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Directed by Celina Escher
El Salvador | 2021 | 89 minutes | Color | DVD | Spanish | Subtitled | Order No. W211284 |
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CREDITS & PRESS
As states in the U.S. enact abortion bans, FLY SO FAR serves as a grave warning of how far government control of women's bodies can go. This brave film from Swiss-Salvadorean filmmaker Celina Escher is set in El Salvador, a country with some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the world, including the criminalization of those who experience miscarriages and other obstetric emergencies.
The narrative centers on Teodora Vásquez, who was in the ninth month of her second pregnancy when she fainted and suffered a stillbirth. When she woke up at the hospital, she was accused of murder and was sentenced to thirty years in prison for aggravated homicide. At Ilopango Women's Prison, she becomes the spokesperson for The Seventeen, a group of working-class women who were all incarcerated after having miscarriages. Many of these same women became pregnant after being sexually assaulted. While it exposes brutal human rights abuses, FLY SO FAR is unmistakably a story of collective resistance, activism, sisterhood, as well as the self-determination and agency of women.
"Deeply moving and visually stunning cinematic testament to indomitable courage."
Jury Statement Seattle International Film Festival
"In an era where worldwide the sexual and reproductive rights of women are under serious pressure...this documentary shows that fighting human rights are not a luxury for the educated few but a universal necessity for people in less fortunate circumstances."
Movies that Matter, Activist Documentary Award Jury Statement
"As the title FLY SO FAR declares, Vasquez goes from being crushed by poverty to being energized by taking political action in this inspiring story."
POV Magazine
"A truly empowering story of resilience and solidarity, FLY SO FAR is an unforgettable portrait of a reluctant activist determined to speak up be heard, not only for herself, but for all her sisters in the struggle against oppression."
Hot Docs Film Festival
"[Teodora and The Seventeen's] testimonies and cases are evidence of the State's violence against women, but also of collective resilience, solidarity, and sisterhood."
Guelph Film Festival
"Potent and deeply felt."
Hebe Tabachnik, Senior Programmer, SIFF
"Highlights the hypocrisy and class prejudice surrounding El Salvador's abortion laws."
"[FLY SO FAR] portrays [Vazquez's] life inside as well as after her release, showing the difficulties experienced by these women integrating back into society, particuarly given the stigma of the crime for which they were convicted."
RTL Today
SCREENING HIGHLIGHTS AND AWARDS
Ibero-American Competition Grand Jury Prize, Seattle International Film Festival
Activist Documentary Award, Movies That Matter Festival
Best Central American and Caribbean Film, Costa Rica International Film Festival
Regional Award & Human Rights Award, One World International Film Festival
Nominee, Tempo Documentary Award, Tempo Documentary Festival
Honorable Mention, New Nordic Voices Award, Nordisk Panorama
Documentary Feature Finalist, Social Impact Media Awards
Hot Docs Canadian Documentary Film Festival
DOXA - Documentary Film Festival Vancouver
Berlin Human Rights Film Festival
Seattle International Film Festival
rePRO Film Fest
AFI Latin American Film Festival
Doc Cévennes
Move It! Film Festival
Innsbruck International Film Festival
Biografilm Festival
DocsMX
Equis Feminist Film Festival
Terre de Femmes - FrauenWelten Filmfest
Guadalajara International Film Festival
Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival
Celina Escher
Celina Escher is a Swiss-Salvadorean filmmaker. She studied documentary film at the International Film and Television School in San Antonio de los Baños (EICTV) in Cuba. In 2016 her short film MOTRIZ was part of the student selection at IDFA and at Poitiers Film Festival 2017. Her film Verde Olivo was shown at the Film des Femmes Créteil in France and in festivals in San Francisco, England and Germany. In 2018, Celina's short film LUZ PARA ELLAS was screened at the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema in La Habana and the Vancouver Latin American Film Festival. In March 2019 Celina was selected as one of the 50 new Latin American filmmakers at Talent Campus of Guadalajara International Film Festival in Mexico. FLY SO FAR is Celina's first documentary feature film.
DIRECTOR: Celina Escher
FEATURING: Teodora Vásquez & The 17+
PRODUCER: Mónica Hernández Rejón
EDITOR: Matteo Faccenda
CINEMATOGRAPHERS: Guillermo Argueta, Audun Fjeldheim, Celina Escher, Christian Rivera, Fabricio Sibrián, Camilo Henríquez, Nils Bucher, Kalle Jansson & Maria Åkesson
ANIMATION: Louisa Wallström & Roland Seer
ORIGINAL MUSIC: Mahan Mobashery & Nils Bucher
GRAPHIC DESIGN: Spektra Design
GRADING: Peter Magnusson/Helion Film
SOUND DESIGN: Anders Lindahl/Ljudbang
MASTERING: Thomas Ahlén/Terrassen
IMPACT PRODUCER: Lourdes Gil Alvaradejo
PRODUCTION COMPANY: Pråmfilm AB
IN CO-PRODUCTION WITH: Sugar Rush Productions/Maria Åkesson, Chimbolo Films/Saúl Callejas & Film in Dalarna/Mattias Ehrenberg. With support of the Swedish Film Institute, film commissioner Juan Pablo Libossart, IDFA Bertha Fund, The Swedish Arts Grants Committee & Filmbasen/Region Stockholm. In collaboration with Rough Cut Service/Jordana Berg & Joëlle Alexis.
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Beautiful Sin
BEAUTIFUL SIN tells a surprising reproductive rights story, one that resonates from Central America to the United States and beyond. What if you desperately wanted a baby, but your country and religion prohibited you from trying the one medical treatment that could help you? In 2000, anti-abortion activists, with the help of the Catholic Church and a U.S. group, won a legal case that banned in vitro fertilization (IVF) in Costa Rica and gave the embryo legal rights, making Costa Rica the only country in the world to outlaw the treatment. BEAUTIFUL SIN tells the decade-long story of three couples struggling with infertility who take the Costa Rican government before an international human rights court to demand the right to use IVF. Filmmaker Gabriela Quirós charts the emotional journey of these couples as they contend with infertility and explores the legal ramifications of reproductive rights. It's a universal story about what happens when state power and religious ideology clash with the desire to have a child. Funding for this program was provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Abortion Helpline, This is Lisa
At the Philadelphia abortion helpline, counselors field nonstop calls from women and teens who are seeking to end a pregnancy but can't afford to, illustrating how economic stigma and cruel laws determine who has access to abortion in America.
Jane: An Abortion Service
This fascinating political look at a little-known chapter in women's history tells the story of "Jane", the Chicago-based women's health group who performed nearly 12,000 safe illegal abortions between 1969 and 1973 with no formal medical training.
62 DAYS is an urgent examination of a growing trend of laws that seek to control a pregnant woman's body.
I Had an Abortion
Underneath the din of politicians posturing about "life" and "choice" and beyond the shouted slogans about murder and rights, there are real stories of real women who have had abortions. Each year in the US, 1.3 million abortions occur, but the topic is still so stigmatized it's never discussed in polite company. Powerful, poignant, and fiercely honest, I HAD AN ABORTION tackles this taboo, featuring 10 women – including famed feminist Gloria Steinem – who candidly describe experiences spanning seven decades, from the years before Roe v. Wade to the present day. Filmmakers Jennifer Baumgardner (author of Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future) and Gillian Aldrich insightfully document how changing societal pressures have affected women's choices and experiences. Cutting across age, race, class and religion, the film unfolds personal narratives with intimate interviews, archival footage, family photos and home movies. Arranged chronologically, the stories begin with Florence Rice, now 86, telling without regret about her abortion in the 1930s. Other women speaking out include Marion Banzhaf, who, inspired by both the Miss America protests and the Stonewall rebellion, fundraised on her campus to pay for her abortion, and Robin Ringleka-Kottke, who found herself pregnant as an 18-year-old pro-life Catholic. With heartfelt stories that are never sentimentalized, I HAD AN ABORTION personalizes what has become a vicious and abstract debate.
Birthright: A War Story
BIRTHRIGHT: A WAR STORY examines how women are being jailed, physically violated and even put at risk of dying as a radical movement tightens its grip across America.
Read Civia Tamarkin's director's statement here.


