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Outdoors is the favorite venue of most residents. Klamath Lake is the largest freshwater lake in Oregon, named by Sailing Magazine as one of the 10 best sailing lakes in North America. With 35-mile-long stretches and winds of 10-20 knots, teams from around the world participate in the Klamath Yacht Club's regattas. Others enjoy the lakes and rivers of the county by kayaking, canoeing, powerboating, wind sailing, and windsurfing.
FPC is nestled in the eastern foothills of the Cascade Mountains about 20 miles north of the California border. We are located roughly equidistant between Portland and Sacramento, and within easy driving distance of the Bay Area and Reno, Nevada.
At 4,100 feet, Klamath Falls is in Oregon's high desert, with mountains to the west and north, desert to the east, and wetlands to the south. In this high desert oasis, we enjoy the openness of our beautiful outdoors, 300 days of sunshine a year, abundant hunting, world-class fly fishing, camping, cycling, and hiking all around us.
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Pelicans, bald eagles, and waterfowl are common sights in the Basin. The six National Wildlife Refuges are home to 245 species of birds. Three-quarters of the waterfowl on the Pacific Flyway stop in the Klamath Basin. America's old-est birding celebration, The Winter Wings Festival, is held annually over President's weekend. This family-friendly event attracts participants internationally for four full days of field trips and lectures, hands-on-activities.
The Bill Collier Ice Arena is a full NHL ice arena that hosts figure skating events, ice hockey leagues, curling, broomball, and ice skating classes.
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Steen's Sports Park is the largest privately-funded multipurpose sports facility in the Western United States. Steen's Sports Park features a 60,000-foot state-of-the-art field house, soccer fields, baseball diamonds, skateboarding park, jogging paths, and picnic areas.
Crater Lake, one of the nation's oldest national parks and the only one in Oregon, sits at over 6,000 feet in elevation. At 1,943 feet it is the deepest lake in the United States. In 1911, author Jack London called Crater Lake "the finest thing I have ever seen."
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Runners, cyclists, and snowshoers enjoy the OC&E Trail, a 109- mile rail-to-trail conversion in Klamath and Lake Counties. The Great Klamath Circle, a 150+ mile network of trails, will one day circle Upper Klamath Lake and link Klamath Falls with the Fremont- Winema National Forest and Crater Lake National Park.
Over 5 miles of easily accessible nature and hiking trails exist within our city limits. A short drive leads to the Mountain Lakes Wilderness, Sky Lakes Wilderness, Pacific Crest Trail, Lake of the Woods, Mt. McLoughlin, Mt. Thielsen for exploring the wilds of the Cascade Mountains.
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This course will allow you to realize the functional purposes of writing in your everyday lives and disciplines. We will begin with an introspective take on your life as a student via a personal narrative that traces and weaves together ʻāina (place/land), moʻokūʻauhau (genealogy), and kaiāulu (the community). We will then gradually shift from this investigation of self and work outward – focusing on your connection and relationships to your family, community, society, and culture. As each level is addressed, you will have the opportunity to identify various rhetorical situations and write to meet the demands of a specific audience, community and genre. Also, you will practice: the process of writing itself (pre-writing, writing, revisions, peer reviews etc.), techniques toward researching and evaluating/citing resources/documentation, and advance your overall literary knowledge.
1. Why do we write? What stories do you want tell?
2. How are we informed by writing? How does our relationship with and connection to ʻāina inform our writing?
3.What role does reading and history play in the act of writing and how?
4.Considering your career aspirations, what type of writing do you see yourself using and why?
5.What is your community and how does (and can) the work you are doing help to transform/benefit that community?
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The Truth About Clover
Irish or not, four-leaf clovers are ingrained in our culture. They are a symbol of good luck and finding one is quite exciting. When one speaks traditionally about finding a four-leaf clover they are usually referring to a member of the genus Trifolium, which is a genus of true clovers in the legume family. As the generic name suggests, true clovers typically exhibit leaves of three.
The odds of finding a four-leaf clover is roughly 1 in 10,000. You stand the best chance of finding them in patches of either white clover (Trifolium repens) or red clover (Trifolium pratense), which are actually native to parts of Europe and Africa. The mutation doesn't stop at four leaves either. Clovers with five or more leaves have been found and the world record for most leaves on a single clover is 56! What causes this mutation is a bit of a mystery. Some feel that it is environmental while others feel it is the result of recessive genes. A study done on white clover lends some support to the genetic connection.
I find it interesting that some of the most the famous depictions of four-leaf "clovers" are not clovers at all but rather varieties of Oxalis tetraphylla. This Mexican species produces leaves divided into four with the characteristic lobe-like shape. Since it only ever produces four leaves, it is a failsafe for those looking to add a bit of "luck" to the season.
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Home Nuggets from Occult Invasion—When "Values" Replace Biblical "Virtue"
Nuggets from Occult Invasion—When "Values" Replace Biblical "Virtue"
The denial of the God who created us for a purpose and set moral standards for our conduct has left man adrift in the universe with only his imagination as a guide. Years ago "Values Clarification" destroyed morals by teaching grammar-school children to establish their own "values" from within themselves. Today it is "Consensus Building," in which individual values, however learned or established, are torn down through "group thinking" and the new global standard becomes what everyone agrees upon "for the good of the whole world."
Society now recognizes "homosexual values" as well as "family values." Homosexual values are deemed to be broad-minded and thus acceptable; family values are deemed to be narrow-minded and "negative" toward homosexuality and other immorality, and are thus unacceptable. Such is the amoral atmosphere of the classrooms in which our youth are being "educated" globally. Malachi Martin put it succinctly:
"'Good' will no longer be burdened with a moral or religious coloring…[but] will simply be synonymous with 'global….' The emphasis is upon homogeneity of minds, on the creation and nourishing of a truly global mentality."
Bruce Logan, director of the New Zealand Education Development Foundation, has decried the departure from the certainty of "values." The latter, says Logan, "can be beliefs…feelings…preferences…whatever any person, group or society happens to value, at any time, for any reason…thus Michael Jackson and [the late] Mother Teresa both have 'values' to which each is faithful…[with] some sort of moral equivalence thereby suggested…."
Anglican priest David Guthrie, administrator of Auckland's Holy Trinity Cathedral, rebutted Logan. He praised the new liberty from biblical injunctions and even claimed this immorality was Christian. Wrote Guthrie:
"Whatever it means to be a Christian in today's world, it does not entail the acceptance of a legislating God…. As the world of global culture settles on its new tack, there will be a new set of 'virtues'…virtues that the human community chooses in that moment of time to espouse and adopt, not because they are legislated by divine authority…but because the community chooses them to be so."
In fact, it is not "the community" that decides, but part of the community over the objections of the rest. Is a 51-percent-to-49-percent vote sufficient for determining right and wrong? Opinions also change, so that today's virtue could become tomorrow's vice. "Good" and "evil" would have no meaning. With regard to homosexuality, a tiny minority through intimidation has imposed its will on society as a whole.


