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BEST IN CLASS – TOP LUXURIOUS CARS
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Best in Style
The Aston Martin DB11 has finally received its American passport, and has made its way over to grace us with its effortless beauty and its 600 horse-power aptitude. It was 13 years ago Aston Martin bestowed the DB09 to the world, and after 13 years, it was time for a reinstatement, and it doesn't get any clearer than the DB11. If you're looking for style, grace and elegance, with all the power, torque and technology, the Aston Martin is the perfect choice. Beneath the long, expansive clamshell hood hides a 5.2-liter, twin turbocharged V-12 that delivers a hearty 600 horsepower. All that power is routed to the rear wheels through an eight-speed transmission, mounted in the back for better weight distribution. With the merger of power, drivetrain and grip, this magnificent machine reaches a top of 200MPH, and can hit 0-60 in 3.9 seconds. Inside, is a beautiful space, filled with natural materials, expert craftsmanship and state-of-the-art technology providing the ultimate in comfort and convenience. Designed for life, this beautiful piece of British intelligence has a luggage compartment capable of swallowing two golf bags and with the capacity of fitting two child seats, this car is family friendly and the best in its class. Look for the $214,820 DB11 at the Aston Martin showrooms.
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Best in Sports
McLAREN 570GT
McLaren is known for its super cars like the 650S predecessor, and the 720S, which reach top speeds of 212MPH and 0-60 in 2.9 seconds and cost more than you want it to. But now, McLaren has released a new, stylish and affordable sports car, for the everyday man, complete with the technology and interior designs you desire. The 570GT is an exquisite car, shapely in design and wicked fast. From the dihedral doors that swing open to reveal the buttery leather interior, which invites you to get behind the wheel of this twin-turbo 3.8-liter V8 engine that produces 562 horsepower and 443 pound feet of torque, to the panoramic roof, which adds more light and a sense of space, the McLaren 570GT is the perfect balance of speed and style. With the added hydraulic system, navigating driveways is a breeze and carefree measure. The 570GT is designed for a driver who yearns for an ultra-high performance car, yet still needs superior levels of luxury and comfort, and refinement for longer journeys. With breathtaking performance, the 570GT operates the unique role of classic grand tourer while providing the agility of a super car and all the pure fun of driving a fast car. The McLaren 570GT is the most affordable of super cars at a mere base price of $200,000.
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Best in Luxury and Comfort
Reinvigorate your body and soul with an inexplicable journey guided by the luxurious Rolls Royce Dawn inspired by fashion. Every element of this exquisite piece of machinery is thoughtfully and beautifully designed to offer patrons comfort and unmatched luxury. The spirited youthfulness of Rolls-Royce Dawn is an attitude it shares with some of the world's most celebrated, avant-garde fashion designers—blending timeless style with high power to make a bold statement. There is no look more striking that crisp Andalusian white glossy paint and ultra-luxe fabric, accentuated with the most vivid colors of Mugello Red, Mandarin Orange and Cobalto Blue. Transform your surroundings in 20 seconds when the soft top folds in, the immersed sights, sounds and scents around you come out. With a V12 twin-turbo and 6.6-liter engine under the hood, this cat has a soft purr but a mighty claw reaching speeds of up to 155MPh and a 563 horsepower capacity to get you where you need to be. The Dawn inspired by fashion, is Rolls Royce's dynamic charm, with an unexpected twist and sociable nature, making it an exhilarating experience for anyone who lies in its wake. Starting at $341,125, the Dawn is the luxury and comfort you seek with all the power you need.
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Best Exotic
Bugatti has built a reputation for producing some of the most exclusive and fast cars ever made. This year, they push the limits with the creation of a quintessential ultimate super car known as the Bugatti Chiron. Ultra-modern, incredibly fast, agile and powerful with a stylistic design and the highest possible levels of comfort, the Chiron is the most modern interpretation of Bugatti's brand, heart and soul and embodies the new design language of Bugatti. The feat to overpower its predecessor took the form of the W16 engine, with 16-cylinder configuration, 4 turbochargers with a maximum torque of 2,000rpm and 1,500 horse power, this luxury super car brings a whole new meaning to the word super with its unbelievable acceleration. Costing around the $3 million mark and only 500 planned to be built, this incomparable machine breaks new dimensions pushing supercars into the future.
bugatti.com/chiron
Best Midsize
MERCEDES BENZ ANMG GLE 63 S COUPE
Mercedes Benz started the 'four door coupe' back in 2006 with the CLS class, but BMW was the first to apply it. Now Mercedes is competing with AMG GLE 63 S Coupe—a fusion of racing-bred tenacity and finely tailored luxury, with unbelievable comfort. The coupe offers a mix of verve and versatility beneath the arching rooflines and muscular shoulders of this non-traditional coupe. With 577 horsepower behind the throttle and a torque of 561 pounds per feet, the AMG Coupe is born to perform, with added multiple modes, for all driving moods, including, sport, sport+ all selected through the twist of a console control making it effortless in capability. As for the design, the sleek, sensuous and self-confident coupe is tough on the outside but soft and cosy on the inside with generous cabins for space, a panorama roof to bring in the sky and advanced technologies to help smooth every move, making your ride as swift as the wind, with transcendent luxury. Take a spin in the Mercedes Benz AMG GLE Coupe at your local Mercedes- Benz dealer.
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Best Exclusive
If luxury, comfort and singularity is what you are after, look no further than the Porsche 9 1 Turbo S exclusive series. This shiny gem packs a punch with 607 horsepower and a top track speed of 205mph. The exclusive golden yellow metallic exterior (other color options available) is guaranteed to be a standout on the road. A carbon fiber body provides lightweight construction from the front to the rear wing, and the additional contouring inside the two carbon fiber-weave stripes accentuates the luxury sport look of the Porsche 911. On the inside style and finesse adheres to the black leather interior. The detailed stitching of golden yellow is a subtle reminder of the exterior color, which can be found on the dashboard, door trims steering wheel rim and steering column casing. An especially exclusive detail adorns the decorative trim above the glove compartment and is a testimony to the individuality of the 911 Turbo S Exclusive series: the limited-edition plaque with personal model number. Foresee an appointment to Porsche for a tailor made experience with unmatched exclusivity.
porsche.com
Best Eco-Friendly
Meet the 21st century super car, offering speed, style and sustainability. The BMW i8 plug-in hybrid is insanely fast, despite only having three cylinders. The i8 employs electric motors front and back, the gas engine in the back, two transmissions and lithium-ion batteries running through the middle of the cockpit. As a plug-in hybrid with eDrive, the BMW i8 gets up to 76 MPGe fuel efficiency, far beyond conventional sports cars with comparable performance. A carbon fiber body molds the striking exterior providing sleek contours aiding in efficient dynamics dedicated to reducing drag and increasing streamflow for top speeds of the 155mph. With a charging time of 2.5 hours the BMW i8 energy is repurposed while driving to charge the battery from thrust, braking, or directly from the gas engine. The BMW i8 offers four driving modes, each tailored to your driving preference including a sport mode for an intense boost of adrenaline. This super-efficient car is more than practical and green, the interior offers both style and comfort with luxurious accents of cream leather, subtle hints of BMW blue and black and a state of the art dashboard. Don't take our word for it, head down to your local BMW dealer to try it for yourself.
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Self-Powered Wearable Breath-Monitoring Sensor Enabled by Electromagnetic Harvesting Based on Nano-Structured Electrochemically Active Aluminum
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Bošković, Marko
Frantlović, Miloš
Milinković, Evgenija
Poljak, Predrag D.
Vasiljević Radović, Dana
Stevanović, Jelena N.
Sarajlić, Milija
Self-powered sensors are gaining a lot of attention in recent years due to their possible application in the Internet of Things, medical implants and wireless and wearable devices. Human breath detection has applications in diagnostics, medical therapy and metabolism monitoring. One possible approach for breath monitoring is detecting the humidity in exhaled air. Here, we present an extremely sensitive, self-powered sensor for breath humidity monitoring. As a power source, the sensor uses electromagnetic energy harvested from the environment. Even electromagnetic energy harvested from the human body is enough for the operation of this sensor. The signal obtained using the human body as a source was up to 100 mV with an estimated power of 1 nW. The relatively low amount of energy that could be harvested in this way was producing a signal that was modulated by an interdigitated capacitor made out of electrochemically activated aluminum. The signal obtained in this way was recti...fied by a set of Schottky diodes and measured by a voltmeter. The sensor was capable of following a variety of different respiration patterns during normal breathing, exercise and rest, at the same time powered only by electromagnetic energy harvested from the human body. Everything happened in the normal environment used for everyday work and life, without any additional sources, and at a safe level of electromagnetic radiation.
self-powered sensor / breath detection / electromagnetic harvesting / aluminum–air battery / interdigitated capacitor
Chemosensors, 2023, 11, 1, 51-
Switzerland : Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Republic of Serbia, Grant no. 200026 (University of Belgrade, Institute of Chemistry, Technology and Metallurgy - IChTM) (RS-200026)
DOI: 10.3390/chemosensors11010051
AU  - Bošković, Marko
AU  - Frantlović, Miloš
AU  - Milinković, Evgenija
AU  - Poljak, Predrag D.
AU  - Vasiljević Radović, Dana
AU  - Stevanović, Jelena N.
AU  - Sarajlić, Milija
AB  - Self-powered sensors are gaining a lot of attention in recent years due to their possible
application in the Internet of Things, medical implants and wireless and wearable devices. Human
breath detection has applications in diagnostics, medical therapy and metabolism monitoring. One
possible approach for breath monitoring is detecting the humidity in exhaled air. Here, we present an
extremely sensitive, self-powered sensor for breath humidity monitoring. As a power source, the
sensor uses electromagnetic energy harvested from the environment. Even electromagnetic energy
harvested from the human body is enough for the operation of this sensor. The signal obtained using
the human body as a source was up to 100 mV with an estimated power of 1 nW. The relatively low
amount of energy that could be harvested in this way was producing a signal that was modulated by
an interdigitated capacitor made out of electrochemically activated aluminum. The signal obtained
in this way was rectified by a set of Schottky diodes and measured by a voltmeter. The sensor was
capable of following a variety of different respiration patterns during normal breathing, exercise
and rest, at the same time powered only by electromagnetic energy harvested from the human body.
Everything happened in the normal environment used for everyday work and life, without any
additional sources, and at a safe level of electromagnetic radiation.
PB  - Switzerland : Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
T2  - Chemosensors
T1  - Self-Powered Wearable Breath-Monitoring Sensor Enabled by Electromagnetic Harvesting Based on Nano-Structured Electrochemically Active Aluminum
DO  - 10.3390/chemosensors11010051
author = "Bošković, Marko and Frantlović, Miloš and Milinković, Evgenija and Poljak, Predrag D. and Vasiljević Radović, Dana and Stevanović, Jelena N. and Sarajlić, Milija",
abstract = "Self-powered sensors are gaining a lot of attention in recent years due to their possible
additional sources, and at a safe level of electromagnetic radiation.",
publisher = "Switzerland : Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)",
journal = "Chemosensors",
title = "Self-Powered Wearable Breath-Monitoring Sensor Enabled by Electromagnetic Harvesting Based on Nano-Structured Electrochemically Active Aluminum",
doi = "10.3390/chemosensors11010051"
Bošković, M., Frantlović, M., Milinković, E., Poljak, P. D., Vasiljević Radović, D., Stevanović, J. N.,& Sarajlić, M.. (2023). Self-Powered Wearable Breath-Monitoring Sensor Enabled by Electromagnetic Harvesting Based on Nano-Structured Electrochemically Active Aluminum. in Chemosensors
Switzerland : Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)., 11(1), 51.
https://doi.org/10.3390/chemosensors11010051
Bošković M, Frantlović M, Milinković E, Poljak PD, Vasiljević Radović D, Stevanović JN, Sarajlić M. Self-Powered Wearable Breath-Monitoring Sensor Enabled by Electromagnetic Harvesting Based on Nano-Structured Electrochemically Active Aluminum. in Chemosensors. 2023;11(1):51.
doi:10.3390/chemosensors11010051 .
Bošković, Marko, Frantlović, Miloš, Milinković, Evgenija, Poljak, Predrag D., Vasiljević Radović, Dana, Stevanović, Jelena N., Sarajlić, Milija, "Self-Powered Wearable Breath-Monitoring Sensor Enabled by Electromagnetic Harvesting Based on Nano-Structured Electrochemically Active Aluminum" in Chemosensors, 11, no. 1 (2023):51,
https://doi.org/10.3390/chemosensors11010051 . .

