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I decided to do Elective Africa after hearing how incredible the experience was for some fellow classmates. I am interested in doing medical missions after graduating and thought this would be a great opportunity to see what that would be like. I honestly wasn't entirely sure what to expect, but this experience has definitely been one I won't forget. The coordinators were all extremely helpful, going out of the way. It was amazing to ensure we were taken care of each step of the way. It was amazing to see how well doctors utilize the limited resources they have giving the best care they can for their patients. It has definitely been an eye-opening experience. All of the physicians in the internal medicine team were welcoming and allowed us to grow in our education as physician assistant students. I loved getting to explore Arusha and the surrounding areas. Everywhere we went was beautiful and the Tanzanian people were all very friendly. The Safari coordinated by Elective Africa was amazing and is a can't miss! Overall, my experience with this program was excellent and I would definitely do it again. If you're contemplating doing it, go for it! You will not regret it!


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Broadway Box Office Drops 10% To $30M For Week Without A Saturday Night; Blackout Zaps Most Shows
'Zootopia' Turnstiles Still Spinning, But '10 Cloverfield Lane' Also A Hot Destination – Box Office Preview
By Anthony D'Alessandro
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Despite Paramount/Bad Robot's 10 Cloverfield Lane coming on strong this weekend with an industry projected opening between $25M-$30M, that monster sequel plus three other wide releases won't be able to close down Walt Disney Animation's Zootopia for business.
The Byron Howard-Jared Bush-Rich Moore feature toon is looking at a second FSS between $38M-$45M at No. 1.
Through five days, Zootopia counts $85M after making $5.4M on Tuesday. In its latest round of TV spots and social marketing, Disney is targeting kids on spring break. Currently, 5% K-12 schools are off per ComScore, but that figure will rise to 9% on Friday and then 16% next Monday.
10 Cloverfield Lane will roll into 3,200 theaters on Friday. One analyst even thinks it could do as much as $35M over three days. Similar to its 2008 predecessor, Paramount has teased the sequel for some months, keeping any images of the creature out of commercials (just like they did with the first movie). In fact, eight years ago, Paramount didn't even hold press screenings for Cloverfield, and that control over word of mouth catapulted the film to a then MLK-record four-day opening of $46M, a rank which it held for six years until Ride Along overtook it. Currently, critics love 10 Cloverfield Lane better than the first film, 92% to 77%. The sci-fi thriller is directed by Dan Trachtenberg and stars John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and John Gallagher Jr. Females have a definite interest in seeing 10 Cloverfield Lane at 40-41% followed by men 38-39%. Previews start Thursday at 7 PM.
'Zootopia' $75.1M Opening Is A Record For Original Disney Toon; Pushes 2016 Past $2 Billion Mark - Monday B.O.
Sony/Village Roadshow/L-Star Capital have the Sacha Baron Cohen-Mark Strong heavy-R-rated comedy The Brothers Grimsby at 2,200
locations. Industry projections put the fourth Baron Cohen comedy vehicle between $7.5M-$8M for the weekend which would be lower than the debut of his last risque comedy, 2012's The Dictator which opened to $17.4M and finaled at $59.7M. Hopefully, Brothers Grimsby finds a bigger audience. At last week's premiere in Westwood, the laughter never stopped with the British comedian taking potshots at presidential Republican candidate Donald Trump before the movie. Currently, definite interest is the highest among males. The film has been propped by some clever marketing (a clip involving elephants was too crude to show on Jimmy Kimmel Live, so the camera panned away and showed the reaction of the studio audience instead). Brothers Grimsby tells the story of two brothers from a ghetto section of London, who were separated during their youth. One still lives, partying away in Grimsby, while the other has turned into a fierce MI6 agent. The duo reunite during one of the spy brother's missions. Thursday previews will take place at 1,700 sites starting at 7 PM.
Focus Features' faith-based The Young Messiah centers around a childhood year in Jesus Christ's life. Playing at 1,750 theaters, the expectation here is that this film directed by Cyrus Nowrasteh will open between $7M-$8M as well. Focus spread the word on Young Messiah via an extensive grass-roots screening program including group sales, faith leader outreach, and the director's involvement with the marketing campaign on behalf of the movie.
Lionsgate, together with Codeblack films, has the African American romantic comedy The
Perfect Match in over 900 theaters. The film executive produced by Queen Latifah follows a playboy who, after meeting an alluring woman, yearns to take their casual relationship to the next level. Industry projections over FSS are at $5M-$6M for this film which stars Terrence J, Cassie Ventura, Donald Faison, Dascha Polanco, Robert Christopher Riley and Lauren London. Showtimes start tomorrow at 7 PM.
Brian Brooks will be weighing in with the arthouse report later this week, but of note: Bleecker Street has its drone thriller Eye in the Sky debuting in New York and Los Angeles at five houses: Landmark Pico and Hollywood Arclight in L.A., and Lincoln Square, Union Square and Cinemas 1-2-3 in NYC. Roadside Attractions is also taking out its Sally Field dramedy, Hello, My Name Is Doris about a 60-something woman, who after being influenced by a self-help seminar, pursues her younger co-worker.
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Daxx Garman buried third on Terps' QB depth chart
By John TaylorAug 29, 2015, 9:39 AM EDT
When Daxx Garman transferred into Maryland from Oklahoma State, many, perhaps most, assumed the quarterback would be sitting atop the depth chart entering the 2015 season. Instead, he's buried on it.
Friday, the Terps released a depth chart ahead of the opener with Richmond and, in what some might consider an upset, Perry Hills was listed as the starter. Caleb Rowe sits in the prime backup spot behind Hills, which means Garman will enter the upcoming season No. 3 in the quarterback pecking order.
The positioning likely serves as a bitter pill for Garman to swallow as this is his final season of eligibility.
Last season, Garman, who began his collegiate career at Arizona, started eight games for Oklahoma State before going down with a concussion in mid-November. Mason Rudolph, Garman's replacement, showed more than enough promise in his three starts that he was the unquestioned starter in spring practice, triggering Garman's transfer to the Terps in May.
