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Summer Movies
Posted byKelly Jensen August 21, 2014 October 7, 2014 Posted inMovies, ReviewsTags:22 jump street, captain America: the winter soldier, Dawn of the planet of the apes, edge of tomorrow, guardians of the galaxy, into the storm, marvel, movie reviews, movies, summer movies, the maze runner, x-men: days of future past
This summer has been the busiest in years, so I haven't been to the movies as often as I would like. After hearing friends' reviews of some films on my list, that might not be a bad thing. But, summer is the season for the sort of movie I like: Big, noisy and colourful. Summer movies are exciting.
As always, the summer season tried to start in April with Captain America: The Winter Soldier. I enjoyed The Winter Soldier, but I found it a little…dark. The way it tied in to the end of the Marvel Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. television season was pretty awesome, and I suppose one can say that that show probed some very dark and disturbing themes. However, the television show managed a better balance, in my opinion, between the unsettling and the amusing. I'd have liked more moments of startling and offbeat humour in The Winter Soldier. Just a few. Still, the story was compelling and the effects were, as always, utterly superb. There is no question that I'll be lining up for the next movie.
In May I went to see X-Men: Days of Future Past. This is a movie I really needed to see. I adored First Class and was eager to explore more of the back story between Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr. Part of my appreciation was due to the actors chosen for the younger Professor X and Magneto. The chance to see James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Sir Patrick Steward and Sir Ian McKellen in the one film? Catnip. I could not resist. What did I think of the movie? Well… It was okay. Better than okay? But it didn't blow my mind. In fact, if not for the superb performances of all involved, I might not have been as entertained. But I am satisfied. And done. For me, Days of Future Past wrapped up loose ends and finished the story. I don't feel as if I need to see another X-Men movie. Obviously I will front up for the next one, however.
I heard there was another Transformers movie out in June. I skipped it. 😉
What I did go to see was Edge of Tomorrow. I loved this movie. Given that it had a science fiction apocalyptic theme and starred Tom Cruise, I was always going to go see this movie. Emily Blunt knocked my socks off and the rest of the cast definitely came to the party. The story was fairly simple and the affects were awesome. What I loved most, however, was the character of Cage. All too often our reluctant heroes hide wide altruistic streaks. They're GOOD people just waiting for their chance to shine. Cage was an asshole and a coward, and without Rita to pull the trigger, repeatedly, he might never have amounted to anything. I really enjoyed his evolution and journey.
In July I finally got to see 22 Jump Street. We have a small theatre and often a movie disappears before I can find time to see it. 22 Jump Street isn't the sort of film you carry high expectations for. You know it's going to be silly, and that the plot will barely hang together. But I did hope it would be just as fun as the first and I also hoped that it wouldn't go too far, take what worked in the first and turn it up or inside out (like Transformers…). Well, they didn't mess with the formula. The second movie worked on all the same levels as the first, even while building on some in jokes. And it was funny, and kinda heart-warming. The posters for imagined sequels shown at the end were hilarious. Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill make a great comic duo.
In August, I made time for three movies and saw them all in one week. My WEEK OF SUMMER MOVIES. There were three I really wanted to see before my tiny theatre did away with them.
First up was Guardians of the Galaxy. Want to know a secret? When I first saw the preview for this movie, I thought it looked silly. It looked like a pretend super hero film. A B-Grade project. Yes, I'm hanging my head in shame. First of all, I didn't realise it was a MARVEL project until shortly before release when EVERYONE began tweeting about it. When the reviews started rolling in, with plenty of my forty-something friends saying they enjoyed it, I decided to give it a look see. Well, it was fun. Silly, as expected, but also very entertaining. I loved the characters and the cast. The story was just involved enough to support the action and, with the comic book origin, I was happy to forgive the holes in logic. I'll definitely go to see a sequel, particularly if they revive Groot in time! (Also, who knew Chris Pratt was so ripped?) (Also, also, the music was fun.)
Next, I took myself to see Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. No one else in my family wanted to see it. When I turned up at the theatre, I had it to myself. I chose the middle seat in the middle row and settled in for my private feature. I've been a fan of Planet of the Apes since the 1968 film. I saw it as a kid and it BLEW MY MIND. That scene where Charlton Heston finds the half submerged Statue of Liberty? One of those movie moments I will always remember. Not all the films have been, well, amazing, but I have enjoyed them all because they build on a story, a mythos, that I love. This latest entry, which details the origin of the war between the humans and the apes, was wonderful. The story isn't unexpected. When you're making a movie that sits between a prequel and all that's to come, it's hard to include surprise. Instead, Caesar's character is developed and through him, we see a reflection of the struggle at hand and to come. Besides that, the effects are just stunning. I believed the apes were real. The facial expressions, the eyes… So, so good. Also, I cried several times, which is always my mark of a very good movie.
Into the Storm. How did I not know Richard Armitage was in this film? I recognised his nose about ten seconds into his first scene. His dodgy American accent confirmed it. I'm not overly familiar with him, but wouldn't have imagined he'd do a disaster movie. I always picture him in historical or fantasy settings. All dwarven and stuff. Anyway, Into the Storm was an amazing thrill ride! At the end of the film, I had to pull my fingers from the plastic armrests and convince my legs to work. I think my daughter left a bruise on my arm and she complained her tummy hurt. I know, I'm a terrible mother. (She wanted to see it!). I felt like I'd been on a rollercoaster ride. I also really enjoyed the unexpected humour and there were some awesomely gruesome deaths—and one kinda cool one. (So, I might be a terrible person, too, but I didn't make the movie!) All in all, this movie exceeded my expectations, which is always a pleasant surprise.
Finally, we have the movie I plan to see next. Just as April is nowhere near summer, September is definitely fall. Especially in Pennsylvania where the leaves seem to turn on the first day of the school year. Releasing in September is The Maze Runner. This film looks pretty cool. I'm a fan of Dylan O'Brien (Teen Wolf) and so excited to see him on the big screen. Also, it looks apocalyptic. Or dystopian—which is basically every Young Adult feature for the last ten years. Should we be worried about our kids? I don't know a lot about the story, but the trailer had a very Lord of the Flies vibe to it, and lots of neat looking special effects. Also: maze. Anyone remember Cube? Man, that movie was SCARY. And bloody. I think Cube ruined mazes for me forever—and made me a sucker for a whole new genre of thriller.
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You really, really didn't miss anything by skipping out on Transformers. You know, sometimes in summer movies, it doesn't hit you until you leave the theatre how inane the movie was. It sort of sinks in once the reverberations of the explosions fade away and you start to think again. Yeah, not so for Transformers 4. I was really glad we saw it at a drive-in because Hubby and I were talking back to the movie through the whole thing. "You didn't just…oh my god they did. And what the hell? 'My face is my warrant'?? Someone actually wrote that line of dialogue, are you kidding me?"
My kids still occasionally come out with a random comment about how bad that movie was. And how long.
I loved the first one, not so much the second. By the third, I wondered who kept giving them license to continue. Thing is, the trailers always look SO GOOD.


