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Bridget Canning's debut novel, The Greatest Hits of Wanda Jaynes, was selected as a finalist for the 2017 BMO Winterset Award, the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award, the NL Fiction Award, and was longlisted for the Dublin International Literary Award. It is currently being adapted to film. Her second novel, Some People's Children, was a finalist for the 2020 BMO Winterset Award and the Thomas Raddall Award. Her third book and first short story collection, No One Knows About Us, was published by Breakwater Books in the fall of 2022.
Bridget holds a Masters of Arts in Creative Writing from Memorial University and a Masters of Literacy Education from Mount Saint Vincent University. In 2019, she received the CBC Emerging Artist Award with ArtsNL. She grew up in Highlands, NL and currently lives in St. John's.
Below are a few links to Bridget's publications you can read online or download.
"What's the Future of the Arts?" from CBC NL.
"The ArtsNL Awards are 35 Years Old: Toasting our artists from a Safe Distance" from CBC NL.
Flash fiction series: "Newfoundland and Labrador Considers How to Maintain its Romance" with The Independent.
"Writing Wanda Jaynes" published with The Newfoundland Quarterly
"Gutless" published with The Word Hoard, November 2016.
"Bradley + Molly 4ever," (excerpt) Short Fiction Winner, 2016 Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters Awards
"Seventeen Minutes," Fiction Winner, 2016 Literary Writes Competition, Federation of BC Writers
"Hands in Pockets,"which was shortlisted for the 2015 Cuffer Prize.
"Colleen's Birthday," Short Fiction Winner, 2015 Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters Awards.
Master of English Literature (Creative Writing), Memorial University of Newfoundland (May, 2019)
Master of Literacy Education Degree, Mount St. Vincent University (April, 2014)
Bachelor of Education Degree, Intermediate/Secondary Education, Memorial University of Newfoundland (August 2009)
Bachelor of Arts Degree, English – Major, Women's Studies – Minor, History – Minor, Memorial University of Newfoundland, (April 1997)
AWARDS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Finalist for the 2020 Thomas Raddell Award for Some People's Children
Finalist for the 2020 BMO Winterset Award for Some People's Children
Bronze award for the Miramichi's Very Best Book Award (Fiction) for Some People's Children (summer, 2020)
Winner of the ArtsNL CBC Emerging Artist of the Year, 2018
Nominated for the 2018 International Dublin Literary Award for The Greatest Hits of Wanda Jaynes
2018 Bronze IPPY Award for Best Regional Fiction, Canada East for The Greatest Hits of Wanda Jaynes
Finalist for the 2018 Margaret and John Savage First Book Award (Fiction) for The Greatest Hits of Wanda Jaynes
Finalist for the 2017 BMO Winterset Award (The Greatest Hits of Wanda Jaynes)
Selected as one of five winners of the From Our Dark Side genre film contest, 2017
Cox and Palmer SPARKS Creative Writing Award, 2017
Short Fiction Award, Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters Awards, 2016
Fiction Winner for Federation of British Columbia's 2016 Literary Writes competition, 2016
Semi-finalist for the Disquiet International Literary Contest, (The Greatest Hits of Wanda Jaynes, novel excerpt) 2016
Shortlisted for The Cuffer Prize, 2015
Selected to apprentice with the Writers' Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador's Mentorship Program, 2015
Third Prize, Quarter Castle Publishing's Short Story Contest, 2015
Honorable Mention, The H. R (Bill) Percy Novel Prize for The Greatest Hits of Wanda Jaynes (formerly titled Impulse), 2015
The Patricia S. Barnes Memorial Scholarship, 2011/12
Short Story collection, No One Knows about Us, Breakwater Books, 2022
Script "Any Good" for Artistic Fraud's City of Stories series, 2022
Short story "The Years the Locusts have Eaten" in Hard Ticket, Breakwater Books, 2022
Script "Don't Come from Away" for Boco de Lupa's Red Phone (Fall, 2020)
Second novel, "Some People's Children" (Breakwater Books, 2020)
Essays and flash fiction with "Post Oil" with The Independent (2018/19)
Essay "Questions and Answers on Flight and Butchery" in Best Kind. (Breakwater Books, 2018)
Short Story "Bradley and Molly" in What's Written in the Ladies: Photographs and Scribblings (2018)
First novel, "The Greatest Hits of Wanda Jaynes" (Breakwater Books, 2017)
Short story, "Gutless" in Word Hoard, November 2016
Article, "El Apprendiz," in WORD, The WANL Quarterly, Summer 2016
Short story, "Apartment 312" in Riddle Fence #23, 2016
Short story, "Seventeen Minutes" in WordWorks, Summer 2016
Short story, "Hands in Pockets" in The Telegram, February 2016
Short story, "Indonesian Rice Salad" in Quarter Castle Chronicles, Volume One
Fiction Podcast, "The Black Lit Brawl" (as part of The Naked Parade Writing Collective)
Radio Play "Catechism" (adaptation of Wayne Johnson's short story). Broadcast through CHMR fm.
Short story, "Colleen's Birthday" in Galleon Magazine, Dec. 2014
Short story, "Catastropheka" and photography in Paragon Six, Jan. 2015
Poem, "Driving to Stephenville" and photography in Landwash, Spring 2014
LITERARY WORKSHOPS AND PROJECTS
Taught English 3847 Creative Writing: Young Adult Literature, Spring/Summer 2021
Flash Fiction Workshop with WANL, March 2018
Landfall Trust Writers Residency, May 2017
Co-writer on short film "Casey", selected for the Picture Start program, Spring 2017
Volunteer Fiction Editor for Riddle Fence magazine
Collaborative Fiction Podcast "Naked Parade, The Podcast," with author Lisa Moore and The Naked Parade Writing Collective, winter, 2016. Broadcast on the CBC YouTube Channel.
Winterset Emerging Writers Workshop, August 2015
Collaborative Fiction Podcast, "The Blacklit Brawl," with author Lisa Moore and The Naked Parade Writing Collective, spring, 2015. Broadcast online with The Overcast.
Radio Play Workshop with author Ed Riche at Memorial University, Fall 2014. Broadcast through CHMR.fm.
READINGS AND APPEARANCES
Writers at Woody Point, August 2021
Lawnya Vawnya Festival, October, 2020.
Sparks Literary Festival (Panel Moderator), February 2019
Winterset Festival, (Eastport, NL) August 2018
Winterset Ceremony, (St. John's, NL) March 2018
The Foglit Festival, September, 2017
Word Vancouver, September, 2017
Word on the Street, Halifax, September 2017
Canada 150 Literary Tour NL, August, 2017
Ottawa International Writers Festival, July 2017
Spring Tides Reading Series, June 2017
Sparks Literary Festival, February 2017
WANL and Riddle Fence, Fall Readings 2016
Lawnya Vawnya Festival, May 2016
Mallard Cottage Writer in Residence Reading, April 2016
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Юнайт () — золотая монета Англии и Шотландии, чеканилась в 1603-1619, 1625-1649, 1649-1660 и 1660-1662 годах — в годы правления королей Англии Якова I, Карла I, Карла II и Английской республики. В двух королевствах были разные версии монеты, отличающиеся направлением поворота королей, положением их рук и легендами.

История

С 1603 года новый король Англии Яков I (1603-1625) начал чеканку золотого соверена, приравненного к 20 шиллингам.

Новый Соверен с 1604 года название юнайт (unite). Легенда на реверсе монеты гласила FACIAM EOS IN GENTEM UNAM (лат. «соединю вас в один народ»). Таким образом, Яков I, объединив две короны: Англии и Шотландии, — провозгласил: «Я сделаю их одной нацией».

Как соверен, юнайт приравнивался к 20 шиллингам и весил 10,03 г (содержал 9,2 г золота), но уже в 1612 году вследствие нового роста цен на золото в Европе он был приравнен к 22 шиллингам.

В 1619 году соверен (юнайт) был замен новой золотой монетой в 20 шиллингов — лорелем (laurel; монету назвали по лавровому венку на голове монарха) весом 140,5 гранов (около 9 г).

Золотые юнайты чеканились в Англии в Башне Монетного двора также на протяжении всего срока правления короля Англии Карла I (1625-1649), когда монетный двор находился под контролем короля и парламента.

Монеты Юнайт чеканились также во времена Английской республики (1649-1660).

Монеты Юнайт чеканились также и позднее, в годы правления короля Карла II (1660-1662).

Описание
Вес монеты Юнайт составляет 9,2 грамм, выполнена монета из золота пробы 916,6.

Аверс
На аверсе этих золотых монетах изображались разные бюсты короля с короной на голове, с поворотом направо. В правой руке он держит скипетр, в левой — державу. По периметру монеты на английском языке выполнена надпись: IACOBUS D G MA BRI FRA ET HI REX.

На аверсе юнайта времен Карла I изображен бюст короля с короной на голове. Бюст повернут влево, справа написаны буквы ХХ. ПО круглому периметру монеты выполнена надпись: CAROLUS DG MAG BR FR ET HI REX (Карл по милости Бога Король Великобритании Франции и Ирландии).

На аверсе юнайта времен английской республики изображены два щита, а по периметру на английском языке выполнена надпись (легенда): GOD WITH US (Бог с нами).

