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Long-haul COVID symptoms keeping Sutter out of Canucks lineup
Oct 12 2021, 3:59 am
More than six months after first contracting COVID-19, Brandon Sutter is still unwell.
Last spring the 32-year-old centre was one of many Vancouver Canucks players rocked by the Gamma variant (known as the P.1 variant at the time), going on the NHL's COVID list on April 3. Sutter has been out of the Canucks lineup throughout preseason with what GM Jim Benning described as "fatigue," and he'll miss the start of the season too.
"He's going to be out for a while," Benning told reporters today. "He's not going to be back anytime soon. Once he feels a hundred per cent better, then we'll get him back up skating and get him in shape, and then he'll start skating. There's no timeline on him."
Sutter hasn't skated with his teammates yet, and the Canucks announced that he's on the team's injured reserve list.
"He's experiencing some of the symptoms from COVID — I guess they call it being a long hauler. He still has some issues that he's working through with that. The first step for him is to get feeling better. Once he's healthy enough and he's feeling better, then he'll start working out and back out on the ice."
His father, Brent Sutter, went into detail about how badly Brandon was feeling last season with Sportsnet's Eric Francis. "He was pretty down and out, feeling pretty sick," Brent said on April 5. "He's got symptoms — body aches, headaches, chills."
Boeser on IR too
The Canucks set their opening night roster on Monday, featuring Brock Boeser on injured reserve.
Boeser hasn't played since the Canucks' first preseason game in Spokane on September 26, but is skating and considered day-to-day.
General Manager Jim Benning has confirmed the opening day roster for the 2021-22 NHL season.
Brock Boeser, Brady Keeper, Tyler Motte and Brandon Sutter will commence the season on the Club's Injured Reserve List.
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Newly-acquired Juho Lammikko is on the opening night roster, and is expected to fill in for Sutter as the team's fourth-line centre.
Alex Chiasson, who was on a pro tryout contract and featured prominently in preseason, is still unsigned. The Canucks could still add him to their roster, but they would have to demote someone to the AHL to make it happen.
Travis Hamonic, who is still away from the team for "personal reasons," cleared waivers. Benning still isn't getting into specifics, but said "it's bigger than what you guys think it is."
Benning also confirmed that the entire team is now fully vaccinated. At this point, it's unclear if Hamonic will report to the Abbotsford Canucks.
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Independence, "Little Italy" of Louisiana, was created as a result of the New Orleans to Jackson route of the Great Northern Railroad in the 1880's. It was first called "Rabbit Town" and later called "Uncle Sam". Feeling a lack of dignity in the name, a Welch immigrant named Christopher Evens gave the settlement the name of Independence.
Italian families searching for a place to settle in the 1880's were attracted by the thriving strawberry industry of the area. Independence slowly became a predominately Sicilian/Italian community. It is more diverse culturally today but is still characterized by its excellent Italian cuisine and its hard working and friendly people.


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March 21, 2018 in ★★★★, Max Fleischer films, Popeye | Tags: 1001 Arabian Nights, 1939, Aladdin, Dave Fleischer, Mae Questel, Margie Hines, Olive Oyl, Popeye | Leave a comment
Stars: Popeye, Olive Oyl
'Aladdin and his Wonderful Lamp' is the last of three Popeye two-reelers in Technicolor.
Like 'Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor' (1936) and 'Popeye the Sailor meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves' (1937) the short has a clear 1001 Arabian Nights setting. In fact, it's a rather faithful retelling of the classic fairy tale, until Spinach comes along. Unlike the earlier two-reelers 'Aladdin and his Wonderful Lamp' doesn't either feature Fleischer's table-top technique, Wimpy or Bluto, with an anonymous villain taking Bluto's place.
The film is introduced as being a script Olive is writing for 'Surprise Pictures', and, of course, she herself stars as the princess. It's the first scene in which we can hear Margie Hines as Olive Oyl's voice. Hines had replaced Mae Questel, who didn't make the move to Miami together with the rest of the Fleischer studio. Margie Hines would remain Olive's voice until the end of 1943, after which Mae Questel picked it up again.
'Aladdin and his Wonderful Lamp' is wonderfully made. Its background art is no less than gorgeous, and some of the animation is outstanding, for example that on Popeye's horse. The final battle is a delight, when Popeye uses cans of spinach as his own magic against the magic of the lamp, now in the villain's hands.
The film contains a novelty: in the cave scene and in the scene in which Popeye parades the streets as a prince, he suddenly has eyes with pupils, foreshadowing his design of the Paramount studio years.
Watch 'Aladdin and his Wonderful Lamp' yourself and tell me what you think:
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Grainne Morton
Pearl and Shell Drop Necklace
This dreamy statement piece incorporates mother of pearl which brings harmony and balance.
Materials: Ethically sourced 18k gold-plated silver, mother of pearl and shell.
Fitting: Hook and Loop Clasp
About Grainne Morton
If Grainne Morton was to have a spirit animal, no doubt it would be the magpie. Instinctively and obsessively drawn to collecting and hoarding anything miniature or precious that catches her eye, many things you or I would overlook, Grainne has amassed an incredible collection of objects – all destined to find their place among the tales she weaves within her jeweled compositions.
Born and raised in Northern Ireland, by creative and antique-loving parents, Grainne was immersed in and surrounded by the traditional Crafts, Folklore, Music and Fairy Tales of the country. Perhaps it's this beginning to her story that has now imbued her work with it's somewhat contradictory nature? All at once vintage and contemporary, precious and non-precious, spontaneous and ordered, junk and treasure… this could well be a description of Grainne's motherland, itself.
Her individuality, and the expression of that – primarily through clothes, style and the considered presentation of [her]self – is engrained in each piece of jewelry she makes. Each piece, carefully choreographed, the arranging and re-arranging of little objects, and precious things, moved and re-placed until they establish a relationship to each other. And tell a story to the viewer.
Moving to Edinburgh, Scotland, in the late eighties to study at Edinburgh College of Art was the jump off point for Grainne to become an avid collector of antiques and ephemera. When her parents visited her in Edinburgh, they would go on antique-buying trips for their shop at home in Northern Ireland, and Grainne would tag along. Her collections became her inspiration, and her inspiration became her work.
This use of unexpected, and delightfully juxtaposed, materials is where it all started, and over 20 years later, is now firmly her trademark.
Grainne's work has been exhibited internationally and, in 2007, she was shortlisted for the Jerwood Applied Arts Prize.


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Friederike Caroline von Uechtritz (* 12. Mai 1749; † 4. Oktober 1809 in Regensburg) war eine Tochter des gothaischen Wirklichen Geheimen Rates Carl Emil von Uechtritz (1694–1775) und dessen zweiter Ehefrau Dorothea Christiane von Oppel († 1775) sowie Enkelin des gothaischen Kammerpräsidenten Siegmund Ehrenfried von Oppel (1678–1757). Als Ehefrau des Weimarer Prinzenerziehers, Graf Johann Eustachius von Schlitz genannt von Görtz, lebte sie zwischen 1768 und 1778 in Weimar und erlebte als Zeitzeugin die Anfänge der Weimarer Klassik.

