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Hillier Development on Greenview Avenue Gets Design Feedback From Planning Board
Dilshanie Perera
A new proposal by J. Robert Hillier for structures on the properties he owns on Greenview Avenue was brought to the Princeton Regional Planning Board last week. The designs include renovating the existing homes that front on the street, and adding another unit to the back of each structure.
The plans account for a total of seven, two-bedroom units that vary in size from 1,300 to 1,600 square feet. Four of the homes have private elevators inside, with each master bedroom containing a large attached bathroom that is handicap accessible, Mr. Hillier (who is a Town Topics shareholder) said.
The additions to each house will be modernist in style. All of the structures will have cedar shingle siding, zinc roofs, and zinc detailing elements. A semi-pervious, brick-paved, 16-foot-wide driveway will lead to a 14-space parking lot behind the houses to serve all of the buildings.
Mr. Hillier envisions the project to be Leadership in Environmental and Energy Design (LEED)-certified, with rainwater harvesting and sod roofs on some of the buildings. Additionally, "we see the whole thing as having an association," he said, meaning that services the Borough would otherwise provide, like garbage pickup and snow removal, would be done by private entities.
Prices for the homes are expected to be between $600,000 and $800,000, with rentals valued at $1,800 to $2,500 per month.
The large tin shed structure at the back of the property line is slated to be demolished, though newly-appointed Planning Board Chair Wanda Gunning noted that historic preservation approvals would have to be issued, despite the fact that the shed is slowly crumbling.
Currently, through an agreement with a previous owner, employees from the Alchemist and Barrister park on site at 11 Greenview, Mr. Hillier noted. Planning Board member Marvin Reed said that the 5 to 7 cars that will no longer be able to park on the lot might "create an alternate problem for us" regarding traffic flow and parking downtown.
The presentation by Mr. Hillier was a site plan and concept review. Approvals for the project will have to be granted by the Site Plan Review Advisory Board, Zoning Board, and Planning Board once designs have been developed further.
A year and a half ago, Mr. Hillier proposed building 13 condominiums on the Greenview Avenue site, which was met by concerns from neighbors, and an ultimate rejection by the Borough's Zoning Board, which was split in a 4-3 vote. Variances for the plans were cited as a large departure from a 2006 zoning ordinance.
The new proposal for the Greenview Avenue site, which is comprised of four lots, upon which three buildings currently stand, was met by general enthusiasm from Planning Board members, who lauded the creative design. Many also expressed worries about the integration of the development into the neighborhood. Likewise, neighbors called the plans better than those previously proposed, but wondered whether the character of the street would be changed.
Planning Board member Yina Moore said she was concerned that the development "separates itself from what is a long-established, eclectic neighborhood."
"I applaud the keeping of the scale of the street structures," said Ms. Gunning, who added that Greenview Avenue was an important African American neighborhood in the first part of the 19th century. "Number 15 was owned by Paul Robeson's father."
"I feel a certain sadness that this neighborhood is vanishing slowly but surely," Ms. Gunning added, wondering whether it would be practical to keep some of the walls of buildings that were structurally compromised.
Neighbor Julie Fox thanked Mr. Hillier for listening to residents' qualms, but noted that she was "very sad about the changing character of the street." She also expressed concern that "the modern structures at the back don't fit in as well."
Humbert Street neighbor Ronald Nielsen, whose property abuts that of the proposed development, said that "Mr. Hillier has done a marvelous job with answering all of the neighbors' complaints," noting that "there is a target market out there for the homes, which is a different market from the condos that are being built in the center of town."
Emphasizing the need for a unified street, Barbara White, a Greenview neighbor, said "I think there are other possibilities" vis a vis the design, while another neighbor remarked, "I'm concerned that this development is more inwardly-focused."
Alex Magoun of Humbert Street called the design "creative," saying that the increase in the number and variety of people living in the neighborhood would be an asset.
"I really like this a lot," said Planning Board member Gail Ullman, who cited as highlights "building to the level of density that the Master Plan suggests for the center of town, and the creative use of space," though she acknowledged that there is "something a little off-putting about the degree of being an enclave."
Mr. Reed brought attention to the fact that no cars would be parked in the front lawns of any of the properties, which would be a "welcome improvement." He requested that alternate designs for the front porch areas of the houses be brought to the next hearing.
Peter Madison, also of the planning board, was "pleased to see three existing structures being preserved," and that he "likes the diversity of the modern structures," and feels that the cedar shingles soften the effect.
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Selección nacional
Formó parte de la selección de fútbol de Alemania que obtuvo el tercer lugar en la Copa del Mundo de 1934, pero no jugó ningún partido durante el torneo.

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DON PRESTON G6XDH
DON - "did I really come round last night" - Preston
( the shortest lifetime amateur licence ever issued ? )
A great friend of mine passed away the other day aged 74 years. Born on 7th October 1932, died February 26th 2007.
Don Preston, a great jazz keyboard player, fronted the Don Preston Trio in the 60 - 70's era. He played the pubs and clubs of the South East regularly and became well known for his particular style of playing, similar to Harry Stoneham a great friend. Harry Stoneham was pro but Don stayed with Radio Rentals by day and did the clubs for pocket money in the evenings.
Don was known for his love of an occasional 'gold watch' and on many occasions, well in-fact every occasion, would end up with friends after an evening session and sup a few into the early hours. As his daughter Julie, and son David described him in this news-paper article, he was a lovable rogue. Probably the way most of us will remember him.
Don would have loved the last joke society played on him, as he had a wicked sense of humour. I looked after Don's radio licence in his later years due to his 'forgetfulness' and I recently received a communication from Ofcom. He was issued with his lifetime radio licence on 26th February 2007, - the day he died. I guess he's also played his last trick on me, to help me remember the 26th February - it's also my wedding anniversary !
Dons funeral was held at Crawley Crematorium on Monday 12th March at 10.30 am. The family requested that there should be no flowers but donations made to St Catherines Hospice.
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Justia Forms Business Contracts Inhibikase Therapeutics, Inc. Description of Securities Registered Pursuant to Section 12
Description of Securities Registered Pursuant to Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
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EXHIBIT 4.19
DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES
REGISTERED PURSUANT TO SECTION 12 OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
The following is a description of the common stock of Inhibikase Therapeutics, Inc., our only class of securities registered under Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. The description is a summary, does not purport to be complete and is subject to and qualified in its entirety by reference to Delaware law and to our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and our amended and restated bylaws, copies of which are filed as exhibits to our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020 and are incorporated by reference herein.
References in the following discussion to "we", "our" and "us" and similar references mean Inhibikase Therapeutics, Inc., a Delaware corporation.
Authorized Capitalization
Our authorized capital stock consists of 110,000,000 shares of capital stock, par value $0.001 per share, of which:
•100,000,000 shares are designated as common stock; and
•10,000,000 shares are designated as preferred stock.
On August 24, 2020, we effected a 1-for-1.14396 reverse stock split of the issued and outstanding shares of our common stock.
Each holder of common stock is entitled to one vote for each share on all matters submitted to a vote of the stockholders, including the election of directors. Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws do not provide for cumulative voting rights. Because of this, the holders of a plurality of the shares of common stock entitled to vote in any election of directors can elect all of the directors standing for election, if they should so choose. With respect to matters other than the election of directors, at any meeting of the stockholders at which a quorum is present or represented, the affirmative vote of a majority of the voting power of the shares present in person or represented by proxy at such meeting and entitled to vote on the subject matter shall be the act of the stockholders, except as otherwise required by law. The holders of a majority of the stock issued and outstanding and entitled to vote, present in person or represented by proxy, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at all meetings of the stockholders.
Subject to preferences that may be applicable to any then-outstanding preferred stock, holders of our common stock are entitled to receive dividends, if any, as may be declared from time to time by our board of directors out of legally available funds.
In the event of our liquidation, dissolution or winding up, holders of our common stock will be entitled to share ratably in the net assets legally available for distribution to stockholders after the payment of all of our
debts and other liabilities and the satisfaction of any liquidation preference granted to the holders of any then-outstanding shares of preferred stock.
Rights and Preferences
Holders of our common stock have no preemptive, conversion, subscription or other rights, and there are no redemption or sinking fund provisions applicable to our common stock. The rights, preferences and privileges of the holders of our common stock are subject to and may be adversely affected by the rights of the holders of shares of any series of our preferred stock that we may designate in the future.
