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In 1968, Donald Judd — the artist known for his boxy, implacable sculptures and wall pieces — paid $68,000 for 101 Spring Street, a graceful but dilapidated five-story cast-iron building, and began his renovation by hauling out truckloads of trash. Over the years, he kept installing art and modifying the architecture in pursuit of an ideal balance. After his death in 1994, the building sat, stilled. Starting on June 3, after a three-year, $23 million restoration, the Judd Foundation will open 101 Spring to the public for guided tours in groups of eight by reservation. Art critic Jerry Saltz and architecture critic Justin Davidson walked through it together.
Justin Davidson: This house feels like the total work of art. We get to see how Judd slept in a Judd bed, ate at a Judd table, washed his hands in a Judd sink, and enjoyed the art he and his friends made. You can't wander on your own, but the trade-off is that you don't have to peer at a room from behind a rope. So what do you think, Jerry — is this a platonic ideal of how his life and work should be experienced?
Jerry Saltz: Judd had no use for disembodied platonic ideals. He's totally anti-mystical, very American. For him, space is a living substance, not an empty chamber that God and ideas inhabit. I've been in a million lofts, and this one has the most palpable, even sensual feeling I've ever encountered. When I'm inside the space, I'm part of it; it's part of me. It's trippy and physical.
J.D.: I love the space, too, but I guess I'm thinking a bit more concretely. On a beautiful spring day, the light coming in those enormous windows with the rippled glass makes the art glow. That effect doesn't come easily or cheaply: Architecture Research Office, the firm that oversaw the renovation, made a lot of great invisible decisions. They had to perform all kinds of contortions to meet fire code without just closing off a stair or slapping big old sprinklers on the ceilings. As with all minimalist architecture, achieving simplicity means hiding a lot of mess.
J.S.: Ugh — Judd loathed the word minimalism.
J.D.: But it's a legitimate description of his style, isn't it?
J.S.: It's more of a shorthand label for his whole philosophy. In the early sixties, a number of artists were working in that vein, but Judd applied those ideas to sculpture, painting, furniture, and architecture. He coined the term specific object to describe his work and that of friends like Dan Flavin and John Chamberlain. It meant that when you looked at a fluorescent-light piece by Flavin that it was no longer a fixture, or hardware, or a familiar idea of sculpture. Boom! It's a specific object. To me 101 Spring Street has become a specific object — a great one.
J.D.: It looks really handmade to me, which is sort of surprising. Judd often had others fabricate his work, but the house feels like he took out a hammer and banged everything together himself. And the result is almost a movie set. It tells a story. Look at the floors: The wavy boards on the ground level are gouged, patched, and stained, but the fourth floor is all freshly shined planks. Those floorboards narrate the transformation of a factory into the giant garbage can it was when Judd bought it, then into his home and laboratory, and now into a ravishing diorama.
J.S.: Judd would yell at you for thinking that. Calling it a diorama implies being on the outside, looking in at something fabricated and artificial. Of course, I'm told he'd yell at pretty much anyone for anything.
J.D.: Don't you think there's some irony here, though? Judd hated museums, so he created this place as a living antidote. But now it's become — dare I say it? — a house museum. How could it be anything else?
J.S.: Well, if you just go for the museum part, there are A1 masterpieces of art here by Flavin, Chamberlain, Stella, Oldenburg, Andre. In Advance of the Broken Arm, my favorite Duchamp ready-made, is here, and it's my fave because it's the least aesthetic of all. Could the architects have done something to make it more alive for you?
J.D.: I think they got the restoration just right, mostly by being obsessive about authentic detail. Judd finished a wall with cheapo, rough commercial plaster, and you can't get that stuff anymore — it's all much silkier now — so to get the same sloppy effect, they had to do research and mix a custom batch. Hardly anybody would notice that, but it contributes to the texture of the experience. Of course, it would look even more authentic if they blew soot all over it.
J.S.: I love that it's been restored this way. It's an important step in righting the Judd ship — a toehold in New York. Right now, people are able to see most of Judd's ideas in Marfa [the small Texas town that he turned into a contemporary-art center], but not here. He's a genuine American genius on the level of Frank Lloyd Wright and Emerson, and some of that genius is this building. It's not a "how the great man lived" mausoleum or reliquary. It embodies how he thought about and understood environment; redefined what usage is; and explored different vocabularies of the nonlinear, nonverbal logic of experiencing space. The building and its rooms are a map for the future to decipher, an atlas of ways to plumb space.
J.D.: And he did all that in a building that already existed!
J.S.: You know, that makes me wonder: What do architects make of him today?
J.D.: I think they've internalized many of his ideas about reclaiming old materials and opening up spaces without acknowledging where they came from. It's amazing how many of Judd's experiments later turned into clichés of industrial chic: the tension between vast rooms and little nooks, the sleeping lofts, the steel sink, the pine-board shelves. It was an idiosyncratic DIY design approach that's since been totally commercialized.
J.S. He changed the way the world looked, and the way we look at the world. I revere him.
*This article originally appeared in the May 27, 2013 issue of New York Magazine.
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Late last year, actor Zachary Quinto made some cautionary remarks about the use of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) by gay men which caused such a stir that he’s still being asked to clarify them nine months later.
Quinto told OUT magazine:
AIDS has lost the edge of horror it possessed when it swept through the world in the ’80s…Today’s generation sees it more as something to live with and something to be much less fearful of. And that comes with a sense of, dare I say, laziness…[On PrEP,] We need to be really vigilant and open about the fact that these drugs are not to be taken to increase our ability to have recreational sex…There’s an incredible underlying irresponsibility to that way of thinking…and we don’t yet know enough about this vein of medication to see where it’ll take us down the line.
He later clarified in the HuffPost:
What troubles me — and what I was trying to speak to in my interview — is an attitude among (some of) the younger generation of gay men — that we can let our guard down against this still very real threat to our collective well-being. I have had numerous conversations in my travels with young gay people who see the threat of HIV as diminished to the point of near irrelevance. I have heard too many stories of young people taking PrEP as an insurance policy against their tendency toward unprotected non-monogamous sex. THAT is my only outrage.
How gay men have sex with each other was unilaterally redefined for nearly two generations as a result of AIDS. I was simply trying to assert my belief that we need to be especially vigilant and accountable to ourselves and one another at this moment in our evolution. It is a tremendous advancement in the fight against the disease that scientists have developed this particular medication. But it’s still early — that’s all.
In a new interview, SiriusXM radio host and HuffPost editor Michelangelo Signorile asked Quinto about the remarks and the outrage they inspired.
“I tend to be averse to pharmaceuticals anyway. I’m not a big pill popper in my life. Look, I just think we need to be vigilant as a community and a community of gay men. It was not my intention to judge anybody…to rankle anybody, or to put myself in some kind of superior position by any means. I think if people use PrEP as part of a responsible regimen of taking care of themselves and preserving their bodies and their well-being and the well-being of the people they’re having sex with, then more power to them. There was this thing that I was ‘slut-shaming.’ Anybody who knows me knows that that is the last thing I would ever do. I just think that we can’t let our guard down.”
Listen to the clip below:
Quinto also talked about coming out publicly, which he did in 2011, and how that has affected his acting career. Read more from the interview here.
Quinto on the film I Am Michael:
(photo via Instagram)
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Registered Retirement Funds
Donating registered assets such as a Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) or a Registered Retirement Income Fund (RRIF) allows you to create a legacy for The Children’s Hospital Foundation of Manitoba – once your needs and those of your loved ones have meet met. Donating all or part of an RRSP or RRIF is an effective way to reduce the taxes payable by your estate.
If you die without a surviving spouse or qualifying dependents, the remaining value of your RRSP or RRIF is added to your income in the year of death, often generating large tax liabilities for your estate. If your leave your RRSP or RRIF to The Children’s Hospital Foundation of Manitoba, however, your estate will receive a donation receipt for the entire value of the plan. This will help to offset any tax liability
The Benefits to You:
- Tax Advantages – A tax-effective means of supporting The Children’s Hospital Foundation of Manitoba.
- Control – You retain the use of the investment during your lifetime.
- Simple – Easy to arrange. Simply ask your financial institution to change the beneficiary designation to The Children’s Hospital Foundation of Manitoba.
- Flexible – The designation is revocable and can be changed if your financial circumstances alter.
- Cost Effective – There are no extra out-of-pocket costs.
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How does it work?
There are two ways to donate the proceeds of an RRSP or RRIF:
- You can name The Children’s Hospital Foundation of Manitoba as the direct beneficiary. Upon your death, the proceeds will be paid directly to the Foundation without going through probate.
- You can name your estate as the beneficiary of your RRSP or RRIF and leave instructions in your will to donate all or part to The Children’s Hospital Foundation of Manitoba. You may specify a percentage of the RRSP or RRIF to be gifted or a specific dollar amount. The donation qualifies for the charitable will bequest donation tax credit for up to 100% of income in the year of death and in the year preceding. Please know that when choosing this option, your executor will withhold taxes and probate will apply.
To discuss the Planned Giving option best for you,
please call us at (204) 787-4400 or email email@example.com.
Please Seek Expert Advice: The Children’s Hospital Foundation of Manitoba recommends strongly that you seek professional advice to ensure your financial goals are considered, your tax situation is reviewed and your planned gift is tailored to your circumstances.
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|Meet at: Newcastle Public School, 60 Glass Crt. in Newcastle. Take Mill St. exit north from 401, right at Edward, right at Glass.
Date: April 30
Departure Time: 9:30 am
Tour Host: Eric/The Ride Guy
Ride Lengths: 54 km
Newcastle Circle Tour takes us on some familiar roads with a “bit” of climbing stopping in Orono for a snack before returning to Newcastle Public School.
Map & Turns: Click here to view and print the 54km.
.gps files: Click here (54 km) to obtain gps files from RWGPS. When on the site open “overview” tab, then “export” tab. At the bottom of the export tab you can find links to information for downloading files to various Garmins.
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I’ve had a couple of opportunities recently to visit Santa Barbara and have come to appreciate its history, small coastal hippy town vibe, and modern offerings such as really great food, drink, shopping, and yes, a lot of sunshine. I feel lucky to have good friends living here now because I know I will return and I look forward to exploring more of Santa Barbara and the outlying areas.
I thoroughly enjoyed one stay in a beach motel called Blue Sands Inn which I highly recommend. I loved the sensibility it evokes of a 1960s summer holiday, its homey decor, and location. It’s only a block from the water.
This red paisley corduroy jacket is a thrift store find. They must have produced a large quantity because I’ve seen it in thrift stores since. I go back and forth with paisley. I like this jacket quite a lot. I especially like the teal, black and cream colors within the red pattern. However, I cannot get on board with paisley prints most of the time. I wore it here with Zara wide leg jeans and Oki Kutsu trainers.
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METACELL B3 - 50 ml / 1.7 fl oz
A comprehensive daily emulsion formulated to improve the appearance of early signs of aging. Metacell Renewal B3 utilizes a patent-pending aqueous emulsion to deliver a high concentration of 5% niacinamide (vitamin B3) combined with a firming tripeptide concentrate, and 15% pure glycerin to address early signs of photoaging. While signs of photoaging appear at different intensities according to skin biology, lifestyle, geography, sun protection behavior, and skincare regimen, they have a multiplicative effect, creating a prematurely-aged appearance. This comprehensive daily emulsion visibly improves these early signs of photoaing by increasing cell turnover to resurface skin, help reclarify and even skin tone, and improve the appearance of wrinkles and surface elasticity.
Promotes skin renewal by increasing cell turnover
Strengthens skin’s moisture barrier
Reduces the appearance of discoloration and blotchiness
Lightweight emulsion delivers intense hydration without a heavy or tacky feel
Helps improve the appearance of skin’s firmness
In an optical skin-imaging study, Metacell Renewal B3 demonstrated a reduction in skin blotchiness, contributing to an improved appearance of skin texture.
Significant clinical improvement in signs of photoaging:
15% improvement in the appearance of radiance and luminosity
20.9% improvement in the appearance of fine lines
10.9% improvement in the appearance of firmness.
Protocol: A dermatologist-controlled 12-week clinical on 56 female subjects, ages 40-55. Subjects applied Metacell Renewal B3 twice daily. Subjects also used SkinCeuticals Gentle Cleanser and Physical UV Defense SPF 30 as needed.
REGIMEN / HOW TO USE
Twice daily, massage one to two pumps into a thin, even layer onto the entire face, neck, and chest.
Day & Night: Correct
5% Niacinamide (Vitamin B3): Also known as vitamin B3, Niacinamide helps reduce the appearance of skin discoloration and strengthens skin’s moisture barrier.
2.5% Firming Tri-Peptide Concentrate: A blend of powerful peptides helps maintain skin’s natural hyaluronic acid levels, reduces the look of fine lines, and improves the appearance of firmness.
15% Pure Glycerin: This humectant has water-binding properties that delivers intense hydration without a heavy or tacky feel.
aqua / water / eau, hydroxyethyl urea, hydroxyethylpiperazine ethane sulfonic acid, pentylene glycol, saccharomyces/xylinum/ black tea ferment, glycerin, sodium hyaluronate, methylparaben, phenoxyethanol
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World Of Concrete Show
Aurand will be exhibiting at the World Of Concrete Show in Las Vegas 1/23/18 - 1/26/18. Stop by booth S12551 in the south hall. We have the the surface prep units that you need to remove paint, and coatings, while leaving the profile that you need to produce a quality finish that will not fail. We having units with varying widths, and weights to create a user, and position friendly environment. Dust containment is available on all units to address silica concerns. Make plans to stop by booth S12551 and we will be happy to answer any questions that you might have.
For more information contact us by phone 800-860-2872, 513-541-7200, or by email email@example.com
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Ghost tours in Old Sacramento
Old Sacramento prepares for Halloween with the return of "Ghost Tours." These evening strolls led by knowledgeable docents will intrigue you with tales of California's spooky history going back to the 1800s. Learn about the city's infamous places and hear stories of ghosts, murder and mayhem.
Tours last about an hour and are not recommended for kids under six. Advanced ticket sales are recommended.
Acorn Day honors local native traditions
Guests of all ages are invited to this year's Acorn Day, the State Indian Museum's educational program honoring the acorn, a staple of Native American diet in the region.
Diana Almandariz, a Wintun/Maidu, will demonstrate the art of processing acorns for food. Visitors will have the opportunity to sample traditional acorn mush and flatbread. And kids will get the chance to play traditional native games and try traditional arts & craft activities.
Spookomotive haunts the rails
What happens when you cross Halloween with a vintage train in Old Sacramento? You get "Spookomotive," the Sacramento Southern excursion train offering scary, but family-friendly, rides this month.
Spookmotive decorated with spiders, cobwebs and cornstalks, and operated by an entertaining "skeleton" crew, will take passengers on 40-minute rides down the Sacramento River. All tickets are sold on a first-come basis at the CP station on the day of the ride, except for rides on the first-class El Dorado car, which may be purchased online.
The creepier side of the Governor's Mansion
Halloween decor and scary music will set the holiday mood at the Governor's Mansion during the After Dark tours in October.
Storytellers will share tales of past governors and fortune tellers will predict your fate. Costumed guides will lead guests through the creepier parts of the building -- including darkened rooms and "coffin corners.
Proceeds go to help support of the Governor's Mansion State Historic Park.
Do ghosts lanquish at Sutter's Fort?
Sutter's Fort gets in the Halloween spirit this month with evening programs designed to reveal the eerier doings at Sacramento's oldest structure.
Docents in period costumes will lead visitors on 45-minute walking tours of various darkened rooms (which some believe are still haunted by past inhabitants). They'll also tell stories of how some early pioneers perished in creepy and melancholy ways.
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Man Claims Exclusion Of Sex Transformation Coverage Constitutes Discrimination
(June 21, 2016, 1:57 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — An employer’s practice of denying transgendered employees coverage for gender dysphoria and sex transformation procedures violates the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) and constitutes sex discrimination, a man claims in a June 6 complaint in California federal court (Josef Robinson v. Dignity Health d/b/a Chandler Regional Medical Center, No. 16-3035, N.D. Calif.).
(Complaint available. Document #93-160622-004C.)
Josef Robinson works as a nurse at Dignity Health Chandler Regional Medical Center. Dignity Health provides medical insurance to its employees, including Robinson, through the...
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A&A 412, 849-855 (2003)
J. H. M. M. Schmitt - J.-U. Ness - G. Franco
Hamburger Sternwarte, Universität Hamburg, Gojenbergsweg 112, 21029 Hamburg, Germany
Received 8 July 2003 / Accepted 21 August 2003
We report XMM-Newton observations of the eclipsing binary Algol A (B8V) and B (K2III). The XMM-Newton data cover the phase interval 0.35-0.58, i.e., specifically the time of optical secondary minimum, when the X-ray dark B-type star occults a major fraction of the X-ray bright K-type star. During the eclipse a flare was observed with complete light curve coverage. The decay part of the flare can be well described with an exponential decay law allowing a rectification of the light curve and a reconstruction of the flaring plasma region. The flare occurred near the limb of Algol B at a height of about 0.1 with plasma densities of a few times 1011 cm-3consistent with spectroscopic density estimates. No eclipse of the quiescent X-ray emission is observed leading us to the conclusion that the overall coronal filling factor of Algol B is small.
Key words: stars: activity - stars: coronae - stars: late type - X-rays: stars
X-ray and radio observations have produced copious evidence for magnetic field related activity on essentially all cool stars with outer convection zones (Schmitt 1997; Güdel 2002; Schmitt & Liefke 2002; Linsky 1985). A comparison of solar activity indicators like X-ray luminosity with those observed for other stars shows that the magnetic activity in the Sun is by comparison weak. Other stars can have X-ray luminosities exceeding that of the Sun by up to 4 orders of magnitude, yet this activity is usually interpreted by analogy with solar activity viewing the emission observed from stars as arising from scaled-up versions of the corresponding solar features.
Because of the large distance of stars stellar coronae cannot be angularly resolved and therefore size information is not available. The only exception comes from eclipsing binaries where size information can be obtained from light curve analysis. Particularly useful for coronal studies are those eclipsing binaries where one component can be considered essentially X-ray dark. Thus one has to look for eclipsing binaries whose primary component is of spectral type late B or early A. Only very few such systems suitable for X-ray analysis are known. In the system CrB (Schmitt & Kürster 1993; Güdel et al. 2003; Schmitt 1998) detected a total X-ray eclipse during secondary optical minimum, i.e., at the time when the X-ray dark A star is positioned in front of the X-ray bright B star, allowing a determination of the size of the corona around CrB B. Another such system is the prototypical eclipsing binary Algol, which consists of a B8V primary and a K2III secondary with an orbital period of 2.87 days. The relevant system parameters are listed in Table 1. Algol is among the apparently strongest coronal X-ray emitters and has been observed by all major X-ray satellites. Flares have been reported, for example, by van den Oord & Mewe (1989) and White et al. (1986) who were the first to observe a complete (optical) secondary minimum; from the absence of any eclipse at secondary minimum, when the X-ray dark B8V star is in front of the K-type star, they argued for a corona with large scale height around Algol B. On the other hand, Schmitt & Favata (1999) observed Algol for a whole binary orbit using the Beppo-SAX satellite. They observed a giant X-ray flare with a decay time of approximately 60 ks. At the time of optical secondary minimum a dip in the flare light curve was observed, which Schmitt & Favata (1999) interpreted as an eclipse of the flaring plasma. From a detailed analysis of the Beppo-SAX X-ray light curve they constrained the size and location of the flaring region. Interestingly, the flare occurred above the south polar region of Algol B. Time resolved X-ray spectroscopy could also be obtained for this flare (Favata & Schmitt 1999), but from the low-resolution Beppo-SAX data no spectroscopic density diagnostics was available.
Table 1: System parameters for Algol ( Per).
Here we report an observation of Algol with the EPIC camera and RGS spectrometer on board XMM-Newton. The observations lasted approximately 45 ks and did cover the important phase interval between 0.35 and 0.58, including optical secondary minimum. The XMM-Newton light curves have much better signal-to-noise than any previously reported X-ray light curve from Algol and have the specific advantage of a continuous coverage, while, for example, the Beppo-SAX light curves were regularly interrupted by earth blocks. Further, the XMM-Newton observations were simultaneously accompanied by high-resolution spectroscopic observations with the XMM-Newton RGS, which in particular provide information on density-sensitive line ratios.
The Algol system was observed by the XMM-Newton observatory on February 12th 2002. The EPIC-PN detector operated with the thick filter inserted in the optical path in order to block optical light; data in full-frame window mode are available between 04:42:18 and 18:34:35 UTC. We extracted the EPIC PN lightcurve with standard tools provided by the Science Analysis System (SAS) software version 5.4. Although the source suffers from pile-up due to its substantial brightness (cf. Fig. 1), we consider this pile-up effect as unimportant for the timing analysis pursued in this paper. In order to check for pile-up effects we compared the lightcurves applying different pile-up corrections and found no significant difference. We also checked the EPIC data for background proton flares, but none was found in the respective time interval. For our timing analysis we extracted data from a circular region of 1 arcmin radius centered on the source while the background data was extracted from a source free region of the same size on the same CCD chip. A light curve was generated with the SAS tool evselect. Inspection of the background light curve showed it to be totally negligible compared to the observed Algol count rate; we therefore refrained from any further background subtraction.
In Fig. 1 we show the resulting XMM-Newton EPIC light curve vs. phase in four energy bands, i.e., below 1 keV, in the band 1-2 keV, in the band 2-5 keV, and in the band between 5-10 keV. The phase refers to the phase of the primary minimum, which was calculated from the ephemeres used by Schmitt & Favata (1999). Interestingly, no change in the light curve is seen near the phase , i.e., at the time of first contact, when the B type star starts occulting the K-type star. The light curves start to change at phase , when all light curves start increasing, but those at higher energy in a far more pronounced fashion. The light curves peak near the phase interval between 0.505 and 0.51, afterwards they start decreasing. At a phase the decay of all light curves becomes very rapid, and at the light curves in all four energy bands have reached pre-flare levels. Towards the end of the XMM-Newton observations at a phase of , the light curves in all energy bands start to increase again.
|Figure 1: EPIC PN light curves of Algol in the energy bands below 1 keV (squares), between 1-2 keV (dots), 2-5 keV (asteriks) and 5-10 keV (pluses).|
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An inspection of Fig. 1 shows that the light curves have the typical signatures of a stellar flare. There is a tendency for the higher energies to peak earlier in the flare, also the flare spectrum significantly hardens compared to the pre-flare emission. For example, the flux between 5 and 10 keV increases almost by a factor of 10, while the flux below 1 keV increases only by 40% percent. However, the sharp decrease in the light curve between phases 0.5175 and 0.525 appears to be very similar in all energy bands as well as the increase after phase 0.55. It is therefore extremely suggestive to interpret the dip in the flare light curve between phases 0.5175 and 0.55 as being caused by an eclipse of the flaring plasma by the X-ray dark B-type star, in complete analogy to the flare event reported by Schmitt & Favata (1999). However, in contrast to the Beppo-SAX observations of Schmitt & Favata (1999) the mid-eclipse was observed at phase , while the mid-eclipse time of the XMM-Newton flare is at phase .
|Figure 2: EPIC PN light curve of Algol in the total energy band; the solid line describes a simple exponential decay on top of a constant "background'' emission; see text for details.|
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In Fig. 2 we plot the light curve in the total energy band in a linear representation. The solid line shows an exponential decay on top of an assumed constant "background'' emission, i.e., a light curve with the functional form , with A0 denoting the amplitude and the decay time of the flare. It is apparent that the light curve after the flare peak at phase 0.51 can be well described by such a simple exponential decay. Exponential decays are very often observed for long duration solar and stellar flares, and seem to provide a convenient empirical form to describe flare decay light curves. For this flare on Algol we find fit parameters of A0 = 13.5 cts s-1 and ks-1. Note, that these values were determined "by eye'', rather than a formal fit procedure, and we refrain from giving a formal error analysis. We emphasize that the light curve data can be interpreted in such a fashion and that specifically the flux level at the very end of the observation is consistent with such an interpretation. Using these values we can rectify the flare decay light curve after the flare peak by dividing the observed data points by the derived empirical flare decay law. The resulting light curve is shown in Fig. 3. By construction the light curve returns to the initial level after the end of the eclipse and the high symmetry of the flare eclipse light curve becomes apparent.
|Figure 3: Rectified EPIC PN light curve of the flare during its exponential decay phase; solid line describes the modelled emission (see text for details).|
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The late start of the flare eclipse indicates that the flare must have occurred
near the limb of Algol B. From the system geometry it is also clear that the flare
must have occurred on the "northern'' hemisphere of Algol B, since otherwise the
flare eclipse would have started prior to phase 0.5. In order to reconstruct the
flaring volume we
have to assume that the geometry of the flaring region did not
substantially change during flare progress. Note, that the decrease in
emission measure and hence flux has been taken into account by our
rectification procedure, while changes in the geometry have not been (and
cannot be) accounted for. Clearly, such an assumption is - strictly speaking -
not valid. However, we point out that one may consider - at least
approximately - the geometry of many solar flares as constant to first
order. Without that assumption no further progress can be made in the stellar
case. We next introduce a polar
coordinate system with
denoting the latitude measured from the north
the longitudinal angle with the convention that at
the longitudinal angle
is oriented along the central meridian, and r denoting the height above the
stellar surface. Obviously, for a limb flare there is a certain amount of
since one is looking almost tangentially
through the corona. We therefore treat
as a fixed parameter
which is adjusted to yield the most plausible reconstructed image. To span a
volume we use a grid with N1 (=16) values in
and N2(=13) values in r3, so that the whole grid has
= 208 grid points denoted by some index
curve is given by
data points at phases ,
denoted by an
With the system parameters as specified in
Table 1 it is then possible to compute the visibility Vj,k of the
volume element j at phase k;
Vj,k = 1, if the whole volume element is
visible and contributes to the observed (rectified) count rate
at phase ,
Vj,k = 0, if the whole volume element is
invisible at phase .
Let Ij denote the intensity
cts s-1), produced in the volume element
construction Ij is constant and refers to the intensity at flare peak.
The intensities Ij are related to the rectified observed count rates
through the equations
Since the shapes of the light curves in different energy bands are very similar,
we performed the reconstruction only for the total band. Next, in order to
fulfill the positivity constraint Eq. (2), we modelled the rectified lightcurve plus
background, with an assumed constant background representing the emission
from the rest of the star. The light curve used for reconstruction as well
as the best fit model light curve resulting from an iteration of Eq. (4) is shown in
Fig. 3; the reconstructed flare image is shown in a false-color representation
in Fig. 4. In Fig. 4 the solid line shows the apparent limb of the K-type star,
the dotted circles indicate heights in increments of 0.1 .
The important feature of the reconstructed image shown in
Fig. 4 and of all other reconstructed images considered by us is that the
flaring region is rather well defined and confined. In particular, at the edge
of the reconstruction volume, the reconstructed intensities become very small, indicating
that the reconstructed size is not determined by the chosen reconstruction volume.
|Figure 4: Reconstructed spatial distribution of the flare region on Algol B. All of the flaring plasma has been assumed to be located at a longitude of . The circle represents the limb of the K-type star, units are in solar radius; dashed circles indicate heights in steps of 0.1 stellar radii. The system is shown at = 0.5556, when the longitude is viewed at the limb. (This figure is available in color in electronic form.)|
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As discussed extensively by Lucy (1994), it is somewhat difficult to decide when to stop the iteration in Eq. (4). We followed the recipe given by Lucy (1994) and computed for each iteration the likelihood H (cf. Eq. (3)) and solution entropy S (cf. Eq. (5)). In Fig. 5 we plot S vs. H. There is no clearly identifiable point in the H-S diagram where the curvature changes; the solution chosen by us and shown in Fig. 4 is indicated by a large diamond. We also investigated the solution properties of further iterated solutions and found that those pixels with significant flux do not vary substantially in the course of further iterations, while large flux changes are found only in pixels whose flux is so small that they do not substantially contribute to the overall emission.
|Figure 5: Entropy (cf. Eq. (5)) vs. likelihood (cf. Eq. (3)) for the iterated solution. The chosen final solution is indicated by a large diamond.|
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We first wish to consider the overall energetics of the flare. For this purpose we need to convert the observed count rate into an energy flux. In order to convert from count rate to flux we considered various spectra of active stars (appropriately corrected for photon pile-up) and constructed acceptable model fits to the EPIC data using a combination of individual temperature components. We found the energy conversion factor erg cm-2 count-1to represent a reasonable choice of count rate to energy flux conversion (in the 0.2-10 keV energy band) for active stars. With a distance of 28 pc towards Algol, we then compute a peak X-ray luminosity of erg/s for the flare. The total released X-ray energy can then be computed from the observed decay time of 14.9 ks as erg; note, that this value only refers to the energy contained in the exponential decay part of the light curve. Clearly, this flare is rather tiny with only a hundredth of the energy release observed in the giant flare observed by Schmitt & Favata (1999), yet compared to solar flares, the flare is still about a thousand times more energetic than the strongest solar flares observed. As is clear from our reconstructed flare image, the actual size of the flaring region must have been quite small with a height not exceeding one tenth of a stellar radius.
The longitudinal size of our volume elements is - strictly speaking - undetermined. However, assuming that the apparent vertical size scale of the flare agrees with the longitudinal size scale, we deduce a longitudinal size of . Our light curve inversions do yield reasonable solutions also for other values than , however, the actual value of cannot differ too much from that value. If was much larger, the K star would self-occult the flare, and also the rotation of the flare and the apparent motion of the B-type star would be in opposite directions. If was much smaller, the flare eclipse would start too early unless it is located far above the stellar surface. We therefore adopt - ad hoc - a longitudinal size of for each of the volume elements, which then leads to a true size of cm3 for all the elements. The reconstructed flare image (cf. Fig. 4) results in an effective count rate in each volume element. With Algol's distance of d=28 pc we can then compute the X-ray luminosity from each volume element through 4d2. The optically thin cooling function for plasma temperatures at and above 107 K is approximately given by erg cm3 s-1, i.e., it is rather temperature insensitive. Adopting T K, which we determined from spectral fits and also agrees with the values reported by Yang et al. (2003), we can then compute the corresponding emission measure for each volume element through .
|Figure 6: Cumulative density distribution histogram for reconstructed flare image shown in Fig. 4. From the reconstructed intensity in each volume element and its size, the emission measure and electron density can be calculated; shown is the density as a function of the integrated and normalized flare emission measure; see text for details.|
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Given and for each volume element, we can compute the plasma density for each volume element using . The resulting density frequency distribution in our volume elements is shown as a function of the total integrated and normalized emission measure in Fig. 6. From Fig. 6 it obvious that the bulk of the flare emission comes from regions with high densities, more than three quarters of the emission measure resides at densities of at least 1011 cm-3 and the peak densities reach approximately 2 1011 cm-3. With the simultaneously taken XMM-Newton RGS data (with a slightly longer integration time of 52.66 ks) we can check the densities derived from our light curve inversions. Doing this one must be aware that the bulk of the flaring plasma has a very high temperature ( MK), where essentially no O VII emission is produced, and therefore O VII emission actually provides no information on the main flare component. In Fig. 7 we plot the O VII He-like triplet obtained from the whole observation. The continuum is very high and the weak intercombination and forbidden lines of O VII can hardly be detected above the continuum. We nevertheless extracted spectra during quiescent and flare phases, but we were unable to find significant differences in the f/iratios. This indicates that either the sensitivity of our data is such that a density enhancement between flaring and quiescent emission is not detectable or that the f/i-ratio is actually dominated by the radiation field of the B-type star (Ness et al. 2002b,a). Given the geometrical configuration at secondary minimum, the observable corona on the K-type star is clearly fully immersed in the B star's radiation field. When accounting for the radiation field in the way described by Ness et al. (2002b) we estimate the density from our measured f/iratio to (and otherwise ). We also note that the f/i-ratios derived for Algol from the Chandra MEG and LETGS and from the XMM-Newton RGS, i.e., from three independent data sets taken at three different times, all agree with each other (to within their respective errors; cf. Ness et al. 2003b), so that at present there is no evidence for phase and/or flare related changes in the O VII f/i-ratio for Algol. Unfortunately, with the XMM-Newton RGS it is not possible to disentangle the contamination due to Fe lines in the Ne IX triplet (cf. Ness et al. 2003a) and the signal in the spectrum obtained from the second dispersion order is too low to detect the Ne IX lines. Since the MEG and HEG f/i ratios derived from Chandra observations at different times also do indicate densities in excess of 1011 cm-3 (cf. Ness et al. 2003b), we conclude that the densities derived from our light curve inversion are consistent with the available spectroscopic data on Algol.
