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Some retirees, widows and orphans among others have protested against the decision of the Plateau State government to sell their plots of land at Kangachik, Zawan area of Jos South Local Government.
The protesters, who carried placards with different inscriptions on Saturday, appealed to Governor Simon Lalong to stop the plan which is ochestrated by the Ministry of Physical Planning and Urban Development to rob them of their lands.
They alleged that government is selling off their lands which they acquired while in active service. According to them, the previous administration in the state attempted taking over the lands forcefully but they challenged the decision and the case is still ongoing at the state High Court in Jos. Speaking to Journalists during the protest, Elder Pam Dung said that they legitimately acquired the lands and they have the documents to prove their ownership of the property. Dung said that they were surprised that the present administration has silently began the sale of the land to other people. (Saturday Telegraph)
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[tvland nobodies CONTENT: “You have a shorter amount of time to both be funny and tell a story like a drama.” Despite this, TV Land is doubling down on its investment in original comedies by partnering with established improv groups like the Groundlings for its new series. Viewers have so many options these days for where to find their new favorite show: they can browse skinny bundles, SVOD services, stand-alone apps from the networks themselves, or peruse online streaming or linear TV]<IMG><I_8030><I_2157><I_216><I_7177><I_680><I_5003><I_3587><I_1218><I_657><I_2157><I_2157><I_216><I_7748><I_7084><I_1218><I_1218><I_2157><I_1643><I_2157><I_5926><I_7084><I_6804><I_7084><I_2157><I_3758><I_7260><I_6596><I_1547><I_2376><I_2305><I_7260><I_6808></IMG>
Over the past two years, TV Land has become home to a slew of hit original comedy programs. Early experiments, like The Jim Gaffigan Show and Hot in Cleveland, bridged the gap between the typical syndicated shows viewers of TV Land were used to and the new wave of original programming.
“A good comedy is getting harder to make,” said Keith Cox, president of development and production at TV Land. “You have a shorter amount of time to both be funny and tell a story like a drama.”
Despite this, TV Land is doubling down on its investment in original comedies by partnering with established improv groups like the Groundlings for its new series.
Viewers have so many options these days for where to find their new favorite show: they can browse skinny bundles, SVOD services, stand-alone apps from the networks themselves, or peruse online streaming or linear TV. Some viewers may not even find their newest obsession on the original network it aired on.
“I don’t know if people watching Younger know that it’s a TV Land show,” said Cox. “They’ll DVR it and love it regardless. Soon, we hope to hoodwink them with our other great comedies.”
Younger, co-starring Broadway icon Sutton Foster and actress/singer Hillary Duff, was created by Darren Star and is decidedly different from traditional TV Land programs. The show, about a 40-year-old single mom who tries to pass herself off as 26 to land a job—was a big hit with viewers. Since it’s been available as a video-on-demand product (streaming on Hulu) and near the top of the iTunes TV charts, Cox thinks viewers “watch a show first, then love it” before they connect the dots between what network it originally aired on.
“This is the best opportunity we could get, to build our audience as they build their new brand,” said Katy Colloton, co-creator, executive producer, writer and actor for Teachers.
Teachers, which debuted early last year, started as a web series from a sketch comedy group out of Chicago called The Katydids; each member of the group has some variation of the name Katie. After 24 episodes, the team was approached to package the show for a potential sale.
“At TV Land, they weren’t going to buy the show to change it,” said Colloton. “They were buying our voice and gave us a lot of creative control, which is what we wanted.”
That decision to connect with an established group with a clear voice wasn’t an accident. TV Land’s newest show, Nobodies (which premiered last month), also came to the network in a similar way.
“Some networks assemble writers, hire actors who have never worked with each other, and a whole crew that no one knows,” said Michael McDonald, showrunner of Nobodies and former Groundlings improv coach to the three creators of the show. “That’s not what happened here. This project is a direct reflection of how much we all knew each other prior to working on the show.”
“All of our original shows try to show a personal story, with a great vision, and then a layer of humor,” he said.
“These shows like Nobodies and Younger are all trying to reach a demo of smart, educated women and give them something to laugh at to take their mind off of whatever,” said Colloton. “TV Land is heading in a different direction, and that what works for us.”
Younger tends to attract a more urban and affluent viewer than the average TV Land audience, and is the most-consumed TV Land Original on video-on-demand. Though its ratings took a tumble from its second season to its third (losing 15 percent in viewership from people aged 18-49 according to Nielsen data), it did premiere against the World Series and other networks’ election coverage.
“It’s not marketing that’s telling me what shows to watch,” said Cox. “It’s my friends, and that’s the discussion we want to be in. Word of mouth is more critical than a billboard.”
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Biography. Bream began study at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia when she was 17 years old and, during her college years, won the beauty-pageant title Miss Virginia in 1990. She then participated in the Miss America 1991 pageant. Her scholarship award covered much of her undergraduate education.
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As of 2021, Jennifer Aniston’s net worth is estimated to be roughly $300 million. Jennifer Aniston is an American actress, film producer, businesswoman, and philanthropist from Sherman Oaks. Aniston is best known for the television sitcom ‘Friends’ which became a worldwide success.
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How much is Katherine Timpf worth? The TV personality is worth $1.5 million.
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[Estateagent. From what we know, such conditions have also prevailed this season, which for some solicitors makes the SRA’s decision to revisit compulsory cover levels a major irritant. The latest version of the Law Society 2015-16 Insurers Guide lists two new entrants: Pelican Underwriting Management Ltd and QIC Europe Ltd]<IMG><I_2943><I_680><I_7827><I_4088><I_680><I_8134><I_1492><I_2819><I_4088><I_2315><I_2315><I_4088><I_6349><I_3151><I_5585><I_7237><I_2315><I_8134><I_2315><I_3029><I_7055><I_4088><I_3151><I_2315><I_3151><I_4088><I_4056><I_2943><I_5498><I_2602><I_1301><I_2660></IMG>
As solicitors experience another benign insurance season, many are unhappy that the regulator has reheated proposals for reform. Eduardo Reyes reports.
For years the approach of 1 October has brought with it a ‘stress-test’ for many practising solicitors – the deadline for renewing their professional indemnity insurance. A growing minority of firms have exploited rule changes to move away from the single date and extend their cover period, commonly to 18 months or two years.
But for the vast majority, 1 October remains highlighted upon the office calendar.
Between the deadline and Christmas, it becomes evident to what extent parts of the profession are cashflow basket cases with poor risk control, and whether the terms set for insurers attracted underwriting capacity from the more solid, rated parts of the market.
Characterised as ‘benign’, 2014 saw adequate capacity; only a small number of firms struggling to obtain cover; generally flat premiums; and a minimal presence for unrated insurers. From what we know, such conditions have also prevailed this season, which for some solicitors makes the SRA’s decision to revisit compulsory cover levels a major irritant.
The latest version of the Law Society 2015-16 Insurers Guide lists two new entrants: Pelican Underwriting Management Ltd and QIC Europe Ltd. Both are active in the sole-partner, 2-13 partner and 4-10 partner segments of the market. QIC is also active in the 11-plus partner sector.
‘At this stage it’s too early to say whether any firms are struggling to get cover,’ Law Society policy officer Teresa Krajewska notes. She is, however, able to point to one promising indicator: ‘Our PII helpline has not received any calls on this issue.’
Broker Howden Windsor’s John Wooldridge also points to a generally soft market: ‘There is no doubt that the stability of the market has been helped by a “flight to quality”,’ he says. ‘There are now a significant number of A-rated insurers which has reduced the influence of unrated [participants]. There is enough capacity in the market to provide for all but the most distressed firms.’
With greater confidence in the stability of the market, some report direct benefits feeding through to deals on offer. ‘We’ve seen several interesting trends this year,’ notes Neil Fraser, client account manager for PII at Wesleyan. ‘First, insurers are beginning to respond to the increasing number of law firms who are managing risk properly, and the industry is now finally reaping the benefit in the form of reduced premiums.’
He adds: ‘We’ve also observed that the recent reforms around the assigned risks pool have encouraged practitioners to take responsibility for their claims. Higher-risk law firms – often reliant on unrated insurers – are gradually being phased out.’
Not all in the garden is rosy, as evidenced by calls to the Law Society’s Practice Advice Service.
Krajewska notes: ‘The main PII-related subject relates to concerns about scams of client accounts. We have just published a new practice note aimed at helping law firms recover if they have fallen victim to a client account scam. The advice aims to help firms overcome the problems that arise and which, in the worst-case scenario, could lead to bankruptcy of individual partners and the firm’s closure.’
Richard Brown, executive director of broker Willis, observes that the focus on so-called ‘cyber-risks’ is growing. ‘The major threat to law firms from cyber criminals arises from conveyancing transactions,’ he says. ‘Cyber criminals use phishing software to track the conveyancing process and then email the relevant party shortly before completion to inform them that the bank account details have changed and that they should direct the funds to a new bank account.’
The same approach is used to target financial controllers, he adds: sending internal emails purporting to be from the senior partners and asking them to release funds in a specific direction. ‘For a law firm, the most important areas to protect are the client account, and the client’s personal data,’ Brown advises.
Frank Maher, partner at niche law firm Legal Risk, highlights other live issues: ‘We have seen more coverage disputes and problems caused by defence panel firms failing to acknowledge when they have conflicts of interest in acting for both insurer and insured. We have also heard of concerns about some insurers’ claims-handling, so firms should consider this when choosing [an] insurer.’
So where stands a law firm that has yet to renew? This category covers firms with many different profiles. Some will be ‘high-risk’; others merely disorganised. But a great many more will have started the process of seeking cover but made a calculated decision to delay renewal until closer to the deadline.
Law Society research on 2014 renewals showed that three-quarters of firms carried out preparatory work between May and August, with only 8% leaving this until September. However, 50% of new policies were actually taken out in the month preceding 1 October.
Tim Norman, of Law Society and Miller joint venture Chancery Pii, advises: ‘As a general rule, we do not think those firms yet to renew are at a disadvantage, although firms should be aware of quote validity periods. But for those firms yet to submit their proposal form or still awaiting terms, the closer we get to 1 October, due to time constraints, the more concerned they should be, with insufficient time to seek or consider alternatives.’
In a benign market that has not recently experienced a major external shock, leaving it late may make sense. ‘Currently the insurance market for solicitors is in a “soft” part of the cycle, so capacity is making for a competitive season,’ Brown notes. ‘The margins for PI insurers of law firms are probably tighter than for any other profession. Over the years, we have seen many insurers come and go, driving rates down as they are attracted in and then seeing claims hit them.’
He adds: ‘We’re seeing underwriters increasingly willing to absorb the higher fees of law firms without increasing premiums, so the rates paid are effectively decreasing.’
In an ideal world, private practice would be using a benign indemnity market to ensure that their house is in order. As Brown puts it: ‘The general message from the insurance community is that the legal sector should take advantage of this buoyant market to focus on risk management and ensure that mistakes are avoided now, when they are busy. This will ensure that during the next downturn, whenever that may come, claims [do not come] to light that will drive premiums up again.’
It is in this context that the SRA has revived its consultation relating to PII cover in the form of a discussion paper (see box, above) which closes to responses this week.
At issue is a proposal to allow firms to secure minimum cover for a much lower amount – £500,000 was the figure floated by the regulator in 2014 – or even to scrap the requirement for PII altogether. Last year a consultation on the same subject was widely criticised as ‘botched’. This time round, at least, the proposed timing of any change would not impact on the current renewal season.
Law Society president Jonathan Smithers is unimpressed: ‘We are concerned that the SRA has revived most of last year’s controversial proposed changes to professional indemnity insurance but also introduced new suggestions which, if implemented, exacerbate last year’s concerns.’
At stake, he insists, are ‘proposed changes [that] would erode public trust in the profession, while increasing the risk exposure for solicitors and their clients, as well as increasing both the regulatory and costs burdens on firms’. In addition, he adds, the SRA has not addressed the significant need to carry out a holistic review of run-off.
‘There is no evidence that the changes would improve access to justice,’ he concludes.
Maher is equally critical. ‘The idea of reducing cover to £500,000 in last May’s rushed consultation was a badly flawed error of judgement,’ he says. ‘It was opposed by a large majority of respondents and rightly rejected by the Legal Services Board on the grounds that there was no evidence to support the change. Since then, despite last autumn’s call for evidence, no proper evidence has been produced – yet the latest discussion paper raises this again.’
Maher cites multiple problems with the SRA’s proposals. Crucially, he says: ‘Law firms large and small alike will be at risk, because the elimination of cover means that the SRA will surrender the power to ensure that one or other insurer deals with the defence of claims in the event of coverage disputes.’
Cutting cover will not get rid of claims, he points out, ‘so reform may increase the number of firms failing and add to the cost of interventions, which the SRA has been trying to control’.
Like Smithers, Maher is concerned about the position of lawyers who are retiring or who have moved firms. ‘Lawyers who change firms or retire will have no means of protecting themselves if their former colleagues either reduce cover or breach policy terms, for example on disclosure of material facts or notifying circumstances to insurers’.
On changes to run-off cover, he notes: ‘Cutting run-off cover to three years will mean many solicitors who retire will face an annual burden of buying insurance – if they can get it at any price – and the cost of paying accountants to help them claim tax relief, assuming they have income against which to offset it.’
In the absence of major reforms, could the legal market see something that has not been achieved for a long time – a third successive year, in October 2016, where benign conditions prevail?
Arguing for a prolonged ‘soft’ period in the insurance cycle is the consideration that a number of the best underwriting prospects are no longer working to a 12-month single-date renewal.
As Willis’s Brown notes of this group: ‘Only firms who are financially strong, and have good processes and track records are going to be offered 18-month policies by the insurers. Interestingly, at the April renewal date just passed, we saw a majority of law firms in the first wave of 18-month policies taking such a policy again, so it seems to work.’
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This article continues the series reviewing the effects of the King Street Pilot with data up to November 29, 2018. [November 30 will be included with the December update.]
November 2018 was the first full month of the consolidated 504/514 King/Cherry services with subroutes from Dundas West to Distillery (504A) and Broadview to Dufferin (504B). The new service design does not affect running times through the pilot area, but is does have an effect on headways depending which portion of the route one is travelling.
The transition to 100% low floor operation on 504 King is now complete and there was no change in the scheduled service capacity after the mid-October route consolidation. 503 Kingston Road trippers continued to operate with the smaller high-floor cars to the Charlotte Loop at Spadina through November. In January 2019, the 503 will revert to bus operation and will loop over the standard streetcar routing via Church-Wellington-York. This will slightly reduce the capacity for short trips within the pilot area during peak hours.
This article deals with travel times and line capacity. In Part II, I will turn to headways (the time between vehicles) and reliability.
The following charts show the travel times between Jarvis and Bathurst (the pilot project limits) in each direction for the pm peak hour, 5-6 pm, over the past three years. The 50th percentile (median, blue) and 85th (orange) are shown. As with all previous charts, there is a small reduction in travel time compared to the pre-pilot data, but there is also a marked reduction in the range of values showing a much more consistent travel time.
The values swing upward a bit in November, although they are still slightly better than a year ago when the pilot began. Some of this change is probably seasonal, but that will be verified with data from December and January. In the sets of charts showing the data for various times of day, this rise occurs mainly in the peak period.
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The full sets of charts are linked below.
For a more thorough discussion of past events and trends in these charts, please refer to the October 2018 update.
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Warren Gatland believes victory over the Chiefs was vital for the Lions as they build momentum into the first Test against the All Blacks on Saturday in Auckland. [more]
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The Lions ran in four tries in Hamilton against the Chiefs, with Jack Nowell crossing twice, Jared Payne getting another and the pack earning a penalty try in another strong showing.
That was enough for a 34-6 victory, the biggest of the Tour so far, and for Gatland, it was crucial the team built on the win over the Maori ahead of the opening Test at Eden Park.
He said: “The result was pretty important for that group of guys. Over the last couple of days they had spoken about the disappointment for the guys who were involved in losing the Highlanders game, and games where we’ve been in front with 70-odd minutes on the clock.
“I think it’s really important in terms of the momentum that was created on Saturday with a really strong performance against the Maori and then tonight the whole group, we didn’t want this group not winning and they have come out and given a commanding performance.
The Lions score four tries in a testing encounter against @ChiefsRugby in Hamilton.
The sense of unity was key for Gatland, who will convene with his coaches on Wednesday in a final selection meeting before the announcement of the team to face New Zealand in the first Test.
Meanwhile for Rory Best it was a momentous occasion, four years after captaining the Lions in a narrow loss to the Brumbies in the equivalent fixture in Australia.
The Ireland skipper was thrilled at the way the team stood tall for the entire game.
He added: “I think it’s something four years ago we lost that game and the way I played and the way the team played was disappointing.
“I said to the guys, regardless of what happens off the back of this, don’t regret this fixture and the way you perform. It was something we really tried to channel and produce a performance from.
“For me personally, to have captained those boys, when you get to the 80th minute and your tight-head prop that has been on the pitch for every one of those minutes, makes the turnover to end the game, it shows the commitment the boys had.
“It’s a wider squad and it was important for us to feel we contributed in terms of victory and momentum. I think we’ve done that and I think we’re in a good place going forward into Saturday.”
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Online polls are not scientific. To state the matter more precisely, a poll on a website which is open to the entire Network and has only minimal measures to guard against repeat voting measures the people who were motivated to respond, not a representative sample of the population. Of course, it’s just like a creationist — beg pardon, a cdesign proponentsist — to rely upon a pseudoscientific tool for spurious validation of his pre-established beliefs. It is also in the nature of things that, on the Network, such attempts will backfire.
To wit, consider the poll on the Expelled! movie‘s MySpace page. The question was asked, “Do you think the theory of Intelligent Design should be taught in our education system?” The Evil Darwinismistic Conspiracy was alerted to the poll at 10:36 AM Eastern Time, and less than five hours later, this is where the results stand:
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586 respondents have answered “Yes,” against 7517 saying “No” and 712 asking “What is it?” The third category has also been boosted by repressive, scientism-boosting conspirators, for added LOL value.
5 thoughts on “Basing Hopes on Pseudoscience”
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Average daytime and nighttime temperatures
All climatic diagrams on this site result from the collected data from two measuring weather stations in Central Thailand.
All data correspond to the average monthly values of the last 20 years. Back to overview: Thailand
Central Thailand is one of the warmest region in Thailand with an average daily high temperature of 34 degrees. High humidity and hot temperatures make the weather at times pleasant but also tropical humid. It is warm to hot all year round and invites to bathe at average water temperatures of 28 degrees. Dued to the lesser rain the best time for traveling is from November to April. Most precipitation falls from May to October.
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Hours of sunshine per day
The number of hours of sunshine refers to the time when the sun is actually visible. That is, without any obstruction of visibility by clouds, fog or mountains. With 8 hours per day, February is the sunniest month in the region of Central Thailand. In August the sun shines the shortest.
Rainy days per month
A rainy day is a day on which at least an amount of 0.1 mm precipitation (=0.1 liter) per square meter falls. This can be rain, snow, hail or even dew. So it does not have to rain the whole day. With 19 rainy days, September offers the most number of rainy days, and in December the least.
Precipitation in mm/day
The amount of precipitation is measured in millimeters per square meter. Thus, at two mm/day, two liters of water fall on one square meter within 24 hours. With only 0.6 mm, the least rain falls in December. September, on the other hand, has the most rain.
Water temperature
Water temperature depends not only on solar radiation within the same region, but also on ocean currents. For example, depending on the season, cold or warm water masses are moved from other areas. The warmest temperatures in Central Thailand are in April, when the water is 28 °C.
Relative humidity in %
Warm air can absorb more moisture than cold air. The relative humidity indicates how much moisture of the physically possible is actually contained in the air. At high humidity, the person feels uncomfortable and perceives this as oppressive. In general, a relative humidity of 40-60% gives as pleasant. With humidity averaging 84%, September is the most uncomfortable. In January, on the other hand, it is easier to endure.
Absolute humidity in g/m³
In warm months, there is also a higher absolute humidity almost everywhere. At a temperature of 25°C, air can absorb up to 23 grams of water per cubic meter. At 20°C, it is only 17.3 grams. A relative humidity of 40% at 25°C thus corresponds to an absolute humidity of 9.2 grams of water. From a proportion of approx. 13.5 grams, humans perceive the air as muggy. This limit is exceeded throughout the year in Central Thailand.
Humidex in °C
The "Humidex" (humidity index) is an index of well-being in warmer areas, calculated from the air temperature, relative humidity and dew point. The index corresponds approximately to the temperature felt. At high temperatures, the body transports heat away by sweating. At high humidity the ambient air can only absorb a small amount of sweat and thus one feels uncomfortable. An index of 20-29 is considered comfortable. Up to 39, people perceive the air as slightly uncomfortable, and above 40, as very uncomfortable. Values above 45 are dangerous in the long run and often lead to heat stroke.
Climate charts for other regions in Thailand
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Most important cities in the region »Central Thailand«
As the capital region, it is arguably the most important part of Thailand. Alone 2 major cities with over 600,000 inhabitants are located here. The region has a west-east extension of about 130 km and over 180 km from north to south. It consists of the 13 provinces Ang Thong, Bangkok, Chai Nat, Lop Buri, Nakhon Nayok, Nakhon Pathom, Nonthaburi, Pathum Thani, Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya, Samut Prakan, Samut Sakhon, Sara Buri and Sing Buri.
Data basis: German Weather Service, individual values averaged and supplemented by own elements. Data on cities and inhabitants: geonames.org, United Nations Statistics Division and own research.
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In 1922 Marie Dye became the first woman with a Ph.D. degree to be appointed to the faculty at Michigan State University. That began what became know as “The Dye Era.” She went on to become the first female full professor in the Division of Home Economics (in 1930), and later was appointed Dean of the Division. Her career ultimately spanned thirty-four years (1922-1956).
Her initial assignment was to establish a nutrition research component. To that end, in 1925, she became the first to receive a Purnell Grant through the Agriculture Experiment Station when those funds became available for research. This led to other funds supporting groundbreaking research in the nutrition of pre-school children and the value of vitamin B and C in infant feeding. She started research projects to study the cooking qualities of meats, the color changes in fruits and vegetables during frozen storage, and the use of homogenized milk in cooking, all new concepts for the time. Her vision advanced women, research, and the well-being of families through research, teaching, and service. Her tenure saw the Depression of the 1930s, World War II in the 1940s and the economic expansion and readjustment to post-war living in the 1950s. Through it all she addressed each as a new challenge. Her leadership brought national and international recognition to the College and the University.
Dr. Dye’s perception of her role as leader of the profession was exhibited in the changes she made in the curriculum. When she became dean, she urged a change from the previous philosophy to ‘apply science to the work of the household.’ Instead, she said, ‘Home Economics is a study of the problems of the home and family. Courses must emphasize the civil, moral and economic responsibility to the individual home, to the community and instruct in the right care of human life in the home.’ Just prior to her retirement the aim of college was ‘to help students function effectively and creatively as individuals, as family members and as responsible citizens; to increase their understanding of the art and science of better living, and to prepare them for a profession.’
During her time at Michigan State University Dye opened the Veterans’ Nursery School which still functions as the renamed Spartan Cooperative Nursery School. She served on the Governor’s Committee on Consumer Interests of the Michigan Defense Council and chaired the Michigan Nutrition Defense council during World War II. She also served on the Board of Managers for Sparrow Hospital Association.
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The Islamic militants understand how stupid political correctness is, they also understand that it is a weapon in their arsenal that helped them conquer Lebanon and get deep into Europe and the United States.
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“I just transferred from Columbus State. We had prayer rooms, like actual rooms where we could go to pray because we Muslims have to pray five times a day. There’s Fajr, which is early in the morning, at dawn. Then Zuhr during the daytime, then Asr in the evening, like right about now. And then Maghrib, which is like right at sunset and then Isha at night. I wanted to pray Asr. I mean, I’m new here. This is my first day. This place is huge, and I don’t even know where to pray. I wanted to pray in the open, but I was kind of scared with everything going on in the media. I’m a Muslim, it’s not what the media portrays me to be. If people look at me, a Muslim praying, I don’t know what they’re going to think, what’s going to happen. But, I don’t blame them, it’s the media that put that picture in their heads so they’re just going to have it and it, it’s going to make them feel uncomfortable. I was kind of scared right now. But I just did it. I relied on God. I went over to the corner and just prayed.”
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But there’s something of a paradox at play. In spite of Trump’s enthusiasm, most forecasts remain gloomy. Uncertainty still dominates the global landscape. Global growth has slowed.
et it doesn’t seem to take much more than a hint of good news to spur investors.
For example, U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross had said early on Monday that trade talks with China have “come very far along.” It was a vague statement and made no allusion that anything is final. It was also not the first time investors have heard that sort of thing from either the U.S. administration or the Chinese. Still, that sliver of positivity helped drive up markets around the world.
“It is fascinating to see equity investors, like Pavlov’s dog, respond over and over again to the same piece of news,” David Rosenberg, chief economist at the investment firm Gluskin Sheff wrote in a letter to clients.
On the other hand, one of the biggest forces in global economics right now is uncertainty — over the state of the U.S.-China trade war, over a slowing global economy. China recently posted its lowest quarterly growth in 26 years. Europe is struggling too. And some of the gloomiest signals are coming from bond markets around the world.
Bank of Nova Scotia’s deputy chief economist Brett House says “erratic policy from the White House” has weighed on growth. So, even a small step toward removing some of that uncertainty, like Ross’s comment about China, is bound to drive up stocks.
“While it doesn’t roll back much of the damage that’s been done,” he says. “It takes some of the uncertainty on the forward outlook away.”
House says all those unknowns have shaved as much as 0.75 per cent off U.S. GDP growth.
And it’s weighed on stock market returns as well. The Dow and the S&P have made notorious gains since Trump won the presidency. It’s part of the longest bull run in history. But those gains levelled off over the past two years. At the beginning of October, the S&P stood about where it had in January 2018. The more recent highs have broken through that plateau, but there just doesn’t seem to be as much wind in the sails of optimism any more.
Rosenberg points out that indexes like the Dow and the S&P which trade in larger, more globally oriented companies are making gains. But indexes that cater to smaller companies aren’t doing as well.
Rosenberg mused whether those bigger companies are doing better because they benefit from a perception of a thaw in U.S.-China trade tensions, while indexes more tied to the domestic U.S. economy aren’t gaining nearly as much. He says the Russel 2000 is still nine per cent off its all-time high.
“The [smaller companies] derive 79% of their revenue from the U.S. economy,” he wrote. “Q4 GDP estimates now show a US economy sputtering and catching down to the rest of the world.”
The other major factor here is the cost of money.
“The vast majority of the worlds’ major central banks [are] lowering interest rates and making money even cheaper,” said House, at Scotiabank. “That provides a further lift to real economic activity”
But, House adds, it also means the alternative to investing in stocks doesn’t look terribly attractive to investors.
Right now the amount of bonds with a negative yield has ballooned to a record $15 trillion worldwide. That’s a whole lot of money very worried about the future.
So stock markets and bond markets are telling us dramatically different things about the economy right now. There’s nothing inherently wrong with them sending different signals. But they won’t remain at odds for ever. Eventually, either the optimistic stock market or the deeply troubled bond market will be proven right.
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I dreamed of being a mom.
I wanted to be a good mom like my mother.
Happy, gentle, and supportive of me just as I was…but would do whatever needed to protect my baby.
What a premonition of my future! And I had no idea what was in store.
I met, married and we started our Family in Helena, Montana. Our first Daughter was normally active and even advanced in a lot of areas. We learned how to be parents and she survived our first fumbling attempt with flying colors. Our 2nd daughter came and she had some challenges, things we questioned on her feeding, swallow and growth. But doctors weren’t concerned so we just adapted, despite the glaring difference between kids. Our 3rd came and he grew normally until 5 months old. We calorie and fat packed like we did with our 2nd child. Added extra protein and pureed everything to a Greek yogurt texture which through trial and error we found was the only one he could handle. Despite our best efforts, he wasn’t gaining weight and his length and head size were stalling. All signs of classic “Failure to Thrive”.
On top of his issues with weight, he also couldn’t drink from a sippy, cup, or bottle. Literally choked, eyes red and watering, and sounded like he couldn’t breathe. Breastfeeding didn’t produce that, but we couldn’t find a vessel to reproduce the success he had at the breast any other way. He had severe oral defensiveness and pushing him just made it so he refused anything by mouth. Once his medical team decided we had exhausted all our options outside of the hospital including ENT, frenulum release/posterior tongue tie release, and working with an SLP for tips and tricks. We were then inpatient for a 3-day calorie study that turned into a very chaotic, antagonistic, emotional roller coaster lasting almost a month. We came out of that with fear of the medical community, social workers and interventions forced on him, and us; that made him completely NPO.
We were finally trialed on an NG tube because his kidneys had been in distress and this was the only way to fully hydrate him so we could get home. Nico sped through the surgeon’s checklist by day 4! It made the Gastronomy tube his next step. My husband was home with our daughters and it was just as emotional and traumatic for them being separated from us too. By Halloween 2015 we were heading back to Helena with a small 15-month-old, a new feeding tube, and our new “normal”.
We knew nobody adult or child who required a feeding tube and so I researched, joined Facebook groups, talked to our surgeon, networked with our Pediatrician and DME to get him the added safety equipment he needed to ease this overwhelming transition. The Dr’s were hopeful he would speed through OT and Speech to learn how to drink safely and eat age-appropriate and gain weight. This hope lasted about 6 months and his skills stalled. This was April 2016 and I just got done meeting with his team, the words were vague. “It’s going to be a lot longer…” well that was certainly helpful! We already had every person we met asking how long he needed his tube and to explain a diagnosis that we didn’t even have. Dysphagia, torticollis, sensory processing disorder, oral defensive, hypotonia, failure to thrive…but no overall umbrella to describe what he had. We found ourselves repeating the same things and trying to navigate this new life. I wanted a way to tell people that was easier. All these thoughts ran through my head and most of it was me feeling defeated. I wanted my baby to grow up happy, healthy, and be a “normal” 2-year-old! And he really was in a lot of areas now that his weight was stable because of his feeding tube. We had begun to make our own language to describe to him and our family or friends…Button. That’s what we named his feeding tube and our daughters and family all used it.
I worked 2 jobs at the time, one as a hairdresser and my graveyard shift at a Youth Home. One night I was trying to sleep and prepare for my shift but my head was racing. Phrases, words, and it literally kept me up. When I got my nightly checklist done I sat at the table and just wrote. I didn’t know what it was but it just came out and filled a couple pages. When I stopped and reread what I wrote it started with “My Belly Has Two Buttons”, and as I read through it became clear this was a story. A story about my son, My hopes for how he would feel about life now and in the future with his life-saving device, written in a childlike voice that conveyed the simple meanings behind his multiple and yet undiagnosed conditions. The character was proud of his 2 buttons (belly button and G-tube) and yet wanted you to know he could still play like other kids, just with his safety belt. I cried as I read it. This was how I hoped Nico viewed himself, how I wanted him to view himself if he never got his tube removed.
I wanted to see how it would look like a book but I knew nothing about writing one. I researched how many pages a children’s book should be and then by my shift end I had a little mock-up “book” with terrible stick figure drawings and I had cut the sentences I wrote into strips and arranged them on the pages in a way that made sense to me and flowed.
I read this to my sister and Mom that morning. And they insisted “this needs to be published!” I laughed it off and decided I would ask my younger sister (Rebecca Robertson) to just illustrate and we could maybe make a little book for Nico later. She jumped at the chance. I didn’t think about it again for about a month. I was laid up after surgery and kept seeing other Tubie Families asking about a book for their kids with a child who had a feeding tube…it nagged at me and so I looked. There was a handful, but none recent. And they seemed to be diagnosis specific or for the medical field. I felt this nagging voice telling me “it’s time!” Time for what? “Time to be brave”
As faith often is, mine had been very tested over the last 8 months and I knew financially it would be a miracle to finance everything to get the book ready. I knew no agents, I needed to submit to publishing companies, and it was so overwhelming! I jumped into research, spoke to a hybrid publisher who was very interested in the story but not necessarily in the illustrations by my sister. I wasn’t ok with that, and I also wasn’t okay not owning rights to my book. I prayed about it and immediately remembered my childhood friend had published a book! I looked up her book and contacted her about how she published. She got me in touch with Jessica Butler, and from there the process was quick, she was a wealth of knowledge and easy to understand when requesting a deadline for a part of the book. She kept things moving.
The end result was a beautiful book we were proud to launch in August 2016. Within a week we were receiving messages from around the world. Filled with “Thank you…”, “This made (this situation) easier…”, and my favorites, pictures! Of how happy these little kids were to see someone like them. A book giving them representation in pictures and words of parts of the life they live. We all deserve to feel known, loved, and safe. Knowledge of Feeding Tubes outside our “Tubie World” can help pave the way for our kids to have that. I am blessed to be a part of this community and when our book (My Belly Has Two Buttons) was recently named one of the 12 on USBBY’S list of “Outstanding Books for Young People With Disabilities” I cried happy, overwhelmed tears.
Both our books have now won awards in Purple Dragonfly Book Awards, in Special Needs and Disability Awareness Category in 2017 (My Belly Has Two Buttons) and now 2018 (A Very Tubie Christmas). This author journey has been an adventure, and as a mom and a Hairdresser from Montana, I never imagined that all this was to be my future. I hope we can continue to encourage those in this community, and I look forward to the big things God has in store for us both in books and life. We have more books in mind for the future; so follow us on Facebook at Meikele Lee.
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We had no grand cruising plans this season as we had several important family occasions occurring throughout the year. The most joyous was the safe arrival of grandson Finn and of course our routes had to take visiting into account! I think he’s still a bit young to enjoy boating.
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So we stayed mostly in the south and west Midlands, with Great Haywood Junction our most northerly point.
We also had to stick around for getting measured up for a new cratch cover and then having it fitted.
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Tim Garland did the cratch cover for us, and while we were based at Calcutt we also had the bottom blacked.
Our mileage was a little higher than last year, though still within the 500 – 600 miles which seems to be our range.
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We stayed in 4 marinas this year; Droitwich Spa, Calcutt, and Springwood Haven were familiar to us but we had not stayed at Alvechurch Marina before. We revisited old haunts for most of the time and our only new waters were on the BCN (in italic below).
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Best bits? Well, we couldn’t beat grandson Finn’s first visit and then first cruise, though he wasn’t that impressed.
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And of course we had the fascinating trip into Dudley tunnel.
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Other lovely bits of cruising included revisiting the Avon and the lower Staffs and Worcester after a gap of several years. It was interesting to see electro-fishing for zander at Soulbury Locks and near Cosgrove in April. Zander are removed as they are an introduced species and predate our native fish.
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However, later in the year I met a man spinning for pike who was involved with running a fishing club and he reckoned that the stocks of native fish in his area were good – local fishermen had stopped removing zander when they caught them. He said that zander are cannibalistic and predate smaller fish of their own species, which helps to protect the native small fry and the populations seemed to have stabilised. Of course we moored in many lovely spots. This one is near Hockley Heath on the North Stratford.