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The naughtiest word in French
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Tag: accent
Cours de GPS
The female voice that lives inside my GPS is called, improbably, Serena. Perhaps this female persona was the fantasy of the German engineers who designed my personal navigation app. Or maybe the marketing people thought the name would inspire a sense of serenity.
When I had to choose between Serena and Henry, her male flatmate, I went with dulcet-toned Serena. Of the two, she seemed slightly less commanding.
Did I mention I have issues with authority?
My first impression is that she sounds nothing like a Serena to me. Her snooty British accent makes her seem far too well-schooled to be doing this job. And, having taken a trip or two together, I fear she must agree.
Although we are in France, Serena speaks English. If I have the option, I always pick the language this is least likely to cause confusion, or misinterpretation, to my English ears. This is especially true when it comes to getting from point A to point B. I am, as confessed before, geographically and spatially challenged, a condition that only seems to get worse with age. But because we are in France, and French-speaking Switzerland, I do expect her to have a minimal grasp of the lingo.
The problem begins as soon as we hit the road.
"Prepare to bear right," announces Serena imperiously. The road stretches ahead in a straight line.
"I think you mean go straight," I suggest, trying to be polite.
"Beware!" says that lady.
"Beware of what?" I ask. There is no danger that I can see.
"At the roundabout, take first exit."
"You mean turn right?" I ask, squinting at the screen propped on my dashboard. You are not technically allowed to use a GPS on your phone while driving in France. Just in case you might be cheating by texting or checking your Facebook status, they make any use of a phone in a car illegal.
Thankfully I no longer have to face the road conditions shown in the picture above, which used to be part of my daily commute. But getting around France can be confusing, so I take all the help I can get.
"In 200 metres, prepare to turn left."
Okay, that much I get.
"Prepare to turn left in 100 metres, onto LARUEDELAMARTINIERE," anounces Serena blithely.
Her French pronunciation is a curve ball that catches me unaware. It bears no connection to French as I know it. What street does she mean? I glare at my screen but cannot see any name resembling her French with an English accent.
The road curves and I miss the turn.
"Now turn right onto CHEMINDELACHARBONNIÈRE."
"Chemin de la what? Where did you learn to speak French?"
"Now turn right."
"Wrong! It says do not enter."
"Of what?"
There is silence. I glance at my screen and see a straight arrow. It seems that Serena has strategically repositioned.
"At the roundabout, take the third exit."
"You mean go left?"
"Take the third exit and continue onto the D93."
"Whatever you say."
"Now prepare to bear right."
"Oui Madame."
"Now bear right."
"My god you're a nag."
"Turn right on RUDE LACHAINE."
"Rude is right!"
"In 300 metres, you will have reached your destination."
"What? You are seriously confused!"
"You have reached La Rue de la Résistance."
"Ray-sis-tance?" I say, mocking her accent. "Listen, lady, this is France. You need to work on your accent."
I look in my rear-view mirror and see a cop right behind me. Realizing he may be able to see me talking to my GPS, I put two hands on the wheel, activate the turn signal and proceed into the parking lot.
"Merci Serena!" I say, signing off. She says nothing, far too polite to say I told you so.
I have indeed reached my destination.
Navigon, the app I use. Not my destination!
Do you use a GPS?
By MELewisin Driving, France, Humor November 9, 2017 November 9, 2017 655 Words28 Comments
Chère Académie française,
Please accept my application to become one of 'les immortels'.
I have always dreamed of being immortal. Imagine my surprise and delight upon discovering that such a job description exists, and that it can be found among your illustrious number on the Académie Française, protectors extraordinaire of the French language!
Why should you consider my humble application?
Firstly, let me assure you that I meet your sole qualification of being under the age of 75 at the time of application, and, as an aside, that jacket would look good on me. Secondly, although English is my first language, I have spent nearly half of my life in this fair land and have come to appreciate both its language and its denizens, along with the produce of its labours, namely the fine foods and wines of la belle France. At the same time, I have become intimately familiar with its weaknesses as perceived both from within and beyond its borders.
Let me put this simply: I think you need me. As someone who has long worked in the field of communications, who understands brand and is familiar with the blogosphere, I can bring you kicking and screaming into the 21st century. The Academy has a bit of an image problem, you see. The French perceive you as a bunch of decrepit old coots, completely disconnected from reality, falling asleep in your plush chairs – I among them, until it became clear that I had confused you with the elected members of our National Assembly.
My confusion can perhaps be forgiven. You, too, are elected by vote, although uniquely among yourselves, a far more civilized approach than asking the public to weigh in, n'est-ce pas? What, after all, does the average Joe (sorry, make that Jacques) know about the language of Molière?
I do realize, bien évidemment, that you will not be able to consider my candidacy until a chair has been duly vacated, that is, until one of your number has gone on to better things – oh, let's just call a spade a spade: popped his clogs, kicked the can, croaked. As you can see, I have a fair grasp of the vernacular in my native tongue and une maîtrise certaine in French.
I will be an ardent defender of French. I will fight to the death against the dumbing down of this great and wonderful language and resist further indignities like that of the spelling reform which has recently brought your name into the news. I understand it took from 1990 until the present to implement the reform, based upon a decision not of the Académie Française but of the Superior Council of the French language.
In conclusion, I will do everything in my power to maintain the original orthography of our language, from the jaunty circumflex in 'août' to the inimitable 'i' in oignon.
Till death us do meet.
Madame Mel
By MELewisin France, French language, Humor February 11, 2016 488 Words29 Comments
It's all Greek to me
Kitschy public toilet on Iguana Beach in Crete
I've been wanting to say that for a long time. Ever since I arrived in France and found myself floundering in a sea of incomprehension. But something always seemed to get lost in translation. Until I figured out that it's not Greek but Chinese that describes what the French find impossible to understand. 'C'est du Chinois?' I'm sorry but that just sounds wrong.
Spending a week on the island of Crete is the perfect excuse to finally use the expression. We're here catching a week of sun and making up for the summer that wasn't in France. Also the vacation we didn't find time to take. By 'vacation' I mean going away to a place with nothing more urgent to do than sit on a deck chair and watch the waves roll in. And decide what to order for lunch.
So here we are in boutique-hotel heaven on the western part of the island near Chania (pronounced 'HAH-nea'), enjoying mostly sunny skies and warm but not sweltering temperatures. Where they serve delicious, heart-healthy Cretan diet food and excellent local wines – meaning you can eat and drink to your heart's delight knowing that any weight you gain will be chock full of omega 3's and antioxidants. Rest assured, I'm sporting the healthiest of belly rolls.
The crowd at our hotel is a mixed bag – Nordic, German, Swiss, French, Brits and the odd North American transplant like me. Everybody speaks an English of varying accents, including the staff, who are Greek and Turkish. I love the fact that English is the default language that enables people from such different cultures to communicate, even on such a mundane level as 'Please pass the olive oil', or 'May I have an extra beach towel?'
And I find myself doing that thing I do. Where I become a sponge for other people's verbal tics, speaking with an unfamiliar accent or an oddly European intonation. I'm convinced it's a form of empathy that makes me do this. Either that or an odd desire to parrot.
I first noticed this when I began to speak French. It was as if the process of learning a foreign tongue made me temporarily lose my own. I found myself stuttering to get words out in my native language, or worse, employing French grammatical constructions in English: "She is the sister of my mother," I explained to someone who asked about my aunt. He gave me a puzzled look. "You mean your mother's sister?"
Sometimes my English sounded like a bad translation: "I am desolate," I would say by way of apology, literally translating 'je suis désolée' from French. It wasn't intentional – it just came out that way. I remember feeling very silly after being introduced to someone and popping out 'I'm enchanted.' While 'Je suis enchantée' may be perfectly correct in French, it sounds more than a little dated in English.
Whatever the reason, being surrounded by foreign languages leaves me temporarily at a loss for words. Which is probably just as well. It is so incredibly beautiful here that words seem redundant. Even the Greek ones with all those strange characters that defy description. You just want to lay back and watch the waves roll in. Wriggle your toes in the sand. And forget about all the things you don't understand.
Capisce?
By MELewisin European culture, French, Language, Travel October 21, 2014 588 Words12 Comments
Crossing the border
We live in France, just across the border from Switzerland. Geneva is our closest big city and we're as often on the Swiss side as we are in France. Work is in Switzerland. So is the airport, the bigger department stores and many of our favorite restaurants.
Crossing the border is no big deal. In fact, it has become largely a technicality, since the Schengen accords abolished the need to control the borders between 26 European countries.
La Haute Savoie
In our corner of Lake Geneva, the border weaves a crooked line through hills and along rivers. When you're driving around, you may change countries without even realizing it.
Recently we had visitors from Canada who wondered: how can you tell which side of the border you're on?
It's not all that obvious. Here in the Haute Savoie part of the French Rhône-Alpes region, we have a toe in Switzerland, a heel in Italy, and a long history of belonging to various sides. Like our sister region, the Savoie, our departmental flag is almost identical to the Swiss flag. Geneva was taken over by France during the revolution and at one point in history, the area where we now live was supposed to be part of French-speaking Switzerland.
Sign from our sister department, La Savoie « Entrée Savoie » par Florian Pépellin
But Switzerland is another country. Other than the Swiss flag itself, which proudly flies at every border outpost, here's what to watch – and listen – for when you cross the border into Switzerland:
Prices in Swiss francs
One of the first things you will notice is the prices in Swiss Francs. Even if you don't notice it right away, you'll soon feel the pinch. One Swiss franc (1 CHF) is worth about .80 EUR cents, but the cost of just about everything is much higher than the exchange rate seems to justify.
2. Bus stops and public transit
The Swiss are great believers in public transit. Even small villages on the outskirts of big towns are well served by buses and trains. Ferry boats run by the CGN (Swiss national navigation company) take commuters from France to the Swiss side of Lac Léman (Lake Geneva).
3. Better roads and cleaner streets
Everything is well maintained in Switzerland. Which may be one reason why prices are higher.
4. Recycling bins
Even in public places like train stations and on the street, you often see bins specifically for recyclables like plastic.
5. Accent
The French like to make fun of the Swiss Romand accent, a kind of lilt that makes the phrases go up at the end. But then again, the French make fun of accents from everywhere – even within their own country.
6. English spoken
After so many years in France, it surprised me at first to hear so much English spoken just across the border. You will notice that many different languages are spoken in Switzerland, but most commonly: French, German, Italian and English.
7. Dog poop
Along with cleaner, better maintained streets comes a certain mania for picking up. Stoop-and-scoop bags are available pretty well everywhere in Switzerland. And beware of fines if you don't pick up after le chien!
8. License plates
The plates on Swiss cars begin with the two-letter abbreviation of the Canton: GE for Geneva, VD for Vaud or ZH for Zurich, for example.
9. Vignette
You can't drive on the Swiss motorways without paying an annual highway tax. I love the efficiency of it – a small price to pay instead of all those annoying tolls in France. La vignette (which you must display on your windshield) costs 40 CHF (33 EUR) and the borders on the main roads (ie, Bardonnex in Geneva) are often patrolled to catch visitors who haven't paid up.
10. Frontaliers
You will also notice a lot of French license plates on the Swiss side. That's because jobs are more plentiful and better paid. Les frontaliers, those who live in one country and work in another, are an unpopular bunch: Disliked by the French, who assume there's something illegal or immoral about earning more money or paying less tax; and tolerated but not really liked or trusted by the Swiss.
I should know. I'm one of them.
What about you? Ever been confused about which side of the border you were on?
By MELewisin European culture, France, History, Travel August 14, 2014 August 14, 2014 737 Words20 Comments
The coolest word in the French language
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It slips into phrases like an uninvited guest, crashing the party yet instantly finding its place.
A single letter long, it belongs to a very elite group indeed – one of the two shortest French words.
Have you guessed?
It's 'y'.
Or the Greek 'i' as it's known in French – pronounced "ee-greque."
It is both a vowel and a consonant. How cool is that? If it were human, surely it would be wearing Ray-Bans and sitting by the pool, sipping Bacardi on ice.
It's so low profile a word that I had to check my dictionary to ensure that it really is a word, and not just an element of speech. An adverbial pronoun, it's a word that acts like a sort of stand in – an understudy who occasionally replaces the starring role.
It has no real meaning of its own, other than that of designating a place. The closest English translation is 'there.' Are you going to the party? Oui, j'y vais.
It's subtle, and elusive to English ears. Which is probably why I was hesitant to use it at first. It felt sort of daring the first time I pronounced it – moving things around in sentence order kind of goes against the natural order of things. But soon enough, expressions like these just rolled off my tongue:
Ça y est. (Sa-ee-ay) That's it. Done!
Allons-y! (A-lon-zee) Let's go!
When we moved to Lyon some years ago, I learned that its denizens, les Lyonnais, are known for their love of the 'y' – they use it far more than people elsewhere in France, adding it to phrases where normally it would not appear.
For example: Do you like it? Tu y aimes?
Want to know 'y'? A few links for fellow grammar geeks:
'Y' explained very nicely in English: http://www.slideshare.net/mrash/the-french-pronouns-y-and-en
http://french.about.com/od/grammar/a/pron_adverbial.htm
More about the Lyonnais accent (in French):
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parler_lyonnais
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0DiCYpsJAc
By MELewisin French language, Language April 17, 2014 April 17, 2014 351 Words11 Comments