На аверсе юнайта времен короля Карла II изображен король Карл II с короной, по периметру выполнена надпись CAROLUS II DG MAG BRIT FRAN ET HIB REX, сбоку от головы короля выполнена надпись «XX».

Реверс
На реверсе монеты изображен герб, разделенный на 4 части. Слева от герба выполнена буква I, справа — буква R (инициалы Iacobus Rex). Над гербом изображена корона.

На реверсе юнайта времен Карла I изображена в верхней части корона, под ней выполнен герб, разделённый на 4 части, по периметру монеты выполнена надпись:  FLORENT CONCORDIA REGNA (Через царство царства процветают).

На реверсе юнайта времен английской республики изображены щит с крестом. По периметру монеты на английском языке выполнена надпись: THE COMMONWEALTH OF ENGLAND (Английская республика).

На реверсе юнайта времен короля Карла II изображена корона, щити буквы «CR» — сокращение предложения FLORENT CONCORDIA REGNA (Золотой союз). В 1663 году золотой юнайт был заменен на золотую Гинею.

Литература
 Klütz, Konrad (2004). Münznamen und ihre Herkunft. Vienna: moneytrend Verlag. p. 282. ISBN 3-9501620-3-8.
 Herbert Grueber: Handbook of the Coins of Great Britain and Ireland in the British Museum, Londra 1899. p. XXXIX [1]. 1970. ISBN 1-4021-1090-1.
  "The Puritans believing that Latin savoured too much of the papist." Mulligan, Tom (1972). Better Coin Collecting. London: Kaye & Ward. p. 13.

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Монеты Великобритании

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Hollywood, Fla. — Camera maker Concord announced that it has reached a distribution agreement with national computer and imaging distributor WYNIT.
According to Concord, WYNIT will distribute seven of the company's higher-megapixel digital camera SKUs. The products will range from 2-megapixels to 5-megapixels and include the 4-megapixel Concord Eye-Q 4360z.
"Partnering with WYNIT will increase the availability of Concord's digital cameras and furthers our goal of increased market penetration and share," said Rod King, VP and director of sales, Concord.
The company has been attacking the competitive entry-level price point category in the digital camera market. According to a company financial report, Concord shipped approximately 922,000 digital cameras in 2003, compared to 260,000 in 2002, a 255-percent gain.


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The Christmas season has in many ways become a consumer holiday, in which countless gifts are purchased and wrapped, houses decorated, tons of food eaten, and all the excess going to waste. For me, pursuing a minimal waste lifestyle (which I'm not particularly good at) is a matter of stewardship. I see my concern for the environment, animals, and humans are the natural response to the gospel of Jesus Christ which is a gospel of restoration. Part of that restoration happens now, as believers engage with one another and the rest of the world with an uncanny and reckless grace and compassion. Part of that restoration comes when believers respond to the truth of God's purpose for our bodies by honoring them through healthy eating, proper exercise, mental health, and positive body image. Part of that restoration comes when believers take responsibility for their small role in minimizing the damage to our environment through excess waste, irresponsible production of products, and by prioritizing supporting sustainable practices. The other part of that restoration will come when Jesus returns, restoring all things to their intended design, and reigning as King forever.
Because we do not know when part two of the restoration will come, I believe our responsibility is to do what we can about part one. I believe the worshipful response to the gospel of Jesus is a life that reflects His Lordship in all things: body, mind, relationships, creation, etc. So when it comes to holiday seasons that draw our attention to excess, to greed, to impulses, to indulgence, and to more, we don't need to say to no to everything. We need to reframe our perspective and look to chose things that reflect the Lordship of Christ.
So as a challenge this holiday season, for those of you who haven't already bought all your gifts, here are some ideas for gifts that you can feel good about this season.
I know it might not seem super kind. To some it might come across as cheap or inconsiderate. Be cautious about how someone might feel getting a secondhand gift, but for those in your life who wouldn't mind at all this can be a great option. Shopping hand is significantly less expensive which might free you up to get them a few more things they will love for the cost of one new thing. Plus, shopping hand is a way to keep things out of landfills and back in circulation as long as it's functional. Don't forget about sites like Ebay or secondhand book stores. These are great options for things that are still high quality, but not necessarily brand new. As a reminder, there are TONS of excellent household goods in secondhand stores. This is a great options for your college friends looking to acquire the household necessities or the newly married couple in your life.
One thing that I've been gradually doing over the last year or two that I've pursued minimizing my waste and my environmental impact, is investing in products that are high quality and built to last. Our industrial world, informed by the consumers love for things, has increased the amount of things made and often decreased their quality. Before the industrial revolution, craftsmen made their products and often made them to last. Now, the market demands quantity over quality because people are often looking for a cheap set of dining room chairs, rather than one that might cost more, but that they'd likely not have to replace for many years. Part of the shift toward minimizing our waste, is a shift in priority and I think this can be reflected in a focus on quality over quantity. For those of you with budgets that allow, consider purchasing gifts from companies known for their quality. Note: this does not always mean the most expensive option.
Making your gifts can take some creativity and time, but it's often more heartfelt and a great way to minimize your waste and often helps keep the gift budget low if you're thoughtful about it.
This year my husband and I asked that our families focus on getting our daughter experiences over toys (we said some toys are okay too). We also decided that we would get her one small thing to open, and then purchase an annual pass to our children's museum. Our daughter loves the toys she has and doesn't realize that she has way few toys than the average American child. I've intentionally limited the toys in our home so that I don't spend my whole motherhood cleaning up after her and so that she doesn't grow up constantly overwhelmed by things. We aren't financially going to be able to spend $20 plus dollars every time we want to go to the children's museum and if I do, then I feel like I need to spend the whole day there to get the most of it. Purchasing the annual pass will allow us to go as often as we want, for as long we want, and make memories with her that will help her development, attachment, and give her experiences to grow.
Annual passes to zoos, museum, indoor play areas, fitness centers (yoga, class pass, local gym), season tickets to sporting events.
Purchases gifts from local business supports small business owners which is usually really good for the local economy, but also typically limits the environmental impact of gifts that are shipped from far away. You might have found an affordable, high quality gift, but if it's being shipped from Europe, there's a significant environmental impact associated with that gift still. Consider looking for a local alternative. Instead of buying that cute mug on Etsy that will be shipped from Hong Kong, go to your local coop or boutique gift store and see if they have one you like. Added benefit: no need to pay an extra $10 for shipping and handling.
The point of this post, isn't to shame anyone who likes to buy lots of gifts for their loved ones in the holiday season. The point is to challenge the way we typically think we have to do that. Consider trying with even one person this year to buy a gift that you can feel good about in every way. Smalls steps that we make into habits and build upon make big changes in the long run. Plus, I find that the more I think about how to find thoughtful gifts that I feel reflect my stewardship values, the more my excitement to give gifts grows too. Rather than it being burdensome or passive shopping, I get to think about how I can bless the people I love with a gift this season. I hope this posts helps those of you who haven't finished your shopping yet, and maybe challenges others for the years to come.
I decided to start this series with a post on minimal waste holiday decorations because for many people decorating starts now (or soon) and I wanted to get this out there before you go out and buy all those individually wrapped, brand new ornaments, plastic garlands, and other disposable decorations.
I want to start by saying that minimizing your waste any time, but specifically around the holiday, can be incredibly challenging, but it shouldn't feel enslaving. You are not more or less worthy of love because you care for the environment in this way. You cannot earn your worthiness. You are worthy of love, care, and acceptance because you are made in the image of God. If you find yourself slipping into the belief that the amount of waste produce correlates to your value or worthiness, take a step back, remind yourself of the truth of God's love for you and then restart.
Now to the practical! Here are just a few ideas to get your creative mind engaged in tackling the task of minimal waste, not minimal holiday cheer.
Trying making your own christmas tree ornaments. Here's my post with a DIY recipe you can use which only has 3 ingredients (one of which is water, and the other two you might be able to buy in your bulk section depending on your store).
Focus on natural decorations. Try clipping some small branches from a pine tree in your yard (or in a kind neighbor's yard) and use these for center pieces. Add pinecones or acorns to the mix. Even buy a few poinsettias for a pop of color and some real life decoration (not zero waste, but won't last 500 years in a landfill at least).
Try finding a nice table cloth or cloth napkins that you like for the holidays at a thrift store, rather than buying disposable. If you can find one that's somewhat neutral, then you can use it all year round too (Think red and white plaid, rather than Christmas tree covered for example).
Get a real Christmas tree! There are tons of places around us in Minneapolis where you can cut your own down or lots that have some precut, too. I don't know much about the sustainability of this industry, but similar to the pointsettias, at least the real trees are natural and will decompose (you can even use the remains for bonfires in the spring).
Make your own garlands with popcorn or dry cranberries, rather than purchasing the plastic garlands for your tree. This can be a fun activity to do as a group while watching a Christmas movie or just enjoying each other's company. You just need a needle, thread, and popcorn or cranberries. I can buy popcorn kernels in bulk at my coops and then pop them in a pot on the stove. Almost zero waste except for the thread!
I don't have any good ideas for replacing traditional Christmas lights, but my minimal waste suggestion is to try to fix strands that have a few lights or a whole section unlit rather than just tossing it out. I also heard last year from someone that these LightKeeper's work great. I haven't tried it myself, but it's worth checking out.
Make paper decorations like snowflakes or garlands and then use the paper afterwards for other projects or for help getting your spring bonfire lit.
My biggest recommendation for minimizing waste in the holidays is to stop and think before you buy something new and ask yourself, "Is there a way I could do something similar in a sustainable way?" Usually the answer is yes. So challenge yourself. Think ahead. Make it fun. Get some friends together to do some DIY decoration making so that you can all bring your projects home and enjoy the process of making something as much as the result. If you have other ideas of minimal waste decorations, drop a comment below!
Check out some of these photos below and their links for christmas decoration ideas.
Recently a friend of mine from college messaged me and asked if I would do a post on how to be minimal waste in the holiday season. With gifts, parties and all the festivities in between, it can be really challenging to limit your waste. So I've compiled a series of post to help you get creative about how to minimize your waste and still celebrate well.
I hope this series encourages you and gets your creative juices flowing. I hope that rather than feeling shame for not being totally zero waste this season, that you feel excited to do your best at limiting your waste where you can. Progress is the point. Allow this to be an opportunity for intentionality, mindfulness, and chances to connect with others about important issues that don't disappear in the face of holiday cheer.
As I began to do research into zero waste lifestyles, I found a strong co-occuring concern for toxin free living. Throughout the last century or so, humans have made huge strides in technological advancements. So many of these advancements have been of incredible benefit to the masses. However, one thing I have been noticing is the general assumption that progress is always good. We (humans in a very general sense) tend to find a newer, "better," faster, or cheaper way to do something and we apply that practices as the new standard. Plastic kitchen storage was a durable, versatile, cheap alternative to glass products and it took the world by storm. But the majority didn't seem to stop to ponder whether or not this shift might negatively affect anything or anyone. Today we know about the problems. with BPA, the other toxins that are used in the production of plastics. We know about the huge environmental cost of production, distribution, and disposable of plastic goods. Today we have recognized that our failure to consider the implications of a technological development at its inception has had destructive consequences for individuals, communities, and the natural world as a whole.
All that to say (and hopefully encourage you toward a more critical consumption), that one way I have seen the assumption of "progressive" practices is in our water supply. Tap water toxicity varies widely throughout the United States. There have been well-publicized water crises in Detroit, while those of us in Minneapolis often feel very comfortable drinking our water straight from the faucet. However, even the tap water that we consider safe (maybe even good) can be problematic. For instance, in the city of Minneapolis, the EWG Tap Water Database indicates 6 contaminants that were above guidelines when the water was tested in 2015. All six of these contaminants (listed below) increase the risk of cancer.
In addition to the six above, there are also eight other contaminants that are linked to other risks for the individual.
All this to say, that I've come to realize that there is a real value (beyond taste) of drinking filtered water. The problem now becomes, what is minimal waste, filtration system that has minimal impact on the environment while still benefitting the water drinker by eliminating toxic contaminants. I have a few options for you, though these are by no means the only options, I think they provide a wide range of accessibility for those who are ready to take a step toward fewer toxins and minimal waste in their lives.
I personally have a to go size and an x-large. I use the to-go filter in my water bottles, but keep the x-large in a one-gallon drink dispenser (similar to this one) which I keep on my counter. The kishu charcoal filters remove heavy metals from drinking water. For more information about the science behind it, check out this post on their website. I love Kishu because even though their charcoal comes from Japan and requires the expenditure of fossil fuels for its transportation, the company uses really sustainable, environmentally friendly packaging. This is from the FAQ page of their website: We are so proud of our packaging. We took special care and research to create a completely biodegradable package: our label is made from paper that is FSC® Certified, SFI® Certified Sourcing, and Rainforest Alliance Certified™ and printed using the most environmentally friendly process available. The clear sleeve is made from wood pulp and is completely compostable. So even though it is shipped across the world (if you're living in the USA), the product is plastic free, toxin-free, and helps remove dangerous heavy metals from your water. It also happens to be one of the most affordable, small-scale filtration methods. It is similar to Brita filtration but doesn't involve the same plastic and packaging waste associated with Brita Filters.
Berkey's are super popular, but also pretty expensive. Due to the cost, we do not have on yet. But they're a great option if you have the counter space and the money.
"The Royal Berkey system removes pathogenic bacteria, cysts, and parasites entirely and extracts harmful chemicals such as herbicides, pesticides, VOCs, organic solvents, radon 222 and trihalomethanes.
This system is so powerful that it can seriously remove food coloring from water without removing the beneficial minerals your body needs. Virtually no other system can duplicate this performance.
With this system, you can use up to 4 Black Berkey purification elements, though this particular one includes 2. With the 2 Black Berkey elements, it can purify up to 4 gallons per hour, while with 4 Black, Berkey elements you can have up to 8 gallons of filtered drinking water per hour."
There are so many different home water filtration systems out there. Some are around $200 and some are a couple thousand dollars. Most whole house water filters will connect to your water line at its initial point of entry to the house and begin filtering there. This means you will have filtered water going to your sinks, showers, tubs, washing machines, and dishwashers. The benefit of this is that we don't just ingest toxins in water through drinking. Our body absorbs toxins through the skin as well, so when we shower or wash, we are potentially exposing ourselves to endocrine disrupters and possible carcinogens (all while we get "clean"). We are in the process of saving up for a whole water filtration system. Do your research and find the right one for you.
Overall, my advice to you is to a) consider switching to filtered water even if your tap water tastes okay. You just don't always know what else is in there. B) Find a filter that works for your family, lifestyle, and budget. Don't let anyone make you think you need an expensive berkey if you have a great brita filter that suits your family. My hope with Pure and Simple is that you would begin to consider whether or not your lifestyle and decisions match your stated values. If not, I hope you begin to take steps toward consistency and find the richness of knowing that your decision represent your stated and upheld values.


