Flix $9.1 million, -1.5%, $22 million.
6. The Grand Budapest Hotel, 4/977, Fox Searchlight, $8.8 million, +30%, $24.5 million.
7. Sabotage, 1/2,486, Open Road/QED International, $5.3 million.
8. Need for Speed, 3/2,705, Disney/DreamWorks, $4.33 million, -45.4%, $37.8 million.
9. 300: Rise of an Empire, 4/2,601, Warner Bros./Legendary, $4.3 million, -49.4%, $101.1 million.
10. Non-Stop, 5/2,515, Universal, $4.1 million, -36.5%, $85.2 million.
Next Up: The Blockbuster movie season starts a full month earlier this year with the return of Chris Evans as the star spangled superhero Captain America in Marvel's Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Reboot: Writer Nemec Talks Tone
Andre Nemec, one of the writers behind this Summer's "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" reboot, talked to Coming Soon about the tone of new film--saying that it is certainly darker and more serious than the previous entries of the film series, and yet still light enough kids won't get too scared:
"Tone was a very interesting question on this movie as far as how dark we really wanted to go. It's really all in the conflict between the characters. That was the driving principle. The color palettes that were chosen were not designed to be 'Dark Knight-ish in that regard. We weren't looking to make that movie. I'm a huge fan of that movie, but I didn't eat gobs of popcorn while I was watching that movie. We certainly didn't want kids to be running for the exits. 'Mommy! Why did he do that?!' We weren't looking for that. We really wanted to entertain and have fun with it. I think we skate — we live — on a very fun line in this movie, whether it's the action feeling real and exciting, but also fun and adventurous. It really never feels dark in a way that would startle you out of your chair or make you fearful."
Nemec also mentioned the level of involvement that producer Michael Bay had with the movie:
"Michael has been an influence on the movie and he's certainly been giving his notes and paying attention to the movie as we go through. There are Michael Bay aesthetics. He has a very good sense of action. He has a very good sense of entertainment. I think that, on those influences, you'll feel Michael Bay's hand."
He also addressed an old rumor about the turtles having alien origins, something that the new trailer finally clears up--the ooze is a creation of both Shredder and April O'Neill's father:
"Looking through the different iterations of Turtles to date, many of them have different origin stories. T.C.R.I. was a collection container that was used for a company that came from alien ooze at one point. There was another version of the ooze where it was created in a laboratory. There's the 'Daredevil' component that mixes in with the Turtle canon. There's the sewers. There's the laboratories. For us, it was important to find our own version of how these particular Turtles came to be so that they can stand alone as their own characters. There's also the version where, if you touch something after you touch the ooze, that's what you become. There have been a million versions. In this version we just thought it was important to create our own origin that lives within the balance of it. We didn't do anything overtly kooky."
Nemec says other non-turtle characters could appear in this first film and/or any potential sequels.
Pete Ploszek will play Leonardo, Jeremy Howard will play Donatello Noel Fisher will play Michelangelo and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire co-star Alan Ritchson plays Raphael These 4 young men will provide the motion capture essence and vocals for the heroes in the half shell. Danny Woodburn will play the mo-cap role of wise rat Master Splinter--the father figure to the shelled heroes
Will Arnett is tapped to play Casey Jones opposite fellow live action actor Megan Fox as April O'Neil William Fichtner plays TMNT nemesis Shredder
The film was set to be live-action but then it was decided that the turtles would be brought to life using motion capture/CGI like 2011's "Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes".
Jonathan Liebesman is directing from a script by Kevin Eastman, Josh Appelbaum and Nemec.
Brad Fuller Andrew Form, Galen Walker and Scott Mednick would co-produce with Bay.
Originally due for release on June 6th 2014, the movie is now slated to arrive in theaters on August 8th.
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Mel Gibson Is A "Blood Father"
Mel Gibson is in talks to star in the "Taken"-esque action-thriller "Blood Father" says Deadline.
The film follows an ex-con (Gibson) who tries to protect his estranged and troubled 16-year-old daughter from drug dealers trying to kill her.
The daughter role has not been filled yet.
Peter Craig ("The Town") wrote the screenplay, from which Jean-François Richet's calling action.
Chris Briggs is producing the pic.
Production is due to begin this May in New Mexico.
No studio is attached at this time
Avengers 2: Pics & Video From Italy Shoot; Jackson On Fury
Production continues in Italy on Joss Whedon's superhero team up sequel "The Avengers: Age of Ultron".
A new seven-minute behind-the-scenes video has posted that includes Wanda Maximoff, a.k.a. Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) and her twin brother Quicksilver (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) as well as Hawkeye Jeremy Renner), and what's thought to be a pre-CG enhanced look at the pic's Big Bad.
Right at the 5:26 mark when the stuntman in the Ultron suit lifts up the mask and shows off the face for us to see. There's a good close up photo also posted on Facebook.
Set photos from the Italy shoot also showcase a new look for Hawkeye in a black and purple-trimmed overcoat that recalls his look in the comics.
