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2 Current n. The flow of electrical charges through a material.
The electrical current was blocked so the Christmas lights did not work. Like a water current in how it flows through places.
3 Conductor noun A material through which an electric charge can move easily. Copper is a considered a conductor and lets electricity move through it. Pencil lead and some liquids and gasses are conductors.
4 Resistor noun A material that tries to prevent the flow of an electric charge. We can eat toasted bread because of resistors. They turn electrical energy into thermal energy.
5 Insulator Resistors that can stop most electrical currents.
They put insulators on the electrical fence so they could put it up and down with out getting shocked. Rubber, plastic, glass, and dry cotton are examples of insulators.
6 Lesson 1 What are the effects of moving charges?
Atoms are made up of protons, neutrons, and electrons. Protons are charged, and electrons are charged. Opposite charges Like charges repel. Electrons, flow between objects, changing the objects’ The flow of charges between you hair and a balloon is an example of electricity. – is the flow of electrical charges through a material. positively negatively attract charge current
7 Conductor – a material through which an electric charge can move .
Copper, gold, silver, and aluminum are good conductors. Some liquids and gasses are also good conductors. A material that resists the flow of an electric charge is a or Insulators can stop electrical currents. Rubber, plastic, glass and dry cotton can be good insulators. Superconductors are material that have no resistance to electrical charge and can operate at high temp. Ex. Metals and some ceramics at super cold temperatures. easily resistor insulator
9 Lesson 2 What are simple circuits?
Electric current moves in a path or circuit. A circuit contains a source of energy and at least one conductor. May also have a switch – turns it on or off. Energy – battery Charge flows from negative to the end. Resistors can change electrical energy into sound, light, or thermal energy. Ex. Light bulb, buzzers looped simple positive
11 Review 1) What is the difference between volts and amps? 2) Suppose a series circuit has three bulbs. One bulb burns out. What will happen in the circuit? 3) What can resistors change the electrical current into? 4) What is the name of the map of a circuit called?
12 Lesson 3 What are complex circuits?
Most electrical circuits are more complex than the simple circuits in flashlights and bells. circuits have more than one branch or pathway. Some hundreds or thousands. Not all branches have to be on at the same time for a parallel circuit to work. Safety always important!! Parallel
13 Safety 1) Don’t touch electrical outlets.
2) Don’t unplug cords by yanking on them. Always pull the plug instead of the cord. 3) Immediately replace the insulation on a frayed cord. Never touch a power line with your body or any object. Stay away from downed power lines. 5) Never touch an electrical appliance, switch, cord, plug or outlet if you or the appliance is in water. 6) Do not use cord-operated radios or other electrical appliances near a bathtub, pool, or lake.
15 Review 1) Why is the ability to turn an electromagnet on and off advantageous? 2) Name two advantages of parallel circuits over series circuits. 3) What is an example of a parallel circuit in your home? Name 2 safety tips dealing with electricity. Do all the branches of a parallell circuit have to be on for it to work?
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Over the weekend, I started making some changes to the Youtube channel. Now, here, it’s just one intro link, sidebar left. I don’t really use it anymore, the subscriber base has dissipated, and, honestly, I’m just not a video person (hence, this site, the columns, and the books). In the channel’s infancy, I called it The Perrin Lovett Show. Later, it morphed into a Freedom Prepper outlet. Today, it largely sits idle. So, I removed about 90% of the videos – the Prepper News Weekly episodes, other FP matters, and a few related to TPC – are unlisted (still accessible from the various base links elsewhere); the majority of the rest are still there, just private now (for now).
About a dozen of the most popular videos and those related to my books remain. I also stopped the comments, such as there were. And, I simplified my own YT account considerably. Call it winter cleaning. In not unrelated news, I have a housekeeping post coming later today about the blog.
Yes, a new YT vid on an older and popular topic. Enjoy:
Merry Christmas! With a few quick updates on things.
I hear the boy king is home now. The situation is in hand.
Today’s Prepper News Weekly, with a cool interview about Bee Keeping (we aim to please around here…):
Many thanks to Mr. Michael Rigdon, a really cool and dangerous man.
In other news! I just embarked on my most unusual and ambitious venture yet. I applied for a part in an upcoming Clint Eastwood movie. Everyone knows my acting skills (as demonstrated in so many low-budget YT vids) and my deep love of film and popular culture… Heck, it’s Eastwood. When I’m famous, you can say you doubted it….
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See, this is a “serious” headshot. Selfie. Shaggy.
Y’all have a good Friday!
First, limping along with the news at FP:
And, a welcome of sorts to the wonderful readers over at The Piedmont Chronicles:
A few remain hidden but the YT editor tells me that last one is No. 100. Wow…
Tom Selleck is hawking reverse mortgages, equity loans aimed at seniors. He says older Americans are woefully under-saved (they are) and the solution is a loan on the equity! Why not?! These things have been around a while. And all that while I’ve thought the smelled funny.
Without much research, my gut reaction is that this is a terrible idea. It might be helpful to some at times, but it looks like, feels like the end of the debt-ification game. Literally, the banksters grab up the last of the assets, issuing new debt in its place. Cannot be a good idea for the economy as a whole: ownership only by the financial elite only benefits the financial elite. Beware.
A video to round out (or make) an unintentional trio of academic stories today. Please watch:
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The videos are getting easier and more fun to create. Thanks to all that are signing on. With you good folks, the FP diehards, and our new TPC friends, this thing could take off. Stefan, check that rear view mirror!
Some things we can all learn from this, turning tragedy into positive reinforcement. From FP today:
Even better now that the shooter is in custody. Many thanks to a hero.
*Any discombobulation in video is entirely the computer’s fault…
Maybe not too good … but free!
First, if you’ve been following FP News, know that the news has moved:
It moved to the new and improved main FP site:
And, while I was making short videos, I finally got around to a real intro for my YT channel (which you should subscribe to…):
Market research tells us more and more people like watching rather than reading. Thus, the emphasis this year on YT. Seems to be working. Thanks.
That’s all for now. Only for now…
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Any angler who fishes for Grayling all have one thing in common, they’re not shy to lather their flies in the brightest, most offensive colours known to man! It’s all becuase Grayling simply love a bit (or a lot) of colour. Shrimps, pheasant tails and even dry flies nowadays are covered in pinks and oranges, be it a tail, a body or a thorax.
When I was last at the Funky Fly Tying HQ, I was instantly drawn to the new range of Senyor’s Fusion Dub, a soft, synthetic material which has much shorter fibres that it’s sister product, Lazer Dub. To the touch, it feels much the same as the be-loved SLF Dubbing, but with an extra pearl strand that really sets the brighter colours off – a trigger point, maybe? And the colour range is simply outstanding for Grayling lovers, pinks, blues, orange, purples, olives and browns… Need I say more?
As soon as I got back to the tying desk I set about tying a range of Fusion dub patterns, with much of the focus being on the ‘Eat a Peach’ colour – A mix of orange, pink a pearl, a Grayling favourite indeed.
I was most drawn to one pattern in particular, an adaption of the ever effective Hare’s Ear, but with a two full twist of Fusion dub at the thorax, and an orange pearl rib. The fly is subtle enough in colour to be fished for pressured fish in clear water, as well as fish that haven’t seen a fly for week. The soft nature of the material allows you to pull the fibres out with a dubbing brush, slightly changing the colour of the whole fly, rather than solid ‘lump’ of colour at the head… A fly that will produce many lovely Grayling, for sure.
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Posted by Sumaiya Ghani in Funny On 28th September 2020
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This angry woman wanted to let the trump supporters know her disdain so badly that she started taunting and yelling at them from the window. Unsatisfied, she leaned out of the driver’s window, from her waist up, to flip them off with both her hands. This all ended up with her crashing the car, even after this she continued yelling and pretended it wasn't her fault. Little did she know, the cops were right behind her and watching her every move.
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They say to believe in the power of karma. If you do bad, bad will happen to you and if you do good then good will happen.
This recent incident makes us believe in the karma even more. The woman as seen in the picture wanted to let the trump supporters know her disdain so badly that she started taunting them through the window. She wasn't even satisfied at that so she then flipped them the bird while also swearing.
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When the trump supporters didn't look too disturbed, that's when the woman got frustrated. She then leaned out of the driver’s window, from her waist up, to flip them off with both her hands. Even this didn't shut the trump supporters who started laughing and cheering at her.
Woman had a TDS meltdown over a MAGA street corner rally then proceeded to hit the vehicle in front of her while police were behind her 🤣pic.twitter.com/rEVEGeKNaj
The angry woman's efforts went in vain when her car lost control. It was too late to realize her mistake, her foot was already off of the brake. She ended up ramming the car in front of her.
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#4 She pretended to be innocent
The woman acted as if it's not her fault, she stayed in the car and continued to yell. She even started yelling at the front car driver, little did she know that the cops were driving directly behind her.
It looks like this woman is not the only one not happy with the trump supporters. Recently, an Assistant Professor of Biology from Marshall University was suspended for admitting during an online class that she hopes trump supporters die from the COVID-19.
The professor really hoped their death after seeing MAGA supporters going to rallies without wearing masks.
“Yesterday, [Trump] held one inside. Nobody wore a mask.”
“And I’ve become the type of person where I hope they all get [COVID-19] and die.”
“You can’t argue with them, you can’t talk sense into them. I said to somebody yesterday, I hope they all die before the election.”
“That’s the only saving hope I have right now.”
Regardless of who you support, you can never wish another person dead. In this case, the professor wished the whole group of people to die, no wonder she was suspended.
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Have the people of the world lost their collective minds? Are we witnessing the beginnings of a mass mental breakdown by citizenry worldwide? It’s as if everybody’s watching a medical thriller on Netflix or some other cable-based network. What the hell is going on in the world?
The World Health Organization recently declared a world pandemic due to Covid-19, the NBA suspended its season, the NCAA basketball playoffs have been canceled, the country of Italy is in quarantine, and Europeans cannot enter the United States.
People are afraid to have social interactions with other human beings; regulatory agencies are warning people to obsessively wash their hands, not to touch their faces, and to bathe in hand sanitizers and disinfectants.
The POTUS went on live national television and told the American people not to worry, we have the best researchers and doctors in the world and that they were going to create a plethora of antiviral medicines and vaccines in record time. Gee, I can’t wait to get those poisons injected into my body. Somebody needs to remind the POTUS that organized medicine, in its troubled history, hasn’t cured a single disease. They’ve been supposedly fighting cancers forever. How in the hell are they going to cure a new novel coronavirus in record time, unless it is fake and never existed in the first place?
The mainstream news is showing pictures of the coronavirus and people wearing hazmat suits 24 hours a day. If I didn’t know better, I would think something dire is taking place. But I do know better, and I also know that what’s currently transpiring throughout the world is a fully orchestrated psyops event that was created by gifted writers.
In October 2019, Event 201 was hosted by Johns Hopkins in New York City. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation fully participated in the festivities, which simulated a “very severe pandemic” that was supposedly caused by a novel coronavirus. Months later, the new coronavirus story has been put into action for real. This time the scriptwriters didn’t take credit for the story they wrote like in the simulation. This time you won’t have a chance to see the writing credits for the award-winning script. It’s too bad because the writers of this current movie being played out could strongly contend for an Oscar.
The people and organizations associated with Event 201 are backtracking and trying to cover themselves. They’re saying that the simulation was associated with a fictitious novel coronavirus and not Covid-19. Are you kidding me? This simple explanation is supposed to convince people that are not comatose, there’s zero connection between the simulation and what’s currently taking place?
My point is that Covid-19, like the simulated story back in October, is a false virus being used to scare people worldwide and mess with the public’s psyche. And the powers that be directing this movie script are off to a great start. They’re scaring the hell out of everybody and causing financial havoc along the way.
The movers and shakers of the world are on board with this psyops event. Welcome to Event 202, it is about to get crazier than ever before.
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Swisscom CTO Heinz Herren is stepping down from his position after 17 years at the company, with the CEO of a digitisation software engineering company set to replace him.
Christoph Aeschlimann will join the operator on 1 February 2019 to head up its IT, Network and Infrastructure and Group division as CTO and CIO.
Herren will oversee the transition and then reduce his working hours to 60 percent, focusing on strategic projects within Swisscom under the aegis of CEO Urs Schaeppi. He will also focus on ventures outside of Swisscom.
Herren joined the operator in 2001 as Head of Marketing at its former fixed line Fixnet department. After heading up the SME division at local and Group level, he was appointed CTO in January 2014.
Under Herren's leadership, Swisscom established itself as one of Europe's fastest moving operators in the shift to 5G, with plans to launch a 5G ready network by the end of this year and recently experimenting with fixed wireless access.
Schaeppi said: "Heinz Herren has laid the foundations for Swisscom’s good positioning in the SME sector. In recent years he and his team have ensured that Swisscom’s customers have access to Switzerland’s best mobile and fixed networks.
"Under his leadership, Swisscom has also developed innovative cloud and digitisation platforms that will form the basis for its success in an increasingly digitised world.
"His greatest concern has always been to secure Swisscom’s position as a technology leader, as he recently proved once again with the new 5G mobile technology.”
His replacement Aeschlimann was hailed by the operator as a "digitisation expert". He is CEO of software engineering company ERNI, which specialises in providing consultancy and engineering solutions for companies undergoing digitisation.
Schaeppi said: “Christoph Aeschlimann has not only extensive digitisation expertise and broad-based technical knowledge, but also a very comprehensive understanding of customer needs and the ability to anticipate market developments.”
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Got Kinda Lost Records—named after the song by ex-Big Star founder member Chris Bell—is the newest reissue imprint by the Guerssen Label Group (of Spain). Curated by Jeremy Cargill (Assistant Editor for Ugly Things Magazine), the label’s focus is archival and reissue work specializing in the realms of proto-punk, ‘70s pop/power pop, glam, psych, privately-pressed hard rock, and “out of time” treasures.
Hot Knives were a late period folk-rock / power pop combo from the latter ‘70s San Francisco—and held two ex-Flamin’ Groovies members in their ranks (guitarist Tim Lynch, and drummer Danny Mihm). Led by the hair-rising boy-girl sound from the Houpt siblings (Michael and Debra), and bolstered by the ringing, jangly guitars of Lynch/Houpt, and driving rhythm section of Mihm and bassist Ed Wilson, sparks flew when they united as a whole. This set collects the tracks from their late ‘70s singles, and a further batch of dynamite tracks pressed into wax (seeing vinyl release for the first time).
As music journalist Jud Cost (Sundazed Music / Magnet Magazine) says in the extensive liner notes, “…Hot Knives were a little too late for the '60s hippie trip and a little too hippie for the crash'n'burn punk rock brushfire of the mid-'70s,” but their consistent songwriting and way with a hook should appeal to all with a ‘pop heart’ beating in their chest, fans of ’60s SF sounds, and folk-rock.
For soundclips visit our parent label, Guerssen, paste the following link into your web browser: http://www.guerssen.com/catalogue.php?lang=en&ide=14984
Highlights:
• Got Kinda Lost Records presents the first in a series of exhumations from the realm of privately-pressed pop, with our first label release from Bay Area group Hot Knives.
• Recorded in the latter ‘70s, while still firmly attached to a ‘60s folk-rock style, giving it an “out of time” quality.
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Widely considered to be one of death metals few remaining ‘real’ bands, Decapitated have released their 7th album. It comes after the success of 2014’s ‘Blood Mantra’ and sees the band continue their signature sound, with a few experimental twists thrown in.
The album opens with ‘Impulse’, which (ignoring the incredibly impressive drum fills) does not sound like death metal. We get soaring melodies and crisp harmonies, nothing like the blaring riffage we would expect. But it comes eventually, along with some fairly Jamie Jasta-esque vocals. Right from the word go there is no sign of messing around, the ferocious instrumentalists almost assaulting their weapons, while still managing to bring back the lyrical melodies heard in the introduction. The 6 minute running time even allows the fuzzy introduction to briefly return, showing that Decapitated can provide an explosive track with complete musicality.
A tense riff supported by low, dissonant strings leads us into the blast-beat-fueled ‘Deathvaluation’. Something I keep noticing is the bands tendency to move away from the insistent power chord movement that a lot of modern metal seems to be obsessed with, introducing some more sympathetic, higher strings into the mix. A technically wondrous shredded solo is the highlight of the track. Track 3 is much the same, double bass drumming permeates the floor, but a new approach to the vocal delivery keeps it fresh, throwing in a few backing vocals and double tracking.
Halfway through the album is where we see Decapitated haven’t lost any of their classic style, with the groove and lead playing still being at the forefront of their brutal sound, which includes some of the most violent vocals of the album so far. Unfortunately, ‘One-Eyed Nation’ is plagued by production issues, with the vocals sounding too quiet, and a lot of issues with dynamic fluctuation, presumably coming from poor compression.
‘Anger Line’ yet again shows off Michal Lysejko’s drumming ability with pulverizing fills both opening and dominating the piece.
‘Earth Scar’ opens with some experimental recording techniques that give it the feel of an early 2000’s Nokia voicemail being used in place of microphones, before more incredible drumming leads us back through another brutal track, that at some points gives us the closest thing to clean vocals we are ever going to see from Decapitated. Again, sadly, it is plagued with docking issues in the compression, making the dynamics throughout the entire track climb up and down, which, when you notice it is impossible to forget. Much like when you realize Metallicas Lars Ulrich is drumming completely out of time on ‘Seek and Destroy’. The horror never leaves you.
You never get a ballad on a Decapitated record, but ‘Never’ opens as if it’s going to be exactly that, until we hear the distant drum kit begin to roar. We are blasted through another wall of sound that we’ve been fed throughout the album, and the quality still doesn’t dip, with even tiny features such as the rising scale in the guitar near the beginning adding to the quality sound. And that’s where we end in terms of actual ‘songs’, as track 8 is a slow (mostly) instrumental full of groove (and production issues, but no one in the pit will be thinking about that).
Decapitated have come back with an excellent album, it’s over before you notice it begun, but that’s part of the beauty. There isn’t enough time for it to become formulaic or repetitive, and the exceptional drumming and ferocity, but complexity, of the tracks take you on a journey that can be enjoyed both in the pit and on the bus.
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It is archery season but that's not something only hunters should know. With cooler temperatures and peak mating season approaching, residents will see more deer moving throughout the region and on the roads.
Monroe County is among the top 20 counties in the country for insurance claims related to animal strikes in November, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's Highway Loss Data Institute.
"Humans (and their cars) are by far the main predators (of deer)," said Kip Adams, director of conservation at the Quality Deer Management Association, based in Georgia.
Without seasonal loss — which can occur during a harsh winter — or an abundance of coyotes, deer herds can become overabundant, Adams said. In areas where population objectives aren't met, the state issues more hunting permits to kill female deer.
"Killing a lot with cars, that's not good for society or public safety," Adams said.
Car-deer crashes are responsible for more human fatalities than accidents involving any other kind of animal. According to the New York state Department of Transportation, there are 65,000 annual deer-vehicle collisions across the state. Since 2011, 27 people have died as a result of animal-vehicle crashes in New York state.
Many towns are trying to manage the deer population to lessen the potential for property damage, or worse.
Mendon ranked third in the state with 839 deer, including 300 bucks, killed by hunters in 2016, according to the state Department of Environmental Conservation, but the deer population is still strong.
Especially in Mendon Ponds Park, which is a county park where hunting is not allowed.
"The deer, they like to play hide and seek in there," Moffitt said.
Clover Street and Mendon Center Road border the park and have already been the scene of 60 car-deer collisions this year, according to Gary Loope, the clerk for the Mendon Highway Department.
"Deer are beautiful, don't get me wrong," Moffitt said, adding that in Mendon, there is not land suitable for a hunt program. "I would be open to any suggestion."
[Monroe County sign in Mendon Ponds Park.]The rut is on
The "rut'' or mating season takes place in October and November, which means deer increase their movement and are "far less cautious," according to the DEC.
According to Matt Moore, senior vice president with the Highway Loss Data Institute, the number of animal-related collision claims in Monroe County in November is twice the national average.
"Areas where traffic is high and in close proximity to deer habitat have a greater tendency for risk," according to information provided by the DEC. "Limited sight distances" can hinder a driver from seeing the deer before they are in the roadway.
Deer aren't only hit on rural, dark, unlit roads. In a highly populated and densely packed town like Irondequoit, motor-vehicle collisions with deer are common on popular roads, such as Culver Road and St. Paul Boulevard, according to Irondequoit Police Chief Richard Tantalo.
More: 6 tips to avoid hitting a deer this fall
Dan Seklar, who owns Advantage Auto Body in Churchville, said deer-related repair business has started to pick up "a little bit in the past month."
"Sixty percent of the time deer run into the side of a vehicle,'' he said.
Beyond property damage, car-deer collisions can range from minor and unreported to fatal.
Controlling the deer population is a combination of art and science.
According to the DEC, hunting remains the most effective management tool for removing deer and reducing the risk of collisions. This potentially saves human life while improving the quality and health of the herd.
“It’s a social aspect of the community deciding when they’ve had enough, and want to do something," said Wasilco.
Regionally, the DEC can determine that a population is too high due to the social capacity, which has a lower threshold than the biological threshold, Wasilco said. The DEC also has a management plan that is updated every five years after gathering input from various stakeholders, including hunters, land owners, farmers and others.
The town of Irondequoit operates "The Bow Hunt," a deer management program that enlists the help of archery hunters.
The program invites licensed bow hunters (capped at 30) to apply to the program prior to the start of the state's archery season on Oct. 1. Hunters must take a class before heading out to town-owned land supervised by the police department.
Irondequoit has seen a decrease in annual deer-related accidents since the 1990s, from about 200 to less than 40.
The town has opened up acres of town land for the hunt and monitors where the hunter is, what time the hunter is on the land, as well as what the hunter tags. The Irondequoit Town Board has enacted new regulations this year, creating additional oversight for the program.
"We are trying to do something about it, we realize that it is a public safety issue," Supervisor Mike Barker said.
In Webster, commissioner of parks and recreation Mark Yaeger said there is a deer hunt program because the town has seen "hundreds" of deer-car strikes. Webster averages about 50 reported car-deer car strikes a year, not including state roads.
Last year, the deer hunt program harvested about 20 deer. The program is "long-term" and Yaeger said the town has every intention to continue.
To qualify for the Webster bow hunt program, hunters have a qualifying shoot where they must hit the target area with five of six arrows.
Managing the deer population is "extremely important, for the safety of not just the people driving," but because of ticks and Lyme disease.
"It's not good," Yaeger said of the spread of Lyme disease.
Number of hunters down
The number of hunters has been declining for the past 30 years, Wasilco said, which complicates matters.
"There is a decline," said Rich Albaugh, manger of Bullzeye Archery, an archery pro shop on Routes 5&20 behind The Outdoor Store in Bloomfield.
Optimistic about the future, Albaugh is noticing more children, young women and single mothers, learning how to bowhunt and support their families.
"We strive to help people shoot better," and with accuracy comes more food packed away in the freezer, he said.
Although hunting has become less acceptable for some, for Albaugh and his customers, it is about being "great stewards" of the land.
In 2016, DEC's 11-county Region 8, which stretches from Lake Ontario to the Pennsylvania line, 58,747 deer were harvested, according to the state agency. The total deer harvest in the state was 213,061. The 2017 season is expected to be a strong one for hunters.
In addition to being a transportation system for ticks, deer herds can destroy shelter or food for other animals such as song birds or small mammals, Adams said. Deer are a "keystone'' species— they have "a direct impact on other species."
In January, a bill was proposed to the New York Legislature, to lower the age limit on hunters from 14 to 12 years old.
"Hopefully some day they will," Adams said. Lowering the age by 2 years would be a "step in the right direction," and is supported by QDMA.
More: Tickmaggedon? Maybe not, but Lyme disease DID surge this summer
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Have you ever wondered what "malt" really is, and how you get malt from barley? And what about hops, and why do we need yeast? Barley, water, hops and yeast -- brewers combine these four simple ingredients to make beer.
But it's not just a matter of mixing the right amount of each ingredient and voila!...you have beer. A complex series of biochemical reactions must take place to convert barley to fermentable sugars, and to allow yeast to live and multiply, converting those sugars to alcohol. Commercial breweries use sophisticated equipment and processes to control hundreds of variables so that each batch of beer will taste the same. In this article, we'll learn how events like Prohibition and World War II influenced the taste of the beer we still drink today. Then we'll take a tour through a regional brewery, the Carolina Brewing Company, to learn how they make beer, picking up some of the amazing technology and terminology of beermaking along the way.
People have been brewing beer for thousands of years. Beer especially became a staple in the Middle Ages, when people began to live in cities where close quarters and poor sanitation made clean water difficult to find. The alcohol in beer made it safer to drink than water.
In the 1400s in Germany, a type of beer was made that was fermented in the winter with a different type of yeast. This beer was called a lager, and, in part due to Prohibition, a variation of this type of beer is dominant in the United States today.
For 13 years, starting in 1920, a constitutional amendment banned the production of alcoholic beverages in the United States. Before Prohibition, America had thousands of breweries producing many different types of beer. But Prohibition forced most breweries out of business. By the time the laws were repealed in 1933, only the largest breweries had survived. These breweries sought to brew a beer with universal appeal so that it could be sold everywhere in the country. And then came World War II. With food in short supply and many of the men overseas, breweries started brewing a lighter style of beer that is very common today. Since the early 1990s, small regional breweries have made a comeback, popping up all over the United States, and variety has increased.
In the next section, we'll take a closer look at the ingredients of beer.
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Does beer really make you fat?
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Does a Beer's 'Born-on Date' Matter?
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Home Investment Quess Corp surges on Amazon investment
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Shares of enterprise offerings company Quess Corp Ltd soar as lots as 9.1 consistent with cent to at least one-week high of ₹479.9. At 12.20 pm, the shares of Quess Corp had been trading 9.81 in keeping with cent better at ₹483.25.
Fifty-one percent stake in Quess Corp. Amazon.Com’s funding arm will invest ₹510 million ($7. Forty-four mln) in the company. The corporation will trouble 754,437 shares to Amazon.Com NV Investment Holdings LLC at ₹676 in keeping with the percentage, and the investor will preserve 0.
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Quess’ stock marks the sharpest intra-day bounce due to the fact of January 22. Around 1.Four million shares alternate fingers through 0608 GMT, opposing the 30-day common of 417,790 shares. Nine of the 11 analysts protecting the stock have a “purchase” or ”robust purchase” rating, 1 has “preserve” at the same time as 1 fee it at “sturdy promote”; median PT is ₹830, in line with Refinitiv statistics.
The inventory changed into down 33.4 in keeping with cent this 12 months as of closing close ($1 = 68.5450 Indian rupees)
Shares of DEN Networks Ltd rose as lots as 7.3 in step with cent to ₹sixty seven.5, their maximum because May 20. At 10.50 am, the shares of DEN Networks were buying and selling 9.24, consistent with a cent higher at ₹68.Fifty-five.
Cable TV and broadband carrier provider posted a June-area income of ₹112.3 million ($1. Sixty-four mln) compared to a loss of ₹307 million years in the past. The general sales jumped 15 in keeping with cent. Last 12 months, DEN stated high-quality items of ₹21,100 crores, leading to a loss.
More than 763,446 shares traded, in comparison with their 30-day moving average of about seventy-six 800 shares. Up to the final close, shares of DEN have fallen 10. Five in line with cent this 12 months, at the same time as peer Hathway Cable and Datacom down ~26 percent in the identical length ($1 = sixty eight.5100 Indian rupees).
The textile producer stated on Thursday; it turned into taking flight its buyback inspiration due to the tax inspiration within the finance bill 2019 was neither contemplated nor triumphing on the consideration and the approvals of the Board and Shareholders. On April 30, 2019, the organization proposed a buy returned of three.8 million equity shares representing 5.17 according to cent of general paid-up fairness stocks.
As of final near, KPR Mill shares were up eight.7 in keeping with cent, even as peer Raymond Ltd changed into down 16.Four in keeping with cent this year. Asian shares pulled again on Friday as worries over renewed Sino-US alternate tensions weighed on sentiment in advance of the June trade information from China. However, expectations of a Federal Reserve charge cut later this month kept losses in check. S&P 500 e-mini futures were remaining up 0.21 according to cent at three,010.25. Those bets remained strong despite a upward push in US purchaser inflation in June and helped lift the S&P 500 index to a report final on Thursday.
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell indicated on Thursday that a fee reduction is in all likelihood on the Fed’s next meeting as organizations gradual investment due to exchange disputes and a worldwide increase slowdown.
On Friday, MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific stocks outside Japan become down zero.05 in keeping with cent in early deals, with Australian stocks dipping zero. Eleven in line with cent. 16 percent and Japan’s Nikkei inventory index trimming zero.
“Markets have loved a bit of a relaxed spot within the US-China trade battle saga because of the assertion of a truce and restarting of alternate talks on the G20 meeting. Unfortunately, headlines are yet again starting to emerge,” ANZ analysts wrote in a morning observe. On Thursday, US President Donald Trump said that China became not dwelling as much as guarantees it made on shopping for agricultural merchandise from American farmers.
“While this wasn’t a big market mover, it does serve as a reminder that matters should flare up again,” the analysts said.
Later on Friday, China will launch change information for June, with analysts awaiting exports to have fallen as weakening international demand and a sharp hike in US tariffs took a heavier toll on the sector’s biggest trading nation. On Thursday, the S&P 500 won zero.23 percent to quit at a record closing high of two,999. Ninety-one factors and the Dow Jones Industrial Average also hit a record excessive close to 27,088.08 points, rising 0.Eighty-five in step with cent at the day.
The Nasdaq Composite fell 0.08 in step with cent.
US Treasury yields have been higher following weak demand for a $16 billion 30-yr bond auction on Thursday and after the USA Labour Department stated its consumer fee index, excluding meals and power, rose 0.a The poorly obtained auctions had pushed the 30-yr yield as high as 2.672 percent on Thursday, according to Refinitiv facts. The yield on benchmark 10-yr Treasury notes was final at 2.1361 in keeping with cent, up from its US near of two.12 consistent with cent on Thursday, while the 30-year yield touched 2.6512 in keeping with cent, up from a near of two.639 in line with cent. Three in step with cent in June, its largest boom has given that January 2018.
The -12 months yield, which rises with investors’ expectations of better Fed fund charges, turned into at 1.8605 in step with cent, up from a close of 1.852 consistent with cent.
“The CPI record will haven’t any material effect on Fed steering nor have a widespread influence at the terrific Fed debate around 25 or 50,” said Stephen Innes, handling companion at Vanguard Markets Pte, relating to expectancies of the size of a July rate cut.
“After all, the FOMC is unquestionably willing to permit inflation to run warmer after spending the higher part of a decade looking to ignite those flames,” he stated.
The greenback fell 0.09 in keeping with cent towards the yen to 108.38, at the same time as the euro edged 0.06 in keeping with cent better to buy $1.1259. The dollar index, which tracks the dollar in opposition to a basket of six fundamental competitors, was flat at 97.044.
Oil costs picked themselves up after taking a tumble on Thursday after the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries stated it predicted the world would need 29.27 million barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil from its participants in 2020, 1.34 million bpd, much less than this yr.
Global benchmark Brent crude gained zero.53 consistent with cent to $ sixty-six. 87 in keeping with barrel and US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude changed into up 0.61 in step with cent to $60.57 a barrel.
Gold fees, dulled by the stronger-than-predicted US consumer inflation records, regained a number of their shine. 28 according to cent at $1,407.56 in line with ounce. Spot gold remaining traded up zero.
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Time and again (and again), survey results tell us that many cybersecurity professionals are close to burnout and are considering quitting their jobs or even leaving the cybersecurity industry entirely.
The reasons for this dire situation vary depending on their role and position within the organization. For example, a recent Ponemon report has revealed that security operations center (SOC) team members are stressed by many things: from increasing workloads, lack of visibility in to the network and IT infrastructure and being on call 24/7/365, to information and alert overload, inability to recruit and retain expert personnel, and lack of resources.
When asked what steps can be taken to alleviate their SOC team’s pain, the pollees’ responses were also wide-ranging (multiple responses were permitted):
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In a lively discussion that followed the publication of the report, Joshua Marpet, Chief Operating Officer of Red Lion and long-time tech and security professional, noted that there’s also other things that are getting SOC members down.
“SOC has little career path, very little respect inside or outside the industry, massive responsibilities, not the best pay, and almost no authority to do anything about what they find,” he pointed out.
The problem(s) with the SOC analyst role
“In olden days, being a SOC analyst was a respected gig. Entry-level SOC analyst was how you broke into the industry, learned about alarms, alerts, and notifications, and earned your chops in incident response, root cause analysis, report writing/documentation, and potentially, if you were awesome, in presenting it to the boss(es). Then you were either put on the incident response team, or moved over to digital forensics, or you could maybe switch a bit to DevOps/SecDevOps if that caught your interest. Even pentesting, if you got really good at blue teaming, which is a pretty good pathway into breaking and red teaming,” Marpet explained what he meant to Help Net Security.
“Now, in many companies, SOC analyst is a dead-end job. With the extreme specialization and commoditization of SOC analyst jobs, anything interesting is taken away almost immediately: ‘Oh! This looks bad, send it to Incident Response!’ or ‘I’m not sure what this is, send it to Security!’ SOC analysts became security dispatchers a while ago.”
K.C. Yerrid, an IT security professional who’s no stranger to burnout, also says that it’s difficult to grow from a SOC analyst role in an organization.
“There are six documented causes of burnout: workload, perceived lack of control, insufficient reward, strength of community, fairness, and a values mismatch. Any or all of these can exist and do exist at the SOC Analysts level,” he noted.
“Alert fatigue (workload) is a real phenomenon, and the rate at which alerts can come in could lead to a perceived lack of control in the outcome of one’s responses. We all know that SOC analyst jobs lack sufficient reward, and company culture dictates the strength of community. Finally, as mentioned, it’s an uphill climb to be promoted out of a SOC analyst role. The value mismatch can come from the manager or organizational level.”
A SOC is still a great place to learn all of the above things, but it is generally not a career path starter, Marpet notes.
“If it’s a job you can get, take it – for a year,” he counseled. “Unless you find a great place. I’ve heard that Dave Kennedy’s Binary Defense is a fantastic place. Lots of good places still exist. You just have to find them.”
To SOC analysts who are overworked and close to burning out, he advises thinking hard about the next step.
“If you’re understaffed and overworked due to COVID-19, and it should let up in a month or two, that’s ok. But if your manager is not taking care of you, informing you of what’s happening, if your company has shown no sign of fixing the issue, or set timelines to fix it, why are you there? Go network and find another job. If you have problems doing that, go to CyberSecJobs.com, and check out their listings. If you’re scared of change, hit me up – I do career guidance all the time.”
For those who decide to stay where they are, there’s always the option to try and minimize or remove the stressors that can lead to burnout.
Advice for entering and staying in infosec
To those just entering the information security industry, Marpet advises figuring out who’s the go-to person(s) for the field they want to specialize in – say, digital forensics or pentesting – then finding out when and where they’re speaking.
“Go there, say hello. Don’t gush, don’t beg, don’t cry – just say ‘Hi! Nice to meet you!’ About the fourth time you do this, you’ll see them answering a question you have an opinion on. Mention it. If it’s a good point, you’ll make them think.Then they recognize you from the times you said hi. They know you have a brain. And they know they want to know you.”
Those who still don’t know what they want to concentrate on should go to a conference (when and where possible), meet people, find a village with interesting stuff going on, ask questions, watch and learn.
