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April 27-28: Albany, Ore. Spring Arts Festival. Visual and performing arts. At various sites.
March 21-April 6: Calgary, Alberta. Tri-Bach Festival and Alberta Festival. Concerts, special programs hone the Bach Tercentenary.
March 22-23: Ponoka, Alberta. Figure Skating Carnival. Exhibitions, competitions.
March 23-April 13: Throughout northern and central Nova Scotia. Maple Festival of Nova Scotia. Maple tree tappings, sugarings and more.
March 25-30: Sackville, New Brunswick. Festival of Music. Concerts.
March 28-31: Saint John, New Brunswick. Atlantic Stage Band Festival. Concerts, competitions.
March 29-31: Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. Hometown Indoor Rodeo.
April 11-14: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Prairieland Rodeo.
April 12-13: Vermilion, Alberta. Spring Festival of the Arts. Visual and performing arts.
April 12-14: Moncton, New Brunswick. Speed Sport East Car Show.
April 12-14: Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. Band City Western Horse Show.
April 14-May 13: St. Catharines, Ontario. Salmon Derby. At Lake Ontario.
April 19-21: Grande Prairie, Alberta. Whispering Pines Rodeo.
April 20: Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. Dairy Queen Bunny Hop. Road race, 10 km.
April 20-21: Rothesay, New Brunswick. Canadian Kennel Club Championship Dog Show.
April 20-May 21: Niagara Falls, Ontario. Blossom Festival `85. 26th year. Parade, pageantry, tours to view blooms.
April 24-27: Toronto, Ontario. Sixth annual Winter`s End Show and Sale of Handmade Crafts. At the Queen Elizabeth Building, Exhibition Place.
April 26-28: Ft. Saskatchewan, Alberta. Country Fair.
April 27: Melville, Saskatchewan. Folkfest. Ethnic foods, music, dances.
April 1-9: Kingston, Jamaica. First World Youth Festival of Arts. Performing and visual arts plus a film festival. At various sites.
April 3-7: St. George`s, Grenada. Grenada Easter Regatta. Racing in local waters with competitors from Trinidad and Union Islands in the Grenadines.
March 31-April 7: Popayan, Colombia. International Festival of Religious Music. World famous choirs and orchestras perform in churches and plazas. Held during the observance of Holy Week.
April 13-20: Caruaru, Brazil. International Handicraft Week/Folklore Festival. Exhibits, performances. City is 84 miles from Recife.
Through March 31: Tampere, Finland. XV International Short Film Festival. Worldwide competition.
March 1985-Jan. 1986: Stratford-upon-Avon, England. Shakespeare Theater Season. At the Royal Shakespeare Theatre.
Through March 23: London, England. Chelsea Antiques Fair. At the Chelsea Old Town Hall.
March 22-31: Budapest, Hungary. Budapest Spring Festival. Music and opera at the new Budapest Congress Center.
March 29-31: Oulu, Finland. 11th Marathon in Ice Fishing. 48-hour ice fishing competition.
April 1: Bakken, Denmark. Opening of Bakken Amusement Park. 402d year of operation. World`s oldest amusement park.
April 3-10: Harrogate, England. Harrogate International Youth Music Festival. At various sites.
April 6-11: London, England. International Model Railway Exhibition. At Wembly Conference Centre.
April 9-24: London, England. The Menuhin Bach Festival. At Barbican Hall, Barbican Centre.
April 18-21: Badminton, England. Horse Trials.
March 17-Sept. 16: Tsukuba, Japan. Expo `85: International Exposition Tsukuba, Japan. Theme: Dwellings and Surroundings--Science and Technology for Man at Home. Theme pavilion and science parks on 250 acres.
March 29-April 9: Sydney, Australia. Royal Easter Show. At the Sydney fairgrounds (like a state fair).
March 30-April 1: Hong Kong. International Seven-A-Side Rugby.
April 5: Hong Kong. Ching Ming Festival.
April 5-7: Waneroo, Western Australia. Gemboree `85. Gem and mineral show with exhibits, tours.
April 5-20: Hong Kong. International Film Festival.
April 8-14: Barossa Valley, Australia. Barossa Valley Vintage Festival. Wine Harvest celebration with street parades, exhibits, tastings, parties. Held only in odd-numbered years.
Now that Argos has finished up on their special ‘Black Friday’ sales for this year, we can see that consumers are now looking ahead for what could be coming next with an Argos 3 for 2 Toy Sale for December 2015.