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DENVER -- One of the largest St. Patrick's Day parades west of the Mississippi takes place every year in Downtown Denver. Now. the city is being recognized for its efforts.
Every year a member of the Irish government picks a US city to visit during the holiday weekend, and this year their city of choice was in Colorado.
Mary Mitchell O'Connor, a member of the Irish government, was in Colorado for the weekend to enjoy the parade. She's also in town because Denver was picked as the city to visit on St. Patrick's Day. It is an honor given by the Irish government.
"What I really love is the warmth of the American people," O'Connor also said.
Denver was recommended as a choice city by the Department of Foreign Affairs, not just for the city's large parade, but for how the city hosted a member of the Irish government years prior.
O'Connor also spent time with Denver Mayor Michael Hancock and Colorado Governor Jared Polis.
She said they talked about how Colorado and Ireland could collaborate.


Right now, there are apps like Facebook that allow users to report their immediate locations to their friends, and allow them to meet-up. However, with the raising concerns of privacy in our day and age, trusting large corporations on extremely sensitive data like current location might not be everyone's cup of tea.
This app allows a user to send other users an invite link to a private location sharing map. This allows the users to know each other's locations and more easily meet up. The app doesn't limit who you can send the invite to, so many use cases are possible like a meet-up in a crowded or unknown place. This allows people to connect anonymously just like pipes connected in a house hidden from the sight of everyone inside it. Our app would not store logs of any request made to our service and would be open source.
On a Windows machine, it was found that it was not possible to get GPS location data since our application lacked an SSL certificate. This made it difficult to test and as a result, a lot of the work had to be done on another machine. Another problem was figuring out how to send data through separate socket channels.
The biggest accomplishment was our perseverance through a lot of technical problems that we thought would not be solvable.
We learned about how websockets can be useful and provide a very good user experience, and how to implement them.
With the main functionality implemented, we could focus on some additional features like finding the fastest route to meet between 2 users, or a chatroom where details of the location can be exchanged (3rd floor, near landmark, etc).


American Dahlia Society 2012 Best Miniature Dahlia Medal Winner! Congratulations Chris Dix, from Walnut Creek, California.
The lavender reverse shows prominently against the purple florets projecting a sparkling appearance. Show winner! Formal classification bordering on Ball form. Easy to grow. Good cut flower.


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Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)
Delving into the world of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)
Extracting, transporting and processing liquefied natural gas demands extensive know-how. As a pioneer of the LNG industry, we pursue an integrated approach that spans from exploration to gas marketing, including production, liquefaction, transport, trading and regasification. TotalEnergies is present at every step of the natural gas value chain and is now the No. 2 player in this segment.
In a highly competitive environment, our teams invent more economical, more efficient solutions for producing and transporting liquefied natural gas. These innovations bring new gas resources within reach while lowering the energy consumption and shrinking the environmental footprint of our operations. Our goal: to raise the share of natural gas in our production mix to more than 60% by 2035.
LNG - Energy with a future
Our staff work to identify increasingly effective, economical production and transportation solutions. As LNG becomes a key energy source, TotalEnergies, which has been active in this business for over 50 years, remains at the forefront with its undisputed expertise.
TotalEnergies is deploying the best of our human and technical expertise to implement this project and thus contribute to the economic development of Mozambique
Managing Offshore LNG Transfers
In all metocean conditions, LNG transfer to tankers is a major focus to lower the costs of offshore gas projects
Ichthys LNG, Australia
Located off the northwestern coast of Australia, the development of Ichthys involves building colossal facilities
Among the largest and most complex LNG projects in the world, Yamal LNG illustrates TotalEnergies' commissioning standards in the most extreme circumstances
An LNG Plant in Russia's Far North Region
Yamal LNG (1/3) - 600 kilometers inside the Arctic Circle, unusual logistics resources were used to build LNG infrastructures
Building a LNG Plant on Permafrost
Yamal LNG (2/3) - Foundations of the plant called for an engineering solution that was specifically designed for permafrost conditions
Next-Generation Ice-Breaking LNG Carriers
Yamal LNG (3/3) - Transporting liquefied natural gas from the plant is now permitted thanks to ARC7 ice-breaking tankers
Adapting LNG Process Architecture
Weak global prices for LNG create the need to rethink our infrastructure approach to reduce capital expenditure and ensure profitability
Deploying an Assertive Strategy in Gas
LNG development is a key element of our Group strategy to strenghten our positions in most major production zones and markets
HySWEET®
A commercial success process removing the sour gas and sulfur compounds at the same time during natural gas treatment