An often encountered method to compute densities of a flaring plasma assumes
radiative cooling to be the dominant cooling mechanism. Using the relation
Doyle et al. (1988)
|Figure 7: O VII triplet obtained from the full XMM-Newton RGS data set; see text for details.|
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If we assume the post-flare material to be magnetically confined, we can
compute the minimal field strength
required for confinement from
Finally, it is interesting to note, that at the time of first contact, which according to the parameters listed in Table 1, is expected to occur at phase no change in the X-ray light curve is apparent. The light curve stays essentially constant until the flare start at . Eclipses of individual coronal background features might be hidden under the flare-induced count rate increase, however, the smooth overall appearance of the flare light curve provides little support for such an assumption. The mid-eclipse count rates in the energy bands 2-5 keV and 5-10 keV agree very well with those observed prior to flare and eclipse onset, so no eclipses need to be invoked. In the two lower energy bands the mid-eclipse count rates are reduced by about 10% compared to the pre-flare and pre-eclipse rates, on the other hand, the pre-flare and pre-eclipse rates are also somewhat modulated, so again the assumption of an eclipse does not appear to be urgently required. We therefore conclude that the "quiescent'' emission from Algol B did not experience any substantial eclipse during our XMM observations and that the vast bulk of the "quiescent'' coronal emission remained unocculted during the eclipse, in contrast to the flare which was totally eclipsed.
The absence of any clear eclipse of the "quiescent'' emission can be explained either by extended emission or by locating the emission within the unocculted north polar cap. As pointed out above, all of the available spectroscopic density measurements of Algol indicate high densities, thus suggesting that the latter possibility is the far more likely one. With the system parameters listed in Table 1, we compute that about 10% of the whole surface remain uneclipsed during the course of the XMM-Newton observations. Since the coronal densities of the quiescent emission is very likely (for a detailed discussion of different density measurements for Algol and other coronal sources we refer to Ness et al. 2003b) not too different from the density of the flaring region, which we know to be located at a height of 0.1 , we conclude that the "quiescent'' emission also comes from rather "compact'' regions, which must, however, be located at latitudes 69 from the north pole. The "southern'' eclipsed part of Algol B must have been devoid of any substantial X-ray emission at the time of the XMM-Newton observations. Thus the filling factor of "quiescent'' coronal X-ray emission of Algol B must be small, i.e., f < 0.1. The observed "quiescent'' count rate of 25 cts s-1 corresponds to an emission measure of cm-3, i.e., only about twice the emission measure of the flaring region. Assuming that the emission comes from the whole of the uneclipsed region, we compute for the product cm-5, where h denotes the average height of the corona. If that average height is the same as that of the flare, i.e., a tenth of a stellar radius, we compute a density of cm-3. Of course, the filling factor is likely to be smaller, and if the density is indeed 1011 cm-3, the overall filling factor on the K-type star is about one percent.
We have observed a flare on Algol B during secondary minimum with complete light curve coverage. The location of the flaring region will be well reconstructed with only some slight ambiguity as to the longitude of the flare occurrence. In particular, the height of the flare above the surface is about 0.1 and the flare did not occur in the polar regions. The plasma densities computed from the observed emission measure and the reconstructed volume agree with each other and are in the range of a few times 1011 cm-3. The "quiescent'' emission from Algol B was confined to a region at least 20 north of the equator, and only 10% of Algol B's surface were not occulted at any time during our XMM-Newton observations. If quiescent and flaring regions are located at the same heights, minimal densities of cm-3 result; smaller filling factors result in correspondingly larger densities as suggested by spectroscopic measurements. Thus, the overall coronal filling factor of Algol B appears to be quite small despite its enormous total X-ray luminosity.
We thank Dr. B. Aschenbach (MPE) for communicating to us the work by Yang et al. prior to submission. We also thank our referee, Dr. M. Güdel, for his constructive criticism which helped to improve our paper. This work is based on observations obtained with XMM-Newton, an ESA science mission with instruments and contributions directly funded by ESA Member States and the USA (NASA).
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Nature's Logic Duck & Salmon Feast All Life Stages Grain-Free Dog Can 13.2oz
Duck, Duck Broth, Poultry Liver, Salmon, Poultry Heart, Dried Egg Product, Porcine Plasma, Montmorillonite Clay, Herring Oil (Preserved With Mixed Tocopherols), Brewers Dried Yeast, Dried Apple, Dried Apricot, Alfalfa Meal, Dried Artichoke, Dried Blueberry, Dried Broccoli, Dried Carrot, Dried Chicory Root, Dried Cranberry, Dried Kelp, Dried Parsley, Dried Pumpkin, Dried Rosemary, Dried Spinach, Dried Tomato, Egg Shell Meal, Rosemary Extract.Caloric Content
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Amount of food to feed depends upon the dog’s weight, activity level, age, environment, and breed. Feed at room temperature and refrigerate unused portion. Always provide access to clean, fresh water.
Adult: Feed 3/4 - 1 can per 15 lbs. of body weight per day.
Puppy: Feed up to twice the Adult amount to puppies.
Gestation & Lactation: Feed up to 3 times the normal Adult amount.
Introduce Nature’s Logic® gradually, over a 7 - 10 day period, to ease your pet’s transitions to the new diet.
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Cincinnati -- Intelligrated is releasing new RTS Trak3 cL pick-to-light hardware from its subsidiary company, Knighted. The new pick-to-light system enables maximum picking and putting accuracy and efficiency in high-velocity, high-SKU omni-channel and e-commerce fulfillment environments.
Scalable operational features and flexible workflows enable quick startup and improved order fulfillment productivity for both simple and complex operations. RTS Trak3 cL pick-to-light systems utilize bright flashing lights and LED displays to provide clear direction to pick locations and quantities for picking in a variety of fulfillment methods, including cluster and batch picking. Multicolor devices enable concurrent activity in the shared zones, such as multiple active order fillers or quick batch viewed by color-coded picking for shorter walk times and improved labor productivity.
Integrated with Knighted fulfillment execution software, each RTS Trak3 cL pick-to-light system can scale to meet increased capacity requirements and augments existing WMS or ERP systems to provide advanced planning, management and reporting tools to optimize light-directed operations. Each module can function as a single or dual location, with dedicated high-speed device-level controllers that enable easy configuration for multiple fulfillment workflows.
“The new Trak3 cL pick-to-light system meets the fulfillment needs of our e-commerce and omnichannel distribution customers with changing order profiles and increased each picking,” said Greg Cronin, executive VP, Intelligrated. “This scalable, entry-level picking automation system delivers the accuracy and productivity demanded by today’s fastest growing retailers, manufacturers and 3PL operators.”
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Among recommendations originally proposed by CaGBC, the Government is specifically recommending adopting zero carbon building standards and creating opportunities for targeted retrofit investments for federally-owned buildings. To this end, the government says it should buy zero carbon technology in bulk, and embed the Investor Confidence Project (ICP) as a requirement in the Low-Carbon Economy Fund, the Canada Infrastructure Bank, and the National Housing Strategy.
The Federal recommendations also include targeted investments in skills development to strengthen apprenticeship and training programs in order to ensure sufficient labour resources to meet the evolving needs of the economy, including support for green trades.
“We are encouraged to see our recommendations supported in the Standing Committee’s pre-budget consultation report,” says Thomas Mueller, President and CEO of the CaGBC. “In recognizing the importance of green jobs training, building investor confidence in retrofits, and pursuing zero carbon performance, the federal government is demonstrating leadership in the development of Canada’s low carbon economy. We look forward to continuing our work with the Government to deliver on these efforts.”
In May 2017, CaGBC released Canada’s first Zero Carbon Building Standard, a world-class program that positions Canada as a global leader, offering designers and operators the opportunity to make carbon reduction the key indicator for building performance.
Spearheaded in Canada by CaGBC, GBCI and MaRS Discovery District, ICP is a global underwriting standard for developing and measuring energy efficiency retrofits. Its Investor Ready Energy Efficiency certification (IREE) signals to investors that a project has adopted best practices that can help reduce transaction costs and increase savings. The protocols offer investors a consistent roadmap for assessing risk and expected outcomes from deep retrofits.
CaGBC’s Education Strategy is focused on increasing capacity in the Canadian green building industry through the development and delivery of specialized education, including zero carbon building education. CaGBC offers zero carbon building education for the trades through the delivery of its Green Professional Building Skills Training (GPRO). It also offers professional courses focused on CaGBC’s Zero Carbon Building Program.
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LOS ANGELES (CBS.MW) -- Despite rising outrage by California politicians over Enron's role in the state's energy crisis, less than a third of the legislators who received campaign contributions from the infamous energy trader have turned over the money to ex-employee groups.
Of the 42 state legislators who got money after July 1, 2000 -- the first full reporting period after California's power problems began -- only 13 said they've sent the money to charity or groups supporting ex-Enron employees, according to a survey by CBS.MarketWatch.com. Another five said they have no plans to return the money and the remaining 24 didn't respond to inquiries.
Enron's ENRNQ campaign contributions to California officials could become a prickly issue in state campaigns this year. Documents have shown that Enron sold electricity futures back and forth between its own companies, and tried to clog power grids, all in the name of driving up California prices.
"It's really unreasonable to be held accountable for all the actions of your donors," said Kevin Spillane, a California political consultant who worked on this year's gubernatorial bid by former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan, who lost in the March primaries. "But Enron's an exception. This is a major corporation involved in the California energy crisis."
Along with the legislators, there also are several key state officials who have harshly criticized Enron but have no plans to turn over their funds, among them California Gov. Gray Davis. Davis is one of several high-profile officials who got Enron money prior to mid-2000.
A Davis spokesman said the governor has no plans to return the $120,000 in donations he received from Enron in the several years before during his campaigns for governor and lieutenant governor.
"We're just not sure how much it helps," Roger Salazar, campaign manager for Davis.
Those politicians who are turning over their funds to employee groups are trying to distance themselves from what they say are Enron's "ill-gotten gains." Among them are California Assembly Speaker Herb Wesson and Democratic Senate caucus leader John Burton.
"Thousands of people's futures were devastated by this ripoff," said Wesson, who gave away $4,500 in contributions, but says he might have kept it if the charities didn't exist. "Trust me, I wouldn't have given a damn thing back to Enron."
Enron cast a wide political net in the state. It contributed to campaigns for more than 70 percent of the sitting legislators, and helped fill the coffers for a number of statewide offices, including those of Davis and Attorney General Bill Lockyer. See full story.
This sort of issue has reared its head before, as federal officials debated whether they should return monies from tobacco companies after it was determined the firms targeted children and tried to get consumers addicted to nicotine.
More recently, Enron's troubled accounting firm, Arthur Andersen, shut down its political action committee last week because candidates are shying away from accepting the group's funds. Andersen used to spend nearly $1 million a year in campaign contributions.
Checking with recipients
CBS.MarketWatch.com looked at the contribution records from Enron in the last half of 2000 and all of 2001 and asked California legislators who took money during that time what they did with those funds.
Along with Burton and Wesson, assembly members who turned over their contributions to employee groups included: Rebecca Cohn, Dean Florez, Alan Lowenthal, Abel Maldonado, Fran Pavley, Kevin Shelley and Joe Simitian. Also on the list are Senators Jack O'Connell, Martha Escutia, Nell Soto and Bruce MacPherson.
"He didn't want the thieves to get it back," Shum Preston, aide to Shelley, said of Enron. "These were ill-gotten gains."
A few said flatly that they held on to the funds. They include Assembly members David Kelley, Lynne Leach, Bill Leonard and Ken Maddox, as well as Senator Bob Margett.
"I spent the money on my campaign for the Board of Equalization," said Assemblyman Leonard. "I was spending it as fast as it came in. I didn't have it to give back."
"We were in a targeted race in 2000," said Mark Reeder, aide to Assemblyman Maddox. "It would have gone straight to his re-election efforts."
Many officials didn't respond to inquiries. Assembly members in this category were Roy Ashburn, Mike Briggs, Bill Campbell, Dennis Cardoza, Dave Cox, Dick Dickerson, Dario Frommer, Robert Hertzberg, Dennis Hollingsworth and Carol Liu.
Other assembly members not responding were Carole Migden, Bob Pacheco, Sarah Reyes, Keith Richman, Simon Salinas, Phil Wyman, George Runner and Rod Wright.
Wright chairs the assembly's utilities and commerce committee and is not seeking re-election, according to the Secretary of State's office.
Senators who didn't respond were Debra Bowen, Ross Johnson, Byron Sher, Edward Vincent, Jim Battin and Kevin Murray. Bowen chairs the senate's energy, utilities and communications panel.
Among those who didn't return calls, there were 12 Republicans and 12 Democrats.
The mix was much more lopsided among those who returned funds and those who said they didn't. Of the 12 who returned funds, all but two were Democrats. And all five who said they held on to the funds were Republicans.
The Los Angeles Times reported last month that Republican caucus leaders Cox of the assembly and Jim Brulte of the state Senate sought and got $50,000 in Enron contributions to the party in August 2001 as the Legislature was concluding key energy legislation. The caucuses have yet to return the funds or send them to the employees' groups.
Critics who took money
Some who took Enron funds have harshly criticized the company for what they say is the gouging of electricity consumers in California. There also are those instrumental in setting energy policy.
They include Davis, State Sen. Bowen, Attorney General Bill Lockyer, State Sen. Steve Peace and S. David Freeman, chairman of the California Power Authority, who ran a failed 2000 campaign for a state assembly seat.
All have been notable figures in the electricity crisis, and all but two received contributions prior to July 1, 2000. Lockyer and Bowen were the only ones to get money after that date. None of the five indicated they would give the funds to ex-employees.
Another legislator who got roughly $2,000 from Enron was State Sen. Joseph Dunn, whose senate committee now is investigating the company's pricing practices. Dunn has frequently accused Enron of gaming the system.
Dunn, who received the contributions prior to mid-2000, said he hasn't decided whether he'll send a check to the employees' funds. He doesn't feel anyone should feel obligated to contribute.
"I leave that to each individual elected official," Dunn said. "That's for each of my colleagues to decide."
Davis is running for re-election this year. The Enron contribution question could give his opponent, Bill Simon, ammunition in his bid to unseat the governor.
Others, such as Lockyer and Bowen, could be hit by the Enron political effect. Bowen received at least $14,000 and Lockyer got at least $15,000, records show.
Lockyer and Bowen did not return phone calls seeking comment on what they would do with their Enron money. Each has said in the past they didn't feel the company's contributions were significant and did not have an effect on how they carried out their duties.
Can't control actions
Some analysts say it might be unfair to ask politicians to be responsible for their donors' actions.
"I think most voters expect politicians to take money from a whole variety of interest groups," said Ron Faucheux, editor of the trade publication Campaigns and Elections magazine. "To my knowledge, nobody's been able to make the connection between getting (Enron) money and doing anything for it."
But others say those who received Enron funds face a sticky issue. Enron's campaign money may very well have come at the expense of California ratepayers. Enron's revenue tripled between 1999 and 2000, catapulting the company's sales to $100 billion, seventh largest in the U.S.
Still, those who ignore the issue, no matter how small the contribution, could find themselves with campaign headaches later on, said California political consultant Dan Schnur.
"Just because you didn't give the money back doesn't mean you're corrupt. But you've given your opponent way too easy a target to hit," Schnur said. "Most members of Congress, it appears, have done that (turned the money over)."
Davis officials point out that the governor stopped taking contributions from energy companies in the latter half of 2000, when the state's electricity crisis first surfaced. Several officials who took Enron funds prior to that date say the second half of 2000 should have been the stopping point for taking money.
The power authority's Freeman said the prospect of unloading funds could create the wrong impression.
"I view it as a kind of false gesture," Freeman said. "This retroactive morality strikes me as being false."
While Davis's office pointed out it didn't accept funds past mid-2000 from Enron, those who are sending the funds to the employees group say they are turning over all the company's contributions, going back four years or more.
State Sen. Burton calculated he'd received more than $19,000 from Enron over the years, said aide Dave Sebeck. Burton ended up sending $20,000 to the Greater Houston Community Foundation. Other groups include the Enron Ex-Employees Relief Fund and the Enron Employee Transition Fund.
The amount of money received by an individual politician usually never exceeded the amount Burton got. In most cases, the total received by any single person throughout their political history was no more than $6,000.
Enron didn't start contributing heavily to California campaigns until electricity deregulation was in effect in the late 1990s and the company was hoping to initiate some changes to the system. It spent more on a wide array of candidates as opposed to concentrating on a select few.
Whether the decision to retain the funds will hurt any officials remains to be seen. While some analysts say the contributions were small in most cases, others say small issues can be turned into major ones by aggressive challengers.
Davis in particular could be hurt, they say. The $120,000 he took is small compared to his $30 million war chest, but the number is still large enough to make an issue, analysts say.
"For most of them, it really is a non-issue," said consultant Spillane. "One thing that raises eyebrows is the size of the contributions to Davis and the fact that he's accused them of gouging."
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2013 Act of the year – Opening the lighthouse for visitors by Kihnu Cultural Space foundation.
2012 Laureate of C.R.Jakobson’s reward, the most popular educational and cultural worker in Pärnu County.
2011 Honourable testimonial of the Kihnu Parish government for organizing Kihnu Fiddle Festival.
2011 The annual grant of the Folk culture endowment of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.
2010 The Kihnu person of the year (for starting and carrying out the annual tradition of Kihnu Sea Festival (Kihnu Mere Pidu).
2009 Laureate of the Award of Cultural Heritage of the Estonian National Folklore Council.
2006, 2007, 2009 Honourable testimonials of the Kihnu Parish government for the promotion of Kihnu traditional culture (The instruction of the Kihnu culture and history study group for students, the promotion of traditional culture, the purchase of Metsamaa farm).
2005 Honourable testimonial of the University of Tartu for the promotion of regional cooperation.
1998 The badge of honour of the Citizenship day for citizenship education.
Mare is the member of honour of the Estonian Lighthouse Society.
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In professional sport, teams of different sized individuals often have an in-house nutritionist who custom-builds a tailored exercise recovery drink for each team member. As the body-type and training aim of each individual varies (think giant second row forward versus small scrum-half), so too does the macro-nutritional dosing within each of the team members' recovery drinks. This is the most effective way of ensuring that each team member achieves optimum recovery from their workout and reaches their training aim in the shortest time possible.
Using a patented vending platform, our aim is to bring this practice into the retail marketplace in an easily managed and intuitive fashion.
Current sports nutrition brands often offer only generic serving sizes to customers (eg, 1 scoop of protein powder or a fixed 330ml ready-made drink). MiTonics allows the customer to easily create their own personalised recovery drink in exactly the same way that they do in the pro sport community for optimum results.
MiTonics machines are stationed within leading gym facilities meaning there is 24 hour availability of the best sports recovery drink on the market at the time and place the customer really needs it - immediately after training, offering ultimate convenience.
The branding and range of drinks in the machine (Muscle Gain, Lean Performance and Diet Meal Replacement) are designed to appeal specifically to the entire gym customer-base unlike traditional products. The availability of the Diet drink and personalised dosing means the drinks are equally applicable to both male and female members. In some cases where MiTonics has been added to an existing range then overall supplement revenues for the gym have been seen to increase. Furthermore, we have been told that where MiTonics has replaced an incumbent brand the comparable supplement sales at the site have increased.
The platform requires the input of some personal data (Training Aim, Weight and Body Fat Ratio). This then leads to deeper engagement between gym staff and their clients as the member is required to think more carefully about their training targets and also gain a basic understanding of body composition - a service that most gyms offer on induction and then as an ongoing supplementary service. In this way, MiTonics pulls together disparate services that gyms offer and provides a tangible medium through which this personal customer data can be put to use.
We see reports from gyms of increased PT (personal trainer) engagement, improved member sign-up (as the gym demonstrates its commitment to cutting edge services), increased member retention, enhanced customer results with accelerated body-change, not to mention an increase in secondary revenues in a highly competitive marketplace.
We aim to help regular gym goers to achieve enhanced results from their training by giving them access to professionally tailored recovery drinks. Globally, we see this as a wholly new category of drink in a sector where true innovation is in short supply.
Substantial accomplishments to date
In 3 years we have taken the idea from Powerpoint concept to formal operational roll-out. We have over 20 machines sited around the UK (including: Nuffield Health, The Reebok Club, The Third Space, Anytime Fitness). Our first overseas machine is off to Dubai to one of the best gyms in the world: the Nad al Sheba Sports Complex.
We received our European Patent (2292126) in May 2012. US patent is pending.
We have sold over 125,000 drinks to date and have developed a highly robust and easily operated platform.
We have tested various financial models and believe we have a strong understanding of the gym marketplace, have developed a clear and effective engagement protocol for our consumer customers, have significant opportunities for scaling the business up in a relatively short space of time and are now ready move ahead on our formal growth strategy. Following our first formal trade advertising campaign in Q1 2014, we have also generated a long list of other active enquiries which we feel further strengthens our proposition.
We have agreed formal trials at two of the largest chains in the UK which, if successful, would lead to national rollout and immediate growth.
We are now set for the formal growth phase of our company life-cycle.
Our business model is relatively straight-forward. We typically retain ownership of the machines and agree a 2yr rental agreement with the site owners immediately providing us a monthly rental income for each asset. The rental income covers the asset cost and allows us to potentially use asset financing for machine purchase from our suppliers.
We then wholesale the disposables (ingredient mixes and cups) to each of the sites at an appropriate margin that provides sufficient margin to MiTonics to support and grow the business and also allows the site owner to make a meaningful return from his/her investment.
The site owner is responsible for servicing the machine, usually on a twice-weekly basis (refill ingredients canisters, refill cup stack, basic cleaning protocol). With the financial commitment from the site in place, we see that the sites are diligent in looking after their machine and actively promoting the service to members. MiTonics is, after all, often a 'point of difference' for them and should become embedded in the customer journey from prospective member through to training strategy and ongoing member progress review.
We outsource as many of the operational elements of the business as we can to specialists (machines built to order, ingredients custom designed by leading supplier, disposables stored and distributed by logistics company, emergency technical support to specialist vending support company) which means we are able to focus almost entirely on marketing.
With the sites as our sole route to market, we view them as partners and are able to focus on experiential onsite marketing, dynamic POS (point of sale) material, development of brand ambassadors at sites, use of social media channels and trade/consumer press. There is a direct correlation between this style of marketing and drink sales, and being our sole route to market, we are able to focus on this, aiming to take market share from traditional brands who view 'in gym' sales as a small contributor to their overall revenue streams.
Use of proceeds
These funds are specifically marked to support two formal 6 month trials agreed with two of the UK's largest gym chains. We expect that a successful outcome of the trials would lead to significant and immediate growth of our estate to over 250 sites by end of 2015.
The first trial is already underway and drink sales here are 200% of the target after just 4 weeks. The site owner is actively promoting MiTonics to fellow site owners and senior management. We expect that the other chain will be installing and starting their trial during July/Aug.
As a company of only 3 people, operating from a modest home office with limited resources, we cannot now support the trials as we would like to, which will negatively impact the likelihood of securing a successful outcome.
The funds would largely be used for trial marketing requirements:
> Trial Account Director
> Junior Onsite Brand Manager
> Enhanced machine graphics
> Onsite marketing collateral
> Branded peripherals
> Office rent
> Vehicle hire x 2
MiTonics is currently targeted at the gym marketplace. We are actively engaged in penetrating the UK gym sector and believe that we are the only company in the world that can offer truly personalised nutrition drinks at the point-of-sale.
Gyms are constantly fighting to differentiate themselves from their peers, demonstrate that they are offering value and quality for money and give their members the 'personal' experience.
From our experience, the current range of ready-to-drink 'protein shakes' available in UK gyms and elsewhere is generally of very low quality. Top brands often supply limited information to the customer that allows them to promote drinks as 'high in protein' whilst not mentioning that these drinks are usually comprised of inappropriate kinds of protein for the users exercise routine - predominantly slow absorbing casein protein.
Optimum recovery from exercise is shown scientifically to come from consumption of fast absorbing whey proteins. Our marketing strategy is on two-tiers: firstly, to the gyms themselves, to whom the quality of MiTonics appeals but also for whom margin and return are a key consideration. MiTonics aims to bring numerous peripheral benefits to each site (point of difference from peers, PT engagement tool, better results for members, increased retention, increased sign-up for body MOTs, increase in one-to-one PT sessions). MiTonics also offers an attractive revenue stream through its business model, whether as the exclusive offering within the site (Marlow Club saw a 300% increase in supplements income when we replaced their incumbent supplier) or as an addition to their existing protein brands. The 45% Gross Margin (GM) for sites also resonates.
Secondly, we use an experiential marketing strategy to engage with the consumer. This requires relationship building with the gym fitness staff that, if successful, would result in them buying-in to the quality of MiTonics and wishing to see their clients get improved results so implicitly become our ambassadors. We couple this with the presence of MiTonics staff onsite to undertake experiential marketing directly engaging with the customer.
Characteristics of target market
The UK is serviced by about 6,000 healthclub venues which include: public leisure centres, private member gyms, spas, hotels and similar sites. We believe that penetration of just 10% of this market would create serious financial return for our business.
The ready-to-drink sector has grown strongly over the last 3 years and is forecast to continue to grow in similar fashion. Worldwide sales of sports related protein products grew from £2.5bn in 2007 to £4.9bn in 2012 and are likely to reach £7.8bn in 2017. In the UK sales increased from £73m in 2007 to £170m in 2012 and are expected to reach £358m by 2017. We believe this to be a booming sector in which our personalised technology sets us significantly apart from the competition.
Although we are currently focused on the UK, it should be noted that we have also received numerous serious overseas enquiries offering further potential for growth. A machine is being delivered to the Dubai Olympic team next month for example, a great showcase for the Middle East.
Our access to the sports related consumer is primarily through the gym/healthclub marketplace. Our financial model has been developed to encourage these gate-keepers to open that door. It aims to offer attractive financial returns to the gym and also gives them a service that sets them apart from their peers and fundamentally deepens the relationship they have with their members - a key target in reducing member churn.
We have run a modest advertising campaign in Workout magazine in Q1 of this year and generated over 50 solid enquiries, some from multiple site owners including the two largest chains in the UK with whom we now have trials agreed (with a view to national roll-out pending successful results).
We intend to continue with trade advertising and PR, utilising the quoted experiences of existing clients in our marketing to trigger inbound enquiries.
On the consumer side, we plan to use primarily an 'experiential marketing' strategy. From our experience, this has proved both to give tangible results and to be cost effective. On one level, by the very nature of the drink, we believe that the PTs and fitness staff become ambassadors for the product for free as it is of genuinely the highest quality and helps their clients achieve better results...making the PTs look good.
Underpinning this, we want to develop an onsite experiential marketing team, that would visit sites on a regular basis, talking face-to-face with members and staff alike, answering questions, offering taster sessions and generally keep us at the forefront of the consumers' minds. We have developed various tools that can be used to help strengthen these relationships - reloadable loyalty cards that can be redeemed against the machine, promotional tokens that can be handed out at events, co-branded brochures and posters for different chains highlighting the results of "members of the month" and so on. Only later, would we consider the consumer press due to the expense involved.
We have already seen repeated instances of where we have performed better than much larger established brands at our sites. We believe that the established brands offer a commoditised product of limited quality with little true differentiation between the brands. Furthermore, we believe that MiTonics stands alone as the world's only truly personalised nutrition drink comprised of the highest quality ingredients.
The nature of the financial model with the sites' owners requires the site to make a financial commitment via the 2yr rental agreement and so often results in MiTonics being the only protein drink available at the site. We understand that several customers have removed much larger brands from their site in order to ensure they obtain the best return possible from their MiTonics investment.
Personalisation is becoming a buzzword in nutrition as a whole, especially in the weight control market, where we also see application of the service. One could imagine SlimFast or Weight Watchers looking at MiTonics as a medium through which they could offer a genuinely beneficial product to customers based around our Diet Meal replacement drink.
We have been awarded our patent on the personalisation algorithms we use in the machine and which mirror those used by the world's top pro sport nutritionists. This would provide some protection against competing products coming online.
We also know, that developing the whole system is not easy. Protein and vending machines do not sit easily together and we have been told, for example, one of the largest sports nutrition brands in the world tried something similar several years ago but failed to produce a successful result. More recently, we have been actively developing a communication channel with some of the largest existing brands in Europe who may look at partnering with us. This could present a potential exit opportunity and drastically accelerate our growth and profit potential.
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Roseate Bikinis Philippines
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Dinner plate from the final official dinner held in President Kennedy's honor. Four days before his assassination, this navy blue plate was used at the 18 November 1963 dinner at the Hotel Americana in Miami, Florida, hosted by the Inter American Press Association's 19th Annual Assembly. Dinner plate features a gilt rim and gilt presidential seal at the center, encircled by 14 coats of arms, each representing a member state of the IAPA. Plate underside is stamped ''Syracuse / China / 93-G U.S.A.'' Accompanied by a copy of the speech on Cuba that Kennedy delivered that night, reading in part, ''...Castroism, which a few years ago commanded the allegiance of thousands in almost every country, today has far fewer followers...the promises of abundance under tyranny are false...'' Plate measures 10.5'' in diameter. Near fine. With provenance from the event's catering manager Louis Ronco, with a copy of the newspaper article about Ronco and the dinner, and a photo of the Grand Ballroom of the Americana taken before the dinner showing one of these plates at each setting.
Plate From JFK's Last Official Dinner -- Four Days Before His Assassination
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By Jacob Combs | Thompson on Hollywood August 4, 2014 at 5:57PM
We haven't seen much from Tim Burton since 2012, when he released both "Dark Shadows" and the stop-motion "Frankenweenie." His next film is "Big Eyes," due in theaters on Christmas Day, and two newly released images show Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz in action as the two leads.
Burton's "Big Eyes" is a biopic of artist Margaret Keane, who won fame in the 1950s for her paintings of children with--you guessed it!--big eyes. Adams plays the painter, while Waltz portrays her husband Walter, who began to claim credit for the paintings Margaret created. The two divorced and battled their way through the court system, where Margaret challenged Walter to a 'paint-off' in federal court (seriously) to prove her authorship. Walter didn't take her up on the challenge.