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Caroline von Uechtritz genoss die typische Ausbildung einer adeligen Tochter im Hause ihrer Eltern. Sie sprach und schrieb fließend Französisch, verstand Englisch, war mit der Kultur am Gothaer Hof bestens vertraut, liebte das Theater. Vermutlich wurde sie auch vom Hofmeister ihrer beiden Brüder, Peter Neyron, dem späteren Professor am Braunschweiger Collegium Carolinum, unterrichtet. Den abschließenden gesellschaftlichen Schliff sollte sie bei ihrer Tante Martha Eleonore von Witzleben, Schwester der Mutter und Ehefrau des weimarischen Oberhofmeisters der Herzogin Anna Amalia von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach, Friedrich Hartmann von Witzleben, im Winter 1767/68 erhalten.

Dort lernte die von ihren Zeitgenossen als tanzfreudig, liebenswürdig und belesen beschriebene Caroline ihren zukünftigen Mann, den Prinzenerzieher Johann Eustach von Görtz, kennen. Die Hochzeit wurde von Herzogin Anna Amalia organisiert und am 11. Oktober 1768 im Weimarer Schloss gefeiert. Anschließend lebte Caroline in einer Wohnung an der Esplanade (heute Schillerstraße), während ihr Mann weiterhin bei den beiden Prinzen Karl August und Konstantin im Schloss wohnte.

In den folgenden zehn Jahren kamen zwei Töchter zur Welt, Caroline 1772 in Gotha und Louise 1774 in Weimar. Caroline lebte bis 1778 in Weimar, erledigte sämtliche Geschäfte ihres Mannes während dessen häufigen Reisen, notierte die bei Hofe zu beobachtenden Vorgänge und organisierte schließlich den Umzug der Familie im Sommer 1778 nach Berlin, wo sie im September 1778 die dritte Tochter, Marianne, zur Welt brachte.

Von 1781 bis 1782 war Caroline Begleiterin und Ausbilderin einer Braunschweiger Prinzessin. Ab 1788 lebte das Ehepaar in Regensburg, wohin Johann Eustach als kurbrandenburgischer Komitialgesandter am Immerwährenden Reichstag beordert worden war. Dort baute sie allmählich einen politischen Salon auf, wo sie gezielt Nachrichten im Auftrag ihres Mannes oder ihres Schwiegersohnes, Aloys von Rechberg, an die dort akkreditierten Gesandten weitergab. Caroline verstarb 1809 in Regensburg.

Zeitzeugin des Sturm und Drangs in Weimar
Im Laufe ihrer Ehe waren Johann Eustachius und Caroline häufig getrennt. Daher nutzten sie Briefe, um sich ihrer gegenseitigen Liebe zu versichern und sich über neueste Entwicklungen im Familienleben oder am Weimarer Hofe auf dem Laufenden zu halten. Auf diese Weise  entstanden Zeitzeugenberichte in einer einmaligen Dichte über den Beginn der Weimarer Klassik. So beschrieb Gräfin Görtz die einzelnen Konstellationen bei Hofe sowie das in den Augen der Zeitgenossen als skandalös betrachtete Auftreten von Herzog Karl August, Goethe und Lenz.

In jüngerer Zeit ist das Interesse der Forschung an den Briefen durch deutsche Übersetzungen deutlich angestiegen. Eine in der Gesamtheit vertrauenswürdige, kritische Ausgabe der Briefe in deutscher Sprache oder auch im französischen Original steht jedoch noch aus.

Literatur
 Gabriele von Trauchburg: Wer war Gräfin Görtz? Erste biographische Fragmente zu ihrem 260. Geburtstag, Weimar 2009; ISBN 978-3-936177-13-8
 Gabriele von Trauchburg: Zwei verkannte Weimarer Schöngeister. Beobachtungen und Anmerkungen der Gräfin Caroline und des Grafen Johann Eustachius von Görtz zu Literaten und Philosophen zwischen 1768 und 1778, in: Ilse Nagelschmidt/Stefan Weiß/Johanan Trilse-Finkelstein (Hrsg.), Goethes erstes Weimarer Jahrzehnt. Anna Amalia und Goethe – Tagungsband mit weiteren Forschungsbeiträgen, Weimar 2010, S. 311–364; ISBN 978-3-936177-15-2
 Christian Kaserer: Welchen Wert haben die Goertz Briefe? München 2012; ISBN 978-3-656-27651-7

Weblinks
 Gabriele von Trauchburg: Wer war Gräfin Görtz? Erste biographische Fragmente zu ihrem 260. Geburtstag. Denkena, Weimar 2009

