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Hell no to bottled H2O: Quebec Universities
EnvironmentGreen Bean TuesdaysPolitics
By Mel Lefebvre Oct 26, 2010 Mar 2, 2011
What kills more than war? Dirty water.
What makes up the bulk of the Pacific garbage patch (you know, the one floating in the ocean that it three-times the size of Texas?)? Plastic.
What costs, on average, about 200% more than you should be paying? Bottled water.
What uses billions of barrels of oil per year? The bottled water industry.
Who is spearheading our advancement into ecological responsibility and better health worldwide? Hopefully you, with the help of Quebec universities.
From October 1-3, the Sierra Youth Coalition held their national conference at Guelph University. In a regional break-out session, all of the Quebec universities present unanimously decided to push for a ban on bottled water on their campuses.
By March 10, 2011, the second annual Bottled Water Free day, the Polaris Institute will be gathering as many pledges as possible from Quebec campuses who have decided that their environment, health and money were worth more than any bottling company could offer them.
Several Canadian universities have spearheaded the effort. Bishop's became the first Quebec university and the ninth in Canada to go bottle free.
In schools where Pepsi and other drink companies have won the rights to be a sole provider of beverages on campus, water fountains have systematically been replaced by vending machines. A majority of the time, the bottled water you're drinking in poured straight from a tap. Fecal coliforms have been discovered in water from bottling plants, highly suspecting bad hygiene practices. Why are we paying for this?
There is less regulation in the bottled water industry than in municipal water treatment facilities. There is also the impact of transportation on the state of our roads ($$taxes$$!) and it doesn't do the atmosphere, polar bears and sensitive lungs any favors. There's the added horror of how infrequently people recycle their bottles.
Bottle after bottle after bottle.
Take Back the Tap, Tapthirst and the Polaris Institute are backing this effort up. Click on the links for more information and make your pledge to drink tap, fountain or with your own reusable bottle, rather than paying a company who only has their baseline profit in mind for something you inherently need.
The bottled water industry is also under fire from the government, who has recently terminated subsidizing the transport of small doses of water encapsulated in a byproduct of the petroleum industry. In an article posted on Capital News, Leo Doyle, manager for Nutrition North that cut the funding, said, "There is no place in Canada that our water system should be dependent on 250 ml bottles being flown in."
Author of Green Bean Tuesdays, Mel Lefebvre, apologizes for irregularly posting.
Ironically, it is because she is studying journalism intensively at Concordia University,
which leaves little time for quality citizen reporting.
Thank you for your patience, and check back here often.
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Originally from Montreal, Mel Lefebvre is an environmentalist, journalist, activist, community organizer, musician, step-mother and former nomadic biological field technician. She began taking her interest for writing seriously after maintaining a blog while volunteering in Ghana with Engineers Without Borders. Since then, she has worked as a journalist for the McGill school of environment, has written for the McGill Reporter, Atlantic Salmon Journal and Montreal Families. She just finished a graduate journalism program from Concordia University and will be hitting the world of print in her hometown, so keep an eye out for her by lines! She is also an alumni from the Greenpeace Organizing Term, and is currently Quebec's Regional Action Coordinator for the Sierra Youth Coalition.
The perfect scam: put a meter on the internet and don't pay for what you're selling
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The Night Shift: NDP attempt to fillibuster back to work legislation
By Ethan Cox	 Jun 25, 2011 Jun 28, 2011
Chris Alexander against the barbaric cultural practices
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Laurence – Oct 26, 2010–09:29
I wrote a similar rant about this last year…
http://www.forgetthebox.net/mag/laurence-rants/what-are-we-doing-to-our-world.php
Chris Zacchia – Oct 26, 2010–15:18
LOL, the google ad that popped up next to the article is for a SUV!
Joel Miller – Jun 7, 2013–14:35
This article was really interesting and well written.


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Government of Canada makes a significant Coastal Restoration Fund investment in coastal habitat restoration in the Gaspé through the Oceans Protection Plan
From: Fisheries and Oceans Canada
The protection and restoration of the environment is a top priority of the Government of Canada, which is providing resources through the Oceans Protection Plan for environmental protection and restoration. Canadians and future generations will benefit from healthier ecosystems that support marine wildlife, as a result of Canada-wide Coastal Restoration Fund projects.
New Richmond, Quebec
The Honourable Dominic LeBlanc, Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, announced today that the Comité ZIP Gaspésie will receive $526,029 over four years for its project to restore the natural bed of two branches of the estuary of the Petite Rivière Cascapédia in New Richmond. The funds will be distributed through the Coastal Restoration Fund under the Oceans Protection Plan.
In May 2017, the Government of Canada announced the $75 million Coastal Restoration Fund to help rehabilitate some of our most important coastlines and protect marine life and ecosystems. The Coastal Restoration Fund, under the responsibility of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, supports projects that contribute to coastal restoration on all of Canada's coasts with preference given to projects that are multiyear and involve a broad number of partners, including Indigenous groups.
The $1.5 billion Oceans Protection Plan is the largest investment ever made to protect Canada's coasts and waterways. In collaboration with Indigenous peoples, local stakeholders and coastal communities, the Government of Canada is creating a world-leading marine safety system that provides economic opportunities for Canadians today, while protecting our coasts and waterways for generations to come.
"Our government is committed to protecting our coastal habitats – that's why we announced the Oceans Protection Plan, which will help restore and protect our marine ecosystems and habitats. The $75-million Coastal Restoration Fund provides an opportunity to address threats to our oceans and coastal areas. I am pleased that our collaboration with the Comité ZIP Gaspésie and its partners will ensure healthy, thriving coastal ecosystems in the Gaspé for future generations."
The Honourable Dominic LeBlanc, Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard
"This investment from the Government of Canada to restore coastal habitats in the Gaspé are strategic initiatives that will represent a significant advantage for Quebec. In addition to fostering regional synergy between the Comité ZIP Gaspésie and its partners, the project will help reinforce the capacity of several organizations to restore key fish habitats."
The Honourable Diane Lebouthillier, Minister of National Revenue
The project involves developing a restoration plan and implementing priority actions for dismantling structures and removing embankments. The banks will then be covered in vegetation.
These actions will restore two arms of the river to their natural state, which will significantly improve the estuarine ecosystem.
The restoration plan will also identify other sources of fish habitat impacts and disruption in the estuary and recommend actions to address them.
Several partnerships will be maintained or created in the course of these initiatives, including the Mi'gmaq Maliseet Aboriginal Fisheries Management Association, the Town of New Richmond, the Matapédia-Restigouche Watershed Organization, the ZECs of Bonaventure and Cascapédia, the Gaspé–Magdalen Islands Regional Council of the Environment, the Rotary Club, Activa Environnement Inc., Rhéal Pitre Sports and Stratégies Saint-Laurent.
Backgrounder – Coastal Restoration Fund
Protecting our Coasts - Oceans Protection Plan
Let's Talk – Oceans Protection Plan
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Vincent Hughes
Office of the Minister
vincent.hughes@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
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Q: MVC - reference a model from another model I've this scenario in my application:

*

*Controller1

*

*.GetItems()

*Model1

*

*.GetItems()

*Controller2

*

*.GetCurrentUser()

*Model2

*

*.CurrentUser

In this scenario Controller1.GetItems() calls Model1.GetItems() method. Model1.GetItems() method needs to know (for example) what is the role of the current user to build the correct list of items, and it should get it from the Model2.CurrentUser property (that stores the cached information about the current user).
Is it a good practice to acces a model from another model?
Thanks,
Regards

A: You are going to run into some arguments about the best way to do this, but at the end of the day, you have two options. Either you can have the model pull the information it needs from the other model or you can have the controller pass the information needed.
Based upon what I have read, as long as the model does not have any controller logic or view logic you are good so there is nothing wrong with having the model know about other models. However, others have argued that having the controller pass the information that is needed makes the code a bit easier to document since you can see that the model requires information from somewhere else. At the end of the day though, I see both as being valid and which one you choose to use will likely come down to personal preference.

Design - Controller Provides Data

ModelOne

*

*User GetCurrentUser()

  ModelTwo

*

*Items[] GetItems(User)

Snippet - Controller Proivdes Data
Controller {
  function doWork() {
    User user = ModelOne.GetCurrentUser();
    Items[] items = ModelTwo.GetItems(user);
  }
}

Design - Model Gets Data

ModelOne

*

*User GetCurrentUser()

  ModelTwo

*

*Items[] GetItems()

Snippet - Model Gets Data
ModelTwo {
  Items[] GetItems() {
    User user = ModelOne.GetCurrentUser();

    ...

  }
}

Controller {
  function doWork() {
    Items[] items = ModelTwo.GetItems();
  }
}

A: If your second model is going to referenced often by your first, you could compile your model classes into a separate library?

A: I think you shouldn't have references between models, the right way is to use the controller for this link. So in your case you could pass the CurrentUser as a parameter in the GetItems method.