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A team of three drivers in a Land Rover Discovery 2 led by adventurer Mac Mackenney will set off on October 17 to attempt to beat the world record for driving from London to Cape Town, South Africa. The current record stands at 13 days, 8 hours and 48 minutes set by Eric Jackson in a Ford Cortina GT in 1963. The original record was established back in 1939.
The London to Cape Town attempt, supported by Chevron Lubricants, is one of the most challenging overland expeditions, driving through some of the most inhospitable areas and difficult road conditions in the world which will test to the extreme both men and machine. The diesel-engined Discovery 2 will be using the latest Havoline lubricants and fuel additives to provide maximum fuel economy and engine protection as it battles with cold nights, extreme heat and punishing round-the-clock usage.
The expedition leader Mac Mackenney, a very experienced adventurer who runs Max Adventure, specialists in adventure and expedition logistics, will be joined by navigator Chris Rawlings and mechanic Steve Mackenney. The team will start from the RAC Club in Pall Mall on October 17 and arrive at the AA building in the centre of Cape Town to stop the clock on what is hoped will be a new world record. The attempt has received enthusiastic support from a variety of sources and automotive companies and the attempt's patron is Sir Stirling Moss OBE and the honorary patrol is Sir Ranulph Fiennes OBE, no stranger to challenging expeditions. The London to Cape Town event will also raise money for Help for Heroes.


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Research: Hypnosis for Childbirth
Research shows that use of hypnosis techniques significantly reduces the lengths of the first and second stages of labour, and reduces or eliminates the need for chemical pain relief.
Length of Labour
Hao et al in China measured the effect of nursing suggestions to labouring women and recommends that the conversation of the nurses be "controlled carefully for the purpose of advancing the birth process". This randomized control trial examined 60 first time mothers with a matched control group of 60 first time mothers and found a statistically significant reduction (p<0.01) in the lengths of the first and second stages of labour.
Jenkins and Pritchard found a reduction of 3 hours for primigravid women (from 9.3 hours to 6.4 hours, p<0.0001) and 1 hour for multigravid women (from 6.2 hours to 5.3 hours, p<0.01) for active labour (262 subjects and 600 controls). Pushing was statistically shorter for first time mothers (from 50 min to 37 min, p<0.001).
In a study that compared hypnosis and Lamaze training, 96 women chose between hypnosis (n=45) and Lamaze (n=51). The first stage of labour was shortened in the hypnosis group by 98 minutes for first time mothers and by 40 minutes for second time mothers. These women were more satisfied with labour and reported other benefits of hypnosis such as reduced anxiety and help with getting to sleep.
A British study found a statistically significant reduction (p<0.001) in the length of labour of first and second time mothers: 70 hypnosis patients (6 h 21 min) compared to 70 relaxation patients (9 h 28 min) and 70 control group (9 h 45 min).
Mellegren noted a reduction of two to three hours of labour.
Abramson and Heron found a shorter first stage of labour for 100 women trained with hypnosis (by 3.23 hours) compared to a control group of 88 women.
Forty-five Hypnosis for Childbirth (S Gallagher) clients (first time mothers) had an average of 4.5 hours for the active labour, a significant reduction compared to the usual 12 hours.
A compilation of relevant studies on the use of hypnosis in childbirth.
Medication use
In a British study, 55% of 45 patients (first and second time mothers) required no medication for pain relief. In the other, non-hypnosis groups, only 22% of 90 women required no medication.
Two research pieces reported on 1,000 consecutive births: 850 women used hypnotic analgesia resulting in 58 percent rate of no medication.
Five other research pieces reported an incidence of 60 to 79 percent non-medicated births.
A retrospective survey conducted by Shawn Gallagher in Canada in 2001 notes an epidural rate of 18 percent in Southern Ontario, where the epidural rate in most hospitals is 40 to 95 percent (depending on the setting) for first time mothers.
Rates of Intervention
In a randomized control trial of 42 teenagers in Florida, none of the 22 patients in the hypnosis group experienced surgical intervention compared with 12 of the 20 patients in the control group (p=.000). 12 patients in the hypnosis group experienced complications compared with 17 in the control group (p=.047).
Harmon, Hynan and Tyre reported more spontaneous deliveries, higher Apgar scores and reduced medication use in their study of 60 women.
Of the 45 Hypnosis for Childbirth (S Gallagher) clients, 38 delivered without the use of caesarian, forceps or vacuum, a rate of spontaneous birth of 84%. This is a higher than average rate of normal birth for the general population of first time mothers.
From the British Journal of Anaesthesia: Hypnosis for pain relief in labour and childbirth: a systematic review (2004).
Hypnotherapist Scott Sandland provides us with important information about hypnosis and how it is used in childbirth. Frequently asked questions!