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Filipino fashion teachers on sustainability
Where is the best place to start talking about 'sustainable fashion'? School.
by George Buid
An exhibit of the fashion students at the College of Fine Arts and Design of the University of Santo Tomas. © UST
The fashion industry is one of the biggest contributors to the pollution affecting our natural world. This is not news. But there are people who are attempting to address this. Case in point: fashion schools.
In a country like the Philippines, whose plastic pollution ranks third, after Indonesia and China, it is no surprise that schools feel the responsibility to take part in sustainability efforts. Fashion schools like Institute of Creative Entrepreneurship: Fashion, Arts and Design (ICE-FAD) and College of Fine Arts and Design at the University of Santo Tomas (CFAD-UST) have done so.
On September 28, ICE-FAD introduced their new breed of fashion designers, who were taught about sustainable fashion through upcycling, one of their methods to introduce the concept of 'circular economy' to their students.
Each piece was made out of clippings and/or recycled fabrics from old clothes. Most of them are handsewn by students with the guidance and support of mentors from ICE-FAD.
Irene Grace Subang, a fashion teacher, says: "As an educator and designer, I believe it is my duty to my students to inform them about the global pollution the fashion industry is causing. Experiment with solutions we can both work with, towards sustainability, and inspire them to take up the cause with me as sustainable fashion warriors."
Upcycled design by one of the students of Institute of Creative Entrepreneurship: Fashion, Arts and Design (ICE-FAD). © GEORGE BUID
Irene has given lectures on sustainable fashion at ICE-FAD, iAcademy, and SoFA Design Institute, among others. The challenge that Irene faces is that clothes are still made using traditional processes; sustainable fashion is still novel to most designers, production companies, and manufacturers. To cope with these challenges, she immerses her students in films and workshops about sustainability and the cost of clothing retail manufacturing to global pollution.
Though wastage cannot be avoided, she encourages them to upcycle their scrap into something beautiful. The True Cost, for instance, was one of the documentary films she showed her class, as it encapsulates everything wrong with the way we consume and produce clothes.
Monina Tan-Santiago, CEO of ICE-FAD, shares her thoughts on why ICE-FAD included sustainable fashion in their curriculum. "We decided to include sustainability in our curriculum, because ICE believes that to help solve or ease our ecological crisis, we should begin with education," she says.
"As educators in the fashion industry, we believe that we must do our part in educating future designers and entrepreneurs on their role in reducing carbon footprint in order to ensure a sustainable future for the next generation."
However, Monina says that the fashion industry in the Philippines, not just students or designers, also need to fully embrace the practice. "The availability and cost of sustainable fabrics are also some of the challenges we are facing," she adds.
Meanwhile, Reah Benedicta Goodwin, a college instructor at the CFAD-UST, has also championed discussions on sustainable fashion in her university. "I saw first hand how wasteful this industry is while I was working in the industry back in L.A. several years ago. Back then, very few people or organisations cared about sustainable or ethical fashion. That was during the height of fast fashion. Consumers cared more for trend, quantity and variety."
"When I came back here, I saw the influx of thrift stores and eventually learned where most of them came from. That time I was already upcycling many of my clothing," she adds.
"I had the opportunity to interject the concept of upcycling when I was given the Fashion Elective load at UST CFAD. I saw this as a perfect venue to teach our students how to be responsible designers by not only caring about the design aesthetics but by being mindful of the sources of their products as well as how it will impact the environment and the people."
Much like the instructors at ICE, Reah says teaching sustainable fashion is not without its difficulties. She explains: "My biggest limitation is time: both the time to teach such a big concept and the time to monitor if what I taught them made enough impact for them to practice [sustainable methods like upcycling] in real life. As an instructor, I measure the success of a lesson when our students practice a concept even after I have graded them."
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Survivor Support and Gender Issues
Far be it for me to proclaim expertise on gender issues. There are whole university departments dedicated to studying gender issues. But as a professional dealing with survivors of sexual abuse I can't help but notice how gender pervades the dialogue about the treatment care and recovery of survivors of sexual abuse.
As a starting point we can all agree that the vast majority of sexual assaults are perpetrated at the hands of males. This reality has resulted in the victim community for the most taking the anti-male stance and the support networks forming around female based centres, quite understandably. Womens' shelters were an important first step in creating a safe place for women to go when involved in an abusive relationship. But today we are facing a despairing absent center for male survivors of sexual abuse. Often it is forgotten that males are also abused, that they hide their suffering and that they need a place to go to find counsel, comfort and treatment. Current sexual assault shelters cannot meet their needs and the presence there would not be welcome.
In our society today there are very few places a male survivor can go for treatment and counselling. Now there are those who believe a male can simply walk into a centre that has focused on Women's issues for twenty years and he will be just fine dealing with his abuse in that environment. I believe this is naïve, first of all women who have been abused, need and deserve a safe place to go for treatment where their issues can be dealt with, having men come into that environment would likely be very disruptive. In addition, like it or not, the atmosphere is many of these centres is decidedly anti-male, whether conscious or subconscious. A male survivor trying to deal with abuse issues cannot feel comfortable in this environment.
The powers that be in the abuse counselling network need to recognize this, not as a power play for grabbing funding dollars away from women, but as a reality that acknowledges that victims are not gender based, women, do not own the concept of being sexual abused, males are abused in huge numbers and in many cases do not come forward because of a lack of support resources.
Why is this important beyond the standard feminism debate? Because I believe the ostracization of male victims, the effectual abandonment of their needs because they happen to be the same gender of the perpetrators hurts recovery and may in effect perpetuate future abuse. Some women's advocates believe they hold the monopoly on victimhood and would deny male survivors the same rights as female victims: separate and dedicated male shelters, male counsellors and support services
I am not interested in casting blame, but rather dealing with the reality that many/most abusers were abused themselves as children. Perhaps the absence of a destination for them to seek refuge and healing isolates them from treatments that could reduce sexual abuse in the community. My concern is that the politicization of abuse into anti-male camps keeps survivors from the treatment they need to heal and may in some cases cause further abuse.
It is time to remove the gender politics from the dialogue of who has the right to govern the healing and treatment of survivors. The reality is that men and women suffer horribly from sexual abuse, they both need somewhere to go to start the healing and recovery process, there are no gender boundaries to who can be abused and the suffering is the same, I believe that just because the first outlet for dealing with abuse was female focused does not mean that the development of the way ahead is owned by the feminist advocates who started the much needed process. In fact, I may even go so far as to say that they are not suited for many of the requirements needed to build the male healing model. Unfortunatley, the battle for funding, political encampments and petty empire issues can get in the way of building the right models to heal and prevent abuse. I hope the dialogue can continue and that we can move the markers forward in providing a place for men to heal in an environment suited to their needs.
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Just like the attraction of PETRONAS Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, a trip to Alor Setar is incomplete without visiting the Alor Setar Tower (Menara Alor Setar). Similar to KL Tower, it is also a telecommunications tower. In fact, it is the second tallest such tower in Malaysia and the 19th in the world.
Alor Setar Tower, located in the heart of the city, was opened on 14th August, 1997 by the then Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, who hails from Alor Setar himself. The tower is now a symbol of Kedah state.
Even if you do not plan to go up to the observation deck, you should at least pose for a photo in front of the tower.
Add: Lot 99, Lebuhraya Darul Aman, 05100 Alor Setar, Kedah Darul Aman, Malaysia.
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Lifestyle interventions focusing on diet and physical activity result in less excess gestational weight gain among women with overweight and obesity.
Alan M. Peaceman, M.D., from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, and colleagues randomized 1,150 women with overweight or obesity across seven clinical centers to different lifestyle intervention strategies (diet and physical activity) or standard care.
The researchers found that the percent of women with excess GWG per week was significantly lower in the intervention group versus the standard care group (61.8 versus 75.0 percent; odds ratio, 0.52). The intervention group also had lower total GWG from enrollment to 36 weeks of gestation (mean difference, −1.59 kg). Results across individual trials at the seven sites were similar. There were no significant differences between the groups with regards to preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, cesarean delivery, or birth weight.


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Q: how do I correct dc offset with torchaudio high pass filter? I am segmenting drum audio files at each transient and exporting the audio to individual wav files. The problem is, all of my files have a dc offset that I cannot seem to get rid of which is causing popping sounds at the end of the file. I am able to use Audacity's built in high-pass filter to verify that applying a filter would fix my problem, but I have not yet been able to replicate those results with code.
My preference is to use torchaudio's highpass_biquad() method but I am open to using scipy filters too. The main goal is to remove the offset so that the audio files do not have a popping sound at the end.
How do I implement a high pass filter to correct the dc offset like Audacity's high pass filter does as shown in the pictures?
torchaudio approach
from torchaudio.functional import highpass_biquad
import librosa

wav, sample_rate = librosa.load(path, sr=None, mono=False) # files are 24 bit 44.1k
wav_tensor = torch.from_numpy(wav)
cuttoff_freq = 15.0

wav_filtered = highpass_biquad(wav_tensor, sample_rate, cutoff_freq)

scipy approach
from scipy import signal
import librosa

wav, sample_rate = librosa.load(path, sr=None, mono=False) # files are 24 bit 44.1k
cutoff_freq = 15

# METHOD 1
b, a = signal.butter(N=5, Wn=cutoff_freq, btype='high', fs=sample_rate)
wav_filtered = signal.filtfilt(b, a, wav)

# METHOD 2
sos = signal.butter(N=5, Wn=cutoff_freq, btype='hp', fs=sample_rate, output='sos')
wav_filtered = signal.sosfilt(sos, wav)

Picture 1 is the output of torch highpass_biquad method. The scipy approach yields similar results.
Picture 2 is the audio after applying highpass effect in audacity. This is the desired output of my code.
Picture 3 is an example of output with no high pass filtering applied. Most files come out centered below 0dB.

A: It turns out the dc offset was produced by a scaling function in wavio when writing the file. The highpass filters were working correctly after all.