Finally, Samuel L. Jackson says his character Nick Fury will have a diminished role in the film. He tells Yahoo: "I'm just kind of passing by there, you know. I'm not doing so much. It's another one of those 'people who have powers fighting people who have powers.' That's why I didn't get to New York in "The Avengers". There's not a lot I could do except shoot a gun."
Marvel vets RDJ, Chris Evans Chris Hemsworth Scarlett Johansson Mark Ruffalo, Clark Gregg and Cobie Smulders are all expected back Two time Iron Man co-star Don Cheadle is involved this time out according to USA Today. Bettany will appear on screen as The Vision an android created by Ultron as a weapon to be used against the Avengers. Vision can fire beams of radiation and turn invisible--the character ultimately turned the tables on Ultron and became an Avengers member himself.
Thomas Kretschmann has landed the role of 2nd bad guy Baron von Strucker. In the comics, the seemingly immortal Strucker is one of the leaders of Hydra, and an enemy of both S.H.I.E.L.D and The Avengers He seemingly beat out rumored candidates Marton Csokas and Dougray Scott who were being considered for the BvS role. The character will have the twins apparently working for him in the sequel (American Horror Story favorite Evan Peters plays a different incarnation of Quicksilver in Bryan Singer's "X-Men: Days of Future Past"--now in post-production--that film hits screens May 23rd 2014.). Korean actress Soo-hyun Kim will play a bad gal role.
Some non principal filming is also taking place in South Africa Production on the 'Avengers' sequel is slated to begin in earnest next month to meet a release date of May 1, 2015.
Magic Mike 2 Goes XXL And Gets A Director
Within a day of learning that the sequel "Magic Mike 2" is moving forward faster than expected, The Playlist reports that the film has an official title and a director.
Steven Soderbergh's longtime assistant director Gregory Jacobs ("Criminal," "Wind Chill") is taking over the helm of the film which will go by the name of "Magic Mike Xxl". Jacobs served as both assistant director and producer on the first "Magic Mike," while Soderbergh will stay on as an executive producer of the sequel.
Channing Tatum is writing the script.
While no deals have been signed yet most of the original's key cast members are expected back including Tatum, Matthew McConaughey Matt Bomer, Joe Manganiello, and Alex Pettyfer.
Production hopes to begin in the Fall
Samuel L. Jackson Likely Back For " Incredibles 2"
Samuel L. Jackson tells Digital Spy says that he'll likely reprise his voice role of the hero Frozone (aka. Lucius Best) in the announced "The Incredibles 2".
"Every time I run into Brad, he always tells me Frozone is part of what's going on, so I have to believe that. I guess they could be the Incredibles without Frozone, but I think Frozone would be a wonderful addition to what's already there."
Writer-director Brad Bird is expected to return for the follow-up
The Incredibles remains my 2nd favorite Disney/Pixar Animation Studios film of all time--just behind the original Toy Story .
The first film is set in a world in which superheroes exist but have been banned from crime fighting. Mr Incredible (voiced by Craig T. Nelson) has been living incognito as plain old Bob Parr when a mysterious offer gives him the chance to return to action. Soon he and his wife Helen AKA Elastigirl, (voiced by Holly Hunter) along with their three children (who are developing superpowers of their own), are caught up in a not entirely welcome new adventure.
Susan Cooper Now Called "Spy"; Gets 2 More
Bobby Cannavale and Nia Long are in talks to join Paul Feig's new action comedy "Spy" (formerly known as "Susan Cooper") says THR .
Feig and his "Bridesmaids" and "The Heat" star Melissa McCarthy are re-teaming for a third time with this film in which McCarthy stars as an unlikely secret agent who heads into the field to find whoever is responsible for the death of her lover and colleague (Jude Law).
Cannavale plays a villainous Italian playboy, Long a CIA chief.
Jason Statham, Rose Byrne and Miranda Hart also star.
Feig, Jesse Henderson Peter Chernin and Jenno Topping will produce.
Tom Wilkinson Hovers Over "Selma" As LBJ
Tom Wilkinson is eyed to play President Lyndon B. Johnson in the historical drama "Selma" says The Wrap.
The drama follows Martin Luther King Jr's (David Oyelowo) historic voting rights campaign that occurred at the height of the Civil Rights Movement.
Johnson gave an eloquent speech about voting rights one week after deadly racial violence erupted in Alabama.
"Middle of Nowhere" helmer Ava DuVernay will direct the film using a script that she tweaked with screenwriter Paul Webb.
Oprah Winfrey Brad Pitt Dede Gardner Jeremy Kleiner, Christian Coulson and Cameron McCracken. are producing the project.
At one time Lee Daniels was attached to direct the project a few years ago with Oyelowo, Hugh Jackman, Liam Neeson, Ray Winstone, Robert De Niro and Cedric the Entertainer poised to star. Funding was never fully secured and that version of movie just fell apart.
Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes Impress @ CinemaCon
Fresh footage from Dawn of the Planet of the Apes wowed audiences at this year's CinemaCon.
The film will continue the action from Rise of the Planet of the Apes. The film is set a decade after Rise's post-credits sequence where the global human population has been substantially reduced due to the Simian Flu. Meanwhile, Caesar and his fellow ape sanctuary escapees have spent the past decade expanding to a community of about 2,000 apes on the outskirts of San Francisco. The enhanced find themselves threatened by a band of human survivors. A fragile peace proves short-lived, as both sides are brought to the brink of a war.
The sequel is said to be "more of a human story" with the conflict shown primarily from the humans' POV.
Rise star James Franco does not return instead--Zero Dark Thirty actor Jason Clarke Keri Russell Andy Serkis, Gary Oldman Judy Greer and Kodi Smit-McPhee star
Ceasar himself Serkis tells Empire:
"For the first eight years [after the spread of the virus], the apes were looking down from Muir Woods to San Francisco and could see lights and fires, but now it's gone very quiet. Until this day in our film when this small band of humans comes up. That's suddenly a huge, dividing moment in the lives of these apes. There are some particularly strong reactions to the humans and that's the course of the story."
The CinemaCon footage included Caesar speaking to his fellow apes with words such as 'family,' 'future' and 'apes together strong'. Oldman's character is a human leader and anti-ape hardliner. Clarke and Russell's characters are sympathetic to the apes and the idea of peaceful co-existence.
There's a key scene that seems comical between an ape, two men and a bottle of booze--it turns deadly when the ape grabs a gun and shoots one of them.
Costner Wants To Return To The Old West In A Big Way
It has been over a decade since Kevin Costner last called action on a movie set, 2003's well-liked Western "Open Range," now the 59 year old actor/director told Collider that he has ambitious plans to return to the genre with a trilogy or tetralogy of films to be released within one year:
"I've got this Western that I think I could make. I actually have this idea to make them all at once and release one on Memorial Day, one on Thanksgiving, and then one on the Fourth of July, all within a 12 month span, because it's all the same story but it truly is a journey, with a fourth movie coming right after. Will I be able to do that? I don't know. But that's what I think about, that's what I try to do. And people go, 'Oh that's really interesting, Kevin. We don't think we can do that.' And I'm thinking 'Man, that's a really good idea.' I thought that was a true ongoing series, or sequel if you will, that actually was an honest one. A second one wasn't invented because the first one made a little money."
Indiana Jones Movies: Double The Denials
Earlier this week there were a rumors that "The Hangover" star Bradley Cooper was being eyed as a potential replacement for Harrison Ford if the "Indiana Jones" franchise were to be rebooted--rather than moving ahead with plans for a proposed Indiana Jones 5.
Addressing the Cooper casting noise Indy film series producer Frank Marshall tweeted: "Due to the ridiculous rumors that keep popping up, like agents pipe dreams, I will stop commenting on our projects until I have real news."
The same report indicated that writer/director Frank Darabont had pitched an idea for the next installment.
Darabont has denied any such idea of those rumors, telling AICN: "This is an internet rumor with not a shred of truth in it. I have not pitched an idea for a proposed Indiana Jones movie, nor has anybody approached me with such an idea. The inaccurate report on Latino Review was the first I'd heard of it."
Terminator: Genesis: Okeniyi Beats Boyega
A couple of days ago it was reported that Attack the Block star John Boyega was in contention for the role of Danny Dyson in Terminator 5 aka Terminator: Genesis--the son of Miles Dyson, played by Joe Morton in "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" who designed the neural-net processor that would lead to the creation of Skynet.
Today, Deadline reports that Dayo Okeniyi (The Hunger Games) has signed on to play the part instead. Boyega is wanted for J.J. Abrams' upcoming "Star Wars: Episode VII"--so he still wins.
In "Genesis" the son is Steve Jobs-like genius who figures very much into the conclusion of the film.
Australian actor Jason Clarke ("Zero Dark Thirty," "White House Down") is in early talks to play the role of John Connor in the upcoming reboot. Hedlund Tom Hardy and ironically Holbrook ("The Host") were said to be up for John as well. Emilia Clarke is set to play a young Sarah Connor in the film. She beat out Brie Larson for the role. Former "Spider-Man" scene stealer J.K. Simmons will play a weary and alcoholic detective who has followed a bizarre case involving Sarah Connor and robots for more than three decades starting in 1984 and the events depicted in The Terminator
Peter Dinklage Will Play With "Pixels"
Peter Dinklage ("Game of Thrones," "X-Men Days of Future Past") is in final negotiations to join the feature length adaptation of French filmmaker Patrick Jean's 2010 short film "Pixels" says The Wrap.
The original short, features 1980s video game characters like Donkey Kong, Tetris, Space Invaders, Frogger and Pac-Man attacking New York City and turning everything they hit into pixels - with the entire planet being pixeled.
