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A little dopamine at the right moment is all muscles need to get moving.
Kickstarting stubborn muscles. I'm Bob Hirshon and this is Science Update.
When you want to lift your arm or take a step, you just do it — unless you have a condition like Parkinson's disease that can make even simple movements difficult. Doctors treat Parkinson's by stimulating the part of the brain responsible for movement using the brain chemical dopamine or an electrical implant. But in the journal Nature, Columbia neuroscientist Rui Costa and his colleagues report that the brain doesn't need this constant stimulation to move — just a well-timed nudge.
Wouldn't it be interesting if we could determine the moment in which the brain wants to move and just apply the stimulation then?
They were able to do that in lab mice, activating movement with just a quick jolt to the motor neurons. The work could eventually lead to new treatments with fewer side effects for Parkinson's patients. I'm Bob Hirshon, for AAAS, the science society.


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Government encourage MEES enforcement
In an article published in The Independent, the Government has made it clear that "local authorities have the power to issue fines of up to £5,000 for landlords to ensure minimum energy efficiency standards are met", and that they are "working with local authorities to make it even easier for them to issue fines."
In a disappointing report, it has been estimated that fewer than six per cent of borough and district councils across England and Wales have taken enforcement action against landlords illegally letting out properties with the lowest energy efficiency ratings.
Of the 268 authorities which responded to a Freedom of Information request which asked for details of Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards (MEES) enforcement, only 17 were found to have taken any enforcement action. Since 2018, a total of 449 compliance notices and just 17 financial penalties have been issued for breaches of MEES, with fines totalling £65,600.
What is MEES?
In April 2018, the Government introduced the Minimum Energy Efficiency Standard (MEES), barring landlords from starting new tenancies for properties with an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) of F or G, the lowest grading. In April 2020, this rule was expanded to cover all tenancies.
The Government plans to tighten the MEES rules gradually, to require landlords to meet EPC ratings of D by 2025, and C by 2030, but without effective enforcement, it is unlikely these standards will be met, warned Ed Matthew, Executive Director at climate think tank E3G: "These standards are only as effective as the effort and resources that are put into compliance …. It does not bode well for a tightening of these standards in future years when there are likely to be far more properties covered. If [councils] can't cope now, enforcement could completely fall apart in the future".
Elmhurst's Managing Director, Martyn Reed, welcomes the article from the Independent, but is also keen to highlight a different side to this story: "The number of EPC being issued in the private rental sector has risen by over 200% from just 160,000 per year in 2017 to 493,000 in the last year. That shows that the message is getting out and that a significant proportion of landlords are responding. Promotion of the legation by Elmhurst and our members has got the message out, and professionals such as surveyors, mortgage lenders, agents and solicitors are now flagging up the issues to a potential buyer when a "substandard" property is being purchased as a buy-to-let. That is not to say that legislation and enforcement is not required, as there are some landlords that are blatantly disregarding the regulation and, regrettably they will only respond when they are forced to."
Original article: https://inews.co.uk/news/environment/little-punishment-landlords-flouting-energy-efficiency-rules-527015
Article published: 15/07/2020

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Mental-health charity Place2Be has found that amongst 700 children aged 10 and 11, two-thirds worry "all the time".
Concerns about family and friends and fear of failing at school are the top causes of anxiety.
Schools and families play a crucial role in ensuring that children learn to look out for each other and know how to get help if they need it.