When you're hard at work and you get into that highly productive "zone," it might feel like nothing can stop you. However, scientists have shown that junk food can snap you right out of focus – even if you only see it subliminally.
In the study, which was carried out by scientists at Johns Hopkins University, people were asked to work on a complex computer task that had nothing to do with food. They were instructed to find the answers as quickly as they could, classifying symbols into categories.
While they worked on the task, photos were flashed in the screen's periphery for a mere 125 milliseconds, which is considered too fast for them to fully realize what they saw. They were shown a mix of pictures that included healthy foods; foods high in fat and calories; and non-food items like footballs, lava lamps, thumbtacks and bikes.
While all of these pictures distracted participants from the task, foods like candy, chocolate cake, hot dogs, potato chips, cheese and donuts were twice as distracting as the non-food pictures and those of healthy foods like salad, apples and carrots. Moreover, they discovered it's not food in general that is distracting as the healthy foods were no more distracting to participants than the non-food items.
Afterward, they recreated the experiment but threw in a twist: A new group of participants ate two fun-sized candy bars before carrying out the same computer task. Interestingly, the participants who ate the candy beforehand did not find the high-calorie, high-fat food pictures to be any more distracting than those of healthy food and non-food pictures.
Now, the scientists would like to find out if eating less chocolate prior to the test or consuming other types of snacks would lead to the same effect. For example, they'd like to see how eating an apple ahead of the task would change distraction levels. They'd also like to investigate whether offering the participants money to perform the task quickly would prevent them from getting distracted to discern just how strong the pull of junk food is.
According to lead author Corbin A. Cunningham, this finding supports the old adage about not going grocery shopping when you're hungry as the highly distracting nature of unhealthy foods could lead you to make unwise decisions. He said that even when food is irrelevant and people are trying to concentrate, junk food has a tremendous ability to sneak in and steal our attention, unless we've just eaten some of it!
What gives junk food the power to distract us?
In explaining the phenomenon, Cunningham said that one of the reasons that junk food appears more tempting than healthier options is the biological desire to eat energy-dense foods because they tend to taste better. He also believes there could be a little bit of "wanting what you can't have" at play.
"While it is hard to tell, I think some of the rewarding nature of high calorie foods might be that we know we should only occasionally indulge in them. Thus, they become more 'rewarding' than foods that we could eat as much as we want," Cunningham said. Their findings were published in the Psychonomic Bulletin and Review.
The more we can learn about what drives people to eat junk food, the better off we'll be as a recent study published by Lancet found that a fifth of all deaths around the world are caused by junk food, processed food, and otherwise toxic or harmful food, making it just as dangerous as smoking.