“Networking is your friend. Meet people. Set up your LinkedIn. People will change their email address, but not their LinkedIn, or MeWe, or whatever is your social network of choice. Say hello and interact with them.”
For staying and thriving in the infosec industry, his best recommendation is to always keep learning: set up a home lab, a development environment, or anything else that will keep you learning everyday.
“Do you know how awesome it is as an interviewer to hear the interviewee get excited about their home lab or new open source tool they just put a commit into or a firewall vuln they figured out? That gets you hired anywhere and everywhere,” he stressed.
Coincidentally, continuous knowledge acquisition is also a way to counteract one of the key challenges the information security industry will have to deal with over the next fixe years: the rising tide of ineptitude.
Colleges are churning out qualified graduates, he says, but many of them are actually not. Infosec has become an overhyped profession, a “sexy” option for those who want to be “cool”. But infosec is a mindset as well as a job, he points out. Most importantly, at the end of the day, you have to be able to do the job.
“Becoming a data-centric business is vital, but most companies have no idea where their data is, what data they own matters, who has rights to that data, and frankly, what security is wrapped around that data,” he noted.
“AI/ML is awesome, fun, and amazing, but if you ask the wrong questions, or don’t ask questions that are broad enough, or targeted enough, you get garbage output. AI does not think for itself (yet), so it can’t tell you how bad an idea your question is – so you have to be careful.”
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EVG regular RyanAvenueA pointed out that a Nicky's Vietnamese Sandwiches just reopened on East Second Street east of Avenue A.
So to quickly recap the recent history here:
The folks at the all-new Nicky's said that they are the original Nicky's.
HOWEVER. We later emailed the family who ran the original Nicky's (and who still have two restaurants in NYC). Here's what they had to say:
"No. They are not the original Nicky's. We only have two locations now. One in the Financial District and one in downtown Brooklyn."
A family member said that they are aware of the name use here, but that it was OK.
On closer inspection, the menu for the new Nicky's looks similar to Vicky's…
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Previously on EV Grieve:
Nicky's Vietnamese Sandwiches leaving the East Village?
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As long as the banh mi is good I don't really care what name they use.
What's with the weird reference to Nikki Sixx of Motley Crüe?
I always thought Nicky's was way superior to Zon, even though I live practically next-door to Zon. I had a sandwich from Zon the other day and it was so salty I thought I was going to have a stroke from my sodium headache. Long live Nicky's/Vicky's/whatever!
Zon is a little different. They have those pork patties which are really good.
Zon's sandwiches are pretty much equal to Nicky's, but Zon's summer rolls are waaaaayyyy better.
I guess this is some form of flattery or a page taken from Samsung and their iPhone copies.
Why don't they just name it Icky's and be done with it? Honestly, we're close enough to Ch'town, where the things are 2/3 of the price and 3/2 of the taste.
I tried all types of vietnamese sandwich and Nicky's is still far the best and the original owner is back and the owner is very friendly.
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It was the faith Mr Sagvekar placed in his doctor that gave him courage in the face of a medical nightmare.
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People paint a very grim picture of how life can changes once you lose an organ to a disease. But the reality is very different; and often, it is very heartening. Millions of people all around the world go through this supposedly life-altering procedure but go on to live very fulfilling and healthy lives, following proper post-operative care. One such story is that of Navi Mumbai resident Mr Prabhakar Sagvekar who has been living with a single kidney for over two decades. How he turned his life around after losing an organ to a debilitating kidney disorder can give encouragement to so many people who are in a similar situation like his own. Also Read - World Kidney Day 2020: A reality check on renal facts
How it all began Also Read - World Kidney Day 2020: All you need to know about dialysis
In his mid-twenties, Mr Sagvekar was one among the many hopefuls who left the comfort of their native village for the bustling city in search of a job. I moved to Mumbai in 1984, and at that time, I was living with a person who belonged to my village, recollects Mr Sagvekar. But getting employed was not as easy as he thought it would be. I ran from pillar to post in search a job, but it was very tough for me in the beginning, he says. Also Read - World Kidney Day 2020: Signs & symptoms of kidney disease you should not ignore
[Sagvekar]What Mr Sagvekar didn t realise was the extreme pressure he was putting his body through during the ordeal. I remember travelling to far off places on foot in the sweltering heat, he adds. I never carried water with me, so I would go for hours without even drinking a drop of water. His hard work eventually paid off, and he landed a job in security at Air India. I didn t pay attention to my health, and I did night duty for 4-5 month, he says. The inevitable had to happen, and his health started failing. I started experiencing discomfort at first and then some pain in my abdomen and back, he says. When the pain started getting unbearable, he decided to pay the doctor a visit. I went to Vaze Hospital at Dadar Chowpatty and met Dr Arun Vaze. After some tests, I was diagnosed with kidney stones, Mr Sagvekar recounts.
He was told to get them operated immediately. Back then, the doctor performed laparoscopic surgery and removed the stones in the kidney, he says. He was soon back on his feet and went about with his life as usual.
For the next ten years, Mr Sagvekar had no problems with his health, and he was married with a child by that time. But things started taking a turn for the worst in 1995. One day, I noticed there was blood in my urine. I went to the doctor at once, he recollects. Initially, he thought it could just be kidney stones again, but he was wrong. His tests results showed that the bleeding was a sign of kidney failure. The doctor told me that the left kidney had to be removed, Mr Sagvekar says.
It was not an easy decision, and in the mid-nineties, the prospect of losing an organ would be frightening to anyone. My wife and relatives had their fears, so she was against the idea of removing my kidney, Mr Sagvekar adds. But he reposed his trust in the doctor. When he asked me what my decision was, I said you are my God, I leave it up to you, he reveals. It was a decision that Mr Sagvekar is thankful for even to this day. He went ahead with the operation with a lot of faith; needless to say; it was a success! I took medicines for a maximum period of four months, and those were to help my wounds heal. Apart from that, I didn t take any medication, he adds.
Today Mr Sagvekar is thankful that he placed his faith in the ability of his doctor. I have no problems; my body is healthy. I still do all the work I used to do before, and I eat everything: chicken, fish, mutton, everything! he says with conviction. The doctor never told me to restrict anything.
When asked whether he faces any problems, he is quick to say, Only sometimes when I catch a cold, coughing puts pressure on my abdomen and causes some discomfort. But that s a minor problem.
When his family and friends were worried about the operation, Mr Sagvekar knew that only his faith would help him pull through. He displayed immense courage, trusted in the abilities of his doctor and went ahead with the difficult decision, which could have impaired the quality of his life. Today, he is a happy man. On World Kidney Day, he only has one piece of advice to those in a situation like his: We live only once. Make most of your life and fear nothing.
Read: How much water you should drink to prevent kidney stones.
Six foods to avoid if you are suffering from kidney stones.
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[PBRV JaneMount IdealBookshelf DariusHimes: Vinyl is still around, television didn’t kill radio, college kids now want to become organic farmers, many stores within a few blocks of my flat sell working typewriters, the production process for books has never been more accessible, and you’re reading this on newsprint. Interestingly enough, newsprint, despite the shuttering of long-standing newspapers around the world, seems to be having its heyday right now]<IMG><I_5284><I_680><I_8012><I_1961><I_680><I_1882><I_8012><I_2811><I_2381><I_2157><I_2157><I_8012><I_5163><I_1569><I_819><I_5648><I_2157><I_1882><I_6595><I_3536><I_8012><I_8012><I_5713><I_3449><I_86><I_2007><I_5713><I_2811><I_4577><I_5163><I_1961><I_1542></IMG>
Whenever there is a cultural statement involving the “death” of something, you can be assured that a proliferation and rebirth of that very thing is already happening in the nooks and crannies of popular culture. The renaissance is usually spearheaded by artists, and while it doesn’t have the same mass-market reach, it is usually far more culturally satisfying. Vinyl is still around, television didn’t kill radio, college kids now want to become organic farmers, many stores within a few blocks of my flat sell working typewriters, the production process for books has never been more accessible, and you’re reading this on newsprint.
Interestingly enough, newsprint, despite the shuttering of long-standing newspapers around the world, seems to be having its heyday right now. I realized earlier this summer that I had been unwittingly collecting examples of newsprint for the past year: the ANT!FOTO Manifesto (Böhm/Kobayashi, 2013), the state-by-state LBM Dispatch of Alec Soth and Brad Zellar (Little Brown Mushroom, 2012–13), the newspaper supplement to IMA magazine (“Japanese Art Photographers 107,” 2012), Louie Palu’s Mira Mexico, numerous publisher catalogs (JRP-Ringier, Radius Books, MACK), and, obviously, The PhotoBook Review are all printed on a material declared “dead” by popular media.
Change, as the saying goes, is the one constant of this world. I like that sentiment quite a lot. While changes to global society, our national culture, and neighborhood communities continue unabated—think “river of life”— those changes provide rich opportunities for artists to express themselves through ever-evolving mediums. Change represents potential—positive potential, I would argue.
The printed medium is so perfectly universal, I get ridiculously excited thinking about it, and about its future. This has been said over and over, but the conveyance of ideas, both written and visual, through the printed form is here to stay. As Joan Fontcuberta wrote in PBR 003’s Editor’s Note, “As if the irresistible rise of online journals and e-books was to lay waste in two days to print, a technology that has endured for centuries.” Have we forgotten that the right to education, and therefore literacy—the ability to read and gain collected, collective knowledge—arose from the same foment that led to the invention of photography itself? There is no causal relationship, but they are both part of the new level of consciousness that humanity finds itself struggling to adjust to. I’m already sentimental about the future developments in store for humanity in an age where universal education, literacy—including visual literacy—and access to knowledge are not merely considered rights, but have been fully implemented. Did anyone think the application on a global scale of those lofty ideals would take less than a few generations, perhaps a couple hundred years, to implement and adjust?
My ideal bookshelf (illustrated above) is a mix of photography, art, and books about ideas. These are books that have sustained me from the moment they entered my life. They have nourished my intellect and my emotions. Open Secrets, published jointly by Fraenkel Gallery and Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, was a book I discovered just after college. Perfectly balancing works on paper, this book interleaved photographs, drawings, and prints in a way that resounded with a sensibility that had yet to be fully developed in me. I felt the same expansiveness when I discovered the exhibition catalog In Quest of the Absolute, published in 1996 by Peter Blum Edition. Here was a book and an exhibition that was published in direct response to—in conversation with the ideas of—an earlier show at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art titled The Spiritual in Art. This notion of a conversation over the decades and centuries between artists and writers is something that excites me deeply—something that the current interest in photobooks past and present so clearly taps into. The essays Mortimer Adler wrote for his masterful two-volume A Syntopicon: An Index to the Great Ideas are a perfect illustration of this point. By surveying the great books of the Western tradition, Adler delineates precisely how particular ideas—Art, Duty, Love, Matter, Time, Will—have been defined over millenia, and how writers and thinkers have responded to each other through their texts. The writer Ananda K. Coomaraswamy—the first curator of what was then called Oriental Arts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and one of the true great polymaths of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—complemented Adler’s work decades earlier through his prolific writings on art, philosophy, and traditional, sacred society seen through the lens of the world’s great cultures, including not only early Christian civilization, but the great societies of the East, which gave rise to Indian and Islamic culture.
Books are the perfect vehicle for that conversation. The book is a physical site of learning that, in turn, sparks the imagination, the world of ideas. This applies to both text and imagery. The photograph, and by extension the photobook, allows the reader’s intellect and imagination to come into play nearly equally.
The central task of producing a book is to manifest in physical form an abstract vision in one’s mind. The production process is one of coming up against the realities of manufacturing. All of us in the publishing industry—from artists to editors to designers—have dreams of what our books could be and what they should contain; we then have to come to terms with what is and is not possible or affordable.
This issue of The PhotoBook Review includes a focus on the physical production of books. The central piece offers the collected wisdom from more than a dozen book-printing professionals around the world. We broke the production process down into three digestible parts: choosing materials, preparing files for reproduction, and the experience of being on press.
As I’m writing this, I have just returned from the New York Art Book Fair, where evidence of the love of books’ form is plentiful. Examples ranged from MIT Press’s Various Small Books (a survey of photography books responding to Ed Ruscha’s small photo-conceptual artist’s books) to Aaron Canipe’s Eden, a humble, saddle-stitched book of photographs in homage and response to Robert Adams’s book of the same title. What The PhotoBook Review hopes to further and facilitate is that conversation among artists and photographers that was so abundantly evident at MoMA PS1. I hope you enjoy this issue.
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Darius Himes is a director of Fraenkel Gallery. He was a cofounder of Radius Books and the first editor of the photo-eye Booklist, a journal dedicated to photography books. His first title, Publish Your Photography Book (Princeton Architectural Press), coauthored with Mary Virginia Swanson, will be reissued in a second edition in the spring of 2014. He lives and works in San Francisco but considers himself a global citizen.
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They’re concerned about a “dramatic increase” in HIV rates among gay, bisexual and transgender Latinx.
Alarmed by increasing HIV rates among Latinx men who have sex with men and transgender Latina women of all ages, the National Hispanic Medical Association hosted a meeting in Atlanta for community leaders to address the situation. Specifically, they assessed, discussed and identified action steps to be taken to help reverse the trend.
According to a press release from the Latino Commission on AIDS, the meeting enumerated several action steps to address the unique challenges facing the Latinx community. “Participants recognized the devastation of HIV,” the press release states, “the barriers to prevention and care services, the impact of stigma, immigration, culture, race and the social determinants of health that impact Hispanic/Latinx in the United States, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.”
The next steps and goals are currently being drafted, and participants will review them at upcoming meetings before they are publicized.
The meeting was not the first effort of national Latinx groups to address the HIV problem. In March 2018, a group of 147 organizations and 176 individual leaders sent a letter to Eugene McCray, MD, director of the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention.
The letter detailed the crisis in the Latinx community before spelling out a call to action:
As observed, the disproportionate impact of HIV among Latino gay and bisexual men and transgender women is a concerning issue within this ethnic group. Whereas many communities throughout the U.S. have seen a decrease in infection rates, many of the most vulnerable Latino/Hispanic communities have seen an increase in HIV infection rates and other STIs. We are deeply concerned with many of the regions that have seen increases in infection rates among members of the Latino community such as the U.S. Southeast region and the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico. About seven in ten new HIV diagnoses in Latinos happens among gay and bisexual men, and less than half of those infected with HIV have achieved viral suppression.
We request that the CDC National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention call for an internal consultation to explore how the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention could optimally address the dramatic increase in HIV infections among Latino MSM, YMSM [young men who have sex with men] and transgender Latina women. We strongly believe that an internal consultation is necessary to coordinate a national response that will mitigate the impact that these new HIV infections will have on our most vulnerable Latino communities. We would like to begin conversations and facilitate a better public health response to this serious trend of new HIV infections affecting our communities.
In addition to the cosigning organizations and individuals, the letter was signed by Oscar De La O of Bienestar, Guillermo Chacon of Latino Commission on AIDS, José Joaquín Mulinelli of Coaí (in Puerto Rico), Oscar Raul López of Valley AIDS Council and Alicia Wilson of La Clínica del Pueblo Inc.
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This album didn’t jump down my throat till the second track (Bonefire). Sure, the first track had some neat sounds to begin with, a solid beat, a cool theme, but it had this fucking guitar solo sound that threw me off like an armless kid from a merry-go-round. “Sweet Lord,” I thought, “what the fuck is this shit?” I love myself a deep groove on an electronica album and I just hated this fucking sound. So, because I’m an asshole sometimes I turned that shit off so I could try it for another day. Eventually I went back cause really, how much of an asshole can I really be?
In many ways this is a very basic electronica album. You’ll know the themes, the chapters, you’ll see all the same lovable characters, and then about one minute into the second song these characters morph into new creatures. What the fuck? The story may be the same, but this shit is changed up so much you don’t know what it is anymore. It would be like the first time you ever saw your dad in drag. Sure, it’s the same guy, but is this really how you know this shit? Then this Bon Iver sounding motherfucker starts to sing on the album, then a robot, and then you really start getting into that classic groove with a wicked rebrand.
Here’s the thing, if I can predict an electronic album from start to finish, it’s not doing its fucking job. There are hundreds of thousands of sounds to choose from when you choose to make an electronic album. If that shit sounds preset, I’m throwing it the fuck out. Cause what’s the deal? If I’m in an ice-cream shop that serves a thousand fucking flavours, you better bet your ass I’m not choosing your vanilla. Keep that basic shit to yourself.
The beauty of Koze is the universe he creates. He combines styles of music that you never thought would sound good together. If you don’t like what’s on, just chill, something else will come. At times you’ll hear rap, experimental, world music, jazz, dance, disco, all at the same time. What’s even better is that it doesn’t come off too fucking complicated. He didn’t just take that vanilla ice cream, dip that shit in chocolate, then caramel, then strawberry, then a collection of Vietnamese newspaper clippings, add sprinkles, and then call that shit new. It feels organic. It’s like it was always there, you just can’t remember the album. Now, if you don’t know already, when somebody does something brand fucking new and makes that shit seamless? That’s takes talent. That takes dedication. That’s fucking art.
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Across Morocco: Friar Robert Mokry on Mission For the World’s Christians
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When you think about a Franciscan friar on mission, you don’t immediately picture him in a Muslim country. Yet in eight years of mission work, Friar Robert Mokry lived in three different Franciscan communities in Morocco. To his great surprise, there was a significant number of foreign Christians there. Morocco allows foreigners to practice their religion freely, as long as they don’t proselytize.
In practical terms, how does a Franciscan priest on mission in Morocco spend his days?
Turning Back to God
“While traveling through Morocco, I was struck by the people’s simple, trusting faith in a merciful God who would help them to bear their desperate poverty and provide a purpose to their life.”
This way of seeing and understanding God fascinated him. Their surrender, trust and unwavering faith in a loving God allowed him to reflect on and deepen his own faith.
After a few years of Franciscan life and after his religious order asked for friars to go on mission in Morocco, this call began to be heard and to echo in his heart and mind. To the point that during a sabbatical year, he went to live for a while with some Franciscans who were on mission in Morocco. This new experience led him to a clear discernment. It was obvious that God was calling him.
Focusing on similarities instead of differences
Canada and Morocco are worlds apart. Obviously, the differences are many and pronounced: religion, customs, language, vegetation, etc.
And yet, Friar Mokry would rather look at similarities than differences. “There is a possibility, through the dialogue of a common life, to show a common faith in God, and for Christians to make known the immensity of Christ’s saving love for all people.”
The aim of a Christian missionary in a Muslim country is definitely not to convert people. Rather, it’s about journeying with Christians who are already there while doing all they can to meet the needs of the poor.
“My ministry work was predominantly in Catholic communities, made up of French people and other Europeans and large numbers of sub-Saharan African students and many Christian and Muslim migrants. Essentially, it was not so different from our multi-ethnic North American parishes.”
Through the variety of encounters and the wide range of lived experience, you can tell that the life of a missionary is very rewarding.
“My experience of mission was gratifying for many reasons. There was the possibility to interact with men and women of other religious faiths, with friendships and rich life-shaping experiences, and with the possibility to participate in our common Franciscan life with friars from different countries and culture.”
Although it is amazing, the day-to-day missionary experience is not a life of ease: constant adaptation, isolation, looking beyond biases, acceptance of a loss of control, a flood of emotions, physical and moral exhaustion, and more. These are things a missionary must be prepared to overcome or manage. Still, these obstacles and a mixture of all these experiences are what connected him the most with his faith and his community.
“It was the entirety of those experiences, especially among my Muslim brothers and sisters, that brought me to see God’s love and action in ways I had not previously considered, and to pray differently, and to rediscover the joy of my Franciscan commitment.”
Depending on the community, the needs of Catholics vary greatly. Franciscans on mission in Morocco adapt to their brothers and sisters. When Friar Robert was working in Morocco, his work took him to three Franciscan communities in three very different cities: Meknes, Rabat and Marrakesh.
In Meknes, the friars worked with Moroccans of all ages. “We Franciscans lived in the old medina and operated, with many Moroccan volunteers, a sort of drop-in school, offering instruction in European languages and computer technology.” The brothers also travelled to small Christian communities in the region, especially in more rural areas where the Petites soeurs de Charles de Foucauld maintained a presence of the Church and served the local people.
“In the larger and more cosmopolitan city of Rabat, our Franciscan church served the English and Spanish Sunday communities, and we also welcomed people to our daily French-language celebrations in the chapel. The ministry was more urban oriented, although we also ministered to the poor migrants by trying to help them in their oppressive situations.”
In Marrakesh, a major tourist destination, the situation and the work were very different. A large church was home to a permanent congregation of Europeans. Talented African students led the music at the Sunday liturgies, which attracted many tourists.
“We regularly crossed the High Atlas mountains to celebrate mass and be with the small Catholic community in Ouarzazate, where several Sisters of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary cared for the Church.”
They were also involved in prison chaplaincy, helping migrants and assisting Caritas in supporting women living in poverty in Morocco.
In February 2016, he was asked to return to Canada to attend the Provincial Chapter of his Franciscan Province, Christ the King, in western Canada. There, he was elected Minister Provincial of his province for a brief term, until the Canada-wide Holy Spirit province was created in 2018.
This new, hope-filled province is thriving and is adapting to the realities of 2020. Some friars from the former province of eastern Canada now serve in the west, and vice versa. Young friars are taking on more and more management responsibilities. A lot of effort goes into the search for new vocations. The province regularly welcomes friars from around the world who have come to serve the Canadian Church.
Since the Holy Spirit province was created, Friar Mokry has served as vicar provincial, guardian of the Edmonton fraternity, director of the temporary professed and director of the Commissariat of the Holy Land, for which he must travel to Ottawa one week per month.
While he hopes to reduce his duties over time, he is ready to serve where he is needed.
If he hears the call, he will always be ready to move mountains, from the High Atlas or elsewhere, for the world’s Christians.
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In the 1960s, Mastermodels were lucky enough to be involved with the making of many iconic vehicles for Gerry Anderson’s TV shows. From the early TV series of Fireball XL5 and Supercar, through to the now legendary Thunderbirds and Joe 90. We made many of the models for the feature film “Thunderbirds are Go!” including the Zero X model which can be seen in the photos below.
At this time, Pathé News made a short film about our model making factory. Many of the Thunderbirds models can be seen in the film along with model makers, a couple of whom still work here today.
We were recently asked to restore the front part of the large scale Zero-X command module filming miniature for The Prop Gallery, a full write up of the restoration can be seen here.
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Poco C3 to Launch on 6th October in India, might be a Rebranded Redmi 9C
Poco is all set to launch another series of smartphones in the Indian market. Poco has already 2 series of smartphones in the global market, the Poco F-series and X-series. The smartphones from Poco are quite subtle with their pricing but the sad thing is that after Poco F1, most of their smartphones are only the rebranded version of Redmi smartphones that were previously launched in the China mainland and a few in the global market. Poco might be a sub-brand of Xiaomi but it looks like that instead of Xiaomi, it is a sub-brand of Redmi itself. Well, going on, Poco confirmed that they are going to announce the new Poco C3 on 6th October in India. And the report says that it might be the rebranded version of the previously launched Redmi 9C.
Poco officials, this time took the micro-blogging site Twitter to convey the announcement to the world. The Official Twitter handle of Poco India posted that, “Get ready to own the photography game. The #GameChang3r is arriving on 6th October @ 12PM on @Flipkart.“
Get ready to own the photography game. The #GameChang3r is arriving on 6th October @ 12PM on @Flipkart.RT if you want to own the #POCOC3 before anyone else.Find out more 👉 https://t.co/6mcS8pyRWf pic.twitter.com/McjvM3rcur
The Poco C3 is going to be launched in India on October 6 at 12 pm (noon) and will continue sale via Flipkart. The corporate has not shared pricing for the phone, but a recent leak suggests that it’s 4GB + 64GB storage variant is going to be priced at Rs. 10,990. As per the Flipkart page, the Poco C3 will have up to 4GB of RAM.
The new teaser released by the brand shows that the POCO C3 features a square-shaped camera module at the top-left corner of its rear shell. It comprises of 13-megapixel triple cameras, and an LED flash. aside from the most sensor, it features a macro lens and a depth sensor.
POCO branding is often seen below the camera module. It remains to be seen whether the ultimate product will carry the branding at an equivalent place. The lower part of the rear panel features a textured appeal. Before the Oct. 6 launch, the microsite is going to be revealing more features of the POCO C3 smartphone.
If the Poco C3 is, in fact, a rebranded Redmi 9C, the expected specifications for the Poco smartphone are quite clear. The dual-SIM Redmi 9C runs on MIUI 12, supported Android 10. It sports a 6.53-inch HD+ (720×1,600 pixels) LCD Dot Drop display with 20:9 ratio. The Redmi 9C is powered by the octa-core MediaTek Helio G35 SoC, including up to 4GB RAM. The onboard storage is expandable via a microSD card (up to 512GB).
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Dr. John Christy’s findings have made him a target within the scientific community
Dr. John Christy is a highly decorated professor of atmospheric science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville – but despite his awards, accomplishments and distinctions – the fact that he’s an outspoken critic of climate change doomsday predictions has made him a pariah in the scientific community.
He’s been awarded NASA’s Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement for satellite research, has testified before the Congress numerous times, is Alabama’s official state climatologist, and served as a lead author of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
But the very fact that he suggests the world is not on teetering on some dangerous precipice due to global warming makes him an aberration among most scientists who suggest this planet is headed for destruction because of man-made global warming.
One colleague refused to shake Christy’s hand at a symposium, and Christy’s name was also used critically in many infamous “Climategate” emails that indicated global warming claims have been exaggerated, The New York Times reports.
The “Skeptical Science” website calls Christy a “misinformer.” And earlier this year, a Democratic U.S. congressman launched an investigation into Christy’s
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Meanwhile, Christy methodically moves forward to do what he does best: he studies weather data and shares his findings with the world.
“I don’t let this bother me too much,” Christy said in an email to The College Fix this month about the steep criticisms and name calling he’s faced. “My wife of 39 years suffered with cancer and passed away a few months ago, so I have a perspective on climate intimidation relative to things that are really important.”
“I don’t read sites that attempt to smear me … no sense in engaging people who don’t know what they are talking about.”
In Christy’s latest public opinion, he weighed in on Pope Francis’ controversial encyclical.
“I am one of those climatologists who builds datasets so we can measure what the climate system is doing and why,” he wrote for Alabama.com. “In my reading of the results, I don’t see disasters ahead – the world’s atmosphere has warmed little since satellites began estimating global temperatures and extreme events like droughts and hurricanes aren’t increasing.”
“To be sure, others see it differently,” he continued. “However, I tend to focus on the fundamental metrics that, according to theory, should be measurable if the extra carbon dioxide we are emitting into the atmosphere is actually causing huge changes. The real world simply doesn’t align with the theory. Whether you are a Baptist (like me), a Buddhist or a Baha’i, the numbers come out the same … and ‘science’ is all about the numbers.”
Last year, Christy told The New York Times “I detest words like ‘contrarian’ and ‘denier,’ ” he said. “I’m a data-driven climate scientist. Every time I hear that phrase, ‘The science is settled,’ I say I can easily demonstrate that that is false, because this is the climate — right here. The science is not settled.”
And in an April interview with Alabama.com, he also corrected the oft-cited statement that 97 percent of scientists agree on climate change.
“The impression people make with that statement is that 97 percent of scientists agree with my view of climate change, which typically is one of catastrophic change,” he had said. “So if a Senate hearing or the president or vice president says 97 percent of the scientists agree with me, that’s not true. The American Meteorological Society did their survey and they specifically asked the question, Is man the dominate controller of climate over the last 50 years? Only 52 percent said yes. That is not a consensus at all in science.”
But media and pundits have consistently echoed that science is consolidated in unity over the idea that the globe is warming and the main cause of that is human activity across the world.
This has been the backbone of international attempts to reduce greenhouse gases in many industrialized nations. Scientists who disagree, and even those who agree but question the severity of the problem, are cast as pariahs or “cooks,” often scorned by their contemporaries.
Yet Christy is not alone in holding the line against doomsday predictions.
Dr. Terry Hughes, a professor emeritus of earth sciences and climate change at the University of Maine, said researchers want to keep federal funding for climate change alive, and politicians want to earn environmentalist votes, and both predict global pandemonium to that end. But Hughes has said the world is not on the brink of disaster.
Dr. Judith Curry, a professor of earth and atmospheric sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology, has also found uncertainties and weaknesses in climate-change models.
American University statistician Caleb Rossiter’s infamous declaration that belief in a climate catastrophe is “simply not logical” got him canned as an associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive Washington D.C. think tank, last year.
A study last year from the journal Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences found human beings are not the primary contributors to global warming. As it turns out, natural variability in the Earth’s atmosphere plays a crucial role in climate change.
Roy Spencer, another climate scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville who dismisses the notion of dire global warming predictions, suggests that those who do believe it are “not unbiased.”
“Most of them probably really do believe we’re destroying the earth,” Spencer told Alabama.com. “When I talk to scientists who should be objective over a beer at the end of the day, I will argue with them and their final position will always be, ‘Yeah, but we need to get away from fossil fuels anyway.’ Where did that come from? Are you an expert in alternative energy sources and what they cost?”
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The incident leading to Andreas' Test was submitted by Andreas Scheuber on December 11, 2019.
The test called “Andreas' Test” checks that multiple DQMH cloneable modules can be started and stopped properly in parallel:
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Delacor was already working on changing how the modules were launched. Instead of using the VI Server Run VI method, they moved to use Start Asynchronous call. However, Andreas' test led to further improvement on how the DQMH cloneable modules were launched and stopped in DQMH 5.0. This test became a test to be run every time DQMH releases.
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Being a hero knows no age. You can 8 or 80 and you can still have the ability to save someone’s life. All that is needed is unconditional love sprinkled on top with a bit of courage, even if it means risking your own life for the sake of saving someone else.
Being hit by a car can be a life-taking event. I remember in my childhood years, watching my cousin who was 7 at the time, being hit by a car on the beach. The driver wasn’t speeding at all, she just didn’t know how to drive properly, and from all the panic she kept pressing on the gas pedal, instead of the brakes.
Imagine how terrifying it can be for a kid to witness a moment like this one. Sometimes (like in my cousin’s case) it is not even the driver’s fault, since kids like to play in the middle of the street. However, in most cases speeding while texting is the main reason for kids getting ran over.
The kids in this story were lucky though, since someone was willing to sacrifice his life, just to save theirs.
Bob Nill, praised by his students as Mr. Bob, had been working for more than 5 years as a crossing guard at Christ the King Parish School in Kansas City, made a heroic act this Tuesday, not everyone would be ready to do.
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It was a normal working day for him. Standing on the crosswalk he saw two kids were about to cross the street. Suddenly, a black sedan appeared on the same track as them. Bob saw it and reacted fast by jumping in front of the kids’ way to warn them. His warning did stop them from getting hit, but he didn’t have time to get out of the way himself.
It was 8 a.m, Tuesday morning. The casualty happened before the day even started and one life was exchanged for two.
Bob had a loving heart and this was not unusual for his character.
What Uncle Bob did for the sake of these kids, is something that not a lot of people in this society would do. Young lives mattered to him more than his own.
Nill worked firstly in banking and then served in the Coast Guard before he retired. But even after his retirement, he wanted to give back to people, therefore he decided to work as a crossing guard.
His nephew, Randy explains the reason why he decided to work as a crossing guard was because he saw it as a way to help children. Such a thing made him feel good with himself.
The same day Christ the King Parish School made a post on Facebook expressing their pain and condolences to the family and people who loved him. They also expressed their gratitude for his action.
Bob Nill, what you did will never be forgotten. You might be gone physically, but your legacy will be remembered for a long time.
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The party has well and truly started for Penrith fans after the Panthers stamped themselves as one of the greatest sides in NRL history with a thumping win over Parramatta Eels.
Entering Sunday’s final looking to become one of the few teams to achieve back-to-back premierships, the Panthers absolutely stormed past their western Sydney rivals to clinch a 16-point win at Accor Stadium.
Their victory has onset debate as to where they stand in the pantheon of great NRL sides, but for now Penrith fans are basking in their side’s latest triumph.
Over at the Panthers Leagues Club, supporters were in a jubilant mood, celebrating arm in arm as drinks were flowing. One very merry fan removed his top and waved it above his head in wild scenes.
Meanwhile, at the Parramatta Leagues Club, the mood was far more dejected, with disappointed fans heading home early, having been put through a torrid evening of football.
An elated Nathan Cleary said it was an honour to play for the Penrith fanbase shortly after their 28-12 victory.
‘I think our first half was the best we have ever played. I was thinking that today when I woke up,’ he said on Channel Nine.
‘I thought we have put some really good seasons together but we have never really come off. That’s the best game we could play. I think the first half was just about that.
‘It is a privilege to put on Penrith jersey. Everyone is starting to understand to represent the area, the community gets right behind it. Again I’m so blessed.’
Eels coach Brad Arthur said: ‘They (Penrith) played too well in the first half and too fast for us.
‘I said to the boys right now is not the time to review or dissect, we just got beaten by a better team.’
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WHEN WE MET IN THE BACK OF THAT WEIRD CHURCH on a winter morning just after a rainstorm, my friend was obviously troubled: “I knew you would know what to do with it. I have been driving around with it on the floor of the passenger seat of my car for a few days now.” She took me to where its small, ripped body was lying, both still connected to itself and also strewn: very not its hopping, spring-self. I appreciated that she had adorned its dead form with many different types of flowers because usually these types of scenes make me feel like I am chewing on cassette tapes (both the plastic and the dark matter-like strands) and in need of something lush or verdant in order to most accurately honor the contents of the scene. Sweet road-kill rabbits make the cyborg parts of me sweat.
Carrying the slumped rabbit in my hands, we moved to a place near the chairs that had metal wings built into their backs (these chairs were why we had chosen this church as our meeting place in the past). We emphasized the metal wing-chairs as moss-covered, living cyborgs: “Road kill animals need wings that can’t be clipped and metal wings can’t be clipped.”
Gently setting the rabbit beside me for a moment I used the heel of my boot to dig a deep hole in the ground: a new burrow for the dead to rest in. She cried as one might weep at the loss of a child; she winced. As she watched me dig the hole I felt her notice the strands of cassette hanging out of my mouth and over my lips like bloody flesh hangs out of a carnivore’s mouth: only partially consumed with more saved for later.
I was visualizing how, when pressed firmly into them over time, bullets or chains are swallowed into the tree that they had been forcefully shoved into or slung over. Though initially the tree leaks sap in response, wincing a little bit itself, eventually it accepts the added.
Was this the reason to bury the bunny? For the sake of inviting road kill back into the planet after a facet of the planet took it? Would I share this image of trees swallowing bullets with this grieving woman who was shuddering desperately beside me? Or is it possible that there are parts of grief so sweet that they might be blotted out if a lesson is suddenly shoved in?
Note: I will not let any form of possible peristalsis become paralysis under the knowing weight of my steel-toed, metallic-colored boot.
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j/j hastain is the inventor of The Mystical Sentence Projects and is author of several cross-genre books including the trans-genre book libertine monk (Scrambler Press), The Non-Novels (forthcoming, Spuyten Duyvil) and The Xyr Trilogy: a Metaphysical Romance of Experimental Realisms. j/j’s writing has most recently appeared in Caketrain, Trickhouse, The Collagist, Housefire, Bombay Gin, Aufgabe, and Tarpaulin Sky.
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Lee Iacocca, the tough-talking, cigar-chomping auto executive who saved Chrysler Corp. in the early 1980s and became one of America’s first big-time, celebrity CEOs, has died.
