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Dates Announced For 12th Annual Women's Int'l Film & Arts Festival-Call For Entries Now Open
The Women's International Film & Arts Festival (WIFF) today announced that its 12th Annual Festival and Conference will take place November 29-December 3, 2017 in Miami, Florida.
Twice awarded as South Florida's Best Film Festival by the Miami New Times Newspaper, WIFF 2017 will include the screening of more than 30 films, a two-day conference, a fundraising gala, an awards brunch and more.
"We're really excited to have reached our 12th year of supporting and empowering women artists around the world. As women galvanize across the globe for economic, social and political equality, WIFF continues to be a leading voice for women in film, tv and entertainment," said Yvonne McCormack-Lyons, Founder and President.
WIFF is currently accepting submissions in two main categories, US Fem-Cinema, for women from or living in the United States and World She-view for women who come from other countries. Filmmakers may enter feature length (50 minutes or longer) narrative/dramatic films or feature length documentaries. The Festival will also accept dramatic shorts and short documentary films (films 49 minutes or less). Animated films are also accepted.
Filmmakers can submit their films to: Festival Programmer, Women's International Film Festival, PO Box 460577, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33346 or logo onto www.womensfilmfest.comwhere they can view online submission information and complete submission rules for the 2017 Festival. Submission deadlines and processing fees are: Early Submission Deadline: June 30, 2017, $40 features and $30 shorts; Official Submission Deadline, July 31, 2017 $55 features and $45 short films; and Late Deadline, August 31, 2017 $75 for feature films, and $65 for short films.
About WIFF
The Women's International Film & Arts Festival and Conference is the leading annual international cultural event addressing the issues of women in the film and entertainment industry. The annual event, the Reel Girls: Real WomenTM media literacy and filmmaking project for teen girls and year-long programs feature films, workshops, visual and performing arts, produced by or about women.
For more information about the Women's International Film & Arts Festival, media professionals may email news@womensfilmfest.com
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DO-GI-OH Fight Club Plans to Introduce the Fighting Game Genre into the NFT Gaming Space
Place/Date: - January 26th, 2022 at 12:56 pm UTC · 2 min read
Contact: Do-Gi-Oh, Source: Do-Gi-Oh
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With the launch of the DO-GI-OH project on January 29th, the first checkpoint on the DO-GI-OH projects to-do list will be the release of the highly-anticipated fighting game – DO-GI-OH Fight Club. Project founders aim to introduce an action-packed, multi-level, skill-based fighting game combined with the industry's favourite characters – Doges, Shibas and Flokis and other dog-themed characters to battle against each other on multiple battlegrounds across the whole universe. Co-founder says:
"DO-GI-OH Fight Club is inspired by the world's most famous fighting games like Street Fighter, Mortal Combat, and Tekken. I have put hundreds of hours into these games, so we want to introduce this gaming genre to the fast-growing NFT gaming community."
DO-GI-OH is a PVP and P2E arcade fighting game in which players compete against one another for fun and prizes or play a story mode. The game introduces a skill-based game-play system to bring back the good old days when games were based on skill rather than money.
In the beginning, there will be four main characters, each with their own set of skills. Players will be able to purchase or mint skill packs, which will include skill cards. These cards can be used to customize the character's playstyle to the player's preferences. There will be four skill slots and one special finishing move slot for each character (KO move). Each character will have a unique skill that can only be possessed by that character; these abilities will be revealed once the characters have been fully released. The player's commitment to mastering that character is represented by the number of hours they have put in. DO-GI-OH Fight Club will have Tournament mode, where players can compete for prizes, arcade mode where the player can involve their character and skillset, and last but not least – the story mode. Co-founder adds:
"Every skill move, every kick, every punch, and skin will define your character as a true NFT asset that you could trade on the open market or our own DO-GI-OH NFT Marketplace."
With only a few days away from launch, the DO-GI-OH project already aims to create their own P2E Metaverse with multiple games and lobbies where players could communicate, participate in special events, and get involved in the NFT gaming space through their favourite characters.

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Enter the Financial Workforce this 2019 with a Bang!
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There are different people who may be working in another department who would suddenly want to work in finance. The different technology upgrades have sparked a lot of changes. There are some things that are more developed now as compared to before. All you have to do is to make sure that you have the right skills in knowledge to last in finance.
To work in the finance department, you need to love numbers. If numbers fascinate you and you find joy in being able to solve complex problems and situations, finding a job in the finance department may be the right path for you. You can increase your chances of securing the job position that you want with the help of Chicago finance recruiters. They will give you tips and will give you new insights that can make finding a job less complicated.
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Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is a 600 bed, comprehensive healthcare facility dedicated to patient care, research, and biomedical education. Its reputation for excellence in each of these areas has made Vanderbilt a major patient referral center for the Mid-South. The hospital is home to the region's only Level I Trauma Center as well as the region's only Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. VUMC uses McKesson Healthquest for inpatient registration, scheduling and ADT, and they use Epic for outpatient services. VUMC also uses an internally developed electronic health record for both inpatient and outpatient clinical information.
VUMC contracted with Just Associates to provide an in-depth review of the Patient Access Assessment Report performed by Vanderbilt. This project included review of patient access policies, procedures and performance and recommendations to mitigate duplicate record creation. Additionally, Just Associates was asked to provide recommendations regarding the Epic Identity application.
VUMC uses McKesson Healthquest for inpatient registration, scheduling and ADT and they use Epic for outpatient services. VUMC also uses an internally developed electronic health record for both inpatient and outpatient clinical information and an internally developed application for enterprise master person index functions, which is called the Enterprise Patient Index (EPI). With a large number of people registering patients in their information systems, the HIM department was concerned about the consistency of the registration process across multiple locations. They believed that their decentralized registration process was contributing to data integrity problems. Just Associates was asked to assess the current patient registration process and make recommendations to reduce the number of duplicate records created.
Just Associates conducted an initial review of current Patient Registration/Patient Access Policies and Procedures for Central Scheduling, Admitting, Emergency Room, Laboratory, Radiology and Ambulatory Surgery. Next, we observed, documented and confirmed the actual patient access management processes. Evaluation of facility naming conventions and search routines as well as a review of training procedures for Patient Access staff was also completed. Finally, patient identity management issues at the point of patient registration were documented and recommended actions to improve patient identity management policies and procedures were presented by Just Associates.
With a goal of reducing the number of errors that create data integrity issues within their information systems and preventing the creation of duplicates once the MPI was cleansed, VUMC was evaluating the implementation of Epic Identity. In addition to the evaluation of people and processes, VUMC requested that Just Associates provide recommendations regarding the Epic Identity application. This included performing a gap analysis of the current Epic scheduling / registration application versus the desired future state; reviewing Epic Identity's capabilities and providing a high level description of how the Epic Identity's features would address reduction of duplicate creation; identifying pros and cons associated with implementing Epic Identity and providing recommendations regarding staff training needed for the roll out of Epic Identity.


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A Blind Customer Could Not Use Winn-Dixies Website. He Sued. Changes Are Coming
Source: Miami Herald, Florida
A Miami federal judge has ruled that Winn-Dixie violated the Americans with Disabilities Act [ADA] by failing to make its website accessible to blind and visually impaired users.
In a landmark win for civil rights advocates on Monday, the Jacksonville, Florida-based grocery and pharmacy chain has set aside $250,000 to revamp its online site and was ordered to pay the plaintiffs legal fees.
�Were not suing for damages,� said Scott Dinin, an attorney for the plaintiff. �Were only suing them to follow the laws that have been in this nation for 27 years.�
The case was brought by Miami resident Juan Gil, who is legally blind and uses screen reading technology to access the internet. The software has allowed Gil to use 500 to 600 websites, including Publix, Walgreens and government sites, but his vocalizing software could not read information on www.winndixie.com when he tried to order a prescription and look up store hours.
In the original complaint, Gil �felt as if another door had been slammed in his face� when he discovered he could not use the site. The complaint said he preferred to fill prescriptions online because of privacy concerns and price, and said that if the website changed he would certainly use it.
The company created the website in September 2015 and recently spent $7 million to update it to incorporate the grocery stores popular rewards program, but neither effort included discussions about disability access, according to court records. An expert witness at a digital accessibility company testified that most of the problems could be corrected with simple modifications, and estimated that the total cost of the fix would be $37,000, just over half a percent of the money spent on the recent update.
In the booming world of e-commerce, courts are divided on how to treat websites under the ADA. According to a Statistic Brain Research Institute publication, online sales exceeded $304 billion in 2014, and 87 percent of Americans have browsed online stores and made internet purchases. The ADA applies to any �place of public accommodation.� The legal debate centers on whether ADA regulations apply online as well, or only at physical locations.
In this case, Judge Robert Scola wrote in his ruling against Winn-Dixie that its website is a place of public accommodation because of its integration with its stores, and because it �operates as a gateway to the physical store locations.�
�We understand Winn-Dixie plans to appeal,� Dinin said. �We welcome the opportunity to bring this issue to the public light, and show how important it is to see accessibility and diversity at the center of every decision making process.� He says he plans to take the case to the Supreme Court if necessary.
Winn-Dixie operates 495 grocery stores in Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia and Mississippi. The company's attorney did not return a voicemail message left Tuesday afternoon.
In court testimony, the grocery and pharmacy chain said it is now building an ADA policy and will take steps to accommodate screen-reading software.
Gil's lawyer, Dinin, questions their commitment given their decision to appeal. �In this day and age, the best companies embrace diversity and disability,� Dinin said. �Every customer [they are] not reaching is a customer [they are] losing.�
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Preparatory School rugby stars achieved another significant success in a long-running community competition.
Rydal Penrhos' U11, 10, 9 and 8 squads welcomed Colwyn Bay Rugby Club for the second leg of the annual Cooper Cup, with the school holding a 3-1 advantage following a very competitive first leg of action.
The school's U8 side got Rydal Penrhos off to a superb start and racked up 55 points in their victory, with Tomas Milligan, Charlie Lister-Brookes and Oscar Jewsbury all playing a leading role in their success.
This meant that the Prep School retained the competition for the fifth consecutive year, and the U9 side confirmed an outright victory thanks to a narrow 7-5 win over their Bay counterparts.
With the scores tied heading into the closing stages of the game, late tries from Shane Ayeni and Felix Griffin confirmed victory for the home side.
The visitors achieved a notable 42-35 triumph over Rydal Penrhos in the U10 category, and a closely fought U11 contest saw Bay achieve success by a slender 26-21 margin.
This meant the final aggregate score was 5-3 in favour of the Prep School, with captain Cieran Milligan and vice-captain Freddie Barrington-Chance lifting the coveted trophy following the event.
Head of Boys' Games Jamie McLeod, said: "The Cooper Cup is the highlight of the rugby season for our Prep School pupils, and it was another fantastic spectacle with both sides giving it their all.