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New Research Says Being Top Dog Makes us Happier Than Simply Getting Top Dollar
Andrew Oswald
New research by a group of economists and psychology researchers at the University of Warwick reveals that our rank position within an organisation has a bigger effect on our happiness within that job than the happiness generated by our actual level of pay. In short being top dog makes us happier than simply getting top dollar.
The researchers, University of Warwick Economists Professor Andrew Oswald and Dr Jonathan.Gardner (Joanthan now with Watson Wyatt) and University of Warwick psychology researchers Professor Gordon . Brown and Jing Qian studied data from 16,266 individuals from 886 separate actual workplaces, and also carried out two further psychological experiments. They presented their findings recently to a conference at the Brookings Institution in Washington.
The results from the analysis of happiness, pay and rank data from the 16,266 individuals found that the level of actual pay, or the average level of pay in an organisation, had very little effect on how happy people were with the level of respect they had within that organisation. It also had little effect on how happy people were with their achievements within that organisation."
However when one looked at people's overall rank position the researchers found that did produce a significant impact on both how happy people were with the level of respect they had within that organisation and how happy people were with their achievements. When asked to rank how happy they were with their pay the researchers found that rank within an organisation had 50%-60% more effect on that level of happiness than the actual amount that people were paid!
In the first of the psychological experiments the research team asked a group of students to rank their satisfaction with a level of pay if it was offered to them as a starting graduate salary. The students were shown the same level of starting salaries but in a range of tables so, for instance, some saw a salary of £19.5K positioned as the fifth lowest wage in table whereas others saw that salary in a table as the second lowest. The experiment subjects clearly demonstrated that even if actual pay levels for everyone were exactly the same placing them in different rank orders created different levels of happiness.
In a second experiment students heard tones from a range of nine musical tones and were asked to judge were each tone came in that range. They were given a small cash reward for each tone judgement and then also asked to say how happy they were with that reward (of which they could actually keep a small percentage of at the end of the experiment). However the students were presented with different award distributions- a high-reward one in which they were rewarded with a number of pounds and a low distribution in which the same numbers were used but presented as pennies. The researchers found a clear negative correlation between current satisfaction rating and preceding reward values. The results indicated that reward satisfaction ratings were determined partly by comparison with other, recently-presented, rewards. A given level of reward produces a higher satisfaction rating if lower rewards have been received and rated in the recent past
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Q: Why is my image distorted when decoding as FlateDecode using iTextSharp? When decoding an image within a PDF as FlateDecode via iTextSharp the image is distorted and I can't seem to figure out why.
The recognized bpp is Format1bppIndexed. If I modify the PixelFormat to Format4bppIndexed the image is recognizable to some degree (shrunk, coloring is off but readable) and is duplicated 4 times in a horizontal manner. If I adjust the pixel format to Format8bppIndexed it is also recognizable to some degree and is duplicated 8 times in a horizontal manner.
The image below is after a Format1bppIndexed pixel format approach. Unfortunately I am unable to show the others due to security constraints.

The code is seen below which is essentially the single solution I have come across littered around both SO and the web.
int xrefIdx = ((PRIndirectReference)obj).Number;
PdfObject pdfObj = doc.GetPdfObject(xrefIdx);
PdfStream str = (PdfStream)(pdfObj);
byte[] bytes = PdfReader.GetStreamBytesRaw((PRStream)str);

string filter = ((PdfArray)tg.Get(PdfName.FILTER))[0].ToString();
string width = tg.Get(PdfName.WIDTH).ToString();
string height = tg.Get(PdfName.HEIGHT).ToString();
string bpp = tg.Get(PdfName.BITSPERCOMPONENT).ToString();

if (filter == "/FlateDecode")
{
   bytes = PdfReader.FlateDecode(bytes, true);

   System.Drawing.Imaging.PixelFormat pixelFormat;
   switch (int.Parse(bpp))
   {
      case 1:
         pixelFormat = System.Drawing.Imaging.PixelFormat.Format1bppIndexed;
         break;
      case 8:
         pixelFormat = System.Drawing.Imaging.PixelFormat.Format8bppIndexed;
         break;
      case 24:
         pixelFormat = System.Drawing.Imaging.PixelFormat.Format24bppRgb;
         break;
      default:
         throw new Exception("Unknown pixel format " + bpp);
   }

   var bmp = new System.Drawing.Bitmap(Int32.Parse(width), Int32.Parse(height), pixelFormat);
   System.Drawing.Imaging.BitmapData bmd = bmp.LockBits(new System.Drawing.Rectangle(0, 0, Int32.Parse(width),
             Int32.Parse(height)), System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageLockMode.WriteOnly, pixelFormat);
   Marshal.Copy(bytes, 0, bmd.Scan0, bytes.Length);
   bmp.UnlockBits(bmd);
   bmp.Save(@"C:\temp\my_flate_picture-" + DateTime.Now.Ticks.ToString() + ".png", ImageFormat.Png);
}

What do I need to do to so that my image extraction works as desired when dealing with FlateDecode?
NOTE: I do not want to use another library to extract the images. I am looking for a solution leveraging ONLY iTextSharp and the .NET FW. If a solution exists via Java (iText) and is easily portable to .NET FW bits that would suffice as well.
UPDATE: The ImageMask property is set to true, which would imply that there is no color space and is therefore implicitly black and white. With the bpp coming in at 1, the PixelFormat should be Format1bppIndexed which as mentioned earlier, produces the embedded image seen above.
UPDATE: To get the image size I extracted it out using Acrobat X Pro and the image size for this particular example was listed as 2403x3005. When extracting via iTextSharp the size was listed as 2544x3300. I modified the image size within the debugger to mirror 2403x3005 however upon calling Marshal.Copy(bytes, 0, bmd.Scan0, bytes.Length); I get an exception raised.

Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an
  indication that other memory is corrupt.

My assumption is that this is due to the modification of the size and thus no longer corresponding to the byte data that is being used.
UPDATE: Per Jimmy's recommendation, I verified that calling PdfReader.GetStreamBytes returns a byte[] length equal to widthheight/8 since GetStreamBytes should be calling FlateDecode. Manually calling FlateDecode and calling PdfReader.GetStreamBytes  both produced a byte[] length of 1049401, while the widthheight/8 is 2544*3300/8 or 1049400, so there is a difference of 1. Not sure if this would be the root cause or not, an off by one; however I am not sure how to resolve if that is indeed the case.
UPDATE: In trying the approach mentioned by kuujinbo I am met with an IndexOutOfRangeException when I attempt to call renderInfo.GetImage(); within the RenderImage listener. The fact that the width*height/8 as stated earlier is off by 1 in comparison to the byte[] length when calling FlateDecode makes me think these are all one in the same; however a solution still eludes me.
   at System.util.zlib.Adler32.adler32(Int64 adler, Byte[] buf, Int32 index, Int32 len)
   at System.util.zlib.ZStream.read_buf(Byte[] buf, Int32 start, Int32 size)
   at System.util.zlib.Deflate.fill_window()
   at System.util.zlib.Deflate.deflate_slow(Int32 flush)
   at System.util.zlib.Deflate.deflate(ZStream strm, Int32 flush)
   at System.util.zlib.ZStream.deflate(Int32 flush)
   at System.util.zlib.ZDeflaterOutputStream.Write(Byte[] b, Int32 off, Int32 len)
   at iTextSharp.text.pdf.codec.PngWriter.WriteData(Byte[] data, Int32 stride)
   at iTextSharp.text.pdf.parser.PdfImageObject.DecodeImageBytes()
   at iTextSharp.text.pdf.parser.PdfImageObject..ctor(PdfDictionary dictionary, Byte[] samples)
   at iTextSharp.text.pdf.parser.PdfImageObject..ctor(PRStream stream)
   at iTextSharp.text.pdf.parser.ImageRenderInfo.PrepareImageObject()
   at iTextSharp.text.pdf.parser.ImageRenderInfo.GetImage()
   at cyos.infrastructure.Core.MyImageRenderListener.RenderImage(ImageRenderInfo renderInfo)

UPDATE: Trying varying the varying methods listed here in my original solution as well as the solution posed by kuujinbo with a different page in the PDF produces imagery; however the issues always surface when the the filter type is /FlateDecode and no image is produced for that given instance.

A: Try copy your data row by row, maybe it will solve the problem.
int w = imgObj.GetAsNumber(PdfName.WIDTH).IntValue;
int h = imgObj.GetAsNumber(PdfName.HEIGHT).IntValue;
int bpp = imgObj.GetAsNumber(PdfName.BITSPERCOMPONENT).IntValue;
var pixelFormat = PixelFormat.Format1bppIndexed;

byte[] rawBytes = PdfReader.GetStreamBytesRaw((PRStream)imgObj);
byte[] decodedBytes = PdfReader.FlateDecode(rawBytes);
byte[] streamBytes = PdfReader.DecodePredictor(decodedBytes, imgObj.GetAsDict(PdfName.DECODEPARMS));
// byte[] streamBytes = PdfReader.GetStreamBytes((PRStream)imgObj); // same result as above 3 lines of code.