He was 94 and died of complications related to Parkinson’s disease, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The son of Italian immigrants, Iacocca came from modest beginnings in Allentown, Pa., had a meteoric rise to the top of Ford Motor Co. until he was suddenly fired, jumped to Chrysler and, with help from the federal government, pulled off a stunning turnaround.
The no-nonsense persona he projected in commercials for Chrysler won him acclaim beyond automotive and business circles. His autobiography and subsequent books became best sellers, he energetically campaigned to restore the Statue of Liberty, and his name became synonymous with straight-talking leadership and, eventually, the highly paid, highflying executive style that defined his era.
In the auto industry, his achievements were almost unparalleled. In the early 1960s, he led the development of the Ford Mustang, which became one of the most successful and influential American cars of all time. Under his guidance, Chrysler came up with a new type of roomy vehicle in the 1980s that it called the “minivan” that revolutionized family travel for a generation of Americans and a decade later the company launched the first car-based SUV.
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The promotion of LGBT relationships in Russia faces a permanent ban following the introduction of a Bill on Monday that equated such messaging with war propaganda and incitement of hatred.
The bill aims to supplement existing legislation by introducing administrative and criminal liability for spreading LGBT messaging across any demographic in the Russian Federation, as well as denying distribution rights to films that promote such relationships.
According to RT, a Russian media outlet, the bill's authors, who do not include members of the ruling United Russia party, argue that denial of family as a social value, promotion of so-called "childfree" lifestyles, and approval and recognition of non-traditional sexual relations are dangerous not only for children and young people, but for society as a whole, because it "endangers demography and future economic growth."
The lawmakers emphasize that the prohibition on LGBT propaganda does not deprive Russian citizens of the opportunity and right to determine their sexual preference and orientation, nor does it permit discrimination against them in any way.
LGBT "propaganda" is currently only prohibited in Russia when it is aimed at children, but some politicians have called for stricter guidelines and penalties for the "denial of family values" and "propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations."
"Suicide, drugs, extremism, and criminal behavior are considered negative and socially dangerous phenomena in Russia, and as such, they are not permitted to be promoted at the legislative level. In addition, there is currently no formal prohibition against the promotion of non-traditional sexual behavior and family values, including through the distribution of films, according to the note.
The authors of the bill contend in an explanation note that LGBT "propaganda" has proliferated in Russia and is being spread by the media, public gatherings, streaming services, and the portrayal of such relationships in movies.
“Family, motherhood and childhood in their traditional understanding, taken from the ancestors, are the values that ensure the continuous change of generations,” urge the authors of the bill, adding that they are a “condition for the preservation and development of the multinational people of the Russian Federation, and therefore need special protection from the state.”
A similar bill that sought to impose fines of over $160,000 for encouraging non-traditional sexual relations was also presented to the State Duma last month. It did not, however, pass the first reading.
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It was standing room only Sept. 26 as dozens of concerned Meadow Lake residents crowded the council chambers seeking answers from their elected representatives.
A petition submitted by Clark Crescent tenant David Mohr at the regular meeting sparked an update by city manager Diana Burton on the potential sale of the trailer park. She announced the city has since sent a counter-offer to the original $700,000 offer discussed at the Sept. 12 meeting, but has yet to hear back from the potential buyer.
“I did get a chance to speak to one of the potential purchasers last week,” Burton stated. “He did confirm the intention is for this to remain a trailer court. They do manage a number of trailer courts in other places. I am quite confident in that conversation with him. His only comment is he’d like to enhance it and actually see the trailer court filled up.”
She went on to say, until there is a signed offer on the table, the identity of the purchaser would remain anonymous. Burton noted it’s typical to keep such details from the public when conducting a counter-offer, so officials have time to present it to the buyer.
In a letter circulated amongst Clark Crescent residents prior to the council meeting, Mohr urged other tenants to attend. He claims he can’t afford to move elsewhere if the new owners raise the rental fees, and feels members of city council are disconnected from the masses.
“These councillors are all very well off (and) a lot of them are business owners, they don’t know the meaning of the word struggle,” Mohr wrote.
Judy Larson was among the residents to attend the meeting and said it was disheartening to see people get up and leave without having the opportunity to speak. She’s hopeful just by having so many people attend, councillors are more aware of the level of opposition against it.
Larson also believes council should let the matter rest until after the Oct. 26 election. She feels the process so far has been rushed and it should be re-examined before a sale takes place.
“Is seems strange – why is it so secret?” Larson asked. “One of the questions I have is what’s the value of the land? They should have had a proper assessment done in order to think about selling or before even considering it.”
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Recruit Deneb Techniques Ogre Reborn You’d be pardoned for considering that is the primary phase of the aide that’s vital, but reality be advised, we’ll have a special one for the Wicce class, which is a trickier enterprise. Within the first place, we’ll go over tips on how to get Deneb, no matter Wicce.
In Techniques Ogre: Let Us Cling Collectively, the PSP change of the 1995 recreation {that a} vital variety of us have performed, recruiting Deneb implied doing what we’re going to cowl… but, a better quantity of it. You used to need to get threefold as massive numbers of each considered one of these animals, which pumped the brakes considerably. As a matter of reality, creator Yasumi Matsuno himself has expressed Techniques Ogre: Reborn rebalanced this for good rationalization.
There’s an ‘Bartering’ menu once you go to outlets. It’s throughout the realm of potentialities to beat Techniques Ogre’s sprawling story whereas by no means touching it. You promote beasts right here, and in doing thus, the store’s stock of varied merchandise grows. A intelligent plan, nevertheless scarcely necessary (additionally scarcely defined).
You need to lengthen the store’s stock to incorporate every pure sphere (these equippable issues that solid area-of-impact important hurt when utilized in battle). In case it wasn’t already apparent, it doesn’t make any distinction whether or not you do that on the typical store or Deneb distinctive store, so you may get all the pieces rolling on this nicely earlier than her store begins to point out up in Part 4.
Gamers leaping into Techniques Ogre: Reborn curiously could really feel overpowered by the sheer variety of characters accessible to them. Pokemon Scarlet and Violet Glitch Creates NPC Invisible With most approach titles on this vein, having an infinite pool of characters to browse is a vital piece of the expertise. Whereas this title is perhaps reborn, players from the earlier durations may see a few pure countenances alongside their tour.
On this remastered and marginally modified model of a murals, players will get the chance to expertise a staggering measure of characters to recruit to their aim. Regardless assuming that you simply’re within the Phorampa Wildwood or the Royal residence of the Useless, players might want to look out for these characters throughout their expertise.
With a good rundown of enhancements added to this title to extend the Private satisfaction for players, Techniques Ogre: Reborn hopes to carry the grandaddy of process titles as soon as extra into the highlight. Whereas many video games have tried, there have been not many who have come close to the intensive and intense ongoing interplay that this title brings to the desk. One other age can examine what’s seemingly one of the crucial fabulous titles of the PlayStation 1 age.
There are numerous Deneb in Techniques Ogre: Reborn so that you’ll have a whole lot of selections when you have any want to attempt various things with numerous playstyles. You’ll require Classmarks to alter to a different class and also you’ll get massive numbers of those as you play the sport. A you’ll need to buy nevertheless, so it’s a good suggestion to understand how and the place you get each one.
It’s likewise value taking into consideration that there are Classmarks for sure beasts, too. Nevertheless for this aide, I’ll deal with the traditional ones. Listed below are the Techniques Ogre: Reborn lessons and tips on how to open them.
Classmarks issues are consumables which allowed you to alter class on the identical time. As these vanish as soon as utilized, it’s advantageous to know the place you may get extra. Beneath you’ll discover a rundown of the nonexclusive lessons accessible in Techniques Ogre: Reborn and tips on how to get the Classmarks associated with them.
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The reply is not any. Techniques are the very best estimate of which transient actions. When executed, will help the corporate with attaining its strategic objectives. Tremendous Kiwi 64 Will get Launch Date Be that as it could, the precise techniques usually are not a measure of the technique’s prosperity.
Ogre Battle was launched in Japan by Journey on March 12, 1993. The sport’s title is gotten from “Ogre Battle” and “The March of the Black Sovereign”. Two melodies by the British musical crew Sovereign, of which Matsuno was a fan.
You’ll quickly have a bigger variety of models than might be conveyed in anybody battle in Triangle Technique. So it is best to grind finally to save lots of your complete program prepared for fight.
Lionel additionally doesn’t give as a lot injury and utility as you’d anticipate a assist character like him to. Lionel is a personality that simply offers debuffs and nothing else. So besides if you really want the debuffs he performs otherwise you very very like the character. It’s tremendously improved to easily make the most of equitably higher characters.
Is there a sequel to Techniques Ogre?
A extra vital look at Techniques Ogre: Reborn. The commemorated technique RPG is again on PS5, PS4, Swap and Steam. Discover out extra in regards to the story, characters and plenty of enhancements to the sport! Technique RPG followers cheer, as a result of Techniques Ogre is reborn!
Every falls into considered one of two distinct types: A) a real-time technique simulation the place gatherings of characters battle collectively as models (“Ogre Battle” video games), or B) extra conventional turn-based fight on a framework the place characters act individually (“Techniques Ogre” video games).
Once more, the best method to do that is to start a coaching battle in Balmamusa. When you may see stormy climate lively, you may depart and get again to Balmamusa, and the event will set off. There are not any additional dialog selections anticipated to decide on. And Sherri will divulge heart’s contents to recruit as quickly because the cutscene closes.
The Techniques Ogre franchise is infamous for being extremely robust, with everlasting character dying and at instances sadistic foe AI.
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St Michael and All Angels, Efenechtyd
Set in an idyllic, remote Denbighshire valley is the hamlet of Efenechtyd. The hamlet is no more than a cluster of old houses and the small church of St Michael and All Angels.
St Michael's stands in a walled, circular churchyard, full of old yew trees, and almost certainly dates to the Celtic period. The church was probably founded by monks from the community established by St Saeran at Llanynys. The linguistic origins of the name Efenechtyd are uncertain, but it may possibly come from the old Welsh for 'place of the monks'.
Though its origins lie deep in the past, the present church dates to the 13th century. It is a small, whitewashed rectangular building, measuring only 20 feet in width, making it one of the smaller churches in north Wales.
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The church is entered through a worn wooden door on which hangs a curious knocker in the shape of a spur.
Inside the simple interior is a historic treasure; a large 15th-century wooden font. Though not completely unique, wooden fonts are extremely rare, for wood does not normally stand the test of time, especially when used as a water basin. The font has been carved from a single block of oak, in a tub shape meant to copy fashionable stone fonts of the time. The sides are shaped to 14 facets, above a ring of beading. The font is truly a remarkable late medieval survivor.
The altar rail dates from roughly the same period as the wooden font, and probably formed part of a medieval rood screen. Near the door is an ancient holy water stoup on a stone pedestal.
Historic highlights inside the church include a fragment of Ten Commandment text in Welsh. The text dates to the Elizabethan or perhaps the Jacobean period, when it was very unusual to find the Welsh language used in wall paintings. Another treasure is a 1664 prayer book in the Welsh language, illustrated with beautiful engravings.
There is a very finely painted wooden monument to Catherine Lloyd, who died in 1810, and a wall monument to Joseph Conway. The Conway memorial boasts the family coat of arms; a blackamoor's head, and you can see similar heads on the gateposts of the former family home just outside the churchyard.
Tucked under a bench near the font is a peculiar rounded stone, called the Maen Camp. The stone formed part of the annual village fair on St Michael's Day (29 September), when a contestant would try to throw the stone backwards over their heads. Think of it as a folk version of the strong man competitions that have become popular over the last few decades.
The church is usually open daylight hours and is well worth seeking out. The location is simply stunning, and the sense of history is almost palpable.
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Her husband is a film producer, a dangerous stunt performer, entertainer, screenwriter, and comedian.
Before their marriage, she was only a straightforward personality. But she became a Popular American Personality after the wedding.
The couple started dating in 1994 and decided to get married in the late part of 1995. They started enjoying each other, and people began giving their relationship examples.
She gave birth to a beautiful kid, Madison Clapp. But who knows that the relationship will end in 2008. Yes, the couple separated in 2008 for unknown reasons.
The separation hit hard on Melanie Lynn Clapp’s life, and she stayed away from the media cameras right after her divorce.
In the meantime, she also started her Fashion Designing business. On the other hand, Melanie’s ex-husband got married to Naomi Nelson after two years of divorce.
In 2010, Niamo Nelson was known as one of the top film directors in America. The ex-husband of Melanie now has two beautiful kids, named Arlo and Akira.
After the divorce, Melanie began to focus on her career, and in a short time, she became a globally recognized fashion designer.
Today in this content, we will cover everything related to Melanie’s life, career, net worth, age, height, and many other things.
If you are her fan, then read this article thoroughly and know her better than ever. Let’s start with our main objectives.
Melanie, with the full name of Melanie Lynn Clapp, was born in Texas, but her date of birth is not present on the internet neither she revealed it anywhere.
She is the ex-wife of a famous American Actor, Knoxville, who was on the list of best American actors.
Born in a well-educated American family, Melanie got her early education from a local school. Apart from this, there is no other schooling info available on the internet.
She spent her childhood and young life with her parents. Before getting married, she lived in her hometown, then she moved to Knoxville, Tennessee, along with Johnny.
She graduated from the American Private University according to some news agency resources. But they also don’t know about the University’s name.
So, we can say that she is an introverted lady who doesn’t want to reveal private information like her parent’s name, university name, and many others of her life.
While talking about her career, we must say that she is a hard-working lady.
After getting divorced, she kept herself under tremendous pressure and came back strongly with fashion designing skills.
Now Melanie is one of the most famous American Fashion Designers with USD 500k Net Worth.
According to some news sources, she belongs to the ethnicity of Mexican Americans. The mother of one child, Melanie, looks like a young lady even at 57.
Although she is not a tall-height lady, her body measurements, age, height, and weight make her one of the world’s ideal-looking women.
She likes to spend her time in the gym too. For good health, she does regular exercises. That is the main reason behind her slim and fit body shape.
Melanie’s body measurements are nearly equal to 36-30-34. After her slim body, the most beautiful part of her personality is her dark-black eyes.
She has blonde, brown colored hair with 7 (US) shoe sizes. Due to such traits, she looks younger than her age at 57.
With an American Nationality, Melanie is very much keen on her Fashion Designing profession.
Before entering into the field of Fashion Design, she was the wife of Johnny Knoxville. The main reason behind her fame is also her ex-husband.
She does pay promotions of brands as well as she owns her fashion designing firm. Before marriage, she only enjoyed fame.
Melanie is an introverted lady. She doesn’t want to open up in public with her personal life.
Therefore, her parent’s names are still unknown to internet people. However, she liked to enjoy her life after marriage.
But now, after the divorce, she is only keen on her business. While talking about her relationship with Johnny, she married in 1995 after spending a few months dating each other in America.
After 13 years, they decided to get separated. Her husband, after two years, married American Producer Niamo Nelson. On the other hand, Melanie is still single now.
Melanie Lyn Clapp likes to keep her life events private after her divorce. Her ex-husband has moved on in his life and now enjoys marriage with nelson.
On the other hand, Melanie is now full-time busy with her fashion designing business life.
Q. How tall is Melanie?
Melanie Lyn Clapp is 5″ 6′ tall with a slim and fit body. She likes to spend time in the gym for good health.
Q. What is Melanie’s Net Worth?
After getting divorced from Johnny Knoxville, she worked hard to build a career. Now Melanie Net Worth is USD 500K.
Q. What is the name of Melanie’s ex-husband?
The name of her ex-husband is Johnny Knoxville. He is an American actor, stunt performer, and comedian.
Yes, Melanie is single after getting a divorce from Johnny Knoxville in 2008. From 2008 till now (2022), she is enjoying the single life.
Q. How old is Melanie?
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The theme of Loughborough University’s Literary Salon event was to discuss the impacts of the rise of technology on the traditional and trusty book industry. To meet the aim of the event, the hosts Dr Melanie Ramdarshan Bold (Publishing lecturer) and Dr Kerry Featherstone (Creative Writing lecturer) invited a selection of people from different sectors of the industry to speak about how the digital-age has influenced their experience in publishing.
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So, who attended and what did they talk about?
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Allan Guthrie – as an agent, author, and publisher, Guthrie has a well-rounded, but conflicting position relating to the publishing industry. Guthrie began by talking about how the publishing industry used to be: author writes a book, agent accepts it, agent sends to publisher, publisher produces it. It is not necessarily like that anymore, technology is allowing authors to reach their readers directly, sometimes cutting out agents and publishers entirely. The key advice that Guthrie gave was to tell people what publishing is about, tell people that publishing is about more than simple copy editing, to make sure the world knows that publishing has an important role to play in society because producing quality books is to the benefit of everyone.
David Varela – has a really cool job. Varela takes a serious attitude to the idea that: ‘anything you can use to tell a lie you can use to tell a story’ and he has created some innovative ways of doing just that. One of the most popular things he has worked on is ‘The Secret Life of Lewis Hamilton’, where the famous F1 driver goes around the globe retrieving valuable stolen paintings; it is such an out-there idea, but so intriguing! So many more means of telling stories are available because of the digital environment, giving authors a wider audience and allowing a more creative approach to stories. The concept of Zombie Run even made me think about buying a pair of trainers just to try it out; if you haven’t heard of Zombie Run it is worth a look!
Ben Galley – with knowledge of the music industry, Ben Galley used his initiative and thought about whether the book industry might be heading in a similar direction. With this thought in his head and computer at hand, Ben Galley set out to self-publish. Galley shared many enlightening thoughts and processes that he went through, too many to discuss them all. A main one was the idea of self-marketing, it is true that no one knows the product quite as intimately as the author himself and it also allows a more personal approach to readers. Galley demonstrated that small details matter when taking up a large venture alone, such as uploading a preview of work on Amazon. Galley claimed that there’s a lot of rubbish out there, especially in the Sci-Fi genre. Self-publishing means no publishers’ logo and thus no official seal of approval, so readers need to know what to expect. Finally, it would be rude not to mention that shiny silver suit!
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Joanna Ellis and Chris Meade – conducted a round table, the more questions that Joanna Ellis and Chris Meade answered the more questions the audience seemed to think of. Joanna Ellis has a wide background in publishing, with 5 years in marketing at Faber and Faber under her belt she is now an Associate Director at the Literary Platform. Chris Meade was representing if:book, a Literary Salon partner, if:book deals with the issues directly relating to the digital survival of the book trade, and so Chris Meade was a fountain of knowledge and inspiration for thought at the Salon. Some of the questions answered during the round table were about social media and the impacts it has on marketing and communication. As a point of interest, Joanna Ellis noted that the digital impacts came about simultaneously to the release of the first iPad, as people began interacting in new ways and expecting more from online services.
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Pigeon Park Press – is formed of a partnership between Heide Goody and Iain Grant, throughout the event the pair worked closely as a team. Pigeon Park Press came prepared with a witty presentation that suited the exciting small publishing house. Pigeon Park Press gave an open explanation of their sales figures, it was interesting that they related their sales graph to real life events and could pinpoint particular marketing activities. Goody and Grant professed that doing events were not useful in terms of sales and the most effective marketing approach, in their experience, is to give things away for free, which encourages traffic back to Pigeon Park Press.
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Comma Press – was represented by Jim Hinks, who is clearly very passionate about the niche market that Comma Press is aimed at. Comma Press publish short stories in translation; Jim Hinks claimed that the business could not have chosen a more difficult market, as it combines the difficulty of selling short stories along with works in translation. This area of business means that the acquisition of rights is important to Comma Press and book fairs are used for this, which does not seem to have been affected too much by technology. The exception seems to be the use of Twitter, which is a positive enhancement as it brings people together who would not necessary have otherwise.
Dan Simpson – entertainingly rounded off the night by performing some of his crowd-sourced poems; beginning with a very amusing one about ‘Love… No, not love… Mathematics’. Some people think of poetry as boring, challenging to read and academic to a fault, but Dan Simpson brings poetry off the page by taking lines from the public and then compiling them together in a complex and impressive way to create an original piece. This is possible because of the ease of communication that the digital age has brought about; through Twitter Dan Simpson sought some lines from the audience and participants of the Literary Salon and created a thought provoking piece to summarise the state of the digital publishing era: ‘Ceasing to exist is a reason to survive’.
It would be impossible to cover all of the topics discussed at the Literary Salon, so this is just an outline of some key points. It is clear that technology is changing the way people interact but the extent to which this will affect the publishing industry is still unknown. One thing is clear; Digital Survival is making the publishing industry even more vibrant than ever before.
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[In the Cowboys’ loss to the Minnesota Vikings Sunday, the Cowboys were flagged for another 11 penalties resulting in the accumulation of 91 penalty yards. As of now, only fellow cellar-dwellers Detroit and Oakland have picked up more penalties than Dallas. I’ve already analyzed the impact of penalties in a past article, but what has developed since my last criticism is that head coach Wade Phillips claimed that he worked on reducing penalties in the Cowboys organization. I’ll allow a moment of laughter before we move on. Before I analyze and criticize, allow me to get everyone on the same page]<IMG><I_1842><I_2157><I_1715><I_5890><I_680><I_504><I_2355><I_4455><I_118><I_3449><I_2157><I_299><I_299><I_5820><I_5746><I_987><I_2157><I_504><I_3449><I_987><I_2355><I_587><I_5820><I_3449><I_5820><I_6040><I_5820><I_3725><I_3217><I_5820><I_987><I_4579></IMG>
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. The reason that the Dallas Cowboys are terrible this season is due to penalties. In the Cowboys’ loss to the Minnesota Vikings Sunday, the Cowboys were flagged for another 11 penalties resulting in the accumulation of 91 penalty yards.
As of now, only fellow cellar-dwellers Detroit and Oakland have picked up more penalties than Dallas.
I’ve already analyzed the impact of penalties in a past article, but what has developed since my last criticism is that head coach Wade Phillips claimed that he worked on reducing penalties in the Cowboys organization.
I’ll allow a moment of laughter before we move on.
Before I analyze and criticize, allow me to get everyone on the same page. In a recent press conference, when asked about his strategies to prevent penalties, Phillips said:
Don’t worry, I’ll wait for you to finish that belly laugh or wipe away those tears.
There is absolutely nothing in Phillips’ statement that makes any remote sense. If Phillips thinks that his strategies will keep players from committing penalties, then I implore Jerry Jones to take back everything he’s said about firing a head coach in the middle of a season.
For starters, the thought that fines would stop penalties is absurd. As Phillips said in the conference, fines have little effect on NFL players in comparison to peer pressure. When you have a team full of players who make millions of dollars a season, a fine doesn’t even come close to preventing players from making a mistake on the field. If thousands of dollars seem a relatively small amount to an NFL player, how does Phillips reason that a fine of any sort would keep a player from making a mistake?
Amazingly, the other concept Phillips explored is even more ridiculous. Uncle Wade said that he has been actively trying the nonsensical and impractical theory of peer pressure to end the penalty issue. While defending Tony Romo from oncoming defensive lines, I’m pretty sure the last thing that a Cowboys tackle or guard would think is, “I wonder what my teammates will say if I grab a hold of my opponent’s jersey.” Mistakes can’t be prevented on the fact of fear or rejection. The idea that peer pressure prevents penalties is a senseless and pathetic ideology.
If Phillips wants to be a decent head coach, he needs to realize that mistakes come from poor fundamentals. Mistakes cannot be prevented with fines, peer pressure or other fear-inducing concepts. Mistakes are made when a player doesn’t do his job the textbook way. Instead of fining a player or allowing his team to chew him out, Phillips needs to start working with penalty-prone players on their finesse and technique.
The Cowboys are already stuck in a deep rut, mainly because of penalties. If there were ever a time to hit a panic button, it’s now. Phillips has been painfully shown that he has no clue how to fix the Cowboys.
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Shoujo Kageki ☆ Review Starlight, a mixed media project combining muscial theater and TV animation, will begin broadcasting in Japan in the Summer season of 2018, and the main staff as well as a new key visual (above) and a new teaser trailer (below) have been revealed for the upcoming TV anime.
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And Ayasa Itō as Kaoruko Hanayagi.
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The story of Shoujo Kageki☆ Review Starlight revolves around 9 students attending the prestigious Seishou Music Academy. One day, each girl receives a mysterious e-mail inviting them to realize their dreams by becoming a "star" on-stage, resulting in an all out battle royal competition as the girls seek to prove who is the best idol, actress, singer, etc.
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Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common type of primary liver cancer. It is one of the leading causes of cancer-related death worldwide, with over 700,000 new cases and an estimated 600,000 HCC-related deaths each year. HCC occurs most often in people with chronic liver diseases such as hepatitis B, which is one of the main causes of HCC (especially in Asia). While surgery, liver transplantation, or radiological intervention may be a viable option for early-stage disease, the prognosis for late-stage HCC remains poor, with most patients eventually dying within 20 months of onset. diagnostic.
A team of researchers from Singapore Institute of Cancer Sciences (CSI Singapore), led by Prof. Daniel Tenen and Assistant Prof. Yvonne Tay, has launched a new study that aims to address an unmet clinical need. The team identified new pathways responsible for HCC.
Their findings were published in the prestigious scientific journal, Scientists progress, on October 1, 2021.
The Singapore CSI team focused on ‘pseudogenes’, a section of chromosome that is an imperfect copy of a functional gene. A good metaphor for understanding the distinction between DNA, chromosomes and genes is to think of the genome as a library. Our entire genome consists of many shelves of books, all of which instruct our bodies to produce different proteins, enzymes, and other fundamental cellular materials. A gene is a single book that contains instructions for a specific product – like a single protein – while DNA sequences are the sentences of its pages. A chromosome is a shelf of books because it contains many genes, and all the shelves combine to create the entire library (i.e. the genome). Humans generally have 23 pairs of chromosomes in each cell.
Each time a cell is created, the entire library of genomic information must be copied into the new cell. During this process, copying errors may occur, such as mutations. Pseudogenes describe this class of genes: genomic sequences similar to other genes but defective. Continuing with the book metaphor, these are books that contain misprints or typos. Pseudogenes do not code for any protein, but they look like genes that do, and are therefore called non-coding RNA (ncRNA).
Pseudogenes were once considered non-functional evolutionary relics due to their lack of coding potential, but recently these lncRNAs have recently been linked to patient prognoses and cancer subtypes. Despite the potential clinical importance of pseudogenes, only a handful of over 12,000 pseudogenes in humans have been characterized in cancers to date. In this study, Asst Prof Tay and his team established a previously unrecognized role for pseudogenes.
The role of pseudogenes in cancer
The group focused on a known gene that causes cancer, also known as an ‘oncogene’. The SALL4 oncogene is known to cause HCC and it contains eight pseudogenes. Since many pseudogenes are actively copied or “transcribed” into new cells, they postulated that pseudogenes may be involved in DNA methylation – a process in which a chemical methyl group (CH3) is added to the strand of DNA itself. This can affect how genes are expressed – sometimes DNA methylation can repress gene expression, which is exactly what the Singapore CSI team found.
Assistant Professor Tay explained: “We found that as SALL4 methylation increased, its expression decreased, suggesting the therapeutic potential of using DNA methylation as a regulatory mechanism to suppress DNA methylation. expression of SALL4 in HCC. With this interesting finding, we decided to go further to investigate the correlation between methylation of a specific region in SALL4 and SALL4 expression.
The team used CRISPR technology, which allowed them to target and block gene-specific DNA methylation. They found that certain SALL4 pseudogenes cause hypomethylation (the absence of CH3 methyl groups) in the CpG region. This hypomethylation – in other words, the reduction of the methylation profile in the region – leads to increased expression of the SALL4 gene with associated increased cell growth. “Therefore, blocking the pathways leading to hypomethylation of the SALL4 locus could have valuable therapeutic effects in HCC patients with elevated levels of SALL4,” said first author Dr. Kwon Junsu, researcher at CSI Singapore.
Importance and next steps
This new knowledge on SALL4 reexpression in HCC potentially opens avenues for the development of new therapeutic approaches and may change the treatment paradigm for patients.
“In the future, we plan to monitor the activity of pseudogenes that increase the expression of genes known to cause cancer through demethylation (ie the reduction of methyl groups). Through this, we hope to predict the activation of these oncogenes as well as cancer progression,” said Professor Tenen.
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Why Are We Here?
I don’t mean that in some vague, metaphysical sense. It’s pretty straightforward. Why are you looking at this web page? What are you hoping to find here?
Let me make it easier. Let me explain why I keep posting here.
No, there isn’t time to explain. I will sum up.
(bonus points if you get that one)
Two little stories. Tale the first.
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I’ve wanted to tell stories as far back as I could remember. I was setting up my Star Wars figures and Micronauts in little tableaus when I was in grade school. By middle school I’d found my mom’s old electric Smith-Corona (complete with vinyl dust cover) in the back of the closet and I was sending clumsy “submissions” to Jim Shooter at Marvel Comics. And by high school, well, by then my rejection collection was getting pretty thick.
It’s gotten thicker since then, believe me.
Tale the second.
Not too many months back I stumbled across a link to a published author’s new blog. He was about at the same level as me—years of trying to get in and finally had a few sales under his belt. Two of them to a very big, respectable publisher. Said author, much like myself, wanted to offer some tips for new writers who were just starting out. However, unlike me, this fellow didn’t want to talk about how to improve your writing. He was going to offer tips on networking, promotion, blog tours, and so on.
Of course, looking over his first four posts, there was one point he kept hammering home. The best way to sell your writing is to have good writing. The best way to spread word of mouth about your writing is to be an excellent writer. This could not be stressed enough. All the clever gimmicks and sales tricks and blog tours weren’t going to help in the slightest if you didn’t have something people wanted to read.
But he wasn’t going to talk about that on his blog. He was going to talk about clever gimmicks and sales tricks and blog tours.
That’s kind of what got me started on this whole thing years ago. At the time, I was seeing tons of articles and websites about the tricks and gimmicks, but very few about the actual craft of writing. And, yes, I do feel pretentious talking about “craft” when I write books about superheroes fighting zombies.
Anyway, I’d say a good sixty or seventy percent of the material I saw was tips on what to do after you’d written something. How to get reps, how to get your books in stores, that sort of thing. Which always seemed a little cart-before-the-horse, as people used to say in the pre-Segway world. Perhaps even worse, a large percentage of the remaining material—the stuff that actually talked about writing-- spoke about it in terms of absolutes and set down hard rules that didn’t seem to come from any sort of actual experience. It was just people parroting some rule about storytelling they’d heard somewhere as if it were a quantifiable, scientifically-proven fact. In some cases, as far as I could tell, these people had just made up their rules out of the blue.
And a few of these folks were asking for money.
At the time I was sitting on this half-assed Blogspot site. I’d pulled a loosely Egyptian-themed name from the back of my head (Thoth was the god of writing), a title that I put even less thought into (seriously, check out how many “Writer on Writing” blogs and columns there are out there), and used the space to post a few spec columns I’d created for a magazine I was working for. They’d been rejected (twice) so I’d thrown them up here as... honestly, I don’t know. Just so it felt like I’d done something with them. I thought they were fairly well written and made some good points—I didn’t want them to languish on my computer. Maybe in the tiny, limited space that was the internet somebody would stumble across them and find them useful.
Bonus fact. It was maybe a year after I started posting here more-or-less full time that somebody pointed out Thoth-Amon was also the evil sorcerer in the Conan books and comics. Completely slipped my mind when I picked this site.
Anyway, as I worked my way further and further into the life of a full-time writer, I got exposed to more and more people’s work. I read scripts for a couple different contests and got a bunch of exposure to it (reading 400+ pages a day will do that to you). And one thing that amazed me was I kept seeing the same basic mistakes. Often to headache-inducing levels.
A large number of aspiring writers fall into one of two camps. Some of them think writing and storytelling are mechanical, quantifiable processes that can be broken down to A1-B2-C3. These are the folks who will quote the MLA Handbook to explain why their novel deserves to be published and use Syd Field as proof their screenplay is perfect. The other group think rules are for old-school losers who don’t get that spelling, formatting, and structure just hamper the creative process and will get overlooked when people see the inherent art in the writing.
Both groups are usually wrong, for the record.
Note that I said “usually.” Most folks think it’s all-or-nothing. You have to be on one extreme or another. The truth is that it’s more of a middle ground.
Y'see, Timmy, there are things that are absolutely “right and wrong” in writing. I have to know how to spell (me—not my spellchecker). I have to understand the basics of grammar. If I’m writing a script, I’ve got to know the current accepted format. A writer can’t ignore any of these requirements, because these are things you can get wrong and you will be judged on them.
On the other hand, there is no “right” way to start your writing day or to develop a character, only the way that’s right for me and my story. Or you and your story. Or her and her story. If you ask twenty different writers about their method, you're going to get twenty different answers. And all of these answers are valid, because each of these methods work for that writer. But that doesn’t mean I can ignore every convention or rule I don’t like.
And that’s what I’m doing here. Prattling on about some of the hard rules and general suggestions I discovered during thirty-odd years of learning how to be a writer, along with some of my own I've developed after trying to write a hundred or so short stories, scripts, and novels. It's stuff I think might be helpful if you're actually serious about writing for a living.
And I'm going under the general assumption that if you've slogged through all this, you've got at least a basic grasp of this writing thing and are hoping to go further with it. Perhaps even make a few dollars with it. And if any of you have a specific question or topic you’d like me to prattle on about, let me know.
Next time, speaking of right and wrong, we return to one of my favorite topics—spilling!
Until then, go write.
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October 2015. We were so blessed to have our oldest grandson here with us for 10 days. We can’t wait to bring him and his little brother back!
As mentioned in our last post, we will now look at the dunes as we walk north – which has been our walking beach route since we started staying here in 2013.
This most precious picture of our oldest grandson, then two years old, which shows the north view as we hit the beach. I’d love to recreate this picture with him, one day!
We’ve now been here for 10 days so we are seeing more clearly the damage from Hurricane Matthew. As soon as we arrived back here after our evacuation, we managed to get in four long walks, one going south and the rest back up north. Then we hit a bad spell….it seems that the sand surface has definitely changed and my knees will testify to it!
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This is a screen shot from my “Map My Walk” app, showing our five-mile walk, 2 1/2 out and back. It’s not the best picture, but the best I could download.
I think I have mentioned my knee troubles in the past. It started with a torn meniscus which I had scoped in 1998. In or around 2008, I suffered another knee injury, but “just” a bone bruise. I should mention I used to be a long (slow) distance runner and even spent a few years participating in triathlons. Long story short, I discovered I could have a series of OrthoVisc shots twice a year (they tapered off and now it’s been over a year since my last series) to restore my activity level. Within a short time, I was able to walk a few miles and within a few years, discovered I could once again hike mountains! It was a process and the main thing I learned is that I’ll never run again and my knees prefer God’s creation over sidewalks. And a nice flat beach like Myrtle Beach is about the best.
We have really enjoyed our time here, but for me, it is mainly about the long walks where my knees thrive! My knee issues also keep me off of a bicycle. Swimming is very good, but I don’t like to swim where I can’t see what else is in the water with me! But I digress……
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Low tide in October 2015, looking north as we start our walk. Nice hard and flat surface but yet gentle on the knees! Note the sand dunes, covered in sea oats and beach grass.
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So I had to take a few days off as one of my knees swelled up after our first 5 days back here. So it was RICE for me, Rest, Ice, Compression and Elevation. Bill said he didn’t mind as his ankles were feeling it too. I was so sad as the Horses on Myrtle Beach were about to return and I knew they would keep us off the beach for four more days. One thing I now know, my knees need to walk at a minimum of several miles a week and they thrive when I walk the five miles here nearly daily! So what has happened?