Look for hummingbirds on the slopes of Pichincha Volcano. Hike to waterfalls amid the lush cloud forest of the Mindo-Nambillo Reserve and visit a butterfly farm. Spend two nights at a delightful hacienda in the Avenue of the Volcanoes. Visit the Equatorial monument, and have your picture taken with one foot in the southern hemisphere and one foot in the northern hemisphere. Spend a day in the spectacular highlands at the base of Chimborazo Volcano, viewing troops of vicunas. Discover the color and excitement of a traditional highland market. And explore the amazing colonial treasures of Quito, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
This Ecuador tour works well as a base to build a longer custom itinerary. We can add on Hacienda Cusin and visit Otavalo market in the north or Cuenca in the south, an Amazon lodge visit, and of course the Galapagos Islands!
We meet you as you arrive into Quito airport, and transfer to a comfortable hotel for overnight. Quito is at 9,350', on the eastern flank of the twin volcanoes Rucu Pichincha and Guagua Pichincha (15,725').
We depart bright and early, leaving the city behind and driving up into the moorlands on the northern slope of Pichincha Volcano. We're following the El Quinde Ecoroute, the so-called Route of the Hummingbird. Within half an hour our surroundings are transformed from urban streets into the lush greenery of the Ecuadorean highlands. We stop to look for hummingbirds in the high pasture, then continue down past the quaint village of El Nono. Soon the fields and pastures are replaced by the steep mountainsides and cloud forest of the Mindo-Nambillo Reserve as we descend alongside a rushing river. In mid-afternoon we emerge at the main highway and soon reach our country inn just outside the town of Mindo at 4,200'. We include lunch and dinner.
We spend the morning hiking on trails in the lush forest of the private reserve surrounding our country inn. We'll view waterfalls, many birds, and an exotic forest full of epiphytes. We return to Sachatamia for lunch, then drive down into Mindo town to visit the Mariposarium, a butterfly farm. In the afternoon you have time for optional activities -- tubing, rafting, zipline, or more nature observation in the forest.
We return toward Quito following the main paved highway, to Calacali and the Solar Museum. Located almost exactly on the Equatorial line, the Solar Museum is a small, privately-owned institution with fascinating exhibits on the indigenous awareness of the Equator. We continue south, bypassing Quito, and reach our lovely highland hacienda (Hacienda Hato Verde or similar) where we settle in for a two-night stay. We include lunch and dinner.
We visit a native market in the Avenue of the Vocanoes. On market day, indigenous highland farmers congregate to buy and sell, to get haircuts and baptisms, and to socialize. These traditional markets continue to be an integral social foundation for the regional community. Following the market, we climb steadily toward massive Chimborazo Volcano (20,696'). Above the level of the highest pasture, we traverse the "despoblado", the vast slopes of volcanic ash and sand. Part of this highland country is a Chimborazo Fauna Reserve, where we may view troops of the elegant vicuna grazing near the highway. We continue our circuit of the mountain, and descend back down into the Avenue of the Volcanoes at Riobamba. From here we turn north and return to the hacienda for overnight. We include lunch and dinner.
We depart the countryside, returning in the morning to Quito. After settling into our hotel, we enjoy an afternoon tour of the colonial heart of Quito. We visit the Plaza de Independencia, the church of La Compañia, and the San Francisco Plaza. You also have time for some shopping. Lunch is on your own; farewell dinner tonight at the Itchimbia Park.
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ChatGPT and beyond: Why generative AI's inflection point might be Tech's most promising new market opportunity
January 12, 2023 / Olivier Blanchard
ChatGPT represents an important inflection point for AI, and an important one for the tech industry at a time when consumers, worn down by perhaps one too many hype cycles, have begun to lose faith in the sector's ability to deliver on its promises.
The tech industry's current headwinds aren't limited to inflationary pressures, a global economic cooldown, supply chain issues, and COVID resurgences. There is one other key factor at play: the impact that consumer perceptions of new and emerging tech regarding trust, value/utility, and excitement have on demand. The feedback I have consistently received from the consumer trenches over the last three years suggests that years of tech hype, endless streams of vaporware and grandiose but empty promises have made consumers both confused by and suspicious of new and emerging technologies that either keep being delayed or that systematically disappoint. I refer to this phenomenon as hype fatigue, and tech companies need to start taking the role this plays into their marketing, PR, and product development more seriously. Hype fatigue doesn't just lower consumer interest (demand) in new tech, it also tends to make them distrustful of the messengers that keep carrying hollow tech hype to them on a regular basis. The below are examples of too much hype and not enough substance.
The colossal clown shows that the crypto and NFT spaces devolved into last year certainly didn't help, but the problem runs much deeper: Privacy and data security still struggle to inspire confidence.
Mark Zuckerberg's head-scratching vision for "metaverse" is drawing more side-eyes than traction, and is at best a decade away.
Bringing augmented reality glasses to consumers has been a predictable annual exercise in kicking the proverbial can down the road.
The promise of fully autonomous vehicles being just a year away has been stalled by crashes and terrifying failures.
The evolution of the smart home fizzles out as soon as the excitement of CES is over.
Artificial intelligence has, for the most part, proven itself to be more artificial than intelligent; VR and XR, for all their promising and exciting use cases, have failed to justify investments at scale outside of gaming.
In short, the biggest and most exciting technology plays consumers keep being told are right around the corner has, for the most part, either failed to launch or haven't exactly impressed. "Wake me up when [insert technology here] is actually ready" seems to be the attitude in most households, and that isn't the consumer perception trajectory that will help the tech sector bounce back from what is shaping up to be a difficult 2023. "Where's the beef?" the old ad went.
"Where's the beef," indeed.
What the tech sector needs to disrupt hype fatigue isn't exactly rocket science. (Well… it might actually be rocket science, but I digress.) Conceptually, it's a simple fix: less hype, more beef. That's it. Replace overpromising with overdelivering. More specifically, on the UX and product development front, new tech solutions can't just be okay or pretty cool, but legitimately remarkable. And by that, I mean surprisingly good, and if possible, shockingly better than expected. New tech should dazzle, enchant, bring magic and excitement back into people's lives, not just on paper or in promises, but when they actually get their hands on it. Short of that, new tech needs to actually be useful. I don't mean as cool solution in search of a problem (a hurdle that VR still struggles to overcome) but as something that creates immediate, undeniable value for users. Ideally, new tech does both, but one or the other will do for now. 2022 and 2023 were low bar years, after all. And that is where generative AI enters the chat, and specifically ChatGPT.
Why ChatGPT and generative AI's unexpected evolutionary leap is a massive market opportunity for the tech sector
Despite a flurry of exciting AI-related announcements from tech giants like Intel, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple and Qualcomm last year, along with some encouraging implementation tailwinds, consumer perceptions of AI remained mixed, with the technology continuing to feel confusing, at times frustrating, even untrustworthy. That all changed when people started playing with ChatGPT and seeing for themselves just how uncannily good it was not only at understanding queries but at generating replies and content.
To be fair, it wasn't the first time that an AI product has delivered for consumers. As limited as they still are, Google Assistant and Alexa have been remarkable advancements (more so than Siri, in my view) in the voice interface/virtual assistant space, for example. Less obvious to consumers but equally valuable are AI solutions that optimize processes at scale, from ad targeting, pattern recognition, and data analysis to ADAS systems and computational photography. But ChatGPT is different in that it seemingly came out of nowhere and unsaddled by hype or expectations, managed to blow everyone away by being so surprisingly powerful and fun to use. It is so surprisingly good, in fact, that it immediately raised a flurry of questions about the potentially devastating impact it might have on job security, academia, and creative industries. The degree to which ChatGPT instantly felt disruptive and fun but dangerous speaks to how much of an inflection point it created for AI, and generative AI in particular.
Educators immediately realized the danger this posed to educational models that rely on research papers to evaluate students: If ChatGPT could write papers as well as a human, many students would naturally lean on the technology to save time and improve their grades without necessarily learning the material. Every problem is an opportunity, though, and this one needs to scale quickly: ChatGPT has shown us that the market needs effective AI detection tools capable of the kind of nuanced analysis that can differentiate between AI-authored copy and AI-edited copy. Every school in the world is going to need to fold this into their tech stack now, with appropriate policy frameworks. This could be an instant mass market opportunity for the right software vendors.
What about the threat this tech poses to journalism and copywriting? Will generative AI tools like ChatGPT accelerate layoffs in funding-strapped newsrooms, marketing firms, web design firms, and ad agencies? Can generative AI write code faster and as well as human web developers? The collective gasp from professionals who suddenly realized that their job could be done by an AI is, in its own way, another indicator that ChatGPT and generative AI changed the world virtually overnight. The market opportunity this challenge has created is more granular than it is for academia, but that isn't a bad thing for solutions vendors. That's because generative AI tends to be more powerful and economically sound as an optimizing tool for human workers than as an outright replacement of human workers. Unless an organization's model is to produce junk mail, it is going to need talented, qualified, experienced workers. Writers, attorneys, accountants, paralegals, problem-solvers, decision-makers, leaders, and so on. How an organization maximizes the power and potential of generative AI tools is by empowering their staff to incorporate them into their workflows. The true potential of generative AI, at least for the foreseeable future, isn't job automation, but rather, task automation.
In other words, generative AI solutions should be used to enhance human workers, not replace them outright. Once decision-makers and technology users understand that nuance, the "how does generative AI fit into my organization/role" question becomes much easier to answer. Reframed from that perspective, the question now becomes "how can generative AI tools help me work faster and better instead of just working harder?" Also: "How can generative AI save me time? How can generative AI allow me to focus on more valuable tasks? How can generative AI give me more time to do other things?" The value equation shifts.
Examples of how generative AI tools can help specialized staff become more effective:
An executive can use a generative AI tool to summarize news items or bring clarity to a complex topic. It can also be used to quickly generate drafts for up-to-date reports and deck content for meetings.
A copywriter, journalist or researcher can turn to a text-based generative AI tool to shorten a piece to fit within a specific word count limit, or explore different styles of writing to find the right tone and voice for a piece, or organize their work to conform to a specific style of writing.
Educators can similarly use a text-based generative AI tool to better organize their lesson plans, ensure that they fit within the right time windows, emphasize key points for students, and generate homework assignments, lesson summaries, and test questions.
For students, a text-based generative AI can help summarize a lesson or topic, essentially working as a tutor to help them better understand, study, memorize, apply, and retain lessons. When used ethically, it can also help a student organize their notes and thoughts around a topic to develop outlines and drafts for research papers and essays, and speed up proofreading and editing.
For attorneys and their paralegals, a text-based generative AI can be leveraged to draft contracts and review them faster, proofread or search for keywords in depositions and court transcripts, speeding up these processes and allowing them to take on more clients and/or increase their billable hours.
The opportunities for generative AI solutions are close to limitless, both for the enterprise and for individuals, and landing on the optimal price points for a tiered monthly/annual subscription model won't be difficult to figure out. The fundamental foundation powering things like ChatGPT and the recent breakthroughs with large language models will likely help with that.
The bigger the inflection point, the bigger the disruption, and the bigger the disruption, the bigger the market opportunity. Since VR, AR, ADAS, EVs, the metaverse, and other potentially transformational technologies may take a while to scale and deliver the value we were promised they ultimately will, 2023 offers the tech sector a unique and welcome lifeline – one it can use to reverse hype fatigue with, create entirely new revenue streams from, and leverage to expand existing market share and/or user base. For investors, the opportunity is equal parts investing in solutions vendors with an obvious head start and market advantage, and backing disruptive startups and challengers with the right focus, talent, and ability to execute.