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UF News: Congratulations to the Judaica Library at UF
In: Research & Projects
Congratulations to Dr. Rebecca Jefferson and the full team on the newly awarded National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge Grant of $500,000 for building the Judaica Library at UF! The news announcement with details below is from UF Spotlights (online: http://www.ufl.edu/spotlights/saving-an-important-story.html)
Saving an important story
Published: January 9 2015
Category:Spotlights
The University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries have received a prestigious National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge Grant of $500,000 to build an endowment fund that will broaden access to humanities resources relating to the Jewish experience in Florida, Latin America and the Caribbean. The matching award provides a $1 match for every $3 raised.
The NEH Challenge Grant project, "Repositioning Florida's Judaica Library," will raise $1.5 million in matching funds to enable the creation of the Endowment for Resources on Jewish Heritage in Florida, Latin America and the Caribbean in support of strategic acquisitions, digital collection building, outreach programs and research. Judith Russell, dean of University Libraries, and Rebecca Jefferson, head of the Price Library of Judaica, are leading the effort.
"We are excited to be at the forefront of a project that will transform our knowledge about the Jewish people of this region and greatly inform many other disciplines within the humanities," Russell said.
UF alumnus and Miami entrepreneur Gary R. Gerson, who provided the first funds to build the endowment, said he feels certain the Jewish community "will be interested in preserving the history of diasporic influences made by Jewish people transplanted to Florida."
The NEH Challenge Grant represents a second historic award for the Libraries. The first was in 1977, when the NEH inaugurated the program for the purchase of books and materials that established the Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica. Today, the Price Library is recognized as the best Jewish Studies research collection in the southeastern United States.
This second award of $500,000 recognizes that with the Price Library as its foundation, the University of Florida is singularly well-suited to lead a new national and international effort to acquire resources that will promote and support greater study of the Jewish diaspora in the region.
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3) The vibration in bike is just a lot . Like in a stable position i can feel it a bit but when the speed is increased ,the vibrations itself increases so much that both the side mirrors starts to shake . I made sure the handle were tightened properly but its still there. No difference .
4) The most important issue is that the side cover of the engine is leaking some oil from the bolts area. i have gotten it service but it gets there even after tightening of the bolts.
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In conjunction with the exhibition, Sarkis: Alive and After, SFAI will host a series of free public film screenings in the Lecture Hall. The films, selected by Sarkis as those that have influenced his practice, include Wang Bing's rarely screened 10-hour film Tie Xi Qu: West of Tracks. The film screening dates are as follows, all screenings take place at 7:30pm unless otherwise noted: The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach, Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet (October 3); The Color of Pomegranates, Sergei Paradjanov (October 10); Ice, Robert Kramer (October 17); Stalker, Andreï Tarkovski (October 24); 1+1 (Sympathy for the Devil), Jean-Luc Godard (October 31); Tie Xi Qu: West of Tracks (Saturday & Sunday, November 4 & 5, 11am-2pm, 2:30pm-5:30pm, 7pm-10pm); The Seasons, Artavazd Pelechian (TBA).
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
USSR, 1979, color, 161 min.
With Aleksandr Kaidanovsky, Anatoly Solonitsyn
Russian with English subtitles
Conceived in an epic form, Tarkovsky's film represents the peak of the Russian director's cinematic career, exemplifying what he called a "poetic, philosophical, and spiritual cinema." Two disenchanted intellectuals wish to explore the Zone, a mysterious region at the center of which a room, said to offer knowledge of one's most secret desires, is located. The men hire a stalker for their guide, whose obsession with the Zone takes on religious and mystical overtones.
Film Notes Courtesy of Harvard Film Archive
For more information: http://www.sfai.edu/
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Elgin, TX Population
Population: 5,700. Estimated population in 2021: 8,689 (+52.4% change)
Races in Elgin:
Hispanic (46.2%)
Black (15.0%)
Other race (13.0%)
(Total can be greater than 100% because Hispanics could be counted in other races)
Ancestries: German (11.6%), Irish (6.6%), United States (4.8%), English (2.5%), Swedish (2.1%), Scotch-Irish (1.2%).
For population 25 years and over in Elgin
For population 15 years and over in Elgin city
16.6% Foreign born (16.0% Latin America).
Population change in the 1990s: +529 (+10.2%).
Hospitals/medical centers near Elgin:
JOHNS COMMUNITY HOSPITAL (about 16 miles; TAYLOR, TX)
SUMMIT INSTITUTE OF AUSTIN INC (about 19 miles; AUSTIN, TX)
NORTH AUSTIN MEDICAL CENTER (about 24 miles; AUSTIN, TX)
Airports certified for carrier operations nearest to Elgin:
AUSTIN-BERGSTROM INTL (about 24 miles; AUSTIN, TX; Abbreviation: AUS)
KILLEEN MUNI (about 55 miles; KILLEEN, TX; Abbreviation: ILE)
DRAUGHON-MILLER CENTRAL TEXAS REGIONAL (about 56 miles; TEMPLE, TX; Abbreviation: TPL)
Other public-use airports nearest to Elgin:
BIRD'S NEST (about 14 miles; AUSTIN, TX; Abbreviation: 6R4)
TAYLOR MUNI (about 16 miles; TAYLOR, TX; Abbreviation: T74)
SMITHVILLE CRAWFORD MUNI (about 27 miles; SMITHVILLE, TX; Abbreviation: 84R)
Amtrak station near Elgin:
16 miles: TAYLOR (118 E. 1ST ST.). Services: free short-term parking, free long-term parking.
Colleges/universities with over 2000 students nearest to Elgin:
AUSTIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE (about 24 miles; AUSTIN, TX; Full-time enrollment: 12,819)
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN (about 26 miles; AUSTIN, TX; Full-time enrollment: 46,503)
SAINT EDWARD'S UNIVERSITY (about 28 miles; AUSTIN, TX; Full-time enrollment: 2,870)
UNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR (about 51 miles; BELTON, TX; Full-time enrollment: 2,257)
SOUTHWEST TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY (about 52 miles; SAN MARCOS, TX; Full-time enrollment: 18,822)
TEMPLE COLLEGE (about 52 miles; TEMPLE, TX; Full-time enrollment: 2,054)
CENTRAL TEXAS COLLEGE (about 59 miles; KILLEEN, TX; Full-time enrollment: 6,777)
Public high schools in Elgin:
ELGIN H S (Students: 934; Location: 900 W 2ND ST; Grades: 09 – 12)
PHOENIX LEARNING CENTER (Students: 22; Location: 900 W 2ND ST; Grades: 09 – 12)
Public primary/middle schools in Elgin:
BOOKER T WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY (Students: 753; Location: 510 MLK; Grades: PK – 05)
ELGIN ELEMENTARY (Students: 709; Location: 1005 W 2ND ST; Grades: PK – 05)
ELGIN MIDDLE SCHOOL (Students: 666; Location: 902 W 2ND ST; Grades: 06 – 08)
Private primary/middle schools in Elgin:
GREENBRIAR SCHOOL (Students: 14; Location: PO BOX 466; Grades: UG – UG)
ELGIN S D A JR ACADEMY (Students: 8; Location: RT 2 BOX 149; Grades: 2 – 6)
Library in Elgin:
ELGIN PUBLIC LIBRARY (Operating income: $98,576; Location: 1002 N AVENUE C; 23,048 books; 321 audio materials; 230 video materials; 13 serial subscriptions)
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What could be more important than ending (or at least reducing) terrorism?
Nothing like it had ever been tried before. Stores of deadly chemical weapons, including mustard gas and 600 metric tons of a chemical precursor for sarin, were transported across warring front lines in Syria in 2013 and early 2014, in immediate danger of falling into the hands of jihadists or being blown to pieces. Improbably, the mission worked: Syria's chemicals are now being neutralized by the U.S. Navy's Field Deployable Hydrolysis Systems in the Mediterranean Sea.
Getting Syria to give up its chemical weapons and sign the Chemical Weapons Convention has been hailed as a major diplomatic achievement. It's also raised an intriguing possibility: If a vicious authoritarian regime can hand over its chemical weapons during an open war, why couldn't North Korea be convinced to give up its stocks — or even ISIS its presumed stocks? It might sound far-fetched, but the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons says the Syrian precedent could be a model. "There has been a lessons-learned process to assess … how the mission might be replicated, in some form or another," said Michael Luhan, a spokesman for the organization, although he wouldn't go into any details.
People say that Islamic State is quite different from previous groups … but that is what we say every time we meet a new group.
That September 2013 series of events may seem a fluke, but an overriding lesson remains: Negotiations, the core of disarmament, are not always as impossible as they may appear. That might even go for North Korea, which has never admitted to having chemical weapons but is thought to produce 20 different chemical agents for use in weapons, according to the website 38 North, and has the largest stocks in the world after the U.S. and Russia. Observers say that in a war situation, which Pyongyang regularly threatens on the United States and neighboring South Korea, it could deploy chemical attacks as a precursor to a full assault on the South.
According to Joseph Bermudez, an expert on North Korea's military programs, speaking to North Korea about reducing its chemical weapons inventory and using the Syria example would be "useful" but unlikely to lead anywhere. "It would be an extremely difficult hurdle to overcome to first have them admit to a chemical weapons program and stockpile and then to discuss the means by which to dispose of it," he said. North Korea remains one of six countries not to have signed the CWC, too.
But negotiations between it and the international community — even America — are not unheard of. In 1994, negotiations over the former's nuclear program resulted in the easing of sanctions that led to improved access for inspectors, and since 1996 the release of at least nine Americans has been secured, including two just last November.
It's not just with rogue states that a Syria-type solution may work. It's with terrorist group ISIS as well, which some believe has captured chemical materials that could be weaponized. Diplomats and analysts believe the would-be caliphate might be around for a decade to come. Though public negotiating with terrorists has long been a no-go for Western governments, governments often do negotiate behind the scenes. In October, Turkey secured the release of dozens of diplomatic staff and truck drivers abducted by ISIS in Mosul, Iraq, last June. ISIS elements were also willing, for a time at least, to negotiate the release of Western hostages that ultimately failed for separate reasons.
"People say that Islamic State is quite different from previous groups … but that is what we say every time we meet a new group," wrote Jonathan Powell, a British diplomat and author of Talking to Terrorists: How to End Armed Conflicts. Powell noted that governments often open up "secret channels to terrorist groups" via intelligence services, which lay the groundwork for negotiations.
As the world's second largest holder of chemical weapons at around 40,000 tons declared and at least 15,000 more thought to be held in secret, Russia is another key chemical weapons concern. The country "agreed many years ago to get rid of its CW [and] is spending much money on it," said Dan Kaszeta of Strongpoint Security, a U.K.-based consultancy. But it's hugely expensive, and demilitarization remains incomplete. Meanwhile, ties between Russia and the West are at their lowest ebb since the Cold War, and the proposition of reenacting the Syria case may be remote.
Yet, the handover of Syria's chemicals couldn't have worked without Russia's direct involvement. The OPCW and Moscow have regularly hailed each other's efforts on the Syria project, meaning the OPCW is in a unique position to act as a go-between for Washington, Moscow, Damascus and even Tehran. Analysts say lining up these foes could be crucial to getting deadly chemicals out of the hands of ISIS.
As for ISIS? No country has emerged to influence ISIS the way Russia does Syria, and today chances of the jihadist group signing up to the CWC are unthinkable and unpractical because the U.N. Security Council's mandate for weapons destruction applies only to states. However, history is a great educator: After more than a decade of fighting the Taliban, the United States succeeded in bringing it to the negotiating table in 2013. The event just underscored what might make the Syrian experiment a precedent, not just adventurous thinking: We are living in an era of continual geopolitical surprises. Some are even good.


Heart Brain Connection design paper was published today.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: The Heart-Brain Study investigates relationships between (cardio-)vascular factors, the hemodynamic status of the heart and the brain, and cognitive impairment. By studying the complete heart-brain axis in patient groups that represent components of this axis, we have the opportunity to assess a combination of clinical and subclinical manifestations of disorders of the heart, vascular system and brain, with hemodynamic status as a possible binding factor.