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and the stonking great vet’s bill at Stratford on Avon wasn’t exactly a high point, though necessary. There was some dreadful weather but somehow we managed to be tucked up inside for almost all of it. Meg’s looking a bit greyer but then aren’t we all?
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A pretty good year’s boating on the whole. And for next year – who knows? Nothing planned as yet, apart from getting a new tiller pin!
Best wishes to all for a good year to come – boating and otherwise.
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EUNICE~ It is with heavy hearts that the family of Rick Blackburn announces his passing on Tuesday, March 30, 2021 at Opelousas General at the age of 76.
After obtaining his MBA, PhD, EdD, Rick was a professor at numerous universities including LSUE and New Mexico State University, where he also served as Vice-Provost. After retiring, he became a grant coordinator for the St. Landry Parish Sheriff Department and later became an executive grant coordinator for Offender Watch Systems. . Rick will be missed by his loving wife of twenty- six years, Jo Nelson Blackburn of Opelousas; brother-in-law, Warren Nelson of Eunice; sister-in-law, Winona N. Leger and husband, Tim of Basile; his nephew, who was like a son to him, Caleb Leger of Duson, and a host of nieces and nephews; as well as extended family and friends.
He is preceded in death by his parents, J.D. and Mary Lou Blackburn and a nephew, Andrew Leger.
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Rick I can’t believe you’re gone. You cared for me and my family in a way that is hard to come across these days. Your generosity helped us through some difficult times and I always was and still am so grateful for that and for you. It hurts to have you gone so suddenly but I am so lucky to have had you in my life and my family. You will be remembered.
Jo, you had a great husband and I’m so glad you experienced that love. Nothing I can say can take away your pain. So know you are in my thoughts and prayers.
I didn't know Fredrick. I knew Rick. He was a good boss at LSUE. I was sorry to hear of his passing. My condolences to Jo.
Breaks my heart to hear of his passing. He was such a good man. He would bring everyone donuts at the dealership when servicing his vehicle. Jo you are in my thoughts and prayers. I'm just a phone call away.
My deepest condolences to Jo and family. May nothing but good memories comfort you during this difficult time. Dr. Blackburn was a friend and will be missed.
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When Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) stepped up to the mic on Wednesday during a House Judiciary Committee hearing, he knew he was about to show out, and we all owe him a collective thank you for speaking truth and dragging Justice Clarence Thomas as thoroughly as he did.
Thank you, Rep. Jeffries. Thank you for saying what needed to be said about Justice Thomas, his insurrectionist wife, and his continued efforts to take away our basic freedoms.
Like most of us, Rep. Jeffries was fed up with Thomas’ self loathing and hypocrisy when Thomas decided to open his mouth and deign to say that, “[As a society,] we are becoming addicted to wanting particular outcomes, not living with the outcomes we don’t like…We can’t be an institution that can be bullied into giving you just the outcomes you want [sic].” All of which effectively translates into, you will get what we give you, and you can’t bully us about it.
And just when you thought he crescendoed, Jeffries tied it all together beautifully by calling out Thomas’ hypocrisy and directly named Thomas’ own wife, Ginni. “And if Justice Thomas really wants to deal with bullying in America, or this problem of people supposedly unwilling to accept outcomes that they don’t like, I’ve got some advice for Justice Thomas. Start in your own home. Have a conversation with Ginni Thomas,” Jeffries continued. Now for those who don’t know, Justice Thomas’ wife worked to overturn the 2020 election as revealed by dozens of text messages she sent to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.
The sad reality is that it’s all true. At no point during this read was Rep. Jeffries exaggerating or embellishing any of Justice Thomas’ actions or affiliations. Everything he said was true. And what’s more upsetting is that when you zoom out to review Justice Thomas’ various fixations on the bench, it’s clear that he behaves as though he hates himself and all of us. From voting rights to abortion, Clarence Thomas has been front and center working to take away our basic civil rights, surgically overturning court decisions that he didn’t like, as former Attorney General Eric Holder aptly put it recently.
Roe v. Wade is merely Thomas’ latest target, but most certainly not the first time he has worked to ignore and overturn decades of precedent that would result in harmful outcomes for women, pregnant people, and especially Black people writ large. Thomas was integral to gutting the Voting Rights Act when he joined with the 2013 majority opinion that effectively stated that racism was a thing of the past, and since 40 years had passed preclearance was no longer necessary to keep state officials from denying Black people their basic right to vote. Thomas doubled down on this sentiment in his own concurring opinion where he states that he would have gone further to strike down even more of the Voting Rights Act because, “Today, our nation has changed.” But seeing as Georgia, Texas, Florida, Arizona, Alabama and plenty of other states have all passed voter suppression laws just in the past two years that will disproportionately harm Black and brown people, our nation hasn’t changed much at all.
Justice Thomas has also registered his continued disdain for the Obergefell decision, which legalized same-sex marriage, after he voted against it in 2015. In October 2020, he declared, “Since Obergefell, parties have continually attempted to label people of good will as bigots [sic].”
What an absolute clown.
Thomas’ words, his sentiments are a preview of what’s to come from the Supreme Court after the right-wing justices render a decision that is primed to overturn Roe v. Wade. The Supreme Court majority will continue to live out their demented dreams of undermining precedent and thus additional Supreme Court rulings that are predicated on our basic right to privacy, as Vice President Harris noted after the draft Supreme Court decision was leaked.
With all of this history, it is particularly biting that now, in this moment of taking away yet another one of our basic civil rights, Justice Thomas claims that the nation is trying to bully him and the Supreme Court, when his entire legacy has been harmful to the people of this country, particularly Black people and Black women.
So, I have to repeat Rep. Jeffries’ question, “Brother Thomas, why are you such a hater?”
Juanita Tolliver is a veteran political strategist and MSNBC Political Analyst who previously served as National Political Director at Supermajority and Director of Campaigns at the Center for American Progress. Follow her on Twitter: @juanitatolliver.
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Star Wars: The Old Republic was a massive MMORPG launch back in 2011. The game is often called one of the last great MMOs to come out of that era. It was steeped in Bioware story telling with huge plotlines to follow. Factions between the Sith and the Republic, along with Light and Dark side Force choices made for your character. Over time, SWTOR as it is called now continued to see a lot of success. However, as rumors circulate that Bioware Austin may be moving on to new projects, is it time for the republic to end?
Electronic Arts has been supporting SWTOR for a long time, the company recently closed down a Star Wars project due to its single player nature. A sign many herald as EA’s strategy of supporting online game play to continue revenue streams from games. Something that SWTOR has definitely taught them. The question becomes, how much does SWTOR continue to make for the company?
With games like Anthem on the horizon EA is definitely expanding into the online space. They already host huge numbers in FIFA online play for fans. As we have seen with many MMOs they never truly go away. SWTOR likely supports a hardcore community of players who continue to explore and build their characters. How much of a development team do you need on the project to support everything going forward?
The expansion schedule for the game was solid in its first five years. DLC content began with Rise of the Hutt Cartel and was followed all the way through 2016. Now though, the game most recently put out an update in December. This smaller output of content is still adding Warzones and options for players. However, their last community announcement was back in May officially. There is still talk on the forums. So this begins the question, is 2018 the last year of Star Wars: The Old Republic?
A lot has happened since the launch of the game. Disney has purchased Lucasfilm for one. Three new movies have been released. EA has put huge resources into the Battlefront series and came under fire this season as Battlefront II suffered from negative fan reviews over its Lootbox system. All of these elements make for a very interesting story. Yet, through it all SWTOR remains, and is likely still a solid revenue stream for EA. However, the loot box controversy even shed light on the possibility of EA losing the Star Wars license from Disney.
The final thought here is simple? Will EA shut down SWTOR? That answer is likely No, for the time being. The game is still a revenue stream and there are no emerging signs brewing that it would be turned off. That is not to say something drastic could happen in the next few months. It could for sure. Moving new resources in a studio onto a game is nothing new for EA, several studios help with bigger projects over time and this is pretty common. However, if Bioware Austin is beginning a new product, then more limited resources will be put toward SWTOR for the future. Which, so far into 2018 we have not heard much from the franchise. With Star Wars changing so much in these last few years, we certainly hope the game stays. Still, it would not be a major surprise if less and less is done with the title.
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[kevin curtis unsplash: So, is there anything else that can help us close that health gap between rich and poor.” Diving deeper, the researchers divided the Swedish individuals into two groups — those with or without medical professionals in their immediate or extended families. These trends extended across all incomes, but they were even more pronounced in low-income families]<IMG><I_1563><I_2157><I_5478><I_6817><I_680><I_3445><I_3583><I_1537><I_6817><I_2157><I_2157><I_3583><I_5478><I_4397><I_5478><I_5974><I_2157><I_3086><I_2157><I_5974><I_3841><I_6817><I_6817><I_2157><I_296><I_3583><I_576><I_576><I_2882><I_6817><I_3841><I_4440></IMG>
Poor people are more likely to have health problems starting at birth and to die younger than rich people. This stark inequality is firmly established, but the underlying causes and their relative contributions are not well understood.
A new Stanford study investigated whether unequal access to informal health expertise contributes to this problem. Specifically, they explored whether having a physician or nurse in your family improves your health.
“This health inequity appears to be extremely stubborn,” said Petra Persson, PhD, an assistant professor of economics, in a Stanford News article. “We can throw a universal health insurance system at it and yet substantial inequality persists. So, is there anything else that can help us close that health gap between rich and poor?”
Diving deeper, the researchers divided the Swedish individuals into two groups — those with or without medical professionals in their immediate or extended families.
These trends extended across all incomes, but they were even more pronounced in low-income families. This implies, according to the researchers, that the scarcity of access to medical expertise in low-income households could create and sustain inequality in health outcomes.
However, this may point to new ways to tackle the health disparity. The authors concluded in the paper, “Our analysis suggests that access to expertise improves health not through preferential treatment, but rather through intra-family transmission of ‘low-tech’ (and hence, cheap) determinants of health, likely ranging from the sharing of nuanced knowledge about healthy behaviors, to reminders about adherence to chronic medication, to frequent and trustful communication about existing health."
Persson added in the piece, “If the government and health care system, including public and private insurers, could mimic what goes on inside families, then we could reduce health inequity by as much as 18 percent.”
A key solution may be in creating a closer, longer-term relationship between patients and their doctors, the authors said. But they also warned that the U.S. appears to be moving away from this “old-fashioned” primary care model — a shift in the wrong direction according to their results.
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There is a man named André who makes cards (paints them by hand) and also paints pictures. He brings his things to our gate regularly to try and get people to buy his creations. David was the first in our family to purchase cards from him. He came back asking for our house. The guard came and got me and I was greeted by a desperate André. He had all his creations and was trying to sell them to me at a big discount to get money. I asked him what was wrong and he said his 3 year old daughter was in the hospital and he needed money for her care (you pay on the spot). I gave him some money and he tried to get me to take something he made. I told him I didn’t want any of the things he brought, but the money could be put towards a future purchase. I really didn’t think it actually would be credited towards anything and was happy I could help him.
This started a relationship with André. We live in a very relational society. He came back with an update on his daughter (she is well) and wanted to know what I would like to put the money towards. I explained to him how I liked his paintings and would like to know if he ever paints scenes with children. I told him how I thought it would be neat to have a painting with children of two different colors playing together. He asked for additional money to buy the materials and I gave it to him. It took several weeks and he explained how it was the first time he tried to paint a white person, but he returned with a painting we love.
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Especially if you're a Rent fan!
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Here are 10 reasons why we can’t wait for tick, tick… BOOM!’s Manila run this October.
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It pays homage to Jonathan Larson.
Before he penned the Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning musical Rent, Jonathan Larson wrote tick, tick… BOOM!, his autobiographical musical as a struggling artist. Larson had been trying to establish himself in the theater scene since the early ’80s, and after completing tick, tick… BOOM!, he performed it as a rock monologue in 1990. He finally fulfilled his dreams when his musical Rent was scheduled to premiere off-Broadway. On the morning of January 26, 1996, the first preview show of Rent, he was found dead in his apartment from an apparent case of undiagnosed Marfan syndrome. Rent went on to become a smash hit, while tick, tick… BOOM! was revised and revamped by playwright David Auburn in 1996. Speaking of Rent…
tick, tick… BOOM! has a Rent feel to it.
If you’re a fan of the musical that gave us hits such as “Seasons of Love,” then you may find yourself saying, “Hey, this song sounds like it could have been part of Rent,” when watching tick, tick… BOOM! While both plays have similar undertones, tick, tick… BOOM! isn’t a glitzy production and features only three main actors. “I actually like the songs here better than Rent,” Director Robbie Guevara told SPOT.ph. “I think it has more heart. Some are funnier, some are cornier.”
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Tanya Manalang is back.
Fresh from her two-year stint as Kim alternate in London’s Miss Saigon and after playing Aileen in the last season of Rak of Aegis, Tanya Manalang now plays the role of Susan, girlfriend of Jonathan. At the press conference of tick, tick… BOOM!, she shared that this is an adjustment for her as the play has a more intimate setting and doesn’t have a big cast or flashy numbers. But Director Robbie Guevara believes she can pull it off. “She’s one of the best Kims I’ve seen,” he told the press.
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Ariel Reonal plays the opposite of himself.
His character Michael is a marketing research executive, a once aspiring actor who chose the more stable corporate world. He is trying to convince his best friend Jonathan to do the same. In real life, Reonal successfully pursued his passion for theater, despite the struggles and being told to choose a more “regular job.” It would be interesting to see how this Miss Saigon alum breathes life into a character who gave up on his acting dreams.
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After winning the 2015 Gawad Buhay Best Actor award for This Is Our Youth, Jef Flores continues to shine in the theater scene. He landed the role of Jonathan, who, on the eve of his 30th birthday, finds himself struggling between pursuing his passion in performing arts and giving it up for a more stable job.
The struggling creative will relate to this play.
You don’t even have to be a stereotype millennial. Whether you’re a 20-something or 40-something who’s still itching to pursue the arts, you will laugh (or cry) when you see Jon figuring out what to do with his life. His best friend Michael wants him to ditch his artistic plans for corporate America, while his girlfriend Susan wants him to move in with her to Cape Cod, raise a family, and pursue a different career. But aspiring composer Jonathan doesn’t want to abandon his musical dreams that easily.
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Because we’re obsessed with all things throwback, we can’t wait to see how scenographer Mio Infante and stylist Mickey Hirai will inject elements of the early to mid-'90s into the scenes.
If you’re having a life crisis, this musical’s for you.
Jonathan finds himself in a combination of an extended quarter-life crisis and artist anxiety. If you’re also torn between the arts and a more secure corporate job, this may help you decide which path to take. And if you’ve already surpassed that stage, this may make you question if you made the right decision.
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It shows that not everyone who ditches the arts is unhappy.
Some of Jonathan’s friends who have chosen more stable careers are actually happy with their decision. “His friends who all moved to the city to act or to dance found other jobs. And they’re happy...It’s not as simple as, ‘You sold out.’ There are other roads to happiness,” Hamilton star Lin-Manuel Miranda said at the press preview of tick, tick… BOOM! in 2014.
The songs are filled with hugot.
From “Therapy,” which mimics the typical lovers’ spat to “Louder Than Words,” which questions one’s life choices, tick, tick… BOOM!’s lyric sheets will get you tweeting and captioning your Instagram posts with #LarsonHugots.
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A Silicon Valley icon and investor in Facebook and AirBnb, Ben Horowitz has journeyed from startup founder to venture capitalist, and has become one of the most influential entrepreneurs of our generation. Here is a look at his 2014's book.
Unlike the title, the pitch of "The Hard Thing About Hard Things" is quite simple:
Management books typically provide you with a recipe for building a successful company. That works wonders... until you screw up. Is it then that things became hard, really f*****cking hard. And for the hard things in life... there is no recipe.
The book kicks off as a short biography of Ben and his young life in Berkeley. He recollects stories of his teenage years, from making it to the high school football team, to the blind date that led to his marriage.
He also talks about being obsessed with hip-hop, which is illustrated by having all chapters of the book start with a few bars from his hip-hop idols.
Then, after a tour through his early days, we have a quick glimpse of his life in the tech world:
After a tour of his entrepreneurial life, the remaining of the book is dedicated to "The Struggle", the "hard things" that someone in a leadership position must face, and Ben's way of dealing with them.
We are taken through the highs and the lows of being in charge. From funding to managing and firing, we are immersed into the schizophrenic life of a CEO.
Here the book really comes to life, as we have a sense of just how difficult it is to lead an organization to success. And even tough him and Marc Andreessen ended up reaching the top of the entrepreneurship mountain, it would be an understatement to call it a bumpy road. After all, how do you cope with a crash that sweeps off 80% of NASDAQ's value or being called out by Bloomberg as having pulled out an "IPO from hell" ?
Most of us can't, and learning from one of the best entrepreneurs of our time is what makes the book great.
"Life is struggle". I believe that within that quote lies the most important lesson in entrepreneurship: Embrace the struggle
There at least a couple dozen lessons one can take from the book. Here are some of them:
Not afraid of being politically incorrect and always true to himself, he bashes on some of sharks of the financial world and recollects how he used to wake up in the middle of the night sobbing, doubting himself and his competency as a CEO.
Finally, he tells us other personal dilemas of a CEO, how to (try to) avoid the classic phycological meltdown and under which conditions you should you sell your company.
This book is not meant for everyone. Practical and filled with examples from Ben's life and the tech world, this is far from your typical management book. If you are with the right mindset tough, this is a fantastic book and a must read.
And who is this book for?
My advice?
This book deals with topics you won't find in any other management books so take one afternoon of you life, make yourself comfortable, and enter the world of the tech CEO.
As Ben's put it in his introduction chapter:
This the real world, homie, school finished.
They done stole your dreams, you dunno who did it.
Kanye West, "Gorgeous"
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The fragmented TV market will have a compound annual growth rate of 10-12% between 2014 and 2018, driven by internet technology, according to Ericsson.
In its 2015 Annual Report, which was published today, Ericsson said that IP technology, networks and the vast amount of video-enabled connected devices are driving the transformation of the TV and media market – particularly the delivery and consumption of TV content.
The report also said that smartphone traffic is tipped to grow by around six times, and video traffic by around eight times, in the period of 2015–2020.
Ericsson said that it wants to be the “transformation partner of choice” for content owners, broadcasters and TV service providers as the TV and media industry undergoes a major change, caused by the emergence of the ‘Networked Society’.
The company pointed to “significant investments” in the TV and media space, including its recent acquisition of cloud DVR and video storage provider Fabrix Systems, and its October buyout of video processing firm Envivio.
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Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days!
Come near me, while I sing the ancient ways:
Cuchulain battling with the bitter tide;
The Druid, grey, wood-nurtured, quiet-eyed,
Who cast round Fergus dreams, and ruin untold;
And thine own sadness, whereof stars, grown old
In dancing silver-sandalled on the sea,
Sing in their high and lonely melody.
Come near, that no more blinded by man’s fate,
I find under the boughs of love and hate,
In all poor foolish things that live a day,
Eternal beauty wandering on her way.
Come near, come near, come near—Ah, leave me still
A little space for the rose-breath to fill!
Lest I no more hear common things that crave;
The weak worm hiding down in its small cave,
The field-mouse running by me in the grass,
And heavy mortal hopes that toil and pass;
But seek alone to hear the strange things said
By God to the bright hearts of those long dead,
And learn to chaunt a tongue men do not know.
Come near; I would, before my time to go,
Sing of old Eire and the ancient ways:
Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days.
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This is a pretty cryptic poem. The title suggests that there is Rosicrucian symbolism woven into the verse, the rose and the cross being the symbol of the order. Yeats would have been familiar with this symbol, being a member of the Golden Dawn (which used the Rosy Cross as a symbol) and he was familiar with various occult symbols. He is definitely drawing on occult symbolism as well as Irish mythology. Cuchulain and Fergus were part of the Irish Red Branch cycle, or Ulster cycle. The Ulster cycle is a collection of medieval Irish legends and sagas that influenced Yeats. For a brief overview, click here.
I get the sense that Yeats considered himself to be like the Druid, conjuring a realm of magic as he sings his sacred bardic poetry. The second stanza in particular has the feel of a mystical chant. He repeats the opening phrase of the stanza “Come near” three times, like an invocation. The fact that he says this three times would have had occult symbolism also, three being a mystical number. Finally, the following lines imply that Yeats is conjuring in a sacred language, that of God which is unknown to all but a select few.
But seek alone to hear the strange things said
By God to the bright hearts of those long dead,
And learn to chaunt a tongue men do not know.
I am not sure what language Yeats is referring to. If I had to guess, I would say either ancient Irish or the sacred Enochian language of angels, possibly both. (Click here to read the Enochian Dictionary online.)
In addition to the rose and the cross being a symbol of occult mysticism and evocation, I suspect that Yeats was also using these to represent the Irish renaissance. The rose would therefore symbolize the blossoming of Irish culture. The cross would represent a sort of crossroads in time, where the past is intersecting with the present. The rose or Irish culture, a symbol or rebirth, is blossoming in the center of the crossroads.
Although I took a class on Yeats in college, I confess that I am not that knowledgeable in regards to the Irish mythology in much of his poetry. If any of you have some additional insight into Cuchulain or the Ulster Cycle, please feel free to share it here.
Thanks, and read on!
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[“Our museum celebrates the art and artists of moviemaking, and we are honored to be greeted by these signals of recognition from other landmarks across LA.” “Los Angeles is the movie capital of the world, and we are thrilled to be unveiling the Academy Museum in the heart of the city,” Bill Kramer said]<IMG><I_3904><I_680><I_5535><I_4529><I_680><I_1265><I_4757><I_2568><I_873><I_2315><I_2157><I_2556><I_7040><I_5585><I_3645><I_2525><I_2157><I_2119><I_5448><I_5865><I_1895><I_7890><I_363><I_2315><I_5889><I_4529><I_6533><I_5433><I_5535><I_2526><I_3645><I_6971></IMG>
Los Angeles to Light its Landmarks in Gold to Celebrate the Academy Museum’s Opening.
Los Angeles, Calif. – September 30, 2021—Officials representing the Academy Museum, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the City and County of Los Angeles, the State of California, and the Tongva community gathered this morning before an invited audience of cultural and philanthropic leaders to dedicate the new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures and declare it open to the public.
“Los Angeles is the movie capital of the world, and we are thrilled to be unveiling the Academy Museum in the heart of the city,” Bill Kramer said. “Our museum celebrates the art and artists of moviemaking, and we are honored to be greeted by these signals of recognition from other landmarks across LA.”
“Los Angeles is the movie capital of the world, and we are thrilled to be unveiling the Academy Museum in the heart of the city,” Bill Kramer said. “Our museum celebrates the art and artists of moviemaking, and we are honored to be greeted by these signals of recognition from other landmarks across LA. We are deeply grateful to Mayor Garcetti for leading this initiative.”
In his remarks, Mayor Garcetti announced that landmark buildings will be bathed at night in gold illumination to welcome the Academy Museum to Los Angeles. The Ferris Wheel at Pacific Park on the Santa Monica Pier, Union Station Los Angeles, the U.S. Bank Tower, the GRAMMY Museum®, and the Petersen Automotive Museum will be lit in gold.
“As the creative capital of the world, we’re so proud in Los Angeles of our legacy of moviemaking,” said Mayor Eric Garcetti. “The Academy Museum is an incredible addition to our cultural landscape. By honoring the films that have sparked our imaginations and even changed our lives, it will inspire people for generations to come.”
Originally constructed for the May Company department store, the Academy Museum’s 1939 Streamline Moderne Saban Building was designed by Albert C. Martin, Sr., who was also the architect for the 1928 Art Deco Los Angeles City Hall.
Councilmember Nithya Raman said, “The Academy Museum feels like a bit of a parallel to the dream that draws so many to Los Angeles. And as a Councilmember who has the extraordinary privilege of representing this District, I am truly amazed by what has been accomplished here by the Academy, its donors, and its partners, both private and public. This is proof we can still do BIG things in Los Angeles.”
Colleen Bell said, “Now we have a triumphant new museum that encompasses the movies as an industry, a society, an artistic source of meaning and identity. The Academy Museum is a destination where visitors not only from across our state, but from around the world, will find inspiration and connection with each other.”
Dawn Hudson said, “Practically the first thing the founders of the Academy did, after they created the Oscars in 1929, was to propose building a movie museum in Los Angeles. The Oscars® honor individual achievements in filmmaking, year by year, one night a year. But an Academy Museum would honor the art of film itself, 365 days a year, for all time. That was what the founders dared to imagine nearly a century ago. This is the museum of filmmakers everywhere, made for audiences everywhere, now and into the future.”
David Rubin said, “I’m proud to say that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is among the institutions that have changed things for the better. We’ve done it in the Academy Film Archive, and in the Margaret Herrick Library. We’ve done it through our educational programs, fellowships, grants, and awards. And now we’ve done it by giving Los Angeles, and the world, this spectacular new home for the movies. We’ve made our dream a reality—and we want to welcome absolutely everyone to share in its treasures—and delight in the celebration of motion pictures.”
Effie T. Brown said, “This is a great day for Los Angeles. A great day for movie lovers. And especially great for the film community. We always knew our community is broader in outlook, rich in experience, and varied in culture—more so than the standard histories have told us. You can see, hear, and feel this at the Academy Museum. Here is a museum, with the entire weight of the Academy behind it, that embraces and champions the diversity of artists who have always been present in the film industry then and now.”
Ted Sarandos said, “When I moved to Los Angeles, I thought that I would find a museum that would honor the art of film and the role that movies play in our lives. But that place didn’t exist. Somehow there was no film center, here in the global center of film. Now we have the Academy Museum, which is opening to the public for the first time today but already feels as if it’s been here forever. That shows you, in itself, how much this museum has been needed.”
About the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
The Academy Museum is the largest museum in the United States devoted to the arts, sciences, and artists of moviemaking. The museum advances the understanding, celebration, and preservation of cinema through inclusive and accessible exhibitions, screenings, programs, initiatives, and collections. Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano, the museum’s campus contains the restored and revitalized historic Saban Building—formerly known as the May Company building (1939)—and a soaring spherical addition. Together, these buildings contain 50,000 square feet of exhibition spaces, two state-of-the-art theaters, an education studio, restaurant, retail store, and beautiful public spaces.
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The Academic have already sold out venues across the UK & Ireland, and received the props of Mick Jagger who personally selected them to support The Rolling Stones in Dublin.
Now the indie rock band (formed in Rochfortbridge, County Westmeath in 2013 by Craig Fitzgerald, Dean Gavin, and brothers Matthew and Stephen Murtagh) have released their new EP is called Acting My Age.
Produced by Kaiser Chiefs’ drummer Nick Hodgson the EP is streaming now through Capitol Records and is is preceded by new single of the same name.
The Sunday Times says it’s, ‘’Guitar pop at its most immediate and infectious.’’
According to a press release:
The six tracks that form this EP act as a timely introduction to The Academic, right as they commence their journey to take their music beyond the confines of Ireland.
As Mullinger’s finest, The Academic are already deemed hometown heroes with a number one album to their name. And if you were a betting person, you’d probably fancy a flutter on The Academic repeating their chart success further afield. The songs are the sort that make a quick impact; sharp, buoyant and explosive. By second listen you’ve got the melodies nailed, fizzing around in your cranium. Instant gratification. Time is precious.
The EP opens with the weighty one-two of Anything Could Happen and Acting My Age, songs that sound a few steps beyond promising and into ‘essential’ territory. Look up to the stars and you’ll find them en route. The rest of the EP offers plenty of light and shade, tonally and expressively.
The Academic are well used to playing in front of big crowds having supported The Strokes, Pixies, Noel Gallagher and Twenty One Pilots in the past but the Mullingar indie-rockers, said it was a “childhood dream” to play a venue like Croke Park with the Stones in 2018.
Their single Bear Claws became a YouTube hit in 2017 when they released a live looper version that’s garnered over two million views since being uploaded.
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We all know that NFL “experts” don’t like “gimmicky Oregon spread offense players” such as Marcus Mariota right? Well, if you didn’t, then let me be the one to tell you – they don’t. This can be clearly seen in the fact that two of NFL.com’s so-called experts have Mariota going outside of the top 10 picks, with Bucky Brooks having him going as low as 13th overall to the New Orleans Saints.
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NFL experts had mixed reviews of Mariota at his pro day.
In his Mock Draft, Brooks seems to believe this would be a great pick, giving the Saints a QB for the future who will learn from and fill-in for Drew Brees when needed — like Aaron Rodgers did under Brett Favre — while giving Mariota time to, in Brooks’ words “… refine his skills as a pocket passer.”
But Mariota does make sense for the Saints. He is known for his mobility and ability to extend plays and throw accurately. Those features will allow Mariota, coming into Sean Payton’s re-tooled and more run-focused offense, to be a Russell Wilson-type QB. Moreover, this could be the start of Mariota joining the NFL’s Hall of Fame under a coach the caliber of Payton, a former QB.
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Mariota could be a HoFer with the Saints.
Mariota had one of the greatest careers in college football history and had possibly the best season by a college QB just this past year en route to winning Oregon’s first Heisman Trophy.
You can question how long it would take him to adapt to a “pro-style offense” if you want, but after all he has done in his college career while playing at a premier college, the mere thought that he won’t earn a chance to be an NFL starter would be a disappointment.
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[Dust-covered snow in the San Juan Mountains.. A new study shows this is due to increased dust caused by human activities in the region during the past 150 years. The study, led by a NASA scientist and funded by the agency and the National Science Foundation, showed peak spring runoff now comes three weeks earlier than before the region was settled and soils were disturbed]<IMG><I_6234><I_2157><I_1115><I_1115><I_680><I_3886><I_1115><I_575><I_4882><I_2157><I_2157><I_507><I_2303><I_4882><I_4882><I_2039><I_2157><I_6754><I_2157><I_42><I_2303><I_4882><I_1115><I_2157><I_2051><I_6947><I_4882><I_2511><I_2303><I_507><I_5957><I_6058></IMG>
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PASADENA, Calif. -- Snowmelt in the Colorado River basin is occurring earlier, reducing runoff and the amount of crucial water available downstream. A new study shows this is due to increased dust caused by human activities in the region during the past 150 years.
The study, led by a NASA scientist and funded by the agency and the National Science Foundation, showed peak spring runoff now comes three weeks earlier than before the region was settled and soils were disturbed. Annual runoff is lower by more than five percent on average compared to pre-settlement levels.
The findings have major implications for the 27 million people in the seven U.S. states and Mexico who rely on the Colorado River for drinking, agricultural and industrial water. The results were published in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The research team was led by Tom Painter, a snow hydrologist at both NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and UCLA. The team examined the impact of human-produced dust deposits on mountain snowpacks over the Upper Colorado River basin between 1915 and 2003. Studies of lake sediment cores showed the amount of dust falling in the Rocky Mountains increased by 500 to 600 percent since the mid-to-late 1800s, when grazing and agriculture began to disturb fragile but stable desert soils.
The team used an advanced hydrology model to simulate the balance of water flowing into and out of the river basin under current dusty conditions, and those that existed before soil was disturbed. Hydrologic data gathered from field studies funded by NASA and the National Science Foundation, and measurements of the absorption of sunlight by dust in snow, were combined with the modeling.
More than 80 percent of sunlight falling on fresh snow is typically reflected back into space. In the semi-arid regions of the Colorado Plateau and Great Basin, winds blow desert dust east, triggering dust-on-snow events. When dark dust particles fall on snow, they reduce its ability to reflect sunlight. The snow also absorbs more of the sun's energy. This darker snow cover melts earlier, with some water evaporating into the atmosphere.
Earlier melt seasons expose vegetation sooner, and plants lose water to the atmosphere through the exhalation of vapor. The study shows an annual average of approximately 35-billion cubic feet of water is lost from this exhalation and the overall evaporation that would otherwise feed the Colorado River. This is enough water to supply Los Angeles for 18 months.
"The compressed mountain runoff period makes water management more difficult than a slower runoff," Painter said. "With the more rapid runoff under dust-accelerated melt, costly errors are more likely to be made when water is released from and captured in Colorado River reservoirs."
Prior to the study, scientists and water managers had a poor understanding of dust-on-snow events. Scientists knew from theory and modeling studies that dust could be changing the way snowfields reflect and absorb sunlight, but no one had measured its full impact on snowmelt rates and runoff over the river basin. The team addressed these uncertainties by making systematic measurements of the sources, frequency and snowmelt impact of dust-on-snow events.
"These researchers brought together their collective expertise to provide a historical context for how the Colorado River and its runoff respond to dust deposition on snow," said Anjuli Bamzai, program director in the National Science Foundation's Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences in Arlington, Va. "The work lays the foundation for future sound water resource management."
Painter believes steps can be taken to reduce the severity of dust-on-snow events in the Colorado River basin. He points to the impact of the Taylor Grazing Act of 1934 for potential guidance on how dust loads can be reduced. The act regulated grazing on public lands to improve rangeland conditions. Lake sediment studies show it decreased the amount of dust falling in the Rocky Mountains by about one quarter.
"Restoration of desert soils could increase the duration of snow cover, simplifying water management, increasing water supplies and reducing the need for additional reservoir storage of water. Peak runoff under cleaner conditions would then come later in summer, when agricultural and other water demands are greater," Painter said.
"It could also at least partially mitigate the expected regional impacts of climate change, which include reduced Colorado River flows, increased year-to-year variability in its flow rate, and more severe and longer droughts," he added. "Climate models project a seven to 20 percent reduction in Colorado River basin runoff in this century due to climate change."
Other institutions participating in the study include the National Snow and Ice Center in Boulder, Colo.; U.S. Geological Survey Southwest Biological Center in Moab, Utah; University of Washington in Seattle; Center for Snow and Avalanche Studies in Silverton, Colo.; and the University of Colorado-NOAA Western Water Assessment in Boulder.
For more information about NASA and agency programs, visit: http://www.nasa.gov . JPL is managed for NASA by the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
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Arriving on the outskirts of Amsterdam at midday -onto Amsterdam citi camp- we decided to go into the city and make the most of it. The ‘citi camp’ is as close to the heart of Amsterdam as a campsite of sorts could get, being on the other side of the river, situated in NDSM. NDSM has been transformed from an industrial shipyard into a cultural hotspot and seems like the perfect place for a creative vibrant social space, without judgement. At first it appears to simply be nothing more than an abandoned shipyard covered in wall murals of graffiti but you soon saw that it was much more as the neighbourhood widened and bloomed with cafes, restaurants, stages and the busy footsteps of artistic people.
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The ferry from NDSM into Amsterdam was supposedly to take us right into the heart of the city centre with only a small walk to cover the rest of the distance but of course we were off a stop too early and instead of waiting for the next ferry we continued the rest of the way -20/30 min walk- into the city. However irritating it seemed at the time it turned out to be a great mishap as we were able to enter the centre by the canals and peer into the thousands of house boats all with their washing dripping into the small depths of the canal; some even had wood stacked alongside the boats side along with a ‘floating’ playground.
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Since we were visiting the city tomorrow as well I decided to take the opportunity to drag my family half an hour through Amsterdam to a location setting from the film Fault In Our Stars. The scene in the film was set on a bench on the canal and was just one of those places that people liked to say they’d been to therefore was more popular than I expected.