"Margaret really believed that as a woman, people would not buy her art," Adams told USA Today, which released the two new "[Walter] convinced her the life they were able to lead was because the artist was a man, who could sell more art at a higher price than a woman."
You can see the second production still from "Big Eyes" below. Could this mean that a trailer will be making its way to us soon? The Weinsteins have planned a Christmas Day release for the flick, which means they're positioning it for some awards recognition--and will likely back it up with the kind of publicity operation to make that happen.
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Does politics matter to investors? Read any market report and the answer might seem obvious. Market movements are often explained as reactions to an unfolding political story - Brexit, Catalonia, North Korea, Trump, European elections. All of these have at times over the past 18 months seemed to be key market drivers. The reality is more nuanced.
These five political stories have influenced financial markets in quite different ways from which investors can draw a range of conclusions.
Brexit is the longest-running of the five and to UK investors probably seems the most important. The distinguishing feature of this story is that, unlike some, if not all the others, it is having a real economic impact. In the last week we have seen how the stalling negotiations with the rest of the EU, and the associated Westminster psychodrama, is dragging the UK economy down. A near 10pc fall in car sales in the key month of September, dismal construction sector data and a slide from the top to the bottom of the G7 growth league is starting to look like a worrying trend.
What is interesting from an investment perspective, however, is that this relentless flow of bad news has been largely shrugged off by investors. The FTSE 100 stood at around 6,000 in June 2016. Today it is close to an all-time high above 7,500. The reason, of course, is that Brexit uncertainty and a rudderless government has hit the value of the pound. And for a market dominated by exporters and overseas earners that has been a positive for sterling-based investors.
Over in Europe, politics has been influential in a quite different way. A year ago, the prospect of a packed electoral calendar across the region cast a long shadow over markets. Britain’s vote to leave the EU and the election of Donald Trump in the US seemed to point to a turning of the tide in Europe towards right-wing populism. Concern about victories for nationalist parties in Holland and France, if not in Germany, ensured that market sentiment was weak as 2017 began.
The reality was more benign. Pragmatism and common sense prevailed in all the key elections and investors have been able to focus on Europe’s rapidly improving economy, its supportive central bank and its rising corporate earnings. So in Europe the key influence of politics until recently was to unnecessarily dampen sentiment and so to create investment opportunities. Germany’s DAX index is up more than 20pc over the past year; Italy’s stock market is more than a third higher.
The market reaction to Catalonia’s bid for independence has highlighted how dramatic political events can have an outsized influence over investors. The slide in Spanish shares last week was the biggest in 15 months and outflows from Spanish funds the greatest since an earlier independence poll in 2014. Madrid’s Ibex 35 index has fallen by 10pc since a high in May, a technical market correction and completely against the tide of European markets as a whole.
Catalonia accounts for a significant proportion of the Spanish economy so the potential for disruption should not be dismissed. But given how much easier it will be for the region to declare independence than actually to deliver it, with no obvious support for secession from the international community and Madrid’s determination to block it, the market reaction may well turn out to be too much too soon. Investors appear to have over-reacted to the political drama and focused too little on the real economic impact.
Turn to North Korea and the market reaction has been just as puzzling in the opposite direction. When you consider the worst case scenario, investors’ response to Kim Jong-Un’s sabre-rattling looks complacent. Indeed the market most obviously at risk from an escalation of the Kim/Trump stand-off has seemingly welcomed the crisis. The Kospi index in Seoul stands 20pc higher than a year ago and it has been positively correlated to the intensification of Kim’s nuclear rhetoric. The more missiles he has fired, the higher the Kospi has risen.
Actually this makes more sense than might appear. Again it is about probabilities. The market has taken the view, probably rightly, that a nuclear conflagration is unlikely. More likely is that this turns out to be a storm in a teacup. The crisis will pass and South Korea will be seen again as one of the biggest beneficiaries of the ongoing uptick in global economic activity.
Which leaves Trump, and specifically his proposed tax reforms. From a market perspective, this has been the most important political influence in recent weeks, driving Wall Street to a record-breaking run of new record highs. Like the Catalonia situation, this looks to be an over-reaction, this time a positive one.
The market has latched onto the White House’s tax reform proposals, seeing them as the key to re-starting the stalled Trump Trade that galvanized Wall Street in the wake of the Presidential election last year. In doing so it seems to have fallen into the trap of wishful thinking. Hoping that something will happen is a poor substitute for a careful analysis of whether it is likely to. Rather, this looks like an ex-post rationalisation of a late-cycle market rally. Shares are going up; how can we explain this?
So the short answer to my opening question is that politics does matter to investors but in unpredictable and often contradictory ways. Investors over- and under-react to political developments. The economic impact is more important than the political headline but this is often hard to fathom at the time and may change subsequently (as with the fading of the post-Brexit honeymoon period).
What is clear, however, is that for the alert investor politically-driven sentiment shifts can create great investment opportunities.
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Do you want to volunteer abroad in the near future? On the fence about where to go or what to do? These are big decisions that can have a huge impact on your worldview, and you might wonder how to know if volunteering abroad is right for you, or whether you’re choosing a program for the right reasons.
In 2018, we at Go Overseas partnered with a research company called Trek Research to examine the volunteer abroad field. Trek Research prepared a series of questions that would help us better understand what makes volunteering abroad so special, why people do it, and what they care about when choosing to volunteer abroad. We worked with Trek Research to reach out to users here on Go Overseas who had shared a recent review about their volunteer abroad experience.
In this article you’ll learn some of the major takeaways from that survey. It was run in two parts: among volunteer abroad alumni and among the general population. With the help of Trek Research, we looked at the data and came up with conclusions that help us -- and you -- better understand what this volunteering abroad thing is all about, and why it’s so important. Here’s what we found:
- Studying abroad is a good indicator you will volunteer abroad.
- People who volunteer at home are likely to volunteer abroad too.
- Once you volunteer abroad once, you’ll probably want to volunteer abroad again.
- Most people want to volunteer abroad for months, but only get to volunteer abroad for weeks.
- People volunteer abroad for three primary reasons: to experience culture, to help others, and for adventure.
- When people choose to volunteer abroad, they care most about the project or social issue, the location, and the cost.
Read on to learn more about each of these conclusions, plus how you can know if volunteering abroad is the right decision for you. (Spoiler: it probably is!)
Studying abroad is a good indicator you will volunteer abroad
While we’ve always known that meaningful travel has a powerful impact and thought that people who participate in meaningful travel are likely to do it again, now we have proof!
One of the most interesting findings from this survey was the correlation between respondents who had studied abroad and those who volunteered abroad. There was a high number of people who took this survey who reported they had studied abroad before volunteering abroad. We jokingly started calling study abroad a ‘gateway drug’ for volunteering abroad!
What this means is that if you’re a student or graduate who studied abroad, you’ll probably enjoy volunteering abroad too. This is the perfect opportunity to browse volunteer abroad opportunities and start planning your next trip.
People who volunteer at home are likely to volunteer abroad too
Similar to the relationship between studying abroad and volunteering abroad, this survey found that people who volunteer at home are also likely to volunteer abroad. Volunteering -- whether at home or abroad -- gives us a good feeling, and we like to continue having that feeling.
If you’re currently volunteering at home and on the fence about volunteering abroad, you can interpret this finding as a good indicator that you’ll probably love volunteering abroad too. If you’re not sure if you’ll enjoy volunteering abroad, try finding a volunteer opportunity closer to home first -- if you enjoy that, you’ll have a great time volunteering abroad!
Once you volunteer abroad once, you’ll probably want to volunteer abroad again
As you can tell, we wanted to understand what motivates people to volunteer abroad with this survey. The last main discovery we made from this survey about the characteristics of people who have volunteered abroad is this: once you volunteer abroad the first time, you’re more likely to volunteer abroad again. There was a positive relationship between having volunteered abroad once and having volunteered abroad twice or three times.
While we didn’t look at whether or not people reported their first volunteer abroad experience as positive (or how positive it was on a scale of 1 to 100), we are fairly confident that people volunteer abroad again because it feels worthwhile -- even when not everything goes perfectly. Volunteering abroad is not like other more traditional forms of travel. You might not be staying at a five-star luxury resort and you might be uncomfortable at times. It’s worth it though, to grow personally and give back to a local community. Don’t be surprised if you return home and come right back to Go Overseas to browse volunteer opportunities for your next trip.
Combining these first three takeaways, this means that if you volunteer at home, and have studied and volunteered abroad before, it’s time to book your ticket and volunteer abroad again! (Or, as we joked, once you study abroad as the ‘gateway drug’ for volunteering abroad, you get ‘addicted’ and want to keep volunteering abroad! That’s a good thing though, as it expands your worldview and helps give back to the world too!)
Most people want to volunteer abroad for months, but only get to volunteer abroad for weeks
In this survey, we asked people how long they want to volunteer abroad, but also how long they actually volunteer abroad. There was a discrepancy: most people wanted to volunteer abroad for 1-2 months, but typically they were only able to volunteer abroad for 1-2 weeks.
We hypothesized that this result might be because most of the respondents in our survey live in the United States -- and the U.S. is notorious for the limited vacation time most people have each year once they start their career. Many people would love to volunteer abroad for longer, but they just don’t have the PTO.
The world would be a great place if people could volunteer abroad for twice as long! One way this can happen is when companies offer employees more time off to volunteer abroad (like we do here at Go Overseas, or at these other companies). We hope more companies will adopt a more generous time off policy when it comes to volunteering abroad -- most respondents would take advantage of it!
People volunteer abroad for three primary reasons: to experience culture, to help others, and for adventure
Our last two takeaways looked at different issues people consider when choosing to volunteer abroad. This first discovery makes a lot of sense: we asked people to tell us the primary reason they want to volunteer abroad, and the results were as follows:
- To experience cultures
- To help others
- For adventure
While some of these reasons might seem selfish, we know that what makes meaningful travel like volunteering abroad so powerful is that it impacts the traveler and the community they visit.
We also ask this question every time we run a Go Overseas scholarship, and the results were similar: Giving Back and Cultural Immersion were the top two reasons those applicants chose.
If you’re considering studying abroad and wondering if it’s okay to choose a program that gives back but also offers you some personal benefit -- that’s totally okay! Everyone has different reasons for volunteering abroad, but we’re confident it’s a good thing for you and the world, no matter your reasons or which program you choose.
When people choose to volunteer abroad, they care most about the project or social issue, the location, and the cost
Our last takeaway is related to how people choose volunteer abroad programs. Here on Go Overseas, we have program listings and work with partners who offer structured volunteer abroad programs, rather than you just turning up in a new country and organizing the volunteer work yourself.
Respondents in our survey said they care most about the project or social issue, followed by the location, and finally they care about the cost of the program. This gave us a warm fuzzy feeling: most people say that the issue (from childcare to construction, animal conservation to reforestation) is the most important thing to them. If you have an issue you’re passionate about and you want to volunteer abroad -- you can probably find a program which aims to improve that issue, and most of the people you volunteer abroad with will care a lot about that issue too.
Location and cost are obviously important too, but neither is the primary factor. We want to volunteer abroad in an unforgettable location, and we can’t break the bank, but at the end of the day it’s the issue that matters most.
Now you have a lot more insight into the what people care about and why they volunteer abroad. The only question left is: are you ready to join them?
Special thanks to Trek Research for choosing us as their research partner for this survey producing the results and charts that helped us make sense of the data. Also thanks to our volunteer abroad partners who helped us survey their alumni and the greater population to draw these conclusions: African impact, Go Eco, GVI, IVHQ, Maximo Nivel, Projects Abroad, Rustic Pathways, and Volunteering Solutions
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Udaipur, Rajasthan – In a shocking turn of events, a meeting of the Rajput Karni Sena in Udaipur took a violent and unexpected twist as gunfire erupted, leaving the State President of the organization, Bhanwar Singh, injured. The assailant, identified as Digvijay, reportedly opened fire during the crowded assembly, prompting immediate retaliation from attendees who subdued and apprehended him.
The incident unfolded at the BN Sansthan in Udaipur, where the Rajput Karni Sena was holding a gathering to discuss preparations for the upcoming Jurisdiction General Assembly scheduled for September 23. During the meeting, chaos erupted as a young man, Digvijay, allegedly disgruntled over his removal from a leadership position within the organization, discharged a firearm.
State President Bhanwar Singh sustained a bullet injury in the attack and was swiftly transported to a nearby hospital for medical attention. Fortunately, his condition is stable, and he is expected to make a full recovery.
Local authorities and law enforcement officials swiftly responded to the incident, with top police and administrative personnel arriving at the scene to assess the situation. Digvijay, the alleged assailant, was taken into custody and is currently being questioned by investigators.
The motive behind the attack appears to be rooted in Digvijay’s long-standing resentment towards Bhanwar Singh for his removal from a leadership role within the organization. As tensions escalated within the Rajput Karni Sena, it culminated in the unfortunate violence witnessed during the meeting.
The Rajput Karni Sena, a prominent socio-cultural organization, plays a vital role in advocating for the interests of the Rajput community and preserving their heritage. The organization’s upcoming Jurisdiction General Assembly, which aims to address critical community matters, was the focal point of the disrupted meeting.
As the investigation into this incident continues, questions arise about the security measures in place for such gatherings, especially given the prominence of the Rajput Karni Sena and the importance of their upcoming assembly. Authorities are likely to review and bolster security arrangements to prevent similar incidents in the future.
The shooting serves as a grim reminder of the tensions that can simmer within organizations and communities, and underscores the need for conflict resolution mechanisms to prevent such incidents from occurring.
Udaipur and the Rajput Karni Sena community now find themselves grappling with the aftermath of this unexpected violence, hoping for a swift resolution and a return to the pursuit of their cultural and social objectives.
The investigation into the shooting is ongoing, with law enforcement agencies working diligently to piece together the sequence of events leading up to the attack and to ensure that justice is served.
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Despite being a show about change, there’s always a certain amount of trepidation in Doctor Who when any amount of it happens, whether it’s just a new monster or a whole new Doctor. The latest season has seen more changes than we’ve had in a while—and it still feels like it’s trying assuage that familiar trepidation.
“The Tsuranga Conundrum,” like practically every episode this season before it, takes a page out of the big bumper book of Doctor Who story types. “Arachnids” was B-movie horror, “Rosa” was a properly old-school historical, and “The Ghost Monument” a sci-fi mystery caper. “The Tsuranga Conundrum” is the classical “base under siege” trope, as the Doctor and her friends find themselves wounded mid-adventure and carted aboard a hospital ship that patches them up…only for the ship to be waylaid by a creature stalking it, threatening to literally munch its way through the whole thing and leave them stranded (or blown up by the weirdly hostile administration that runs the hospital ship).
The monster attacking the base—adorably named the Pting—ends up being significantly less monstrous than first thought by the Doctor and her friends. In fact, if it wasn’t dining on the parts the ship needs to actually be spaceworthy, it’d be almost too cute to bear. But the Pting, adorable as it is, gives “The Tsuranga Conundrum” its monster to battle, and so the Doctor and her friends do, like Doctors and their friends have done pretty much every other time Doctor Who has done a “base under siege” story. And it does a perfectly fine job doing so, and outside of the ongoing theme this season of relishing in the scientific-side of science fiction, it just ends up feeling like a solid execution of a story we’ve seen many times before. Neither amazing or awful, just…existent.
And that’s fine, sometimes. Not every episode of Doctor Who has to necessarily be either an iconic, unforgettable piece of television, or a turgid, abject failure. Across 55 years of time and space adventure, you’re going to get a few stories that hits their beats solidly, and go in one ear and out the other the minute you’re done watching—let’s be real, who among us really remembers “The Ribos Operation” as well as we do something like “The City of Death”? As ridiculously, show-stealingly cute the Pting might be, “The Tsuranga Conundrum” is destined to join many stories in that middling ether.
Hell, there’s even an argument to be made that Doctor Who frankly wouldn’t be Doctor Who with the occasional throwaway story, to more keenly contrast the giddy highs and crushing lows against a patina of average-ness. But “Tsuranga” being not just a perfectly serviceable episode, but a perfectly serviceable aping of a story style we’ve seen countless times on Doctor Who before—coming off of a string of takes on other Who tropes executed far better already this season—seems to indicate we’ve reached a bit of a breaking point, at least when it comes to this new era of Doctor Who trying to earnestly prove to us that it can still do Doctor Who-y things.
“The Tsuranga Conundrum” is almost classic-era Who to a fault. It’s a slowly-paced story where the stakes are more simply that the Doctor and friends showed up and need to leave, rather than there being a day to be saved, so the stakes aren’t particularly personal or lofty. There’s a large group of companions, which leads to multiple branched paths as they all split up, meaning less time for banter with each other (outside of that lovely moment between Yaz and Ryan about the latter’s father) as their stories run parallel. It’s all, once again, finely executed, but the lack of a particular impact beyond the confines of this episode leaves “Tsuranga” ultimately feeling a bit throwaway.
Last week I started pondering just what Doctor Who gets out of this performative ouroboros, the quest in exploring its own meta-narrative past by churning out takes on familiar archetypes. And I think part of it is that with so much change in season 11, there was a need felt to introduce Jodie Whittaker’s Doctor and her new friends through the lens of stories Doctor Who has repeatedly turned to in its past as a way of combating that trepidation I mentioned earlier. Look, it’s the same old Doctor Who, but with a great new face! And it’s a smart move that’s seemingly worked very well so far, drawing back in lapsed viewers to a pretty respectable tune. But “The Tsuranga Conundrum” marks the halfway point into the 13th Doctor’s maiden voyage.
Which means that I think it’s more than proved enough that it’s still Doctor Who already—if anything, it didn’t really need to keep trying to prove it again with “Tsuranga,” given the overall strength of this season of familiar story tropes so far. We have a remarkable new Doctor, a promising new companion group, and a revitalized energy to the show brought about by all this change. Doctor Who needs to start capitalising on that to show what this brave new era can add to the rich tapestry of the show’s nigh-on-undefinable legacy of Who-ness, because really, it has proved it knows its roots more than enough at this point.
Seriously though: the BBC are screwing up big time if there’s not a plush Pting on store shelves in time for Christmas. That thing was adorable, and while it’s an anecdotal metric at best, it was pretty much the only Doctor Who thing that trended on social media last night in the wake of the episode. Give the people what they want!
I am loving the ongoing science-nerd aspect of the 13th Doctor’s character. That moment she got lost in explaining positrons and antimatter to Yaz was beautifully done. This era of Doctor Who loves itself a science-education moment—if the Doctor can inspire people to learn more about STEM subjects, that can only be a good thing.
Maybe the real “Tsuranga Conundrum” was just what the hell the Tsuranga corporation actually is, because the episode barely explained why we should care. The Doctor mentions early on that the name is familiar, but we never get a sense as to actually why. Something the show will pick up on, maybe?
For people who apparently had their insides smushed up by a sonic mine, Yaz, Graham, and Ryan seemed awfully fine, recovery-wise, in comparison to the Doctor. I sort of love the irony that a Time Lord who loves sonic gadgetry would be more keenly wounded by a weaponised version, though.
Next week’s episode finally—finally—seems like it’s going to be a big one for Yaz. The moment she had with Ryan this episode about his father was great, but more in service of Ryan’s (very well handled) arc so far this season rather than her own. I really want to like Yaz more, but Doctor Who needs to give her more of a focus for a bit and maybe step back a bit on Ryan and Graham.
If you want rewatch the first 10 seasons of Doctor Who from 2005, they’re all available on Stan.
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It finally happened, the #TeddieMak white wedding.
After seeing all the highlights and the beauty of their traditional engagement in Lagos and their civil wedding in the UK. We couldn’t wait to see their white wedding.
Ebonylife TV producer Ted Abudu and her sweetheart, Adebola Makanjuola did take the final steps towards married life just a few days ago. The couple celebrated their union in an intimate ceremony in Beverly Hills alongside their families, close friends and loved ones. We honestly are still reliving these eight moments from their white wedding. Check out the moments below.
Let’s start with the bride’s moment, looking super fly in her flawless makeup and gorgeous dress.
The mummy-daughter moment just before she walked down the aisle.
Who says mum and grandma won’t have their moment too.
Walking down the aisle with papa.
That moment they exchanged their vows and said I do.
Now, we are married!!
You know what time, it is? Portraits with the family.
We still can’t get over how cute this moment. Their first dance was everything beautiful and more.
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Golf developer Mike Keiser gives $100,000s to Republicans and Wisconsin Republicans are giving back.
From the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign: "Mike Keiser, who is a frequent, generous contributor to state and federal Republican candidates and committees and conservative causes, contributed $11,100 to Walker between February 2012 and September 2014, and $10,000 to the state Republican Party last October, about two weeks before the November general elections."
In exchange, comes news, that "Two Republican legislators are sponsoring a bill that would allow an Adams County town to give a developer, who has contributed more than $21,000 to GOP Gov. Scott Walker and the state Republican Party in
recent years, cash grants or loans to build high-end golf courses. The bill would make a one-time change in state Tax Incremental District requirements to allow the town of Rome to provide direct grants or loans to Chicago businessman Mike Keiser to build up to four golf
courses and lodging on about 1,500 acres of land about 15 miles south of Wisconsin Rapids. Tax Incremental Districts are created by local governments through the state Tax Incremental Finance (TIF) program, which uses tax breaks and other incentives to encourage new businesses to locate on blighted land or in economically depressed areas."
See also Golf Course Developers and Walker Contributors Want State Favors.
This explains Keiser's silence about the proposed James Wysocki Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) near Keiser's proposed resort in the Golden Sands in central Wisconsin.
Keiser's resort bombs and Adams County which has the fastest falling property tax valuations in the state would be left to hold the bag.
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You’ve finally closed escrow, and the moving truck has pulled away from the driveway. What things can you do differently after moving to San Diego?
What To Do Differently After Moving to San Diego
Think back to all the memories you had in your old home. Take all those wonderful ones with you when moving to San Diego and leave the bad ones behind. Use this time to create new habits in your new home to make it your sanctuary!
Cut the Cord
Moving to San Diego is a great time to “cut the cord” and consolidate any media plans you have. From Netflix to Pandora, evaluate which services you use the most and which are redundant.
If you find yourself almost exclusively using Hulu, maybe it’s time to reduce your cable bill to internet service only. You may also find you are paying for services you don’t use anymore.
This is also true for any other subscription services, such as magazines or other subscription boxes that you have been meaning to get rid of.
Unpack Every Box
We all know how tiring moving can get. It can be difficult to keep yourself motivated until every last box is unpacked, but try to keep that moving spirit alive!
Ideally, you Marie Kondo-ed your home before moving to San Diego, but if not, this is the time to do it. Make a donation pile as you unpack to make the workload feel lighter. Visually, this may feel a bit messy, but rest easy knowing you’ll have less to put away.
Create New Habits
Have you always wanted to take steps to being more eco-friendly (more consistent recycling, switching to all energy-efficient lighting)? Or perhaps you want to implement a cleaning schedule?
Right after moving to San Diego is a great time to start forming those habits in your new home. Keep yourself motivated by starting these new habits from day one if possible. Many people will stick to new habits if they start right after they move. “They” say it takes three weeks to establish a new habit!
Many people will stick to new habits if they start right after they move. “They” say it takes three weeks to establish a new habit!
When moving to San Diego, it’s time to start a new record of maintenance and home improvement projects. Keep track of receipts for repairs and of the types of finishes you’ve selected for your new home.
These will come in handy for budgeting purposes and any future upgrades that you plan to make on your home. When it comes time to sell, you’ll be able to reference what date you replaced the roof, or upgraded the air conditioning.
The Auker Group
What’s another great habit to make after moving to San Diego? Bringing the Auker Group all your real estate related questions! Reach out to us at 619-814-3449 or use our contact form here.
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MOBILIZE products comply with these Standards
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- Two handles at tapered end to allow for more stable transport
- Head area is smooth to insure all head immobilization devices adhere to the board.
- Angled edges for log-rolling
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- Impervious to all bodily fluids
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- All boards meet OSHA recommendations and are easy to decontaminate
- Guaranteed for life under normal usage
- Medical Device (93/42/EC) Class 1
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Stash enhancement (and there's been quite a bit of that) .. included two 100g balls of this King Cole Glitz
Can you see the shiny bits through it? I'm not sure what I'll be making at this stage but would welcome any suggestions.
Finished projects (not many of these I'm afraid as I've had a major dose of start-itis and very little finish-itis) .. My CWA branch had a function earlier this month and we decided at the last minute to include a craft stall. For my contribution I made three pairs of fingerless mitts and a cowl .. (oops, forgot to download the cowl pic). All three pairs of mitts sold @ $15 a pair so I was happy about that.
I've also finished a blanket for Oliver which I'm pleased to say that he seems to like. Here he is having an afternoon nap ..
And for Knit4Charities I've done a few items for 'angel' babies ..
Finally, Nanna brag time ... Oliver is now 2 years 7 months and is growing up way too fast. Here he is playing on one of the sculptures at the National Arboretum here in Canberra a month or so back ..
My two grandsons are great mates and enjoy fooling around together. I think its been awhile since I've shown a picture of Ryan who is now 14.5 years old - here's one of my two boys.
Thank you so much for visiting.
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The Elephant On My Kid’s Chest A Life Night on Depression and Anxiety Disorders for Parents About This Life Night During the Gather, parents socialize and participate in a small group discussion. The Proclaim discusses anxiety and depression disorders and offers ideas on how to help children who may be struggling. The Break gives the parents an opportunity to write a letter to Jesus about their greatest fears for their child(ren) and offering them to His care. During the Send, parents light a candle and say an intercessory prayer for the needs of their child(ren). Goal of This Night To teach parents the symptoms of depression and anxiety disorders, reduce the stigma of a diagnosis, and explore resources and practical steps to help teens who are struggling. Scripture Deuteronomy 31:8 Isaiah 41:10 Matthew 6:26 -34 Matthew 26:38 -39 Proclaim Key Concepts – Anxiety and depression disorders are common, and the symptoms can be alleviated. Hope and fullness of life can be found for those who are suffering. – If your teen, or a teen you know, is experiencing symptoms of depression or anxiety, help and resources can be found by calling the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1- 800-273-8255). Even if the teen is not having thoughts of suicide, there are trained mental health professionals available 24/7 to answer calls. – Parents can empathize and normalize the struggle of their teens by offering them a safe place to take their uncertainty, being vulnerable about the tough times in their lives, and leading with an example of faith and prayer. End of Free Preview Thanks for reviewing this Life Night! If you would like the full version of this resource please sign in. If you are signed in and still can't download this resource, please contact parish support in the chat below.
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Marine Mammals in the Military
Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin E. Dempsey visits the U.S. Navy Marine Mammal Program and is given a tour by Sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit (EODMU). © United States of America Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Joshua Scott.
In April 2019, a beluga whale wearing a harness with a label reading ‘Equipment St.
Petersberg’ was repeatedly spotted in Norwegian waters. This headline appeared
only a few weeks after almost 100 beluga whales and orcas captured and held by a
Russian fishery were released back into the wild. The whale, who has since been
worldwide speculations of being a Russian ‘spy’. The tame animal was suspected to
equipment being tied to the harness. While these speculations may appear a bizarre
twist on the “Arctic militarization” discourse of recent years, the history of marine
mammals in the military is a long and fascinating one, as this short overview will
From time immemorial, armies around the world have employed the use of somewhat
domesticated animals, such as horses and dogs. During World War I, however,
militaries began to turn to marine mammals. Most notable the British Royal Navy
attempted to train sea lions to detect German submarines. However, these efforts
failed as the animals would follow instructions in the training facilities, yet become distracted with hunting fish upon being released to the open ocean. But as training practices, veterinary care and husbandry techniques advanced, so did the military use of cetaceans. Eventually, both the US and Russia established their own marine mammal military programs.
Since 1959, the United States has fostered the Navy’s Marine Mammal Program (MMP). The MMP has reportedly trained and researched a great variety of marine mammals, including bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncates), California sea lions (Zalophus californianus), stellar sea lions (Eumatopias jubatus), belugas (Delphinapterus leucas), orcas (Orcinus orca), and pilot whales (Globocephalaspp). The MMP eventually specialized on training bottlenose dolphins and California sea lions, as these are considered most suitable to the Navy’s missions due to their trainability, adaptability, and “heartiness”.
A sea lion of the US Navy’s Marine Mammal Program attaching a recovery line to a piece of test equipment. © US Navy, Marine Mammal Program.
The MMP’s main facility is located at Point Loma in San Diego, holding approximately 80 dolphins and 30 sea lions. The program states its directive as training marine mammals to “detect, locate, mark and recover objects in harbors, coastal areas, and at depth in the open sea” (it is also explicitly stated that the animals are not “used as offensive weapons”). The animals are said to be trained through “positive reinforcement (correct responses are rewarded while incorrect responses are ignored)”. Since its inception, the MMP’s aquatic soldiers have been deployed in various locations around the globe, from Alaska and Australia to Iran, Bahrain and Vietnam.
While the US declassified the MMP’s missions in the 1990s, Russia’s marine mammal program remains somewhat covert. In the aftermath of Whaledimir’s recent sightings, satellite images of a covert Russian training facility for marine mammals on a pier in Olenya Bay on the Kola Peninsula were published. According to a declassified 1976 CIA report, Russia’s (resp. the Soviet Union’s) marine mammal program was inspired by Dr. John C. Lilly’s 1961 book Man and Dolphin. Dr. Lilly was a scientist known for his unorthodox research approaches, including the extensive use of hallucinogenic drugs on humans and cetacean test subjects alike. He believed that dolphins, intelligent creatures that they are, were attempting to communicate with humans and could be taught to speak English. Lilly’s theory has since been disproven by numerous studies, but experts maintain that the scientist was correct when it came to the dolphin’s remarkable intelligence. Nevertheless, the acknowledgements in the 1964 Russian translation of Dr. Lilly’s book, in which he thanked the Office of Naval Research (Department of Defense) for its help, led the Soviet government to assume “that the US Navy intended to use marine mammals to develop new weapons or to function as integral portions of weapons systems” and consequently begin a marine mammal training program of their own.
However, while Russia and the US are generally noted to be the only the countries training marine mammals for military purposes, sales of these animals to other countries, including Iran, have been recorded, while the Ukraine led its own marine mammal program after the fall of the Soviet Union until its animals were ceased in 2014 with Russia’s annexation of Crimea.
Satellite images of Russia’s Arctic marine mammal training facility show a clear focus on Beluga whales and, to a lesser extent, seals, setting a contrast to the US Navy’s specialization on bottlenose dolphins and sea lions. The main reasons for this difference in marine mammals may be the purpose and hence area of operation that these mammals are being trained for by their respective militaries. While recorded US missions using marine mammals have been predominantly placed in warm waters, the location of the Russian facility and its focus on the Arctic native belugas, suggest interests in the water of the Circumpolar North. Ultimately, with thawing poles and growing economic and security interests in the Arctic region, these marine mammal programs seem likely to expand and become a familiar feature of Arctic security discourses.
This distinction between horses and dogs, deemed somewhat domesticated, and marine mammals, which are considered wild animals (including those raised in captivity), is essential in condemning or advocating for such faunal military assistance, according to philosophers of animal ethics. However, animal rights activists, such as PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), state that all animals, wild or domesticated, should not be implicated in warfare of any kind, as they are not able to have a choice in the matter.
The peninsula is also considered to be “home to Russia’s secret special mission submarines”.