Fully Paid and Non-assessable
All of our outstanding shares of common stock are fully paid and non-assessable.
Our board of directors has the authority, without further action by the stockholders, to issue up to 10,000,000 shares of preferred stock in one or more series and to fix the rights, preferences, privileges and restrictions thereof. These rights, preferences and privileges could include dividend rights, conversion rights, voting rights, redemption rights, liquidation preferences, sinking fund terms and the number of shares constituting any series or the designation of such series, any or all of which may be greater than the rights of common stock.
We have no present plans to issue any shares of preferred stock.
Anti-Takeover Effects of Certain Provisions of Delaware Law, Our Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation and Our Amended and Restated Bylaws
Certain provisions of Delaware law and certain provisions in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws summarized below may be deemed to have an anti-takeover effect and may delay, deter, or prevent a tender offer or takeover attempt that a stockholder might consider to be in its best interests, including attempts that might result in a premium being paid over the market price for the shares held by stockholders.
Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation contains provisions that permit our board of directors to issue, without any further vote or action by the stockholders, shares of preferred stock in one or more series and, with respect to each such series, to fix the number of shares constituting the series and the designation of the series, the voting rights (if any) of the shares of the series, and the powers, preferences or relative participation, optional and other special rights, if any, and any qualifications, limitations or restrictions, of the shares of such series. The issuance of preferred stock could adversely affect the voting power of holders of common stock and the likelihood that such holders will receive dividend payments and payments upon liquidation. In addition, the issuance of preferred stock could have the effect of delaying, deferring or preventing change in our control or other corporate action.
Classified board of directors
Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that our board of directors is divided into three classes, designated Class I, Class II, and Class III. Each class has an equal number of directors, as nearly as possible, consisting of one-third of the total number of directors constituting our entire board of directors. The term of initial Class I directors shall terminate on the date of the 2021 annual meeting, the term of the initial Class II directors shall terminate on the date of the 2022 annual meeting, and the term of the initial Class III directors shall terminate on the date of the 2023 annual meeting. At each annual meeting of
stockholders beginning in 2021, successors to the class of directors whose term expires at that annual meeting will be elected for a three-year term.
Removal of Directors
Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that stockholders may only remove a director for cause by a vote of no less than a majority of the shares present in person or by proxy at the meeting and entitled to vote.
Director Vacancies
Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation authorizes only our board of directors to fill vacant directorships.
No Cumulative Voting
Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that stockholders do not have the right to cumulate votes in the election of directors.
Special Meetings of Stockholders
Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws provide that, except as otherwise required by law, special meetings of the stockholders may be called only by an officer at the request of a majority of our board of directors, by the chairperson or president of our board of directors, or by our Chief Executive Officer.
Advance Notice Procedures for Director Nominations
Our amended and restated bylaws provide that stockholders seeking to nominate candidates for election as directors at an annual or special meeting of stockholders must provide timely notice thereof in writing. To be timely, a stockholder's notice generally will have to be delivered to and received at our principal executive offices before notice of the meeting is issued by the secretary of the company, with such notice being served not less than 90 nor more than 120 days before the meeting. Although the amended and restated bylaws do not give our board of directors the power to approve or disapprove stockholder nominations of candidates to be elected at an annual meeting, the amended and restated bylaws may have the effect of precluding the conduct of certain business at a meeting if the proper procedures are not followed or may discourage or deter a potential acquirer from conducting a solicitation of proxies to elect its own slate of directors or otherwise attempt to obtain control of the company.
Action by Written Consent
Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws provide that any action to be taken by the stockholders must be effected at a duly called annual or special meeting of stockholders and may not be effected by written consent.
Amending our Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws
Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation may be amended or altered in any manner provided by the Delaware General Corporation Law, or DGCL. Certain provisions of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation may only be amended or altered in any manner by the affirmative vote of 66 2/3% of the then-outstanding common stock. Our amended and restated bylaws may not be amended by stockholders. Additionally, our amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that our bylaws may be amended, altered, or repealed by our board of directors.
Authorized but Unissued Shares
Our authorized but unissued shares of common stock and preferred stock will be available for future issuances without stockholder approval, except as required by the listing standards of The Nasdaq Stock Market, and could be utilized for a variety of corporate purposes, including future offerings to raise additional capital, acquisitions and employee benefit plans. The existence of authorized but unissued and unreserved common stock and preferred stock could render more difficult or discourage an attempt to obtain control of the company by means of a proxy contest, tender offer, merger or otherwise.
Exclusive Forum
Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that, unless we consent to the selection of an alternative forum, the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware shall be the sole and exclusive forum for any derivative action or proceeding brought on our behalf, any action asserting a claim of breach of fiduciary duty, any action asserting a claim arising pursuant to the DGCL, any action regarding our amended and restated certificate of incorporation or our amended and restated bylaws or any action asserting a claim against us that is governed by the internal affairs doctrine. Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation further provides that the federal district courts of the United States of America will be the exclusive forum for resolving any complaint asserting a cause of action arising under the Securities Act. The choice of the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware as the sole and exclusive forum for any derivative action or proceeding brought on our behalf does not apply to suits seeking to enforce a duty or liability created by the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
Business Combinations with Interested Stockholders
Subject to certain exceptions, Section 203 of the DGCL prohibits a public Delaware corporation from engaging in a business combination (as defined in such section) with an "interested stockholder" (defined generally as any person who beneficially owns 15% or more of the outstanding voting stock of such corporation or any person affiliated with such person) for a period of three years following the time that such stockholder became an interested stockholder, unless (i) prior to such time the board of directors of such corporation approved either the business combination or the transaction that resulted in the stockholder becoming an interested stockholder; (ii) upon consummation of the transaction that resulted in the stockholder becoming an interested stockholder, the interested stockholder owned at least 85% of the voting stock of such corporation at the time the transaction commenced (excluding for purposes of determining the voting stock of such corporation outstanding (but not the outstanding voting stock owned by the interested stockholder) those shares owned (A) by persons who are directors and also officers of such corporation and (B) by employee stock plans in which employee participants do not have the right to determine confidentially whether shares held subject to the plan will be tendered in a tender or exchange offer); or (iii) at or subsequent to such time the business combination is approved by the board of directors of such corporation and authorized at a meeting of stockholders (and not by written consent) by the affirmative vote of at least 66 2∕3% of the outstanding voting stock of such corporation not owned by the interested stockholder.
Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and our amended and restated bylaws provide that we must indemnify our directors and officers to the fullest extent authorized by the DGCL. We are expressly authorized to carry, and we intend to carry, directors' and officers' insurance providing coverage for our directors, officers and certain employees for some liabilities. We believe that these indemnification provisions and insurance are useful to attract and retain qualified directors and executive directors.
The limitation on liability and indemnification provisions in our certificate of incorporation and bylaws may discourage stockholders from bringing a lawsuit against directors for breach of their fiduciary duty. These provisions may also have the effect of reducing the likelihood of derivative litigation against directors and officers, even though such an action, if successful, might otherwise benefit us and our stockholders. In addition, an investment in our securities may be adversely affected to the extent we pay the costs of settlement and damage awards against directors and officers pursuant to these indemnification provisions.
Our common stock is listed on The Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol "IKT."
American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, LLC serves as the transfer agent and registrar for our common stock. The transfer agent and registrar's address is 6201 15th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11219.


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Hollywood Top Movies
10 Best Hollywood Horror Movies based on True Stories
Payal Bansal
Horror movies are always able to get on your nerves and make you scared. Ever imagined if these Hollywood horror movies have happened in real with someone?
The horror genre is fascinating and not for light-hearted people, in this evil world we do connect with evils in Horror Movies and we love watching strange unique experiences on screen. There are some great Hollywood Horror Movies of All Time you must check that list before we go through the list of Horror Films based on True Stories.
Yes, believe it or not, many people have been scared by these haunting horror movies you watched on the screen in real. Yes, in reality, they have experienced it all. Horror movies based on true-life events, Scary…. Very scary!
Hollywood Horror movies based on real-life events
Jaws (1975) IMDb- 8.1
The movie, Jaws released in 1975 and is based on the novel of the same name by Peter Benchley. The story of the movie is inspired by the real-life shark attack happened in New Jersey in 1916. The shark attack in really happened during summer tourist season of 1916 and the movie shows it all.