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It was a beautiful day and the sun shone off windows and canal waters as if trying to let us into a secret.
Once back in the NDSM quarter we sat alongside the river with a beer in hand watching the sun set, setting alight everything in its path before it did. My brother found a sprinkler and a friend in the gardens and his family were at the end of a similar one year tour of Europe as we were just beginning. It was good to swap tales and advice.
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The next morning we headed once again into Amsterdam, this time with a full day ahead of us. Once on the other side of the IJ river (this time getting off at the right stop)
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we weaved around the billions of stacked up bicycles
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and onto Dam Square. Trams travelled through the cobbled streets and square as tourists wandered around aimlessly, oblivious to the oncoming traffic. From the main square it was easy to find the Red light district with it’s sex shops, prostitutes and small alleys. From here we drifted through hundreds of lookalike streets, canals and houses, slowly making our way to the Museum Quarter.
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Our stroll, was like one you might expect in a city like this one, peaceful. It was exactly that until a van zoomed through the narrow cobbled street which we were walking on and banged its wing mirror straight into TUT’s (The Ultimate Traveller-Ian) shoulder and out came a short apologetic man talking fast Dutch. It could have been worse although it shook us up(but later led to laughter).
Once at the Museum Quarter (after having been through cheese shops, the Banksy museum and other points of interest) we were relieved to find a pond amongst all the museums where people bathed their feet under the gaze of a 13 metre tall ‘Self Portrait of a Dreamer’.
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The perfect place for a picnic and Jed for a swim before heading off to explore the Van Gogh museum which holds a spectacular collection (the largest Van Gogh collection in the world).
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All in all this city is full of life and grand architecture with a vibrant artistic culture and one of my favourite cities (go visit if you haven’t already!).
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While many Irish names are familiar, their past incarnations are often shrouded in mystery, reflecting the ancient Gaelic heritage of their bearers. The original Gaelic form of the name Hytchey is O hIcidhe, originally derived from the word "iceadh," which refers to a "physician" or "healer."
Early Origins of the Hytchey family
The surname Hytchey was first found in County Clare (Irish: An Clár) located on the west coast of Ireland in the province of Munster, where they held a family seat from very ancient times.
Early History of the Hytchey family
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Hytchey research. Another 89 words (6 lines of text) covering the years 1014, 1641 and 1641 are included under the topic Early Hytchey History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Irish names recorded during the Middle Ages are characterized by many spelling variations. This preponderance of variations for common names can be explained by the fact that the scribes and church officials that kept records during that period individually decided how to capture one's name. These recorders primarily based their decisions on how the name was pronounced or what it meant. Research into the name Hytchey revealed many variations, including Hickey, Hickie, O'Hickey, O'Hickie, Hicky and others.
Notable among the family name at this time was Antony Hickey (d. 1641), Irish theologian who belonged to the Irish family of h-Icidhe, of co. Clare, many members of which practised medicine during some generations. "Hickey projected publications on the history and hagiography of Ireland, for which his acquirements and...
Another 50 words (4 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Hytchey Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Migration of the Hytchey family
Many Irish families boarded ships bound for North America in the middle of 19th century to escape the conditions of poverty and racial discrimination at that time. Although these immigrants often arrived in a destitute state, they went on to make important contributions to the emerging nations of the United States and Canada. An inquiry into many immigration and passenger lists has revealed many early immigrants to North America bearing the Hytchey family name: James Hickey settled in Boston in 1768; Catharine Hickey settled in Pennsylvania in 1772; Daniel, Denis, Edward, James, John, Lawrence, Michael, Patrick, Thomas, and William Hickey arrived in Pennsylvania between 1840 and 1855. In Newfoundland, William Hickey settled in St. John's in 1755.
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Popular Nigerian Saxophonist, Orlando Julius has died at the age of 79.
His wife, Latoya Ekemode, confirmed his death to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Lagos.
She said that Orlando Julius passed out in his sleep on Thursday night.
“Yes, my husband passed on late last night, there was no indication that death was coming, he was not ill, he only slept and died in his sleep,” she said.
Some of his musical albums were: Disco Hi-Life, Ololufe, Love, Peace and Happiness; Dance Afrobeat and more.
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Amazing Supercar Gathering Has Biggest Hits Of Old And New
She recently revealed that the stress of the new lockdown restrictions had caused her to hurry up and start “ freaking out ” McDonalds.
And that’s not the only thing Gemma Collins seems to have done in a rush, as the self-proclaimed diva produced a sweatshirt for her new clothing line that features a blatant misspelling.
The former TOWIE star, 39, took to Instagram to share a photo of herself in a white sweatshirt with a pink ‘first class’ ticket design.
The reality TV star looked lovely, with her linen braids lying in shiny waves over her shoulders, and her heavily contoured face and striking eye makeup accentuating her beauty.
Fans were quick to point out Gemma’s embarrassing mistake.
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Glaring: The former TOWIE star, 39, took to Instagram to share a photo of herself in a sweater emblazoned with the misspelled phrase ‘sorry I’m not in line hun’ ( the word “ that ” is circled)
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Funny: The misspelled sweater is just one of the new sweaters sporting his favorite slogans
“I love it but can’t deal with the spelling error,” wrote another.
A third said: “I don’t really get the message with ‘that’!?! You’re still beautiful but your spelling, I hope it’s the only one you produced.
The misspelled sweater is just one of a new line of sweaters sporting his favorite slogans, including the famous: “I’m claustrophobic Darren.”
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But she put her healthy eating plans aside on Thursday as she indulged herself at a McDonald’s while accepting the ‘shock’ of the new lockdown restrictions.
The Diva Forever star has told her Instagram fans that she was pressured to ‘panic’ after revealing that London would be moved to Level 2.
Gemma said, “I had to take the gram with the stress of the new ad. I had to buy a McDonald’s.
“Me and Sid are in shock, aren’t they… about the lockdown.” This prompted me to eat chicken nuggets and fries… panic.
“ Guys I hope you all have a good day and just wanted to share how I’m feeling, better share it. Love you all just let’s do what we need to do and hope these chicken nuggets get me through the shock.
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Crumbled: The Diva Forever star told her Instagram fans she was driven to ‘panic’ after it was revealed London would be moved to Level 2 coronavirus lockdown
The news came after Gemma revealed she gained 4 pounds after eating whole loaves of bread and butter that were locked out.
She had previously shared with fans that she had lost three stones in recent months, and now she wants to lose three more after her little setback.
Speaking to The Sun, Gemma said: ‘I went through a whole tiger bread with butter to cheer me up. Everyone on lockdown turned to food and I certainly did in the first few weeks.
“ I probably gained about four pounds, it was nothing major, but I certainly took it off since then and lost about three stones in weight. ”
She added: ‘It’s been a great amount of weight to lose but I still have a bit of a way to go if I’m being honest. I still want to lose two or three more stones.
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Determined: Gemma also recently shared with fans that she has lost three stones in recent months, and now she wants to lose three more after her small setback
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And that’s why we’re coming at you early.
Today’s business appears further below, but we’re leading with an open trade that’s fried and friendly and ready to eat.
So cue the energy sector –
It’s our COP trade, whose details can be found HERE.
The CALL can be left to wither. With COP now trading at $84.64, we see little chance of a move higher of that magnitude (to 115) in the next nine days.
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And now we push the cart to the checkout.
And there’s no question its stock has destroyed its industry peers in the grocery aisle this year due to a unique sourcing and distribution strategy that kept her (mostly) clear of supply chain issues.
And we feel the time for GO to begin that process is about now.
But mostly because an investment in GO shares now represents an extreme DEARTH of value.
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Take a look at her fundamentals –
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This is six months’ worth of trade in GO stock, and it shows –
Our trade is looking to capitalize on all the foregoing.
Rationale: the trade affords a maximum gain of $9.75 (twice the difference between the PUT strikes less the initial debit).
Max loss is $5.25. (difference between the CALL strikes plus the initial debit).
We’re of the opinion that because GO is a latecomer to the broad market selloff, her initial decline will be significant – a game of catch-up, as it were. And it could well come soon.
The Lord, G-d of Israel will prove Himself, here and everywhere else His beloved worshippers stand to glorify His great and mighty name.
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Closing One For 550% & Opening Another on the Mortgage Thievery Front (COOP, ACI)
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Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Nucor is building the first wind-powered electric micro-mill for steel production in Sedalia, Mo., writes Jeffrey Tomich at E&E News. The plant will use electric arc furnaces to produce steel instead of coal-fired furnaces, which are still used in nearly a third of US steel mills.
The new plant will employ 250 people.
Tomich notes that one report says 68% of US steel mills already use electric arc technology. That means that if you hook them up to wind or solar power plants, they would suddenly be far more earth-friendly. The American Midwest has enormous advantages in this regard, since it is the Saudi Arabia of wind.
Missouri has so far not taken much advantage of the wind bonanza, with 73% of its electricity generation coming from dirty, earth-wrecking coal.
In contrast, its neighbor to the north, Iowa, is on track in 2020 to get forty percent of its electricity from wind.
Not only will green steel plants cut CO2 emissions in that industry, but they have further implications. One of the knocks on electric cars is that a fair amount of carbon dioxide is produced in their construction. So although they do not burn fossil fuels if you fuel them off the solar panels on your roof, you have to drive them for a while before they are really green.
One of the bits of carbon that is baked into any electric vehicle is the steel used to construct it. Up until now, that steel was produced by burning coal (either in the furnace itself or to fuel the electric arc furnace), which is extremely dirty.
But wind-powered electric arc furnaces will make the steel with a tiny fraction of the coal-driven CO2 emissions, and that step will in turn make the EVs constructed with that steel even greener.
It annoys the hell out of me that studies of EVs often use the fuel mix in that state’s grid to figure how green the EV is. These reporters and scientists don’t seem to stop to consider that we’re not limited by our state grid. We can fuel our autos with the solar panels on our own homes.
The other point that is often missed is that the grid is getting cleaner fast. In 2010 the Michigan grid was 66% percent coal, 3% renewables. But now, in 2019, coal provides only about 40%, and that will fall rapidly since several big coal plants are scheduled for closure by 2022. So if you bought an electric car 4 years ago and you fuel it from the state grid, it runs significantly more cleanly today than when you bought it. Michigan had only 3% renewable energy back then but renewables are 10% today, with nuclear at 25%. Some of the coal was replaced by wind, some with natural gas (which puts out half as much CO2 as coal). If you figure you’ll have the car for a decade, it will run far more cleanly at the end of its life than at the beginning because of vast changes in the grid (vaster and more rapid than the power companies now realize). That increasing trend toward less carbon intensity cannot be said of old gasoline and diesel vehicles. But also, the whole way of thinking is wrong since the logical thing is to put up solar panels on your house if you have one (66% percent of Americans are homeowners, and if you’ll be in your home more than 10 years you are literally costing yourself money by not putting up solar panels).
Nearly cosmic disruptions of old technology come about more quickly than most people realize. There were no smart phones in 1999, but now the world is full of billions of them.
Nucor’s wind-fueled electric steel mill, the first in the country, is one of those cosmic changes. It won’t be long before this way of proceeding is the norm.
The result will be a vast step forward in the health of our earth, which is at the moment getting lung cancer from all the carbon dioxide we are producing in its lungs.
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The flicks have performed their job for HBO Max.
The continual stream of new Warner Bros. theatrical releases landing on HBO Max this yr as working day-and-date theatrical and streaming premieres has shipped a large increase of buzz and, most importantly, subscribers to the fledgling streaming streaming support that introduced in late Might 2020.
But with this calendar year half around, HBO Max leaders are on the lookout in advance to 2022 when the provider will not have superior-wattage titles to assistance catch the attention of new paying out shoppers and to inspire present subscribers to sample authentic series content material. New Warner Bros. these as “Wonder Lady 1984,” “Godzilla Vs. Kong,” “Mortal Kombat” “In the Heights” and “Judas and the Black Messiah” have been workhorses that surely assisted carry viewers to HBO Max and HBO’s the latest breakouts “Hacks,” “Mare of Easttown” and the “Friends” reunion distinctive.
“There’s been fantastic interaction among those titles and the working day-and-day films,” mentioned Andy Forssell, executive vice president and general supervisor of HBO Max. “A huge share of the ‘Wonder Girl 1984’ viewers watched ‘The Flight Attendant.’ That established the tone for the year. We have realized a lot abut how individuals (movie) release schedules and episodic premieres can get the job done together.”
The unanticipated windfall of owning so numerous Warner Bros. tentpoles accessible at the same time on HBO Max has permitted the enterprise to review “how users think about films and episodic material and how they travel acquisition and retention,” Forssell mentioned.
But it’s clear that HBO Max will not delight in the identical quantity of working day-and-date releases in 2022. WarnerMedia created the daring connect with to have Warner Bros.’ total 2021 theatrical slate have simultaneous premieres offered that the exhibition business was so hobbled by the pandemic and social distancing mandates. But feedback from WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar on AT&T’s July 22 quarterly earnings connect with created it obvious that the studio’s tentpoles will no longer be acquiring a twin-launch system. Kilar did say that Warner Bros. will create 10 or far more flicks exclusively for HBO Max for 2022.
For HBO Max, that signifies the authentic content material from HBO and HBO Max will have to do more heavy lifting. Forssell assures that they are up to the endeavor. For starters, 1 of the collection on HBO’s 2022 slate is “House of the Dragon,” the a lot-anticipated prequel to “Game of Thrones,” and a major financial commitment in the DC Comics home “Peacemaker,” a spinoff of “The Suicide Squad” — one particular of the 2021 films that will bow Aug. 6 on HBO Max and as a large theatrical release.
“2022 is likely to be just a phenomenal year for episodic information,” Forssell stated. “Not just superior than 2021 but appreciably better” in phrases of volume. Of program, HBO Max’s greatest laid strategies for initial articles ended up derailed in component by the pandemic and output shutdowns, so some of 2022 is catching up with shows that had been prepared to be prepared to air this year.
Forssell reported it was much too soon for a definitive reply as to regardless of whether HBO Max would have get any working day-and-day movie titles from Warner Bros. subsequent year. The studio has reported that as of subsequent yr it will shift to an accelerated 45-day special window for theatrical exhibition in advance of the first dwelling amusement window kicks in — in contrast to the 75- to 90-working day common at present.
“The full marketplace is experimenting with windowing in movie throughout the board,” Forssell mentioned. “That small business will keep on to be important to fans and to exhibitors and to us as nicely. Movies are actually superior for SVOD companies.”
Kilar famous on the convention simply call that Warner Bros. will produce 10 or far more movies completely for HBO Max for 2022. Forssell stressed that the designed-for-Max titles will have important budgets and nicely-regarded faces. In his watch, the additional WarnerMedia invests in information for HBO Max, the additional it will be ready to afford high-stop written content. Forssell said he has advised his counterparts at Warner Bros, “my occupation is to broaden the subscriber foundation so we can manage to pay a lot more for your movies than your other buyers.”
The problem HBO Max is experiencing on that score is reinforced by financials that AT&T produced early Thursday. WarnerMedia’s programming charges jumped 75% from the calendar year-back interval to $4.2 billion, though marketing and advertising expenses shot up 80% to $983 million. Not all of that is attributable to programming for HBO/HBO Max, but absolutely a big portion of the boost can be chalked up to the requires of a fledgling streamer hungry for material.
WarnerMedia disclosed to traders the the launch of HBO Max in some European territories would be pushed again to 2022 relatively than the 3rd quarter of this yr. The assistance launched in June in Latin The usa and is off to a potent start off, Forssell reported. The delay in Europe really should not be misread as a indication of a slowdown in its intercontinental rollout programs. Obtaining to international scale is the critical to enabling WarnerMedia to recoup the $2 billion-plus invested in HBO Max to day.
“Global scale is important for the SVOD company,” he stated. “We’ve currently made 80% of the technology investment decision that we will need to serve the earth but we’re only in 39 markets. Worldwide scale is how you get a return on the investment decision in engineering and programming.”
Additionally, the early encounter in Latin America has revealed Forssell and his group that its essential to have a powerful lineup of substantial-profile neighborhood information tailored to the demands of discreet markets, and that normally takes time to establish no matter how well the technology works.
“It is the enjoyment small business. It is tech-enabled and tech-powered but wonderful tales are what’s likely to subject,” he said.
(Pictured: “House of the Dragon”)
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The driver charged over the crash that killed rising ice hockey star Lachlan Seary has pleaded guilty to causing the 19-year-old’s death and now faces spending up to 14 years in jail.
Peter James Loeschnauer, 29, was originally charged with manslaughter but pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of culpable driving causing death when he appeared in the ACT Magistrates Court on Thursday (30 September) while members of Mr Seary’s family watched on.
The documents alleging the events of the case have not yet been fully agreed, but those already tendered to the court show Loeschnauer began drinking at the Fenway Public House in Phillip on 7 March 2021, before going back to his home in Gilmore to borrow his father’s Honda Civic then meet friends at Assembly Bar in Canberra city.
About 1 am on 8 March, he was allegedly recorded speeding at almost 150 kmph on the Monaro Highway at Fyshwick, a few minutes before running into the back of Mr Seary’s Toyota Corolla. The Corolla rolled and struck a tree, killing Mr Seary.
Shortly later, an Uber travelling along the highway stopped when its occupants saw the debris. The Uber passenger walked to the stationary Honda Civic, saw Loeschnauer and asked if he was okay.
Loeschnauer allegedly replied that he was fine and he had hit a kangaroo. As they tried to move the Honda Civic off the road, the passenger saw the Corolla and asked what happened to it.
He later allegedly told police several times that “he thought he hit a roo”.
Police allege he drank 11 drinks over about two hours when he was at Assembly Bar before leaving just after midnight. He was also allegedly found to have MDMA in his blood.
Loeschnauer appeared over phone in court on Thursday.
“Yep, all good,” he said when Magistrate Beth Campbell called the matter.
“So that was him announcing his appearance,” she remarked.
Prosecutor Patrick Dixon withdrew charges of manslaughter and dangerous driving and Magistrate Campbell asked Loeschnauer if he was pleading guilty to a charge of culpable driving causing death.
He also pleaded guilty to drink and drug driving. His lawyer, Tom Taylor of Hugo Law Group, asked for the matter to be referred for restorative justice.
Magistrate Campbell committed Loeschnauer to the Supreme Court for sentencing, with the first mention in the higher court to be on 14 October. He was also granted bail.
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Over The Rainbow – Sustainability in New Zealand
I love nature. I have always loved being outside and surrounding myself with the beauty and might of the outdoors. Because of this, I decided to go to Auburn to get a degree in Natural Resources Management in order to better preserve nature for future generations. The summer before my senior year, I was given the opportunity to study abroad in New Zealand.
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This trip was designed to show how sustainability is done in another country as well as explore the emerging field of ecotourism. Ecotourism is a form of tourism that is considered more “green” than mainstream tourism. There are four main components of ecotourism: nature based, economically viable, educational, and culturally appropriate.
Never having been to New Zealand before, I wasn’t sure what to expect. All I knew was that Lord of the Rings was filmed there. As muchas I love Tolkien, I didn’t figure it was a good indicator for the trip. The scenic beauty captured in the films was only a fraction as astounding as being able to see the country in real life.
We travelled across the South Island moving from city to city. I was surprised to learn that in each place there were some features that are simple but sustainable. The electrical outlets each have an on/off switch to cut down on wasted electricity, the hotels have eco-friendly toiletries, and the public bathrooms don’t have paper towels. As insignificant as these may seem, they really can make a difference when it is an entire country that makes the change.
The activities we did varied in degree of sustainability/ecotourism. The first tour we did was with a group that had an exclusive deal with some of the local farmers. The farmers have beach front property that is prime habitat for some of the nation’s rarest species. This company is allowed to bring tourists in to see these amazing animals, and in return they pay the farmers for the use of their land. Not only do they bring in tourists, but they also help restore the land to its natural state with native plants and invasive pest removal.
The guides on the tour were amazingly informative. They gave detailed information on each animal we encountered and answered any questions we may have had. Their passion for restoring the environment was refreshing, and their willingness to work with the farmers was awesome. It was an awesome example of ecotourism, except for the fact that they gave us an unwarrantedly large amount of bottled water. I understand that hydration is important and they may have some rules and regulations in place, but bottled water is unnecessary and plastic bottles endanger the very species they are trying to protect.
The least ecotourism-conscious place we went was Queenstown. Everyone we talked to from New Zealand mentioned how little New Zealanders (or Kiwis) actually lived there. The town was a mecca for adrenaline junkies. There were so many extreme activities to participate in such as bungee jumping, canyon swinging, and sky diving. While we were there we rode the gondola. It was an amazingly beautiful ride, but the track that the gondola went along was not very well kept up and there were places where you could see the beginnings of gulley erosion This type of erosion usually occurs on inclines where water is not allowed to drain properly and can lead to deep ruts.
The entire time in New Zealand we had been hearing about the Maori people, the ones who originally settled the land. They had been decimated by the Europeans when they settled. It was nice to hear from each tour how important the Maori were then and are now, but hearing about a group and hearing from a group are two very different things. Cultural sustainability is one of the key components of ecotourism which is why we attended a traditional Maori dinner the last night in New Zealand. We were able to meet a group of Maori people and learn about the culture.
Before coming to New Zealand, I had believed that it was some paradise that existed over the rainbow. A place that was lightyears ahead in sustainability and ecotourism. Having been there, I can say that in some ways this is true. I saw more recycling bins on sidewalks than I ever had before. Sure there are some places that are less ecofriendly, but the country on the whole is trying to be more sustainable. It may take some time, but I believe that more changes can be made even in places like Queenstown. But I can also say that it’s not perfect. Then again nowhere is.
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TV child star of the ’70s, Dickie Roberts is now 35 and parking cars. Craving to regain the spotlight, he auditions for a role of a normal guy, but the director quickly sees he is anything but normal. Desperate to win the part, Dickie hires a family to help him replay his childhood and assume the identity of an average, everyday kid. Several folk who are also involved in Dickie’s special world include: Sidney, Dickie’s longtime friend and agent; Cyndi, his on-again, off-again girlfriend; Peggy, Dickie’s real mother; George, Dickie’s adopted father figure; and Grace, his adopted mother figure.
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When choosing a PC for your studio it can be hard to know what sort of specs are optimal and within your budget. So here are my findings from my research that I did before settling on a PC in the most basic terms I know. There’s a lot of good information out there for Video Production PC’s but unfortunately if you want it for Audio Production a top of the range Graphics card isn’t going to help you much. So what is the optimum setup for a composer/artist?
Your CPU has a big role in processing your audio, both in realtime and “offline”! Unfortunately, unlike graphics, there is no current processing unit dedicated solely to processing audio at this time which would be cool (but is also completely unnecessary). So what makes my ideal CPU, and why… what role does each factor have?
When deciding on a CPU it’s important to take into account specs such as the frequency (sometimes referred to as “clock speed”), the core count, and the version (Standard or Server grade : ie. Intel core i5 or Intel Xeon). So why are these factors important?
If you didn’t already know, most processors these days will have multiple cores! But what are cores? Cores are like mini processing stations within a single “unit” (processor chip), so if you have a processor with a core count of 2 it can handle twice the number of tasks simultaneously than a processor with a single core. Basically the higher the core count the more it can do simultaneously. Does my DAW take advantage of multiple cores? Yes, most of the popular DAWs take advantage of multiple cores. It’s very unlikely these days for the latest DAWs to only use a single core.
Is there a difference? Yes! While in some instances performance can be the same or similar where specs are the same, there is a difference in price and quality!
Standard off-the-shelf processors are built with the consumer market in mind! They often have a smaller core count, they can come across occasional reliability issues and generally have a shorter lifespan but are more affordable when bought new! Server Grade CPU’s are built with the business market in mind. They come with a higher core count, they rarely ever have reliability issues, and are built to last but are way more expensive when bought new!
RAM?? What is it, and why is it important? Random Access Memory (RAM) is a temporary storage facility that your computer uses mostly to store snippets of data and location information to find data. By storing location information, it helps the CPU to find the resources it needs to complete tasks more efficiently. When loading large sample libraries it is important to have a large enough capacity to hold all the data, but it’s also important to have RAM that runs at a decent frequency. The RAM on the market as of 2019 is measured in MHz.
Keep in mind that there are two types of RAM… regular RAM and ECC RAM (Error Correcting Code). EEC RAM needs to be compatible with the motherboard and the CPU so make sure which type of RAM you have.
To make things a little more complex there are different generations of RAM. The two you need to know are DDR3 (Double Data Rate 3rd Generation) and DDR4. DDR2 is now out of date and its limitations are a sign of that. Remember to check the frequency as the higher your RAM’s frequency, the faster your task is processed. Don’t forget to see if your motherboard supports the RAM.
Is storage really something to shout about? Yup! A good amount of storage is vital as a Studio PC is always being added to! But should you go for an HDD (Hard Disk Drive) or an SDD (Solid-State Drive)? For audio processing we want fast Read/Write Speeds. HDD’s are ok for keeping your OS (Operating System) on but can be a bit of a pain when trying to use your sample libraries. HDD’s have a habit of going to sleep, so they can be time consuming in a time-pressured industry. SSD’s on the other hand have very fast read and write speeds which could end up meaning you actually have time for lunch! SSD’s allow you to store less audio data on RAM (freeing up room) while maintaining speed.
Below is an example of specs that you might look for in order of expense (cheapest at the top).
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The Path to a Unique Sound!
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Belisario Benavidez Ordóñez (35) was killed in the evening of the 30th of March 2018, in the Santander district, Rosas municipality, in the south of Cauca.
Belisario was a recognized social leader and a human rights defender in the region.
On the night of the murder he left his house with two young people and was shot several times by unknown men on motorcycles. He died on the spot.
Belisario was a member of the La Mesa de Victimas in the Rosas municipality. He had moved there from Patía municipality due to spreading violence in the region. Together with the local mayor, he had coordinated the commemoration of the International Victims Day.
He left behind a family of 3 and his youngest son, 3 years of age, had witnessed the shooting.
In June 2018 police captured one of the two killers, José Alexander Hernández. He was captured in the Popayán municipality, while trying to get to get to another part of the region.
The police considered various hypotheses, but the most probable one seems to be connected with a complaint Belisario regarding suspected illegal drugs trafficking. The authorities are yet to determine whether the shooting was orchestrated by a organisation or an individual.
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[Svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB2aWV3Qm94PScwIDAgMTAyNCAxMDI0JyB4bWxucz0naHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmcnPjwvc3ZnPg==]In 2004, Jeff Bezos and his technical adviser Colin Brar traveled together to Tacoma, an hour south of Seattle in Washington state.
At the time, Amazon was a multibillion-dollar company. However, they were on their way to Amazon’s Customer Service Center. Where they had to spend two days as customer service agents.
“Jeff was actually taking the calls himself”, Bryar says. He recalls that a complaint on one product, in particular, kept coming in. “Jeff’s eyes went wide,” he says.
Bezos was disappointed. There was clearly something wrong with the product, but it didn’t add up. At the end of the day, he sent an e-mail for more effective ways to flag defective products.
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[Amazon Boss Resigns]Bezos steps down from Amazon on Monday – exactly 27 years after he founded it.
During this time he has developed a series of extraordinary leadership principles – which some people argue are the backbone of his success. Others think they talk about everything that is wrong with Big Tech.
Talk to anyone who has ever worked at Amazon, and you won’t have to wait long to hear the phrase “customer obsession.”
For Bezos, profit was a long-term dream. In order for a company to succeed, it has to have happy customers – at almost any cost.
Nadia Shurabora started working for Amazon in 2004. He was invited to the elite “S Team” of Amazon’s Senior Managers Board. But when he first started, he thought he would be fired immediately.
“I made the biggest mistake of my life during our Christmas peak,” she says.
Shurabora had ordered important products from the warehouse cabinets, which were very large. Getting the right product from the shelves will take time and money.
“I came up with a clever way for us to spend as little money as possible, and to solve this problem. But when I talked to Jeff about it, he looked at me and He said, “You are thinking about all this.”
“You’re thinking how to optimize money here. Fix the problem for customers, and then come back to me in a few weeks and tell me the cost.”
Bezos has many critics. Last month, a bombshell article from ProPublica claimed to have seen Bezos’ tax returns – and alleged Mr Bezos paid no tax in 2007 and 2011. It was a stunning claim about the world’s richest man.
Other negative stories about Amazon, its ruthlessness, its claims of monopoly behavior, did not help Bezos’s reputation.
However, many people who work with him do not recognize this trait as being careless or selfish.
For them, it is a business vision. The center of attention of a man who developed a philosophy of legendary work and a company that cost about $1.8tn.
Bezos likes small teams. He has a rule for keeping meetings fruitful: make sure you can serve two pizzas to the whole group.
To avoid putting too much pressure on the dominant figures, he would sometimes walk around meeting everyone, asking how they felt about a question.
And those who know him say that he loves those who are behind him. “We’ll argue, and we’ll yell at each other,” Shorabura said.
“Everything is very open, and on the table, and the conversations get heated and very passionate. But it’s about the subject, never against the person,” she says.
Amazon has a set of 14 “leadership principles”. One of those speaks of having “the backbone to disagree”.
And it seems Bezos genuinely wants to foster that culture at a higher level. Leaders should “not compromise for the sake of social cohesion”, the principal says.
However, there are questions as to whether this philosophy has always been properly interpreted under the chain at Amazon.
Bezos is a fan of engineering, inventions, machines. She is suffering from the matrix. In the world of logistics, it is not good. But critics say the madness has human costs, especially in Amazon’s numerous warehouses.
During a failed attempt to form an Amazon workers’ union in Besmer, Seychelles, I spoke to several workers who said they felt like “pirates in a machine.” Others describe the feeling of being “constantly monitored”.
At a more senior level, however, Bezos’ management looks different. He likes his teams to gain autonomy, which he believes promotes innovation.
Amazon Web Services (AWS), a surprisingly successful cloud computing service, did not have much to do with Amazon’s core business: e-commerce.
Bezos, however, supported the idea and gave his trusted employee, Andy Jesse, more information about independence and making the capital a company. Bezos sees Jesse not just as a manager but as a businessman – an important part of why he will succeed Beroze.
“It’s easy to be brave when you’re a start-up” says Shouraboura. “As you grow it gets harder and harder to be brave, because now you’re risking a lot. He was always very brave.”
In the planning phase, the teams will set a reverse timeline – start with the launch and start backwards.
“The team first writes a press release, which is usually written by companies.”
It comes down to Bezos in time. That’s what he thinks a lot about. He installed a m 42m (m 30m), 10,000 year old clock in a hollow mountain in Texas. It should represent the power of “long-term thinking”.
And until the festival, Bezos always kept in touch with the game. People close to him often use the word “methical” to describe a customer’s obsession with short-term profits.
Always fascinated by space travel, his goal is to fly in space on the first flight of crew developed by his company Blue Origin later this month.
About 1.5 million signatures have been collected in the petition not to allow him to return to the land.
But like him or hating him, Bezos has proved to be a very bright and capable leader. Someone who has changed the way companies around the world work.
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We drove out to Pampa Wasi a few weeks back, Quechua for “Home On The Prairie.” Pampa Wasi is referred to as a populated center, meaning it’s a community too small to be a town in its own right, administratively it belongs to the nearest bigger town. Pampa Wasi is about 3 hours outside of Cusco and a good 45 minutes by car away from the nearest “real” towns, Combapata and Tungasuca. I believe Pampa Wasi is here on the map.
We took a trip out there so our maid Delia could visit her 5 year old son. Delia had her baby when she was very young – I’ve been told diplomatically “it wasn’t voluntary” – and her mother insists on raising the boy in the town while Delia is working in the big city. Delia quit school to care for her baby and now she’s taking weekend classes to finish high school, so she doesn’t get a chance to see her son very often.
We met with Delia’s mom and Delia’s little boy in Combapata, because every Sunday they travel to the market in Combapata to buy their supplies for the week. When we arrived, Delia’s mom pulled out a fully cooked lunch, home grown potatoes and the fattest guinea pig I’ve ever seen, the kind you’ll pay $50 for at a fine restaurant at the Plaza de Armas in Cusco. We didn’t expect all that but Delia’s mom was worried we’d be tired and hungry from the long drive with our 3 kids.
After our yummie lunch we drove the rest of the way to Pampa Wasi, passing by this interesting looking site, it looks as if it could be an unrestored Inca ruin? It’s well known in the town, Delia says the local kids go there to play.
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Surprisingly there’s electricity and water in Pampa Wasi but other than that it’s very much “off the grid”. About 40 families live in Pampa Wasi, they live of the land, growing potatoes, herding sheep and raising guinea pigs, cuy as they’re called here. Did you know guinea pigs and chickens don’t mix? There isn’t a yardbird to be found in all of Pampa Wasi because there’s some issue with the health of the guinea pigs around chickens.
Kids go to school in Pampa Wasi till age 12, after that they have to go to school in the big towns, which means living away from home. They commute once a week in the bed of a truck, that’s the typical mode of transportation in these parts.
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Kids commuting on a Sunday evening to go back to school the next morning.
But I wanted to tell you about pride. If you’ve never been to one of these small towns in the Andes it may be hard to comprehend the indigenous Quechua (and Aymara) are a very strong, proud people, they consider their ancestral lands sacred. Many have left their small towns to go to the cities but you’d be mistaken if you think they do so to escape the small towns, rather they all have intrinsic motivation like the rest of us to pursue opportunities and dreams. If you ask those who stay in the towns why they stay, the answer is typically “these are our lands”.
I’ll put it to you in terms of money, only because that’s what we Westerners understand: I probably make as much or more money than the entire community of Pampa Wasi but when we arrived, Delia’s mom brought food for us because she was worried about our needs.
These are NOT needy people. The amount of money you make doesn’t change the way they treat you – something we can’t say in the so called developed world.
This is also why so many mining companies have problems doing business in Peru. They venture into the Andes with an attitude like “my money is the biggest thing that’s ever going to happen to this town” and the local people not only couldn’t care less but they feel this attitude is extremely disrespectful of their ancestral lands.
On the other hand if you visit a community like Pampa Wasi and respect the people as equals, they’ll do anything for you. In fact, come hungry because the juiciest guinea pig you’ve ever tasted will be cooked and waiting for you.
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5 thoughts on “Pride – Home On The Prairie”
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At Sunday night’s Screen Actors Guild Awards, everyone made sure to turn heads on the red carpet. But Kyra Sedgwick had everybody taking a second look, says People.
The 46-year-old star of “The Closer”, who was nominated for best actress in a drama, smoldered in a sleek, bright red Emilio Pucci gown. The backless design allowed her to show off a new permanent accessory.
“It’s a family tattoo,” she said of the design. Linear and minimal, the tattoo is a clever overlapping of four stenciled letters. “It’s all our initials. K, K, S and T,” Sedgwick explained. The letters represent herself, her husband of 23 years Kevin Bacon, their 19-year-old daughter Sosie and 22-year-old son Travis.
Read more about Kyra Sedgwick and her new look here.