using (Bitmap bmp = new Bitmap(w, h, pixelFormat))
{
    var bmpData = bmp.LockBits(new Rectangle(0, 0, w, h), ImageLockMode.WriteOnly, pixelFormat);
    int length = (int)Math.Ceiling(w * bpp / 8.0);
    for (int i = 0; i < h; i++)
    {
        int offset = i * length;
        int scanOffset = i * bmpData.Stride;
        Marshal.Copy(streamBytes, offset, new IntPtr(bmpData.Scan0.ToInt32() + scanOffset), length);
    }
    bmp.UnlockBits(bmpData);

    bmp.Save(fileName);
}

A: If you're able to use the latest version (5.1.3), the API to extract FlateDecode and other image types has been simplified using the iTextSharp.text.pdf.parser namespace. Basically you use a PdfReaderContentParser to help you parse the PDF document, then you implement the IRenderListener interface specifically (in this case) to deal with images. Here's a working example HTTP handler:
<%@ WebHandler Language="C#" Class="bmpExtract" %>
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Web;
using iTextSharp.text;
using iTextSharp.text.pdf;
using iTextSharp.text.pdf.parser;

public class bmpExtract : IHttpHandler {
  public void ProcessRequest (HttpContext context) {
    HttpServerUtility Server = context.Server;
    HttpResponse Response = context.Response;
    PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(Server.MapPath("./bmp.pdf"));
    PdfReaderContentParser parser = new PdfReaderContentParser(reader);
    MyImageRenderListener listener = new MyImageRenderListener();
    for (int i = 1; i <= reader.NumberOfPages; i++) {
      parser.ProcessContent(i, listener);
    }
    for (int i = 0; i < listener.Images.Count; ++i) {
      string path = Server.MapPath("./" + listener.ImageNames[i]);
      using (FileStream fs = new FileStream(
        path, FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write
      ))
      {
        fs.Write(listener.Images[i], 0, listener.Images[i].Length);
      }
    }
  }
  public bool IsReusable { get { return false; } }

  public class MyImageRenderListener : IRenderListener {
    public void RenderText(TextRenderInfo renderInfo) { }
    public void BeginTextBlock() { }
    public void EndTextBlock() { }

    public List<byte[]> Images = new List<byte[]>();
    public List<string> ImageNames = new List<string>();
    public void RenderImage(ImageRenderInfo renderInfo) {
      PdfImageObject image = null;
      try {
        image = renderInfo.GetImage();
        if (image == null) return;

        ImageNames.Add(string.Format(
          "Image{0}.{1}", renderInfo.GetRef().Number, image.GetFileType()
        ));
        using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(image.GetImageAsBytes())) {
          Images.Add(ms.ToArray());
        }
      }
      catch (IOException ie) {
/*
 * pass-through; image type not supported by iText[Sharp]; e.g. jbig2
*/
      }
    }
  }
}

The iText[Sharp] development team is still working on the implementation, so I can't say for sure if it will work in your case. But it does work on this simple example PDF. (used above and with a couple of other PDFs I tried with bitmap images)
EDIT: I've been experimenting with the new API too and made a mistake in the original code example above. Should have initialized the PdfImageObject to null outside the try..catch block. Correction made above.
Also, when I use the above code on an unsupported image type, (e.g. jbig2) I get a different Exception - "The color depth XX is not supported", where "XX" is a number.  And iTextSharp does support FlateDecode in all the examples I've tried. (but that's not helping you in this case, I know)
Is the PDF produced by third-party software? (non-Adobe) From what I've read in the book, some third-party vendors produce PDFs that aren't completely up to spec, and iText[Sharp] can't deal with some of these PDFs, while Adobe products can. IIRC I've seen cases specific to some PDFs generated by Crystal Reports on the iText mailing list that caused problems, here's one thread.
Is there any way you can generate a test PDF with the software you're using with some non-sensitive FlateDecode image(s)? Then maybe someone here could help a little better.