The Exorcist (1973) IMDb- 8.0
This 1973, horror movie does bring chills down the spine. Made in 1970's the movie still gives a tough competition when we have so much advanced technology to shoot a horror movie.
The movie is based on the actual case of an anonymous boy who was believed to be possessed by demons in 1949.
The real story is about a boy but is filmed on a 12-year-old girl. The movie is a mix of a little fiction added to make the movie scarier than the real events.
The boy of the real event survived and led a normal life and that is why no one knows his real name, although the pseudonyms like Robbie Mannheim and Roland Doe are given to him.
The Conjuring (2013) IMDB- 7.6
The Conjuring stars Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga, who are in the roles of two real-life paranormal investigators, Ed Warren and Lorraine. Ed Warren and Lorraine investigated a case of the paranormal activity in real.
The family was terrorized by paranormal activities when they moved into a Rhode Island farmhouse. Ed Warren died in 2006.
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) IMDb- 7.5
The movie's main antagonist, Freddy Krueger a murderer who stalked the victims in their dreams and kill them during their sleep. Seems unreal? Believe that happened in real life too. In LA Times a series of articles published about men who died in the middle of their nightmares.
A 21year old victim, son of a physician was given sleeping pills because no one trusted that a serial killer could kill through nightmares.
He died the same night, autopsy reports came with unexplained reasons for his death.
The Girl Next Door (2007) IMDb- 6.8
The movie is based on the novel of the same name by Jack Ketchum. The movie tells the story of a teenage girl who was tortured and abused by her Aunt.
The story of the novel was written based on the murder of a 16-year-old girl, Sylvia Marie Likens. The teenage girl was tortured and abused to death. Although, the girl wasn't raped by men she was forced to use a Coke Bottle on herself in front of the boys.
The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005) IMDb- 6.7
The story of the movie, The Exorcism of Emily Rose is based on the case of a German girl, Anneliese Michel. In 1976, two Catholic priests performed an intensive exorcism on Anneliese for months.
Anneliese dies after several months of exorcism. The reason for her death was dehydration and starvation. It is now believed that Anneliese suffered from Schizophrenia and dissociative identity disorder.
The Mothman Prophecies (2002) IMDb- 6.5
The movie, "The Mothman Prophecies" is based on John Klein, who left his job at Washington Newspaper to instigate Mothmen.
Mothmen were referred to, winged creatures have been seen at many places in West Virginia Town. Although the movie is based on reality, the film is a fictionalized narrative of actual events.
The Blob (1958) IMDb- 6.3
If you are a Horror movie lover and you haven't watched The Blob 1958 then you have missed out something. The film is based on a real-life event of a mysterious gelatinous purple object that crashed in a farmer's field at Philadelphia in 1950.
The strange object has been seen by many, but when touched by hand it dissolved. After like half an hour, the whole object evaporated, leaving a spot on the ground.
The Amityville Horror (1979) IMDb- 6.2
The movie is about the Lutz Family who allegedly witnessed strange paranormal activities when they moved to their New York home where a family was brutally murdered.
The movie contains fictionalized scenes, but yes, The movie is based on a true story.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) IMDb- 6.2
You must have seen The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and you could have never imagined the movie is based on a real-life event.
Yes, the movie is based on a real-life event of Wisconsin's Edward Gein that happened in the 1950's.
Gein had decorated his farmhouse with human remains just like in the movie, but there is no proof that he indulged in cannibalism.
However, the officer who arrested Gein did find a victim's heart in a pan on Gein's stove. Just like the movie, Gein wore skinned-out scalps and faces of the victims. Scary, Isn't it??
Your Turn!
These are the greatest All-Time Best Hollywood Horror Movies based on Real Life or True Stories, You must share your favorite Horror Film based on true stories in the comment section.
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Ganon Gil's mission is to provide children with love in a caring atmosphere so that they can learn the social, emotional, physical and cognitive skills that they will need now and in the future.
It is housed in the beautiful Temple, Beachwood. Rabbis Richard A. Block, Rosette Barron Haim and Roger C. Klein and Cantor Kathryn Wolfe Sebo participate in programming, along with The Temple's outstanding Judaic education team.
The students have access to The Temple's state-of-the-art library and resource center, the sanctuary, and a brand new playground.
The Temple's renowned Museum of Religious Art and the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage, adjacent to The Temple, are also available to the students and their families as unique educational resources. Ganon Gil offers high quality care and education for children ages 6 weeks to 5 years old. We are a 5 star rated Step Up to Quality and we are endorsed by the Cuyahoga County's Invest In Children's UPK Program. Being a UPK School we receive a monetary grant that which enables us to further enhance and sustain high quality education standards and programming. Families who meet the eligibility requirements can receive a 33% scholarship on preschool and daycare fees.
Temple Arts Program- The goal is for the children to feel comfortable in a museum or gallery and develop a sense of wonder and to build on inquiry skills. The Temple's Museum Director visits with the 3 year olds and Pre-K children and they visit The Temple, University Circle, The Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage, and the different galleries in the Temple, Beachwood as they study different works of Judaic art.
Weekly Library visits/Story Time with The Temple Librarians in a state-of-the-art facility. That has a comprehensive Jewish resource for the entire congregation, preschool families and community. Among the collection of over 25,000 materials are Judaic resources, award winning fiction and nonfiction for children and adults, as well as a large selection of videos, DVDs, audio books, music and periodicals.
Gym Class-Weekly an outside Gymnastic company comes to the school during the core morning and provides a gymnastics class during the class' scheduled gross motor time. This is not an additional fee for the parents. The program is funded through our Quality Enhancement dollars awarded to Ganon Gil through Invest in Children's Universal Pre-K initiative.
Weekly music and Shabbat Celebration with music specialist and Temple Clergy.
Ganon Gil Family Connection-Ganon Gil Family Connection is part of the success of the school. The group meets on a monthly basis and it is where the parents and school's administration work together to improve and strategize for the future development of the school.
Family Education Programs-These wonderful programs and outings are offered several times throughout the year. The programs enhance the school's sense of community and provide families the opportunity to get together and celebrate holidays and creating lasting memories.


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About 75% — 85% of common lawn diseases can be avoided altogether just by optimizing these practices to avoid stressed grass, which is much more susceptible to disease outbreaks than healthy grass.
For a disease to occur, all three sides of the "disease triangle" must be present. Even if a disease-causing pathogen is present, infection will not occur unless the environment (temperature, quantity of water, etc.) is conducive to disease development and a susceptible host (species of grass) is available.
Homeowners can prevent major disease infestations from occurring by planting locally adapted lawn grasses and providing good care. Selecting species adapted to the climate and intended use and following through with cultural practices that favor the grass rather than the pathogen are important steps a home gardener can take to avoid severe lawn diseases.
Many diseases reduce the quality of the lawn for only a short time and do not result in adverse long-term impacts. Often, when the weather becomes more favorable to growth of the turfgrass, the lawn will recover on its own if proper cultural practices are maintained. Few, if any, fungicide applications should be necessary under these conditions.
It is important to follow sound watering practices (whether hand-watering or using some type of automated system) to promote an environment favoring lawn growth rather than a disease outbreak.
Too much or not enough water results in unhealthy, slow-growing grass vulnerable to disease causing organisms. Waterlogged soils are poorly aerated, restricting root growth, that promotes diseases. It also allows algae and moss to thrive.
In general, a deeply watered lawn develops a deeper and extensive vertical root system, providing it with greater drought and disease resistance than a shallow-watered lawn.
Turfgrasses vary in water requirements.
Warm-season turfgrasses (bermudagrass, zoysiagrass, and St. Augustinegrass) are more drought resistant than cool-season grasses (tall fescue, perennial ryegrass, Kentucky bluegrass) and require about 20% less water.
It is best to water the lawn until runoff just begins, and avoid watering each day. The number of times to water each week depends on how long the irrigation system can run before water just starts to puddle or run off the soil surface laterally. For example, if a grass needs 40 minutes of irrigation each week, but runoff begins after 20 minutes, then water twice a week for 20 minutes.
In cases where soil takes up water so slowly that runoff occurs before 10 minutes, water cycling is necessary. To cycle, irrigate until runoff just begins, turn the system off, and repeat the process in 30 minutes before the soil surface dries out. Several cycles per day may be necessary to apply the desired amount of water.