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Amnesty International Criticizes Hong Kong Police
Sources confirm, Amnesty International has criticized Hong Kong Police for using excessive force against protesters.
By Sanniah Hassan	 Last updated Sep 20, 2019 50 0
Hong Kong (20th Sept, 2019): Amnesty International has reportedly accused Hong Kong police on Friday reasoning that they are using excessive force against pro-democracy protesters.
According to reports, Amnesty International on Friday has reportedly accused the Hong Kong police of using excessive force against protesters. Sources confirm that Amnesty International has alluded that the Hong Kong police is using means of torture as well as a "disturbing pattern of reckless and unlawful tactics" against the pro-democracy protesters, according to Nicholas Bequelin, the East Asia Director for Amnesty International.
Recent report based on interviews of activists who needed to be hospitalized for treatment following their arrests, it has been confirmed that Hong Kong police, goes beyond levels of force allowed to them by the law including global standards. Amnesty's East Asia Director has further stated, that this use of force includes "arbitrary arrests and retaliatory violence" which has in many cases "amounted to torture". Moreover, Amnesty International has called for an inquiry into the police brutality.
Consequently, it has been reported that the police force has rejected the claims of Amnesty International. In a statement on Friday, the Hong Kong police officers have claimed that they "exercise a high level of restraint" when it comes to use of force. They added that they will offer no comment on individual cases that are being highlighted unless an official complaint is filed with the police watchdog.
Point to be noted, is that the demonstrations have been raging in Hong Kong since the last three months with anti-government protesters hurling "rocks, bottles, and petrol bombs" at the police who have in turn responded with use of tear gas, bullets and water cannons, respectively. Additionally, videos and images have since been surfacing that highlight the police charging at and beating the protesters. It has further been reported that out of nearly 21 activist interviewed by Amnesty International, almost 18 have needed to be hospitalized and have testified that the torture was stopped once they were in police custody.
Simultaneously, Hong Kong's police continues to deny the allegations against them, while more and more people have come forward to account for their actions. The police continue to iterate that they "respect the privacy, dignity and rights" of the detainees. Based on earlier reports, it can be confirmed that the protests in Hong Kong were initiated due the authorities plans to allow extraditions to the Chinese mainland.
Moreover. Amnesty's Bequelin has stated that he believes the city police is in no position to "investigate itself and remedy" the suppression of protesters. He has thereby called for an independent inquiry.
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Continuity mistake: In one of the most endearing scenes from one of the greatest movies of all times, nobody noticed that as Dorothy sings "Over the Rainbow" the haystack she's standing next to just materializes between shots. Later it disappears long before the twister reaches the house. If you watch the movie you'll see the exact spot where the haystack should be seen as Aunt Em gives Dorothy a cruller and says to her, "and find yourself a place where you won't get into any trouble". (00:07:25)
The Birds (1963)
Continuity mistake: In the scene with the policeman, Melanie suggests that she should stay for the night. Look closely at the mantle above the fireplace to in the right of the picture there is a jar with something sticking out of it. In the previous shot this jar is empty. (00:55:55 - 00:57:45)
Revealing mistake: As they exit the Tin Man's scene singing, "We're off to see the Wizard", a bird stretching its wings is casting a shadow on the painted sound stage wall slightly to the right of the house, which reveals it to be a fake backdrop instead of an open area. (00:47:45)
Continuity mistake: After both Dorothy and Scarecrow have oiled Tin Man's elbows, Dorothy pulls the Tin Man's arm down and we see her throw the apple that she's holding down behind him. In the next shot it reappears in her left hand. (00:41:55)
Question: Why is the supposed foreign version of the Shining with the deleted ending impossible to find? Does anybody have this version or know how to get it? I have a feeling it's an elaborate Internet rumor and does not actually exist.
Chosen answer: Stanley Kubrick changed the ending of The Shining after it had been in theatres for about three days. About ten minutes of footage was removed. The full US theatrical version runs 145mins, everywhere else 115mins after Kubrick trimmed the movie to remove what he considered "unnecessary" scenes. There is no specific "foreign version" save for cuts any TV networks may make for transmission.
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Answer: In addition, the footage is impossible to find because Kubrick had all of the unused footage destroyed. You can read about it here https://ew.com/movies/2017/03/30/shining-ending-explained/.
Continuity mistake: Cathy and Heathcliff run away from two dogs as they spy on the party and Heathcliff helps her up the wall. In the next shot he is already on the wall and jumps down.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Continuity mistake: As Miles wonders why the body is in the house, Jack goes from looking at Miles to looking at the body between shots. (00:23:30)
Visible crew/equipment: As Becky and Miles part company, after crossing the street, you can see the reflection of a camera man in the window to the left of the Flint Ware sign. (00:08:15)
Continuity mistake: When Dorothy comes running into the farm at the beginning of the movie, there's a lone cow in the pen behind her and a couple of white chickens that she ends up chasing in the direction of the camera as she runs near the house. Two shots later the cow disappears and the white chickens are now in the pen. (00:02:55)
Visible crew/equipment: In the beginning of the movie as the two doctors walk up to it, equipment and lights are seen reflected in Dr. Bassett's door. (00:02:00)
Audio problem: As Becky and Miles go down the steps after leaving his office. Miles keeps mouthing something after we hear the dialogue stop. (00:07:20)
Continuity mistake: As he holds the Wizard's balloon, the Tin Man has his heart shaped clock attached to his chest at the sixth rivet. The next time we see him several seconds later it's attached to the third rivet. (01:34:50)
Continuity mistake: In the beginning of the movie Dorothy comes running into the farm and there's an old tire hanging from a tree. Two shots later as she walks away from Aunt Em and Uncle Henry the tire has been moved. The angle at which it hangs has been changed and the piece of rope hanging on the bottom of it is now three or four inches closer to dead center than it was before. (00:03:00)
Visible crew/equipment: There's a second window on the left of Dorothy's bed and the shadow of the stage light can be seen on the wall behind it. (00:17:15)
Continuity mistake: After the Scarecrow gets his diploma he says, "How can I ever thank you enough" and the diploma is near his face. In the next shot it's at his side. (01:30:15)
Continuity mistake: As Miles slams on the brakes so that he won't hit Jimmy Grimaldi Sally is seated to the left of him in the passenger seat. In the shot from the front she's seated in the middle of this seat behind the rearview mirror. (00:04:15)
Continuity mistake: Inside the cyclone, looking out the window the wind is blowing left to right. In the room the wind is blowing in the window from the right. (00:18:05)
Continuity mistake: Prof. Marvel reaches to open the door of his wagon as he walks Dorothy in. In the next shot the door is already open. (00:12:45)
Continuity mistake: Dorothy faces the Munchkins as they sing, "We welcome you to Munchkinland". In the next shot she's facing the Mayor. (00:28:30)
Continuity mistake: In the cyclone, Toto runs up to the window and barks at a cow. In the next shot Toto is gone. (00:18:00)
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2014 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award Winners Announced!
Los Angeles News Lin-Manuel Miranda, Thomas Kail, Carmen Cusack, Tonya Pinkins Among LADCC Nominees The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle awards ceremony will be held March 19.
By Andrew Gans
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The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle has announced its nominations and special awards for excellence in Los Angeles, Orange County, and Ventura County theatre for 2017 (December 1, 2016–November 30, 2017).
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Four productions received five nominations apiece, the most of any work of the season: 33 Variations at the Actors Co-Op, Hamilton at the Pantages Theatre, Rotterdam at the Skylight Theatre Company, and The House in Scarsdale: A Memoir for the Stage at The Theatre @ Boston Court in Pasadena.
The 49th annual LADCC awards ceremony, hosted by Wenzel Jones (a co-host on IMRU, the LGBTQI Radio News Magazine on KPFK 90.7), will take place March 19 at A Noise Within in Pasadena. Click here for ticket information.
The ceremony will begin at 7:30 PM. One or more plaques will be presented in each of 18 categories. One of those achievements has already been voted a plaque: The award for Writing (Adaptation) will be given to Lisa Kron for Fun Home.
Seven special awards, which follow, will also be presented:
The Margaret Harford Award for sustained excellence in theatre will be awarded to Los Angeles LGBT Center's Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center.
The Polly Warfield Award for an excellent season in a small to mid-size theatre will be awarded to The Theatre @ Boston Court.
The Ted Schmitt Award for the world premiere of an outstanding new play goes to Alessandro Camon for Time Alone, originally produced by Belle Rêve Theatre Co. at the Los Angeles Theatre Center.
The Kinetic Lighting Award for distinguished achievement in theatrical design goes to set designer Stephanie Kerley Schwartz.
The Joel Hirschhorn Award for distinguished achievement in musical theatre goes to Musical Theatre West's Reiner Staged Reading Series.
The Milton Katselas Award for distinguished achievement in direction goes to Shirley Jo Finney.
The Gordon Davidson Award for distinguished contribution to the Los Angeles theatrical community will be presented to Steven Leigh Morris.
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The nominees for the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards for theatrical excellence in 2017 follow:
· 33 Variations, Actors Co-op.
· Ah, Wildnerness!, A Noise Within.
· Caught, Think Tank Gallery.
· Hamilton, Hollywood Pantages Theatre.
· Rotterdam, Skylight Theatre.
· Trouble in Mind, Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum.
· With Love and a Major Organ, The Theatre @ Boston Court.
McCulloh Award for Revival (plays written between 1920 and 1992)
· Ah, Wilderness!, A Noise Within.
· Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Antaeus Theatre Company.
· Rhinoceros, Pacific Resident Theatre.
· Tim Cummings in The House in Scarsdale: A Memoir for the Stage, The Theatre @ Boston Court.
· Carmen Cusack in Bright Star, Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre.
· Alex Hernandez in Time Alone, Los Angeles Theatre Center.
· Nan McNamara in 33 Variations, Actors Co-op.
· Joe Morton in Turn Me Loose, Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.
· Tonya Pinkins in Time Alone, Los Angeles Theatre Center.
· Esau Pritchett in King Hedley II, Matrix Theatre.
· Ashley Romans in Rotterdam, Skylight Theatre.
· Debra Jo Rupp in The Cake, The Echo Theater Company.
· Miranda Wynne in Rotterdam, Skylight Theatre.
Featured Performance
· Dawn Didawick in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Antaeus Theatre Company.
· Sandra Mae Frank and Sharon Pierre-Louis in Our Town, The Pasadena Playhouse.
· Harry Groener in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Antaeus Theatre Company.
· Ella Joyce in King Hedley II, Matrix Theatre.
· Frances Jue in King of the Yees, Center Theatre Group, Kirk Douglas Theatre.
· Matt McGrath in The Legend of Georgia McBride, Geffen Playhouse.
· Larry Powell in The Legend of Georgia McBride, Geffen Playhouse.
Ensemble Performance
· Into the Woods, Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre.
· King Hedley II, Matrix Theatre.
· Giovanni Adams, Love Is a Dirty Word, VS. Theatre.
· Alex Alpharaoh, WET: A DACAmented Journey, Ensemble Studio Theatre/Los Angeles.
· Arye Gross, Underneath the Lintel – An Impressive Presentation of Lovely Evidences, Geffen Playhouse.
· Noah Brody and Ben Steinfeld, Into the Woods, Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre.
· David Catlin, Moby Dick, South Coast Repertory.
· Thomas Kail, Hamilton, Hollywood Pantages Theatre.
· Michael Michetti, The House in Scarsdale: A Memoir for the Stage, The Theatre @ Boston Court.
· Thomas James O'Leary, 33 Variations, Actors Co-op.
· Jaime Robledo, Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play, Sacred Fools Theater Company at the Broadwater.
· Jon Brittain, Rotterdam, Skylight Theatre.
· Christopher Chen, Caught, Think Tank Gallery.
· Alice Childress, Trouble in Mind, Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum.
· Dan O'Brien, The House in Scarsdale: A Memoir for the Stage, The Theatre @ Boston Court.
Writing (Adaptation)
· Lisa Kron, Fun Home, Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre.
· Wayne Kirkpatrick and Karey Kirkpatrick, Something Rotten!, Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre.
· Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton, Hollywood Pantages Theatre.
· Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron, Fun Home, Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre.
Music Direction
· Rob Berman, Bright Star, Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre.
· David Lamoureux, Monty Python's Spamalot, 3-D Theatricals.
· Julian Reeve, Hamilton, Hollywood Pantages Theatre.
· Andy Blankenbuehler, Hamilton, Hollywood Pantages Theatre.
· Matthew Bourne, The Red Shoes, Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre.
· Casey Nicholaw, Something Rotten!, Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre.
· Keith Young, Five Guys Named Moe, Ebony Repertory Theatre.
· Christopher Wheeldon, An American in Paris, Hollywood Pantages Theatre.
· Nicholas Acciani, 33 Variations, Actors Co-op.
· François-Pierre Couture, With Love and a Major Organ, The Theatre @ Boston Court.
· Joel Daavid, Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play, Sacred Fools Theater Company at the Broadwater.
· John Iacovelli, King Hedley II, Matrix Theatre.
· Paule Constable, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre.
· Paule Constable, The Red Shoes, Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre.
· Elizabeth Harper, The House in Scarsdale: A Memoir for the Stage, The Theatre @ Boston Court.
· E.B. Brooks, The Legend of Georgia McBride, Geffen Playhouse.
· Lez Brotherston, The Red Shoes, Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre.
· Jenny Foldenauer, A Tale of Two Cities, A Noise Within.
· Linda Muggeridge with Aviva Pressman (masks), Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play, Sacred Fools Theater Company at the Broadwater.
· Sully Ratke, Moby Dick, South Coast Repertory.
· Ian Dickinson (for Autograph), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre.
· Gareth Fry and Pete Malkin, The Encounter, Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.
· Christopher Moscatiello, Rhinoceros, Pacific Resident Theatre.
· John Nobori, With Love and a Major Organ, The Theatre @ Boston Court.
CGI/Video
· Hana Sooyeon Kim, With Love and a Major Organ, The Theatre @ Boston Court.
· Tom Ontiveros, The House in Scarsdale: A Memoir for the Stage, The Theatre @ Boston Court.
· Finn Ross, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre.
· Sylvia Hernandez-DiStasi for Aerial/Acrobatic Choreography, Moby Dick, South Coast Repertory.
· Lyndie Wright and Sarah Wright for Puppets, 946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips, Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.
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Two hostages have been released in Haiti, group says
"We have learned that two of the hostages in Haiti were released," Ohio-based Christian Aid Ministries said in a statement. The 16 Americans and one Canadian https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-has-seen-proof-life-some-kidnapped-missionaries-haiti-official-says-2021-11-05, including five children, were abducted in October after visiting an orphanage.
Two of the 17 American and Canadian Christian missionaries taken hostage in Haiti last month have been released, the group that arranged for their trip to the Caribbean nation said on Sunday, without giving further details. "We have learned that two of the hostages in Haiti were released," Ohio-based Christian Aid Ministries said in a statement.
The 16 Americans and one Canadian https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-has-seen-proof-life-some-kidnapped-missionaries-haiti-official-says-2021-11-05, including five children, were abducted in October after visiting an orphanage. The incident has highlighted Haiti's dire kidnapping problem https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/descent-into-hell-kidnapping-explosion-terrorizes-haiti-2021-04-26, which has worsened amid economic and political crises and escalating violence. Haitian officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The officials have previously said a gang known as 400 Mawozo was demanding $1 million per person ransom. A man identifying himself as the leader of the gang said in a video posted on YouTube last month that he was willing to kill hostages if he did not get what he wanted.
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Relief Reports that its U.S. Collaboration Partner has Announced a Favorable, New Safety Report for Aviptadil in the National Institutes of Health Sponsored ACTIV-3b Critical Care Study in Patients with Life-Threatening COVID-19
Geneva, Switzerland, November 3, 2021 – RELIEF THERAPEUTICS Holding SA (SIX: RLF, OTCQB: RLFTF) ("Relief"), a biopharmaceutical company seeking to provide patients therapeutic relief from serious diseases with high unmet need, reported today that the parent company of its U.S. collaboration partner, NRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: NRXP) ("NRx"), has issued a press release announcing a new safety update on aviptadil, which is being tested in the ACTIV-3b Critical Care Phase 3 study sponsored by the National Institutes of Health. According to the press release, in its third scheduled analysis, the study's Independent Data Safety Monitoring Board found no new safety concerns after reviewing a total of more than 300 patients and recommended continued enrollment to target 640 patients. The related NRx press release can be accessed through the following link.
Relief focuses primarily on clinical-stage programs based on molecules with a history of clinical testing and use in human patients or a strong scientific rationale. Relief's lead drug candidate, RLF-100™ (aviptadil), a synthetic form of Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide (VIP), is in late-stage clinical testing in the U.S. for the treatment of respiratory deficiency due to COVID-19. As part of its pipeline diversification strategy, in March 2021, Relief entered into a Collaboration and License Agreement with Acer Therapeutics for the worldwide development and commercialization of ACER-001. ACER-001 is a taste-masked and immediate release proprietary powder formulation of sodium phenylbutyrate (NaPB) for the treatment of Urea Cycle Disorders and Maple Syrup Urine Disease. In addition, Relief's recently completed acquisitions of APR Applied Pharma Research SA and AdVita Lifescience GmbH, bring to Relief a diverse pipeline of marketed and development-stage programs.
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Eskom and its labor unions have agreed to hold new negotiations over pay, ending protests at power plants that have caused disruptions to power supply, said the government.
Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan called a meeting Friday with Eskom SOC Holdings Ltd., the National Union of Mineworkers, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa and the Solidarity union "to normalize relationships and normalize operations" at the utility, he said in a statement. It was agreed at the talks that Eskom's proposed zero-percent wage increase is "off the table," Gordhan said.
The government intervention wasn't enough to spare South Africans from power cuts on Saturday night. Stage-two load shedding started at 5 p.m. and may last until 9 p.m., Eskom said in a statement, using a local term for rolling blackouts. The utility had said earlier that the power system would be "severely constrained" amid cold winter weather. There are four levels of cuts, with the second stage indicating a shortage of as much as 2,000 megawatts.
Eskom, which generates almost all of the nation's electricity, has been locked in a dispute with workers after wage talks broke down last week over the state-owned utility's insistence that it can't afford pay increases. The company began cutting power to some areas Thursday night for the first time since 2015, as demonstrators blockaded roads and attacked staff.
The protests by employees came at a tough time for Eskom and the South African economy more broadly. While demand for electricity increases over the Southern Hemisphere winter, Eskom has also battled coal shortages, allegations of corruption and mismanagement, and struggled to raise the funding it needed earlier this year. A prolonged repeat of outages from three years ago would undermine signs of recovery in Africa's most-industrialized economy.
The utility got a court order declaring the protests unlawful and prohibiting the intimidation of other workers and contractors. Employees were also barred from hijacking coal trucks and sabotaging Eskom's electricity infrastructure.