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Night of the Creeps (1986)
Happy Halloween, jerks!
That's right, guys, gals, and enby pals. It's my favorite time of the year. There's something to that time of the year in which things get a little grayer, a little colder, a little more rainy, and the smell of decomposing leaves filling the air. It just makes everything a little creepier and a little more fun. It all culminates with today, the spookiest day of the year – Halloween!
Unless you're in the Southern Hemisphere. It may still be Halloween for you, but it's also spring and things are coming to life instead of dying off.
But, hey! That actually kind of fits today's featured movie, 1986's Night of the Creeps! I'll come back around to that in just a moment. First, let's talk about Halloween as a tradition in these parts. Way back in the very early days of B-Movie Enema, the final Friday of 2014 was Halloween and that saw the release of the bottom of the barrel Jess Franco Oasis of the Zombies article. Then, in 2016, I did an impromptu Halloween special article after watching the infuriating Halloween: Resurrection. In 2017, it was another trip to the Halloween franchise with Halloween III: Season of the Witch. I cheated a bit in 2018 and gave Halloween day to Film Seizure was covered the new Halloween movie that came out that year, so on the 30th, I did the remake of Night of the Demons just days after doing the original. In 2019, it was the rock and roll horror Trick or Treat. Last year, it was the conclusion of of a very personal set of movies when I covered The Slumber Party Massacre.
So with that, Night of the Creeps joins a pretty elite group of movies in the history of the (now) 294 articles of B-Movie Enema. As it now slithers onto the blog with a whole bunch of zombie-making parasites, it comes with quite the pedigree. First up, we have our grizzled cop played by Tom Atkins. We've seen him in Halloween III. Atkins is awesome. He mostly lived in the realm of character acting. Sure, he was the experienced actor in this movie, and he was the star of Halloween III, but aside from being part of the large cast of both The Fog and Creepshow, Atkins mostly was the recognizable guy in featured supporting roles throughout his career. I'll likely have much to say about how Atkins tends to command his roles. In the meantime, look at the awesome actor posing for a picture with some douchebag with a blog.
So, let's talk a little bit about our lead actor in this movie, Jason Lively. Lively is the brother to Robyn Lively who appeared in Teen Witch, and Blake Lively who is enjoying quite a career for herself currently. While he didn't exactly have the longest of careers as an actor, he did have a couple pretty solid credits. He was Rusty Griswold in European Vacation. He also got a leading role in one of Roland Emmerich's earliest films, the horror comedy Ghost Chase. I am a bit curious why he didn't stick with acting, choosing a relatively obscure life working for a computer company and the owner of a mobile roasted corn business, because he's really likable in this movie as the nerdy underdog shooting for a really cute and popular girl to begin dating and take to the college dance.
Speaking of the really cute popular girl, she's Cynthia and is played by Jill Whitlow. Whitlow, like Lively, didn't have a super long career either. She did have a couple small parts in big movies. Her first on screen appearance was as a bit player in the massively popular Porky's. She then also got a small part in the Peter Bogdanovich heavy drama Mask which starred Cher, Sam Elliott, and Eric Stoltz. Not a bad little career, but a short one nonetheless, however, she does have a 2020 credit in a low budget indie horror film called Naked Cannibal Campers (hmmm… I should maybe remember that one for later).
Another significant name, as you look at the full filmography and the titles that appear in it, is writer and director Fred Dekker. Dekker pushed hard for the chance to direct his own screenplay. The reason for this is he threw in a ton of classic B-movie and classic horror/sci-fi conventions as possible and he didn't want that stuff to fall into the background under the direction of another guy. He only has six director credits. Night of the Creeps was his first feature film that he directed. He would follow this up with The Monster Squad. This guy knows the things I like an awful lot. Classic monsters and sci-fi/horror. Love it. But he's got a whole bunch of story and writing credits too. Godzilla 1985 (based on a Godzilla 3D project he tried to get started in the early 80s), House, If Looks Could Kill (a young man's James Bond style light hearted action romp), Ricochet with Denzel Washington, a handful of episodes of Tales from the Crypt, and some episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise. His most recent credit is as a writer of The Predator an unevenly received sequel in the series that can't seem to find its footing anymore.
Alright, let's get a move on, eh? I think we need get into this throwback creepy crawler zombie flick. Let me flick my lighter to light up a smoke, give a smoldering glare toward the computer, and say, "Thrill me."
By the way, you have no idea how iconic and sexy that was when I just did that. I maybe made at least 3 girls and 2 and a half guys pregnant with the heat I just emanated when I said that.
I've talked about it before… You know, the whole thing with the 80s and the nostalgia for it and how it, itself, had a nostalgic take on the 50s. You know what I'm talking about, right? Well, Night of the Creeps has both of those things! It's like the literal chocolate and peanut butter in the sci-fi/horror genre. The movie opens in 1959. But not directly in white bred America. Nope, it starts with these little naked alien guys up in space. The 1959 of space.
I don't know what this little grumpy fleshy dude is doing, but he has other grumpy little fleshy dudes chasing him and shooting at him. He takes the container that he's carrying and ejects it out of their spaceship into the vastness of space. Where does it land? Why in the 1959 of college where The Platters sing about smoke and eyes. While the kids party on Sorority Row, it appears someone has broken out of an insane asylum.
Combine the dreamy music, the black and white photography, and then space alien sending something out to space with the escaped mental patient and I am fully into this movie hook, line, and sinker.
On top of all this, Hottie McBlondie here has just started dating this Chad McCoolsby and the beat cop who happens to come by to tell the kids to heed the radio warning about the mental patient and make like a tree is Ray. Ray was Hottie McBlondie's old flame. The couple see a big ball of light in the sky and Chad McCoolsby here decides to go check out what possibly crashed in the woods. Meanwhile, the escaped dude is on his way down Route 66 toward Corman University wielding a large fire axe. Where are Chad and Hottie currently parked? Three miles outside the Corman campus on Route 66.
While the creepy killer creeps up on Hottie, Chad finds creepy crawlies squirming around in the crashed tube from the space ship. A slimy wormy thing flies into Chad's mouth as Hottie gets her head cut off by the axe-wielding escaped maniac. Smash cut to Pledge Week 1986. It's time to meet the current cast of yahoos at Corman University.
We meet Chris Romero (Jason Lively) and his friend J.C. Hooper (Steve Marshall). J.C. has a disability that not only makes him have to walk with crutches but also makes him a little more of a sympathetic character than he comes off in this introductory scene. You see, Chris is a bit of a romantic. J.C. is a bit more of a pragmatic pessimist. J.C. says they are going to have a hard time getting laid because they are kind of dorky and terminally uncool. Chris catches sight of angelic beauty Cynthia Cronenberg (Jill Whitlow). Chris asks J.C. if he knows her. J.C. does not, so he decides to yell over to her from across the street to try to find out more about her much to Chris' chagrin.
They discover that Cynthia is going into the Beta house – these are guys they just hate. That's for good reason. The Betas are a bunch of assholes. They are jocks and general preps that would give people like our heroes here all kinds of trouble. However, Chris will not be deterred. He and J.C. go into the Beta house looking for Cynthia. They find her enjoying a nice, refreshing Pepsi.
That's so you know she's awesome.
But, uh oh Spaghettios… She is at this party with a boy. A big dumb football type with a single eyebrow kind of boy. J.C. tells this guy, Steve, there is a phone call for him, and when Steve goes away, J.C. finds out what her name is so he can tell Chris. She's not completely against the idea of getting to know Chris. Besides, J.C. is cool and funny. J.C. goes back to Chris and tells him that the only way she'll take him serious is for Chris to, you know, get off his duff and talk to her. However, Chris seems to think it will be easier and better for them to pledge Beta house. I guess he thinks Cindy will only like him if he's in a cool frat.
So they inquire about pledging. They aren't going to get in, but the president says maybe they can get bonus points if they perform an act of devotion to the frat. Chris asks if they have to have sex with a farm animal. That was not on the president's mind – at least that we know of. Instead, he wants them to break into the school medical center and steal a frozen cadaver. After Chris and J.C. go on their way, we learn that Cynthia's actual boyfriend is the head of the Betas.
The boys go to the medical center and just so happen to guess the right last number that the medical grad student looking after the place had to leave to call a guy to find. When they walk into the oddly fortified room that needed a crazy security system to keep the door shut and secured, they find something they weren't quite expecting to see…
What I love about this movie is how loose everything is. It doesn't take itself seriously at all. We have naked little grumpy aliens that chase another grumpy naked alien who ejects a capsule that happens to land on Earth. The weird slimy worms inside the capsule happens to fly into a guy's mouth, and that guy is now frozen in the lab's tube. All the while, in the present, Chris and J.C. are looking to get laid like an 80s boner comedy. Chris finds a girl he really likes who happens to be dating a huge douchebag and head of the frat that he thinks he needs to get into in order to impress the girl he likes. This girl, I might add, Chris has not talked to yet. Also, remember the Hottie McBlondie chick from earlier? She had a cop ex-boyfriend? We find out later that cop grows up to become Tom Atkins.
Why do all of these things just so happen to converge at this small college town? I'll tell you why… It doesn't fuckin' matter, that's why. As I said, this movie is so easy breezy that it doesn't take anything seriously. Sure, the coincidences are a little silly, but you know what? It's a silly movie. It combines so many wonderful little elements from the various genres it is tipping its cap to. You have the weepy 50s music as if to be looking fondly back on that more innocent time when people are still just playing grab ass and pledging frats and sororities and such. You have that part in black and white. You have a cool alien ship and adorable little alien dudes that have something terrible on board the ship. You have frat pranks, parties at school, and an upcoming prom. Later on, you get zombies who have funny scenes and people not really even paying attention to them the way you'd expect. All of these things can be incredibly charming on their own in movies. In this movie, each thing is charming as hell as an individual thing or all combined together. Mix in the incredibly likable Chris, Cynthia, and J.C. (and the bad assery of Tom Atkins) and you've got a real winner here.
Okie dokie… Chris and J.C. are less weirded out by the crazy machinery around them than they are the guy in the cryogenic tube. Chris initially just wants to leave as to not mess up this experiment. J.C. says there aren't any other corpses around to take so they might as well take this guy. J.C. explains the whole thing about cryogenic studies and stuff, but as much as he thinks it is cool, he doesn't care that much to not disengage the thing and try make off with the body. When they are carrying the body, the dude's hand grabs J.C. and they freak out and run away.
This leaves the poor post grad guy to investigate what the hell was going on when the two boys run past him and knock him over. He goes up to the thawing dude and gets his throat grabbed and a slug monster spat into his mouth. When Chris and J.C. get back to their dorm room. Chris gets a little mad at J.C. when he makes a joke about what to do about what happened. J.C. retaliates by saying that Chris can go fuck himself because he's such a bummer and everything that just happened was his fault for trying to impress a girl he couldn't even speak to himself. J.C., I should remind you that he's got physical disabilities, says he is always joking around because if he's like Chris and takes everything so damn seriously, he's just going to be depressed all the time because life sucks. He's got a point about everything he said.
Anyway, Act I is over, so it's time to meet every day bad ass hero, Tom Atkins.
Yes, we meet him as he seems to be drinking booze from a coconut while in a white tux, cool guy shades, and bikini clad babes everywhere. He sees his old girlfriend rising from the water. That's when the dream turns into a nightmare and he's back in his beat cop days watching the crazy guy hacking the shit out of her, but when the maniac turns around, he's a weird zombie looking guy. He wakes up to a call to go check out the lab that got broken into and investigate the missing body and the dead guy. Twice in one minute, once when he answers the phone, and the second time when he arrives at the crime scene, he says, "Thrill me."
By the way, every main character in this movie has a name of someone who has done something in the horror genre – Chris (George) Romero, J.C. (Tobe) Hooper (also the J.C. stands for James Carpenter for John Carpenter), Cynthia (David) Cronenberg, Detective Ray (James) Cameron, Detective (John) Landis, Sgt. (Sam) Raimi, Officers (Wes) Craven and (Mario/Lamberto) Bava, and Mr. (Steve) Miner. This movie has more caps to tip than it does heads in the production to put caps on.
So Cameron is confused. He was told there were two bodies. When he gets there, there is only one body. The original cops that showed up to the scene of the crime were rookies so they had to go and leave the thawed out body to take a shit. When they came back, the other body was missing. Cameron is thinking there is some extra shenanigans going on. After all, people who have been dead for 27 years don't just get up and walk away.
So this zombie dude used to throw pebbles at Hottie McBlondie's window to let her know he was there for them to go out. Now, Cindy is in that room, so he does the same thing, but also decides to just go ahead and use the fire escape to peer into her room while he's naked and looking pretty much worse for wear. Also, he head splits open and a bunch of the slug worms spill out and take off into the night. The cops come and discover that, indeed, it was the missing body from the lab. The face is all split open from where the worm slug things spilled out. Detective Cameron has some flashbacks from when he buried the body of the escaped mental patient that he hunted down and killed for killing his girl. He thinks the face of the corpse looks like it was split by an axe.
The next day, the word hits the street of the body showing up at the sorority. Brad, the head of the Betas confronts Chris and J.C. about delivering the body to the wrong house. J.C. tells them they chickened out and didn't even do it. Brad kicks one of J.C.'s crutches out and makes him fall to the ground. Cindy starts to befriend the two boys because, you see, Brad's a dick…? This nice little moment ends when Detective Landis shows up to bring the boys downtown to answer questions about why they were seen at the lab the night before by the janitor, Miner.
Immediately, Cameron realizes that everything lines up too perfectly for these boys. Cameron knows it was likely a sick prank from a frat. Chris owns up to everything, but also says they didn't take the body and they were too scared because the body twitched and opened its eyes. Cameron seems to recognize that, for as crazy as the story is, it seems somewhat plausible. Meanwhile, the post grad student from the lab gets up from the slab and leaves. It goes back to the lab and attacks the janitor.
Things are slowly escalating. Those who get a slug in the mouth come back to life or transform into a zombie. The slugs are starting to get out across the campus and has even started attacking animals and pets. We find out that one of the girls in Cindy's sorority has a black cat that she takes care of. It's been missing for a bit it seems, but when she finds it again, it's got a crazy monster face now.
Immediately after seeing a monster cat, we go back to Det. Cameron's place. He's looking over crime scene photos from the night his lady love was killed by a maniac. He's also doing what most of Tom Atkins' characters are know for doing… Drinking. Heavily.
That same night, Cindy shows up at Chris and J.C.'s dorm and asks to go for a walk. She tells them about the cat and how strange it is because she saw the girls bury the cat after they found it dead. She also reveals that the body from the lab literally came to her window. As Cindy seeks comfort in Chris' arms, Chris kind of motions for J.C. to get lost. J.C. says he's gotta go to the bathroom. While he's gone, Cindy tells Chris that she was pretty sure the guy was a zombie and she saw slugs spill out of its head. J.C. goes to the bathroom in one of the buildings that the zombified Mr. Miner is shuffling around in.
While J.C. is taking a shit, he hears someone come into the bathroom. He also hears the guy collapse and a bunch of slugs come out of his split open head. He reaches for a book of matches. There is only one left but he uses it to light the book on fire and discovers that fire pretty much kills the slugs on impact. Unfortunately, one crawls up his pant leg and he tries crawling out of the bathroom but one comes right at him from the floor.
Chris takes Cindy home and she asks him to the formal the following night. They were followed by Cameron who doesn't exactly seem too put off by the things he heard from them about creepy crawlies and zombies and such. So he decides to take Chris, who he now has dubbed "Spanky", back to his place for a drink. He also reveals to him the secret that we already basically know – he totally murdered the murdering crazy guy who cut his girlfriend up.
We also learn that the escaped maniac was buried under where the house mother's place is now behind Cindy's sorority. We've also seen slugs heading in that direction too. The house mother and her dog are dozing off while watching Plan 9 from Outer Space. We hear what sounds to be banging from under the floor. Up through the floor comes the reanimated corpse of the axe wielding maniac from 1959. He decides to hack up the old lady.
A couple uniformed cops looking for the old lady's murderer find him, but are a bit surprised to find out it is a monster guy. They corner him in an alley. Cameron tells the monster he already killed him once. When the guy turns toward the cops, they start blasting holes in him that glow awkwardly. Seeing he is literally a walking corpse, Cameron shoots him in the head and a whole bunch of slugs come flying out to the confused cops' surprise.
Act II comes to an end and it's time for the thrilling (heh, get it? "Thrill me") conclusion. Chris is a little confused that J.C. hasn't been home since the night before. He's got his tux for the formal. The slugs are zooming around town all over the place. Most importantly, there's rad 80s music playing while the girls of Cindy's sorority are all getting ready for the formal in their undies, in the shower all boobs out, and just about every single possible way you could expect to see gratuitous femoid skin bits!
The guys at the Beta Epsilon house are also getting ready but, uh oh… a whole bunch of slugs are headed their way. But back at Chris and J.C.'s room, Chris is still curious where his friend is. J.C.'s left a recording for Chris to listen to that is as haunting as it is heartbreaking.
Chris runs to the boiler room to find his friend's body with the toasty scorch marks of the slugs that shot out of his head. His friend may be gone, but at least there's an answer to the slug problem. The Beta house gets ready to take the bus to Cindy's sorority to pick up their dates. Brad, pissed off that Cindy blew him off, is drunk and stalking the sorority. The house mom's dog shows up to shoot a slug into his mouth. Later, as the bus with the Betas are headed to get their dates, the rowdiness of the frat boys makes it so the bus driver doesn't notice until too late that the old lady's dog is in the middle of the road. The bus crashes which allows for all the frat boys to get infected by the slugs.
Chris goes to Cameron and tells him that the slugs get in through the mouth. They essentially kill the host and allow them to still walk around. This is to allow for the incubation period for the slugs to reproduce. However, heat is good. So Cameron and Chris get ready to go which includes Cameron having to begrudgingly turn off the stove he was using to gas himself to death. This moment is simultaneously dark as shit and funny when Cameron gets pissed that he can't kill himself tonight.
We get another great tip of the cap. Cameron and Chris go to the police station to get the flamethrower. The requisition guy is none other than Roger Corman stalwart Dick Miller. On top of that, he's playing a guy named Walt. Walter Paisley was his name in Corman's A Bucket of Blood – itself a dark comedy.
At Cindy's sorority, the zombified Brad shows up. In one of the classic comedy beats of the movie, the girl who answers the door to see the messed up Brad takes it as a joke. She even kind of scolds him for being kind of immature to show up for the formal looking like this. Without missing a beat, she turns to tell Cindy that Brad's here.
I'm a big fan of the little things in movies. Sure, the big, broad strokes are great too. Yes, the big prat fall or a giant action scene or special effect or even a gory kill. Yet, when you can land little things, you know, things that the tone of the movie has set up with the small brush strokes of detail… That's when the movie can stick its technical grades. A soft zoom in when someone is commanding a scene. A small detail that just before the zombie cat shows up, we learn that the girls are worried the cat's owner will find out it died at some point earlier and they buried it instead of breaking the news to her. Brad showing up and the girl calling to Cindy and not even paying attention that he looks like a scary monster man. To punctuate this even further, without even looking at him, Cindy breaks up with zombie Brad without seeing that he's a ghoul.
These are the things that elevate this movie above and beyond a fairly solid, fun horror monster movie.
The zombified Betas exit the wrecked bus and head toward the sorority house to get their dates. Meanwhile, Chris and Cameron arrive at the sorority ahead of the zombies and plan to make their last stand there. Chris roasts Brad before he can infect Cindy. Cameron goes inside to deliver an iconic line from just about every trailer and clip you'll see from this movie by telling the girls there's good news and bad news. The good news is that their dates are there. The bad news is they're dead.
Outside, Chris and Cindy are seeing the Betas converge on the house. Chris is begging Cindy, who is equipped with the flamethrower now, to do something. Hoping she'll snap out of her shock of watching her old boyfriend get roasted by her new boyfriend, Chris tells Cindy to shoot when he does. So he blows a guy's head up which unleashes slugs and Cindy does her thing.
Jeepers, that's hot.
Now, I don't know exactly what it is, but holy crap do I love a woman with a flamethrower. That shit is, no pun intended, super hot. Yes, a babe with a gun, that's great. But a flamethrower? There's something even more primal and viciously delicious about it. Maybe it's the illumination on the face, thus allowing you to see her concentration as she roasts a motherfucker. I dunno, but I like it. I really like it.
Chris and Cindy deal with the zombies outside while Cameron helps the girls inside. It's a lot of head shots and fire and zombies busting into the sorority house and it's awesome. Even one of the sorority girls, the girl who owned the cat, gets infected, and starts to attack Cameron. Eventually, Chris and Cindy get overrun and have to hide in a gardening shed. This isn't exactly great because it's a small, easily smashable enclosure. She blows one guy's head up with the flamethrower. He uses the lawnmower to destroy another guy's head. They realize that the slugs are headed to the basement of the sorority house. Why? One of the girls' biology projects is being stored there… That project deals with jarred up human brains.
Chris and Cindy tell everyone to get out of the house while they go to the basement. There, they find Cameron, with his mouth taped and a can of gasoline. They see a whole bunch of slugs in the corner. Cameron plans to light the place up with the gas and his lighter. Chris and Cindy leave the house. Just as the slugs plan to lunge at Cameron, he lights his zippo and blow the place up but good.
Problem over, right? Well, not exactly. There are two endings to this movie. The theatrical which has Chris and Cindy celebrate their victory by making out. She sees the house mother's dog come up and when she bends over to pick the dog up, it shoots a slug out at her. The other ending has the cops and the firetrucks and all that rush toward the sorority house with a crispy, zombified Cameron shuffling the other direction down the street. He falls over, the slugs come rushing out of his body toward a cemetery. However, searchlights come down from the sky indicating that the aliens from the beginning have come to clean up the mess.
Either ending is a classic downer ending but also gives you a bit of a sting to go out on. Honestly, the other ending with the aliens could turn out to be worse. It's possible they have to blow up everyone to deal with the slugs. So they could turn out to be angels or demons.
Regardless of the ending of your preference, Night of the Creeps is wonderful. It has all the right atmosphere and light hearted fun you want from a monster movie. It also has a multi-seasonal atmosphere too. It can be watched at any time of the year and be able to draw you in. I've watched this during the summer, during Halloween season, during winter. It's a movie that has the right creeps and spooks to be enjoyed whenever you want to watch it. Which is also to say you should watch it again soon, or, if you haven't watched it before, fuck it, get it on your TV as soon as possible!
That should bring this Halloween to a close. I hope you trick and/or treat safely tonight and fill your day with as many ghouls, ghosts, and monsters as you can. Next week, you can come back here for another, regularly scheduled, Friday review. I'm going to keep with the more light hearted fare with The Invisible Maniac. If you have not yet, be sure to like and follow B-Movie Enema on both Facebook and Twitter so you can be kept in the know when new stuff is released.
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Until next week, watch out for alien mouth slugs, but, most importantly, thrill me.
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María Victoria Lareu Huidobro (Santiago de Compostela, 7 de març de 1960) és una investigadora, professora universitària i metge forense gallega.