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Asthma is a chronic illness that affects people of all ages. It is caused by a variety of reasons, which include allergens, pollution, genetics, physical activity and emotional distress. Patients never really know when they will have an attack. But when it happens, they experience symptoms such as difficulty in breathing, wheezing cough and tightness in the chest.
The most immediate treatment for this is to use an inhaler, which helps alleviate the symptoms after a few puffs. That is why patients and caregivers need to buy OTC medication for asthma relief such as EpiMist or epinephrine mist ahead of time. They must ensure that they have extra supply of inhalers for any eventuality.
There are two types of prescription medication to treat asthma. The first is quick-relief medicine or relievers and the other one is the long-term control medication or the preventers.
What are quick relief medications for asthma?
Quick-relief medicines or relievers provide patients with rapid and short-term relief. These are usually taken when the symptoms of asthma start to worsen to a potentially severe attack. The effects of the medication are felt within minutes.
One example of this kind of medication is the inhaler-type bronchodilator. This medicine acts as a relaxing agent that helps open up the bronchial airways. Within minutes, the patient is able to breathe normally and air is able to pass in and out of the lungs.
This medication is often referred to as "rescue" and relief drugs because it can stop the onset of an asthma attack quickly. The downside of rescue meds is that the effects only last for a short period of time. There is also a need to have an inhaler within reach at all times. Patients with asthma must have an inhaler in their purse or pocket and have it loaded with the medicine for immediate use.
What are long-term or maintenance medications for asthma?
Preventers or long-term asthma medications are taken daily over a long period. They are used to address chronic symptoms and prevent asthma attacks by working on the root cause.
One good example of maintenance meds for asthma is corticosteroid. Like its short-term counterpart, the drug is also taken by inhalation. It helps prevent the onset of asthma attacks by minimizing the swelling in the bronchial airways. Prednisone is another type of steroid that is prescribed to treat asthma. It is taken orally and works to reduce the immune system's reaction to allergens and swelling.
The effects of these medicines are usually felt after a patient has taken them for several weeks. These long-term treatments can work with mild to severe cases of asthma.
Most people with asthma need both relievers and long-term medication. Short-acting medication gives them quick relief whenever they have an attack. These rescue-type meds are readily available and can be purchased over the counter. On the other hand, long-term and maintenance medication is needed to treat inflammation of the airways. Patients will need prescriptions to buy these medicines.
Doctors may change or adjust the meds over time. Alternatively, they may prescribe a combination of treatments that include herbal, natural and alternative options. It is best to work with a physician to find the best treatment for your asthma.


A company called Diamond Multimedia launches the BVUMD3, a HD USB display adapter that lets users to add a monitor to their desktop PC, notebook/netbook easily using a regular USB 2.0 port.
This USB-powered compact adapter offers a DVI connector and comes with a DVI-to-VGA converter. It supports up to1600 x 1200,1920 x 1080 (wide) 32 bit True Color resolutions and is DisplayLink certified. You can add up to six additional displays (each display needs one BVUMD3). The BVUMD3 has three addition USB 2.0 ports. It works with both Windows PC and Mac.
The Diamond BVUMD3 is available for $73.66.


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The Art of Loish: A Look Behind the Scenes - Kickstarter Numbered First Printing with Cards
Loish (Lois van Baarle), Loish (Lois van Baarle), #3866 of the First Printing, Very Fine in Fine slipcase, Worcester, 3DTotal Publishing, 2016, 1st, 978-1909414280, 190941428X, 10.4 inches, 10.5 inches, 152 pages, color illustrations, Hardcover, wraps, English
This was the Kickstarter copy which comes with a deck of playing cards and a bookmark. The book itself is a first printing and individually numbered....
Ever Meulen
Verve, 1988-2005
Ever Meulen, Meulen, Ever, Near Fine (mild bend to the lower corner, light shelfwear, very flat, tight, clean), Amsterdam, Oog en Blik, 2006, 1st, 978-9054921578, 11 inches, 9 inches, 208 pages, over 250 color and black & white illustrations, Softcover, French wraps
This excellent 2006 art book collects Meulen's most important graphic work from 1988 to 2005 (posters, covers, illustrations, serigraphs ...). Foreword...
J. Otto Seibold
Introducing JottoWorld: The Graphic Work of J. Otto Seibold - Signed with a Drawing
J. Otto Seibold, Vivian Walsh, J. Otto Seibold, Seibold, Vivian Walsh, J. Otto, Seibold, J. Otto, Signed and dated 4-5-08 by J. Otto Seibold with a drawing of the pig's face, Fine in Very Good dustjacket (half-inch triangular, Tokyo, Seibundo Shinkosha Publishing Co., 1996, 1st, 9784416896303, 4416896301, 10.4 inches, 7.5 inches, 60 pages, color illustrations on every page, Hardcover, pictorial boards, English
An unusual Japanese art book signed and dated 6-22-98 by J. Otto Seibold with drawings of three of his characters. An idiosyncratic art book by...
Asia Ladowska
Sketch with Asia: Manga-inspired Art and Tutorials by Asia Ladowska
Asia Ladowska, Ladowska, Asia, Fine, issued without dustjacket, 3dtotal Publishing, Worcester, 2019, 978-1-909414-66-2, 10.5 inches, 7.8 inches, 168 pages, color illustrations, Hardcover, cloth, English
From the publisher: Sketch with Asia is the first major publication from online manga-inspired art phenomenon, Asia Ladowska. Asia blends her talent for...
Near Fine (light thumbdent to the back cover), Top Shelf, 2004, 1st, 11 inches, 8.5 inches, 128 pages, black & white with 16 pages in color, softcover, color wraps, English
A special issue devoted to Filipino artists and comics. Interviews with Alex Nino, Tony DeZuniga, Manuel Auad. Guides to Filipino artists and comics....
Kevin Dart
Seductive Espionage: The World of Yuki 7 - Inscribed with a Drawing
Inscribed by the artist with a drawing, Very Fine in Near Fine bellyband (small nick to edge of belly band), Ada Cole, Kevin Dart, Cole, Ada, Dart, Kevin, Fleet Street Scandal, 2009, 1st, 9 inches, 12 inches, 72 pages, color, Softcover, French wraps, English
Out of print. Inscribed by the artist with a very nice drawing dated in the year of publication. An entertaining imagined history of the 1960s Yuki 7...
Kent Williams
Kent Wiliams: How Human of You - Signed
Kent Williams, Williams, Kent, Signed by the artist, Fine, issued without dustjacket, 101/Exhibit, Los Angeles, 2014, 1st, 10 inches, 12 inches, 36 pages, 22 color plates, Hardcover, cloth spine, boards, English
From the artist: This 36-page, 10" x 12" catalog from Kent Williams' 2014 exhibition at 101/Exhibit, features a foil-debossed and laminated cover on chip...
Agent Provocateur: a Celebration of Femininity
Joseph Corre, Serena Rees, Corre, Serena Rees, Joseph, Fine in Fine dustjacket, London, Carlton Publishing Group, 1999, 1st, 9781858687582, 12.25 inches, 9.4 inches, 192 pages, over 250 color and black & white illustrations, Hardcover, cloth, English
An interesting collection of photographs and artwork--high and low. With the printed letter and envelope laid in From the publisher: An Agent...
Arthur Adams
Modern Masters Vol. 6: Arthur Adams
George Khoury, Eric Nolen-Weathington, Arthur Adams, Khoury, Eric Nolen-Weathington, George, Adams, Arthur, Near Fine (mild thumbdents to the covers otherwise Very Fine, sharp corners and edges, bright, glossy), Raleigh, NC, TwoMorrows, 2006, 1st, 9781893905542, 11 inches, 8.5 inches, 128 pages, black & white, softcover, color wraps, English
Out of print. An art book devoted to fan favorite artist Arthur Adams. Contains a book-length interview with over 150 black & white illustrations....
Modern Masters Vol. 14: Frank Cho - Signed First Printing (Near Fine)
Eric Nolen-Weathington, Frank Cho, Nolen-Weathington, Eric, Cho, Frank, Signed by the artist, Near Fine (mild thumbdents to the back cover otherwise Very Fine, sharp corners and edges, bright, glossy), Raleigh, NC, TwoMorrows, 2007, 1st, 9781893905849, 1893905845, 11 inches, 8.5 inches, 120 pages, over 150 black & white illustrations and 8 pages in color, softcover, color wraps, English
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Tanino Liberatore
B. & W. - Signed & Numbered Deluxe Edition
Tanino Liberatore, Liberatore, Tanino, One of 120 signed & numbered copies, Very Fine, Edizioni Di, Italy, 2007, 1st, 9.75 inches, 7 inches, 44 pages, 32 full-page black & white illustrations, Hardcover, printed cardboard, Italian
Thirty-two stark ink brush drawings by Liberatore: bold graphic images of women (sometimes with men), all previously unpublished. Wordless except for a...
Joe Chiodo
Works of Art - Softcover
Joe Chiodo, Chiodo, Joe, Near Fine (mild rubbing to the corners, otherwise Fine), Neshannock, PA, Hermes Press, 2003, 1st, 9780971031180, 11 inches, 8.5 inches, 96 pages, over 90 color illustrations, Softcover, color wraps, English
From the publisher: Presenting many never-before-published new painting and pin-ups, plus noteworthy Vampirella paintings, this book showcases renowned...
Spectrum 9: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art
Cathy Fenner, Arnie Fenner, Fenner, Arnie Fenner, Cathy, Near Fine (light cover wear, no thumbdents, very flat, tight, clean), Underwood Books, Nevada City, CA, 2002, 1st, 11 inches, 8.5 inches, 176 pages, color illustrations, Softcover, wraps, English
From the publisher: The ninth installment in the best-selling Spectrum series once again sets the standards for the field of fantastic art. This...
Matt Ferguson
The Film and Pop Culture Art of Matt Ferguson - Signed & Numbered
Limited to 250 numbered copies signed by the artist, Fine, issued without dustjacket, Matt Ferguson, Ferguson, Matt, Cakes and Comics, 2018, 1st, 11.1 inches, 8.5 inches, 95 pages, color illustrations, Hardcover, pictorial boards, English
An exclusive limited edition Exhibition Catalogue for Matt Ferguson. This is his first and only collection to date. In conjunction with Thought Bubble...
Heikala
The Art of Heikala: Works and Thoughts
Heikala, Heikala, Very Fine, issued without dustjacket, 3dtotal Publishing, Worcester, 2018, 978-1-909414-81-5, 10.75 inches, 9.25 inches, 152 pages, color illustrations, Hardcover, cloth, English
From the publisher: The Art of Heikala: Works and Thoughts is a comprehensive collection of the best work by popular illustrator Heikala, including...
Kelsey Eng
Dragon Dance: The Art of Kelsey Eng - Signed with a Drawing
Signed by the artist with a drawing, Very Fine, issued without dustjacket, Kelsey Eng, Eng, Kelsey, 2019, 8.8 inches, 8.3 inches, 96 pages, color illustrations, Hardcover, pictorial boards, English
Dragon Dance is Kelsey Eng's second collection of paintings and drawings. This book features 96 pages of artwork from 2017-2019 fully annotated with the...
Ilya Kuvshinov
Momentary: The Art of Ilya Kuvshinov
Ilya Kuvshinov, Kuvshinov, Ilya, Very Fine, PIE International, Japan, 2017, 9784756248756, 9.2 inches, 7.5 inches, 192 pages, color and black & white illustrations, Softcover, wraps, English
From the publisher: The first collection of works by the Japan-based Russian illustrator, Ilya Kuvshinov Ilya Kuvshinov is a Russian illustrator with...
Beatrice Blue
Wonder: The Art and Practice of Beatrice Blue
Beatrice Blue, Blue, Beatrice, Very Fine in Very Fine dustjacket, Worcester, 3dtotal Publishing, 2020, 1st, 9780955153099, 9.2 inches, 7.5 inches, 152 pages, color illustrations, Hardcover, cloth, English
From the publisher: Wander into the immersive illustrated mind of Beatrice Blue. Filled with playful characters, enchanting natural scenery, and...