The father was hospitalized with injuries. When they got to the home, the woman was deceased, Chad McEwen, assistant county manager for Pender County, said.
Baker picked that shelter - one of the five shelters operated by New Hanover County, which so far have housed a total of more than 500 people - partly because it let him bring his cat.
In Kinston, more than an hour's drive inland from the coast, Lenoir County spokesman Bryan Hanks said a man was electrocuted as he attempted to connect extension cords outside in the rain.
At a briefing, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper said the risk of fatality will only grow when people venture out once the winds die down. The National Weather Center upgraded Subtropical Storm Joyce to Tropical Storm Joyce in its 11 p.m. Thursday update. Though forecasters later downgraded Florence to a tropical storm, the monster system is barely moving over the Carolinas and could dump drenching rains of up to 3½ feet (1 meter).
By Friday evening, the centre of the storm had moved to eastern SC, about 15 miles northeast of Myrtle Beach, with maximum sustained winds of 70 mph. So far there have been no reports of casualties or major damage in the affected region. Though there have been thousands of people evacuated, some have remained in the areas. "These are folks who are maybe in one-story buildings and they're seeing the floodwaters rise".
"If it happened to me, if I was in such peril at anytime, I would want somebody to offer to help me, because there are so many people that have so much, and then there are those that have nothing", Shell said.
Eudy and his family stayed home in New Bern in part to protect their house. She said that count is expected to increase significantly.
SC authorities said law enforcement officers were guarding against looting in evacuated areas, while Wilmington set a curfew on Saturday evening in response to looting in one area. The number of people still not rescued fell to about 40 by Friday afternoon, according to New Bern Mayor Dana Outlaw.
Eighteen people, including two infants, were killed as Florence battered the coast off North and SC on Friday and into the weekend.
Atlantic Beach, located on the state's Outer Banks barrier islands, had received 30 inches (76 cm) of rain, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The body of the 78-year-old man was discovered by family members Friday morning.
If Florence doesn't wipe out oceanfront homes perched on stilts along the Carolinas coast, rising sea levels will. Florence lashed low-lying barrier islands that experience some of the fastest rates of sea level rise observed anywhere in the world, almost an inch a year. Duke Energy said late Friday that it anticipates 1 million to 3 million outages in the Carolinas, and that full power restoration could take weeks. Hurricane-force winds were extending out up to 80 miles from the center, and tropical-storm-force winds extended up to 195 miles, the center said. The Carteret Country Sheriff's Department confirmed that these two deaths initially reported as a result of Florence were a result of an apparent murder-suicide. Super Typhoon Mangkhut was expected to hit an area in the Philippines on Saturday that would affect 5.2 million people.
In one of the speech's more timely soundbites , Obama blasted his successor's fierce and frequent attacks on the press . Republicans say they aren't anxious .
About an hour into Trump's speech, a woman can be seen walking over, speaking to the plaid-shirted man briefly and then taking his place.


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Great Captain Q! Here in the SE USA we're anxiously awaiting Autumn, the beginning of slumber leading to the death of winter.
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Turkey announces major natural gas discovery in Black Sea
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the discovery of 320 billion cubic meters of natural gas will help Turkey reduce its reliance on foreign energy supplies.
People watch as Scarabeo 9, a 115-meter-long and 78-meter-high Frigstad D90-type semi-submersible drilling rig, passes on the Bosporus Strait en route to the Black Sea in Istanbul on Aug. 29, 2019. Photo by OZAN KOSE/AFP via Getty Images.
President Receip Tayyip Erdogan unveiled Turkey's biggest-ever natural gas find in the Black Sea on Friday, a discovery he said will pave the way to energy independence for the country.
"Turkey has discovered its biggest natural gas [reserve] in Turkish history in the Black Sea," Erdogan said during a televised address Friday at Istanbul's Dolmabahce Palace. "My Lord has opened the door to unprecedented wealth for us."
The president said Turkey's drilling ship Fatih had found some 320 billion cubic meters (11.3 trillion cubic feet) of natural gas in the western Black Sea. The vessel has been carrying out exploration work for the past month in an area known as Tuna-1 near a Romanian gas field.
Erdogan said Turkey plans to extract and make the gas available by 2023 — the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Turkish Republic.
"This reserve is actually part of a much bigger source. God willing, much more will come. As a country that depended on the outside for gas for years, we look to the future with more security now," he said. "There will be no stopping until we become a net exporter in energy."
But amid the jubilation, some sources voiced skepticism over the 2023 production goal and whether the reserve contains enough recoverable gas to meet Turkey's energy needs.
A well-placed source who has a broad knowledge of drilling and production in Turkey told Al-Monitor that the "2023 [goal] is technically impossible," pointing out at the lengthy process that lies ahead, which includes the drilling of new exploration wells, further tests, development drilling and production. The initial production process will take at least six to seven years, the source added.
Tuna-1 is 3,500 meters deep, extending 2,100 meters into the sea and 1,400 meters below the sea bed.
"This is a very difficult depth for the production process and there are only a number of companies that have the necessary equipment to produce gas in this depth," the source said, adding that most of these companies are based in the United States.
"[320 billion cubic meters] only indicates a rough estimate," another well-placed source from the sector said, also pointing out that the gas still needs to be tested for its permeability, pressure and thickness.
"This is a hopeful development, but at this point we cannot say that this discovery will pay off Turkey's account deficit in a few years," the source concluded. "That will be seen in the upcoming years."
Ankara has been looking to reduce its dependence on foreign energy sources, particularly from Russia and Azerbaijan, that cost the country $41 billion last year. Turkey's finance minister, Berat Albayrak, expressed hope Friday that Turkey "will no longer post current account deficits" after the discovery.
This month, Turkey resumed exploratory drilling in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, intensifying a territorial dispute with Greece and Cyprus over maritime rights and straining Turkish relations with the European Union. During his address Friday, Erdogan said Ankara has no intention of backing down from exploration in the contested waters.
"We will accelerate our activities in the Mediterranean with the deployment by the end of the year of Kanuni," Erdogan said, referring to a Turkish drilling ship currently under maintenance. "God willing, we expect similar good news."
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On December 12th, we held a round-table in collaboration with BroadcastPro ME, bringing together satellite operators and broadcasters to discuss the increasingly important role of IP within broadcast contribution. The team came to conclusion that IP will help satellite providers to offer more flexibility and cost-effective solutions to their end users. Thank you everyone for coming and sharing your opinion and experience with us!
Read the full report in the cover story of BroadcastPro Middle East January 2018, on page 20.


Heartbreaker got it's first radio play last night on BBC Radio Humberside on Alan Raw's BBC Introducing show. It was great to hear it getting played but don't worry if you missed it as you can listen to the entire show again.
Heartbreaker is Featured around 44 minutes into the show.