Argos regularly launches these special Toy Sales on their website and now we can see that there is a big demand for the retailer to bring back another one, just in time for Christmas.
The last two Argos Toy Sales happened at the end of September and towards the end of last month. With Christmas just days away, we have a feeling that Argos may start another Toy Sale for December in the coming weeks to allow shoppers to get some last minute deals with delivery secured before December 25.
At the time of writing, there has been no confirmation as of yet from Argos that a Toy Sale will happen this month.
However, it does make sense that there will be one before Christmas so we recommend you stay tuned for further news this week or next week.
Would you like to know when the next Argos 3 for 2 Toy sale is in December? If the demand is there, we will let you know once Argos announce the details so you can be ready to shop the minute it goes live.
It’s been 20 years since the release of Mark Borchardt’s independent horror classic Coven—and 18 years since the release of Chris Smith’s excellent American Movie documentary that chronicled the making of that film—and now Borchardt has finally returned with a trailer for his next movie, a documentary about a UFO festival in a small town in Wisconsin. Titled The Dundee Project, the YouTube description explains that the film will feature interviews with “eccentric locals” as they prepare for an annual celebration that’s “equal parts sky watching and heavy drinking.” Plus, the trailer is narrated by Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon, who is probably one of the few Wisconsin artists who is almost as famous as Mark Borchardt is—at least among the cool people who read The A.V. Club.
You can get a little bit more information about The Dundee Project at its Facebook page.
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker said he’s worried about rhetoric coming out of the U.S. White House to the point that he sometimes finds Chinese President Xi Jinping’s statements more sympathetic.
When it comes to President Trump, that desire for compromise is less apparent, according to Volcker.
“We’re all threats and demands,” Volcker said.
The Trump administration has been pressuring China to buy more American goods and change its intellectual-property practices. The White House has slapped tariffs on imports from the country, and many of those are slated to more than double on March 1 if U.S. and Chinese negotiators fail to reach a trade agreement first.
U.S. factories outsourced large portions of their production to China and other nations where labor costs were much lower, and the result was a sharp decline in manufacturing employment. That’s contributed to widening U.S. economic divides between former factory towns and successful big cities, many of them coastal.
ISLAMABAD: Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad arrived here on Thursday (Mar 21) for a three-day official visit to Pakistan.
The aircraft carrying Mahathir touched down at the Pakistan Air Force Nur Khan airbase in Rawalpindi at about 7.50pm local time.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan himself welcomed Mahathir.
Also present to welcome Mahathir were the country’s Planning, Development and Reform Minister Makhdoom Khusro Bakhtiyar, Malaysian Deputy Foreign Minister Marzuki Yahya, Malaysian Foreign Ministry secretary-general Muhammad Shahrul Ikram Yaakob and Malaysian High Commissioner to Pakistan, Ikram Mohammad Ibrahim.
A highlight of the visit is Mahathir being conferred the Nishan-e-Pakistan or Order of Pakistan, the country’s highest civilian award, by Pakistan President Arif Alvi on Friday.
The Malaysian leader will also attend the Pakistan Day 2019 parade at the Shakarparian parade ground in Islamabad on Saturday as the guest of honour.
Mahathir will be accorded an official welcome by Khan at the Prime Minister’s House on Friday morning. After that, the two prime ministers will have a four-eyed meeting, which will be followed by a delegation meeting between Malaysia and Pakistan.
Later, the two prime ministers will attend a roundtable meeting with the captains of industry of Malaysia and Pakistan at a hotel here.
The two prime ministers will also witness the symbolic groundbreaking for a Proton manufacturing assembly plant in Sindh province. They will also witness the signing of memorandums of understanding and agreement between Malaysian and Pakistan companies.
Mahathir’s visit is at the invitation of his counterpart Khan to attend the Pakistan Day celebration, which is observed on March 23 every year.
This is Mahathir’s first visit to Pakistan since becoming Malaysia’s seventh prime minister last year. When he was prime minister for the first time, from 1981 to 2003, he visited Pakistan thrice, in 1984, 1997 and 2002.
A retired nurse who lost her FDNY firefighter son on 9/11 is giving back by helping families of fallen firefighters nationwide cope with the grief and pain of losing a loved one in the line of duty.
"These families need a lot of hugs and reassurance," said Theresa Mullan, 75, of Bayside, Queens. Her son, Michael Mullan, died in the collapse of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. Since then she said she has benefited from counseling and become a vital force in a support network of families through the FDNY Foundation and the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation.