Lareu és la directora del Institut de Ciencias Forenses de la USC i líder mundial en aquest camp d'investigació.

Llicenciada en Medicina i Cirurgia a la Facultade de Medicina de la Universitat de Santiago de Compostela (USC) el 1984, va prosseguir la seva trajectòria en diferents centres estrangers d'investigació d'especial rellevància en medicina forense. Així, va realitzar importants treballs d'investigació a l'Institut de Medicina Legal de Coimbra de Portugal, al London Hospital College i en el Forensic Science Service de Birmingham. Tras la seva etapa al Regne Unit va tornar a Santiago, on va fer la seva tesi doctoral sobre marcadors genètics en cirrosis hepàtiques alcohòliques. El treball de laboratori, a de l'Institut Universitari de Medicina Legal, ho ha compaginat amb l'activitat docent a la Facultade de Medicina. El 1996 es converteix en professora titular en aquesta mateixa facultat. La catedràtica de Medicina Legal i Forense de la USC, va ser distingida el 2008 amb un dels premis Gallecs de l'Any pel Grupo Correo Gallego, Galícia Hoxe, Ràdio Obradoiro, Terres de Santiago i Correu Televisió, reconeixent la seva destacada tasca en casos com la identificació de víctimes d'atemptats terroristes com els de l'11-S i l'11-M, a més de la identificació de cossos que retorna el mar o de restes històriques del jaciment arqueològic d'Atapuerca o la Guerra Civil espanyola. També van treballar en la identificació de víctimes de tsunami, o en el cas de les tres nenes assassinades al crim d'Alcàsser.