Garman, and even Rowe were considered by many to be the favorites entering summer camp, but it was Hills who'll exit it with the starting job. Hills won the job as a true freshman in 2012 and started the first seven games that season before missing the final five due to a torn ACL. He took a redshirt the following season, then played in three games last year.
Rowe, meanwhile, tore the ACL in his left knee during a practice this past October, the same knee he suffered the same injury in the same month back in 2012, and sat out the spring. Rowe, who will entered spring as the favorite to win the starting job, was granted another season of eligibility earlier this year that allow him to play again in 2016.
Hills, Garman and Rowe were listed as co-starters entering summer camp this year.
Tags: Caleb Rowe, Daxx Garman, Maryland, Mason Rudolph, Oklahoma State, Perry Hills
QB competition ratcheting up at Maryland
By Kevin McGuireAug 15, 2015, 1:05 PM EDT
Just as it seems to be doing across the country in various college football camps this month, Maryland is seeing the competition to be the starting quarterback start to heat up. Terrapins head coach Randy Edsall is, wisely, in no serious rush to name a starter to lead Maryland's offense. With three options vying for the gig, it is best to let camp play out before finding a comfort level with either Caleb Rowe, Perry Hills or Oklahoma State transfer Daxx Garman. Edsall would, however, prefer top be able to find that comfort zone as quickly as possible.
"We're going to evaluate how they do in the practices, how they do in the scrimmages. I'd like to make a decision as quickly as I can so we can get some continuity going with a guy in there. They're competing," Edsall said in a story published by The Washington Post.
To date, all three quarterbacks have reportedly seen a pretty even mix of the first team reps. While Garman has shown some good signs early on in camp while learning a new playbook, Rowe may still end up being a slight favorite in the competition despite coming back from a torn ACL from last season.
"I don't feel like I'm very rusty," Rowe said this week. "It's just being faster, a little quicker with my reads. I feel fine. My feet are good."
Tags: Caleb Rowe, Daxx Garman, Maryland, Perry Hills, Randy Edsall
Ole Miss commit Shea Patterson takes MVP honors in Elite 11
By Kevin McGuireJul 11, 2015, 12:13 PM EDT
It looks as though Ole Miss is bringing in a very talented and highly-respected quarterback in the Class of 2016. Shea Patterson, a five-star dual-threat quartreback from Shreveport, Louisiana was named the MVP of the Elite 11 camp in Oregon this week. Patterson finished in first place among the 25 quarterbacks invited to the high-profile football camp at Nike's headquarters, and headlined the final Elite 11 class.
Maybe Texas has found a good quarterback as well. Longhorns commit, and four-star recruit, Shane Buechele finsihed in second place during the week. Other quarterbacks receiving elite status were KJ Costello (Stanford), Jacob Eason (Georgia), Feleope Franks (LSU), Jarrett Guarantano (Tennessee), Dwayne Haskins (Maryland), Malik Henry (Florida State), Brandon McIlwain (South Carolina), Brandon Peters (Michigan) and Anthony Russo (Rutgers).
For those keeping score at home, that would be five Elite 11 quarterbacks heading to the SEC. Three are going to the Big Ten, and one each to the ACC, Big 12 and Pac-12.
Congratulations to the 2015 #Elite11 Quarterbacks! pic.twitter.com/wddbvb2coo
— Elite11 (@Elite11) July 11, 2015
Tags: Anthony Russo, Brandon McIlwain, Brandon Peters, Dwayne Haskins, Feleipe Franks, Florida State, Jacob Eason, Jarrett Guarantano, KJ Costello, Malik Henry, Maryland, Mississippi, Shane Buechele, Shea Patterson
Transferring Terp Juwann Winfree looking at potential Pitt transfer
By John TaylorJul 8, 2015, 9:09 PM EDT
Suspended last month by Maryland for a second violation of the university's student-athlete code of conduct, it was announced a week or so later that Juwann Winfree had decided to transfer from the Terps. As it turns out, he could end up back in his former school's old conference stomping grounds.
The wide receiver confirmed to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that he will take a visit to Pittsburgh July 20. He has no current plans to visit any other programs, although that could change depending on how his Pitt visit goes.
Andre Powell coached running backs at Maryland in 2014 before moving on to coach Pitt's special teams under Pat Narduzzi, serving as Winfree's most direct connection to the Panthers. The Tribune-Review added that "Winfree, who initiated the contact with Pitt, said he has spoken on the telephone with offensive coordinator Jim Chaney and wide receivers coach Kevin Sherman."
He has yet to be offered a scholarship by Pitt, although a successful visit could flip that particular script.
Back in November of last year, Winfree was suspended for a pair of games for violating the university's student-athlete code of conduct.
Last season, Winfree caught 11 passes for 158 yards and two touchdowns. He would be forced to sit out the 2015 season, but would then have three years of eligibility remaining beginning in 2016.
Tags: Juwann Winfree, Maryland
Maryland wide receiver Juwann Winfree ditches Terps
By Kevin McGuireJun 17, 2015, 7:08 PM EDT
Remember a few years ago when jokes were made about how many players were choosing to leave the Maryland football program under head coach Randy Edsall? Those times have passed, but we have a theme running today on College Football Talk about players leaving their respective programs for one reason or another. Now we found a way to get Maryland in the mix.
Wide receiver Juwann Winfree has left the Maryland program, the school announced Wednesday. This news comes less than two weeks after Edsall suspended Winfree for a violation of Maryland's student-athlete code of conduct.
Winfree caught 11 passes for 158 yards and a pair of touchdowns for Maryland in 2014. His role in the Terps figured to be more significant in 2015 after some roster turnover from last fall. As noted previously, Maryland was already in a position to replace the top four receivers from a year ago. Stefon Diggs left early for the NFL, Jacquille Veii transferred and Marcus Leak withdrew from the university last month. Now Winfree will be looking to take his game elsewhere.