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U.S. gears up for near-unprecedented Supreme Court fight over Scalia vacancy
by Brian Frydenborg	,	February 16, 2016
Why a historic fight over the Supreme Court is happening, why it is so unique, and what it means for the Court and its cases.
With the death of conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, the United States is facing a constitutional crisis of the sort not faced in 170 years.
The U.S. Constitution states in Article II, Section 2, the president "shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint…judges of the Supreme Court." While theoretically this is an invitation for stalemate when the White House and the Senate are controlled by opposing parties, the practice has generally been that the Senate partly defers to the president while exercising a constraining power on his range of nominees.
Since 1789, 36 out of 160, or roughly a quarter, of presidential nominations to the U.S. Supreme Court not confirmed by the Senate, involving 31 individuals as some were nominated repeatedly. Six of these 31 were later renominated and confirmed, meaning that 25 people of 151 (≈17%) nominated to the Supreme Court were never confirmed.
A major factor in a huge portion — or around 14 — of the nominees not being confirmed was partisan party politics, either because a president's term was about to end or because the party controlling the Senate thought it would occupy the White House in the following election. Two extraordinary vacancies occurred in the 1840s, one during John Tyler's presidency lasting almost 14 months and another bridging his presidency and that of his successor, James Polk, lasting over 27 months.
In the last 100 years, no vacancy has lasted even eight full months (most lasted for less time), with one exception in 1969-1970 that lasted almost 13 months.
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, six of eight presidential-election-year-nominations were confirmed by the Senate, but five of the eight vacancies had occurred the previous year. 1932 was the last year in which a vacancy, nomination, and confirmation all happened in an election year, 1938 the last election year a nomination and confirmation happened, and the last time an election year saw the Senate confirm an opposing party's president's nomination was in 1888.
Before Scalia's death, the balance of the court was five conservative-leaning justices and four liberal-leaning ones, though one of the conservatives—Anthony Kennedy—is regarded as a "swing vote". With the court now at something of a 4-4 deadlock, whomever takes Scalia's seat will tip the court one way or the other.
Within hours of Scalia's death, Republican Senate leaders announced they will not allow a vote until after the next president assumes office.
In the current hyperpartisan atmosphere, this is partly understandable: Senate Republicans risk enraging their base—already furious at moderates who compromise—and would be particularly vulnerable to challenges from fellow Republicans to their right if they were seen to hand a Supreme Court seat to Democrats, especially in five of the six Senate seats Republicans took from Democrats in 2010 and up for reelection this year.
The Senate has never taken more than 125 days to vote on a nomination. If Obama nominates someone soon and the Senate holds no vote for the remainder of his term, at least in that aspect, this would be by far unprecedented behavior; the seat would be vacant for at least eleven months, the longest period for a vacancy since the 1840s. Given the current politics, this seems almost certain. Krishan Y. Thakker, a Washington, DC-based attorney, noted that the "Senate's refusal to consent" to Obama's nomination is "expected."
However, Obama's term lasts a few weeks longer than the current Congress's term is supposed to last, meaning he could appoint a Supreme Court Justice when Congress is in recess, as laid out in the Constitution and valid until senatorial review by the end of the following annual Senate session. A recent Supreme Court ruling makes this more difficult, however, and the last time this happened was under President Eisenhower in the 1950s, who made such appointments three times (one in the 1956 presidential-election-year).
What this means is that the court will basically be operating with only eight justices until the very end of Obama's presidency and possibly longer. With Scalia gone, conservatives are down a vote, and in the likely event of a 4-4 tie, the ruling from the lower court stands and the case sets no national precedents, or the Court may postpone issuing a decision until its next term.
One or more of two sets of predictive models have seven current cases likely to have been 5-4 Scalia majorities that would now be ties. One such ruling would have limited Obamacare's ability to force contraceptive coverage, favoring religious institutions. Another would have would struck down a lower court's challenge to Virginia that it had deliberately molded a congressional district dilute minority voters' power.
Yet another would have challenged an over nine-million-strong-group of public-sector unions' abilities to collect dues from non-member workers. Other major cases involve affirmative action and abortion, and proponents of both are now more hopeful of their odds.
Another major case involved an executive order that is a pillar of Obama's environmental and climate program.
Just a week earlier, the Supreme Court had issued a 5-4 ruling overturning a denial of a stay on the Environmental Protection Agency's curbs on emissions from coal power plants; instead, the Court ordered the pause while a lawsuit from states challenging the new regulations made its way through the court system. The ability of the U.S. to follow the major Paris climate treaty is at stake, but now, when that case finally makes its way back to the Supreme Court, the Obama Administration and environmentalists have more reason to hope, too.
If the vacancy lasts into the next term, when it would soon become the longest in modern history, many other major decisions will also be affected. Perhaps even more worrying is the setting of such a recent precedent for blocking a nomination for so long.
Steve Petteway, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States
Categories:	North America, Politics
Tags:	Antonin Scalia, Dwight Eisenhower, President Barack Obama, U.S. Constitution, U.S. Senate
Brian Frydenborg
Brian E. Frydenborg is a freelancer based in Amman, Jordan, who earned his B.A. double-major in Politics and History at Washington and Lee University and holds an M.S. in Peace Operations awarded from the George Mason University School of Public Policy. His studies included abroad experiences in Japan, Liberia, and Israel/Palestine. He has had dozens of articles published across a variety of outlets, is one of the top bloggers for the Russian International Affairs Council, and has spent most of the last fifteen years studying, researching, and writing about (and occasionally practicing) politics, history, public policy, foreign policy, humanitarian aid, international development, and peace operations.
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Looking for the proper Children's Martial Arts program here in Clearwater?
Which Martial Arts style is right for your child? It's a question many people ask themselves. A lot will come down to personal tastes, wants and needs. However, many will be limited to what is available to them locally. Take the time to have a look through our website so we can help you decide which martial art may suit you and your child best.
Firstly let me say that martial arts has now become one of the most popular pastimes in the world and is still on the increase. There are so many types, ancient and traditional all the way to modern hybrids, that cover everything from general mental, spiritual/religious and physical health, sports competitions, weapons based training and street/war self defense combat systems.
We like to pride ourselves that we have everything your child will need to start their journey into become a fine outstanding person.
Our primary style we offer is Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, but our Children's Martial Arts curriculum has a variety of styles associated, therefore our teaching spectrum comes from a wide variety of styles.
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu enables practitioners to subdue their opponents without the use of punching and kicking, eliminating the need to use excessive force in a real-life self-defense situation. BJJ is a martial art that uses grappling techniques and ideal for diffusing an aggressive situation. Nobody has to get hurt with Jiu-Jitsu, the idea of "tapping out" during training allows the students to keep their training realistic, yet safe.
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is the ideal method of self-defense for kids since it emphasizes leverage and technique over strength and power. This focus makes it possible for all children to excel, regardless of their size or athletic ability.
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is a martial art designed to work with the principles of leverage and technique   instead of brutal force and strength. The main focus of BJJ is on the ground grappling: the most important but often neglected area of martial arts and MMA. It is a fact that 90% of all fights end up in clinch and eventually on the ground. BJJ gives you the   necessary tools to fully protect yourself in the most common type of street confrontations and against any other type of martial art.
Kids learn motor movement at a very early age. Martial Arts challenges the entire body, developing coordination, balance, agility and poise. These traits are often neglected and not fully developed in team sports. By starting children in Jiu-Jitsu they learn how to fall properly, and how to initiate movement patterns that are inherent to life and any sport they might choose down the road. We also begin basic fitness and calisthenics that will give them a leg-up on their peers who do not engage in fitness activities at an early age.
Kids are ranked in a belt system and within these belts they will earn degrees. The belt system allows your child to set long-term goals (becoming a black belt) and short-term goals, such as being able to execute a new technique they learned in class, or achieving their next degree or belt. These skills will help you child learn commitment and perseverance which are life-long skills important for every child to learn and understand to succeed in their goals.
Our professional instructors will be here to help your child from day one. They will decide what your child's needs are, develop a plan and a training schedule in order to achieve these goals.