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East Lancashire LDWA - The August Walkers of East Lancs
The August Walkers of East Lancs
Roger's Weekend, August 14th to 16th - see below (video now available)
Todmorden Treat, Sunday August 23rd, 22 miles
Leader : Steve Clark
Well the weather forecast was good – a reasonable day was promised during a period of unsettled weather. As 09:00 approached, I was made aware that Peter was on the bus from Rochdale and due to arrive 08:55 but that the bus had been delayed by the running of a half marathon. We hung on a few minutes for Peter to arrive. So 22 of us set off from Todmorden at just turned 09:00, warming up along the canal in the direction of Hebden Bridge, soon to turn off the canal and up to Mankinholes. Then the climb via the most direct route to Stoodley Pike was taken from London Road. Dropping down on the Pennine Way (PW) for a while we took a coffee break on a natural rock platform high above the valley on the edge of Hebden Bridge with super views across the valley to Heptonstall.
We descended to the canal and then up to the outskirts of Heptonstall. Keeping to the edge of the Cloden Valley we met up again with the PW and across moorland to sit by the dam at Lower Gorple reservoir for lunch. One of the group had been struggling a little and the next section's climb across the boggy ground of Black Hameldon to the trig point at Hoof Stone Height proved challenging. Dropping back to make sure they were okay we got to the trig point with everybody else having taken an impromptu afternoon break.
Once down to a road our tired friend took the option to stick with tarmac. The person who'd given her a lift to the start of the walk, dutifully went back with her too and Les Abba went to help with navigation. We pressed on down the Burnley Way. Just before we were at Hartley Royd it began to rain. Waterproof jackets on. A few minutes later we had to call the leading group back from an open area, as we experienced lightning and thunder, which was almost overhead and dangerous. We waited it out until the storm passed over. 6 more left to finish the walk in the safety of the road down in the valley, whilst 13 finished the walk as planned, via Whirlaw Stones.
We all arrived safely back at the start/finish, with the contingent who'd taken the valley route coming in 5 minutes after the main walk finished at 17:25. GPS were examined and the tally was just shy of 22 miles with around 1,250 metres of ascent. Is it a record to have finshed with 9 less walkers than started? So, an eventful but hopefully enjoyable walk for all.
Photos by Ken Noble
Photos by Hazel Storozuk
Photos by Julie Spencer
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Roger's Weekend, August 14th to 16th
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Barrowford, Barley and Reservoirs, Wednesday August 12th, 14.3 miles
Leader : Chris Langabeer
25 walkers assembled at the Seedhill Athetics centre in Barrowford on what turned out to be a fantastic day weatherwise at least. Modesty prevents me saying any more.
The route took in the villages of Carr Hall, Wheatley Lane and Newchurch and onward to Barley. It continued past Lower and Upper Black Moss Reservoirs, the ruins of Furber House before a climb to the highest point of the walk near to Wheathead Height. The Pendle way was taken for a few miles passing Admergill Hall, Watersmeeting to reach Barrowford Reservoir.
From this point the Leeds Liverpool was followed over Swinden Aqueduct, before a short walk along the road which led back to the start. Most of the group spent a pleasant half hour having a cool drink in the nearby pub.
The mileage was 14.3 The ascent around 600m. Thanks to every one for coming.
Chris Langabeer
Photos from Claire Pilkington - here
Looking Over Little Lakeland, Sunday August 9th, 18 miles
Leader : Gordon Stone
I'd committed myself to leading a walk many months ago for which I'd named it "Looking Over Little Lakeland" to give me some scope to devise the walk in an area which I tend to frequent on foot, albeit usually a little faster than walking pace.
Thirteen two-legged and no less than three four-legged walkers assembled on the approach road to Rivington Barn from which we headed down to the shores of our first "lake" (okay they are reservoirs). The weather forecast wasn't great but there was a chance we would stay dry. On to Liverpool Castle and on to the "Pike Race" route before dropping down to cross the very youthful River Douglas and onto Green Lane.
On reaching the corner of Wilderswood, my walk was hijacked by un unscrupulous fellow, no names but let's initially call him National Trust. I succumbed, but more favourably in that Hilary would like to visit the memorial to one of our members. It was also the first time I had visited the forest, despite living for the past 25 years less than two miles away, as it tended to lie between my routes up to Winter Hill.
On to Georges Lane and a diversion through Wilderswood before returning to Georges Lane and then up to Rivington Pike for our morning break with magnificent views of the reservoirs and the mountains of North Wales and the Lake District.
All suitably refreshed, we headed back to Georges Lane and onto Hordern Stoops. I must have travelled along Georges Lane well over a thousand times and do not enjoy it so apologise to anyone with similar feelings. It was a necessary evil.
It was then across to the Bomber Memorial via Simms for lunch. The humidity meant that we were not the only ones feasting, as the midges were trying to eat us.
Effectively from Wilderswood, we had been following the route of the White Bear Way and we continued to Jepson's Gate and passing High Bullough Reservoir to overlook Anglezarke Reservoir. Continuing to the end of the reservoir at our most northerly point, and up to Healey Nab where an unscheduled stop was taken before heading over the M61 to join the Leeds and Liverpool Canal towpath near Cowling. From then it was a nice flat walk to reach the road up to Fredericks where the majority of us took the opportunity of ice cream. They now so a £10 10 scoop ice-cream but none of us were following the lets put on two stone diet.
Now the interesting bit. Taking the footpath through a fairly quiet Chorley Golf Club, we nearly lost some of our more experienced walkers on exiting the car park who had got ahead of the leader (Mr Trust again!) I don't think the footpath down to Long Lane gets much usage : walking poles came into use to clear the brambles. we were soon on the western shore of Anglezarke Reservoir and thence onto "The Street" overlooking Upper Rivington Reservoir and along Horrobin Lane, retracing early steps of the Red Rose 100 and back to our cars.
Thanks to everyone who joined me and I hope the familiarity of much of the route didn't detract from their enjoyment.
For those who like to know such data, the walk was 18.3 miles (29.5km) and included 1733ft (528m) of ascent. You will have used in the region of 2,500 calories. Total time was 7hrs 17 minutes but actual moving time was 5hrs 56 minutes for an average speed of 19 mins 25 secs per mile (12mins 4 secs per km) or slightly faster than 3mph. I don't know how many calories our four-legged friends used but I believe they were all ready for a quiet evening.
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Wonderful Town and My Sister Eileen
Today marks the anniversary of the opening of the musical Wonderful Town, which premiered at the Winter Garden Theatre on February 25, 1953. The musical—by Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green—was one of many adaptations of Ruth McKenney's memoir, My Sister Eileen. The show focuses on the book's last two chapters, which take place during Ruth and Eileen McKenney's six months living at 14 Gay Street in Greenwich Village.
The McKenney sisters moved from Ohio to New York in the early 1930s. Eileen was a struggling actress; Ruth, a writer, eventually landed a job working for the New Yorker chronicling their lives. In 1938, those stories were collected into My Sister Eileen.
Though Wonderful Town is today the most famous adaptation of the book, the story has been produced many times on stage, screen, radio, and TV.
In 1940, a stage adaptation of My Sister Eileen by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov opened at the Biltmore and ran for 864 performances. By the time the play was set to open, Eileen had married novelist Nathaniel West and they'd moved to California, where she worked for Walt Disney. Four days before the Broadway debut, Eileen and West were killed in an automobile accident en route to the airport to fly to New York for the opening. Ruth went into mourning and never saw the play.
Two years later, Hollywood adapted the Fields/Chodorov play into a film with Rosalind Russell as Ruth and Janet Blair as Eileen. The movie was then adapted for CBS radio; in 1946, Russell and Blair reprised their roles for a half-hour radio play that served as a pilot for a regular series. However, instead of picking up the series, CBS instead began airing My Friend Irma—which seemed to be enough of a knock-off that Ruth McKenney ultimately received a settlement from the network.
This finally brings us to February 25, 1953, and Wonderful Town, which took the Fields/Chodorov play and set it to music.
Once again, Rosalind Russell played Ruth; in this incarnation, Edith Adams played Eileen. Interestingly, though the book is set in Ruth and Eileen's basement at 14 Gay Street and the original play in a "one-room Greenwich Village studio near Christopher Street," Wonderful Town moves the action to Christopher Street itself. The show's memorable opening number, Christopher Street, has a tour guide showing gawking out-of-towners around the Village. He shows them the "painters and pigeons" in Washington Square; Waverly Place (a "bit of 'Paree' in Greenwich Village"), and everything else that America's Left Bank was supposed to have ("Poets! Actors! Dancers! Writers!"). Bernstein, Green, and Comden—who had worked at the Village Vanguard as a group called the Revuers—clearly knew the scene they were parodying.
Wonderful Town won five Tonys in 1953, including Best Musical and a nod for Rosalind Russell's performance as Ruth. A 2003 revival also earned a number of Tony nominations, ultimately only winning best choreography.
There were two more notable adaptations of My Sister Eileen after the success of Wonderful Town. A new film version came out in 1955; it was a musical, too, but it wasn't the Broadway show. When the film rights to Wonderful Town proved too costly for Columbia Pictures, they simply hired Jule Styne and Leo Robin to write a new score. The film starred Janet Leigh, Jack Lemmon, and Bob Fosse. In response, Wonderful Town was then filmed for television and aired in 1958. (You can see an excerpt of Rosalind Russell performing Swing! here.)
Finally, in 1960, the original Ruth McKenney stories served as the basis for a television series called My Sister Eileen, which ran for one season with Elaine Stritch as Ruth.
Today, there's still a studio apartment in the basement of 14 Gay Street (between Waverly and Christopher); indeed very little on the street has changed in the 75 years since Ruth and Eileen called it home. If you are the area, take a stroll; who knows—maybe Poets! Actors! Dancers! or Writers! will suddenly appear and serenade you.
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Remember the Maine!
Today marks the anniversary of the sinking of the USS Maine, which went down in Havana harbor on February 15, 1898, and sparked the Spanish-American War. Though the war is less remembered today than perhaps it should be, it was very important to the United States territorially. By the end of the conflict, America had gained control of Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Guam, and had established a military presence on Cuba that remains to this day.
The war is also famous in New York for ratcheting up the so-called "yellow journalism" of Joseph Pulitzer's World and William Randolph Hearst's Journal American. Together, these two newspapers whipped up the reading public's frenzy for war and against Spanish imperialism. (Though not often quoted today, the full slogan of the war was "Remember the Maine! To Hell with Spain!")
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As Cuban citizens struggled for their independence from Spain, the U.S. sent the battleship Maine to Havana to patrol and protect American commercial interests. On the night of February 15, 1898, the Maine's forward ammunition magazines exploded and the ship sank. Two days later, Pulitzer's World asked: "Maine Explosion Caused by Bomb or Torpedo?" Hearst's Journal didn't bother to frame it as a question, merely stating that the "Destruction of the War Ship Maine Was the Work of an Enemy." (A hurried investigation by a U.S. Naval board of inquiry determined that the Maine had been felled by a Spanish mine; in truth, the cause of explosion will likely never be known, but may have been caused by a spontaneous explosion in the coal boiler.)
Two days later, Hearst upped the ante by announcing a "National Maine Monument Committee" to raise funds to commemorate the 258 men who'd died in the explosion. With the rallying cry "Remember the Maine!" on everyone's lips, the United States officially called on Spain to leave Cuba. A month later, Spain declared war on the United States.
The most famous example of yellow journalism is also probably apocryphal. As tensions in Cuba were mounting, Hearst sent artist Frederic Remington to create illustrations for the Journal. Bored at the lack of action, Remington is said to have telegraphed: "There is no trouble here. There will be no war. I wish to return." Hearst allegedly blasted back: "You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war." Though this story was reported as early as 1901, the telegrams in question no longer exist and many scholars believe the incident was created.
Hearst's "National Maine Monument Committee" took 15 years to do its work (even though the war only lasted four months), but in 1913, the Maine monument was unveiled at the Columbus Circle entrance to Central Park.
The figural group at the front of the statue (pictured above) is called The Antebellum State of Mind: Courage Awaiting the Flight of Peace and Fortitude Supporting the Feeble (we kid you not), and represents America preparing for war. Once upon a time, the young man on the prow of the ship would have clutched a sword; it was stolen years ago.
Around the back of the monument is The Post-Bellum Idea: Justice Receiving Back the Sword Entrusted to War (though, again, the sword is missing).
Atop the monument, covered in gold, is the goddess Columbia emerging triumphant from the sea. Underneath the gold leaf, the statue is made from the munitions from the USS Maine that were dredged from the bottom of Havana harbor.
If you are in the vicinity of Central Park today, stop by and pay tribute to the 258 young men who perished on the Maine 113 years ago today.
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Feb. 11, 1916: Emma Goldman's Arrest for Promoting Birth Control
One of the best-remembered--and least understood--figures from early 20th-century New York is Emma Goldman. Variously described as a Communist, an anarchist, a freedom fighter, and a criminal, Goldman was one of the leading activists of her time. On February 11, 1916, Goldman was arrested. This, in itself, was not news--Goldman was arrested frequently. But this time she was arrested for distributing "obscene, lewd, or lascivious articles." The subject? Birth control.
Goldman was born in Lithuania (then part of Russia) in 1869 and came to New York in 1885. She is perhaps best known for the plot by her friend and lover, Alexander Berkman, to assassinate industrialist Henry Clay Frick in 1892; Berkman hoped this act would cause the workers at Carnegie Steel to unite against their oppressive bosses. (Not only did Berkman fail to kill Frick, the Carnegie Steel workers leapt on Berkman, beating him senseless.) After Berkman's arrest and conviction, Goldman became a popular speaker, campaigning during the Panic of 1893 for workers' rights (she served ten months in prison for inciting a riot), founding the journal Mother Earth, and even standing up for the rights of Leon Czolgosz, President McKinley's assassin, who claimed to have been inspired by one of Goldman's speeches.
In 1914, Goldman met Margaret Sanger, who had just coined the term "birth control." During an earlier stint in prison, Goldman had begun studying nursing and midwifery and became convinced that one of the great scourges of a city like New York was unwanted pregnancy. Goldman argued that birth control would not only improve the health of women, it would empower them as well. She launched a cross-country speaking tour in 1915 and though she and Sanger parted ways in 1916 (the same year Sanger founded Planned Parenthood), Goldman continued lecturing on birth control.
What exactly sparked her arrest in New York on February 11, 1916, is unclear. She was held on a violation of the Comstock Law, which forbid the dissemination of information about birth control across state lines. The fine was $100, which Goldman could have paid; instead, she chose to serve out her two weeks sentence in the prison workhouse in order to spend time with those she felt had been dealt a raw deal by the government.
Goldman's birth control arrest was her penultimate run in with the law in New York City. By 1917, Alexander Berkman had been released from prison and had joined her in opposing World War I and the newly instituted draft. Both Berkman and Goldman were arrested for their draft opposition, convicted, and deported to Russia. Though initially supportive of the Bolsheviks, Goldman ultimately fled the new Soviet Union and lived in Canada, dying in Toronto in 1940.
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The Fate of Frederick MacMonnies's "Civic Virtue"
Yesterday, the Daily News—in a column titled "The Eyesore Next Door"—examined Frederick MacMonnies's Civic Virtue, which is slowly disintegrating in Kew Gardens, Queens. Though the article mentions that the work once graced City Hall Park in Manhattan, it didn't delve into the fascinating details of this work by one of New York's great Beaux-Arts sculptors.
Frederick MacMonnies (1863-1937) is best remembered today for his statue of Nathan Hale that still stands in City Hall Park,* but at the end of his own lifetime, he was better known for the controversy surrounding Civic Virtue, which essentially ruined his public career.
The statue's story begins in 1894 with the death of Angelina Crane, an eccentric, rich widow who lived in the Hotel Brunswick on Madison Square. In her will, Mrs. Crane left $5 to her daughter (who had treated her in "a most undutiful and unnatural manner"), a few thousand dollars to a handful of charities, and the bulk of the money—upward of $50,000—to the City of New York to erect a drinking fountain in her honor.
After a round of lawsuits, in which Mrs. Crane's daughter was unable to prove that her mother was insane, the city began the process of creating a statue to fulfill Mrs. Crane's bequest. In 1909, Mayor George "Max" McClellan hand-picked MacMonnies to create the sculpture. (MacMonnies had recently completed a statue of the mayor's father, Civil War General George B. McClellan, in Washington, DC.) It took MacMonnies five years to create the preliminary designs, which were for a massive work, 57-feet tall, which depicted Virtue (a large male figure) vanquishing Vice (a supine female). The Parks Commissioner and the city's Art Commission hemmed and hawed over the piece: it was too big; it didn't take advantage of its proposed location in City Hall Park; it was too architectural for MacMonnies to execute properly. The city told MacMonnies to go back to the drawing board and convinced him to allow architect Thomas Hastings to help him with the new plan. Somewhere along the way, the idea that this be a "drinking fountain" (as stipulated in Angelina Crane's bequest) seems to have been dropped.
In 1919, MacMonnies's revised (and much smaller) Civic Virtue was approved and the finished work was unveiled in 1922. In the new work, MacMonnies continued to represent Virtue as a club-wielding man, while Vice was now depicted as two female women being trampled beneath Virtue's feet. New Yorkers were immediately up in arms. Virtue was instantly nicknamed "The Rough Guy" in the press and women complained that MacMonnies was unfairly vilifying their sex. The statue stirred up so much public debate that the city held a public hearing on its propriety. At the hearing, Elizabeth King Black of the National Women's Party declared: "Men have their feet on women's necks, and the sooner women realize it the better!" Popular Mechanics reported the reactions of passersby: "It ain't art to have a guy stepping on a girl's neck that way"; "Huh, those women represent vice--the man doesn't. That's why the women are kicking about it."
MacMonnies didn't help himself by wading into the fray. "God Almighty made men strong and women beautiful," he told the New York Times. "The female form is used to suggest grace and beauty, being combined with the form of the sea-monster to to suggest treachery and guile....when we wish to symbolize something tempting we use the woman's form." MacMonnies also chided people for misreading the statue, pointing out that Virtue's feet stood on two rocks--not on the two women--and that if women didn't understand their own anatomy that wasn't really his fault.
Despite the bad press and poor public reception, there were no immediate plans to do anything about MacMonnies's work. However, by the early 1930s, the city's newly elected mayor, Fiorello La Guardia, and his Parks Commissioner, Robert Moses, had began to publically discuss moving the piece. In 1941, the statue was removed from its original basin (which was destroyed) and relocated to a spot near Queens Borough Hall, where it stands to this day. Though MacMonnies defended the work throughout his life, it was his last major public commission in New York and signaled the beginning of the end of his career.
For good pictures of Civic Virtue as it looks today, visit www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com. And if you are interested in the fate of the statue, there's a Facebook group, "Restore Civic Virtue."
* The Nathan Hale statue was put in the park to commemorate the spot
where he supposedly regretted having but one life to give for his country.
Historians now agree that Hale was hanged elsewhere.
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Macerich To Welcome Target As A New Tenant To Kings Plaza In Brooklyn
-Company Highlights Wide Range of Anchor Replacement Successes-
Published: Oct. 13, 2021 at 3:00 PM CDT|Updated: Nov. 2, 2021 at 5:00 AM CDT
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Nov. 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Macerich (NYSE: MAC), one of the nation's leading owners, operators and developers of one-of-a-kind retail and mixed-use properties in top markets, today announced it will welcome a new Target store as a new tenant to Kings Plaza in Brooklyn.
Kings Plaza, A Macerich Property
The three-level, 90,000 square-foot Target will open in the former JCPenney location at Kings Plaza, the largest enclosed retail shopping center in Brooklyn.
"We are exceptionally pleased to welcome a new Target to Kings Plaza, which is a dominant retail destination in this dynamic part of New York City," said Ed Coppola, President, Macerich. "Target is an incredibly productive and premier brand that is a terrific fit for local shoppers, who have made a strong return to in-person shopping. We believe the attractive demographics surrounding Kings Plaza make this property a match for all that Target has to offer."
New Tenant, Target, Adds to Anchor Replacement Successes Across Portfolio
The new Target at Kings Plaza adds to the slate of anchor replacements announced recently for Macerich's major East Coast properties. This includes Primark coming to Green Acres Mall on Long Island, Tysons Corner Center in Northern Virginia and Fashion District Philadelphia – all in former department store locations. New, multi-level Shoppers World department stores are now open at Green Acres Mall and Fashion District Philadelphia, both replacing former Century 21 department stores.
In the West, Macerich announced in May that Arizona's first Scheel's All Sports will take the location of the former Nordstrom department store at Chandler Fashion Center. The Company looks forward to sharing more exciting announcements as Macerich continues to densify and diversify its top-quality regional town centers.
About Macerich
Macerich is a fully integrated, self-managed and self-administered real estate investment trust (REIT), which focuses on the acquisition, leasing, management, development, and redevelopment of regional town centers throughout the United States.
Macerich currently owns 49 million square feet of real estate consisting primarily of interests in 45 regional town centers. Macerich specializes in successful retail properties in many of the country's most attractive, densely populated markets with significant presence on the West Coast and in Arizona, Chicago and the Metro New York to Washington, D.C. corridor. A recognized leader in sustainability, Macerich has achieved a #1 GRESB ranking for U.S. retail for seven straight years (2015 – 2021). Additional information about Macerich can be obtained from the Company's website at www.Macerich.com.
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Ark: Survival Evolved developer Studio Wildcard has unveiled Atlas. The new game is a pirate-themed mmo and can be found on Steam Early Access from Thursday 13 December. From next year, the game also comes to Xbox Game Preview.
Unlike Ark, Atlas becomes a third-person game. About the game is a fat fantasy sauce poured and according to the makers, up to 40,000 players can travel around the same globe at the same time. Just like Ark, it is important to enter into alliances with players, build forts, make ships and compete with other groups of players who do the same. What is new, however, is the possibility of giving fleets with ships commands in sea battles. It seems that these ships are then manned by non-player characters , but that is not entirely clear.
According to Eurogamer, Atlas was accidentally unveiled a while ago when the studio put a trailer online. That was soon put black again and the studio kept the lips tightly together, until last Friday.
The game is being developed in real life by Grapeshot Games, a new studio set up by the Ark makers. This is partly made up of employees who have worked on Ark and the creative directors and founders of Studio Wildcard are simultaneously working on Ark and Atlas.
The previous known game from the studio, Ark: Survival Evolved , also started as an Early Access game, in 2015. There, the game continued until the release on August 29 of 2017. Ark still gets new content in the form of dlc.
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Everything works fine when I run the program from debug.  But when I publish it and try to run it (on the same machine or any other machine) I get the error "could not load file or assembly 'accord.video.ffmpeg.x64.dll' or one of its dependencies."
Thank you for any help you can provide.