Tags: Juwann Winfree, Marcus Leak, Maryland, Randy Edsall, Stefon Diggs
Daxx Garman buried third on Terps' QB depth chart August 29, 2015 9:39 am QB competition ratcheting up at Maryland August 15, 2015 1:05 pm Ole Miss commit Shea Patterson takes MVP honors in Elite 11 July 11, 2015 12:13 pm Transferring Terp Juwann Winfree looking at potential Pitt transfer July 8, 2015 9:09 pm Maryland wide receiver Juwann Winfree ditches Terps June 17, 2015 7:08 pm Maryland again suspends WR Juwann Winfree June 8, 2015 4:19 pm Terps' pass-catching corps springs another Leak May 29, 2015 5:25 pm Ex-OSU Cowboy, UA Wildcat QB Daxx Garman to give Terps a try May 28, 2015 2:03 pm Report: Maryland to lose second running back transfer in five days April 21, 2015 8:38 pm NCAA grants Maryland QB Caleb Rowe and 7 Terps medical hardship April 1, 2015 3:50 pm QB Caleb Rowe, RB Wes Brown to sit for Terps this spring February 28, 2015 10:40 pm Maryland seeking a medical redshirt for QB Caleb Rowe February 7, 2015 8:18 pm Maryland reportedly hires former Jaguars assistant Terry Richardson February 3, 2015 7:14 pm Maryland WR Stefon Diggs is NFL bound January 3, 2015 5:27 pm Stanford blows away Maryland in Foster Farms Bowl, Pac-12 is 4-0 in bowls December 31, 2014 1:17 am Stanford nearly flawless in first half of Foster Farms Bowl, Terps in B1G trouble December 30, 2014 11:33 pm Post-bowl NFL decision coming for Terps' Stefon Diggs December 27, 2014 10:30 pm Maryland's Stefon Diggs testing NFL waters December 20, 2014 10:11 am Big Ten announces all-conference teams, individual award winners December 1, 2014 8:54 pm Stefon Diggs returning to Terps practice this week December 1, 2014 11:55 am


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Who will I become?
When we were little, we often fantasized about who we will become when we grew up. Astronaut, explorer, art restorer, anything our little minds could come up with. Once we grow up and have chosen some direction for our lives, we stop envisioning that future self – or at least that was the case for me. Life kept me busy and I kept running around trying to finish my Master degree.
But then I was invited to join the workshop "Who will I become", created by life coach Laura Curta (she shares awesome tips on Instagram, you should really check her out) and hosted by Tint.
In a rainy evening, we were guided towards exploring our inner desires about the future, and about who we would like to become. Laura used a selection of beautiful images for each question to help us visualise and explore our future selves.
Let's test it out. Read the question, look at the pictures, and quickly jot down the answer. Try not to think about it much, but trust the first associations you have with the set of images. Ready? You have 20 seconds.
Done?! What did you come up with?
If you feel like, share it on Tint's Instagram or Facebook or in the comments below. Let's explore where our wild imagination goes to – I'm curious what you got.
In fact, I would argue that the best part about the workshop was actually discussing and sharing what each came up with, what surprised us, what we thought was telling. The group was really open and, with Laura as a mediator, it felt like a safe space to have big conversations. It was both comforting and inspiring to learn about other people's goals and priorities, and how they were similar or different to my own. Participants discussed looking to reconnect with their parents, wanting to be more honest about their mood in daily interactions, aiming to be more forgiving and indulgent with themselves.
We also came up with a vision for our future selves, which is something I've oddly spent a lot of time on when it comes to brands and companies during my studies, but that I had never actually taken time to construct for myself. While sharing our visions in the group, I learnt a new phrase that has been stuck in my head since the workshop: "to look at others with "unconditional positive regard" – what a beautiful sentiment.
To crown the evening, we came up with our guides on how to respond to life events, which is such a great tool in being more mindful and acting with purpose.
So if you haven't stopped to think about who you are becoming and who you want to become, I highly recommend you take the time to do some self-reflecting, and join future editions of this workshop if you would like more guidance and community support in that journey.
Written by Mariana Souza
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Kofi Annan, 'Stop looting of Africa's resources'
ex-UN chief Kofi Annan says Tax avoidance, secret mining deals and financial transfers are depriving Africa of the benefits of its resources boom...
The Democratic Republic of Congo lost at least $1.36 billion in potential revenues between 2010 and 2012 due to cut-price sales of mining assets to offshore companies, according to a panel led by former U.N. secretary general Kofi Annan. Firms that shift profits to lower tax jurisdictions cost Africa $38bn (£25bn) a year, says a report produced by a panel he heads. "Africa loses twice as much money through these loopholes as it gets from donors," Mr Annan told the BBC. It was like taking food off the tables of the poor, he said. Congo, among the most mineral-rich countries in Africa, has long been under fire for opaque resource deals, many involving offshore shell companies, and last year the International Monetary Fund halted planned loans. "No country better illustrates the high costs associated with opaque concession trading than the Democratic Republic of the Congo," the Africa Progress Panel said in a report released on Friday at the World Economic Forum Africa.
"Total losses from the five deals reviewed were equivalent to more than double the combined annual budget for health and education in 2012."
The annual report, on challenges associated with natural resources in Africa, said there was no inference of illegality on the part of political leaders or the companies involved.
"However, the potential scale of the overall losses merits further investigation in order to clarify the circumstances surrounding the transactions, and to determine whether or not the assets in question were knowingly undervalued," it said.
The panel's investigators said copper and cobalt assets were sold by state miner Gecamines in complex deals involving offshore companies and miners including Glencore, now Glencore Xstrata, and ENRC.
Both ENRC and Glencore have denied any wrongdoing.
"We estimate the losses from the five deals at $1.36 billion. Assets were sold on average at one-sixth of their commercial value," the report said.
It did not say how the commercial value was estimated.
The role of shell companies and non-mining investors acting as intermediaries in Congo's mining sector has long contributed to accusations of corruption and a reputation for poor transparency.
Congo's mining minister disputed the report's findings.
"How many times have we spoken about these assets, of ENRC, of Glencore, of the Virgin Islands? I've answered these questions many times," Martin Kabwelulu said.
"In any case, I know that the Congo has lost nothing, these assets were ceded in total transparency."
"We are not getting the revenues we deserve often because of either corrupt practices, transfer pricing, tax evasion and all sorts of activities that deprive us of our due," Mr Annan told the BBC's Newsday programme.