The best time to water is early in the morning, when evaporation rates are lowest and water pressure is at its peak. Irrigating in the afternoon is wasteful because of higher evaporation rates, and prolonged damp conditions in the evening may encourage disease development.
Irrigation requirements change from month to month and may not be needed at all if it has rained. Reset your sprinkler system to meet your lawn's changing irrigation needs.


Often my code expresses a significant amount of subtle complexity and it would be easy to break the code in the future when the subtleties of the logic are not as fresh in my mind.
That could introduce regressions, nasty regressions, especially nasty if this code goes into production and breaks things for thousands of users. That would be a very public humiliation, which I would like to avoid.
So in the absence of a proper regression test, the most likely outcome is that if I ever need to make changes to the code I will get paralyzed by fear. And that, at the very least, will increase the cost of code maintenance considerably.
So maybe a regression test would be a good idea after all.
With that settled, the only part left to figure out is how to do it in the laziest possible way that still works.
For TKLBAM I implemented a lazy yet effective approach to regression testing which should work elsewhere as well.
create reference: this saves the output from code that is assumed to work well. These outputs should be revision controlled, just like the code that generates them.
For example, in tklbam if you pass regtest.sh the --createrefs cli option it runs various internal commands on pre-determined inputs and saves their output to reference files.
compare against reference: this runs the same code on the same inputs and compares the output with previously saved output.
For example, in tklbam when you run regtest.sh without any options it repeats all the internal command tests on the same pre-determined inputs and compares the output to the previously saved reference output.
Testresult is just a shell script function with a bit of magic that detects which mode we're running in (e.g., based on an environment variable because this is a lowly shell script).
I'm using this to test cli-level outputs but you could use the same basic approach for code-level components (e.g., classes, functions, etc.) as well.
Note that one gotcha is that you have to clean the outputs you're comparing from local noise (e.g., timestamps, current working directory). For example the testresult function I'm using for tklbam runs the output through sed and sort so that it doesn't include the local path.
That way the tests don't break if we happen to run them from another directory.


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Using Citizen Feedback to Improve Local Government
We wrote a Blog Post with partner organization mySidewalk about the use of civic technology in the United States.
March 2016 / Ben Armstrong
(Header Photo Credit: Daria Shevtsova, Unsplash)
Ben Armstrong collaborated with mySidewalk to write a blog post describing findings from his research project in Pittsburgh, PA. You can read the blog post here.
The Internet Age has made two implicit promises to local democracies. First, it will be easier for residents to provide feedback to their elected officials and participate in public decision-making. Second, governments will have more and better data on public services and resident behavior to inform public policies.
You are a city official, and you have decisions to make.
Perhaps there is a vacant lot, and you need to decide what it should become. Congestion might be overtaking local streets, and you need to find a way to mitigate it. Or rental prices could be forcing residents to move elsewhere, and you need to negotiate more affordable housing.
How do you incorporate the feedback your residents provide by email, telephone and in person? Do you pay attention to the data on what residents buy, where they send their kids to school, and how they commute?
Of course neither is sufficient — the challenge is making sense of multiple sources of information that might contradict one another. After all, Town Hall meetings and online feedback represent hundreds of voices with specific things to say. Census, economic, and other data summarizes what's happening with thousands, but with far less detail.
Even more challenging, so much online and town-hall feedback might be entirely irrelevant to the challenges facing the city or what government can do about them. The citizens who provide feedback might represent extreme and uninformed opinions.
In other words, more data is not necessarily better.
Inferring the best public transportation options from income, education, and commuter data seems more prone to error than asking the same people what public transport options they prefer.
Our research highlights the risks of relying too much on data or public feedback alone. We propose below that cities use data on resident behavior to focus how they solicit feedback from residents. Public behavioral data can educate the public and frame the discussions so that resident feedback is more targeted and informed. The hope is that data helps cities ask better questions that receive more feedback from more residents. As a result, public feedback is less dominated by a few extreme voices and more representative of the population most affected by the issues at hand.
The Data Dilemma in Pittsburgh
When scandal forced the Pittsburgh, PA police chief to resign in 2013, the mayor and his policy team appointed a task force to explore the public safety problems facing the city and hire a new chief who could solve them.
The city held town-hall meetings throughout Pittsburgh where it collected feedback from citizens verbally and on paper. It also used MindMixer (now mySidewalk), an online civic engagement forum, to gather input from citizens online. These two channels helped amass hundreds of pieces of public feedback in response to the question "What priorities does your neighborhood need the new Police Chief to address?"
The public feedback that citizens expressed online and in person were vastly different. Online feedback focused on broad issues of traffic, bike safety, and law enforcement. A typical example of online feedback is:
"Make our streets safer for everyone who uses them. A fair amount of people drive at unsafe speeds in our neighborhoods, don't stop for people trying to simply walk across the street, or endanger people riding bikes. The new police chief must prioritize making our streets safe for all people regardless of their age or what type of transportation they use. Officers and citizens alike need to be educated on the law. Better data needs to be collected on where crashes, speeding, and other unsafe behavior is occurring. And an enforcement strategy needs to be developed to address the problem."
Although some online feedback mentioned violence or community policing, the common focus was on everyday concerns like improving the speed of the response time and improving professionalism by "firing bad cops."
The in-person feedback at town halls focused more on community policing; it emphasized violence that persists in Pittsburgh neighborhoods and distrust of the police. Consider one example:
"…disconnect (sometimes perceived) between community & police. Do better outreach. Start programs like Coffee w/Cops in neighborhoods, or get officers to walk w/ neighborhood walking groups. Have officers & community meet in a non-adversarial, neutral environment where citizens feel free to discuss *anything* with their zone officers. This will be particularly needed if city cops are allowed to move into suburbs!! They must remain directly involved w/ day to day goings-on in their communities!"
It was not just the substance of the comments that varied, but also the form. In-person feedback was often a short phrase that expressed a general idea: "drug activity," "domestic violence," "police accountability," or "gun violence" are all examples of in-person feedback. Online feedback was much longer; it often included a particular proposal and might have even included a link suggesting another city's example. Consider this online feedback for bike safety improvements:
"Bike patrols to enforce safe-passing laws. Pennsylvania statute, title 75 § 3303, requires a four-foot passing clearance, "at a careful and prudent reduced speed", but general reports and personal experience both indicate it is rarely, if ever, enforced. In several Texas cities with passing laws (usually 3ft for cars, 6ft for trucks and buses), have been dispatched in teams to enforce the law: "two-person teams in plainclothes…ride single file up and down roads that don't have dedicated bike lanes but intersect with popular bike routes. When a driver comes too close, they radio to a waiting patrol car, who chases the driver down to issue a warning or ticket." (More about bike laws in Austin, Houston, & San Antonio)
Words Used at Town Hall Meeting (reflects in-person feedback)
Words pulled from in-person feedback collected at the town hall meeting.
The frequency of words used online and at town hall meetings illustrate these trends. Online feedback emphasizes "people" (individual residents) and demands like "stop," "want," and "get." Commenters online might be expressing a problem that they have experienced that they would like to change. "Traffic," "bike," and "car" reflect the types of problems they emphasized, and "model" and "law" show how these commenters often cited how other cities work in order to support their point.
At town hall meetings, comments were focused on "community" concerns that emphasized problems with "violence" and "crime." They also focused on one solution: improving community relations with the police force.
When we asked city officials to evaluate the feedback they received, the expert task force and mayor's staff ranked a sample of individual comments according to their usefulness, relevance, and novelty. City officials and experts found the online feedback to be more novel — it offered some new ideas — while the in-person feedback was considered slightly more relevant to the subject at hand.
Our initial conclusion from these results was frustratingly simple.
Neither online nor in-person feedback is sufficient on its own. Online feedback mechanisms might work better for generating new ideas while in-person channels are still important for collecting resident opinion on particular topics.
The problem was that we were focused only on feedback that the city actively collected. There is a third source of feedback that Pittsburgh had not yet tapped: crime data from the city and the FBI.
A Third Source of Feedback
The City of Pittsburgh asked its citizens what they prioritize when it comes to public safety, yet Pittsburgh already has crime data that reveals the types of problems that citizens are facing, and where those problems are most prevalent in the city.
mySidewalk allows users to visualize crime data in Pittsburgh in charts and maps. Three facts stand out.
Fact #1: Most neighborhoods do not report much crime at all.