The goal is to make film into a Ghostbusters-style action comedy in which characters come out of a video game to wreak havoc in the real world.
Adam Sandler, Kevin James and Josh Gad also star in the big-budget comedy.
Tim Herlihy (Bedtime Stories) worked on the script that was rewritten by Timothy Dowling (Role Models, This Means War) from which Chris Columbus will direct.
Sandler, Jack Giarraputo, Benjamin Darras, Johnny Alves and Matias Boucard are producing.
Shia Labeouf Will Not "Rock The Kasbah" After All
Troubled actor Shia Labeouf has vacated his role in the comedy "Rock the Kasbah" says THR,
LaBeouf was to have played one part of a military duo opposite McBride. No reason for his departure has been given, though the split is said to be amicable. Shia has no other acting jobs lined up.
Purge 2 Trailer: "It Will Soon Be A War Out There"
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The original Purge was released last year and starred Ethan Hawke and Lena Headey. Produced for just $3 million, the thriller went on to earn more than $87 million worldwide.
Specific plot details are under wraps, except to say that it will be set in the same world as the first pic--where all crime is legalized for a 12-hour period. This film changes the action from an upper class suburban home invasion to a young couple trying to escape mob violence on the streets of Los Angeles.
Frank Grillo stars as a vigilante played by who is seeking revenge for the death of a family member. Boardwalk Empire's Michael K. Williams Zach Gilford ("Friday Night Lights"--the TV series), Carmen Ejogo Zoe Soul and Kiele Sanchez also star.
James DeMonaco is back writing and directing the sequel.
Jason Blum Michael Bay and Sebastien Lemercier are also returning to produce the movie.
The sequel is set for release Friday, June 20, 2014.
Box Office Preview: Will Noah Sink Or Swim?
After months of wrangling Darren Aronofsky's controversial Biblical epic "Noah" (reviews) hopes for divine box office; 2 stars of the Terminator franchise join forces as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sam Worthington star in director David Ayer's crime action thriller Sabotage (reviews). Meantime Jason Bateman's directorial debut comedy Bad Words (reviews) goes wide.
Testing the appetite for biblical spectacles, Darren Aronofsky's Noah begins rolling out at the North American box office Thursday night after months of speculation as to whether his darker take on the Old Testament prophet will turn off faith-based audiences.
Box-office observers are divided over the film's potential, although most believe it will cross $35 million in its North American launch in 3,400 theaters. Paramount and New Regency, which co-financed the $125 million-plus epic, are being more conservative, saying $30 million to $33 million.
The movie is off to a strong start in its first three international markets — Mexico, South Korea and Australia — where it has earned $18.5 million since landing in South Korea a week ago. South Korea's seven-day cume is $10 million, while Mexico's six-day total is $7.5 million.
On Thursday, Noah opened to a strong $750,000 in Australia, 20 percent ahead of Gravity. Aronfosky's movie opens in another 18 countries this weekend, including Russia.
Noah, starring Russell Crowe in the title role, is designed to play both as a mainstream tentpole and as a faith-based offering. Whether it can accomplish the latter in North America is the big question.
If it does attract the faith-based crowd -- a lucrative demo -- in big numbers, Noah could surprise. A potential competitor, however, is Christian film God's Not Dead, which opened to a stellar $9.2 million from less than 800 theaters last weekend. The film is expected to increase its theater count on Friday.
Paramount has gone to great lengths to appease concerns among religious leader and church organizations about the tone of the film. The studio agreed to tweak its marketing campaign in recent weeks to say that Noah -- which has a strong environmental component -- is inspired by the story of Noah and the Ark, versus being a literal retelling.
Overall, older moviegoers are expressing the most interest in seeing Noah, according to prerelease tracking. If that prediction holds, Paramount believes the movie will have strong legs, since adults tend not ot rush out on opening weekend. The film sported a 76 percent fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes as of Thursday afternoon.
The weekend's other new nationwide opening is the latest action pic from Arnold Schwarzenegger, director David Ayer's Sabotage. The poorly reviewed film is looking at a soft opening in the $6 million to $8 million range, generally in line with Arnold's other recent offerings.
QED International financed and produced Sabotage, about an elite DEA task force that goes up against a drug cartel. Sam Worthington, Olivia Williams, Terrence Howard, Joe Manganiello, Harold Perrineau, Martin Donovan, Max Martini, Josh Holloway and Mireille Enos also star. Open Road Films is distributing the film domestically.
Targeting Hispanics and union workers at the box office this weekend is Pantelion Films and Participant Media's biopic Cesar Chavez, which is making a more limited play. The movie, directed by Diego Luna and starring Michael Pena as the famed civil rights leader and labor organizer, is expected to earn $4 million.
America Ferrera, Rosario Dawson and John Malkovich also star.
X-Men: Days of Future Past Wows @ CinemaCon
Fox put on quite a show for the crowd at CinemaCon this week--footage screened included the extended opening sequence of Bryan Singer's "X-Men Days of Future Past".