These days, the US Navy’s MMP homepage includes the question “Why have there been so many rumors about the program?”, the answer to which still contains a reference to the film The Day of the Dolphin, an adaption of the French book Un animal doué de raison by Robert Merle, which was inspired by Dr. Lilly.
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I like change; for the most part. I've always been pretty good with it in that I can easily go with the flow. I've simply chosen to enjoy life's unexpected turns rather than be upset that something didn't work out quite like I had planned. Now, don't ignore that I said, "for the most part". Because honestly, like all that is of this life on this earth, we all experience changes we never asked for, planned for, let alone thought to calculate a "possible reaction" for, because you hoped yourself the lucky one who could avoid being struck out in an open field during a lightning storm. Such unlikely circumstances, who would need to know how to feel about that anyway? Right? Well, the day eventually comes when maybe you were never struck beyond repair but maybe it was too close for comfort. Or maybe you were one of the unfortunate handful who were struck and now face feelings you never imagined feeling. Pain, confusion, whatever you weren't feeling 5 minutes before your reality was shaken. That's the kind of change I can't handle; Not well anyway. I suppose I have come to figure out how to stomach the inevitable. But that's just it, I have to chalk it up to "inevitable" before I can bring myself to really dealing with it.
Here's my story:
One day I woke up to a world filled with possibilites. Endless dreams were so close to becoming reality that I spent most of my time living 3 days ahead of myself in constant anticipation. Everyday before this day was a preparation for the future. And now that I was here I was comfortable, safe, and at peace. Anything and everything I wanted in life seemed to be at my feet and all was a glorious blessing. We didn't get here without some bruising though. All those gifts brought a lot of unforseen stress and being so young and new at marriage and impending motherhood, it all came with a lot of lessons learned the hard way on how to trust in God and love my husband better. But that was normal stuff with all this new responsibility. So still despite all the tiny bumps along the way the day that faced me now was no different than all the rest. It was even better. It was one day closer to the total arrival of every good gift.
But as I left the house that day I was told something...
Today, when you get in your car, you will have an accident. There's nothing you can do to change the outcome. It just has to be this way.
So I get into the car. I have to. I have no choice. I have to keep moving forward with life. I have to keep on with my day. I have no choice. So i'll get in the car. But why does it have to be this way? Why couldn't I have known sooner? Why me? Will it hurt? Will it be quick? What happens when it's all over? What am I supposed to feel? Is there anything I can do to make it different? better? less painful? If I drove slower could I postpone the inevitable? I guess not then. And so I drove... This is the best way I have found to describe all of my feelings on March 27th.
Exactly 2 weeks and 4 days ago I was told I was having twins (which we would later be told were likely identical twins) and that neither have heartbeats. They're gone. I started my day with grand dreams and ended it realizing those dreams had already been gone for nearly a week.
After Cody and I were told I remember thinking, "I had two?" I couldn't fathom that it was twins and processing it was constantly interrupted by the pain of their passing. I was driving a car headed towards an inevitable demise. All I could do was try to deal with all of the before and afters the best I could. My real demise was having to birth the babies because I was too far along for any other option. I had nothing preparing me for knowing they were gone but even less preparing me for watching them leave their home for the past 3 months; my womb. Nothing would prepare me to have to say goodbye forever to something I would be meeting for the first time. But it was all in fact happening one way or another and it was something I would have to face. Something I would have to figure out how to feel through. This was change I was not ready for.
There are words in the english language to describe pain but they are all very insufficient when describing what happened and how it felt. Devastating might be a light way to put it. I don't know. I was a mother to one, when it was actually two. I gave birth to twins, but I have no twins to show you. I can tell you about them, but I never really had a chance to know them but for 8 weeks while they quietly grew in my belly. We made it to a time where they should have been ok, but one had already been gone for about a week. I have baby clothes they won't fill and a stroller I won't push. I even started producing milk, such a normal process, after giving birth and yet I have no mouths to feed. What words do you use to describe that? I just don't know. A piece of my life was suddenly blotted out of every plan and every dream. No warning. So what do you do after?
The "afters" were worse than the "befores". It was confirmation I wasn't dreaming and that their diagnosis was correct and all the medicines did their jobs and now it was all over. I kept hoping it wouldn't work and that by some miracle the babies hearts would start to beat again. They would dash in and say, "Stop! We were wrong!" But it never happened and knowing it was all over now was a strange and painful sensation. Part of it was relief, I suppose. I didn't want to be in the hospital and my I.V. hurt. I wanted to keep my babies and go home. Eat real food and sleep in my bed. But all considering, I walked out with little pain and no surgeries. One could say I faired pretty well; physically. Emotionally my heart wasn't well. I was so disappointed. Giving birth to children no longer living, was the single hardest thing I have ever done in my life. They couldn't be saved and I had to let go.
I wanted to share this experience with you to be honest about the darkness I have felt and the pain we have been through. I also shared to be able to give you my testimony of God's work through it all.
Everyone handles grief differently. We were told that if we wanted to be angry, bitter or frustrated and confused with God that that was normal. We could grieve in seclusion if we needed to or in the company of friends. We had several tell us how they dealt with their same or similar situations. I found that I began sort of polling people's opinions more than taking them to heart. I was trying so hard to figure out how to feel minute to minute that I didn't have time to adopt any one method. So the night after we lost the babies I woke up and went to the bathroom to sit and pray. It was the first time I had been alone in 24 hours or more. It was peaceful but so lonely. For 8 weeks everywhere I went I had my babies with me. Now I was completely alone; in an earthly sense. Now I was entering into the presence of God and here is where I would decide how I would handle my grief. I told God how I didn't blame Him and i'm not mad. I understood, I was hurt and wished it didn't have to be this way but I understood. I asked for strength to never lose that mindset because I know the truth about God. He pursued me and rescued my life and raised me up new in Him. This is the same God holding my babies as I prayed and that is not a God who will ever recieve blame for this world's fallen state. I prayed that this would be a changing point for Cody and I. That this would transform our marriage and our love. That we would grow closer to God together and that we would be able to become more faithful followers from this trial. I prayed that we would not be consumed by this pain and when we would start to feel overwhelmed that we would remember the truth of where our children are and that they are whole and living in a perfect place that we so desperately wish to be. I thanked God for protecting my babies from pain and told Him that if He could grant me anything, that it would be to see, feel or hear glimpses of them from time to time. I walked away with a little more peace. Cody and I later talked and began to list every possible hurtful thing we could think of that we might say to each other out of anger or hurt regarding our situation and then we agreed to never say them or use them against each other. We would love each other despite what our grieving might look like in a moment and we would just try to be there for each other and understand. We would choose peace before anger and forgiveness before blame. We chose a road from the beginning that we knew would protect us and our marriage. God has worked in us in such an incredible way and has blessed this road we are tryig to pursue. We are stronger than we were before all of this. But only by God's power and mercy. Because of God we can still be thankful for what time we did have with the babies. Because of God we can still find joy in all of his blessings that He still pours forth. Because of God I can say that through all of this I have fallen more deeply in love and in appreciation for my sweet husband. I count on him in ways I hadn't before. Because of God's ways my relationship with God is stronger than ever.
The truth of the question, "Where is God when there is pain like this in the world," for me is this... He is right there with you. Holding you and hating that you have to feel this pain. This was not how He intended the world to be but it's how our sinfulness made it. And while we are here we will have trials but God gives us His peace. He is not against but for us. He knows pain as He too had to give up His beloved Son. He hears you cry and knows your heart. So for all of those reading who are feeling pain and confusion or hurt from lifes trials, do not lose hope! Turn to God, not away! Run to Him and let Him hold you. He loves you and hurts for you and He is our greatest comfort. He is healer and redeemer and never fail to believe that His ways are so far beyond our understanding that it is normal to ask, "God what on earth are you doing here?" Ask, pray, seek. In His perfect time He will answer you. And while you wait, He will restore you; give you patience and peace. Your faithfulness will be rewarded. Will it be easy? No. Will you slip in and out of darkness? Yeah. So everytime it happens shout His name and pray for His helping hand to pull you back up again. We will still need Him, He wants us to keep needing Him. We will never be so strong that we come to a point of not needing Him and that's part because we were never created to NOT need Him. If you feel empty and helpless, that's perfect and just where you need to be to let God help you start over. I say all of this because I am here now. I have felt it and I am trying to make it through with these truths in hand. I just want to encourage anyone in a similar place and if you were looking for another option of dealing with your grief, this is the one I found has saved me from falling completely away or apart.
I'm no hero of course and feel so unworthy of being anything inspiring. I'm weaker now in alot of way than I once was. I don't like to be alone. Sometimes no matter how hard I try despite what is going on around me, I have to excuse myself to cry for a bit. I've even taken naps with the blankets the hospital gave us for the babies. Holding their box of ashes makes me feel like I still have them with me. Once I laid with it on my stomach, because I just needed them to be there again. I am weaker than I was before. So I say don't be inspired by me. But be inspired by a God of great goodness. He is who we must draw ourselves towards not push away from. Don't run, He loves you so much. That is a truth that will save your life whatever your trial, if you just chose to embrace it. I pray you do. And when you fall, embrace it again and you'll be lifted up.
I know one day He will bless me again with another little life in my belly. And even if His plans look different, I have two little angels waiting for me in eternity. That is a welcome I so very much long for. Heaven is a change I am very prepared for.
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There are people, women especially I think, who never quite get past the internalized belief that if others don't value us that we therefore have no value. I see where this understanding comes from. When women are present in our fairy tales, and most of our movies even now, they are heterosexual romantic interests primary, if not solely, and their value comes directly from being loved by a man. When these are our primary stories, our identifying narratives, the stories that tell us who we are in this world, the idea that maybe we have worth all on our own, all by ourselves, separate from a male partner but also separate from the friends and family we love us is foreign, strange, and in some way incomprehensible.
What happens, then, when someone we love stops valuing us in the way they once did? Or when we become aware that the assumptions we had about someone's care for us turn out to be false? In those moments, we suffer not only the loss of the relationship or friendship, but truly, a loss of ourselves. We can become confused about who we are without that other person's affirmation. We can feel that we do not have worth. In some cases women have confided in me that they feel they don't even exist when they are not with another person who values them. When they lose their husbands or partners in any way, it can be devastating not only because of the loss itself, but also because it confronts their very assumptions about who they are and what they are worth. You may find that hard to believe. But it's true. This year, 2017, I have heard from women for whom this is a true-ism. We have a long, long way to go.
I am hoping that perhaps the increase in movies and books that value women and women's love differently, especially when those movies are made for children, will contribute to women's sense of self-worth, independent of those around them, and especially independent of their "necessarily-male" partner. Movies like Frozen, where the "true love" was between sisters; Brave, where the tension was between mother and daughter; and Zootopia in which there was no romantic interaction at all with the main character, who was a female - these movies give me hope that perhaps we are learning to teach and instill a different sense of worth in our girls and, as they grow, in our women.
But in the mean time, I have this to say: a belief that our worth comes from those around us is problematic, untrue, and deadly. From a faith perspective, perhaps especially, we are valuable simply because we are. We have been loved into being and that makes us beautiful, worthy, and valuable all on its own. God created us for relationships - yes with each other. But more, God created us to be in relationship with God, God-self. And that is high praise indeed. You have been loved into being because God wants a relationship with YOU. How awesome is that!
When we start to embrace the fact of our own value, it radiates out of us. When we come to understand that our worth comes from simply being in this world, a child of God, a brother or sister to all of creation, we carry ourselves differently. That confidence changes us, flows through us, and challenges us then to be more who we really are, more true to who it was we were created to be.
As I'm writing this, I find myself reflecting on a children's book written by Max Lucado, You are Special (Crossway Books, Wheaton, IL, 1997). The story describes how every day the Wemmicks walked around giving each other dots or stars. They would put a dot on another Wemmick if they didn't like them or thought they were ugly or bad. They would put a star on another Wemmick if they thought they were pretty or talented or good. The Wemmicks sense of worth was determined by how many dots and stars they each had. But one day, a Wemmick who was covered with dots and who therefore mostly hid away from the others met a Wemmick who had no stars or dots on her. When others tried to give her a dot or a star, it would simply fall off. As you read on in the story, you find that her ability to let the dots and stars roll off of her came from a strong sense of self-worth, of value given to her by spending each day with her maker, the one who loved her into being.
I wish in reality it really were that simple. I wish that our faith would simply wipe away any hurt or sense of worthlessness or ugly dots given to us by others that we might experience. The truth is harder. Since we were created also to be in relationship with others, if those relationships are going to be genuine, they will involve a level of vulnerability that will leave us open to being hurt, rejected, and even scarred by others. But while grief at a loss is healthy, the devastation to our sense of self-worth is not. And that is something we can work on, even as we strive to stay open and vulnerable.
In Lucado's book, the solution for the Wemmick covered in dots was to daily spend time with the one who loved him into being. That would be good for us as well: to daily spend time with the One who loves you, who wants you, who values your existence, whatever that looks like for you. Meditation, hiking in nature, talking to the trees or your pets, quiet prayer, Yoga, Tai Chi - however you get in touch with that which breathes life into you, centers you and brings you back to yourself, however you allow God (or the Universe or whatever you want to name it) to remind you that you are loved - spend time with that, preferably daily. But for today let me also be the one to tell you: You are worthy. You are loved. You are valuable. You were created to be you because you are loved just as the person you are. Try not to let others define who that is for you. Try especially to not let others tell you you aren't worth much. You've been loved into being. And each day that you breathe, you are loved into being again. Hold that truth in your heart.
And watch the dots roll off...
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A Victorian woman has been left in shock after receiving a phone bill from Telstra in which her middle name was changed to a homophobic slur. The woman, who had decided to change phone providers after 40 years with Telstra, said she didn’t believe the word was put there by mistake.
The woman, known as Kathy, claims she has never provided Telstra with her middle name. And yet Telstra included the middle name ‘faggot’ in her phone bill.
The woman’s husband was outraged, saying “It wasn’t a misprint, it wasn’t a mistake, it was meant to be.”
“We’ve been with Telstra since 1971,” he told A Current Affair.
Marketing expert Dr Brent Coker from the University of Melbourne was outraged by the event.
"What’s happened here is quite shocking and really quite surprising actually," he told A Current Affair.
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This group is for everyone who like tanks, sci-fi tanks, real tanks, funny tanks, you can put here tank mods, tank maps, simply everything with straps, armor and gun :D
Umm...I'm sorry, but where's the tank? I am only seeing a bush with some metal parts sticking out from it.
I guess it works. :)
...you have no idea how many times that very joke has been told in this group
WHAT JOKE? THERE IS CLEARLY NO TANK, JUST BUSH.
Looks like a tank that has been destroyed 10 years ago and left there to rust, perfect surprise!
Very cool. :)
Stealth is my ally and your enemy !
not sure how I should apply: "Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer." to your sentence :S
"we will strike like the snake unseen and deadly...."
or in this case like a leopard
what does a drainage pipe in the middle of the forest has to do with tanks?
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LAS VEGAS - Troy Calhoun didn’t like what he saw out of his Air Force team for most of the first half, and rightfully so. The Falcons didn’t play well.
But the Falcons have some resolve, and they showed it after falling behind 17-7. Air Force beat UNLV 35-20 at Sam Boyd Stadium on Thursday night to finish the regular season 8-4, and 5-3 in the Mountain West. The Rebels are 2-9 and 2-5 in conference.
For a while, a third straight win to finish the season was in doubt.
“You wonder how much is in the tank,” said Calhoun, whose team didn’t have a bye week this season. “To dig down and find a little more was incredible.”
There were reasons the Falcons weren’t dominant for 60 minutes. They had a short week of preparation. Starting linebackers Patrick Hennessey and Brady Amack were out with injuries. Defensive linemen Zach Payne and Bradley Connor joined them on the sideline with knee injuries. Playing in front of a stadium that was probably less than a quarter full didn’t help.
Air Force looked fine in the first few minutes, when linebacker Andre Morris caught an interception that went through Phillip Payne’s hands and Tim Jefferson hit Zack Kauth for a 4-yard touchdown.
But Air Force gave up 17 unanswered points after that. UNLV put together a pair of long drives after falling behind 7-0. At the end of an 11-play, 62-yard drive, Tim Cornett rushed for a 2-yard touchdown to tie the game. Then the Rebels went on a marathon drive. They picked up 83 yards on 21 plays. The drive lasted for 10 minutes, but ended in just a field goal.
Later in the quarter, Payne caught a pass and broke through some lethargic tackle attempts by Air Force, and went 36 yards for the touchdown to give the Rebels a 17-7 lead.
“We didn’t play very well in the first 25 minutes of the game,” Calhoun said. “That was unacceptable.”
Air Force started to rally late in the second quarter. A long drive, highlighted by a 36-yard catch by Kauth, was capped with a 1-yard touchdown run by Jefferson.
Air Force had a dominant third quarter. The Falcons started it with a turnover, when Jefferson hit guard A.J. Wallerstein’s hip with the ball after the snap and lost a fumble. But UNLV made a curious decision to run up the middle on fourth down and 3 deep in Falcons territory, and Air Force stopped it cold.
“That was beyond gigantic,” Calhoun said.
Jonathan Warzeka got behind a great block by Asher Clark – who became the third tailback in Air Force history to go past the 1,000-yard mark in a season - and rushed for a 54-yard touchdown to give the Falcons the lead. Jefferson’s 1-yard touchdown run put the Falcons ahead 28-17. In the third quarter, Air Force rushed for 169 yards.
“We were kind of dead in the first half,” Kauth said. “We just woke up, I think.”
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Shayne Graham understands the situation.
If Billy Cundiff is healthy and the Ravens feel that he can perform on gamedays, the team will go with Cundiff as their kicker. The guy has been with them for over two years, made the Pro Bowl last season and can still crush kickoffs deep into the end zone.
But if Cundiff isn't ready to kick on Saturday or down the stretch because of a left calf injury or because he continues to struggle, the Ravens will turn to Graham, the 11-year veteran who they signed today.
"I really don't know what the expectations are," Graham said today following his first practice with the Ravens. "I hope (Cundiff) gets healthy as soon as he can. All I can control is what I'm asked to do. If I'm asked to go out and play, then I go out and play and play my best to help these guys win. If it's for one week, it's for one week. If it's for two, it's two. If it takes more or less, that's really out of my hands. All I can do is line up and kick when they ask me to."
Back in 2005, Graham was a Pro Bowler with the Bengals after connecting on 28-of-32 field goals. In 2007, he made 31-of-34 attempts, giving him the highest field goal percentage that season of any kicker with over 25 attempts.
Since leaving Cincinnati following the 2009 season, however, Graham has failed to catch on anywhere for the long-term. He's been a part of six organizations in the last two years, and hasn't attempted a kick longer than 41 yards since that 2009 campaign.
Now he's back in Baltimore, marking his second stint with the Ravens after losing the kicking battle with Cundiff last training camp.
"I'm not going to say it's the optimum place to be, but I really can't complain," Graham said. "How many people would love to have this job for one game? I'm not going to complain one bit about having a week-to-week deal right now. Of course, I would love to be long-term, but it is what it is. I take the opportunities when they come."
This opportunity might not last that long, but while Graham is here, the Ravens will count on him just as heavily as they did Cundiff. Special teams coordinator Jerry Rosburg says the Ravens have faith in Graham based both on the experience they got with him during camp last year and the full body of work he's put together over his career.
"The positive thing about bringing Shayne in is we know him and he knows us," Rosburg said. "He's obviously an NFL-caliber kicker. We knew that when he was here, he's proved that since he was gone. He's been kicking with a number of different teams. Unfortunately for Shayne, he hasn't stuck anywhere, but that's a real plus for us because we know we're bringing in a guy that not only is a quality NFL kicker but has been in the NFL environment and understands playoff-caliber football at the end of the season. We expect him to come in here and add that veteran experience."
Rosburg declined to address Cundiff's status going forward or the team's plans for him for this Saturday's game against the Browns, but it appears unlikely that Cundiff will be ready to play this weekend after missing practice both yesterday and today.
Asked whether he feels confident that Cundiff will kick again before the season is over, Rosburg was noncommittal.
"I'm not the medical expert on this, but I have a lot of confidence in Billy and I have a lot of confidence in our trainers," Rosburg said. "We'll see what happens down the road."
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5x10x4mm Ball Bearing (2) by Yokomo
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Shaft Review: Jackson’s still great in a truly out of touch sequel.
While Shaft might boast some fun action sequences and comedic moments, as well as the return of Samuel L. Jackson and Richard Roundtree to the titular role, it also shows that the series is outdated and out of touch.
The film follows Shaft’s son J.J. (Jessie T. Usher) as he explores the suspicious death of his friend (Avan Jogia). Though everyone tells him that he just died from a drug overdose, J.J. doesn’t believe this and enlists the help of his father (Jackson) to help uncover a secret drug ring in the middle of Harlem. Due to Shaft being an absentee father to J.J. and the two leading completely different lifestyles, there’s some tension and disagreements that make solving this case quite a task. Nevertheless, the two have work together to figure out what’s happening in Harlem and reconcile as father and son.
The film is at its best when Jackson has a full handle on the wheel as his charm makes even the dullest moments of Shaft much brighter. He perfectly spouts some funny quips and carries a confidently dominating persona that’s a lot of fun to see. He also has some charming chemistry with Usher and Regina Hall, who both also put in some solidly comedic performances. With Jackson and Usher there’s also some decent father-son bonding that’s nice to see, even if it’s mostly just Jackson yelling at Usher for being a humongous weenie. It’s also nice to see Roundtree return to the titular role and he puts in a solid performance that’s fun to see, even if he’s barely in the film.
The action sequences and gun fights are also a pretty fun ride and accent well thanks to the silky smooth score that Shaft is known for. It’s the kind of summer blockbuster fun that audiences want and the action-packed moments are only made better through Jackson’s dominating demeanor. Not to mention, when that iconic funk-filled score kicks in; it’s hard not to think that Jackson is truly one of the greatest bad-asses to grace the screen. The overall story is just fine with the two Shaft men uncovering an underground drug ring in Harlem while also dealing with family issues. It’s definitely not devoid of using clichés and isn’t really the most compelling or original story audiences have seen, but it gets the job done just fine. I also wish there was some better father-son character developments and arcs than the quick wrap-up that’s done here.
However, where Shaft becomes problematic and, honestly, offensive is when it takes its jokes too far. When Jackson’s Shaft makes jokes about transgendered people, Muslims in a mosque being terrorists, and constantly makes fun of J.J. for being not “masculine” in his eyes, the jokes go on for too long and it gets to a point where it feels unnecessarily offensive. If these jokes were told once, they wouldn’t end up being in such bad taste, but it beats in these jokes so hard that it becomes both tiring to listen to and like the film is displaying some sort of agenda that constantly rubbed me the wrong way. This use of offensive humor for awkward laughs actually reminds me of The Mule, and Shaft unfortunately suffers from the same problem in containing outdated and out of touch humor without any sort of reconciliation for its lead character. Not to mention, the film has a very chauvinistic perspective and since there’s never any thought put into the jokes or anything meaning conversations about the perspective, you just leave feeling kind of dirty.
Although Shaft has the looks and charm to be a decent watch, it’s overly offensive and out of touch humor makes it a film that’s tough to recommend. Those going into the film looking for some fun action, fun lines from Jackson, and/or that great score will find it just fine. However, I don’t think many leaving will desire to see anymore from the series or, if you’re like me, for any more of these kinds of performances from Jackson in the future.
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Bill Larkin is an actor, comedian, songwriter and pianist. He just released his 2nd album of comedy songs, “Knowing Your Audience”, which was recorded live at the Green Mill Jazz Club in Chicago, IL.
Born and raised in Bedford, MA, he moved to Orlando, FL in 1991, where he worked as an actor for Walt Disney World and Universal Studios. He also performed improv regularly at SAK Theatre.
He relocated to Los Angeles in 1996 to perform with many of his SAK colleagues as “Houseful of Honkeys”. During this time, he began to write and perform original comedy songs, and his first album, “Bill’s Family Funtime”, was recorded in 2001. He performed a song from that album, “The Twin Song”, on Comedy Central’s “Premium Blend”. He also performed his “Funtime” songs at the Laugh Factory, Improv, Comedy Store and the Cinegrill in Hollywood, CA, Rose’s Turn in New York, NY, and The Riviera Casino and Nightclub in Las Vegas, NV.
He then moved to his current home, Chicago, in 2002. where he performed with the Chicago Gay Men’s Chorus for many years. He co-wrote a musical version of “The Ten Commandments” with the then-artistic director of the Chorus, Patrick Sinozich.
He has spent the last 17 consecutive years working at the Howl at the Moon dueling piano bar; 3 years at the Hollywood location and 14 years in Chicago.
He is also an award-winning actor: in 2013, he received the prestigious Joseph Jefferson Award for excellence in Chicago theatre for Best Actor in a Musical for Porchlight Music Theatre’s “A Class Act”. Other theatre credits in Chicago include Mercury Theatre’s “The Producers”, Porchlight’s “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum”, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre’s “Aladdin” and Broadway in Chicago’s “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.”
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A new report from Navigant Research that examines the market for technologies to improve efficiencies and reduce emissions from vehicles estimates that alternative powertrain sales for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles are expected to grow from 347,000 vehicles in 2016 to more than 820,000 vehicles in 2026.
“Cleaner and more efficient vehicles will become increasingly important as legislators set tougher standards for emissions,” says David Alexander, senior research analyst at Navigant Research. “Electric drive is the right solution for some vehicle types and uses, but fleet managers can also choose from a variety of driver aids to optimize the efficiency and safety of all their vehicles.”
The report, “Medium and Heavy Duty Vehicle Technologies,” breaks the global commercial medium- and heavy-duty vehicle market into four major categories: medium-duty buses, heavy-duty buses, medium-duty trucks and heavy-duty trucks. Each of these vehicle categories is assessed for the suitability of efficiency technologies such as lightweighting, low-rolling resistance tires, aerodynamic aids and alternative powertrain types, including propane autogas, hybrid, plug-in hybrid, electric, natural gas and hydrogen fuel cell.
According to Navigant Research, medium- and heavy-duty trucks use more than one-quarter of all the fuel burned annually in the United States. As economies grow, the truck population is expected to increase, and commercial and government fleet operators around the world are expected to consider investments in fuel-efficiency technologies and alternative clean-burning fuels, according to the report. In addition, Navigant Research says natural gas, hybrid and electric powertrains are expected to see significant growth over the next decade among medium- and heavy-duty vehicles.
A summary of the report is available online.
Navigant Research, the research arm of Navigant, provides market research and benchmarking services for rapidly changing and highly regulated industries. In the energy sector, Navigant Research focuses on in-depth analysis and reporting about global clean technology markets.
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After an exhilarating competition of fantastic music and roller-coaster of emotions, we have made it to the Finals! Over the last 10 days we have journeyed from 24 Second Round competitors to just 5 Finalists. Tonight, we are proud to announce the winners of the 2018 Leeds International Piano Competition!
First Prize – Eric Lu (20, USA);
Second Prize – Mario Häring (28, Germany);
Third Prize – Xinyuan Wang (23, China);
Terence Judd Hallé Orchestra Prize – Eric Lu (20, USA);
Yaltah Menuhin Award for chamber-music – Mario Häring (28, Germany).
Discover more about the Leeds International Piano Competition 2018 here!
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"Pretense, false promises, double bottoms."
Ingmar Bergman's 1958 supernatural caper The Magician is one of those movies where nothing is as it seems, everything has two explanations, and the very notion of the "knowable" is called into question. Its knotted narrative is full of tricks and surprises, some obvious and others not so much, and by the end, Bergman has pulled off his own cinematic magic trick, leaving the audience wondering just which of his flickering illusions to believe.
The Magician opens in a Swedish forest somewhere near the tail end of the industrial age. We move in on a traveling sideshow led by one Dr. Vogler (Max von Sydow). Amongst his group are the master of ceremonies Tubal (Ake Fridell), Vogler's grandmother (Naima Wifstrand), the androgynous Mr. Aman (Ingrid Thulin), and the carriage driver, Simson (Lars Ekborg). We are given multiple explanations as to what this band of performers does. They regularly insist on their own lack of veracity--they do tricks for show, nothing more. They sell noxious potions that are really interchangeable and have no actual effect. Or do they? Granny is a witch, so maybe she does know some magic spells. Dr. Vogler is also said to be a master hypnotist who heals people with magnets. Tall, dark, and bearded, Vogler is an imposing figure; he is also mute.
In the woods, the troupe finds an ailing actor (Bengt Ekerot). They take him in their carriage, and he dies before the group reaches civilization. They take the body to the police, but find they are in trouble for other infractions. Their various reputations precede them. The performers are hauled before a tribunal of three: a smug police chief named Starbeck (Tovio Pawlo), a local scientist called Dr. Vergerus (Gunnar Björnstrand), and Consul Egerman (Erland Josephson), a town dignitary. They demand Vogler and his people account for themselves, and even push for a demonstration of the Doc's powers. It turns out that Vergerus and Egerman have a bet going. Vergerus believes that all this world has to offer is what science can verify, whereas Egerman insists there are unquantifiable forces always at work.
Most of The Magician takes place over the tense night in custody at Egerman's home. The various members of Vogler's crew interact with Egerman's staff, seducing them and demonstrating their special talents. There is a subtle comment on class here: the more common folk believe in religion and magic, the more affluent and educated do not. Yet, as Bergman holds back the curtain and shows us things that defy rational explanation, who are we to side with? The dead actor wanders the house as a ghost, interacting with Granny and Vogler. A thunder storm brings strange portents. Passions are stirred. Mrs. Egerman (Gertrud Fridh) is drawn to Vogler. She claims to want the psychic to explain the recent death of her daughter, but her heaving bosom suggests she desires more. Likewise, Vergerus makes no bones about his interest in Aman, though Aman proves more loyal than he expected--all the more frustrating, as what Vergerus perceives as Vogler's charlatanism represents everything the scientist hates.
Bergman is blessed with a powerhouse cast for The Magician. von Sydow, Thulin, Josephson, and many of the others are all recurring members of his reparatory, as is Bibi Andersson, who plays Sara, a servant girl who takes a love potion with Simson. As the night wears on and all the players become entangled, it's hard not to think of Bergman's comedy Smiles of a Summer Night; The Magician is like the brooding companion piece, Frowns on an Autumn Evening. With dawn approaching, more layers are folded back, more masks dropped. Everyone has hidden agendas, everyone has secrets. Vogler acts as a funhouse mirror for all of them: they see in him what they want to see.
This all leads to a command performance for the tribunal, their servants, and their wives. Vogler and his people turn the tables, and rather than expose themselves, they expose things about their accusers. One man who is part of Egerman's guard is so undone, he even resorts to violence. There is something about Vogler's chosen practice that makes the common men angry. His dark arts are an affront to what they believe, a challenge to their morals and their mortality. In the bonus features, critic Peter Cowie suggests this was Bergman's metaphor for the director's contentious relationship with a moviegoing audience hostile to the complicated metaphysics that are a hallmark of his work.
Regardless, the magician's actions put into motion the final act of the film, where the thinking man, Dr. Vergerus, must confront Vogler's illusions directly. It's hard to say much more without giving it away. My instinct to contextualize the story by the genre it most reminds me of would even reveal too much. Suffice to say, the final act of The Magician has some bold story moves, as well as some of Bergman's most audacious surreal imagery. He and cameraman Gunnar Fischer and production designer P.A. Lundgren could have taken what they started here and made one hell of a carnival haunted house, let me tell you.