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Moga MLA appears before the court in pending case
Moga MLA Joginderpal Jain Friday appeared before the court of judicial magistrate Faridkot in the pending case registered against him under Punjab Apartment and Property Regulation Act in 2007 by Mehna police. The next date of hearing will be on April 5.
punjab Updated: Mar 23, 2013 00:40 IST
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Jain had been reportedly absent from the court for the past about five hearings. On last date of hearing, the court had given him exemption from the personal appearance as the assembly session was going on.
The court had issued arrest warrants for his family members including his wife Swarnlata Jain, daughter Rohini Jain and sons Akshit Jain and Puneet Jain after they failed to appear before the court on subsequent hearings on March 14, but Jain got the exemption on his request.
The other four members of his family also filed the bail applications on March 17 in the court of additional district and sessions judge Faridkot after the issuance of the arrest warrants against them which are likely to be taken up on March 23.
First Published: Mar 23, 2013 00:38 IST
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I'm not a lacrosse player but the lacrosse (lax) ball has become my new constant companion. Whether traveling on trips or just shuttling to training locations, you will always find one buried with my gear. The lax ball is the perfect size and hardness for becoming your own SMR (Self Myofasical Release) tool. It can help you roll out sore and tired muscles. It can get into places a foam roller can't quiet hit. And unlike a tennis ball, it does not squish under pressure and is firm enough to hit trigger points.
I'm known to stop drop and roll in-between clients, while watching tv and even the airport. Execution is simple. All you need is a wall or floor. When using a wall, placement might be difficult depending on your target area. Try putting the ball in a stocking. This will allow you to dangle it in hard to reach spots like your back and shoulder. If you place the ball in a bag and freeze it over night, you can ice and roll at the same time. The best thing about a lax ball as a portable SMR tool is…. it cost only about $5.
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Jul 17, 2016 · Zizek: Democratic capitalism is in crisis and we are slowly approaching an alternative -- what is poetically called "capitalism with Asian values," which has nothing to do with Asia but is a more authoritarian one. And again, it's not just China or Singapore -- it's Russia, it's Turkey. Jan 04, 2018 · Why is it that Zizek and Agamben, when discussing the (im)possibility of 'a radical social transformation' in the existent state of things, suddenly resort to the most starry-eyed, mystified religious metaphors—Agamben's 'messianic event,' Zizek's 'thief in the night'—which make it appear (pace Marx!) as if 'radical social change' were some crypto-mystical, supernatural ... Capitalism, as we know it, is reaching its limits. We need large regulatory structures to deal with global warming, desertification, refugees, biogenetics, and these structures can not be States. We have to think of some species of public bureaucratic bodies in which there would be experts on all these issues that are of great importance to the ... Zizek is right that one danger of capitalism is it can reinforce environmental degradation, the commodification of things which should not be commodified, and the economic conditions that stop societies from being less backward. Hasil pencarian: zizek conscious capitalism. Softgaleri adalah blog yang berbagi informasi , aplikasi dan administrasi guru yang mana file berikut ini adalah kumpulan dari berbagi sumber tentang zizek conscious capitalism yang bisa bapak/ibu gunakan dan diunduh secara gratis dengan menekan tombol download biru dibawah ini. Slavoj Zizek, Slovene philosopher and cultural theorist whose works addressed themes in psychoanalysis, politics, and popular culture. The broad compass of his theorizing, his deliberately provocative style, and his tendency to leaven his works with humor made him a popular figure in the Western intellectual left.
Slavoj Zizek, Slovene philosopher and cultural theorist whose works addressed themes in psychoanalysis, politics, and popular culture. The broad compass of his theorizing, his deliberately provocative style, and his tendency to leaven his works with humor made him a popular figure in the Western intellectual left. Zizek and the communist horizon. Communism is not an eternal set of rules, but a movement that "has to be reinvented in each new historical situation".
Slovenian Philosopher Slavoj Zizek on Capitalism, Healthcare, Latin American "Populism" and the "Farcical" Financial Crisis ... Democracy Now! is a 501(c)3 non-profit news organization. We ... Sep 27, 2012 · The book begins with Zizek's general presentation of a capitalism marked by "the long-term trend of shifting from profits to rents", "the much stronger structural role of unemployment" and the rise of a ruling class defined more by high salaries than direct capital income. So while capitalism certainly is a set of features which are trans-cultural, functioning in different societies, they nonetheless function within each society as a particular sub-system which is integrated into an each time specific over-determined articulation, i.e., texture of social-symbolic relations. Slavoj Zizek: The Problem Is Capitalism. The problem facing humanity today — especially those taking to the streets in protest — is an economic system that encourages and rewards greed, says the Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. And leaders who tell us to look elsewhere are merely creating distractions. The success of revolutionary policies depends on successfully connecting them with the needs of the working class, of using them as a lever to make conscious the task at hand: the overthrow of capitalism. For Zizek, however, the overthrow of capitalism is something for the long distant future. For him it is still early days for any such attempts.