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His appearance was a mystery until this Thursday morning! Please join us in welcoming Eych the Rapper to the world!
Hendrik Lombard, now known as Eych the Rapper, joined Martin Bester and the team for the first time in studio.
Eych first appeared on Breakfast with Martin Bester when he played the ever-popular Secret Sound.
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Q: How to store records with variable structure? We have an old system to manage inventory adjustments that is going to be remade. There are different type of reasons to make an adjustment, and each type requires different data to be filled. Some only require the product and quantity, others require a document ID, others require two products per adjustment, and so on.
Now, in the current system, the data is stored in a master-details tables structure. While the master table represents no major problem, the details table was originally designed with all the possible fields required for the original 5 types of adjustment. So, many records don't use all the fields. But, as the number of adjustment types increased, it has been troublesome to adapt the data required for these adjustments to the current structure, using fields for a different purpose that they were designed for, or storing more than 1 value per field. This is the kind of bad design we're trying to avoid with the new version.
Now, considering that there are currently 15 different types of adjustment, and that this number can increase, what would be the most efficient way to store this data in terms of accesibility and Read/Write performance? Keeping in mind that most of the data processing will be made in the application, we have two possible approaches:

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*To have the main data as "normal" fields (i.e. primary and foreign keys), and the rest of the data in a XML field, having the XML the required data depending on the adjustment type.