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Reminder: For Holiday Train Hwy. G, between V and H, closed from 6-10 p.m. tonight, shuttles available
Monday night arrival
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Willy Porter and the Trews perform holiday songs during a stop by the Canadian Pacific Holiday Train on Dec. 6, 2018, at the Amtrak depot, 9900 East Exploration Ct., in Sturtevant. The train returns to Racine County Monday night with stops at the Amtrak depot and at the Depot tavern in Caledonia. The free event raises money and food for the Racine County Food Bank.
Gregory Shaver, For The Journal Times
RACINE COUNTY — The Canadian Pacific Holiday Train is expected to bring out hundreds of families to both of its stops on the east side of the county Monday evening, Dec. 2.
Remember: The train raises money and collects donations for food banks across North America, including the Racine County Food Bank, so bring nonperishable food items if you can.
Amtrak Station
Typically, no major streets are closed for the Holiday Train's stop at the Amtrak Hiawatha station at 9900 E. Exploration Court, in Sturtevant, other than Exploration Court itself.
There is also a park-and-ride next to the station, but parking is still limited.
The closure of Exploration Court "happens quickly and we encourage everyone to arrive early," Sturtevant Police Chief Sean Marschke said in a text to The Journal Times.
The train is scheduled to arrive at 6:50 p.m.
Gifford donates 687 pounds to Racine County Food Bank as part of Holiday Train food drives
Since there isn't much of a parking lot near the railway crossing on Highway G, three nearby lots have been enlisted to allow parking before the Holiday Train arrives at 8 p.m. at The Depot tavern, 1402 Highway G, in Caledonia.
Highway G — between highways V and H — will be closed to vehicles from 6-10 p.m. by the Racine County Sheriff's Office. Parking will be allowed on the street until 6 p.m.
Starting at 5 p.m., attendees can park in the parking lots at Swan's Pumpkin Farm, 5930 Highway H, Caledonia, and at Phantom Fireworks, 2086 27th St. in Raymond (at the intersection of the West Frontage Road and Highway G).
The parking lot at St. Louis Catholic Church, 13207 Highway G, in Caledonia, will open at 6 p.m.
Shuttle buses will be available at each location until 7 p.m. at the cost of $5 for adults and free for kids 14 and under.
Festivities are scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. at The Depot, co-hosted by the tavern and Parker Power Equipment, 11333 Highway G.
The party will include a DJ, food and drinks, and appearances from the Milwaukee Brewers Famous Racing Sausages, Bernie Brewer, Santa Claus, choirs from Racine Unified schools, and the Racine County Fair Little Queens.
All purchases are cash only.
For further updates, check The Depot Tavern's Facebook page.
Canadian Pacific Holiday Train will make two Racine County stops on Dec. 2
Other festivities
At every stop, a trio of Canadian artists will perform: singer-songwriter Meghan Patrick, rhythm and blues performer Tanika Charles, and country singer Kelly Prescott.
There will also be a ceremony celebrating the holidays and donations to the local food bank at each stop.
The Sturtevant Amtrak Depot and Caledonia's The Depot Tavern are the Holiday Train's first two Wisconsin stops. However, there are 11 other stops across the state planned in the following two days.
Wisconsin Holiday Train stops
6:50 p.m., Amtrak Hiawatha station at 9900 E. Exploration Court, in Sturtevant
4:15 p.m.: Harwood Avenue crossing, Wauwatosa
5:45 p.m.: Level crossing at Cottonwood Avenue, Hartland
6:45 p.m.: Silver Lake Street, north side of the tracks, Oconomowoc
8 p.m.: Brandt-Quirk Park, Watertown
9:15 p.m.: Amtrak Depot, Columbus
1:15 p.m.: CP Yard adjacent to Averbeck Street, Portage
2:45 p.m.: 100 La Crosse St., Amtrak Depot, Wisconsin Dells
4:15 p.m.: Division Street railway crossing, Mauston
5:30 p.m.: 205 N. Superior Ave., Amtrak Depot, Tomah
7 p.m.: Corner of South Water Street and Milwaukee Street, Sparta
8:45 p.m.: Amtrak Station, 601 St. Andrew St., La Crosse
In photos: Canadian Pacific Railway's Holiday Train returns on Dec. 5, 2016
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People watch as the Canadian Pacific Railway's Holiday Train pulls into the Sturtevant's Amtrak depot Monday evening, Dec. 5, 2016. The train raises money, food and awareness for local food banks and pantries along its route.
Canadian performer Kelly Prescott sings a song Monday evening, Dec. 5, 2016, during the stop by the Canadian Pacific Railway's Holiday Train at Sturtevant's Amtrak depot. The train raises money, food and awareness for local food banks and pantries along its route.
People watch as the Canadian Pacific Railway's Holiday Train pulls into the Sturtevant's Amtrak depot on Monday evening. The train raises money, food and awareness for local food banks and pantries along its route. For additional photos from the Holiday Train visit, please see Page A9 and our photo gallery at JournalTimes.com.
People watch the show Monday evening, Dec. 5, 2016 during the stop by the Canadian Pacific Railway's Holiday Train at Sturtevant's Amtrak depot. The train raises money, food and awareness for local food banks and pantries along its route.
Canadian Pacific Railway gives a check for $4,000 to the Racine County Food Bank Monday evening, Dec. 5, 2016, during the stop by the Canadian Pacific Railway's Holiday Train at Sturtevant's Amtrak depot. The train raises money, food and awareness for local food banks and pantries along its route.
People watch the show Monday evening during the stop by the Canadian Pacific Railway's Holiday Train at Sturtevant's Amtrak depot. The train raises money, food and awareness for local food banks and pantries along its route. For additional photos from the Holiday Train visit, please see Page A1 and our photo gallery at JournalTimes.com.
Food is collected Monday evening, Dec. 5, 2016, during the stop by the Canadian Pacific Railway's Holiday Train at Sturtevant's Amtrak depot. The train raises money, food and awareness for local food banks and pantries along its route.
A fan records the show Monday evening, Dec. 5, 2016, during the stop by the Canadian Pacific Railway's Holiday Train at Sturtevant's Amtrak depot. The train raises money, food and awareness for local food banks and pantries along its route.
Canadian performer Colin sings a song Monday evening, Dec. 5, 2016, during the stop by the Canadian Pacific Railway's Holiday Train at Sturtevant's Amtrak depot. The train raises money, food and awareness for local food banks and pantries along its route.
A girl plays with her light up toy Monday evening, Dec. 5, 2016, during the stop by the Canadian Pacific Railway's Holiday Train at Sturtevant's Amtrak depot. The train raises money, food and awareness for local food banks and pantries along its route.
Canadian performers Kelly Prescott and Colin James sing Monday evening, Dec. 5, 2016, during the stop by the Canadian Pacific Railway's Holiday Train at Sturtevant's Amtrak depot. The train raises money, food and awareness for local food banks and pantries along its route.
Canadian Pacific announced its schedule for the 2017 Holiday Train Thursday, which includes a stop in Sturtevant at 5:25 p.m. on Dec. 2. Until then, enjoy photos from the 2016 event.
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Heavy damage appears to have been sustained by two vehicles, and at least one other car received some rear-end damage.
Racine County dispatchers crochet scarves for the homeless
RACINE — As temperatures drop and winter approaches, a Racine tradition hopes to help the homeless find a little warmth this season.
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MOUNT PLEASANT — This year, for the first time, the Village of Mount Pleasant plans to host a tree-lighting event.
Caron Butler will be bringing 15 kids to see the Holiday Train tonight
Butler announced on his Facebook page that a bus with himself and the kids will be leaving the Dr. John Bryant Community Center, 601 21st St., at 5 p.m. tonight.