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March 2016 – Row of houses just north of PirateLand. Note the sand dunes in front of the houses, covered with sea oats and beach grass. Low tide and extremely wide and flat beach.
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Same day as above, March 2016. I was taking a photo of the cool birds (sea gulls?) but look at the shot of the dunes in front of the row of houses just north of PirateLand. Amazing I had this photo as you will now see what happened after the hurricane from current pictures.
It looks like to us there was a big scoop taken out of the shore line in front of Pirateland and the few beachfront houses just north of us. As the tide goes in and out, the sand is shifted tremendously. Then what is left is just more soft and mushy. It is not like that once we get to the Myrtle Beach State Park beach. It wasn’t like that when we walked the mile or south of Pirateland’s beach.
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November 9, 2016. After the hurricane. You may begin to notice what caught our eye, that their is a “scoop” taken out of the beach. Some of the residents have had some sand replenishment where the dunes were wiped out.
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November 8, 2016. Up close, looking at one of the beachfront houses. I never took a picture this close before since I wanted to respect the privacy of the homeowners. But the beach has now disappeared some and we can’t help but walk closer. No replenishment sand here. Can you see the concrete block where pilings were set? Uncovered and some were actually moved by the water.
We haven’t seen any bulldozing or efforts to reclaim the dunes from Pirateland up to Springmaid Beach. But a few of these private houses have had sand deposited where the dunes were swept away. The sand seems to be only different on this small portion of the beach, about a mile. We can’t say it’s that, it’s just something else that has caused it….as if the hurricane just took an extra bite out of the beachfront here.
We’ve heard that the coast of Florida, around Flagler Beach was really hit hard. Hopefully, when we return to Florida/Alabama for the winter, we will be able to check it out. Has anyone seen any other areas hit hard? We’d love to learn more.
He is the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them– he remains faithful forever.” Psalm 146:6
8 thoughts on “The Dunes at Myrtle Beach (Part 2)”
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[c/o Lex Spirtes. Nevertheless, she didn’t quite get what she wanted with her role, originally wanting to play Mandy, the other female role in the four-part play. “I was with my mother, who’s an actress [Christianne Mays], and we were reading the list of shows that were going up, and she was like, ‘Oh, I’ve heard of that show]<IMG><I_4840><I_680><I_2376><I_4235><I_680><I_6783><I_5721><I_3859><I_3526><I_2157><I_2157><I_4235><I_48><I_8066><I_5895><I_5283><I_2157><I_6783><I_2157><I_2678><I_2305><I_4235><I_3526><I_2157><I_7431><I_4235><I_7035><I_1887><I_2376><I_5721><I_3791><I_214></IMG>
For a little under two hours, “Time Stands Still” offers a lingering glance into the tension of a decaying relationship torn between the past and the future; the job of a lifetime and its unexpected sabbatical; the buzz of capturing the horrors of war and the downfall of quotidian domesticity. Its intimate dinner party set design, a careful curation of Eli McClintock-Shapiro ’17, gives the feel of an off-Broadway play on the summer festival circuit, while the performances of the powerhouse cast members make it feel like you caught David Mamet’s senior thesis for free.
The play, written by Donald Margulies, premiered in Los Angeles in 2009, starring Anna Gunn of “Breaking Bad.” In Second Stage’s production, director Alex Minton ’17 was lucky enough to cast Emma Hagemann ’17, who was among the 50 women who auditioned for Gunn’s role as photojournalist Sarah Goodwin. Having developed a stellar résumé in Second Stage, most notably with starring roles in hit productions such as “Worm Queen,” Hagemann has her pick as one of the best performers on campus. Nevertheless, she didn’t quite get what she wanted with her role, originally wanting to play Mandy, the other female role in the four-part play.
“I was with my mother, who’s an actress [Christianne Mays], and we were reading the list of shows that were going up, and she was like, ‘Oh, I’ve heard of that show. There are two really good female roles, you should look into it,’” Hagemann said. “And I actually really really loved Mandy, so I thought I was gonna go and get the role of Mandy, and then I auditioned, and I ended up getting cast as Sarah.”
Despite Hagemann’s initial preference, Minton clearly had the right intuition in casting her in the lead role. Playing an injured photojournalist returning from an injury sustained in the Iraq War, Hagemann hobbles around stage with crutches, never recoiling her injured leg, all while sporting scarred makeup on the right side of her body, courtesy of Katie Hohl ’19. The combination of Hohl’s makeup and Minton’s blocking make for several powerful moments where Hagemann turns the scarred side of her body towards the audience before delivering a searing line, such as when she marks the difference between “young and embryonic” when commenting on the introduction of Mandy, who is three decades her boyfriend’s junior.
[c/o Lex Spirtes]Mandy, played in full naïvité by Grace Stanfield ’20—who deftly deceives the audience into believing she’s a seasoned veteran of the Wesleyan theater scene rather than making her Second Stage debut—serves as the conduit between the audience and three cynical journalists who overthink everything. James and Richard, played by Jack Reibstein ’17 and Henry Spiro ’19, respectively, both represent the jaded skepticism of journalists who’ve had enough of working in the field. Reibstein plays Hagemann’s longtime boyfriend who wrote the stories she shot overseas, while Spiro plays Hagemann’s ex-lover who now works as a photo editor at an unnamed prestigious magazine, presumably The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, or what was once The New Republic. The chemistry between Spiro and Reibstein makes the play cohesive, with both men weary of their beloved photojournalist’s fervent desire to go back into the arena of combat. Beyond their shared interest in keeping Sarah safe, however, James and Richard couldn’t be more different as they find themselves in polar opposite positions professionally.
“It was really hard to find the right two guys for the show because the characters are so different,” Minton said. “We really wanted to find two actors who were on the same plane, and it wasn’t working. And then at callbacks, when we put Henry and Jack together, they just worked really really well together, because Henry is younger than Jack, but he plays someone who’s 20 years older, and it worked when we saw them read together.”
The bickering and lingering tension between the journalists leaves Mandy in a precarious position, pacing between the bar and the living room couches, pretending like she has something valuable to contribute to the conversation. Beyond many of her hilariously banal lines, however, Stanfield manages to use her character’s innocence to break through the density of the other characters to reveal the central ethical problem of the play: that these journalists, especially Sarah, derive pleasure from capturing suffering, only to overanalyze their approach in the Brooklyn bubble once they return.
While each character in the play wrestles with the tension between the past and the future, Sarah has the strongest internal struggle as a result of a conflict between the passion she has for her work and the profound uncertainty of who she is without it. Hagemann conveys much of this with body language alone, but when the key moments come, be they flashbacks or angry outbursts, she devotes the depths of her emotional reservoir to making the audience feel her internal pain. This is all the more remarkable given that her character is hard to identify with (unless you’re a workaholic journalist who values tireless work more than any loving relationship, that is).
While the tension between the play’s crisscrossing and decaying relationships is palpable in the first act, the cast kicks it into a higher gear for the second act, to a point where only quiet contemplation can do justice to the performance. With every cast member facing the challenge of playing someone older than themselves, the growth each actor conveys over the course of the play is remarkable. Spiro’s cadence and lingo give him the authenticity of a curmudgeonly photo editor despite his not even being old enough to drink legally. Reibstein’s uncertainty and writer’s block leap off the stage. Stanfield’s transition from a ditsy new girl to a wise mother makes her second act performance almost unrecognizable from her first. Hagemann’s fatigue and unresolved trauma is chilling. At its best, theater requires a team working in sync with little to no difference between levels of performance. Despite Hagemann’s outsize acting ability, the rest of the cast rises to the occasion, and with the help of everyone backstage from the director to the set designer, the show not only goes off without a hitch, but silences the audience and briefly makes them forget they’re watching unpaid actors on a college campus.
“Time Stands Still” is playing in the Patricelli ’92 Theater this Friday and Saturday night at 8 p.m. Tickets are available for free in the Usdan Box Office the day of the show.
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Addressing the media in Multan, Shah Mahmood Qureshi noted that the Afghan Taliban and Afghan government have put aside their reservations and shown willingness for an intra-Afghan dialogue. He stressed that Pakistan seeks a political settlement in Afghanistan to usher in regional peace and stability.
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Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, on Sunday, announced that the Taliban are ready for an intra-Afghan dialogue and political negotiations, and Pakistan is facilitating a political settlement to bring an end to the 19-year-old war in Afghanistan.
Addressing the media in Multan, Foreign Minister Qureshi noted that earlier, the Afghan President Ashraf Ghani had some reservations over direct negotiations with the Taliban and the Kabul-led government. However, Prime Minister Imran Khan addressed Ashraf Ghani’s apprehensions and took him into confidence over the matter.
Foreign Minister Qureshi stated, “The Afghan Taliban have showed willingness to engage in direct talks with the Afghan government. However, there are some forces that do not want peace and stability in the region, and for their own vested agendas, they seek chaos and disturbance.”
He noted that Islamabad has urged the US administration to unveil these forces that seek to sabotage the peace process. He commented, “Peace in Afghanistan is instrumental for peace in Pakistan.”
The Foreign Minister noted that Prime Minister Imran Khan’s successful visit to the US has ushered in a new wave in the US-Pakistan relations, and the achievements reaped during this visit have already begun to show.
Responding to a question on the possibility of a dialogue between the Afghan Taliban and the Kabul-led government, FM Qureshi noted, “Prime Minister Imran Khan expressed his desire to mediate, however, Ashraf Ghani and the Afghan government raised some reservations as they misunderstood the premier’s vision. Upon his visit, we explained Pakistan’s agenda and vision and took Mr. Ghani into confidence.”
Qureshi underscored that now that the Afghan government and President Ghani have expressed their willingness, Pakistan is set to extend an invitation to the Taliban to facilitate an intra-Afghan dialogue. “We seek a dialogue between the various political stakeholders of Afghanistan, so the country can reach a political solution.”
FM Qureshi explained that Prime Minister Imran Khan is the only regional politician who has “credibility” amongst the Afghan Taliban and other political stakeholders, primarily because of his persistent stance that there is “no military solution” to end the conflict in Afghanistan. He stressed that Imran Khan has always supported dialogue as a means to establish peace and stability, and Pakistan is committed to the peace process to welcome peace and stability.
FM Qureshi mentioned, “We are committed to ensure that an intra-Afghan dialogue is held soon as Pakistan wants to move forward and benefit from the development of peace and stability across the region.”
The Foreign Minister noted that Prime Minister Imran Khan’s successful visit to the US has ushered in a new wave in the US-Pakistan relations, and the achievements reaped during this visit have already begun to show.
Qureshi commented, “The international community has witnessed a marked betterment in the US-Pakistan relations during the last 11 months, and we observed a shift in the attitude and vision of Washington. We did not visit the United States with the agenda of begging for funds, but rather, we have unveiled the enemies of peace for the US and the international community to see.”
The foreign policy of the PTI-led government, Shah Mahmood Qureshi noted that under the leadership of Prime Minister Imran Khan, Pakistan has garnered respect and dignity throughout the international community.
The Foreign Minister noted that earlier, the blame for the chaos and conflict in Afghanistan was earlier levelled upon Pakistan. But the careful maneuvering and advocacy of the foreign policy has ensured that Pakistan’s stance and role in Afghanistan is evident for all to see.
He noted that for the longest time, Prime Minister Imran Khan has been the advocate for a peaceful political solution to the Afghan conflict, and today, his stance is supported by major powers, including the US, China, European Union, Russia and the Muslim world.
Noting that there are certain forces that seek to destabilize Pakistan and Afghanistan, Shah Mahmood Qureshi noted, “We will soon unveil these forces that seek instability.” The Foreign Minister noted that the leadership of Pakistan requires the support of the nation to undermine the prevailing security situation.
He remarked, “The Pakistan Army is the strongest army in the world. Yesterday, 10 soldiers laid down their lives to keep us safe, and we pay tribute to their bravery. The uncountable sacrifices and vigilant measures taken by our army have led to peace across North Waziristan and other parts of the country. The writ of the state has been restored, and the ongoing developmental projects will ensure a speedy return to normalcy.”
Commending the foreign policy of the PTI-led government, Shah Mahmood Qureshi noted that under the leadership of Prime Minister Imran Khan, Pakistan has garnered respect and dignity throughout the international community.
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Matthew Heimbach, the founder of Towson University’s White Student Union and member of the white supremacist Traditionalist Youth Network, has a simple message for us: “I told you so.”
In an open letter he penned to “White Christian America”, Heimbach wrote that traditional America has been all but destroyed now that marriage equality has been legalized in all fifty states and the Confederate flag has finally been recognized as the American swastika — and treated as such.
Just yesterday South Carolina voted to bring the Southern battle flag down from the Statehouse grounds, and before that Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley ordered that all four — yes, four — Rebel flags be lowered from the state capital. This, Heimbach said, demonstrates that there is a “ramped up assault on all forms of Identity, heritage and Christian Tradition” in America.
Heimbach denounced modern Western society as a “fever dream of nihilism in which any form of organic society or Traditional religious beliefs are attacked as being fringe or fundamentalist, while perversions and an endless parade of degeneracy, abortion, drug abuse, and self-worship are celebrated as precious ‘choices.'”
Citing the case of a Florida couple who were charged with ten misdemeanors for failing to educate their children as an example of an apocryphal War on Christianity, he wrote anyone who believes their children should be home schooled instead of “being taught about sodomy and the homosexual movement” has been made an “enemy of the State.”
He then accused the “radical Left and their conservative shoe-shine boys in the Republican Party” of exploiting the massacre in Charleston in order to “launch a full court press against not just the symbols of White–specifically Southern–Identity.” Such symbols include the Confederate battle flag, which, he says, “is a symbol of hundreds of thousands of men who gave life and limb in the defense of their society, their families, and their Homeland.” He neglected to include the phrase “in defense of chattel slavery”, however.
Heimbach also warned readers that “the Left” — specifically a “Jewish-led banking and media elite” — is “actively hunting down any dissenting voices to their degenerate and satanic agenda” and will do so by any means necessary, including “shaming in the media, legal harassment, and ‘direct action’ personal harassment.”
The American Empire is built upon the false notion of a proposition nation, radical individualism, and a worship of money above all else. Modern Western society is a fever dream of nihilism in which any form of organic society or Traditional religious beliefs are attacked as being fringe or fundamentalist, while perversions and an endless parade of degeneracy, abortion, drug abuse, and self-worship are celebrated as precious “choices.”
Globalist elites will not make peace with those who simply wish to wish on the outskirts of American society and cling to our families, Bibles and guns. There is no room in America for us to “opt out” of the American society. The enemy smells blood in the water and is coming for everything that we hold dear. No matter what the Republicans or other reactionaries tell us, the Thought Police are headed to your door if you decide to continue living as a slave in this corrupt anti-Christ regime.
In modern America, you are not allowed to hold a Christian worldview and quietly bunker down to raise your children or run a small business. The Left is actively hunting down any dissenting voices to their degenerate and satanic agenda. They will use shaming in the media, legal harassment, and “direct action” personal harassment to destroy your ability to provide for your family, lawsuits to cripple you and even get you sent to prison or soon, and law enforcement to control and break all resistance. The enemy has launched a Total War against Traditionalists of every type in America, and I hate to say it… but “I told you so.”
One such example of the globalists attempting to destroy Faith, family and folk is the current policy of following the Orwellian model of making our heroes and ancestors “unpersons.” In George Orwell’s novel 1984 dissidents were not just killed or made to disappear, any record of their very existance was wiped out of public and private record. This is the battle being waged against Confederate symbols, including veterans cemeteries and war monuments. It is not enough to demonize our culture in yearly propaganda pieces in the media, or teach false history to our children in government schools, the enemy wants total victory against Traditionalists by rewriting the past so that they can fully control the future.
The Left is attempting to make our symbols, holidays and heroes disappear because these icons of resistance to tyranny and a link to the past could inspire a revolutionary spirit among our people. To know that breaking free of the chains of the Empire is an option is something that the System cannot allow our people to know.
The tragedy in Charleston is being used not as an opportunity to find ways to solve racial tension and problems in America, but instead it is being used as an opportunity for the radical Left and their conservative shoe-shine boys in the Republican Party to launch a full court press against not just the symbols of White–specifically Southern–Identity.
The Confederate Battle Flag is a symbol of hundreds of thousands of men who gave life and limb in the defense of their society, their families, and their Homeland. The flag is a symbol of men being willing to put it all on the line and suffer unimaginable hardship on the field of battle and in horrific prison camps for their beliefs and Traditions. The Confederate battle flag also represents the millions of Southern women and children who suffered starvation and deprivation to support the war effort to make the Southland a free nation.
Taking down Confederate flags from veterans’ memorials is especially reprehensible because these flags are not political statements, they are posted at memorials specifically dedicated to the men who fought and died underneath that flag in service to the Confederacy. If there is any place the flag of an army should fly on our soil, it is at the graves and monuments of the soldiers who were willing to give their lives underneath that flag. The Confederate Battle Flag is specifically a soldier’s flag, not the flag of the Confederate government, a flag for the armed forces of the CSA. While I wholeheartedly support the Confederate ideals, even those who are opposed to the Confederacy should have some semblance of respect for these soldiers.
I proudly fly my Confederate flag to honor my ancestors, right next to my Southern nationalist flag, and this is why the globalists must destroy any display of the flag even in graveyards or at monuments, any living pride in our Confederate ancestors could be enough to spark people to realize that the values of localism and secession could be the fix to our current political and social situation. Only through secession can we hope to keep the memory of our ancestors alive and bring to fruition the dream they died for.
America has become the new Babylon. The Jewish-led banking and media elite set the tune, but traitors among every ethnic group, especially Whites, are more than happy to betray their God, their Identity, and their extended family for the sake of praise, profit, and power. The government is actively persecuting those who think they can bunker down and hide from the System.
Soon our priests and pastors will be taken to jail for refusing homosexual “marriage” ceremonies in the House of the Lord, our churches will be bankrupted through endless lawsuits and cries of discrimination, our children will be carted off to government reeducation centers in the name of promoting “equality” and “social justice.” There is nowhere left to hide from the Eye of America.
Through a centralized police State infrastructure we already know that our phone calls, emails, web searches, and even the books we check out at the local library are monitored by the American regime. The noose around the neck of White Christians who only wish to be left alone will keep tightening until people realize that we cannot coexist as citizens of a regime that hates our history, our ancestors, our people, and our Traditions.
The only path forward is secession. We must become free from the Satanic American regime that revels in its sins. America has enshrined the murder of over fifty million babies as “freedom”, the Supreme Court has called degeneracy and sin a “civil right” while they stand by and let God’s definition of marriage be mocked. The judgment coming to America will be righteous and it will be severe because as Scripture tells us in Galatians 6:7 “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” We must stand up for the sanctity of life, of Biblical values, and the right of every people to have their own Traditions and Homelands, free from globalist imperialism and moral degeneracy.
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On 21 June 1948, The Times reported that the small Hertfordshire city of St Albans was getting ready for a pageant:
This week-end the streets and shops and houses of St Albans are gay with bunting and the city’s blue flag with its golden cross can be seen at every mast as the people make ready to celebrate the thousandth birthday of five foundations – three churches, a school, and a market. Down on the smooth meadows by the lake the covered stands are ready, if not literally under the shadow of the abbey certainly under its dominating grandeur and influence, for the pageant that will be played all this week and watched by the Queen on Tuesday.
The Millenary Pageant of 1948 was the second time a historical pageant had been staged in St Albans. The first was in 1907, during the wave of ‘pageant fever’ that swept Britain before the First World War. This had involved 3,000 performers and a choir of 200, and there was a grandstand with a capacity of 4,000. A reasonable profit had been made, shared between the local museum and hospitals. The 1907 pageant had depicted eight scenes of local history, ending – as was typical – with a visit to the town by Elizabeth I.
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Forty-one years later, St Albans staged its second historical pageant in Verulamium Park, amid the ruins of the Roman town that had stood on the site. The early post-war years, particularly the 1950s, saw another outbreak of ‘pageant fever’, but St Albans was one of the earliest of the post-war pageants. The idea seems to have come from the General Purposes Committee of the city council, which first suggested a pageant in November 1946. The timing was particularly appropriate: as The Times noted, 1948 was the 1,000th anniversary of the foundation of the town, school and churches of St Albans. The pageant depicted scenes from the Roman era, through the medieval and early modern periods, and ended with an episode set in the nineteenth century. Two scenes stand out in particular. ‘Ulsinus Has a Plan’ was set in 948 AD, when, according to tradition, abbot Ulsinus or Wulsin laid out what would become the town of St Albans, and established the school and the three churches of St Stephen, St Michael and St Peter. In this scene performers carried models of the three churches into the pageant arena. The last episode, ‘St Albans Is a City’, depicted the joyful celebrations that accompanied the royal charter of 1877 elevating St Albans to city status, as well as the creation of the diocese of St Albans in the same year. Here members of the city council, including the mayor W. R. Hiskett, played their own predecessors from 1877. Other scenes included the martyrdom of St Alban, the establishment of the abbey by King Offa in 793 AD, and bribery and corruption at the general election of 1722. There was also a visit by Elizabeth I to Sir Nicholas Bacon, father of Francis, at nearby Gorhambury House in 1572.
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Episode 9: ‘St Albans Is a City’ (1877). The city councillors played their own predecessors in this scence.
The pageant-master and script-writer of 1948 was Cyril Swinson. Born in St Albans in 1911, Swinson was a publisher and author, who wrote under the pseudonym Hugh Fisher. He was a founder member of a local theatre group, the Company of Ten, which is still in existence. Swinson’s brother Arthur, also a prolific author and radio and TV scriptwriter, was ‘Marshal of the Arena’. Cyril Swinson went on to produce many more pageants in the 1950s and early 1960s, before his premature death in 1963. He was not, however, the council’s first choice, either for script-writer or pageant-master. Ambitiously, they first approached the author Dorothy L. Sayers to write the script. She declined, and the council then asked Lawrence du Garde Peach, who had been a notable theatrical figure during the interwar period, and who later wrote the Ladybird Books Adventures from History series. Peach, however, demanded a fee of 250 guineas, which was beyond the means of the council. The first choice for pageant-master was also too expensive, and so Swinson took both roles, and almost by accident launched himself on a career as one of the most prolific pageant-masters of the post-war era.
Preparations for the pageant of 1948 were heavily affected by post-war austerity. By September 1947, arrangements for the pageant were in place, but the council reported that ‘the economic state of the country as a whole led to grave doubts as to whether the Pageant would be allowed to take place at all’. The council consulted Stafford Cripps, the Minister of Economic Affairs, and the Home Secretary James Chuter Ede. Although it is not clear what these senior government ministers told the council, it was decided to scale down the ambitious aims for a pageant with 2,000 performers, and instead to stage a ‘pageant-play’ with 500 or 600. A pageant-play would have less spectacle and more dialogue: this meant that it would be cheaper to stage, but that it would require more rehearsal. Smaller pageants had taken place since the war, notably at Chilham Castle in Kent, where 600 performers were watched by a total of more than 10,000 people in 1946. St Albans drew inspiration from the pageant at Chilham.
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In the end, a cast of around 1,000 appeared in the St Albans pageant, which featured some of the spectacle of the Edwardian and interwar pageants, but at a more modest cost. The costumes were under the direction of ‘Mistress of the Robes’ Mrs J. Miller, ‘many ingenious ways being found to overcome the shortage of suitable materials’. The expected cost of the pageant was reduced following confirmation that the pageants would not be subject to the entertainments tax, on the grounds that it was ‘of a wholly educational nature’. As the council reminded the government, some of the performers were schoolchildren. The entertainments tax was levied from 1916 to 1960, in the face of much opposition, and it was a relief for the organisers of the St Albans pageant to be granted exemption. A souvenir programme, containing the full script of the pageant, was printed on the thin paper characteristic of the period, and priced at 2s.6d. It contained advertisements for many local businesses, some of which invited visitors to come and see their premises. In the early post-war years St Albans was a designated ‘expansion town’, and was aiming to attract new industries and residents.
Civic pride was at the centre of the pageant. According to the American pageant-master William Chauncy Langdon, ‘the place is the hero’ of a pageant, and this was certainly true at St Albans. There was a specially written pageant hymn, singing the city’s praises; the city flag was flown from the town hall for the duration of pageant week; and there was an associated exhibition of city charters and corporation plate in the museum. Swinson’s avowed aim was ‘to stimulate pride in the city’. The highlight of the pageant – and, for various reasons, the occasion of the most memorable performance – was the visit of Queen Elizabeth, the future Queen Mother, on 22 June. This provided an opportunity for ceremony: the ‘civic heads’ were presented to the Queen before the pageant, and others got to meet her afterwards. According to one local historian, the arrival of the Queen was a beautiful moment: ‘a beautiful rainbow seemed to encircle the Abbey [i.e. cathedral] tower … the most spectacular effect that any producer could have dreamed of’. Another member of the audience, however, had a different recollection of the night of Her Majesty’s visit. During the finale, a lone horseman led the entire cast on a march past the royal box – and at this very moment the horse let out a long and loud fart, which lasted the whole hundred yards of its walk.
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Wide local participation was an important feature of the pageant, and Cyril Swinson emphasised the benefits to the whole community that the event could bring. Even those with little interest in history, he thought, benefited from taking part in the organisation of the pageant. One participant enthusiastically remembered:
Nobody who has not been in a pageant can truly savour the atmosphere which pervades the community. After some weeks of rehearsal in church halls or rain-sodden fields the great day finally arrives. Thousands of people throng the streets leading to the arena and are bustled aside by scurrying monks, mediaeval ladies on bicycles munching sandwiches as they pedal, choleric cavaliers trying to inch their cars through the mob as they reflect on the dinner they will not have, Roman soldiers steering an erratic course through it all with demure Regency ladies simpering on the the pillions, all, in our case, converging on the site of the Roman city of Verulamium.
This is not to say that everything went smoothly. Despite the council’s support, the Highways, Buildings and Works Committee was unwilling to allow banners to be hung across the street to advertise the pageants. There were also arguments about who should play in each scene, and opposition to the whole thing from a ‘faction’ inside Swinson’s own Company of Ten. Some took the opportunity to complain about post-war austerity and high levels of local taxation. In a letter to the local newspaper, one resident imagined a pageant scene set in 1948 itself:
We will show you how in ’48
St Albans lived, and what they ate
Honoured Bacon in their fashion
Subsisted on a two-ounce ration.
Records tell how Mayor Hiskett
Had for joint a bit of brisket.
Supplemented by a tin of bully;
Waists were not expanded fully.
But old Albanians as in war
Instead of clamouring for more,
Beneath the rationing blows then dealt
Just smiled, and tightened up their belt.
The City Fathers at that date
Extracted a nineteen-shilling rate.
Queues which formed for stuff to eat
Stood mortionless in Peter-street.
So praise the men of ’48
Who stood the buffetings of fate.
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From the local newspaper, monks carrying a model of St Stephen’s Church, with the grandstand in the background.
Despite humorous carping like this, the pageant was widely held to be a success. Paper rationing meant that it was not well reported locally, but, according to one recollection, it ‘captured the imagination of the Press and public the world over, especially as it was one of the first touches of glamour and frivolity after the grim war years’. With substantial takings from ticket sales, as well as a souvenir programme and car park, the pageant made a profit of more than £3,000. This was spent on a home for the elderly, and encouraged St Albans to stage its third pageant in 1953, also with Swinson at the helm. The 1953 pageant, entitled ‘A Masque of the Queens’ in honour of the coronation of Elizabeth II, involved 1,600 performers and had a grandstand capacity of 4,000. However, unlike the 1948 event it made a substantial loss, and St Albans never staged a large-scale outdoor pageant again. There was an indoor pageant-play in 1968 – of which more another time.
All images courtesy of St Albans Museums, who are a project partner on the ‘Redress of the Past’ project. For more details of the 1948 pageant, see the database entry here. See also Mark Freeman, ‘“Splendid Display; Pompous Spectacle”: Historical Pageants in Twentieth-Century Britain’, Social History 38 (2013), 423-55.
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In patients with angiographic coronary disease who have been treated with a statin, the addition of evolocumab, a PCSK9 inhibitor, led to greater low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) lowering and atheroma regression compared with placebo after 76 weeks of treatment, according to a study in JAMA.
Stephen J. Nicholls, MBBS, PhD, from the University of Adelaide in Australia, and colleagues conducted the double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized GLAGOV trial at 197 academic and community hospitals in North America, Europe, South America, Asia, Australia, and South Africa. Between May 3, 2013, and January 12, 2015, 968 patients presented for coronary angiography and were enrolled in the study.
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First published: 15th January 2021
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The new Alpina B3 Touring is basically a 3 Series Touring with an engine of a BMW M3.
Produced in BMW’s factory and modified further in Alpina’s own factory, how well might the Alpina B3 perform against BMW’s next-gen M3 and M4? Rory Reid finds out in this video.
Alpina B3 Touring vs BMW
The Alpina B3 comes with a 3.0 straight-six engine that you’ll also find in BMW’s next version of M3 and M4.
While the Alpina makes only 462-horsepower as compared to the 510-horsepower that you get in those cars, it knocks the other cars out of the park with a whopping 700 Nm torque which provides ballistic performance, a top speed of 186 mph and 0–62 mph in only 3.9 seconds.
Other engineering upgrades on the Alpina B3 Touring include bigger air intakes and a new front splitter, larger brake discs, 20-inch forged wheels with a centre locking cap for double protection, a custom rear apron and diffuser, and a roof spoiler to minimise wind noise at high speed.
From inside, the Alpina B3 feels extremely plush and luxurious. It’s adorned with ‘Alpina’ logos inside and out, and it comes with various leather options - with the seats and steering wheel covered in hand-stitched ‘Lavalina’ leather.
Just like other BMWs, it offers a sport, sport plus and comfort mode, but it comes with an additional comfort plus mode that adds an extra layer of comfort for smooth sailing.
However, a shortcoming in the B3 is its 8-speed automatic gearbox which isn’t as responsive or urgent as one may like in the sports mode.
Alpina and BMW are two different companies. Alpina works closely with BMW and uses many of their customisations for its own cars. They have been in partnership since the mid-1960s.
Essentially, BMW helps in assembling together the car’s body and Alpina-made engine, after which Alpina adds its customisations to the car.
Their alliance has led to the creation of some iconic cars like Alpina B5, Alpina B7 and Alpina C1.
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[cindiafoto FEBTH PondyCM: The people of the Union Territory are watching the developments,” he said. Squarely blaming the BJP-led NDA government for toppling his government, he said “Just because they have power they think they can do anything in the country]<IMG><I_267><I_3449><I_464><I_6884><I_2157><I_28><I_3966><I_2718><I_5585><I_2157><I_2157><I_7579><I_2583><I_3638><I_6337><I_5629><I_2157><I_604><I_2157><I_2718><I_7579><I_2862><I_7742><I_2157><I_7742><I_3347><I_3638><I_754><I_5746><I_3347><I_2583><I_754></IMG>
The CM, who has submitted his resignation, claimed the Centre uses the Income Tax Department, CBI and ED to threaten Opposition leaders in order to form their government
Accusing the Union government of destabilising and toppling an elected government through “engineering defections using investigative agencies” and by “inducements,” Puducherry Chief Minister V. Narayanasamy on Monday charged the Centre with “murdering democracy” by removing a democratically-formed government at the fag end of its tenure.
Moving the Motion of Confidence in the Legislative Assembly, the Chief Minister said the Centre had been trying to destabilise his government for a long time like “they did” in Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Madhya Pradesh and Goa but the Congress-DMK combine was able to thwart the attempts as recently as last week.
“What was the necessity to remove a democratically-elected government just around ten days before the announcement for the Assembly elections? The Centre uses Income Tax [Department], Central Bureau of Investigation and Enforcement Directorate to threaten Opposition leaders [in order] to form their government. In our camp, we had some timid legislators (referring to those resigned) the BJP was successful in weaning away. The people of the Union Territory are watching the developments,” he said.
Squarely blaming the BJP-led NDA government for toppling his government, he said “Just because they have power they think they can do anything in the country. Atrocities against Dalits and minorities continue in the country. Don’t the minorities have the right to live in the country? The Opposition parties here will be also judged by the people for supporting the Centre’s move.”
Training his guns on those who resigned, he said, “There were two ministers sitting next to me (referring to A. Namassivayam and Malladi Krishna Rao). One was a Minister as well as chief of Pradesh Congress Committee. All enjoyed their power and left in the last minute. Is it not ‘political prostitution’? Leaders should have an ideological commitment,” he said.
“We will face the electorate and explain to the people how best we served despite so much interference and obstruction,” he said. Mr. Narayansamy reminded the Opposition about the Congress-DMK candidates’ victories in bypolls and Lok Sabha elections in 2019.
The Prime Minister often spoke about the need for cooperative federalism, but his government functioned contrary to the concept, Mr. Narayansamy charged. No consultation was done with the elected government before appointing nominated legislators, the Chief Secretary and Director General of Police, the Congress leader said.
The schemes and decisions proposed by the Cabinet were blocked or referred to the Centre by the former Lt Governor Kiran Bedi, he said adding, “Using Ms Bedi, the Centre took away our powers and did not allow us to function.”
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[The Antarctic secret that could swamp the world. In comparison, East Antarctica was viewed as relatively stable and of less immediate concern. However, the International Collaborative Exploration of the Cryosphere through Airborne Profiling (ICECAP) project that has seen welcome levels of collaboration between the US, UK, Australia, France, Italy, Korea, and China, has cast doubt on that assumption]<IMG><I_7087><I_680><I_2862><I_4602><I_680><I_920><I_5696><I_4543><I_5441><I_2315><I_2157><I_5441><I_6313><I_1033><I_2862><I_3347><I_2157><I_989><I_2157><I_5696><I_3714><I_5441><I_5441><I_2157><I_2044><I_3347><I_156><I_3200><I_6978><I_4316><I_5396><I_330></IMG>
The Antarctic secret that could swamp the world
The journey from ice to water seems simple. It’s a transformation even schoolchildren grasp. Yet apply it to polar ice and rising sea levels and the subject gains complexities and mysteries that stretch geoscientific research to its limits.
We talk to geophysicist Jamin Greenbaum about the exploration and analysis that plumbed the literal depths of Antarctica’s melting ice sheet, and how geoscientific discoveries there are having increasing significance for all our futures. The link between rising sea levels and melting Antarctic ice has rightly attracted increasing amounts of research and publicity in the last two decades, with the risks to life of rapid sea level rises coming into ever sharper focus.
Prior to 2008, most initiatives and studies were concentrated on West Antarctica, considered to have the more vulnerable glaciers and to be changing the most rapidly. In comparison, East Antarctica was viewed as relatively stable and of less immediate concern.
However, the International Collaborative Exploration of the Cryosphere through Airborne Profiling (ICECAP) project that has seen welcome levels of collaboration between the US, UK, Australia, France, Italy, Korea, and China, has cast doubt on that assumption. While East Antarctica may be melting less rapidly than West, the scale of the threat is far larger than anticipated as the ice contained by its glaciers holds the potential for truly dramatic rises in sea levels. The ice within just the single Totten Glacier could raise global sea levels by 3.5m on its own. That’s greater than the impact all of West Antarctica’s glaciers would have put together. Furthermore, not only is Totten the most rapidly thinning glacier in East Antarctica, but it’s melting faster than it should, and no one was entirely sure why.
Geoscience has been integral to a new and clearer understanding of this climate change puzzle.
I think one of the remarkable things about this project was that before we started working on it, this was the largest unknown area of any continent on the Earth.