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US STOCKS-Wall St set to jump as Pfizer says vaccine effective
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By Medha Singh and Shivani Kumaresan
Nov 9 (Reuters) - Futures tracking the S&P 500 hit a record high on Monday after U.S. drugmaker Pfizer (NYSE: PFE ) said its experimental vaccine was more than 90% effective in preventing COVID-19 based on initial data from a large study.
Pfizer and German partner BioNTech SE BNTX.O are the first drugmakers to show successful data from a large-scale clinical trial of a coronavirus vaccine. The companies said they have found no serious safety concerns so far, and expect to seek U.S. emergency use authorization later this month. 500 futures EScv1 soared 3.78%, while Dow contracts 1YMcv1 jumped 4.69% in response, almost doubling the day's gains. Nasdaq 100 E-minis NQcv1 gained 2%.
"This is very very important (news) because it validates the market view that the economy and earnings can receive that growth path that they had before the (COVID-19) crisis struck," said Andrea Cicione, Head of Strategy, TS Lombard, London.
Many have seen some sort of a preventive medicine as the only way to kickstart a global economy struggling to find a way out of its worst downturn in decades.
"The bigger driver of the economic outlook is from the outside factors," said ING analyst Carsten Brzeski. "Right now that means the development of a vaccine. ... So we do see news like this as positive."
Overnight, U.S. stock index futures got a boost after Joe Biden was declared the winner in a highly contentious election.
Biden's victory in Pennsylvania on Saturday put him above the 270 Electoral College votes needed to secure the presidency, four days after Election Day, although President Donald Trump does not plan to concede anytime soon.


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Works of Terence in French and Latin
Published in Paris, 1539
A bonus of our book conservation programme is the occasional rediscovery of Library treasures, and this sixteenth-century edition of the plays of Terence is a marvellous case in point. Our book, Le grant therence en francoys tant en rime que en prose, is the second airing for the more than 150 woodcut illustrations which were printed in Lyons in 1493 by Johann Trechsel, before making their way to Paris where they were re-printed by Guillaume de Bossozel in his 1539 edition of the plays.
As the title suggests, each play is printed in Latin with a French verse translation probably by Gilles Cybille and a French prose summary of each scene probably written by by Guillaume Rippe.
Whether or not each miniature stage-set represents an actual performance of the play is subject for enthusiastic scholarly debate, yet it is undeniable that these illustrations are a remarkable depiction of medieval theatre, from the courtesans plying their trade in the street outside to the cunningly depicted interior with three tiers of seats, the stage and the orchestra.
The play unfolds in the smaller blocks which show the characters on a stage with a backdrop of 'houses', each front door labelled with the name of one of the various characters, into which they may come and go as the story dictates.
The cuts bring the world of the Graeco/Roman comedy to life so well that, as Trechsel boasted, 'even the illiterate can read and understand the comic argument thanks to the images that we have juxtaposed with each scene'. Certainly we did not need to brush up our Latin and French to laugh at the convoluted ins and outs of the farce: a sign of a successfully illustrated book!
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Book Review: 'Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World' by Tony Wagner
Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World
Tony Wagner
Scribner/A Simon & Schuster Imprint (2012)
Why and how to nurture the creativity of all children
As Tony Wagner explains, "This book is about how we can develop the capacities of many more young people to be creative and entrepreneurial. This book explores the new challenge of parenting, teaching, and mentoring young people to become the innovators that our country and our planet need to thrive in the twenty-first century."
He makes skillful use of information, insights, and wisdom from a wide and deep group of authoritative sources. That material is complemented by video content provided by Robert A. Compton. Readers with smartphones will also appreciate the inclusion of more than 60 Microsoft electronic links throughout the book. They can download a free application or, if they already have a generic QR code reader, they can scan the code on Page x.
As Wagner acknowledges in the Introduction, the process of researching and then writing this book was challenging because of its scope and complexity. "For this reason, I decided to limit the innovators whom I profile in this book to young people between the ages of twenty-one and thirty-two who fall into one of two categories: individuals who are doing highly innovative work in so-called STEM fields [i.e. science, technology, engineering, and mathematics], and individuals engaged in social innovation and entrepreneurship." He adds, "And what about the teachers whom these innovators identified as having most important in their development — were there any similarities in their methods?" He set out to learn and then share everything he could about why and how to nurture the creativity of all children in every aspect of their lives, including but by no means limited to the classroom.
These are among the dozens of passages that caught my eye:
o "How Do We Develop Young People to Become Innovators?" (Pages 23-26)
o "Motivating Innovators" (52-55)
o "Creating a Culture of Innovation" (57-58)
o Jodie Wu: "From Engineering Student to CEO" (74-77)
o "Play, Passion, and Purpose in Another World" (87-88)
o "Coming Down from the Ivory Tower: A New 'Moral Compass' for a University" (114-118)
o "The Challenges of Twenty-First Century Teaching and Learning" (141-146)
o "Rethinking College" (153-156)
o "Extrinsic versus Intrinsic Motivation: Play, Passion, and Purpose" (176-177)
o "The Future of Innovation" (202-203)
o "Passion" (211-214)
o "Taking Risks" (224-226)
o "Conclusion: redefining Authority" (240-242)
No brief commentary such as mine can possibly do full justice to the scope and depth of material that Wagner provides in this volume. As began to re-read it prior to organizing my thoughts for a review, I was again reminded of two ancient aphorisms. The first is from Africa and suggests that it takes a village to raise a child. Therefore, everyone must share responsibility for "growing" children whose innovative thinking is motivated, indeed driven by passionate curiosity but also guided and informed by expertise (i.e. sufficient knowledge and highly-developed skills). How urgent are the needs that Tony Wagner among many others have identified? Hence the relevance of the second aphorism, from China: "The best time to plant a tree is 100 years ago. The next best time is now."
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In addition, these 13 still-active racehorses died on track grounds from what the industry refers to as "non-racing" causes. While technically true, morally they are no less casualties of this vile business than the ones above.
Posted in Annual Kill Reports, New Mexico.
The horseracing industry accepts the deaths of these horses as something that just "happens" in racing. These SEVENTY-TWO (72) deaths are inexcusable.
COLIC is probably the worst death for a horse, it is excruciatingly painful and it appears that the colic deaths on this list did not have a vet in attendance as they were not euthanased and they probably died alone. So much can be done for a horse (life saved) if a vet is called in as soon as the colic symptoms appear and if a vet is called in too late, he cannot save the horse and euthanases to put the horse out of his agony.
Cardiac arrest – what caused this?
A stroke? – what caused this?
Ran off the track (during training) hit a pole and suffered a limb injury – why did this horse run off the track? was it being whipped, was it being forced to gallop when it was unwell, sore, carrying an injury, was he fearful of this environment which threatened his safety and he was desperate to escape?
At end of race died in the van?
2 suffered a head injury – what was going on for these horses to become so distressed that they flipped over backwards?
59 horses plus the 13 (that died on the track grounds whilst living the life of a racehorse) totals 72 and the cause of death for most of these horses is not disclosed – so much for transparency!