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Editor’s note: This was dapperQ’s very first official VIP press presence at the infamous Club Skirts Dinah Shore Weekend, a five-day weekend getaway and music festival that is considered one of the largest lesbian events in the world. dapperQ sent two press reps, including L.A.-based photographer, Molly Adams, who is a Dinah veteran but who documented the faces of Dinah for dapperQ’s inaugural appearance. There were so many handsome queers – including celebrity performers DJ Mary Mac, DJ Goodboy, Angel Haze, Madison Paige, and more – that we’ll definitely be back!
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Club Skirts Dinah Shore Weekend, or “the Dinah,” is the unofficial lesbian spring break destination. Catering all ages and demographics, it’s credited as the largest lesbian party in the world. During the 5 Days of pools, clubs, and chaos, you’ll see every kind of queer. It’s the lesbian’s Coachella and Cabo wrapped into one. If you’re uncomfortable wearing clothes, lots of people don’t. Wear nothing, wear your coveralls, wear a llama, anything goes. The key to having fun at Dinah is being comfortable and bringing lots of sunscreen.
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Everyone should go at least once. Full disclosure: I don’t like parties, I don’t like being around people, and I don’t like the heat. I survived, so can you. There’s something oddly magical about thousands of lesbians from all over the world in all varieties coming together for a party weekend in the middle of the desert. I’m born and raised in a city, so being around a lot of drunk lesbians isn’t a rare thing. But my appreciation grew as I talked to more and more people who were totally blown away by so many girls so openly gay. An older couple was telling me “just seeing girls holding hands is incredible.” And you know what? It is.
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The L word shows this as a classy gathering of together lesbians. It isn’t. It’s a time to get down, get wild, and sun-burnt. You wake up thinking, “there is no way I can party all day again today” and somehow it happens. And somehow when spring comes we always end up back by the pool melting. When asked if “this your last Dinah?” the most common response is “I always say it is but it hasn’t happened yet.”
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It’s hard to believe that Emma Stone has never starred in a Disney film yet, but she’s about to! The actress has been cast as an ’80s punk Cruella de Vil.
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The latest Disney villain to get the origin story treatment is 101 Dalmations’ Cruella de Vil. Emma Stone will be playing the lead in the upcoming movie.
Craig Gillespie, who directed I, Tonya, is taking on the new project, aptly named Cruella. There will be an interesting twist to the timeline of this story, however. While the original movie takes place in the 1960s, the new film will be set in the early ’80s. Yes, that totally means that we get to see Stone play a punk version of Cruella de Vil. How awesome is that!?
Related: Emma Stone Reflects On Her 20s As She Prepares For 30
According to The Hollywood Reporter, this isn’t the first time that Gillespie will be working with Disney, as he’s also directed The Finest Hours and Million Dollar Arm for the studio.
No news yet on when to expect the release date.
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Are there any Minecraft fans in the house? Mojang’s sandbox video game is about to receive a “Boss Update” for Minecraft Pocket Edition for Android and iOS and the Minecraft Windows 10 Edition Beta. The update was announced at MineCon in Anaheim, California.
The Boss Update includes several interesting new features, including add-ons. Mojang’s Marsh Davies remarked, “They let you remix mobs, switching out the models, textures and behaviors. Rideable chickens! Ultra-explosive pigs! Et cetera!” Players will be able to customize the appearance of animals, mobs, and other items by working with JSON.
Mods tend to be a PC-specific add-on, however, the add-on’s will also work on mobile. Many Minecraft players run older versions of the game because their mods are not compatible, but going forward, anything the users builds for the game using the add-on method should continue to work in Minecraft.
The Boss Update allows players to also use stash commands. Players will be able to easily summon items, set the time, change the weather, and teleport to places. Worlds will also be able to be exported and imported with less difficulty.
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The Boss Update will also add more controller options. Players will be able to utilize a wireless Xbox One controller with Bluetooth on the Windows 10 and Gear VR versions. Windows 10 will also receive Oculus Touch input support for VR.
All of the updates are coming October 18th. Until then, Minecraft fans can tune in to the latest happenings at MineCon.
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Henry is a fictional standard gauge tender locomotive created by the Rev. W. Awdry. He is the No. 3 engine on the North Western Railway.
He first appeared in the Railway Series book, The Three Railway Engines, which was published in 1945. His last appearance was in Thomas and his Friends, published in 2011.
The rear of Henry:
In the Railway Mischief DVD, the Mr. Perkins segment features a re-illustrated version of the story Thomas' Train where Henry is depicted in his television series livery.
The Reverend W. Awdry had a great deal of trouble with Henry. Originally, Awdry had illustrated him as a 4-4-2 Atlantic, however, William Middleton changed this when he illustrated him as a 4-6-2 Pacific similar to Gordon. Awdry was especially unhappy with C. Reginald Dalby's illustrations: he looked almost identical to Gordon, more so while he was painted blue - in Tank Engine Thomas Again, Henry looked completely identical to Gordon, but this was passed off by explaining he needed to use Gordon's buffers while he were being repaired. To make matters worse, he was illustrated inconsistently, often having several different shapes within the space of a single story - in most of Dalby's illustrations, Henry was portrayed incorrectly as a 4-6-0 instead of a 4-6-2.
Awdry's original idea had been to write Henry out of the series, but by "Henry the Green Engine" he had decided to instead have Henry involved in a serious accident, allowing him to be rebuilt into a Class 5MT. As this was a real locomotive, Dalby was thus forced to be consistent. Since then, Awdry would base all his locomotive characters on real-life prototypes and for such characters as Edward, Gordon, James and Percy, he would invent backstories for them.
According to The Island of Sodor: Its People, History and Railways (TIOS), Henry was an experimental locomotive built from plans stolen from Sir Nigel Gresley, but the wrong plans were taken and the locomotive built was so riddled with faults that the only person who could be persuaded to buy it was the Fat Controller, who, at the time, was desperate for any locomotive he could get.
There is a certain amount of argument over Henry's rebuild, caused by "TIOS", which was written to provide historical background to the Railway Series and to correct pictorial inconsistencies that had occurred in earlier volumes. The Reverend W. Awdry claimed that the pre-rebuild and post-rebuild Henry were actually two completely separate engines, although in the Railway Series, Henry seemed familiar with events that happened before the crash. Henry's memory could have simply survived the rebuild, but as both sources can be considered equally canonical, the question of whether there have been two Henrys or one will likely remain unanswered.
"TIOS" also featured a biography of the Fat Controller, which mentioned that he was apprenticed with Stanier at Swindon Works. It is possible that this was another piece of retcon added to explain how Henry was able to be rebuilt so easily - something that even the Reverend W. Awdry admitted was "a mystery".
In Sodor: Reading Between the Lines Henry was said to look very much like a Stanier 5MT, which suggests that he is not totally identical to one of these engines. It is not clear why Christopher Awdry should have felt the need to contradict his father, but it could simply be a combination of errors and publication deadlines.
Henry was introduced in the television series in 1984 when the first series premiered and has appeared in every series since.
Many of the early episodes focusing on Henry feature him reprising his roles from the Railway Series. Unlike the Railway Series, Henry was never painted blue following the events of Edward, Gordon and Henry. This was done due to production costs and so that viewers would not mistake him for Gordon, as this was a notable issue in the book Tank Engine Thomas Again.
In the eighth series, Henry was among the members of the Steam Team, the main cast of eight central characters. However, starting with the twenty-second series, Henry (along with Edward and Toby) was removed from the Steam Team in favour of Rebecca to join in order to fix the gender imbalance at Tidmouth Sheds and diversify the Thomas and Friends franchise. He now appears as a major supporting character, however, he has not had any major roles so far since his removal from the Steam Team.
Kevin Frank voiced the character in Thomas and the Magic Railroad, giving the character a faint but noticeable British accent. Keith Wickham assumed the character's role in the UK and Kerry Shale in the US (Martin Sherman originally auditioned for Henry). While Wickham maintains Henry with a British accent, Kerry Shale's performance is clearly American, though earlier post-Hero of the Rails episodes had his voice at a lower pitch than usual, before his voice became higher in following productions.
Henry's original model was built with a custom made perspex bodyshell and used a Märklin locomotive as a donor for the chassis and various parts. It was painted using car body paint and lined with red automotive pinstripe tape with his numbers being custom cut vinyl stickers.
Henry's main chassis was sourced from a gauge 1 locomotive made by Märklin, the BR 78, while the tender wheels were from the tender of the BR 55. The bufferbeams and dome were also from the BR 78 as well as the handrail stanchions, tender steps, cab controls and tender details. One of which was used from Gordon's BR 78 donor bodyshell as he lacked this same tender detail so did not need it.
His model was built with the ability to be changed to his "old" shape or "new" shape when needed due to the series being filmed out of sequence. His "old" shape features splashers, a tapered firebox and no top feed or exterior steam pipes, while his new shape did have the top feed and exterior steam pipes as well as a Belpaire firebox, but no splashers as they were not permanently fixed on to accomodate for this change in appearance when filming.
Henry’s perspex model was originally AC powered as this is how the Märklin locomotives were powered. This required the polarity switch which was originally mounted in front of the main motor to be moved to the tender, allowing space for the smoke mechanism which sat in between the motor and eye mechanism. During a refurbishment, his AC motor was replaced by a DC motor to allow for easier running and maintenance.
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During the production of the tenth series, two new models of Henry were built. This was due to the original model being 22 years old at this point and the tight filming schedules meant there was very little room for emergency repairs.[1]
The new models were made out of brass and equipped with a CNC machined aluminium chassis powered by a DC motor. From this point onwards the perspex model would only appear in scenes that would damage the brass models.[1] One exception exists in Big Strong Henry where a brass model was used for the crash instead of the perspex model. This may be due to the perspex model having a previously loose middle left drive wheel which is visible in promotional photographs and some scenes of the episode Henry and the Wishing Tree. The way this crash unfolded could have caused the old repair to fail.
Eighteen different facial expressions were sculpted for Henry, although only seventeen were used on-screen. Henry had two variants of his surprised face with the later one being made from the same sculpt as the "ah" sneezing face. The last face was only seen when one of Henry's brass models was on display at the British Museum for the 70th anniversary, it appears to be an "exhausted" expression. The faces were first sculpted in clay, then a silicone mould was made of this sculpt which was then cast and smoothed for moulding and casting again to produce the final face which was then painted. Some of Henry's faces were duplicated in case the crew needed a face to look dirty and clean on the same day of shooting. One of Henry's faces is now owned by Twitter user ThomasTankMerch.
...until its eyebrows were modified to resemble a determined face during the Gullane Entertainment... (2002, 2003)
...later had its eye socket size reduced in the sixth series all the way until The Great Discovery (2002-2008)
...later had its eye socket size reduced in Thomas and the Magic Railroad all the way until the eleventh series (2000-2007)
Henry's "ah" or stuffed up face mask that originally appeared in both the first series episodes, The Flying Kipper... (1984)
...and did not appear again until the tenth series episode, It's Good to be Gordon (2006)
...and reappeared in the eighth series episode, Henry and the Wishing Tree (2004)
...later reappeared in Thomas and the Magic Railroad and had its eye socket size reduced all the way... (2000)
...until its eyebrows were modified between the sixth and eleventh series to resemble a depressed face (2002-2007)
...it was reverted back to its original laughing face from the sixth series all the way until the eleventh series (2002-2007)
Henry's sleepy face that only appeared in the two fourth series episodes, Sleeping Beauty and Bulldog (1994)
Henry's unused second series surprised/spooked face mask that only appeared between the fourth and sixth series... (1986, 1995-2002)
...and reappeared in the tenth series but the mask has been recasted that appeared between said series and The Great Discovery (2006-2008)
Henry's spitting face mask that first appeared in the fifth series episode, Something in the Air... (1998)
Henry's sleeping face mask that only appeared between Thomas and the Magic Railroad, Calling All Engines!, and the ninth series (2000-2005)
Henry's second wincing face mask that only appeared in the tenth series episode, It's Good to be Gordon (2006)
Henry wearing his unused fourth series exhausted face mask that was never used in the model era, but was put on display at the British Museum for the 70th anniversary (1994, 2015)
Henry’s face masks during production of the fourth series (1995)
Series 12 marked the beginning of the show's transition to CGI and the characters' faces were animated through CGI with the aid of motion-capture animation. The physical models moulded faces were replaced by white targets with triangles to fix a computer-animated face in post-production. Henry’s resin faces were only used in background shots.
Henry’s gauge 1 models had gone through several aesthetic changes in the television series:
Henry's tender does not have a coal load in the episodes Thomas' Train and Oliver's Find. The first being a photo taken during a scene setup (note James also has no coal load) while the other is a deleted scene.
Henry has been seen mistakenly given Gordon's facemasks in the episodes, Peter Sam and the Refreshment Lady, Thomas and the Billboard and Heave Ho Thomas!.
Henry at the Tidmouth Sheds Exhibit at Drayton Manor
Henry At The British Museum
Note: Blu-tak on left arm and Gordon's tender is covered with green vinyl
In 2009, the television series introduced Computer-Generated Imagery (CGI) as a replacement for the show's long-standing live-action models. Henry was recreated from scratch in CGI by Nitrogen Studios. His CGI model was identical to his Gauge 1 model but has had slight modifications:
The following pantone colours are used on Henry's CGI model:
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一世t has been a winning week for dictators. Russia’s Vladimir Putin, China’s Xi Jinping and Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman all have cause to cheer after weaknesses, divisions and double standards among the western democracies were harshly exposed. If US president Joe Biden is correct and a freedom versus autocracy struggle is playing out around the world, then the away team just went 3-0 up – starting at St James’ Park, home to Newcastle United FC.
The Premier League says it has assurances the Saudi state will not interfere in the running of the club. That’s a bit like telling hungry, traumatised Yemeni children the war is over, when actually it isn’t. Crown prince Salman, Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, chairs its sovereign wealth fund, which has acquired an 80% 赌注. This is the same man the US accuses of plotting the notorious murder of Jamal Khashoggi 在 2018. He denies it – but he’s never faced a court.
Salman makes no apologies for Saudi abuses that Amnesty International says include systemic imprisonment without trial of human rights defenders, persecution of women’s rights activists and “extensive” use of the death penalty. 反而, he has sought international respectability for his odious regime, for example by cosying up to Donald Trump and the Israeli right. The Newcastle “sportswashing” exercise is a continuation of that shabby policy. 1-0.
There’s a memorable photo of Salman and Vladimir Putin chatting during the 2018 World Cup in Russia. It’s unclear whether they are enjoying the match or swapping offshore banking tips. In any case Putin, 也, had a big laugh at the west’s expense last week when wholesale gas prices spiked, threatening a Europe-wide energy crisis. Life could be so much easier, his lackeys smirked, if the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline was up and running.
The new 1,230km underwater pipeline from Russia to Germany was finally completed on 10 September after delays caused by US sanctions. 华盛顿, Ukraine and eastern EU states such as Poland had consistently argued it would give Putin a stranglehold on energy supplies. Angela Merkel, the outgoing German chancellor, consistently refused to cancel it, regarding it as necessary for keeping industrial and business costs down.
上个星期, sooner than expected, Europe was confronted with what energy dependency on Moscow may truly mean – surging consumer prices, ruined national budgets, political ructions and the prospect of worse to come this winter unless – as the Kremlin unsubtly hints – EU approval to start piping Nord Stream gas is swiftly granted. For a fractious transatlantic alliance, this fiasco is a sharp kick in the shin. Putin sent a geopolitical screamer flying into the top corner. 2-0.
Autocracy’s third symbolic strike on goal was delivered, bizarrely, behind closed doors in a Zurich airport hotel room last Wednesday. 杰克·沙利文, US national security adviser, and Chinese officials agreed to arrange talks between Xi and Biden before year’s end. This sounds innocuous enough. But stand back a moment and consider what’s actually going on.
This gloomy scoreline is not the end of the game. Xi is prone to over-reaching. There are signs of fatal miscalculation. His one-man show faces multiple problems at home and growing hostility abroad. Rather than rise further, analysts suggest, China may already have “peaked”. 同时, Xi would be well advised not to underestimate America. 同样地, Putin and Salman should savour the moment. Theirs may not be the last laugh.
If the authoritarian tide is to be turned, western governments must take a clear stand on issues where, too often, they duck and dive. The Saudi takeover at Newcastle should be frozen pending a review of the rules (or a radical change of policy in Riyadh). Europe must unite, and diversify supply, to prevent Russian energy blackmail. And Biden should stop worrying about talks about talks and provide Taiwan with unambiguous security guarantees, possibly a mutual defence treaty. Who knows, maybe Aukus could become Taukus or Aukust?
As the Pandora Papers demonstrate, western governments are their own worst enemies when, facilitating financial skulduggery, they help dictators and autocrats around the world rob their own people, launder ill-gotten gains and profit from the denial of democracy and freedom. As the indomitable denizens of Newcastle’s old Leazes End knew well, such avoidable own goals are intolerable. Politicians who allow them should be forced to take an early bath.
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Xbox gift card codes are one-of-a-kind sequences of numbers and letters that can be typed into a particular website to add store credit to an existing account. This credit can subsequently be used to make digital content purchases. The Detailed Instructions on How to Redeem Xbox Gift Card Codes on Windows 10 are Presented Here for Your Convenience.
Read Also: How to Use Discord on Xbox One
How to Redeem Xbox Gift Card Codes on Windows 10
1. Start the programme for the Microsoft Store on any desktop or portable computer that is running Windows 10.
4. Enter the redemption code that you received from Microsoft or Xbox into this field. Simply choose the Next option in order for the credit to be added to your account.
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Can u use Xbox codes on PC?
There is no difference in functionality between the Microsoft and Xbox cards. Once you have redeemed the code for your Microsoft account, you will be able to use the balance to make purchases at the online Microsoft Store, on Windows, and on Xbox.
Can I use an Xbox Gift Card on Steam?
Due to the fact that Microsoft owns Xbox and Valve is responsible for Steam, it is difficult to utilise a gift card purchased via Xbox Live to buy games on Steam.
It is not valid for usage in any of the real Microsoft Stores throughout the world. This information was taken straight from the Xbox gift card: Give the recipient the flexibility to choose their own present with an Xbox Gift Card. It may be used to purchase a wide variety of things, including the most recent and popular Xbox full game downloads, applications, movies, TV series, electronics, and more.
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France’s Vicat Group has acquired Sagar Cements’ stake in Vicat Sagar Cement Company, bringing its own share of the company to 100%. Under the transaction, the two companies will untie all of their ownership links.
Vicat Sagar Cement runs a 3 million tpa cement plant in North Karnataka, India, which includes its own power plant and access to the rail network. Vicat Group also operates Bharathi Cement in India. The new purchase will bring the Group’s cement production capacity in the country to 8 million t, helping it to further strengthen its presence in the Indian cement market.
The transaction is subject to customary conditions precedents.
Read the article online at: https://www.worldcement.com/asia-pacific-rim/16072014/vicat_purchases_full_ownership_of_vicat_sagar_cement_india_96/
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In the second part of this article, K. N. Rao, Environment and Energy Conservation, and R. Nand Kumar, ACC Limited, take a look at the steam Rankine cycle, organic Rankine cycle and the Kalina process.
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Japan Airlines (JAL) is becoming the latest global airline to introduce gender neutral greetings for customers, as reported by AFP.
As of October 1, 2020, JAL will stop addressing passengers as “ladies & gentlemen,” and will instead use gender neutral greetings like “good morning” and “good evening.”
This will apply both at airports and onboard flights. Announcements in Japanese already use gender neutral terms, so this decision primarily applies to announcements made by the airline in other languages.
This is a first for a Japanese airline. Rival airline All Nippon Airways (ANA) has said that it would “study the issue based on comments from customers.”
While Japan has in recent years expanded protections for the LGBT community, same sex marriage is still not legally recognized in the country.
That being said, JAL has been progressive in that regard, operating an “LGBT Ally Charter” flight last year, and also extending the same family privileges for employees with same-sex partners.
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Japan Airlines is changing its approach to announcements
In October 2019, Air Canada became the first airline to change its greetings to be more gender neutral. The policy change was almost identical to what we’re seeing at JAL — Air Canada stopped referring to passengers as “ladies & gentlemen,” instead using terms like “good morning everyone.”
As the company explained, “we want to ensure an inclusive space for everyone, including those who identify with gender X.”
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Being more inclusive is a good thing
Kudos to JAL for this change, which is particularly progressive by Japanese standards. I’m supportive of this — this shouldn’t negatively impact anyone, but it will make a big difference in making some people feel welcome and included.
The truth is that this is a very subtle change, and if it weren’t for this being in the press, chances are most people would never even notice this onboard a flight.
I’m sure some people will be in the comments section shortly with pitchforks, but I really think that’s unfounded. If you go to a restaurant and the server says “good evening, I’m Joe, and I’ll be taking care of you,” surely no one is offended, right? Similarly, this shouldn’t offend anyone either…
Being more inclusive of others — even if it’s only a very small minority of people — should be celebrated. That’s especially true when you consider that nothing is being taken away from anyone here.
And heck, even taking inclusiveness out of the equation, this change will lead to announcements being shorter, and that’s a win in my book.
Japan Airlines is becoming the second global airline to eliminate gender specific announcements in favor of more neutral ones. This was already done in Japanese, but will now be done in foreign languages as well.
This makes JAL the second global airline to make such a change, after Air Canada.
@Bill Your name offends me. It implies I have an unpaid invoice and have no money.
I'm more offended by the term "guest" simply because a host does not charge their guest a fee. Passenger is more accurate. Just ask Judith Martin.
As long as they get me to and from my destination safely and comfortably I couldn't really give a toss. There are real things to get upset about. This is definitely not one of them.
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Raghopur: Kicking off his younger son Tejaswi Yadav's election campaign from Raghopur Assembly constituency, RJD supremo Lalu Prasad today gave a clarion call to members of Yadav caste, OBCs and minorities to "rally behind" the secular alliance to "prevent" the BJP-led NDA from coming to power in Bihar.
"You Yaduvanshis (Yadav castemen), backwards and minorities must unite and rally behind us to keep the BJP-led NDA at bay and ensure that the secular alliance comes to power in Bihar," he told an election meeting at Chaurasia in Raghopur constituency from where Tejaswi is in fray against sitting MLA and BJP candidate Satish Rai.
"Political power lies only in your unity... Nobody can stop us from coming to power under the leadership of our chief ministerial candidate Nitish Kumar," the RJD supremo said.
Attacking the BJP for its "divisive politics", he said Bihar Assembly polls were crucial for India's unity as it was bent on dividing the country on communal lines.
The RJD supremo's son Tejaswi also spoke at the rally and vowed to work for development of Raghopur constituency.
"I will stay with you by constructing a house in Raghopur to cater to your aspirations all the times," Yadav junior pledged.
Tejaswi is contesting his maiden polls from his family's traditional seat once held by his mother Rabri Devi, a former chief minister, who was trounced by the JD(U)'s Satish Rai at hustings in 2010 Assembly polls.
The JD(U) has this time denied ticket to Satish Rai to accommodate Tejaswi and he switched side to join BJP to contest the polls.
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[woman managing her household's circular economy by sorting the waste she generates in her daily food intake. However, we believe that there is still a lot of work to be done in order to be able to slow down climate change. Governments’ commitment to the circular economy Governments are clear that, apart from the implementation of renewable energies in society’s daily life, another solution is investment in this type of process. The Spanish Strategy for the Circular Economy (EEEC) is aligned with the objectives of the European Union’s two circular economy action plans and has a long-term vision]<IMG><I_1185><I_3449><I_3356><I_1464><I_2157><I_5600><I_2412><I_3714><I_6290><I_2157><I_2157><I_1020><I_2027><I_3053><I_1464><I_933><I_2157><I_6231><I_5900><I_1020><I_6290><I_1464><I_4114><I_3449><I_3607><I_1020><I_6231><I_6231><I_2027><I_2027><I_1464><I_1643></IMG>
One of the biggest environmental problems we have today is the incessant production of waste, typical of the linear system of consumption (production-consumption-disposal). Against this, the system of circular economy arises, which is based on producing – consuming – reusing, making waste, whatever its properties, can be reused for other productive processes.
How do you intend to reuse the waste?
On the one hand, some research groups base their studies on creating some mechanisms for disposing of existing waste in a totally environmentally friendly way.
On the other hand, the decision was made to tackle the issue from the production process, manufacturing products and packaging that are fully recyclable and biodegradable in order to curb the problem at source.
In both cases, research has made great strides and their applications have been widely used in companies’ production chains. However, we believe that there is still a lot of work to be done in order to be able to slow down climate change.
Governments’ commitment to the circular economy
Governments are clear that, apart from the implementation of renewable energies in society’s daily life, another solution is investment in this type of process.
The Spanish Strategy for the Circular Economy (EEEC) is aligned with the objectives of the European Union’s two circular economy action plans and has a long-term vision. “Circular Spain 2030” will be achieved through successive three-year action plans which will allow the necessary adjustments to be made to complete the transition in 2030. Among the main objectives of this strategy are
Increase reuse and preparation for reuse to 10% of municipal waste generated.
Improve water use efficiency by 10%.
The main lines of action on which the policies and instruments of the Circular Economy Strategy and its corresponding action plans will be focused are eight. Five of them are related to closing the circle: production, consumption, waste management, secondary raw materials, and water reuse. And the remaining three, with a cross-cutting nature: Awareness and participation, Research, innovation and competitiveness, and Employment and training.
In the Valencian Community, the President has highlighted projects such as:
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NFTs are seriously hot right now, but we’re falling into a familiar trap
Suddenly, everyone is talking about NFTs
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An eccentric new trend has swept the web over the last couple of weeks and it’s all about traceable digital collectibles, also known as non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
These tokens are unique representations of either digital properties – such as art, music, video, trading cards etc. – or physical items, stored primarily on the Ethereum blockchain.
What makes them different from any other digital collectible (say, a Fornite skin) is that each NFT has a distinct signature that allows for ownership to be traced and verified with total confidence.
NFTs have been around for years, but used only by a small tech-savvy minority. As a result of the Bitcoin bull run, however, these digital collectibles have begun to capture the attention of the public and gain traction with artists, who see them as an innovative way to monetize their works.
By minting a limited supply of NFTs, creators can simulate a scarcity that is driving prices through the roof. Within the last month, for example, synth-pop artist Grimes has generated $6 million in NFT sales, while musician 3LAU sold an album of NFTs for $11 million.
While hype has brought visibility and custom to the space, which long-term NFT fanatics will celebrate, there are also dangers attached to the current level of hysteria.
According to Oliver Carding, founder of CryptoKaiju, a company that sells NFT-backed vinyl toys, the cyclical nature of crypto trends means a bust will almost certainly follow the boom. And the parties that will suffer are not the celebrities minting the NFTs, but the people buying them up.
“The crypto space has always been about empowering the underdog by removing the middleman, not about making Lindsay Lohan richer,” he told TechRadar Pro. “I’m not necessarily saying this is a bubble, because NFTs have been growing organically, but I think we’ll see the space follow a crypto boom cycle.”
If an asset is fungible, it can be freely exchanged with another identical version without any loss of value and can also typically be divided into smaller parts. For example, if two people were to swap a unit of Bitcoin with each other, no meaningful change has occurred, and each coin can also be broken down into smaller units called Satoshis.
Non-fungible tokens, on the other hand, demonstrate ownership of a unique property and therefore have a unique value, and nor can they be sold off in parts.
Many believe the first ever NFTs were attached to an Ethereum-based game called CryptoKitties, launched in late 2017. The goal of the game is to collect, trade and breed digital cats, each of which is tied to a unique token.
While the concept of NFTs was technically applied by other projects first (e.g . CryptoPunks), CryptoKitties is credited with putting NFTs on the map, proving so popular at launch that it choked up the Ethereum network.
“CryptoKitties really woke people up to the idea of collecting and trading digital assets. In terms of the first project to take NFTs outside the realms of niche, it’s 100% CryptoKitties,” explained Carding. “But while the NFT community has grown slowly since, it’s only in the last few months it has really taken off.”
In the case of CryptoKaiju, which Carding started in 2018 as a hobby project, each NFT is attached to a real-world collectible. Here, the NFT is used to verify the authenticity of the physical vinyl toy (stamped with a tamper proof tag), preserving its potential value in secondary markets.
CryptoKaiju NFTs can also be used in a similar way to Nintendo amiibos, transporting the vinyl toy character into compatible Ethereum-based games.
What’s all the fuss about?
While the concept of an NFT is relatively simple to understand, the harder question to answer is precisely why people are buying them, given the content attached to NFTs can be found elsewhere online.
The common riposte is that this same question could be asked of physical art, images of which are also available on the web, but the obvious difference is that viewing art in-person is an entirely different experience than looking at a .jpg file online.
According to Carding, however, the reason NFTs are proving so popular has little to do with the idea of purchasing something that the owner exclusively gets to enjoy. Instead, people are drawn to NFTs because they operate at the intersection of two distinct desires: to own and to collect.
“People want to buy really scarce items from artists they like. This stuff isn’t being pumped out in the tens of thousands, it’s still quite small-scale,” Carding told us. “Owning something by your favorite artists is attractive to people; they see it as a way to connect.”
While the image or video attached to the NFT might not be scarce, the NFT itself definitely is, and so the effect for the owner is the same.
For veteran collectors, the ability to store valuable collectibles on a blockchain as opposed to in the garage is an undeniable benefit and so is the opportunity to bypass logistical hassles of trading real-world items.
To illustrate his point, Carding gestured to Pokemon trading cards, which also recently enjoyed a surge in popularity. To sell a set of physical trading cards, he told us, the owner has to get them graded, list them on eBay and incur selling fees, as well as communicate with the buyer.
“With digital collectibles, this whole process is pretty seamless,” he said. “You don’t have to store them a particular way [in order for them to retain value] and you don’t have to keep them in your house.”
The problem with NFTs
As the noise and excitement shows, NFTs have the potential to solve genuine problems for creators struggling to monetize their work, and so too for committed collectors. However, there are also plenty of reasons to be wary.
“There is some absolutely brilliant stuff [in the NFT space] and I’m so pleased to see mainstream adoption, but there is an element of it being a little like the ICO boom of a few years back,” Carding warned.
During this boom, investors pumped billions of dollars into new crypto projects in the hope the associated coins (akin to shares) would appreciate in value. Many of these projects were rotten, however, and a large number of people lost much if not all of their investment.
In the same vein, Carding suggests, those spending thousands of dollars (or more) on NFTs in the hope of making a handsome return may find the value of the tokens falls through the floor when public attention turns elsewhere.
As with the ICO boom, there are also plenty of poor-quality NFTs on the market. Many high-profile figures have rushed to mint tokens as a way to generate easy money, but much of the associated artwork is either slapdash or produced by another artist entirely.
NFT owners also have to trust that the creator won’t generate another run of tokens for near-identical artwork, thereby devaluing the NFT they originally purchased.
“It’s a bit exploitative,” said Carding. “You look through these marketplaces and you see younger artists struggling to monetize their work, and you can buy ten of their pieces for the cost of a very average piece by a celebrity. I think that’s toxic; it’s a case of jumping the shark.”
In some instances, fraudsters have also created a run of NFTs in someone else’s name. When it emerges that the artist isn’t who they claim to be, the value of the NFT falls to nothing. And the problem is made worse by the anonymous nature of crypto transactions, which afford the buyer almost no recourse, unless they gain compensation from the marketplace.
Finally, there’s the environmental factor. By virtue of the way the Ethereum blockchain currently operates (using a Proof-of-Work consensus mechanism), minting NFTs uses a huge amount of energy, equivalent to multiple weeks’ worth of an average individual’s usage.
And as pointed out by artist Everest Pipkin, although a greater number of mining operations are turning to renewable energy sources, there remains the carbon cost attached to building renewable infrastructure in the first place.
While it’s difficult to understand why someone might spend so much on a digital asset that can be easily replicated, NFTs appear to offer a solution to a genuine problem for creators and could yet become a permanent fixture in the world of digital art.
They have also created a use case for blockchain that appeals to a demographic beyond just technologists, economists and investors.
“The old quote is that blockchain will only really succeed until people don’t realize they are using it,” Carding noted. “And this is exactly what the best NFT marketplaces have achieved; it’s seamless.”
As is common in the crypto ecosystem, however, there is a darker underbelly to the world of NFTs. The market will mature in time, but the potential for abuse and volatility of prices will likely see people burned in the process.
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[bar headed geese: The death at different locations is a matter of serious concern as India lacks rapid response to wildlife emergencies,” explained Sundar, who is the IUCN Co-chair of the Stork, Ibis and Spoonbill Specialist Group. At the Pong wetlands, preliminary findings of their postmortem have ruled out poisoning as the cause of their death, a wildlife official said. An official report said the field staff reported the sudden death of four bar-headed geese and one common teal in Fatehpur area of Pong on December 28. The next day, the field staff was ordered to carry out a search of the entire area of the sanctuary and 421 birds were found dead in the wildlife range of Dhameta and Guglara areas of the Nagrota range. Forest Minister Rakesh Pathania said the Wildlife Wing has initiated a probe into the deaths of the migratory birds. After receiving the reports of the samples sent to different institutions, strict action will be taken against those found guilty, he added. According to the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS), the Pong wetlands are the one wintering grounds in the globe to hold such a large congregation of bar-headed geese. Chief Conservator Wildlife Upasna Patyal said as per the census conducted in Pong on December 15, around 57,000 migratory birds were recorded]<IMG><I_6481><I_2157><I_3295><I_1589><I_2157><I_4141><I_1240><I_3295><I_3295><I_2157><I_2157><I_3295><I_3295><I_1240><I_3295><I_3295><I_2157><I_5177><I_2157><I_3295><I_1240><I_3295><I_1240><I_2157><I_1240><I_3295><I_4581><I_3912><I_2813><I_1589><I_3295><I_753></IMG>
Biologists on Saturday sounded the alarm with 1,200 migratory birds, largely the endangered bar-headed goose, a highest-altitude migrant, were found dead over the past one week or so in Pong wetlands — one of the largest in northern India in Himachal Pradesh.
Chief Conservator Wildlife (Pong wetlands) Upasna Patyal said the reason for the deaths is still a mystery as their carcasses have been sent to different laboratories to determine their cause of death, but it could take days or at least a week to get results.
The bird carcasses were sent to the Indian Veterinary Research Institute in Bareilly, the Regional Disease Diagnostic Laboratory in Jalandhar and the Wildlife Institute of India in Dehradun to know their cause of death.
“We are getting reports of death of birds in nature across India. It’s likely to be a disease because the deaths are occurring in multiple locations involving multiple species. It is a dangerous situation and needs multi-stakeholder intervention on priority,” he warned.
“It is wrong to blame temperature intolerance for the death of birds in Pong and as reported earlier in Indore (in Madhya Pradesh) and in Jhalawar (in Rajasthan). The temperature can’t be an issue. The death at different locations is a matter of serious concern as India lacks rapid response to wildlife emergencies,” explained Sundar, who is the IUCN Co-chair of the Stork, Ibis and Spoonbill Specialist Group.
At the Pong wetlands, preliminary findings of their postmortem have ruled out poisoning as the cause of their death, a wildlife official said.