The latest sequel is based on a -2 issue story arc in the 'X-Men' comics written by Chris Claremont, drawn by John Byrne, and published in 1981. Kinberg (Sherlock Holmes) wrote the screenplay which will include New Mutants. Magneto and his relationship with Charles X. Xavier will be front and center as well.
Singer penned the treatment and produced 'First Class' which was directed by Matthew Vaughn. Now, their roles will be completely reversed for this sequel with Singer helming the film while Vaughn wrote the treatment and will produce with Lauren Shuler Donner and writer Simon Kinberg
Most of "X-Men: First Class" cast will reprise their roles, including James McAvoy (Professor X), Michael Fassbender (Magneto) Jennifer Lawrence (Mystique), and Nicholas Hoult (Beast). Lucas Till (Alex "Havoc" Summers) Rose Byrne (Moira MacTaggert) recently confirmed that she is NOT in this film...
The original trilogy stars Sir Ian McKellen Sir Patrick Stewart and Hugh Jackman are poised to return again as well. Ellen Page (Kitty Pride) and Shawn Ashmore (Iceman) are back. While actress Anna Paquin's Rogue got edited out, and Halle Berry's Storm was almost trimmed."Frasier" star Kelsey Grammer, is said to have shot a cameo as the older Beast in the new film, reprising the role he played in 2006's "X-Men: The Last Stand". It seems Alan Cumming.(Nightcrawler) will not return. James Marsden has confirmed that he will NOT return as Cyclops.
The teams will join forces to battle the Sentinels--mutant-hunting robots--created by Bolivar Trask (Peter Dinklage).
Daniel Cudmore is returning as Colossus American Horror Story favorite Evan Peters plays the speedy Quicksilver. Actor Evan Jonigkeit ("Calendar Girl," "The Gift") recently told to MTV that he will be playing a younger version of Toad in the upcoming sequel. BooBoo Stewart is also in the film. Chinese actress Fan Bingbing has joined the film--as Blink, a mutant with the power of teleportation. Aussie soap "Home and Away" actor Josh Helman -- once rumored to be playing a young Cyclops -- will portray Bill Stryker. In X2: X-Men United Brian Cox played him and in X-Men Origins: Wolverine Danny Huston took over. French actor Omar Sy plays Bishop and Adan Canto also star.
The footage shown at the annual event featured the remains of a decimated city, where we see various mutants battling with Sentinels, with the X- Men suffering a few apparent casualties.
One of the sequences of footage held an unexpected surprise. In the comics version of 'Days of Future Past', Pryde is the one who travels back in time. In the trailers for the film released so far, it's Wolverine is the one that does. According to Heat Vision, it's not that simple as that/
"Both Kitty Pryde and new mutant Bishop disappearing from a warehouse following the two attempting a ritual not unlike the one seen in Chris Claremont and John Byrne's original Days of Future Past comic book. Not only that, but their disappearance also seemingly removes both Sentinels and damage from the warehouse, suggesting some kind of interruption in the timestream."
Post-production on the sequel continues "X-Men: Days Of Future Past" hits screens May 23rd 2014.
And then the next chapter in the film series--the recently announced "X-Men: Apocalypse" will hit theaters on May 27, 2016 opposite Alice in Wonderland 2
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Thomas Kretschmann has landed the role of 2nd bad guy Baron von Strucker. In the comics, the seemingly immortal Strucker is one of the leaders of Hydra, and an enemy of both S.H.I.E.L.D and The Avengers He seemingly beat out rumored candidates Marton Csokas and Dougray Scott who were being considered for the BvS role. The character will have Wanda Maximoff, a.k.a. Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) and her twin brother Quicksilver (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) apparently working for him in the sequel (American Horror Story favorite Evan Peters plays a different incarnation of the speedy superhero in Bryan Singer's "X-Men: Days of Future Past"--now in post-production--that film hits screens May 23rd 2014.). Korean actress Soo-hyun Kim will play a bad gal role.
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Box Office Update: Noah Is Redeemed; Arnie Not So Much
Darren Aronofsky's controversial Biblical epic "Noah" won over both the faithful and mainstream move-goers to post a better than anticipated debut at #1
Having 2 stars of the Terminator franchise join forces was not enough to save the Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sam Worthington team up Sabotage It failed to crack the top 10....Yikes!!
Pamela McClintock of THR:
Darren Aronofsky's controversial biblical epic Noah has delivered salvation, opening to a stellar $44 million in North America from 3,562 theaters after winning over faith-based and mainstream moviegoers alike, despite the director's darker take on the story of Noah and his Ark.
Internationally, Noah absolutely dazzled as it landed in Russia, grossing $17 million and nabbing the best opening ever for a non-sequel. It is also the fourth-biggest opening of all time. Noah earned $33.6 million from 21 markets for the weekend, pushing the film's early international cume to $51 million and worldwide total to $95.1 million.