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White God (15) | Home Ents Review
Dir. Kornél Mundruczó, Hungary/Germany/Sweden, 2014, 121 mins
Cast: Zsófia Psotta, Sándor Zsótér, Luke & Body as Hagen
White God is a curious animal; a Hungarian-language effort from visionary director Kornél Mundruczó, it is perhaps worst described as Homeward Bound meets Cujo meets Che: Parts One & Two. It's best described as its own unique allegorical tale. The plot concerns Lili (Psotta) and her beloved mutt Hagen, as they are sent to live with her estranged father Dániel (Zsótér) following her mother's sojourn to Australia for work. The problem being that in White God's Hungary, Hagen counts as an unregistered mongrel; this requires taxation for the dog's crime of not being a purebred.
Dániel is unwilling to even have the dog in his apartment in the first place, let alone pay money to keep it there, so one thing leads to another and Hagen is abandoned in the street by an unsympathetic Dániel and a distraught Lili who promises to return for her pet friend. Hagen goes from one bad situation to another, from underground dog fighting to risk of euthanasia down at the pound. The final act is a fantastical culmination of the evil poured into the dog by the bad people it encounters, leading the dog to lead a revolution with hundreds of other imprisoned canines. It's a film that plays like it was made by a Walt Disney that experienced severe childhood trauma. Most likely in Kosovo.
For all the film's beauty (and it is a gorgeously shot film), the pervading sensation when watching is simply one of awe. White God breaks records for most dogs featured in one film (the count is at 274), and you'll be consistently trying to figure out just how the hell they managed to wrangle and control so many of them, considering some of the scenes that exist in the film. It's a wonder they got anything done with two or three of these animals, let alone 274 – especially when you think about what usually happens when two strange dogs meet one another in the street (that would be all sonic fury breaking loose).
Tricks of the theatrical canine trade aside, there's so much more to be enjoyed here. The simple story of Lili as she charges into puberty head on is extremely relatable, and the slow bond she builds with her father is tempered and slow – exactly what it should be to make it believable and accessible for audiences. The loss of her one friend, Hagen, sends her into that all-too-familiar spiral of acting out in our pre-teens; underage drinking, crushes on older boys, disobeying teachers and parents. Mundruczó puts forward a fine commentary on the loneliness of pubescence.
The fact that this familiar, "regular" storyline meshes so well with the mythical element of Hagen's rise as Caesar of the dogs is a testament to the script and direction. The themes between both story strands are tied together by the inspiring classical score and its echoes within the story, as Lili attends classes Whiplash-style, playing trumpet in an orchestra (at one point the conductor even bellows "Why are you rushing?" in Hungarian). Her trumpet skills also happen to be the one thing that soothes Hagen late at night, when the dog is banished to the bathroom due to Dániel's unwillingness to share a room with an animal.
There's an enjoyable, fist-pumping revenge element to the film, as the dogs of war (so to speak) exact bloody vengeance on the humans who have mistreated them over the course of the movie. Mundruczó's main challenge with White God was making the dogs likable, nay, human enough for audiences to engage with. 99% of people love dogs anyway – man's best friend, an' all that – so heartstrings were always going to be pulled when they are mistreated within the story. The trick was giving them personalities, especially Hagen. Playful, naive and loyal when the film opens, the worst turn of events turn this sweet animal into a dark, twisted hellhouse mirror of itself. What's electrifying about it is that we relate to the darkness borne in Hagen after everything the dog goes through – would we turn out any different in those circumstances? Bitter and violent and full of rage?
The allegorical elements of White God are all there to be picked up and pulled apart for whomever wishes to do so. Some of them are plain as day; dogs with undesirable genetic qualities are treated like secondary citizens, then rounded up and euthanized. Others are less clear; the canine "revolution" that plays out in the film's climax can be deemed a success or a failure, and could (should?) be analysed by Political Science undergrads for years to come. Its ambiguous ending will, however, be frustrating for the larger portions of the audience.
White God feels like it's for all the kids who grew up watching All Dogs go to Heaven, who are now a lot wiser to the ways of the world; All Dogs go to War. Don't miss it.
A fantastic, if brief behind-the-scenes where we find out how the dog trainers on board the film accomplished many of the jaw-dropping moments in the film. It'll be the first port of call for all who watch the feature. There are a good selection of deleted scenes, which mostly negotiate their own excision from the film to make it leaner, and tighter. Still, worth a look.
Review by Dan Woburn
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White God is out on DVD now.
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Q: cordova-plugin-geolocation causes 1k of device unsupported Today I do testing to find out why there is a lot of devices unsupported on Google Play Store for my app. After some finding, I found out that as soon as I add cordova-plugin-geolocation plugin into my app, the supported device drop for 1K.
The cordova-plugin-geolocation plugin is important for my app. Why there is so many unsupported device after adding this plugin? How can I reduce the number of unsupported device cause by this plugin? Any other alternative plugin for geolocation detection?

A: I assume that Cordova has a permission, which in turn requires a feature, that is not supported on the 1k devices.
If you can figure out which feature, then you can set the feature as optional using the uses-feature optional directive.
For example, for allowing on non phones you use <uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.telephony" android:required="false"/>
Remember, once you set it as optional, it is your responsibility to check for feature before using it, otherwise app will crash.

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The Fairest Lady of All - Audrey Hepburn in One of her Most Lavish, Luscious and Hilarious Hits!
The Fairest Lady of All - Audrey Hepburn in One of her Most Delicious Delights!
Audrey Hepburn is funny...sad...extraordinary...glamorous as Holly Golightly!
Audrey Hepburn as that delightful, darling Holly Golightly in [Breakfast at Tiffany's]
Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly sparkles her way through everything you've ever wanted to do!
Audrey Hepburn plays that daring, darling Holly Golightly to a new high in entertainment delight!
Audrey Hepburn plays Holly Golightly, the craziest heroine who ever crept between the pages of a best-selling novel!
Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly. . .the most hilarious heroine who ever rumpled the pages of a best-seller. . .is serving wild oats and wonderful fun!
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Breakfast at Tiffany's is a 1961 American romantic comedy film directed by Blake Edwards and written by George Axelrod, loosely based on Truman Capote's novella of the same name. Starring Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard, and featuring Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen, Martin Balsam, and Mickey Rooney, the film was initially released on October 5, 1961 by Paramount Pictures.
Hepburn's portrayal of Holly Golightly as the naïve, eccentric socialite is generally considered to be the actress's most memorable and identifiable role. Hepburn regarded it as one of her most challenging roles, since she was an introvert required to play an extrovert.[2] There has been speculation that Holly Golightly is a call girl, which has caused controversy.[3][4]
Breakfast at Tiffany's was received positively at the time, and won two Academy Awards: Best Original Score and Best Original Song for "Moon River", which was also selected as the fourth most memorable song in Hollywood history by the American Film Institute in 2004. The film was also nominated for three other Academy Awards: Best Actress for Hepburn, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Art Direction.
In 2012, the film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.[5]
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Although this advice isn't specific to the web copy, it's so important that it's worth repeating here. Why? Well firstly, there's too much competition for single keywords. If you're in computer sales, don't choose "computers" as your primary keyword. Go to Google and search for "computers" and you'll see why? Secondly, research shows that customers are becoming more search-savvy ? they're searching for more and more specific strings. They're learning that by being more specific, they find what they're looking for much faster.
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Portsmouth teenager tells of her ordeal after being raped by her 'monster' stepfather for four years – until he was caught by her mum
Byron Melton
Published: 11:44 Thursday 18 April 2019
A TEENAGER who suffered in silence as her stepfather raped and abused her for more than four years has bravely told of her ordeal.
Courtney Oldland from Southsea, now 18, was repeatedly raped and assaulted from the age of 11 by Johnathon Oldland – a man who became her 'father figure' after her mother began a relationship with him when she was a baby.
Oldland, left, and Courtney, middle, who he subjected to sexual abuse for four years. Picture: Medavia
The horrific campaign of abuse she faced only ended when her mother caught Oldland, 36, of Hilsea Market, Hilsea, pulling his trousers up after he had raped her in the family home.
Courtney then went to a police station herself on the way to school to report his crimes – before officers arrested him at work, where they caught him with a bag of used condoms that matched the pair's DNA.
As previously reported, Oldland was jailed in March 2017 for 17 years after a jury at Portsmouth Crown Court found him guilty of five charges of rape, two sex assaults and one count of sexual activity with a child.
Courtney, who has given her permission to be named in The News, said his vile crimes all began when her mother began working evening shifts at a local newsagents – meaning he was 'in charge' at home for the night.
Courtney Oldland. Picture: Byron Melton
'At first, I used to look forward to her going off to work. Dad would let me watch films and stay up late before finally padding off to bed,' she said.
'But as I got older he became strict and controlling.
'"Don't be late," dad snapped when I went off to school. "You've got 10 minutes to get home, not a minute longer."
'It was nearly impossible for me to get home within 10 minutes of the school bell going, even when I ran as fast as I could.
Johnathon Oldland. Picture: Medavia
'If I arrived a minute late, flushed and panting, dad would be waiting for me at the door, where he'd beat me.
'Sometimes, if I put a foot wrong in the house or was late home from a play date at a friend's he'd hurl the Xbox at me, or worse, the entire television screen.'
One night when Courtney was 11, Oldland's aggression became sexual when he ushered her into his room to watch television.
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She felt uncomfortable when Oldland's eyes became 'transfixed' on her.
Courtney, right, with her partner Connor and their two young boys. Picture: Medavia
Oldland then forced Courtney to touch him inappropriately, before he touched her and 'acted like nothing had happened'.
After that night Oldland's perverted actions became a 'sick routine' and he raped Courtney for the first time six months later.
'Just a child, I was too small to fight him off. It didn't stop me trying, though,' she said.
'I thought dad was going to kill me that night and when he threatened to hurt mum and all my family, I was scared into silence.'
Courtney's effort to evade the unrelenting abuse later amounted to sleeping beneath her bed in the 'vain hope' Oldland would not find her. But, devastatingly, it failed.
She said: 'The monster simply came into my room at the dead of night, dragged me out from my hiding place and raped me.'
Courtney, left, pictured age 14, said she looked at Oldland as a father figure. Picture: Medavia
The attacks continued for four 'miserable' years – until Oldland was caught.
'Then one morning, dad pounced on me in the living room,' Courtney said.
'He must've grown complacent because mum wasn't out at work..
'He viciously raped me and was just scrabbling to pull his jeans up when mum walked into the room.
''What the hell is going on?' she screamed, aghast. Dad looked like he'd seen a ghost as he grappled with his flies.
'''Nothing love, nothing's going on," he tried to tell her as mum looked at me.
'My heart pounded in my chest as I saw the shock and hurt in her eyes.
'I froze, too terrified to utter a word, but as I fled the room and listened to mum and dad argue a confidence grew inside me.
'It was time for this to stop. It was time for justice.'
Courtney ran into her room, grabbed some paper and wrote all about the abuse she had suffered for almost half a decade.
She stuffed the note into her school bag and took it to the police station the next morning, bursting into tears when a 'friendly' officer said she was safe, after hearing her story.
Courtney said: 'That morning, dad was arrested at work. Officers found him with a bag of used condoms.
'After mum had caught him with me the day before, he must have known he was in trouble and was trying to destroy the evidence.
'But when DNA tests on the condoms matched to both me and him, dad had signed his own death warrant.'
Even with evidence stacked against him, Oldland denied charges in court – spurring Courtney to testify at trial, face-to-face with her attacker.
A jury unanimously found him guilty and he was convicted.
'I watched him cower as the judge at Portsmouth Crown Court handed him a sentence of 17 years and sent him down to the cells,' she said.
'Now, I'm glad that monster is behind bars where he belongs and I'm moving on.
'But I don't think I'll ever forget the day mum caught dad raping me.'
Courtney now lives in safety, in Portsmouth, where she has a partner, Connor Childs, 18, and two young boys.
Parcs, the Portsmouth Abuse and Rape Counselling Service, provides specialist support to anyone aged five or above, in the city or south-east Hampshire, who has experienced sexual abuse at any time.
Call the charity on (023) 9266 9513, or its young persons service on (023) 9266 9519.
Courtney Oldland now, with her boyfriend Connor. Picture: Medavia