"Transparency is a powerful tool," he said, adding that the report was urging African leaders to put "accountability centre stage".
Mr Annan said African governments needed to insist that local companies became involved in mining deals and manage them in "such a way that it also creates employment".


"Dolphins are rapists. Look it up."
Says it's "absurd" to say there's enough data to establish a link between playing football and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy.
"Whales live as long at SeaWorld" as they do in the wild.
"Many of the alarmists on global warming, they've got a problem because the science doesn't back them up. In particular, satellite data demonstrate for the last 17 years, there's been zero warming."


"Make me feel things" is a campaign by Goat Organic Apparel who team up with the Fashion For Good Museum in Amsterdam to showcase works of art by designers and artists considered as pioneers for sustainability in the Netherlands.
In collaboration with Loes Haverkort, Tess van Zalinge takes a different approach for the exhibition, designing an object of art inspired by the notion of eternal and ephemeral. The fashion industry uses excessive amounts of plastic while shutting eyes for something as pure as a plant or a flower. We use packaging to preserve what is temporary and delicate, yet the only thing we need to preserve is nature itself.
The installation showcases a row of plants trapped in plastic bags. The idea sparks from the work of the partnering charity organisation "Just Diggit", who develop landscape restoration projects on a large scale. In addition for the project, a T-shirt was designed as part of an auction, which funds were donated for restoration projects by Just Diggit.


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Letters to Ellie
The following are letters to my daughter, Ellie, who was born premature, 4 months too early. They document her many months stay in the NICU, her trials, and the emotional struggles of her mother and I.
Ellie's Journey, From the Beginning
A Place Between Worlds
Dear Ellie,
This story has been in the works for many months, now. It was a nascent story when I mentioned it here. I've thought about it often but it's been incredibly hard to finish because I began it on the night you almost suffocated. On the night I thought you were gone. I wanted to somehow capture all of the terrible things I felt that night, but also the joy of having known you for those short 6 weeks. I remember looking at you in your isolette after you'd turned all of those deathly shades. That little body, within which appeared only the tiniest spark of life. I felt like it could, and would, disappear at any moment. It felt like the final grains of sand in an hour glass were trickling out.
I remember how I searched my mind. Like if I thought hard enough, I could find some place outside of time where I could nestle those last moments with you. Like I could make or find some tiny space where that moment could live forever.
Illustration commissioned from Tze-Chiang Lim
The moon was a tiny sliver in the night sky. The barrier between worlds grew weak. Elsa and Fredrick set off to the place where time itself was tattered. In search of the immortals.
"It's only a story Elsa. A good story, but I don't think it was ever meant to be taken seriously," Fredrick said as they made their way from town. He kicked a rock free from the cobblestone road. Elsa looked back at the boy, still wobbly on his feet since she'd hauled him from his bed in the dead of night. She could have made the journey alone. She was the braver of the two, after all. And, well, if not braver, than at least more ambitious.
"It wasn't just a tall tale. My grandpa believed it," Elsa said, her voice lightly seasoned with resentment at her friend's doubt. "He was an astronomer at Occitan! If anyone were to tell the truth about something like this, it would be him. He would have gone with us if he were still alive."
"I'd like his stories to be true, too. No one enjoyed them more than me. But even if they were true, what would we do once we got there?"
Elsa rolled her eyes, "Oh, I don't know, what would we do if we met an immortal? We wouldn't ask him the secret of eternal life, would we?"
"Do you really think it would be that simple? That we'd march in, grab the secrets of eternal life, then be back in bed by sun up?"
Elsa threw up her hands.
"Who knows, Fredrick, but isn't it worth trying? Think about it. Immortality. Imagine what you could do in a thousand lifetimes! We would be famous in all the world!"
At first, Fredrick didn't reply. Instead, he stopped. Sat down. The light from the town's streetlamps were pale in the distance. He looked up at the sky. At the planets. He compared them to the night before and the night before that and the night before that. He saw them, as though sped up a thousand times, looping about in slow motion epicycles.
He looked up at Elsa and wondered aloud: "Do you think that maybe one lifetime is enough to live?"
Elsa wrinkled her nose as though smelling something unpleasant, "What a silly thing to say, Fredrick. Of course it isn't. Why wouldn't you want more years to live?"
Fredrick rolled over to a smoother patch of grass.
"What are you doing?" Elsa asked. "Why are you laying there? You can't be tired already."
"I'm enjoying the moment. Admiring the stars," he replied.
Elsa opened her mouth to admonish him again, but stopped short. Instead, she watched him. Admired him, perhaps, in the same way that he admired the stars. Something stirred in her and for a moment, it was so easy to imagine herself lying down beside him, both looking up; lying beside the boy that all the townsfolk joked she'd one day marry.
"So different you are, but so inseparable!" they would all say, and then Elsa would deny that any affection existed between the pair. But what did it mean that she always found herself hauling Fredrick out of bed in the dead of night to go on some adventure? Why was it that she always wanted to do everything with him? Her heart fluttered.
But then she saw the light of the moon, even smaller than before. She remembered their mission. They didn't have time for these kinds of distractions. Soon, the moon would be swallowed entirely and they'd lose their chance. She shook her head at her companion's delays.
"Oh Fredrick, you simpleton. Don't you get it? Here you are sitting around admiring one moment while a hundred others pass you by."
Elsa lit her lantern, smudging out the twinkling pin pricks of light up above.
"Come on," she said. "Tonight, we're going to meet the immortals. We'll have plenty of time to look at the stars, then."
Fredrick measured her words carefully, nodded, then stood up. They moved onward, the light from the lantern casting their long shadows out upon the road behind them. Eventually, the cobblestones came to an end. In the distance ahead of them was a field, and beyond, the silhouette of a tree line in the distance.
They trudged through the grasslands and when they came to the edge of a forest, Fredrick hesitated.
"Elsa, if you think your grandfather was telling the truth about the immortals," he began, "do you think he was also telling the truth about Fey?"
Elsa halted, one foot frozen in the air.
"Maybe," she said simply, the confidence in her voice faltering. "Why does it matter?"