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invoiceit!Pro - the most feature rich invoice software for its price Whether you sell products or time-based services, invoiceit! is an all-in-one professional business and invoicing solution with more features for your money. Features include cashbook finances, invoicing, quotations, automatic invoicing for regular sales, inventory/stock control, client and vendor tracker, reports, illustrated price list, multi-person scheduler - integrated with time billing, email, integrated direct mail module (for example: write to clients who have bought certain products in the past) and highly customizable stationery - your invoices look exactly as you want them to. Payment receipts are automatically cross-posted to accounts. E-mail: send invoices as e-mail message text and ensure they get read and paid. Auto-invoicing: automate your regular billing down to ONE click - never miss another invoice. Taxes: GST/VAT compatible. Up to three US sales taxes applied automatically with optional manual edit. Full support for Canadian taxes. Network: Can be networked with full access security for network stations. Reports: know the value of your inventory, who owes you money, what profits you make (incl. who are your most profitable clients or products) and much more. Easy to use: comprehensive help file documentation plus SpeedHelp, the fastest way to get to any program part. invoiceit! is intuitive and easy to use even for persons without accounting knowledge. Why spend weeks learning other software--invoiceit makes charging easy. Use any existing invoice as a template for the next one for very fast data entry. With Import/Export module: easily transfer your existing data into invoiceit! or export data to another application (not available in trial mode) Download the full version now for a FREE 30-day trial. You won't be disappointed--except that you didn't do this earlier. It's easy to get started--you will be invoicing tonight.
Never lose your data. If your PC shuts down while you are in the middle of data entry you lose nothing. This program is so very stable and does not hang or crash.. Loads of options for entering your data. Lots of reports available too. Keep all customer communication within their account and bounce from invoicing to inventory, contact info, marketing and accounting, etc while still in within same customer. Support is easily obtained via email and within the program. Everything is clean and easy to read. View all invoices from within the customer or overview all. Modify invoice template to fit your industry. Options to use customer groups, sales reps, locations and more. Too much to list in this review. There are a lot of options you can tweak to your needs - and the whole program is easy to learn. Start up is quick and painless. If you are looking for a stable program that combines accounting, invoicing and more, download and try it out for yourself.
We have been using this program for almost 4 years and I still find more ways to tweak it for our needs. Thanks Bernard!
My piece of software Invoiceit Pro stopped working within 6 months of purchasing it and I was told thatthe problem may have occurred because of auto-updates of Windows or Windows Office that could have changed files needed by invoiceit and maybe a fix would be forthcoming - that was almost 2 months ago! I've checked back with them numerous times only to be fobbed off. I've just checked again with them and they said that nope - not yet! So i've basically paid for a piece of software that was supposed to last a lifetime but really only lasted a half year. I can't recommend this company as they don't take their after-purchase customer care seriously enough to get me and other customers up and running after a bug appearance.
Software is fine when it works but when my programme stopped working I found that after-purchase care and support is no good which has basically cancelled out the whole programme since it now doesn't work. Watch out it could happen to you too!
we have published v. 5.2 which no longer uses shared filed from Windows Office, so the problems this user reported are fixed.
It is disappointing to read that "support is no good", because that is where we think we do best. All inquiries or user comments are responded to within hours or less and we will continue to assist until the matter is resolved, provided we are told there are still issues.
I can assure you that no-one is let down with invoiceit.


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'Inhumane, Harrowing Greed': Ukraine Slams Billionaire-Linked Retailer Reportedly Plotting Russia Expansion Amid Invasion
Jonathan Ponciano
Updated Mar 21, 2022, 02:42pm EDT
The Ukraine Ministry of Defense criticized French-based retailer Leroy Merlin on Monday following reports that the home-improvement chain, part of a sprawling holding company founded by one of the world's most famous retail dynasties, was seeking to bolster operations in Russia to capitalize on the dearth of supply after several rivals shuttered stores in protest of the Ukraine invasion.
Leroy Merlin "became the first company in the world to finance the bombing of its own store," the ... [+] Ukraine Ministry of Defense said Monday.
Leroy Merlin "became the first company in the world to finance the bombing of its own stores," Ukraine's Ministry of Defense said on Twitter Monday morning, sharing an image of a store seemingly destroyed during the attacks in Ukraine, and affixing the hashtags #IsolateRussia and #StopRussianTerrorism.
Though the government agency didn't specify why it was singling out the retailer, the comment follows a Saturday report that management-level employees at the Russian arm of Leroy Merlin were touting "significantly increased" sales after several Western competitors, including Ikea, shuttered stores in appalled response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
In a letter obtained by the Telegraph, high-level Leroy Merlin employees asked partners to increase supply to help meet demand following the "disappearance of certain companies from the [Russian] market," and said the company plans to "fully replace imported products" with Russian-produced products in the next three to four months.
Leroy Merlin parent Adeo did not immediately respond to Forbes' request for comment on Monday, but a company representative earlier this month issued a statement saying Leroy Merlin's 112 stores in Russia were "operating normally" and had no plans to change operations.
Association Familiale Mulliez (AFM), Adeo and Leroy Merlin's holding company, controls a vast network of some 20 retail chains across the world and is largely owned by billionaire Michel Leclercq and the Mulliez family, the famed retail dynasty behind Auchan department stores; each hold a roughly 40% stake in the firm.
The Ukraine Defense Ministry isn't alone in condemning the firm: "Companies like that have no moral right to exist," Lesia Vasylenko, a Ukrainian member of parliament, told the Telegraph, asking the French government to intervene and adding: "There should be solidarity. There should be pressure being applied."
The economic fallout since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an invasion of Ukraine late last month has intensified amid a growing list of sanctions targeting the Russian government, businesses and oligarchs. Hundreds of companies have left Russia in response to the violence, but dozens have said they will remain despite growing pressure to exit the market. Among the biggest, Nestlé was criticized by Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal last week for staying in the Russian market, sparking calls for a boycott of Nestlé products on social media. Other businesses still operating in Russia include Koch Industries, Burger King parent Restaurant Brands International and an independent Papa John's franchisee (the chain suspended corporate operations on March 9).
People gathered outside the French Leroy Merlin store in Gdansk, Poland, last week to protest the ... [+] company still operating in Russia.
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"The hypocrisy and the cynicism of how they make their money is just astonishing," Vasylenko said. "They are okay making money while the blood of Ukrainian children is flowing."
$4 billion. That's how much Leclercq, who started AFM's sporting goods store Decathlon in 1976, is worth, according to Forbes. Decathlon is now one of the world's largest athletic retailers, with more than $15 billion in sales from some 1,500 stores in 51 countries. Leclercq's cousin is Gerard Mulliez, the 90-year-old patriarch of the Mulliez family who was at one point worth more than $10 billion.
Koch Industries, Nestle, Renault—Here Are The Companies Under Fire For Russian Ties (Forbes)
Multinationals Continuing Sales In Russia Under Mounting Pressure To Take Stronger Action (Forbes)
Verizon, Pfizer, Deutsche Bank—Here Are The Companies Cutting Ties With Russia Over Ukraine Invasion (Forbes)
French founders of Decathlon face outrage over Russian expansion plan (Telegraph)