An official report said the field staff reported the sudden death of four bar-headed geese and one common teal in Fatehpur area of Pong on December 28.
The next day, the field staff was ordered to carry out a search of the entire area of the sanctuary and 421 birds were found dead in the wildlife range of Dhameta and Guglara areas of the Nagrota range.
Forest Minister Rakesh Pathania said the Wildlife Wing has initiated a probe into the deaths of the migratory birds.
After receiving the reports of the samples sent to different institutions, strict action will be taken against those found guilty, he added.
According to the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS), the Pong wetlands are the one wintering grounds in the globe to hold such a large congregation of bar-headed geese.
Chief Conservator Wildlife Upasna Patyal said as per the census conducted in Pong on December 15, around 57,000 migratory birds were recorded. The most prominent among them was the bar-headed goose, a rare winter migrant in other Indian wetlands.
Besides the bar-headed goose, the other noticeable species were the northern pintail, the common pochard, the Eurasian coot, the common teal, the great cormorant, the Eurasian wigeon, the gadwall and the graylag goose.
With the onset of winter, thousands of migratory birds from central and northern Asia start arriving for their annual sojourn.
Built in 1976, the reservoir is the only place in India after the Bharatpur sanctuary in Rajasthan where the red-necked grebe descends every year.
The influx of birds can be seen at swamps near Nagrota Suriyan, Budladha and Sansarpur Terrace.
The Pong wetlands occupy an area of at least 18,000 hectares and extend up to 30,000 hectares in the peak monsoon season. An area of about 20,000 hectares within a radius of 5 km has been notified as a buffer zone dedicated to wildlife.
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This spring, Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Art Evening auction in New York will present works representing nearly every key movement of the time, from Fauvism to Surrealism. Luminous landscapes and psychologically complex portraits from renowned collections, such as the Bobst and Blaffer families, feature in this dynamic sale. Click ahead for a preview and to learn the stories behind some of this season’s most intriguing lots.
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The Spectral gets wagon wheels and they say its EWS ready.....
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In the pursuit of creating the ultimate do-it-all mountain bike, Canyon hasn't just bolted 29" wheels to the well-received Spectral, but it's gotten, almost, a whole redesign. It's till a 150mm bike but with all-new geometry it makes us question why you'd buy a Strive....
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To create the ultimate do-it-all rig, Canyon has taken the much loved Spectral for its playful ride quality and has added 29" wheels to add a bunch of speed and stability to the ride.
Just like the original Spectral, the 29 version gets 150mm of travel, but that's where the similarities end.
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Along with the addition of big wheels, the brand has refined the geometry and has added a few quality of life features that are aimed to make maintainance that bit easier.
Speaking of the geometry, the Spectral 29 gets the long, slack and low treatment with a stretch 485mm reach on a large, a 65° head angle, a 77° effective seat tube angle, and a 437mm chainstay.
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The Spectral 29 is only available with a carbon frame but it benefits from Canyon's Triple Phase Suspension kinematic as seen on the Sender. It sees an increased anti-squat in the early stages of the rear travel and at the sag point for improved pedalling performance while reducing kickback. The suspension is also more progressive near the end of the stroke to boost control on super rough trails so Canyon say.
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That new carbon frame is set to weigh in at 2,598 grams and its stiffness has been improved. Canyon claims to have made the Spectral 29 capable of the burliest of EWS stages.
Making Maintainance easier, each pivot has a replaceable thread insert, handy if you're one for wrecking threads. Those pivots are also accessible from the non-drive side of the bike.. The brand has specced this bike with double sealed cartridge bearings to increase the bike's service life.
[2021 canyon spectral-cf-29-ltd.jpg]To cater to every rider, and offer the one true do-it-all bike for everyone, Canyon has two suspension setups available with the new bike. There's a build with a RockShox Pike Select RC fork with 150mm of travel, then there's another with a Fox 36 with 160mm of travel. The latter slackens the head angle and seat tube by half a degree.
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[2021 canyon spectral cf 29 door.jpg]If those options aren't enough for you, the frame's geometry can be adjusted via a two-position lower shock mount which slackens the angles by another half a degree.
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South korea to deploy blockchain voting in apartments
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Bitcoin Bitcoin moved sideways this week as a consolidation pattern appeared in the form of a symmetrical triangle. This triangle is best seen on the hourly charts and is highlighted by the white boundaries. The cryptocurrency dropped by a steep 15% in September from $12,000 to...
Nearly 70000 synthetic bitcoins now exist on ethereum
Synthetic Bitcoins have been growing significantly for use in the decentralized finance (DeFi) space. Recent data has shown that there are almost 70,000 synthetic Bitcoins existing in Ethereum. The number is expected to surge accordingly, as the DeFi industry continues to gain...
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Presiding over a high-level meeting regarding progress on phase-II of Swat Motorway, the Chief Minister said Swat Motorway was the flagship project of PTI Government that would promote tourism, trade and business activities in Khyber Pakthunkhwa especially in Malakand Division.
He directed convening of meeting of officials of Federal and Provincial Governments for taking of a decision about commencement of construction work on Phase-II. Under Phase-II, Swat Motorway would be extended from Chakdara Interchange to Fatehpor carrying 77 kilometers length.
The population of all adjoining areas around the proposed alignment would be connected through interchanges and bridges besides full protection would be given to agriculture lands.
The meeting was told that nine interchanges and eight bridges in different places on river Swat have been proposed on the said proposed route.
The Chief Minister said efforts would be made to complete construction work on this mega project within two years.
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Great, big, diplomatic, historic, curteous, quite and calm Warsaw. But then comes the night and you start with vodka and end up calling your ex in some Budda club at […]
Great, big, diplomatic, historic, curteous, quite and calm Warsaw. But then comes the night and you start with vodka and end up calling your ex in some Budda club at 2 am.
It all started by my friend’s invitation to Warsaw. I arrived around 22:00 and first thing I saw was the Palace of Culture and Science. Stalin’s gift to the Poles and the building where the Warsaw Pact was signed, in 1955.
That same night she told me we will go out with more people. We started with normal fine polish biers, until someone ordered vodka. She told me that the habit is not to leave the table before the entire bottle is finished. It was a blast.
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The rest of the week was cultural uplift and foodies. Like this great onion soup discovery in the plate made of bread.
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He was the identical twin brother of the former Prime Minister of Poland Jarosław. He died hin 2010 in the crash of a Polish Air Force jet together with more than 96 state officials, politicians like the the mentioned President of Poland Lech Kaczyński and his wife Maria, the former President of Poland in exile, the chief of the Polish General Staff and other senior Polish military officers, the president of the National Bank of Poland, Polish Government officials, 18 members of the Polish Parliament, senior members of the Polish clergy etc. The crash accident is shrouded in conspiracy theory.
Lech is famous by banning the Warsaw gay pride parade twice in 2004 and again in 2005, locally known as the Parada Równości (the Equality Parade), stating that the application of the parade organizers had not been properly filed, and also that he did not respect homosexuals’ right to demonstrate, “I respect your right to demonstrate as citizens. But not as homosexuals.”
So now about the Uprising Museum dedicated to the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 during the WW2.
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The museum shows possessions of the Polish Underground State during World War II made of mostly local Warsaw Jews. It collects and maintains hundreds of artifacts — ranging from weapons used by the insurgents to love letters — to present a full picture of the people involved.
The museum’s stated goals include the creation of an archive of historical information on the uprising and the recording of the stories and memories of living participants.
Most of the ruins and passes between buildings have been used by children as they were small enough to go through and bring useful information or small food supplies.
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The Uprising was resistant, the nazi occupation as well. By that, the Allies (Russia and UK) standing alongside watching the battle and waiting the moment to enter triumphantly in the city, claiming the victory which was so obviously won by the insurgents.
The schocking moment was at the end of museum where was a big poster of Jesus Christ thanking God for winning the WW2 and always protecting Polish people. -_- So sad they don’t recognize the irony.
Memorial to the Mothers of the Warsaw Uprising. The anchor and the letter P are the resistance symbol.
Monument to warriors Warszaw
Continuing my way exploring Warsaw, this building appeared: Technical University. It is a typical Warsaw massive building builded in secession.
As I was still stuck in history, I decided to sit for a coffee in a place from pre- WW2 era. Everything there is just like in the 30’s. The piano, old radio, chandelliers, walls…
Now about streets in Warsaw. Each of them tells the story, like Želazna street from the jewish ghetto, or the Street of John Paul II – the first pope non-italian pope coming from Poland.
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Then some photos from the streets: the tram and the view towards the financial ditrict:
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It was on my way to Pawiak museum, a former prison that during the January 1863 Uprising served as a transfer camp for Poles sentenced by Imperial Russia to deportation to Siberia.
During the World War II German occupation of Poland, it became part of the Nazi concentration-death camp apparatus in Warsaw. In 1944 it was destroyed by the Germans to hide their traces.
Travelling the world and visiting many museums, I can say I have visited so far around 10 jewish museums and they are always the most expensive ones with the most expensive entrance fee. The last one I visited was Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews. And probably will stay like this for long time. With all due respect.
Museum is on the site of the former Warsaw Ghetto. The Hebrew word Polin means either “Poland” or “rest here” and is related to a legend on the arrival of the first Jews in Poland.
Inside of it you can find features of multimedia narrative exhibitions about the living Jewish community that flourished in Poland for a thousand years up to the Holocaust. It was definitely educational to see how Jewish community lived in Middle Ages surviving by growing their crafts, trades, banks and businesses.
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Now about the city center and the city square a total mediaval history here 🙂 My favourites!
Plac Zamkowy is the name of the main square and it literally means castle square as there is the Royal Castle – the former official residence of Polish monarchs.
The Square features the landmark Sigismund’s Column to the south-west, and is surrounded by historic townhouses. It marks the beginning of the bustling Royal Route extending to the south.
This square has witnessed many dramatic scenes in Polish history. Patriotic demonstrations took place there during the period before the outbreak of the January Uprising of 1863 against Imperial Russia and its brutality over Polish people, as during that time the bloody massacre was carried out, resulting in the deaths of more than 100 people.
During martial law (refers to the 1980’s when the authoritarian communist government of the People’s Republic of Poland drastically restricted normal life) the square became the scene of the particularly brutal riot, with ZOMO police.
Going through Warsaw Old Town – my friend joined me from work and we had a great time exploring even though it was called and windy.
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A symbol of Warsaw represented on the city’s coat of arms and well as in a number of statues and other imagery is Mermaid of Warsaw. Actually, more properly woud be a fresh-water mermaid called melusina. The story about it is similar with some European cities especially Luxembourg city.
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The legend says the mermaid was swimming in the river Vistula when she stopped on a riverbank near the Old Town to rest. Liking it, she decided to stay. Local fishermen noticed that something was creating waves, tangling nets, and releasing their fish. They planned to trap the offender, but fell in love with her upon hearing her singing. Later, a rich merchant trapped the mermaid and imprisoned her. Hearing her cries, the fishermen rescued her, and ever since, the mermaid, armed with a sword and a shield, has been ready to help protect the city and its residents.
The heart of the Old town area is the Old Town Market Place, rich in restaurants, cafés and shops. Surrounding streets feature medieval architecture such as the city walls, the Barbican and St. John’s Cathedral.
We treated ourselves properly 🙂
Poland is well – known by amber. Since my mother was born in the months of this gemstone, I decided to treat her with one.
Warsaw is also a birthplace of Nikola Kopernik – a Renaissance- and Reformation-era mathematician and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe. What a times in mediava l Warsaw!
Thereby the Copernicus Science Centre is placed there too.
But the real hero of there is Fryderyk Chopin – haolding the airport’s name, the church , statue and a museum.
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He was a polish composer and and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era who wrote primarily for the solo piano. He lived in 19th century and died in Paris. But before his dead he said some parts of his shoud rest in his lovely Warsaw. Today, his heart is placed in Holy Cross Church.
So what happened exactly?
During his final days, famed Polish composer, with fawning Parisian women fainting all around him, he made the gruesome request that his heart be taken from his corpse and sent back to his home country, knowing full well that his body would never leave Paris.
We visited the Fryderyk Chopin Museum too where you can find out more about his burning life episodes and items like his piano etc.
On the way back we visited the place of the first Chopin performance, at age 8. Nowaday is marked with sitting benches performing his songs.
Ode to the industrial revolution.
In the end it doesn' t even matter...
Instagram vs. Reality tulip check.
He has all the dirt.
Sempervivum tectorum.
April fools.
Sretan Uskrs.
Winnetou was here.
The place where the only Pope north of Alps is burried - Clemencau ll.
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In wake of biopharma mega buyouts, FTC kicks off review of industry's deal-making
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These are three of the biggest pharma mergers of the past couple years. They're also the kind of deals the Biden administration's Federal Trade Commission (FTC) might have scrutinized more closely, an agency official said Tuesday in announcing a sweeping review of its approach to biopharma M&A.
The process could bring tougher enforcement for biopharma's deal-makers going forward—and come into play for ongoing reviews, including the pending examination of AstraZeneca's $39 billion takeover of Alexion.
Citing a high number of mergers in the industry in recent years—plus “skyrocketing” drug costs and allegations of anticompetitive conduct in the industry—FTC acting Chair Rebecca Kelly Slaughter told reporters Tuesday it’s “imperative that we rethink our approach.” The agency plans an "aggressive" approach toward anti-competitive deals, she added.
The FTC will work with the Department of Justice, state attorneys general and competition authorities in other countries to examine how mergers from recent years have played out after the deals closed.
The FTC staff has an “eagerness and enthusiasm to be responsive” to the concerns, Slaughter said, and is ready to “put ideas into practice." The acting chair said she’s “happy to have work move as fast as it can.”
In a new Securities and Exchange Commission filing, Alexion said it would withdraw a merger application and refile to give the agency more time to review. AstraZeneca planned to refile as well, Alexion said.
In an issue specific to the pharma industry, Slaughter said new technologies often emerge from small companies. The FTC wants to ensure that it’s “not just thinking about traditional questions,” such as market share, in merger reviews to ensure new drugs can reach the market at affordable prices, Slaughter said.
Pharma "impacts real people in a real way," she said, adding high drug prices are a "policy area of concern" for everybody.
There have been hundreds of biopharma takeovers in the last decade, Slaughter told reporters, and $1.6 trillion has changed hands under those deals.
Still, at least one team of analysts doesn't see major risks for the industry from the review.
"We do not think the initiative is a cause for concern, but headlines from the FTC working group could dampen enthusiasm for M&A deals if the scrutiny increases ... or the working group looks retrospectively at prior deals that have been completed," Cantor Fitzgerald analyst Louise Chen wrote to clients Tuesday.
Aside from the recent mega buyouts Slaughter mentioned, other deals to attract FTC scrutiny in recent years include Roche’s buyout of Spark Therapeutics, which cleared the agency after delays, and Sandoz’s move to sell certain meds to Aurobindo. Sandoz and Aurobindo eventually abandoned their deal due to FTC concerns.
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ATLANTA – A favorable economic outlook will lead to continued growth in U.S. hotel revenues and profits through 2020. However, an economic slowdown in 2021 will cause a short-lived softening of lodging industry fundamentals that year. According to the March 2019 edition of Hotel Horizons, CBRE Hotels Americas Research is forecasting U.S. hotel rooms revenue per available room (RevPAR) to increase by 2.5 percent in 2019 and an additional 2.0 percent in 2020. However, for 2021, CBRE is projecting a slight decline in RevPAR of 0.6 percent. Fortunately for hoteliers, that immediately is followed by 1.4 percent RevPAR growth for 2022.
“In the near-term, the fundamentals of supply, demand and pricing in the U.S. lodging industry are very similar to what we have observed the past few years,” said R. Mark Woodworth, senior managing director of CBRE Hotels Americas Research. “For the most part, the supply of hotel rooms entering the market will be absorbed by newly generated demand buoyed by a healthy economy. Further, while the nominal rate of change may be disappointing, we are projecting average daily rate (ADR) growth above the pace of inflation for 2019 and 2020.”
“I would characterize the economic slowdown in 2021 as a blip (an unexpected, minor and typically temporary deviation from a general trend), not a dip (to sink, drop or slope downward). Further, the performance of the U.S. lodging industry in 2021 should be viewed as a slowdown, not a recession,” Woodworth said. “In fact, we see the U.S. hotel market bouncing back strong in 2022 with a 2.5 percent increase in demand.”
ADR Conundrum
Despite the anticipated slowdowns in the economy and lodging demand, the occupancy levels for the overall U.S. hotel market are forecast to remain at an average of almost 300 basis points above the long run average annual occupancy level through 2023. Unfortunately, despite such lofty occupancy levels, ADR growth will fall below inflation in 2021 and 2022.
“We have identified several factors that have muted ADR growth the past few years. These include low levels of inflation, increasing competition from non-traditional forms of lodging and the intervention of intermediary sales channels,” said John B. (Jack) Corgel, Ph.D., professor of real estate at the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration and senior advisor to CBRE Hotels Americas Research.
The Blip
As noted before, CBRE is projecting a 0.6 percent decline in RevPAR in 2021. All chain-scales are forecast to suffer declines in RevPAR during the slowdown, but some will be impacted more than others. “The RevPAR falloff for upper-priced properties is expected to average just 0.8 percent,” Woodworth noted.
“Despite the first indications of a potential softening in U.S. lodging performance, the industry still is forecast to operate at exceedingly high occupancy levels and profit margins. The growth story may not be as strong as hoteliers would prefer, but I would hardly classify hotel sector performance as poor,” Woodworth concluded.
(This article by Tatiana Rokou- with minor edits by Dave Hogg here for brevity – was published February 27, 2019 in TravelDailyNews.com)
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The York Winter Series wrapped up this past Saturday with its final race, the Northeastern 5k. I had actually pre-ran the course with Jason, my dad, Todd and Armand as part of a 6 mile run two Sundays prior. We weren’t entirely certain that all the turns in the development were correct, but I had a general idea of what to expect.
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Ready for the last race in the winter series
Mother Nature saw fit to remind me that I was indeed running a winter race by providing strong winds and a below freezing temperature to start the race. As has happened many times this winter I stuck contemplating what exactly to wear. Do I wear the warmer running jacket or the windbreaker? Do I leave the windbreaker pants on over the leggings or take them off? I plan to write a blog entry just focusing on all the things I learned by running the winter series which will definitely include a section on clothing! I finally settled on the windbreaker jacket over two long sleeved running tops and just the leggings along with my usual headband and heavier gloves this time instead of the thinner running ones.
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When chilblains strikes keeping the fingers warm is a must
I had no goal for the race as the wind would make it very challenging to run a decent time. I also was continually 6th in my age group so there was no chance at placing in the series. I was content to just run the race knowing I had ran more over the winter than any year since high school.
My dad decided to not run the race having other tasks to complete at home and not being thrilled about the strong winds. Fortunately Todd and Armand came; it’s always nicer going to races when you have people to warm up with and debrief with after the race. Armand and I agreed to stick together like we did in the Springettsbury 10k.
The first mile was relatively flat with a slight uphill grade at times. It was a tad annoying though as we had to stick to the shoulder of the road which limited the ease of passing people. I also had to keep dodging York Road Runners Club traffic cones. The worst part, however, was the mouth breather. Armand and I passed him, but he remained within hearing distance. I will never understand how some people can breathe so heavily within the first half mile of a race. I expected to lose him by the mile mark (an 8:15) but he persisted despite Armand and I picking up the pace.
The second mile went through a development and the wind was to our backs which made going uphill a lot easier. My left arch twinged and reminded me that I really need to buy new running shoes. It was the third run in which that has happened and normally when I start feeling unusual random pains like that it’s a sign that my shoes are wearing out. My watched beeped an 8:05 for the second mile and we were heading into the last third of the race.
Turning a corner the wind suddenly became a headwind again, and I felt like the “one step forward two steps back” stereotype. The air also chilled me as I had warmed up a great deal by that point, forgetting just how well Under Armour’s coldgear shirt works. I told Armand when we had a half mile to go and he told me to go ahead, but I said I didn’t want to risk kicking too early.
With about a quarter mile to go I did pick up and enjoyed the downhill curve into the high school parking lot. When I pre-ran the course I realized how deceptively long the final stretch was and determined what spot I would turn on my final sprint. My watched beeped a sub 8 min mile at the 3 mile mark. There was a girl ahead of me who I had beaten in the past and my desire to beat her again kicked into gear. Needless to say my predetermined “go mark” went out the window when I decided I wanted to beat her. I passed her and was running as hard as I could, hearing her footfalls fairly close behind me. It was strange not hearing my dad’s usual “Come on Trac!” as I approached the finish. Instead my brain was screaming at me “Why are you doing this to yourself?!?” as I fought to continue my kick the rest of the way to the line. Stunned to see the clock just flipping past 25 minutes, I finished with a final time of 25:05.
I finished 6th in my age group once again with the 5th place girl running a full 2 minutes faster than me. I was still extremely impressed with my time though given I didn’t really do speed training this winter and the winds were so strong. Since I completed 5 of the 8 races (it would’ve been 7 had one not been cancelled due to weather and another I was both sick/the weather was miserable for running) I got a YRRC Winter Series headband as a participation award. I also got a free mini Rita’s root beer ice. It was a satisfying end to what was a challenging, eye opening experience in running the series for the first time.
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Wrestlers to travel to SIUE for two dual meets
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NIU will face Knox College at 1:30 p.m. and SIUE at 3 p.m. This weekend’s match begins a two-match road trip before the MAC Championships in March.
“You approach every match the same,” NIU head coach Dave Grant said. “Even though these aren’t conference dual meets, every match is the same at this point. You have to be concerned with how you wrestle and less about the opponents that you wrestle and bring your best game. It’s all about wrestling hard and being dominant.”
The Huskies (3-10, 1-4) enter Saturday’s matchup looking to build on their strong performance against Eastern Michigan last week. Northern came out victorious against their conference rival and walked away with their first conference win with a 21-18 decision over EMU. The Huskies came out strong winning their first five matches and six overall.
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Tristen DeShazer (Wichita, Kan./Wichita West) looks to stay hot, posting three wins in as many matches, all by pin fall. With a victory over Mike Leholm at the end of the first period (2:47), DeShazer recorded his eighth pin on the season, a team high. Freshman Nick Smith (Ida, Mich./Ida) also posted a win in his second straight match since returning from injury, beating Jared Germaine 7-4. Smith has won three straight overall and leads the team with 19 victories.
“Nick’s been a consistent guy for us,” Grant said. “He’s been out of the line up and now he’s back in and given a great spark to our line up.”
Bryan Deutsch (Columbia City, Ind./Columbia City) regained his form with a decision over Aaron Sulzer 6-2. Deutsch has won six of his last eight matches, improving his season record to 17-8.
Southern Illinois-Edwardsville (4-13) comes in to Saturdays match winners of two straight, defeating Tiffin University and Central Missouri while Knox is coming off a 31 place finish at the Pete Wilson Invitational.
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Scheduled for 13-16th September, the GC32 Orezza Corsica Cup will take place in Calvi on the northwest corner of Corsica. The town is a favourite tourist destination, especially with French holiday-makers and is most picturesque, featuring a medieval citadel, complete with cobbled streets and sizable cathedral, perched at the end of the promontory at the western end of its bay. In the shadow of the citadel is the town’s 550 berth Port Xavier Colonna, the marina where the fleet of GC32 foiling catamarans will be based during the GC32 Orezza Corsica Cup.
Importantly Calvi is also richly steeped in maritime history. It is allegedly the birthplace of Christophe Columbus and is also where Britain’s most famous naval officer, Lord Nelson, lost his eye. More recently Calvi has hosted grand prix for the ORMA 60 trimaran class and famously was a stopover on the 2000 Tour de France à la Voile, which was won by the British Barlo Plastics team.
The 2000 Tour de France was run by Manfred Ramspacher, now CEO of Paris-based Sirius Events. Ramspacher is looking forward to returning to Corsica: “When I was organising the Tour de France the arrival into Calvi in 2000 was superb and I’ve long wanted to repeat that. Calvi is both one of the most beautiful and charming places in Corsica, nestled between the mountains and the sea, and it has a first-class sailing area, that is both protected and windy. I think Corsica really deserves a world class sailing event to showcase all it can offer to sailors and tourists alike.
“Alongside Marseilles, which was one of the first GC32 events and has been the grand finale of the European circuit for four years, the announcement of this new French event will further popularise the GC32 Racing Tour in France and hopefully will help to create some new French teams.”
The new Corsican event will run into Marseille One Design, taking place over 12-15th October, once again with the support of Ville de Marseille, which this year holds the prestigious position of ‘European Capital of Sport’.
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The GC32 Orezza Corsica Cup is taking place thanks to the support of title sponsor, Orezza. A naturally gaseous mineral water, Orezza, comes from a spring in the heart of one of the most beautiful regions of Corsica, the Castagniccia, in the forest of the Regional Natural Park. Being one of the world’s most ferruginous waters it has been used since ancient times as a cure for anaemia, disorders of the nervous system and malaria. Its virtues have been recognised by the l’Académie de Médecine de Paris since 1856.
Now relieved of its iron used natural processes, the water is balanced and stable in its mineral composition. Easily digested thanks to its bubbles and bicarbonate, it benefits from being one the waters with the lowest salt and is therefore very thirst-quenching; It is also devoid of nitrates.
The natural mineral water of Orezza experienced a renaissance thanks to François-Xavier Mora who, more than 15 years ago, realised a childhood dream by returning to his native Corsica with his industrial know-how to revive the source of Orezza.
Marie-Laurence Mora, President of Eaux Minérales d’Orezza, commented: “The GC32 event in Calvi is wonderful news for Corsica and we are very happy to make this possible. Orezza is known for containing minerals taken from the heart of the Castagniccia mountains and with properties perfect for sports so it is natural to celebrate their exceptional benefits. Now present on all the biggest tables, Orezza wishes to be integral to the international dynamic of the GC32 Racing Tour, which brings together the world’s best crews on boats that are impressively powerful. The waters off Calvi will demonstrate their beauty and there is no doubt that the images of these flying boats will be exhibited across the four corners of the globe along with our island, of which we are so proud.”
Ange Santini, Mayor of Calvi welcomed the flying GC32 catamarans to his town: “Through the news of this major event, the town of Calvi is renewing its nautical traditions. The quality of its waters and the organization of its in-port services will ensure that all is as it should be for the GC32 Racing Tour and its crews. These flying boats, which lie at the forefront of technology, promise an exceptional spectacle and some great sports moments on the Bay of Calvi.”
Following today’s announcement and that last week of Villasimius in southeastern Sardinia, the schedule for the GC32 Racing Tour for 2017 is now complete. The circuit for the one design foiling catamarans, that is aimed both at both pro and experienced owner-driver teams, will visit five venues this season with two in Italy followed by the Mediterranean’s leading multi-class regatta, Copa del Rey MAPFRE and then culminating in the French events in Calvi and Marseille.
GC32 Racing Tour Manager Christian Scherrer concluded: “ “With Calvi we are happy to announce the final oustanding venue for the 2017 GC32 Racing Tour . This venue in the north of Corsica is a wonderful addition to our roster of venues for 2017. We are looking forward to good sailing on the Bay of Calvi. I would like to thank Sirius Events / Manfred Ramspacher and Orezza / Madame Mora for their support for this event. ”
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On the occasion of his exhibition, artist Stuart Middleton discusses livestock handling systems, ‘invisible forces’ and questions of positioning.
The system replicated in the show is a serpentine shaped structure designed by Dr Temple Grandin. It is shaped in such a way that the natural defensive instinct of the herd animal to circle is used as a way of controlling and gradually singling out the herd into individual beasts. The curving shape of the structure means that all this happens with the minimum of (visible) human intervention, almost voluntarily by the animal as they move through it. This means that the animals are as calm as possible when they reach their destination (which could be a range of things from veterinary care, dipping, tagging or slaughter). The major benefit for the meat industry is the reduced cortisol levels in the meat, less bruising, and therefore higher yield – profit.
And how does all this fit into the overall concept of the show?
I’ve been interested in these particular systems for some time (after an unsuccessful proposal to use one as a human crowd control architecture for an art fair ‘projects’ commission a few years ago). I was initially struck by aerial photographs of them in America online – how gut-like their shapes are. That made me think of the repetitive digestive processes happening there at different scales – the structure, the ruminant themselves (cattle having multiple stomachs), and their entry into the food chain and eventually into our human guts.
I have been thinking of it as a moment where an organic or non-standardised body (of the animal) meets the standardising machinery of industry, there are a multitude of structures or spaces that operate like this, and I am trying to stretch that to include the art gallery and even the house; when something comforting becomes oppressive and when something oppressive becomes comforting.
The serpentine structure and the walls make you feel slightly lost and weirdly alone – not really sure of where you’re at and what to do, except of moving forward.
One of the key specifications of Temple Grandin's systems is that the humans must remain mostly invisible to the cows, through hidden platforms and smooth solid sides. I wanted to build such an idea of ‘invisible forces’ into my model; in the show you have limited views of other people but because of the thin fabric I used to cover the walls you can hear others quite loudly walking around inside the structure and it is hard to locate them.
I also liked the inevitability of a spiral-type shape, as well as the illusion of meandering, Elizabethan gardeners used spiralling ‘snail mounds’ as viewpoints over their elaborate gardens; they force a kind of movement that is very restrictive but that feels more expansive than it is, also it creates a drive or momentum to reach the end, just see around the next corner.
So, in the end, it is about this strange dialectic of following your own urge, drive or instinct while in fact being led and directed by a system that makes quite some smart use of these very instincts, right?
That’s a good way to put it.
Not to turn this livestock handling system into an all-encompassing symbol (and without wanting to be too cynical), but: the structural similarity to the role of the artist within the art system seems very striking. Isn’t the figure of the spiral also at work in a certain form of self-reflexivity, of turning towards yourself and your own position as being within the ‘handling system’. How would turning against the ‘system’ look like? What are the options (if there are any)?
Maybe the idea is a bit hackneyed, a bit ‘wake up sheeple.’ But usually that is from a position presumed to be from outside somehow; educated, enlightened or woke. I wanted to position myself as both inside the structure and as part of what constitutes it. If you look through the neck holes of the T-shirts and jumpers, the spaces outside of the system are even more cramped and confusing, full of supports and subsidiary structures that help to buttress it.
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Do You Mind If I Blow Cigar Smoke in Your Ear?
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Sex sells. Always has. Always will.
“Taste the Lindor Truffle. Created with passion…Like nothing you’ve ever experienced.”
But here’s the crazy thing…
That Lindor spot and other ads released in our 21st-century, anything-goes, twerk-crazy world…
…they’re nothing compared to some of the ads that ran decades ago.
Like this one from R.J. Reynolds for Winchester Little Cigars.
Headline: No woman ever says no to Winchester.
Ad copy: Take a puff. Blow in her ear. And she’ll follow you anywhere. Because one whiff of Winchester’s sexy aroma tells her everything she ever wanted to know about you. But was afraid to ask. It tells her you’re a man, but a man of taste. A taste for mildness. Lightness. She takes a puff. Winchester’s filtered smoothness tells her it’s not a cigarette. Not just another little cigar. It’s a whole ‘nother smoke. And she knows that you know: where there’s smoke, there’s fire.”
RJR introduced Winchester Little Cigars in 1972 — when Hugh Hefner was a role model.
I wonder how many men read this ad as an operating manual.
I picture some Butch Cassidy wannabe joining their local Playboy Club. They take their date to the Club for a night of fine dining and Bunny watching, lean in close with a come-hither look in their eyes…
…and blow cigar smoke in her ear.
Yep! That’ll tell her everything she ever wanted to know about you.
(We cringe now. But ads like that sold a lot of Winchester Little Cigars, and there’s plenty to learn by dissecting them).
By the way… The guy in the ad is Lee Majors — the actor who played Col. Steve Austin, The Six Million Dollar Man.
The blonde in the dark dress? Major’s girlfriend, Farah Fawcett, who later became famous as Jill Munroe — one of the original Charlie’s Angels.
More regarding Winchester Little Cigars and their not-so-subtle, oh-so-cringey ads from the early 1970s.
I don’t think that’s Majors in this ad. But Winchester is still going for the Butch Cassidy look.
Interesting note about these television ads: The US government banned cigarette ads on television in 1971.
RJR introduced Winchester Little Cigars soon after — in part to get around the ban. They cigars were shaped like a cigarette, sold in packs like cigarettes, and filtered like cigarettes.
But RJR claimed they were a “whole ‘nother smoke,” not a cigarette.
And for a while, they got away with it. Winchester broadcast ads until late 1973, when Congress banned television advertising for “Little Cigars.”
It was “fun” while it lasted.
Here’s another little cigar ad from a bygone era…
They’re no longer pitching Winchester’s as a way to woo another man’s woman — or as the perfect smoke to light up in bed, after…you know.
“Perfect time to fire up: After catching a steelhead that took nearly 30 minutes to land. Lucky for you, though, it only took 10 minutes to grill to perfection. A Winchester Original Blend Little Cigar would be mighty tasty about now. Enjoy the experience…you’ve earned it!”
Fish-grilling tip: A Steelhead taste better if you light up a little cigar and blow smoke in its ear gills before you grill it.
That’s how real men of taste do it.
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The Xbox Series X/S consoles may have released in November, but as 2021 heads out of winter and into spring, these next-gen consoles are still in extremely short supply. In addition to the pandemic, scalpers, price gougers and bot snipers have made it seem like emerging victorious during an Xbox restock was impossible.
But in recent weeks, getting your hands on a new Xbox Series X/S actually seems possible. During one Xbox restock at Walmart, we even managed to get an Xbox Series S into our shopping cart.
That said, getting one of these consoles still isn’t easy. But if you’re on top of your shopping game, you might just end up with one of the hottest gadgets of 2021.
Walmart is the most recent retailer to deliver an Xbox restock, though how many units they have available for sale is unknown. So if you want a new Xbox Series X/S, we recommend moving quickly.
If you strike out this time around, we’ve also provided all the console-hunting intelligence we have, which includes info on the previous Xbox restock, tips to successfully buy one of these consoles, and the best retailers to keep an eye on.
Beginning at 2:30 p.m. EST, Walmart fired up another round of Xbox restocks for the Series X and Series X. At 3 p.m., you will also have the option of purchasing either console as part of Microsoft’s All Access subscription plan. These will go quick, so we recommend clicking these links ASAP.
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[xbox series s]Curious why the Xbox Series X/S has been so scarce in 2021? Well, it comes down to three factors: high consumer demand, an unusually low supply (thanks, pandemic!) and scalpers. Every console launch involves these factors to a degree (pandemic excluded), but this launch has been particularly painful as more people are shopping online than ever before. Naturally, price gougers have capitalized on all this and snatched up what little supply there is during Xbox restocks by using bot snipers.
But what about the Xbox Series X makes it such a hot item? Well, it’s a truly next-generation console, which means it has an AMD Zen 2 CPU and RDNA 2 GPU. With these guts, it’s capable of 4K resolutions, 120Hz frame rates and advanced lighting effects like ray tracing. This makes things look more realistic than ever.