Mullan and hundreds of other families of the fallen participate in seminars, workshops and counseling services. She said they "give us tools on how to get through the grief and be supportive to one another."
In a nationwide effort to expand services to more families, the FDNY Foundation and the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation are joining forces to sponsor the first national stair climb at Citi Field on Oct. 10. It will raise money for mental health services, scholarship programs and create a stronger network for surviving family members.
"We hope the city will step up and come together so that we can honor these true heroes," FDNY Commissioner Daniel Nigro said yesterday. He spoke at Ladder Company 20 on Lafayette Street in SoHo, which lost seven members on 9/11.
The first national stair climb is expected to attract thousands of firefighters and other supporters from across the country. They will climb up the stadium's bleachers, said Chief Ronald Jon Siarnicki, executive director of the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation, which organizes about 32 climbs annually. Since 2011, the foundation has donated $2.7 million to the FDNY Foundation and the counseling service unit.
"There are still firefighters who are suffering as a result of 9/11," said Dr. Kerry Kelly, FDNY chief medical officer for the Bureau of Health Services. "We have to make sure services are made accessible. Life for these families continues to change. For example, a child may have been 3 when they lost their parent and now they may be facing a drug or alcohol problem."
The FDNY has five counseling sites for families: Brentwood; Orange County; Fort Totten, Queens; Brooklyn; and Manhattan's Ladder Company 20 firehouse.
If the European-led ExoMars mission successfully launches into space tomorrow (March 14) as planned, scientists will have two intrepid new scouts in their search for life on the Red Planet.
The Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) will look for key elements in Mars' thin, dusty atmosphere, while the Schiaparelli lander will serve as a short-lived Red Planet weather station.
One goal of the mission is to prove out technology for a more ambitious life-hunting rover that's scheduled to launch in the second phase of the ExoMars program in 2018. But TGO and Schiaparelli will also be looking for signs of life and learning about Martian environmental conditions using their own sophisticated scientific payloads.
"TGO will be like a big nose in space," Jorge Vago, ExoMars project scientist, recently told AFP, and indeed, the orbiter is expected to sniff the Red Planet’s atmosphere for its five years of operation. Scientists will use TGO to measure gases like methane, which could hold clues about whether life ever existed, or still exists, on Mars.
Most of the methane in Earth's atmosphere comes from biological sources — plants that are rotting, for example, and animals that are digesting. Methane has already been measured on Mars, but the gas is not a sure indicator of alien life; it’s possible it could be produced by simple lifeforms like microbes, but geological reactions and volcanic activity could also explain methane's presence on the Red Planet.
Water is another ingredient for life that scientists have been trying to measure on Mars, and another instrument in TGO’s science payload will contribute to this search. The Russian-built FREND (Fine Resolution Epithermal Neutron Detector) will indirectly look forwater-ice deposits up to 3.3 feet (1 meter) below Mars’ surface.
Since Mars has such a thin atmosphere, the planet's surface is constantly bombarded with harsh cosmic rays that break apart atoms. This reaction releases high-energy neutrons that are then captured by the elements in the surrounding Martian dirt or released back into the atmosphere. Different elements — like hydrogen, a key ingredient in water — interact with neutrons in characteristic ways. FREND’s measurements of the neutrons released from Mars' surface will allow scientists to make maps of the hydrogen concentration in Martian soil, according to ESA officials.
Once TGO enters orbit around Mars in October, expect pretty pictures; the satellite will obtain high-resolution images of Mars’ surface using the Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System, or CaSSIS.
The Swiss-built CaSSIS promises to produce detailed images of the Martian surface, capturing 15 feet (4.6 m) per pixel from TGO’s orbiting altitude of 250 miles (400 kilometers). Previous Mars cameras have, however, produced sharper images. The HiRISE camera onboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, for example, takes pictures at 1 foot per pixel (30 cm per pixel) from an altitude of 186 miles (300 km), and the Mars Orbiter Camera aboard the Mars Global Surveyor acquired pictures that were about 4.9 feet (1.5 meters) per pixel.
CaSSIS will take images of scientific targets like the seasonally appearing dark streaks on Mars' slopes, which scientists believe are evidence of salty water flows. The camera will also photograph potential landing sites for future missions, looking out for slopes, boulders and other hazards, according to ESA officials.