Perfectly balancing the familiarity of his first few albums with the highly modern intrigue of his alter ego, Behaving, the latest release of darling Keaton Henson is a perfectly timed introduction to the darker seasons swiftly approaching. Henson's minimalistic sound, at times paired with eager experimentalism, but always carried by the heartfelt fragility of his voice, hasn't changed significantly – but the increased depth of his lyrics, and the wider perspective they now offer, show a major growth in the humble artist.
Certainly, love (and its many paradoxes) has always been a subject close to Henson's heart, and one that he has always been the prime example of – his feverish searching, holding too tight, leaving behind. It all comes down to love and death and not allowing it the space it needs – always too much or too little. Henson's work has persistently been a kind of commentary on the impossible expectations we as a species seem to have of love and interaction, and is simultaneously a careful example of what anxiety and, occasionally, self loathing might sound like. This theme continues with Kindly Now, but is gracefully explored a bit further.
Henson showcases a significant amount of self distance in the newly released album, with phrases like, "I need pain for my art / Take my lungs, break my heart", as well as a thrilling new sound with the rough, desperate 'Comfortable Love', the track I favour the most. Henson definitely hasn't been sitting on his hands these past few years, and his experimentation with Romantic Works and Behaving undoubtedly had its part in producing this brilliantly paced album.
I sincerely hope that our tormented artist one day realises to which extent his art has inspired his followers, in the way he turns his pain into a thing of beauty and familiarity – but I somehow doubt he ever will.


