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Background Transfusion-transmissible infections (TTIs) are life-threatening for patients requiring blood transfusion. The prevalence of these blood-borne infections among blood donors may reflect the burden of these diseases among populations in developing countries. Unsafe blood transfusion remains a major global health problem; therefore, TTIs are an important issue in transfusion medicine.
Patients and methods A cross-sectional study was undertaken during March 2017 to June 2017 to focus on the magnitude of blood-borne infections among blood donors at Port Sudan Central Blood Bank and to assess the characteristics of reactive and nonreactive blood donors as well as association between coinfection and blood types. A total of 513 donors were encountered, and each blood donor was screened for HIV, hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV), and syphilis immunologically.
Results A total of 513 blood donors were enrolled in this study. Of these, 501 (97.7%) were males and 12 (2.3%) were females, with mean age of 32±9.7 years (range: 17–60 years); all of them are replacement blood donors. Overall, 103 (20.1%) blood donors were reactive, with 97 (18.9%) reactive for one blood-borne infection and six (1.1%) coinfected with two of the four TTIs. The prevalence of HBV, HCV, HIV, and syphilis accounts for 11.7, 0.4, 1.4, and 6.6%, respectively. Six (1.1%) of the study blood donors were coinfected: four (0.8%) with HBV–syphilis and two (0.4%) with HBV–HIV.
Conclusion TTIs is outstretched among the blood donors and have increased significantly over time. Stringent selection of blood donors is highly recommended to emphasize the safety of blood to the recipient. However, switch to central blood transfusion service rather than replacement donation may help to reduce the dangerous effect of TTIs.
Keywords: blood bank, donors, Port Sudan, transfusion-transmissible infections
Mohammed BA, Badneen MA, Gibreel MO, Othman SA. Prevalence of transfusion-transmissible infections among blood donors in Port Sudan. Egypt J Haematol 2019;44:72-6
Mohammed BA, Badneen MA, Gibreel MO, Othman SA. Prevalence of transfusion-transmissible infections among blood donors in Port Sudan. Egypt J Haematol [serial online] 2019 [cited 2022 Jan 21];44:72-6. Available from: http://www.ehj.eg.net/text.asp?2019/44/1/72/268008
Viruses, bacteria, and parasites can all be transmitted via blood or blood components [1]. Blood donation saves lives of millions of people worldwide; however, the recipients are at a potential risk of exposure to transfusion-transmissible infections (TTIs) [2]. Therefore, the likelihood of TTIs such as HIV, hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV), and syphilis still remains a sustainable threat from blood banks and transfusion facilities [3]. TTIs were considered the greatest threats to blood transfusion safety for recipient and constitute serious public health problems [4]. The highest risk groups that are exposed to these blood-borne pathogens are the anemic patients (children and adults), hemorrhagic pregnant women, and victims of major trauma [5]. Morbidity and mortality from the transfusion of infected blood have influential consequences, not only for recipients themselves but also for their relative families and their communities [6]. According to the WHO, safe blood transfusion is a global right. The ongoing improvement and application of donor selection criteria and sensitive or sophisticated tests in the blood bank can ensure the eradication, or at least lower the risks of acquiring TTIs [7]. Monitoring of the magnitude of TTIs in blood donors is significant for measuring the risk of transfusion and enhancing donor recruitments, and administration to diminish infectious disease transmission [4]. Most donors are replacement donors, mostly family members or a close friend of the patient with good intention to help for transfusion in emergency [8]. There is a considerable need to provide safe blood components, and this requires improved quality transfusion services and modulated infrastructure along with properly trained and well-educated staff [9]. The incidence value of these blood-borne diseases has boosted the problem of blood transfusion safety in Port Sudan, Sudan. However, this study was carried out to denote the occurrence of HIV, HBV, HCV, and syphilis infections in the blood donor populations and to assess the epidemiology of these blood-borne infections in Port Sudan city. To the best of knowledge, no such study was conducted before in Port Sudan.
This was a cross-sectional study aimed at assessing the prevalence of TTIs among blood donors visiting Port Sudan Central Blood Bank from March 2017 to June 2017. Blood donors were given a unique identification number, and their name, ages, sexes, date of births, professions, and contact numbers were registered. Before donation, each donor was subjected to fill a structured health history questionnaire, which encompassed data regarding their general health, current or past febrile illness, weight loss, chronic disease, unusual or excessive bleeding, drug history, tattoo piercing, previous blood transfusion, history of travel or immigration, sexual history, and risk behaviors followed by short interviews. Complete blood count was done to rule out any donors with anemia (hemoglobin<12.0 g/dl), thrombocytopenia, or infection. Furthermore, inspection was made for any signs of drug abuse or any skin lesion at the venipuncture site.
A total of 513 donors were prospectively enrolled in this study. The convenient sampling technique was used to recruit blood donors who were eligible for donation for serum screening of TTIs. Proper sterilization and other precautions were taken during blood collection, and blood units were stored using appropriate methods.
Study patients' inclusion and exclusion criteria
All blood donors who appeared physically fit and were 17–65 years old and fulfilled the national blood bank criteria were included. Potential donors were ruled out if they were younger than 17 years; weighed less than 50 kg; were anemic or apparently unhealthy or malnourished; had a history of jaundice, malaria, or asthma; had a past history of HBV, HCV, HIV, or syphilis; or were unwilling to give informed consent.