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Batman! Questlove! Lego Oscars! This song truly had everything.
None of the best-original-song nominees promised to bring the explosive energy or collective star power of The Lego Movie's "Everything Is Awesome," and the song's performance at tonight's Oscar ceremony did not disappoint. Tegan & Sara, joined by the Lonely Island (a.k.a. Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, and Jorma Taccone), performed the earworm-y instant classic, alongside dozens of Lego-ready backup dancers and . . . is that Will Arnett in the Batman suit?
The best celebrity cameos may have come from the audience, though, as dancers handed out Lego-brick versions of the Oscar statue, and Steve Carell, Oprah Winfrey, and Channing Tatum (who, full disclosure, was a voice in the movie) seemed as thrilled to receive them as if they were made of actual gold.
Luckily, the recorded version of the song is nearly as much fun—revisit the awesomeness below.


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TRAIL FUNDED! $103M Awarded for Rail Trail Construction
We're so excited to announce that the latest Coastal Rail Trail grant applications have been a huge success.
Both the City of Santa Cruz and the County of Santa Cruz recently submitted Rail Trail grant applications to the California Transportation Commission (CTC) and today both were awarded! The CTC granted $103.3 million to fund new construction on the Coastal Rail Trail. These new funds will be used to extend the Rail Trail from the Boardwalk to State Park Drive.
The 6.5 miles of newly-funded trail fall into four segments, Segments 8 and 9 in the City of Santa Cruz and Segments 10 and 11 in mid-county. This will be a huge improvement for active transportation in Santa Cruz County.
City of Santa Cruz Trail Segments
Segment 8 goes from the Santa Cruz Wharf past the Boardwalk and across the San Lorenzo River. Funding for this segment will improve upon the bike infrastructure that is already present along Beach Street.
Segment 9 goes from the San Lorenzo River to 17th Avenue. It passes through the Seabright neighborhood, crosses the Yacht Harbor with a new bike and pedestrian bridge bypassing the Murray Street bridge, and continues along the rail corridor behind Twin Lakes State Beach and Simpkin Swim Center, emerging at the corner of the Simpkin Swim Center driveway and 17th Avenue.
This exciting segment will create a brand new direct route between Santa Cruz and Live Oak for bikes and pedestrians. It will be dramatically shorter and safer than the existing on-street infrastructure. The trail will be about 1.6 miles, in comparison with the 2 miles on-street route. Even better, it will safely bypass the Murray Street auto bridge and the narrow, steep section of road around the ocean side of Twin Lakes State Beach, which has minimal bike lanes and no sidewalk. We're so excited to see Segment 9 get funded!
Planned Segment 9 connection to Twin Lakes park and the back of Simpkin Swim Center.
Santa Cruz County and Capitola Trail Segments
Segment 10 stretches from 17th Avenue to Jade Street Park in Capitola. Starting at Simpkin Swim Center, the trail crosses Rodeo Creek Gulch on a new bike and pedestrian bridge, crosses 38th Avenue just a few blocks from the planned new mixed-use residential and retail development at the Capitola Mall and continues to Jade Street Park. It will give residents and visitors to densely-populated Live Oak a brand new safe and protected way to get around the neighborhood and to get to and from Santa Cruz.
Segment 11 stretches from Jade Street Park in Capitola all the way to State Park Drive in Aptos. This grant funds all of Segment 11 except for the Capitola Trestle village overcrossing. The newly-funded trail picks back up on the other side of the Capitola Trestle and goes to Park Avenue, then New Brighton State Beach, continuing all the way to State Park Drive in Aptos. Planning for a Capitola Village bike and pedestrian overcrossing bridge is included in the engineering study for Passenger Rail which was just approved on December 1st.
Grant Awards Show Rail With Trail is a Winning Plan
With these awards, the Rail Trail continues to show tremendous success as a competitive project for grant funding. Before these grants, 7.8 miles of Rail Trail were already either funded or built. The new grants mean we now have 14.3 miles either funded or built. This is almost half of the full 32 miles of Rail Trail. According to the RTC, we can expect all of these funded trail segments to be completed by 2025. Once they are completed, more than 125,000 residents will have access to a safe, level, car-free path connecting Aptos, Capitola, and Santa Cruz. There are also more than 40 schools and 80 parks within 1 mile of the Rail Trail along these segments.
The CTC's decision to approve these grant applications and fund the construction of the Rail Trail alongside the existing railroad tracks confirms that Rail With Trail can be built and is being built in Santa Cruz County. Our congratulations and our tremendous gratitude go out to the staff teams at the City of Santa Cruz, the Santa Cruz Regional Transportation Commission, and at Santa Cruz County who were responsible for putting together these successful grant applications!
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 Mario Benedetti (1920–2009)

G
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 Juan Carlos Onetti (1909–1994), spisovatel, nositel ceny Premio Cervantes, nominovaný také na Nobelovu cenu za literaturu

Q
 Horacio Quiroga (1879–1937), povídkář

R
 Carlos Reyles (1868–1938), romanopisec a esejista

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\section{ Introduction}

Gamma ray bursts pose two sets of problems. The first is to account for the
required large and sudden energy release. The prime candidate here is the
formation of a compact object or the merger of a compact binary: this can
trigger the requisite energy release (few $10^{51}$ erg s$^{-1}$ for an
isotropic burst at cosmological distances), with a characteristic dynamical
timescales  as short as milliseconds. The second problem is how this energy is
transformed into a relativistically-outflowing plasma able to emit intense
gamma rays with a nonthermal spectrum.

The  literature on the second of these problems is already extensive. There
have, in particular, been detailed calculations on the behavior of
relativistic winds and fireballs.  We have ourselves, in earlier papers (e.g.
Rees \& M\'esz\'aros~, 1992, 1994, M\'esz\'aros~, Laguna \& Rees, 1993, M\'esz\'aros~, Rees \&
Papathanassiou, 1994 [MRP94], Papathanassiou \& M\'esz\'aros~, 1996; also
Paczy\'nski, 1990, Katz, 1994,
Sari, Narayan \& Piran, 1996) addressed the physical processes in relativistic
winds and fireballs. Motivating such work is the belief that compact objects
can indeed generate such outflows.  There  have, however,  been relatively few
attempts to relate the physics of the outflow to a  realistic model of
what might energize it. (Among these are early suggestions by Paczy\'nski, 1991,
M\'esz\'aros~ \& Rees, 1992, Narayan, Paczy\'nski \& Piran, 1992, Thompson, 1994, and
Usov, 1994).  These have involved either the reconversion of a burst of
neutrino energy into pairs and gamma rays, or else strong magnetic fields.
Although the former model cannot be ruled out, the beamed neutrino annihilation
luminosity being marginal in black holes with a disrupted neutron star torus
(Jaroszy\'nski, 1996), initial calculations for neutron star mergers are
discouraging (e.g. Ruffert et.al. 1997); we here focus attention on magnetic
mechanisms. In the present paper we try to incorporate our earlier idealized
models into a more realistic context, and consider some of the distinctive
consequences of an outflow which is directional rather than isotropic.