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Review of Starbucks: A Step Above DeVry University Review of Starbucks: A Step Above The product I chose to review is the Starbucks Corporation; the Starbucks Corporation is an American global coffee company and Italian-style coffeehouse chain based in Seattle, Washington ("Starbucks," 2012). Starbucks is the largest coffeehouse company in the world, with 19,972 stores in 60 countries, including 12,937 in the United States, 1,273 in Canada, 971 in Japan, 790 in the United Kingdom, 657 in China, 453 in South Korea, 356 in Mexico, 276 in Taiwan, 200 in the Philippines, 158 in Thailand and 1 in India ("How many Starbucks," 2012) .
The first Starbucks opened in Seattle, Washington, on March 30, 1971 by three partners: EnglishteacherJerry Baldwin, history teacher Zev Siegl, and writer Gordon Bowker. The three were inspired by coffee roasting entrepreneur Alfred Peet, whom they knew personally, to sell high-quality coffee beans and equipment ("Starbucks," 2012). Let's take a look at how and why Starbucks is a step above the competition and on a straight path of success.
Starbucks not only sells amazing coffee blends and delectable pastries but as a corporation always looking for ways to stay ahead. I want this review to be more than just a review of coffee, this is a review of Starbucks as a corporation and how they use their position to make the communities they serve better places. Starbuck defines corporateresponsibilityand fairness. The most amazingobservationabout Starbucks is all the charities and forms of help they offer.
For starters Starbucks and the OpportunityFinanceNetwork have bracelets available for a $5 donation to support and create local jobs, these are available at all Starbucks. Starbucks also takes place in fair trade and ethical sourcing, which brings stability to other regions in which supply their corporation. Other forms of support are the millions of dollars in grantmoneyStarbucks supplies to youthleadershipprograms within the communities they serve and Review of Starbucks: A Step Above thousands of hours ofcommunity serviceto improve those communities.
Other strengths that propel Starbucks ahead of the competition are their community stores, leadership andeducationprograms, housing initiatives and their Starbucks foundation which above all else is about helping their communities and the countries in which supply them ("Being a responsible," 2012). Another form of strengths that really set Starbucks ahead of their competition is their beverage selection. Starbucks offers many different coffee verities from flavors to different strengths which allow them to appeal to many different consumers.
You can also purchase most coffee drinks hot, cold or frozen which sets them ahead of other coffee houses. Besides coffee Starbucks also offers tea and other non-coffee beverages as well pastries and on the go sandwiches for the breakfast and lunch crowd. Most recent expansion of the Starbucks line was their addition to the K-Cup line and the release of their very own single cup brewer, this giving the consumer the ability to enjoy a hot fresh cup of Starbucks in the comfort of their own home.
Also Starbucks offers a unique and comforting experience at each one of their stores, no two are the same and each store is modeled after the community it is located. Overall Starbucks is a true competitor and leader in the coffee market as well exemplifying corporate responsibility. This company not only serves refreshing beverages and delicious treats but uses their influence and power to improve the communities they serve and benefit the countries that supply them.
Starbucks started as a small company in Seattle in 1971 and became a worldwide leader in the coffee industry as well a global corporation for good. This is what truly sets Starbucks a step above the competition. References Being a responsible company. (2012, November 13). Retrieved from http://www. starbucks. com/ How many starbucks are there?. (2012, Sep 8). Retrieved from http://loxcel. com/sbux-faq. html Starbucks. (2012, Nov 13). Retrieved from http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Starbucks
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At some point, the cable news media really needs to stop giving a platform to the Trump administration's hired mouthpieces. During her Sunday morning appearance on Meet the Press, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders tried to justify all of the alarming news coming from Washington, D.C. over the past week, and the dismissal of the real concerns Americans have over Trump's policies made it all that more terrifying.
George Stephanopoulos, a veteran interviewer who has conducted interviews with people far smarter and more experienced than Sanders, but was unable to draw any more than repetition of Trump's earlier lies from her. When he asked about Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), who has received death threats in the past week and was demonized as supporting terrorists by Trump on Twitter, Sanders continued that same rhetoric.
Omar's comments are actually representative of a large number of Muslim Americans, whom Trump has also demonized and stoked fear around, and "calling her out" may very well endanger her and her family.
Asked about the release of the Mueller report, Sanders also spun a tall tale not only of Trump's stance on that release, but what even Attorney General Barr summarized the report as saying.
Trump has actually said that Democrats shouldn't have access to the report because they will just use it to retry him publicly and Barr's summary stated that Mueller's report did not exonerate the president.
Sanders was also asked about the jaw-dropping report that Trump told his new appointee to the Department of Homeland Security to illegally prevent immigrants from seeking asylum and that, should he get into legal trouble over it, Trump would just pardon him. Trump has denied the report just like he denied that he had business in Russia during the 2016 president elections, that a family separation policy had been enacted, and even that his father was born in Germany. There's no end to his lies and telling the American people that Trump's word should be taken seriously is laughable.
Sanders also defended Trump's announcement that detained immigrants, who Trump has said in the past are dangerous murderers bent on killing everyone, would be released into sanctuary cities.
Undocumented migrations was at an unprecedented low under President Obama. Trump created the crisis and his plan to ship immigrants to sanctuary cities makes no sense.
The interview, just like Sanders' press conferences and time at the White House, was as pointless as ever.


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By Zimbabwe Investor on June 17, 2014.	No Comments
PayPal is entering 10 new countries this week, including Nigeria, providing online payment alternatives for consumers via mobile phones or PCs in markets often blighted by financial fraud.
Rupert Keeley, the executive in charge of the EMEA region of PayPal, the payments unit of eBay Inc, said in an interview on Monday the expansion would bring the number of countries it serves to 203.
Starting on Tuesday, consumers in Nigeria, which has 60 million users and has Africa's largest population, along with nine other markets in sub-Saharan Africa – including Zimbabwe –, Eastern Europe and Latin America will be able to make payments through PayPal.
"PayPal has been going through a period of reinvention, refreshing many of its services to make them easier to use on mobile (phones), allowing us to expand into fast-developing markets," Keeley said.
Once the services go live, customers in the 10 countries with access to the Web and a bank card authorized for Internet transactions will be able to register for a PayPal account and make payments to millions of sites worldwide.
Initially, PayPal is only offering "send money" services for consumers to pay for goods and services at PayPal-enabled merchant sites while safeguarding their financial details. This is free to consumers and covered by fees it charges merchants.
"We think we can give our sellers selling into this market a great deal of reassurance," said Keeley, a former regional banking executive with Standard Chartered Plc and senior executive with payment card company Visa Inc.
PayPal does not yet cover peer-to-peer transactions, which allow consumers to send money to other consumers. It has not yet enabled local merchants in the new markets to receive payments, nor is it offering other forms of banking services, he said.
A 2013 survey of 200 UK ecommerce sites by Visa's CyberSource unit estimated that 1.26 percent of online orders are fraudulent and that 85 percent of merchants expected fraud to increase or remain static last year.
CyberSource also estimated that suspicion of fraudulent transactions result in 8.2 percent of online orders in Latin America being rejected by merchants, compared with 5.5 percent in Europe and 2.7 percent in the United States and Canada.
Such fraud can include ID theft, social engineering, phishing and automated harvesting of customer financial data via botnets, or networks of computers controlled by hackers.
A total of 80 million Internet users stand to gain access to PayPal global services this week, including those in five European markets – Belarus, Macedonia, Moldova, Monaco and Montenegro, four in the African nations of Nigeria, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, and Zimbabwe, as well as Paraguay. Internet usage figures are based on research by Euromonitor International.
PayPal counts 148 million active accounts worldwide.
Last week, MasterCard Inc, the world's second-largest debit and credit card company, and a PayPal rival in payment processing, said it was working with the Nigerian government on a pilot to overlay payment technology on a new national identity card.
PayPal has operated in 190 markets since 2007 and added three countries – Egypt, Georgia and Serbia last year. Roughly a quarter of the $52 billion in payment volumes PayPal reported in the first quarter of 2014 were for cross-border transactions. PayPal reported $1.8 billion in revenue during the period.
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The Ukrainian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (UVCA) and the global SkyDeck accelerator at American University of Berkeley have agreed on a strategic partnership to support Ukrainian startups.
The agreement was negotiated by the Executive Director of UVCA Olga Afanasyeva following the visit to the University during the Silicon Valley Tour after the organization of the Ukrainian pavilion at CES-2018. Incidentally, Olga met the founder of the accelerator at Ukrainian pavilion at the conference.
During the Silicon Valley Tour this January, we received an offer from the University of Berkeley to visit their accelerator, and in February after the negotiations and thanks to the UVCA's impeccable reputation, we agreed on strategic partnership to support Ukrainian startups. UVCA aims to develop the Ukrainian startup ecosystem to improve the competitiveness of our innovative entrepreneurs, by using all the opportunities we get in order to achieve our goal.
SkyDeck regularly bids startup applications for its six-month acceleration program twice a year - in the spring and autumn. This year the launch of applications will start on March 1. Participants will be able to receive investments in the amount of 100 thousand USD and unique access to special laboratories, Berkeley mentors and Silicon Valley experts. The program is based on the improvement of 6 areas: team development, fundraising, design, product development, marketing and business model.
UVCA has the opportunity to recommend 2 startups for the first round of selection - webinars and the first round of interviews with SkyDeck representatives, which will be organized in March-April.
We invite all startups to submit their applications by mailing to uvca.challenge@uvca.eu.
Deadline of filing applications - March 10, 2018.
You can also write your question to uvca.challenge@uvca.eu.
After that, we will select the two best candidates that most meet SkyDeck accelerator requirements.