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Newark graduate Russell eager to play in front of home fans for Columbus Destroyers
Grant Russell will quarterback the Columbus Destroyers in their home opener on Saturday night.
Newark graduate Russell eager to play in front of home fans for Columbus Destroyers Grant Russell will quarterback the Columbus Destroyers in their home opener on Saturday night. Check out this story on newarkadvocate.com: https://www.newarkadvocate.com/story/sports/local/2019/05/17/grant-russell-eager-play-front-fans-columbus-destroyers/3690310002/
Kurt Snyder, Newark Advocate Published 9:13 p.m. ET May 17, 2019
Newark graduate Grant Russell is the starting quarterback for the Columbus Destroyers. (Photo: Advocate file photo)
COLUMBUS - It is not long ago Grant Russell would spend Sunday afternoons in the fall, watching football at Roosters.
So when the Newark graduate heard his game with the Columbus Destroyers on May 10 was shown on a couple of the big screens at Roosters, he definitely had to smile. The first month of Russell's professional career is nearing an end, and another milestone comes when the Destroyers play their home opener.
"A couple of my buddies told me that, so that's really cool," Russell said. "That's one of the most popular places in town. That's a lot of fun to know they were showing support like that having the game on TV."
The Destroyers host Albany at 7 p.m. Saturday at Nationwide Arena, and the game will be broadcast locally on WWHO-TV 53. The Destroyers also host Washington at 7 p.m. May 25 as they play six of their final nine games at home.
Previously: Newark's Russell takes next step as Columbus Destroyers Arena League quarterback
Russell, who starred at quarterback for Ohio Dominican after leaving Newark, has wasted no time making himself at home in the Arena Football League. The only thing missing so far is a victory as the Destroyers are 0-3.
"Our games were competitive, but at the end of the day, we just want to get a win," Russell said. "We have done some good things on offense the first three games. We just have to be consistent on that side of the ball and score, especially down in the red zone.
"We do get a limited amount of possessions, so we have to make the most out of each one," he added. "We want to get points on the board after each one of our series. That's the plan going in."
Russell is 41-of-66 through the air for 471 yards and eight touchdowns against just two interceptions. He also has run for two touchdowns.
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Not unlike his high school and collegiate careers, Russell not only has hit receivers from the pocket, but he has made some of his best plays when forced from the pocket. The video of Russell's scramble in which he bowled over a Baltimore defender went viral on social media.
"I didn't (expect it) honestly," Russell said. "My whole intent on that run was to try to score a touchdown and provide a spark for our team."
The Destroyers dropped their opener 35-19 to Albany, but they have been knocking on the door the past two weeks. They trailed Atlantic City just 28-27 early in the fourth quarter of a 42-35 loss in Week 2, and Russell's quarterback sneak pulled them within 35-30 in the 48-30 loss to Baltimore.
Russell hopes to lead the Destroyers over the hump Saturday. He will have plenty of familiar faces cheering him on.
"The support from Newark has just been wonderful," Russell said. "I can't thank everybody in the community enough. I get nothing but positive feedback. It's just been all love, and it's great to know I have so many people in my corner, wanting me to succeed."
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John McCabe – "Every Night"
By The Butcher on January 4, 2019
John McCabe is a singer/songwriter and multi instrumentalist from California who has been writing, performing and producing original music for nearly a decade. We have featured John's work before with his tracks "April", "Careless Noise", and "Winter". He is back with a new single titled "Every Night". "'Every Night' is a reflection on growing up in the late 70's / early '80s; Archie Bunker's favorite chair had been replaced by the ever present more modern La-Z-Boy recliner, fathers ruling the roost primarily through gentle fear. Follow the straight and narrow path. Step outside the path and 'that'll never work, and I wouldn't do that if I were you' could be heard as the best advise possible. That phrase ended up as the pre-chorus for this tune." This track was recorded in McCabe's home studio and released on Shelf Talker Music. "While I continue to produce these singles like "Every Night" on my home studio rig, I am in mid-stream on another 5 Song EP… as a follow up to the 2017 EP "Flower Circle". I am working with the same team for the new EP; John Kimbrough (Producer, bass, slide guitar, percussion, key), Jay Skowronek (Drums) at Janky East Studios (Los Angeles)." They are currently on target for a March/ April release.
"Every Night" kicks in to full gear right off the bat with the full band coming out of the gate with a full and melodic sound. There is the instant recognition of McCabe's vocal style, mellow and passionate with a unique tone. The music mixes an alternative indie rock flavor with a country twang on top of strong drums and driving acoustic chords. The melody has interesting and dramatic shifts in tone, from a thoughtful cadence to an optimistic and happy sounding chorus. The lyrics read as autobiographical, telling a personal story while being relatable. The steady flow of the song never lets up while they travel through instrumental refrains and guitar solos showing the laid back technical skills of the band along with a solid, clean production crackling with dynamic energy. You can listen to "Every Night" and follow John McCabe on the links below. Please continue to support artists like John and share this music with everyone you know.
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Published at Tuesday, April 16th, 2019 - 08:53:16 AM. Metal Roofing. By Devona Pelletier.
This roofing design not only provides a clean look, but it is also sturdy and leak resistant. On top of all of the other benefits, this roof is also resistant to piercing, an outstanding addition for an already remarkable roofing structure. Although this particular roof is rather easy to design, the protection it provides makes it a brilliant roofing system.