Interrogating ice on a colossal scale
Jamin Greenbaum, Research Associate at the University of Texas for Geophysics, has played a key role in the Totten research and been involved in the airborne surveys tracking the shifting fate of the continent’s ice sheets. In 2015 he and the project’s international team authored a Nature Geoscience research paper that threw light on the unexpectedly rapid thinning of the glacier. Totten had been thought to be insulated from the effects of warm, deep ocean water by a shallow basement ridge. However, using airborne gravity and magnetic studies, Greenbaum revealed the existence of two deep seafloor valleys that could allow the warm water to reach the base of the glacier’s floating section and accelerate melting.
“I think one of the remarkable things about this project was that before we started working on it, this was the largest unknown area of any continent on the Earth,” recalls Greenbaum. “It was the last frontier of continental exploration, really.
“I’ve surveyed the glacier dozens of times now and I still can’t wrap my head around how big it is. It flows from the South Pole to the North, and when it reaches the grounding line, that’s when it becomes thin enough to float – and at that point it is 2km thick. The scale is just mind blowing. That’s just amazing to me.”
In presentations, Greenbaum brings this point home to audiences by illustrating how many Eiffel Towers would fit into such a depth. It’s six…
Gathering the data and drawing new models
As part of the research, a BT-67 aircraft criss-crossed the glacier, packed with scientific equipment – from radar able to measure ice several kms thick, to lasers that could determine the shape and elevation of the ice surface. The flights set out to fix the ‘pole of ignorance’ that this area had become – the last major gap in Antarctic bed topography. The coastal part of the survey revealed that warm water flowing below the surface was likely melting the glacier, which would explain its rapid thinning.
But analysis of other geophysical data helped solve a further mystery. Previously, when looking back at the sea level rises indicated by geological records, physical models struggled to melt enough ice in the Antarctic to account for the increases. Solving that mismatch – as fresh analysis and a resulting paper has – is an important step. It helps buttress the argument that such increases are not just feasible, but far from extraordinary.
“There’s nothing special about the sea levels we have now,” says Greenbaum. “Six to nine metres above this level is what the Earth saw in the last interglacial period when average temperatures were about the same.” Applying the paper’s modelling to the future also shows a worst-case scenario eclipsing even the Paris climate change agreement’s fretful prediction of a 5metre rise by 2500. Instead it’s 13.6metres.
Meanwhile, separate research published by Climate Central in October indicates we may have underestimated the number of people at risk from rising sea levels in a more immediate timeline – the next 30 years. It puts the figure at 300 million, three times that originally thought to be in danger. The research re-examined a wide range of digital elevation modelling data and found a number of errors in the ground truth. These resulted in underestimates of the impact sea level rise will have on coastal areas. It also sought to address an alarming lack of accurate DEM data in various parts of the world, such as Asia, that are most likely to be affected.
International collaboration as a way forward
Using geoscience to investigate some of these major challenges for global society has been a constant driver in Greenbaum’s career. “When I was younger I was really motivated by exploration, and originally, space exploration. When I decided to go into earth science I was looking for something that had that exploration component but also took on a societal role. Today I’m certainly motivated by collecting the data we need to better predict sea-level rise, and it appears that Antarctica provides most of that sea level.”
Greenbaum also confesses to an instant love affair with Antarctica from the moment of his first survey. “It was actually ground based, driving a snowmobile around for 12 hours a day, towing radar antennas, eating beef jerky, listening to my iPod, being freezing cold. It was great. Super extreme!”
But equally important as the mysteries geoscience unpicks, is the collaborative nature of the effort. “The main reason I stayed at the University of Texas for Geophysics’ after I completed my PhD was so that I could work on this project with China and the other collaborators;
I’m such a believer in this international approach to geophysical data acquisition. It’s an example of what our nations will need to do in the next hundred years to react to climate change or other problems we encounter. It’s inspiring to work in a field such as geoscience that transcends politics and allows us all to work on a subject as important as this one.”
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The UEFA Champions League is back for the second time in the 2020/2021 season, having already watched some fantastic football on Matchday one with the likes of Manchester United, Bayern Munich, Lazio, Atalanta and Barcelona giving us something to cheer about.
Today, I’ll be picking some games that deserves our attention and should provide a lot of glorious moments for the Matchday.
The Italian side have been having a tough time in the league this season with back to back losses to Napoli and Sampdoria, but they showed glimpses of what they are about on Matchday 1 and will be looking to continue their fantastic form in Europe against an Ajax side who lost on the previous matchday but demolished an opponent during the weekend 13-0. This match should provide us with loads of goals and a lot of attacking displays.
The Laliga giants are having a difficult season under Ronald Koeman with just two wins in the league this season and having lost to Real Madrid on Saturday, they face a Juventus side who are also facing the same challenge under Andre Pirlo, although they remain unbeaten but they have had more draws than win.
What a lot of us wants to see is Cristiano Ronaldo VS Lionel Messi. The top two footballer for over will be facing one another for the first time since the Portuguese left Real Madrid for Juventus. A must watch match for every lover if the game.
The English giants started their Champions League campaign with a surprising win against last year’s finalist in Paris Saint Germain while also producing a fantastic display against Chelsea over the weekend.
Meanwhile, Leipzig have been fantastic all season with a deserved win on Matchday 1 alongside sitting top of the Bundesliga table ahead of Bayern (yes, u read that right) but it’s still early season, you know.
This should also be a fantastic match to look out for.
Below are the full fixtures for the Matchday 2
Which teams are you tipping for a win this Matchday? and how are you anticipating the Juventus VS Barça match?.
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[NCAA Football: Michigan at Ohio State. With two backs (Ezekiel Elliott and Jalin Marshall) lined up behind backup quarterback Cardale Jones, Marshall and the tight end went right and Elliott took the hand-off through a wide-open gap for the game-sealing touchdown]<IMG><I_5052><I_680><I_5946><I_5946><I_680><I_28><I_2239><I_5946><I_4579><I_2157><I_2157><I_2050><I_7030><I_2239><I_2050><I_7809><I_2157><I_28><I_2157><I_2050><I_3186><I_2050><I_6868><I_2157><I_874><I_2050><I_1770><I_4447><I_5252><I_3186><I_7809><I_740></IMG>
Ohio State coach Urban Meyer put incredible faith in his front five on the play of the game: fourth-and-1 from Michigan's 44-yard line with the Buckeyes nursing a 28-21, fourth-quarter lead and playing without the injured J.T. Barrett. With two backs (Ezekiel Elliott and Jalin Marshall) lined up behind backup quarterback Cardale Jones, Marshall and the tight end went right and Elliott took the hand-off through a wide-open gap for the game-sealing touchdown. Despite what looks like Barrett's season-ending ankle fracture, his protection was fine. He seemed overwhelmed by the setting until finally taking advantage of the wall in front of him to score just before halftime on a 25-yard run. That scramble changed the complexion of a game that had been dominated by Michigan. Ohio State finished with 416 yards of total offense.
Elliott had two huge TDs in the second half, one of which gave Ohio State the lead. The second, a 65-yarder, broke the Wolverines' back. Before getting hurt on a keeper, Barrett rushed for 89 yards, including the 25-yard TD scramble before halftime. Up to that point, Michigan's defense had Barrett guessing, and he guessed wrong for much of the first half on bad reads.
Devin Smith's 52-yard catch on a perfectly-thrown bomb from Barrett to start the second half was just what the doctor ordered. Until then, the shots downfield were in short supply, and so was the passing attack. There were no Smith, Marshall or even Jeff Heuerman receptions in the first half as Barrett was limited to 7-of-14 attempts and 65 yards. He finished 13-of-21 for 176 yards. You have to wonder if the Buckeyes will have that much success through the air next week with their third-string QB.
Bad news (Joey) Bosa. How often do you hear that? The frontrunner for Big Ten Conference Defensive Player of the Year honors was flagged for being offsides, which negated a fumble recovery by Curtis Grant. Michigan converted that mistake into a game-tying TD in the second half. Bosa also was flagged for ripping Devin Gardner's helmet off at the end of a play, wiping out a third-down sack and keeping alive a fourth-quarter drive. He got bailed out that time on a pass breakup by Vonn Bell on third down. Bosa redeemed himself with a strip-sack that Darron Lee converted into the knockout blow — a 33-yard fumble return for a touchdown. It was hard for anyone on this side of the ball to gloat after Michigan put together TD drives of 75, 75, 80 and 90 yards.
In some corners, limiting the Big Ten's worst-scoring offense to 14 points in each half is a victory, especially when the last TD essentially did nothing but eat clock. Still, Ohio State has had this annoying way of bringing out the best in Gardner, and the Wolverines got big chunks of yardage up the middle. It's one thing to get past Michael Bennett and Adolphus Washington. Where were the linebackers to seal things off on a day when Michigan amassed 27 first downs and had an eight-minute edge in time of possession? Linebackers Josh Perry and Darron Lee led the Buckeyes with nine tackles apiece, and Lee notched his second defensive TD this season.
Bell made an interception on a ball thrown right to him on the first series, setting up a quick Ohio State touchdown. But things went downhill from there as Gardner completed 22-of-32 passes for 233 yards and two TDs. His 45-yard strike to 6-foot-5, 230-pound Devin Funchess (7 catches, 108 yards) beat Doran Grant and set up Michigan's first TD. Gardner's 18-yard catch on a razzle-dazzle play set up another TD. Safety Tyvis Powell, the hero in last year's game, whiffed on a possible interception. Good thing the opponents' passing attack will be the least of Ohio State's concerns in the Big Ten Championship Game.
Marshall's fielding woes returned Saturday as Michigan's first punt went right through his hands. Luckily, it bounced right back to him. His 23-yard return was negated by a holding call — on the punter! Cameron Johnston was solid yet again, averaging 49 yards on four punts, which included a 67-yarder that was nearly stopped from trickling into the end zone. Curtis Samuel still is a work in progress on kickoffs, getting only 17 yards on each of his two returns.
Meyer became the only Ohio State coach other than Francis Schmidt in the 1930s to win his first three games against Michigan (Schmidt started 4-0). However, it all rings hollow with the loss of Barrett. Even if the Buckeyes somehow win the Big Ten championship next week without him, it's hard to imagine the College Football Playoff committee considering a team down to its third-string QB as one of the four best in the country. And that status was shaky anyway with the way the Buckeyes played defense for long stretches Saturday. It's easy to complain about the conservative, ball-control play calling by Meyer, but he simply was trying to keep his defense off the field.
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The most famous street in the world attracts visitors by the thousands every night but on a Super Bowl weekend that number is easily 300,000 according to Las Vegas Metro Police.
All of those visitors also means another element shows up — human sex trafficking.
The volunteers got their marching orders just after 8 p.m. to begin searching the shadows and handing out fliers containing the pictures of missing children.
“The trafficking on the Super Bowl in every city is now red flagged, all of the traffickers know this,” said Annie Lobert, who escaped human sex trafficking.
Lobert used to work the strip until she was able to escape.
She founded Hookers for Jesus and Destiny House.
“You are always on edge, so to leave you have to risk your life anyway,” said Lobert.
“Most of the time, when these girls leave and the traffickers know they’re leaving they will hunt them down and they will beat them almost to death,” added Lobert.
Lobert said it is the threat and the fear that keep so many in the shadows.
“We are going to make sure that those who do harm and evil understand, not in our town, no way, no how,” said Capt. Pelletier.
The Take Back the Strip initiative has seen success.
At least 4 human trafficking victims have been located since the program started 8 years ago.
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[fbea: It has collected just shy of 60,000 signatures. As the description explains, “With the recent tragic and unnecessary death at Travis Scott’s Astroworld concert, due to Scott’s own gross negligence and sheer lack of compassion for human life, we ask AEG, Paul Tollet, and Goldenvoice to remove his as a performer at all of their festivals.” Travis has been hit with multiple lawsuits, with over 2,800 alleged victims seeking billions of dollars in damages]<IMG><I_4298><I_680><I_1923><I_4966><I_680><I_6783><I_472><I_1387><I_472><I_2157><I_2157><I_1923><I_7476><I_472><I_1160><I_1387><I_680><I_5600><I_2157><I_1387><I_3200><I_3657><I_472><I_2157><I_472><I_1245><I_407><I_5516><I_2345><I_6565><I_5626><I_1822></IMG>
Travis Scott keeps receiving backlash following the Astroworld Tragedy that claimed the lives of 10 people and injured over 300 others. According to KESQ News 3, the “GOOSEBUMPS” rapper has now been removed from the 2022 Coachella lineup. The city of Indio, California where the festival is held, and Community Services Manager Jim Curtis confirmed Scott’s removal on Friday, December 10th.
The Astroworld tragedy took place on November 5th, and an online petition to remove Scott from his headlining spot at Coachella was launched soon after. It has collected just shy of 60,000 signatures.
As the description explains, “With the recent tragic and unnecessary death at Travis Scott’s Astroworld concert, due to Scott’s own gross negligence and sheer lack of compassion for human life, we ask AEG, Paul Tollet, and Goldenvoice to remove his as a performer at all of their festivals.”
Travis has been hit with multiple lawsuits, with over 2,800 alleged victims seeking billions of dollars in damages. But earlier this week, Scott and his legal team responded to a lawsuit filed by Jessie Garcia, who claimed to suffer injuries while at the ill-fated event.
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I need all of you reading this to listen to Elliott Smith, immediately. If you already listen to him, then I implore you to pull up a few songs on your playlist right now. The troubled troubador has been dead for over 10 years now; it's almost certain that he killed himself by stabbing himself in the chest, but homicide is still a possibility. There's little question that he went through some things, ranging from addiction to traumas from his childhood. Listen to any of Elliott's songs from any album and you'll hear both his pain and his brilliance. As a musician and songwriter, this man is without compare. I could list dozens of songs you should listen to, but instead I'll share my most convincing reasons to listen to Elliott Smith.
1 You Feel This Way Too
One main reason to listen to Elliott Smith is because you've felt this way too. Pick an emotion and you'll find a song. Heartbreak? “Somebody that I Used to Know.” (No, not THAT version.) Depression? “Needle in the Hay.” A toxic ex? “Miss Misery.” At least, those are my go-tos, but you'll find soulful tunes that speak to you as well. Just flip through his discography, and I promise you'll be captured within the first five seconds.
Elliott Smith wasn't just a songwriter, he was a writer; there is pure poetry in his lyrics. His songs are masterpieces. Sometimes it's simple, such as the scheme in “The Biggest Lie” – “Oh we're so very precious, you and I / and everything that you do makes me want to die.” Sometimes it's more complex, such as in “Needle in the Hay,” which is my favorite song. “I'm taking the cure so I can be quiet whenever I want” is hands down my favorite line, to the point that “taking_the_cure” was my email handle for the longest time.
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In many ways, Elliott exorcised his demons through his music. He said in many interviews that his songs weren't necessarily confessions that people could always empathize with, but that they were often the result of ephemeral dreams and shapes. Listen to any song, however, especially those in which his rage is a barely-restrained whisper over the strings, and you'll hear every issue he ever tried to deal with.
Every musician has inspirations, of course, and some of Elliott's are not just understandable but expected. He loved the Beatles, for example, and Bob Dylan. However, one of the reasons I fell hard for Elliott's music was due to his literary influences. He found inspiration in T.S. Eliot, one of my favorite poets, and writers such as Samuel Beckett and Dostoyevsky. The man was a book nerd, and that is just inspiring.
It's really inspiring, because his love of literature unquestionably had an affect on his lyrics. He was more than just a songwriter, he could turn a phrase like nobody's business – see, again, “taking the cure.” “Needle in the Hay” is my favorite example, for the third time, but you can find reflections of his favorite writers and their works in any song. He knew the value of writing lyrics that got under your skin and made you think.
Today, it's far more common to come across artists who rely on backup bands and songwriters. I'm always a sucker for someone who writes and performs their own work. I won't say they're better than a singer who belts out someone else's song, but in some ways I think they're more authentic. Elliott Smith was like a Renaissance musician, and his ability to play his own instruments and write his own songs allowed him to tell stories through his music.
7 When Music Gives You Chills
Finally, listen to Elliott Smith because his songs are haunting. Give me a song that causes a visceral reaction, and I'm hooked. The first time I heard this man, I honestly got chills. I heard his music in my nerve-endings. That, too, is sadly rare, so when you find an artist who causes that kind of reaction in you, then you have to hold on tight.
Elliott Smith remains one of my favorite musicians. His music touched me so deeply at such a transitional time in my life that I still miss this man daily. Have you ever been so deeply touched by a musician? Let us know which one, and please share some of your favorite Elliott Smith songs as well.
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Posted on June 5, 2013 by poppyunderhill
today I have seen the spotted towhee and the scrub jays. I saw a bird I don’t know which might be a grosbeak type two acorn wood peckers and a wren and a titmouse (I think) and lots and lots of humming birds both Annas and Alans. I am clearly going to need a better camera to get pics of the ones I don’t know so someone can tell me what they are. At the very least I clearly need a better bird book.
so here I am in a beautiful house with a beautiful yard and I feel completely out of sorts. I am grumpy and snappy and just not doing well. Of course it is because we are moving and so much is changing. of course it is stress but there are different ways of dealing with stress. There is the freak out option. The constant fight or flight heart racing cranky person or (in my world anyway) there is the calm person who writes down lots of lists and systematically tackles them.
<oh my stars I just saw the hugest raven out my window maybe 15 feet from me and at eye level soar by. made me catch my breath.>
And so I am going back to my basics, which I think is a good idea whenever it feels like you have too much. I also am now in a house much bigger and much different then my last one.
So I need a routine for keeping it clean and running. I will be using Flylady
I have a kid who is out of sorts and who doesn’t feel as connected to her mama as I have been working so much and even when I’m home I am working instead of playing. And so I am going back to our Rhythm of play and fun.
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I have a HUGE yard that I have no idea how to take care of and so I need a routine for that. including when and how to water. I also need a list of things that must be done in the garden like build a deer fence around the fruit trees and vegetable garden. I also want to start a dream list that will include chickens and bees and maybe goats. shorter term I need a few more vegetable beds.
so todays goal is simply to make all the lists and find my map so to speak. plan out the journey of accomplishing the duties that need to be accomplished. Knowing where I stand and where I am going always make me feel better and take my from crazy lady to calm and cheerful. Hope this day finds you bright and happy.
April’s focus for Little’s education (for lack of a better word) is the Earth and Nature. Fitting of course because we have earth day this month. Now don’t get crazy on me yes we pay attention to the Earth all year round
so I was cruising around pinterest and found a fun pin for an earth lantern. You can find the original blog with step by step pictures here.
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But I do have a few pointers.
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I got a map here and used it to trace out the land masses. Y’all know I can’t draw.
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The finished piece is Little’s and will go on her nature table or in her room and so I am not willing to put a real live candle in it. I got a 3 pack of little LED tea lights at the dollar store. Much better for kids safety.
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Little wanted to add a few more land masses. So there they are. Sure why not.
Posted on April 5, 2013 by poppyunderhill
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Posted on March 5, 2013 by poppyunderhill
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I took this on our walk around the neighborhood this morning.
Oh My Gods How do you define the Divine?
Posted on March 5, 2013 by poppyunderhill
oh bollocks but I’m behind. In all things at the moment, but specifically on several of my blogging aspirations. today I am will try to tackle Magickos Musings February prompt, which is as the title states “Oh My Gods How do you define the Divine?”
Over the years I have had various (all pagan) views on what the Divine is. My oldest and still current feelings is that it is so encompassing that I will never be able to fully understand it let alone explain it. By the way this makes it the third attempt at this post as I truly don’t feel I can explain it, but here we go just the same.
Some basics I don’t care what you call the Divine and as a whole I don’t think the Divine cares either. That said I do not believe that the Divine is only one gender. It does not make sense to my mind that way. I do not believe the Goddesses and Gods are metaphors either. I did for a while think that. I thought the Divine was so large that we broke it down into pieces that we could understand better. There maybe some truth to it but I do not think it is the whole truth.
I am in a circle and one of our members is leading a meditation. It is Imobolc and she asks us to see a road before us. A crossroads and to pick a direction to travel. Smack in the middle of my crossroads is Brigid and She and I have a conversation.
Several days later I am getting dressed and putting on my makeup. All of a sudden I see and hear a Goddess talking to me. I have no idea who She is and She did not take the time to let me know. Just gave me instructions and a message to pass on.
Now if you’re a normal person you think ah she is crazy she is hearing voices and seeing people. To which I would say they were not people, and then this normal person would say delusional. I am very sure that if you looked up my spiritual “symptoms” up you could come up with at least one if not more mental diagnosis. That however is not the point . If you believe that well then I doubt you would be reading this.
So here is the part that strikes me as most interesting. If the Goddesses that show up to talk to me are ones that I know of but do not actively search out or worship as individuals then why would they show up unless of course they are real or I am crazy as mentioned above. perhaps they knew in the back of my mind I see them some way and they wanted that point to come across but why show up as Brigid then and not anyone else? Again the only answer I have is because She was Brigid and She could no more show up as some one else then I could.
There is more to this and more implications but it gets more confusing then I can handle at the point.
Pin of the day Ostara ideas
Posted on March 4, 2013 by poppyunderhill
I know I wrote post on that already today but I was looking through my boards. (yes I actually use my boards, I don’t just pin everything in sight, well I do but then I use it) and found this
I am pretty sure this is going to be a scavenger hunt for items that we can then use to place on the eggs while we dye them. By the way I read somewhere that if you paint the back of the leaf with egg white it stays on much better. If you have no idea what I am talking about see my last post.
Posted on February 25, 2013 by poppyunderhill
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Pin of the day – smell
Posted on February 19, 2013 by poppyunderhill
Posted on February 16, 2013 by poppyunderhill
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Posted on February 11, 2013 by poppyunderhill
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After a brief show trial in Westminster the captured conspirators in the so-called Gunpowder Plot to wipe King, Lords and Commons from the face of the earth were kept in The Tower to await their fate.
On January 27 the first three of their number were executed: Thomas Bates, Sir Everard Digby, and Robert Winter (or Wintour), all hanged drawn and quartered in St Paul’s churchyard.
Guy Fawkes along with Robert Keyes, Ambrose Rookwood, and Thomas Winter suffered a similar fate on January 31, in the Old Palace Yard in Westminster.
The end they made was to be a grisly one. Tied to a hurdle they would be dragged without dignity to the place of execution. They were then to be hanged – more like strangled, as no drop that might bring immediate death was involved. While still alive they would be pulled to the executioner’s block, their genitalia cut off and burned in front of them, and their stomachs slit open in order that their innards be wrenched from their bodies. Finally they would be beheaded, and their bodies cut into four – quartered – for display where the king so willed.
Fawkes, who had resisted horrific tortures for three days before giving up the names of those already known to the authorities, was so weak he had to be helped onto the scaffold. But he retained his courage to the end, and when the noose was about his neck he took the hangman by surprise, jumping from the scaffold and so breaking his neck, thus being dead when the rest of the sentence was carried out.
Keyes tried to cheat the crowd of their gory spectacle in the same way, but as the rope broke he did not even have the relief of partial strangulation before being emasculated and eviscerated. A viler death is hard to imagine.
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- While speaking in an exclusive interview, she indicated that Ghanaian men were only good at inviting women over to their homes
According to her, many Ghanaian men are unromantic and were only good at inviting women over to their homes for intimacy.
Cilla who was speaking in an exclusive interview with YEN.com.gh on Star Gist said she had her own reservation about Ghanaian men but scored them low when it came to being romantic.
The Date Rush participant said Ghanaian men could do things differently by not inviting women to come over to their houses immediately they meet.
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She was of the view that at least Ghanaian men can up their game by asking ladies they meet out for lunch and treat them with much care rather than just thinking of getting them in bed.
She spoke extensively on a number of things and opened up about her life after joining the reality TV show.
In a related development, YEN.com.gh earlier reported that Cilla has opened up about life after going on the TV show and getting noticed by Ghanaians.
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Scania to set up assembly plant in India
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To scale up its presence in India, Swedish truck manufacturer Scania is planning to set up an assembly unit in Bangalore.
The company, which has been selling mining trucks in collaboration with Larsen & Toubro (L&T) since 2007-08, has formed an Indian arm, Scania Commercial Vehicles India Pvt Ltd. The new company will launch heavy haulage trucks and luxury buses in the country next year.
Fagrenius did not divulge how much the company will invest in the proposed unit, but said it will be operational by next year. “We are looking at selling 2,000 trucks and 1,000 buses and 1,500 engines for industrial and marine applications in India over the next five years.” The company will start road tests for heavy haulage trucks and luxury buses by September.
Scania’s heavy trucks are available in the range of 220-730 horse power, but the company will decide the range of vehicles for Indian roads after the tests. Since 2007-08, the company has sold about 600 mining trucks in India.
Fagrenius said the company had not decided if L&T will continue to be its distribution partner for the heavy haulage trucks and luxury buses. “We have not closed any options on that. L&T will continue to play an important role in relation to Scania’s sales and service in the Indian construction equipment market. Our own presence in the country will also strengthen L&T’s position, since the company’s Scania customers will benefit from a larger range of models, shorter delivery times and higher service availability.”
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Home parents homework help Funny incident that happen to me
Funny incident that happen to me
We the undersigned want the parents to be held accountable for the lack of supervision and negligence that caused Harambe to lose his life. Cincinnati Police have not charged the mother, Michelle Greggbut said prosecutors could choose to indict her. The zoo has said it will study the incident and make any necessary changes. Others pointed to videos showing two boysone in Brookfield, Illinois, and another at the Jersey Zoo in Britain, being protected and rescued by gorillas.
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Accidents or mishaps keep happening every day and every now and then. Some mishaps are unnoticeable or are a nuisance, others get serious and unavoidable. One trips and falls while looking at a poster, other clashes into a pole, still other smashes the tomatoes eyeing and slips like a skater.
Such accidents are alright as they harm slightly and happen almost every day. Sometimes when an accident take place due to rashness of people and involves harming others, they become serious and alarming. Therefore, one should be careful on the road and in public places so as not to harm oneself as well as others.
I turned around to see the source of the sound and what I saw, I think I will never be able to forget. There was lying a young boy in a pool of blood hit by a jeep.
The Jeep driver had tried to escape after overrunning the boy but was caught a few feet away by the assembled public.
The sight of blood was really horrible. People gathered around the child.
I too went to see who he was. He was probably in 9th or 10th and like me was returning home from a nearby school. Then quickly a man searched through his strewn books and found his diary. From the number found in the diary, he informed his guardian.
Meanwhile, another man had called up the hospital for ambulance.
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After a few minutes the ambulance of a nearby private hospital came and carefully placed the boy on the stretcher and took him away. The boy apparently had a broken leg and arm and also had an injury on his head. Due to the collision he had become unconscious.
Suddenly people remembered the Jeep and the driver who was now apologizing frantically. He was completely drunk. The crowd fell like a hungry wolf on him and taught him a proper lesion.
People were angry as he had tried to escape also. Meanwhile the police came and took him away. I accompanied that man to return the bag and the broken cycle.
On our way we were quite shocked at the uncertainty of life. The man after sometimes told me that the Jeep drivers as was evident totally drunk and was driving very rashly. The child was on the right side riding his bicycle.
He was at a normal speed when suddenly this Jeep came, hit him from behind and overran him. I was too shocked to speak anything. The houses of the boy were near only so we have to walk much. We gave her the bag and kept the bicycle over their place.
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Dec 09, · Had an intriguing incident happen to me on the 28th November and would like to have my confusion cleared up if possible.
On the 28th, me and my girlfriend set off from Ealing Broadway to Southend Airport, buying open return tickets to the airport to return Monday 1st.
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Saturday’s just got better in the Sagemont area come and join me and the Sagemont BBQ Has anyone had a similar incident happen to them? Kathy Alejo. Sp S on S so S red S · 15 hrs. Does anyone have one of. I was involved in a family dispute where I pushed everyone off of me due to the fact that they all was on me and the specific person slapped and pushed me and they fell and hurt their knee and got hospitalized.
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Stony Brook residents were out in numbers yesterday protesting the housing in their neighborhood that is allegedly being illegally rented to Stony Brook University students.
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Stony Brook residents were out in numbers yesterday protesting the housing in their neighborhood that is allegedly being illegally rented to Stony Brook University students. Nearly 100 angry residents poured into the streets chanting “Save our neighborhoods” keep our kids safe.”
Complaining about litter piling up, too many parked cars and homes that are falling into disrepair, residents fear their property values will go down.
“You back your car out in the morning, and you gotta look behind you for a car now because there was never one there. The streets were empty,” said Bruce Sanders of the Stony Brook Concerned Homeowners Association. Pointing to a home with a screen door Sanders said had been hanging off its hinges all winter and complaining about garbage out on the front porch, he expressed concern that quality of life and the condition of the homes in the area are being compromised.
But quality of life is not the only issue residents are concerned about. Members of the homeowner’s association argue that what is happening is unlawful. Use laws, Sanders pointed out, allow no more than four unrelated individuals to live in a home. “…We’re looking at 6 to 8 to10 per home,” Sanders said.
Kai Li, an absentee homeowner who came by to check on his tenants, was berated by protestors after saying he believed property values would go down if the investors did not come in to buy the properties.
Carrying signs that read, “Preserve our neighborhood and our property values from college boarding houses,” the homeowners are calling on lawmakers to tighten the building code restrictions and raise fines for offenders.
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The Awe of It All
Antarctica is home to the world’s grandest icebergs. Soaring high above the sea in all shapes and sizes, silhouetted by a rising or setting sun, drifting by or showing off many shades of blue. The continent’s landscape of snow-covered ice defies the imagination and remain in one’s memories forever, with or without a camera.
A Place Without A Human Imprint
Clear skies, pristine waters, a land where wildlife need not fear man, all these elements add up to a vacation like no other. An international treaty signed by 52 countries prevents nations from fighting over Antarctica’s sovereignty or exploiting its resources. Only scientists stay here while conducting research, mostly on the periphery. Visitors remain off-shore except for day tours and short, overnight camping excursions.
The Penguins of Course
In Antarctica, you’ll see more penguins and more different kinds of penguins than anywhere else on Earth. You’ll recognize some species, such as those stalwart, 4-ft tall Emperors, the beloved stars of the French documentary, The March of the Penguins. Some you may never have heard of, the Adelies, Gentoos and Macaronis, for instance.
The former hunting grounds of the whaling industry in earlier centuries have today become a whale watchers’ paradise. Whales alongside the boat look a lot bigger than off in the distance. Here you may encounter a variety of both baleen and toothed whale species. Blues, Fins, Seis, Humpbacks, Southern Rights, Minkes, Orcas and Sperm whales all spend part of the year in these waters.
The Best Stargazing on Earth
With its backdrop of silence, Antarctica’s still, clear air makes stargazing in Antarctica like nowhere else. Air turbulence interferes with light beams, making stars appear to jiggle when viewed through a telescope, but not here. The star-filled sky including the Southern Cross constellation may be seen in utmost clarity, unclouded by car exhaust or street lights. If you happen to travel to Antarctica when solar winds produce the multi-hued Aurora Australis, most likely in (September and April), it makes a breathtaking experience all the more so.
Ernest Shackleton’s brave 22-mile traverse of South Georgia Island to get help for his stranded crew in 1916 has become a popular multi-day trek for modern travelers on extended Antarctica cruises. South Georgia Island is located about 3,000 miles northeast of the continent. Longer itineraries stop here as well as at the famed Falkland Islands, where in 1982 the British went to war with Argentina to hold on to its far-away protectorate that lies less than a thousand miles off Argentina’s coast and almost 8,000 miles from Britain’s. Depending on weather, the Shackleton hiking excursion usually takes three to four days.
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Turner’s ground-breaking use of watercolour culminated in the 1840s in a series of transcendent views of Swiss lakes and mountains. Among the most famous of these are three views of Mt Rigi, seen from Lake Lucerne, that show the mountain at different times of day. Here Turner captured fleeting colour changes on Mt Rigi’s slopes, recording the altering moods of the scene under different lighting conditions – in The Red Rigi the mountain is illuminated by the warm glow of the setting sun. These works unite the artist’s close observation of nature with his elaborate technique to evoke an atmosphere of utter tranquillity and contemplative calm.
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The reframing of two Turner watercolours in the collection was initially undertaken in preparation for the exhibition: J.M.W.Turner. National Gallery of Australian, 1996.
The Red Rigi (1704-4), acquired by the Felton Bequest in 1947, is dated to 1842. There is currently no record of how the painting was presented at the time of acquisition. For most of it’s life in the collection of the NGV the watercolour was presented in a standard frame with standard museum mounting. Through the 1980’s and 90’s this amounted to a cream museum window mount and an ‘L’ section timber frame made from blackwood.
The first re-framing of the work took account of references to these watercolours being displayed in close fitting gilded frames.
Particular attention was paid to a watercolour painting of the library of B.G. Wyndus in which a collection of Turner watercolours, including Okehampton, Devonshire in the NGV collection is displayed.
Cobus van Breda wrote on the subject of Turner and his framing choices making reference to both extant documentation and Turners views on perspective and the way these might be interpolated into framing decisions. (Melbourne Journal of Technical Studies in Art: volume 1, FRAMES pp137-146., 1999).
Unlike Okehampton, Devonshire there is no visual reference for the early presentation of The Red Rigi.
A Neo-classical frame for The Red Rigi was designed and constructed in Melbourne in 1996. It was based on information from Tate Gallery, particularly the frames depicted on Turner’s pictures in Fawkes’ collection and the frame on the anonymous painting of Audley End, Essex.
Over subsequent years this frame was deemed to be of limited success.
The watercolour was presented in a cream mount and thin gold frame for loan in 2000.
The project was re-visited in 2010/11 with a view to refining the presentation of the painting for the exhibition of British Watercolours at the NGV in September 2011.
Many views were sought and expressed about the presentation of the watercolour. Reference was made to the reframing of AGSA’s Alnwich Castle.
Various options were provided as photomontages. After considerable discussion a new frame was commissioned from London, based on an original deep scotia classical frame.
The invoice describes the frame:
“supplying hand carved and water gilded replica of antique English late 18/early 19thC deep scotia Neoclassical frame with frieze; applied leaf-tip moulding adjacent to sight; corner-&-centre ribbons binding fasces moulding; gilded slips to match.”
The frame is a scaled down version of an antique frame bearing the label of the carver and gilder Archer of High Street, Oxford. Archer’s apprentice was James Wyatt, and it was Wyatt who commissioned a painting from Turner in 1810 of High Street, Oxford. The Ashmolean Museum used the Archer frame to reframe the Oxford Street watercolour now in that collection.
The frame was fitted to the painting in September 2011.
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A 1953 Type 2 Volkswagen Microbus has recently surfaced that was used to help protect and serve the people of VW's home state of Lower Saxony. This particular Microbus was fitted with a Telfunken VRG2 and camera, becoming the first speed camera vehicle used by the Lower Saxony police. Despite the fact that it has never been restored, the engine runs and the radar still works.
Car collectors love the classic Volkswagen Microbus, but one recently surfaced that may bring back bad memories for some drivers.
It’s a 1953 Type 2 that became the first speed camera vehicle used by the police in VW’s home state of Lower Saxony.
According to Autobild, the police installed a Telefunken VRG2 and camera in the van in 1961 and used it for training for a few years as the new technology was rolled out across the force.
It also repainted it from its police-spec green to an undercover light blue color and hid the flash behind a flip down lid.
The van was sold in 1964 and passed through several private owners before being found recently in a garage in Hannover-Badenstedt.
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Despite the fact that it has never been restored, the engine runs and the radar still works.
It is now the property of VW’s commercial truck division and will be preserved as-is in its collection.