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Creative Design: Get To Know The Homes Of The Most Famous Artists
Creative Design is always what we're looking for, and by doing that we intend to pass that information and knowledge to you!
Sam Lubell is the writer behind the "Life Meets Art: Inside the Homes of the World's Most Creative People" book. This is his latest work that investigates the personal and intimate spaces of 250 celebrated artists. Besides artists, we'll find designers, musicians, and writers of the last six centuries.
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According to Sam Lubell, the research and selection of all of these artists were like a treasure. "Once we finalized our list, I became so ensconced in these homes that I felt like I was somewhere else. Often I spent hours communing with their art or listening to their music,". It was like a travel through time!
In the first image, we can find Jean Cocteau's home in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrate in France. The most curious detail about this living room is the painted walls, a unique painting by Jean Cocteau himself.
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In addition to this list, one of the three house museums that were dedicated to Pablo Neruda. "Isla Negra". A unique interior design, full of art!
Sam Lubell says that "There's this phenomenal feedback loop between a creative person and their living space,"; Their experience inspires their art, which inspires their home, which inspires their art, which inspires their experience, and so on and so on."
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Alexander McQueen was the interior designer of this home, however, he died in 2010. This happened when he was converting several apartments in London into a private home. Paul Davies London was the design firm that completed the project, as a tribute to the fashion icon.
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An outstanding interior design that makes travel through time. The Flemish Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens has brought a little taste of Italy to his Antwerp home in Belgium.
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A unique photo from an eclectic home, the property of Louis Armstrong. Louis was a simple man with amazing talent. His home is an example of what he was!
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Low turnout for SGA debate frustrating for all
March 9, 2015 Mara Green	SGA
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Democracy is all about participation. But how do you expect student voters to participate when well over half of your candidates don't show up for your marquee debate?
On March 4, SGA hosted a debate for their candidates. Of the 26 candidates profiled in the March 2 issue of The Scribe, 14 showed up for the debate. That's just better than 50 percent.
Four of the eight Senator-at-Large candidates were there. Of the seven uncontested senator races, only two (Multicultural Affairs and Public Affairs) attended. Neither Director of Finance candidates, the folks who will be mainly in charge of overseeing our student activity fee money, were there.
The overachievers were the Senator of College of Business candidates who both showed; two of three Senator of LAS candidates attended; both pairs of Presidential/Vice-Presidential candidates were there.
True, the debate took place from around 12:30-2 p.m. on a Tuesday. That could explain the absence of a few candidates due to class. But almost half of 26? Wouldn't the first thing you did, if you were going to host a candidate debate to showcase them to interested student voters, make sure they could attend?
But what is even scarier was the student turnout, or lack thereof.
A fair amount of folks, say 20-30, were there during the senatorial debate. But when a break came before the Presidential/Vice-Presidential debate, and all the free pizza had filled their bellies, that number dropped to around 10.
The elected SGA folks control, according to their website, a $290,000 budget generated by the student activity fee. This university has over 11,000 students, and these are the kind of numbers an SGA debate draws.
Part of the role of The Scribe is to keep an eye on SGA and how they spend that large chunk of change they are responsible for.
But we also want to see the success of that body, because they, just like The Scribe, play a key role at UCCS. Their success means an increased exchange of ideas and goals, something UCCS can always use.
The nature of a journalistic-governmental relationship is tedious and antagonistic at times, but it is a necessary one in our democracy.
But who do we keep an eye on if no one shows up?
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What Happens Next For Harvey Weinstein's LA Trial