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Assessing equity in benefit distribution of government health subsidy in 2012 across East China: benefit incidence analysis
Mingsheng Chen, Andrew J. Palmer, Lei Si
Background: Improving the equitable benefit distribution of government health subsidies, particularly among the country's poorer socioeconomic groups, is a major goal of China's healthcare sector reform. Methods: Benefit incidence analysis was employed to measure the distribution of government health subsidies by income quintile. The concentration index (CI) of different levels of health care facility in urban and rural areas was calculated. A household survey complete through multistage stratified sampling was conducted in 2013 in urban areas (16,908 respondents) and rural areas (19,525 respondents). Results: The overall CI for urban patients was 0.1068 for outpatient care and 0.1237 for inpatient care. For outpatient care, the CI was 0.0795, 0.0465 and 0.3456, respectively, at primary, secondary and tertiary health care facilities; for inpatient care, the CI was -0.2179, 0.0752 and 0.2883 at the corresponding facility levels. The overall CI for rural outpatients was -0.0659 and 0.0036 for inpatients. For outpatient care, the CI was -0.0818, 0.0567 and 0.0271 at primary, secondary and tertiary facilities, respectively; for inpatient care, the CI was -0.0050, 0.0084 and 0.0252 at the corresponding facility levels. Conclusions: China's primary level health care facilities were found to have a more equitable benefit distribution of government health subsidies than the secondary- and tertiary- level facilities. Increased government budget allocations and insurance imbursement rates, and the provision of technical support and qualified medical staff to lower-level hospitals were key factors. However, the provision of equal subsidies to all socioeconomic levels was found to be a potential threat to the equity of government health subsidy distribution.
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Chen, M., Palmer, A. J., & Si, L. (2016). Assessing equity in benefit distribution of government health subsidy in 2012 across East China: benefit incidence analysis. International Journal for Equity in Health, 15(1), 1-10. [15]. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-016-0306-z
Chen, Mingsheng ; Palmer, Andrew J. ; Si, Lei. / Assessing equity in benefit distribution of government health subsidy in 2012 across East China : benefit incidence analysis. In: International Journal for Equity in Health. 2016 ; Vol. 15, No. 1. pp. 1-10.
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Image: Aliens hear no evil, see no evil, and speak no evil, courtesy Aaron Logan (Creative Commons license).
Heard of distributed computing? If you have, you've most likely heard about it in relation to the search for space aliens. Why people who believe life originated by chance are so exited about searching for extraterrestrial intelligence has never been entirely clear to me. Especially was it unclear to me when my professed agnosticism-sometimes-atheism required me to endorse the life-originated-by-chance faith. That life originated even once by chance, any adherent of that faith should reason, is so astoundingly improbable that only a wishful we-can't-be-alone fideist could doubt that the rest of this universe is lifeless and we impossibly living are truly, entirely alone in this measureless, meaningless cosmos.
Concerning the last project listed: Sometimes, the Folding@home team tracking fails to show CPUs I know are active for the project, listing zeros for all values. Also, the script for modifying the team page has not worked since my initial setup (so, unlike BOINC team pages, it does not link to this page). Don't let this prevent you from joining the team. Presumably, these problems do not affect the processing and use of completed work. While confirmation that completed work has been received and processed would be nice, occasional lack of such confirmation should not dissuade one from participating in the project.
Because of the huge amount of known protein sequences in public databases it became clear that most of them will not be experimentally characterized in the near future. Nevertheless, proteins that have evolved from a common ancestor often share [the] same functions (so-called orthologs). So it is possible to infer the function of a non-characterized protein from an ortholog with known function.
While I of course do not endorse such evolution-assuming language as found in the second sentence, it seems to me that SIMAP's project of organizing the various aspects of known protein similarities (including provision of "pre-computed similarity and domain ["Protein domains (often called function domains) are the structural building blocks of proteins"] data and represent[ation of] the known protein space") produces data that even scientists who reject evolution could find very useful. In any case, many "evolutionary" teachings seem true insights about the comparative structures and functions of God's various creations**(designs that, loosely speaking, one could say "evolved" in the mind of God), but true insights unfortunately couched in the unbelief-inspired narrative (less politely, "fairy tale for grownups") of goo-to-you evolutionism, and in a vocabulary pervasively biased in favor of that narrative. (I say that "evolved in the mind of God" is only true "loosely speaking" because, of course, God is both all-knowing and eternal, so there was never a time when some design now in his mind was not already there. Talk of "evolution" might accurately describe a real relationship between the designs as ideas having specific similarities and differences, but it does not accurately portray how God's eternal and omniscient mind operates.) Put briefly, evolution-believers' need to tell tall tales about the past in response to present-day observational data does not reduce the data's value.
All that said….I look forward to having you on the team(s)!


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Political detainees offered released if they drop torture charges
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Zimbabwean state lawyers Friday agreed to the release of a group of political prisoners held since October by President Robert Mugabe's secret police - on the condition that they withdraw litigation against their captors for the brutal torture they suffered, their lawyer said.
Most of the group of 16 abductees have already been granted bail by judges, but state security and legal officials have either defied the orders or blocked their release, dpa reported.
The release of the political prisoners has dominated the 26-day- old transitional coalition government between Mugabe and pro- democracy leader Morgan Tsvangirai, who is now serving as prime minister, with the continued detention in violation of court orders threatening to abort the agreement.
The prisoners were facing charges of undergoing "terrorist" training and of bombing police stations, although their lawyers say that after five months, police and state prosecutors have failed to produce any evidence.
Tsvangirai said this week that Mugabe had agreed that the detainees would be released on bail, overruling attempts by his officials to keep them in custody. There has been an international outcry over their continued detention.
But in discussions late Friday over the terms of their bail, state lawyers laid down "impossible" conditions, defence lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa said. She said the state insisted the prisoners each pay bail of 600,000 US dollars and agree to withdraw law suits lodged in Harare's high court against their alleged torturers.
"It is a patently unlawful condition," she said. "It's the most shocking thing I've heard."
The prisoners have given harrowing accounts in court of their torture after their abduction, including prolonged beating on the feet, electric shock, partial drowning, being hung upside down and having hot and cold water poured over them. Seven of them are in hospital undergoing treatment for their physical and mental trauma.
Mtetwa said she had told some of the prisoners of the deal being offered and would let them "sleep on it" before deciding. She said the state lawyers' offer was not made to a smaller group of the 16 who have not been granted bail by the courts.
The offer also excluded Roy Bennett, Tsvangirai's popular agriculture deputy minister designate who was arrested two weeks ago, hours before he was due to be sworn in with the rest of the cabinet. He has been charged with "banditry, sabotage, terrorism and insurgency."
The exclusion was not explained and came despite a high court order this week that he be freed on bail. The ruling was blocked by state lawyers' appeals.
Observers say that the demands for torture charges to be dropped indicate anxiety among state security officials who for the last 30 years have operated Mugabe's violent machinery of repression with impunity, but since the establishment of the power-sharing government, now find themselves under threat of prosecution.