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[Buy Online Plain White T's - All That We Needed Red . Their catalog also includes pop ballads such as the double-platinum “1,2,3,4” and the platinum “Rhythm of Love.” While the entire catalog is impressive, the group is best known for their quadruple-platinum hit “Hey There Delilah” which topped the Billboard Hot 100 and earned them their two 2008 GRAMMY Award nominations]<IMG><I_8142><I_2315><I_174><I_6972><I_680><I_1098><I_6478><I_7947><I_2458><I_2157><I_2157><I_5819><I_6143><I_1786><I_1829><I_6972><I_2157><I_2908><I_5715><I_2925><I_2458><I_4342><I_5819><I_2315><I_1786><I_3958><I_2908><I_2458><I_6143><I_6143><I_4342><I_6148></IMG>
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Available for the first time on vinyl, All That We Needed was a pivotal release for massive Chicago rock band Plain White T’s. This album, which is now holds a RIAA Gold certification, was the world’s first introduction to the hit “Hey There Delilah” which was later re-released as a single and now boasts a quadruple-platinum certification and earned the band two GRAMMY Award nominations. This pressing celebrates the 15-year anniversary of the release.
Plain White T’s are an American rock band from Illinois. Since forming in 1997, the group has gone on to produce an enduring, enigmatic catalog which includes two RIAA Gold certified albums, 2005’s All That We Needed and 2006’s Every Second Counts. Their catalog also includes pop ballads such as the double-platinum “1,2,3,4” and the platinum “Rhythm of Love.” While the entire catalog is impressive, the group is best known for their quadruple-platinum hit “Hey There Delilah” which topped the Billboard Hot 100 and earned them their two 2008 GRAMMY Award nominations. Along the way, they’ve also logged countless sold out tours, syncs, and TV appearances – including a recent performance on The Bachelor: Listen To Your Heart.
All That We Needed, the third studio album for Plain White T’s (and their first with their current lineup – singer Tom Higgenson, lead guitarist Tim Lopez, rhythm guitarist Dave Tirio, and bassist Mike Retondo), was a pivotal release for the band’s career. This was the band’s second release for Fearless Records, a follow up to 2002’s Stop. This album was the world’s original introduction to the hit “Hey There Delilah” which was later re-released as a single, topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and now boasts a quadruple-platinum certification. The massive single also earned them two GRAMMY Award nominations in 2008 – Song of the Year and Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group. This pressing celebrates the 15-year anniversary of the release.
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Ortom stated this today while briefing newsmen after a peace meeting between officials of the Tactical Air Command of the Nigerian Airforce, Makurdi and stakeholders from Ugondo community on Thursday.
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The Governor said he had appealed to the Tactical Air Command to concede 350 hectares of land from the 4,000 hectares housing the command to Ugondo Community to permanently end the age-long land dispute between the command and the host community.
Ortom disclosed that the Nigerian Air Force authorities in Makurdi had promised to consult the Chief of Air Staff on the issue and get back to him, giving assurance that the matter will harmoniously be resolved.
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According to him, other issues raised by the community bothered on corporate social responsibility of the Tactical Air Command in the areas of provision of educational and health facilities as well as potable water which the command promised to address.
Speaking on compensation as requested by the community, the Governor said he would follow up the matter with members of the National Assembly from the state to see how best the matter could be resolved.
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He, however, used the opportunity to sympathize with the Chief of Air Staff and the entire Air Force formation in the country over the death of the first female combatant pilot, Tolulope Arotile.
He prayed that God grant her soul eternal rest and the entire Air Force and her immediate family the fortitude to bear the loss.
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Congratulations to the Po Hi-Steppers, who are the 2019 Large team National Champs! The last time they won this award was in 2008.
They also were National Champions in Officers Dances for Kick and Military.
As the large school American Academic Champions, the team has a 3.625 cumulative GPA.
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Special thanks to Sarah Dry for answering 5 questions about her recently featured book – The Newton Papers: The Strange and True Odyssey of Isaac Newton’s Manuscripts
I am an independent scholar with a weakness for the history of science. I have written about Victorian fishermen and risk, epidemics and global health policy, the life and loves of Marie Curie, and, most recently, the history of Isaac Newton’s manuscripts. – From Sarah’s Homepage
#1 – What was the impetus for The Newton Papers?
This is an amazing story that has never been told before. It spans three centuries of history and includes a cast of colorful characters such as the co-discoverer of Neptune, the inventor of the stereoscope, a self-made Yankee millionaire, the great economist John Maynard Keynes and a cantankerous Biblical scholar. I knew I would never get bored with it. Also, the story plays like a psychological thriller. What made Newton interested in the things he kept private throughout his long life–the alchemy and the unorthodox theology–and what drove those who came later to try to understand him better?
#2 – Was Newton mythologised in his own lifetime? And how did this reputation influence who kept or wanted his papers?
Definitely! Newton became a famous man the moment he published his great work, the Principia Mathematica, in 1687 at the age of 44. By the time he died forty years later, his genius was considered almost divine. Alongside being heralded as a great scientist, he was hailed as an exceptionally virtuous man–humble, kind, generous and just plain good. The truth, as ever, was more complex and much of it was revealed by the contents of the papers he left behind.
Newton had no children, so it fell to the husband of his half-niece to sort through things after Newton’s death. This man, John Conduitt, was committed to preserving the image of Newton as a great scientist and a good man and would have had every reason to conceal the contents of the papers.
But the story isn’t simply one of suppression and concealment. For a few decades after Newton’s death, the true about his idiosyncratic religious beliefs was hinted at in public. It was only later that Newton’s heterodoxy was more or less completely suppressed from public discussion–only to be re-discovered at various later moments, as I describe in the book.
And last, but not least, the papers were so disorganized and voluminous that they actually protected themselves. It took more than 200 years before historians really started getting to grips with them and the process is on-going today.
#3 – With some estimated 10 million unpublished words by Newton, how did you go about your research for this book?
Luckily, there are professional Newton scholars who are much better equipped than I to delve into the nitty-gritty of the papers themselves. One thing that comes up again and again in the history of the papers is how they were almost hazardous to the health of the various scholars who have tried to grapple with them over the years. One described them as casting a magical spell from which is was hard to escape (and not in a good way). I had fun telling the stories of the various men who have been foolhardy enough to take the papers on. I also made use of the amazing digital resources that now exist. All of Newton’s religious and alchemical writings, the very material he kept private throughout his life, is now freely available online at The Newton Project.
#4 – How have our attitudes to historical manuscripts played a part in The Newton Papers?
One thing I got really interested in while working on this book was the history of collecting manuscripts. In particular, I wanted to know when scientific manuscripts were first considered worth collecting. The answer is, surprisingly late. And that helped in part to explain why Newton’s non-scientific papers could be sold at auction in 1936 for a relatively low sum. It’s shocking to us now that almost no one really recognized the value of what was being sold, but at the time, it wasn’t actually such a low price.
#5 – Are you working on any new projects/books you can tell us about?
My next project is on the history of how scientists have studied water in all its forms–solid, liquid and gas–to better understand our planet. Newton of course is one of them, since he was the first to explain the tides in terms we still use today, through the tides turn out to be devilishly difficult to calculate accurately.
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Any idea what activity is being represented on this Haida argillite carving?
The Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford is one of the world’s great ethnological museums. Indeed, it is largely presented as a “museum of a museum”, with artifacts and curios displayed in glass cases in juxtapositions that made sense to anthropologists. Now I see they are putting some of their collection online – one of many interesting innovations going on at that museum. The Haida Collection which Cara Krmpotich has worked on consists of 200 really well composed and lit photos on the flickr.com website. Cara notes that she hopes making this material available in this manner will facilitate its use by Haida people and I expect they will (indeed one person with a Haida name has been commenting on some of the photos). Coincidentally, I see there has recently been a Haida delegation to the Pitt-Rivers museum.
In any case, the flickr set is a fantastic set of images of Haida art and technology. It would be nice to have the full catalogue information or other information associated with these, or at least a statement that such information is lacking. While there are visually spectacular items throughout the set, also check these plain spoons from SGang’gwaay, Tanu’uu and Masset, this bird bone whistle, and this tidy little loop of twine.
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Keeley Hawkes and Hugh Bonneville are decent as the actor and children’s author whose daughter died aged seven, but there is no real howl of pain
The unbearable grief of losing a child is a difficult subject for any movie to encompass – and it defeats this decently acted but syrupy, glib drama about the early married life of movie star Patricia Neal and children’s author Roald Dahl, whose seven-year-old daughter Olivia died in 1962 of encephalitis due to measles. Despite the best intentions, To Olivia winds up creating a carpet of eggshells for its audience to walk across.
The film suggests the family were brought closer together by this catastrophe, resulting in Neal gaining new emotional intelligence for her acting and Dahl being able to accept creative comments on his work from his family, and so getting crucial improvements for his 1964 hit Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Maybe – or perhaps Olivia’s death was an agony that everyone simply had to live with and live through, and one that may have accelerated Dahl’s existing slide towards cantankerous bigotry.
It did have one actual result: Dahl later became a powerful campaigner for vaccination. In 1962, there was no vaccine for measles, a fact mentioned in the postscript. (Maybe it is not too late to enlist Dahl’s support against the insidious anti-vaxxers: every Dahl book or movie should come displayed with Dahl’s vaccination message.)
Keeley Hawes plays Neal, the glamorous star content to live in a rambling house in the chilly English countryside, cheerfully putting up with her moody and mercurial husband, who indulges the children with flights of fancy when he’s not grumpily putting away the scotch in his writing den. Dahl is affectionately played by Hugh Bonneville, and inevitably makes Dahl more attractive and personable than was the case. Then the unspeakable tragedy happens; Dahl retreats into misery, unable even to say Olivia’s name, and the increasingly lonely and alienated Neal fatefully decides to head out to Hollywood to act in the western drama Hud, opposite Paul Newman.
This film comes to life in the two scenes when its hushed note of kindly reverence is broken. Neal and Dahl go for spiritual succour to his old headteacher, Geoffrey Fisher, the archbishop of Canterbury – fiercely played by Geoffrey Palmer in his final film role. Fisher’s blithering, pompous nonsense about animals not being allowed in the kingdom of heaven enrages them both. Then later, when Neal meets Newman (Sam Heughan), he coolly declines to engage in the ashen-faced condolences.
There is no real howl of pain of the kind that we had in, say in the 1993 movie, Shadowlands about the personal grief of CS Lewis. To Olivia is cushioned by its own carefully managed good taste.
Released on 19 February on Sky Cinema.
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To Olivia review: A portrait of grief that struggles to reconcile the two sides of Roald Dahl
The film charts the years after Dahl and his wife, actor Patricia Neal, lost their eldest daughter Olivia to measles-induced encephalitis
Thirty years have passed since the death of Roald Dahl and we still wrestle with his legacy. As a man, he was cantankerous and deeply antisemitic, known for belittling his loved ones and treating his audience with apathy. On the page, he’d allow worlds of infinite wonder and impish genius to blossom. To Olivia, a film by John Hay, attempts to sidestep the matter entirely and tell a story about grief, in all its universal forms. At times, it feels like a cop-out.
In 1962, Dahl and his wife, actor Patricia Neal, lost their eldest daughter Olivia to measles-induced encephalitis. She was seven years old. Emerging from the throes of grief, the couple would go on to celebrate the respective high points of their careers – Dahl published Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in the US in 1964, to great acclaim, while Neal won the Oscar for Best Actress a year earlier, for the role of Paul Newman’s hard-bitten housekeeper in Hud.
To Olivia charts the space in between these events, with Hugh Bonneville and Keeley Hawes as Dahl and Neal. Grief festers within the walls of their secluded country home – and inside the author’s famous writing shed, where the film shows him in private commune with his boyhood self. Presumably, this narrative trick is meant to explain the source of Dahl’s vast imagination, though it’s never made clear. All the boy seems to do is stare. It’s a great, wide-eyed look that seems to be the only thing capable of guilt-tripping the man into writing.
Hay, alongside cinematographer Graham Frake, beautifully captures how fleeting the small, magical words shared between parents and children can be. The house exists in Buckinghamshire and also, seemingly, in Arthurian legend. Mist clings to the tops of forest trees, and birds – sometimes depicted as a blur of CGI – roost inside a large, intricate menagerie in the garden. But the fairies and tea parties start to dissipate as soon as the thick smog of death starts to roll in.
To Olivia wants us to see our own experiences reflected in the agonies of the Dahl family. They cycle through their grief, on both a public and private stage – there are egg cress sandwiches passed out at the wake, followed by silent tears among the wreckage of the dead girl’s possessions. But Hay and David Logan’s script is attempting to wrench its story out of the hands of those it depicts. It struggles to reconcile the palpable image of a sensitive family man laid low by depression with the more complicated reality that ran alongside it – that of a sometimes-tyrant with a great capacity for manipulation. Bonneville does his best to find some form of communion between the two. There’s a wildness in his eyes that expresses far more than what’s on the page.
Hawes, meanwhile, is heartwrenching as someone who’s always expected to be a wife and mother first, a grieving woman second. But she never fully leans into Neal’s husky, lived-in drawl, especially when replicating her performance in Hud. The same could be said for the film’s treatment of Paul Newman, here played by Outlander’s Sam Heughan. The piercing blue eyes and sharp jawline are all present and correct, but the film presents him more as a generic Hollywood blowhard than the genteel, thoughtful man he’s commonly described as. True, grief is universal – but To Olivia never embraces the fact that stories draw their power from specificity. It’s what makes them feel real.
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According to mobile analytics firm Flurry, Apple has once again topped the holiday sales chart. Examining new device activations from December 19 to 25, Flurry found that 44-percent of all new devices activated were from Apple.
Samsung trailed in second place with 21 percent, while Huawei was a distant third with just 3 percent. Interestingly, when Flurry did the same study in 2015, Apple topped the charts with a share of 49.1 percent, while Samsung was also second with 19.8 percent.
Flurry also found in its study that phablets continue to increasing in popularity. This year, phablets accounted for 37-percent of all new devices activated, compared to 27 percent last year. The study also showed that tablets are becoming less popular.
So, what did you get this Christmas?
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The Music Club serves as a platform for peers to bond over music, in terms of performing, collaborating, learning, sharing, exploring and creating, by assimilating the vast and diverse tastes present in such a culturally charged setting. It is a place where students can express themselves uninhibitedly, relieve stress and build long-lasting memories to cherish forever.
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Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc, performed in a theatre, or on television. Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been contrasted with the epic and the lyrical modes. The term "drama" comes from a Greek word meaning "action" which is derived from "I do". The two masks associated with drama represent the traditional generic division between comedy and tragedy.
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Science club Activities with illustration for problem solving and psychomotor skill development The scientific and technological advancement of today is a long forward journey form stone age. Each individual has his interest’s talents and abilities now a days are found to exhibit growing interest and means of stimulating group participation and mobilizing interest in learning science organizing science clubs is one among such activities. Thorough activities of a science club, learning of science becomes joyful.
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Club has been founded to develop the social cooperation spirit in student, to help people who need directly or indirectly by means of charity organizations and activities. Build responsiveness among students about the social responsibilities. We motivate them to involve in extracurricular activities ahead of academic part and serve the society in its possible need and perform the responsibilities to the society.These activities develop leadership skill in the students and promote the intercultural relations and welfare of students the main intension of these activity Sharing is Caring.
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Dance is a performing art form consisting of purposefully selected sequences of human movement. This movement has aesthetic and symbolic value, and is acknowledged as dance by performers and observers within a particular culture.Dance can be categorized and described by its choreography, by its repertoire of movements, or by its historical period or place of origin.
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Yoga is an old discipline from India. It is both spiritual and physical. Yoga uses breathing techniques, exercise and meditation. It helps to improve health and happiness. Yoga is the Sanskrit word for union. Patanjali was a pioneer of classical yoga. He defined yoga as "the cessation of the modification of the mind". A person doing yoga will move from one posture to another.This helps to Reduce the stress and improve the concentration.
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Football is the world’s most popular ball game in numbers of participants and spectators. Simple in its principal rules and essential equipment, the sport can be played almost anywhere, from official football playing fields to gymnasiums, streets, school playgrounds, parks, or beaches. Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal.By this the co-ordination between the students will be developed.
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Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.It has been a part of the official program of the Summer Olympic Games.
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Tennis is a racket sport that can be played individually against a single opponent or between two teams of two players each. Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over or around a net and into the opponent's court. The object of the game is to maneuver the ball in such a way that the opponent is not able to play a valid return. The player who is unable to return the ball will not gain a point, while the opposite player will.
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Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball through the defender's hoop in diameter mounted 10 feet while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own hoop. A field goal is worth two points, unless made from behind the three-point line, when it is worth three. After a foul, timed play stops and the player fouled or designated to shoot a technical foul is given one or more one-point free throws. The team with the most points at the end of the game wins.
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Snooker is a cue sport which originated among British Army officers stationed in India in the later half of the 19th century. It is played on a rectangular table covered with a green cloth, or baize, with pockets at each of the four corners and in the middle of each long side. Using a cue and 22 coloured balls, players must strike the white ball to pot the remaining balls in the correct sequence, accumulating points for each pot. An individual game, or frame, is won by the player who scores the most points. A match is won when a player wins a predetermined number of frames.
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Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball back and forth across a table using small rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net. Except for the initial serve, the rules are generally as follows: players must allow a ball played toward them to bounce one time on their side of the table, and must return it so that it bounces on the opposite side at least once. A point is scored when a player fails to return the ball within the rules. Play is fast and demands quick reactions. Spinning the ball alters its trajectory and limits an opponent's options, giving the hitter a great advantage.
Teaching your child to swim and encouraging him to swim regularly can have significant benefits for both his health and safety. Especially on a hot day, swimming is a way to keep cool while encouraging a healthy level of physical and social activity. Swimming provides a more effective workout than some other activities.
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Karate is one of the most widely practiced martial art forms in the world. Martial arts rely on acute physical coordination and mental focus. They were developed in Asia (primarily India, China and Japan) over the course of several thousands of years. In all this time, there have been countless martial arts variations, and there are hundreds of disciplines practiced today.
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We learn best when we can see, hear, and experience things first hand. Multi-sensory learning is an important part of school life, and school trips answer the requirements of all five senses. It’s because of this that, we arrange trips to help children learn more about the subjects that they are studying. History, Geography, Science and Languages are the most popular subjects for visits, but knowledge trips can be used to support all kinds of subjects .every student require the knowledge, skills and understanding to live in, and contribute to, a global society and this begins with an understanding of the world in which we live, including the languages, values and cultures of different societies.
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Sports includes all forms of competitive physical activity or games which, through casual participation, aim to use, maintain or improve physical ability and skills while providing enjoyment to children, and in some cases.Hundreds of sports exist, from those between single contestants, through to those with hundreds of simultaneous participants, either in teams or competing as individuals. In certain sports such asracing, many contestants may compete, simultaneously or consecutively, with one winner; in others, the contest is between two sides.
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A Trick of Memory
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Left: First trial at completing a memory drawing of Frabritius' Goldfinch. Gouache, pencil, and pen. Read below for more details.
Early in 2012 I took a Memory Drawing class at the Atelier in Minneapolis. The class was taught by Stephan Orsak. He's since taught it at least one more time, and a friend who took it with me and again said each time was different—different exercises and approaches. I think Orsak is an excellent teacher and recommend you take it in whatever manifestation it is offered if you can.
The class worked through several memory exercises from tying visuals to oral tradition, through memorizing angles and then finding them in what we were drawing, to memorizing shapes and drawing them in real size with only a point or two to jog our memory.
Frankly I can't, in a short (or even longish) post tell you enough about the experience to give you a complete understanding. Sometimes we would be asked to look down a hall for 3 seconds and then draw what we saw without another peek. Other times we would play games with patterns.
There was homework every night (we had to memorize all those shapes, remember? And practice drawing them). We were encouraged to notice something during the day and draw it later at night from memory. Of course all of that was beyond my comfort zone as I only want to draw what is right in front of me. And I'm distrustful of memory in many respects. But I'd signed up for the class and I was going to work at it.
About 10 weeks into the 15-week class Stephan announced that our final project would be to pick a favorite painting, apply any (or all) of the memory techniques we'd learned, and paint the painting in our final class, without looking at the original (or print reference, because everyone picked master paintings or drawings).
Above, the first image in today's post is my first in-class practice attempt after one week of memorization. I chose The Goldfinch, by Carel Fabritius. It is my favorite painting, not just because it is a bird painting, but because the textures and strokes used are so magnificent, quick, spare, and magical. The link in this paragraph will take you too Fabritius' painting so you can compare it to my own couch potato version in this first attempt.
Even though my first attempt widely missed the mark, I wanted to show you the steps in this process as an example of how my mind was attacking the project.
First we were told to use the same format as the original, though we could change the scale. I was already in trouble, starting too large on the piece of paper I'd brought (Stonehenge Kraft) leaving myself no place to go. (I began working pretty much actual size.)
Left: A quick memory drawing sketch one evening before the final.
You'll also see in the top white margin some time notes. I decided that I wouldn't go and look at my reference images in the other room (where we all had to leave them). I started at 4:17 p.m. after an close look at my reference materials. At 5:18 I took a photo of my progress. At 5:40 I stopped at the point you see.
My idea of using the tan paper, didn't work as I'd planned. In my haste to keep working I lost all sense of color memory, and ability to apply white gouache.
To step back for a moment I will explain that for reference I had a large poster provided by a friend in publishing who had once put this image on a book cover. And I had a printout from the internet that showed the full background, uncropped.
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Left: Another homework session as we neared the final project.
During the weeks of study I put acetate overlays on both reference pieces and wrote notes to myself. Sometimes those notes were about color or shape, other times the notes were about relationships. I based my memory map on relationships. So this eye height lines up with that, and that portion of the body lines up with that (whatever "that" was, I was very specific!). I also based my study on comparisons, this is to that, and so many of this equals one of those. That sort of thing.
In the first image (at the top of this post) you can see that even as I go gamely forward I'm uncomfortable (because I can't see the thing) and note "!!drape of chain" as a reminder to recheck it and bring it to the front of future study. Or I note "Where's the shoulder?"
Elsewhere there's are comments from Stephan reminding me to consider, "What's the bird looking at?" (to jog my memory so I'd correct it) and to focus on "the arabesque around the fenial [sic] and the bird." (That's my writo, I was working very quickly.)
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Left: The second in-class dry run before the final. This is on a piece of toned 300 lb. watercolor paper. (We were allowed to prep our canvas, because most students were working in oils.)
I roughed everything in with a 4B pencil, darkened some bits with ink, smeared gouache in the background and on the wing. I made notes to myself, as in the bottom right to note and remember "What happened here." That means I had the sinking suspicion I was leaving something out that happened on the wall there.
Because there isn't a lot of color in the image I selected, and because I basically love line, I'd say that my approach focused on the lines and shapes. In the evenings before looking at my reference materials I'd make a quick sketch, going over my memory map of steps and relationships, quickly with just a pen as you see in the second, blue paper, image. By this time you can see that the angle of the bird's head is something I'm focusing on remembering, as well as the space behind him, and the negative space at his base.
I don't know how many times I sketched this image, sometimes two times a day. Sometimes I would study my reference materials a couple times a day, but not sketch.
Left: My quick statement and no details postage-stamp sized thumnail made in 30 seconds. We were asked to do these before we started our final in-class memory painting. Click on the image to view an enlargment.
We had another in-class attempt, which you can see in the fourth image in this post. I was working with acrylics because I thought this would give me the best chance to get something similar to the oil surface and yet be able to rework easily. I worked directly with a brush, blocking in the shapes and then started to work around the piece adding details that I could remember. The comments at the top of the page were nudges by Stephan for future study: "Where's the hardest ed[ge]? Take inventory of the hard edges." I stopped after 90 minutes (1:30), and didn't refer to my reference material since I wanted to practice for the "final."
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Left: The final in-class painting. Because I had such a harried beginning I did run back to the kitchen to focus my attention again once during this. I don't have my glasses so there's no ability to see fine details and he looks rather rumpled. Allowing for the color being way off, except for his shoulder/back edge being a bit high, thus making his head too small, if you squint down really hard he's not awful. I had an hour into this, since I used valuable time searching for my glasses.
On the day of the final project I discovered I had left my glasses at home. (I'd driven over with sunglasses; I even ran down to check the car.) After a frustrating search I dove in and pushed the paint around.
You can see my in-class final in images five and six.
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Left: A few days after class ended I actually missed drawing the bird every day. I had not looked at my reference since the final "exam." In class we'd joked about doing flipped versions of the image and one evening I picked up a piece of paper and did this quick sketch.
It was a fun project; one I learned much from.
I was amazed at how the details of this painting stayed with me for a long time.
In the final image, where I drew the mirror image of the painting without first looking at the painting since the final project, I can see how I mentally marched through my various check points which included the angle of the head, placement of the shoulder, negative space at his feet, distance to finial, angle and space to shadow, drape of the chain. I elongated the stand he's sitting on, but then I have a tendency to elongate things—even when they are right before me.
Even now it's difficult to resist the urge to pick up a pen and see what I remember. But I've just been looking at the painting, so I'll have to leave it alone for awhile longer.
This process showed me what I need to work on in seeing and retaining value and color and shape in my mind long enough so I can put it on paper—whether it's 30 seconds after viewing or 6 hours. I still do my daily memory sketches—but not every day. I still prefer to draw from life. But I do feel these types of exercises have helped me retain information when I'm drawing in the moment—fleeting information such as a bird flying by—what angle was this in relation to that? My mind responds and puts the answer on the paper.
I think we all need to get out of our comfort zone now and then, and have a stretch, and a bit of a push. We return to our drawing practice with improved skills and a new roadmap for where we want to go.
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Ahead of the G7 meeting at Biarritz from August 24-26, French President Emmanuel Macron, accompanied by Economy and Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire, Minister of Labour Muriel Pénicaud, and Deputy Minister of Ecological and Solidary Transition Brune Poirson, has invited to the Elysée Palace representatives of the 32 fashion and textile companies who have launched the Fashion Pact by his side.
In April 2019, ahead of the G7 meeting, Emmanuel Macron had given François-Henri Pinault, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Kering (Paris:KER), a mission to bring together the leading players in fashion and textile, with the aim of setting practical objectives for reducing the environmental impact of their industry.
In a historic move, given the scale and importance of the coalition that has been created, 32 leading companies from the fashion and textile industry have given themselves a set of shared objectives in the form of a Fashion Pact. The coalition includes groups and brands in Luxury, Fashion, Sports and Lifestyle, along with suppliers and retailers, all of whom are already involved in separate environmental strategies.
To date, the coalition comprises (in alphabetical order):
The Fashion Pact’s objectives draw on the Science-Based Targets (SBT1) initiative, which focuses on action in three essential areas for safeguarding the planet:
These commitments are designed to be embraced by every company involved and backed by cross-sector initiatives, along with the deployment of innovation accelerators.
Private companies, working alongside nation states, have an essential role to play in protecting the planet. With the Fashion Pact, some leading players in the fashion and textile sector are joining forces for the first time to launch an unprecedented movement. A collective endeavor by its nature, the Fashion Pact is open to any company that wants to help to fundamentally transform the practices of the fashion and textile industry, and to meet the environmental challenges of our century.
Read the full text of the Fashion Pact
1 The aim of the SBT initiative is to match companies’ objectives for reducing greenhouse gas emissions with the data provided by climate science.
Narkasa to Let Investors Buy Crypto in Currency of Their Choice
Within the last six months, the number of those investing in cryptocurrency has risen by 20 percent, due largely to recent declines in global markets. Narkasa, a recently launched cryptocurrency exchange based in Istanbul, hopes to soon let its clients conduct transactions in 156 national currencies. ISTANBUL–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jul. 01, 2020 The global cryptocurrency market is […]
KBank expands to 12 currencies for outward funds transfer via K PLUS to 30 countries, aims to go global by the end of this year
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WASHINGTON, July 28 (Reuters) – U.S. banking regulators have ordered crypto agency Voyager Digital to stop and desist from making “false and misleading” claims that its clients’ funds have been protected by the federal government.
The Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC) despatched a letter to the agency on Thursday, stating they believed that Voyager had misled clients by claiming their funds with the corporate can be lined by the FDIC.
An organization spokesman didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
The regulators mentioned the corporate, which declared chapter earlier this month, and its executives had made numerous statements indicating that Voyager itself was FDIC-insured, that clients who invested in its cryptocurrency platform would have their funds insured, and that the FDIC would insure clients in opposition to the failure of Voyager itself.
In actuality, the corporate merely had a deposit account at Metropolitan Commercial Bank, and clients investing through the corporate’s platform had no FDIC insurance, the regulators mentioned.
“Based on the information gathered to date, it appears that these representations likely misled and were relied upon by customers who placed their funds with Voyager and do not have immediate access to their funds,” the regulators mentioned in a joint assertion.
In a letter despatched to firm executives, the regulators ordered the corporate to take away all deceptive statements inside two enterprise days of receiving the letter. The regulators added such motion wouldn’t preclude the companies from taking additional motion in opposition to the agency sooner or later.
Voyager was one in all a number of crypto corporations to wrestle within the wake of broad crypto market turmoil. In its Chapter 11 chapter submitting earlier this month, Voyager estimated that it had greater than 100,000 collectors and between $1 billion and $10 billion in property, in addition to liabilities of the identical worth. learn extra
Colombia’s National Mining Authority is tracking contracts on the blockchain: What can other Latin American countries learn from this experience?
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Park City leaders on Thursday continued to discuss the details of what will be, by a wide margin, the largest-ever open space ballot measure but were not prepared to render a crucial decision about the precise dollar figure that will be sought from voters in November.
Mayor Andy Beerman and the Park City Council held another discussion about the ballot measure that would fund most of the cost of a $64 million acquisition of the Treasure land on a hillside overlooking Old Town along the route of the Town Lift.
In recent days, though, there has been a push to add an unrelated conservation deal to the ballot measure. The elected officials over the past week have mulled increasing a ballot measure by $3 million to fund 50 percent of an agreement reached by the not-for-profit Utah Open Lands to preserve a 19-acre parcel of land in Thaynes Canyon called Snow Ranch Pastures.
The elected officials indicated they wanted to consider the addition of the $3 million over the next several weeks before making a decision. City Hall staffers in that time will consider options to reduce the cost, including earmarking revenues from a portion of sales taxes that can be put toward the acquisition of open space. The mayor urged the staffers to “whittle away” at the price as he said he wants options presented.
A crowd of supporters of the Treasure deal was in attendance on Thursday, indicating they supported expanding the ballot measure to include the other land.
John Stafsholt, an Old Town resident who supports the acquisition of Treasure, said adding the other land is beneficial and turns the ballot measure into “more of a community bond.”
Brian Van Hecke, another Old Town resident and supporter of the Treasure deal, agreed with the concept of including the Snow Ranch Pastures land in a ballot measure.
“Such an obvious yes,” he said.
City Hall says a $50.7 million sum, the figure under consideration for the Treasure ballot measure prior to the discussions about adding the other land, would cost the owner of a property classified as primary residence with an assessed value of $799,214 an estimated additional $206 annually over the course of a 15-year repayment of the bond. The owner of a vacation home or commercial property with the same assessed value would pay an estimated additional $375 annually over the 15 years.
The numbers attached to a $53.7 million ballot measure are $220 annually on a primary residence and $399 each year for a vacation home or commercial property with an assessed value of $799,214.
Clarification: The City Council is also considering another option to fund up to 50 percent of the Snow Ranch Pastures agreement within the Treasure bond. According to a staff report, the elected officials could choose to allocate open space funds from a voter-approved sales tax toward the purchase of the properties. The bond would be pegged at $50.7 million in that scenario.
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This is one of those books that has been floating around my TBR for quite some time, and I have no clear idea how it landed there. I don’t distinctly remember reading a review of it, but it seems to be one of those books that I frequently hear referred to in a rather sidelong manner. And I must say – I don’t really know what to make of this books. In an odd way, it put me in mind of the Series of Unfortunate Events – a book that somehow isn’t at my level of understanding. For me, a 2/5 – I can understand why its average Goodreads rating is much closer to a 4/5, but it just isn’t for me.
The book is a rich one. At over 800 pages, it is a brick of a book, and I honestly dithered about finishing it… I decided to give it 150 pages to make its case, and although I wasn’t completely hooked by then, I was engaged enough to want to see where things went. It’s a slow-paced book that covers a decade of time – a decade in which it genuinely feels like more ought to have happened, but didn’t.
The slow world-building, enhanced by Clarke’s numerous footnotes (more on those in a moment), was impressive. Clarke builds a true sense of this alternate-reality she has created. Her interweaving of actual history into her world was very well done.
So why can I not summon up warmer feelings for this book? I wanted to love this book, truly I did. But, in the end, it just never quite hooked me. While many layers of many characters are revealed, I still never felt bonded with any of them. I could never quite believe in the depth of Strange’s affection for his wife, so the many actions he takes to rescue her felt awkward to me. The entire ending was rather abrupt (especially for a book of such length), and I felt a little betrayed that (SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER) that, after all that effort, Strange and his wife are not really reunited…????
I had very mixed feelings about the footnotes as well. While I liked them as an alternative to endless explanatory dialogue, they were also more than a bit distracting, occurring as they often did in the middle of sentences and sometimes running on to a page or more in length, entire little stories of their own. In some ways this was fun, and in other ways – most of the time, if I’m honest – it was plain aggravating.
By halfway through, I once again felt that I was at a crossroads – should I finish this book?? But I just kept feeling as though something had to happen – that things would pick up – that a plot would suddenly appear – that I would like someone – so I kept on. Honestly, I regret that decision. I lugged this incredibly heavy book on holiday to finish the last 200 pages, and then just sat there, staring at the last page, feeling incredibly ripped off. I don’t usually feel annoyed about books when I’m done with them, but I did this one.
In the end, I think my rather meh feelings towards this book come back to the fact that I didn’t love any of the characters. They were fine, but I never truly felt bound up in their fate. It seemed, that with that many pages to tell the tale, there ought to have been at least one person for whom I cherished a sincere affection and concern – but there wasn’t. Instead, the whole story felt ponderous, heavy, and a bit prosy – Clarke frequently flirted with the line between well-researched and stuffily pleased with her knowledge.
There are many (many) positive reviews for this book, so by no means discard it on my word. But for myself – I must confess that I don’t really understand the hype surrounding this book that, in my mind, could have been culled down by half quite easily…
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"House of Cards" appeared on Netflix two weeks early when viewers found most of the third season available to stream on Wednesday. The episodes were quickly pulled down, but viewers who had been watching the Season 3 premiere before Netflix remedied the situation were able to continue doing so even after the fix.
It appeared that 10 episodes in total leaked online, but according to a tweet from the official "House of Cards" account, the third season will have a full compliment of 13 episodes.
This is Washington. There's always a leak. All 13 episodes will launch February 27.