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Convicted Rapist Harvey Weinstein's Trial Isn't Over — Here's What Happens Next
Sarah Midkiff
Photo: Seth Wenig/AP/Shutterstock.
Former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was found guilty of third-degree rape and first-degree criminal assault on 24th February in a landmark decision in New York. While Weinstein's conviction represents a major victory in the eyes of the #MeToo movement and for sexual assault survivors, his time in court isn't over. The disgraced movie mogul's New York trial was one of at least two, if not more, trials representing only a fraction of 90+ women who accused Weinstein of sexual misconduct, assault, and rape.
Although the jury chose to acquit Weinstein in New York of first-degree rape and predatory sexual assault, he was found guilty of third-degree rape and criminal sexual acts in the first degree. The state charges against could amount to 29 years in prison, with minimum sentencing of four. Now, according to the Associated Press, Weinstein is being held in a locked unit at Bellevue Hospital after experiencing heart palpitations and high blood pressure. Although he was remanded without bail on Monday, he is expected to be transferred to the Rikers Island infirmary.
But, these setbacks have not affected the Los Angeles trial from moving forward. "We are definitely proceeding," a representative for the Los Angeles district attorney's office told The Guardian on Monday following the conviction. Though sentencing for Weinstein's New York trial is scheduled for March, if he is found guilty for charges in the Los Angeles trial, he could face an additional 28 years in prison.
Throughout this, Weinstein still maintains his innocence. Arthur Aidala, one of Weinstein's lawyers, quoted him after the conviction as saying, "I'm innocent. I'm innocent. I'm innocent. How could this happen in America?" Manhattan district attorney Cyrus Vance Jr described the conviction to AP saying it "changed the course of history in the fight against sexual violence" and "pulled our justice system into the 21st century." Ahead, we've detailed what comes next for Harvey Weinstein following his high-profile Monday conviction.
When is Harvey Weinstein's Los Angeles trial?
There is not yet a set date for Weinstein's Los Angeles trial. He still awaits sentencing in New York which is currently set for 11th March and the LA County District Attorney's office has not said whether they will pursue immediate extradition and bring Weinstein back to California right after his New York sentencing, according to the Washington Post. It is unlikely but still possible for Weinstein to pursue a plea deal rather than face a second trial. Given that his lawyers are already publicly discussing appealing the New York case, a plea deal seems like an implausible choice.
What are the charges against Harvey Weinstein in Los Angeles?
The evening before his New York trial began, Weinstein was charged with sexually assaulting two women on consecutive nights during the week of the 2013 Oscars. Charges brought on by one woman's case include forcible rape, forcible oral copulation, and sexual penetration by use of force and sexual battery. For the second case, Weinstein faces sexual assault charges. If convicted in LA, he could be given up to 28 years in prison on these counts.
Who is involved in Harvey Weinstein's Los Angeles trial?
Two women's accusations will take centre stage at Weinstein's Los Angeles trial. Weinstein is charged with raping a woman, who has chosen to remain unnamed, after forcing his way into her hotel room in February 2013. The following night, Weinstein allegedly sexually assaulted Lauren Young, who also told her story during the New York trial as one of three witnesses testifying to "prior bad acts."
Court documents from the first accuser, who has only been identified as an Italian actress, according to her attorney, David Ring, allege that Weinstein arrived at her hotel uninvited on 18th February 2013. He then allegedly forced her to perform oral sex on him and raped her. He is also being accused of threatening her life if she told anyone.
Young claims that she agreed to meet Weinstein for a business meeting at his hotel in Beverly Hills the following night. She says she went with an acquaintance. When she entered the bathroom, the acquaintance allegedly closed the door behind her and left, leaving Young with Weinstein. "He stepped in front of me when I went to approach the door with his naked body right in front of me. I felt so trapped," Young said in court documents. It was there that he allegedly cornered her in the bathroom while he was naked and masturbated as he groped her. "I said, 'no, no, no' the whole time."
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Applies to institutions with 50 or more staff