\section{ Magnetically Driven Outflows}

Magnetic fields must be exceedingly high in order to  transform rotational
energy quickly enough into Poynting flux. At the 'base' of the flow, at a
radius $r_l \sim 10^6-10^7$ cm, where the rotation speeds may be of order $c$,
the field strength must be at least $\sim 10^{14}$ G to transmit $10^{51}$ ergs
in a few seconds. These fields are of course higher than those in typical
pulsars. However , as several authors have noted, the field could be amplified
by differential rotation, or even by dynamo action (e.g. Thompson \& Duncan,
1993). If, for instance, a single fast-rotating star collapses or two neutron
stars spiral together producing (even very transiently) a differentially
rotating disc-like structure, it need only take a few dynamical timescales for
the field to amplify to the requisite level (which is, incidentally, at least
two orders of magnitude below the limit set by the virial theorem).

The most severe constraint on any acceptable model for gamma-ray bursts is that
the baryon density in the outflow must be low enough to
permit attainment of the requisite high Lorentz factors: the absolute minimum,
for wind-type models invoking internal dissipation, is $\Gamma \sim 10^2$;
impulsive models depending on interaction with an external medium require
$\Gamma \sim 10^3$. Since the overall efficiency is unlikely to exceed
$10^{-1}$, this requires any entrained baryons to acquire at least $10^3$
times their 'pro rata share' of the released energy. There are of course other
astrophysical situations where an almost baryon-free outflow occurs -- for
instance the wind from the Crab pulsar,
which may contain essentially no baryons. However, this is not too
surprising because the internal dissipation in  pulsars is  far too low to
generate the Eddington luminosity. On the other hand, in GRBs the  overall
luminosities are $\mathrel{\mathpalette\simov >} 10^{13}L_{Ed}$. It is hardly conceivable that
the fraction channeled into thermal radiation is so low that radiation pressure
doesn't drive a baryon outflow at some level. The issue is whether this level
can be low enough to avoid excess 'baryon poisoning'.

When two neutron stars coalesce, some radiation-driven outflow will be induced
by tidal dissipation before coalescence (M\'esz\'aros~ \& Rees 1992). When the neutron
stars have  been disrupted, bulk differential rotation is likely to lead to
more violent internal dissipation and a stronger radiation-driven outflow.
Almost certainly, therefore, some parts of the outflow must, for some reason,
be  less accessible to the baryons.

\section{ Axisymmetric Debris and Jets Around Black Holes}

One such reason might be that the bursts come from a black hole orbited by
a disk annulus or torus (e.g. Paczy\'nski 1991, Levinson \& Eichler, 1993).
This is of course what happens when the
central part of the rotating gaseous configuration has collapsed within
its gravitational horizon; otherwise, there is no reason why  material should
avoid the centre -- indeed, there is more likely to be a central  density peak
in any non-collapsed configuration supported largely by rotation (either a
single star or a compact binary after disruption).

Such a configuration could come about in two ways:
\break
(i) The spinning disk that forms when two neutron stars merge (e.g. Davies
et.al. 1994), probably exceeds the maximum permitted mass for a single neutron
star; after viscosity had redistributed its angular momentum, it would evolve
into a black hole (of 2-3 $M_\odot$) surrounded by a torus of mass
about 0.1 $M_\odot$ (Ruffert et.al. 1996).
\break
(ii) The system may result from coalescence of neutron star and black hole
binary. If the hole mass is $\mathrel{\mathpalette\simov <} 5 M_\odot$, the neutron star would be
tidally disrupted before being swallowed, leading to a system resembling (i),
but with a characteristic radius larger by a factor two and a torus mass of
$\sim 1$ instead of $0.1 M_\odot$.
\break
Numerical simulations yield important insights into the formation of such
configurations (and the relative masses of the hole and the torus);
but the Lorentz factors of the outflow are sensitive to much smaller
mass fractions than they can yet resolve.

It is, however, a general feature of axisymmetric flows around black holes that
the region near the axis tends to be empty. This is because the hole can swallow
any material with angular momentum below some specific value: within a roughly
paraboloidal 'vortex' region around the symmetry axis (Fishbone \&
Moncrief, 1976),  infall or outflow are the only options.  Loops of magnetic
field anchored in the torus can enter this region, owing to 'buoyancy' effects
operating against the effective gravity due to centrifugal effects at the
vortex walls, just as they can rise from a flat gravitating disk. These
would flow out along the axis. There can, in addition, be an ordered poloidal
field threading the hole, associated with a current ring in the torus. This
ordered field (which would need to be the outcome of dynamo amplification rather
than just differential shearing) can extract energy via the Blandford-Znajek
(1977) effect. In the latter the role of the torus is mainly to anchor the
field: the power comes from the hole itself, whose spin energy can amount to
$\sim 10^{53}$ erg. Irrespective of the detailed field structure, there is good
reason to expect any magnetically-driven outflow to be less loaded with baryons
along the rotation axis than in other directions.  Field lines that  thread
the hole may be completely free of baryons.

\section{ Baryon-Free Outflows}

As a preliminary, we consider a magnetically-driven outflow in which baryonic
contamination can be neglected.  In the context of many models this may seem an
unphysical limiting case: the difficulty is generally to understand how the
baryonic contamination stays below the requisite threshold.  But the comments
in the previous section suggest that it is not impossible for the part of the
flow that emanates from near a black hole and is channelled along directions
aligned with the rotation axis.

There have been earlier discussions (dating back to Phinney, 1982) of
relativistic MHD flows from black holes in AGN.
In  our present context, the values of L/M are larger by at
least ten orders of magnitude. This means that the effects of radiation pressure
and drag are potentially much stronger relative to gravity;  also,  pair
production due to photon-photon encounters is vastly more important.
For an outflow of magnetic luminosity $L$ and $e^\pm\gamma$ luminosity
$L_w \mathrel{\mathpalette\simov <}  L$ channeled into jets of opening angle $\theta$ at a lower radius
$r_l=10^6 r_6$ cm the initial bulk Lorentz factor is $\Gamma_l \sim L/L_w$,
and the comoving magnetic field, temperature and pair density are
$B'_l \sim 2.5\times 10^{14} L_{51}^{1/2} \Gamma_l^{-1} r_6^{-1}\theta^{-1}$ G,
$T'_l \sim 2.5\times 10^{10} L_{51}^{1/4} \Gamma_l^{-3/4} r_6^{-1/2}
\theta^{-1/2}$ K and $n'_l \sim 4\times 10^{32} L_{51}^{3/4} \Gamma_l^{-9/4}
r_6^{-3/2} \theta^{-3/2}$ cm$^{-3}$ (primed quantities are comoving).
Unless $\Gamma_l >>1$ the jet will be loaded with pairs, very
opaque and in local thermal equilibrium. It behaves as a relativistic gas
which is ``frozen in" to the magnetic field, and
expands with $T' \propto r^{-1}$. The lab-frame transverse field
$B \propto r^{-1}$, and the comoving $B'\sim B/\Gamma$. The comoving
energy density (predominantly magnetic) is $\epsilon'\propto r^{-2}\Gamma^{-2}$,
and the the pair density is $n' \propto T'^3 \propto r^{-3}$ so $\Gamma \propto
n'/\epsilon' \propto r$, or $\Gamma \sim \Gamma_l (r/r_l)$.

When the comoving temperature approaches $m_e c^2/k$ the pairs start to
annihilate and their density drops exponentially, but as long as the scattering
depth $\tau'_T > 1$ the annihilation photons remain trapped and continue to
provide inertia, so $T' \propto r^{-1}$, $\Gamma \propto r$ persists until
$T'_a \sim 0.04 m_ec^2 \simeq$ 17 keV at a radius $r_a$, where
$\tau'_T (r_a) \sim 1$. Between $r_l$ and $r_a$ this leads to $(r_a/r_l) \sim
(T'_l/T'_a) \simeq 10^2 L_{51}^{1/4} \Gamma_l^{-3/4} r_6^{-1/2} \theta^{-1/2}$,
with $\Gamma_a \sim \Gamma_l (r_a/r_l) \simeq 10^2 L_{51}^{1/4} \Gamma_l^{1/4}
r_6^{-1/2} \theta^{-1/2}$. At $r_a$ the adiabatic density $n'_{a,ad} \sim n'_l
(r_a/r_l)^3 \simeq 4\times 10^{26}$ cm$^{-3}$ is mostly photons, while the
pair density from Saha's law is $n'_a \sim 1.5 \times 10^{18} \Gamma_l
r_6^{-1}$, the photon to pair ratio being $\sim 10^8$. The annihilation photons
streaming out from $r_a$ appear, in the source frame, as photons of energy
around $\Gamma_a 3 k T'_a  \sim 5 L_{51}^{1/4} \Gamma_l^{1/4} r_6^{-1/2}
\theta^{-1/2}$ MeV.

Beyond $r_a$ the lab-frame pressure $B^2 \propto r^{-2}$ but
the inertia is drastically reduced, being provided only by the surviving
pairs, which are much fewer than the free-streaming photons.
In the absence of any restraining force, $\Gamma \propto n'/\epsilon'
\propto n'/B'^2 \propto B^2/n'$, and the gas would accelerate much faster than
the previous $\Gamma \propto r$. (The pair density is still above that needed
to carry the currents associated with the field, analogous to the
Goldreich-Julian density, so MHD remains valid). However, the Compton drag
time remains very short, since even after $\tau'_T < 1$ when most photons
are free-streaming, the pairs experience multiple scatterings with a small
fraction of the (much more numerous) photons for some distance beyond $r_a$.