*To have 1 table per type of adjustment, reference all these tables to the one master table and add tables as required.

*Any other option we have not considered yet

Database is SQL Server 2008 RS and application will be on .NET (C#). We already have a few pros and cons for each option, but it is yet to be decided if database access will be mainly via EF or Stored Procedures (as the old system), and I'm aware each way can fit differently with how data is stored.

A: I usually go with the multiple table approach.
You might find however, that in terms of read/write performance your current single table format outperforms both alternatives.
XML columns for structured data in a relational database are, I think, trying to do the same job as tables and columns. Before you head down that route, consider the problems you may encounter when in the future you need to change the format of the data.

A: I would suggest you retain the master table as you've described and have a table for each adjustment type. In between, have a link table with a FK to the master table and a column for the adjustment type and a FK to the primary key on each adjustment table. Naturally, you'd also want a metadata table to store adjustment types and their descriptions.
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You might ask why you couldn't just have a FK to Master from the child tables. A valid point, but this design affords you the opportunity to apply the same change to multiple Master records without introducing redundancy.
I've seen some implementations similar to the scenario you've described where the type is omitted on the link table for the sake of brevity and a series of adjustment table PKs are earmarked for the type. I'd strongly advise you not to do this as some adjustment types may grow far beyond what you'd anticipate.

A: I think a lot depends on your anticipated data volume. If you're only going to have a couple thousand of inventory adjustments a year, then let the implementation LOE determine what method to use. If you anticipate higher volume, then you'll probably wind up getting better performance by going with separate tables (especially if you have to search or report on some of the variable data fields). I know SQL Server has some built-in support for XML in database records, but it didn't seem to support complex queries IIRC, and performance will be slower if you don't have the space to devote to index support.  I'd also suggest looking at JSON instead of XML if you're going to be storing a lot of data in the variable fields, it's a lot easier to parse (although you do lose the strong typing of XML Schema).

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Amityville Horror meets The Conjuring. Newlywed couple Tom and Anna purchase the house of their dreams. Or so they thought. Soon however the dark past of the house, that served as a stage of vicious murders three decades earlier, comes to haunt Tom, who slowly starts to lose his mind and questions reality. It is soon revealed that there is an evil spirit on the premises and it now has its sights on Tom and Anna. Bonus story included: 'Night Screams for Mercy,' a serial killer murder mystery set in a western Italian town.


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Producer: David Cronenberg
Cast: Bob Church | David Bolt | David Tsubouchi | Debbie Harry | Harvey Chao | Henry Gomez | Jack Creley | James Woods | Jayne Eastwood. | Julie Khaner | Kay Hawtrey | Lally Cadeau | Leslie Carlson | Lynne Gorman | Peter Dvorsky | Reiner Schwarz | Sam Malkin | Sonja Smits
TV producer Max Renn, looking for fresh and original porn for his cable channel, accidentally stumbles upon "Videodrome," a show about sex and murder that comes out of nowhere, the repeated viewing of which corrupts not only the psyche but also the human flesh.
This film by David Cronenberg can safely be regarded as the quintessence of his specific creativity. Here, the path traversed since "The Convulsions" (1975) has been cast in a definite and original style in which the author's preferences and predilections are clearly distinguishable, a horizon of further development can be seen, which is most interesting, mature and finished in the puzzling "Existence" (1999), quite logically became a kind of omega for the Canadian master. All subsequent works are gradually moving away from the trademark "alchemical experiments with flesh," exhaled stylistically and merged into the general flow of Hollywood film production. At any rate, they are of little value to those who want to get to know the real Cronenberg.
It is in Videodrome that the problem of subject-object distance, important to the filmmaker in the form of a bodily and object alienation that accompanies the imperceptible transition of culture from the industrial to the post-industrial state, is raised most sharply. These boundaries, ruptures, partitions, transitions, collisions, run-ups and their changes allow Cronenberg to play boldly with matter: to transform metaphors into flesh and flesh into metaphors, to merge the organic into inanimate objects, to hypertrophy body, psyche and technique into a single grotesque "new flesh. He literally (allegorically) translates human aspirations for freedom from all material constraints – from technical means to one's own body. He pushes back on the fundamental rupture of being, which consists of alienated but aspiring bodies, and depicts in detail the ugliness and pain of this torn "thirst for wholeness.
And even the increasing virtual "dematerialization" in the information society, interactive experiments, 3-D and 4-D formats, sensory and tactile enhancements are still far from the desired blurring of boundaries (a dolphin floating out of the screen is just an advertisement) and are not free from the flesh that makes up man. Technology is amenable to improvement, flesh is not. It is a weight, a burden, a prison, it holds it back, pulls it back, does not allow it to break through to the object of desire, to merge harmoniously with it. It can only achieve this through a complex, painful, painful fusion with that object ("Bound to Death" 1988). The virtual world pulls with it the bloody trail of human meat, twisted in the aporia of overcoming bodily-object alienation (a television set exploding with meat chunks).
The prehistoric machinery of the early '80s (the time of the film's making) allows for the sharpest possible edge. (This aporia is best illustrated by means of the following: clumsily constructed transistors, transformers, receivers, television sets with alarmingly convex picture tubes (not for nothing that people call them "boxes"), monstrous video-players with vagina dentata-like openings, ready to swallow the tape together with the hand, and the tape itself-a bulky plastic box with "kilometers" of film. Heavy media, stuck between the mechanical and electronic eras, are themselves an ugly fusion of these eras, a mutant difficult to handle, crying out for an end to their "bodily" suffering. Isn't that why aesthetic retro lovers prefer not VCRs and cassettes, but gramophones and records?
The creations of any transitional periods look ugly and eclectic: the American architect F. L. Wright, who always sought in his projects a harmonious interaction with nature, once emotionally exclaimed – "eclecticism is the ugliest thing that man can create!" And Cronenberg confirms this thesis in the most direct way: the forms of interaction between man and such still too inorganic, alien, and even hostile technology lead to monstrous formations, which, having crossed a certain boundary of synthesis, enter into a process of general decay and ultimately come to complete self-destruction. This is the anti-utopia of the "new flesh," the corporeal realization of transgression, interactivity and intersubjectivity: any teleportation of the body leads to terrible consequences, otherwise it is impossible.
Another leitmotif that is important to Cronenberg in this and many of his other films is the psychological one. For him, the psyche can be a driving energy, a crawling thin "body" that, injured as it advances, begins to build mass and pop up as a growth on the original body, erupting as an abscess, a tumor, a boil, or even a mutant (The Poultry Woman 1979). Bodily trauma can cause extraordinary psychic anxiety-visioning that will receive concrete fleshly form in the future ("The Dead Zone" 1983). In this respect, Videodrome is a film about initiation, initiation into the mysteries of psychic transformations, entry into a world where everything is predisposed to carnal embodiment and carnal transformation. The hero advances through the dromos of the video to where illusion and reality, psyche and flesh, fantasies and their realizations mix, and from all this a hybrid of a "new body" is synthesized, capable of digesting and reproducing objects, of continuing itself in objects, which in turn are capable of incarnating and continuing themselves in the human body. In all this there is an unspeakable violence that can only be caused by violence–a snuff that has entered directly into the hero's head and begun to affect his flesh through the psyche.
Everything that happens in this world has bodily consequences. Rock and body cancer rule here. Cronenberg, as a Benedictine monk, in the spirit of medieval clerical ekphrasis, uses the vulnerability of the flesh as a graphic image to illustrate the spiritual decay of the individual. He is an artist, and therefore he draws. Some have accused him of twisting the plot by the end of the film, moving away from all logic and emphasizing special effects. I think he not only "twisted" but "twisted" the plot, did the same thing to it as he did to human flesh. Look for the logic in that. But one also can't disagree with the fact – though no one openly says so – that Cronenberg often departs from the original ideas and messages and gets carried away with the anatomical details, foregrounding the hideous spectacle of bodily deviation ("The Fly" 1986). Certainly there is some voluptuousness in this, but only a fraction. Once, as you watch, you feel like medieval spectators–you'll get a feel for the very dogma of the film. Contemplate the images and don't try to construct the logic of the plot, and don't read the synopsis for this troubled and pivotal film in any way.
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I Timothy 3:10 And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.
Acts 2:42 And they kept their attention fixed on the Apostles' teaching and were united together in the taking of broken bread and in prayer.
II Peter 1:5-11 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Acts 2:42 ¶ And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
John 14:1-6; Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
I Thessalonians 4:16 - 17 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
I Corinthians 9:18What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.
II Timothy 4:17 Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
Mathew 10:32 Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.


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Sociedad Metropolitano Histórico de Madrid (MHM) (Historical Metropolitan Society of Madrid in English) is a cultural association from Madrid (Spain) focused in defending and promoting the history and cultural heritage of the Madrid city urban railways, mainly the subway (Metro de Madrid) and historical trams and light trains.