The Xbox Series S is the slightly less powerful, but considerably more affordable alternative. While it’s only capable of 1440p graphics and lacks a disc drive, its $299 price point makes it the most affordable next-gen console at the moment. Plus, we love its small size and Braun-inspired design.
Being prepared for a surprise Xbox restock will require a combination of advanced warning, preparation and a little bit of luck. But knowledge is power, which is why we have a few pointers for giving yourself the best odds possible.
Find Out About Xbox Restocks Before They Happen
Successfully obtaining a console during an Xbox restock requires some preparation and planning. If you know what to expect, you’ll encounter fewer hurdles that will delay your attempt. But the only way to prepare is if you know when an Xbox restock is happening ahead of time. How do you do that, you ask? First, bookmark this page and check it frequently, since we’ll be updating it as we get the latest news. But there are a few other tricks as well.
Per the official email from corporate is Thursday March 11. My live stream will be 6am EST – 9am EST Thursday, as no time was given.
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Following industry insiders on Twitter, such as @Wario64 and @Jake_Randall_YT, can give you a jump on other shoppers. They frequently have the scoop on Xbox restocks before other sources. You can also set up a Google Alert, which will email you whenever a website or publication makes mention of an Xbox restock. (We recommend the search terms such as “Xbox restock,” “Xbox in stock,” “Xbox inventory,” or “Xbox available.”)
Another option is to use a third-party site such as NowInStock, which monitors retailer inventories and sends alerts when an item is back in stock. But the Xbox Series X/S is selling so fast that we feel like they will sell out before you even receive one of these notifications. Still, checking these sites can be helpful for getting a sense of the rhythm at which these Xbox restocks occur.
Have All Your Shopping Account Info Filled Out and Saved
Just because you have an item in your online shopping cart does not mean your transaction is guaranteed. This means you have to move through the process as quickly as possible, and a good way to do that is to have all your shipping and payment info stored on retailer sites ahead of time.
As you can imagine, there would be no worse feeling than getting all the way to the payment page and missing out on a new Xbox Series X/S because you took too long filling out your info.
While an Xbox restock may have a scheduled date and time, things are always subject to change. Whether a retailer decides to make its Xbox Series X/S inventory available ahead of time, or simply has technical difficulties, do not assume they’re in perfect sync with your clocks.
Because there are plenty of other eager shoppers also circling the waters at the same time as you, some retailers will have a digital waiting room or queue. It’s not always clear when they begin letting people “line up,” so checking a retailer’s Xbox product page before the drop time can make a huge difference and cut down on your wait time.
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We would start keeping tabs on the Xbox Series X/S product page an hour before, and refresh it more frequently as it gets closer to its scheduled drop. That way, if the page is loading slow or the site is down, you can be prepared.
There are some savvy shoppers who already have their Xbox Series X/S, and according to them, using the mobile app will load pages and process transactions quicker than using a web browser.
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[xbox restock]While there’s no proper way to empirically confirm this, it certainly couldn’t hurt.
There may be a situation where you do every last thing right and get a Xbox Series X/S into your shopping cart, but can’t complete the transaction. If this is the case, DON’T delete the Xbox Series X/S from your shopping cart. Instead, leave it there, and the next time there is an Xbox restock, simply load up the checkout page and try to complete the transaction.
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[xbox restock ]Alternatively, Amazon shoppers have found success with adding the Xbox Series X/Sto their Wish List while it is still unavailable, and then when a restock does happen, completing the transaction from their Wish List page.
Whatever You Do, Don’t Buy From Sketchy Twitter Accounts, Price Gougers or Unknown Retailers
Given the high prices the Xbox Series X/S can fetch on the resale market, scams around the console are common.
You’ll often see people in Xbox restock threads offering to sell Xbox Series X/S consoles they’ve obtained. You’ll see resellers on Amazon charging double the price. And you’ll see retailers you’ve never heard of before with a magical supply of the consoles. Some of these could be on the straight and narrow, but aside from the fact that you’ll be paying much more than you should, there’s a chance that you end up with a fake console or no console at all.
If you’ve waited this long, there’s no point in caving now when the Xbox Series X/S is more available than ever. Instead, be patient and stick with the official retailers. Sooner than later, you will get your Xbox Series X/S.
The Best Retailers to Check for Xbox Restocks
So now that you know all the best practices for making these online retail sites work in your favor during an Xbox restock, the only thing left to do is to go and try to successfully buy an Xbox Series X/S. It will be an epic quest for sure, but we have faith in you. And to get you started on your way, here are the six retailers that will give you the best chance of tracking one down. Good luck!
The Ultimate Guide to Buying the Best Gaming Console in 2021
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In a new twist the government has continued its crackdown on protestors and activist. This month 3 women were abducted and raped, Rights groups say over 100 people have been abducted from their homes, usually at night, over the last 6 months. Most were beaten and dumped or disappeared. The government blamed what it called a “third force” in those abductions, but no-one has been arrested or charged. Many more have been languishing in detention centers without trial or any charges for long periods of time.
In a joint statement last week, the heads of missions from the European Union, the United States and the United Kingdom demanded a “swift, thorough and credible investigation into the abduction and torture” of Mamombe, Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova.
“The perpetrators of heinous acts of this kind and other human rights violations need to be identified and prosecuted. The Zimbabwean Constitution prohibits enforced disappearances, torture, violence against women, and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment,” the heads of mission said.
One of the party officials, Tapiwa Nyikayaramba (whereabouts still unknown), whose brother was attacked by Zanu pf intelligence when the assailants, not satisfied with answers of his whereabouts proceeded to beat him with metal pipes believed to be heated with a blow torch or gas burner of some sort to get a confession out of him. “they burnt me on my leg all the way to the bone, I’ve never felt such pain.” They burnt me until I almost fainted.
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They took money from my house and told me they will continue visiting my family until they find him. Simba was later taken to hospital where he was operated on and treated for 10 days for 3rd degree burns.
MDC Midlands provincial spokesperson Takavafira Zhou confirmed the development, also saying the party’s district organising secretary for Mberengwa West, Avoid Trouble Mashura, survived an abduction attempt on Monday, while Luwelin Sibanda went into hiding on Tuesday after unidentified people came looking for him at Mnene Mission where he stays.
“We are certainly perturbed by the continued bullish, callousness, and harassment of innocent civilians exercising their freedom of association, which is guaranteed in the Constitution. We reiterate our long-held view that security intelligence in the 21st century has moved from thuggery and barbarism to use of intellect. We further remind the operatives to realise that Zimbabwe is a democratic and multi-party State and that they must, therefore, respect freedom of association and expression, let alone the democratic rights of MDC activists,” Zhou said.
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R2 000 per night: Meet rich gogos who pay younger men to have s_x with them
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When she said she wanted to kill my son I thought it was a joke: Man stabbed to death by girlfriend
Man burns himself to death over sugar mama
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THE WATERSHED BAND–brothers Tom (vocals, guitar) and Leon (vocals, bass) Kafafian, released their debut album, SUNSHINE, on July 30 via No Reverse Records. It’s is available on all music platforms including iTunes, Spotify, and Pandora. The 15-track record includes the singles, “Someday” (produced by Billy Howerdel — The Perfect Circle, Ashes Divide) and “Marcie.”
Debuting at #8 on the iTunes “Singer/Songwriter” chart, with a sound of late Beatles and early Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, THE WATERSHED BAND are no strangers to building a sound with mass appeal. They’ve developed multiple artists and their sounds over the years. Kafafian brother Tom is referred to as “Tommy K” in the music world, who began working with Stefani Germanotta in 2006, now known as Lady Gaga. He went on to play bass with Gaga on her first world tour, and played her landmark show in Glastonbury in 2009. He also wrote the bonus track, “Disco Heaven,” on her 2008 Grammy-winning album, THE FAME.
Now is his season to shine through. The production of the songs on SUNSHINE have a blend of both techniques, marrying old and new, creating a timeless sound that is perfect for any long drive, lazy afternoon, or chill session with good people and better drinks.
“At some point during our first year making music together, we started to realize we really enjoyed this new sound,” said Tom, “It was truly born out of a place of honesty.” The music they have created is fresh yet nostalgic, getting back to a style of album where you hit play and let the experience happen.
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“I will send full tracks to Tom and sometimes he will play a part a little different and swap it out,” said Leon. “Sometimes Tom will start the track and I’ll put vocals on it. The process has been really fluid and always changing. When it comes to songwriting it’s 50/50. I wrote the words to “True” and Tom sang the lead, he wrote the words to “Did It Again” and I sang the lead. We just go with whoever has the best version. I am always in awe I get to work with (this very humble) guy.”
THE WATERSHED BAND is here to put the focus back on songs and bring back a bygone era when music was the soundtrack of our lives. Now featured on 10 Spotify playlists, just one listen and you will remember what it was you had forgotten.
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DIFF 2014: How to get tickets for the films you shouldn't miss
What’s On previews Dubai International Film Festival 2014, with info on free screenings, how to get tickets for the best films at DIFF 2014.
The Dubai International Film Festival is back for its 11th year, and packing just as much as the record-breaking 10th anniversary edition of 2013.
A total of 118 features, film shorts and documentaries will be screened across eight days, starting December 10, with The Theory Of Everything, the story of one the planet’s finest minds, Stephen Hawking, taking the prestigious opening slot. In total, there will be 55 international premieres from 48 countries in 34 languages. It truly is a festival for the whole world.
Following the likes of American Hustle, The Railway Man, The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty, Frozen, Inside Llewyn Davis, Champ Of The Camp and 12 Years A Slave – which went on to win Best Film at the Oscars earlier this year – organisers have once again landed a series of top notch Hollywood productions to partner the very best in local talent.
Among the A-listers to star in the Cinema Of The World section of the 11th instalment of DIFF are Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Reese Witherspoon, Channing Tatum, Steve Carell, Meryl Streep, Johnny Depp and Laura Dern.
That’s all well and good, but how can you be involved? A variety of ticket packages are available to buy online (dubaifilmfest.com), starting from Dhs80 for the Arab Film package and rising to Dhs500 for the Red Carpet Gala package. During the festival tickets for individual screenings will be available from DIFF box offices at Souk Madinat, the Madinat Arena, and VOX Cinema at Mall Of The Emirates. Prices start from Dhs15 for students.
There are also free public film screenings at The Beach, opposite JBR, starting at 7.30 pm. There, things start on Wednesday with a live broadcast of the opening night red carpet from Madinat Arena. Then, until the Dec 16, ‘St Vincent’, ‘I Am Big Bird’, ‘Meet the Patels’, ‘Abood Kandaishan’, ‘The Crow’s Egg’, ‘Red Army’ and ‘X+Y’ will all be shown.
PICK OF THE BUNCH
Check out the films our experts don’t think you should miss, as well as details of when they will be screened.
A Most Violent Year
Director: J. C. Chandor
Cast: Oscar Isaac, Jessica Chastain, David Oyelowo
Showing: Madinat Arena. Saturday December 13, 2pm
The American dream gone sour, this movie charts the efforts of immigrants to make it Stateside in 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the New York’s history. The film shines a light on criminal temptations that swirl around the life of Abel Morales and his family.
FURTHER AFIELD The pick of the foreign language films
Court
Director: Chaitanya Tamhane
Cast: Vira Sathidar, Vivek Gomber, Geetanjali Kulkami
Showing: Mall Of The Emirates. Monday December 15, 9.30pm
Mall Of The Emirates. Wednesday December 17, 6pm
The debut feature from director Chaitanya Tamhane, a blistering commentary on India’s justice system, scooped two prizes at the Venice Film Festival, including the Lion Of The Future award for best first work. The film follows Naraya Kamble, a social activist who is charged with inciting a sewage worker to commit suicide through one of his songs.
The Goob
Director: Guy Myhill
Cast: Liam Walpole, Sienna Guillory
Showing: Mall Of The Emirates. Thursday December 11, 6pm; Saturday December 13, 6.30pm
Newcomer Liam Walpole, who stars in this languid drama set in Norfolk in England, was unemployed before he bumped into the casting director on his local street and found himself with a leading role in a movie. Walpole plays Goob, an aimless teen who spends his summer days helping his mum at her roadside burger bar, and avoiding her menacing boyfriend, played by The Borgias star Sean Harris.
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Trip Along Exodus
Director: Hind Shoufani.
Showing: Mall Of The Emirates. Friday December 12, 8.30pm
Mall Of The Emirates. Monday December 15, 9.30pm
Trip Along Exodus gives voice to a man who opposed the mainstream policies of settlement that Yasser Arafat adopted in the early 1980s. Outspoken and forthright, Shoufani was at the forefront of a violent split within the Fatah movement that erupted in 1983, with the Syrian-backed faction attempting to end Arafat’s vice-like grip on the PLO. Joined by the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and the Palestinian communists headquartered in Damascus, the Fatah rebels denounced Arafat’s mainstream PLO as corrupt and willing to sell out the Palestinian cause for their own gain. The rebellion led to several years of open conflict and to Shoufani’s 20-year opposition to Arafat.
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Chinese emissions rose substantially while those in Europe and the U.S. remained lower
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Steven Davis, UCI professor of Earth system science and co-lead of the Carbon Monitor: “Our results show that the pandemic-related decrease in global emissions is mostly over, but also that the rebound in economic activity and emissions has also been quite uneven across the world. Despite hopes that targeted stimulus could boost shares of renewable energy, increases in energy use have outpaced ‘building back better.’” Al Toney for UCI
Irvine, Calif., Oct. 27, 2021 — Days before the opening of the 26th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Glasgow, Scotland, the latest estimates by the Carbon Monitor, an international research initiative begun during the pandemic, show that global carbon dioxide emissions as of the end of September 2021 were just 0.9 percent lower than emissions at the same time in 2019.
The estimates were compiled by researchers in the Department of Earth System Science at the University of California, Irvine, France’s Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, China’s Tsinghua University, Columbia University in New York, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. They further show that 2021 emissions in China, India, Russia and Brazil have each increased by 3 to 8 percent relative to 2019, particularly in the power and industry sectors.
In contrast, emissions in Europe and the United States this year remain 4.2 percent and 3.5 percent lower than they were in 2019, mainly due to lower emissions from the transportation sector, while emissions in many lower-income countries around the world are in some cases still 8 percent less than in 2019.
“Our results show that the pandemic-related decrease in global emissions is mostly over, but also that the rebound in economic activity and emissions has been quite uneven across the world,” said Steven Davis, co-lead of the Carbon Monitor project and UCI professor of Earth system science. “Despite hopes that targeted stimulus could boost shares of renewable energy, increases in energy use have outpaced ‘building back better.’”
“Looking forward, we will be watching a race between non-fossil energy and energy demand,” said Philippe Ciais, co-lead of the Carbon Monitor project and professor at LSCE. “For emissions to peak, any new demand must be met by non-fossil sources.”
Whether annual emissions in 2021 will exceed those in 2019 will be determined by whether there are further increases in energy demand over the remaining months of the year, which may be determined by the temperatures this autumn.
“We will continue to monitor the rebound in emissions and the effects of mitigation efforts as well as the ongoing energy crises in China and Europe,” said Zhu Liu, co-lead of the Carbon Monitor project and associate professor at Tsinghua University.
Unlike many estimates of carbon dioxide emissions that rely only on reports of fossil fuel use, Carbon Monitor tracks activities and energy use from a variety of near-real-time sources, including air flight datasets, traffic congestion indices and hourly data from dozens of electric utilities.
Thus far, their near-real-time estimates for 2021 are consistent with such independent, fuel-based projections from the International Energy Agency. The team has published several peer-reviewed publications detailing their methods and released a short paper explaining the latest results on the EarthArXiv preprint server.
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Last year, when Twitter introduced the ‘Night Mode’feature for its mobile app, people just could not stop gushing about how much they liked it. Now, the company is introducing this ‘Night Mode’ option to its desktop website. Some fortunate users are already enjoying the feature, which is yet to be rolled out to large masses.
How does it work?
Clicking on the profile picture on the top right side will display a menu containing ‘Night Mode’ option. Clicking on ‘Night Mode’ will turn your Twitter screens dark. As of now, the feature is only available to few Twitter users for testing. It is not clear when this feature will be available officially. However, Twitter users are already excited about the new desktop feature that is easier on the eyes. The Night Mode feature will allow you to tweet in a night-friendly mode. It has a relaxing influence on the users. Some find the site much better in Night Mode on their mobile devices. Last year, the new feature was introduced for iOS and Android devices. Some users say Night Mode on their mobiles is encouraging them to use the Twitter app more frequently on their mobile.
What do we expect?
The Night Mode feature on Twitter is giving users a chance to enjoy the social networking site in a different color theme. If you are bored with existing Twitter appearance, try the new Night Mode feature and see the magic. But, for now, the feature is only available on mobile apps. What’s more, the new feature will help users avoid strain to their eyes by shifting to Night Mode that is easier to the eyes. By clicking on the ‘Night Mode’ on your desktop screen will replace the white screens areas with a dark gray screen. The Night Mode feature can be found by clicking on the profile picture. After you click, you will find an option at the bottom of the pop-up list.
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Aspark is an industrialist engineering firm based in Osaka, Japan, for some reason promising the world’s quickest-accelerating hyper-EV in production, as well as a second car project soon to be revealed in detail. With four-wheel drive and a peak output of 1,985 horsepower, Aspark’s halo product, the Owl, is a direct competitor of the Rimac C_Two, the Pininfarina Battista and the Lotus Evija, or in fact any other multi-million-dollar electric car the industry may come up with soon enough. Priced slightly higher than both the Rimac and the Lotus, Aspark only plans to sell 50 of its $3.6-million Owls, with 20 each destined for Europe and Asia, leaving 10 for the United States.
No doubt sold under Show and Display regulations like a McLaren Speedtail or Sabre, there’s already a red Aspark Owl on display at The Gables Sports Cars in Miami, as Autoblog points out. The Gables appears to be Aspark’s sole dealer in the United States. For your Bugatti-matching $3.6 million, Aspark shall ship you an electric hypercar that’s just 39 inches tall (thus lower than an original Ford GT40), with a claimed peak of 1,475 pound-feet of torque, nearly 2,000 horsepower and a top speed of 249 mph, yet a still rather-generous range estimated at 249 miles.
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[message editor asparkowl]Despite coming from Osaka, the Aspark Owl was actually developed by Manifattura Automobili Torino throughout 2020. The small-volume manufacturer known as MAT is run by former Pininfarina Special Projects chief Paolo Garella. MAT’s previous projects include James Glickenhaus’ SCG 003C, Dubai’s Devel Sixteen, the Apollo IE later taken over by AMG partner HWA, and the new Stratos still being produced in strictly limited numbers at its workshop just outside of Torino.
Back in March 2020, I visited MAT to check out the new Stratos, as well as the Aspark Owl prototypes that were still partly in bits. Unsurprisingly, the development of the quad-motor EV has been described by MAT as its biggest challenge to date. Thanks to them, here’s your chance to take a peek under the Owl’s sleek carbon fiber body:
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[message editor nak]From a one-foot rollout, Aspark claims a zero to 60 run in 1.69 seconds. What’s for sure is that late in the summer of this year, MAT went to the Misano World Circuit with its prototypes to record a zero to 60 time of 1.72 seconds. Apparently, keeping this figure under two seconds is crucial for EV companies, with Rimac even re-engineering its C_Two once Elon Musk claimed 1.9 seconds for the potentially forthcoming second-generation Tesla Roadster.
When it comes to handling, not forgetting that certain track records were previously set by the NIO EP9, we must point out that it was a one-off racing prototype specially built for that purpose. Given that, it will be interesting to see what a production Aspark Owl could do against serious competitors like Rimac’s and Lotus’ equally powerful offerings. Let the wild torque-vectoring commence!
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1870s/1880s autograph album that belonged to Sarah Adella Lapham of West Pembroke, Massachusetts. She inscribed her name on the first end paper. See a slide show of images of the pages of the entire album at the end of this post.
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The album is approximately 7" x 4-1/4" inches and contains 79 pages signed by Adella herself, her relatives and friends. Many of the surnames in this album will be familiar to people researching families in Massachusetts, especially Plymouth County.
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Sarah Adella Lapham was born 20 April 1857 at Pembroke, Massachusetts, the daughter of Samuel and Sarah Keene (Fish) Lapham, who were born at Pembroke themselves.
I believe it was Sarah Keene (Fish) Lapham of Pembroke, Massachusetts, who signed a page in her daughter's album on 24 July 1884.
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As late as the 1920 Census, Adella was still going by her maiden name, so I'm assuming she never married or had children.
Alphabetical list of signers in Adella's album: [Note: given names within a specific surname may not be in alpha order.]
Pembroke, Massachusetts [Notice Bryantville a bit to the southwest]
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16-Year-Old Game Changer, Greta Thunberg, Has Been Nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize
Sixteen-year-old Greta Thunberg founded of the Youth Strike for Climate movement, and it’s gotten her a lot of attention, even
By Aly Walansky March 15, 2019
Sixteen-year-old Greta Thunberg founded of the Youth Strike for Climate movement, and it’s gotten her a lot of attention, even more now that she has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize as global action continues to rev up worldwide.
If she were to win, she will be youngest winner since Pakistan’s Malala Yousafzai, who was 17 when she received the prize.
Thunberg has been busy to say the least, from solo protests to organizing group strikes of students globally. This week strikes are expected in 1,659 towns and cities in 105 countries.
The school strikes were inspired by the Fridays For The Future movement started by Thunberg under the hashtag #FridaysForFuture. So far, there have been regular walkouts around the world, including in countries likes Germany, Belgium, the UK, France, Australia and Japan.
“We have proposed Greta Thunberg because if we do nothing to halt climate change it will be the cause of wars, conflict and refugees,” said Norwegian Socialist MP Freddy André Øvstegård. “Greta Thunberg has launched a mass movement which I see as a major contribution to peace.”
“[I am] honoured and very grateful for this nomination,” said Thunberg on Twitter. Tomorrow we #schoolstrike for our future. And we will continue to do so for as long as it takes.” She has already challenged leaders in person at the UN climate summit in late 2018 and at Davos in January. “Change is coming whether they like it or not,” she said.
While Greta is young, someone this young is not unheard of as a nominee or winner. In 2014, 17-year-old Malala Yousafzai, won the prize “for the struggle … for the right of all children to education”. She survived a Taliban assassination attempt in 2012.
“It is truly inspiring to see young people, led by brilliant young women, making their voices heard and demanding urgent climate action. They are absolutely correct that our actions today will determine their futures,” said Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris and chair of the C40 group of cities. “My message to young citizens is clear: it is our responsibility as adults and political leaders to learn from you and deliver the future you want.”
The strikes have also been supported by the former head of the Anglican church Rowan Williams and the head of Amnesty International, Kumi Naidoo. “Children are often told they are ‘tomorrow’s leaders’. But if they wait until ‘tomorrow’ there may not be a future in which to lead,” said Naidoo. “Young people are putting their leaders to shame with the passion and determination they are showing to fight this crucial battle now.
There are 301 candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize for 2019, out of which 223 are individuals and 78 are organizations, says the Nobel committee on its website.
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The components and systems maker benefited from an unexpected corner of its market.
Moog (MOG.A -1.26%) (MOG.B) has done a good job of capitalizing on the boom in the aerospace industry, benefiting from high demand for the systems and components that today's sophisticated aircraft need in order to function properly. But many investors don't recognize that Moog has exposure beyond aerospace, and with products for applications that include industrial automation, energy exploration, and power generation, Moog has a more varied business that can thrive even when aerospace growth slows down.
Coming into Friday's fiscal second-quarter financial report, Moog investors had high hopes about the company's ability to maintain its upward momentum. Moog did well, but many might have been surprised that the source of major growth came not from aerospace but from elsewhere in its product lineup. That could bode well for the company even if the aerospace boom cools off in the future.
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Full speed ahead for Moog
Moog's fiscal second-quarter results were strong. Sales of $689 million were up 9% compared to last year's fiscal second quarter, doubling the pace of growth most investors were expecting to see. Adjusted net income gained more than 30% to $41.8 million, and the resulting adjusted earnings of $1.16 per share easily topped the consensus forecast of $1.06 per share among those following the stock.
One surprise for Moog was that its best revenue-growth-generating segment wasn't aerospace. Aircraft controls sales were still solid, posting an 8% gain on particular strength in military aircraft-related sales. Double-digit boosts in the F-35 joint strike fighter program as well as helicopter programs and foreign military sales of original equipment manufacturer products helped lift the segment's revenue. Yet commercial aircraft revenue rose just 2%, with flat sales of products related to the 787 Dreamliner and a 10% drop in Airbus OEM sales due to delivery timing issues, reversing strength in the fiscal first quarter.
Instead, the industrial systems segment performed the best from a sales perspective, with 15% higher sales from year-ago levels. A big part of that came from currency impacts, but even so, the energy, automation, simulation and testing, and medical market areas all saw double-digit top-line gains that contributed to the industrial unit's overall performance.
Space and defense results were mixed. Overall, the unit saw sales rise 3%, but space avionics and launch vehicle controls lifted the space portion of the business by 19%. Defense sales fell 5% due to weaker demand for controls for military vehicles as well as naval products.
CEO John Scannell didn't have a lot to say. "Our underlying operations had another solid quarter," Scannell said, and the CEO pointed to ongoing strategic efforts designed to foster further growth.
Those efforts include a number of items. The company said it will wind down its wind pitch control business by the end of the year, with a resulting one-time charge that should pay for itself over time through higher margins for the industrial side of the business. The decision to buy Czech motion controls manufacturer VUES Brno should also help by fleshing out Moog's holdings in the aerospace area, with a relatively low price tag of $65 million on the deal.
Moog even raised some of its guidance for fiscal 2018. The company now sees sales rising 8% to $2.69 billion, $70 million higher than its previous projection. Adjusted earnings expectations now call for $4.20 to $4.60 per share, representing a lift of $0.30.
Moog shareholders didn't have a huge response to the results, and the stock was down about half a percent at midday following the morning announcement. With several potential paths to success, Moog is looking to keep taking advantage of good conditions in aerospace while also capturing more of its opportunities elsewhere.
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Litcham Street was coded by Charles Booth, the Victorian reformist, as ‘Very poor’- dark blue on his poverty map of 1898. He described “houses with broken windows, most doors open, untidy and dirty rather than ragged children”, and reported that the street had “a rough drinking and fighting reputation”. Memories of an old Kentish Town resident were recorded by Gillian Tindall in The Field Beneath: “a filthy street, pavements defiled with rheum….several families in one house- one hundred people living in accommodation intended for tens. Two houses were run as common doss houses at which vagrant could sleep….and from the windows not a few ravaged faces looked down on upon you from between frosty cobwebs of curtains.”
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A booklet published by St Pancras House Improvement Society in 1931 describes a house of 12 rooms where eight families were living. The Society had been formed in Somers Town in 1924, but also turned its attention to Kentish Town. The conditions in Litcham Street provided the impetus to commence fund raising for the replacement of the existing houses with modern flats.
Much of the fundraising took place in Hampstead including a garden party attended by 3,000 people, and a celebrity cricket match led by JB Priestley. During the 1930’s Priestley became very concerned about the consequences of social inequality in Britain, and in 1942 helped set up a new political party, the Common Wealth Party, which argued for public ownership of land, greater democracy, and a new ‘morality’ in politics.
The first block of the Athlone Estate was completed in in 1933, and all four blocks were completed by 1937; Litcham Street was subsequently renamed Athlone Street.
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South aspect of 49 flats Leonard Day House and Priestley House with Sherborne Nursery School on the roof (image courtesy of London Borough of Camden): “note glazed concrete screens to the Nursery School roof gardens- also tenants’ gardens below. When the photo was taken tenants had not yet moved in. Now nearly all gardens are full of flowers.”
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A flat in Athlone House (image courtesy of London Borough of Camden): “the living room of a 4 room electric flat.”
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Back of Litcham Street with Wilkin Street on the right, 1936 (image courtesy of London Borough of Camden): the site of Leonard Day House and Priestley House
Why was Litcham Street so bad that it became a ‘slum pocket’? When west Kentish Town was built between 1850- 65- by multiple small scale developers- the intention was that these houses would be let to the rising middle classes. However, although the streets are wide with the impression of a generously planned layout, the houses themselves back onto each other with very little space between, resulting in a lack of daylight and air, and unsanitary conditions. This can be seen in the old OS map below: the backs of the houses in adjacent streets are barely a few feet apart. Another factor in the decline of Litcham Street is its immediate proximity of the railway viaduct. The blight of the railways on west Kentish Town has been highlighted previously: the noise and pollution from passing steam trains would have been considerable.
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Back of Litcham Street (image courtesy of London Borough of Camden)
Another street blighted by the cramped conditions of the houses is Carlton Street, running south from Queen’s Crescent. Early Carlton Street was respectable enough: two private academies were located there in 1862, but by Charles Booth’s survey of 1898, it was rated only as ‘mixed. Some comfortable others poor’ (coloured purple on the map above).
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Lyndhurst Hall as once a major focus of local community life in the area. Built as a mission hall by Hampstead’s Lyndhurst Road Congregational Church in 1891, it was a resource for local people at a time of general poverty. It hosted a range of events, including clubs for boys, girls, men and women, bible classes and Sunday services, as well as entertainment and legal and financial advice. During the 1950s, community activities at the hall included the Boys Brigade, Sunday schools, youth club and children’s nursery. Lyndhurst Road Congregational Church sold the building to St Pancras Borough Council in 1963 and it reopened as a community centre two years later. It was available for hire for private functions and was also home of St Pancras Amateur Boxing Club. In the mid-1980s most of the ground floor was used by the Camden Workers Social Club. The Men’s Institute, a nursery and a pensioners’ club continued to flourish until the 1990s, when the hall was closed, deemed as underused by Camden Council. It was subsequently sold to Notting Hill Housing Trust, who demolished the existing building and redeveloped the site. The social space for the area that was provided by Lyndhurst Hall has not yet been replaced.
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The long linear blocks between Allcroft Road and Grafton Road that run north-south between Queen’s Crescent and Warden Road fostered slum conditions due to their poor planning. They were the first in the area to be demolished and redeveloped by St Pancras Borough Council. West Kentish Town estate prioritised light and air on all sides of the buildings; unfortunately this was at the expense of a legible structure of street and public space. In redeveloping the area for second time, the need for proper planning and adequate distances between dwellings must be considered, as was the case at Athlone Estate. The scale and setting of Athlone Estate should be respected by the new development, and a new community space for the area be provided to replace Lyndhurst Hall.
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Featuring an ensemble cast that includes Matthew Broderick, James Earl Jones and Jeremy Irons, the film follows a young lion, Simba (Jonathan Taylor Thomas), as he abruptly confronts his destiny as king of the Pride Lands - but not before the throne is usurped by his uncle, Scar (Irons). Simba (later voiced by Broderick) grows up as an outcast before ultimately retaking the Pride Lands in a fiery finale.
Created on a budget of $45 million, The Lion King grossed an astounding $968.5 million at the box office, and won two Academy Awards for its music, composed by Elton John.
The Lion King is the subject of a long-standing rumour that the word 'SEX' appears in a night sky scene. However, an animator on the film has definitively refuted this, stating instead that the intended Easter egg was to spell SFX in a nod to the film's technical achievements.
The 2019 remake, which prioritised black voices among its main cast and included Beyoncé as the voice of Nala, was produced on a budget of $250-260 million but made $1.657 billion at the box office. However, it was criticised for its muddy relationship with the songs of the original and its photorealism, which some thought left the lions expressionless.
21 Things You Didn’t Know About The Lion King
20 Movies That Are Based On Shakespeare Plays
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Primera Air started their transatlantic operations on April 19, 2018 using a wet lease from National Airlines due to a delay in the delivery of their first Airbus A321neo. Last week they finally started operations on their aircraft (registered with tail number OY-PAA).
Yesterday, I flew on their economy class product from London Stansted (STN) to Newark international airport (EWR), and here are my impressions of the flight.
Probably the part I disliked the most about this flight is that it was out of Stansted airport, house of Ryanair, TUI, Thomas Cook and a miriad other low cost airlines. This airport is far from London (or should we say, close to Cambridge) and it’s difficult to connect to from other European points unless you fly Ryanair (which was what I did). Also, security control is a nightmare!
Being a small aircraft (204 seats in total), they had 3 check-in counters available for passengers. There was no priority check-in line for the premium economy customers. The total check-in process took me about 15 minutes.
The A321neo (for New Engine Option) is the latest iteration on Airbus single-aisle classic jetliner with a range of up to 4000 nautical miles. On Airbus words, the new A321 generation “is ideally suited to transatlantic routes, and enables airlines to tap into new long-haul markets that were not previously accessible with current single-aisle aircraft”.
These long-range single-aisle jets are definitely called to transform the north-Atlantic market. The range is ideal for USA East Coast to Europe crossings:
The slight inconvenient: these aricrafts are slower than wide-body jets. The A321neo comes with a cruise speed of 514 mph. Comparing this with the cruise speed of an A330 (541 mph) or an A380 (564 mph), it makes for some extra time up in the air. This flight took 8.5 hours, while a regular wide-body flight between London and New York takes about 7 hours.
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On their website, Primera Air offers 3 different seating options for economy class: standard, XL and Exit (XXL). The XL section comprises rows 5-8, standard seating goes from row 10 to 36 and exit (XXL) seats are on row 9 and 22.
The only advantage of being SSSS’d is that I got to board the aircraft first, so I could snap some good pictures of the empty cabin.
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[loyaltylobby flight review primera air]The seats are the standard slim model that is becoming more and more popular among all type of carriers, from legacy to low-cost. They were not generous in cushion but they were not uncomfortable. Recline is very limited and they don’t come with head rest or head support.
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Economy seats come with 18″ width and 30″ pitch. According to the crew, there is no pitch difference between the regular economy seats and the XL seats on rows 5-8. I think there might be an extra inch on the XL seats. I will let you judge by yourself:
There is one lavatory in the front and two in the back of the cabin. There is no exclusive use of the front lavatory for premium economy passengers.
[loyaltylobby flight review primera air]BRING YOUR OWN IFE!
There is no in-flight entertainment in this aircraft. There where you’re used to find your individual screen you will find a pocket with the safety card and the food menu.
[loyaltylobby flight review primera air]So, bring a book, crosswords, a sudoku app, or bring your tablet and pre-download some shows in Netflix. There is no internet available during the flight.
Each seat comes with an USB port, at least.
Food options for purchase on board are limited to sandwiches and snacks. Prices are decent.
I went for some snacks and drinks:
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I had also pre-ordered a hot meal when I booked my ticket. The hot lunch meal comes with water or coffee/tea, and any extra beverages must be purchased. The food was OK, nothing spectacular.
[loyaltylobby flight review primera air]Or you can bring your own food on a Tupperware, of course:
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[loyaltylobby flight review primera air]With fares starting at GBP 149 for a one way ticket (sometimes even cheaper departing from the US) you get what you pay for. The trip was a bit long and it can be boring if you don’t bring your own entertainment, but the seats are not that uncomfortable, and the overall service is good. I had a nice crew which made it a lot more bearable.
These single-aisle aircrafts are going to be the future of north-Atlantic air travel. My impression was that the reduced amount of people gives you a different sensation than when traveling on a wide-body jet. Having an empty seat next to me also helped a lot on that aspect!