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Tag Archives: Independent film
CAPSULE: RONDO (2019) (DVD RELEASE)
July 10, 2019 Giles Edwards	Leave a comment
DIRECTED BY: Drew Barnhardt
FEATURING: Luke Sorge, Brenna Otts, Reggie De Morton, Gena Shaw, Steve Van Beckum
PLOT: Paul has been dishonorably discharged from the military and relies on his sister's hospitality for a couch to crash on; when she recommends a therapist to help him with PTSD and alcohol addiction, he encounters a sordid world where revenge and unhealthy fantasy experiences can be bought for the right price.
COMMENTS: As I gear up for my third trip to the Fantasia Film Festival, I am unfortunately reminded that most of what I'll be seeing up North won't be available again for months (and months), if it's released at all. With that in mind, I look back at my original gob-smacked review and consider whether or not Rondo lives up to the hype I expressed directly after my original "live" experience. In brief: it does.
My earlier review covers most of the bases, but I wanted to expand on how well Barnhardt manages Rondo's singular atmosphere. Its edge-of-realistic set-pieces present a grisly and tragic tale that are undercut by a narrator that borders on intrusive. Much to my shame, I hadn't seen Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon until some months ago, well after I nodded in understanding at Barnhardt's remarks on it during my interview with him. Like the Kubrick epic, Rondo involves a string of events that, though much more in the vein of "thriller", have a tone that's on the unsettling side of banal—until, in both films, an impressively indifferent narrator articulates his views on the action. As I have no doubt that Barnhardt would quickly dispel any suggestion he's at Kubrick's level, I'll merely say that Rondo has the feel of a whomping dubstep echo of Barry Lyndon's awkwardly laid-back narrative meanderings.
Without dispersing too much insider knowledge (I spoke with both Barnhardt and Guy Clark, the producer, for close to an hour after the interview proper was finished), I can tell you that Rondo was made for substantially less than its shiny veneer and honed camerawork suggest. Indeed, a large part of its modest budget went to the… expressive use of squibs in a pivotal scene. But like a sculptor given a slim brick of marble, Barnhardt (who also wrote the script, scouted locations, and was heavily involved in the casting of largely unknown actors) manages to chisel a tiny objet d'art: it's charmingly crafted, bloodily lighthearted, impressively detailed, and the whole thing fits conveniently on your desk (or perhaps your knife-filled kitchen sink).
"…a tour de force of highly assured genre filmmaking, and the mark of a real talent emerging from cinema's more perverse, less salubrious end. 'Ordinary's not the thing that I want,' as one character puts it. 'I want the other thing.' Rondo delivers just that, very satisfyingly."–Anton Bitel, Projected Figures (DVD)
2018Black ComedyDrew BarnhardtIndependent filmRecommended
APOCRYPHA CANDIDATE: MIDSOMMAR (2019)
July 4, 2019 Gregory J. Smalley (366weirdmovies)	7 Comments
DIRECTED BY: Ari Aster
FEATURING: Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, Vilhelm Blomgren
PLOT: American grad students travel to a remote Swedish village above the Arctic Circle during the midnight sun to witness an ancient festival.
WHY IT MIGHT MAKE THE LIST: With just two features under his belt, Ari Aster impresses with his ability to encase deep and painful psychological dramas inside true-to-form horror stories. The emphasis on bizarre rituals and the wavery psychedelic interludes make Midsommar a weirder candidate for our endorsement than 2018's (excellent) Hereditary.
COMMENTS: Although it features a memorably schizo performance by a tormented Florence Pugh, flowery pagan pageantry, brilliant cinematography, a frightening folk horror score, and daytime nightmares that bleed into reality, the one thing Ari Aster's Midsommar lacks is surprise. It's obvious to anyone who's seen The Wicker Man (or any horror movie, really) that things won't go well for the four American master's thesis students visiting the apparently quaint and welcoming remote hamlet where the villagers still remember the Old Ways. Aster also retreads a lot of the same ground that made his debut Hereditary so intoxicating: grief-based psychological drama, a strong female lead, leisurely pace, Kubrickian pans, and obsessive invention of occult rituals. The one surprise is that Midsommar works admirably on its own terms despite reminding us of so many other movies (including Aster's last one).
A pair of foci orbit around each other throughout the movie. The first is the failing relationship between the two leads. Christian, an unfocused grad student with no idea what he's going to write his masters' thesis on, feels trapped by the emotionally needy Dani. She's already neurotic, popping lorazepams to dampen her frequent panic attacks, before the tragedy she fears actually strikes, making it unseemly for Christian to abandon her. Swedish student Pelle invites Christian, along with two buddies, to visit his remote northern homeland, an isolated pseudo-utopian commune where the people live in harmony with nature, for a pagan midsummer festival that only takes place once every 90 years; a trepidatious Dani tags along, even though the affable Swede seems to be the only one who actually welcomes her presence. When they arrive, the film's other focus comes to bear (so to speak), as Aster builds a familiar-yet-novel nature worshiping cult out of details like icky surreptitious love potions, runic holy texts dictated by deformed inbreds, and an elaborate (and rigged?) drugged dance around the maypole. The two plots collide in a finale that should leave you with a queasy, ambiguous feeling, since it works quite differently on the metaphorical and the literal levels.
As the only horror movie I can think of filmed almost entirely in bright daylight, Midsommar gives a new symbolic meaning to "day for night" shooting. With its white-haired elders in white robes standing on white cliffs above rune-encrusted white standing stones, the film is lit in blinding, blanched whiteness, decorated with red and yellow wildflowers and lush green fields. The special effects for the psychedelic scenes are legitimately shroomy, with the dilated camera showing off lots of breathing objects, including a flower disc that pulses independently in Dani's headdress. It's lovely to behold.
The audience, a mix of Hereditary fans and patrons shut from sold-out screenings Toy Story or Spider-Man, gasped collectively at the midpoint when the villagers' rites suddenly turned from the picturesque to the grisly. The third act brought genuine, if uncomfortable, laughter with one of the most awkward sex scenes ever filmed. People muttered as the credits rolled. These are sounds you like to hear in the theater.
We're living in a golden age of adult psychological horror at the moment, so enjoy it while it lasts. Personally, I could do with a new Jordan Peele release every winter and a new Ari Aster release every summer for the foreseeable future. Just throw in more frequent Robert Eggers pictures while you're at it, please.
"…Midsommar's core themes still land when they come back into focus in the third act; it's the indulgent weirdness in the build-up that dilutes the movie's overarching impact… it's hard to imagine that this one won't end up going down as the most WTF wide release of 2019."–Sandy Schaefer, Screen Rant (contemporaneous)
(This movie was nominated for review by J.R. Kinnard, who gushed, "The third act is a masterpiece of weirdness." Suggest a weird movie of your own here.)
2019Ari AsterDramaHorrorIndependent filmPaganRecommended
CAPSULE: THE SIGNAL (2007)
May 2, 2019 Gregory J. Smalley (366weirdmovies)	2 Comments
DIRECTED BY: David Bruckner, Dan Bush, Jacob Gentry
FEATURING: Anessa Ramsey, Justin Welborn, A.J. Bowen, Scott Poythress
PLOT: A mysterious signal broadcast through television distorts people's thinking and turns an entire city into a horde of homicidal maniacs.
WHY IT WON'T MAKE THE LIST: The Signal is a tough call, because does get increasingly weird (especially at the end). On the whole, however, its experimentation puts it more on the outer edges of the apocalyptic horror genre than firmly inside the weird movie genre.
COMMENTS: You might say that a movie looks like it was directed by three different directors to criticize its lack of continuity or coherence. In The Signal's case, however, it's actually, literally true, and it's an asset rather than a liability. Working from a script they co-wrote together, David Bruckner, Jacob Gentry, and Dan Bush each direct one of the movie's three acts sequentially, with each section taking the perspective of a different character affected by the homicidal signal. Although the Atlanta-based trio has continued to work in the horror scene, none of them have achieved this level of success in their solo work.
Bruckner's opening segment covers the advent of the mysteriously broadcast signal, which manifests itself as psychedelic fractals on TV that speak telepathically to viewers and prey on their weaknesses. It introduces protagonists Mya and Ben, who are having an adulterous affair but seem like basically good kids. When Mya returns home to the apartment she shares with her husband Lewis, she observes that everyone in the city is acting oddly. Their behavior gradually changes from eccentric to outright psychotic, as hubby Lewis flies into a fit of violent jealousy, while another neighbor is in the hallway outside killing people with gardening shears. It's the most straightforward and conventional bit of filmmaking, which is the necessary approach to establish the premise. Gentry's second act takes the movie into grisly black comedy territory, shot from the POV of people suffering from signal-induced delusions and hallucinations at the most awkward New Year's Eve party/massacre ever. Although it contains some of the most gruesome horror moments, including dastardly uses for pesticide sprays, this segment is the best and most memorable. It features a couple of sly comic relief victims: a kitschy party hostess who doesn't realize she's killed her husband, and a horny male guest whose single-minded dedication to getting laid blinds him to the carnage around him. It's fortuitous that this only a third of the film—there wouldn't have been enough jokes for feature length, but a half hour of palette-cleansing comedy is about perfect. Bush wraps things up with a denouement that's perhaps a bit weaker than the other three, focusing on Ben's attempts to fight the signal off by sheer willpower. This section contains a lot of "is this really happening or is it just a hallucination?" montages and dream sequences.
Though generally innovative, The Signal settles for some horror movie clichés and credibility stretches. People take what should be fatal amounts of physical abuse and come back later brawling like Ali vs. Foreman. And I'm pretty sure you can't kill someone by shoving a plastic balloon pump into their jugular. These lapses are partly covered up by the hallucinatory nature of the proceedings, but at times they feel like a typical horror cop-out. Nonetheless, The Signal is a successful experiment, one that leaves its message about media oversaturation implicit rather than hammering it into your poor skull.
"An outright horror film that nonetheless veers on occasion into surreal black comedy, The Signal (a favorite at last year's Sundance and SXSW Film festivals) takes Marshall McLuhan's famous statement 'the medium is the message' to extremes not explored since David Cronenberg's seminal, frighteningly prescient Videodrome in 1983."–Marc Savlov, The Austin Chronicle (contemporaneous)
(This movie was nominated for review by "bannanar," who said " that one blows my mind… good good stuff." Suggest a weird movie of your own here.)
2007Black ComedyHorrorIndependent filmLow budgetRecommendedUnreliable narrator
CAPSULE: THE TEXTURE OF FALLING (2018)
May 1, 2019 Giles Edwards	4 Comments
DIRECTED BY: Maria Allred
FEATURING: Julie Webb, Patrick Green, Maria Allred, Benjamin Farmer
PLOT: Some millennials with plenty of time and money skirt around different affairs with each other before it's revealed that we're watching a movie about some millennials with plenty of time and money who skirt around having different affairs with each other.
WHY IT WON'T MAKE THE LIST: It pitches itself as "unlike any film that you've ever seen". That is true: never have I seen something so bold in its combination of earnest pretentiousness and skull-sagging tedium.
COMMENTS: Recent experience suggests that among today's millennialist youth, the trend of making movies that end up being about making movies is growing. Perhaps the would-be artistes grew up watching them and thought, erroneously, "That looks easy. I bet I can make something that impressive." Flustered as I am at this moment, I just had the horrible realization that I wish I had just re-watched Paris Is Us instead of this one—and trust you me, I am fully aware of the ramifications of that errant thought.
The drama begins in Portland, Oregon—definitely not Seattle, Washington. Louisa (Julie Webb) is an aspiring film-maker and "love-skeptic" who finds herself, against her will, falling for quiet-but-blandly-hot pianist-composer, Luke (Patrick Green). In a parallel story, not-so-happy-with-his-wife Mike (Benjamin Farmer), an architect, is beginning a bondage-lite affair with a woman whose character was so hard to pin down I can only confidently refer to her by the descriptor "Blondie" (Maria Allred). As love chatter goes back and forth and up and down, each of the leads makes various compromises (?) and claws blindly toward an actual plot.
On at least two occasions I wrote in my notebook, "Big question: is this going anywhere?" And this was twice during a movie lasting a blip of an hour and a quarter. While watching various characters I had absolutely no interest in putz around and make emotional and social idiots of themselves, I was nearly relieved to find that I was watching one of them there "movie" movies. Turns out Louisa is writing a script, and lifting her lines from her interactions with Luke. But wait! No, it turns out that she's actually fallen for the moody pianist (who is married, with children) on whom she's basing a character. But wait! Louisa is just the role played by a character who seems to be an assistant to the real driving force behind this mess.