One can define an ``isotropic" frame moving at $\Gamma_i \propto r$, in which
the annihilation photons are isotropic. In the absence of the magnetic pressure,
the drag would cause the electrons to continue to move with the radiation at
$\Gamma_i \propto r$. The magnetic pressure, however, acting against a much
reduced inertia, will tend to accelerate the electrons faster than this, and
as soon as $\Gamma \mathrel{\mathpalette\simov >} \Gamma_i$, aberration causes the photons to be
blueshifted and incident on the jet from the forward direction, so the
drag acts now as a brake. In the isotropic frame the jet electron energy is
$\gamma=\Gamma/\Gamma_i$ and its drag timescale is that needed for it to
encounter a number of photons whose cumulative energy after scattering equals
the energy per electron, $t_{dr,i} \sim m_e c^2/(u_{ph,i}\sigma c \gamma) =
(m_e c^2 4\pi r^2 \Gamma_i^3 / L \sigma_T \Gamma)$. In the lab frame this is
$\Gamma_i$ times longer, and the ratio of the drag time to the expansion time
$r/c$ must equal the ratio of the kinetic flux to the Poynting flux, $n'_j
m_ec^2 \Gamma^2 / [(B_l^2/4\pi)(r_l/r)^2]$, where $\sigma$ is the scattering
cross section and $n'_j$ is the comoving pair density in the jet. This
is satisfied for $\Gamma \sim \Gamma_a$ at $r_a$, and since the drag time is
much shorter than the annihilation time, the pair number is approximately
frozen, and $\Gamma \propto r^{5/2}$ for $r > r_a$.  The upscattered photons
will, in the observer frame, appear as a power law extension of the
annihilation spectrum, with photon number index -2, extending from
$\sim 0.12 \Gamma_a m_ec^2$ to $\mathrel{\mathpalette\simov <} \Gamma_j m_ec^2$.

The acceleration $\Gamma\propto r^{5/2}$ abates when the annihilation
photons, of isotropic frame energy $0.12 m_ec^2(r_a/r)$, are
blueshifted in the jet frame to energies $\mathrel{\mathpalette\simov >} m_ec^2$. Their directions are
randomized by scattering, and collisions at large angles above threshold lead
to runaway $\gamma\gamma \to e^\pm$ (the compactness parameter still being
large). This occurs when $\Gamma_p \sim 10^7 L_{51}^{1/4} \Gamma_l^{1/4}
r_6^{-1/2} \theta^{-1/2}$, at $r_p \sim 10^{10} L_{51}^{1/4} \Gamma_l^{-3/4}
r_6^{1/2} \theta^{-1/2}$ cm. Thereafter the threshold condition implies
$\Gamma \propto r^2$, until the inertial limit $\Gamma_{in}\sim 10^9
L_{51}^{1/4} \Gamma_l^{1/4} r_6^{1/2} \theta^{-1/2}$ is reached at $r_{in}\sim
10^{11}  L_{51}^{1/4} \Gamma_l^{-3/4} r_6 \theta^{-1/2}$ cm. Besides going into
pairs, a reduced fraction of the Poynting energy may continue going into a
scattered spectrum of number slope -2 up to $\Gamma_{in} m_ec^2$.

However, in an outflow of $L\sim 10^{51} L_{51}$ erg s$^{-1}$ maintained for
a time $t_w\sim$ few seconds, the relativistic jet would have to
push its way out through an external medium, with consequent dissipation at
the front end, as in double radio sources. Except for a brief initial transient
($\ll 1$ s in observer frame) the shock will be far outside the characteristic
radii discussed so far. The external shock will be ultrarelativistic, and
slows down as $r^{-1/2}$. The jet material, moving with $\Gamma \gg 1$,
therefore passes through a (reverse) shock, inside the contact
discontinuity, which strengthens as $r^{1/2}$ as the external shock slows down.
Since it is highly relativistic and the medium highly magnetized, this reverse
shock can emit much of the overall burst energy on a time $\sim t_w$.
When $t\sim t_w$ the external shock has reached $r_d \sim 10^{16}
L_{51}^{1/4} n_o^{-1/4} t_w^{1/2} \theta^{-1/2}$ cm, where $n_o$ is the
external density, and the Lorentz factor has dropped to $\sim 10^3
L_{51}^{1/8}n_o^{-1/8} t_w^{-1/4} \theta^{-1/4}$. This, as well as the
expected radiation of the shocks at (and after) this stage is rather
insensitive to whether the initial Lorentz factor is indeed $\sim 10^6-10^8$,
or whether baryon loading has reduced it to $\sim 10^3$. After this the
flow is in the impulsive regime and produces an ``external" shock GRB on an
observer timescale $r_d/c\Gamma^2 \simeq t_w$, as in, e.g. M\'esz\'aros~ \& Rees,
1993, MRP 1994.

\section{Radiation from High $\Gamma$ Magnetically Driven Jets}

If the jet is indeed baryon-free, and therefore has a Lorentz factor $\sim
10^7-10^9$, an extra mechanism can tap the Poynting energy along its length
(before it runs into external matter) -- namely, interaction of pairs in the
jet and annihilation photons along the jet with an ambient radiation field.
In our context, this would be radiation emitted by the torus or
baryon-loaded wind that is expected to flow outward, mainly in directions away
from the rotation axis, forming a funnel that surrounds the jet.

The ambient radiation causes an additional drag, which limits the
terminal Lorentz factor of the jet below the values calculated in \S 4 in
those regions where this is important. As a corollary, the Poynting
flux is converted into directed high energy radiation, after pair creation in
the jet by interaction with the annihilation radiation.
We cannot generally assume that the ambient radiation field is uniform across
the whole jet, because it may not be able to penetrate to the axis, but the
boost in photon energy can in principle be $\mathrel{\mathpalette\simov <} \Gamma^2$. This is similar
to what is discussed in AGN but with more extreme Lorentz factors and radiation
densities. Since the ambient radiation has a luminosity $\mathrel{\mathpalette\simov >} L_{Ed}$, and the
burst luminosity is larger by $10^{12}-10^{13}$, this mechanism is significant
only when the jet Lorentz factor has the very high values $\mathrel{\mathpalette\simov >} 10^6$
characteristic of these baryon-free outflows.

The photons from the sides of the funnel emitted into the jet have
energies $x_f=E_\gamma /m_ec^2\sim 1/20$.
When they pass transversely into the jet, and are scattered by
``cold" pairs, the scattering will be in the K-N regime for any $\Gamma >20$.
The electron will therefore recoil relativistically, acquiring a Lorentz factor
$\sim \Gamma/20$ (in the comoving frame), and will then cool by synchrotron
emission, isotropic in the jet frame. This radiation will, in the observer
frame, be beamed  along the jet and blueshifted by $\Gamma$. One readily sees
that the net amplification (energy/incident energy) is $\sim \Gamma^2$.
If the external photons instead interact with one of the beamed gamma-rays of
energy $E$ in the source frame (typically near threshold for pair production)
the resultant pair will have a Lorentz factor of order  $\Gamma / (E/m_e c2)$
in the comoving frame, and will again emit synchrotron, yielding the same
amplification factor as before.

The interaction of the ambient photons with the beamed annihilation
photons in the jet leads to a complicated cascade, where the jet Lorentz
factor must be calculated self-consistently with the drag exerted by the
ambient photons.  A schematic cascade at $r\sim r_p$ where $\Gamma_p \sim
10^7$, would be as follows. \break
A) Interactions near $r_p$ between funnel photons of lab frame energy $x_f
\sim 10^{-1}$ and beamed annihilation jet photons of lab frame energy $x_1
\sim x_a \sim 10$ (produced by pair recombination in the outflow) lead to
$e^\pm$ of energy $\gamma_2 \sim x_1 \sim 10$ (lab), or $\gamma'_2 \sim
\Gamma_p/ \gamma_2 \sim 10^6$ (comoving jet frame). In the comoving magnetic
field $B' \sim 6\times 10^3$ G these pairs produce synchrotron photons of
energy $x'_2 \sim 10^1$ (comoving), or $x_2 \sim x'_2 \Gamma_p 2\times 10^8$
(lab). \break
B) Photons $x_2$ interact with ambient photons $x_f$ to produce pairs of energy
$\gamma_3 \sim x_2 \sim 2\times 10^8$ (lab), or $\gamma'_3 \sim \gamma_3 /
\Gamma_p \sim 2\times 10^1$ (comoving). In the same comoving field
these produce synchrotron photons $x'_3 \sim 10^{-8}$ (comoving) or $x_3\sim
10^{-1}$ (lab). \break
C) Photons $x_3 \sim 10^{-1}$ are below threshold for pair production with
funnel photons $x_f\sim 10^{-1}$, ending the cascade. The resulting photons
have lab energes $E_3 \sim x_3 m_ec^2 \sim 50 L_{51}^{1/4} \Gamma_l^{1/4}
r_6^{-1/2}\theta^{-1/2}$ KeV.
Of course, in a more realistic calculation the self-consistent jet Lorentz
factor may vary across the jet, and one needs to integrate over height.
However this simple example illustrates the types of processes involved.