"The shadow creatures, Elsa," Fredrick whispered. "He said that when Fey is close, light will attract them. We have to turn off the lantern."
For the first time, fissures of worry and uncertainty formed on Elsa face. She turned her head so that Fredrick couldn't see her expression. Elsa was always keen on the idea of the immortals, but not so much on the reason they existed... and all the frightening things which came with it. According to her grandfather's story, a second world existed atop their own, occupying the same space but out of phase. A world he called Fey. And between their world and Fey was a peculiar place. A bubble between worlds that time skims around, like water around a boulder in a river. Immortals existed in this place, and to speak with them might be to learn the secrets of immortality. This place, her grandfather determined, was deep in the forest. Reaching it could only be done at just the right time when the two worlds were closest. When the moon and stars and planets were all close enough to weaken the barrier between worlds.
"You memorized the instructions from your grandfather's story, didn't you?" Fredrick asked. "We'll have to turn the lantern off once we're in the forest. It will be too dark to read them from paper."
Elsa reached into her pocket. Rubbed a parchment between her fingers. It was all too common when they were younger for Elsa to bound away before her grandfather could finish his stories. But Fredrick? He always waited patiently for the tales to conclude, relishing each and every detail.
"Of… of course I do," Elsa stuttered. "He was my grandfather, after all. But shouldn't you know, too? You sat around the fire in the town square and listened just as often as I did."
"I remember," Fredrick said, giving Elsa a knowing grin. He then recited the instructions from memory. "Walk two thousand paces into the forest, no more, no less. Walk too far and you will enter the world of Fey and be lost. Fail to walk far enough, and the gateway will disappear by the time the moon is black. But beware if you should make the journey, for as readily as you might wander into Fey, the creatures of Fey may wander into our world as well. They will appear to you as shadows, darker than the night. Creatures, like moths, attracted to light."
The lantern was stiff in Elsa's hands. Could the creatures of Fey see them now, even if Elsa and Fredrick hadn't entered the forest yet? The glow from the lantern flickered and licked at the trees. As it spawned shadows, Elsa's eyes darted after them, wondering whether they were instead creatures of Fey. She wanted to douse the flame, but then imagined the two of them, standing alone on the darkest of nights.
"Are you sure you want to continue, Elsa?" Fredrick asked.
"I…" Elsa trailed off. "Well, I don't want to make you do this. We can go back if you don't want to go. If you are afraid."
Fredrick reached out. Took her hand. Again, her heart fluttered. Perhaps from fear of what lie before them, perhaps from something else.
"I am. And I know you are, too. But that's okay. I'll go with you because I know this is important to you," Fredrick said, then smiled at her in the lantern light. "Besides, I think that maybe the creatures of Fey might be just as afraid as us."
He took the lantern from her hand and doused it. Then they took the first step forward. And then a second. And a third. Each step, they counted carefully. Keeping track was harder than she first thought. The limbs above them were dimly lit by the sliver of moon, but beneath the canopy was utter darkness. Vines and branches lashed at their faces and legs.
By one hundred steps, they were quickly swallowed by the sounds of the forest. Hooting owls. Chirping insects. Muffled movement in the underbrush. This didn't frighten Elsa, for these were the sounds of their world.
But then there came a thing. Not a dashing or a sprinting thing. A slow, lumbering thing that moved in such a way that it could only be passing through the dense trees that surrounded them. That Elsa could see it in such darkness was a perversion of her senses. To see it was like seeing a hole. Like seeing a hole bored through color itself. And then it made a sound. A sound like a belch or a groan, but inverted, turned upside down. Hearing it felt like sound was leaving her ear instead of entering. To sense it at all was like having something… pulled from her.
Elsa panicked. She released Fredrick's hand and covered her ears. Closed her eyes. Squatted on the ground. Waited for the thing to attack her. To haul her back to Fey and be surrounded by such shadows. Yet nothing happened. She wanted to call out Fredrick's name, but feared that the creatures might hear her. She wanted to reach for his hand, but feared that she might instead grasp one of them.
Was Fredrick trying to call for her, while her ears were covered? Or had he fled the forest in fright? Or was he simply cowering like her?
Once Elsa finally discovered the courage to stand, a hand touched her shoulder. Her hand found Fredrick's again. At first, their grip was loose. Part of Elsa hoped that Fredrick's hand would pull her away. Back to the forest's edge and back to town. Instead, it clenched around hers. Pulled her forward. They continued on.
As they went further--- as 100 steps became 200 and then 500 and then 1000--- more of the creatures began to appear. A dozen holes in Elsa's senses. The creatures hovered around them. Moved in closer when their backs were turned, only to flee when Elsa looked over her shoulder in the darkness. She began to look behind herself so often that when they had one more pace to go, she barely noticed the vast wall of emptiness that lay ahead of them. A vast pit in existence.
"One last step," Fredrick whispered. He tried to pull Elsa forward but she resisted. "The moon is almost gone. We don't have any more time. Elsa, if the Fey creatures exist then the immortals must as well. We'll go in, ask of their secrets, and then we can go home."
"We don't know for sure what's in there. Maybe my grandfather was wrong. Maybe there are no immortals," Elsa said, her voice hushed and quivering. "You said that one life was good enough, so why are you pushing me on?"
Fredrick didn't speak. They stood before the wall of shadow, darker than darkness. Their arms were taught now, caught between Elsa's dug-in heels and Fredrick's weight, leaning forward.
Elsa couldn't see Fredrick, but for a moment his grip loosened, his fingers tenderly wrapped around hers.
"What do you think it will be like for us," Fredrick said softly, "to be with each other as immortals, forever?"
Elsa's legs buckled, surprised at hearing his words. His weight pulled them both forward.
Before them, the wall of darkness was no more. Behind them, their own world was gone. They stood amid a glade, surrounded by pines. Above them, the moon was full. Around them, everything shimmered. Danced, almost, like light in the ripples of a pond. The stars twinkled at a strange beat, quickly, then slowly, quickly, then slowly. The full moon did little to drown out their glow. Elsa and Fredrick stood still and silent for a long while, trying hard to comprehend the strangeness of this place. To Elsa, it felt as though she were looking out upon the world from a dream.