A handful of Pittsburgh's gentrifying neighborhoods (e.g. East Liberty/Larimer, South Side Flats) have experienced high crime per capita, but most neighborhoods — particularly the centers of Pittsburgh's old wealth (e.g. Squirrel Hill, Point Breeze) — do not report much crime at all. When the City of Pittsburgh reaches out to gather feedback on crime, they reach out with the same questions in each police district, yet low-crime and high-crime neighborhoods face different problems and might have different concerns.
City officials should use crime statistics to ask questions and gather feedback that is more relevant to neighborhood populations. When governments reach out to neighborhoods with localized questions based on whether neighborhoods are low- or high-crime and the types of crime they experience, it shows that the government understands some of the particular challenges in a neighborhood and wants more specific feedback on how to address them. It enables citizens to connect with government in a way that more closely reflects their concerns and experiences.
Moreover, these crime statistics highlight that the Central Business District experiences some of the highest crime in Pittsburgh (both overall and per housing unit). While Pittsburgh's town halls focused mostly on neighborhoods and not the Central Business District, future outreach might examine crime data before determining where to focus citizen outreach.
Pittsburgh Crime per Capita (by Neighborhood)
Total crimes locally reported per housing unit in the City of Pittsburgh (darker areas indicate spots where more crimes were reported). Source: Visualized in the mySidewalk platform, information collected from the city in November 2015 and contains crimes reported between 3/10/2015 to 11/11/2015.
Fact #2: The public's feedback on crime focused on problems at either extreme.
Online feedback discussed traffic and bike lanes, while in-person feedback focused on violent crime like murder and drugs. Neighborhood data measures overall crime per capita, but it does not capture the types of crime. Since violent crimes like murders and assaults happen only a fourth as much as property crimes (4,104 v. 17,901), an area might show up as low crime overall if it has few property crimes but a high incidence of violence. Although a low overall crime, high violent crime combination is rare, the opposite might be true in the Central Business District where property crimes are high but there are fewer murders and assaults than in neighborhoods on the outskirts. Unfortunately, the data are not available to confirm.
The lesson from city-wide crime statistics is not only that overall data can be misleading, but using more detailed data on violent and non-violent crime by neighborhood can help gather even more relevant feedback.
Fact #3: Compared to Cleveland, Pittsburgh is experiencing lower property and sexual violence crimes.
Comparing Pittsburgh's crime statistics in 2014 to Cleveland's highlights the areas where Pittsburgh's crime is encouragingly low, and where crime is particularly problematic.
Cleveland's population is approximately 30 percent larger than Pittsburgh's, yet Cleveland has more than double the property and violent crime. Although property crime is the most frequent offense in Pittsburgh by a long shot, the city is still performing well on property crime comparatively. Sexual violence is also a much more prominent problem in Cleveland, which has reported approximately five times the number of rapes as Pittsburgh.
Yet there are certain areas of public safety where Pittsburgh struggles just as much or more than Cleveland does. Pittsburgh still has approximately the same number of aggravated assaults per capita, and there were more murders in Pittsburgh than in Cleveland in 2014. Although Cleveland appears to experience more violence overall, Pittsburgh has a relative concentration of severe violence.
This should not be entirely surprising to Pittsburgh's public officials. At a town hall meeting in one particular district, residents focused on these particular issues — gun violence and murder — whereas smaller crimes went largely ignored throughout the public meetings.
Thus, the data help affirm some of the feedback officials already received and can focus how officials reach out for continued feedback in each neighborhood.
UCR–Crime Type for the City of Pittsburgh, PA & City of Cleveland, OH
A Different Approach to Resident Feedback
Cities miss opportunities to understand their citizens. They might host town hall meetings, but these are often full of open-ended questions that lead to grandstanding. Online feedback can be creative, but is often all over the map. Public data is becoming more and more powerful, but is prone to misinterpretation. None of these sources can stand alone.
We propose that cities begin by using what they learn from public data to shape the questions they ask citizens.
For example, Pittsburgh can share neighborhood data on crime and engage community members and the police in a discussion of how to reduce the numbers. If the community sets benchmarks in partnership with the police, the city can share updated statistics that reveal whether they have reached their goal.
Comparing Pittsburgh's violent crime and aggravated assault rates can frame community outreach that explores what is going wrong in Pittsburgh and experiments with what has worked in other cities.
These same principles can guide government outreach across issue areas. Beginning with data allows government to promote informed citizen engagement without guiding it toward a particular outcome.
About the Author: Ben Armstrong is a Graduate Research Associate at MIT's GOV/LAB. His research focuses on the origins of economic growth in cities as well as the impact of new technology on local political participation. He can be reached at armst@mit.edu.
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The core aim of the Expert Panel on Nitrogen and Food (EPNF) is "to create a better understanding of the relationship between human diets and the impact of the N-cycle on the environment" (WGSR 47th Session. Inf. Document No. 18, September 2010). During the first phase of the EPNF, co-chaired by Henk Westhoek of the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) and Christian Pallière of Fertilizers Europe (EFMA), the panel has developed a European Nitrogen Assessment Special Report on Nitrogen and Food, 'Nitrogen on the Table' which was launched in full on 12th January 2016, investigating the effects of a lower human intake of plant and animal originated protein on N emissions and the societal cost for mitigation NH3 and greenhouse gas emissions. Please visit 'N on the Table' to download the report.
How far could a combination of improved farm level technical measures and shifts in consumption go to improving the Nitrogen Use Efficiency of the overall food system of Europe? And what need the incentives be in order to realize this NUE improvement?
What is the relative potential of dietary changes and food waste reduction to reduce nitrogen air pollution and other environmental threats?
What are the health effects of a range of dietary patterns that generate less nitrogen pollution (ie. positive and negative)? Potential health effects include those from air pollution and those that are nutrition related. Is it possible to identify particular dietary patterns that achieve health-environmental synergies?
To what extent can a stronger link between the scientific evidence on environment and healthstrengthen the case for controlling nitrogen pollution and optimizing diets to meet human health goals?
EPNF2-3: Wageningen University, June 21-22, 2017. Minutes for EPNF2-3. This meeting was back-to-back with INMS meeting on "Activities 2.1 & 1.5 Global integrated N assessment modelling" (INMS webpage) and one week before TFRN-12.
The EPNF2 meetings are organized as sustainable as possible; remote or hybrid remote meetings are done whenever possible. Carbon and Nitrogen emissions from the meetings in Milan, Wageningen, and Cercedilla have been compensated through myclimate.org by supporting the Kolar Biogas Project. This project has been selected for several reasons (i) it is a Gold Standard CDM project; (ii) it reduced both GHG and Nr emissions through better management of manure and avoiding deforestation; (iii) detailed background data are availabe from UNFCCC. The quantitative information has been used to quantify amount of Nr compensation per t of COeq. See evaluation of the Milan-meeting for a summary. As the ratio of Nr:CO2 compensation is with 4.5 g Nr / kg CO2eq larger than the ratio of the Nr:CO2 emissions caused by the meetings at (0.9 g Nr / kg CO2eq for the meeting in Milan), this project ensures that Nr emissions are fully compensated with the compensation of the GHG emissions.
20171104 - Panel discussion at the "Workshop: Responsible and healthy food demand and supply", organized by Carl Lachat and Susanna Kugelberg at the 10th European Public Health Conference "Sustaining resilient and healthy communities" Stockholm, Sweden, 1-4 November 2017. See here abstracts.
20170627 - Plenary presentation on Europe's agri-food system and its consequences on environment and human health (Adrian Leip, Susanna Kugelberg, Benjamin Bodirsky) at the International Conference at Aarhus University, June 26-28 on "Innovative solutions for sustainable management of Nitrogen".


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Japanese Emperor, Empress wrap up Vietnam visit
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On Mar 6, 2017
Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko on March 5 concluded their first-ever six-day State visit to Vietnam at the invitation of President Tran Dai Quang.
President Tran Dai Quang and his spouse meet Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko. (Photo: VNA)
During their stay, the royal couple had a meeting with President Tran Dai Quang and enjoyed a banquet hosted by the State leader and his spouse, while meeting Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and his wife, and National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan.
They also attended a tea party held by Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and his wife.
The Japanese Emperor and Empress also laid a wreath and paid tribute to President Ho Chi Minh at his mausoleum in Hanoi.