i know its a bit sacrilegious but what are the best ways to remove the printing?
You can use a number of ways.
Very dilute acetone / nail varnish cleaner on kitchen roll does a good job too.
The best method is to put the solvent on a cloth / paper on a flat surface, then rub the part on it. This avoids rounding the edges of the part, which can happen if you hold it and rub.
The alternative is to sell the parts and buy unprinted, if they happen to be expensive ones.
You could cover the printing up with a sticker.
@insanityrocks Brasso wadding, it's gentler than the liquid brasso. Nail polish remover could possibly melt the brick/s.
I always use a small piece of "Magic Eraser" (readily available from homeware stores and supermarkets in the UK, not sure about elsewhere) and a good deal of rubbing to remove printing. Works a charm on most pieces as long as you can hold the part still to be able to effectively rub it. The advantage is that it doesn't smell like most other methods does.
^ Yep any pencil eraser and a good deal of rubbing = no smell, melting or scratches.
Melamine foam (Magic Eraser) and Brasso causes damage to bricks. Melamine foam is like a super fine sand paper and Brasso is also an abrasive. I've had good look with a produce called Simple Green. I soak bricks in the super concentrated stuff and had the printing just slide off.
I'm kidding, it's not that strong.
Nail polish remover could possibly melt the brick/s.
Yes, that is why you need to use diluted acetone.
The "melting" (it isn't actually melting, it is dissolving) can be used to an advantage. If you have a badly scratched part (especially a flat part), rub it on a flat absorbent surface that has dilute acetone on it, and you get rid of the scratches. It does leave it slightly shiny as you uncover the surface, but often better than the original scratched surface.
Is this the stuff you used?
If so, does it leave the plastic dull & have you found it weaken the plastic?
You've got to be careful when using stuff like nail polish remover because it weakens the plastic a lot. I've tried it and depending on what bricks it is, they tend to break.
It would be a 50 Quid ($65) mistake!!
@Istokg, no worries there, if I find stuff like that, I'd be researching extensively before I do anything to the bricks.
Good to know! ;-) I once knew someone who gave away the 1:87 LEGO cars from an old LEGO collection he purchased, because he thought they weren't real LEGO!!! :-O They are among the "crown jewels" of old LEGO.
If only one side is printed, I prefer to flip the part and place the printing on the back. That way if you ever decide to rebuild the original figure and it does become rare, you can always flip back around the printed part. But now many torsos are printed on both sides. Ugh! Legs can be impossible for removing print; too many curves. Do be very careful with these solvents as can will take off several layers of skin on your fingers and sometimes, your fingerprint! Then you can't touch activate your cellphone or whatever!
Not really a concern for me, I'm either buy parts off BrickLink to wipe or they're from sets I'm parting out & aren't wanting the actual figure in question (a lot of the sets I have parted out are doubles).
I picked up a bunch of white printed torsos and will just turn them around.
Use very diluted alcohol or acetone. Don't go for neat white spirit or acetone as this can cause whitening on the trans parts.
Nail polish remover. I removed the printing from a Monster fighters crystal piece and it worked great. Parts like that don't really break easy, so it was fine using the polish remover. I would say it probably would be the same with Nexo shields.
Still testing orange essential oil, seems to work brilliantly on plain & pearlescent parts (no discolouring even months later, practically no abrasion marks), will be testing with translucent parts some time before the end of the month.
Interesting idea, never thought of using any essential oils, I've only every used rubbing alchohol.
What makes an essential oil essential?
It means derived from the essence, it doesn't mean they are needed.
Tried a couple of methods including a pencil eraser and using some 2500 grit wet and dry and they work OK, but leaves the parts a little 'dull', especially noticeable if they are next to a non-wiped part. Anyone have any methods for restoring a little shine back into them?
Every day on Brickset Forum is a learning day.
(Cheap) You can use furniture polish, as the wax gives some shine.
(Expensive) Or, better still, a light cut finishing polish.


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Brislin ist der Familienname folgender Personen:

 John Brislin (1838–1907), US-amerikanischer Erfinder
 Kevin Brislin (* 1942), australischer Radrennfahrer
 Richard W. Brislin (* 1945), US-amerikanischer Psychologe und Kommunikationsforscher
 Stephen Brislin (* 1956), Erzbischof von Kapstadt