Maria Allred: I understand that making a movie is a very difficult undertaking. Furthermore, that your credits list includes, but is not limited to, director, writer, editor, producer, costumes, casting, designer, and art department forces me, despite my complete dismissiveness, to give you some respect. But perhaps you should take on a lighter workload next time. The Texture of Falling is, technically, a well put-together movie. But it is, almost objectively, a boring mass of bad dialogue, superfluous meta-twists, and somnolent acting. If your next Kick-Starter1)Kickstarter was mentioned on no fewer than 3 occasions. campaign is for a movie with an actual plot, consider me on the hook for at least a one-hundred dollar donation.
"How are these people connected? What's real and what's fantasy? But again, I run the risk of giving the impression that The Texture of Falling is compelling, which it is not. It's 74 minutes of mediocre actors giving meek, low-energy performances while reciting clumsily written, faux-philosophical dialogue." –Eric D. Schneider, Portland Mercury (contemporaneous)
1. ↑ Kickstarter was mentioned on no fewer than 3 occasions.
2018BewareDramaIndependent filmLow budgetMaria AllredMetanarrativeMindbender
APOCRYPHA CANDIDATE: DARK STAR (1974)
March 26, 2019 Pete Trbovich	Leave a comment
DIRECTED BY: John Carpenter
FEATURING: Dan O'Bannon, Dre Pahich, Cal Kuniholm, Brian Narelle
PLOT: A tiny crew of astronauts is on a maintenance mission to wipe out unstable planets, while contending with beach-ball shaped aliens, megalomaniac AI smart bombs, toilet paper shoratges, and their own petty disputes.
WHY IT MIGHT MAKE THE LIST: Dark Star explores just enough dark matter to make it a heavy contender for the List, given its narrow category of sci-fi-comedy. The main things holding it back are that it hasn't aged well, it's a shoestring budget production with a syrupy pace, and the fact that it really could have fit a few more ideas into its runtime. But some details demand its consideration, such as the theme song: still the only country-and-western quantum-physics love-ballad so far in cinematic history. And a damned catchy one!
COMMENTS: Dark Star is such an enduring and beloved cult film that nothing I could say here could dent its reputation. It marks the origin of two heavy-weight genre-film talents: director John Carpenter, of Halloween, The Thing, Big Trouble in Little China, and They Live fame, and Dan O'Bannon, who would go on to pen the screenplays for Alien, The Return of the Living Dead, Lifeforce, and Total Recall. This is about the film you'd expect if you gave these two juggernaut talents a camera and turned them loose when they were students on a dormitory budget. Dark Star is a sci-fi comedy and a clever satire on the Golden Age of science fiction. It cheerfully plunders your memory if you grew up munching "Analog" and "F&SF" magazines and pulpy sci-fi paperbacks from thrift store spinner racks (that'd be me!), in the same way Tarantino plunders grindhouse cinema. This is all done with a relaxed, broken-in pace, giving it a unique tone even among sci-fi comedies.
The crew of the good ship Dark Star are on a 20+ year mission in deep space to detonate unstable planets around star systems wherever they may find them, to clear space for potential future colonization. They get pep talk video transmissions from Earth mission control with a ten-year delay; the crew has tenuous support at best and their mission is not particularly urgent. They're a crew of expendable red-shirts. Indeed, Commander Powell is dead already, but kept as a meat popsicle able to telepathically counsel the crew. Morale is in the pits: Talby (Dre Pahich) has retreated to the observation bubble where he avoids as much responsibility as he can, Doolittle (Brian Narelle) escapes with daydreams of his good old days surfing in Malibu, Boiler (Cal Kuniholm) fitfully takes out his aggression with laser rifle target practice, and Pinback (Dan O'Bannon) has adopted a farting orange ball alien, whom he seems to identify with more than the rest of the team. In between, the crew's intense boredom and frustration makes them lash out at each other with testy, passive-aggressive acts of random pettiness.
Outside of all that, there really isn't much of a plot. We have a crew of burnouts who have allowed their beards and mustaches to grow into Freak Brothers' territory, surrounded by banks of computer monitors and endless colorful buttons and switches, earning this movie the well-deserved moniker of "hippies in space." Everything electronic talks, from the ship's guiding computer to each individual bomb (note that this movie predates "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"). The hilarious alien gets loose and Pinback has to chase it down, in an extended slapstick sequence that brings him to peril in an elevator shaft. Various computer and electronics malfunctions cause the sentient bombs to go haywire, creating a crisis where the crew must talk a bomb down from exploding with the ship still attached. Funny throwaway moments are all over; the crew tokes doobies in joyless resignation, and thumbs through D.C. Comics' romance titles. And of course, numerous sci-fi works from the classics up to that year are referenced, including, without spoiling it, a Ray Bradbury short story—you'll know it when you see it.
Dark Star's cult following today is at least halfway due to the intelligence at the core of its lightweight premise. It is a grand piss-take on the science fiction epic blockbuster, a genre at that time still in its salad days. Ironically, Carpenter and O'Bannon would go on from here to make some of the most definitive movies in that very genre. Dark Star counters the unfolding corridors of wonder reflected in David Bowman's eyes with caustic pragmatism: space travel sucks when you run out of toilet paper. There are no Captain Kirks or Mr. Spocks here to deliver ringing speeches about the nobility of mankind's quest for discovery. When new stars or intelligent lifeforms are discovered, Lt. Doolittle sneers "Who cares?" and "Find me something I can blow up!" Have Stephen Spielberg and his imitators given you the impression that our first contact with alien life forms will be a sweeping cosmic epiphany? Naw, it'll probably be something like the orange ball with horrid clawed feet which has to be chased and corralled like a rowdy puppy. Dark Star pops our Atomic Age balloon to remind us that no matter what amazing things humans accomplish, most of our problems will still be with us just because we're dumb monkeys who can barely get anything done through the choking bureaucracy that is our only form of self-governance. This makes Dark Star a contender for the very first cyberpunk movie. Ain't it groovy?
"'Dark Star' is one of the damnedest science fiction movies I've ever seen, a berserk combination of space opera, intelligent bombs, and beach balls from other worlds."–Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times (contemporaneous)
Looking back at John Carpenter's Dark Star – An in-depth review and tribute by Lawrence Brooks at "Den of Geek"
(This movie was nominated for review by "Roland Mangan." Suggest a weird movie of your own here.)
1974ComedyCult filmDan O'BannonIndependent filmJohn CarpenterRecommendedScience Fiction
CAPSULE: STARFISH (2018)
March 14, 2019 Gregory J. Smalley (366weirdmovies)	1 Comment
DIRECTED BY: Al White
FEATURING: Virginia Gardner
PLOT: Aubrey is understandably depressed: her best friend dies, and soon after the end of the world arrives in the form of an invasion of alien monsters.
 WHY IT WON'T MAKE THE LIST: Starfish is a weird exercise with interesting ideas and a good performance from Gardner, but its mopey and lingering moments drag it down. Still, it's a promising, professional-looking debut from Al White.
COMMENTS: Just like Starfish's heroine, whenever I get tired of the hassle of dealing with other people, I sometimes fantasize that an apocalypse has hit and wiped out everyone but me. I'm free to roam around grocery store aisles and grab all the bags of Lays Sour Cream Potato Chips I can carry, and eat all the pints of Ben & Jerry's before they melt.
This is a common solipsistic daydream, even though we all realize that this predicament would be nightmarish in reality. For Aubrey, both the fantasy and the tragedy of this scenario become "real." I put "real" in quotes, because it's clear that depopulated world in Starfish is a metaphor for the protagonist's bereavement and isolation. The death of her best friend and confidant sparks her crisis, but a guilty memory that we glimpse in fragments as Starfish (slowly) progresses fuels her alienation. Starfish does not spell out its underlying story in sxplicit detail; it's more impressionistic and often dreamlike. The literal plot is inessential: there's no attempt to make the end of the world seem reasonable, no serious explanation of where the monsters that roam the streets came from, little backstory on the survivors who occasionally break the silence to speak to Aubrey via walkie-talkie. The "mixtape" she assembles is a roadmap to redemption (it contains seven songs, just like the Seven Stages of Grief), and the "signal" is a pure MacGuffin. And so, given the symbolic nature of the script, the ending may be a bit too ambiguous for the audience's liking; after everything Aubrey's been through, it would have been nice to end on a more unconditionally hopeful note. (The ending we got would have been perfect for a different movie.)
Virginia Gardner deserves praise for carrying the film; she's alone in almost every scene, usually either talking to herself or bouncing ideas off a turtle. Gardner conveys a real sense of loneliness—nothing that she does (or wears) matters, yet she carries on, finding a purpose and dragging herself through the wreckage of the world. The deliberate pacing, which punctuates long pauses with brief, intense bursts of crisis, aids in conveying that sensibility. And yes, while slow at times, the movie is duly weird, with frequent dream sequences—from the dinner settings that suddenly turn weightless to a radical (if brief) stylistic change at the halfway point (I won't spoil the surprise, but it would have been more of a shock in a less-strange movie). Underwater, surf and oceanic imagery (including a reading from the opening of "Moby Dick") flood the film, further reinforcing the sense of loneliness, as if Aubrey is marooned on a desert isle or bobbing alone on a life raft far at sea. Or in the process of slowly drowning.
It's not a movie for those who value plot, but Starfish earns a recommendation for anyone who appreciates a heavy dose of psychological drama in their genre films.
Debuting director Al White (also known as A.T. White) also heads the U.K. based band Ghostlight. He wrote all the songs heard in the film, from the spooky cello cues to all seven of the indie-pop mixtape songs (a number of which have a silly "They Might be Giants" vibe; others rock). He's got talent and is still young, and idealistic: he says that all of his profits will be donated to cancer research. Starfish plays at select theaters throughout the U.S. through April. Click here for a list of screenings. Home video/streaming dates have not yet been announced.
"It's a beautiful, emotional, weird, and fascinating movie."–Germaine Lussier, io9.com (festival screening)
2018Al WhiteApocalypticDramaGriefHorrorIndependent filmPsychologicalScience Fiction
APOCRYPHA CANDIDATE: EATING RAOUL (1982)
February 26, 2019 Pete Trbovich	3 Comments
DIRECTED BY: Paul Bartel
FEATURING: Mary Woronov, Paul Bartel, Robert Beltran
PLOT: An urban middle-class couple notices they live in a world where they're surrounded by expendable idiots—so they take to robbing and killing them in order to finance their modest dreams.
WHY IT MIGHT MAKE THE LIST: Every weirdophile has seen this movie and remembers it as a satirical cannibal-comedy, quirky but not on the memorably weird end. It isn't until you re-watch it fresh and recall all the throw-away details—the ketchup on the milkshake, the wine bottle plushie doll in Paul's bed, the Doggie King dog food commercial—that you appreciate the weirdness bursting from the seams in this unique oddball masterpiece.
COMMENTS: Eating Raoul was too ahead of its time. You can hardly find a weird movie fan who doesn't love this movie, and yet it still gets listed near the bottom of great black comedies. Now, we're enthusiastic about Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the Coen Brothers, and even the Monty Python alumni getting recognized as the heralds of modern black comedy. But this movie opens with Paul Bartel getting bitched out by his liquor store boss for not selling the right wines. He is interrupted by an armed robber, shoots said robber dead (deadpan: "Mr. Cray, you killed him!") and then goes right back to chewing out Paul Bartel's ass. Next scene: Mary Woronov is a nurse who goads a horndog patient into finishing his pureed slop hospital food with the promise of hot nursey time, only to switch off with a burly male sidekick for an enema party. None of us filthy sinners love this golden apple enough, and that is why we are not worthy of it.
Our star couple is Paul and Mary Bland, two Hollywood middle-classers who are exasperated, stuck in the me-generation late-1970s swingers era while wanting nothing to do with them. They hate the disco party freaks almost as much as they hate being too broke to pay their bills and open the restaurant of their dreams. When one of these swingers ends up accidentally dead at their hands, a connection between the two issues takes shape, and the Blands decide to turn tricks, seducing swingers to their apartment. Said swingers are expecting a filthy payoff, only to meet the business end of a frying pan to the head. Tutored by "Doris the Dominatrix," who shares her tricks of the trade in between spoon-feeding her baby, the Blands place an ad in the local kink mag, and the suckers bite right away. Might as well take the bread in their wallet, then. Just toss the bodies down the furnace chute, who's going to miss them? It's not like any of these tongue-waggling perverts had parents or anything.
But they do eventually meet one other individual with a clue, Raoul, who runs a suspiciously cheap locksmith service and moonlights as a Continue reading APOCRYPHA CANDIDATE: EATING RAOUL (1982) →
1982Black ComedyCannibalismCriterion collectionIndependent filmMary WoronovMust seePaul BartelSatire