"Due to a technical glitch some Underwood fans got a sneak peek," a representative for Netflix said in a statement, referencing Kevin Spacey's Frank Underwood. "He'll be back on Netflix on Feb 27. #no spoilers"
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These work by changing the dilaudid phenergan way that the brain and nervous system respond to pain. I am an iv therapy nurse and it seems like I get alot of calls needing me right away to start an iv because the patient needs their iv dilaudid right away. So we start antibiotics for her infection, give her yes, some dilaudid and phenergan for pain control, and I tell her she’s going to need a CT scan. Jan Lei Iwata , Midwestern University Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine Answered Oct. Drug Panel Cross Reactivity Status Pharmaceutical Name Brand Name Drug Use Methamphetamines (MET) Potential Bupropion Wellbutrin & Zyban Antidepressant Product Insert Hydromorphone Dilaudid Pain management Product Insert Oxymorphone Numorphan Treatment for moderate to severe pain. OTHER NAME(S): Hydromorphone Patient Controlled Analgesia Syringe. Although it seems at times instinctive to order them their shot of dilaudid and phenergan, this is sometimes more of a knee jerk reaction in order to dispo them quickly and move them along. A4245 x 6, A4259 x 4, A4253 x 15 The alcohol wipes are represented by A4245. COMMON BRAND(S): Dilaudid, Dilaudid HP. This study is created by eHealthMe based on reports of 16 people who take Promethazine hydrochloride and Dilaudid from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and is updated regularly PHENERGAN™ (promethazine hydrochloride) Suppositories, USPDESCRIPTION. :sniff:I work in a community hospital where it seems like every patient has an order for iv dilaudid for pain. VivaPeron posted: Thank you for taking the time to read my post. The lancets are represented by A4259 per box of 100.. However traditional potentiators are different in that they do not reverse or prevent tolerance. A. LOL! This means that Dilaudid is chemically similar to morphine and provides pain relief. (Thorazine) IV Drug Compatibility Chart A Alteplase (Activase, rTPA) Amiodarone (Cordarone) Argatroban Atropine Calcium chloride Diltiazem (Cardizem) Dobutamine (Dobutrex) Dopamine Epinephrine (Adrenalin) Esmolol (Brevibloc) Furosemide (Lasix) Heparin Insulin (regular) Lidocaine (Xylocaine) Lorazepam (Ativan) Magnesium Sulfate. Compare head-to-head ratings, side effects, warnings, dosages, interactions and patient reviews. Formulated with phenol, promethazine has a pH between 4 and 5.5 Discontinuations Listed by Generic Name or Active Ingredient. Give 0.3mg (1:1000) epinephrine by injection…. The Demerol is a narcotic pain med, and the phenergan potentiates (boosts) the effectivenes of the Demerol, as well as preventing the nausea that some people experience when taking Demerol Hydromorphone (Dilaudid) 7.5 mg every 3 to 4 hours. Whether you’re dealing with everyday stress or are around friends who use drugs or drink alcohol, it can be all too easy to slip and slide backward IV compatibility results are organized onto separate tabs, so that you can quickly access the route or method in which you are interested. I just received my fourth injection yesterday. compatible via Y-site with alteplase, digoxin, DOBUTamine, DOPamine, EPInephrine, heparin, morphine, lidocaine, nitroglycerin, nitroprusside, NORepinephrine.
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A class of medicines that are widely used to treat conditions including anxiety, insomnia, and seizures. :sniff:I work in a community hospital where it seems like every patient has an order for iv dilaudid for pain. If given beforehand, it will increase the plasma concentration of the opioid and potentiate the effect of the high. When you bring him a soda, he'll probably want it in a cup with ice. Do as the dr instructed bunny and go back to the percs tapering down although this is likely caused by the hydromorph the percs will be enough to relieve the w/ds In an open, parallel-group, single-dose study involving 23 patients, 4-mg of immediate-release hydromorphone (Dilaudid IR) was administered. 500 mls of normal saline to maintain the insulin drip. In head to head studies involving compazine and other choices compazine always won. Dilaudid, which is better for uses like: Pain, Migraines and Severe Pain. I can only take the Reglan every 6 hours and I can use the Phenergan in between if I need to. Using morphine together with promethazine may increase side effects such as dizziness, drowsiness,. year with obstruction, I got my first taste of dilaudid (sp. Opiate potentiation is not the same as tolerance reversal or prevention. P roblem: Promethazine (Phenergan, Wyeth) dilaudid phenergan is a commonly used injectable product that possesses antihistamine, sedative, anti-motion sickness, and anti-emetic effects.The drug is also a known vesicant that is highly caustic to the intima of blood vessels and surrounding tissue. • The patient who is discharged home should be treated aggressively with patient education aimed at instructing the patient that, if pain is chronic, taking. Dilaudid, Toradol & Phenergan Shots. I have been going to the same pain management doctor for 7 years now. But for me, the one time phenergan makes my stuck and getting ickier bowels move. I don't think as of now I could live without them. I am.Phenergan is a strong CYP450 inducer (liver opioid enzyme!). he'll probably want some IV phenergan. Companies are required under Section 506C of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act) (as amended by the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act) to notify FDA of a permanent discontinuance of certain drug products, six months in advance, or if that is not possible, as soon as practicable If you give a junkie dilaudid, it'll probably make him nauseated. VivaPeron posted: Thank you for taking the time to read my post. Patients taking sustained-release hydromorphone may require additional short- acting or rapid-onset opioid doses for breakthrough pain.Dosesofshort-acting opioids should be equivalent to 10–20% of 24 hr total and given every 2 hr as. Phenergan is supposedly the worst. This pilot study examined the intensity, location, and quality of pain and evaluated the amount of relief and side effects from PCA hydromorphone during acute painful episodes in five adolescents with sickle cell disease.. So generally, people ike me don't get Phenergan because of the history with bowel problems. Medscape - Motion sickness, nausea, vomiting-specific dosing for Phenergan, Phenadoz (promethazine), frequency-based adverse effects, comprehensive interactions, contraindications, pregnancy & lactation schedules, and cost information Compare Hydromorphone vs. VivaPeron posted: Thank you for taking the time to read my post. A legend at the bottom of the page lists all compatibility types, and hovering your mouse over the icon will open a pop-up with the full. Can I use Dilaudid with Phenergan (promethazine) before sleep when have pain? She is wonderful and truly listens to me and takes the time to help me live life to the fullest. We look into the drug interactions by gender and age. When you push the IV phenergan, it'll probably make his mouth dry. I have my every day medicine that actually works and keeps me from feeling. 1999; 56:1742-3 In that context the best evidence is for compazine, thorazine, and reglan. Mix that with alcohol, and the effects will be increased Can you mix morphine and phenergan in the same syrringe Can you mix morphine and phenergan in the same syrringe. This medication is only available by prescription and is typically used in the hospital for pain after a procedure or injury Examples of Schedule V drugs: Lyrica/pregabalin, cough preparations containing not more than 200 milligrams of codeine per 100 milliliters or per 100 grams (Robitussin AC, Phenergan with Codeine), and ezogabine. I took Dilaudid 4mg for strong headache and woke up with nausea and vomiting. When the junkie gets nauseated.
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Letter: Hear those pilots roaring over Palm Springs? They're training to protect us all
Fighter jets over Palm Springs, teen vaping among topics of these Desert Sun letters to the editor.
Letter: Hear those pilots roaring over Palm Springs? They're training to protect us all
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A retired military jet is displayed along the driveway at the Palm Springs Air Museum. A Desert Sun reader suggests the sound of military pilots training in jets above Palm Springs is nothing to gripe about. (Photo: Al Franco/The Desert Sun)
Pilots training is a beautiful sound
Do you not understand that members of our Air Force must train somewhere so they are prepared and ready to protect us? My husband was in the Air Force during the Korean Conflict. We have a son who has just retired as a lieutenant colonel with the USAF after 32 years. Both sacrificed being away from family for holidays and special occasions.
While you sit down to a beautiful table filled with the aroma of turkey and stuffing and some pumpkin pie, I hope a jet flies over this area to remind you we have military eating K-rations in the sands of foreign deserts protecting you.
Let your Thanksgiving prayer include your thanks for the slight noise inconvenience you experience from time to time so that our airmen will be prepared to protect you should the time ever come.
One in five teens living in the United States suffers from a mental illness severe enough to impact their daily abilities. Two states have already passed laws that allow students to take time off for mental health issues.
I think it is important for more states to follow the example of those progressive states that are rising to the challenge of helping youth in crisis.
High school students have to deal with more than they should at their age, from depression and anxiety, to the fear of school shootings, family problems and trying to negotiate their academics and their futures. Teenagers have an overflowing plate of responsibilities. When you then consider the pressure of extracurricular sports, clubs and activities, it becomes easy to understand how a teenager’s life is not as easy as it may appear.
My teacher at school said, “Don’t bring me grievances, bring me solutions.” So, my solution to ease the burden of both teachers and teenagers is to move to a four-day work week to ease the stress, while allowing time to maintain better mental and emotional health.
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Millions of teens are vaping every day. (Photo: Getty Images)
Now that the extent of the vaping health crisis is becoming more evident, and has hit us locally as evidenced by the front-page story of Nov. 18, I think attention should be called to the New York Times story of Nov. 17 stating that President Trump has retreated from his September proposal to ban flavored “vapes” because of “political fallout among voters.”
As a former smoker and survivor of lung cancer, I know the misery that lung disease can incur, and if my grandchildren and great-grandchildren can be saved from that misery, I am for anything that will deter them from starting an unhealthy habit.
This is another example of the president caving to contributors and political advisers for his own benefit, ignoring the general welfare (and perhaps that of his youngest son).
Based on the article entitled, "EMF Pollution from Living Near Power Lines," (https://www.safespaceprotection.com/) people exposed to high voltage power lines and other collateral power transmission devices and networks exponentially increase their risk of cancer and other related health problems.
The article specifically mentions that the closer you are in proximity to power lines, the more you are bombarded with dangerous EMFs. These power lines handle electric power transmission and distribution across large distances.
Overall, the United States should take control in burying power lines safely underground because they are dangerous, and because there is empirical evidence that the lines harm humans.
The situation in Syria
If the military of one nation goes into a second nation, without its government’s permission, that is an invasion.
Any military actions by the first nation are acts of war.
Any armed group that does acts of violence against the government of the second nation are rebels, who must be put down.
This is Syria, today.
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Northwestern marks the 10th anniversary of The Johnny Mercer Foundation Songwriters Project with 15 emerging professional songwriters from across the country.
The weeklong program of master classes and workshops will culminate in “Songwriters In Concert.” This showcase of new works by the project’s participants will be a part of Northwestern University’s Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts’ 2015 SummerStage 2015 season.
The 8 p.m. Saturday, June 27, concert will take place at the Josephine Louis Theater, 20 Arts Circle Drive, on the University’s Evanston campus. Single tickets are $5 to $30 and are available for purchase through the Wirtz Center Box Office at 847-491-7282 or online at www.wirtz.northwestern.edu.
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“Jurupa school board members on Monday, Nov. 19, discussed safety issues on campus, including a request by some Sikh students to bring ceremonial kirpans to school.” (source: Press-Enterprise)
In southern California, the Board of the Jurupa Unified School District recently enacted a provision allowing Sikh students to carry a kirpan — a sword or blade that is an article of the Sikh faith — on its school campuses:
Under the new policy, parents agree to sign a statement that requires the kirpan — a daggerlike object that is a sacred article of faith — to be worn under clothing, to have the blade dulled, to be soldered or sewn into its sheath so it cannot be removed and to have a blade that is 2 1/2 inches or less.
The issue arose when a student made it known when school began that he/she wears the kirpan as part of religious practice:
Birpal Kaur, who heads the West Coast office of the Washington, D.C.-based Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund, said the matter came up after a Patriot High School student told a teacher during registration that the student would wear the kirpan for religious reasons.
According to Superintendent Elliot Duchon, the Sikh families have made concessions in order to accommodate security concerns related to the kirpan, of which none have been reported:
At least three high school students in the Jurupa Unified School District will be allowed to wear the approximately 2-inch knives at school after their parents agreed to solder them or sew them into the sheaths so they cannot be used as weapons, Superintendent Elliott Duchon said.
…Duchon said there have been no complaints or violence involving kirpans at local schools.
As an article of the Sikh faith adopted in 1699, the kirpan is one of the “five K’s” for Sikhs who have been initiated into the Khalsa order (by way of an initiation ceremony called Amrit Sanchar) — the other four being the well-known uncut hair (kes) and steel bracelet (kara), as well as a comb (kangha), and a specific type of undergarment (kachera). The turban, as the head-covering, is also a recognized article faith.
There is no hierarchy among these articles, and the responsibility for the initiated Sikh to wear each of them is equal. While we often hear about discrimination of Sikhs based on their uncut hair and the turban, as we see in the case of the Jurupa Unified School District, the kirpan presents a very different and complicated issue.
The kirpan is an expression of core values of the Sikh faith, and Khalsa Sikhs are obliged to wear the kirpan under a very specific mandate:
The Kirpan is a religious sword that encapsulates an initiated Sikh’s solemn obligation of courage and self-defense. It denotes dignity and self-reliance, the capacity and readiness to always defend the weak and the oppressed. It helps sustain one’s martial spirit and the determination to sacrifice oneself in order to defend truth, oppression and Sikh moral values. All Initiated Sikhs are mandated to wear a Kirpan on their body.
Indeed, given the nature of this article of faith, we often see the right to religious freedom confront appreciable concerns about safety. While Sikhs are as much concerned about safety as it relates to the kirpan, as an article of faith it is one of our most difficult issues to reconcile with public perception.
For one school board member in the Jurupa Unified School District, his sole dissenting vote on the provision to allow the kirpan was his concern for safety:
…[School board member Brian] Schafer said that type of object does not belong on a school campus.
“My issue is safety, not that you’re going to deny someone’s religious freedom,” Schafer said.
…Schafer is adamant that student safety trumps religious freedom and that a dagger-like object should be not allowed on campus under any circumstances.
However, he was outvoted by a 4-1 margin:
But other board members insisted that the district had to respect the religious beliefs of the students.
“America was founded on freedom of religion,” said board president Sheryl Schmidt. “It’s not up to us to tell any religion what is right and wrong.”
Often, the kirpan is described as a “symbol” of the Sikh faith, and perhaps this has made it more palatable to those who might be more averse. However, in my view, the kirpan is not simply an ornament to signify a belief, but an instrument with which we are to fulfill our duty as Sikhs. Therefore, it is reassuring that the parents and school administration could work out a compromise to balance both sides of the issue.
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I’m so thrilled to host Amy Trueblood here today. Sometimes you hear writers say that they’re just as happy when one of their friends gets a book deal as when they do. Well, I haven’t yet experienced the excitement of a book deal for myself, but I was over the moon when Flux acquired NOTHING BUT SKY. See, I was privileged to read an early draft of the manuscript (can I squee a bit because this is the first time my name appears in the acknowledgements??), so I’ve been cheering it on for a very long time. And now it’s a real, live book! Thank you to NetGalley for allowing me to read the finished version, which is so amazing I can’t even express how much I love it.
NOTHING BUT SKY comes out next week, and I’m giving away a copy to one lucky winner. But first, here’s the gorgeous cover and description, followed by Amy’s answers to five questions about what I love most.
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Eighteen-year-old Grace Lafferty only feels alive when she’s dangling 500 feet above the ground. As a post-World War I wing walker, Grace is determined to get to the World Aviation Expo, proving her team’s worth against flashier competitors and earning a coveted Hollywood contract.
No one’s ever questioned Grace’s ambition until Henry Patton, a mechanic with plenty of scars from the battlefield, joins her barnstorming team. With each new death-defying trick, Henry pushes Grace to consider her reasons for being a daredevil. Annoyed with Henry’s constant interference, and her growing attraction to him, Grace continues to test the powers of the sky.
After one of her risky maneuvers saves a pilot’s life, a Hollywood studio offers Grace a chance to perform at the Expo. She jumps at the opportunity to secure her future. But when a stunt goes wrong, Grace must decide whether Henry, and her life, are worth risking for one final trick.
And here are the questions for Amy.
1. Until I read NOTHING BUT SKY, I had no idea crowds flocked to watch wing walkers in the 1920s, but I loved learning about it. What inspired you to write about a young female wing walker?
In the summer of 2013, I visited the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. Tethered to the ceiling of the museum was a biplane with a mannequin hanging off the wing. I was instantly intrigued and went in for a closer look. A placard next to the plane detailed the life of a wing walker by the name of Ethel Dare. In that moment, I knew I needed to learn more about her. Later that evening, I started doing research and discovered that Ethel was one of a handful of brave women who soared through the skies and the idea for NOTHING BUT SKY was born.
2. Following up on the first question, from the first page, I read about Grace’s stunts with my mouth half hanging open. By the time I reached her last stunt, I couldn’t even believe someone would attempt such a thing. Are these real stunts wing walkers performed? How did you research them?
In almost all editorial stages of this book someone questioned me about the stunts Grace performs. All of them came from research I did via historical photos or actual footage I watched on YouTube. From the car-to-plane transfer to the “Showstopper,” these were real stunts these women performed, many times without a parachute to keep them from falling to their death.
Wow. I watched the videos of wing walker Lillian Boyer with my family. We couldn’t believe it.
3. The historical setting is so rich, with tidbits about popular music and film, fashion, the economy, and daily life sprinkled into the narrative. Did you have a particular strategy for balancing the history with the story, or did that come fairly naturally?
Thank goodness for edits. The first draft of this book lacked a lot of important elements of setting and historical detail. At first, I just wanted to get the story down. In the following edits and revisions, I would layer in slang, real-life historical figures, music, as well as clothing. Including all these elements wasn’t easy. Many days writing this book felt like slowly putting together a thousand-piece puzzle.
4. I love how the romance develops in the story, with both Grace and Henry growing together. Were they an easy couple to write, or did they give you trouble the way they give each other trouble in the story?
I wish I could say Grace and Henry’s relationship came easy but writing romance is HARD! I learned that there is a delicate balance between building character arcs and allowing your characters to slowly open up to each other. In the first few drafts, Grace was really tough on Henry. It took a lot of comments from CPs to make me realize she could still be vulnerable even if she was a strong, brave woman.
5. I love it when I find a title in the text of a novel: “My only wish was to be back on the wing with the wind in my face and nothing but sky for company.” Was the title an easy choice, or did you struggle with choosing the perfect title?
That line was in the original draft. The minute I wrote it I knew it was going to be the title. Thankfully, my editor and publisher both agreed it was a perfect fit for the book.
Now on to the giveaway. I’m giving away a copy to one lucky winner, North America only, please. You can enter by commenting below. Tell me what excites you about NOTHING BUT SKY :). And if you want the opportunity for extra entries, click on the Rafflecopter link below. Good luck!
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YA Review: STRANDS OF BRONZE AND GOLD by Jane Nickerson
Responses to “YA Interview & Giveaway: NOTHING BUT SKY by Amy Trueblood”
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No 64. Memoirs of a Critical Communist. Towards a history of the Fourth International
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Llivio Maitan's Memoirs of a Critical Communist tells the life of revolutionary communist in the second half of the 20th century. From his early commitment to communism under fascism in Italy, Livio chose to be 'against the current' by rejecting both Stalinism and social democracy, and charted a course towards democratic and revolutionary Marxism.
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ROME – In the few days immediately before he was to receive his red hat, Cardinal-designate Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston tried to relax as he also made time for quiet prayer, his family and a wardrobe check.
The Texas media turned out in force Nov. 21 when he went to the small but famous shop of Gammarelli, the ecclesiastical tailors.
“I had a final fitting,” the cardinal-designate told Catholic News Service. “It looks very fine.”
The tailors, who also sew for Pope Benedict XVI and most of the 22 other prelates who will be inducted into the College of Cardinals Nov. 24, will make a few adjustments to the Texan’s two new outfits and will deliver them.
With sartorial obligations resolved, he could breathe a sigh of relief.
“This morning I’ve been doing some spiritual reading with God’s word; I’m taking time out for that,” he said.
The other key moment of spiritual preparation will be an early morning Mass Nov. 23 in the grotto of St. Peter’s Basilica with a very small group of family and friends.
“Mass at the tomb of St. Peter is always a beautiful experience, and it is an important part of my preparation as I’m about to become a cardinal, called to offer closer assistance and support to the Holy Father,” he said.
But he also wants to spend time with the 400-member pilgrimage from the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston and smaller groups from his former Diocese of Sioux City, Iowa, and his native Pennsylvania.
“There are elements of the preparation that must be done in quiet,” he said, but celebrations with the pilgrim groups also are important.
Cardinal-designate DiNardo said he had no idea if his 10 years as a bishop is an exceptionally short period of time compared to the other new cardinals, but he does know his way around Rome and the Vatican.
He was an official at the Congregation for Bishops, 1984-1990. While his preconsistory to-do list included stopping by the congregation, he said very few of his former colleagues still work there.
He and the other cardinals-to-be were to get a little preview of their lives as members of the college and advisers to the pope during a Nov. 23 all-day meeting. Pope Benedict asked that all the cardinals – old and new – focus on the state of the Catholic Church’s ecumenical relations during the meeting’s morning session, while he has left the afternoon session open for a free discussion.
Then it would be back to the pilgrims, to Masses, receptions and photographs of his brand new, perfectly fitted, tailor-made cassocks – one black with a red cummerbund and red piping, the other pure red.
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[Southern Gas corridor Caspian News: Although in the second half of 20th century many viewed the Caspian oil as a glory of the past, as the production levels were outstripped by the development of West Siberian oilfields, new hydrocarbon reserves were discovered with new exploration methods. As a result, the years since the independence of the Republic of Azerbaijan from the USSR have seen a new impetus in petroleum extraction]<IMG><I_2161><I_3449><I_1872><I_3488><I_680><I_3086><I_7943><I_5452><I_7943><I_2157><I_2157><I_7943><I_3714><I_4868><I_1872><I_5452><I_2157><I_6783><I_2157><I_4868><I_7943><I_7943><I_7943><I_2157><I_4868><I_891><I_5665><I_6723><I_3714><I_5452><I_3714><I_7311></IMG>
In addition to being a new exporter of natural gas to Europe, Azerbaijan is one of the world oldest oil producers, with its production history having commenced back in 1848. Oilfields located next to Baku were discovered while the area was still under the Russian Empire rule and marked the early history of the petroleum industry. Under the Soviets, new discoveries of oil in the Caspian offshore were made by Schlumberger brothers, the founders of the world-famous oilfield service company. Although in the second half of 20th century many viewed the Caspian oil as a glory of the past, as the production levels were outstripped by the development of West Siberian oilfields, new hydrocarbon reserves were discovered with new exploration methods.
As a result, the years since the independence of the Republic of Azerbaijan from the USSR have seen a new impetus in petroleum extraction. New discoveries have resulted in new production and export volumes which provide up to 90% of the country’s export revenues. In turn, the EU demonstrated its own interest in diversification and established the Inogate programme, launched in 1996 and aimed at assisting infrastructural connectivity between the Caspian and Europe in order to find an alternative to either Russian or Middle Eastern routes of energy supply. Attention gradually shifted from oil to gas. Oil production volumes have been on their decline since the early 2010s, while natural gas production has increased. In this context, the EU supported both politically and financially the Southern Gas Corridor, consisting of three connected pipelines.
The EU invested significant efforts into diversifying its oil and gas supplies and hence the commitment to the Caspian as an alternative source of its gas. A switch to natural gas imports from Azerbaijan would correspond to the transition to natural gas, deemed to be the cleanest fossil fuel.
However, these long awaited gas supplies from Azerbaijan to Europe might face a new challenge – the energy transition towards a carbon-neutral economy, which diminishes the role of fossil fuels in the EU energy mix. If in the last few years, natural gas has been viewed mainly as the transition fuel deemed to be the least carbon-intensive fossil fuel, nowadays the industry is criticised for being responsible for a significant share of worldwide methane emissions. Consumers, especially in Europe, are becoming increasingly sensitive to the supply-chain emissions associated with their gas. It will not be long until producers will need to prove that their gas counts as “low carbon”.
In the context of the recently adopted EU Green Deal and a specific methane emissions strategy, Azerbaijan will need to ensure a low greenhouse gas footprint for its natural gas to be a viable partner of the EU. Otherwise, in the long term, all the previous efforts and investments into the new gas pipeline infrastructure will become stranded assets.
The issue of methane emissions is, therefore, of pivotal importance for Azerbaijan to maintain market access to European buyers. To date, the hydrocarbon industry has mostly worked to reduce emissions from gas flaring from the upstream oil and gas sector. Since any hydrocarbon extraction implies releasing surplus methane and associated gases, companies often choose to flare the gas, the combustion of which generates the CO2. If those gases are not flared, and are just released into the air in methane form instead, the environmental damage becomes even greater.
Good progress with gas flaring but …
The good news is that Azerbaijan was able to significantly reduce gas flaring between 2012 and 2015, particularly in comparison with other Caspian peers (see Figure 2). A joint working group between Socar and BP — the largest international investor in the Azerbaijani hydrocarbon sector — was established to minimise the flaring of associated gas (which is the largest source of carbon dioxide emissions in the sector). As a result, Azerbaijan has a low “flaring intensity” (i.e. flaring per unit of oil production) around 28 ft3/barrel, a figure comparable to advanced hydrocarbon producers such as Norway and Saudi Arabia (Figure 1).
However, the World Bank satellite data confirms that the absolute volumes of flaring has increased since 2017 – and so too has the “flaring intensity” (Figure 2). Increases in flaring intensity may indicate a deterioration of operational performance (or changes due to the intrinsic gas-to-oil ratio of the producing fields).
…Methane emissions are also in focus
CO2 is however a “lesser evil” compared to methane. In addition to flaring (which itself is a significant emitter of methane, from so-called “methane slip” (i.e. incomplete combustion at the flare tip), the industry also releases venting and fugitive methane (or leaks), some of which is associated with gas transportation.
Methane emissions have been as high as 0.4bn m3/year, according to the International Energy Agency recent methane tracker. It might be worth noting the extensive risks posed when flaring is replaced by venting, which seems to occur in the Caspian basin at least from time to time. Overall, fugitive and vented methane emissions in Azerbaijan are estimated at 24mn CO2-equivalent tonnes of emissions if 20-year global warming potential is considered (over two decades, methane is 84 times more potent than CO2). On top of that, significant methane emissions create a revenue loss for Azerbaijan, which can reached $76mn annually (Figure 3).
As a result, criteria for a climate footprint will not solely be based on flaring reduction but also on mitigating methane venting and leaking. However, it remains difficult to determine the exact volume of methane emissions. Top-down estimates provided by the International Energy Agency cannot reflect all the possible emissions at component or facility level, which implies a bottom-up approach which is still at the embryonic stage in the analysed region. In 2019, Azerbaijan’s state-owned company Socar joined the Methane Initiative, and within this international voluntary framework, the company decided to install infrared cameras for methane emissions monitoring. Methane inventorisation is both a costly and lengthy process which should lead to a consistent leak detection and repair programme. As a result, natural gas from Azerbaijan would gain necessary certification and methane emissions standards.
It might be worth noting that some methane emissions associated with oil and gas operations are commercially challenging to reduce. Emissions occur during the liquid unloading to the wells necessary to optimise extraction of hydrocarbons, during the usage of chemical injection pumps to repair deficiencies, and in using pneumatic controllers required for the pipeline system to stimulate gas flows. One of the solutions for methane emission reduction is the replacement of fuel-based equipment with electric ones whenever possible. However, this leads to the higher electricity consumption which further requires a reliable power system which ensures the industrial processes with no interruption. The recent crisis in Texas revealed that both hydrocarbon and power supply systems can be affected at an unprecedented scale for natural reasons with no expected reasons for the crisis.
Azerbaijan’s electricity sector reliability still needs to be improved, and the country will require incremental generation capacity to satisfy needs in agriculture and in rebuilding of post-conflict areas of Karabakh. At the same time, methane emission reduction can help in providing better power reliability since Azerbaijan’s electricity sector is increasingly dominated by natural gas on expense of oil products (Figure 4).
Methane emissions reduction can save additional gas for electricity generation and can be even used for smaller-scale power production. Adding to that, reliability of power supply requires investment into digitalisation, which is again an energy-consuming activity requiring additional power input. In short, one may advocate for an innovative circular economy approach, as reducing the methane surplus from flaring, venting and leaking contributes to digitalisation, while digitalisation can support increased energy efficiency and lead to a smaller carbon footprint.
Methane emissions reduction is a complex agenda, which needs a consistent approach backed by both the industry and the public sector. In this respect, exports to Europe can be a solid stimulus for Azerbaijan to take pro-active steps. Partly the pro-active steps will depend on the external dimension of the EU methane emissions strategy, and on the mechanisms to be used by Brussels to assist Azerbaijan.
Expanding the methane strategy beyond
The early 2021 has seen a rapprochement between Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan as the two Caspian states solved their disputes over Kapaz/Sardar offshore oilfields located on the disputed territorial waters. In the perspective of gas extraction from the same fields, Turkmenistan might be both capable and interested in joining Southern Gas Corridor and getting access to the European markets as well.
As a result, with the natural gas link between Caspian and Europe, as well as with pro-active steps – both potential and existing – in reducing carbon footprint from the oil and gas sector, Azerbaijan could become the starting point for a further EU methane strategy in the region addressing the even more complex case of methane emissions that occur in Turkmenistan. Overall, the Caspian could become a good starting point for a EU methane emissions strategy outside Europe.
By: Andrei Belyi and Aziza Khalilova from Balesene, John-Henry Charles and Mark Davis from Capterio
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Ghost of Tsushima released in 2020 to widespread critical and commercial success, becoming one of PlayStation's most beloved exclusive IPs. The game was also responsible for shedding light on the real Tsushima island, along with its rich history and absolutely stunning scenery. This is largely thanks to Ghost of Tsushima's biggest lead developers, game director Nate Fox and creative director Jason Connell, whose game led to increased interest in Tsushima, boosting tourism as well. However, Fox and Connell are now being named permanent tourist ambassadors of Tsushima.
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Video Games Chronicle reports that Nate Fox and Jason Connell will become permanent tourism ambassadors of the city of Tsushima in Nagasaki, Japan. The ceremony, which will award the duo with a letter of appreciation and award, will take place digitally due to travel restrictions. Taking it one step further, the city will also collaborate with Sony Interactive Entertainment to set up some new tourism campaigns based on the video game, taking tourists to key locations and landmarks around the island that inspired Ghost of Tsushima.
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Tsushima mayor Hiroki Hitakatsu stated why they're awarding Fox and Connell the permanent tourist ambassador titles. "[Fox and Connell] spread the name and history of Tsushima to the whole world in such a wonderful way," he began. "Even a lot of Japanese people do not know the history of the Gen-ko period. When it comes to the world, the name and location of Tsushima is literally unknown, so I cannot thank them enough for telling our story with such phenomenal graphics and profound stories."
Hitakatsu added a very positive and wholesome note about Fox and Connell, saying "I did not appoint them for the purpose of having them do anything in the future. Thanks to the two of them, Sucker Punch Productions, and SIE, I have heard from people all over the world who have learned about Tsushima through their works, and now want to see, know, and go to Tsushima."
"I would really like to appoint all the Sucker Punch, SIE, and game users who were involved in the work as Tourism Ambassadors," he added.
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Ghost of Tsushima became so popular among fans, that it led to massive donations (upwards of $260,000) in order to rebuild the Torii gate and shrine on the real island, which collapsed during a typhoon last year. This is excellent news for Fox and Connell, and overall just a very wholesome saga for Tsushima and all its beauty.
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I see it also won a bunch of awards in Famitsu as voted by Japanese players.
Happy to see Japan loves the game so much.
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Awesome!. I am currently playing through this game on my PS4 Pro. Only finished the Prologue
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[NATO Serbia Kosovo: Socialist genocide is the unspeakable logic of the serial war crimes under international law.So it is important to remember the long war of economic and financial destabilization that occurred over years before and after the bombing to destroy federal Yugoslavia’s market socialism in every workers-control and social infrastructure it had evolved after 1945 to solve the endless Balkan ethnic wars of its past history.This larger design is taboo to state – US-led genocide of any socialist society as covert state policy]<IMG><I_7113><I_680><I_3724><I_4297><I_680><I_2424><I_3724><I_1940><I_7515><I_2315><I_2157><I_7515><I_6906><I_3234><I_136><I_6895><I_2157><I_2424><I_7515><I_6474><I_3267><I_136><I_7515><I_3449><I_4141><I_3060><I_3234><I_7030><I_3724><I_7515><I_3060><I_5033></IMG>
The NATO war on Yugoslavia which culminated in the 78-days bombing of historic cities and infrastructures – as usual under atrocity propaganda and pretexts – is on its 20th anniversary.
The grim anniversary is admirably recognized by Science for Peace members to remember and to prevent who-knows-what NATO war crime next as “humanitarian intervention”.
From Yugoslavia to Iraq to Libya, where does it stop? Observe that Trump is now seeking a NATO alliance with Bolsonaro Brazil (see image below) -to perhaps back the bombing of Venezuela, or any other society, including the Brazilian people, not bowing to US-led global corporate colonization. Socialist genocide is the unspeakable logic of the serial war crimes under international law.So it is important to remember the long war of economic and financial destabilization that occurred over years before and after the bombing to destroy federal Yugoslavia’s market socialism in every workers-control and social infrastructure it had evolved after 1945 to solve the endless Balkan ethnic wars of its past history.This larger design is taboo to state – US-led genocide of any socialist society as covert state policy. Instead ‘freedom’ and ‘human rights’ is the reverse-mask every time which is relentlessly dinned into people’s heads. In this way, again and again, the non-stop succession of US international crimes under law is covered up into the present day. So too, federal Yugoslavia, once the envy of the world in democratic social progress, was destroyed step by step. Its bonding social infrastructures were dismantled by unceasing, all-fronts US financial war in which NATO bombing in 1999 was only the most evident event of the socialist genocide.Repressed Witness of the Killing of a Multi-Cultural SocialismBelow are excerpts from Ottawa University Professor of Economics (emeritus) Michel Chossudovsky’s long-leading analysis which provides a minimalist through-line of the effectively genocidal war against all not-for-profit institutions of a socialist society in which Yugoslavia is a paradigm case. The selected text excerpts below are from Michel Chossudovsky’s 1996 article (updated in 2002) published as a chapter in The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order, Global Research, Montreal, 2003.
History repeats itself in patterns not events.The pattern of criminal US destabilization and destruction of social states to loot them of their sovereign resources is the unseen history of the last century of the world.Yugoslavia provides the cornerstone example since the Nazis inside Europe with Ukraine taken down since in the same pattern still taboo to see.US-led NATO is the transnational war machine of the world devouring all public wealth it can extort to terrorize all into conformity to the global-carcinomic regime. The NATO that bombed Yugoslavia 20 years ago and Iraq and Libya since is also the greatest polluter, waster, and destroyer of the global environment beneath all notice of it.The US-NATO borderless armed-force maw invisibly leads the climate chaos upon us across continents. It is the greatest rising carbon spewer of all time, but not once mentioned even by the UN International Panel on Climate Change.The US-led post-Nazi incubus of NATO may be the most wasteful black-hole despoliation of the earth and its future possibility ever, with oil its blood and mass-killing its method. Yet the official world remains blind to it in “we did not know” sanctimony and accusation all life resistance as the problem.The twentieth anniversary of the US-led NATO bombing of Yugoslavia as NATO ‘humanitarian intervention’ should be a tragic self-recognition for the ages.
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The nation of Botswana has lifted a ban on elephant hunting. The ban has been in place since 2014.
The president of Botswana, Mokgweetsi Masisi, set up a committee in February to explore the possibility of lifting the ban. The committee came to the conclusion that the legal hunting of elephants would benefit the nation.
The restriction on hunting was reportedly a problem for farmers who operated smaller farms, according to the BBC.
The Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources Conservation and Tourism of Botswana issued a statement on the decision to lift the ban.
“The number and high levels of human-elephant conflict and the consequent impact on livelihoods was increasing,” the ministry said.
The ministry emphasized that the wildlife populations have “increased and were causing a lot of damage as they kill livestock in large numbers.”
Not an open hunting season
The committee recommended measures for population control, but not an unlimited open hunt on the elephants.