The Centre has prepared guidelines for setting up of crèches at workplaces, which prescribe trained personnel to man the facility as well as infrastructure requirements and safety norms.
In March this year, Parliament passed the Maternity Benefit Amendment Act, 2017, enhancing paid maternity leave from a period of 12 weeks to 26 weeks. The law is applicable to all institutions with 10 or more employees. It also makes it mandatory for every organisation with 50 or more employees to have a crèche.
The guidelines made public last month recommend that a crèche be either at the workplace or within 500 metres of it. Alternatively, it could also be in the beneficiaries' neighbourhood.
The facility should be open for eight to 10 hours and if the employees have a shift system, then the crèche should also be run accordingly. A crèche must have a minimum space of 10 to 12 square feet per child to ensure that she or he can play, rest and learn. There should be no unsafe places such as open drains, pits, garbage bins near the centre.
The crèches should have at least one guard, who should have undergone police verification. There should also be at least one supervisor per crèche and a trained worker for every 10 children under three years of age or for every 20 children above the age of three, along with a helper.
The government has also recommended that no outsiders such as plumbers, drivers, electricians be allowed inside the crèche when children are present.
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What Is It About Animated Sequels?
By George Percival in Movies / TV / Theatre on 13 June 2014
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How To Train Your Dragon, Despicable Me, Toy Story - the sequels often seem to outdo the originals.
In a Hollywood atmosphere that currently seems obsessed with stretching even the most moderate of box-office successes into a full blown franchise, sequels and prequels are a ubiquitous presence in cinema multiplexes. But in the world of animated cinema, where the construction of a film requires infinitely more hard work and dedication than a live action picture, sequels tend to emerge that better the original- a much rarer occurrence amongst many Hollywood pictures.
Gerard Butler stars in How To Train Your Dragon 2 which has won copious plaudits.
That's not to say there aren't a few howlers either, animated studios such as Pixar and Disney are just as susceptible as the rest of the film world in dispensing some truly woeful and misguided follow ups. The likes of Cars 2 and Rio 2 left no-one with the life affirming sense of warmth that truly brilliant animated films of this type should provide. As is universally recognised, a mark of greatness from an animated film is its ability to simultaneously appeal to children and the adults who accompany them to the big screen. The likes of Shrek 1 & 2 and the Toy Story trilogy are prime examples of catering for both age groups through crafty pop culture references and subtle entendre.
Of course, what aids in the success of a sequel is the strength of the original, a solid and flawless base on which to extend the characters world into fresh scenarios and circumstances. Cars possessed a certain charm, but it pales in comparison to the wit and ingenuity of The Incredibles or Finding Nemo. These films bristled with potential for future endeavour and contained characters whose personalities were so well rounded you couldn't help but empathize with their plight. A sequel therefore, allows for these characters to evolve further and their development to be traced through the successive films.
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There are anomalies to this hypotheses as well. Monsters Inc. for instance, suffered at the hands of an ill-conceived sequel that arrived devoid of much of the charm that posited the original as one of Pixar's finest pictures. As such, fans are anxiously awaiting the Finding Nemo sequel to see if it flops like the fate that unfortunately befell Mike Wazowski and Randall. However, it seems that by all accounts the forthcoming How To Train Your Dragon sequel will see Dreamwork's second highest grossing feature reach new heights in pure awe-inspiring visuals with an edifying plot to match. Critics are falling over themselves with praise for the feature, and it is currently riding high with a score of over 90% on Rotten Tomatoes. The reason for this, it seems, is that the films sticks resiliently to the tried and tested animation formula of smart writing, impeccable animation and an appeal that transcends age.
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Q: "Premature end of file" while parsing xml from the net When I try to parse XML file from the net in this way:
URL url = new URL("http://www.nbp.pl/kursy/xml/a074z120416.xml");
URLConnection uc = url.openConnection();
saxParser.parse(uc.getInputStream(), handler);