The boy and the girl finally turned to face one another. Their cheeks and foreheads were cut and bleeding from their trek through the woods.
"We're here, we must be. The place between worlds. The place without time." Elsa said, her expression of daze and disbelief finally melting. Then she looked in her companion's eyes. Into the eyes of the boy that was made happy by her happiness.
They stood for a moment at the center of the glade, amid a field of flowing grass. Though there was no wind, the blades swayed as though pulled by some current. Even though neither of them knew how much time they had, Elsa took a deep breath. Ran her hand through the grass.
She looked to Fredrick and whispered, "It's beautiful, isn't it?"
Fredrick smiled. He did the same, then said, "This close to immortality and you've stopped to enjoy the moment?"
Elsa smiled back, but her expression turned to alarm as something flitted past them in the grass. It looked like a small animal, only the size of a hare, but its entire body was luminous and blinking. Light, then dark. Light, then dark. It moved like a ribbon blown in the wind. Each time it changed course, it changed color as well. It stopped a few paces ahead of them. Waited for them.
"Is it one of the immortals?" Elsa whispered, not knowing whether she was speaking to Fredrick or the creature.
Neither of them replied.
Elsa took a step toward it. It flitted ahead, further.
Elsa and Fredrick followed.
It took them to a small stream. When it crossed, the creature traveled through the air in small arcs, landing on flat stones, barely above the water line. Elsa and Fredrick retraced its steps, stopping briefly in the middle of the stream to dip their hands in the water and wash their cuts. As the blood left their hands, it swirled about in tiny eddies, hardened, turned to glitter, then flashed: Light, then dark, light, then dark.
The creature took them up a hill to a grove of towering pines, taller than any that Elsa or Fredrick had seen in their own world. Their limbs were broad and twisted; their bark, thick and gnarled like a fingernail that had never been trimmed. Were the trees here immortal as well? When Elsa and Fredrick arrived at the center of the grove, they encountered other creatures waiting for them, their shape in the guise of men and women. They twinkled as well. Light, then dark. Light, then dark.
Fredrick and Elsa looked to one another, unsure of what to say. Amid their silence, one of the creatures spoke in a language they seemed to understand. It twinkled with each syllable.
"You came… from the higher world. The world… of light," it said. "Some of us… have come from the world of light, also. Some… from the world of dark. In this place, we have all become the same now. Light… and dark. I, like you, once came from light. I am the youngest here... Young enough to remember swift words. Young enough, even… to remember my name from before my crossing… LyreLein… It is easy to forget swift words and one's name as the ages drift past you... The other immortals speak… but to finish a sentence would take a hundred years."
Fredrick and Elsa exchanged excited expressions.
"Hello LyreLein," Elsa said, her tone, reverent. "You must be the immortals. We have come looking for you."
"Looking… for us?" LyreLein asked. "No one has yet come looking for us. Those you see here… we were all lost when we found this place. Many beings come here by accident. Most must leave… but some stay. What brought you?"
"We have come to learn the secrets," Elsa said. "We wanted you to teach us the secrets of immortality. We want to become immortal, like you, so that we can be important people when we return to the world of light."
LyreLein hovered silently. Motionless. He remained that way for minutes. And then, perhaps, for hours. On a number of occasions, Elsa stirred and made a motion as though to address him again, but each time Fredrick gripped her wrist or shoulder gently and put his finger in front of his lips: "Shhhh…" Elsa eventually sat down. The full moon began to dip down in the sky. On the eastern horizon, the sky began turning brighter hues. Would Elsa and Fredrick be cast from this place upon sunrise? Or trapped?
It was impossible to discern LyreLein's thoughts, to discern an expression from the wreath of light where his face was supposed to be. Still, it seemed as though he was weighing her words, all the while.
"Yes," LyreLein said at last. "We can show you such secrets… but be warned, it is not a thing for everyone..."
Elsa jumped to her feet and replied, "Right for us? How will you determine whether it is right for us? A test?"
"Just questions," LyreLein said. "Just three… simple… questions. For both of you..."
"Yes, we'll do whatever you ask," Elsa said hurriedly.
LyreLein was quiet for a moment. They could not see that he had any eyes, but it felt almost as though he were shifting his gaze between the two of them. First to the girl that was quick to speak. Then to the boy: the quiet observer.
"I will ask the first question now," LyreLein said, "…and girl, you will be the first to answer."
Elsa nodded.
"Look about you, girl… at the ancient pines. There is Yargel at the fore… and Yenyaou not far behind… Rantalou at the edge of the grove, who's limbs reach all the way to the stream… When you look at them, what do you see?"
Elsa put her finger to her chin as she gazed up at the canopy.
"I see sentinels, mighty and majestic. Born in a time that few can remember."
LyreLein twinkled, as though nodding. He turned to Fredrick.
"And you boy... When you look upon their trunks, what do you see?"
Fredrick gazed up at the canopy as well. Put his hand to the bark of Yenyaou, then squinted past them and into the distance.
"I see children. Grandchildren," Fredrick said at last, sweeping his hand around him and then pointing to a colossal stump near the stream. "The grandchildren of that ancient pine, who returned to the earth so long ago. Perhaps she perished before this place ever budded away from the worlds of light and dark. She remains there still as rotting wood, for sometimes the death of a tree can last even longer than its life."
LyreLein did not acknowledge their answers. He said simply: "Follow me…"
They left the grove and came again to the stream. He brought them to the middle--- to the widest section--- and asked his second question: "Girl, look upon these waters… Tell me what you see..."
Elsa turned her head to the left and to the right, upstream and down.
"I see water rushing toward the ocean. I see a basin for weary travelers. I see the home of water creatures that live and thrive and breed."
"And you, boy?..." LyreLein asked. "What do you see?"
Fredrick looked long and hard. He hopped upstream, from rock to rock, until he had a broad view of the stream running through the glade. Once he'd returned to where LyreLein and Elsa stood, he spoke: "I see a vast snake slithering across the landscape. A snake that whips and cuts through the hills and prairies, each flick of its tail taking an eon. Hungry is this snake. As hungry as it is patient. With enough time it will even swallow mountains: earth, metal, and all.