There is a lot to digest in The Magician. All the characters are dealt with before the finale, all the subplots wrapped up, and together they create a dramatic tapestry that is fun to pick apart and analyze. Emphasis on fun. Bergman's movie is one of his more self-conscious entertainments. It's spooky and challenging, and Bergman uses all the mechanics of a good fireside ghost story. If Cowie is right about the director responding to his harshest critics, then it makes the strange Hollywood-like ending that caps the picture make more sense. It's similar to the swindle of Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman's Adaptation, like Ingmar is saying, "You can have the cheap entertainment you so desire, I can fit my cinema of ideas into that, no problem." Yet, the ultimate sleight of hand is The Magician isn't really that thing audiences think they want, yet it sneaks in anyhow, and quality wins out after all.
The 1080p, full frame image on The Magician - Criterion Collection is gobsmacking in its clarity. The black-and-white photography looks gorgeous on this disc. There isn't a scratch on the film, and the values between light and dark are wonderful. Every little detail comes through absolutely. Though made in 1958, The Magician looks brand new.
The disc is region "A" encoded.
The uncompressed mono audio track is also exceptionally clear. There is no hiss or any off sounds. There is even some subtlety, despite only being a single channel. Take note, for instance, of a scene between Vogler and his wife where a bell peals in the distance. For a second, I didn't even realize it was in the movie, I thought it was somewhere outside my house.
The new English subtitles are really good. Easy to read and elegantly written.
The Magician - Criterion Collection comes with a 36-page booklet full of photos, credits, a chapter listing, and multiple essays: one from 1990 by director Olivier Assayas, a new piece by Geoff Andrew, and a pertinent excerpt from Ingmar Bergman's autobiography.
The supplemental section (all features are in HD) begins with two snippets of interviews with Bergman. The first, shot around the time of Persona (1967) and running 3 minutes and 37 seconds, briefly touches on The Magician, but is more of a defense of Bergman's reluctance to explain his movies. The second piece runs over 20 minutes, and it's an audio interview in English, conducted by filmmakers Olivier Assayas and Stig Björkman in 1990. Here, a conversation about the creative process covers Bergman's transition from theatre to film and ends with a brief discussion of The Magician. The audio plays over a photo of Bergman, and there are subtitles to aid in deciphering accents and combat the subpar nature of the recording. The influence of Strindberg, Duvivier, and Renoir is discussed.
Critic Peter Cowie has constructed a new video essay about The Magician. Just under 15 minutes, Cowie uses vintage photographs and clips from the movie to explain the complex fabric of the motion picture and decode some of the symbolism. Cowie compares The Magician to Bergman's other works and reveals connections from the director's greater filmography.
Alongside the usual chapter selection menu, Criterion also offers a "Timeline," which essentially lets you scroll through the chapters with information on what is happening in each, and you can create bookmarks for visiting later.
Highly Recommended. The Magician - Criterion Collection at long last brings Ingmar Bergman's 1958 tingler to disc, and the Blu-Ray package is phenomenal. The gorgeous black-and-white movie tells of a night in a remote Swedish village, where a troupe of traveling magicians are locked away and asked to prove they are what they say they are. The movie toys with horror tropes, challenging what we see and what we believe, and dissecting the nature of entertainment in the process. It's a glorious ruse, and well worth watching.
Jamie S. Rich is a novelist and comic book writer. He is best known for his collaborations with Joelle Jones, including the hardboiled crime comic book You Have Killed Me, the challenging romance 12 Reasons Why I Love Her, and the 2007 prose novel Have You Seen the Horizon Lately?, for which Jones did the cover. All three were published by Oni Press. His most recent projects include the futuristic romance A Boy and a Girl with Natalie Nourigat; Archer Coe and the Thousand Natural Shocks, a loopy crime tale drawn by Dan Christensen; and the horror miniseries Madame Frankenstein, a collaboration with Megan Levens. Follow Rich's blog at Confessions123.com.
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Card Dump: Metal music part 1
Hello! Today’s cards come from a set which is a bit of a niche (just so i can narrow down my target audience even further): Metal music. I clumsily named the set Metallore. I’m a metalhead myself and music can be a source of inspiration for me as well, so i consider these to be a sort of tribute. They range from the “growling” of black metal to the clear female voices of symphonic metal. If you’re curious, i very much encourage you to seek out some of their songs. Of course i’m more than aware that this type of music isn’t for everyone but i think the post is still worthwhile even for people that don’t like the genre.
This first part serves as a sort of introduction to the bands, as all the cards are named after band names. The cards themselves have little in common save for the fact that they are all legendary. That can lead to some odd designs, but i preferred to keep the flavor. I also chose to make these in the Futureshifted card layout because it looks cool. Here are the cards.
First things first: i designed Nevermore before the official card came out, and it appears i couldn’t have been more wrong about its color. Ordinarily i retcon a card’s name if it’s officially taken but i had little choice this time. The set’s symbol is a heptagram, the symbol of the band Moonspell. All the cards also have lyrics from a song as flavor text, followed by a cryptic fantasy-themed way of saying which album and song it’s from. Time will judge whether that’s neat or just silly.
If you’re at all curious about the music, i have a couple of youtube playlists containing the official videos from these and many more bands. This one has female-fronted bands, mostly symphonic metal and including Leaves’ Eyes, Theatre of Tragedy and Within Temptation, while this one has male-fronted bands ranging from black to death and inbetween, including Dimmu Borgir and Nevermore. Enjoy.
Next week i’ll be showing some cards based off metal song titles. Until then!
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North Shore Green
A tranquil pale hue invigorated with hints of green, gray and blue.
LRV, or Light Reflectance Value, is a measurement commonly used by design professionals—such as architects and interior designers—that expresses the percentage of light reflected from a surface. LRVs range from 0-100, with 100 being pure white and 0 being absolute black.
Benjamin Moore Classics®
Get your own digital colour dollop of North Shore Green 456
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2023-02-05T07:49:15Z
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Your little explorer can keep all their goodies safe with the Lelli Kelly Rucksack for kids. This adorable man-made backpack arrives in pink with an adorable all-over floral print. Beaded embellishments add a touch of sparkle. Classic branding completes. Man-made. Adjustable straps. Zipped fastenings. Front pouch. 26cm x 22cm x 6cm
Poler The Rucksack backpack. Removable side pouches that strap to the sides for toiletries, a water bottle or other accessories. Take the pouches off and use them as internal organizers. Padded internal laptop sleeve that fits most 15 laptops. Approx dimensions: 12\ x 18\(30cm x 45cm). Synthetic fabric, leather lash downs and pull tabs. Imported.
Pet Gear, Inc. has really ?raised the bar? with our new Happy Trails NO-ZIP stroller. No zippers means no hassle when trying to open and close the stroller. Our new NO-ZIP technology means that you can easily gain access to your pet without fumbling with difficult zippers! The Happy Trails NO-ZIP stroller also features an elevated paw rest. Your pet can easily look out of the stroller by using the
\The rugged Pet Stroller SUV handles curbs, steps and most terrain with ease. The SUV is perfect for strolling down a country lane, around town on a city sidewalk, up a marked hiking trail, or a breezy jaunt along the shoreline.\
Fun is the name of the game with KONG Funzler, Purple/Pink. Six squeakers and colorful plush entice play, while the handles make tug and toss easy. KONG Funzler is ideal for interactive games and solo play.
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2017-04-27T09:37:27Z
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46 avalanches on Arkari Valley in Chitral, 12000 people are stranded
The only road to Arkeri valley in Chitral is blocked since February 5, 2017, as 46 avalanches at different points have blocked the road. About 12000 people are stranded. To reach Chitral town and back, people have to travel 70 Kilometers on foot. Residents in this area are cut-off and raising their voices against the provincial government's inability to clear up the roads. Sher Muhammad, Chairman, Village Council said that people are facing "acute shortage of food, meds and other essential commodities". He said that due to the fact the village has no hospital, it adds up to the hardships of the people. He claimed that local government has reserved only one tractor to clear up debris of 46 avalanches.
Razi Man Shah, Vice Chairman of Village Council said that the residents of Arkeri are stranded in miserable conditions -- the village has no schools, basic life facilities, a hospital or an electricity. They don not even have a basic health unit.
People here are in protest. Women and children were carrying placards and banners while most of the women were holding lanterns and candles to show that they are deprived of basic facilities such as electricity.They said that people are living a life in darkness as it has become impossible even to fetch a kerosene oil from Chitral market for their lanterns. They are demanding that the government should take immediate steps to clear up the roads and help the people in need.
A patient died on his way to the hospital as people were carrying him on a cot in the frigid cold weather. People attempt to cross over the debris to get to Chitral town and carry sacks of edible items on their shoulders. The road is extremely dangerous and rocks and boulders are still rolling down.
Arkeri valley situated near Pak-Afghan border, adjacent to Badakhshan province of Afghanistan. Residents of the area said that medicines and some goods were carried to the region in a military helicopter, only once. They have not heard of anything after that.
People request the Federal Government to deploy excavators, bulldozers and heavy machinery to remove debris of avalanche and snow to open the road for traffic so as to enable the affected people to carry food and essential things in vehicles. A number of people, still ill, are waiting for help.
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Former Cajun Star Tracy Walker has Big Game in Lions Loss
A former Louisiana Ragin' Cajun football standout had a big defensive outing over the weekend, despite his team coming out on the losing side of things.
Safety Tracy Walker, who played in every defensive snap, piled up nine tackles for the Detroit Lions in their 47-7 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers last Saturday in Detroit, Michigan.
Of the nine tackles that Walker had, six of them were solo stops, as the Lions fell to 5-10 on the season.
In Week 3, Walker had his best game of the season, totaling 12 tackles, including ten solo stops, in a 26-23 win over the Arizona Cardinals.
Walker has appeared in 14 of Detroit's 15 games this season, accumulating 74 tackles, including 53 solo stops, to go along with three tackles for a loss.
On the field success in the NFL is nothing new to Walker, however, as he was more than productive in his first two seasons with the Lions as well.
Last season, his second in the NFL, Walker appeared in 13 games for the Lions, including 12 as a starter, compiling 103 total tackles and one interception.
In 2018, Walker, who played for the Cajuns from 2014-2017, had a solid rookie campaign for Detroit, after being selected by the Lions in the third round of the 2018 NFL Draft, compiling 21 tackles, to go along with an interception and two passes defended.
A native of Brunswick, Georgia, Walker compiled 97 tackles and two interceptions in 2017 as a senior at UL and finished his stellar collegiate career with 276 tackles and 8 interceptions over 50 games.
We wish Tracy continued success with the Lions, and in the NFL.
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Thank you for all the kind comments about my first appearance on national TV. I hope it's not my last.
The episode is called "Tasty Traditions", Season 28, Episode 17. It was first aired on Friday, Aug 10th at 6:00PM PST. You can also watch the episode on youtube (starting at $1.99).
Also, we don't just do piroshkies. Please be sure to check out our desserts and custom cakes as well. Also to find out more about my story click here.
PS: We are looking into the possibility of shipping our piroshkies and cakes US-wide. If that if that is something that interests you let us know. If you can help us with the logistics of one-day shipping cold food that would also be helpful.
Check us out also on foodiepie.
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2019-08-18T00:35:11Z
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Do you love Tower Defense games and are looking for a game with new gameplay with attractive features? So come to Wild Sky and start enjoying all the great things about this game. Wild Sky is a Tower Defense game set in a large fantasy world so that the player will have an endless journey inside this game. The highlight of this game is the diverse upgrade system, mighty heroes, epic boss fight, and the fierce battles. Join the game now and show off your tactical skills to prevent waves of monsters from the dark land.
Epic TD Legends in Kingdom
The gameplay of the game is elaborately built, has a clear depth, and many different systems affect the player’s progress. This game used the Tower Defense element as the core and invented many attractive game modes for players to enjoy. Also, the game has a massive upgrade system, allowing players to access many different functions to create a solid line of defense. Of course, the appearance of Heroes controlled by players is a big advantage, and players can use special skills with high destructive power to destroy monsters. The player’s journey is endless; it spreads across the continent, crossing many lands and challenges, thereby giving players countless different monsters. Each battle is a challenge designed to challenge a player’s tactical skills, and the reward for those challenges can improve a player’s overall strength.
100 Story-based Levels
In each challenge, the player is tasked to destroy all enemies wave, preventing them from attacking the main base located at the end of the path. Levels will build roads that connect to the main base, and along the roads will be some posts for players to build towers. Enemies will appear when the timer counts down, or the player can start immediately to get more bonuses when winning. The variety of enemies is a challenge for players in the ability to predict the strength or the ability to build defense stations. Of course, the game will have information about the enemies that will appear in the attack, but their location is random to surprise the player. As such, they will continuously move forward, destroying all barriers, and causing the player to fail if they reach the base.
Epic Fantasy World
The towers are the weapons for players to fight against monster attacks; the diversity of the tower will improve the player’s tactical ability. Each tower will have its characteristics, and players need to build them appropriately to prevent the entire enemy attack. The game has four basic towers at the beginning of the game. In the future, they will have many different variants for players to upgrade. And towers can only be built at designated locations, and the player cannot arbitrarily move them. Their effects are varied, such as barrack will spawn up to 3 guards to hold monsters, the ballista will support ranged attacks, the magic towers deal magic damage, and the mortar will use the AoE attack.
Lovely cartoon graphics
Each tower has its characteristics, and if the player combines terrain with tactics effectively, the defense line will become solid. Monsters will also be diverse when they have different forms of resistance, and they will be weakened before a certain tower. In the future, players will face more monsters, so the game will support players with a massive upgrade system to improve their strength for the towers. The upgrade system will be assigned to each tower, and from there, they have many different variations for the player to develop. Besides the towers, players can upgrade for special skills to strengthen. Players must use the stars gained from battles to upgrade. If the battle achievement of the player is higher, the more stars they earn. Each challenge will give players a maximum of three stars.
Build your army of attackers and defenders
Heroes are the units that represent the player, they are classified into many different classes, and their power is similar to the towers. The diversity of heroes comes with a variety of skills and strengths. Players can only choose one hero to fight, but players can move them around the map to support where needed. Heroes’ power is a necessity on the battlefield, so players must try to keep them alive. The upgrade system for heroes will be different from the upgrade system of the tower, and players will have to use a special currency to carry out upgrades for Heroes. The higher the level of Heroes will unlock new abilities, or improve their equipment.
Wild Sky is a Tower Defense game with attractive gameplay and unique features. It is different from the usual Tower Defense games on the market, and it will stimulate the player’s tactical ability to a new level. The game will also give players many useful tips to help them improve their defense better. Join the world of this game and start your journey, fight monsters, and defeat epic bosses to collect valuable rewards.
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TEDxAuckland Radio Interviews
Over the past few weeks a number of the TEDxAuckland 2012 speakers have talked with National Radio. Here are Sean Gourley, Assil Russell and Matthew Simmons radio clips. TEDx talks on the day are limited to 18 minutes each so these extended radio clips give more background.
“New Zealand-born physicist Sean Gourley on the mathematical patterns that underly war, global intelligence, and his roles as a political advisor to the Iraqi government, the UN and the Pentagon.”
“Assil Russell is an Iraq born New Zealand dental surgeon who set up the not-for-profit organisation ICARE (Iraqi Children’s Aid & Repair Endeavour). This charity runs small community level projects with volunteers providing dental and medical services where they are most needed and unavailable.”(27:09)
“New Zealand inventor and entrepreneur Matthew Simmons on how he turned his afterschool job of fixing stereo speakers into an internationally successful electronics business involved in everything from acoustics to geothermal power generation and nuclear sciences. Matthew Simmons is the managing director of sound technology company Arvus Group International, and one of the speakers at upcoming TEDx talks in Auckland.” (33:17)
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Cancellations to tonight’s events
The cold and blowing snow forced postponements to Monday night’s events, and Plymouth, Bremen and Triton even called some of Tuesday’s events early.
Plymouth’s girls basketball game versus Clay and the swim meet at CMA have been postponed with no scheduled makeup date as of yet. The NLC wrestling meet, originally slated for Saturday but pushed back to Tuesday was cancelled altogether. The boys freshman basketball game with Tippy Valley was also cancelled.
Bremen’s basketball doubleheader with Elkhart Christian scheduled for Tuesday was cancelled as well.
Triton’s girls basketball game with Manchester was pushed back to Wednesday.
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My heart still pounds every time I tell someone a truth I know they may not want to hear.
I can feel it racing in my chest as my hands shake and my breath shortens.
Because telling the truth wasn’t always safe.
It created so much loss.
It led to punishment and abuse.
And still, I tell the truth with shaking hands and terror coursing through my veins. Still, I use my voice even when it cracks and requires immense courage and effort to express. Still, I value truth and transparency so highly that I speak it as quickly as I feel it.
Because truth was never the problem.
Truth was never the cause of all the horrible things that happened; it was simply a factor in a series of events that unfolded based on what others chose to do with it.
Plus, I trust myself to navigate whatever happens after truth leaves my lips. I trust myself to survive the losses and set boundaries when people respond toxically. I trust that others will manage their side of the street however they need, and it’s not on me to take responsibility for their experience.
I tell the truth.
With care and consideration.
With as much grace as I can muster.
And I trust.
Because telling the truth, as much pain as has sometimes followed, always opens me and my life to so much good—and the other person, if they choose to see it for the gift that it is. Telling the truth has always been the greatest act of alignment and love, even when hearts break in the process (mine included).
Tell the truth, friends, even when it’s scary and especially when it’s hard.
As Brené Brown says, incongruent living is exhausting. And I know from experience that it will make you physically and spiritually sick.
Truth is love.
For yourself and others.
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MINNEAPOLIS (January 12, 2012) - Target Corporation (NYSE: TGT) today announced that its board of directors has authorized a new $5 billion share repurchase program. The company expects to begin repurchasing shares under this new authorization upon completion of the current $10 billion program in early 2012.
Since Target announced its current share repurchase authorization in November 2007, through the third quarter of 2011 the company had repurchased more than 185 million shares at an average price of $51.53 per share. These repurchased shares represent approximately 22 percent of shares outstanding at the time the current program was announced. The company expects to complete the new $5 billion authorization in the next 2 to 3 years.
"Our plans envision continued generation of much more cash than we believe is appropriate to invest in our core businesses," said Doug Scovanner, EVP and chief financial officer of Target Corporation. "We're committed to maintaining Target's long history of returning cash to shareholders through both dividends and share repurchase, and this new authorization will allow for seamless execution of share repurchase beyond completion of the current program."
Priorities for Dividends and Share Repurchase
Dividends represent the foundation of Target's strategy to return cash to its shareholders. The company has paid a dividend every quarter since it became a public company in 1967, and in 2011 the company marked its 40th consecutive year of annual dividend increases. Over the last 5 years, Target Corporation's dividend has grown much faster than earnings per share, reflecting a slower pace of capital expenditures along with robust generation of cash from operations. The company expects to continue to grow the dividend at a robust pace which would allow the annual dividend to rise to $3.00 or more by 2017, assuming the company meets its goal to grow annual earnings per share to $8.00 or more by that time.
Share repurchase represents an opportunity to apply excess cash flow to what the company believes will be an attractive long-term investment, and the company intends to continue to govern its pace of execution of share repurchase to allow it to maintain strong investment-grade credit ratings. The company believes this investment will prove to be especially valuable if it is able to achieve its long-term EPS growth objectives.
Through the first three quarters of 2011, a year in which capital investment has been elevated to support the company's expected 2013 Canadian market launch, the company has invested more than $1.7 billion in share repurchase, retiring more than 34 million shares. These repurchased shares represent nearly 5% of shares outstanding at the beginning of the year. In 2012, while capital investment will remain somewhat elevated in support of the Canadian market launch, the company anticipates it will have capacity to invest another $1.5 billion or more in share repurchase. Over time the pace of share repurchase execution will likely increase, as annual capital expenditures are expected to moderate following the launch of Target stores in Canada.
Statements in this release regarding expected dividends, share repurchase, earnings per share, share price, cash flow and capital expenditures are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements speak only as of the date they are made and are subject to risks and uncertainties which could cause the company's actual results to differ materially. The most important risks and uncertainties are described in Item 1A of the company's Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 29, 2011.
Minneapolis-based Target Corporation (NYSE:TGT) serves guests at 1,767 stores across the United States and at Target.com. The company plans to open its first stores in Canada in 2013. In addition, the company operates a credit card segment that offers branded proprietary credit card products. Since 1946, Target has given 5 percent of its income through community grants and programs; today, that giving equals more than $3 million a week. For more information about Target's commitment to corporate responsibility, visit Target.com/hereforgood.
For more information, visit Target.com/Pressroom.
John Hulbert, Investors, (612) 761-6627
Eric Hausman, Financial Media, (612) 761-2054
Target Media Hotline, (612) 696-3400
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Property Location With a stay at Casa Bazna in Bazna, you'll be within the vicinity of Muncipal Museum and King Ferdinand I Park. This bed & breakfast is within the vicinity of Hermann Oberth Memorial House.Rooms Make yourself at home in one of the 42 guestrooms featuring refrigerators. Rooms have private balconies. Complimentary wireless Internet access is available to keep you connected.Rec, Spa, Premium Amenities Take in the views from a garden and make use of amenities such as complimentary wireless Internet access and tour/ticket assistance.Dining Enjoy a satisfying meal at a restaurant serving guests of Casa Bazna. Quench your thirst with your favorite drink at a bar/lounge.Business, Other Amenities Free self parking is available onsite.
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2011 saw the beginning of a new era for the old stable at Crockerton House, as a luxury self catering holiday cottage for two. Beautifully converted and secluded in a lovely rural location with wonderful views of the Wylye Valley, The Old Stable is a perfect hideaway for couples looking to leave behind the stress of their daily lives and unwind in peaceful and luxurious surroundings.
- Sympathetically converted 19th century stable with all the modern comforts
- Original features including roof beams, barn doors, brickwork and weathervane
- Detached and set in secluded rural surroundings well away from the main house
- Situated in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with wonderful views of orchard, woodland and meadows leading down to the River Wylye
- Convenient for country pubs, restaurants and shops
- Only 4 miles from Longleat House and Safari Park (33% off day tickets)
- Also near Bath, Salisbury, Stonehenge, Stourhead, Shaftesbury and Wells
- 3 and 4 nights from £199 to £409; 7 nights from £299 to £569
For great deals and to enquire about this venue email firstname.lastname@example.org quoting the name of the venue.
(Please remember to give LesbianAccommodation.co.uk a mention if you are booking directly with the venue)
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Welcome to the darker side of AICN! M. L. Miller aka Ambush Bug here with another AICN HORROR: ZOMBIES & SHARKS column. This week we’re trying something new and covering rom-com’s! So get ready for AICN ROM-COM with HIS GIRL FRIDAY, ANNIE HALL, 50 FIRST DATES, and of course, GIGLI!!!
Just kidding, we have horror reviews for you and a potent batch at that!
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On with the horror reviews!
(Click title to go directly to the feature)
Retro-review: THE SKULL (1965)
Retro-review: DRIVE-IN MASSACRE (1976)
Retro-review: FIRESTARTER (1984)
Retro-review: DEAD SILENCE (1989)/GOREGASM (1990)
Retro-review: THE CREEPS (1997)
Retro-review: MORRIS COUNTY (2009)
TERRITORIAL BEHAVIOR (2015)
PLANK FACE (2016)
SHE WAS SO PRETTY (2016)
THE DEVIL’S CANDY (2016)
And finally… FRIDAY THE 13TH THE GAME THE MOVIE fan films!
Retro-review: New this week on BluRay from Kino Lorber!
THE SKULL (1965)aka THE EVIL SKULL, THE SKULL OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE
Directed by Freddie Francis
Written by Milton Subotsky (screenplay from the story "The Skull of the Marquis de Sade" by Robert Bloch)
Starring Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Patrick Wymark, Jill Bennett, Nigel Green, Patrick Magee, Peter Woodthorpe, Michael Gough, George Coulouris, April Olrich, Maurice Good
Retro-reviewed by M. L. Miller aka Ambush Bug
The real joy of watching THE SKULL is that it gave me a chance to watch a movie starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing that I hadn’t seen before. Any time these two actors starred together it was always some kind of magic and this film is no exception. Still, for a horror movie, THE SKULL leaves a lot to be desired.
Cushing plays Christopher Maitland, a collector of arcane and occult artifacts. After losing a bid on some demonic statues at an auction to his friend Sir Matthew Phillips (Christopher Lee), Christopher is given the opportunity to purchase a highly valuable item, the Skull of the Marquis De Sade. Those in possession of the skull has been driven to madness, but Christopher doesn’t really believe in all of that. That is, until he begins to go mad himself once he purchases the skull.
The true thrill of this film is seeing Lee and Cushing, friends in real life, not play monsters at odds with one another, but friends on the screen. Simple moments like the two actors playing billiards filled me with glee and are scenes no horror fan should miss. Cushing takes center stage here while Lee only has a small role in the film, but the moments these two share onscreen are the best ones in the movie.
Unfortunately, the rest of this film really isn’t all that great. Aside from some trippy little sequences of Cushing going crazy and an awesome “skull’s eye view” showing what it is like to be inside this cursed skull, the scares and thrills are not that potent. The latter portion of this film drags quite slowly with long dialog-less scenes of Lee sleuthing around his apartment and jumping at skull-like trippiness. THE SKULL feels like it would have been a better installment in an anthology and suffers from being stretched to feature length.
There is an overall fun sense of gloomy atmosphere and I never get sick of seeing films with Lee and Cushing, so I’ll definitely give THE SKULL my recommendation. But I’ve seen better films from both Cushing and Lee and there are more lulls in THE SKULL than chills. Special features include an audio commentary by film historian Tim Lucas, a Kim Newman featurette on the film, as well as one from Jonathan Rigby, plus “Trailers From Hell" with Joe Dante.
Retro-review: New on BluRay from Severin Films!
DRIVE-IN MASSACRE (1976)Directed by Stu Segall
Written by John F. Goff,George 'Buck' Flower, Stu Segall
Starring John F. Goff, Steve Vincent, Douglas Gudbye, Verkina Flower, Robert E. Pearson, Catherine Barkley, Norman Sheridan, John Alderman, Jacqueline Giroux, Bruce Kimball, Martin Gatsby, Sandy Carey, Janus Blythe, Myron Griffith, George 'Buck' Flower, Stu Segall
Retro-reviewed by M. L. Miller aka Ambush Bug
While this film leaves a lot to be desired in terms of acting, production value, and writing, DRIVE-IN MASSACRE ends up being a weird little riff on “true life horror” much in the same vein of THE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN. The film itself isn’t great, but I left the film liking it a whole lot and hopefully, by the end of this review, I’ll understand why.
A serial killer seems to have targeted a local drive-in and his method of killing is a long samurai sword. Does this have something to do with the carnival that used to rest on the land the drive-in was built? Two tubby cops are on the case to find this killer hacking and slicing the horny teenagers right under their noses.
HALLOWEEN and FRIDAY THE 13TH had yet to come out and give slasher movies a template to follow when DRIVE-IN MASSACRE was made, so this one is less of a slasher film and more of a police procedural. Playing out like an early version of CSI, the murders are only peppered in between scene after scene of awkward police interrogation and investigation as Detective Mike Leary (John F. Goff) an Detective John Koch (Bruce Kimball) are on the case. Though they are working hard to crack it, the killer continues to kill at the drive-in and no matter how many suspects they find, arrest, and interrogate, nothing seems to be able to stop the murders. It’s fun seeing these overweight detectives try to crack the case, even though Goff and Kimball aren’t the best of actors. And while their detective work isn’t the swiftest, it is still entertaining as hell in a fun, old school manner as they press every suspect with tough guy banter.
The film lags here and there as characters and the plot seems to get lost as we follow one of the characters to a carnival as he apparently ruminates about his former years in the carnival. I guess this is the film’s attempt at a red herring and there are a few of them by the time the credits roll. The end is abrupt and inconclusive, which reminds me of the original TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN as both that film and this one claim to be based on real events and that the killer is never caught.
I love drive-in sleaze and slash films, so this one works for me. If you’re tired of the same old slasher formula that permeated the 80’s this is the remedy. It’s not well made, but DRIVE-IN MASSACRE is unconventional and seems to try to tell a story without a net. Bonus features include an audio commentary by director Stu Segall, an interview with star/co-writer John F. Goff, a featurette focusing on actor Norm Sheridan recalling the film, “Making the Massacre” interview with director Stu Segall, plus trailers.
Retro-review: New this week on BluRay from The Shout Factory!
FIRESTARTER (1984)aka CHARLIE
Directed by Mark L. Lester
Written by Stephen King (novel), Stanley Mann (screenplay)
Starring Drew Barrymore, David Keith, Freddie Jones, Heather Locklear, Martin Sheen, George C. Scott, Art Carney, Louise Fletcher, Moses Gunn, Antonio Fargas, Drew Snyder, Curtis Credel, Keith Colbert, Dick Warlock, Jeff Ramsey
Retro-reviewed by M. L. Miller aka Ambush Bug
Less visceral than CARRIE, SCANNERS, and THE FURY, FIRESTARTER is a psychic phenomena flick that excels with some strong performances and cool effects, but struggles to deliver something with teeth that you can really get into.
Little Charlie (Drew Barrymore) is as cute as a button on a button and looks like an every day girl, but the truth is she is a powder keg ready to explode. When her parents Andrew (David Keith) and Victoria (Heather Locklear) agree to an experimental study at a government sponsored research facility called “The Shop” they had no idea the drug they were tested with would amplify their own latent psychic powers and that their child would have destructive mind powers that cause things to burst into flames when she is angered or upset. Now on the run from the Shop, Andrew and Charlie try to avoid being captured by government goons and work hard to control Charlie’s destructive power. But the Shop, lead by Captain Hollister (Martin Sheen) has sent the enigmatic John Rainbird (George C. Scott) after Charlie and he never stops until he gets his man…er, girl.
King seems to be trying to tap into the lightning in a bottle that he achieved with CARRIE and THE SHINING by making Charlie the main focus on this story of government experiments and psychic powers. But instead of the film focusing on the battle between Charlie and the fire breathing monster within her (which Charlie hints at when discussing her powers), the chase, the action, and the spectacle of the fiery powers unleashed seem to be what director Mark L. Lester was more concerned with. Because less is focused on the inner struggle Charlie is going through to control her powers, FIRESTARTER feels more like a typical action chase movie than a psychic horror film. Sure people are burst into flames and Charlie ends up shooting fireballs in a bombastic finale against the entire Shop, but little is focused on the horror. Maybe this is because of the young age of Barrymore, but most of the macabre King-isms simply aren’t there in this one. Instead we get your road movie tropes like Andrew and Charlie being picked up by an elderly couple (the wasted Art Carney and Louise Fletcher) and then there’s the typical scene of the government agents showing up on the common folks’ lawn for a crispy showdown. In many ways, this is like a neutered version of LOGAN, with a psychic guy trying to save a little girl with similar powers from an evil corporation who relentlessly follows them across the country. While LOGAN had some grit to it, FIRESTARTER sadly has none.