Premature end of file Exception is throwing.
Stack trace:
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Premature end of file.
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.fatalError(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLScanner.reportFatalError(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$PrologDriver.next(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.next(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at com.pmajcher.xmltest.ReadXMLFile.main(ReadXMLFile.java:142)

But when I first save that xml to local file, and then try to parse it, everything is ok.
URL url = new URL("http://www.nbp.pl/kursy/xml/a074z120416.xml");
URLConnection uc = url.openConnection();
InputStreamReader input = new InputStreamReader(uc.getInputStream());
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(input);
File file = new File("temp.xml");

if(!file.exists()){
    file.createNewFile();
}

PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(file);
String inputLine;

while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null) {
    out.print(inputLine);
}
out.close();
saxParser.parse("temp.xml", handler);

What's wrong with the way I try to parse xml from the net?

A: Your code written in the question works well
URL url = new URL("http://www.nbp.pl/kursy/xml/a074z120416.xml");
URLConnection uc = url.openConnection();
saxParser.parse(uc.getInputStream(), handler);

I can't see any problem here. Maybe when you try it the first time the file was changing, and was not complete.
But now I can confirm you that it works. I try it.

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New Development Bank and Santander Brazil Sign Memorandum on Strategic Cooperation
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The agreement also promotes knowledge sharing between the two institutions, including training and development of staff, temporary assignments, secondments and staff exchange initiatives.
Sergio Suchodolski, Director General of Strategy & Partnerships at NDB, stated that, "cooperation between Santander Brazil and NDB will be an important driver for financing infrastructure and sustainable development in Brazil. The Memorandum signed today provides a solid basis for joint efforts between our institutions and serves as a starting point for a fruitful relationship with potential to spur financing for new projects in Brazil. Since last year, our technical teams have been analyzing projects together with Santander Brazil, and we look forward to continuing this work as NDB expands its operations in Brazil in 2018. In particular, we look forward to working with Santander Brazil to support projects in our core areas of operation, including water resource management and sanitation, transportation and connectivity, clean energy, sustainable urban development and economic integration."
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Wow...so apparently I took some time off of posting...I apologize for that and in return have an absolutly fabulous recipe!!
To spatchcock a chicken is to remove the backbone of the bird and lay it flat to cook. I have to say...it felt kinda weird butchering the chicken but the result was amazing, juicy, flavourful chicken.
The chicken should look all nasty and gross and sliced right open. Really, this photo could convert people to veganism!
Flip the chicken over and press down inbetween the breasts to flatten. Your chicken is ready!
Now for the marinade. I used the Juice of 1 Orange, 1 lemon, 1 tbsp fresh chopped taraggon, 1 tsp rosemary, 1/2 tsp savory, salt and pepper and 4 tbsp olive oil.
Whisk to combine the marinade. You can pour this over your chicken and let sit in the fridge overnight. However, I just poured it over right away and roasted...still had lots of flavour!
Cut a few slits in the chicken and slide some garlic cloves under the skin.
Pour the marinade over the chicken and rub all over. Place chicken on a rack over your roasting pan and roast at 375F for 55 minutes.
Once cooked let the chicken rest for about 10-15 minutes under some tented tin foil before serving.


Effects of furfural on the aerobic metabolism of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae were studied by performing chemostat experiments, and the kinetics of furfural conversion was analyzed by performing dynamic experiments. Furfural, an important inhibitor present in lignocellulosic hydrolysates, was shown to have an inhibitory effect on yeast cells growing respiratively which was much greater than the inhibitory effect previously observed for anaerobically growing yeast cells. The residual furfural concentration in the bioreactor was close to zero at all steady states obtained, and it was found that furfural was exclusively converted to furoic acid during respiratory growth. A metabolic flux analysis showed that furfural affected fluxes involved in energy metabolism. There was a 50% increase in the specific respiratory activity at the highest steady-state furfural conversion rate. Higher furfural conversion rates, obtained during pulse additions of furfural, resulted in respirofermentative metabolism, a decrease in the biomass yield, and formation of furfuryl alcohol in addition to furoic acid. Under anaerobic conditions, reduction of furfural partially replaced glycerol formation as a way to regenerate NAD+. At concentrations above the inlet concentration of furfural, which resulted in complete replacement of glycerol formation by furfuryl alcohol production, washout occurred. Similarly, when the maximum rate of oxidative conversion of furfural to furoic acid was exceeded aerobically, washout occurred. Thus, during both aerobic growth and anaerobic growth, the ability to tolerate furfural appears to be directly coupled to the ability to convert furfural to less inhibitory compounds.