All this week I'll be posting reviews on some of the books I read this year.
I'm starting out with the third and final book in Marie Lu's LEGEND series: CHAMPION.
PRODIGY (see my review) ended on a massive cliffhanger and I was seriously biting my nails for Day after his fatal diagnosis. At the start of CHAMPION, Day and June haven't seen each other in months. Day is living with his younger brother Eden and June is working as an advisor to Anden. But then June contacts Day with an impossible choice (I couldn't think of a worse one!) and things go from bad to worse.
In PRODIGY I really enjoyed seeing how the American Colonies (those not part of the Republic) had set up their society to be corporate sponsorship-based. In CHAMPION, we zoom out even further and see what's up in the rest of the world. June's visit to Antarctica was especially fascinating and I loved the idea of a society based on a points system. Not that I would personally like to live there, but the thought behind it is so intriguing. Thus the merit badge for worldbuilding this time around!
CHAMPION is a bittersweet but fitting ending to June and Day's story. I'm sorry to see the series end.
I really enjoyed this too. And so agree with what you said about the ending. I can't wait to see what Marie has for us next.


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Whether you're looking for a comforting soup or bringing new flavor to mussels, coconuts can add subtle richness to your dish. Just don't forget the wine.
As a staple of many confectionery delights, coconuts have long been associated with sweet dishes. Yet many people do not explore savory uses of this creamy tropical fruit. Not only is the milk a welcome substitute for cream in many recipes, but it also adds balance while pairing well with a variety of ingredients.
Whether you're looking to make a spicy shellfish dish, put a twist on a classic oyster recipe or make a colorful, comforting soup, explore the richness and subtle flavor coconuts can bring to your meal.
The locally grown movement and a worldly eccentricity come together at Ponte Winery, thanks to chef Christy Moore. She combines obscure vegetables like spigarello, lollipop kale and red orach with other bounty grown nearby, including olives and olive oil from the property's grove. Moore's creative use of fresh ingredients and innovative touches add a little excitement to classic dishes.
Heat 2 tablespoons oil in sauté pan over medium-high heat. Add 2 tablespoons garlic, and cook, stirring, 45 seconds. Add stock, tomatoes with juice and 2 cups wine. Simmer 15 minutes. Add chutney and curry paste. Cook 5 minutes. Remove from heat, and stir in coconut milk. Transfer mixture to food processor. Purée until smooth. Season with salt and pepper.
Heat remaining 1 tablespoon oil in sauté pan over medium-high heat. Add remaining ½ tablespoon garlic, shallots and mussels. Cook 2 minutes. Add remaining 1 cup wine, thyme and 2 cups of the tomato-curry broth, and cover. Gently shake pan occasionally. When mussels open, about 5 minutes, uncover and transfer to large bowl. Serve immediately. Serves 2.
The fresh acid and citrus notes of Ponte's 2016 Rosé Spumante marry with the shellfish, while the bubbles cut through the rich curry broth.
Coconut milk, extracted from mature coconut flesh (not the "coconut water" found in young green coconuts), is a creamy staple in sweet and savory dishes from many tropical climates, including a number of Indian and Southeast Asian curries.
While it's easy to make your own coconut milk—unsweetened coconut is increasingly available in large supermarkets and specialty stores—the canned variety works just as well. Just shake vigorously before using.
In this recipe, coconut milk adds richness and subtle coconut flavor to a comforting carrot soup. Winter squash can also be substituted for carrots.
Have some extra coconut milk leftover? Try your hand at the Komodo Dragon, a coconut cocktail that plays off the classic Grasshopper drink.
In soup pot over medium heat, warm olive oil. Add onions, and cook until tender and golden brown, about 10 minutes (reduce heat if too dark). Add carrots, and cook 3 minutes. Add remaining ingredients except garnish. Cover and cook until carrots are very soft, about 10–15 minutes.
Transfer to blender (in batches, if necessary). Purée until very smooth. Return to pot. Warm through, adding a little stock or water if too thick. Add salt, to taste. Serve hot, garnished with dollop of coconut chutney or pesto, if desired. Serves 4.
Put 2 cups unsweetened coconut flakes in blender. Add 4 cups very hot water (just under boiling). Let sit 10 minutes then blend 2 minutes. Over large bowl, strain mixture through strainer lined with cheesecloth. Squeeze cheesecloth to extract as much liquid as possible. Refrigerate up to 4 days.
A Pinot Gris from New Zealand, like Amisfield's 2015 bottling from Central Otago, will be a nice companion to this rich yet spicy soup. The wine's round mouthfeel and ripe fruit notes of pear and muskmelon will harmonize with the sweet yet earthy carrot flavor. Bright acidity helps to lift the palate, while accents of cinnamon and ginger complement the soup's spicy additions.


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Casa Blacker è una grande abitazione costruita in stile bungalow dagli architetti Greene & Greene per Robert Roe Blacker a Pasadena, in California. Realizzato nel 1907, quello di casa Blacker è stato probabilmente il più grande e impegnativo progetto del periodo per i fratelli Greene, ed era considerato dai suoi autori come il proprio capolavoro.

Committenza
Robert Blacker era un ricco commerciante di legname nato in Ontario che aveva fatto la propria fortuna in Michigan. Quando decise di ritirarsi in pensione si rivolse agli architetti Myron Hunt e Elmer Grey per la realizzazione di una casa a Pasadena per sé e per la sua seconda moglie, Nellie Celeste Canfield. Per via di alcuni disaccordi, però, Blacker decise di chiamare i fratelli Greene a sostituire i primi progettisti. Il lotto su cui sarebbe andata a sorgere la casa era ampio cinque acri e mezzo (poco più di due ettari) e si trovava sulla parte alta di un poggio. I clienti misero a disposizione di Charles e Henry Greene un budget praticamente illimitato, ma chiesero loro di rispettare la configurazione originale del primo piano come era stata pensata da Hunt e Grey. Di grande aiuto per gli architetti furono invece le conoscenze di Robert Blacker nel settore del commercio di legname: casa Blacker fu la prima che i due fratelli ebbero modo di progettare che facesse uso di una grande varietà di legnami esotici, come mogano dell'Honduras, teak della Birmania ed ebano, oltre che legno di sequoia e di abete di Douglas della migliore qualità.

Descrizione
Casa Blacker è uno dei migliori esempi di architettura Arts and Crafts mai realizzata ed esprime efficacemente tutti i punti cardine del movimento di cui i fratelli Greene erano maestri: costruita grazie a un largo uso di lavoro manuale, poteva vantare un arredamento – compresi infissi, vasi e mobili da giardino – interamente progettato e realizzato artigianalmente per le necessità del cliente. La casa è stata costruita per favorire una circolazione ottimale dell'aria ed è aperta sul giardino e integrata con gli elementi naturali, così come i tre edifici minori ed ausiliari. Lo stile è quello distintivo della coppia di architetti: una commistione dello stile Arts and Crafts inglese e di quello tradizionale giapponese, applicati con largo uso di legno alle condizioni climatiche della California del sud.

Storia recente
Dopo la morte di Robert Blacker, avvenuta nel 1948, i proprietari seguenti divisero la proprietà in lotti minori e svendettero tutto l'arredo della casa. Negli anni ottanta poi, un collezionista di antiquariato decise di comprare la casa – ad un prezzo di 1,2 milioni di dollari – per smontare e vendere le finestre, le luci e la porta di ingresso, tutte pregevoli realizzazioni artigianali. Si trattò di uno scandalo a Pasadena, che spinse la città a dotarsi di un'ordinanza che impedisse altri atti simili. I proprietari attuali hanno invece riportato la casa alle condizioni originali, utilizzando delle copie precise dei mobili e degli infissi progettati all'epoca dai fratelli Greene.