Pain free is certainly something you want to be Happy. Many people suffer from Knee Pain in various forms. This article will help you eliminate this Pain.
Knee Arthritis & Knee Pain Exercises series part 2. Joint inflammation Knee Exercise for Knee Joint inflammation is a video tutorial of workouts for knee joint inflammation. If you have knee arthritis and intend to reduce the swelling from knee arthritis, this video will certainly guide you thru a joint inflammation knee exercises development to decrease the swelling and discomfort by strengthening the muscle mass that assist, support and also help shield the knee. This video clip is part 2 in our series of knee pain workout progressions and also will concentrate on reinforcing the quadriceps muscle teams to support, secure and lower the swelling of arthritis. This video provides you a detailed procedure on how to do the workouts properly as well as guidelines to comply with as you proceed your treatment program to reinforce your knee and also stay clear of future complications. For even more knee discomfort exercise progressions or various other rehab video clips check out the channel and also subscribe. Thanks for watching.Oscar Sanchez, C.S.C.S.


The TruContain® has performed exceptionally well under normal conditions. We bring in very large quantities of the product and to date we are only aware of one customer who has torn the mat. We know of no customers that have had to replace the edging. We checked with the manufacturer and we wanted to give you the best overview on how-to make these repairs.
In the rare occurrence that you manage to tear a TruContain®, they have tested simple repair method using a readily available patch. There are two acceptable methods, with the second being the 'best practice' and the first being acceptable.
The first option is to simply wipe down the affected area with rubbing alcohol (on top of the mat). Wipe down an area that is larger than the patch to be used. Let the alcohol dry and apply a Tear-Aid Type B Patch. We sell the product for $13.49 with 'free shipping'. You can find the product for less on Amazon with free shipping if you are placing an order over $30.00. We had to add the cost of priority mail to ours. We also have larger rolls available.
Follow the same procedure as option one. This time clean and apply the patch to both sides of the TruContain® mat. Please note, our cart automatically discounts orders for more than one kit. Depending on the size of the tear, one kit may suffice.
While we have never had a customer with this complaint, the manufacturer does have a procedure for replacing the edging. If your mat is out of warranty and you need to repair a section of edging, here is what we would do.
Pull the foam out of the affected side of the mat through the slit on the underside. Replace the foam with a piece of garden hose.
IMPORTANT: If your mat is less than a year old and you have an issue, it is important that you contact the manufacturer before attempting any repairs.