Overall, the biggest player overseas this weekend was Disney and Marvel's Captain America: The Winter Soldier, which opened in 32 markets a week ahead of its March 28 domestic debut, grossing a mighty $75.2 million.
In North America, Noah played to Aronofsky's fans and upscale moviegoers on the one hand, and on the other, to Christian audiences, particularly in southern states. Noah is also doing sizeable business among Catholic Hispanics, and African-Americans. In general, the movie drew an equal number of females and males, while skewing older (54 percent of ticket buyers were over the age of 25).
The big question now for Noah is how well it holds, both domestically and overseas, in the face of The Winter Soldier.
Noah, starring Russell Crowe, cost $125 million-plus to make, and received generally strong reviews. The film, however, only drew a C CinemaScore, indicating it did polarize some audiences.
"The movie is very unusual and very unique, so the reactions were very passionate," said Paramount vice chairman Rob Moore, who noted that only 15 percent gave Noah a D or an F, dragging down the overall grade. Conversely, 65 percent gave it an A or a B.
In the U.S., Paramount went to great lengths to appease concerns among religious leaders and church organizations about the tone of the film. The studio agreed to tweak its marketing campaign in recent weeks to say that Noah -- which has a strong environmental component -- is inspired by the story of Noah and the Ark, versus being a literal retelling of the wrath-of-god story.
Noah also stars Anthony Hopkins, Jennifer Connelly, Emma Watson, Ray Winstone, Logan Lerman and Douglas Booth.
Noah isn't taking the steam totally out of another Christian film in the marketplace, God's Not Dead, which debuted last weekend to $9.2 million. God's Not Dead grossed $9.1 million from 1,178 theaters this weekend to come in No. 5. Its domestic cume through Sunday is $22 million.
Elsewhere, former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's hopes of resurrecting his acting career suffered another major blow with Sabotage. The film, from Open Road and QED International, took in $5.3 million from 2,486 theaters, Schwarzenegger's worst opening in nearly three decades and the worst ever for a title opening in more than 2,000 theaters.
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The Best and Worst Movies of 2017
So. 2017. How about that? This was the year that I started switching to saying "twenty-seventeen" instead of "two thousand seventeen." I expect to be fully converted to the "twenty-" system by the end of 2018. What a time to be alive! Anyway, movies.
THE BEST MOVIES OF 2017
The big takeaway here is that the letter grades on my reviews are virtually meaningless. Having been promiscuous with the A's and A-minuses in my younger days, I've become stingy with them now, often hedging my bets with a B+. What I'm discovering is that those top three grades — A, A-, B+ — wind up meaning about the same thing, so don't get too hung up on a B+ movie ranking higher than an A-, it's just a show, you should really just relax, etc.
1. "Dunkirk"
This isn't the first time a Christopher Nolan film has topped my list (hey, "Memento"!), and I doubt it will be the last. With "Dunkirk," the meticulous Mr. Nolan applies his careful attention and time-bending narrative obsessions to a historical incident, with an emotional impact that sneaks up on you like a sniper. The idea of taking solace in having done your best even though you lost the battle, and of survival being a victory in itself, felt especially resonant this year.
2. "Call Me by Your Name"
I don't know how I would feel about this movie if I were a completely heterosexual straight opposite-sex-attracted person, but it's been interesting all year long to see how many un-queer critics have loved it unreservedly. Luca Guadagnino and James Ivory's adaptation of André Aciman's novel, while indisputably a Gay Story, transcends labels thanks to its compassionate point of view and sensitive performances. It's an ode to love in all its forms, to the very idea of Love as an essential part of humanity that we should grab onto whenever it finds us.
3. "Stronger"
One of the most emotionally sublime moments in a movie this year comes near the end of "Stronger," when Boston Marathon bombing victim Jeff Bauman (Jake Gyllenhaal) comes to accept his role as "inspiring public figure" — a position he never asked for and has spent most of the movie bucking against. Gyllenhaal's performance as a flawed, reluctant hero is anguished and authentic, and director David Gordon Green treats Boston's traditions, peculiarities, and provincialism with respect.
4. "A Ghost Story"
Parts of David Lowery's contemplative tone poem about mortality tried my patience (both times I watched it), but nothing else this year matched its haunting, melancholic impact. This was a risky film that could have been an insufferable disaster; instead it provides the unforgettable experience of seeing eternity pass before your eyes. It may also be the best Casey Affleck delivery system: covered in a sheet and barely talking.
5. "mother!"
Here's another one that could have been a pretentious mess (some people feel it is exactly that) but that I adore for its audacity. Darren Aronofsky's religious allegory about God — and, uh, Mrs. God? Mother Nature? — follows a nightmare logic that's compelling to follow even if you don't entirely "get" it. Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris, and Michelle Pfeiffer — big stars, all of 'em — are fully committed to Aronofsky's weird vision, which makes it all the more fascinating.