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LFO (2013)
Director: Antonio Tublén
Stars: Patrik Karlson, Izabella Jo Tschig, Ahnna Rasch, Per Löfberg, Erik Börén and Lukas Loughran
This film was an official selection at the 10th annual International Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival in Phoenix in 2014. Here's an index to my reviews of 2014 films.
I got a kick out of the originality of LFO on the big screen, because it really doesn't care about doing what other films do. In fact, it played at the International Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival as a showcase feature but I'm really not sure whether it counts as horror, sci-fi or something else entirely. Really it's all three, being a drama grounded in black comedy that eventually reveals itself as sci-fi, without a single giant monster, ray gun or spaceship, but sci-fi that is frankly more horrifying in its implications than most horror movies. The LFO in the title constitutes the sci in sci-fi, standing for 'low-frequency oscillation', sounds generated so low that the human ear can't hear them. This entire film sits on bedrock built by lead character Robert Nord when he discovers that a combination of four such oscillations cancel out everything else and instil a form of artificial hypnosis into everyone in range. Start thinking about what you would do if you found something like this and see if you're the twisted visionary that Robert is.
He's far from the usual lead character, but Patrik Karlson plays him to perfection, taking the relentlessly slow pace of the film and turning it, apparently innocently, into foreboding. Robert is on permanent sick leave from his job for reasons I didn't quite catch and his habit of not taking his meds, though his wife, Clara, stuck a permanent reminder on the bathroom mirror for him to do so, may be as important in the grand scheme of things as those four oscillations. Robert and Carla don't get on at all, not only because he ignores her to spend time in the basement with his sound equipment. She dismisses what he does as 'playing with his toys' and where he does it as his 'fortress of solitude', but he's really experimenting on himself. When the ambient relaxation sounds accompanying his wife's yoga sessions made him violently angry, something he calls a 'sound allergy', he started wondering about how to trigger other responses and we're quickly lost in the technobabble of it all, as befits what is, after all, a mad scientist story.
What's important here, among the oscillators, flashing lights and formulae, not to mention the apparent plethora of hidden references to drum machines and synthesizers, is that Robert clearly has delusions of grandeur. He's merely been talking about sound allergies with a couple of similarly affected folk, but one experiment on himself makes him lose five hours and suddenly he's convinced that he's going to win the Nobel Prize and change the world. Enter Linn and Simon, the folk moving in next door, and we have what we need to set the story in motion. It's worth mentioning two things at this point. One is that Robert isn't yet sending up too many flags, wondering about how he can ensure that his newfound knowledge won't fall into 'the wrong hands'. The other is that this is hardly the usual way to start a feature; our attentions have been almost entirely on one man in his own house doing little but talk. One of these things doesn't change while the other resonates because it does: we soon realise that Robert's are 'the wrong hands'.
Initially it's innocuous. Those five hours he lost were to a state of utter relaxation. What if we only needed ten minutes of sleep a day, like Judge Dredd gets? Robert easily hypnotises himself into giving up cookies because they make him fat. Imagine the possibilities! Well, there's the rub. Robert begins to imagine the possibilities for him that opened up with the arrival of Linn and Simon. He moves his prototype upstairs to switch on when they visit for coffee, putting on headphones to avoid being affected himself. He tells them to start thinking that he's a nice guy, that Simon should wash his windows and that Linn should develop a sexual hunger for him. It works promptly, precisely and perfectly: as soon as the device is off, they're a lot friendlier, Simon wonders if he could wash his windows along with his own and Linn finds a way to jump his bones. What was that about wrong hands again? Imagine if you could convince anyone to do anything just by pressing a button on a remote control. Power corrupts, right? Who watches the watchmen?
For a while it proceeds roughly as we might imagine, naturally escalating appropriately, but we soon find that the film asserts itself at points to highlight that it's as interesting as what is unfolding within it. The key scene here comes half an hour in, when Linn and Simon tell Robert that they're heading off for a trip to Copenhagen and ask him to look after their house while they're gone. Of course, he wires it for sound and tricks it out with his hypnotic device, so that when they get back he can listen in on them. Once he's instructed Simon to go to buy groceries and Linn that she just can't wait to have sex with him, he rushes over to get some and we find that we don't. We remain behind in Robert's house, listening in through the headphones he left in his kitchen. While we've followed Robert's antics throughout, it's at this point that we're placed emphatically and directly into his shoes, promptly discovering that we are doing precisely what he was just doing. The distance has gone. We're the ones in Robert's house now.
And that last statement is important too, because it's here that we realise that the film had never left it. We never visit Simon and Linn's house, just control it remotely. We never drive to the bank, when Robert realises he needs money so hypnotises Simon to rob it. We never go elsewhere to meet other characters; they all come to us. The entire picture takes place within the four walls of Robert's house, which becomes rather claustrophobic even though writer/director Antonio Tublén allows us to see quite a lot of it. In fact, it's claustrophobic not because we don't leave but because we're stuck there with Robert, who retains a consistent tone almost entirely throughout the film but which changes in our mind as we discover more about who he is, what he's already done and what he's going to do. Patrik Karlson, who outwardly seems to be an unremarkable middle aged Swede, endows his mild mannered character with magnetism that's impossible to explain except through talented acting. We can't stop watching him even as we want to.
I certainly shouldn't spoil the finalé with its grand ideas, the ones talked about first by audience members leaving the theatre before they start to backtrack to find the points where they might believe they would act differently. I want to talk about the second act, but firmly believe you should experience the dark and surreal comedy that it contains yourselves. This is an odd film in that it's at once funny and serious, with each approach never clashing with the other. There are no gags, no jokes, no overt triggers for laughter, but there's a supremely black humour to the way that Robert discovers that he has all the power of God but finds that having the power is only half the battle and he has to figure out what he should do with it. His relationship with his wife, which would be simplicity itself to spoil, is a fascinating concept on its own, and where his relationship with his neighbours goes is a sublime descent into the surreality of complete control and complete honesty. Tublén's strange imagination is one which we should be thankful for.
While the film was fascinating to me for its story, it's just as fascinating to me as a critic trying to write up a review of it. Beyond Karlson's superb performance at the heart of the film, all the usual angles on which to comment are closed. The rest of the acting is complex to describe, because there's very little of it and none of it is traditional. Robert is the only character who is continually on screen throughout the film, with three others that are prominent. However, without inadvertently throwing out spoilers, none can really be described as being themselves for long. Izabella Jo Tschig, Per Löfberg and Ahnna Rasch are tasked with a strange task, not to portray the characters themselves but those characters through a particular filter. I'm happy to say that all three are thoroughly interesting to watch. The few other actors on screen don't play characters as much as they do props and triggers for the story to escalate. Perhaps the most important is the voice on the radio who tells us all sorts of important details which we often fail to notice.
The cinematography is inherently limited because we're stuck in Robert's house throughout, which isn't a big one that might accomodate a lot of equipment. I did notice that many of the scenes that unfold in his 'fortress of solitude' are montage scenes and they seem to adopt the Automavision process that I've only previously seen in Lars von Trier's The Boss of It All. This has the director select each initial shot, but then allow a computer to move in a random direction. Tublén's previous feature, Original, made with Alexander Brøndsted, was partly produced by von Trier's production company, Zentropa. The soundtrack is notable, if as much for its prominence as its quality, because its background bleeps and chirps often take over to become the transitions between scenes. It's no surprise that Tublén himself served both as the picture's editor and composer. Clearly he's yet another fascinating name to follow in the Scandinavian cinema of restriction, as set in motion by von Trier. They just don't make films like this anywhere else.
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Very very good film, grips you from the start and doesn't let go till the end:-) must be the LFO ;-) a must watch film.
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What is ecosystem describe desert as an ecosystem?
What is eco system describe desert as an eco system?
How would you describe a desert ecosystem?
What are desert ecosystems What are its types?
What is desert ecosystem describe its structure and components?
How is a desert ecosystem different from a forest ecosystem?
Where is the desert ecosystem?
What is unique about the desert ecosystem?
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Deserts are found throughout the world. These are regions with very little rainfall. The days are hot and the nights are cold. The most defining feature of this ecosystem is the amount of precipitation it receives, which is the least as compared to any ecosystem.
Deserts are areas of land that are arid, or dry, and get less than 10 inches of rain per year. These areas can be covered by sand, rock, snow, and even ice. Additionally, they do not have a lot of plant life covering the land. Deserts' ecosystems cover approximately 25% – 30% of the land on Earth.
Deserts are extremely dry environments that are home to well-adapted plants and animals. The main types of deserts include hot and dry deserts, semi-arid deserts, coastal deserts, and cold deserts.
Some deserts are made of very fine, red sand, others consist of sand mixed with pebbles and rocks. The desert sand started out as rock, but years of weathering by wind and water has created dunes in the deserts. These sands are mostly minerals, and sometimes oil can be found hidden deep within the rocks.
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"The forest ecosystem is characterized by a large amount of trees, animals, and water, while the desert has a limited amount of species. "Deserts are areas that receive an average of less than 12 inches (30 cm) of precipitation, measured on a liquid basis, per year.
Hot and dry deserts can be found in North America, Central America, South America, southern Asia, Africa, and Australia. Well-known hot and dry deserts include the Mojave and the Sahara.
Interesting Desert Biome Facts:
It covers over 300 million square miles. The vegetation does not grow very tall so the desert biome can only accommodate small animals, rodents, and reptiles. These animals can escape the harsh Sun by hiding under small scrubs or hiding in burrows.
An ecosystem is a geographic area where plants, animals, and other organisms, as well as weather and landscape, work together to form a bubble of life. Ecosystems contain biotic or living, parts, as well as abiotic factors, or nonliving parts. … Abiotic factors include rocks, temperature, and humidity.
Characteristics common to all deserts include irregular rainfall of less than 250 mm per year, very high evaporation rates often 20 times the annual precipitation, and low relative humidity and cloud cover. 21.


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Acclaimed suspense novelist and New York Times best-selling author Joe Hill (Heart-Shaped Box) creates an all-new story of dark fantasy and wonder: Locke & Key. Written by Hill and featuring astounding artwork from Gabriel Rodriguez, Locke & Key tells of Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion, with fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them... and home to a hate-filled and relentless creature that will not rest until it forces open the most terrible door of them all... Locke & Key creator Hill has received the Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection, the British Fantasy Award for Best Collection and Best Short Story, and the Sydney J. Bounds Best Newcomer Award-2007, among his growing collection of critical accolades. This collection of Locke & Key, in development as a major motion picture by Dimension Films, features an introduction by Robert Crais, author of the best-selling Elvis Cole novels.
The third storyline in the Eisner-nominated series by Joe Hill (Horns) and Gabriel Rodriguez. Sam Lesser may be dead and gone, but Dodge still has uses for him, and in the first chill days of October, will make contact with him again. The dead know things the living may not, and Sam's restless spirit has had time to discover the thing Dodge wants to know most of all... where to...
Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez's Locke & Key unwinds into its fourth volume in Keys to the Kingdom. With more keys making themselves known, and the depths of the Locke's family's mysteries ever-expanding, Dodge's desperation to end his shadowy quest drives the habitants of Keyhouse ever closer to a revealing conclusion. ...
The sprawling tale of the Locke family and their mastery of the whispering iron thunders to new heights as the true history of the family is revealed to Tyler and Kinsey. Zack Wells assumes a new form, Tyler and Kinsey travel through time, and surprises beyond imagination will be revealed. ...
The shadows have never been darker and the end has never been closer. Turn the key and open the last door; it's time to say goodbye. Omega and Alpha, the final two storylines of the New York Times bestselling series, are collected together to offer a thunderous and compelling conclusion to Locke & Key. An event not to be missed! ...