Our Bachelor of Arts in Speech program prepares credible, convincing public speakers who are authentic and ethical. And, with a minor in business, political science or another area you care about, you will have something to say and be able to say it well. Here is a major that opens lots of doors, providing a highly sought after basic — but uncommon — skill.
The speech major is offered by the Department of Communication and Media. Other majors and minors within the department include advertising and public relations, broadcasting, communication studies, cross cultural communication, drama, professional writing, video and film and visual communication.
Why should you choose SAU's speech program?
The courses for the 49-hour speech major include such subject areas as rhetoric, voice and diction, story telling, acting techniques, oral interpretation, persuasive speaking, and recital. Majors and minors are also available speech and theater education. The speech and theater education major and minor are available for secondary certification only. Contact the School of Education for more information.
View the course requirements and layout, course descriptions, a sample four-year plan, as well as learn more about the speech program at Spring Arbor University in the undergraduate catalog.
Porchfest (event) – Quite possibly the most highly anticipated event of the year, this SNL-format variety show brings together the most (and least) talented people that SAU has to offer. Hosted by the men of Ormston Hall, this is one event you'll remember for years to come.
FM radio stations– Spring Arbor University serves as home to four radio stations: KTGG & WJKN-AM (1540 and 1510 AM), WSAE-FM (106.9 Home.fm) and WJKN-FM (89.3 The Message).
Musicals and plays – From dazzling musicals, to cutting-edge black-box theater performances, to award-winning plays, the Spring Arbor theater program offers a wide range of theatrical outlets; enough to sate the appetite of the most enthusiastic theater guru.


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Harrij Notenboom
Notenboom in 1968
5 June 1963 – 17 July 1979
22 September 1971 – 24 July 1984
(1926-08-31) 31 August 1926 (age 92)
Roosendaal, Netherlands
Catholic People's Party, Christian Democratic Appeal
Henricus Antonius Cornelis Marie "Harrij" Notenboom (born 31 August 1926)[1] is a Dutch retired politician. He served as member of the House of Representatives from 1963 to 1979 and in the European Parliament from 1971 to 1984. Notenboom was a member of the Catholic People's Party and later the Christian Democratic Appeal when the former had merged into it in 1980.[1]
As financial specialist of the Catholic People's Party he was influential in the Nacht van Schmelzer [nl], which led to the fall of the Cals cabinet.[2] Notenboom criticized the budget as proposed by Cals.[3]
Notenboom was born in Roosendaal. He was adjunct secretary of the Nederlandse Rooms-Katholieke Middenstandsbond from September 1952 to January 1956. He subsequently served as director of the Katholieke Limburgse Middenstandsbond until 1969.[1]
In 1988 he obtained his title of doctor in economic sciences with a thesis on budget law of the European Parliament.[4]
Notenboom was bijzonder hoogleraar [nl] (professor not paid by University funds) of problematics of small and medium-sized enterprises between 1991 and 1994 at Eindhoven University of Technology.[1]
^ a b c d "Drs. H.A.C.M. (Harrij) Notenboom" (in Dutch). Parlement.com. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
^ Mark Kranenburg (13 October 2016). "Zo ging het in De Nacht van Schmelzer" (in Dutch). NRC Handelsblad. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
^ Anet Bleich (13 January 2015). Joop den Uyl 1919-1987: dromer en doordouwer. Uitgeverij Balans. pp. 225–. ISBN 978-94-6003-416-9.
^ Alexander van Kessel (2014). "Strijder voor 'de goede zaak'" (in Dutch). Christen Democratische Verkenningen. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
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Ad Oele
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Pieter Blaisse
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Kees van der Ploeg
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Piet van der Sanden
Maan Sassen
Wim Schuijt
Wim Vergeer
Tjerk Westerterp
Anti-Revolutionary Party
Jaap Boersma
Kees Boertien
Wilhelm Friedrich de Gaay Fortman
Cees Hazenbosch
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Willem Rip
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People's Party for Freedom and Democracy
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Frederik Gerard van Dijk
Henk Korthals
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Bob de Wilde
Christian Historical Union
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Maarten Engwirda
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Henk Waltmans
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Sjouke Jonker
Hanja Maij-Weggen
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Hans Nord
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Suzanne Dekker
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I am Not a Serial Killer
I AM NOT A SERIAL KILLER (Ireland | UK/16/104mins)
Directed by Billy O'Brien. Starring Christopher Lloyd, Max Records, Laura Fraser, Karl Geary, Bruce Bohne
THE PLOT: John Cleaver (Max Records) has always been a troubled kid. Working at the family funeral home does not help matters, but being able to talk honestly with his therapist Dr Neblin (Karl Geary) about his homicidal thoughts and fascination with killing. John manages to never act on his impulses, but when people begin to die at the hands of a serial killer in his small town, he must hunt down and confront the killer, while keeping his own inner demons in check.
THE VERDICT: It has been five long years since Max Records last appeared in a film, and the adorable little boy from 'Where the Wild Things Are' is all grown up now, and playing a kid obsessed with death and what it might feel like to kill. Max Records amazingly manages to make this damaged and potentially dangerous teenager relatable and likeable as he struggles with his own demons and tries to understand a killer who is on the loose. Christopher Lloyd plays an ailing elderly man who John becomes fascinated with, and does well at making the character affable on the surface, but with his own secrets that he is hiding. Laura Fraser plays John's overworked and frazzled mother who desperately tries to hold her family together. The rest of the cast features Karl Geary, Bruce Bohne and James Gaulke.
Christopher Hyde and Billy O'Brien adapted Dan Wells' novel for the big screen, and have managed to make the film darkly intriguing and supernatural, with a hefty dose of humour and strangeness thrown in to make I am Not a Serial Killer less obvious and familiar than audiences would at first think. The dialogue is strong and the eerie feel of the story permeates every corner of the film.
As director, Irish man Billy O'Brien keeps the film moving at a steady pace, while making John's struggle between the darker and lighter sides of his personality feel natural. The performances in the film are strong, in particular Max Records who ably carries this strange and eerie story on his shoulders. The humour is well dispersed in the film, and John's increasing isolation throughout the film makes the horror element of the story even more creepy and unsettling. The supernatural element of the film sometimes doesn't quite sit well with the teen angst side of the film, however, and there are times when the story feels rather drawn out, and as though it is staggering toward a close.
In all, however, 'I am Not a Serial Killer' is a dark, twisted and surprisingly affecting story of a disconnected teen who suddenly finds himself drawn to a monster that stalks his home town. The humour is well balanced in the film, the dialogue strong and the performances engaging, but there are times when 'I am Not a Serial Killer' is frustratingly slow and a little drawn out.
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The Masked Man of Morocco
By Sarah Quinn
Unravelling the oeuvre of multidisciplinary Moroccan artist Yassine Balbzioui
You want to, but you just can't begin with the face; when obscured, rearranged, abstracted, or in the process of being covered, it surrenders its privilege of being the assumed starting point every viewer seeks in order to engage with a depicted figure – unless the substituted entity does, in fact, pull one in, that is. Masks, with their dark recesses referencing various facial cavities, or simply the presence of a 'cover' can intrigue one, leaving them with perplexing questions about the act of concealing.
The work of Moroccan visual artist Yassine Balbzioui leads viewers away from overt imagery, one-liners, and easy references. Known for his aversion to symbolism, Balbzioui's oeuvre of performances, paintings, sculptures, and installations presents decontextualised figures in discreet spaces. His disconcerting images engage through disengagement with the traditional concept of portraiture, posing questions simply for the virtue of their existence. 'When you impose an interpretation [on] the dream or the link with the work, the full experience is smothered', Balbziou tells me. 'To help someone love art for the first time, you should not give them clues about symbols,' he remarks, explaining that 'when you push symbolism to the foreground, you deprive the spectator [their] freedom of interpretation'.
Being conscious of a viewer's first encounter with an artist's work is of utmost important to contemporary Moroccan artists like Balbzioui. The art scene in Morocco is nascent and struggling to find its own voice, while being asked at the same time to justify the need for its presence. Larger cities like Casablanca, Rabat, Marrakech, and Tangier boast small and disjointed European art galleries, and with the exception of the Marrakech Museum for Photography and Visual Arts and a few others, museums are generally private institutions offering relatively little in terms of rotating exhibitions. 'It was difficult for [us]', says Balbzioui, a product of the School of Art in Casablanca, lamenting the lack of an artistic community available to him and his friends during the mid-90s. 'There was no follow-through after school, no continuity. [The art scene] was dead … art school was like a suspended career'.
Grosse Tête (courtesy Mary Fang)
Like most artists hailing from Morocco, Balbzioui completed his art degree abroad. The three years he spent at the School of Fine Arts and Decorative Arts in Bordeaux, France, provided him with a component previously absent in his works: conscious thought. 'In Morocco, I did things … I had a chance to study the basics in painting and drawing. In France, you think about things; now, I do both'. Although now living and working in France, Balbzioui will return to Morocco this month for the fifth edition of the Marrakech Biennale. This international arts exhibition, commenced in 2005 by Vanessa Branson, is acting as a much-needed catalyst for the development of the country's art scene. Between February 26 and March 31, 43 international visual and sound artists will be participating in site-specific exhibitions curated by Moroccan artist Hicham Khalidi. In addition, numerous video, literary, and performance artists will be attending, all of whom will provide their interpretations of this year's theme, which poses the question where are we now? For Balbzioui, the answer to this question, undoubtedly, is 'without a face'. The artist is planning to perform his Grosse Tête (Big Head), a work derived from a theme developed during his residencies in Montluçon, Dakar, and Berlin. An ongoing performance, it will involve Balbzioui covering his head with various objects, substances, and materials. 'These pieces have grown up with me', he explains. 'They are never the same. The relation between me and the pieces is where I am now'.
The cultural constructs of attractiveness and repulsion will be at the forefront of Balbzioui's performance during the Biennale … The goal, he says, is to let people observe how a mutant form arises from a human one; gone will be the individual, as the artist's identity is destroyed by his own hands
To date, Balbzioui has utilised boxes, cloth, and a variety of pre-made structures to cover his head. In one filmed performance of Grosse Tête in 2010, entitled Grosse Tête en Chute Libre (Big Head Freefall), Balbzioui wears what appeared to be a cardboard box wrapped in aluminium foil placed over his head. Wearing this 'object', he rolls down a hill for several seconds. The ensuing scenes are quick and inconclusive; like Balbzioui's paintings, they are rather unremarkable, boasting florae not particular to any one region, a 'cloudy' atmosphere not placing the event in any particular time, and a glimpse of architecture in the background that could be found just about anywhere. As well, the artist's actions also do not give any indication of a specific context; viewers do not know how Balbzioui came to find himself in that particular place, when he lay down, and if he did so under the box.
Grosse Tête, like the rest of Balbzioui's works, capitalises on the transformative quality of 'covering up'. In a 2012 essay, peer and fellow Moroccan artist Mohamed Rachdi penned a detailed investigation of this recurring theme in Balbzioui's works. Entitled L'Obsession du Masque (The Obsession of the Mask), Rachdi concluded that this 'element of concealing [the mask] is what does the revealing'. He continued to add that:
The mask is indicative of the paradoxical fragility that structures our way of life as it is based on our relationship to [one] another. It fertilises the links that weave us to each other between attractiveness and repulsion, seduction and hate …
The cultural constructs of attractiveness and repulsion will be at the forefront of Balbzioui's performance during the Biennale. Unlike the simple structures seen in Grosse Tête en Chute Libre, Balbzioui intends to use liquids to conceal and reshape his head over a 20-minute period. The goal, he says, is to let people observe how a mutant form arises from a human one; gone will be the individual, as the artist's identity is destroyed by his own hands. As Rachdi explained, by concealing his face, Balbzioui will reveal new possibilities:
Denying the traits that distinguish their individual identity, the mask opens the plural identity and makes the complexity of figures possible. Because they offer no face … the characters [wearing them] are transformed into spaces of infinite projections. Also, any spectator who contemplates [them] is brought to [project their] own face or multiple faces [on] a living memory. The works of Balbzioui become like so many reflective surfaces able to send each viewer to him or herself, their history, [the] entanglement of [their] concerns, and [their] imaginary and fantastical projections.
Balbzioui seems to see eye-to-eye with Rachdi. 'I am not trying to produce a specific effect', he explains. 'I am physically involved [with] the work, and each person has their own experience depending on their [own] individual sensibilities and stories'.
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Posted by Sarah Quinn
Sarah Quinn is a third-year United States Peace Corps volunteer living near Marrakech. She holds a BA in Art History and a BFA in Painting from the University of Georgia.