This society is the successor of the former "Sociedad de Amigos del Metro y los Tranvías Históricos de Madrid" (SAMETRAHM) (Society of friends of historical Metro and trams of Madrid in English), which was reconstituted as MHM in 2016 with the same goals and activities.

MHM carries out numerous activities and initiatives of cultural nature. Of particular note is the project developed on the original hall of the Pacífico metro station (designed by the renowned Spanish architect Antonio Palacios), which was approved by the Madrid City Hall district office of Retiro district on October 11, 2016.

This association has also played a prominent role in the struggle and defense of the preservation of the historical Cuatro Caminos subway yard and workshop, where the association also defends the creation of the future Madrid Metro Museum.

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Historical societies
History of Madrid
History organisations based in Spain


Here Are The Best Astronomy Photos Of 2016!
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Each year, the Royal Observatory Greenwich chooses the most beautiful and striking photos that captured the wonder of space. The winners for the 2016 Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition have just been announced, and they're absolutely breathtaking.
The contest was open to submissions from around the globe, and the judges chose winners and runners-up in different categories, such as the Sun, the Moon, galaxies, planets/comets/asteroids, auroras, and more. This was the eighth year of the competition, and they received a record number of submissions: 4,500 entries from 80 countries!
"In the upper atmosphere, about 80–85 kilometres high, small crystals of water-ice glow in the summer nights."
'Whenever I see Sirius in the night sky I always take a moment to enjoy the rapid cycle of colours it displays, especially when close to the horizon. Sirius is called the 'Rainbow Star', as its twinkling seems to go through every colour of the rainbow."
'This composite of two images compares slit-less spectroscopy of two well-known planetary nebulae, Cat's Eye Nebula at the top, and M57 Ring Nebula below. In a spectrograph the light is dispersed into its constituent wavelengths or colours. The particular wavelengths a nebula emits identify the gases of which it consists."


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2002 / Fashion performance "Fire"
The team of Eurovision Song Contest in Tallinn under the leadership of producer Marius Bratten volunteered to make this show happen.
Fashion performance "Fire" was the second grand event of the happy and creative period of the Katrin Kuldma Fashion House. The top models of Estonia were the stars of the night, Olga Serova well known from the catwalks of Dolce&Gabbana is familiar to the global fashion world.
The years of 1997 - 2002 were the time of true glamour. The compounding of Tallinn Fashion House couture division, Evelin Kattai and Katrin Kuldma Fashion Studios resulted with the first designer label fashion house of the new and free Estonia. The two young designers of the house created hundreds of couture dresses for the most prestigious clientele of that time.
In the end of year 2002 the fashion house was closed down. The core team took the challenge in larger scale fashion industry, in a company today known as Silvano Fashion Group.


The item Elizabeth R, British Broadcasting Corporation and BBC Worldwide Ltd. ; producer, Roderick Graham ; writers, John Hale ... [et al.] ; directors, Claude Whatham ... [et al.], (videorecording) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Cleveland Public Library.


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December 3, 2014 December 2, 2014 Minerva Zimmerman
David Anaxagoras
Humans and human analogs, Dave is a Good Human™ and he's probably the most authentic human I've come to know in any form. I know that's a really weird thing to say about someone, but you know how some people would still be basically themselves if they were in a life-like android? I just can't see that working out for him. There's a fundamental part of his self that's wrapped up in the very act of being human, and that makes him a good writer and a very good person to know. David Anaxagoras is the Creator and Co-Executive Producer of the Amazon Studios kids TV series "Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street". You can learn more about him at http://davidanaxagoras.com/ and please follow him on Twitter.
Minerva Zimmerman: How's the weather down in California?
David Anaxaagoras: The weather has been very nice in my neighborhood. Not too hot, which is usually the case. It's cooling off so much I might even light the pilot on the furnace.
MZ: That always freaked me out.
DA: I had to have the Gas company help with my water heater. I went a week with cold showers.
MZ: Oh man, that's… I mean that's practically camping in your own house
DA: Yes, that's how I would describe most of my existence. I've been here 8 months and I'm still unpacking. Or not unpacking is more accurate.
MZ: I honestly have switched from not unpacking to "storing things in totes" and just claim it as storage. I'm finally getting through the totes slowly… 7 years later
DA: The thought had occurred to me… I have to get to my books, then maybe it will be time to surrender.
MZ: I am seeing Gortimer EVERYWHERE the past few days. It makes me grin
DA: I'm glad to hear it's being seen all over. I mean, *I* see it, but I would expect to. I've been grinning for months.
MZ: The show really reminds me of those 1980s Wonderworks movies. I don't know if you remember seeing them. I think it was maybe ABC that put them on Saturday afternoons?
DA: It's ringing a bell, I'm trying to think of a specific one.
MZ: It's how the BBC Narnia movies were shown on US TV for one. There was also one called Konrad about an instant boy (in a can) who was delivered to the wrong house
DA: Gortimer really was born from a desire to see a live-action kid adventure show. Mostly what we have now are sitcoms — so many sitcoms — and they are sort of ghettoized on kid TV channels. In my time, kid shows were family shows — they didn't sent parents and older sibs running from the room. Everyone could enjoy them. Shows I remember were VOYAGERS and of course BATTLESTAR GALACTICA which to kid-me was just another adventure.
MZ: I love how it has a magic-realism thing going on
DA: I think it comes from my love of The Twilight Zone. In Gortimer, inner turmoil often shows up in the external world through a bit of magic.
MZ: Yeah. There are fantastical things that happen but they do reveal inner turmoil in a way that kids and adults alike can relate to
DA: I hadn't planned on any fantasy element originally, but the pilot script took a left turn and I just followed. I'm glad I did. The other thing is, as you alluded to, in a kid's world reality just seems a little more plastic. Try convincing a young kid they will never fit down the drain and they don't have to worry about getting sucked down the bathtub drain — you can't.
MZ: Hey, I'm still vaguely worried about that.
DA: Maybe you are just smart that way
MZ: Also my Dad told me that the drain worked because there was a little man under the hole with a bucket and that's why sometimes the drain got slow
DA: Adults have no idea how terrifying their stories can be sometimes. I used to, when I was a preschool teacher, bake a gingerbread man with the kids and of course I would hide him before we went back to get him out of the oven. Invariable there is always one child scared to death at the thought of a gingerbread man running around the school. I think they're the smart ones.
MZ: Man a horror story about a Gingerbread Man would be pretty scary. I mean, it could fit anywhere and all you would find was a little bit of crumbs where it had been, maybe a red hot
DA: I think kids live in that world, where it can be scary sometimes and we don't understand it, forget what it's like. It's why I think it's important to go ahead and acknowledge those emotions in kid stories, go ahead and have a story that scares them a little.
MZ: Being a kid IS scary!
DA: It helps to have friends.
MZ: Yes. And being alone and not knowing what is going on is the worst. That happens a lot as a kid, it feels a bit like being an alien.
DA: Or like you are Jack living in a land of giants. Nothing is your size. Nothing seems made for you. It's someone else's world. The scariest thing of all is that you are destined to turn into one of these creatures.
MZ: Yeah, that IS scary. I'm still scared of that too.
DA: Having a show like Gortimer is like having a second childhood. It's given me so much to appreciate and treasure. It's a ton of fun.
MZ: I think it is awesome that someone who has spent so much time with so many kids is writing a show like this too. I mean, I remember stories of things you were helping kids with and teaching them when you were still teaching. You know that they're real people.
DA: When I first started I didn't have any training, so I had to let the kids lead me into their world, so to speak. I had to meet them wherever they were. I think getting an education in early ed is a really good thing, but I'm glad I started out just being curious and open to their experience. I don't know if I've ever made peace with growing up myself, anyway.
MZ: I am not sure I trust people who are happy about being an adult other than when it means you can have cake for breakfast whenever you want.
DA: Oh, shallots, I could have had cake this morning!
MZ: It's true!
DA: Being an adult isn't quite the fun I expected. There's the freedoms, but you just don't understand or expect all the stress involved.
MZ: Yeah, I think that's why people who are comfortable with the level of responsibility that comes with adulthood worry me, like they can't possibly be actually thinking about it.
Have you adopted Ranger's food "swears" in your everyday life?
DA: I try to use food swears online because i have kids following me now. And I had to stop swearing all the time because I was on set. I don't think kids are so fragile, but I think it's disrespectful and also, it's important to me that the set be a really positive happy place for the kids who spend so much time and work so hard there.
MZ: I think my favorite food swear is "SOUP!!!"
DA: I tried to use "Kale!" but it just sounded like a non-word when uttered with curse-energy. Like a sneeze.
MZ: and you might get mobbed in a Trader Joes yelling it.
DA: Might be a good diversionary tactic, though.
MZ: Sassafras would work well as a swear, there are just certain sounds that work. Kale sounds like you're being stabbed with a spork
DA: I feel like that one must have been used. there was something about "pork and beans" that felt good. Explosive words or sounds…
MZ: fricatives
DA: That's the word.
MZ: Hey, apparently I still remember something from Linguistics
DA: Hardest class I ever had.
MZ: omg yes I almost failed
DA: So much jargon. Really tough.
MZ: It's more like math in how you think about it but you're using all these language words and it's just brain-breaking. It's like that thing where you say what color the text of a color word is instead of what the word says.
DA: Ironic for a Linguistics class. Or perhaps appropriate. Our Prof promised a multiple choice final and then sprung an essay test on us. Multiple students fled the class in tears before the test was over.
MZ: …yeah I would have. Well, I couldn't have. But I would have wanted to. Getting a 2.0 or higher was required for my major
DA: For undergrad?
MZ: Yeah, Anthropology
DA: Huh. Of all things.
MZ: It's one of the 4 fields of Anthropology. You couldn't show you had a grasp of the topic otherwise.
DA: Linguistics?
MZ: Yup. Studying humanity through how they communicate
DA: What are the other 3? Something biological, something science, something literary?
MZ: cultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology, archaeology and biological.
Biological anthropology was human bone lab. I am a horrible person to try and watch Bones with.
DA: When I was an undergrad I remember feeling like I wanted to have 20 lives so I could study EVERYTHING. Four years later that feeling was GONE.
MZ: Yeah, I wanted to do a double major and I got pretty close… but my husband moved to Oregon while I was one semester off of finishing my degree and I lost all wish to diversify my studies. Just wanted to get it done. Life, never works the way you think it will. That's not a bad thing though.
DA: Tell me about it. It's very unlikely I should be sitting here chatting with you right now.
MZ: Have you always been a screenwriter?
DA: I wrote my first screenplay in the third grade. It was a spy spoof. So, yes. There were times when I was focused on short fiction, but eventually came back to scripts.
MZ: I had a TA position for the drama teacher in HS, and there wasn't really anything for me to do. So I started reading all the script files for every play the school had ever bought. There's a certain rhythm to a good script. You can learn to see it on a page even. Once you've read a lot of examples you can see it in the text breaks
DA: It's interesting the way writers often educate themselves. They haunt libraries or find themselves in a position where they have access to material. There's a kind of almost unconscious attraction.
MZ: The words call.
DA: I loved books just as physical objects before I was really even a reader. Even the smell of them.
MZ: Apparently it is vanillin released as the cellulose breaks down, there is a scientific reason for book smell
DA: Well now you've taken all the magic out of it 😊
MZ: I dunno, I work with old stuff. I think that just lets you know how to cast the spell.
DA: Are you putting your degree to good use?
MZ: sort of accidentally?
DA: Good enough.
MZ: I didn't mean to work at a museum, but I kind of fell into it and had more experience than I thought. Plus, all writing is part anthropology. Mostly I started on an Anthropology degree because I saw what the English degree homework was like, and I really REALLY hate diagraming sentences.
DA: There's something nice about those happy accidents. I don't believe in any sort of supernaturally guided destiny, but it was a revelation when I sold my pilot that when things work — they really work. All the pushing and strategizing and planning and sweating, and in the end, when it was time it just took off like magic.
MZ: I am really really happy for you. I think it is a wonderful show for real kids with just enough weirdness and magic.
DA: Thank you. I'm excited by all the great reviews, because they are positive yes, but also because people seem to really understand what we're doing, why we're doing it. And it makes me really happy to see parents and kids tweeting about it and excited about discovering a new show they enjoy.
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Supermodel of the World (ou Ford Supermodel of the World) é o maior concurso de modelos do mundo. Idealizado por Eileen Ford em 1980, o concurso busca modelos com potencial de sucesso em mais de cinquenta países. A vencedora da final mundial recebe o maior prêmio da indústria da moda, no valor de 250 mil dólares em contrato. As vencedoras do segundo e terceiro lugares também recebem valores em dinheiro.