Des de 1998 és cap del servei de Genètica Forense de l'institut, en què també exerceix el càrrec de secretària, i l'any 2007 aconsegueix la Càtedra de Medicina Legal, convertint-se en aquest moment en la tercera dona d'Espanya que l'obté. A més, Victòria és una de les protagonistes del llibre titulat Investigadoras gallegas. Aquesta obra, editada pel Grup Correo Gallego en col·laboració amb la Conselleria d'Educació, recull 50 entrevistes d'altres tantes investigadores gallegues.

Des de les instal·lacions de la Facultade de Medicina, Victòria Lareu i els seus col·laboradors treballen en el disseny de nous mètodes d'anàlisi forense. Entre els projectes que dirigeix en destaca un que busca determinar les característiques físiques d'una persona a partir de qualsevol vestigi biològic amb ADN, com una petita gota de sang o de saliva. Un altre projecte tracta de pal·liar la impossibilitat d'obtenir dades de mostres biològiques molt degradades a causa, per exemple, a condicions climàtiques molt adverses. Durant la seva carrera, Lareu va dirigir diverses tesis i ha participat en gairebé una vintena de projectes finançats per la Xunta, el Ministeri d'Educació o la Unió Europea. Compta a més amb més d'un centenar de publicacions en genètica forense, genètica humana i bioquímica.

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EMC to invest in telecom
Safura Rahimi
Published Friday, March 07, 2008
The US-based information management company EMC is looking to boost its presence in the Middle East telecom market to cash in on the booming pace of growth in the region, executives said on Thursday.
The company, which in the past few years has turned its focus on growth outside the US market, said the Middle East is one of the fastest-growing international markets and it plans to step up investment.
"We see high growth in the region, [the market] has good momentum and we're going to continue to invest wherever we get good returns," Vice-Chairman, Bill Teuber, told Emirates Business.
Speaking on the sidelines of the fifth EMC Middle East Telecoms Summit, Teuber added that the company looks at market shares and overall growth rates when planning expansions.
"Some of these countries have relatively low revenues but high growth rates so we're looking to make sure we're a part of the infrastructure of many of these countries as they mature," he said.
Though Teuber declined to comment on how much EMC is looking to invest in the Middle East this year, he said the firm has a "very strong cash flow", with about $8 billion (Dh29.3bn) in cash and investments.
"Emerging markets are going to be absolutely critical to the growth rate and the success of EMC. We need to be in these areas and countries," he said.
EMC, which has its regional headquarters in Dubai and offices in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Egypt, is set to open offices in Qatar and Pakistan, while aiming to increase investments in Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
"We're going to balance investments around the GCC and the Middle East," said Mohammed Amin, regional manager of EMC.


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February 4, 2021: players and officials for the 2021 Australian Open wait to be tested for Covid-19. Overnight, a quarantine official at the hotel they were staying at was tested positive for Covid-19 causing all matches to be cancelled and all players who were at the hotel were required to be tested for Covid-19. Over 600 players, coaches and officials who were staying at the Grand Hyatt hotel after arriving in Melbourne are affected. Photo Sydney Low.
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To help with this process, we've sought out some of the top email marketing experts in the world today and asked them for their best tips, tricks and working methods to find success with email. This week's featured expert is Ben Settle of BenSettle.com. Ben Settle is an Internet marketer, entrepreneur, email specialist and author who writes about business, marketing and selling.
1 – Please briefly tell us about yourself and how you got started with online marketing.
Whenever people ask me what I do, I tell them "I'm like a bum, but who gets paid." After they realize I'm not joking I tell them why. For me, most days consist of me getting up, writing an email, and then goofing off the rest of the day. That's how I have my business set up — one email per day and I'm done. My main offer is a newsletter about email marketing called "Email Players", and I also have part ownership in a golf company, write twisted monster novels, and have various other side projects going on because even though I can do my workday in 10 minutes, that would get boring fast.
2 – Is email still the most effective marketing platform today… and how has it changed over the years with the addition of social media and mobile?
I think it is. Although my bias is obvious. But I have yet to see a way to make sales faster, easier, and with more enjoyment than writing emails to a list people love to read and buy from, selling an offer that can change their lives. I don't think it's changed at all. Not since marketers started selling online. In fact, Ken McCarthy — the founding father of Internet marketing as we know it — still uses plain text emails to sell with. Nothing has changed. If anything, because everyone is so infatuated with the latest social media bright shiny object, email (for those of us who know how to use it properly — most people don't) is more profitable than ever.
3 – With so many different email platforms to choose from, what should marketers specifically be looking for?
4 – What is your preferred method of collecting emails and building your list?
However I can get them. I have a splash/squeeze page, I also have an opt-in at the top of my blog, at the bottom of each blog post, and at the bottom of each page. I don't use popups mostly to appease Google AdWords, otherwise I would.
5 – What are you best tips for writing effective email titles/content that get opens and clicks?
My best "tip" (and it's not really a tip, it's a principle by which I do business) is to be consistent. Consistency trumps proficiency. Show up every day, write an email designed to sell your product, and send it out. Do this day in and day out and, as long as you have an offer people want, you simply can't lose. Most people focus way too much on metrics. The only metric I care about is sales. Opens, clicks, etc don't pay the rent or food, but sales do. I have seen many times how higher opens yielded lower sales, for example. The power is in consistency, not tricks and tactics. Just showing up every day with a useful email will do more for your marketplace positioning (being seen not just as an "expert" but a leader, people often buy sight unseen from leaders), your personal brand, and your sales than all the fancy software, tricks, and tactics combined. Make it a goal to write one email per day. Good, bad, ugly, it doesn't matter. Just do it. Then do it again tomorrow, and again the next day… eventually, it gets very easy (emails beget emails), you get very quick at it, and your list starts to bond with you in a very unusual way that makes you the only person they really want to read each day.
6 – Based off your own experience, is it better to send long form or short form written content in emails to your mailing list?
7 – What is the best way to setup an effective autoresponder series?
I apply Ben-o-nomics: I put 101 emails in, all spaced one day apart. Most sales come in the first week or so. But if you take a long-term view of your business, you realize how much money you leave on the table if you stop there. There will be a portion of your list that will buy on day 48, or day 87, or whatever. Those sales add up over time and compound on themselves — especially when you realize the average lifetime value of your customers, and if you have a good back end in place, those are even more sales.
8 – If you had to start over from scratch and only had $1,000 to start a new mailing list, how would you spend it?
I would write a daily email and turn it into an article and submit to all the good ezine sites. Then I'd turn that article into a YouTube video and put on YouTube. I'd rip the audio out of that video and put on iTunes as a podcast. I'd also turn it into an online press release, submit to the social media sites, and also offer it as guest posts to blogs and as user generated content on related forums. I would also compile my daily emails/articles into Kindle books. All these things will bring me leads. As for spending the $1k, I'd make myself available to as many podcasters as possible to get interviewed all over. Each interview I would then get transcribed and then I'd hire 3 writers who don't know each other to go through the transcripts of those interviews and turn the content into 5 articles and 5 press releases. Since writers are mostly inexpensive I'd be able to get a ton of articles up that I can then turn into youtube videos, podcasts, Kindle books, etc. It would snowball pretty fast from there. And I'd keep doing that perpetually.
9 – Lots of site owners and marketers have mailing lists, but they aren't making money with them. What are they doing wrong?
Two things — they are either bombarding their lists with blatant pitches or they are timid and rarely sell at all. Those are the two biggest mistakes people make.
10 – If you could tell online marketers and brand one thing that could improve their email marketing and list growth, what would it be?
I'll take it back to consistency. Showing up every day, without excuse, and sending an email out. Take the story about Jerry Seinfeld as an example. One of the highest paid comedians of all time. When he was starting out his goal was to write one joke per day, every day, no excuses. Didn't have to be a good joke, it could be any joke, but he always wrote one. Every time he did, he put an X through that day on the calendar. As long as he never broke that chain he knew he was going in the right direction towards his goals. His jokes got better, he got more experienced, and he made a lot of money that way. It's the exact same in email. Don't get bogged down in nonsense. Keep your eye on the goal: Write each day, go for sales, rinse and repeat over and over. Eventually, you'll get to the point where you have to write an email every day or you'll feel miserable. At that point, you will be living a lifestyle most people can only dream of.
Special thanks to Ben for taking the time to share his email marketing tips and expertise. Check back weekly for a new interview in our Email Marketing Experts series!


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Q: Check if string is int How can I check if a string value is an integer or not in Go?
Something like
v := "4"
if isInt(v) {
  fmt.Println("We have an int, we can safely cast this with strconv")
}

Note: I know that strconv.Atoi returns an error, but is there any other function to do this?
The problem with strconv.Atoi is that it will return 7 for "a7"

A: You might also use regexp to check this.
It can be a little overkill, but it also gives you more flexibility if you want to extend your rules.
Here some code example:
package main

import (
    "regexp"
)

var digitCheck = regexp.MustCompile(`^[0-9]+$`)

func main() {
    digitCheck.MatchString("1212")
}

If you want to see it running: https://play.golang.org/p/6JmzgUGYN3u
Hope it helps ;)

A: this is better, you can check for ints upto 64 ( or less ) bits
strconv.Atoi only supports 32 bits
if _, err := strconv.ParseInt(v,10,64); err == nil {
    fmt.Printf("%q looks like a number.\n", v)
}

try it out with v := "12345678900123456789"

A: This manually checks each CHAR to see if it falls between 0 and 9.
func IsDigitsOnly(s string) bool {
    for _, c := range s {
        if c < '0' || c > '9' {
            return false
        }
    }
    return true
}

A: As you said, you can use strconv.Atoi for this.
if _, err := strconv.Atoi(v); err == nil {
    fmt.Printf("%q looks like a number.\n", v)
}

You could use scanner.Scanner (from text/scanner) in mode ScanInts, or use a regexp to validate the string, but Atoi is the right tool for the job.