John Edwards buried Elizabeth Edwards only weeks ago. That for him was the g0-ahead to propose to his baby mama/mistress, Rielle Hunter.
The source reporting this would be the National Enquirer, I know, I know. But they are the ones who outed Edwards and Hunter in the first place, and that was the truth.
Edwards people are plat out denying the engagement, but would you expect them to admit it this soon after Elizabeth's funeral. Not a chance.
Those reps say what they are told to say.
Thankfully Elizabeth left John out of her will. The only think she could do to snub the worthless cheater.


The Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-cm (FIRST) project surveyed 10,575 square degrees of the North and South Galactic Caps at a frequency of 1.4 GHz using the NRAO Very Large Array (VLA). An automated mapping pipeline was used to generate images with 1.8" pixels, a typical rms of 0.15 milliJansky (mJy), and a resolution of 5.4". At the 1 mJy source detection threshold, there are ~90 sources per square degree, ~35% of which have resolved structure on scales from 2–30". The survey covers approximately the same sky area as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), and 30% of the sources have optical counterparts in SDSS.
Source Position Accuracy - <1"
Northern Beam, circular Gaussian FWHM - 5.4"
Southern Beam, elliptical Gaussian FWHM - 6.4-6.8" x 5.4"
Faint Images of the Radio Sky in Twenty Centimeters (FIRST). Survey Logo.


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Former Nutter Cabinet member pleads guilty to stealing city funds
Laura Benshoff
Former Philadelphia City Representative Desiree Peterkin Bell leaves the Criminal Justice Center after pleading guilty to corruption charges. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
A top official in the administration of former Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter pleaded guilty Friday to spending public funds on personal expenses and creating bogus sponsorship arrangements to redirect $225,000 for various city events.
In her role as the former Philadelphia city representative, Desiree Peterkin Bell sat on the board of two city-affiliated nonprofits: The Mayor's Fund of Philadelphia and Welcome America, Inc. On two credit cards issued by the Mayor's Fund, she racked up more than $19,000 in personal expenses from 2013 to 2015, including approximately 300 Uber rides.
Peterkin Bell also used money earmarked for the 2015 International Cycling Classic to pay off the city's outstanding debts to host the Forbes' 30 Under 30 event under the guise of "sponsorship." Prosecutors said a similar scheme was used to illegally move money from the Mayor's Fund to Welcome America.
Speaking outside the courthouse in Center City, Peterkin Bell said she takes responsibility for her actions — but she said she was unfairly targeted by Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro.
"I put my heart and soul into serving this city, and I made a mistake. But I think it's clear that I'm not the criminal the attorney general portrayed me to be when he charged me," she said. Peterkin Bell initially faced several felony charges, which were downgraded to seven misdemeanors in the plea agreement.
Senior Deputy Attorney General Kirk Handrich, who prosecuted the case, declined to comment on its outcome.
Peterkin Bell was sentenced to 90 days of house arrest, followed by a year of probation. She will be allowed to leave to bring her daughter to and from school and gymnastic events, as well as to church. As a part of her sentence, Peterkin Bell will repay the money spent on her expenses.
"You've gotten a pretty big break today, and you need to make the most of that opportunity," said Judge Scott DiClaudio.
The Mayor's Fund has repeatedly come under scrutiny for operating as a city-funded piggy bank for its leadership. Previously, the Board of Ethics fined former City Representative Melanie Johnson $2,000 for spending almost $7,000 on lavish meals and gifts.
The fund oversees millions in grant funding each year as well as money the city makes from the Philadelphia Marathon.
'Bold, systemic change': Philly Chief Defender Keisha Hudson says criminal justice reform requires it
The new leader of Philadelphia's Defender Association spoke to WHYY's Cherri Gregg about advocating for clients and "a crisis of mass incarceration."
Philly DA Larry Krasner focuses on gun violence during second inauguration ceremony
During a virtual ceremony, Krasner committed to investing in violence prevention after a record-breaking number of people were murdered in Philadelphia in 2021.
Top Nutter official Peterkin Bell accused of misusing $245K in taxpayer money
Pennsylvania attorney general announces public corruption charges against woman who served as city representative.
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NAVARRE, KATHLEEN, "ATTITUDE CHANGE OF THE NONDISABLED TOWARD DISABILITY AS A FUNCTION OF EXPOSURE TO DISABLED INDIVIDUALS ENGAGING IN ATHLETIC COMPETITION." (1980). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 7186.