Segundo o regulamento da agência, para participar do concurso as meninas têm que ter idade mínima de 14 anos e altura de no mínimo 1,72 metro de altura. Já os meninos tem que ter 16 anos e pelo menos 1,82 m.</p>

Vencedoras

No Brasil, o concurso teve início em 1989 e foi organizado pela Class Modelos. Problemas jurídicos posteriores entre esta e a Ford Models americana impossibilitaram a realização do Supermodel por três anos. Nesse primeiro concurso de 1989 cuja vencedora foi a modelo Adriana de Oliveira também participaram das finais no Brasil Helena Ranaldi e Adriana Garambone, que posteriormente seguiriam carreiras de atriz. De 1993 até ao presente momento o concurso é promovido pela Ford Models Brasil.

Das brasileiras e portuguesas que participaram do concurso, Diana Pereira, Camila Finn e Tayane Leão conseguiram vencer a final mundial. Mas tal como que acontece nos concursos de Miss, o primeiro lugar no concurso nem sempre é garantia de sucesso. Várias vencedoras continuaram sendo ilustres desconhecidas, enquanto algumas modelos que não conseguiram posições de destaque emplacaram carreiras considadas em várias áreas além da moda.

Entre as brasileiras, Mariana Weickert, segundo lugar em 1997, Giselle Tigre, que ficou entre as quatro finalistas no segundo concurso em 1990 e Suyane Moreira, quarto lugar em 2000, trilharam carreiras televisivas.

Vencedoras

Performance por país

Ver também
 Ford Models
 Elite Model Look
 Supermodel Brasil

Ligações externas

Concursos de beleza
Modelos
Mulheres premiadas
Concursos de beleza dos Estados Unidos
Fundações em 1980


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What Even Is "First Year Seminar," Anyway?
Marissa Bell '22
When freshmen got their schedules at the beginning of this year, many were surprised to see one of their classes listed as "Study Skills." Some thought it would be a class to help students with studying, while others hoped it was some sort of free time, like Academic Support at the middle school. The first day of school passed and many questions were answered. However, the students who have it next semester and upperclassmen who have never had it still wonder about the point of the class. As someone who is in the class this semester, I hope to answer some of your questions.
To start this off, the name "Study Skills" doesn't represent the full meaning of the class. To the relief of many, it isn't a class that only teaches you how to study. It's much more than that. The main point of the class is to help newcomers adjust to being at Peabody High and give them the skills to succeed during their time here. In addition to this, it helps you organize, plan, and even gives you strategies that you can use outside of school.
One of the main themes of this class is called the "Vision of the Graduate." The list of characteristics that make up this can be found on page 6 of the PVMHS handbook. If you don't know what they are, the list can be found below:
Each activity we do in class always has something to do with the Vision of the Graduate. Whether it's building the tallest tower with only 12 sheets of paper or debating if a hot dog is a sandwich, there's always an aspect of these characteristics in them. If you're still curious, below are interviews with the class's creator, Ms. Skerry, and one of its teachers, Mr. Harris.
What were your goals for creating this class?
SKERRY: "The main reason for this class was to help freshmen transition from 8th grade into their high school year. In 8th grade, you have clusters and there's more kind of supervision and guidance and you just get dropped off at the high school. It's overwhelming for a lot of kids, so I wanted to make a class that helps students figure out what's expected of them here at the highschool level. How to find their way around, who to go to for help, how to take notes, how to stay organized, a bunch of different things that would help them find more success in their high school classes."
Do you think kids are enjoying the class?
SKERRY: "I don't personally teach the class, but I've been following up with all the teachers who do teach it. There are seven freshmen teachers working with one to two classes each. There is some mixed feelings because a lot of students didn't know what it was when they first got here based on the name of the course. However, I think it's helping a lot of students. A lot of students have said that they like the activities that they're doing. It's hard to tell. It's still so new that we're going to have to wait and see where everybody lands towards the end of the quarter."
How do you think of the activities we do in the class?
SKERRY: "We've actually been working as a team. There are, like I said, seven teachers. There's been a team working on this since probably December of last year to come up with the curriculum, figure out where the gaps are from what we've seen, what we need freshmen to know, and what freshmen are coming in with. We've worked together to come up with activities that would lead to a better foundation so that they can be more successful in their other classes. We also have focused on the Vision of the Graduate. We're really pushing on that this year because those are the core things that we want all the students to leave high school with, so most of our activities and assignments are designed to really focus on those."
Do you think freshmen are enjoying the class?
HARRIS: "Yeah, I think so. So far, I've gotten a lot of kids who are enthusiastically participating which is usually a good indicator whether kids are enjoying the class. I've anecdotally been asking kids that they seem to enjoy it, so I hope so, but we'll see."
Do you think it helps them?
HARRIS: "I hope so. I mean, it's hard to tell right now because it's the first month of school and things are still getting going. I will be very interested to see the kids who are in it the second half of the year and how we can help them if they struggled in the first half, but I think really in the next couple weeks we'll see how effectively we can be in helping them do well."