That doesn’t mean FIRESTARTER is without merit. The cast is pretty excellent from top to bottom. David Keith is equal parts paternal and naïve as the dad with great intentions who is backed into a corner. There are some great scenes of Keith’s Andrew pushing people psychically in order to desperately find safety for Charlie. Barrymore shows a lot of sophistication here and does a decent job with some heavy lines and scenes dedicated solely to her. She holds her own with Keith, Sheen, Carney, and Scott, which is no small feat. One of my favorite actors ever, George C. Scott, is stands out as the truly weird John Rainbird, who apparently is Native American, but aside from his tribal robe and long ponytail, he doesn’t look it. Wearing and not wearing an eye patch whenever the hell he wants to, Scott shows awesome malevolence as a man who has somewhat devious and maybe even perverse notions when it comes to Charlie. Scott is the only one really willing to go to dark places in this film and he really adds heft to the threat on Charley’s heels.
The explosive, practical effects laden climax is impressive for its time. Fireballs are run down cords to look like they are shooting about and there are plenty of pretty ‘splosions, but this climax feels like much ado about nothing as if you’ve seen one exploding car and a man on fire, you’ve seen them all and there are a lot of them in this film.
Ultimately, it felt as if no one in the cast or crew (besides Scott, that is), wanted to make a horror film. Brightly lit and rather plainly choreographed, only the explosion scenes offer up any flair, but these lose their potency after the umpteenth time someone blows a hairdryer off screen under Barrymore to signify her fire powers. Had there been an attempt to realize the demon inside of her, some more about the trippy MK-Ultra like experiments of the lab (there’s only a brief second of a man tripping out and ripping his eyes out), and maybe some burn makeup been attempted, this could have maybe instilled more chills. As is, FIRESTARTER’s a great showcase of some fine actors and a miss in terms of the horror of psychic phenomena that King, Cronenberg, and DePalma had such a great handle on during this era of horror that was the progeny of the previous era of drug experimentation and government shadows.
This Collector’s edition BluRay includes a new audio commentary with director Mark L. Lester, a “Playing With Fire: The Making Of FIRESTARTER” featurette, a new “Tangerine Dream: Movie Music Memories” interviewing Johannes Schmoelling, a live performance of "Charlie's Theme" by Johannes Schmoelling of Tangerine Dream, plus trailers, radio spots, and stills.
Retro-review: New on DVD from MVD Visual here and here!
DEAD SILENCE (1989)Directed by Hugh Gallagher
Written by Hugh Gallagher
Starring Melissa Buhs, Brad Foltz, Paula Gallagher, Roger King, Flint Mitchell, Kevin Patterson, Ron Scroggins, Jodi Thyer, Cindy Weichbrodt
GOREGASM (1990)Directed by Hugh Gallagher
Written by Hugh Gallagher
Starring Gabriela, Rik Billock, Paula Hendricks, Paula Gallagher, Flint Mitchell, Debbie Patterson, Mick Voss, Kevin Patterson, Steven Vieth, Dave Johnson, Denis Hellrung
Retro-reviewed by M. L. Miller aka Ambush Bug
OK, there aren’t going to be many folks this review is for. DIY shot of video films definitely have a very niche audience as the production is terrible. I’m talking high speed chases in shitty cars down dirt roads. Horrible acting. Terrible edits. Repetitive synth music. Home made gore effects. Gratuitous nudity. Awful sound that is barely synched with the actors. DEAD SILENCE and GOREGASM have all of that and more shitty things.
The thing that is fun with this film is that it is a snippet of an era that is no more. Some may say that’s a good thing and this film is far, far, far from any kind of cinematic excellence. But for someone, somewhere, this was a fun ass time to make and you can almost taste the love of the horror genre in every wobbly video frame.
For some reason, in the late eighties/early nineties, the horror of the electric chair was made into a lot of movies including Wes Craven’s SHOCKER (1989), Brion James/Lance Henricksen starrer HORROR SHOW (1989), Lyle Alzado starrer DESTROYER (1988), and my favorite, the stylistic GUILTY AS CHARGED (1991). A bit of research shows that in January of ’89 was when Ted Bundy rode the lightning on the electric chair, so that well publicized case seems to have had a lot of influence on B-horror of the era. No matter if it was Bundy’s execution or the famously fake scene from FACES OF DEATH or just a coincidence that there were so many electric chair films in ’89, one obscure film was made, shot on video and tossed out to as many video stores as possible. And that film was Hugh Gallagher’s DEAD SILENCE.
Gallagher followed up DEAD SILENCE with GOREGASM, the first in his “Gore” trilogy that included GORE WHORE and GOROTIKA (which I’m sure I’ll be cursed to cover some day). Whereas DEAD SILENCE focused on a convoluted story of resurrecting an executed killer and immortal life, GOREGASM makes things a bit more down to earth and is simply about a woman who promises the ultimate climax in her ads in the back of skin mags, which turns out to be her killing the guy after the deed is done. While DEAD SILENCE seems more PG rated, Gallagher goes full on sleaze with GOREGASM as the lead is nude pretty much the entire movie.
Both films are downright awful, but still, I kind of sopped up both films with a biscuit and a smile as I admire the moxy of filmmaker Gallagher (who was the publisher of the magazine DRACULINA). This guy loves horror. He loves gore. And he loves scantily clad ladies. And there’s nothing wrong with that. He didn’t bother with learning how to make movies. He just rented a camera, grabbed some people willing to be in a movie (most likely friends, drinking buddies, and maybe some women of the evening), and did it. There is some growth in skill between DEAD SILENCE and GOREGASM as I guess video cameras got better and maybe Gallagher did as well. Still, both are going to be rough for those unappreciative of DIY/SOV homemade gems. Again, if you’re the type to poo poo these low fi films, just move on. There is a charm to the big dreamers who don’t let anything get in the way of making their films and Gallagher is one of those dreamers.
Retro-review: New this week on BluRay from Full Moon Entertainment!
THE CREEPS (1997)aka DEFORMED MONSTERS, EVIL ZOMBIES
Directed by Charles Band
Written by Neal Marshall Stevens (as Benjamin Carr)
Starring Rhonda Griffin, Justin Lauer, Bill Moynihan, Kristin Norton, J.W. Perra, Andrea Harper, Jon Simanton as Wolfman, Joe Smith as the Mummy, Thomas Wellington as Frankenstein’s Monster, & Phil Fondacaro as Dracula!
Retro-reviewed by M. L. Miller aka Ambush Bug
While THE CREEPS has a kind of old school DIY yet still cinematically sound Full Moon charm that the company doesn’t make up for some of the more uncomfortable moments the feel exploitative to the little person actors involved.
When a mad scientist steals the original prints of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Bram Stoker’s The Mummy, and…whomever wrote the original Wolf Man story in order to resurrect the classic monsters of old under his command. But when the process is interrupted by a klutzy librarian (Rhonda Griffin) and a bumbling detective/video store clerk (Justin Lauer), the monsters are only partially brought back to life—thus their diminutive size. Now the librarian and detective must band together to take on these tiny monsters.
While there is definitely a sort of campy MONSTER SQUAD quality at work here with THE CREEPS, the fact that these short people are forced to say lines about how they are deformed and only half the monsters they used to be because of their smaller height kind of takes away some of the fun. It made me feel sorry for these actors, who of course are struggling to get roles with a little dignity, who have to demean themselves in this exploitative way. Sure the actors get to wear some pretty damn impressive practical effects and costumes and they get to grab the boobies of a few models in bondage, it’s still a bit unsettling the watch.
Fortunately, the leader of these little monsters is realized with quite a lot of flair from Phil Fondacaro as Dracula. Fondacaro was kind of a mainstay at Full Moon in the nineties and he delivers a surprisingly competent take on Dracula. Fondacaro knocks it out of the park here with his glowing red eyes and conviction to the role. It’s too bad the script didn’t give him much to do as, despite his size, he offers up a pretty awesome Prince of Darkness.
I don’t want to get too high up on the soapbox by pointing out the non-PC way the short people are treated in this film. They signed up for it and most likely got paid. I’m sure no little people were hurt in the making of this film and it’s certainly not the only group of people often typecast and stereotyped in the genre. It’s just that it is evidently clear this time with THE CREEPS which is also known as DEFORMED MONSTERS, an equally uncomfortable name. Still, the film itself is light on scares and drenched in camp. If not for Fondacaro’s performance as Drac, I wouldn’t recommend it. As is, it’s just a campy and breezy little film from a time when PC things weren’t so important.
Retro-review: Available on DVD from Unearthed Films!
MORRIS COUNTY (2009)Directed by Matthew Garrett
Written by Matthew Garrett
Starring Darcy Miller, Marc D. Donovan, Christian Davidock, Albie Selznick, Maren Perry, Robert Peters, Peter Ganim, Alice Cannon, Pamela Stewart, Erik Frandsen, Karen Adams, Joe Barlam, Jane Eary, Anthony J Giampetro, Veronica Heffron, Juan Herrera, Caitlin Jaffe, Keith Kelley, Chris Kelly, Lindsey Kruichak, David Lowry, John Nevin, Matthew R. Staley, Matthew Watkins, Jeff Zorabedian, Joseph Tornatore
Find out more about this film here, @morriscountymovie, and on Facebook here
Retro-reviewed by M. L. Miller aka Ambush Bug
Horror is a genre that is supposed to take you into uncomfortable places and if this film is any indication, MORRIS COUNTY is definitely one uncomfortable place. Set up as an anthology of sorts, this film puts together three tales of horrifying things happening to people and people doing horrifying things. It’s an intimate portrait of suburban America that is not an easy film to watch.
The first tale, “Ellie” is the most visceral and difficult to watch as a young girl (Darcy Miller) seems to be bent on killing herself through drugs, alcohol, sex, and placing herself into violent situations. But once it comes out as to what is really going on, it is all the more shocking and heartbreaking. Miller does a fantastic job as a confused and unhinged person on the edge. Her secret is devastating and filmmaker Matthew Garrett does an amazing job of leading us through this harrowing day in the life of this unfortunate woman. This initial segment is horrifyingly intimate and sets the dark tone for the emotional horrors to come in the rest of the film.
“The Family Rubin”is the second installment and while it might be my least favorite of the three, it still packs a punch. This segment is somewhat predictable as it fleshes out a highly dysfunctional family willed with infidelity, sexual confusion, animal torture, and suicidal and homicidal feelings. Once again, this story makes you almost feel guilty for watching it because it is such an intimate tale of terror within a flawed family. This one culminates to a horrifying boiling point, but ends surprisingly on a rather uplifting note.
The final installment is about “Iris & Elmer” a couple in their elder years. Iris (Alice Cannon) is great in a role that made my heart bleed. Just when she is forced into retirement at the office, Iris tries to look at the bright side in that she will be able to spend more time at home with her husband Elmer. But when he dies on the first night of her retirement, Iris is left confused as to what she should do. Not wanting to be alone, she keeps Elmer’s corpse sitting on the couch, which leads to some very disgusting decomposition effects. This is a horribly sad little story about a lonely woman with good intentions, but twisted logic.
What impressed me most about all of these stories is how intimate and sincere they were. These are horrifying tales, but they aren’t supernatural. These are human problems spawned from mistakes that any person can make, but taken to morbid, grotesque, and often harrowing lengths. Matthew Garrett is extremely talented in highlighting the horror of the mundane. This is a tight anthology of quiet terror that claws at the heart rather than shocks it. MORRIS COUNTY is definitely not the feel good horror film of the year, but it is highly potent in gripping tales that’ll cause you lots of unease.
New on DVD from MVD Visual!
TERRITORIAL BEHAVIOR (2015)Directed by Peter Bergin
Written by Peter Bergin
Starring Ronan Murphy, Bridget O'Connor, Corey Macri, Aaron Lee Reed
Find out more about this film here, @TerritorialBehaviorMovie, and on Facebook here
Reviewed by M. L. Miller aka Ambush Bug
As I’ve done with a few other films in this genre, I am going to put TERRITORIAL BEHAVIOR to my found footage quiz to see how it measures up. Those hating on the found footage genre should scroll on, but I find that this subgenre still manages to surprise me every now and again.
What’s the premise?
Bailey Rhodes (Ronan Murphy) is a survivalist looking to make a video advertising his survival class he teaches those seeking to learn how to live in the great outdoors. Venturing out into the Montana wilderness alone armed with only a pair of cameras, Bailey starts out strong, offering up all sorts of fun tips to his audience, but when he runs into a pair of poachers, he decides to go further into the woods—not knowing that he has entered the territory of something more dangerous than poachers. Something monstrous.
Are the actors believably acting like they aren’t acting?
Murphy carries this entire film on his own and isn’t half bad. For the most part, he is performing in front of a camera and acting like a big, bad survivorman, but always keeping a teacherly tone. That is, until he begins to get lost and scared that something is following him in the woods. Then Murphy does a decent job of being scared shitless and he loses the professional tone that was on camera for most of the earlier part of the film. In both extremes, the actor is pretty convincing.
Does is seem like this footage was actually found and not untouched by additional production (which means there is no omniscient editor making multiple edits or an invisible orchestra providing music)?
There is no music added here, which gives it some kind of authentic feel. The film does skip from one camera to the next, but it is justified by having the footage Bailey takes by day being uploaded to his producer at night. So technically, the footage here could have been edited between the cameras by his producer.
Is there a valid reason the camera isn’t dropped and they just get the hell out of there?
Yes, Bailey is filming an instructional video, so initially, the footage he takes, even when he gets lost, is something Bailey thinks can be used in the video hoping that he is going to find his way out of the mess. But as the story goes on and Bailey feels eyes on him from the forest, he comments that he is recording out of habit and to make him feel more comfortable in the dire situation he finds himself in. So that’s as good an excuse as any to keep the cameras rolling.
Is the lead in too long and the payoff too short?
That’s pretty much the main problem with TERRITORIAL BEHAVIOR. There’s an awful lot of wanderin’ in the wilderness time and very little scares. Specifically, the film pulls a BLAIR WITCH and never really shows what it is tracking Bailey through the woods. Sure, there are large footprints, glowing eyes in the dark, and a huge ape-like face pressed into the side of a tent, so it doesn’t take a genius to figure out its Bigfoot, but you never see anything by the end of the film, unfortunately, making the trip there all the more frustrating.
Is there an up-nose BLAIR WITCH confessional or a REC-drag away from the camera?
The whole film is a sort of confessional as the camera is on Bailey the whole time through thick or thin. There is a drag away and I wish these movies would just quite doing that, as it’s tired, clichéd, and will never be as cool as it was in the first [REC].
Does anything actually happen? Does the film add anything to the subgenre and is this one worth watching?
There are some suspenseful moments during the night as Bailey sees glowing eyes in the woods around him. The tent moments are rather intense as well. Still, if TERRITORIAL BEHAVIOR would have offered something new after all of that time wandering through the woods, it would have been much more forgivable and recommendable.
New this week on DVD/BluRay and Amazon from ITN Distribution!
SLASHER.COM (2017)aka S/ASH.ER
Directed by Chip Gubera
Written by Chip Gubera & Chelsea Andes
Starring Jewel Shepard, R.A. Mihailoff, Ben Kaplan, Morgan Carter, Delious, Rebecca Crowley, Adam Boster, Jace Boster, Conrad Gubera, Jason C. Jones, Josh Kaplan, Sarah Kaplan, Rob Steinbruegge, Jessica Wallier, Dirk J. Westphal
Find out more about this film here, @slasherdotcom, and on Facebook here
Reviewed by M. L. Miller aka Ambush Bug
A couple of unexpected twists and turns make SLASHER.COM something a bit better than your typical slasher film, but only barely.
As a serial killer terrorizes those who go on online dates in the big city, Jack (Ben Kaplan) and Kristy (Morgan Carter) decide to have their first face to face date in the countryside where they think it would be safe. Unfortunately, the bed and breakfast they show up to is being run by an insane family of murdering monsters.
A couple of late in the game twists make SLASHER.COM a bit different from your normal slasher fare. And while this one doesn’t have the biggest budget, flashiest of directing, or greatest actors involved, it does have some decent moments of twisted horror as well as a cool appearance by R.A. Mihailoff (who played the lead in LEATHERFACE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE III, one of my favorite sequels in the franchise). I have to give this film extra points for being as twisted and depraved as it is with suggestions of incest, twisted fetishes, perverse relationships, and some pretty gruesome murders. I also like the simplistic, yet fun way this one ends up. You can see it coming from a mile away, but it’s fun nevertheless.
So while SLASHER.COM isn’t really something to burn the barn down over, it is light, blood-drenched fun.
Available on DVD/BluRay from Bandit Motion Pictures and on Amazon here!
PLANK FACE (2016)Directed by Scott Schirmer
Written by Scott Schirmer, Brian Williams
Starring Nathan Barrett, Susan M. Martin, Brigid Macaulay, Alyss Winkler, Jason Hignite, Ellie Church, Dave Parker, Brian Papandrea, Lexi Thompson, Evan Lahee, Caleb Giles
Find out more about this film here, @plankfacemovie, and on Facebook here
Reviewed by M. L. Miller aka Ambush Bug
PLANK FACE is a descent into madness and beyond set in a forested landscape. It’s a simple tale, but one that will definitely leave a deep, gushing wound in those brave enough to take this trip into the abyss, leaving all humanity behind.
Max (Nathan Barrett) and his girlfriend Stacey (Ellie Church) take a hiking trip into the forested area of Indiana. When another hiker ends up crashing their camp and raping Stacey, Max flips out and murders him. But just when the couple think their horror is over, Max is knocked unconscious and wakes up deep in the woods and bound to the floor by a family of feral people. With the patriarch of the family dying, Granny (Susan M. Martin) and her two daughters—the Bride (Brigid Macaulay) and the masked Bunny Girl (Alyss Winkler), look to make Max into the new head of the family whether he likes it or not. With a tree bark mask glued to his face and stripped of all humanity, the film maps Max’s horrific descent into the role of Plank Face.
What impressed me the most is how filmmaker Scott Schirmer and his co-writer Brian Williams simply tell a tale using character and environment rather than flash and flair. This is a story set in the middle of the forest with very little dialog about a man stripped of all humanity. It reminded me of a caveman film like QUEST FOR FIRE where no English is spoken, yet a strong story is told. This clan of feral people communicate in broken English and made up works not unlike Nell in the Jodie Foster film (yet scores less annoying). The film highlights the inhumanity of these people first, but as it goes on, it shows how this family lives and works together as a unit. Whether Max decides to function within this unit is where the fun is. Will he accept their ways or will his will be too strong for them? And once he does accept, is there anything that can bring him back from the bestial abyss? These are fascinating questions answered in PLANK FACE.
This isn’t a film for the squeamish. There is blood and gore galore. There are scenes of violence and rape. There are brave performances by the entire cast in the nude, not in a sexual manner (well, sometimes), but often simply because they are not bound by the same conventions of civilization. This is a man vs. nature/man vs. himself style film that goes to dark places most films are afraid to venture to these days.
The closest thing I can compare this film to are the introspective man/nature films of the late seventies/early eighties like DELIVERANCE, PAPILLON, and MIDNIGHT EXPRESS, where a man is forced to shed everything he has learned as a human in order to survive. This is an uncomfortable, grueling, tale that’ll be hard to swallow by some, but it definitely resonates as a powerful horror film that is a true test to endure. If you’re brave, give PLANK FACE a try. It’s a mesmerizing display of primal terror.
Available on VHS and Vimeo digital download from Dirt Candy Productions!
SHE WAS SO PRETTY (2016)Directed by Brooke Ewing
Written by Brooke Ewing
Starring Amanda Butler, Garrett Chewning, Justin Ewing, Whitlee Flinn, Jerry Larew, Elvis McComas, Chris Parsons, Natasha Parsons, Rayna Smith, Felicia Zartman
Find out more about this film here, @SheWasSoPretty, and on Facebook here
Reviewed by M. L. Miller aka Ambush Bug
SHE WAS SO PRETTY is a patient and disturbing little creepshow that takes some risks that work and some that don’t. But overall, it is able to harness a skeevy and twisted feeling that most films only wish they could achieve.
Valerie (Whitlee Flinn) has the sinking feeling she is being watched—at the Laundromat, at the local ice cream parlor, when she’s out partying with her friends, but she has no idea how right she is when the creeper watching her from the shadows makes his move. When Valerie wakes up in the home of serial creeper Alfred James Ellis III (Jerry Larew), she is in for horrors she could never imagine.
SHE WAS SO PRETTY is the ultimate in creeper horror. For the first portion of this film, we bare witness to Valerie happenstancially meeting Alfred James Ellis III then having that meeting turn into full blown stalking and beyond. We see the silent Ellis stand and stare at her, sometimes in the background of the frame without one noticing. And as Ellis seemingly is waiting for a moment to strike make these scenes utterly terrifying as early on we see what Ellis often does with the women he stalks as he catches up to a woman in a parking garage with a knife and no place to go for the woman.
The film can almost be cut into two parts, as the film truly takes a plunge into perversity when Valerie is taken back to Ellis’ home. Decked out in what one would expect from a middle aged creeper in old timey décor as if he hasn’t changed things since his parents had passed, Ellis’ home is a thoroughly planned out den of horrors occupied by one woman he has already converted into a obeying slave and now the prison for Valerie who is going to need some convincing. Seeing Ellis silently manipulate these women is twisted and mesmerizing. It’s utterly perverse and not for the sensitive types. With a little gore and a lot of skeevy perversion, these scenes are going to make every inch of skin on your body crawl.
My only complaint about SHE WAS SO PRETTY is a late in the game twist with an over the top cop (Chris Parsons). His role is so odd it just doesn’t feel like it should occupy the same universe as Ellis. While Parsons is not bad in the role, it just sort of feels flippant and unnatural to the quiet creeping terror we have experienced in the first hour and a half of this film. On the other hand, James Larew is excellent in the role of the creepy Ellis. His blank stare, penetrating eyes, and slighted posture are like nails on a chalkboard and is definitely going to make you shiver.
SHE WAS SO PRETTY is not for the impatient. It’s not for those intolerant of low budget horror. And it’s not for those who cringe at icky situations. It’s perverse, morose, and sometimes just plain wrong, but for a film to do that, it definitely is doing something right when it comes to horror. I look forward to the sequel to SHE WAS SO PRETTY currently being filmed this year subtitled BE GOOD FOR GOODNESS SAKE, which apparently is going for a holiday feel added to all of that creepiness. Can’t wait.
New on BluRay from Lionsgate Home Entertainment!
SOLACE (2015)Directed by Afonso Poyart
Written by Sean Bailey, Ted Griffin
Starring Anthony Hopkins, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Abbie Cornish, Colin Farrell, Matt Gerald, Jose Pablo Cantillo, Marley Shelton, Xander Berkeley, Kenny Johnson, Joshua Close, Sharon Lawrence, Janine Turner, Luisa Moraes, Jordan Woods-Robinson, Niyi Oni, Carter Godwin, Autumn Dial, Tara Arroyave, Rey Hernandez, Bruce Taylor, Frank Brennan, Adam Drescher, Keith Ewell, Jake Lawson, Charles Lawlor, Kresh Novakovic, Michele Torres, David Weiss, Christopher Beanland, Russell Durham Comegys, Adam Boyer
Find out more about this film here, @DieVorsehung.Film, and on Facebook here
Reviewed by M. L. Miller aka Ambush Bug
While the premise is kind of goofy, the efforts of all of the actors involved, a strong script, and some ballsy gore speckled in makes SOLACE better than I expected it to be.
A serial killer seems to be murdering random people with swift accuracy. With no leads, FBI officers Joe Merriweather (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and Katherine Cowles (Abbie Cornish) are stumped. So Joe tracks down a psychic named John Clancy (Sir Anthony Hopkins) who used to help him on tough cases. While Katherine is a skeptic, she is amazed at the way John is able to pinpoint specific clues such as that each victim is suffering from an undiagnosed illness that will kill them in the future. This leads John to believe that the killer (Colin Farell) is a psychic just like him.
While there is a lot of convention being played with, from the skeptic/believer dichotomy to the way certain characters are taken out of the picture in a by the book manner you can tell just by looking at the cast list, SOLACE does have a pretty strong script. This because most evident once Farrell’s character gets screen time and his motives are made clear. While the premise sounds goofy as hell, I’ll be damned if Farrell and Hopkins don’t sell it. The argument, about taking a life before it is destroyed by a health condition is something resonant to every character in the script, so it all works thematically despite the fact that it’s wrapped up in a package that feels more at home in an X-MEN movie.
This is made convincing most by the fact that none of the cast is phoning it in. Farrell rarely does this and is convincingly cold and conniving as the bad guy here. Cornish is strong in the lead and has a great arc bringing her from skeptic to believer given her time with Hopkin’s character. Jeffrey Dean Morgan is becoming one of my favorite actors as he is as endearing here as he is deplorable in THE WALKING DEAD. He has a scene with Hopkins that really hits hard and shows how deep their friendship really is. But it’s Hopkins, who has been skating through roles since HANNIBAL with what seems like a no fucks given flippancy, who really shines as the lead. It really feels like Hopkins got into this role. It reminds you of why Hopkins became the megastar he is today.
There’s a fair amount of gore, specifically revolving around a tertiary killer who paints the walls with blood of his victims, and a solid premise here that makes we wonder why this film didn’t get wide release. I guess many folks had the same preconceptions once they heard the premise and thought the psychic angle was too goofy. Well, I’ll I’m glad I didn’t listen to my preconceptions and went along with this one because it is a solid paranormal thriller with fantastic performances by all in the cast.
In select theaters and On Demand from IFC Midnight!
THE DEVIL’S CANDY (2015)Directed by Sean Byrne
Written by Sean Byrne
Starring Ethan Embry, Shiri Appleby, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Kiara Glasco, Tony Amendola, Arthur Dale, Jack Dullnig, Shiela Bailey Lucas, Marco Perella, Richard Rollin, Jamie Tisdale
Find out more about this film on Facebook here
Reviewed by Ambush Bug
Assaulting both the ears and the eyes with imagery and sounds out of the most depraved and diabolical nightmares, Sean Byrne’s THE DEVIL’S CANDY is an absolute treasure trove of scares!
Ethan Embry plays painter Jesse, husband to Astrid (Shiri Appleby) and cool father to Zooey (Kiara Glasco). When they move into a new home, Jesse begins hearing voices while he paints, the same type of voices the previous owner Ray Smilie (Pruitt Taylor Vince) used to hear while living in the house before he killed his elderly mother and father. Haunted by these voices and inspired to take a new dark path with his artwork, Jesse becomes obsessed, feeling the dark inspiration flow through him like a conduit in his painting. But while Jesse is being seduced by the voices, Ray returns home and that means terrible things for his family.
This is a fantastic film. Start to finish, this is an assault on the eyes and ears with all sorts of sights and sounds I haven’t seen or heard before. Director Sean Byrne (who burst on the scene with the fantastic THE LOVED ONES) delivers a film that really does take you to new and frightening places. Be they faint satanic voices muttering in the background or Ray banging away at his guitar to drown them out, this is a film to be heard loud. The hard rock influences, be they the metal Jesse listens to while painting or the audio assault Ray uses to keep the voices away is ever present here and done so in a way that doesn’t feel cheesy as in metal films like TRICK OR TREAT.
The thing is, this film uses a well worn motif of a new family moving into a new house. Next to death and being fired, I know moving is one of the biggest stressors to a person. I moved five years ago and vowed not to do it again for a while simply because it was so hard to upearth everything and put it back into order somewhere else. Maybe that’s why so many films are about this weird process. Still, THE DEVIL’S CANDY is interesting that it chooses such a familiar path, yet it never feels stale.
This is mainly because of Ethan Embry is absolutely fantastic as the lead here. The actor has had a comeback of sorts with LATE PHASES, CHEAP THRILLS, THE WALKING DEAD, and that car commercial where he is pulling a Clark Griswald. Here he proves that he can be a solid lead, playing a flawed but absolutely likable person who definitely cares deeply about his family. Through Embry’s puppy dog eyes, even covered in stubble, tattoos, and paint, he shows how much he loves his family which proves to be the beating heart of this film and makes you follow it down its treacherous path.
Pruitt Taylor Vince, who previously has only appeared as the weirdo in snippets in films is rock solid with this much more substantial role as Ray. His tortured performance as a man tormented by these voices all his life and is now on the breaking point when a new family moves into the only place he calls home is simply astounding. Vince delivers lines that are bone-chilling here and like Embry, hopefully this highlight of his talents will lead to more substantial roles of this kind. The rest of the cast is amazing as well, with Kiara Glasco delivering a really amazing turn as Zooey, Jesse’s rocker daughter. She is a young actress that will definitely go far and we will hear a lot about her in the coming years, I’m sure as her soulful performance of a youth trying to fit in despite her rebellious looks is layered and well done.
THE DEVIL’S CANDY is most astounding because this isn’t very much a ghost story as much as it is about flawed and over-stressed minds pushed to the breaking point. Ray believes he hears the devil, but we don’t see it. So those looking for a red painted horned guy are going to be disappointed. This is a film about the horrors unleashed from sick and obsessed minds, a much scarier version of horror than a ghost or monster story. THE DEVIL’S CANDY really taps into the dank and dark places inspiration often comes from and splashes it all over the screen. It captures the sometimes ugliness of the artistic process and of the human soul like few other films I’ve seen. I highly recommend THE DEVIL’S CANDY, it’s gorgeous and grotesque, poetic and unnerving, terrifically acted and splendidly directed. It’s an all around fantastic horror film that needs to be seen by any horror and metal fan.
And finally…I know it’s not Friday the 13th but, I had to share this new fan made FRIDAY THE 13TH short starring the purple Neca Jason from the old NES video game version. So you have a purple Jason doing what he does best with floating Mrs. Voorhees heads and zombies and all. Anyone who played this game as a kid is going to get a kick out of this. Find out more about director Michael Ramova on his website here! Enjoy FRIDAY THE 13TH The Game The Movie fan film!
And here’s a trailer for a different adaptation of the video game that is just as fun.
See ya next week, folks!
Ambush Bug is M. L. Miller, original @$$Hole/wordslinger/writer of wrongs/reviewer/interviewer/editor of AICN COMICS for over 15 years & AICN HORROR for 5. Follow Mark on the Twitters @Mark_L_Miller and on his new website collecting posts for AICN HORROR as well as all of the most recent updates on his various comic book projects on MLMillerWrites.com.
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Wondershare PixManager supports almost all types of pictures and will display your pictures in the best way they can be displayed. Just a few clicks on your mouse will combine your pictures and music into professional and elegant slideshows.
Wondershare PixManager is the most satisfying picture editor. It has many wonderful features including removing red eye, cropping, sharpening, embossing, rotating, flipping and exposure adjusting.
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Look, Heidi Klum, we get it.
You are very rich, famous and beautiful. Must you rub it in our faces?!?
The super model took to Twitter this week and posted a picture of herself sunbathing on some tropical island. Shirtless!
And while we're never against any Heidi Klum nude shots, we can't help but be reminded that: 1. We do not look like this; 2. We are sitting at our computer with two sweatshirts on at the moment.
Klum, we'd imagine, is spending the holidays with bodyguard/boyfriend Martin Kristen, as this will be her first Christmas in seven years as an unmarried woman.
Kristen may get to tap this any time he wants, but, hey, we can stare at Kate Upton bikini photos all day and night. That's pretty much the same thing, right?
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On 8/23/06, Stephan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
today I found a nice brain teaser. What is the outcome of the following:
>>> from zope.interface import Interface
>>> from zope.schema import TextLine
>>> class IFoo(Interface):
... title = TextLine()
>>> class IBar(IFoo):
<zope.schema._bootstrapfields.TextLine object at 0xb7bc17ac>
I now know this answer since I came across this a while ago: IFoo!