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AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. The African Methodist Episcopal Church was attached to the Galena Conference, and was organized on November 26, 1870, with seven members, and W. J.-Davis, Elder. The Rev. Cheek was the pastor of the church in 1876. He had come to Dubuque as a missionary in September. With no church or organized congregation, he held services in private homes and then invited potential members to attend the CENTENARY CHURCH on Thursday evenings to visit with other people. The ladies of the church established an aid society. (1)
In July 1880 the congregation used to Dubuque Herald to appeal for funds with which to purchase a lot on which to construct a church. (2) In August 1880 the newspaper printed the following response:
Help a Good Cause
The African Methodist Episcopal congregation have purchased a lot
at the rear of the LORIMIER HOUSE north of Julien Avenue, on
which they design erecting a church building at a cost of about
$1000. The have paid $150 for the lot. Their desire is to have a
place of worship commensurate with their means, free from mortgages
or other encumberances, and to this end they mean to exert them-
selves and spare no effort. They are weak of themselves numerically
and financially, but they have claims for kindly consideration from
the people of Dubuque which we have full confidence will be
considered favorably in their behalf now when they are in need of
kindly encouragement.  They have struggled heroically and in a manner
which challenges admiration to preserve their church organization here
in the face of much that was calculated to discourage them, and for
this they deserve credit and approval. Of themselves they cannot do
much, but with a little aid such as many of our people can well afford
to give, they can accomplish all they aim at or hope for. They will
call upon our citizens to assist them in their efforts to build their
church and it is hoped that they will meet with the realization of
their most sanguine expectations. The colored people of Dubuque ought
not to appeal in vain for a house of worship. (3)
The congregation held a festival and supper in September 1880 at the DUBUQUE CITY HALL to pay the remainder of their minister's salary. (4)
On December 31, 1880 the congregation held its annual watch ceremony seeing the old year out and the new year in with "exercises and rejoicing observed on such occasions." (5)
The Christian Recorder "Published by the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States, for the Dissemination of Religion, Morality, Literature and Science." in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was first published in 1854 under the direction of the Rev. J.P. Campbell. This early edition was short-lived. In 1861, under the guidance of Elisha Weaver, the New Series, Volume 1 began. The Recorder was introduced into the South by distribution among the black regiments in the Union army. Benjamin T. Tanner became editor in 1867, and was followed in that position in 1885 by the Rev. Benjamin F. Lee who served until 1892. The Recorder provided images of the situation for blacks throughout the country. The Information Wanted page continued for years, week after week; with inquiries about broken families, the enforced separations of parents, children, brothers, sisters, all relationships, created by slavery in the South. (6)
In 1911 the congregation numbered 150 communicants.
1. "The Colored Church," Dubuque Herald, December 22, 1876, p. 4. Online: https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=uh8FjILnQOkC&dat=18761222&printsec=frontpage&hl=en
2. "An Appeal to the Public," Dubuque Herald, July 15, 1880, p. 4. Online: https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=uh8FjILnQOkC&dat=18800715&printsec=frontpage&hl=en
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Definizione
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Below we describe the research programs of the ACL:
How do people mentally represent their interdependence with others? Any interaction can be characterized by a specific form of interdependence, but most often the actors in those situations do not have direct, objective knowledge of the type of interdependence that characterizes the interaction. This program of research includes (a) developing a theory about the function and structure of interdependent inferences (Functional Interdependence Theory; FIT), (b) testing the structure of interdependence inferences, (c) testing cues people use to infer specific properties of interdependence, and (d) understanding the role of interdependence inferences in decisions to cooperate. In the process of our empirical work, we have also developed a multidimensional scale that measures how people think about of their interdependence (the Situational Interdependence Scale; SIS).
Interdependence, Cooperation, and the Punishment of Social Norms in Daily Life. Much research on human cooperation studies cooperative behavior in the laboratory using abstract, social decision making tasks. While this method has obvious advantages of experimental control and internal validity, an over reliance on these methods has resulted in a lack of descriptive research documenting when and how people cooperate in daily life. The ACL has been using experience sampling methods to study the patterns of interdependence people experience in daily life, and when and how they cooperate with others in those situations (Columbus, Molho, Righetti, & Balliet, 2021). Further, we have used these methods to study prominent strategies to impose costs on noncooperators, such as gossip, direct confrontation, and ostracism (Molho, Tybur, Van Lange, & Balliet, 2020; Cruz et al., 2021). Also, cross-societal research has uncovered that indirect responses to norm-violations, such as gossip, are quite typical of western, rich societies (Eriksson et al., 2021). ACL collaborates with the center for Global Social Norms led by Kimmo Eriksson.
Ecological Origins of Cross-Societal Variation in Cooperation (ERC-Consolidator Grant). A puzzle facing the social sciences is understanding the origin of cross-societal variation in cooperation. Strikingly, multiple disciplines propose the same, not yet established, explanation: ecological conditions, such as subsistence, environmental hazards, and relational mobility, determine how people are interdependent (i.e. how actions affect own and others' outcomes), and interdependence can be the mechanism through which diverse ecologies shape a culture of cooperation. For example, rice versus wheat production plausibly has led to more versus less dependence on others, which then led to different cultures (e.g. values, beliefs, and norms) that affect strategies of when and how people cooperate. We use a multi-discipline, multi-method approach to answer three questions about whether ecologies indeed create different interdependence, and how this leads to variation in culture and cooperation: 1) Do ecologies create different kinds of interdependence? 2) Can interdependence cause differences in culture and cooperation? and 3) Does variation in interdependence relate to culture and cooperation?
The ACL is also collaborating with the Human Generosity Project, to study how interdependence, contributions to public goods, reciprocity, and preferred strategies for maintaining cooperation vary across small-scale societies.
Climate Change. By its focus on the conflict between short-term self-interest and longer-term collective interest, social dilemmas provides a suitable model for one of the most important societal challenges: climate change. In our program of research, we focus on various questions, such as how we can make climate change less abstract by reducing psychological distance (Van Lange & Huckelba, 2020) and by highlighting consequences for our (grand)children (Van Lange, Joireman, & Milinski, 2018). We have also studied whether variables that are inherently dyadic, such as social value orientation and social mindfulness, predict concern and actions aimed at mitigating climate change (Kirkland et al., 2022; Van Doesum et al., 2021). And finally, we study the influence of making the ecological costs of climate change more concrete, such as the elimination of insects or trees (Bastian et al., 2019).
Indirect Reciprocity and Reputation Management. Humans are conditional cooperators who selectively cooperate in situations that can result in direct and indirect benefits. One problem for conditional cooperators is understanding when current cooperation can result in indirect benefits. Our lab has been testing hypotheses about how people manage their reputation in a social network to acquire indirect benefits. We are specifically interested in how properties of social networks (now and in the ancestral past) can be used to generate testable hypotheses about adaptations humans have to identify opportunities to cooperate and acquire (often unforeseen) indirect benefits in a social network (see Wu et al.)
Cooperation Databank (CoDa). We developed the Cooperation Databank (CoDa) – a databank that contains ~3,000 studies on human cooperation (1958-2017) published in Chinese, English, and Japanese. Experts annotated each study for 275 variables related to cooperation, including the quantitative results (e.g., effect sizes). We designed an ontology that defines and relates concepts in cooperation research and that can represent the relationships between individual study results. We have created a search engine that, based on the dataset, enables users to retrieve studies that test the relation of variables with cooperation, visualize these study results, and perform (1) meta-analyses, (2) meta-regressions, (3) estimates of publication bias, and (4) statistical power analyses for future studies. CoDa is part of an ERC Starting Grant awarded to Daniel Balliet (additional information).
Hybrid Intelligence. Daniel Balliet and the ACL are part of a consortium of computer and social scientists who have recently been awarded the Gravity Grant by NWO (20 million euros for 10 years, 2020 – 2030). You can learn more about the project at the Hybrid Intelligence Center. One of our first projects will involve working with Hayley Hung at TU Delft to study the cues people use to select cooperation partners. We aim to use this information to design A.I. that can assist people in selecting cooperation partners.