A: You can use unicode.IsDigit():
import "unicode"

func isInt(s string) bool {
    for _, c := range s {
        if !unicode.IsDigit(c) {
            return false
        }
    }
    return true
}

A: You can use govalidator.
Code
govalidator.IsInt("123")  // true

Full Example
package main

import (
    "fmt"
    valid "github.com/asaskevich/govalidator"
)

func main() {
    fmt.Println("Is it a Integer? ", valid.IsInt("978"))
}

Output:
$ go run intcheck.go
Is it a Integer?  true

A: this might help
func IsInt(s string) bool {
    l := len(s)
    if strings.HasPrefix(s, "-") {
        l = l - 1
        s = s[1:]
    }

    reg := fmt.Sprintf("\\d{%d}", l)

    rs, err := regexp.MatchString(reg, s)

    if err != nil {
        return false
    }

    return rs
}

A: you can check if all runes are between 0 and 9
isNotDigit := func(c rune) bool { return c < '0' || c > '9' }
b := strings.IndexFunc(s, isNotDigit) == -1

A: be careful if your strings input could be in any length.
in cases where you have to check for monster strings length the strconv approach is useless. it will produce an ErrRange error.
for such scenarios:
s := strings.TrimSpace(val)

r := regexp.MustCompile(`^\d+$`)

isNum := r.Match([]byte(s))

A: Most of the above posted solutions are neat and nice.
Below is a simple solution without using any library:
func IsNumericOnly(str string) bool {

    if len(str) == 0 {
        return false
    }

    for _, s := range str {
        if s < '0' || s > '9' {
            return false
        }
    }
    return true
}

Test cases
func TestIsNumericOnly(t *testing.T) {
    cases := []struct {
        name      string
        str       string
        isNumeric bool
    }{
        {
            name:      "numeric string",
            str:       "0123456789",
            isNumeric: true,
        },
        {
            name:      "not numeric string",
            str:       "#0123456789",
            isNumeric: false,
        },
    }

    for _, c := range cases {
        t.Run(c.name, func(t *testing.T) {
            assert.Equal(t, c.isNumeric, IsNumericOnly(c.str))
        })
    }
}


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Women in consulting news in the Middle East
An overview of consulting news in the category Women in consulting in the Middle East:
Bahrain Qatar Saudi Arabia United Arab Emirates
Women in consulting 16
Cyber Security 1 Human Resources 2
Accounting 1 Education 1 Energy 1 Financial Services 1
Diversity 5 Labour Market 1
Women in consulting
Sophia Addas on her career milestone at Alvarez & Marsal in Saudi Sophia Addas has recently hit a special milestone in her career, becoming the first woman to join the director ranks of Alvarez & Marsal in Saud Arabia.
EY Strategy and Transactions lauds Zayed University student Shama Abdulla Al Hosani, a student at Zayed University, has been named the third placed winner of EY's Corporate Finance Woman of the Year 2021 competition.
Applications due to close for McKinsey WomenHack event Professional and aspiring female coders from the Middle East, Africa and Turkey are running out of time to get their applications in for this year's virtual McKinsey WomenHack event, which is set to
BCG's Leila Hoteit among top 50 businesswomen in Middle East For the second year in a row, Boston Consulting Group's Leila Hoteit has been named one of the Middle East's 50 most powerful businesswomen.
McKinsey's edad program welcomes 100 young Arab females Celebrating the 10th anniversary of its edad program in the Middle East, McKinsey & Company recently hosted a special edition exclusively for young female professionals.
BCG and Deloitte leaders feature on Forbes regional businesswomen list BCG's Leila Hoteit and Cynthia Corby of Deloitte have again been named among the region's most prominent business women, according to the latest index compiled by Forbes Middle East.
ACCA hosts UAE women in finance forum with Deloitte advocates Senior finance leaders from across the UAE have assembled for a meeting hosted by the ACCA on developing a collective vision to increase the ratio of women in finance and technology, with Deloitte's
Middle East sees developments for women in business over the past year As we celebrate International Women's Day, Consultancy-me.com takes a look back at some of the local developments for women in the business realm over the past twelve months.
Ghalya AlAli named as EY's UAE Corporate Finance Woman of the Year
Dina Abo-Onoq takes on chief country manager role for A&M in KSA Experienced advisor Dina Abo-Onoq has taken over as the Chief Country Manager of Alvarez & Marsal in Saudi Arabia, the first female Saudi national to head a professional services firm of its type in
Deloitte's Rana Ghandour Salhab named champion of diversity on global list Deloitte Middle East's Rana Ghandour Salhab has featured in fifth on a global list of diversity champions in business as compiled by the Financial Times, lauded for her work as a role model and advoc
BCG and Deloitte leaders named among most influential women in Middle East BCG Middle East Managing Director & Partner Leila Hoteit and Dubai-based Deloitte Partner and Middle East Audit Director of Operations Cynthia Corby have been named among the 100 most influential wom
Deloitte initiative to encourage women in cybersecurity expands to Middle East Big Four professional services giant Deloitte has launched an initiative in the Middle East aimed at promoting greater gender diversity in the cyber-security sector.
KPMG promotes energy industry diversity with female global leadership team KPMG has zoomed in on the importance of industry diversity at the firm's recent global energy conference, demonstrating leadership from the front with an all-female global leadership team for its Ene
Inaugural Women Power Summit in Bahrain supported by KPMG KPMG in Bahrain has supported the inaugural Women Power Summit held in the Kingdom, which with over 700 delegates and more than 100 guest speakers was billed as the largest ever women's summit to tak
PwC Saudi Arabia committed to developing local and female talent The Saudi Arabian arm of global professional services firm PwC is continuing with its commitment to gender diversity and the development of local talent, supported by the firm's strong regional growt