Someone mentioned classes. This is not much different than this simple
>>> class Foo(object):
... title = 'bar'
>>> class Bar(Foo):
>>> 'title' in Bar.__dict__
>>> 'title' in Foo.__dict__
If you ask the zope.interface.interfaces.IAttribute documentation you get:
interface = Attribute('interface',
'Stores the interface instance in which the '
'attribute is located.')
In plain English: <InterfaceClass __main__.IFoo>
If you ask zope.formlib (form.py, line 227)::
# Adapt context, if necessary
interface = field.interface
adapter = interface(context)
Here the answer would be: <InterfaceClass __main__.IBar>
Could you clarify 'would be'? Do you mean 'the answer that I often
find myself wanting' or 'the answer IS'?
If the anser IS ...IBar, it's wrong. Unless something has changed
since Zope 3.2.
Actually, what exactly are you asking here? Is the question `what is
the interface that should be provided by ``adapter``? Or is the
question `what is the value of `interface`?
>>> class Bar(object):
... title = u""
>>> bar = Bar()
<__main__.Bar object at 0x2907630>
Isn't that what formlib is doing? How is this wrong?
Either way you look at it, one package is wrong and thus broken.
I'm not sure if anything is wrong and broken, besides concepts,
clarity, and terminology.
Personally, I would really love a way to re-combine Interface Fields.
I like how formlib.FormFields can be composed from many sources, or
from a single source selectively, and I wanted this at the Interface
I ran into this situation a couple of months ago when an
object-creation situation was getting very complex. The rules that
governed the main interface fields were ones that I wanted to reuse,
but selectively. I wanted to have this creation schema in its own
interface spec, since it was going to be combined (in theory) with
others. I basically wanted a Memo object that was very similar to this
complex set of objects I had to build, which could be passed around as
a single entity in comparison to having to add more and more arguments
(parameters?) to a Factory object every time we added something new to
the system. As the Memo was starting to build on other parts of the
system, it was becoming very hard to maintain and also to visualize.
We'd either have to copy and paste a lot of Interface specification
parts manually and maintain both, or look at some other options.
I ended up writing an interface cloner tool that would make a new
InterfaceClass dynamically, composing it of attributes selectively
copied out of other Interfaces. Then the 'interface' attribute could
be set on the copied Attribute without affecting the original.
>>> import icopy
>>> IBaz = icopy.iclone('IBaz', IBar)
<zope.schema._bootstrapfields.TextLine object at 0x2a89630>
Traceback (most recent call last):
TypeError: ('Could not adapt', <__main__.Bar object at 0x2907630>,
Without copying, you end up with this scenario::
>>> class IBadBar(IFoo):
... title = IFoo['title']
The copy tools also let you omit certain names, select certain names, combine
multiple interfaces, and so on. The problem was that - particularly
for this add form - I wanted to bring in bits of schema from other
While I still have these tools around, I ultimately abandoned that
path after a day or two of work. Eventually we just manually built up
the FormField using the bits and pieces that we wanted.
But which is it? It turns out that zope.interface wins and IFoo is returned.
This really hurts zope.formlib. After an initial discussion on IRC, more
people expected IBar, since it is more in line with im_class, but there were
also people expecting IFoo.
How exactly does this hurt formlib?
I must say, the scenarios in `formlib` for how values get bound to
their fields is pretty confusing, between all of the different
`setUp...Widgets` scenarios and the adaptation. I got mad as hell
recently because I had a nearly impossible time getting today's date
to render for an edit-field situation ('get_rendered' couldn't be used
at that point). This was for a formlib based search form that kept the
criteria stored in the session. Fortunately, I had written an __iter__
on my Criteria class to turn the values into a dictionary (using
def setUpWidgets(view, ignore_request=False):
Set up widgets and manually force `rangeStart` and `rangeEnd` because
this is the only way to get defaults AND contextual values working in
context = view.criteria
data = dict(context)
'rangeStart': context.rangeStart or today(view),
'rangeEnd': context.rangeEnd or threeMonths(view),
view.widgets = form.setUpWidgets(
view.form_fields, context=context, form=view,
I had to do an insane amount of work to get to this point, as I poured
over all of the different formlib setUpWidgets data binding scenarios.
This is what hurts formlib. I think that the interface binding
scenario is only one small issue.
I think that tools to clone/copy/detach/monkey with schema Fields
would be prudent. A common scenario that I have is wanting to turn off
'required' for a certain situation. I want to use the same Schema
Field, but if the user doesn't enter a value, I want to compute one.
With the Interface-as-contract, that Field is required to exist. But
with the Interface-as-helping-render-this-form, I don't want to
require the user to enter something. This is another tricky situation,
especially if the Schema field has a lot of other settings on it.
Here's how I envision solving this.
form_fields = form.Fields(
# A copy of 'title', detached from its interface.
In the above scenario, the 'start_date' field keeps everything in the
normal schema field, but changes the description. 'end_date' isn't
required. If the user doesn't enter one, the software will compute a
value and store it on the target object, thus satisfying the default
interface 'required' contract. 'title' detaches itself from its
interface, preventing it from being forced to adapt.
Some of the core SQLAlchemy ORM units - Mapper and Query objects -
have this concept. Calling ``myquery =
query.options(lazyload('books'))`` returns a *copy* of the Query
object with all of its properties and configuration just like the
original, with modifications applied based on what's passed in to the
'options' call. This has been a wonderful and very powerful tool to
use, as some of the mappings can grow to be quite complex but some
usages won't require related objects to be loaded.
I think that zope.interface and/or zope.schema could benefit from this
scheme. Field.bind(context) already makes a clone of the interface
field; this theme could be expanded upon pretty easily::
>>> titlebar = IBar['title'].bind(bar)
>>> titlebar.required = False
# Doesn't impact IBar['title']!
# Rebinding titlebar's interface
>>> titlebar.interface = IBar
But it would be nice to have a tool to make an altered copy in inline
expressions. It might also be useful to have a tool like 'getFieldIn'
def getFieldIn(iface, name):
Gets the field by name out of the Interface `iface`. If the found
field's `interface` value is different from `iface`, but `iface` is
derived from the field's interface, the returned field will appear
to come from the requested interface. Clear?
... (docstring examples of IFoo / IBar, showing how)
``getFieldIn(IBar, 'title')`` returns a new Field instance
whose .interface value is `IBar`
# Cheap cloning trick
field = iface[name].bind(None)
# IBar extends IFoo, therefor IBar['title']
field.interface = iface
Then when establishing fields in formlib.FormFields, one could use
this on single items or en masse. Maybe `form.Fields` could have a
constructor option of 'normalize=(*ifaces)', which will downcast
items. Or maybe 'getFieldIn' could take Field objects as well as
names. Or ...
Before playing with it, I would like to know what other people
think. So, what do you think?
I think that you haven't explained the situation adequately. I
understand what you're saying: "Oh, suddenly I wanted/expected
IBar['title'] to be bound to IBar when really it was bound to IFoo,"
but I don't understand the solution that you're trying to get to and
why. Specifically, I don't get how it "hurts formlib."
I think a good copy-and-modify tool for zope.interface.Attribute (or
at least zope.schema.Field) objects would be a more useful tool. I
think it should be part of the Field interface so that complex fields
(like the vocabulary-using ones) can do extra work if required.
And I think that some more clarity about how adaptation is used in
formlib's different setUp*Widgets and applyChanges methods might be a
good thing to have. I really like the pretty-much-automatic adaptation
that goes on, most of the time, but I find myself having to mind-trace
the source quite a bit just to remember the impact of different
options, parameters, or methods.
I think it would also be nice if it were easier to register/use
one-shot adapters that are made for just one form (I've done this in
the past, and it feels like a waste of typing and time and effort to
go through all the joys of ZCML registration and naming and thought
just to use a particular Adapter class/factory once - especially if
I'm doing the adaptation for just two fields out of, say, eight).
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Selena Gomez is teasing ... something on her Instagram this morning. The singer posted a bikini selfie with the caption, "coming soon @stevenkleinstudio hehe." (Side note: Adding "hehe" at the end just makes me even more curious than I already was about this cryptic photo.)
Although she didn't say what it was, People speculated that maybe it was a front-page spread for a magazine, which if that's the case is actually kind of a letdown (no offense to Selena). Guess we'll just have to wait and see.
Follow Alanna on Twitter.
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The Baby GetUp and Why You Should Do It!
Perry Nickelston, DC, FMS, SFMA
There it was…the Baby GetUp! (BGU)
Dr. Liebenson actually performed the maneuver on Joe Dowdell himself and I knew immediately how I could use it for bringing my evaluations to a new dimension. I absolutely must give total props and kudos to Dr. Liebenson for exposing me to the Baby Getup. I had never seen this movement assessment before and was fascinated by the information it could provide regarding muscle sequencing.
What impressed me the most? The pure simplicity of the maneuver and the subtle information it can divulge about movement symmetry, durability factors and injury risk. An individual with a keen eye for assessing movement and why sequencing matters in every aspect of daily living will find the GetUp an invaluable tool.
Bruce Lee once said, ‘Simplicity is the key to brilliance.’
And the BGU proves it.
The BGU is a regression of patterning seen in the traditional Turkish Getup. It is a system of determining if an individual has the proper neuromuscular sequencing pattern to accomplish a fundamental pattern of movement. In my opinion, if someone struggles with the Baby Getup they have not earned the right to perform a Full Turkish GetUp or any standing rotational exercise, loaded or unloaded! Sure, they could power through the exercises, but they would be using improper muscle activation to accomplish the task which defeats the purpose of corrective exercise.
In short, the body will compensate any way it can to reach the goal you are asking it to hit. Your brain will do it in a functional or dysfunctional way depending on what it has to work with. It could care less if it gets there the right way or the wrong way. It has one mission, get from point A to point B.
Because your brain is telling it to! In essence, strong muscles get stronger and weak muscles get weaker (from a neural activation point first, strength second, and endurance third). In movement exercise we want precision and quality of execution. The ‘neural groove’ must activate first. Meaning, the muscle must fire and engage quickly on demand with no lag time. It’s not simply about getting from point A to point B with an exercise, it ALL IN HOW you get to point B.
If you can master the Baby GetUp, I know your body is now better prepared to OWN the more challenging patterns. Then you can take yourself to the next level of progression. I contend that you will be more powerful, durable, stronger, faster, and better overall if you can establish a base foundation of functional movement patterns. The BGU is a critical part of that process.
BGU does not care how good you look!
BGU does not care how strong you think you are!
BGU does not care how much weight you can swing in the gym!
BGU is the great equalizer!
It is designed to level the playing field by removing your ability to power through and compensate. We know that athletes are the best compensators. Their nervous system is primed for cheating and stealing movement patterns to maximize performance. It must because there is no controlled environment on the playing field.
It is chaos!
However, that makes it even more critical to strive for precision of movement in the training room. I am not talking about Sport Specific Training. That is for Skill Coaches. I am talking about basic fundamental movement pattern training that enhances skill. Regardless of which sport you play from rugby to badminton these primal patterns are critical. If they are lacking, athletes will suffer ‘energy leaks’ catapulting them faster towards fatigue and injury.
We often make the mistake of thinking just because an athlete looks great and performs well on the field they don’t have any weak points.
You just have to dig deeper to find them. Go back to a neuro-developmental movement sequencing task and you will spot the Achilles heel. Now, if they can pass the Baby Getup that is great. This is what we want to see. You should be able to perform this movement equally on both sides of the body, REGARDLESS of your athletic prowess. Every human being who is ‘healthy’ should be able to perform this maneuver. If you can’t, then it is a Red Flag for dysfunction. When you can, then move onto the next progression of difficulty.
I use this maneuver on athletes that are ‘jacked’ to the max. I mean jacked in a good way. They are lean, muscular, powerful, strong, and are in fantastic shape…on the outside at least. Lol
I also use it on out of shape people in pain. They probably have pain because they can’t do this movement. It’s the question asked in FMS (Functional Movement Systems): ‘Are you in pain because you are moving wrong? Or are you moving wrong because you are in pain?’ The answer is YES! It’s both.
The BGU proves to you whether people have the ‘goods’ underneath. In core sequencing, not what your 6-pack abs looks like on the beach. Most of the time elite athletes fail one part of the BGU. At first they laugh at the simplicity of the movement when I demonstrate it and they go in all cocky and confident. But I know what is coming.
9 times out of 10 they can perform it INcorrectly on one side. BAM! That is what I want to discover. It is what I want them to realize! I want them to feel an underlying fundamental weakness they don’t know they have which is affecting their performance. Because trust me it is! One of the key risk predictors of future injury is an asymmetry of movement. You can do something better on one side compared to the other.
This is why the BGU is so invaluable. It’s part of the ‘Systems Checklist’ to see if you can open up the throttle on training, or if the client has their foot on the movement brake and gas at the same time. The beautiful part of the GetUp is the assessment is also the corrective. You don’t have to pick and choose corrective exercises to fix it.
Just do the movement with self assistance.
CRITICAL PARADIGM! (Prepare your brain!)
There is a hierarchy of discovery and success in corrective exercise that is completely dependent on the brain’s ability to process information. Once you understand the system it will change everything about how and when you teach corrective movement. Would you like to know what it is? Ok, might want to write this one down and read it every day! This is one for your success journal. And it is the foundation of WHY the Baby Getup always works.
This is the DISCOVERY PROCESS that everyone must go through to make corrective exercise effective. Clients don’t know what they don’t know! In other words, you must first make them aware they have a problem and then guide them towards long term correction. The 4-Step Discovery process below will show you how.
Ok, here goes. Do you have your pen?
*You are dysfunctional in movement and patterning but you just don’t know it…YET!
*Now you know you are dysfunctional. I call the ‘light bulb’ moment! Discovery of dysfunction, but you do not yet know how to correct it. The Baby Getup is the catalyst for the ‘a ha’ moment of discovery
*Now you actively and consciously exercise and train with proper movement to reverse dysfunction and move towards function. You concentrate with intention on quality and precision of movement. This is where coaching and cueing play a critical role.
*Now you move correctly without thought. It has been programmed into your long term memory and neural system. This is the ultimate goal and you know when your work is done for correctives. Cueing is no longer necessary. This is the place we want to reside!
You can see me doing a Baby Getup video below with Chris Flo from Flo Fitness as the client. Thanks Chris, you always make the best mock client. Also have your Flo Fitness bling on! Lol.
1) What to look for and how to setup the movement are listed below the video.
2) Watch the video first and then read the ‘How To’s on this blog post for what it is telling you.
3) Then watch the video again.
The baby GetUp is always a part of my assessment. It is just one piece of the puzzle. There are many movements I assess in my hour long evaluation. There are no absolutes in any assessment and the individual must be taken into account. The BGU gives me a unique perspective on the spiral and lateral line of fascial movement showing me the synergy of the IO and EO (obliques), TVA, QL, Rectus, and even diaphragm.
Movement Set Up and Cueing
Demonstrate movement first. (Hear. See. Do) Take Away: You better make sure you can do this move first! lol
*Client Side lying in a plank style position.
*Top leg crosses over the bottom and top foot goes flat. (Foot position close to knee or whatever is comfortable depending on client hip mobility). Ideally perform the test with no shoes!
*Bottom arm out perpendicular to the body. Bend elbow at 90 degrees hand towards sky.
*Top hand goes dorsal surface on the medial knee. This prevents them from helping with the top hand.
*Cervical spine should not be fatigued. If it is this is just a cue to you that the neck is probably weak. A person should be able to support their head weight.
*Initiate movement with the downward arm with internal rotation. When arm reaches normal end-range engage the core to post up on the elbow reaching chest towards the sky. Do you see the similar pattern of the traditional Getup? It is a Diagonal pattern cross body. Highly stressing the oblique system and spiral line of the body.
*Control motion on downward pattern and repeat 3-5 times.
*On the last repetition post up into side plank and see how long client can hold with proper form. Ideally 60 seconds.
*Repeat on opposite side.
Dysfunctions and compensations to look for:
*Weakness and tired in the neck (or pain). Leading with the neck.
*Holding of breath
*Sticking or ratcheting on the movement
*Downward straight leg pops up off the ground
*Top leg comes off the ground
*Client fatigues at the 3-5 rep. You are looking for neural engagement necessary to engage the movement and repetitions look for endurance factors. So if they are cheating it will burn out fast!
*Watch for smooth downward motion. The downward leg should always be in line with the upper torso.
*Last rep move into side plank at top of movement. Observe for torso rotation. Flexion at waist. Losing the plank line. Dipping in the center. Neck goes into flexion (not packed) Head should be in line with the body.
*If they press too much with the top leg into the floor you will see a torque in the torso.
*Have them hold for as long as they can with good form. When and if they dip in the center 3 times. Test is over. In a normal side plank the individual should be able to maintain 60 seconds both sides. If they struggle maintaining the Baby Getup plank for 60 seconds they should not be doing a traditional side plan. Regress to progress!
*Take top hand and put palm side on the lateral aspect of top leg by the knee and have client assist pulling themselves into the movement ONLY as needed. Do 10 Repetitions.
*Stop corrective program of Baby Getup when the left and right sides are symmetrical.
*If client can perform the baby getup they have now earned the right to progress into the ‘Unloaded Naked Getup’ and also to half kneeling patterns. Once they master the Naked GetUp they may then proceed to a loaded TGU.
If after 4-6 sessions of the above corrective intervention the client is still struggling there may by muscle patterning requiring deeper attention. The primary objective with the above corrective is to determine If they can master the sequencing by repetition from Conscious Dysfunction to Conscious Function.
Always reassess after each session to see what is changing. Intervention with NKT NeuroKinetic Therapy is always a great addition to muscle activation. MAT practitioners as well can have a nice impact on activation patterning. There is no Magic Bullet for any corrective. However, knowing you need to look for sequencing dysfunction is a critical component…AKA Conscious Dysfunction. Remember? lol
Questions or comments please feel free to contact me. Enjoy the GetUp and please share this with others. Let’s go VIRAL with the ‘Baby’. lol
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Puppet Up Toronto Tour Diary – Epilogue – Puppet Up Playlist
I love music. When people ask hypotheticals about if they’d rather lose sight or hearing I think I’d have to go with losing sight first because audio is so important to who I am as a person. I love the way that something you hear can make you feel a certain way. It’s one of the reasons I love producing audio dramas. Finding the right sound effect or piece of music that fits perfectly for that part of the story will instantly put a smile on my face.
I also love music. Music can just make you feel some many things. The right song can make you feel incredibly happy or rip you to your very core. Puppetry is, obviously, a visual medium but music plays and important part in it. Puppet Up is no exception. There’s our opening and closing numbers, there’s our new finale piece called The End and there’s Windy, Java and I’ve Grown Accustomed To Your Face that play a huge part of in the show. Then there’s the underscoring that Dan, our accompanist, does. I always get a big laugh when Dan finds just the right song to play after the blackout of a scene.
But there is other music that I really associate with Puppet Up and that’s the music I’m listening to at the time or that I hear while on the amazing trips. For example, the first time I went on tour with the show was in 2011. I joined up with the tour in Florida for a string of five shows. Since I was meeting up with the tour I flew to Florida on my one and then got a taxi to the airport. While in the cab, Foster The People’s Pumped Up Kicks was playing. I’m not a terribly huge fan of the song, but when I hear it I always think of that feeling I felt, driving to meet up with the tour in Florida, ready for a week of adventure and shows.
I thought it might be of interest, to no one but me, to make sort of a record of some of the songs that I was listening to while on this recent Toronto Tour. Here’s ome of the more notable selections complete with YouTube links.
The Hellacopters – I’m In The Band
This is my ‘show song.’ I listen to this before every show to get pupmed up and ready to go on stage. This and Alcohol by Barenaked ladies really get me ready to puppet up.
Martin Solveig Feat. Dragonette – Hello
This one will always remind me of the Toronto tour, like Pumped Up Kicks will remind me of the Florida tour. This run we got brand new pre-show and intermission music and this track plays during intermission. Not really my type of song, but it’s poppy and fun. Ted HATED this song with a passion and would constantly say, “I think there should be a video of this song where the girl is just running away from that noise.” By the end of the run Brian had a whole dance routine worked out to it that he forcibly made me learn one night. Several times we got our intermission ‘places’ call and this song would come on as were standing backstage, ready to go for Act 2. Everyone would be dancing. Ted even danced one night.
Neko Case – Calling Cards
Neko’s new album has been on heavy rotation on all my music paying devices. So many great songs. This one is my favorite. From the first time I heard it. While in Toronto, I heard an interview with her on NPR and she talked about how it’s about being on the road with a band and missing other bands you play with and wanting to be with them. Love the line, “Looking like you just woke up from making songs.” Kind of a perfect song for being out on the road and away from home.
Jonathan Coulton – Space Doggity
I love me some Jonathan Coulton. The David Bowie exhibit was in Toronto while we are there. I’m not a huge fan but several of our group are and they went and saw it. There was a lot of Bowie talk and it got me thinking about this song by Jonathan. Such a sad song and a sad story. I’ve talked about it elsewhere on this blog. Listening to it a few times on this trip got me thinking that, someday, when I have the time and inclination, I’d like to create a puppet piece based on this song.
Bleu – Could Be Worse
Blue is my ‘artist of the year.’ I’ve had a song by him in my collection for awhile. A song I loved (Snow Day). I rediscovered him through a Jellyfish fan group as a member of Jellyfish sang on one of Bleu’s songs. Anyway, I love this song. Rocking, great lyrics. Good message.
Shawn Colvin – Wichita Skyline
While perusing my Twitter feed one morning I saw a tweet from Shawn Colvin with a picture of the real Wichita Skyline and it got this song in my head. Great song about being stuck in you life and unable to break out.
Dar Williams – It’s Alright
Listening to Shawn Colvin got me thinking about Dar Williams and this song. Listened to this several times while in Toronto. In the hotel and walking around the streets. THis is a great song and I’m glad I rediscovered now. Has a lot of meaning for me in this point of my life and things going on around me.
It’s time and I am changing,
Into something good or bad
Well, that’s your guess.
Something about this song just really hooks me deep inside. It’s about loss and moving on, changed, but “It’s Alright.” Listening to this song also got me onto Dar’s I Saw A Bird Fly Away. Another great tune.
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Dr. Michael C. Wimberly, Associate Professor, GISc Center of Excellence, South Dakota State University. Research interests include the ecology of infectious diseases, human-environment interactions, and spatial statistics.
Michael Wimberly s educational background is in ecology and natural resource management. He received a Bachelor s degree in environmental science from the University of Virginia, a Master s degree in quantitative resource management from the University of Washington, and a Ph.D. in forest ecology from Oregon State University.
Mike conducts research in the areas of landscape ecology and spatial epidemiology. His current work focuses on integrating ecological concepts with the application of satellite imagery, GIS datasets, and spatial statistics to assess environmental and health hazards at broad spatial scales. A recently completed project examined the environmental factors controlling the geographic distributions of the tick-borne pathogens Ehrlichia chaffeensis and Anaplasma phagocytophilum in the southeastern United States. Spatial statistical models were developed to create predictive maps that can be used in assessments of tick-borne disease risk. Current projects include examining the influences of physical and social environments on geographic patterns of obesity across the United States, and using satellite remote sensing, geographic information systems, and spatial statistics to make ecological forecasts of West Nile virus and malaria outbreaks. Mike s health geography research is supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health and the USDA National Research Initiative. In addition to his research activities, Mike teaches a graduate-level course in geospatial analysis that focuses on the application of spatial statistics in ecological and epidemiological research.
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August was a very busy month! As well as giving birth to my daughter Inca (birth story coming) and the kids being off school, I also managed to record my first couple of episodes from my new podcast!
‘For Pod’s Sake’ is a new podcast featuring some great guest and the idea is to think of it as hanging out with your friends, discussing things over a glass of wine whilst listening in the comfort of your own home.
Subjects will vary from motherhood (knowing we’re all in the same boat and you’re doing a great job), skin care, fashion, cracking the modelling industry, pregnancy, relationships, travel and whatever else springs to mind. The main thing is – it’s honest and if you know me you’ll know I don’t have a filter between my head and my mouth!
In my debut podcast, I talk to Liz Day at Mothercare, Kerri Northcott and Sylvia Flote about the #PushItOut campaign that went viral. Honesty in maternity advertising has started to change from the pressures of myself and others putting on brands to use real pregnant model and not fake prosthetic bumps. Why do brands do this? What does the consumer think? What do the models think? Why has the fashion industry evolved so much in other areas apart from maternity?
Right in amongst the summer break, I spoke to Kerri Northcott, Kristen Smith and Liz Day (Mothercare) about the trials and tribulations of keeping your sanity in check during testing month of August. How do you plan ahead and fill the diary? Is resorting to the master parenting hack of outright bribery ok? How do you avoid feeling guilty if the kids seem bored? We also asked Basil (7) and Ivy (5) for their hot take on how we’re doing!
I’d really love to know your thoughts and ideas on what you’d like to listen to. Also please please SUBSCRIBE and share!
New episodes are to be recorded next week when the kids are all back at school (hurrah).
Thanks and hope you’ve had a lovely summer.
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This isn't the best the Marx Bros have made but it's a pretty funny farce.
This isn’t the best the Marx Bros have made but it’s a pretty funny farce.
Postwar Nazi intrigue in Casablanca is the theme, having to do with the handsome French flyer who is under a cloud because of Nazi skullduggery dealing with European loot cached in the Hotel Casablanca. When three of the hotel’s managers get bumped off in rapid succession, Groucho gets the nod. Chico runs the Yellow Camel Co. and Harpo is his mute pal who later breaks the bank in the hotel’s casino and stumbles on the Nazi gold through a mishap with the lift.
Against the desert background of French provincial political bungling and Nazi chicanery the Marxes get off some effective comedy, and some of it not so. The brighter spots are the clown fencing duel; the frustrated tryst between Groucho and Lisette Verea, running from suite to suite, with portable phonograph, champagne cooler, etc; the sequence with the packing cases and clothes closet, prior to the getaway; and finally the air-autotruck chase, winding up back in the same jail from whence all escaped.
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In 1993, the Laing family, on seeing the growth of the island's economy, the location of the property and the demand for hotel rooms in the "Southland" purchased the hotel and refurbished the original 12 rooms. By 1998, a further 7 rooms had been added.
After 8 years of operating under the new Laing Management Team the demands for its hotel rooms were unprecedented. In 2001, an entirely new 3-storey wing was constructed. This increased the room capacity to 41. The new wing also houses a grand lobby, fully equipped gym, a hairdresser, swimming pool, conference room, mini mart, poolside bar, night pub featuring karaoke and live entertainment.
Founded In 1950, Tradewinds Hotel was the first establishment of its kind in the city of San Fernando. Situated in a prestigious residential area, the hotel was the favourite among the oil expatriates working in Trinidad at that time. Originally 12 rooms, a restaurant and bar, the hotel became a popular "Liming" (hang out) spot for all.
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I love sushi, but my wallet isn't so fond of it, which lead me to explore making my own at home. However, many of the kits out there aren't particularly easy to use, leaving you to figure out many of the steps on your own. The Sushi Magic Kit, however, focuses on making the process very easy. Not only does it include the tools to roll sushi rolls, but it also includes a rice press mold so that you can make nigiri as well. The directions cover every step and have photographs so that you know what your sushi should look like at each step, even down to how to make the rice and slice the other ingredients. The Sushi Magic Web site even provides video tutorials if you need a little extra help.
The Sushi Magic Kit also simplifies clean up. Rather than the traditional mat used for sushi molls, it comes with a silicone mat that does not need to be cleaned in between individual rolls--and it can be cleaned up without any extra effort. The kit starts with teaching you how to make California rolls, but provides you with the tools necessary to make a wide variety of different sushi. The Sushi Magic Kit is priced at $29.95.
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Originally posted: http://mommytalk73.com/2015/04/19/the-day-i-gave-my-kids-the-1999-version-of-myself/
We have had a long week, a lot going on in our family that has been weighing us all down, physically, mentally and emotionally. My eldest son ended up getting pink eye and after a trip to urgent care, he was told he had to stay home from school the next day and honestly it was the biggest blessing in disguise. We woke up to a beautiful day weather wise, and we all headed outside together to enjoy some fresh air. Immediately the boys started heading towards the big muddy spot in our yard and my first instinct was to tell them to avoid it… But as those words came out of my mouth I couldn’t help but to think…”Ughhh, I just sounded like my mother”… how did I get to be the age where I sound like my mom?!
I stood there watching them pick the safe option and walk towards the swings, heads down in disappointment. “Man, I really need to loosen up!!” went running through my head. My kids would have loved the 1999 version of myself… The carefree, fun 17 year old who found adventure in everything she did..Heck, I would love if that girl showed up more often, I miss that girl! I decided right in that moment, that my kids would get the 1999 version of myself for the day. They needed me to just relax, and to stop being their mom for that moment. They needed me to just be me, Nicole, without all the weight and responsibility of being their mom, a homemaker, a school advocate, and someones wife. And you know what? I needed it to.
I took off my mom cap, and put on my fabulous 1999 Uconn baseball cap. I turned on the radio, much louder than I normally would have and we rocked out right there in our front yard. The breeze was blowing, we had our sunglasses on and we danced, and sang out of tune and most importantly.. we laughed, deep belly laughs. The boys ran and jumped right into the mud pit and splattered it all over and had so much fun together while doing it…Two brothers enjoying each others company in the midst of a slimy dirt patch, just like it should be. My daughter even joined in at one point.. all three looking at each other getting covered in mud and thinking it was the funniest thing they had ever seen. We played soccer, and kept score. My youngest son opened up two packages of brand new sidewalk chalk, even though we only needed one.. and I let him. My daughter spilled her whole bowl of cookies all over the drive way… and I let her pick them up and eat each one of them. We ate more snacks than we did meals, and we went for seconds on dessert. We ran around the house without a care in the world. The pile of laundry and toys scattered all over did not even taunt me that day. In fact I stuck my tongue out at it and maybe even spit a little while making raspberry noises at it.. and my kids copied me… and we laughed… oh how we laughed. When the kids started to get tired and all needed to rest, I didnt take that time to make phone calls, pay bills or even write a blog.. Nope I laid on the couch with my pink eyed boy and we watched episode after episode of teenage mutant ninja turtles, and I liked it and so did he.
I felt free, they felt free. For that day I got to set aside all of the cares and responsibilities of our lives, and just survive in the moment. Sure the 2015 version of myself had a lot more stuff to catch up on the next day, but the kids, they had a blast with the 1999 version of mommy and fell in love with what made me, me all those years ago. Deep down in all of us that 17 year old version of ourselves still lingers…Some of it can stay back in 1999 where it belongs, but pieces of it.. well it was great to see again. I think I’ll keep those pieces around a little longer. And although I wouldn’t trade where I am today for anything in the world, it was nice to show my kids the version of me that their daddy fell in love with almost 16 years ago….
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At first, stronger lighting and eyeglasses can help you deal with cataracts
A cataract is a clouding of the normally clear lens of your eye. For people who have cataracts, seeing through cloudy lenses is a bit like looking through a frosty or fogged-up window. Clouded vision caused by cataracts can make it more difficult to read, drive a car (especially at night) or see the expression on a friend’s face.
Most cataracts develop slowly and don’t disturb your eyesight early on. But with time, cataracts will eventually interfere with your vision.