At the meetings, the two sides agreed that the Japanese Emperor and Empress' visit has a historical significance to the bilateral relations.
They shared belief that it will contribute to fostering mutual trust, understanding as well as sentiments that people of the two countries give to each other, thus further expanding the extensive strategic partnership between Vietnam and Japan in the future.
They concurred that the relationship between Vietnam and Japan is on the most flourishing stage in the history.
Next year, the two sides will cerebrate the 45th anniversary of the diplomatic ties, they noted, stressing that the historical exchange as well as similarities in culture between the two countries such as wet rice cultivation, sericulture and weaving as well as love for peace, which should be preserved and further promoted.
Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko showed their sympathy to Vietnamese people's difficulties caused by climate change, including drought, saltwater intrusion and environmental pollution.
Both sides agreed on the need for all countries across the globe to pay more attention to the protection of environment for ensuring health and living conditions of all people, while sharing their common perspectives on the significance of education to national development.
Within the framework of the visit, the Japanese Emperor and Empress met volunteers of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and staff of the Japanese Embassy in Vietnam.
They also hosted an exchange with Japanese alumni and the Japanese community in Vietnam, as well as the families of Japanese veterans living in Vietnam.
They also visited the Museum of Biology of the Vietnam National University in Hanoi.
While staying in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue, they enjoyed the Hue court music at Duyet Thi Duong Theatre, and visited the Imperial City of Hue and the commemorative area of patriot Phan Boi Chau./.
http://en.vietnamplus.vn/japanese-emperor-empress-wrap-up-vietnam-visit/108192.vnp
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The phrase "culture is king" is thrown around quite a bit in business circles and yet, if you talk to business leaders, you'll find that there aren't many who feel that the culture in their organizations is what they would like it to be.
In healthcare, most of these leaders are striving for a culture of service excellence, or patient engagement, or high quality care. Many hit the mark sometimes, but not in all categories all of the time. Why?
Primarily because for many organizations, the culture just is what it is. There has been no conscious thought and planning for the desired culture. But the truth is, creating an intentional culture requires clear vision, constant vigilance and ongoing coaching, counseling and course correction.
Senior leaders need to define a compelling vision along with clear expectations of all leaders, making sure that competencies are in place.
Senior leaders must share the vision through clear communication, stating their expectations and specific standards of behavior. This sends a message that standards are non-negotiable.
All leaders in the organization need to lead in ways that are consistent with the desired culture, and serve as role models for others to emulate—coaching, mentoring, modeling and managing for the behaviors that have been defined.
Peter Drucker is credited with making the statement "culture eats strategy for breakfast" (which is often restated as "culture eats strategy for lunch"). What does it mean? It means that an organization can spend a lot of time and effort on developing strategy, but without a strong and consistent culture, that strategy is unlikely to be achieved.
Avoidance is the number one accountability killer. How often have you observed members of your organization exhibiting behaviors that have been identified as non-negotiable, yet fail to do anything about it? How often have you done this in situations where others have been able to observe your inaction? What message do you think that sends about how non-negotiable these standards really are?
Culture is king—but only when leaders do three things: create a compelling vision, communicate the vision, and consistently support the vision. How are you doing at that?
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A police officer faces a personal meltdown following a divorce and the death of his mother. Written, directed and starring Jim Cummings, Thunder Road, expanded from a short of the same name, is a painful and blackly comic exploration of grief and what happens when your life unravels and takes a wrong turn. Impeccably performed, it's a raw work, brimming with emotion.
Thunder Road screens on general release from Fri 31 May.
We will be joined by director/actor Jim Cummings for a Q&A following our special preview screening on Thu 16 May at 17:50.


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This free app allows you to put all your 'happiest moments' and activities into an incredibly uplifting list,where at a touch of a button you can start your day over at any time and remind yourself just how great your life is.
They say that sometimes all you need is a little smile or a hug, with Happier it's all kept right in your pocket. They also say that Happiness is contagious – so even if you're too busy to upload, just keeping a beady eye on the happiness lists of your friends and family will have a serious knock on effect on yours too.
Failing that take a browse at the website to make you feel a little happier than you were before you entered it.
THE BACK NODGER FOR SELF MASSAGE….
About time somebody thought of something that would disseminate cheerful news for a change!
I agree gilly, the website's cool as well.
There are tons aren't there, but you do find quite a few that start costing the minute you click onto something on it when you think they are free.
What a great idea and app.
It's worth a try Yarfe !!!


Illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing contributes to overexploitation of fisheries, harms the recovery of fish populations, and causes large financial losses, especially for coastal developing countries with economies heavily reliant on fishing. Illicit fishing operations also are often linked to other crimes, such as tax evasion, money laundering, smuggling, and violation of labour standards, each of which takes an additional toll. The Port State Measures Agreement (PSMA) is a cost-effective tool to combat IUU fishing. Port inspections are less expensive and safer than monitoring, pursuing, and inspecting vessels at sea. At the same time, inspections reduce the incentives for this illicit fishing because they make it more difficult to sell illegally caught fish. As more nations agree to abide by the treaty and harmonise their port State measures, IUU fishing will no longer be a lowrisk, high-reward business but a high-risk, low-reward enterprise. This is the FAO's ultimate goal for the PSMA. Becoming a party to this international agreement and implementing effective port State measures involves costs, but there are numerous direct and indirect economic benefits as well. At the core of the PSMA is the principle of cooperation; the benefits to individual nations will increase as more States join. Nations have had to make policy changes to implement PSMA requirements, but a review of what has been done so far by States that have ratified the agreement shows clear advantages as well. As the number of ratifications increases regionally and among neighbouring States, the effectiveness and impact of the PSMA will grow.


With film being very much a visual medium, the aural aspects can sometimes be overlooked. That will not be the case with Gnomeo & Juliet since its soundtrack is provided by Elton John and features some of his most popular work. With the film set to release this Friday, Working Author recently interviewed the leads James McAvoy and Emily Blunt. To conclude our three-part coverage, Elton John indulged us with a lengthy interview, covering his song selection, political messages and his experience as an executive producer.
Life lessons aside, there's a bit of fun to be found in Gnomeo & Juliet. In one scene, Elton John makes a quick surreal cameo. "Well, I think for me, one of the funniest scenes in the movie, and it's very important, I think, if you're British and take the piss out of yourself. You're raised to do that in England, which is rather good. I think the same with "Your Song", when Steven Merchant plays the character of the weedy gnome, then suddenly there I am: glam gnome. The gnome-osexual in the film." John pauses for effect then says, "Thank you," with perfect comic timing.
Soon the world will be able to see the fruits of Elton John's 11-year labor.
Gnomeo & Juliet opens in theaters on February 11.


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Sue Cross leads the Institute for Nonprofit News, a network of more than 350 independent, nonprofit news organizations in North America. She joined INN in 2015 to build its emerging news network and advance social enterprise models for investigative and other public service journalism. Cross is a former senior vice president for the Associated Press global news agency, where she created digital news services, expanded Spanish language and Latin American operations, introduced video to more than a thousand online news sites and managed a national news cooperative.


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_John J.P. Howley is an internationally recognized expert, educator and thought leader in the field of sustainable energy. He founded a global energy management company with operations in the US and Asia, and he edits a monthly newsletter read by more than 10,000 business leaders around the world.
John's professional focus has been at the intersection of technology, competition, and government policy for more than 30 years. He has advised energy and technology companies on intellectual property and competition policies and strategies. He has also advised the governments of the United Kingdom, India, Mongolia and the Philippines. He is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences and the US-China Green Energy Council
Throughout his career, John has played a leadership role in education. He has served as Vice Chair of the Skidmore College Board of Trustees and as Chair of its Presidential Search Committee, Chair of its Infrastructure Committee, and Co-Chair of its Strategic Planning Committee. John has also served on the Board of Trustees of the Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities in New York, as a Trustee of New York Law School, and as Vice Chair of the Board and Chair of the Financial Policy Committee of the Northfield Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts.
John speaks frequently on sustainability issues at corporations, universities, and conferences around the world. He has been invited to speak at the Harvard Business School, the Asian Institute of Management, the Global e-Services Conference, Elliott Masie's Annual LEARNING Conferences, and the Asia Society, among other well-known conferences and institutions.
John is known as an approachable speaker, blending humor, intellectual substance and story-telling with high levels of audience involvement.