Tonight I fly back on their Premium Economy product, so expect a full review of it tomorrow!
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Why 90 Day Fiancé fans who are on “Team Anfisa” are celebrating the star’s most recent accomplishment, plus more updates on her life today.
90 Day Fiancé has had its fair share of controversial cast members, and Anfisa Arkhipchenko is no stranger to the harsh judgments of the public, but her recent citizenship news is winning her praise. Fans are really rooting for her because she is gaining US citizenship. Anfisa has seen a reversal in her public image since her time on the show, and her status as a 90DF villain has faded considerably. She’s worked hard to achieve success, and fans approve. People who follow her are excited to see the young woman achieve her goals as she moves on from her former marriage.
Anfisa was featured in 90 Day Fiancé season 4, when the then-19-year-old came to the US from Russia in order to marry her now-ex-husband, Jorge Nava. She was initially written off as a shallow gold-digger, clearly stating that she was mainly with Jorge for his money. He also came under fire, as he had over-exaggerated his financial status to Anfisa, and mainly wanted to marry her because she’s so attractive. After a tumultuous marriage, and Jorge’s arrest for trafficking cannabis across state lines, the couple finally divorced. They were able to move on from their difficult relationship.
Since her time on 90 Day Fiancé, Anfisa has been proving to her critics that she is able to work hard and support herself, and has gained quite a large following within the franchise fanbase, with many viewers claiming to be on “team Anfisa.” Fans were happy to look on as Anfisa chased her body-building dreams. Then, she started a career as a model and YouTube star. Her dreams didn’t stop there, as she went on to become a certified fitness instructor. Then, Anfisa decided to become an entrepreneur. She began taking classes at community college, and eventually graduated from UC Irvine Paul Merage School of Business. She took her experience as a fitness instructor, and her education in business, and used her skills to start her own fitness and wellness app, which allows clients to take advantage of her services as a personal trainer, right from the comfort of their own homes.
Fans who may have once criticized her now rejoice whenever the young star adds to her list of accomplishments. In spite of her short time on the show, Anfisa retains one of the largest fanbases of any 90 Day Fiancé star. After Anfisa announced her new status as a US citizen on Instagram, fans commented on her post, congratulating her on her success. Shortly after, fans posting on a Reddit thread started by STVNMC reshared the image of Anfisa with her new citizenship papers. The post read, “Hot citizen alert!” Other fans commented on the post, letting Anfisa know how happy they were that she was doing so well in life.
Though fans recalled Anfisa’s darkest moments, including participating in manipulation and intimate partner violence during her marriage with Jorge, they took time to reflect on her circumstances at that point. Many fans have watched Anfisa’s YouTube videos, in which she explains what she was thinking at the time of her marriage. While fans can’t condone abuse, viewers claimed that, in retrospect, it was easier to see why Anfisa was unhappy in that relationship, and struggling to make things work. Her young age, combined with her difficulties adjusting to a new country and an unsupportive marriage, are reasons why fans have more sympathy these days.
Followers of Anfisa have defended her right to learn and grow, and see her new status as a citizen as a badge of all that she has worked for in the last seven years. Though she still receives a lot of criticism, fans who are on Anfisa’s “team” are taking time to cheer her on, and share their excitement with one another. 90 Day Fiancé fans, whether they love or dislike Anfisa, are interested in seeing what she does next. They hope that she can continue to learn from her mistakes.
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Presently working as a Screen Rant Reality Features Writer since 2022. Charlie Lewis (he/him/his) is a non-binary writer based in Portland, OR. He currently works as a freelance writer, screenwriter, and filmmaker, known for Transcend: Love Beyond The Binary (2022). He studied Dramatic Writing, Filmmaking, and Film History at Sarah Lawrence College in New York from 2013-2017, from which he holds a Bachelor of Arts.
Charlie is thrilled to get the opportunity to write about television. His interest in film and television analysis comes out of a love for visual storytelling. He loves film and television across genres, his favorite TV shows are 90 Day Fiance, The Twilight Zone, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He spent much of his childhood in New England glued to the CRT in his den, and began his writing and filmmaking career when he received a Barbie camcorder at the age of eight.
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I sometimes forget that several games in the Splinter Cell series had asymmetric multiplayer that stacked sneaky spies against muscular mercenaries. It’s a formula that has been tweaked and tweaked from game to game over the years, but the basics have remained the same.
Here’s what it looked like in Splinter Cell: Blacklist:
It’s been a while since we’ve seen a Splinter Cell game – Blacklist was it, back in 2013 – but an ongoing independent project called Specter aims to bring back that kind of multiplayer experience.
Developed by Symbiosis Games, Specter gets rid of Tom Clancy’s traps – the spies are an agency of unknown origin known as the Specters, while the mercenaries are an infamous big-budget private military company called Reapers – but the roots of the gameplay are almost impossible to ignore. And when in doubt, developer Fred Toms told IGN that the game is “heavily inspired by the glory days of our favorite franchise,” which is Splinter Cell.
Interestingly, Toms and his partner Jordan Crawford believe the pinnacle of spy versus mercenary gameplay is to be found in Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, the third game in the series, saying that Blacklist “removed some of that slower-paced classic. , nail-biting experience that stealth games offered “by speeding up gameplay and making spies too dangerous.” But they also recognized that that kind of gameplay probably wouldn’t work today, so they’re trying to adapt accordingly.
“A lot of our fans remember Chaos Theory with rose-tinted glasses,” Toms said. “It’s an amazing game, even to this day, but we weren’t able to release it today. The whole experience needed a major overhaul to bring it up to modern standards. That approach was infused with it. in all aspects of Specter. We do, however, wear our inspirations on our sleeves a lot. “
Specter is slated for release on PC by the end of 2021 with three maps, two modes, and one training mission per side, with more content expected after release. Toms also said the team would be “absolutely happy” to add solo content if the game was successful enough, although “we don’t yet know what that would look like.”
Specter is available for a Wish List on Steam, and there’s a website with more you can dive into at symbiosisgames.com. As for Splinter Cell itself, the last time we checked Ubisoft was still shaking us mercilessly: it recently announced a partnership with Netflix to make a Splinter Cell animated series, but a new game is still a distant dream. Hey, but at least we can play Sam Fisher in Rainbow Six Siege, right?
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[Kramer alt copy]Elaine Sexton: Your photographs, what you call “investigations,” were first exhibited at the Art Institute of Boston with the curious title, “Interesting & Dull Shapes,” all taken in the historic Forest Hills Cemetery, founded in 1848, on the outskirts of Boston. A book/catalog containing the larger body of work, 1,600 images, digital photographs, accompanied the exhibit. Would you explain the title, which suggests that shapes we will find in your work are both interesting and dull, and how it relates to this body of work?
JOHN KRAMER: First, I should say that I used to live right next to that cemetery and also that I have a large dog. I had spent a LOT of time in it before I made a single picture. My personal name for the project was always “Oak and Ivy” because of the curious prevalence of oak and ivy leaves as decorative symbols on the grave markers. It’s why I picked up the camera in the first place. Soon after beginning the project, I became aware of actual leaves from living specimens of oak and ivy, and became fascinated by the striking contrasts between the organic and carved versions. Sometimes both appeared in the same frame. As a graphic designer by trade, it made me ask: why repurpose natural forms as symbol and decoration, and what does it mean to make them more aesthetically pleasing/uniform/flawless/”interesting”?
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[Kramer copy]Credit for the title needs to be given to my friend and colleague John McVey. Familiar with my project and an avid explorer of Google Books, John sent me a reproduction of an early 20th C. photograph of a half-dozen leaves — some of whose shapes/outlines were deemed either interesting or dull. (The source: “Beauty & Ugliness and other studies in psychological aesthetics,” by Vernon Lee and C. Anstruther-Thompson)
ES: What our readers see here, online, is only a small selection of a large body work in the shape of the actual pages, spreads (i.e. two facing pages), from the catalog/book, which is the true embodiment of the work. I understand these photographs appear in the order in which they were taken, so the “composition” is more organic, editing, rather that juxtaposing images on the page in a more staged way.
JK: I often wonder which of my decisions come from conviction, and which from evasion. This is an example of both, I think. The book is made up of nearly every photograph I made. (I removed most of the verticals, some near-duplicates, and some that were very poorly exposed, and most of the ones featuring Carmela, my dog.) If I had had to “compose” the book, design individual pages, etc., then first, it would never have been completed, and second, it would be making hierarchies and relationships that I was not then ready to make. I don’t consider myself a photographer; more like a visual note-taker. When the work was shown, I was asked to make enlargements of some of the works to be available for purchase. It was an interesting problem, figuring out which frames could stand on their own, in diptychs or triptychs. For me, the main component of the show was a slide show at the back of the space. Unlike the book, which because of its chronological arrangement has a diaristic quality, the slide show displayed (nearly) every image, but one at a time, in a random, never-repeated order, with videos interspersed. Both slideshow and book employed systems which created their own meaning — by proximity in time in the former, and time-and-space in the latter.
ES: In an earlier work of yours called “Dailies,” (HallSpace Gallery in Boston, in 2005) 4400 photographs from the Arnold Arboretum, were exhibited not as a book, but as an enormous grid on one of the gallery’s walls. Clearly, what you call “multiplicity and overabundance” informs your art making. What is it about seriality and overabundance appeals to you?
JK: This is related to the conviction/evasion I mentioned above. My use of multiplicity and abundance serve to de-emphasize the perfect, solitary image, and to evade the effort that trying to produce such an image would entail. Additionally, conveying “truth” through pictures is futile, as we know, but I cling to the notion that with respect to representation, more is more — especially when more approaches all. This is something I am also attempting to do with my own portfolio website. Rather than a collection of easily shareable, “best-of” works, I plan to include everything I have ever made as artist or designer. Maybe I am one percent of the way to achieving a sense of what that much content would look/feel like.
ES: We are featuring here a video made up of still images, “Names Are Words,” that you have modified for this site from its original form. Would you put the selection of these images in context?
JK: While working on this project, I started to become aware of surnames that were also common nouns. While these photos have no relationship to what became the main thesis of the work, I found they created a kind of list poem with three-dimensional typography that I found irresistible. The video was originally created for “ThisThatShow,” a multi-disciplinary event curated by my husband and occasional collaborator, Daniel McCusker. I created the sequence to accompany a short piece of music that was performed live. The video wanted a narrative arc — not a chance arrangement for a change! — so I grouped the words by category: adjectives, landscape features, animals, and professions.
A NOTE ABOUT INTERESTING & DULLS SHAPES FROM JOHN KRAMER:
I should add that the exhibition also included a mirror with a cast-iron frame of ivy leaves, a set of relief prints made from a series of stones that I had etched by a gravestone maker, leftover bits of gravestone manufacture, and a framed photo of a color-inverted oak leaf that is an homage to my touchstone throughout the project: scientist/inventor William Henry Fox Talbot. A viewer will see this work on my site.
[Kramer alt copy]John Kramer’s most recent exhibit was “Interesting and Dull Shapes,” at the Art Institute of Boston at University Hall (now Lesley University). Previous work has featured digital photography (solo show at HallSpace Gallery in Boston), monotypes (HallSpace, DNA Gallery in Provincetown, and a traveling exhibition called “Adversary”), video (film/video festivals in Boston, New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco), a post-it note installation (ICA/Boston), and an outdoor performance by dogs. He currently runs his own graphic design business, John Kramer Design, and has worked extensively for nonprofit and academic clients. His art and design backgrounds overlap with his interest in the performing arts, for which he has done sets, props, and costumes. Until recently he taught in Lesley University’s MFA in Visual Arts and BFA graphic design programs. http://johnkramerdesign.biz/
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Within hours of the oath-taking ceremony, the Shiv Sena leader addressed a press conference where he accused Ajit Pawar of backstabbing the people Maharashtra. "Paap ke saudagar," Raut tweeted after concluding the press conference.
Early on Saturday morning, an hour before Devendra Fadnavis took the oath as the chief minister of Maharashtra, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut took to Twitter and penned down a cryptic poetry. His new poetry translates to, "History is made by the people who have been laughed at".
Talking to reporters here, Raut also said the state will never forgive Ajit Pawar for this act of his. "Ajit Pawar has stabbed the Shiv Sena in the back. Joining hands with the BJP to form the government is betrayal," he said. "Ajit Pawar's decision does not have the approval of NCP chief Sharad Pawar," Raut said. He added that Sharad Pawar and Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray will address a joint press conference soon.
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Modern metal act Flying Cupid has revealed a new video for the track “Into the Light,” the second single from the upcoming All Turns to Dust full-length.
“Into the Light” is available today via Metal Insider at https://www.metalinsider.net/video/video-premiere-flying-cupid-into-the-light.
More than a simple music video, “Into the Light” is an animated short by Davie Brown that visually illustrates the song’s concept of transcendence beyond the earthly world.
“The animation process revolves basically around the main character walking through a vast desert to find a lost ruined temple,” explains Flying Cupid’s Abhiruk Patowary . “The character enters the temple and explores to find it’s filled with spirit entities. He is consumed by the temple and its spirit entities. The character is swallowed and transporting him to some kind of afterlife. He is then faced with struggle to find his way out, which is a metaphor about fighting his personal demons and finding his way ‘back to the light’ to return to this plane of reality. It closes with the character victorious, having completed his journey and ending with him looking up to a beautiful sunlit sky surrounded by an oasis.”
The “Into the Light” single is also available today via Apple Music, Spotify and Amazon Music.
Flying Cupid Video “Into the Light”
The solo project of 19-year-old Indian-born guitarist and composer Abhiruk Patowary, Flying Cupid blends the sounds such as Killswitch Engage with modern “djent” bands like Periphery to create a modern sound.
Patowary is a multi-instrumentalist whose musical journey began 11 years ago with piano, followed by drums five years later and guitar the year after. He was studying at the esteemed Berklee School of Music, but due to the pandemic, Patowary has returned to his native India and is focusing on the release of FLYING CUPID ’s debut EP. With the first single from Reflections , “Changes,” Flying Cupid this young act has already received coverage from Rolling Stone India and Revolver.
A prolific writer, Patowary also spends his time playing bass and guitar in the bands Acid Pit and Gaia , and working on other diverse musical endeavors outside of the metal realm, including pop, hip hop, a long orchestral piece and a jazz quintet.
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Not only does Pixar consistently have incredible attention to detail when creating their worlds, including Monsters Inc. (ever notice the hole in the chair for Sulley’s tail in the apartment?), they have enormous respect for the past.
Monsters Inc. contains one of their best references, a nod to the great stop motion animator Ray Harryhausen. Mike’s girlfriend Celia is reminiscent of Medusa, one of the finest of Harryhausen’s creations from Clash of Titans. For her birthday, Mike takes her to Harryhausen’s restaurant, a sushi bar. A six-tentacled octopus works behind the counter, a subtle nod to the 1955 classic It Came Beneath the Sea.
While likely out of the range for kids, it is a perfect tip of the hat for classic sci-fi fans, and if you don’t get the reference, you don’t lose anything either.
Monsters Inc. is not the funniest of the Pixar efforts or even the most well-meaning. It exists for its charm, seeing hulking monsters running away from a three-year old girl because they fully believe she is deadly. Boo (Mary Gibbs) is adorable, brought over from the human world into the land of monsters inadvertently, or so it seems.
Pixar’s imaginative forces craft a world where creatures do pop-out of closets to scare children, using the energy from their screams as a source of energy. The process oddly seems logical, where doors are stored on a conveyor belt system, brought onto a securing device, and then opening it takes the monster into a child’s bedroom.
The true story of Monsters Inc. is that of Sulley learning to accept Boo, and even having an attachment to her. When Sulley and Mike first bring her home, they fend her off with a trashcan lid and kitchen utensils. Later, he faints (three times) when he thinks she has been sent into garbage disposal accidentally.
Of course, the film ends with energetic, colorful action sequences, some of which can become tiresome, but the intricate animation and artistry used to create them is enough to carry them. Monsters Inc. will unlikely have the lasting impact of a Wall E., but it’s not trying to be in that same mold either. This is light entertainment, and apparently, Pixar will never lose their touch for that either.
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There are times when 1080p just is not enough, and Monsters Inc. is the example. Sulley is not meant for this generation, his 2,320,413 strands of hair (seriously) causing significant aliasing issues. His inner fur is fine, but those small, thin strands that protrude slightly are a nightmare. There are other aliasing issues as well, including the ceiling lights at 46:57 as Mike runs forward and the lockers. Also, a difficult, high-speed scene as Sulley races past the Abominable Snowman in a blizzard causes heavy artifacting problems for this AVC encode.
However, to be fair, this is Pixar, and when reviewing their discs, they are under an impossible level of scrutiny given their other efforts. This transfer is otherwise a stunner, with such rich, bold color, everything else in your collection looks flat and lifeless in comparison. Stunning contrast and deep blacks establish immense dimensionality in the image. Mike physically looks round as if he is popping off the screen. The first shot of Sulley, a close-up where he is sleeping in bed, is a remarkable shot that is astonishing in how much information is available in the frame.
Backgrounds are likewise littered with visible small touches. The cave scene has walls with patterns in the ice, and snow is clearly made up of individual pieces. Challenging shots such as the door room, with thousands of doors sweeping by the frame, hold up beautifully despite the complexity.
With the benefit of 3D, the final scene in the room of doors becomes a showstopper. The scene seems to stretch for miles, and shots that display the height are sensational. The tracks pop from the edges of the frames, and panicked characters poke their heads out of the center as they pass into the virtual lens.
While the highlight, the conversion process has been incredibly kind to Monsters Inc. The snow effect, despite being heavy and hard to make out, adds depth to the outcast portion of the film. Inside the Abominable Snowman’s cave, already perfect depth is accentuated via the glasses to create a lair of brightly lit ice. The work floor is a great watch, and as a villain, Randall tends to be extremely pokey towards the frame. There is an infinite amount of material to marvel at here.
Labeled as a DTS-HD 5.1 affair, this audio mix comes through as a 6.1 track. Regardless of the number of channels, this is a dynamic, active uncompressed effort. The work floor is vivid, with surround activity ranging from electricity surging, doors being moved around, and PA speakers filling each channel. When the government steps in, their helicopters swoop into each speaker, and shattering glass is wonderfully crisp.
Extensive use of the stereo channels, including dialogue and sound effects, are excellent. Whipping winds in the snow are impressive and immersive.
Where this track excels is on the low end, maybe even excessively so. When Boo laughs and Monsters Inc. has a power surge, everything drops into the subwoofer for an overwhelming blast. Likewise, when Sulley is forced to scare in the training room, his mouth produces low-end burst that ranks above even the most aggressive action movies on the market.
Note the 3D disc holds a Dolby TrueHD 7.1 mix in additional to the 5.1. It is identical to the DTS-HD mix on the 2D version.
Disney packs the case with four discs, including a DVD copy, digital copy, and two for the movie/features. Everything from the DVD has made the trip, along with a few new pieces.
A commentary is provided by director Pete Docter, co-director Lee Unkrich, screenplay writer Andrew Stanton, and producer John Lasseter. A filmmaker’s roundtable is a fun, light conversation that goes nicely with the commentary, running close to 22 minutes, as they reminisce about the experience of making the film.
Pixar’s fantastic short For the Birds is included, along with Mike’s New Car, which has a commentary from the filmmaker’s kids. A sneak peek at a new ride based on the film in Japan replaces an outdated preview of Finding Nemo from the original DVD. The second disc begins with a new game that will place you within Monsters Inc. after a quiz.
The rest of the features are from the DVD, split into two sections, Humans and Monsters. The Humans side contains 13 selections, most with individual sub-sections. These focus on the film’s creation and marketing, and there is quite a bit to go through. Some of it is short, so condensing would have been nice. The Monster side focuses on the characters, with brief clips from TV and promos. Far less interesting, but relevant.
Over on the 3D disc, you will find a new Toy Story short centered around Rex which is a real stunner technically, For the Birds, and outtakes, all of which is in 3D.
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Is Our Writers Learning? Libriomancer by Jim Hines (#SFWApro)
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I’m about two months behind in this series (for anyone new to this blog I read one current genre book each month to see what I can learn) but here we go catching up.
The Premise: Books really are magic. Libriomancers, an order of mages founded by Johann Gutenberg, can use the energy generated by countless people reading identical printed copies of a book to pull items out of the book into reality. Unfortunately untrained libriomancers can do it accidentally, getting vampirized while reading Meyer or Stoker for instance, so the order works to contain this kind of magic.
Protagonist Isaac had a disastrous field mission a couple of years back so now he’s a cataloguer, recording where useful items can be found in different books so that agents can grab gear fast. Then one day the dryad warrior Lena and a bunch of sparkly vampires show up at his library. The vamps attack him, Lena saves him. It turns out some kind of rogue libriomancer is attacking the order, fomenting a vamp/order war and has kidnapped the immortal Gutenberg. By lack of anyone else, Isaac gets pulled back in the field.
The Magic: While the premise could easily get cutesy, Hines keeps it under control. He also does a reasonably good job explaining why nobody can pull out the One Ring or similar super-weapons (libriomancers can “lock” books to prevent that). The explanations get a bit infodumpy in spots, but not insufferably so. And while I often get frustrated when writers make up their own magic system then GASP that the rules of magic are broken, that didn’t bother me here—possibly because “pull shit out of books” feels like such a natural premise.
Unfortunately, “reasonably good job” still leaves holes to drive trucks through. If Isaac can use the love magnet from the Oz books, why not Ozma’s magic picture, which would allow him to locate Gutenberg instantly? Or her magic belt, which lets you shapeshift, polymorph other and teleport? And the explanation for Gutenberg’s immortality—he used his printed Bibles to draw out the Holy Grail from the last supper—doesn’t work at all. In the Bible it’s just a wine cup; he’d need the Arthurian romances for this (and even there, there’s no indication it makes you immortal IIRC).
The Vampires: I love the idea of Twilight vamps co-existing alongside classic horror vamps and presumably all the other kind. Yet somehow we still end up with Isaac facing a sinister alliance of vampires interchangeable with Harry Dresden’s Red Court. That’s disappointing. Also I thought treating them as species (Sanguinarius Stokeri, Sanguinarius Meyerii, etc.) was way too clever—I’d expect people to just label them as “a Stoker,” say.
What I Learned: The most useful thing is to see how Hines tosses off references to Isaac’s past experiences. It seems like a lot of the time when I make references of that sort in my own work, everyone gets confused, but here it works fine. I think that may be because he either goes into detail about what he’s referring to or it’s something irrelevant he can just toss off and readers don’t really need to know (like a passing comment about chasing a weresquirrel with a chainsaw). I have a feeling my backstory references fall awkwardly between those two poles. I shall watch for that.
•Despite what I said above elaborate debates about made-up rules still annoy me. Lena falls in love with Isaac because it’s her dryad nature; he’s worried that therefore she’s not in a position to give anything you can call consent. Which is an excellent thought, but discussing at length what he should do just bored me—I kept wishing he’d left her free-willed so we could save on all the angsty debate (though the resolution was quite ingenious). The lesson for me is to avoid the same (I may be the only bothered by this, but I’ll be happier with my own work that way).
It’s a good book and I look forward to the sequel. And I learned something. So chalk this one up in the Win column.
(Cover art by Gene Mollica, all rights with current holder).
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[three: CFO Richard Woodward said a lack of low frequency spectrum was damaging its indoor performance. Dyson accused EE and Vodafone of sitting on unused spectrum, which he described as "fundamentally wrong" and amounting to around 75MHz of supply. He said Ofcom did not have a good track record on spectrum allocation]<IMG><I_8065><I_3449><I_3586><I_7470><I_2315><I_5712><I_3586><I_5712><I_3664><I_2157><I_3449><I_3586><I_3664><I_5159><I_576><I_1894><I_2157><I_7330><I_6695><I_2073><I_1961><I_3586><I_3586><I_2157><I_3453><I_4339><I_4518><I_4269><I_3586><I_3664><I_2694><I_2496></IMG>
UK operator Three is calling for a spectrum cap to be enforced to protect competition across the country.
The operator, which revealed its latest set of results yesterday, is demanding the country's regulator Ofcom impose a 30 percent limit on frequency holdings.
Over the coming months, Ofcom is expected to announce the details of a spectrum auction for holdings in the 2.3GHz and 3.4GHz bands, which has been freed up by the UK's Ministry of Defence.
Around 190MHz of spectrum is up for grabs although the sale was delayed following Three's failed attempt to take over O2.
Speaking to journalists yesterday, Three UK Dave Dyson said he wanted the auction to be designed in such a way that no single operator would hold more than 30 percent of the country's spectrum following next year's sale.
He said: "The UK currently has one of the most uneven distributions of spectrum across Europe. Under the current set-up, networks are able to stockpile vital mobile airwaves to the detriment of competition, choice and quality for consumers.
"Three believes fair access to spectrum is critical for a better mobile market for everyone. It’s key for a thriving UK digital economy and for continued innovation in mobile."
According to figures from Three, the operator holds 15 percent of the UK telecom sector's spectrum, but carries 39 percent of all data. CFO Richard Woodward said a lack of low frequency spectrum was damaging its indoor performance.
Dyson accused EE and Vodafone of sitting on unused spectrum, which he described as "fundamentally wrong" and amounting to around 75MHz of supply.
He said Ofcom did not have a good track record on spectrum allocation. He said: "There is very little evidence of Ofcom sticking its neck out and supporting the consumer. It’s not because they’re incompetent but because the standard of appeal they have to live by is relatively low."
He added: "We need support and momentum to give Ofcom more backbone and confidence to make the right decision so the future of UK mobile is more competitive and not dominated by two incumbents who are more interested in their own cashflows."
Dyson's demands for a spectrum cap reiterate calls made at the start of the summer. Ofcom has previously explored the possibility of capping spectrum holdings in the United Kingdom and has not ruled it out for when it sells off the 2.3GHz and 3.4GHz spectrum.
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[That said, he is slowly widening my music tastes, and after telling me about Boom, and then looking at their website, I could not miss the opportunity to go to such an awesome festival, despite being completely musically dense]<IMG><I_2498><I_680><I_3375><I_146><I_680><I_5320><I_7350><I_2635><I_1079><I_2157><I_2157><I_2490><I_1079><I_2174><I_5019><I_8085><I_2157><I_5320><I_2187><I_2490><I_2187><I_1165><I_1079><I_3449><I_2694><I_6958><I_2174><I_330><I_8099><I_6805><I_5019><I_6349></IMG>
Festivals have never really appealed to me, camping in a sludgy and muddy field with disgusting toilets and no decent shower is not really my cup of tea. My music knowledge also happens to suck, which may have been another contributing factor to my lack of excitement for festivals. My boyfriend, however, is a big festival-goer and has, ahem, quite a different music taste to me (mostly music with quite a lot of loud bass). That said, he is slowly widening my music tastes, and after telling me about Boom, and then looking at their website, I could not miss the opportunity to go to such an awesome festival, despite being completely musically dense. And it was probably one of the best experiences I’ve had in my relatively short life. The festival is held in Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal (an immediate bonus- no mud) and lasts an entire week, unlike the popular British festivals that cost £200 for two days. Boom costs around £150 including the Boom bus round trip from the airport to the festival site. Cost effective, no mud, and to top it off the toilets and showers were pretty damn decent – the toilets were all composting toilets, and although gross sounding in theory, they are a million times better than portaloos you get at standard festivals, and they were cleaned regularly which is always a bonus. All of these positive factors are just the surface attractions to buy a ticket, but once you’re there, the essence of the festival is everything. If I was to describe Boom in one word it would definitely be hippy. The ideals, the basis of its foundation is around love, nature, and even a bit of a spiritual awakening.
The Boom Vision: “Boom is based on the principles of peace, celebration, psychedelic culture, art, environment, knowledge, education, and love. The idea is to create a space in this time continuum in which people from across the world can converge to experience an alternative reality – thus inspiring us to collectively channel the universal truth.
Clearly not everyone who goes to Boom is a hippy, but there is a vibe, an unspoken respect for everyone and everything around you, there are no fights, no vandalism, everyone is friendly, chatty and wants everyone else to have a good time. Boom brings people from across the world together in this one festival to collectively celebrate music, art, the environment and psychedelic culture, respecting each other and uniting for the purpose of fully immersing in the spirit of Boom. This may sound very wishy washy spiritual hippy crap, at least I thought so when Jermaine described Boom to me, and I didn’t think I would feel the same connection as he had, but once you are there, the atmosphere is like nothing I’ve felt before. From such a large collection of people, a feeling of unity and love in this microcosmic festival world shows us a glimpse of what the world should be, instead of the harsh, suspicious, unkind and unloving cutthroat world we actually live in.
Moving away from the spiritual effect of Boom, the site itself is incredible, and huge. There was almost a half-hour walk from one end of the site to the other, with various different dance tents in between. The campsite area was basically up a hill/mountain, which makes for some very uncomfortable nights’ sleep, but after a week you do adjust! Next to the campsite was the food court with various different food stalls, most of which had insanely good food. On the other side of the food court was the liminal village, which held workshops, presentations, interactive talks, discussion panels, and films that ran right through the night.
Further along was the Alchemy Circle:
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This dance tent played some bassy music and was pretty good to listen to, however, I cannot tell you what type of music it played… I just know it was non- bone vibrating bass (the best kind in my opinion).
A little bit further up was the Ambient Source tent:
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This was my favourite area as it was really chilled and had relaxing music. There were also some trees surrounding the area so it was a great place to escape the almost unbearable heat, especially as there were speakers in the trees. Behind the Ambient Source area and leading up to the next dance tent was the flea market. Although not a flea market in the traditional sense of the word, this place was awesome. Selling all things hippy, punk, psychedelic, and much more, the market was a good place for the little things you needed, and for me in particular, the perfect place to pick up some hippy clothing for a bit cheaper than Camden.
The next tent along was the Dance Temple:
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This was the main dance tent, which blasted Psytrance almost non-stop. I learnt many things while at boom, one of which is that I quite thoroughly dislike Psytrance.
That aside, the Dance Temple tent design was my favourite of all the tents.
The next little stop was at the Gamelatron:
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This can only be described as a self chiming music machine. With cymbals and chimes, this self-running device made beautiful tunes that you could sit and listen to all day.
The final section of the site was Sacred Fire:
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With a sacred fire to gather around, and world music to dance to, this part of Boom seemed to have stepped out of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer’s Night Dream, especially at night when it was lit up, it looked very much like a fairyland, and thus nicknamed by our group.
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At night the entire Boom site transformed, places you visited during the day looked completely different at night, lights emerged from everywhere, there were even spots that were barely registered in the daylight, which suddenly became an exciting crook to explore. Boom became an adult’s playground, and a damn good one at that.
Aside from the music, Boom had an art gallery and across the week had various art performances, with a few hours on one of the nights dedicated to a range of performance acts from across the globe. Some of the acts were a little too avant-garde artiste for my taste but there was one group, Up-Coming Collective Bristol-Toulouse, that were incredible and have inspired me to try and learn how they do their tricks, which, from what I can tell, are circus based.
Another feature that I loved about Boom was the amount of people who were involved with poi, hula-hoops, juggling, and various other circus instruments and skills, there was so much talent and it all looked incredible.
The best performance that I saw involved fire, and lots of it. Luckily, we happened to be walking by when this fire performance started, and it was INSANE. The dance/fire performance was split into various little sections that used fire in different ways. The dancers had long fire sticks attached to each finger and fire headdresses, the ground was set alight creating pathways within their circle, and my favourite section was an incredible performance with fire poi.
For my first festival, I really don’t think I could have started with a better one; it was an incredible introduction to festivalling. On the flip side, it means that nothing is ever going to come up to scratch next to Boom and will probably always be a little disappointing, but in all honesty I’m not that bothered, I would not change my first festival experience for any other and I do feel pretty blessed to have had the opportunity to experience something as incredible as Boom.
All the images have been taken from the Boom Official Facebook page.
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“You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.”—Louise L. Hay
I want you to take an honest look at whether you are hard on yourself. I realize this has different implications for people, so let me define what I mean. For example, what is your inner dialogue when you make mistakes? Do you criticize yourself, saying you could have done better? Are you aware of a critical inner voice where nothing you do is good enough? Do you strive for perfection? Are you paranoid about what others think of you? The list is endless, but it gives you an insight into whether your relationship with yourself is empowering or disempowering you. But how do we become this way? What causes us to be hard on ourselves in the first place?
Much of it relates to our childhood upbringing, where we take on the narrative of our parents or main caregivers. For example, if you had a critical parent where nothing you did was good enough, you may have taken on this inner critic yourself. It becomes ingrained in our psyche and we associate the inner voice with whom we really are. I’ve written about my strained relationship with my father in earlier articles. I grew up in a home where my mother was a kind and compassionate woman; however, my father’s strict disciplining meant I could never meet his expectations. Nothing I did was good enough for him because I could always do better.
Fast forward years later. I adopted this critical inner voice and would berate myself for not performing better. I took refuge in sporting activities and pushed myself to extremes, training for five hours or more, which eventually took its toll. I wasn’t aware of the saboteur at the time because I thought I was being competitive and exploring my physical capabilities. It was only when I had enough of training this way that I realized the voice inside my head was not my own but the critical voice of my father. Naturally, I sought to prove it wrong, yet the voice was never satisfied because I could always do better. Can you identify with this narrative? Are you aware of how your inner critic plays out in your life?
We all have our unique stories on how our inner critic sabotages our life. I have come across hundreds of similar cases to mine in my coaching practice with clients. What’s interesting is that many of those who are successful are not aware that the inner critic is a fictional character. They presume it is their natural drive that is responsible for their success. When they learn to distinguish the inner critic from the authentic self, they stop torturing themselves because there is no longer anything to prove.
In my case, I changed my inner dialogue when I reached the tipping point. The new self-talk I adopted seemed foreign at first because I was unfamiliar with being kind and compassionate with myself. The inner critic would remind me I was being weak. However, I persisted in noticing the inner voice as it arose. The inner critic naturally fell away over time, and I changed my life to foster more self-compassion, kindness, and patience. It was what my inner child, the one my father had hijacked when I was young, was craving all along. I achieved more in my life and related to people more authentically instead of fostering disingenuous connections. The most important thing is that it felt safe being my authentic self. I never liked the inner critic but felt compelled to listen to it because it was the only voice I knew and I didn’t want to let it down. To be clear, it was my father I was afraid of letting down, not the inner critic. Have you experienced something similar, like two voices competing for your attention? I figured the critical inner voice had got me this far in life, so why change it?
But the inner critic is not the real you—it is an invented persona. To paint a simple analogy: A friend of mine who ate cereal for most of his life believed his tiredness and brain fog were normal. It wasn’t until he changed his diet to include whole foods that his brain fog and tiredness disappeared, along with improving his health. What I’m trying to say is: If we keep looking through a frosted window and believe the world is foggy, it becomes our only reference point. It is when we change our filter that we discover we had it all wrong.
It is only when we stop being hard on ourselves that we change our external circumstances and learn to be comfortable with whom we really are. As the saying goes: “As within, so without.”
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Now for makeup!!