Phytoplankton plays a vital role in marine ecosystems. Apart from being a food source for marine animals, it removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through photosynthesis. Phytoplankton needs iron to grow. Whale poo is very rich in iron, containing 10 million times as much as seawater. Over the last century, commercial whaling has reduced the number of whales dramatically, starving the oceans of the necessary iron and decreasing the plankton's capability to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Protecting whales and restoring their populations should therefore be an important goal for governments.


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The Private Life of Elizabeth and Essex
Costume seen on Bette Davis as Queen Elizabeth I
The Sea Hawk
Costume seen on Flora Robson as Queen Elizabeth I
Roughly Speaking
Costume seen on Andrea King as Barbara
The opulent gowns for the 1939 film The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex were designed by Orry Kelly, head costume designer at Warner Brothers Studios. Kelly had a wonderful career, designing famous pieces for Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, and Katharine Hepburn, winning Academy Awards for best costume for Some Like it Hot, An American in Paris and Les Girls.
Bette Davis claimed that Kelly made two complete sets of Elizabethan costumes for her. Davis wanted historically accurate Elizabethan costumes, while director Michael Curtiz felt that they would be too much for the camera. Davis won out in the end, though to look back and call the costumes 'historically accurate' now would not be entirely true. It makes one wonder what the second set of costumes must have looked like.
This elaborate gown, worn by Bette Davis in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex is, in fact, a brilliant red. The Sea Hawk, filmed the next year in 1940, was done in black and white, and Flora Robson's Queen Elizabeth I wears the same gown. This time it appears that a false stomacher was added by sewing on some additional fabric and trim to give it a slightly different look. The costume appears a third time on Andrea King as Barbara in the 1945 film Roughly Speaking.
Orry-Kelly