Nel febbraio del 1986 casa Blacker è stata aggiunta al National Register of Historic Places.

Note

Bibliografia

Voci correlate
Casa Gamble

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Ville degli Stati Uniti d'America
Architetture di Pasadena (California)

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namespace starboard {
namespace shared {
namespace starboard {
namespace player {
namespace filter {

namespace {

bool s_yuv_to_rgb_lookup_table_initialized = false;
int s_y_to_rgb[256];
int s_v_to_r[256];
int s_u_to_g[256];
int s_v_to_g[256];
int s_u_to_b[256];
uint8_t s_clamp_table[256 * 5];

void EnsureYUVToRGBLookupTableInitialized() {
  if (s_yuv_to_rgb_lookup_table_initialized) {
    return;
  }

  // The YUV to RGBA conversion is based on
  //   http://www.equasys.de/colorconversion.html.
  // The formula is:
  // r = 1.164f * y                      + 1.793f * (v - 128);
  // g = 1.164f * y - 0.213f * (u - 128) - 0.533f * (v - 128);
  // b = 1.164f * y + 2.112f * (u - 128);
  // And r/g/b has to be clamped to [0, 255].
  //
  // We optimize the conversion algorithm by creating two kinds of lookup
  // tables.  The color component table contains pre-calculated color component
  // values.  The clamp table contains a map between |v| + 512 to the clamped
  // |v| to avoid conditional operation.
  // The minimum value of |v| can be 2.112f * (-128) = -271, the maximum value
  // of |v| can be 1.164f * 255 + 2.112f * 127 = 565.  So we need 512 bytes at
  // each side of the clamp buffer.
  memset(s_clamp_table, 0, 512);
  memset(s_clamp_table + 768, 0xff, 512);

  uint8_t i = 0;
  while (true) {
    s_y_to_rgb[i] = static_cast<int>((i - 16) * 1.164f);
    s_v_to_r[i] = static_cast<int>((i - 128) * 1.793f);
    s_u_to_g[i] = static_cast<int>((i - 128) * -0.213f);
    s_v_to_g[i] = static_cast<int>((i - 128) * -0.533f);
    s_u_to_b[i] = static_cast<int>((i - 128) * 2.112f);
    s_clamp_table[512 + static_cast<std::size_t>(i)] = i;
    if (i == 255) {
      break;
    }
    ++i;
  }

  s_yuv_to_rgb_lookup_table_initialized = true;
}

uint8_t ClampColorComponent(int component) {
  return s_clamp_table[component + 512];
}

void CopyPlane(int bit_depth,
               uint8_t* destination,
               const uint8_t* source,
               int pixels) {
  if (bit_depth == 8) {
    memcpy(destination, source, pixels);
    return;
  }
  SB_DCHECK(bit_depth == 10 || bit_depth == 12);

  const int conversion_factor = 1 << (bit_depth - 8);

  const uint16_t* source_in_uint16 = reinterpret_cast<const uint16_t*>(source);
  while (pixels > 0) {
    *destination = static_cast<uint8_t>(*source_in_uint16 / conversion_factor);
    ++source_in_uint16;
    ++destination;
    --pixels;
  }
}

}  // namespace

int CpuVideoFrame::GetPlaneCount() const {
  SB_DCHECK(format_ != kInvalid);
  SB_DCHECK(format_ != kNativeTexture);

  return static_cast<int>(planes_.size());
}

const CpuVideoFrame::Plane& CpuVideoFrame::GetPlane(int index) const {
  SB_DCHECK(format_ != kInvalid);
  SB_DCHECK(format_ != kNativeTexture);
  SB_DCHECK(index >= 0 && index < GetPlaneCount())
      << "Invalid index: " << index;
  return planes_[index];
}

scoped_refptr<CpuVideoFrame> CpuVideoFrame::ConvertTo(
    Format target_format) const {
  SB_DCHECK(format_ == kYV12);
  SB_DCHECK(target_format == kBGRA32);

  EnsureYUVToRGBLookupTableInitialized();

  scoped_refptr<CpuVideoFrame> target_frame(new CpuVideoFrame(timestamp()));

  target_frame->format_ = target_format;
  target_frame->width_ = width();
  target_frame->height_ = height();
  target_frame->pixel_buffer_.reset(new uint8_t[width() * height() * 4]);
  target_frame->planes_.push_back(
      Plane(width(), height(), width() * 4, target_frame->pixel_buffer_.get()));

  const uint8_t* y_data = GetPlane(0).data;
  const uint8_t* u_data = GetPlane(1).data;
  const uint8_t* v_data = GetPlane(2).data;
  uint8_t* bgra_data = target_frame->pixel_buffer_.get();

  int height = this->height();
  int width = this->width();

  for (int row = 0; row < height; ++row) {
    const uint8_t* y = &y_data[row * GetPlane(0).pitch_in_bytes];
    const uint8_t* u = &u_data[row / 2 * GetPlane(1).pitch_in_bytes];
    const uint8_t* v = &v_data[row / 2 * GetPlane(2).pitch_in_bytes];
    int v_to_r = 0;
    int u_to_g = 0;
    int v_to_g = 0;
    int u_to_b = 0;

    for (int column = 0; column < width; ++column) {
      if (column % 2 == 0) {
        v_to_r = s_v_to_r[*v];
        u_to_g = s_u_to_g[*u];
        v_to_g = s_v_to_g[*v];
        u_to_b = s_u_to_b[*u];
      } else {
        ++u, ++v;
      }

      int y_to_rgb = s_y_to_rgb[*y];
      int r = y_to_rgb + v_to_r;
      int g = y_to_rgb + u_to_g + v_to_g;
      int b = y_to_rgb + u_to_b;

      *bgra_data++ = ClampColorComponent(b);
      *bgra_data++ = ClampColorComponent(g);
      *bgra_data++ = ClampColorComponent(r);
      *bgra_data++ = 0xff;

      ++y;
    }
  }

  return target_frame;
}

// static
scoped_refptr<CpuVideoFrame> CpuVideoFrame::CreateYV12Frame(
    int bit_depth,
    int width,
    int height,
    int source_y_pitch_in_bytes,
    int source_uv_pitch_in_bytes,
    SbTime timestamp,
    const uint8_t* y,
    const uint8_t* u,
    const uint8_t* v) {
  SB_DCHECK(bit_depth == 8 || bit_depth == 10 || bit_depth == 12);

  if (bit_depth > 8) {
    SB_DCHECK(source_y_pitch_in_bytes >= width * 2);
  } else {
    SB_DCHECK(source_y_pitch_in_bytes >= width);
  }

  scoped_refptr<CpuVideoFrame> frame(new CpuVideoFrame(timestamp));
  frame->format_ = kYV12;
  frame->width_ = width;
  frame->height_ = height;

  auto destination_y_pitch_in_bytes = source_y_pitch_in_bytes;
  auto destination_uv_pitch_in_bytes = source_uv_pitch_in_bytes;
  if (bit_depth == 10 || bit_depth == 12) {
    // Reduce destination pitch to half as it will be converted into 8 bits.
    destination_y_pitch_in_bytes /= 2;
    destination_uv_pitch_in_bytes /= 2;
  }

  // U/V planes generally have half resolution of the Y plane.  However, in the
  // extreme case that any dimension of Y plane is odd, we want to have an
  // extra pixel on U/V planes.
  int uv_height = height / 2 + height % 2;
  int uv_width = width / 2 + width % 2;

  int y_plane_size_in_bytes = height * destination_y_pitch_in_bytes;
  int uv_plane_size_in_bytes = uv_height * destination_uv_pitch_in_bytes;
  frame->pixel_buffer_.reset(
      new uint8_t[y_plane_size_in_bytes + uv_plane_size_in_bytes * 2]);