James H. Buford served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis, recently retiring in 2013. As an advocate for social and economic parity, Buford is often a vocal spokesperson on behalf of Urban League constituents. In this role he speaks to diverse audiences, which embody the whole community – from grassroots to corporate participants.
Buford serves on numerous boards, including: the Executive Board of the Greater St. Louis Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America; Downtown St. Louis Foundation, Inc.; St. Louis Regional Health Commission; St. Louis Gateway Classic Sports Foundation, Inc.; and past Chairman and member of the Grand Center Inc. Board.
A graduate of Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, Pa., Buford holds a B.A. in Human Services Administration. He also holds honorary Doctorate of Human Letters degrees from Harris-Stowe State University (1993); the University of Missouri-St. Louis (1995); Webster University (2000); Eden Theological Seminary (2006); and Fontbonne University (2008).
Jim and his wife Susan reside in St. Louis and have two sons, James Jr. and Jason.


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Verse Fourteen: "We know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will also raise us".
Our passage today begins with Paul quoting from Psalm 116 – a great Psalm that praises God's presence with and care for us. This Psalm is just one of many, many examples of God's faithfulness to humanity. It is with confidence that Paul writes, "We know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will also raise us". We too trust and live into God's presence in our lives and into the love and compassion that find witness to in the scriptures and that we experience with our own lives.
The promise of eternal life that we read of in verse seventeen is a wonderful promise. At times, it brings us comfort and strength. At times, this promise brings great hope. While all of this is true and the promise remains for a who have a saving relationship with Jesus Christ, we live now in the present. Paul goes on to write of the grace that is causing joy to overflow. This is what we experience from the promise in our day to day lives. We receive strength in the trial, comfort in the pain, course for the journey, redemption after the stumbles, forgiveness to share with others. All of these and more are the ways we experience God's living presence with us in the daily walk of life. Paul speaks of this, writing, "Therefore we do not lose heart". God is always with us. We do not lose heart.
The last section in today's passage does remind us of our mortality. Paul concedes that "outwardly we are wasting away" and we are. But we also know the second half of the sentence to be true: "yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day". Each and every day God is with us, renewing us. Therefore we fix our eyes on the unseen, on Jesus. He is the eternal. He is our hope. He is our salvation. His living Spirit is with us all the time. Jesus is our all in all. Thanks be to God for His love revealed to us in and through the life of Jesus, the model of faith that we follow. Each day may He renew our body, mind, and spirit so that we can faithfully walk in God's abiding presence. Amen.
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