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Plato insisted that children should be told lies – for instance that there has never been dissension amongst the citizens.4 That, he thought, would convince them of the importance of unity, and make them more docile and manageable.
What are Gove's warrior guardians guarding? The zeitgeist of market rule, and the myth that it is eternal and all-sufficient – a generator of wealth, equity and ethics. Children should become adept at measurement, because figures are the language of the market, and because measuring is really boring, and will bruise your brain and stop it from dangerous athleticism, and because to measure the stalls in the market is a sort of obeisance to them, and because measuring keeps you busy – keeps you from asking dangerous things, such as: 'Is there another way?', and 'Can this last forever?', and 'Is this making me and others happy?' Because distraction isn't always reliable (kids, especially, are curious about what's being kept from them), active lies are necessary: tell them that the good citizens of happy capitalist countries are too content to need to build barricades of burning tyres, and that angst is a dirty, childish thing (always denigrate childhood and laud grown-up-ness), only seen as the world evolves away from Dionysiac chaos towards Apolline order.
That'll do for now: I'm off to the woods with the kids and a bunch of screaming Maenads. And let social services do their worst.
On the other hand, there will always be some children who prefer measuring things, and who are by nature more like Michael Gove than Charles Foster. And I'm sure most First World children will be thankful for their bountiful capitalist economies on the 25th of this month.
I'm sure you're right, Nikolas., there are all sorts of children out there. But I agree with Charles that the balance has swung much to far to encouraging "measurers".
Nikolas and Keith: thank you. Nikolas: There's nothing ultimately bountiful about capitalism. Or at least, Keith, about the sort of capitalism we have now.
Of course I agree, but the point I was making is that it could be different and it is too easy to blame capitalism and dream about other economic systems (education being part of the system). Marx did the easy stuff but never explained how his dream would work. The Gove, Johnson, et al interpretation of capitalism is not challenged by dreams.
This is silly (perhaps you should have spent more time learning about data and measurement, Charles). For one thing your characterisation of society is plain wrong: we don't live in the sort of unfettered dog-eat-dog capitalist dystopia so beloved of the poetry and pimms set. OECD countries have tax/GDP ratios between 30-60% (roughly, if you include local taxes/municipal rates). It's ridiculous to pretend that giving away* between one third and two-thirds of your gross income is anything like "market rule." By historical standards, this largesse towards others is unprecedented. It's only possible because our incomes are so high, i.e. because the combination of regulation, markets and the state that characterises liberal democracies are so efficient at delivering bountiful outcomes. Those are the only circumstances under which voters have been observed to put up with such high tax rates/such state-directed altruism. Poor countries don't have governments that are (fractionally) this big, unless they combine large government with a notable absence of democratic franchise (e.g. Cuba, Soviet Bloc, etc).
Economists believe markets are powerful (but not all-powerful) because there are huge observed gains from trade and specialization. That's not very controversial among people who actually study this stuff, with numbers and data and all that messy contemptible business.
Anthony: thank you. But I'm sorry to disappoint you. I woefully misrepresented my weekend.
'The zeitgeist of market rule, and the myth that it is eternal and all-sufficient – a generator of wealth, equity and ethics.' Not sure what you are driving at here. Are you saying that Gove and the other economic illiterates are indoctrinating children (and their parents) with a distorted view of capitalism? Or are you saying that children should not study capitalism because it might in someway stunt their fertile little minds turning them into capitalist drones and workers?
Smith thought that capitalists, be they bankers, dealers, merchant men, industrialist or the landed gentry, should be regulated (self-regulation was rejected) because their interests were seldom in the public interest. He believed that high profits and low wages would ruin the economy (he would have legislated for a "living wage"); that utilities like the Post Office should be run by the State; that the engine of the market economy, the division of labour, would ultimately have a detrimental effect upon the intellect and morals of society and that the State would have to educate children and adults about the limits and dangers of the system. Of course he promoted self-interest but not in the way it is taught today. Smith and Weber recognised that unbridled market economies could, as you put it, stop us from asking dangerous things. 'Is there another way?' Of course, but the answer is not to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
I think Gove is a strawman in all this Charles – though I don't disagree with what you have said! I just think education has been like this (for me at least) well before the last election and Gove. It's sad to see that the 'best' students at school are the most institutionalised. Working to a mark scheme to get a grade to get a university place etc. etc.
Thanks, Anonymous. I agree that there's nothing new about the programme: it has been going on at least since Plato! But Gove seems to me to be more brazen and unapologetic than many of his predecessors. And the fact that he can be illustrates how successful his forbears have been in convincing us that his principles are the only possible principles.
Aha! Possibly but I am more inclined to think his brazen and unapologetic attitude doesn't illustrate much beyond his own character, and maybe the extent to which he is convinced by his own words. I don't think others are convinced, but I supposed a yougov poll would be needed to verify that.
I think it's a little ironic complaining that "They want to produce a generation of nerdish measurers", when in terms of genuine intellectual utility (rather than paper qualifications), extended formal education has been of most benefit to those students entering technical or science-related fields. Outside of those fields, people who live creative lives and cultivate a wide range of interests (and extensive general knowledge) have tended to do so despite their formal education, rather than because of it. The fact that they can readily do so perhaps suggests that for the majority of students, creative or otherwise, we exaggerate the importance of "education policy", beyond providing the basics that empower individuals to broaden their horizons as far as they see fit.
"Like", as they say on that socially-transformative interface for human communication, facebook (invented by a couple of those awful measurers).
Dave: thank you. I agree with you that capitalism has devised some ingenious and occasionally generous solutions to the problems it has created.
Keith: crofting, or some variant of it.
It was a serious question. But even if it was possible to consider crofting or some variant of it, it would no doubt end up as capitalism or some variant of it. I know quite a few people who went off to be crofters or commune members in the 1960s and 70s. All of them gave it up and some of them have tried to improve their bit of the capitalist system. It's the stuff of dreams.