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OutKast's 'Stankonia': the experimental blueprint
By Tom Gray
Posted in Albums, Music, Review
This week I have been listening to OutKast a lot. Now this is no significant event for me as they're one of my favourite artists and, for me to find myself as I did this week, listening through their discography in sequence is not out of the ordinary. So, after going through their smooth, laidback debut Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik (a mouthful, I know, but also a title that completely and faithfully describes the spirit of the album), their 1996 sophomore ATLiens, with its ambitious fusion of Dirty Southern hip-hop with outer-space aesthetics, and the 1998 Aquemini, a musical tour-de-force, I arrived at their fourth studio album: Stankonia.
It's often referred to as OutKast's more 'pop-y' album, and is also frequently cited as the album where creative differences between Big Boi and André first became apparent; something which becomes much more pronounced in the group's later work. To me though, these are both quite reductive ways of viewing the album – for all its creative merit and cultural significance, to brush it off as 'just' OutKast's pop album seems slightly narrow-minded. In fact, to call it pop at all is really a gross oversimplification. Sure, the album's second single, 'Ms. Jackson', was their first to reach number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, but I'm sure you would be hard-pressed to find another album with such an eclectic fusion of genres. Listening to the way the album effortlessly moulds and meshes funk, rock and gospel with the sound of Dirty Southern hip-hop, which they had by then become associated with, is often astounding.
A significant part of how Big Boi and Dré keep the sound of southern hospitality in an album, that often sounds like it came from outer space, is their collaborators
That's what I love about OutKast. No other artist could pull off a song that marries psychedelic funk with spoken word while ruminating on a tragic tale of teenage pregnancy and suicide. Or an apologetic plea for forgiveness from the mother of a mother of a child out of wedlock (put simply: a "baby's mama's mama") that combines glistening synths with smooth, soulful hooks and impeccable rap verses (that's 'Toilet Tisha', 'B.O.B.' and 'Ms. Jackson' for anyone interested). But OutKast pulls it off; those three larger-than-life concepts and so many more all within a single album.
A significant part of how Big Boi and Dré keep the sound of southern hospitality in an album, that often sounds like it came from outer space, is their collaborators. The album features all the mainstays of Southern hip-hop at the time: Khujo, Cee-Lo, T-Mo and Big Rube of Goodie Mob fame show up across the album, there's a Prince-style sex ballad with 36 Mafia's Gangsta Boo, and a Dungeon Family posse cut for the hip-hop purists (it's the only one they'll find though). Southern voices are all over this album, constantly reminding the listener that though the album may sound out-of-this-world, it blasted off from Atlanta, Georgia.
OutKast managed to show both the longevity and global reach of Southern hip-hop
Anybody familiar with hip-hop social media communities will have been witness to, whether consciously or not, a very annoying tendency of people within these social media circles to discuss OutKast like "André 3000 and that other guy", as if 3 Stacks somehow carried the duo during their career. Claims like this couldn't be more wrong and Stankonia is proof of that because, rapping-wise, Big Boi outperforms André across the board on this album. You only have to listen to them trade bars at the tail-end of 'Spaghetti Junction' to understand where I'm coming from; Big Boi's flow on his second mini-verse at the end of the song is absolutely unreal and I genuinely get goosebumps every time.
Nowadays, rap music is pop music; that much became clear to me when I walked into a small charity shop in rural England to see the shop's elderly customers listening on the radio to Don Toliver singing about how codeine got him tripping on Internet Money's 'Lemonade'. But there's a reason why the term 'Southern' rarely crops up in hip-hop discussion anymore, because the vast majority of acts in popular rap music are using the style. I'm not claiming OutKast invented trap music, but would people have been listening to T.I. or Gucci Mane in the first place if OutKast hadn't 'put the South on the map'?. OutKast managed to show both the longevity and global reach of Southern hip-hop, like none of their Southern contemporaries could, and, looking at the popular artists of today, they were decades ahead of the curve. Hailing from Atlanta alone we have the likes of: Future, Gunna, 21 Savage, Young Thug, Playboi Carti, Lil Baby, and Migos. Looking more generally at what the music represents, the ideas and the ethos that fuelled the making of Stankonia, it's hard to say whether people would've been so receptive to Kanye West's genre-defining experimentation throughout the 2000s, or Gorillaz' mercurial fusion of hip-hop and alternative, or even Drake's trademark sing-rapping style, had Big Boi and André not come through with all of those ideas and more at the turn of the millennium.
Stankonia is a challenging listen but it's still a rewarding one. If you take the time to strip away the layers of the album, digesting it in its entirety from its lyrical themes and Southern slang to the deeply layered instrumentals, you'll get an appreciation, like I have, that, while initially enigmatic, it's an album that you can completely immerse yourself in, finding on every subsequent listen some new, unexplored corner of the tracklist. Stankonia is an impassioned proclamation of sheer and total love for the craft of making music. An uncompromised artistic statement, the album's success rewards it for its weirdness, rewards its experimental qualities, and, in a generation of musicians still living under its influence, and a generation where creativity within the trap genre is sorely lacking, maybe we could take another lesson from Big Boi and Dré and just get weird.
Recommended listening: 'Snappin' and Trappin", 'Ms. Jackson', 'B.O.B.' and 'Toilet Tisha'
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Comments: 12:23 pm. As I was walking up the trail from the mouth of the creek, I heard what I thought was a Least Flycatcher (a dryish "pwrit") calling from the clump of willows at the creek mouth. I went to investigate. I then heard what was more like a Willow Flycatcher (full-bodied "whit"). The Least did not call again. Over the next few minutes, I got glimpses of an Empidonax popping up from the center of willow clump, just getting fractions of views at a time. Sometimes it would look like a Least, others it would look like a Willow. Eventually, I saw two birds together (they chased each other around for a bit): one Willow, one Least. Sometimes the two-bird theory is validated. Ultimately, they both came out into the open and I got good views of both. I also saw it at the same time with the Magnolia Warbler that had been in the same area over a couple of days. The closest observation of the Least was at about 20 feet. Viewed under good, diffuse light (bright overcast conditions), many times with a dark background (the bird was moving constantly, foraging). Viewed with 10x42 B&L Elite binoculars. Cumulative observation time: several minutes. I am not aware that anyone else saw this bird, before or after. Description (adapted from notes taken in the field immediately after the observation). Clearly an Empidonax flycatcher. Overall, the bird was grayish-green, rather than yellowish (the Willow, by comparison, was much warmer colored). The Least had two prominent white wingbars on a blackish wing panel (indicating adult). Short primary projection. A thin, whitish, complete eye-ring. The head was roundish , only slightly peaked . The bill was short, not as thin as a Hammond's (in my experience). The lower mandible was yellowish, especially basally. The belly was whitish (very pale gray) with the chest darker. The throat was whitish.


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Bolstered by AT&T's (NYSE:T) massive bid for T-Mobile USA, technology acquirers set a new post-recession spending high in the first quarter of 2011, shelling out $84 billion to acquire 881 companies. This announced spending level is one-third more than the previous post-downturn high-water mark of $62 billion set in Q2 2010, and the highest level of M&A spending since Q2 2008, according to the 451 M&A KnowledgeBase, a technology-focused M&A transaction database provided by leading industry analyst and data firm The 451 Group.
The quarter's game-changing deal came in late March with AT&T's proposed $39 billion purchase of T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom (NYSE:DT), the largest technology-related transaction in a half-decade.
Even without that landmark telecom deal, however, Q1 deal flow was on track to exceed the preceding quarter, despite global turmoil that included the tragic tsunami in Japan and ongoing revolutions in the Middle East. March was especially active, with big-ticket acquirers other than AT&T driving deal flow to its highest levels since last summer. Those buyers announced nine deals valued at $1 billion or more in March alone, compared to just six billion-dollar-plus transactions for January and February combined.
Despite these record-setting totals, a number of tech giants – including Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC), EMC (NYSE: EMC), Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and even typically highly active Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) – sat out the first quarter, announcing no deals at all.
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