Again, LyreLein did not acknowledge their answers. He said simply: "Follow me…"
LyreLein led them toward the grassland. Elsa and Fredrick trailed behind a short distance. Elsa peeked at Fredrick through the corner of her eye. He seemed so focused now. Determined even. And his answers were far different than hers. Between the two of them, surely, the immortals would tell them their secrets. But there was still a thing that Elsa didn't understand.
"Fredrick," Elsa said, nibbling at her lower lip. "I was wondering about something. About what you said when we took the last step into this place. About… the two of us, being together as immortals."
Fredrick glanced at her bashfully, but didn't say anything.
"Please Fredrick..." Elsa said, pressing for an answer.
"Well, we've always done everything together since we were both very little. Everyone in town always said that it would just keep going on that way until the day we died. They said that we'd be married one day. I know that maybe you didn't believe it, but… I always did."
Elsa blushed as though it were some novel thought, even though some part of her knew it as well. She realized, then, that whenever she imagined her future, Fredrick was there, right in the middle of all the things to come.
"At first, I was reluctant to come along," Fredrick said, looking down at the long grass. "I wouldn't have gone if it had been with anyone but you. I didn't think there were any immortals and even if there were, immortality wasn't something that I wanted. But when we were on the road from town, I had a thought. It was when I was looking up at the stars and the planets. If your grandfather's stories about immortality were true and we could both live forever, then there would never be a reason to rush anywhere. You would never have to worry about the moments that were passing you by because there would always be time in the future to catch back up with them, again. You could sit in the grass with me and watch the stars until we had seen all there was to see of them. Together. To me, life was never about stuffing experiences into it. It was about timeless moments. With you."
Elsa's eyes stung.
"Fredrick, I…" Elsa said, trailing off. She reached out for his hand. Touched his palm gently with her fingers and pressed her thumb into his knuckles. She tried to swallow her pride, to say that she was sorry for all the cruel things she'd ever said to him, but with a thousand lifetimes, wouldn't they have plenty of time to make such things right, later?
"We are here," LyreLein said. The three of them stood amid the field, "I have your final question. Girl… look up. Look upon the denizens of the sky. What do you see?"
Elsa stared skyward. Her mind was blank. She thought of all the times she had seen Fredrick at night. All of the times his head was turned up. All of the times she should have been beside him, looking up as well. What might she see, what might she say, if she had joined him?
"I… I don't know," Elsa uttered. "A million points of light. A million mysteries, waiting to be seen by those with the patience to see them."
LyreLein watched her. Weighed her. Judged her.
"And boy?..." he spoke. "What do you see?"
Fredrick was hesitant. He looked to Elsa, his eyes betraying some concern that Elsa didn't understand.
"Uhm," Fredrick muttered, glancing up. "Just… just stars. That's all I see."
For the first time, LyreLein sounded displeased: "That is not in keeping… with what you have spoken, before. It is not in keeping… with the content of your soul. I would implore you to answer honestly. Or you will fail to understand."
Fredrick gritted his teeth. He glared at LyreLein, "But sir immortal, you haven't been honest with us, have you?"
There was silence. The three stared at one another.
"There are no immortals walking the world of light," Fredrick said. "I have never seen them, never heard of them. And there are probably no immortals walking the world of Fey, either. There never have been. There are only immortals here. There can only be immortals here."
LyreLein didn't respond. Elsa grew worried. As Fredrick spoke, she began to understand.
"LyreLein, you immortals don't get to choose who goes and who stays either, do you? You don't have any secrets to give us. It's this place. It decides. And those it chooses it also keeps."
"What?" Elsa blinked. "Is this true, LyreLein?"
His silence answered for him.
"Then why?" she wondered. "Why ask us these questions?"
"Because…" LyreLein began, speaking ever more slowly and deliberately, "the answers you give… reveal to you the way that you are. Your nature. Your essence. How your mind perceives time. It also determines… whether you go and whether you stay. When the time comes, you and the boy will be torn from each other. It will be soon, and I want you both to understand… Girl, I want you to understand why you will go home as a mortal… and he will stay here, as an immortal."
"No!" Elsa shrieked, snatching up Fredrick's hand. "You can't do this! I can't leave him! I don't care about your immortality! I'll die here, that's fine, just don't send me back!"
"It's not a decision… we can make. We are just… spectators. This place… decides. It keeps those who see far enough and long enough. Those with patience. Those who are not of this nature? They are returned to where they came from. Only the far seeing mind can endure the ages… Minds like yours, girl? They are tuned to the world of light and the world of dark. To dwell in this place for even the first hundred years… would drive you mad. This, I think, is why it will reject you… and why it will accept him. I'm sorry. I don't know how much time you have together still… but it is surely growing short."
"There must be a way back for me. To forfeit immortality if I so choose," Fredrick said. "I don't need it. I never wanted it. Not unless it was with her."
"There is no choice…" LyreLein said. "I was like you once. I had no desire for immortality. I was kept unwillingly… I'm sorry."
"No," Elsa whispered, tears pooling in her eyes. She turned her head to the ground. Not knowing whether their last moment together would end suddenly, words began to sputter out. "Fredrick, I'm sorry. I'm sorry that I brought us here. I'm sorry for the times I've been impatient with you. The times where I was cruel. I'm sorry I never savored all of our moments together. I just always thought that we'd have more time."
Fredrick raised her head with his hands. Looked into her eyes, his moist as well.
"I lied," he said. "After we left town I told you that one life seemed like it should be enough. But that's not what I wanted to say. I wanted to say that one life with you seemed like it should be enough."
Elsa threw herself against him, tears spilling down her cheeks.
"The life you have left together perhaps is long enough," LyreLein said. "Look at us, the immortals. Ours lives will burn longer than the stars. Aren't the lives of mortals… just seconds in comparison to our own? A mortal's life will always end. A second or a minute or an hour are all tiny when compared to the lifetime of the cosmos. You have a now, children... perhaps that is enough."