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Documents leaked by Edward Snowden show how the NSA is harnessing the power of metadata.
According the Washington Post, citing documents leaked by Edward Snowden, the NSA is fully capable of capturing GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) traffic that's encrypted with the A5/1 algorithm. In addition, the agency's mobile traffic analysis is used to infer relationships, by harnessing metadata collected from cell towers and data delivered to mobile advertising networks.
Last week, the Washington Post reported that the NSA is collecting cellular location in bulk, to the order of 5 billion records per day globally. On Tuesday, the paper reported that in addition to bulk collections, the intelligence agency uses a collection of data sorting tools to separate the bits of collected metadata and turn them into actionable information. The process, as described by the report, outlines the exact fears that privacy watchdogs and government critics had when the NSA's metadata collection programs were exposed earlier this summer.
In addition to using cellular tower data to pinpoint a person's location, the NSA also uses WiFi and GPS information to locate subjects, as those signals "reveal their location in a variety of ways including leaked location information from their IP address, mobile apps and built-in location based services," the Post explained.
Moreover, as part of a project called HAPPYFOOT, the NSA also intercepts traffic generated by mobile applications that relay location information to advertising networks. All of this intercepted data, and collected metadata, is then sorted and used to infer relationships between people or identify persons of interest.
The NSA's use of advertising networks is interesting, because the FTC just reached a settlement with a flashlight application developer for collecting and transmitting consumer information, including location data, to advertising networks without permission. This settlement was important to privacy advocates, because they've long warned the public that mobile advertising platforms were privacy and legal risk.
For example, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse warned against the privacy risks of smartphones as far back as 2005. At the time, they noted that the data collected by smartphones and transmitted to carriers (metadata), could not only pose privacy risks, but pose a conflict within federal privacy laws, which rarely keep pace with technology.
In 2011, software security vendor Veracode examined the Pandora mobile app, and discovered no less than five advertising libraries being used by the application. Pandora later removed the libraries, but one of them was Google's AdMob, a company purchased by the search giant in 2010.
Among the various personal bits of information being collected by AdMob, Veracode discovered that it was also attempting to gather COARSE and FINE location data. In addition to WiFi and GPS, the NSA also collects metadata related to COARSE and FINE to locate people using the HAPPYFOOT program.
"So what does this mean to the end user? It means your personal information is being transmitted to advertising agencies in mass quantities..."
"In isolation some of this data is uninteresting, but when compiled into a single unifying picture, it can provide significant insight into a person's life...When all that is placed into a single basket, it's pretty easy to determine who someone is, what they do for a living, who they associate with, and any number of other traits about them."
Again, Shields was speaking about the same type of data collection and relationship inference being conducted by the NSA, years before proof of such collection and relationship mapping existed. Since 2011, the amount of data transmitted online and collected by advertisers and data brokers has only grown.
So given the latest information on the topic, it seems as if the NSA took advantage of the situation. If the advertisers were collecting the data anyway, the NSA simply needed to use the existing legal framework on interception and collection to gain access to it.
When it comes to intercepts, the Washington Post story also includes a document that shows the NSA can collect A5/1 GSM traffic that is unencrypted, encrypted when the crypto variable is known, and when the crypto variable is unknown. Thus, if the GSM traffic is using A5/1, the NSA can bypass the encryption completely and process it with no problem.
The notion that the NSA can bypass A5/1 isn't a surprise. In fact, plenty of lawful interception vendors sell hardware that can decrypt A5/1 GSM traffic. The security that is offered by A5/1 has been exploitable years, and academic knowledge that it was vulnerable has existed for decades. But between 2003-09 researchers started taking a hard look at it, and working on ways to develop a more practical attack. So, assuming they're not using existing vendor technology, then the NSA has perfected the process.
To replace A5/1 and address security concerns, A5/3 was developed, offering a stronger 128-bit encryption. But in 2010, researchers showed that it too could be broken. Still, A5/3 is a better alternative to A5/1, and while adoption of the new algorithm is spreading, there are many carriers still using A5/1 in Europe and Asia. Leaving those using the older system exposed to bulk collections of metadata.
On Tuesday, as news of the NSA's mobile analysis operations broke, Deutsche Telekom announced that they were the first operator in Germany to move away from A5/1 and adopt A5/3. However, due to the number of older phones in use that do not support A5/3, the mobile operator said that calls to those devices will still work, but that they would revert to the older standard.
The Washington Post's story serves as a strong reminder that we live in a data-driven world, and that true privacy is a rare thing. Advertisers buy and sell the data that creates our online existence, and sometimes this information is collected without the average consumer's knowledge or informed consent. However, even for those of us who go to great lengths to protect our privacy, the Post's report shows that the odds are good that something somewhere is collected, and the NSA has a copy.