Accordingly, the ministry said that the “re-instatement of hunting is done in an orderly and ethical manner.”
The committee decided that the elephant population in Botswana should be managed “within its historic range.”
The recommendation by the committee was for a “regular but limited elephant culling.”
Among the committee’s findings, there was a recommendation that there be an “establishment of elephant meat canning” for purposes of pet food.
The need for more land to manage a growing human population was another factor, he said.
There are approximately 415,000 elephants in Africa. Of those, about 130,000 are in Botswana, according to the Great Elephant Census.
Botswana is home to such a large elephant population due to the nation being considered the last place of refuge for elephants on the continent of Africa.
Dr. Mike Chase of Elephants Without Borders told the BBC that elephants are able to determine areas where they are more likely to be safe from poachers.
The director of the Department of Wildlife and National Parks, Otisitwe Tiroyamodimo, said that the factors for lifting the ban included climate change, according to the BBC.
“The rain started decreasing, the vegetation started deteriorating and then the elephants naturally migrated outside their natural range because they were getting very little water and very little feed,” Tiroyamodimo said.
In 20189 Statistics Botswana released an agricultural census, showing that drought has had a large impact on the nation’s cattle population.
Botswana’s cattle population has decreased from and estimated 2.5 million in 2011 to 1.7 million in 2015. The number of Botswana residents raising cattle has also decreased by about half.
Diamond mining is the largest part of the Botswana economy. Tourism is second.
Natural resources like the wildlife population is a main part of the tourism economy in Botswana.
Diamonds were first discovered in Botswana in 1967.
Botswana is a land-locked country in between Namibia and Zimbabwe, north of South Africa.
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November 28: It has been three years since the government started implementing the contribution-based Social Security Fund (SSF) that was introduced to provide pensions to the workers of the private sector. However, voluntary participation in the Social Security Fund has not yet increased significantly.
In the last four years, 15,831 employers and 295,764 workers have joined the fund. According to the Economic Census 2075, there are 923,000 business establishments operating in Nepal. A total of 462,000 organisations are registered with the government. However, only 15,008 organisations have been listed in the fund so far. From the fact that only 3.5 percent of the formally registered organisations are listed, it is clear that the Social Security Fund has not progressed as expected.
So far, billions of rupees have been collected by the SSF from the contributors, but it has not been properly mobilized. The fund has so far collected Rs 10.10 billion from affiliated employers and workers.
However, this amount has not been used for any purpose other than receiving interest from the banks. Showing the lack of policy required to mobilize the money, the government is only receiving interest by keeping the contributors’ money as 'fixed deposits'.
Obligation to rely on debt remains
As per the decision of the Government of Nepal on 2076/9/11, the SSF needs to repay the loan amount within 5 years at the annual interest rate of 3 percent. As per this decision, the fund took the loan of Rs 50 million in 2076/77 for the first time and spent Rs 23 million on administrative operations and management.
Similarly, the SSF operated in loan in FY 2077/78 as well. This year too, the fund has taken a loan of Rs 150 million from the Government of Nepal.
This amount has been spent on office operation, office rent, employees’ salary, services and facilities and the fund is preparing to take an additional loan of Rs 220 million for the current Fiscal Year 2078/79. This loan is being taken in installments.
Lack of ownership among the ministers
During the tenure of the then Minister for Labour, Employment and Social Security Gokarna Bista, there were daily trainings and seminars on social security schemes but after Rameshwor Raya Yadav became labour minister, he did not give any attention to it. After that, Gauri Shankar Chaudhary and now Krishna Kumar Shrestha is the Labor Minister, but none of these ministers seem to be committed to advancing the social security scheme, which is why the fund has become inactive.
Program at the Ministry on the occasion of the annual festival
On the occasion of the 4th annual meeting of the SSF, a low-key program was held at the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security on Saturday. Some private sector representatives and Labor Minister Krishna Kumar Shrestha attended the program.
On the occasion, Minister Shrestha did not hesitate to admit that there were some shortcomings. He also said that the government would expand its branches in all the states and address the issue of banks and financial institutions.
Emphasis on the need to improve weaknesses
At a program held at the Ministry, the representatives of the private sector and trade unions said that the Social Security Fund has not been effective yet and stressed on the need to move forward by rectifying the shortcomings of the past.
Senior Vice President of the Federation of Nepali Chambers of Commerce and Industry Chandra Dhakal, said that the fund should be implemented effectively in Nepal and added that the fund was effective after a long time of its implementation even in the developed nations.
Jagat Singh Simkhada, president of the All Nepal Federation of Trade Unions, said that only a small number of establishments were affiliated to the SSF in Nepal, and questioned the functioning of the fund. Stating that there is a lot of ambiguity in the fund, he said that there is a delay in removing the ambiguity on part of the government.
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When Aatish Taseer first came to Benares, the spiritual capital of Hinduism, he was eighteen, the Westernized child of an Indian journalist and a Pakistani politician, raised among the intellectual and cultural elite of New Delhi. Nearly two decades later, Taseer leaves his life in Manhattan to go in search of the Brahmins, wanting to understand his own estrangement from India through their ties to tradition.
Known as the twice-born—first into the flesh, and again when initiated into their vocation—the Brahmins are a caste devoted to sacred learning. But what Taseer finds in Benares, the holy city of death also known as Varanasi, is a window on an India as internally fractured as his own continent-bridging identity. At every turn, the seductive, homogenizing force of modernity collides with the insistent presence of the past. In a globalized world, to be modern is to renounce India—and yet the tide of nationalism is rising, heralded by cries of “Victory to Mother India!” and an outbreak of anti-Muslim violence.
From the narrow streets of the temple town to a Modi rally in Delhi, among the blossoming cotton trees and the bathers and burning corpses of the Ganges, Taseer struggles to reconcile magic with reason, faith in tradition with hope for the future and the brutalities of the caste system, all the while challenging his own myths about himself, his past, and his countries old and new.
"A detailed, learned and highly readable tour of Hindu history . . . [and] a sharp-eyed condemnation of the evils of Hindu nationalism and caste."—Wendy Doniger, The New York Times Book Review
"Moving . . . For Taseer, Benares incarnates a curious quality of modernity: the city makes anthropologists of the devout and believers of the skeptical. The book’s charm resides in the way the author orbits this tension between faith and rationality."—Shaj Mathew, The New Yorker
"[The Twice-Born] doesn’t sit squarely in the camp of memoir, travelogue, or long-form reportage. It hovers among the three—but with such lilting grace as to make that limbo feel like a lovely hybrid . . . Taseer grew up in cosmopolitan, postcolonial New Delhi but has spent much of his adult life in the U.S. and Europe. The result is an alienation from the India he considers both his homeland and a foreign land . . . [The Twice-Born is] a poetic quest to bridge that gap or at least better understand it.”—Chloe Malle, Vogue
FOREIGNERS IN THEIR OWN LAND
FOR A LONG TIME, I had a recurring daydream of the ancient Indian city of Benares, superimposed onto the geography of New York. From my open window on West Eighty-Sixth Street, my mind’s...
Aatish Taseer was born in 1980. He is the author of the memoir Stranger to History: A Son’s Journey Through Islamic Lands and the acclaimed novels: The Way Things Were, a finalist for the 2016 Jan Michalski Prize; The Temple-Goers, which was short-listed for the Costa First Novel Award; and Noon. His work has been translated into more than a dozen languages. He is a contributing writer for The International New York Times and lives in New Delhi and New York.
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Tennessee is one of the best prepared states in the nation for responding to a disease outbreak, such as Ebola or other emerging threat, according to a report released Thursday morning.
Tennessee was one of a handful of states to score an eight on a 10-point indicator for preparedness, according to the report from Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The other states were Maryland, Massachusetts, Vermont and Virginia.
Half of the states and Washington, D.C., scored five or lower. Arkansas had the lowest score of two. Kentucky also had a low score with three.
"Over the last decade, we have seen dramatic improvements in state and local capacity to respond to outbreaks and emergencies," said Jeffrey Levi, executive director of Trust for America's Health. "But we also saw during the recent Ebola outbreak that some of the most basic infectious disease control policies failed when tested."
Other emerging threats to public health include MERS virus and pandemic flu, he said. However, state health officials should also respond to existing threats, such as seasonal flu and antibiotic-resistant infections.
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This summer, one of our 24-7 Mission trips headed to Albania to bless the capital city of Tirana, to run a 24-7 prayer room, explore and pioneer partnerships.
Ana, one of the team members, shares her experience:
When I signed up for the Albanian Mission trip, I knew where to find Albania on the map, but didn’t know much about it as a country. I really didn’t know what to expect from this mission trip either, so it was with some trepidation and much curiosity that I stepped off the plane in the capital city of Tirana.
There in the airport one of our team leaders was chatting to a local pastor, Tomor, who was also waiting to collect people from a delayed flight. It was so encouraging to hear Tomor’s testimony of conversion as a refugee in Sweden, and his calling back to Albania to be a pastor.
Looking back on the week, I think this airport encounter was a glimpse of God’s purpose for our trip. Few people speak English in Albania – and the country was officially atheist until 1990.
This meant that praying and chatting with strangers on the street proved difficult, but God brought a number of key Albanian Christians into the 24-7 Prayer room that we hosted.
“You are the body of the Anointed One, and each of you is a unique and vital part of it.”
We learnt that being a Christian in Albania is challenging – it’s unpopular and can be treated with much scepticism. Life in general is also difficult there, with a tough economic and political situation. Albania has a history of being isolated and cut off from the rest of the world – many people who came through the prayer room were discouraged and tired.
Yet into this context, God had brought together a team reflecting some of the diversity of the worldwide church. Our mission team represented 7 different countries, 3 continents and ranged in age from 7 – 68 years old.
We felt it was as if God was saying to the Albanian church: “Look, you are part of the wider body of Christ. You’re not alone. You’re not on your own. You are not isolated!”
“The human body has many parts, but the many parts make up one whole body. So it is with the body of Christ”
During one session in the prayer room, God prompted us as a team of foreigners to surround the local church members that were there and cheer– literally clapping and jumping up and down for them. It was a powerful moment reflecting “on earth as it is in heaven”.
We prayed for a local lady who was going out on a mission trip the following week; we got to journey alongside a local young teenage church leader– who joined us regularly as part of the team. We built relationships and shared God’s heart and encouragement with everyone we encountered.
A key moment where we felt God spoke to us was when we ate as a team at the local restaurant. There wasn’t much on the menu that you could order as an individual – instead everyone shares from the common space – together as one community.
This was a week of standing together in unity as members of a worldwide church – knowing that we all have our unique place, but that we are bound together through prayer and in love of our wonderful God!
Passionate about mission too? We’ve just launched a brand new winter mission trip to the French Alps in December 2019.
Our 2020 mission teams will be released next month.
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Ana is passionate about seeing ordinary people pray and has just finished helping to host a week of prayer in her local community. She loves drinking good coffee, appreciating flowers and doing the Lindy Hop.
24-7 Netherlands: Transformation on the Streets
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Doorstep Hospitality: When the Prayer Room becomes the Mission Field
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[Google brings Digital Car Keys, quicker access to Snapchat to Pixel phones. For Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro owners, the update also adds support for digital car keys and enables Ultra Wideband for Nearby Share. The new Quick Tap to Snap feature makes Pixel the fastest smartphone for making a Snap, letting you pull up the Snapchat camera directly from the lock screen by tapping twice on the back of your phone, much like the Quick Tap feature already works for other tasks like taking screenshots or playing music. Google is also planning to bring new Pixel-exclusive lenses to Snapchat, starting later this month with Pixel Face]<IMG><I_5012><I_680><I_3874><I_7551><I_680><I_5600><I_2526><I_2279><I_2467><I_680><I_680><I_2526><I_2526><I_5416><I_2279><I_6372><I_680><I_4051><I_2526><I_2279><I_7605><I_7797><I_2526><I_680><I_8098><I_2279><I_4482><I_6510><I_5065><I_2526><I_1190><I_2392></IMG>
On the heels of the launch of its new Pixel 6 lineup, Google is rolling out several new Android features exclusively for Pixel owners to get more out of their smartphones. Pixel feature drops happen on a regular basis, with Google releasing new software updates and features for both old and new Pixel devices.
What’s new in this feature drop?
With the latest feature drop, even those with older Pixel devices will be able to get faster access to Snapchat, control bass levels on Pixel Buds, and better hear conversations. For Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro owners, the update also adds support for digital car keys and enables Ultra Wideband for Nearby Share.
The new Quick Tap to Snap feature makes Pixel the fastest smartphone for making a Snap, letting you pull up the Snapchat camera directly from the lock screen by tapping twice on the back of your phone, much like the Quick Tap feature already works for other tasks like taking screenshots or playing music.
Google is also planning to bring new Pixel-exclusive lenses to Snapchat, starting later this month with Pixel Face. Quick Tap to Snap is available to all Pixel 4a with 5G or newer Pixel phones.
As announced in last week’s holiday update, Google is also turning the key on its partnership with BMW to let you unlock your car with your Pixel phone.
This feature allows you to unlock your car door by tapping your Pixel on the handle and will be available to Pixel 6 owners on select 2020-2022 BMW models in certain countries. You can also start your car by placing your phone on the designated spot on the interior console and then pressing the engine start button.
The Pixel 6 Pro is also gaining Ultra Wideband support to improve Nearby Share for quickly sending data such as files, photos, and videos to other nearby Ultra Wideband devices. Sadly, however, it doesn’t appear that Ultra Wideband is enabled for Digital Car Keys yet, although we’re sure it’s coming.
Pixel owners will also get to experience the first beta of Conversation Mode, a new early-stage accessibility feature in the Sound Amplifier app that boosts conversations and filters out competing noise so you can better hear what the other person is saying in a loud environment.
The Now Playing experience on Pixel 4 and newer phones has been updated to give you even more options for recognizing music playing nearby. A new search button will tell your phone to dig a bit deeper by reaching out to Google Search for those tracks that can’t be identified using the on-device database.
Google has also doubled the bass range available in the Pixel Buds app, with a new slider that lets you adjust from -1 to +4. This works on the Pixel Buds A-series with any device running Android 6.0 or later.
Lastly, Google is adding several new countries and languages to its Crash Detection feature and Recording app. Crash Detection is now available in Taiwan, Italy, and France, while the Recorder app can now transcribe Japanese, French, and German on Pixel 3 and newer Pixel phones.
The new Feature Drop begins rolling out today to all Pixel 3a through Pixel 5a (5G) devices running Android 12. The update will roll out to Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro devices beginning next week. A complete list of all fixes and changes can be found in the Pixel forum.
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[Narappa]Narappa, the Telugu remake of critically acclaimed Tamil hit Asuran, will directly release on an OTT platform, having chosen to forego its theatrical run. The makers on Monday announced that the movie will stream on Amazon Prime Video from July 20.
The film’s production house, Suresh Productions announced the OTT release with a new poster. “Humble farmer. Loving father. Devoted husband. How far will he go to protect his family? Meet #NarappaOnPrime, July 20. @PrimeVideoIN,” they captioned it. The film was earlier supposed to release on May 14 but was postponed due to second wave of Covid-19.
Set in the backdrop of a village in Anantapur district, Narappa chronicles the story of a regular man who is ready to sacrifice everything for his family.
“It is an extremely stimulating and enriching experience to work with such talented stars and a highly creative crew. The story of Narappa is not only close to my heart but also narrates a social commentary on the system as a whole and this is our attempt to breathe life into this story. I am honored to have our work premiere on a global platform, which will help us reach a gamut of audiences, and I am positive that they will all appreciate this action-packed film,” Suresh Babu said in a statement.
On the work front, Venkatesh is currently shooting for F3. His film Drushyam 2 is expected to release on Disney Plus Hotstar very soon.
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" On 15 January 2005, human rights groups from India, Nepal, Bhutan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, PVCHR (India), INSEC (Nepal), People's Forum for Human Rights (Bhutan), Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, LOKOJ (Bangladesh) and Wiros Lokh Institute (Sri Lanka), met with an objective of a united South Asia, working for the common good, in Varanasi, India. This convention was named People's SAARC, leading to the formation of a South Asian People's Forum, with myself as its coordinator. Afghanistan and SAARC charter on democracy were later added to SAARC on recommendation of convention. This was indeed an excellent effort to build human rights mechanism in SARRC countries where the discourse of human rights is still in its nascent stage." says Founder of PVCHR, Lenin Raghuvanshi. Established in 1985, the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) sought to promote peace and stability in the region through strict adherence to the principles laid out in the Charter of the United Nations and the Non-Aligned Movement. Given that the UN Charter has been the basis for evolution of several instruments on human rights, SAARC has also taken some important steps in the right direction. Key instruments and initiatives of SAARC include: · Convention on Preventing and Combating Trafficking in Women and Children for Prostitution, 2002 · Convention on the Promotion of Child Welfare in South Asia, 2002 · Social Charter, 2004 · Charter on Democracy, 2011 · Initiatives relating to climate change, heath, food security, mutual assistance on criminal matters, combating terrorism and drugs. Justice Shri K.G. Balakrishnan, Chairperson, National Human Rights Commission, India attended an International Conference on 'Regional Human Rights Mechanisms in South Asia' organized by the National Human Rights Commission, Bangladesh in Dhaka, from the 17th-18th November, 2014. He made several interventions during the course of discussions as one of the key speakers. The Conference discussed various issues of human rights in South Asian countries. These related mainly to the problems of migrant workers, trafficking in women, child right issues and climate change. The Conference emphasized that the Human Rights Institutions of South Asia Region would require to make concerted and collective efforts to address the human rights violations and stressed upon the SAARC Member nations to develop a strong regional human rights mechanism for the purpose. It also urged the SAARC countries to ensure that all of them had a National Human Rights Institution in conformity with the Paris Principles. Europe, Americas, Africa, Southeast Asia and the Arab States have successfully established regional mechanisms, South Asia lags behind. Recognizing the need and importance of regional mechanisms for the realization of human rights, the United Nations General Assembly and the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action have specifically called for their establishment. We call on South Asian States to work towards the establishment of a South Asia Human Rights Mechanism at SAARC level which is going to create bettering conditions for peace in South Asia and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of masculinity driven militarist traditions as a weapon of war and conflict.
[MPNvhjrfbRvvNIQ noPad]#Badaunkibeti Police should protect the daughter of Badaun from human trafficking
Kumari Simran, aged 22 years, and resident of KBK lane number 3 under civil line police station, Adarshnagar in Badaun district has unrelentingly been fighting for rescue and the safety of her sister Ragini (name changed) from human trafficking. Only if the state police had come to her rescue earlier than Ragini would have been living safely at her home. The slogan of ‘Beti Bachao’ (save girls) appears hollow in this case. On July 26, 2018, Ragini was kidnapped around 12 noon, and although immediately reported, the police did not lodge an FIR in the case. On the order of SSP, an FIR (crime number 532/18, section 363,366 IPC) was finally lodged on August 5, 2018. Simran even complained to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). However, the Commission merely registered as case (case number 9850/24/7/2019-WC) and is awaiting the report from the UP Police. It did not even try to intervene by sending its own team. The victim’s father, Rambhajan, also lodged a complaint with the Prime Minister’s portal.On November 12, 2018, Rambhajan wrote (reference PMOPG/E/2018/0543943) to the minister in charge of Badaun district, “The applicant’s daughter’s life is in danger and the whole family is aggrieved. Seema Rastogi roams around impersonating as a boy. She slyly befriends and cajoles girls, and later sells them off. The police is not taking any action, instead subjects us to bizarre queries.” This case came to light during the Outreach Programme of Child Line, Badaun. Later, PVCHR's Shruti Nagvanshi talked at length with Simran and her mother. You can listen to the conversation with Simran over Youtube by clicking on the link given below. Conversation: Simran Simran says, “I gave up hope after my constant efforts in the pursuit of justice, yet the officials concerned were unmoved with my plight.” Kindly, sign the petition and apprise the government that for the dispense of justice to Simran, a CBI probe should be recommended in the case, so that Ragini is rescued and united with her family, while the culprits are punished. Please support us, so that Simran and her sister Ragini get justice and stay safe. #ChildLine #Trafficking #MissingGirls #Kidnap #NHRC #PVCHR
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[uvdJPWbOdmWHjYd noPad]#SonbhadraKeAdivasi Listen to the angst of Sonbhadra massacre survivors
On July 16, 2019, led by influential land mafia unleashed bloodshed to protect the illegally usurped tribal land in Sonbhadra district, adjacent to Varanasi. His band of about 300 armed assailants fired indiscriminately at innocent forest dwellers for nearly half an hour. Ten forest dwellers died on the spot and more than 25 others were grievously wounded. Unfortunately, at the time of the incident the forest dwellers tried to call all top civil and police officials, including the district DM and SP whose phones were switched off. Police arrived at the spot after the emergency no 100 was dialed. However, it decided to remain as mute spectator to the ongoing incident. Four forest dwellers were killed right in front of their eyes. Finally, the police from the Ghorawal police station reached the spot only after the killers fled to safety after committing the massacre. Neither any official representatives from the local, district administration nor any political representatives from political parties including the ruling party considered to visit the site at least on a humanitarian ground. In fact, the police made all arrangements to protect the house of village head Yagyadutt, who led the assailants to commit the massacre. The role of Ghorawal police station as well as the DM and SP of Sonebhadra is not above suspicion. The district had never seen such insensitive senior officials. As the fact of the case goes, an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, who was posted as the Mirzapur Collector in the past, had encroached upon the tribal land, and later sold it off to a land mafia. The forest dwellers, who are fighting the case since 1955, have been denied justice till date. The land originally, belongs to King Badahar, the local ruler and later it was transferred to the Gram Sabha. The corrupt nexus behind the entire case since 1955 is wide open. The glaring fact is that about a dozen members from victims’ community were booked under Goonda Act by district administration and later banished from the district. False cases were registered against around 60 tribals, demonstrates whom does the police represent. The police is also time to time accused of exploiting the women of the falsely implicated accused. The wails of women and children in Ubhbha village, Sonbhadra are filling the heart with sorrow. Whether one terms it brazenness or defiance, yet the anguish of these women has not been able to move Shri Adityanath, Honourable Chief Minister, Uttar Pradesh or his subordinates. Shri Vijay Vineet, the noted journalist associated with PVCHR, could not control his tears as he listens to the misery of those women, whose husbands have been killed by land mafia. Please read the report ‘Ghorawal narsanghar par giraftariyan, arjiyan, dauron aur bayanon ke beech gaon mein maatam’(Mourning in village amidst arrests, petitions, visits and statements over Ghorawal massacre) published in Media Vigil (in Hindi) and News published in Indian Express (in English). Main demands: - 1. Register FIR for fraud, loot and dacoity against those usurping land by creating trusts, committees and other organisations in Sonbhadra 2. Impound land from non-existent trusts for allocating to poor local people 3. Sonbhadra has witnessed extensive land scams, which should be probed by an independent revenue judicial commission 4. The revenue courts in Sonbhadra are all comprised, as such revenue fast track court be constituted 5. Identify those government servants responsible for the massacre and register cases against them 6. A High Court judge should review all revenue decisions in the district between 2012 and 2017. Besides, a public hearing and review be instituted for all land allocations during the period 7. Thousands of hectares of land getting revoked under Land Ceiling Act are still ‘benami’ (with out name land title) in several villages. These be identified for distribution among the poor 8. Expose the political connections of the perpetrators of the massacre and those responsible for the incident 9. Award Rs one crore compensation to those killed in the massacre apart from the allocation of land Kindly sign the petition to urge the government to dispense justice to the tribals of Sonbhadra. Support us, so that the tribals get justice and their lives are secured.
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Behold: Kale and Brussels Sprout Salad. So good that you ignore the fact that "brussels sprout" is a weird thing to say. They should have called it "Baby Cabbage on a Stick." Imagine the state fair tie-ins and trickery. Damn, sometimes I wonder why no one checks with me on these things.
We’re kicking off the Thanksgiving Side-Dish Face-Off today, as I am the type of person* who documents hosting his first Thanksgiving and then creates a fake movie trailer about it. First up, Salad No. 1: Kale and Brussels Sprout Salad. Next, Salad No. 2: Shaved Root Vegetable Salad.
If you hated brussels sprouts as a kid, I hope you’ve apologized to your parents for being wrong. Because you were wrong. They are delicious. They are what would happen if cabbage were miniature and grew on stalks. You cannot deny that that is nature at its finest. Think of something you like, and then imagine it miniature and on a stalk. Better, right? Yeah. Better.
Love of brussels sprouts aside, I’d never tried them raw before, and was intrigued when I found this recipe for a Kale and Brussels Sprout Salad in the latest bon appétit. The idea is simple: shred kale, shred brussels sprouts, slice almonds, make dressing. You’re done. You’re happy. Life is great. Until you run out of this salad, and then it’s time to start questioning your decisions again.
I threw the brussels sprouts into the food processor to shred them, then kept a few leaves for garnish. The salad turned out a bit like cole slaw. So, through the magic of adding more food to my food, I turned it into a new dish: Kale Slaw! (I’d like to pretend I came up with this name, so please ignore all of these Google results and start telling people I came up with it.) With some shredded carrots, walnuts and cranberries, it was like the salad I’d never even thought about until two days ago was a salad I hadn’t even thought about until today. According to the people in my office who saw me grab this from the fridge and were thus obligated to say something nice about it, it looked pretty. Hey, now you look at it:
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And now tell me it’s pretty.
Thank you! I made it myself.
* The awesome type of person.
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Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has announced that the Metro bus service will be free for passengers during Ramadan. He announces while examining the project earlier Thursday morning. In addition, PM Shahbaz Sharif ordered the Capital Development Authority to operate the Islamabad Metro Bus Service on April 16 and ordered an investigation into the delayed launch of the project four years ago. The premier, at 7 am, visited the Peshawar for more metro bus stations and reviewed the progress of the project.
He is saddened that the project, launched by the PML-N government in 2017 with a deadline, is still incomplete. Construction of a 25.6km metro road worth Rs 16 billion began in January 2017. Moreover, the project was carried out by the National Highway Authority and was due to be completed by August 2018. However, the project faced delays, and its community work was completed—last year. The Capital Development Authority took over the project in March last year from the National Highways Authority under the direction of a federal government and began buying buses. During a visit by PM Shehbaz today, NHA and CDA officials briefed him on the project. According to a statement issued by the Office of the Prime Minister, the PM has asked officials to ensure that racks are installed on buses carrying passengers to the airport.
He expressed disappointment at the delay, calling it “gross negligence,” and said that Rs 16 billion had been spent on the project. The premier also ordered the launch of a free metro service in Ramadan during the month of Ramadan.
last month the corridors and railway stations of the metro track had already been built, and now the order and control, tickets, station management, hygiene, and security systems are being finalized. It was also reported that the CDA planned to launch a bus service on March 23. Still, due to delays by the bus manufacturing company due to the Covid-19 epidemic, the reopening was delayed until April. The NHA was responsible for building the tunnel and public works and had nothing to do with bus operations.
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The delicious fruit persimmon filled up with full of pulp and has interesting advantages.
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Ingall with the Gold Coast players
Members of first-year AFL squad the Gold Coast Suns have continued their year of learning this week – taking to the track with V8 Supercars drivers Russell Ingall and Steve Owen.
The Paul Morris Motorsports pair hosted 10 of the team’s young players at The Driving Centre in Norwell, Queensland, where the footballers were given lessons in advanced driver training from the centre’s certified instructors.
The Driving Centre features Australia’s only rotating turntable for driver training, allowing Ingall to safely illustrate the feeling of being in an out-of-control vehicle.
“These youngsters were full of confidence, as I suppose you would be playing for an AFL team, but once I took the first guy over the turn table it was a whole different story,” said Ingall.
“They were put through their paces at The Driving Centre, but I was pretty impressed with how well they took it all in and how much more capable they were behind the wheel of the VE Commodore by the end of the day.”
According to Suns midfielder Maverick Weller, the turntable was a real eye-opener.
“I’ve never been in an out-of-control car before so to do that in a controlled environment was exciting but a pretty valuable lesson if I ever do end up in that situation,” said Weller.
Paul Morris Motorsports will race on its home test track in the upcoming Coates Hire Ipswich 300 at Queensland Raceway.
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[Image Hosted by ImageShack.us. It is a film by Vera Stroieva, made in 1954 as part of a project dear to soviet authorities of putting into film both the lives of Russia’s greatest artists and adaptations of their works, to “educate the masses” and of course not being entirely without some ideological hints (or rather more than mere hints). Stroieva made effective use of exterior shots, as well as mixes of “theatrical stage” sequences with other ones filmed inside the Kremlin, which gave the film an intriguing aura and allowed us to look at Boris Godunov from an unusual perspective; the soundtrack was dubbed and lip sinchronised of course, but remarkably well, with results far better than those in contemporary efforts by RAI to film standard italian operas]<IMG><I_1137><I_2157><I_3975><I_5995><I_2157><I_3558><I_579><I_601><I_5121><I_680><I_2157><I_8086><I_579><I_2179><I_3975><I_2690><I_2315><I_854><I_5289><I_854><I_5289><I_2179><I_579><I_2315><I_8086><I_8086><I_579><I_6905><I_579><I_6905><I_5289><I_7663></IMG>
quote from Amazon user: A complement I say, as this not being complete (well, I’d better say severely truncated) it cannot be your sole Boris in a collection; necessary I add, because it preserved a sizable portion of the title part, as portrayed by one of its foremost exponents ever, the great russian bass Alexander Pirogov. This incompleteness is only implied but not clearly stated in the disc’s box, which should advise would-be purchasers. So what you get is some kind of “extended highlights” of this, arguably the greatest of russian operas and certainly the most popular. It is a film by Vera Stroieva, made in 1954 as part of a project dear to soviet authorities of putting into film both the lives of Russia’s greatest artists and adaptations of their works, to “educate the masses” and of course not being entirely without some ideological hints (or rather more than mere hints).
Stroieva made effective use of exterior shots, as well as mixes of “theatrical stage” sequences with other ones filmed inside the Kremlin, which gave the film an intriguing aura and allowed us to look at Boris Godunov from an unusual perspective; the soundtrack was dubbed and lip sinchronised of course, but remarkably well, with results far better than those in contemporary efforts by RAI to film standard italian operas. From the film perspective, it followed the traditions of soviet film making, with stunning images, stark closeups and vast shots of hundreds of extras in the opera scenes involving the people; the soudtrack had to be made on purpose for the project, as the myriad cuts in the score ruled out cutting and splicing existing recordings. Stroieva also made a startling use of the Kromy revolt scene: she cut it rather abruptly at the point when the jesuits from the Pretender’s army enter and swiftly switched to the Kremlin quarters where the Duma has met, to proceed with Boris’s entrace and death scene; after Boris’s death she goes back to Kromy but not in a straight “continuation” of what she had left but to a panorama of violence and destruction by war. Then, after the speech by the Pretender the retinue proceeds its victorious march towards Moscow to the rather perplexed and disillusioned expressions of the onlookers faces, the Simpleton utters his final comments that were Mussorgski’s original ending for the opera (and Stroieva’s film). The film as a whole certainly makes for stirring viewing and has been very well preserved and restored, with colours that have not faded nor acquired that curious tint so typical of decades-old pictures; VAI’s dvd adaptation is very good.
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Kyle Bown is a TV writer, web series producer and podcaster who spent the better part of a year in a (fictional) cult.
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Born in Portland, he grew up just outside Sacramento, and moved to Los Angeles to take Political Science at UCLA. While there, he saw The West Wing and Buffy The Vampire Slayer and he realized he had to write for television. And when film school wouldn’t have him, he paved his own way.
A chance encounter at a showing of Wicked led to Kyle’s first TV job as an office PA on Moonlight. He then worked on many more shows before finally landing a gig as the assistant to showrunner Marlene King on Pretty Little Liars. It was a first-hand education in writing and creating television, from the Writers’ Room to prep meetings through shooting and post. Over seven seasons, Kyle eventually he co-wrote two episodes of his own, while also co-writing/producing the web series Twentyfiveish starring Brendan Robinson (Pretty Little Liars), and co-founding the podcast The Way We Nerd.
After PLL, Kyle remained at Marlene’s company Long Lake Media as a Creative Executive until the opportunity came to be a Staff Writer on the PLL spin-off, Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionist.
Kyle is obsessed with video games, immersive theater, and his cat Goober. You can follow Kyle @kylebown pretty much everywhere.
How can I start recommending Kyle? Well, he completely changed my writing life. I started his class with a pretty strong notion and training in writing but in a very small amount of time he was able to elevate my writing like an angel. He taught me to strengthen my structure, have stronger characters, a more solid flow, and a kick-ass logline. His spirit and energy in class made it all extremely easy and exciting. I couldn’t recommend him more. RUN to his class.
— Rodrigo Varandas
Kyle really helped me to understand how to break a story. It was so fun to be in his class and so incredibly insightful. He used the materials and his own experience to make the lessons come alive and help my classmates and me understand the mechanics of breaking a story. Even though it was a group class, I felt like I got so much extra help from him, and I won’t forget that. Kyle is an excellent instructor and experienced writer who will give you great feedback and invest himself into the story you are trying to tell.
— Nicole Schwegman
The quality of Script Anatomy classes cannot be overstated, and neither can the quality of their instructors! Kyle is an incredible instructor. I took his Televisionary class after three years of winging it on my own. I wish I had taken a class with him sooner! Kyle is endlessly encouraging, extremely clear and insightful with his notes and through his teaching. Ultimately, Kyle’s class elevated my abilities as a writer from when I first started his class and the writer I emerged as. Equipped with the tools from Kyle’s class, I feel like I finally understood how to write an effective TV pilot, and my writer’s groups have definitely been noticing!
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[feefc]"The Walking Dead" took a major deviation from the comic books with its winter finale, setting up the death of a major player who is still very much alive in the source material.
That's right, good 'ol Carl Grimes revealed he was bitten by a walker at the very end of Sunday's episode and while we didn't see him die just yet, actor Chandler Riggs confirmed the first episode back in February will be his last.
But if you were shocked by the move, Riggs said he was just as surprised to learn his character's fate.
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"It was devastating for me and my family because the show has been such a huge part of my life for so long. For a few days, we didn't know what to do; I just bought a house in Senoia [near where the show films in Georgia]. That was a big deal that I wouldn't be on anymore," he told The Hollywood Reporter. "I decided that I wanted to not go to college for at least a year and move to L.A. and focus on acting and music. It ended up being a great thing because now I get to do all kinds of other stuff that I haven't been able to do in the last eight years."
"Leaving Walking Dead wasn't my decision," he continued. "It was all story related. It made sense story-wise for it to happen for Rick and Michonne and all the other characters."
Though he added he "didn't expect for Carl to ever get killed off," Riggs kept reiterating he thought it was still a good move for the show. "It was quite the shocker for me, [Andrew Lincoln] and everyone because I don't think anyone saw it coming," he said, "it's definitely not a bad thing because it has been awesome being on the show but now I get to go and do a lot of other stuff that I haven't gotten to do before."
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[bcfb bbf]While he was pretty diplomatic in his exit interview, the actor's father, William Riggs, lashed out at showrunner Scott Gimple on the Facebook page for the "zombie road trip" tour of filming locations he runs in Georgia.
"Watching Gimple fire my son 2 weeks before his 18th birthday after telling him they wanted him for the next 3 years was disappointing. I never trusted Gimple or AMC but Chandler did. I know how much it hurt him. But we do absolutely know how lucky we have been to be a part of it all and appreciate all the love from fans all these years!
Reps for Riggs or the show weren't immediately available for comment.
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