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Mike Costello Contributor
Mini keeps going maxi, but so what?
This story was started while sitting on a flight from Abu Dhabi to London, my destination for the now-completed launch of the new Mini five-door.
Cue the wails of purists calling for a return to a bygone ethos, one perfected by Sir Alec Issigonis with his original Mini of the 1950s. This is notwithstanding the fact that Mini made a five-door prototype in 1957.
'Not another Mini spin-off', many will cry. We've seen a helmet-headed Coupe, a suicide-doored Clubman, a pokey little SUV called the Countryman and even a two-door derivation of that car called the Paceman.
No way could Michael Caine hurl one of these bad boys around narrow Turin (edit) streets.
But now Mini has gone a step even further. Each of these other cars were spinoffs, like a supporting cast member of a sitcom getting their own show. And as our pop culture followers will know, sometimes these experiments yield a Frasier (good) and sometimes they yield a Joey (bad).
But this latest addition to the Mini family is ostensibly worse. It's a version of the classic Mini hatch, just with an extra pair of doors. It could be said to take this brand-altering approach further than any step before it. A bad cover of a Rolling Stones song rather than a polarising remix.
Let's not pull any punches. The Mini brand as owned by BMW is not the iconic brand that populated the roads of a bygone era of Cool Britannia, the wave of which crested and receded before the close of the 1960s.
Today's Mini is the style-led arm of a premium behemoth, a small but vital (left) wing of the world's biggest luxury car brand. German precision and logic short-cutting its way into the hearts of the artsy, the retro-minded, the well-to-do hipsters among us.
Think of Mini more as an 'umbrella' brand with a sequence of models, rather than stand-alone single offering.
What's this five-door hatch like, though? Is it a bridge too far? Does there come a point where something sacrosanct gets thrown into the thresher as well?
My opinion? Well my opinion is that my opinion isn't really the one that matters. This car wasn't penned with me in mind, nor those among our readers who hate this car's figurative guts on principal.
Truth be told, as you can read in my Mini Five-Door review, it is objectively a very good car. I couldn't very well prejudice myself from awarding a good car a good grade just because I wouldn't personally touch it with a ten-foot bargepole.
And it's also the car that will take Mini sales into the next echelon.
As a business proposal, it's perfectly logical. It actually took BMW too long to twig on. Moreover, some people are going to fall head-over-heels for this car. And in doing so, they will be creating a new narrative for Mini, writing a new chapter in its history.
Nothing moves forward by staying still, after all.
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magazine FeatureBuddhism for Beginners
Identity and Selflessness in Buddhism: No Self or True Self?
Examining Buddhist notions of identity and selflessness
By Jack Kornfield
Spiritual practice inevitably brings us face to face with the profound mystery of our own identity. We have taken birth in a human body. What is this force that gives us life, that brings us and the world into form? The world's great spiritual teachings tell us over and over we are not who we think we are. But does that mean there is no self or a search for true self?
Persian mystics say we are sparks of the divine, and Christian mystics say we are filled with God. We are one with all things, say others. The world is all illusion, say others. Some teachings explain how consciousness creates life to express all possibilities, to be able to love, to know oneself. Others point out how consciousness gets lost in its patterns, loses its way, incarnates out of ignorance. Hindu yogas call the world a lila, or a dance of the divine, much like Dante's phrase, "the divine comedy."
Buddhist texts describe how consciousness itself creates the world like a dream or a mirage. Modern accounts of near-death experiences are filled with reports of wonderful ease after leaving the body, of golden light and luminous beings. Perhaps these, too, confirm how we are unaware of our true identity most of the time.
When we look into the question of self and identity in spiritual practice, we find it requires us to understand two distinct dimensions of no self and true self.
When the Buddha confronted the question of identity on the night of his enlightenment, he came to the radical discovery that we do not exist as separate beings. He saw into the human tendency to identify with a limited sense of existence. Then he discovered that this belief in an individual small self is a root illusion. It causes suffering and removes us from the freedom and mystery of life. He described this as interdependent arising, the cyclical process of consciousness creating identity by entering form, responding to contact of the senses, then attaching to certain forms, feelings, desires, images, and actions to create a sense of self.
Who created the self?
In teaching, the Buddha never spoke of humans as persons existing in some fixed or static way. Instead, he described us as a collection of five changing processes: the processes of the physical body, of feelings, of perceptions, of responses, and of the flow of consciousness that experiences them all. Our sense of self arises whenever we grasp at or identify with these patterns. The process of identification, of selecting patterns to call "I," "me," "myself," is subtle and usually hidden from our awareness. We can identify with our body, feelings, or thoughts; we can identify with images, patterns, roles, and archetypes.
Thus, in our culture, we might fix and identify with the role of being a woman or a man, a parent or a child. We might take our family history, our genetics, and our heredity to be who we are. Sometimes we identify with our desires: sexual, aesthetic, or spiritual. In the same way we can focus on our intellect or take our astrological sign as an identity. We can choose the archetype of hero, lover, mother, ne'er-do-well, adventurer, clown, or thief as our identity and live a year or a whole lifetime based on that. To the extent that we grasp these false identities, we continually have to protect and defend ourselves, strive to fulfill what is limited or deficient in them, to fear their loss.
Yet, these are not our true identity. One master with whom I studied used to laugh at how easily and commonly we would grasp at new identities. As for his non-self, he would say, "I am none of that. I am not this body, so I was never born and will never die. I am nothing and I am everything. Your identities make all your problems. Discover what is beyond them, the delight of the timeless, the deathless."
Different kinds of self
Because the question of identity and selflessness is subject to confusion and misunderstanding, let us go into it more carefully. When Christian texts speak of losing the self in God, when Taoists and Hindus speak of merging with a True Self beyond all identity, when Buddhists speak of emptiness and of no self, what do they mean? Emptiness does not mean that things don't exist, nor does "no self" mean that we don't exist. Emptiness refers to the underlying nonseparation of life and the fertile ground of energy that gives rise to all forms of life. Our world and sense of self is a play of patterns.
Any identity we can grasp is transient, tentative. This is difficult to understand from words such as selflessness or emptiness of self. In fact, my own teacher Achaan Chah said, "If you try to understand it intellectually, your head will probably explode." However, the experience of no self in practice can bring us to great freedom.
Deep meditation can untangle the sense of identity. There are, in fact, many ways in which we can realize the emptiness of self. When we are silent and attentive, we can sense directly how we can never truly possess anything in the world. Clearly we do not possess outer things. We are in some relationship with our cars, our home, our family, our jobs, but whatever that relationship is, it is "ours" only for a short time. In the end, things, people, or tasks die or change or we lose them. Nothing is exempt.
We Own Nothing
When we bring attention to any moment of experience, we discover that we do not possess it either. As we look, we find that we neither invite our thoughts nor own them. We might even wish them to stop, but our thoughts seem to think themselves, arising and passing according to their nature.
The same is true of our feelings. How many of us believe we control our feelings? As we pay attention, we see that they are more like the weather-moods and feelings change according to certain conditions, and are neither possessed nor directed by our consciousness or desires. Do we order happiness, sadness, irritation, excitement, or restlessness to come? Feelings arise by themselves, as the breath breathes itself, as sounds sound themselves.
Our body, too, follows its own laws. The body which we carry is a bag of bones and fluid that belong to no one. It ages, gets sick, or changes in ways we might not wish it to, all according to its own nature. The more we look, in fact, the more deeply we see that we possess nothing within or without.
Everything from Nothing
We encounter another aspect of the emptiness of self when we notice how everything arises out of nothing, comes out of the void, returns to the void, goes back to nothing. All our words of the past day have disappeared. Similarly, where has the past week or the past month or our childhood gone? They arose, did a little dance, and now they've vanished, along with the 1980s, the nineteenth and eighteenth centuries, the ancient Romans and Greeks, the Pharaohs, and so forth. All experience arises in the present, does its dance, and disappears. Experience comes into being only tentatively, for a little time in a certain form; then that form ends and a new form replaces it moment by moment.
In meditation, precise and deep attention shows us emptiness everywhere. Whatever sensation, thought, whatever aspect of body of mind we focus on carefully, the more space and the less solidity we experience there. Experience becomes like the particle waves described in modern physics, a pattern not quite solid, ever-changing. Even the sense of the one who is observing changes in the same way, our perspectives shifting from moment to moment as much as our sense of ourselves shifts from childhood to adolescence to old age. Wherever we focus carefully, we find a veneer of solidity that dissolves under our attention.