6. "Baby Driver"
A re-watch confirmed what I thought the first time: Edgar Wright's toe-tapping heist caper has a mundane plot, but the intricate way that the musical soundtrack is woven into it makes it absurdly, invigoratingly entertaining. While not a "musical" in the sense of characters breaking into song, it's as carefully constructed and choreographed as one, including well-shot action sequences and clever humor.
7. "Get Out"
The first time I saw this, it struck me as a comedy with expertly used horror elements. The<|fim_middle|> | second time, it felt more like a horror film with a significant dose of sharp comedy. Either way, Jordan Peele's scathing take on liberal racism (the real kind, not the Fox News kind where pointing out racism is racist) suggests Peele has a bright future ahead as a filmmaker in whatever genre(s) he chooses.
8. "Lady Bird"
See, this takes us back to the "Call Me by Your Name" thing. I have never been a teenage girl, nor have I ever had an antagonistic relationship with my mom, and Greta Gerwig's semi-autobiographical solo directorial debut is full of highly specific details — yet I found something relatable in every minute of it. With Saoirse Ronan as her avatar, Gerwig explores a surprising number of teen-angst threads in a brisk, funny, emotional 93 minutes.
9. "Raw"
Another extraordinary debut from a new filmmaker, "Raw" is Julia Ducournau's visceral, unsettling, and unexpectedly sweet coming-of-age story about a college freshman raised as a strict vegetarian who samples meat for the first time and develops a craving for flesh. (Not meat. Flesh.) Come for the hint of cannibalism in this unforgettably morbid dramedy; stay for the love.
10. "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri"
Martin McDonagh's highest-profile film (he also made "In Bruges" and "Seven Psychopaths") is his grimmest and most morally conflicted one yet, focused on a grieving, angry mother (Frances McDormand) and her extreme efforts to get justice for her murdered daughter. Never one for subtlety, McDonagh asks us to consider things like misogyny, racism, and police violence, and to examine whether it's revenge or redemption we're after, all while maintaining a dark sense of humor.
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William H. Andrews, Ph.D. is President & CEO at Sierra Sciences.
Bill has worked in the biotech industry for 34 years focusing the last 22 years on finding ways to extend human lifespan through the intervention of<|fim_middle|> and his Wikipedia profile. Follow his Twitter feed. | telomere shortening in human cells. While Director of Molecular Biology at Geron Corporation, he was one of the principal discoverers of both the RNA and protein components of human telomerase and was awarded 2nd place as "National Inventor of the Year" in 1997 for this work. He is presently a named inventor on 46 US issued telomerase patents.
He earned his Ph.D. in Molecular and Population Genetics at the University of Georgia in 1981. He was a Senior Scientist at Armos Corporation and Codon Corporation, Director of Molecular Biology at Codon and at Geron Corporation, and Director of Technology Development at EOS Biosciences. He is presently the founder and Vice President of Research of Sierra Sciences, a biotech company in Reno, Nevada focused exclusively on inducing the expression of telomerase in human cells.
Bill is also an avid ultramarathon runner. At the age of 60, he regularly competes in 100k and 100+ mile runs often finishing at the top of his age group. These grueling races have taken him all over the world to race in some of the most extreme environments, from Death Valley to the Himalayas.
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Farewell, Franco Rest in Peace
By Paula Green
Hang onto your hats; here come the Steelers out of the huddle. Twenty-two seconds remaining. It's down to one big play, fourth down and 10 yards to go. Terry Bradshaw at the controls. And Bradshaw…running out of the pocket, looking for somebody to throw to, fires it downfield, and there's a collision! And it's caught out of the air! The ball is pulled in by Franco Harris! Harris is going for a touchdown for Pittsburgh! Harris is going…five seconds left on the clock. Franco Harris pulled in the football; I don't even know where he came from! – Jack Fleming, on the Steelers radio broadcast
Aah, the Immaculate Reception. By now we all know that Franco Harris was the running back, who scored this miraculous touchdown on December 23, 1972, at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh. The renowned touchdown is No. 1 on the "NFL 100 Greatest" ranking of the top 100 Plays in NFL history.
Fifty years later, we are still talking about it, and on December 24, 2022, a celebration took place at Acrisure Stadium, where the "Immaculate Reception" was commemorated and Franco Harris had his number 32 jersey officially retired. Sadly, Franco was missing from the celebration. Harris died three days prior to the event. His sudden, untimely death stunned fans, who loved him. And he loved them right back.
The Steelers acquired Harris in the first round of the 1972 NFL Draft, the 13th overall pick out of Penn State. He went on to play 12 successful years with the Steelers. He was named rookie and the year in 1972 and Super Bowl MVP in 1975. Harris was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1990. Many feel that his Immaculate Reception play was the spark that launched the Steeler's Dynasty.