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A 27-year-old female mayor in Afghanistan says the Taliban 'will come for people like me and kill me'
Grace Panetta
Zarifa Ghafari during the International Women of Courage Awards Ceremony at the State Department in Washington, DC, on February 4, 2020.
Carolyn Kaster/AP
A prominent female mayor in Afghanistan says the Taliban "will come for people like me and kill me."
Zarifa Ghafari, 27, is the country's youngest mayor and the first female mayor of her province.
Ghafari has survived attempts on her life already, and her father was assassinated last year.
A prominent female mayor and women's rights advocate in Afghanistan said the Taliban "will come for people like me and kill me" as the militant Islamist group retook control of the country.
Zarifa Ghafari, 27, leads the city of Maidan Sharh. She is Afghanistan's youngest mayor, became the first female mayor of the Maidan Wardak province in 2018, and has championed women's rights in Afghanistan for years, hosting her own radio show and founding a nongovernmental organization focused on empowering women economically.
"I'm sitting here waiting for them to come," Ghafari told the UK's iNews of the Taliban. "There is no one to help me or my family. I'm just sitting with them and my husband.
"And they will come for people like me and kill me. I can't leave my family. And anyway, where would I go?"
The collapse of Afghanistan's government in the wake of the US military's withdrawal from the nation and the resurgence of Taliban control of the country directly threatens the safety of women in Afghanistan, especially activists, journalists, and female politicians like Ghafari.
Ghafari has faced resistance to her leadership in her relatively conservative province, received numerous death threats, and survived multiple attempts on her life.
And in November, her father, Abdul Wasi Ghafari, a colonel in the Afghan army, was assassinated in Kabul, the country's capital. Ghafari attributed the fatal attack to the Taliban.
"They don't want me in Maidan Shar. That is why they killed my dad," Ghafari said at the time, according to The New York Times.
"I am so broken," she added. "I don't know who to rely on. But I won't stop now even if they come after me again. I am not scared to die anymore."
In May, Ghafari told Time magazine that the US's withdrawal from Afghanistan wouldn't deter her.
"For more than 60 years, men have had all the opportunities, but they haven't succeeded or found solutions for ongoing conflicts," Ghafari told the outlet. "I'm so confident that we, as women, can do better than anyone else."
More: Afghanistan Taliban Zarifa Ghafari Death


Images were taken during our HandBrake OC test at 80% completion.
The ROG STRIX Z370-G GAMING (WI-FI AC)'s thermal performance was a lot better than we expected. The motherboard might use the same type of 4 phases doubled to 8 phases through doubling of power stage components, but its giant heat sinks are obviously getting the job done when it comes to cooling the VRM. We do recommend airflow over the VRM if you OC your K-SKU close to 5Ghz and are using an AIO watercooler. Anything under 60C is great, 60-80C is acceptable, and anything above 80C is a bit worrisome (if at stock).


Abdallah Azzam (1945-1987) is known to have been the mentor of Usama Ben Laden (1957-2011) and the father of the so-called "Arab Afghans", a small number of Arab Islamists, who left their home countries to join the nascent transnational jihad incubating in Afghanistan in the early eighties. Apart from this, little is known about the man and the jihadi doctrine he launched to encourage Muslims around the world to get involved in the Anti-Soviet crusade that took place from 1979 to 1989. This doctrine however is of capital importance to understand jihadism as it has evolved today.
Pakistan's relationship with Islam is extremely intense. From all the Muslim majority countries of the world, it is the only one whose very existence is rooted in religion. Therefore, it is not surprising that, even after seventy years of lifetime, it still faces tremendous difficulties to domesticate Islam whose representatives' claims on the State have never ceased growing since its foundation. The manipulation of religion for political purposes generates inevitably a cost, which precisely is what Pakistan is paying in its daily confrontations with Islamists demanding what they consider their legitimate right to power.


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Biografia
Per metà irlandese e metà ispanica, è figlia del camionista George van Oosbree e della cantante Johanna Ruth. Ha un fratello minore e ha avuto una infanzia triste: il padre ha lasciato la famiglia e la madre era tossicodipendente. Principalmente è stata educata e cresciuta dalla nonna, Eva Flores Ruth, una cantante che aveva lavorato assieme a Tito Puente, una leggenda della salsa.

La DeLisle è appassionata di gruppi come i The Cure, ma la madre, che era diventata una Pentecostale, aveva imposto alla figlia di non ascoltare musica che non fosse di strettamente religiosa. In tarda adolescenza cominciò a cantare brani gospel e iniziò anche a recitare come stand-up comedian, su consiglio di un amico. La DeLisle riusciva a imitare le voci in maniera naturale e quindi le venne consigliato di fare dei provini per venire assunta come doppiatrice. Il suo primo lavoro come protagonista arrivò con Crayon Shin-chan.

Non prese un altro posto come protagonista fino al 1998, ma da allora la Grey è diventata una delle doppiatrici più amate e rispettate in America. La DeLisle ha anche pubblicato cinque album di musica folk e brani , ma anche alcuni brani gospel.

La DeLisle ha prestato la voce anche a molti personaggi dei videogiochi, come Escape from Monkey Island, la serie Baldur's Gate e diversi giochi della LucasArts.

Dal 2019 è la nuova voce di Martin Prince ne I Simpson, a causa della scomparsa di Russi Taylor. Nel 2021 ha un ruolo vocale nello spot pubblicitario della quinta puntata di WandaVision.

Vita privata
Nel 2002 la DeLisle ha sposato il musicista Murry Hammond, il bassista degli Old 97's, dopo alcuni mesi di relazione informale.

Discografia

Album
 2000 - The Small Time
 2002 - Homewrecker
 2003 - Bootlegger Vol. 1
 2004 - The Graceful Ghost
 2005 - Iron Flowers

Raccolte
 2005 - Neath A Cold Grey Stone - A Grey DeLisle Collection

EP
 2005 - Iron Flowers EP

Singoli
 2001 - Showgirl (I'm Sorry)

Filmografia parziale

Attrice

Doppiatrice

 Crayon Shin-chan - Cosmo, Uma
 Oh Yeah! Cartoons - Vicky
 Le Superchicche - Femme Fatale
 Finalmente weekend! - Lor McQuarrie
 Ginger - Brandon Higsby
 Clifford - Emily Elizabeth Howard
 Due fantagenitori - Vicky, Tootie, Direttrice Geraldine Waxelplax, Veronica, Chad, Fatine dei denti, Betty
 House of Mouse - Il Topoclub - Roxanne
 Le tenebrose avventure di Billy e Mandy - Mandy / Sis
 Night of the Living Doo - Daphne Blake
 The Flintstones On The Rocks - Betty Rubble
 Whatever Happened to Robot Jones? - Mom Unit, Shannon, Connie, French teacher
 Le nuove avventure di Scooby-Doo - Daphne Blake
 Nome in codice: Kommando Nuovi Diavoli - Lizzie, Grandma Stuffums
 Xiaolin Showdown - Kimiko Tohomiko
 Star Wars: Clone Wars - Padmé Amidala, Asajj Ventress, Shaak Ti e Adi Gallia
 Un cucciolo di nome Clifford - Emily Elizabeth Howard / Caroline Howard
 Danny Phantom - Samantha "Sam" Manson
 Gli amici immaginari di casa Foster - Francis "Frankie" Foster, Duchess
 Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi - Yumi Yoshimura
 Hector Polpetta - Dottoressa Orrore
 Danger Rangers - Kitty
 Quella scimmia del mio amico - Lupe Toucan, Ingrid Giraffe, Nurse Gazelle, Mrs. Warthog
 Avatar - La leggenda di Aang - Princess Azula
 Kick Chiapposky - Aspirante stuntman - Brianna Chiapposky
 T.U.F.F. Puppy - Kitty Katswell, Zippy, R.I.T.A.
 Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated - Daphne Blake
 Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! - Daphne Blake
 A casa dei Loud - Lana, Lola e Lily
 Digimon Adventure e Digimon Adventure 02 - Tai Kamiya
Invincible – serie animata, 8 episodi (2021-in corso)
Inside Job – serie animata, 6 episodi (2021-in corso)
 Star Trek: Prodigy - serie animata, episodi 1x07-1x08 (2022) - Nandi

Videogiochi
 Star Wars: Episodio I - La minaccia fantasma - Padmé Amidala
 Ninja Gaiden 2 - Elizebet
 Bayonetta - Jeanne
 Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening - Velanna
 StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty - Nova
 Batman: Arkham City - Catwoman, Vicky Vale
 Sly Cooper: Ladri nel Tempo - Carmelita Fox
 StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm - Nova
 Injustice: Gods Among Us - Catwoman
 Broken Age - Levina, Drucilla, Yarn Pal 3
 Bayonetta 2 - Jeanne, Telegiornalista
 Mortal Kombat X - Kitana
 Batman: Arkham Knight - Catwoman, Vicky Vale
 Injustice 2 - Catwoman, Alura
 Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite - Captain Marvel
 Bayonetta 3 - Jeanne

Note

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Welcome to Johnson Lane Recreation Area located in Tullahoma, Tennessee. This 35 acre athletic park first opened in 2000 with three softball diamonds and in 2007 the park received a new parking lot, four soccer fields, and a brand new entrance. So come out and score some goals and hit some home runs!
Welcome to Downtown Park in downtown Tullahoma, Tennessee along the railroad tracks. This park helps to protect a small piece of green space.
Welcome to Tullahoma's Waggoner Park! This community park was named for Felix Waggoner, a man who made many contributions to children's baseball. Come on out and have fun. The diamonds have lights for night games.
Welcome to Tullahoma's Great Imagination Station. When this structure was first constructed in the late 1980's it was the largest community built playground of it's time. Come on out and have fun.