Discover Interconnectedness
The real world is beyond our thoughts and ideas; we see it through the net of our desires, divided into pleasure and pain, right and wrong, inner and outer. To see the universe as it is, you must step beyond the net. It is not hard to do so, for the net is full of holes — Sri Nisargadatta
As we open and empty ourselves, we come to experience an interconnectedness, the realization that all things are joined and conditioned in an interdependent arising. Each experience and event contains all others. The teacher depends on the student, the airplane depends on the sky.
When a bell rings, is it the bell we hear, the air, the sound on our cars, or is it our brain that rings? It is all of these things. As the Taoists say, "The between is ringing." The sound of the bell is here to he heard everywhere—in the eyes of every person we meet, in every tree and insect, in every breath we take…
When we truly sense this interconnectedness and the emptiness out of which all beings arise, we find liberation and a spacious joy. Discovering emptiness brings a lightness of heart, flexibility, and an ease that rests in all things. The more solidly we grasp our identity, the more solid our problems become. Once I asked a delightful old Sri Lankan meditation master to teach me the essence of Buddhism. He just laughed and said three times, "No self, no problem."
No self is not Apathy
Misconceptions about "no self" and emptiness abound. And such confusions undermine genuine spiritual development. Some people believe that they can come to selflessness by struggling to get rid of their ego-centered self. Others confuse the notion of emptiness with inner feelings of apathy, unworthiness, or meaninglessness that they have carried from a painful past into spiritual practice. Some students use emptiness as an excuse for a withdrawal from life, saying it is all illusion, trying to make a "spiritual bypass" around life's problems. But each of these diseases of emptiness misses the true meaning of emptiness and its liberating freedom.
To try to get rid of the self, to purify, root out, or transcend all desire, anger, and centeredness, to vanquish a self that is "bad," is an old religious idea. This notion underlies the ascetic practices, such as wearing hair shirts, extreme fasting, and self-mortification, that are found in many traditions. Sometimes such practices are used skillfully, to induce altered states, but more often they only reinforce aversion
Worse, what comes with them is the notion that our body, our mind, our "ego," is somehow sinful, dirty, and deluded. "I (the good part of me) must use these techniques to get rid of the self (the lower, bad part of me)." But this can never work. It can never work because there is no self to get rid of! We are a changing process, not a fixed being. There never was a self-only our identification makes us think so. So while purification, kindness, and attention can certainly improve our habits, no amount of self-denial or self-torture can rid us of a self, for it was never there.
From A Path With Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life.
Jack Kornfield was trained as a Buddhist monk in Thailand. Burma, and India, and holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology. He is a psychotherapist and founding teacher of the Insight Meditation Society and the Spirit Rock Center. His books include Seeking the Heart of Wisdom and Still Forest Pool.
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Free Radicals and Muscle Soreness - Can Antioxidants Help?
Oxygen is pretty amazing. Its special reactivity provides us with the energy required to sustain life, including the ability to power movements and muscular contraction. However, the oxygen molecule is a double-edged sword, because this same chemical reactivity can also wreak havoc in the cells by means of the potentially destructive molecules called free radicals, which are produced unavoidably as a consequence of harnessing the chemical energy of oxygen within the body.
Free radical damage has been implicated as a factor in degeneration, heart disease, cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, and even the process of aging.
For the purposes of this article, we will look at how free radicals effect exercise-induced muscle soreness and, if or how anti-oxidants can play a preventive role.
Fortunately, the human body comes equipped with a number of systems capable of deactivating the free radicals produced as a result of oxygen metabolism. Collectively known as the 'antioxidant defence system', these systems use both antioxidant enzymes (large protein molecules manufactured in the body) and antioxidant nutrients (consumed in the diet) to 'soak up' the energy of free radicals, thereby minimising damage to the body.
In recent years, there has been much speculation that avid exercisers might be at increased risk of free radical damage, or 'oxidative stress'. Regular exercisers don't just process a larger volume of oxygen than their sedentary counterparts – they also process it at a higher rate; during training, the rate of oxygen processing by the mitochondria (the energy producing furnaces in the cells) can rise by a factor of 20, placing exceptionally high demands on the antioxidant defence system. By carrying out these higher levels of oxidation, to meet the extra energy requirements of exercise, your body produces a higher level of free radicals.
How is antioxidant nutrition linked to exercise-induced muscle damage?
Take a muscle biopsy immediately after a strenuous training session and you'll certainly detect muscle damage. However, take a muscle biopsy from the same area 2-3 days later and you'll detect even more damage! Although the initial damage that occurs is believed to be caused by mechanical strain, the delayed and additional damage is now known to occur as a result of an inflammatory response, aggravated by free radicals.
When a muscle cell is damaged (mainly via free radical associated cell membrane disruption known as lipid peroxidation), it becomes more 'leaky' to calcium, which then accumulates within the cell. This acts as a signal, attracting a range of immune cells, such as macrophages and monocytes, to the damaged area. These immune cells release toxins, including free radicals, to further break down the damaged areas and mop up tissue debris. In other words, the destructive power of free radicals is harnessed positively to help break down damaged tissue.
While the free radicals released by these cells help to break down the damaged tissue, if unchecked they can also attack adjacent healthy tissue. It's a bit like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut: yes, it will get the job done, but it may take out your coffee table in the process! An optimally functioning antioxidant defence system, however, appears to minimise this collateral damage.
Studies also suggest that an improved antioxidant status, for instance by eating a raw food diet, enhances the adaptive response to exercise-induced muscle damage by increasing the concentration of the immune cells charged with initiating breakdown and repair.
The evidence suggests that how accustomed an individual is to a particular mode of exercise is an important factor in determining whether extra antioxidants can reduce post-exercise muscle damage and soreness.
New evidence suggests that age and gender are also relevant.
As far as older athletes are concerned, there is evidence that exercise-induced muscle damage is more extensive than in younger ones for any given intensity/duration of exercise, but also that older athletes may have most to gain from antioxidant supplementation. One study compared the structural muscle damage produced by 45 minutes of high-intensity eccentric exercise in young (20-30) and old (59- 63) men and found that the same intensity and duration of exercise produced significantly more muscle damage in older men.
A diet high in antioxidants intake doesn't appear to prevent the mechanical damage induced by exercise, but in some circumstances it may be able to reduce the amount of postexercise damage that occurs as part of the repair and regeneration process. Such is the case for younger males but mainly when the exercise is 'unaccustomed', vigorous in nature and including a significant amount of eccentric work.
Female athletes, on the other hand, may have more to gain from antioxidant supplementation, even during their regular workout routines. For older athletes, who are more at risk than young ones from exercise-induced muscle damage, the case for antioxidant supplementation appears rather more clear-cut, and fortifying the diet with these nutrients seems a reasonable thing to do.
Can antioxidants prevent and/or reduce muscle soreness?
Overall, the research suggests that diets high in antioxidants do not significantly prevent or reduce exercise-induced muscle soreness. However, they certainly do not hurt. After all, they have tremendous benefits for slowing the aging process and reducing the risk of cancer, among other health benefits. For your overall health, it makes sense to ensure that your diet is high in antioxidants. The main nutrient-derived antioxidants are vitamins C, A (beta-carotene), E, selenium, and zinc, all of which are most abundantly found in fresh fruit, green leafy vegetables, nuts and seeds, olive oil, whole grains, and fish.
As mentioned earlier, free radicals cause damage to the cell through lipid peroxidation, as they disrupt the cell membrane. They are far more likely to react with phospholipids (part of cell membrane) based on polyunsaturated (corn/sunflower/flaxseed oils) fatty acids than monounsaturated fats. Therefore, a diet rich in monounsaturates (olive and avocado) would lead to membranes which are more resistant and less susceptible to free radical damage. As a result, it is advised to carefully consider the polyunsaturate to monounsaturate ratio in your diet.
To change the ratio of polyunsaturates to monounsaturates in your diet, the most significant thing you can do is use an cold-pressed extra virgin olive oil in preference to a polyunsaturated oil (such as sunflower, corn, blended vegetable oils). Avocados and sun-ripened olives are also rich in monounsaturates, as are some nuts, including hazelnuts, cashews, and almonds.


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