But as great Harris was on the field, he was equally a champion off the field. Harris was on the board of the Pittsburgh Public School's Pittsburgh Promise. Two of his numerous charity drives were supporting the LIHEAP power support programs in Pittsburgh and collaborating with the Franciscan Sisters of the Poor Foundation in New York City. He was also involved with Special Olympics and The Glimmer of Hope, a Western Pennsylvania breast cancer foundation.
Despite his sudden passing, the beautiful memories of Franco will live on through his legacy as a Steeler and humanitarian. May he rest in peace!
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Prep Softball
Thu., July 30, 2020
Cedar Rapids Kennedy is the 5A state softball champion
Cougars top Fort Dodge, 5-1, to conclude a dominating week
Cedar Rapids Kennedy pitcher Kaylin Kinney jumps on Alyssa Martin (left) as they celebrate their Class 5A win over Fort Dodge on Thursday at the Rogers Sports Complex in Fort Dodge. The Cougars won, 5-1, to finish a 26-1 season. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)
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FORT DODGE — Their roses were red. Their new T-shirts are pink.
And the Kennedy Cougars are the state's best softball team in Class 5A. Without debate.
Second-ranked Cedar Rapids Kennedy spliced together a four-run rally in the top of the third inning, and that was more than plenty for pitcher Kaylin Kinney. The Cougars defeated No. 1 Fort Dodge, 5-1, for the 5A state championship Thursday night at the Rogers Sports Complex.
That championship moment. Kennedy 5, Fort Dodge 1. Cougars are 5A state champions. #iahssb pic.twitter.com/CbcrhsNvoW
— Jeff Linder (@jtlinder) July 31, 2020
"It's kind of unbelievable," Kennedy Coach Maddison LeClere said. "I can't get the smile off my face. We've talked about this for a long time, and now that it's here, it's unreal."
Kennedy (26-1) finished the season with 19 straight victories. The Cougars needed 11 innings to outlast Iowa City Liberty in the regional finals, but once they got to Fort Dodge, they were on a level of their own, winning their three games by a 24-5 margin.
"Like (LeClere) has told us all year, if we score three of four runs, we can win any game," catcher Abby Spore said. "And that proved again tonight to be true.
"It's been a great ride. We knew we were close, and tonight we did it. We got those big roses, the pink (championship) shirts. That's what we wanted."
The title is the first in Kennedy softball history, the first for a Metro team since Cedar Rapids Jefferson went back-to-back in 1997 and 1998.
Both teams loaded the bases with no outs in the third inning. Kennedy tallied four runs; Fort Dodge (28-4) settled for one. And that was the ball game in a nutshell.
"When we put runs on the board, we're<|fim_middle|>020 Gazette area rankings
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Photos: North Linn vs. Ogden, Class 2A Iowa high school state softball championship | going to win," said Kinney, who concluded a remarkable five-year run at Kennedy as the all-tournament captain.
Addie Parker opened Kennedy's defining rally with a double, then Kinney (intentionally) and Mya Dodge (traditionally) drew walks to fill the bases.
Spore laced a liner to left field. Parker scored easily, and when Dodge overran second base, it forced Kinney to make a break for it from third.
Kinney scored, Dodge made it back safely and Kennedy led 2-0.
The Cougars added a run on Izzy Wright's groundout and another on Sam Scheck's single for a 4-0 advantage.
Spore, Dodge and Scheck joined Kinney on the all-tournament team.
Scheck had been a part-time starter at second base. When right fielder Addy Alber suffered a late-season thumb injury, Scheck texted LeClere.
"She told me she was willing to do anything to help the team," LeClere said. "I gave her an opportunity in right field, and she did everything we could have asked."
Scheck said, "I was willing to try anything. I took extra balls before and after practice. I stepped up when I had the chance."
Fort Dodge got within 4-1 in the bottom of the third, then the Cougars added a run in the fifth when Dodge doubled and Keaton Gerber drove her home with an infield single.
Then it was a matter of counting down the outs. The last one came when Abby Spore threw out Malia Lowrey on a steal attempt of third base.
Spore is the daughter of Julie (Ferrell) Spore, who won a state championship as a left fielder for Webster City in 1988.
Kinney (12-0) held the Dodgers to three hits, two of which didn't leave the infield. She struck out nine and walked one.
"At the beginning, I had some nerves," she said. "Then we got some runs, and I was more comfortable."
Thursday's joy was a 180-degree turn from Kennedy's state misery of 2019. LeClere was asked what this team had that made it special.
"What don't we have? That's the question," she said. "There's something about this team. They were really in sync."
The Cougars had it all. Power hitting. Pitching depth. Steady defense.
And now roses, T-shirts and a championship.
CEDAR RAPIDS KENNEDY 5, FORT DODGE 1
Class 5A State Championship, at Fort Dodge
C.R. Kennedy 004 010 0 — 5 8 0
Fort Dodge 001 000 0 — 1 3 1
Kaylin Kinney and Abby Spore. Jalen Adams and Tristin Doster. W — Kinney (12-0). L — Adams (20-2).
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