\section{ Discussion}

>From the scenario above it follows that Poynting dominated (or magneticaly
driven) outflows from collapsed stellar objects would lead, if viewed along the
baryon-free jet core, to a $\gamma$-ray component resembling the GRB from the
external shocks in 'impulsive fireball' models. However the reverse shock is
here relativistic, and may play a larger role than in impulsive models.
Viewed at larger angles, the GRB component would ressemble that from internal
shocks (see below). The characteristic duration $t_w$ and the (possibly
complicated) light curve are controlled by the details of the Poynting
luminosity production as a function of time, e.g. the cooling or accretion time
of the debris around a centrally formed black hole.

Besides the 'standard' GRB emission, Poynting dominated outflows viewed along
the jet core would be characterized by additional radiation components from the
jet itself (\S\S 4, 5). The annihilation component peaks at $E_1 \sim 5
L_{51}^{1/4} \Gamma_l^{1/2} r_6^{-1/2} \theta^{-1/2}$ MeV (or 50 MeV if
$\theta \sim 0.1$, $\Gamma_l\sim 10$), with a power law extension of photon
number slope -2 going out to $\mathrel{\mathpalette\simov <} \Gamma_p m_ec^2 \sim 5 L_{51}^{1/4}
\Gamma_l^{1/2} r_6^{-1/2} \theta^{-1/2}$ TeV, if ambient photon drag limits
$\Gamma$ to $\mathrel{\mathpalette\simov <} \Gamma_p$ (otherwise, it could extend to $\Gamma_{in} m_ec^2
\sim 500$ TeV).  If, as argued by Illarionov \& Krolik (1996) for AGN, an outer
skin of optical depth unity protects the core of the jet from ambient photons,
this annihilation component could have a luminosity not far below the GRB MeV
emission, and the $\Gamma$ of the jet core would not be limited by ambient
drag, only that of the skin. However, the skin depth is hard to estimate
without taking the drag self-consistently into account. The cascade from the
interaction of ambient (funnel) photons with jet photons leads to another jet
radiation component. The simplified estimate of \S 5 gives $E_3 \sim 50
L_{51}^{1/4} \Gamma_l^{1/4} r_6^{-1/2}\theta^{-1/2}$ KeV as a characteristic
energy, with a power law extension. The amplification factor of the cascade is
$A_c \mathrel{\mathpalette\simov <} \Gamma^2 \mathrel{\mathpalette\simov <} 10^{14} L_{51}^{1/2} \Gamma_l^{1/2} r_6^{-1}
\theta^{-1}$, and since the funnel emits $\sim L_{Edd}$, the luminosity could
be a (possibly small) fraction of $L$. The duration of these components
is $\sim t_w$, preceding the normal MeV burst by $\sim t_w$, and it may be
more narrowly beamed, arising from regions with $\Gamma_p \sim 10^7$, as
opposed to $\Gamma \mathrel{\mathpalette\simov <} 10^3$ for the MeV components, and $\Gamma_a \sim 10^2$
for the peak annihilation component.

Gamma-rays will be detected for a time $t_w$ (longer if external shocks are
expected). There may also be prolonged after effects, e.g. M\'esz\'aros~ \& Rees, 1997,
with X-ray and optical fluxes decreasing as a power law in time.  In a rotating
black hole - torus system with a super-Eddington outflow the baryon
contamination will be minimal along the rotation axis and will increase at
larger angles to it. A narrow, largely baryon-free jet core such as discussed
in \S\S 4 and 5, would be surrounded by a debris torus producing a
baryon-loaded, slower outflow acting as a funnel, which injects X-ray seed
photons into the jet. This slower outflow would carry a fraction of the GRB
luminosity $L$ in kinetic energy form. For a slow outflow $\Gamma
\sim 10$, this kinetic energy can be reconverted into nonthermal X-rays after
a time $t_x \sim$ day if it is shock-heated at a radius $r\sim 10^{15}$ cm,
either by Alfv\'en wave heating, or by interaction with a pre-ejected
subrelativistic shell of matter of $\sim 10^{-3} M_\odot$ as has been detected
in SN 1987a. This could lead to the substantial X-ray afterglow detected $\sim$
days later in GRB 970228 (Costa, et al., 1997).

The observed time structure and luminosity of the gamma-ray burst would depend
on the angle between the rotation axis and the line of sight. Viewed obliquely,
the outflow has $\Gamma \mathrel{\mathpalette\simov <} 10$ and only an X-ray transient with some
accompanying optical emission would be seen. At smaller angles to the jet axis,
outflows with $\Gamma \mathrel{\mathpalette\simov <} 10^2$ would also be seen (which might originate at
$r > 10^{10}$ cm by entrainment of slower baryonic matter by the faster jet,
or they might already originate closer in), and the predominant radiation
would arise from internal shocks (Rees \& M\'esz\'aros~, 1994, Papathanassiou \& M\'esz\'aros~,
1996), which can have complex, multiple-peaked light curves. Closer to
the rotation axis, outflows with $\Gamma\sim 10^3$ may dominate, either at large
radii or already lower down, and radiation from external (deceleration) shocks
would be prominent (e.g. MRP94). Nearest to the rotation axis, if there is
indeed an almost baryon-free core to the jet, the annihilation radiation
power law component, the relativistic reverse shock radiation and the cascade
process (\S\S 4,5) yield significant extra contributions, which arrive ahead
of the external shock burst.  The luminosity function  for the burst population
may in part (or even entirely) be determined by the beam angle distribution,
jet edge effects and the observer angle relative to the jet axis.  A time
variability would be expected from intermittency in the Poynting flux
extraction, or wobbling of the inner torus or black hole rotation axis, on
timescales down to $t_v \sim r_l/c \sim 10^{-3}- 10^{-4}$ s.

If the Poynting flux is derived from the accretion energy of a NS-NS remnant
torus of 0.1 $M_\odot$, and the gamma-rays are concentrated within an
angle $\theta \sim 10^o$, the efficiency of conversion of rest mass
into magnetic energy need only be $10^{-4}$ to generate a burst which (if
isotropic) would be inferred to have an energy of $10^{51}$ ergs, and only
$10^{-2}$ to simulate a $10^{53}$ erg isotropic burst.  For a BH-NS merger the
torus may be $\sim 1 M_\odot$, and the corresponding magnetic efficiencies
required are $10^{-5}$ and $10^{-3}$ respectively. Thus, even bursts whose
inferred isotropic luminosites are $10^{52}-10^{53}$ erg, either due to high
redshifts or exceptional observed fluxes, require only very modest efficiencies.
Further reductions in the required efficiencies are possible if the Poynting
flux is due to the Blandford-Znajek mechanism, which can extract $\mathrel{\mathpalette\simov <}
10^{-1}$ of a near-maximally rotating Kerr black hole rest mass (as would be
expected from a NS-NS merger), leading to equivalent isotropic energies
$\sim 10^{53}(4\pi/2\pi\theta^2) \gg 10^{53}$ erg. Even without the latter,
somewhat speculative, possibility, it is clear that jet-like Poynting flows
from tori around black holes can produce even the most
intense bursts with comfortably low efficiencies. The detailed burst properties
-- particularly the rapid variability and bursts seen along the jet core, the
blueshifted annihilation and high energy cascade photons-- can help to pin
down the parameters of the model, while the afterglow can provide information
on the dynamics and mass flux in directions away from the jet axis.

\acknowledgements
We thank NASA NAG5-2857, NATO CRG-931446 and the Royal Society for support,
the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, for its hospitality, and
Ira Wasserman for useful comments.

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text:
Martha waves to Drive Thru parade
Luverne resident celebrates milestone birthday
By Amya Mitchell
Published 6:02 pm Friday, September 25, 2020
Friends and family of Luverne native Martha Thomas gathered at the host's home to celebrate her 65th birthday.
"It just means so much because it's a milestone age," Thomas said. "It's a blessing for me to be able to walk around and do all that I can, especially with the epidemic that's going on. I'm thankful that God has had all of us covered."
Thomas grew up in Crenshaw County.
She attended Crenshaw County Training School until the school's integration, and then moved to Luverne High School in 1971.
"We had to integrate," Thomas said. "I went to Luverne High School and graduated in 1973."
After graduation, Thomas attended a few classes at Lurleen B. Wallace Community College, and retired as an officer from the Alabama Department of Corrections after 25 years.
She now spends her time as a church clerk at St. John Missionary Baptist Church alongside her husband, Deacon Isham Thomas.
A drive-thru parade started the get together before Thomas' friends and family gathered in her yard for speeches and remarks from her closest friends.
Thomas' Pastor James Taylor gave words of inspiration to the small crowd.
"We all know that 65 is a celebrated number," Pastor Taylor said, "but the Bible says that the number 65 is a spiritual enrichment number."
Thomas thoughtfully provided guests with a small gift to take home instead of asking for her own.
She finished by thanking guests for their kind words and well wishes.
"You've come from near and far today," Thomas concluded. "I want to thank you for helping me celebrate."
Local equestrian youth earn high ratings at state show
While the COVID-19 crisis has managed to change things for the entire community, local equestrian youth felt its impact keenly.... read more


Las Vegas. Puerto Rico. Syria. Myanmar. Violence. Destruction. I think many of us feel we or our loved ones are "between a rock and a hard place" these days – so much going on, so much suffering, so much destruction. These times can make us wonder if God is really there. I believe God really is there, for each one of us, in every situation, no matter how bad it may seem. We are always between God and a hard place. God is always an option for us. Are we willing to lean in to those strong, loving, everlasting arms, no matter what?
This idea started in the '90s during the Bosnia conflict – seems quite appropriate in our time, too.
We can't outlive our memories.
Heaven, won't you grant us your peace?
God, why don't you take this hate away?
Are we never gonna let our anger cease?
I added another new piece to the site today, called Paris, 2015. The musical idea came to me years ago after watching the film Life is Beautiful (you can probably see why). When I finally got to working on the recording, I decided I wanted to offer it in memory of the 2015 Paris attacks.
May you feel held, comforted, and nurtured by God.