Download ella y yo aventura y don omar zippy. We would like to show you a description here but the site won' t allow us. Enter a word ( two) above you' ll get back a bunch of portmanteaux created by jamming together words that are conceptually related to your inputs. We would like to show you a description here but the site won' t allow us. Port Manteaux churns out silly new words when you feed it an idea or two. Feelgood - David Hasselhoff - Fredi - Isto Hiltunen - Nina Hagen - Nits - Trio Töykeät - Tom Jones - Elvis - Sheena Easton - Nat King Cole. For example ICT) est une expression, communication technologies, des multimédias, principalement utilisée dans le monde universitaire, de l' audiovisuel, you' ll nologies de l' information et de la communication ( TIC : transcription de l' anglais information , c' est- à- dire les techniques de l' informatique, enter " giraffe" , pour désigner le domaine de la télématique d' Internet et des télécommunications qui pa Rantsila - Lassi - Ilona - Nick Lowe - Eino Valtanen - Essi Wuorela - Lauluyhtye Rajaton - O- zone - Escobar - Renegades - Ella ja Aleksi - Sir Elwoodin Hiljaiset Värit - Il Divo - Värttinä - Äimä - Method Man - Air - Robin Williams - Mud - Dr.
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The discography of Don Omar, a Puerto Rican Reggaeton singer, consists of three studio albums, two live albums, three re- release albums, five compilation albums, thirty- six singles ( including singles from studio, live, compilation albums and collaborations), four video albums and twenty- seven music videos. On, Don Omar released his debut album The Last Don including the singles " Dale Don. William Omar Landrón Rivera, better known by his stage name Don Omar, is a Puerto Rican reggaeton singer and actor.
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Sphinx International Airport  is a public airport, serving the city of Giza, on the western side of Cairo, Egypt.

History
In October 2017, it was announced that the airport will be open to commercial flights in summer 2018 and is set to start experimental operations in October 2018.

In January 2019 EgyptAir Express launched test flights to Hurghada, Sharm El Sheikh, Luxor and Aswan.

On 1 January 2020, the airport received its first international flight from Jordan, operated by Fly Jordan. On 2 November 2022, scheduled flights from Sharm El Sheikh to Sphinx airport started. The airport is operational but still undergoing final fit.

Facilities
The airport is adjacent to and shares some infrastructure with the Cairo West Air Base. It is located on the Cairo-Alexandria desert road. The main runway (16R/34L) is  west of the Cairo West runway complex. The aircraft parking ramp and terminal facilities are on the west side of the runway. The Cairo West TACAN (Ident: BLA) is located on the field. The Cairo VOR-DME (Ident: CVO) is located  east of the airport.

In December 2020, it was reported the airport was being expanded to increase the total area from , helping to provide a capacity of 900 passengers per hour instead of 300. This is to accommodate an increase in passenger traffic expected as a result of the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum. The airport building is expected to include a travel hall with an area of , an arrival hall of 7,000 square meters, a food and beverage area of 1,000 square meters, duty-free shops, passport offices, an X-ray area and 28 check-in counters. This is in addition to a banking and quarantine area, a baggage claim area, eight passport counters, eight escalators, and a cooling plant with a capacity of 1,440 tons of refrigeration.

Airlines and destinations
The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Giza Sphinx Airport:

See also
 List of airports in Egypt
 Transport in Egypt
 Cairo International Airport
 Capital International Airport
 New Administrative Capital of Egypt

References

External links
 Great Circle Mapper – Cairo West AB
 OpenStreetMap – Sphinx Int'l

Airports in Egypt
Transport in Egypt

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All the spaces designated for member-group activity, all the spaces but one, or none of the spaces may have a staff consultant present during the time periods set aside for the intergroup event. Staff consultants are not usually assigned to members' spaces during the institutional event. In all cases, consultants' verbal work with member groups is task-focused, brief, and occasionally time-limited. The presence or absence of staff consultants in the member spaces determines the type of intergroup event presented.
In a Type 1 format, the staff consultant remains in the space throughout the event; in a Type 2 format, staff consultants are dispatched to members' spaces only when members appropriately request task-related consultation (Astrachan & Flynn, 1976). In a modified Type 1/2 format, consultants are present in members' spaces only during the first session of the intergroup event; thereafter, they are available, usually in alphabetical order, upon appropriate request.
If consultants are not assigned to all spaces, members exercising the option of asking for a staff consultant's services channel their requests to the entire staff met together or, in the Type 2 format, directly to the staff consultants, met apart from the management or directorate [i.e., the director, associate director(s), and administrator(s)] of the conference.
A senior consultant may be designated by the director to work in a space set aside for meetings between two or more groups or their authorized representatives. This intergroup consultant may remain in the space designated for such intergroup meetings and consult to all such meetings. More often, however, the intergroup consultant is present at meetings between two or more groups only when the groups have made an appropriate request for staf consultation to task-pertinent work. Except for Type 1 intergroup events, member groups are free to meet without staff consultation, if they so desire.
A staff member may be assigned by the director to act as supervising boundary consultant. When member emissaries approach the staff room's physical boundary, seeking face-to-face verbal interaction with the director or staff collective, the supervising boundary consultant's task is either to oversee the staff boundary manager's negotiations with them or to be solely responsible for decisions regarding their admission to staff's space. The individual staff consultant's expertise is utilized in his or her decision about whether the members' request, objective, and motivation are appropriate and legitimate.
During the intergroup event, members may or may not have access to observation or face-to-face verbal negotiations with the staff group. During the institutional event, such access is routine. If the staff performs its managerial functions publicly, member-group interactions with the staff, through the employment of authorized representatives, are customarily encouraged. The four or more time periods usually set aside for the event may be scheduled consecutively or may be spread over one or more days. The event may conclude with or without a plenary review.
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Former Thomas Dale standout Andrew White recorded a double-double on Tuesday night with 23 points and 10 rebounds as Miller School beat visiting Benedictine.
The Mavericks were 13 for 16 from the free-throw line in the fourth quarter and avenged their earlier-season loss to Benedictine, the area's top-ranked team, in the Benedictine Capital City Classic Championship game.
Mike Gbinije, also a Chester native who will play at Duke, led the Cadets with 18 points while Eric Moody and Trey Davis had 16 points apiece. With the win, the Mavericks improved to 9-7 while the Cadets fell to 16-3.
BENEDICTINE (16-3) - Moody 16, Wilson 2, Fleming 0, Davis 16, George 2, Gbinjie 18, Burgess 11, Burnett 4, Williams 0. Totals 25 13-23 69. 3-point goals --Moody 4, Davis 2.
MILLER (9-7) - Jenkins 25, Hester 0, Anderson 9, Cannon 8, Gmu 5, Bolden 2, White 23. Totals 22 22-27 72. 3-point goals -- Jenkins 2, Cannon 2, Anderson, White.