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Q: Precompiled header strategy - with inheritance and local member from (unknown) class I am new here, sorry but there are many similar topics but they don't answer the question right.
(The other thing is, that many people says the #include "stdafx.h" should be placed
in every .h file AND .cpp file, I added them in every .h file and everything works fine.
I know what happens when the #include "stdafx.h" is only included in the .cpp files
If I place them only in the .cpp file, I guess some classes or enums are not defined,
and I want them as member in a class or inherit from them... Here is the wall of text:)
Here is the topic which I found where the "right" questions was asked, but
nobody answered the "right" question, only the "basics" behind the pchs.
include stdafx.h in header or source file?
I have a similar question, I know the pch and how they work, but
the question Marnix wasn't solved completely.
His question was:
stdafx contains freeglut.
my class header file has an attribute of GLenum.
Should I include the stdafx into the .h of the class?
I know you could declare a "undefined class" with class B as example,
but what are you doing when you want to derivate from this class,
or using that as a local variable, not as a pointer in the header file.
Example:
//Where B is in the precompiled header file, let's say its a big class from <freeglut.h>

class B1;

class c : public B // B is unknown and wont "compile" here
{
public:
    void test2();
        B1 tes; // Won't work because of undefined class..., I know why
        B1* tes2; // Works fine, I know why
};

The header file is incorrect because B isn't known yet. Is it a good way to include here
the "stdafx.h" file - or even include the freeglut.h ?!
I guess no, but let's say the desired class B is in a namespace, somewhere hidden...
So, the header won't "compile" due to the errors.
And I don't want to add the header file to the "stdafx.h", because maybe I change it a lot..
I know what pchs are and how they work.
Do you know a solution to it?

*

*This is the unsolved question (including my question) from Marnix, look at the link.

UPDATE:
Bill the Lizard removed my description of the problem - it
should be describe my problem better. Thanks for that.
The problem isn't solved yet.
The both answers are on the main problem, and doesn't solve it.
Just test it, it won't work.
I even asked my prof for an answer - he didn't know an answer to it.
So:
Here is the problem described in easy words:
I have a huge class A. This class is very big and doesn't change, so I
include them in the precompiled header.
Now I have a class B which inherits from class A, and have a local member of the class A.
The problem is that class A doesn't know class B.
The declaration of class A; doesn't help, because I want to inherit from it and want a local
member of class A inside class B.
Everybody says that the precompiled header should be "ONLY" in the .cpp file -
so it would include everything (while the preprocessor is active) and everything should work, because this is the very first line for the preprocessor. Nonsense.
So- just think about it. It cant handle it because the header file doesn't now the class B,
even when the .cpp file have the definition of the class B thru the precompiled header.
Sample code:
  // Class A is inside the precompiled header - with #include "classA.h"
class A
{
    //BIG BIG BIG class
};

//This class doesn't know class A because I didn't include the precompiled header
//And it doesn't make sense to include the "big" header file from class A

//class A; // fake class A
class B : public A // A is unknown and won't compile even when "fake class A" is declared
{
    A nonUseableVariable; // A is unknown unless you include the header or precompiled header for it;
    A* ptr; // Only member works when "fake class A" is declared
};

//Solution from everybody how doesnt read and understand the real problem
//This is the .cpp file from class b.cpp
#include "stdafx.h" // dont care, the header cant be compiled

Let's say the header of class B is changing often, or the class A is somewhere in a namespace, there is no solution to this problem, you must add the precompile header here.
So I hope you understand me now.
There is no other solution to it I guess, because class A  have to be known for class B due to the inheritance and the local member, when the member is a pointer, the member works.
But look into the code.
I hope someone could help me here, and no admin remove this again.
UPDATE: SOLVED
VS was going crazy, after a reboot of the whole system, everything works fine.
Thank you again :)

A: When using precompiled headers, they must be the first include of any implementation (.cpp) file - otherwise the compiler will complain.
Ergo there is no need to ever include them in the header file, as they will always be present as the first include of all implementation files.
Edit
And as Joachim Pileborg points out, it must be the first non-comment in the source file!
Edit 2
As a proof of concept, I created a project:
stdafx.h
// stdafx.h : include file for standard system include files,
// or project specific include files that are used frequently, but
// are changed infrequently
//

#pragma once

#include "targetver.h"

#include <stdio.h>
#include <tchar.h>

// TODO: reference additional headers your program requires here
#include "a.h"

a.h
#pragma once

class A
{
public:
    A();
};

a.cpp
#include "stdafx.h"

A::A()
{
}

b.h
#pragma once

class B : public A
{
public:
    B();
}

b.cpp
#include "stdafx.h"
#include "b.h"

B::B()
{
}

Output:
========== Build: 1 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

Caveats:
Intellisense doesn't like it, but that's not entirely surprising - the point is, it does work.

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Aguilar sparks Crew's tone-setting rally in G6
By News_Room	 On Oct 22, 2018
MILWAUKEE — The first blow came from the old nemesis, recast as a leadoff man — another David Freese homer to silence another October crowd at Miller Park. The counter came collectively, the Brewers matching the jab with one, two, four of their own, the fruits of an ear-splitting rally that manager Craig Counsell said "lifted the roof off the place."
Safe at second, Mike Moustakas' arms flung up. On his back after sliding past home, Ryan Braun basked. Counsell sighed in the dugout, overcome with relief. It wasn't only how the four-spot against Hyun-Jin Ryu motored the Brewers toward a 7-2 win over the Dodgers in Game 6 of the National League Championship Series on Friday night. It was the ripple effects their first-inning rally set in motion, long before the ink on their series-evening win was dry.
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"Especially after they jumped ahead on David Freese's homer, I thought it was incredibly important for us to answer back as quickly as possible, keep the crowd into it, keep the pressure off of us," Braun said. "I think it was inspiring for us for the rest of the game and encouraging for us to move into tomorrow."
Fueled by 43,619 fans, the Brewers could almost cruise the rest of the night to force a winner-take-all game on Saturday. They now set up as well as possible for that game: their relief corps rested, the momentum squarely on their side. Not only did the four-run first allow the Crew to save Josh Hader for Saturday, when it will take an even more all-hands-on-deck approach to run prevention. But it also marked a positive turnaround for several of Milwaukee's important hitters, like Jesus Aguilar, whose two-run double opened the scoring.
Aguilar doubled again and added an RBI single later in the night as well, marking the slugger's most productive game of the postseason. A force in the middle of the Brewers' lineup in his first full year, Aguilar entered play 5-for-32 (.172) this postseason.
"Tomorrow it can be somebody else, but tonight it was me," Aguilar said. "I'm really happy about it. It means I am getting hot, and hopefully I stay hot."
Aguilar was far from the only slumping Brewers hitter. Milwaukee entered Friday having scored just three runs over its previous 22 innings, and just seven combined over the three games of this NLCS in Los Angeles. Aguilar, Moustakas and Erik Kratz came in particularly cold, combining to go 7-for-50 (.140) in the series prior to the inning.
But that all changed after Lorenzo Cain led off against Ryu with an infield single, then advanced to second on a Christian Yelich grounder. Braun walked, setting up a two-on, one-out situation for Aguilar, who poked his two-bagger into the right-field corner.
Video: NLCS Gm6: Aguilar records 3 hits, 3 RBIs in Game 6
"Aggie's hit, you couldn't describe it as any bigger," Counsell said. "The first inning was loud from then on."
Moustakas then pulled a similar double to score Aguilar, scoring on Kratz's opposite-field hit a batter later. All told, it marked just the seventh time in 491 half-innings this postseason that a team put up a four-spot or better, according to MLB Network research. Two of the previous six involved a grand slam (Ronald Acuna Jr., Jackie Bradley Jr.).
The four-run output was the largest in any inning this postseason for the Crew, and it came directly after what Kratz called "a gut punch" from Freese, who has made a career of hitting dramatic postseason home runs. Freese is better remembered for his famous walk-off homer for the Cardinals against the Rangers in Game 6 of the 2011 World Series, but few in Milwaukee forget that he earned NLCS MVP Award honors that year as well, after hitting .545 with three home runs in six games against the Brewers.
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Freese's first-inning homer in Game 6 that year, also at Miller Park, put the series on ice for St. Louis. His first-inning homer in this Game 6 only lit a fire under the Crew.
"Then, the energy was back," Aguilar said. "I can't wait for tomorrow."
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Mr. Michael Neglia is a life-long musician with notable skills in the areas of percussion, voice, piano, and organ. He is a product of the Archdiocese of Newark's school system, having attended high school at Seton Hall Preparatory in West Orange. He then went on to further his musical education at some of the nation's most well respected programs including the Mason Gross School of the Arts, the Juilliard School, and William Paterson University. He has successfully completed his undergraduate music studies and finished with a 4.0 GPA.
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Since joining the faculty at Aquinas Academy, he has gotten married, purchased his first home, and is now expecting his first child.