A major inquiry is underway into the future of public service television - and it wants to know your views. It's chaired by Lord Puttnam - who, as David Puttnam, produced many award-winning films including The Mission, Local Hero and Chariots of Fire. He's now involved in education - and in the future of public service television.


I have to admit: the only reason I walked into the movie theater last night to see The Tree of Life is because the preview was beautiful.
It didn't tell me anything whatsoever, but it was beautiful. I gathered something or other about the American Dream, something or other about Brad Pitt playing an abusive father, and Sean Penn wandering outside of it all. That's about all I got.
I suppose I take it for granted that if a preview is gorgeous and mysterious, that the mystery will be a pleasant surprise when it is revealed to me. I somehow think that I can trust the preview. That it won't show me anything in an attempt to lure me in. That it won't make me sit in the movie theater, debating whether or not I should leave.
My trust has been betrayed.
Last night I sat, staring at the screen and feeling like I'd been duped. I didn't know what I was looking at, what I suppose to get out of it, or why someone would want me to sit through it. It started out kind of normal, but after ten minutes all bets were off. Suddenly I was staring at strange, abstract images and a voice was whispering to me.
And once that was over, I got a visual walk-through on evolution. No lines, no narrative, just scattered whispers. And a lot of intense opera music. After the fifteenth minute of trying to wrap my brain around this forest of confusion, I let out a small, uncontrollable giggle.
I made up my mind to brace and grimace through the movie just when a teenage girl came sprinting up the aisle from the from of the theater. She raced to the back of the room and out the door, where, once it was closed behind her, she let out the loudest, most hysterical laugh you can imagine.
Apparently I wasn't the only one wrestling with hilarity.
Don't get me wrong – there is a part of this movie that I appreciate. I tried very hard to wrap my head around the movie and to think through why it was laid out this way. I got the whole sensory images thing. I admit that there were certain sections that entirely grasped the sense of childlike innocence and real growth that happens in life, and that's pretty impressive. And I even reached so far as to see the points the movie was trying to make about how life is so much bigger than one event and the cyclical nature of, well, nature.
And so since I found this movie to be generally quite preposterous, and because I felt somewhat duped, I feel inclined to break it down for you. You know, just in case you got lured in by the preview.
This really isn't a joke. I wish it were.
Today's RAK: Baked goods. For everyone.
I dare to say, and from your review. If you don't get it, no one else did. Including the director. Two concepts here…obviously in hindsight. The director had a vision of dialogue, texture, imagery &" totus ero ostendo sum in vicis". Secondly, oops maybe none will notice (this dog don't hunt). The award for worst movie/film of the year hidden under the category.." Artistic Endeavor " goes too…______________________.
A few lines from the New York Times review….
I have been know to approach the box office and politely ask for a refund, the manager and then the manger @hand's manager. Never politely take no for a answer.
funny until you realize it's true.
Thanks for saving me $10!!
Thanks for the warning! I hadn't even heard of this movie. Thought you might get a kick out of this other review I just saw too. http://rachaeljames.wordpress.com/2011/06/27/the-tree-of-life/ I love that tons of people are walking out on this movie. Just makes me giggle.
Thanks for sharing the link! 🙂 I find it hilarious as well – I'm so glad I was able to keep a lid on the giggles throughout the movie, though.
I felt exactly the same way. The preview made it look fantastic, but I was so confused throughout and disappointed when it was finished. There are artistic aspects I did appreciated, but it was just too abstract for me.
We can only handle so many images of the solar system.


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Players shy away from officials over match fixing approaches
2:16 pm on 13 November 2010
International Cricket Players Union boss Tim May says cricketers shy away from reporting corruption because they do not trust the authorities.
Pakistan's Zulqarnain Haider has been criticised by his board for fleeing to England after receiving death threats when he refused to fix two matches.
But May says he admires Haider's courage and it's no suprised that he didn't go to his national body.
Wicketkeeper Haider claims he was approached in Dubai by a person who asked him to fix the fourth and fifth games against South Africa, who went on to win the deciding game to earn a 3-2 victory in the series.
He is seeking asylum in the United Kingdom and has met with Pakistan's High Commissioner, who has offered the player legal assistance.


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http://www.concordia.ca/content/shared/en/news/offices/vpaer/aar/2018/05/03/a-journey-to-the-past-and-future.html
Department of Journalism
Research & creation
Institute for Investigative Journalism
Institut du journalisme d'enquête
A journey to the past — and future
Concordia alumni Geoff Bowie and Rita Kotzia's documentary film Nahanni River of Forgiveness will chronicle the Dene Indigenous people on an historic voyage
By Richard Burnett
Source: Advancement and Alumni Relations
Filmmakers Geoff Bowie, BFA 82, and Rita Kotzia, BA 96, MA 04, are making a dream come true — and not just their dream. Bowie will direct and Kotzia will produce the feature documentary film Nahanni River of Forgiveness, which begins shooting in the Northwest Territories in June 2018.
Watch the trailer for Nahanni River of Forgiveness on Vimeo.
The Nahanni is a Canadian wilderness river icon and was declared a World Heritage Site by the United Nations in 1978. For this film, the Dene — the indigenous people of the Northwest Territories — will build a 40-foot (12-metre) moose skin boat the way their ancestors did and take it on a 21-day journey.
Herb Norwegian, grand chief of the Dehcho First Nations — to which the Dene belong — says this project will "honour our ancestors, making the trip once again through their descendants. It is a chance to reaffirm our identity, to nourish our collective memory, to build pride in our young people about who they are and build hope in the communities. It will make a statement to the world that the Dene are a people of bravery and survival."
Director Geoff Bowie says his new film "is a miracle for all of us."
Bowie, a veteran documentary filmmaker, says he first met Norwegian 12 years ago on another shoot. "Do you think this Nahanni River journey would make an interesting film?" Norwegian asked Bowie.
"I told Herb it would make a great film, but the timing only came together in the last couple of years," Bowie explains. "It is an important project for the Dene, a film about their values and point of view. And there hasn't been a boat like this on the Nahanni River in 100 years."
The documentary is budgeted at $1 million. "The budget is secure on the film side," says producer Rita Kotzia of 90th Parallel Productions.
"But on the Dene side, we have launched a $30,000 crowdfunding campaign to specifically help the Dene raise money to cover their travel costs and expenses. The Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign will also finance the building of the 40-foot moose skin boat and the transportation costs for the Dene to fly into the building site near the headwaters of the Nahanni River."
Producer Rita Kotzia says the documentary will "help pass on Dehcho traditions from one generation to the next."
"This film will also help pass on Dehcho traditions from one generation to the next and ensure they do not get lost," Kotzia adds. "Canada has gone through a period of dark ages when it comes to treating Native people in this country, and this project is a sort of rebirth."
Both Bowie and Kotzia credit Concordia for getting their careers off to a great start. "Concordia helped instill a deep love for film, and I even won a student film award, for a documentary, which made me think I could really do this," says Bowie, who studied film production in what is now the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. "It was seminal to my career."
Kotzia adds, "Concordia was always on the cutting edge and taught me to be as current as possible." She earned a BA in communication studies and journalism and an MA in educational technology from the university. Her previous producer credits include the documentary Bipolarized: Rethinking Mental Illness (2014), which she also wrote and directed.
The Nahanni River of Forgiveness crowdfunding campaign ends May 10, 2018. The documentary film's principal photography is scheduled to begin June 9 and air on CBC in spring 2019.
"I would like viewers to see the Dene in a fresh way, see what kind of people they are, how amazing they are and what kind of Canada is out there," says Bowie. "I can't wait to make this film. I've never done anything this big. It really is a miracle for all of us."
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Released Jun 26, 1998 by King Records, TWO 25 FIVE (catalog no. KICA-5013~4, retail 3568 yen).
This CD set is the second installment of the Grandia original soundtracks. This CD's instrumentation definitely sounds like it came from a video game system.
The characteristics of disc 1's music are very unbalanced. Musical length is skewed. For example, there are many tracks that are short, but there are a few tracks that last over six minutes. In addition, the musical style is also mixed. The majority of the tracks are filler or mood tracks. For instance, tracks 5, 8, 16, and 18 are mood tracks, but they last so long and are so repetitive that you will want to advance quickly. The instrumentation is adequate, but the composition is too game-like. Overall, the music is probably best heard in the context of the game itself, not as a separate soundtrack. In my opinion, only four tracks sound particularly good. Those few do not save the CD from complete mediocrity.
Disc 2 follows in the footsteps of Disc 1. There are still a lot of filler and mood tracks. The instrumentation is decent, but again the composition is distinctly game-like, including the repetitous musical patterns (see the review of Grandia OST1). Tracks 3 and 16 sound closest to the spirit of Grandia OST1. Overall, this CD is just as mediocre as the first CD.
Unlike its previous installment, Grandia OST2 is not strong buy. The tracks do not have the same feel as Grandia OST1. Game Arts should have arranged all the tracks on Grandia OST2 as well.