Leonard Hall | Housing & Residence Life | American University, Washington, D.C.
Leonard Hall. Photo courtesy of Christine Chong.
Leonard Hall is home to a diverse population of students, housing approximately 275 residents. Different communities are housed in Leonard, such as Washington Mentorship Program, AU Gap Program, Washington Semester Program, Delaware in D.C., International Accelerator Program, transfer students, and more!
The building has a traditional residence hall design with corridor-style rooms and shared floor bathrooms. Each floor community has a central lounge space with a kitchen, lounge furniture, and television for students to study or socialize with their community. A student computer lab on the first floor supports Internet and printing needs. Each floor also has a laundry room. The Cassell Fitness Center, open to all AU students, is across the street. Leonard overlooks the Woods Brown Amphitheatre, a peaceful and eventful green space for the AU community. Leonard is also home to The Hatch, a community space that provides many opportunities for social and educational events and programs.
In-hall staff include Resident Assistants (RAs) and a Community Director (CD). Leonard's seven RAs live in the building, acting as peer educators and helping residents connect to their community. The Leonard community has one CD, a professional, live-in staff member who works with RAs to foster a living-learning environment to bridge the academic and residential experience.
Interested in getting involved in event planning and making a difference in your community? Get in touch with the Leonard Hall Council by contacting the Leonard Hall Community Director.
Room sizes and dimensions provided are approximate. Layouts or room configurations may vary due to the uniqueness of all residence hall accommodations.
Leonard is small enough that it feels homey but large enough to meet plenty of people. To me and many others who live here, it is the best hall by far.
In addition to your RA, you're always welcome to reach out to your community director, a full-time student affairs professional.
Get involved in your Residence Hall Association or Hall Council.
Check out the history plaque in the front lobby!


Speaking of science fiction, Wendell Wagner belongs to a book club called Knossos, loosely affiliated with the Mythopoeic Society, which is interested in fantasy, particularly the works of the "Inklings" (J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, etc.). The members read a lot of fantasy and sci-fi, from ancient epics to graphic novels. That's not all they do.
A book club that watches TV shows? Now that's a movement I could get behind.
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Coco, Pixar's touching movie on human ambitions and values
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"Never underestimate the power of music"
Pixar has never been a kind of production oriented to kids. Ever since it was born, as a spin-off project different from anything else around, Pixar was always able to make movies that children could adore, but appreciated also in a mature and reflective sense by the adult audience. If there is a movie, however, that can be considered as a vision oriented to spectators able to observe the uplifting implications, that is Coco. No robots, monsters, machines or dinosaurs, which, as far as they can be enriched by an important emotional element, still remain close to the typical childish imaginary. The latest Pixar movie is different: the story of a kid, with his dreams and the determination to realize them, in a family context which is compact but characterized by the total ban of music, the breaking element that causes Miguel separation, the dream to be an artist forcing him to move away from the family, albeit temporarily.
From there starts the articulated story, which will see Miguel crossing the boundary between the world of the living and the kingdom of the dead, trying to earn the blessing of the family and go back, passing through different plot twists. And above all, through a long series of particularly moving moments. Obviously for an adult audience, able to feel connected to topics like death, the memory as a mean to maintain and celebrate the bond with our own descent, the respect for family values even when it means sacrificing our dreams, the sense of responsibility in turning our ambitions into something achievable.
Nothing that can sound incomprehensible to children, of course, but the deepest contents of the movie are not always easily recognizable for a young audience. Nevertheless, Coco is a perfect family movie, where the kids can identify themselves in the protagonist and in the pleasure of travelling through different dimensions, gaining the attention of everyone and discovering the surprises that his own family identity reserves. Meanwhile, parents will be silently moved by the story, on a movie that is different from the any other Pixar film seen so far, even though it reuses those perfect mechanisms that touch the emotional chords of the spectators, while managing to snatch an educational smile here and there. It is not simply a film for everybody: It is a movie that can teach something to each of us.
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Travel newsThis Greek island will be…
This Greek island will be the first in the Mediterranean to run solely on wind and solar power
A Greek island is poised to become the first in the Mediterranean to run on wind and solar power alone and there is hope that eco-conscious travellers will take note.
Tilos in Greece is an eco-friendly island. Image by Kypros/Getty Images
Tilos is a small island in the Dodecanese, between Kos and Rhodes. The secluded island is away from the usual tourist crowds of Greece and the incredible natural environment is protected.
Now, it's soon to become the first island in the Mediterranean to be powered entirely by wind and solar energy. Currently, the island receives its electricity from the island of Kos through an undersea cable.
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The "TILOS project", which is funded by the European Commission, will install a wind turbine and solar panels around the island. There are also plans to create a battery to store any excess energy that will be produced as part of the pilot project. If the plan works, the island could be self-sufficient when it comes to power, and even sell the excess to its neighbouring islands.
The project has already received interest and acclaim, recently earning two EU Sustainable Energy Awards. If the project succeeds, it could be replicated on other islands.
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There's also hope that the project will pique the interest of travellers who could be lured to the remote island. Tilos is known for its incredible biodiversity and is popular with birdwatchers and hikers. If you're looking for something more mellow, it can also be a stop for those island-hopping in the Dodecanese, as there are beaches that are very secluded, to the point that free camping and nudism are popular.
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The island is also known for Mikro Horio, a 15th– century village that has been abandoned. Visitors can walk through the ghost town and admire the still-standing buildings and domed church.
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SF 2353 confirms Iowa Code to the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014 (WIOA). The bill adds definitions; makes changes to the conflict of interest policy for State Workforce Board members; updates the political and gender balance of the State Board; and requires electronic posting of certain State Board information.
The bill makes changes to the membership of the local workforce boards; requires a majority of members representing business; makes the Chief Elected Officials responsible for appointees to the local boards, instead of the Governor; provides a list of functions to be carried out by local workforce boards; and makes changes to the political and gender balance of local boards.
As amended by the House, the bill makes the Iowa Department of Education the lead agency collaborating with Iowa Workforce Development on industry and sector partnerships.


The move could mean people watch copy-protected premium video in a single browser rather than with dozens of video apps. For now though, Adobe's HTML video approach only works with Firefox.
One man's social battle against the Subway sandwich Twitter account, an app that overtakes your ears, a toilet-sharing service called AirPnp, and Kuerig announces DRM instant coffee.
Take a look at our roundup of the finest ebook readers on the market, across a range of prices.
Kobo has done a nice job with the design of its $149.99 Kobo Aura e-reader, but the display quality and built-in light don't quite measure up to the Kindle competition.
From the PS4 to the (presumed) iPhone 5S, here are the most anticipated gadgets of the year.
Tune into this episode to hear how you can win $404 in our Comic-Con 2013 SuperWeakness contest! Today's rundown also includes a discussion of Jay-Z's business strategies, the real wealth of popular hip hop artists, and a creepy smartphone app that lets you see what you'd look like with plastic surgery.
The third-largest comics publisher after Marvel and DC, Image Comics decides that it's time to ditch digital rights management on its books.
As we look forward to the upcoming 4th of July weekend, we'd like to offer a piece of advice to our listeners: if you own a gun, don't shoot it in the air. Not just out of respect for your neighbors, but also because the police are using new technology to pinpoint the source.
Justin's back in the studio and brings a Mexican food report from the beaches of Southern California. We'll also peek at the toys making headlines at Comic-Con 2013 and discuss Microsoft's Xbox One reversal.
Microsoft's backpedaling on DRM restrictions for its upcoming Xbox One is not the first reversal from a tech giant. Here are 12 others.
CNET editors offer various and sundry opinions on what to expect at this year's E3 gaming show.


Later, he was invited to Chicago to help minister the emerging black Catholic community. He served as a minister at Saint Augustine's, which would later become Saint Monica Parish, located in the Nottingham neighborhood of Chicago. His remaining years there were spent ministering to the poor, caring for the sick and hungry and working tirelessly to raise funds for the community.
Tolton's reputation earned him the opportunity to preach from many pulpits and podiums where he could share his faith. He addressed the First Catholic Colored Congress in Washington, D.C. in 1889.
He died in 1897 at the age of 43 from complications of a heatstroke while returning home from a pastoral retreat.
In 2010, Tolton was nominated for sainthood by the late Cardinal Francis George of Chicago. A formal report documenting his life was submitted to the Vatican in 2014 and is awaiting a ruling from the Congregation for the Causes of Saints.