At first, stronger lighting and eyeglasses can help you deal with cataracts. But if impaired vision interferes with your usual activities, you might need cataract surgery. Fortunately, cataract surgery is generally a safe, effective procedure.
Signs and symptoms of cataracts include:
- Clouded, blurred or dim vision
- Increasing difficulty with vision at night
- Sensitivity to light and glare
- Need for brighter light for reading and other activities
- Seeing “halos” around lights
- Frequent changes in eyeglass or contact lens prescription
- Fading or yellowing of colors
- Double vision in a single eye
When to see a doctor
Make an appointment for an eye exam if you notice any changes in your vision. If you develop sudden vision changes, such as double vision or flashes of light, sudden eye pain, or sudden headache, see your doctor right away.
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Dark, dingy, even unsafe, car parks are probably the last place you'd expect to find innovative architecture. But some defy expectations
Like gas stations and strip malls, parking structures seem more likely to be the unhappy grunt work of junior architects than the creations of master designers. And yet, among the millions of drab concrete garages throughout the world, a few stand out—replete with all the hallmarks of great architecture.
Few and far between, these wonders are sprinkled around the globe in locations from Paris to Santa Monica. These buildings—green parking garages, innovative automobile dealerships, and futuristic gas stations—form a network of buildings fit for admiration as well as for parking your car.
Some of these are run-of-the-mill parking garages that on first glance look anything but interesting. The Civic Center Parking Structure in Santa Monica, Calif., designed by Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners, is a stylish monument in the heart of a city that nurtured America's car culture. The local architects designed a relatively conventional inner structure, which they transformed with a skin of multicolored glass panels and stainless-steel mesh surrounding the corner stairwells. The space is immensely eye-catching, while on a purely practical level, it provides about 900 much-needed municipal parking spots for the city's downtown area.
Other striking examples include the Cardova Parkade in Vancouver, B.C., and the Nutwood Parking Facility in Fullerton, Calif. The former is a massive, $28 million revitalization project that incorporates fragments of the city's old bridges, conceived by Henriquez Partners Architects. The latter is shrouded in a so-called green screen, a canopy of bamboo and flowering vines that wraps around the structure and generates oxygen throughout the building. That project was created by the Los Angeles firm AC Martin.
A Jewel of an Auto Showroom
Automobile dealerships are routinely designed to showcase and store cars as attractively as possible. But some put more emphasis on cutting-edge architecture than others. Automaker Citroën (PEUGY), for example, completed its C42 building in the heart of Paris early last year. The glass-encrusted showroom, which serves as a kind of brand hall and museum, stands out like an asymmetrical jewel on the Champs-Elysées.
Mercedes-Benz (DAI) and Toyota Motor (TM) also have unique dealerships around the world. The Nunawading Toyota dealership in Melbourne, Australia, is housed in a futuristic structure, designed by Melbourne's Gray Puksand and Michael Avramidis. The building's trapezoidal roof makes it look more like a spaceship than a car dealership. Likewise, Mercedes-Benz's flagship store in San Francisco is a study in experimental materials and dramatic shapes, including a two-story showroom with a cylindrical glass tower facing the street. Completed in 2006, it was designed by the local firm Huntsman Architectural Group.
Other buildings don't quite fit into neat categories. The Thiais Bus Center Administrative Building in Thaias, France, is neither a parking garage nor a dealership. The building, which was designed by the Paris-based duo Emmanuel Combarel and Dominique Marrec, is a nexus for that city's bus drivers. In a hodge-podge of industrial and modern architecture, the building alternates between heavy concrete forms and large glass windows—to radical effect.
The Helios House in Los Angeles, sponsored by British Petroleum (BP), is an experiment intended to put forth ideas about the future of gas stations. Although the station does sell gas, it also attempts to be green. Designed by the Boston architects at Office dA, it incorporates energy-efficient lights, a green roof of native plants, and a water-collection system that treats contaminated waste water and redistributes it to irrigate on-site greenery. The station's unique metallic skin is made of prefabricated, recyclable, stainless-steel panels.
These structures prove that not all car parks are doomed to be bland, boring boxes. And what's also clear is what often distinguishes drab from fab—even where parking garages are concerned—is the support of a well-resourced corporation or municipality.
For a closer look at some of the world's best places to park, check out the BusinessWeek.com slide show.
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The previous is a link to my editorial, “No Justice in System,” published last summer, that won Best Editorial for newspapers of under 100,000 in the Greater Los Angeles Press Club for 2006.
The release of violent criminals back into the streets are the No. 1 problem in Los Angeles County. This is related to a similar issue, the fleeing of murder, rape and violent crime suspects to Mexico. And the inability of the U.S. authorities to find these fugitives and bring them to justice. It is literally “getting away with murder.”
What are your thoughts on these two related issues?
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UPSC conducted the Civil Services exam 2020 (prelims) on October 4. The Civil Services main exam will be held from February 28 to March 7. The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has released the schedule of Indian Forest Service Main exam.
According to the released schedule, the UPSC IFS main exam will be held from February 28 to March 7.
Candidates who have passed the preliminary exam are eligible to appear for the main exam. UPSC IFS PT was held on October 4 and it’s result was declared on October 23.
According to the official notification, UPSC IFS Mains will comprise of questions from English, general knowledge, mathematics, statistics, physics, zoology, chemistry, geology, agriculture, animal husbandry and veterinary science, forestry, agricultural engineering, civil engineering, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering and botany papers.
The UPSC conducts the civil services examination for recruitment to the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Foreign Service (IFS), Indian Police Service (IPS) and other central services and posts in accordance with the rules published by the Department of Personnel and Training in the Gazette of India extraordinary.
This year, the Civil Services Preliminary Examination will be held on 04-10-2020 at various test centers across the nation.
Those candidates who want to apply for the Indian Forest Service examination, they will have to attempt the preliminary examination and if they qualify, they’ll have to write the main examination followed by an interview round.
The Civil Services Exam is conducted by the UPSC to select candidates to fill administrative positions in different All-India Services and central civil services including IAS, IPS, IFS, IRS, and IRTS.
As of now, the UPSC conducts the Civil Services Examination (CSE), popularly known as IAS (Indian Administrative Service) exam, in two phases namely- UPSC Prelims and UPSC Mains.
The prelims exam comprises objective-type questions, while the questions asked in mains need descriptive and essay-type answering.
Also, the selection of a candidate is made well before the commencement of the foundation course.
Candidates interested in becoming IAS or IPS are required to qualify and get through the Civil Services examinations. Reportedly, one of the toughest sets of examinations in the country, the recruitment or selection is done in a three-step process. Candidates are required to first clear a preliminary examination which is an objective type paper that carries negative marking.
Candidates shortlisted in the prelims are then required to appear in Civil Services Mains examination which are subjective examinations in selected disciplines. Further shortlisted, the candidates are called for personal interviews and the marks obtained in an interview and the main examination are then computed to prepare a merit list. These selected candidates are accordingly recommended by the commission to various departments like Indian Administrative Services, IAS, etc.
UPSC: The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) is an organization that works under the central government to recruit staff for various posts in the various ministries and departments, and in subordinate offices. The commission also conducts examinations for the recruitment in various departments of the state.
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As of the end of June 2022, Mr. Heinrich Lanz has resigned from his position on the Board of Directors of INTEGRA Holding AG. We thank Mr. Lanz for his many years of valuable support and wish him all the best for his future life.
INTEGRA Holding AG is pleased to announce that the Board of Directors will be strengthened by Mr. Philip Bodmer and Mr. Gian-Luca Bona as of July 1, 2022. We warmly welcome both of them.
As of the end of May 2022, Mr. Heinrich Lanz, Mr. Elmar Morscher and Mr. Fernando Da Silva Moreira have resigned from their mandate as members of the Board of Directors of INTEGRA Metering AG. We would like to thank all three for their many years of valuable support and wish them all the best for the future.
INTEGRA Metering AG is pleased to announce that the Board of Directors will be strengthened by Mr. Gian-Luca Bona and Mr. Roland Obrist as of June 1, 2022. Mr. Gian-Luca Bona will also join the Board of Directors of INTEGRA Holding AG as of July 1, 2022.
The new name brings Sitek closer to the holding company. Read the complete article (in German) from the "Solothurner Zeitung".
At the end of March 2022, Ms. Monika Krüsi and Mr. Heinrich Lanz stepped down from their positions on the Board of Directors of SIGNAL Ltd. We would like to thank Ms. Krüsi and Mr. Lanz for their many years of valuable support and wish them all the best for the future.
SIGNAL Ltd. is pleased to announce that the Board of Directors will be strengthened by Mr. Martin Folini as of April 1, 2022. Mr. Folini already holds a directorship with the parent company INTEGRA Holding AG. We wish Mr. Folini a good start at SIGNAL AG and continued success and pleasure.
The internationally active technology company INTEGRA Biosciences is expanding its headquarters in Zizers at a cost of over 100 million Swiss francs to create an innovation and production site with space for 400 employees. By 2028, 250 new jobs will be created. The company today broke ground for the "INTEGRA Campus".
It is with great sadness we have to announce the sudden passing of our friend and Integra Group CEO of Integra Engineering India Utkarsh Pundlik.
We extend our most heartfelt condolences and sympathy to Utkarsh‘s family. Our thoughts and prayers are with them at this most difficult time.
On April 7, 2021, another ground breaking ceremony took place in the Grenchen industrial zone for an extension of our sister company SITEK AG.
INTEGRA Metering underlines growth ambitions and strengthens the focus of its Board of Directors.
On 25th of March 2021, the shareholders of INTEGRA Metering unanimously elected Dieter Brunner as new member and Chairman of the Board of Directors.
He succeeds Roger Baumer, CEO and co-owner of Hälg Group, who actively contributed to the new orientation of INTEGRA Metering over the last ten years as board member.
Dieter Brunner also assumes the role of Chairman of the Board from Adrian Oehler, CEO and Chairman of the Board of INTEGRA Holding, who takes over as Vice Chairman of the Board of INTEGRA Metering.
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NYCB Midsummer VHS
Posted 08 June 2002 - 08:44 AM
Posted 11 June 2002 - 09:11 AM
If anyone has any further information, or if this is incorrect, please add/correct.
Posted 11 June 2002 - 10:45 AM
the NYPL for the Perf. Arts at Linc.Cent./Dance Coll. does, to be sure have a copy, as follows:
A midsummer night's dream [videorecording] / directed by Dan Eriksen ; produced by Richard Davis ; choreography by George Balanchine ; music by Felix Mendelssohn.c1967.
Description:2 videocassettes (93 min.) : sd., col. NTSC ; 3/4 in. (U-matic)
Notes:Full-length motion picture.
Performed by members of the New York City Ballet and students of The School of American Ballet.
Suzanne Farrell (Titania), Edward Villella (Oberon), Arthur Mitchell (Puck), Mimi Paul (Helena), Nicholas Magallanes (Lysander), Patricia McBride (Hermia), Roland Vazquez (Demetrius), Francisco Moncion (Theseus), Gloria Govrin (Hippolyta), Richard Rapp (Bottom), Jacques d'Amboise (Court danseur), and Allegra Kent (Court danseuse).
Released by Michael Taines ; director of photography, Arthur J. Ornitz ; production design, Howard Bay ; art direction, Albert Brenner ; costumes, Karinska.
also in the library:
A midsummer night's dream [unedited footage] [videorecording] / directed by Dan Eriksen ; produced by Richard Davis ; choreography by George Balanchine.
Description:1 videocassette (24 min.) : si., col. NTSC ; 1/2 in. (VHS)
Unedited footage, without audio.
For the completed version of the film, which was released through Oberon Productions, Ltd., in 1967, see *MGZIC 9-1405.
Production design, Howard Bay ; art direction, Albert Brenner ; costumes, Karinska.
Suzanne Farrell (Titania), Conrad Ludlow (Titania's cavalier), Arthur Mitchell (Puck), Edward Villella (Oberon), Mimi Paul (Helena), Patricia McBride (Hermia), Roland Vazquez (Demetrius), Nicholas Magallanes (Lysander), Gloria Govrin (Hippolyta), Richard Rapp (Bottom), Francisco Moncion (Theseus), members of the New York City Ballet, children from the School of American Ballet.
Unedited footage from the film version of George Balanchine's ballet adaptation of William Shakespeare's play. The scenes, most of which are from Act I of the ballet, include Titania's pas de deux with her cavalier; Oberon's dance with the ensemble of butterflies and fairies; a mime scene in which Oberon directs Puck to find the magic flower, and Puck's ensuing journey; the four lovers wandering through a mist-shrouded forest as Hippolyta and her hounds pursue their hunt; Titania's awakening, and the removal of Bottom's enchantment. Scenes from Act II include the final pose of Theseus, Hippolyta, and the four lovers, and the reconciliation of Titania and Oberon, with the butterflies and fairies in attendance.
Posted 28 June 2002 - 10:51 PM
BTW: saw PNB's Midsummer in person: a wonderful production with standout performances by Patricia Barker and Christopher Stowell (Puck). Sorry to see it pounded by those who viewed the DVD.
Posted 29 June 2002 - 02:31 AM
Posted 30 June 2002 - 04:06 PM
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Home Theater Denver. Have you ever had friends come over to your home, and get confused with trying to use your home theater system. They can never figure out which remotes they need to use. With a Control4 system, that never has to happen again. They will be able to use your system on the first try. It really is that easy. We would love to give you a demonstration. Call today to set one up.
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As the McCain campaign has launched a full-scale assault on Barack Obama’s relationship to ‘60s radical William Ayers, vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin has explained the timing this way: The New York Times made us do it.
The Times published a front-page story about Ayers and Obama on Saturday, and Palin said Tuesday she was simply “responding to the news of the day” by repeatedly mentioning Ayers on the stump.
Story Continued Below
Bill Keller, executive editor of the Times, sees the timetable for the Ayers uproar in a very different way, however. He told Politico that the paper was motivated to report out the Ayers link because the McCain campaign has been pushing it — not the other way around.
“We've reported the Ayers relationship before, and we had it on our to-do list for a while to take a more comprehensive look,” Keller said in an e-mail. “When the McCain campaign began to make it a major focal point of ads and stump speeches, we decided the time was right.”
“It didn't take any prodding,” Keller continued. “When the conversation on something controversial reaches a certain level, curious readers look to the Times to help them sort the facts from the fictions and figure out what to make of it. That's what we did.”
While Palin and John McCain — as well as talk radio and the conservative blogosphere — continue to cite the Times report as damaging, its tone was quite the opposite. The Times’ 2,100-word piece concluded that while Obama “has played down his contacts” with Ayers — a former leader of the Weather Underground who’s now an education professor at the University of Illinois — “the two men do not appear to have been close.”
Keller’s correct that the Times previously reported on Ayers and Obama. In April, the paper followed up on the Democratic debate in Philadelphia, where the issues surrounding the Obama-Ayers link came up.
But there had been no comprehensive report on the matter during this campaign cycle, including a serious look into Obama’s six-year role on the board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, an education foundation. Ayers had been co-chairman of the Chicago School Reform Collaborative, a policy-setting body within the foundation.
Although records indicate that Ayers only attended six CAC board meetings in six years, Obama critics remain focused on what, if any, significant contact they had. Despite blog reports that Ayers had a role in appointing Obama to the board, the Times did not find that to be true.
Although the McCain campaign’s pushed the story, the Times was motivated, at least partly, by one of Obama’s harshest critics.
On Sept. 23, Stanley Kurtz — who’s been covering Obama’s activities in Chicago for National Review — published an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal in which he mentioned digging through the CAC archives, currently stored at the University of Illinois.
The Times had never sent a reporter to Chicago to investigate the archives. And there was a feeling internally that the paper should have looked into the matter earlier in the campaign, according to a source with knowledge of the Times' reporting process. Shortly after the Kurtz piece ran, Times reporter Scott Shane was assigned to do a more comprehensive take on where the two men crossed paths. Shane also spoke with blogger Steve Diamond, who claims the Obama-Ayers relationship runs deeper than has been previously reported. However, the Times' reporting proved differently.
The Times story managed to earn brickbats from both sides of the political aisle — often a standard for fair, objective journalism. Critics on the right blasted the paper for not bolstering their claims of a tighter relationship — including Kurtz who dubbed it a “whitewash.” But on Daily Kos and Huffington Post, among other left-leaning sites, some questioned about why the Times would promote the story on Page 1, above the fold, if there wasn’t any shocking revelation.
Keller said that was an “easy decision,” decided upon with managing editor Jill Abramson.
“We've run a lot of our pieces on the candidates' backgrounds — including many installments of the Long Run series — in just that spot,” Keller said. “The standard is not whether such a piece unearths some shocking new revelation. The value is in offering curious readers a fair, authoritative account of an episode that has generated a great deal of partisan heat and misinformation.”
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- 1 Cooking Madness MOD APK
- 2 Features of Cooking Madness MOD APK
- 2.1 Enjoy the fast paced and engaging cooking game
- 2.2 Complete your missions and advance to new areas.
- 2.3 Learn to prepare hundreds of different foods.
- 2.4 Various upgrades and level ups to explore
- 2.5 Cooking Madness 4 screen
- 2.6 Get amazing rewards from exciting missions and achievements.
- 2.7 Tons of new and interesting content you can expect
- 2.8 Enjoy the game with or without Internet
- 2.9 Free to play
- 2.10 Enjoy unlimited money with our mod
- 2.11 Visual and sound quality
- 2.12 Sound and music
- 3 How to Install Cooking Madness mod Apk on Android?
- 4 Conclusion
Cooking Madness MOD APK
In the game, Android players will find themselves playing as a great chef who is on his missions to challenge the culinary world through a variety of incredible culinary challenges. Take on the entire cooking and serving tasks as you try to prepare the food, get the orders, cook and serve it all yourself. With dozens of incoming customers, you will have to work like crazy to complete the challenges.
Here in Cooking Madness, you will have the changes to face the best cooking competitions through many different places with varied dishes exclusive to specific regions. Cook for multiple customers, each with their own tastes and orders. Do your best to deliver the most delicious foods on plates and serve your customers the best you have to offer.
Collect money from your dedicated jobs and make multiple upgrades to your kits. Complete a series of exciting challenges and take on hundreds of different levels. The amazing gameplay of the arcade with its engaging content is sure to impress most Android gamers who are interested.
Features of Cooking Madness MOD APK
Here are all the amazing features that the game offers:
Enjoy the fast paced and engaging cooking game
For those of you who are interested in the exciting mobile kitchen game, you can now enjoy this fast-paced and addictive Cooking Madness title. Feel free to enjoy the exciting experiences of Cooking Madness as you rush from restaurant to restaurant while you find yourself cooking the various dishes with countless ingredients and equipment.
Explore the absolute frenzy at your restaurants during peak hours and have fun cooking with your impressive techniques and time management skills. Immerse yourself in the incredible gameplay of Cooking Madness as you play like crazy to advance through the game. Quickly receive orders, prepare food, place on a plate and ready to serve your customers. Make quick and effective meal combos to earn some special bonuses. Cooking Madness will really simulate the incredible pressure inside the kitchen during peak hours in a crowded restaurant. Only this time, you will be the one to engage in the addictive and exciting challenges.
Attractive and interesting cooking madness game.
And speaking of which, Android players at Cooking Madness will now have access to their interesting culinary madness game as you travel and cook at multiple restaurants, each with their own unique dishes to start with. Prepare for challenges as you try to serve new guests and participate in the different kitchen setups. This is where our best chef can improve his culinary skills with many exciting actions.
Complete your missions and advance to new areas.
And at the same time, as you try to complete the different missions and levels in Cooking Madness, the amazing mobile game also offers exciting new areas on the map for you to explore. Here, you can start enjoying an exciting and addictive cooking game with new challenges and objectives that you must meet your absolute skills. Also, to make the game more interesting and attractive, with each new area, you will also find that the game becomes more and more challenging with the improved difficulties. Thus, it makes the game much more fun and interesting for players of all skill levels.
Learn to prepare hundreds of different foods.
For those of you who love to eat and share good meals, Cooking Madness will also offer its awesome cooking recipes with hundreds of options available for you to pick up and start serving your customers. Find yourself progressing through the maps and explore the interesting cooking simulation game while trying to cook certain foods in the correct order.
Various upgrades and level ups to explore
And as you progress through Cooking Madness, you can now explore the amazing upgrades and level ups that are available in the game, each of which provides certain boosts to your kitchen and cooking ability. Enjoy better stoves with unlocked slots. Chop and prepare ingredients much faster with improved appliances. Use upgrades to shorten cook time as well as allow more delicious dishes to be prepared. Complete your challenges, upgrade your kitchens, level up your skills and become the famous Crazy Chef in Cooking Madness.
Cooking Madness 4 screen
Enjoy hundreds of interesting levels of Cooking Madness
And to make the game more interesting, Android players in Cooking Madness can now enjoy many interesting levels of casual recording game. As a result, to properly guide you through the stories and challenges, Cooking Madness has already introduced a few hundred interesting levels for all players to enjoy on their mobile devices, in case you can complete the above. Feel free to tap like crazy and accurately deliver food to your customers as you try to advance through the game.
Get amazing rewards from exciting missions and achievements.
Also, if you are interested in getting more rewards with the game, the exciting gameplay of missions and achievements will always be available for you to explore. Collect endless cooking challenges and missions with varied gameplay. Complete all of them and you can get many special rewards that are not available in most other games.
Tons of new and interesting content you can expect
For dedicated players at Cooking Madness, you can also rest assured that the game will always deliver its new content on time. Here with each new update, players can start enjoying their new game modes, new challenges, new missions, new updates, and most importantly, the interesting time limit events that are sure to enhance their in-game experiences. Feel free to explore any of these new content and get amazing rewards.
Enjoy the game with or without Internet
To make the game more interesting, Android players in Cooking Madness can also enjoy its fully portable mobile title. Here, you can easily learn the exciting game of Cooking Madness with completely offline experiences. Therefore, it is not necessary to activate mobile data whenever you are outdoors.
Free to play
And despite all the exciting features of the game, the game is still free for all Android players to enjoy on their mobile devices, no payment required. All you need to do is browse and pick up the game from the Google Play Store without paying anything.
Enjoy unlimited money with our mod
For those of you who are interested, Android players at Cooking Madness will now have a chance to enjoy the game fully unlocked on our website. Here, you can enjoy unlimited money, ad-free experiences, and fully accessible content. All you need is to download the Cooking Madness Mod APK from our website, follow the provided instructions and start enjoying the game.
Visual and sound quality
With delightful and enjoyable visual experiences, Cooking Madness offers accessible and fun gameplay for players of all ages. Feel free to participate in the amazing challenges and experiences of the casual tapping game in Cooking Madness. And enjoy the stunning cartoon graphics that would make the food seem more appetizing.
Sound and music
Also, to make the game more interesting, Android players in Cooking Madness will now have the opportunity to really participate in the exciting game of frenzy cooking, thanks to the brilliant music. Have fun with accurate audio recreations and sound effects when you cook and serve your food. And at the same time, always relax to the catchy and soothing soundtracks.
How to Install Cooking Madness mod Apk on Android?
Downloading Cooking Madness mod premium now has become very easy. To get this application on your phone is a two minutes game. want to know how? just follow simple steps:-
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- Now go to your phone’s setting and enable unknown sources to install this app.
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- Click on that, Boom!!! you get your application in your phone.
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A Little Confetti
Malibu Blue Watercolour Large Plates
Regular price $9.45
Shipping calculated at checkout.
Painterly blue watercolour inspired by California waves at dusk, our large hexagon paper plate adorned with gold splashes is perfect for a relaxed gathering or an elegant celebration. Great for outdoor receptions, showers, birthdays, anniversaries, holidays and more.
Colours: Blue, white, gold foil
Approx. 10.5" corner to corner
8 Plates / pack
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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 31/10/2013 (1386 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
FARGO, N.D. – Although many consider it a hoax, the story about a woman who told a Fargo morning radio show she plans to hand out letters instead of candy this Halloween has generated buzz.
On Tuesday, the Y-94 Morning Playhouse broadcast the voice of a woman they called "Cheryl" who said she wanted to hand out letters to obese children in lieu of candy.
"I just want to send a message to the parents of kids that are really overweight," she said on Y-94. "I think it’s just really irresponsible of parents to send them out looking for free candy just ‘cause all the other kids are doing it,’ she said.
Y-94 officials then posted the letter – which they said was emailed to the station – on its Facebook page.
"It takes a village to raise a child," the letter states. "And "you (sic) child is, in my opinion, moderately obese and should not be consuming sugar and treats to the extent of some children …"
Some local media outlets took notice, reposting the letter on their own Facebook pages and broadcasting reports on it.
By Wednesday morning – also the anniversary of Orson Welles’ 1938 War of the Worlds broadcast that set off a nationwide panic – national news outlets such as the Today Show, Fox News, Good Morning America, USA Today and the Los Angeles Times released stories about "Cheryl’s" letter.
But few are convinced there is a "Cheryl," especially faithful listeners of the popular Y-94 morning show hosted by Rat, Zero and Maggie.
Y-94 stirred up national attention in September 2012 with its bit on "Donna the Deer Lady." In less than 24 hours, 2.4 million YouTube viewers clicked on "Donna" telling Rat and Zero that she thought deer crossing signs encourage deer to cross the road rather than warn drivers.
Like Donna, Cheryl’s last name has not been released.
"JT," Y-94’s programming director, did not return messages from the Forum of Fargo-Moorhead on Wednesday.
John Austin, a member of the Chris John and Jane in the Morning show on 95.1 FM, has worked at Y-94. He said the letter is almost certainly a hoax.
"It’s their shtick, that’s their thing, it’s what they are kinda famous for," Austin said. "Kudos to those guys for pulling it off, but the problem becomes you have to be careful how many times you go to that well."
Austin said a radio hoax can easily backfire.
"Nobody likes to be made to feel stupid," he said.
Jesse James of Jesse and Amanda with Pike in the Mornings on 98.7 FM echoed Austin’s sentiments.
James said "Cheryl" is most likely a hired voice actor the station paid to call in.
Like Austin, James was concerned about the hit on credibility Y-94’s bit could create. James said his show "is never fake."
No one has reported Cheryl’s last name, including Y-94. But it is not Cheryl Wald of Fargo.
Wald has been asked many times if she was the caller after the self-proclaimed fitness and health fan commented on social media about the letter.
Her voice is not similar to the caller’s, but Wald has been outspoken about how she agrees with the idea of a village raising a child and thinks it is a good idea for parents to watch their children’s sugar intake.
Wald said she received negative feedback.
"People were really mean," she said. "I’m into health and fitness, but I don’t think kids should get a letter like that."
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Characteristic of the festival is a three-pillar model: market of ideas, bio-certified festival gastronomy and a cultural program of music, various forms of theater, performances and visual arts. The festival offers a wide musical spectrum of rock, songwriting, jazz and blues, as well as theater performances and artistic performances.
Tollwood in the summer
The Tollwood Summer Festival The South Olympic Park stands for Nouveau Cirque productions from all over the world, concerts by stars, newcomers and music legends of the international music scene, performances by local and regional bands - and of course for the "market of ideas" with arts and crafts and organic gastronomy.
Tollwood in the winter
The Christmas-themed "Market of Ideas" with arts and crafts and certified organic gastronomy, international theater companies and the "World Salon", the tent for current social and ecological topics - this is the Tollwood Winter Festival on the Theresienwiese in the heart of Munich.
Tollwood and the environment
Enjoyment of culture, joie de vivre and commitment to the environment and a fair world are all part of Tollwood: Tollwood is a cultural and environmental festival. Since the first hour, the organizers have been committed to people, animals and the environment - at the festival and beyond its borders.
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If you haven’t found the perfect gift for Mother’s Day yet – don’t panic. Your favorite celebrities are here to help with the breakout book, A Letter to My Mom (Crown Archetype; $22.00, On Sale April 7, 2015). Created by Lisa Erspamer, A Letter to My Mom is a heartwarming collection of personal letters from people all over the world (including celebrities and everyday sons and daughters) to the women who raised them.
Good Morning America‘s Ginger Zee, a featured contributor, says, “A Letter to My Mom is the perfect Mother’s Day gift.”
Dr. Phil McGraw says, “A Letter to My Mom…is a great idea and a great book. Keep the series going!”
Mariel Hemingway says, “This book is so special, I want everyone to know…I am so honored to be a part of it…I have bought several copies as the perfect Mother’s Day gifts.”
Other celebrity contributors include Kristin Chenoweth, Melissa Rivers, Josh Groban, Kelly Osbourne, Shania Twain, will.i.am, and more, many of whom have taken to Social Media to sing their praises of the book and encourage their fans to share their own messages to mom.
Social Media Buzz About A Letter to My Mom:
Sarah Ferguson: https://twitter.com/SarahTheDuchess/status/585398751147196416
Monica Lewinsky: https://twitter.com/MonicaLewinsky/status/585460733900644354
Kristin Chenoweth: https://twitter.com/KChenoweth/status/585793153493557248
Lisa Ling: https://instagram.com/p/06ILkbPH4o/
Khloe Kardashian: https://instagram.com/p/03MolehRhD/
Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi: https://twitter.com/snooki/status/582653768581312513
VIDEO: A Letter to My Mom contributors surprising their moms with letters:
Mother/daughter business partners Dani Vilagie and Tracey Noonan, featured on Shark Tank, own Wicked Good Cupcakes in Boston. Watch Dani surprise her mom with her letter: https://vimeo.com/125857678
Annie Veron’s mother, Joy, saved her three children’s lives nearly 20 years ago by throwing herself in front of a moving car, leaving her paralyzed. See Annie surprise her mom with her letter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpLWpAhVSZg
The third book in the popular series, after A Letter to My Dog and A Letter to My Cat, A Letter to My Mom is a charming, funny, and touching tribute to the extraordinary bond between mother and child. A Letter to My Mom is filled with poignant stories that celebrate the women who give us life and teach us how to live it.
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"Defending Rule 30(b)(6) Depositions In Professional Liability Cases," An ExecSense eBook, Digital Thought Leadership, (February 2013).
Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 30(b)(6) ("Rule 30(b)(6)" or the "Rule") provides a mechanism for a party to take the deposition of public and private corporations, partnerships, associations, or governmental agencies. Under the Rule, a party notices the deposition of an entity and the entity must designate one or more of its officers, directors, managers, or other persons to testify on its behalf. The entity itself, however, remains the deponent.
Unlike persons testifying in their individual capacity, a Rule 30(b)(6) deponent testifies regarding the entity's knowledge, including but not limited to, facts known by current and former employees or other persons or that are "reasonably available" to the entity. The entity's knowledge is not confined to hard facts and can include subjective beliefs.
There are a number of pitfalls that can beset a party responding to a Rule 30(b)(6) deposition notice, for example (a) failing to adequately prepare a designee, (b) failing to object or raising improper objections to a noticed deposition topic, (c) failing to consider privilege and other implications that arise from showing documents to designees during preparation, and (d) failing to respond properly to questions that fall outside the scope of the noticed deposition topics.
About the author: Joel Neckers is a partner with the law firm of Wheeler Trigg O'Donnell LLP located in Denver, Colorado. His practice currently focuses primarily on defending professional liability claims brought against hospitals, doctors, nurses, other healthcare providers, and on defending consumer product class actions. Neckers has tried cases to verdict in state and federal courts and handled arbitrations for clients in a variety of matters in various states. Neckers would like to thank Ms. Ellen Herzog of Wheeler Trigg O'Donnell for her assistance in the preparation of this chapter.
Purchase the eBook here.
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