Schiaparelli and TGO will separate just days before they reach Mars. The landing capsule is then expected to touch down on the Red Planet on Oct. 19, with the help of a parachute and a thruster system.
Though Schiaparelli has a short expected lifespan, it is carrying scientific instruments that will take advantage of its plunge through the Martian atmosphere and visit to the surface.
For instance, the capsule is packing one experiment called AMELIA, which stands for Atmospheric Mars Entry and Landing Investigations and Analysis. AMELIA will collect data on the temperature profile and wind characteristics at different layers of the atmosphere; it will also detect changes in the abundances of aerosols, such asfine dust and ice particles.
Once Schiaparelli lands, a wakeup call will be sent to its scientific package called DREAMS (Dust Characterisation, Risk Assessment, and Environment Analyser on the Martian Surface). DREAMS will essentially act like a meteorological station on Mars. It has a suite of sensors to gauge the wind, humidity, pressure and temperature on the Red Planet for two to eight Martian days, or sols, until its battery runs out.
DREAMS will also collect data on Martian dust and provide the first measurements of electric fields on the surface of Mars. Together, these two types of measurements could shed light on how the interaction of electric fields and dust creates intense dust storms on Mars. The landing has also been purposely planned to take place during the Martian dust storm season, and project scientists have said they hope DREAMS will provide data on the risks dust might pose to future spacecraft and human explorers.
Editor's Note: This article has been updated to clarify the pixel scale of HiRISE.
Captain America: Civil War pretty much sealed the win for Marvel in this year’s superhero film battle against DC and Warner Bros. But whilst it was filled to the brim with heroes, old and new, there were two huge absences, Thor and The Hulk. This hilarious mockumentary sheds some light on Thor's whereabouts and explains why The God of Thunder was a no-show. Turns out he needed some 'me' in Australia.
Original shown at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, we find out Thor (Chris Hemsworth) has moved in with a new—and seemingly reluctant—roommate named Darrell. The short follows the Avenger as he attempts to navigate life as a normal citizen of Earth, constructing 'electronic letters' and unwittingly revealing Captain America’s dark secrets in the run up to his next solo film Thor: Raganork, which will also star Mark Ruffalo who will be reprising his role as The Hulk/Bruce Banner.
To be honest it looks like poor Thor is bored out of his mind and a bit peeved that Cap or Iron Man haven’t called him yet. They even managed to get a hold of The Hulk, and he’s an expert at keeping off the grid. He also needs to work on his roommate boundaries as Darrell clearly has some issues with him.
Thor: Raganork is currently filming and will be out in November 2017.
What Is a Systemic Staph Infection?
Staphylococcus aureus is a commonly occurring bacteria. It tends to live on the skin and in the nose. Normally, it is harmless and does not cause problems. Sometimes, it can infect the skin, causing pimples and even boils, but normally these will heal on their own or can be cured with common antibiotics, causing nothing more than some discomfort to the infected person. A staph infection becomes systemic when it spreads into the bloodstream and can then infect other organs in the body.
Methacillin-resistant Staphylocococcus sureus is a mutated form of the bacteria. It does not respond to conventional antibiotics and is much more likely to become systemic, which is more dangerous than the initial bacteria itself.
MRSA is more likely to affect people who have recently been hospitalized, are undergoing medical procedures, such as dialysis, or the elderly, because weakened immune systems allow the bacteria to spread much faster and easier. When the person infected is not considered to fit into this category, the infection is said to be community associated.
The infection usually begins in the skin and the first symptoms include red bumps, pimples or sores; however, it can also be a single sore, known as a boil, that would be reddened and possibly oozing pus, most likely a clear liquid. In MSRA, the sores will not heal and will continue to grow, covering a large area, and become more painful--other symptoms of MRSA include a red, painful, hot rash and fever or chills.
How Does it Become Systemic?
When the bacteria becomes systemic, it has spread from the skin into the systems of the body, meaning it has spread through the bloodstream and also into the bones and muscles; however, it can also spread into different organ systems creating abscesses and damaging them. When it reaches this level, the infection can be deadly.
The main treatments for this infection are powerful and less commonly used antibiotics such as Vancomycin and Teicoplanin, which must be administered through IV or injection. Since this infection is so hard to treat, prevention and control of the spread of staph is the best technique for dealing with it, which means washing hands often, wearing gloves and gowns when in the presence of the infected, sanitizing rooms and equipment that have come in contact with a patient, and showering thoroughly are among the most common ways to prevent the spread of the staph bacteria.