  CopyPlane(bit_depth, frame->pixel_buffer_.get(), y, y_plane_size_in_bytes);
  CopyPlane(bit_depth, frame->pixel_buffer_.get() + y_plane_size_in_bytes, u,
            uv_plane_size_in_bytes);
  CopyPlane(bit_depth,
            frame->pixel_buffer_.get() + y_plane_size_in_bytes +
                uv_plane_size_in_bytes,
            v, uv_plane_size_in_bytes);

  frame->planes_.push_back(Plane(width, height, destination_y_pitch_in_bytes,
                                 frame->pixel_buffer_.get()));
  frame->planes_.push_back(
      Plane(uv_width, uv_height, destination_uv_pitch_in_bytes,
            frame->pixel_buffer_.get() + y_plane_size_in_bytes));
  frame->planes_.push_back(
      Plane(uv_width, uv_height, destination_uv_pitch_in_bytes,
            frame->pixel_buffer_.get() + y_plane_size_in_bytes +
                uv_plane_size_in_bytes));
  return frame;
}

}  // namespace filter
}  // namespace player
}  // namespace starboard
}  // namespace shared
}  // namespace starboard


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Who is anne kastor?
Anne Sarah Kastor was born in New York in 1964 to Mae and John Kastor, a psychiatric social worker and a cardiologist. She had an older sister, Elizabeth, and a younger brother, Peter. They grew up in Boston and Philadelphia. Anne graduated from Milton Academy in Massachusetts, got a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1988 and an M.D. from UC San Francisco School of Medicine in 1996, where she also completed her internship and residency in internal medicine. During her years in California, she worked on women's health issues, harm reduction and HIV treatment and management. In 1999 she moved to Brooklyn, and worked as a medical director at Project Renewal and Housing Works before moving to SUNY Downstate in 2002. At Downstate, she was a faculty member and primary care physician. She particularly loved the students at Downstate, so many of whom were first-generation college graduates, immigrants or non-traditional students.
Anne loved teaching and grew increasingly interested in reforming medical education to make it more patient-centered. She left Downstate in 2008 to become director of the doctoring course at the proposed Touro University medical school; she was excited by the opportunity to create a new way of educating doctors, but Touro abandoned the project within a year. In 2009, Anne joined the faculty of Cornell and became the director of the Weill Cornell Community Clinic. Although on the Cornell faculty until her death, Anne was unable to work for the final two years of her life. She died of ovarian cancer on July 5, 2013 at 49.
Anne studied classical piano for years and loved music, cooking, New York, the off-leash dog hours in Prospect Park, and, most deeply, her wife Jill and daughter Holly. She was morally and socially committed, a proudly progressive activist. Not someone, in fact, you would expect to have a subscription to People magazine. But, she explained once, "You can't be serious all the time."
Anne wasn't serious all the time—only about the things that really mattered.
When the idea of opening a student-run clinic formed at SUNY Downstate College of Medicine, the students looked to Anne to serve as a physician, mentor, and champion. In his remembrance of Anne, Dr. David Marcus, one of the medical students who founded the clinic, explained Anne's role in launching this important initiative:
"She always made herself available to us, arranged for meetings with hospital leadership, and generously gave from her wisdom. She gave us the freedom to explore all of our ideas while keeping close tabs on our work, and she never hesitated to rein in the group when our visions for the clinic bordered on delusional. Then, when the Brooklyn Free Clinic (BFC) finally opened its doors after 18 months of hard work, she became the first, and for several months its only, preceptor."
Because of her tireless efforts throughout her career as a community health worker, and then as a doctor, to provide medical care for people who otherwise would not have had access to it, the BFC honored Anne in May 2015 by renaming itself the Anne Kastor Brooklyn Free Clinic. Her legacy will live on as we continue to provide comprehensive, high-quality medical care to the uninsured in Brooklyn.


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Do you have a stapler?
Yes. Yes, I do. And no, you can't use it.
What's the deal with the "Do you have a stapler?" thing, anyways?
Back at UCSD, where I worked as a lowly TA, this was the single question I dealt with more often than any other. It got to be very tedious. And at the time, I in fact did not have a stapler. Nor did I carry a pocket full of paperclips. I did, however, know how to make a pretty nifty corner-fastener from a waterbomb base.
Where's LL30?
Downstairs. "LL" stands for "Lower Level".
Where's the department office?
The math office is up on the third floor. The physics office is down the hall to your right.
Where's room 256?
Somewhere up on the second floor. There are floorplans by the elevators.
Where's "Introduction to Underwater Astrophysics"?
Damned if I know. Do you have a room number?
Do people actually ask you where all these things are?
Yup. My office is by the main artery on the first floor of the Natural Science Building, so during the first week of classes I'm invariably dealing with dazed, bewildered, lost undergrads who don't know where the floorplans are.
When'd you last shave?
35 years ago.
And your last haircut?
Early summer, 2007. I've been meaning to get another one soon.
Do you ever wear shoes?
More nowadays, alas. Louisville is more broken-glass intensive than San Diego, and my department, while delightfully informal, might balk at habitual shoelessness.
Do you paint your own toenails? And why?
Yes, and because it's an emotional/creative outlet. And it's different and weird. And of course there are not nearly enough ways in which I'm different and weird.
Isn't Paul Erdős responsible for that quote you attribute to Alfred Rényi?
To start with, a quick update for those who have no idea what this question refers to. My former signature block includes the quote "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems" and an attribution to Alfred Rényi. This quote is frequently attributed to Paul Erdős, mostly because Erdős was excessively fond of the line and repeated it often, but always attributed it properly. But Rényi really said it, and said it first.
What's your actual name? I keep seeing different first names.
I was born David Jacob Wildstrom. The "Wildstrom" part is a story in itself, but it's not my story. For the first 18 years of my life I was simply "David". This ended after I was in a class in which a third of the people were named David my senior year. Going to college is a good time for changes, so at college I introduced myself as "Jake" and nobody questioned it. And I've been Jake to everyone except bureaucrats, old friends, and family since then. I haven't officially changed my name and probably never will, so as a matter of reconciling my official and common names, I sometimes indicate my name as "D. Jacob Wildstrom". Those are the three names I use most commonly. I occasionally go by "Bishop" or "Jack Bishop" but that's another story.
How's that last name spelled/pronounced?
Wildstrom -- pronounced with a long i, short u, and accent on the first syllable, i.e. wild-strum. The only really acceptable alternative is pronounced with a short i, i.e. willed-strum. Wildstorm is a publishing company, and it isn't my name.
So what's the "Jack Bishop" story?
I've often adopted ecclesiastical pretensions, because religion's fun and wacky. Invariably I give myself the rank of a bishop, because it's a cool word, and a chess piece, and they get to wear purple, and their administrative region has a lot of different names, all of which sound nice (bishopric, episcopate, dicoese). So being a bishop seems kind of appealing. So the word made its way into my alias, first on ifMUD and later everywhere else.
As for "Jack", well, it's pretty close to my chosen name of "Jake", and also it refers to a role I've occasionally taken on, that of the MIT tour guide. So since I've been both a jack and a bishop, I call myself "Jack Bishop".
How'd you learn to knit?
My classmates in Budapest taught me, but I don't knit any more. The activity you're referring to is probably crocheting.
Crocheting you do with one hook and make a heavier fabric, with a greater variety of stitches. Knitting's done with two needles, and produces smoother, less heavy fabric. They're completely different methods.
Fine, fine. How'd you learn to crochet?
My housemates at Epsilon Theta Fraternity ran a textile arts seminar, in which we covered knitting, embroidery, sewing, crochet, and chainmail. Chainmail and crochet were the only two I was any damn good at.
Don't make me cut you.
Do people really ask you all these questions?
Yes. If this were one of those pages of questions I wished people asked but they never did, then "What do you find appealing about math?" and "What's interactive fiction?" would definitely make the cut.
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