At that, Fredrick took both of Elsa's hands. Without speaking, they danced together. Swayed with the grass, as though pulled by the same eternal tide that pulled it as well. It became hard to tell how long they danced. Elsa stopped thinking of how much time they had left. She forgot of the things they would never do, together.
With her head on his shoulder, she gazed up at the sky. She whispered, slowly, patiently, of what she saw. Answered the final question.
"Look at the planets, Fredrick. As days and months and years pass by, they dance like us. Dance and swirl in looping circles amid billions of tiny lanterns. And were we to watch long enough? Watch for a million years? The stars themselves would waltz across the sky."
And so Elsa didn't notice when eddies of blinking color enveloped Fredrick's arms and legs. She didn't notice the pulse of his body. Light, then dark. Light, then dark. She didn't notice when time skimmed around him like water around a boulder in a river. She didn't notice as the sun began to rise and the moon began to set, like the final grain of sand trickling from an hour glass. It didn't matter. One life, one day, one second with Fredrick was enough to live.
As she savored that simple moment with him, her mind could assign it no span of time. Untethered from a "before" or an "after," the moment drifted away freely. And so long after Elsa found herself standing alone in the forest, long after she returned to the town, long after she lived a long and fruitful life, long after she had died and her deeds were forgotten, that moment lived on in some immortal place.
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Michael Kors Crosby and Reade: new fitness trackers for fashion conscious people
September 22, 2016 by Eric Parker
Either you are a fan or you don't like it at all: the fact is that Michael Kors handbags nowadays depend on a lot of women arms. There is probably also still room for another accessory: a fitness tracker, all in the style of fashion master.
Michael Kors Access Crosby
Michael Kors has announced the Access Crosby fitness tracker, a variant of the Misfit Shine, but in the style that we know of handbags. The Access Crosby is a fitness tracker that you can wear on your wrist. You can choose from four colors and get to see how many steps you've walked, calories burned and the distance you've walked. LED lights in the middle of the tracker light up to indicate that you have achieved your goal.
With the Michael Kors fitness tracker, you can also measure your sleep behavior and remotely control the music from your phone. Selfies are also a lot easier to make because with the bracelet you can give your smartphone the order to shoot a snapshot.
Fitness tracker works with iPhone and Android, and exchanges data with all existing fitness apps such as Jawbone UP, Apple's HealthKit, Google Fit and UA Record. Charging is not necessary because the bracelet can work four months on a button battery. It is water resistant to a pressure of 3 ATM.
Michael Korse Access Reade: with krokostrap
The brand is trying to appeal to the Crosby style, sensitive users. Is the model with the narrow band not quite your style, there is also a model with wider bracelet and krokoprint. This is available in black or white with gold and silver. The tracker is the same, only the appearance is different.
It is interesting that these trackers very reminiscent of Misfit Shine, a disc-shaped fitness tracker that existed a few years. Maybe that's no coincidence. Misfit is now part of Fossil watch company, which also makes the smart watches for Michael Kors. It is therefore quite possible that everything comes from the same box.
The two fitness trackers Crosby and Reade are available in stores for a price around $70 (Crosby) and $100 (Reade) autumn 2016.
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The experienced Jagielka proved Everton's unlikely hero after his late call-up, becoming the oldest goalscorer in the league this season at 36 years 233 days when he poked home his finish after Arsenal failed to clear Lucas Digne's long throw.
The ball had fallen kindly after Dominic Calvert-Lewin got the final touch on to him in the aerial battle, allowing Jagielka to score his first league goal in two years and become Everton's second-oldest marksman in the Premier League era.
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"We got one goal but could have scored a few more," added Jagielka.
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South Korea Passes Law to Introduce Permit System for Crypto Exchanges
On March 5, South Korea's National Assembly passed a revised bill on the reporting and use of special financial transaction information, focusing on the introduction of a permit system for cryptocurrency exchanges.
Accordingly, virtual asset operators such as cryptocurrency exchanges would have to report their operations to the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) under the Financial Services Commission after obtaining "real name-confirmed accounts" from commercial banks. Failure to report operations could result in up to five years in prison or 50 million won ($42,000) in fines.
The bill, to be implemented in March next year, calls for existing crypto exchanges to meet requirements for a real-name account and ISMS authentication, and to report their operations within six months after the law's implementation.
The Financial Supervisory Service and the FIU will also strengthen the Anti-Money Laundering (AML) system for virtual assets such as cryptocurrency in accordance with the recommendations by the Financial Action Task Force ahead of the law's implementation.
The revised bill will speed up the preparation of sub-law regulations, including the scope of virtual asset businesses subject to AML requirements, and conditions and procedures for issuing real-name accounts.
Thus far, only four large cryptocurrency exchanges — Upbit, Coinwon, Bithumb and Korbit — have used real-name accounts. Most others have reportedly relied on honeycomb accounts, through which they received investor money with their own corporate accounts to support customer transactions.
As the conditions and procedures for banks to issue real-name accounts to crypto exchange become stricter, small exchanges utilizing honeycomb accounts will be forced either to comply or exit the industry.


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David Schwimmer And Rebel Wilson Drop The Mic With James Corden
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Things went down on last night's The Late Late Show with James Corden. The host faced off with former Friends actor David Schwimmer in an epic rap battle in which neither man's dignity was spared.
James Corden opened the battle by making fun of Schwimmer's status as a has-been actor. "Let me introduce you to this guy, his name is David, he was famous in '95," Corden rapped. He ended his first round with: "Now you've got a chance to prove you've got balls, while I ignore you like Jennifer Aniston does your calls!"
Schwimmer didn't hesitate to fire back at Corden's insults. "A Brit in America's your one claim to fame. We all know as an actor your roles were all the same." The crowd cheered when Schwimmer fired off this rhyme: "Did you think I'd be scared, walk around gingerly? When everyone knows your middle name's Kimberly?"
But just when we thought it couldn't get better, Rebel Wilson entered the house and dropped the mic, literally. She walked smugly over to Schwimmer and rapped, "David, your career, it's a huge mistake. It's like Ross and Rachel: it's on a break." To James she rhymed, "Carpool Karaoke, you think it's your big thing. But everyone is thinking, 'Shut up and let Adele sing!'" She was the clear winner of the night.
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