Make sure to keep your makeup simple, sultry and sexy (remember the 3S). Even if your outfit is simple. You don’t need to overdo your makeup to stand out. You want to achieve effortless chic look.
You can never go wrong with a smokey eye. For Amanda’s super-sultry eye makeup look. Start by using, an eyeshadow primer, i would recommend Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer Potion (£16) . Try Stila’s In The Moment Eye Shadow Palette (£22.50). Smudge the deep purple, upwards and outwards on the eyelid, use the colour ‘whim’ as your transition colour and ‘wonder’ as your brow bone highlight and your tear dot highlight to open up your eyes.
For your bottom lashes,use the dark purple in the outer corner, ‘whim’ in the mid section and ‘wonder’ to highlight the tear-dot area. Finally,line the upper and lower lash starting from the inner edge of your iris (that’s the colored part of your eyeball—lining from here instead of from all the way in the inside corner makes your eyes look bigger) with a black kohl pencil (try Rimmel’s Soft Kohl Eye Pencil, (£2.99), in Jet Black) then smudged out a little.
Finish the look with a mascara, try Maybelline Volum’ Express The Colossal Mascara (£7.19).
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To recreate J-Law’s seductive, sparkling eye look, using the same techniques above, blend a shades of black all over your lids, using brown as your transition colour and pale pink to open up yours eyes. Line your eyes with a liquid liner on your top and bottom lashes and finish off with a coat of mascara.
To give either smokey eyes the glam finish, pair with dewy skin, peachy or naturally bronzed cheeks and a glossy nude or pink matte lips to finish off.
Finally, set your face for the night with a setting spray. I would recommend Urban Decay All Nighter Make-Up Setting Spray (£20).
Happy New Year in advance.
I hope you have a wonderful New Year’s Eve!
Whatever, you do this evening.
Thanks for your support this year.
See Y’all in 2015.
xoxo
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A good outfit should fit your personal style, your figure and your mood. The most important thing, is that you feel confident in your outfit. Please take a look at my selection below.
Lace Bodycon Tunic (£36)
You could pair this dress with a black clutch and heels and add a gold necklace and a pair of gold earrings.
Sequin Bardot Plunge Neck Bodycon Dress By Rare (£59)
photo: topshop
I would recommend,you to pair this dress with a black clutch and a black pair of heels and studs.
Cream Belted Jumpsuit (£55)
Pair this jumpsuit with a pair of black heels, black and white clutch and gold studs.
Don’t forget to add on an extra layer with a long cape or blazer.
Whether you’re off to a glitzy shindig or the house party, I hope you have a fabulous time.
Please, bare in mind, this is meant to be a guide,so feel free to wear outfits that suits your personal style.
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Topshop Bodycon Dress (£36)
Topshop Sequin Dress (£59)
Miss Selfridge Cream Jumpsuit (£55)
Black and white clutch (£12)
Forever21 Gold studs (£0.99)
New Look Black Zip clutch (£5)
New Look Black Velvet clutch (£10)
Forever21 Floral Studs (£1.65)
Nelly PS Caija Earrings (£10.95)
H&M Textured Cape
I hope you were inspired? Which outfit (s) would you try?
enjoy!!
Thanks for stopping by.
xoxo
In hopes of starting the year off right, the year’s biggest celebration takes serious planning. Well, New Year’s Eve makeup is on a different level. As this will be your very first fashion statement of 2015 and you want it to be memorable.
I have put together ideas to make sure you end the year with a bang.
Please scroll down and follow a step-by-step guide and get ready to have a very beautiful end to 2014.
For Amanda’s sexy hairstyle, blow-dry your hair with a large round brush, making sure to flick the ends inward and tease the hair at the crown for added volume.
To make sure your curls last all night, I would recommend using L’Oreal Paris Elnett Satin Diamond Hold (£6.70) to finish off.
For medium-length hair; you need to add some texture that lasts, so you’ll need to add grit. Please bare in mind that you’re trying to achieve a very natural loose stylish wave.
Start by spraying a texturising spray all over your hair; enough to make it damp. I will recommend using VO5 Give Me Texture (£4.19). Take big sections of your hair and twist around a large curling tongs; try the babyliss large 38mm barrel (£20),hold the hair for 5 seconds, and then let it slide down naturally.
*Please do not forget to use heat protection; you don’t want to burn your hair on this big night.
If you don’t want to use curling tongs, I would recommend braiding your hair, after applying the texturising spray. Then blow dry your hair and undo the braids.
I hope you found this post inspiring??
I hope you have had a very restful weekend!!
Thanks for stopping by.
xoxo
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Hello! How are you this fine evening?
I wanted to talk films…… yayyy. My other favourite past time lol.
It’s almost the end of 2014 and because i am anal when it comes to planning. I had a very busy searching the interweb looking and finding news relating to films I have wanted to see. I must confess that there are quite a few movies I am so excited to see finally.
The Interweb has been loaded with lots of talks of some of these very very big blockbusters releases next year. So I hope they all live up to the hype because I have been burnt before and no one likes to be disappointed especially when it comes to movies.
Photo: moviereviewworld
The Theory of Everything is a British biographical romantic drama film directed by James Marsh and adapted by Anthony McCarten from the memoir Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen by Jane Wilde Hawking, which looks at her relationship with her ex-husband, theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, his diagnosis of motor neuron disease, and his success in physics.
The film stars Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones in the lead role with Charlie Cox, Emily Watson, Simon McBurney, Christian McKay, and David Thewlis in supporting roles.
This film is due for release on Thursday 1st January 2015.
Taken 3 (2015)
Taken 3 is an upcoming 2015 action thriller film directed by Olivier Megaton and written by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen. It is the sequel to the 2012 film Taken 2 and the third and final film in the Taken trilogy. The film stars Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen and Forest Whitaker.
I am very much looking forward to where the story takes us next. With Liam Neeson in the lead role again; the ultimate action hero, doting father and a loving husband but can be very very deadly when you mess with his family.
Taken 3 will be released in UK cinemas on Friday 9th January 2015.
Photo:IMDb
Into the Woods(2014) is an American musical fantasy film directed by Rob Marshall and produced by Walt Disney Pictures. Adapted to the screen by James Lapine from his and Stephen Sondheim’s Tony Award–winning Broadway musical of the same name.
It’s cast includes Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, James Corden, Anna Kendrick, Chris Pine, Tracey Ullman, Christine Baranski, Lilla Crawford, Daniel Huttlestone, MacKenzie Mauzy, Billy Magnussen, and Johnny Depp.
The story is fantasy genre crossover centred on a childless couple, who set out to end a curse placed on them by a vengeful witch. Inspired by the Grimm Brothers’ fairy tales of “Little Red Riding Hood”, “Cinderella”, “Jack and the Beanstalk”, and “Rapunzel”.
Funnily enough Into the Woods is also due for release in UK Cinemas on Friday 9th January 2015.
Which film(s) are you looking forward to see next year??
Please leave your thoughts and comments below.
Thanks for stopping by…
xoxo
With the year coming to an end. I wanted to reflect back on this years red carpet looks that made me green with envy in 2014…Remember Taylor Swift outfit at the Grammy’s? And the incredible dress Beyoncé wore to the Met ball? These are some of my favourite looks of the year – which one is yours?
Taylor Swift at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards, January 2014
Starting the year off to a stylish start…
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Photo:Courtesy of Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times/MCT
Selena Gomez at the Rudderless Screening
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Jay Z with Beyoncé at MET Gala, May 2014
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Cara Delevingne at The Face of An Angel premier,September 2014
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Lupita Nyong’o at the 2014 BAFTA
Looked fabulous in her emerald green dress as she posed on the red carpet.
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Photo © Jonathan Hordle/REX
Which is your favourite? I hope you are all having a lovely day!!
xoxo
By Mariama Rebecca
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Hello Everyone!!
I would like to wish everyone a wonderful Christmas.
Hope you all have a fab day.
Happy Christmas
xoxo
H&M has just released a preview of their spring 2015 collection. I must admit that the line does look very tempting. With a mix of colours, and the classic black and continuing the white trend we have seen this winter. So you’ll be able to use some of the whites you have bought this season to stay on trend in spring.
Please find a selected of a few outfits I loved from the collection and be sure to leave your comment(s) in the comment section below.
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Photo: H&M
Click here to buy the blouse
Here to get the pleated skirt
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The spread, also features actress Mia Goth who talks about challenging herself, Marni Consuelo Castiglioni Swiss-born designer, takes us into her colourful home and Calgary Avansino style and well-being expert tells us how to kick-starts 2015 the healthy way.
Click here to download the iPad version.
I have already received my issue, so be sure to pick up yours at your local magazine retailer.
Please leave your thoughts and comments on this post below.
Merry Christmas Everyone!!
Thanks for stopping by….
xoxo
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Winter is well and truly here, the temperature outside has dropped significantly and people are all bundle up in warm coats.
For A/W14, a warmer outer layer is the life to keeping warm this winter. In short, camel coats are seriously versatile and can be worn with almost everything.
A camel coat is a wardrobe essential. They’re a classic, but have become increasingly popular this season!
Here are a few of my favourite picks:
Planet Camel Long Coat
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Click here to buy this coat
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Photo: atterleyroad
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Go and get your camel on this winter.
I hope everyone is already in the Christmas spirit and looking forward to having some time off work and spending time with loved ones?
Hope you liked this post?
Please leave your comments below
Thanks for stopping by..
xoxo
By Mariama Rebecca
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Gold inspired make-up,tops, rings and more for Elle France starring Karlie Kloss is full of sparkling inspiration this festive season.
Scroll down to see a preview of the stunning spread, plus my golden picks to inspire you to recreate this look this Christmas.
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Hope you have been inspired to try the golden look?
Please leave your comments below
Thanks for stopping by 🙂
xoxo
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DreamHack have revealed the talent lineup for the $100,000 Austin tournament running from May 6-8.
DreamHack Austin is set to begin in just under three days with teams such as Luminosity, Liquid, Tempo Storm and more in attendance of the $100,000 tournament.
The talent lineup for the American tournament will consist of a total of eight members, half of which will be new to DreamHack events, as the Swedish organization has just announced.
[incNpLIbIvQ XLv UnV]Alex "Machine" Richardson will be joined by Janko "YNk" Paunović as well as a newcomer to the analyst desk, CLG.Red's Stephanie "missharvey" Harvey, while Jason "moses" O'Toole will serve as a commentator alongside John "blu" Mullen and a fairly new duo in Mohan "launders" Govindasami and Joey "heliumbrella" Cunningham.
Meanwhile, Sue "Smix" Lee will return to the DreamHack circuit as the stage host. The full talent lineup is following:
For groups and schedule of the $100,000 DreamHack Austin tournament, head over to the previous announcement.
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[Stephanie 'missharvey' Harvey]NtSheepShagger
???, she was the person that said analysts shouldnt be too hard on bad teams, im sure that she will be too scared to voice her opinion and just go with whatever ynk says
2016-05-04 21:00
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Finch^
Miss Harvey as analyst? The same girl who criticized analysts for "being too harsh"? Yeah no way this chick is gonna be a good analyst, too afraid to even admit when a team is clearly outclassed.
2016-05-04 01:54
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#32
Rave[n]ouZ
missharvey is a huge narcissistic pretentious egomaniac. they mustve had no one else willing to fly to austin texas this week for that extra analyst spot. lul whats gonna be more cringe, she being herself or fake being nice?
2016-05-04 10:35
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Big Lighthouse
fuck me it didnt click that it was a 100k event in my head until i read your comment. just assumed it was something smallish based of the talent list and (no offence meant) it being in NA. Not been keeping up with things it seems
2016-05-04 02:16
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Medusza
Miss "analysts shouldn't be mean to shitty teams, that's bullying :(" Harvey as a fucking analyst. WTF is this DH I know Pansy is ESL exclusive but if you want gender equality at your tourney at least get someone who will be good at their job. (also stop snubbing Dust he rocked the panel at CevoP S9 finals)
2016-05-04 02:01
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#44
victoRious
So u enjoy listening to YNK go like this?: "So as you saw in the 11th round when olofmeister went for the flash into B apps and dennis did that little thing thing and then JW came out with his pistol...." Noone fucking cares, what are you even talking about. And thats coming from a oldskool FPS/CS player imagine being a newb. Its a good thing that last event realised that and gave him a screen so he can show it. yes 90% talk bullshit. 10% is thorin who atleast tries to create a story with maps, rivalry and shit.
2016-05-04 02:09
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Medusza
He's analyzing what happenned in the game which is his job I fail to see where that's bullshit or irrelevant, if you find it boring that's another story but ynk or whoever else pinpointing crucial moments in the game and explaining their impact is a nice thing to have and -get this- analyzes what happenned in the game. Like I said not caring or finding it boring is very different from analysis being irrelevant or unnecessary.
2016-05-04 02:13
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victoRious
Its entertainment. Do you think CS is rocket science and YNK is the only one that has cracked the code? He goes on these long ass stories about this specific round that happened 30 mins ago which the average viewer gives no fuck about. People clearly agree with this and that is why they gave him a screen so he can _SHOW_ it.
2016-05-04 02:35
1 reply
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terrorwr1st
dude please uninstall cs as you are probably god awful. it's called "production value" you fucking twat. he's reviewing what happened in a key round. if you don't care, don't watch, but saying "nobody cares" is an argument you really can't make, cuz u don't know. so piss off with ur shitty silver ass.
2016-05-04 17:42
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northamerican10yrs
the analysts just banter the whole time then give shitty predictions i predict more accurately than any of the popular analysts
2016-05-04 02:22
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Medusza
Banter adds to entertainment factor unless you're a butthurt fanboy who gets mad if an analyst shits on your favorite team. As for predictions, the context of analysis is something very important, it's easy for you to make accurate picks, the analysts job includes the historical context of the team, you could have predicted Tempo Storm beating VP at CEVO from a mile away, but due to VP's history on LAN and frequent slumps/dominant periods an analyst with historical knowledge would pick VP, plus the fact that TS is relatively new, and until CEVO relatively unproven. This is just one example but you can apply it to many other incorrect picks from analysts.
2016-05-04 02:30
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#146
Sindillermo
Literally one of the best things of DH Malmö. We could see all the little mistakes and every situation carefully analyzed instead of a clip taken from the match. I don't usually listen to what the analyists have to say because i cannot remember every single round of the match. But in Malmö, i didn't miss a single analysis
2016-05-04 02:15
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ragzy
Heliumbrella (aka caster for silver elite level players) casting and missharvey as analyst over Dustmouret in either one of those spots (I dunno how dust doesn't get more casting or analyst spots tbh)? What the fuck are events coming to. God there must be so much politics involved and "who knows who" involved with the caster selection for this to happen.. Heliumbrella is probably the #1 worst caster I've ever listened to... He's literally like if you made a smurf account, played 10 games and threw all of them and got into silver 2, then pulled someone random out of that game and told them they're casting a pro tournament.
2016-05-04 02:39
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hugoooo
I will die without understand why people care so much about 'talent' lists, while all the talent I care is the guy that controls the POV, THAT IS REALLY IMPORTANT.
2016-05-04 02:46
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Danixx
Hahaha missharvey. People actually like hearing her talk? Why not someone that at least does the research like Dust Mouret?
2016-05-04 03:13
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HLTVDoctor
I'm not a fan of Machine's desk host performance, since they don't work with RL no more I would say ReDeYe, Sadokist or Chobra are better alternatives. Not to say that there ain't room for Machine in the talent pool, he just feels kinda awkward and sometimes even uncomfortable as a host. I like the Machine + Pansy casting duo tho. Missharvey is a interesting addition tho. EDIT: Just realized that Chobra isn't available because he is doing the DH SC2 tournament :/
2016-05-04 03:51
#124
Kenian_nakkikioski
worst lineup of talent ive seen in long time. sad to see the "equality" coming to cs when companies start to hire women just because they are women and they "have to". not because how good they are gonna do the job. fuck this smix shit and missharvey shit. if they were males they wouldnt even get to work alongside babam. i honestly dont understand why smix is interviewing with her shitty accent and terrible knowledge
2016-05-04 08:53
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#156
avgHLTVUserIQ35
People don't understand that the scene is growing while more money are being poured into it. At this point in time a 100k event like this is a small regional (americas) tier2 event that one or two top teams might only accept the invite. Low NA competition, low talent too. Its a good thing that non-top tier casters/analysts are in events like this.
2016-05-04 12:11
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[jayfour]
can we get some casters that actually know the game? launders is trash and heliumbrella has no clue what he is even saying. both of them are consistently spewing false information. who are the retards hiring these retards?
2016-05-04 16:46
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FOURTIMES
Putting missharvey and 'analyst' in the same sentence lmao. Now we have someone on the desk who thinks that you can only criticise teams that you're better than, great. at least there's moses, machine and YNk at the event.
2016-05-04 18:35
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danoco |
tenshi
Haha, I knew HLTV retards would be up in arms seeing missharvey on a desk. But hey, it makes sense, because we saw her on a desk so many times before, so we all know what to expect, right? Fucking stupid idiots. I am glad no one is taking you morons seriously.
2016-05-04 19:59
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Rave[n]ouZ
rofl ur an idiot obv whiteknight alert ( nope not because its a grill but because shes a pretentious egomaniac ) but hey atleast you sub to her right KAPPA
2016-05-05 07:53
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For students, a college campus should be considered as a home away from home. So if you’d put a high-tech security system in your house, shouldn’t universities do the same for their students? Well, some colleges are thinking along those very lines.
The latest numbers from the U.S. Department of Education’s Campus Safety and Security trends show that 49,870 criminal offenses were reported on college campuses in 2014. This figure has gone down by nearly 35,000 since 2005, and technology is likely a huge factor.
“From a communications standpoint, technology has increased campus safety’s ability to communicate effectively with our communities through the internet, social media, mass texting, and intercom and public address systems, particularly during emergency situations,” Kim Richmond, the director of the National Center for Campus Public Safety, told HigherEdJobs.
Besides increasing the ability to communicate in an emergency, schools have utilized tools like apps and IP-enabled security cameras to make it easier to prevent and stop crimes.
In EdTech’s Spring 2016 issue, we reported about Kansas State University’s LiveSafe app, which rolled out in 2015. The app creates a personal safety portal that allows students to report crimes, access 911 and send friends a location update.
Like Kansas State, Rochester Institute of Technology has been using the student-created TigerSafe app for the last few years to make public safety more accessible and easier to report, according to a story from higher ed online journal Campus Technology. With its “blue light button,” students are able to relay their location and contact details to safety personnel and then continue the conversation through a phone call or text message.
Before the start of the fall 2016 semester, Seattle University rolled out wearable “panic buttons” — as small and easy to hand out as a keychain — which are paired with an app and can trigger a request for assistance even when students don’t have their phone, Campus Technology reported.
“[This] will allow us to capture more detailed intelligence on the safety of our students. We can use this information to not only respond more quickly to safety concerns, but to be more proactive in our overall safety efforts,” Craig Birklid, the director of public safety at Seattle University, told the website.
A staple of home security, IP-enabled cameras have also been installed on several college campuses to increase response time to safety issues.
“Our security department was begging for newer cameras that could capture higher-resolution details and provide intelligent efficiencies,” wrote Dugan.
After installing cameras across campus, including in the parking deck, Dugan wrote that they were quickly proven effective after a car was stolen.
“The surveillance cameras caught it all — from her plate number to the thieves scouting the site a few days before the theft, to the make and model of the car that dropped them alongside her car. All those details were instrumental in retrieving her car — within one day.”
A report in the journal Governing finds that 95 percent of large police departments across the country have committed to implementing body cameras on their officers. Campus police could be among the next to pledge. EdTech noted the Justice Department’s reasons to consider body cameras for campus police: reduction of complaints, correction of internal problems, documentation of evidence.
This school year at Rutgers University, WNBC-TV in New York reported that campus police at most locations will be wearing body cameras. Their patrol vehicles have had dashboard cameras since 2001, and Rutgers Police Chief Kenneth Cop tells NorthJersey.com that the “body-worn cameras add a layer of accountability for the police and the public.”
After the 2007 shooting at Virginia Tech University, many institutions have rolled out mass messaging alerts via text and email as enhanced emergency communication. But, as Campus Safety Magazine reports, not all campus areas have the best cell service or WiFi. In that case, a tool like Alertus Desktop, which sends notifications to all desktop computers on the school network, provides timely alerts.
One of the latest tools in this kind of widespread emergency communication is digital signage. EdTech has written about how digital signs can be a great tool for advertising university programs and how it can help with wayfinding and safety messaging. Like these desktop alerts, digital signage can indicate everything from severe weather conditions to active shooters.
5. Wireless Access Controls Are the New Lock and Key
It’s been decades since many universities have employed the simple lock-and-key as building security. Proximity cards and key fobs have become part of regular security at some universities.
So have “smart cards” — cards embedded with computer chips that keep student and faculty data and control access. Northwestern University is one of the latest schools to implement these cards as the standard for dorm keys. These small access cards are making a big impact on security for universities.
“We also find that wireless locks are making it more affordable for school systems to consider devices for each classroom door where, in the past, typical locking hardware proved to be too costly.”
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A coordinated group of hackers likely tied to international criminal syndicates has pilfered more than $1 million by hijacking ATM machines across the United States and forcing them to spit out bills like slot machines dispensing a jackpot, a senior U.S. Secret Service official said on Monday.
Within the past few days there have been about a half-dozen successful “jackpotting” attacks, the official said.
The heists, which involve hacking ATMs to rapidly shoot out torrents of cash, have been observed across the United States spanning from the Gulf Coast in the southern part of the country to the New England region in the northeast, Matthew O‘Neill, a special agent in the criminal investigations division, told Reuters in an interview.
The spate of attacks represented the first widespread jackpotting activity in the United States, O‘Neill said. Previous campaigns have been spotted in parts of Europe and Latin America in recent years.
“It was just a matter of time until it hit our shores,” O‘Neill said.
The Diebold Nixdorf alert described steps that criminals had used to compromise ATMs. They include gaining physical access, replacing the hard drive and using an industrial endoscope to depress an internal button required to reset the device.
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A promising ugandan singer with a fascinating Voice which is equally comfortable creating sounds from different genres like jazz, reggae, ragga, RnB, hiphop, electro jazz etc, Elijah Kitaka is yet to hit the scene really hard.
The talented drummer and singer who released his debut studio album titled ‘ Son Of Kaloli ‘ on 30th March 2020, is set to drop another mind blowing single, ‘BERA POWA’ which is loosely translated as BE COOL featuring uganda’s oldest and respected rap duo Sylvester And Abramz on 13th July, 2020
” It was one evening while listening to dear hip-hop by Gnl Zamba with my manager, so we started talking about the foundation of hip-hop. He told me you can never talk about ug hip-hop minus mentioning ” Sylvester and Abramz ” it happened that we had worked together at Bayimba Festival. Guess what I’ve never met positive & down to earth gentlemen like these two. A yes was the answer to my call.. And we are ready to share this beautiful piece we came up with
Blessed to be working on a project with Living hip-hop Legends ” Elijah Kitaka Posted
Sylvester And Abraham is a Ugandan Hip hop duo that has performed and recorded music since early ‘90s. They have recorded several songs as a duo and some of the notable ones are Lemerako, Kyendi Kyendi, Begendereze, Mpereza Akazindaalo amomg others. Even with less airplay on local radio and TV stations in their days, they managed to keep their relevance in the game by continuing to produce good music that has stood the test of the time in addition to spectacular performances in and outside Uganda and Yes they are Legends.
Though much is not known about the yet to be released piece, its surely gonna be a combination of ragga and hip-hop style and entirely programmed by Elijah Kitaka
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The Irish National Stud belongs to the people of Ireland but prides itself on being enjoyed and appreciated by visitors from all parts of the globe.
Nowhere better symbolises all that is great about County Kildare, the beating heart of Ireland’s thoroughbred industry, than the stud, a unique attraction of outstanding natural beauty that is home to some of the most magnificent horses and sumptuous gardens to be found anywhere in the world.
For well over 100 years, the pride of Tully has been a working stud farm, its central objective being to produce for Ireland thoroughbreds capable of being crowned champions at home and abroad. In that aim it proved an instant hit with Minoru, one of the first star horses born and raised on the stud’s idyllic land, triumphing in horseracing’s most important contest, the Epsom Derby, way back in 1909.
In the years that followed Minoru’s famous victory, the stud developed a reputation for consistent success, not least since it was bestowed to Ireland and her people in the middle of the last century. Now a source of national pride, it is the home of equine royalty, immaculately-bred stallions who can be seen and admired alongside protective mares, frolicking foals and athletic yearlings. Come to the stud and watch them at close quarters, marvel at their grace and grandeur while also learning of Ireland’s triumphs on the turf in our widely-acclaimed museum.
But the Irish National Stud is far more than just a centre of equine excellence. It is also home to some of Ireland’s finest natural treasures, in particular the breathtakingly beautiful Japanese Gardens, the finest of their kind in Europe. The gardens trace the passage of a soul from birth to death and beyond, at the same time providing a meeting place for the cultures of East and West.
Visitors can also savour the serene and spiritual experience provided by one of the Stud’s more recent additions, St Fiachra’s Garden, a stunningly raw representation of our country’s singular landscape. And when all that is done, refuel in our restaurant before leaving with one of the numerous mementoes available in the gift shop.
From horses to horticulture, the Irish National Stud offers you a unique experience that can be enjoyed at your own leisure or as part of a guided tour. Come to the Stud and share with us one of Ireland’s true treasures.
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Welcome to our Japan vs Spain betting tips, prediction and odds analysis ahead of their Olympic Games semi-final clash on Tuesday.
The teams have met twice before with Japan winning one game and the other ending in a draw.
In the games that they played, Japan scored two goals and Spain one.
Spain U23 have never beaten Japan U23.
Japan head into the game on the back of a penalty shootout win over New Zealand. The score was 0-0 after 90 minutes.
Japan have won all their games at the Olympics so far.
Japan have scored seven goals in the Olympics so far, conceding just once.
Spain head into the game on the back of a 5-2 win over Ivory Coast.
Spain have won two out of their four games at the Olympics so far, drawing the other two.
Spain have scored seven goals in the tournament so far, conceding three.
Japan have been on fire in this tournament and in better form than Spain. I expect the hosts to dominate this game and win 2-1.
Japan-Takefusa Kubo-Kubo has been in brilliant form so far in this tournament. Japan will need him to cause problems for the Spanish defence.
Spain- Mikel Oyarzabal- The highly-rated Oyazarbal will need to produce a good performance, especially in front of goal if Spain are to advance to the final of the competition.
Home ground advantage will work for Japan and they should win this game 2-1.
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The future of SFNS in the EU will depend on the development of contextual variables such as economic growth and climatic change, and on the responses of the agro-food system through innovation and policies.
The foresight will rely on the new SUSFANS modeling toolbox, consisting of short-term and long-term economic models to provide quantitative projections of indicators defining the sustainability of the EU food system. The quantitative information will be complemented by qualitative narratives derived from the scenarios reviewed by SUSFANS stakeholders.
In their new deliverable, the researchers presented a first step in the quantitative part of the foresight. Its main objective is to quantify the contextual variables to be used as input by models in the SUSFANS Toolbox.
The foresight has been deliberately designed to focus on solutions in terms of (a) innovation pathways, elaborated in the case study supply chains of livestock-fish and fruits-vegetables; and (b) agro-food-nutrition policies. From this perspective, the contextual scenarios are rather a mean to the foresight than its final outcome.
Quantitative foresight on food security has been expanding rapidly. It was decided to build on existing narratives and quantified scenario drivers rather than to develop a completely new set of contextual scenarios.
A literature review of existing scenarios, and participatory analysis with the SUSFANS stakeholder core group, resulted in two decisions:
Three contextual scenarios were selected for quantification. From the policy making perspective, it seemed important to develop a business as usual baseline, REF0, representing the reference scenario with respect to which innovation pathways and policies can be tested. In order to test the robustness of the developed solutions with respect to less favourable socio-economic developments, a scenario representing high challenges for EU sustainable FNS was implemented, REF-. Finally, to take into account too the potential alternative of a highly positive development in socio-economic parameters and their capacity to contribute to solve sustainable FNS issues in the EU, a contextual scenario representing low challenges for the EU FNS, REF+, was also applied.
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The Fly-In group visited the offices of 13 key members of the Senate Finance Committee and the House of Representatives Ways & Means Committee to discuss tax and other issues important to the geothermal heat pump (GHP) industry:
Tax Credits The current 30% income tax credit for installation of residential GHP heating and cooling systems, and the 10% investment tax credit for commercial GHP systems, were the focus of GEO’s visits to the Hill. “This is the most important issue facing our industry today,” said GEO Chairman Smith. That message rang loud and clear to the elected officials visited by GEO Board members and staff. The group explained geothermal heating and cooling technologies, and their benefits to both the economy and the environment. “Our argument that the credits could not achieve their desired positive market effect because of the Great Recession was well received,” said Smith, who remains confident that the tax credits will be extended for at least another 4 years. “Everyone in the industry has to work together,” he said. “With that strength, we can make it happen.”
Tax Extenders Currently expired tax breaks for business called “tax extenders” were also a focus of GEO visits to The Hill. The GEO Fly-In team emphasized the importance of bonus depreciation, business-related expensing, tax benefits for energy efficient residences, and a tax break for commercial buildings (known as 179D) to the GHP industry. The Senate Finance Committee passed a package of tax extenders last summer, which includes a 2-year extension (through the end of 2016) of these four pro-visions. The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill with permanent extension of 179D, while the Ways & Means Committee passed a bill with permanent extension of bonus depreciation to the House floor for further consideration. “We had many positive responses to our requests for extensions of these important tax benefits for GHPs,” said GEO President Dougherty. “Final action on Senate and House legislation is not expected until the end of this year, but may be complicated by the shakeup of leadership caused by the abrupt departure of House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH).”
Definition of Renewable Energy The Administration issued an Executive Order in the spring of 2015 that twice designates GHPs as a clean and sustainable option for future U.S. government energy purchases and consumption. “That inclusion was a direct result of meetings of GEO staff and Board members with Whitehouse staff, and is a big win for the GHP industry,” said Dougherty. Even so, he continued. “GEO wants to codify our technology into the Federal Renewable Energy Purchase Requirement in the 2005 Energy Policy Act. We are seeking a vehicle to amend the law, which will ensure more purchases of GHPs by the federal government, and set an example for the states.” The following is GEO’s suggested definition for renewable energy in federal law:
U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) “With the Executive Order issued last March that redefines clean energy to include thermal energy produced by GHPs, GEO believes that data on residential and commercial GHP installations is needed now more than ever,” said Dougherty. GEO offered to develop a data collection form to collect information from all GHP manufacturers with endorsement by EIA as a trusted third party, and ensuring the confidentiality of individual data submissions.
DOE Geothermal Technologies Office (GTO) The program office has started a Vision Study to ascertain the promise of all geothermal technologies, including GHPs. Dougherty was formally invited to join the study working group. GEO hopes the study will encourage GTO to take a renewed interest in funding of research to improve GHP technologies (article, pg. 7).
Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) Dougherty and Ellis met with FEMP officials to discuss the agency’s future assistance to federal agencies implementing the Executive Order as it pertains to installation and measurement of GHPs. “GEO offered its assistance on any technical issues that arise,” said Dougherty.
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Is chocolate better than candy? Or the opposite? Is there any difference between chocolate and candy? Chocolate is a food that is made from cacao beans. It is also called cocoa beans.
Candy is like sweets which is a confection that uses sugar as a principal ingredient. Sometimes it is called sugar confectionery too.
Differences and Similarities between chocolate and candy
Definition of Chocolate and candy
Chocolate is a food made of processed cacao beans mixed with sugar or ground roasted cocoa beans which could be used as an “ingredient” in many recipes.
Candy is a sweet-tasting confectionary where sugar or sweetener is a must and artificial flavor of the fruit, chocolate, or sometimes real nuts and chocolate added to it.
The invention of chocolate and candy
In 1847, Joseph Fry created the first modern chocolate bar, he discovered the moldable chocolate paste by adding melted cacao butter. By 1868, Cadbury which was a little company, was marketing boxes of chocolate candies in England.
The candy bar was further developed in 1849 when John Cadbury introduced his brand of chocolate bar.
A typical and good chocolate must have four ingredients, they are cocoa beans, cocoa butter, sugar, and milk powder. If it is not milk chocolate, then the milk powder or alternative milk will not be there. In dark chocolate, the cocoa solid will be 50% to 90%.
On the other hand, the main ingredient of candy is sugar, the main sucrose from sugar beets or sugarcane. Other ingredients are corn syrup, corn sugar, honey, molasses, maple sugar, and non-caloric sweeteners. These sweeteners can be liquid or dry.
For Candy, first sugar is dissolving in water or milk and then forms a syrup. After that, it is boiled until it turns into the desired concentration and starts caramelizing. Different types of candy depend on the ingredients and the duration of the boiling of the mixture.
For chocolate, fermented and dried cocoa beans are refined to a roasted nib by winnowing. After that, they are heated perfectly and melted into liquid chocolate. Then, blend chocolate liquor with sugar and milk to add flavor. After the blending process, the liquid chocolate is stored at the molding factory and poured into molds. Finally, it’s ready to sell or eat.
Color of chocolate and candy
Most of the candy contains artificial colors. Sometimes fruit color and flavor are mixed with the candy. So candy can be in any color and many different sizes also.
On the other hand, Chocolate colors depend on cocoa products such as dark chocolate, milk chocolate, white chocolate, raw chocolate, and related foods and beverages such as chocolate milk. Common colors are reddish, dark reddish, brown, and caramel.
Candy is beneficial for health, it Decreases the risk of stroke and heart attack — Dark chocolate is rich in antioxidant flavonoids, which are good for your heart.
Regularly eating this rich treat can decrease your risk of stroke and heart attack by 39 percent. But excessive eating of both is really bad. 2 or 3 candies per day is not a problem to eat or a little portion of dark chocolate is ok for daily.
Candy increases the carb, so we should avoid it as an addiction. Many people have chocolate and candy for boosting their energy and it also keeps the brain active.
Candy is the best gift for all kids and young. It’s pretty hard to find anyone who does not like candy. Especially the young kids are fond of colorful candy and love to get them as a gift.
Chocolate is liked by all. Even the older people are also fond of chocolate and they used to gift it on different occasions like birthdays, marriage day, etc.
World Chocolate Day was first celebrated in the year 2009. However, some even believe that people started marking July 7 as International Chocolate Day because it was the day when chocolate was first introduced to Europe in 1550
National Candy Day 2021 in the United States is Thursday, November 4
Ferrero Rocher is the best brand of chocolate in the world, millions of people all over the world buy this chocolate every year. The company has been a leader in the chocolate industry for over 200 years. Top chocolate brands are Nestle, Milka, Ghirardelli, Cadbury, Godiva, and Ferrero Rocher.
Chocolate and candy, both are so familiar with all types and all ages of people all over the world. All use these for different purposes. Both are not similar things but both are used for all most similar purposes. Chocolate can be bitter and sweet less. But sweet is the main ingredient in candy. Chocolate is healthier and better than candy but both are famous in their position.
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