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Beginning in the fall of 2014, the Katy Independent School District will open the doors to a brand-new elementary school for families in the west Houston master-planned community of Cross Creek Ranch.
Located at FM 1463 and Flewellen Oaks Lane, the new school will serve families in one of the nation's top-selling master-planned communities. According to the Katy ISD, the new school will have the capacity to service just over 1,000 students with 60-70 teachers and support staff.
Residents currently attend Shafter Elementary of the Katy ISD and Huggins Elementary of the Lamar Consolidated ISD.
Nestled in a lush, natural setting minutes west of the Grand Parkway off FM 1093, Cross Creek Ranch is a peaceful retreat where active lifestyles and homes from award-winning builders come together to create an unmatched quality of life. More than 30,000 trees have been planted in the community since 2006 and close to half of its 1,000 homes are adjacent to native naturalized landscape, designated trails and parks.
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Wall Street Journal: Transcendental Meditation for Everyone
The latest TM news from around the nation
From The Wall Street Journal to Parade, from People to Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, the power of the Transcendental Meditation® (TM) technique to change lives and enhance personal growth continues to be a popular topic. In case you've missed the latest articles, we've gathered some highlights for your enjoyment.
Transcendental Meditation for Everyone
Bob Roth "dreamed of being a senator when he was young," writes Alexandra Wolfe in her Wall Street Journal profile. Now, the CEO of the nonprofit David Lynch FoundationSM (DLF) is teaching the Transcendental Meditation technique to a dozen members of Congress in DLF's new office in Washington, D.C.
Roth, 66, started TM in the 1960s at the University of California, Berkeley, in hopes of finding some inner peace amid the campus riots. "He was skeptical at first but soon became hooked," Wolfe reports. After graduating in 1972, Roth became a certified TM instructor, and, Wolfe continues, "he started teaching meditation to children in inner-city schools in San Francisco."
A student in a David Lynch Foundation "Quiet Time" program
Flash forward to 2005, when Roth co-founded the David Lynch Foundation with the film director to bring Transcendental Meditation to everyone. The nonprofit teaches TM to at-risk populations, including urban youth, prisoners, veterans, and victims of abuse, as well as hedge-fund managers, business leaders, artist, and entertainers.
The Wall Street Journal article notes a recent study, in which DLF participated, that found the TM technique reduces anxiety, depression, and trauma symptoms for prisoners in Oregon. It also cites DLF's participation in "a study with the University of Chicago's Crime Lab to research whether TM can reduce violence and improve scores in a trial with 2,000 children in five Chicago public schools," a study that is expanding to include 800 students in New York.
Roth also works with Ray Dalio, Bridgewater founder and co-chairman, and a strong supporter of DLF's educational mission, reports Wolfe. The TM practice has been "integral to whatever success I've had in life," says Dalio. "It makes one feel like… a ninja in a movie, like you're doing everything calmly and in slow motion." Wall Street Journal subscribers may read the full article here ►
500,000 At-Risk Youth, Veterans, and Survivors of Domestic Violence Have Learned TM
Following up on the David Lynch Foundation's Women of Vision fundraiser, Emily Ramshaw spoke with acclaimed film director David Lynch.
"I wake up and meditate for 20 minutes first thing in the morning," Lynch said about his own TM practice. "And then I meditate for 20 minutes around 6:00 p.m. at the end of the day, before I have dinner with my wife, Emily, and my daughter, Lula. I love to meditate. I never miss. In fact, I have never missed a single meditation in more than 44 years! Why would I want to?"
What Inspired Him to Create the David Lynch Foundation?
"I had been reading in the press about little kids coming to school with guns and all the violence in the neighborhoods, and I thought, 'How can anyone learn in an environment like that?'" Lynch said. "So we started the David Lynch Foundation to raise the funds so that any child anywhere in the country could learn to meditate if he or she wanted to."
In the last 12 years, over 500,000 urban youth, veterans with post-traumatic stress, and women and children who've survived domestic violence have learned TM, thanks to the work of the Foundation.
A veteran in the David Lynch Foundation's Warrior Wellness program
"I remember a veteran who had not been able to sleep for more than one or two hours a night because of the trauma he experienced in Iraq," recalled Lynch. "He started TM with a grant from the Foundation, and within one or two days, he was sleeping eight hours a night… He said TM has given him his life back. I always think of that man and wonder how many hundreds of thousands of veterans could be helped by TM if they only had the chance to learn." Read the full article on Coveteur.com ►
"He said TM has given him his life back. I always think of that man and wonder how many hundreds of thousands of veterans could be helped by TM if they only had the chance to learn." —David Lynch
Supermodel Gisele Bündchen Is Honored with Humanitarian Award
Gisele Bündchen recently spoke to People about her TM practice: "Meditation has been a great tool for me in my life. It helps to quiet my mind and helps me see things more clearly. It brings a sense of peace to my day. Meditation provides me space to rebalance and refocus when things are at their busiest."
Gisele Bündchen was honored with a David Lynch Foundation Humanitarian Award at the Women of Vision event
Bündchen also supports the work being done by the David Lynch Foundation to help at-risk women and children. She said, "The busy life we lead today generates a lot of stress. We are overloaded with information and overcommitted to so many tasks in our homes, jobs, causes… I think meditation is a wonderful tool to deal with stress."
The David Lynch Foundation (DLF) recently gave Bündchen its Humanitarian Award at its Women of Vision fundraiser in New York City. According to the DLF website, this award "honors individuals or organizations who, through their wisdom, conviction, life experience, and resolve, are difference-makers in elevating members of our world family to new levels of health, prosperity, and progress."
Watch highlights of her acceptance speech.
Other humanitarian honorees were Robin Roberts, co-anchor of Good Morning America; Carolyn Rafaelian, founder and CEO of ALEX and ANI; Joni Kimberlin, philanthropist, filmmaker, and activist. Air Force Lieutenant (ret.) LaToya Mack received the Courage Award. Rosanna Scotto, of Good Day New York, hosted the event. See People's full article about Bündchen ►
Jerry Seinfeld on Staying Young, Seinfeld's Legacy, and Why He Still Does Stand-Up
Comedian and actor Jerry Seinfeld, 63, will be featured in the upcoming HBO documentary If You're Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast, along with fellow comedy legends Carl Reiner, 95, Mel Brooks, 90, Betty White, 95, and Norman Lear, 94. So what keeps Seinfeld feeling young? Parade asked.
Jerry Seinfeld performing at a David Lynch Foundation fundraising event
Comedy, definitely. "I love to write stand-up comedy, and I do it pretty much every day. That makes me feel alive and makes me feel like my life is worthwhile, because I've been doing it my entire adult life," Seinfeld said.
Does the TM technique help with longevity?
"Oh, for sure, because it's the greatest recovery from fatigue and stress that there is," said Seinfeld. "I recommend TM to everyone I know. It's definitely enabled me to do a lot more at the point that I'm at than I would normally be able to do. Most of my friends my age can't keep up; they just get tired. With TM, you don't have to feel tired any more."
So how does Seinfeld fit his TM practice into his busy creative schedule? The comedy news site the interro bang shared a glimpse. Between back-to-back performances for his first Netflix comedy special, Seinfeld slipped away to recharge:
"Jerry came out to thunderous applause in a shiny gray jacket and tie, and ran through a set full of applause breaks. Jerry left the stage to even more thunderous applause than when he came up, and went right back to his trailer with his longtime manager George Shapiro to do a little TM before the next taping. The second taping also went without a hitch," reported the site.
Does the TM technique help with longevity? "Oh, for sure, because it's the greatest recovery from fatigue and stress that there is." —Jerry Seinfeld
Aziz Ansari on Getting through the Intensity of Writing, Directing, Producing, and Acting
Seinfeld wasn't kidding about recommending TM to everyone he knows. A couple of years ago, he told Aziz Ansari about TM when the younger comic appeared on Seinfeld's Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.
Ansari told Vulture what Seinfeld said that motivated him to start TM: "He was like, 'Yeah, I used to do it once a day during Seinfeld. But once I started doing it twice a day, I was like, I could've done a bunch more seasons of the show.' I was like, Whoa!" Ansari said. This part of the conversation didn't make the final cut for Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, but it made a lasting impression on Ansari.
Now he practices TM twice a day. This helps him get through the intensity of writing, directing, producing, and acting for the second season of his Netflix hit, Master of None: "All this job is, is just like 20 people going, 'Aziz! Aziz! Aziz! Aziz! You need to answer this!' And you've got your own questions and your own reactions: Is this scene working? How do I do this?"
Now Ansari practices TM twice a day. This helps him get through the intensity of writing, directing, producing, and acting for the second season of his Netflix hit, Master of None.
How Tom Hanks Spends Some of His Spare Time
For Tom Hanks, the prolific and universally beloved actor-writer-producer, Jerry Seinfeld recommended TM just when he most needed it, reported TMhome.com. Hanks shared his TM story for the first time on WNYC's Sooo Many White Guys podcast.
Hanks ran into Seinfeld at a backstage event and the comedian asked the actor what he was up to these days. "I have to tell you," Hanks told Seinfeld, "I'm fatigued. I'm spent. I'm tired. I need to be quiet for a while. I need to rest." To which Seinfeld responded, "So you're tired? Well, why don't you do TM?"
Fortunately for Hanks, it was Seinfeld and not someone else who told him about the TM technique. "If anybody other than a guy like him had said to me, 'Why don't you try TM?' Like, if Goldie Hawn had said, 'Babe, you gotta try TM!' I'd have said, 'Honey, listen, you enjoy your little floral pants and times in the forest and you commune with the wood sprites all you want. I don't know anything about it.' And so I did it," said Hanks.
Now when people ask what Hanks does in his spare time, he has more to say than "wait for a dental appointment," he joked. "Now I can say, 'Actually, I took up that classic version of Transcendental Meditation.' "
"Now I can say, 'Actually, I took up that classic version of Transcendental Meditation.' " —Tom Hanks
Look for another TM News Roundup in upcoming issues. If you find something our readers might enjoy, be sure to share it with us! editors@enjoytmnews.org
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"Women of Vision" to Be Honored at May 9 Benefit for At-Risk Women and Children
The luncheon will help the David Lynch Foundation bring TM® to victims of domestic violence.
The Smithsonian Honors David Lynch for Bringing TM to 500,000 At-Risk Kids
The director received the American Ingenuity Award for reducing stress and violence in under-served schools through the David Lynch Foundation, which has been improving children's lives with the TM-based "Quiet Time" program since 2005.
Seinfeld on Drones, TM, and Messy Beds | 11:47
Jerry Seinfeld tells his TM story, standup style. His big regret? That he used to skip his morning TM sessions! Now he's meditating twice a day and has more energy than ever.
How Does TM Differ from Mindfulness?
"Dear Dr. Orme-Johnson, I read a lot about mindfulness meditation in the news and on the Internet. How does the TM technique differ from mindfulness?" —DT, Florida


I finally finished haruni by Emily Ross. The last few rows were challenging but I got there in the end. I think my hands might not be able to do such fine lace knitting for much longer as my rheumatoid arthritis in my joints is just too painful. However, I just love this shawl. It is a present for my mum's birthday next week. She loves red.
The blocking was harder than I thought it would be as the shawl is not a typical triangular shape, like the others I have done! I also ran out of pins and had to race off to the shops to get more!
This is me blocking the edges.
This has been a lovely pattern to follow and I just adore the name "Haruni"(by Emily Ross) which means "Grandmother" in Elvish (Tolkien's language).
What a job! It is so beautiful and you must be happy to be finished, the knitting AND the blocking. Your mum is very lucky.
The shawl is spectacular, just gorgeous. Sorry to hear your RA is acting up, hopefully you can keep lace knitting, but maybe taking a break to use bigger needles will help.


According to Ephesians 5:18 (https://www.bible.com/), we are to be continually filled with the Holy Spirit. Let Him control your life so that you can be an effective witness, understand His Word, love like He loves, live on the miraculous edge, and move continually in obedience to His instructions. When you are filled with Him, you will better understand I Corinthians 12:11 – the "Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually just as He wills." 1 Cor. 12:30 teaches that not all speak with tongues, and 1 Corinthians 12:13 and Romans 8:9 show that no one gets into God's family without the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Since there is no condition to salvation other than repentance, trust and personally receiving Jesus by asking in faith, (Romans 10:9-13, 1 John 4:15), if you are saved, the Holy Spirit lives in you whether or not you speak with tongues. In Ephesians 4:10-13 the purpose for the gifts of the Spirit is stated – "for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ." I pray you will be thankful for the gift the Lord blesses your life with, and use it for His Glory. We must be obedient to His will and do what He asks of us (please see www.GodLife.com/look-to-Jesus).