A volume of 5 ml of venous blood was collected using a sterile test tube from each blood donor. Serum was extracted by centrifugation at a speed of 3500 rpm for 5 min, and 2 ml of serum was obtained from each sample using sterile plastic vials. Blood type for each blood donor was determined using antisera (Fortress Diagnostic Limited, Antrim, UK; 6/2019 expiry): anti-A, anti-B, and anti-D for Rhesus type. Each blood donor was screened for HIV, HBV, HCV, and syphilis using immunochromatographic test (Hangzhou AllTest Biotech Co. Ltd, Hangzhou, China; 9/2019 expiry). To emphasize the result, samples were retested using the fourth-generation enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay technique (enzyme linked immunosorbent assay kits for infectious diseases, 10/2019 expiry; Fortress Diagnostic Limited).
Standard operational procedures were strictly followed, and quality control materials were applied for all serological tests. Furthermore, laboratory quality was ensured by well-trained professionals and supervision during the sample process.
The collected data were analyzed using SPSS (IBN, Chicago, USA), version 24. Blood-borne infections among reactive and nonreactive blood donors were analyzed by using logistic regression. χ2-test was applied to assess the association between coinfections and blood type variables. P value less than 0.05 was considered significant in all analysis.
The study approval was set for the Ethical Clearance Committee of the Red Sea State, Ministry of Health and Administration of Port Sudan Central Blood Bank. Informed consent was taken from all donors only for study purpose.
Donor characteristics
Approximately 513 blood donors visited Port Sudan Central Blood Bank for donating during the study period; among these, 501 (97.7%) were males and 12 (2.3%) were females, with a mean age of 32.0±9.7 years (range: 17–60 years); all of them were replacement blood donors.
With respect to donors' ABO blood type distribution, 244 (47.6%) of donors were O+ blood type, 110 (21.4%) of the donors were A+ blood type, followed by 103 (20.1%) B+ blood type. The remaining 34 (6.6%), 10 (1.9%), nine (1.8%), two (0.4%), and one (0.2%) of the enrolled were O−, A−, AB+, B−, and AB− blood types, respectively. The overall characteristic variables among the reactive and nonreactive donors are listed in [Table 1].
Table 1 Characteristic variables of reactive and nonreactive blood donors
Prevalence of blood-borne infections
In this assay, 103 (20.1%) of the donors showed reactive result for TTIs and 410 (79.9%) were nonreactive for the four TTIs. The prevalence of HIV, HBV, HCV, and syphilis in our study population was 1.4, 11.7, 0.4, and 6.6%, respectively ([Figure 1]). Among the donors who have the infection, 97 (18.9%) were positive for only one of the pathogens and six (1.1%) were coinfected with two of the four TTIs ([Figure 2]). Coinfection of more than two was not found. Six of the coinfected donors had HBV, and the common coinfection was HBV–syphilis [four (0.8%)], followed by HBV–HIV [two (0.4%)] ([Table 2]). All female donors in the present study were positive for at least one of the four TTIs. The prevalence of HBV infection was 58 (11.3%) among males and two (0.4%) among female donors. Seven (1.4%) of the male donors were positive for HIV. Donors who were positively reactive for Treponema pallidum were 31 (6.0%) males and three (0.6%) females. Sex has a significant association with syphilis prevalence (P<0.039).
Figure 1 Frequency of blood-borne infections among blood donors at Port Sudan Central Blood Bank, 2017. HBV, hepatitis B virus; HCV, hepatitis C virus.
Figure 2 Infection status among blood donors at Port Sudan Central Blood Bank, 2017.
Table 2 Coinfection of hepatitis B virus, HIV, and syphilis correlations
The major positive finding in this study was for HBV, where magnitude of 60 (11.7%), 22 (4.3%) were represented both among donors between 26 – 35 years' age and greater than 35 years, respectively. HIV was present more in donors aged between 26 and 35 years. A total of 15 (2.9%) donors had evidence of syphilis at ages greater than 35 years. HBV, HIV, and syphilis were showed no association with age (P<0.880, 0.854, and 0.337, respectively).
Regarding the frequency of TTIs with blood group, among HBV reactive donors, 27 (5.3%) were O+ blood type, 16 (3.1%) were B+ blood type, 11 (2.1%) were A+ blood type, two (0.4%) were O− and A− blood type, and one (0.2%) was AB+ and B− blood types. Among O+ blood group donors, 15 (2.9%) were significantly positive for syphilis and four (0.8%) were reactive for HIV. There was no significant association between HBV, HCV, HIV, and syphilis with donor ABO blood groups (P<0.469, 0.469, 0.987, and 0.659, respectively).
Blood transfusion is a life-saving measure in the modern medicine but still remains a potential risk factor for transmission of infections [10]. Laboratory investigations of blood not only help to know about the incidence of the TTIs in an apparently healthy population but also secure the safe provision of blood and blood component [11]. In this study, the overall prevalence of TTIs among blood donors in Port Sudan Central Blood Bank over 3 months of 2017 was 103/513 (20.1%), and this was much higher than the findings in Kosti, South Khartoum by Elsharif et al. [12] (9.6%), in Khartoum by Ali et al. [13] (5.6%), and in Kassala, Eastern Sudan by Abdallah and Ali [14] (3%) in comparison domestically. Universally, our findings were also higher when compared with studies conducted in Lahore by Manzoor et al. [8] (9.9%), northwest Ethiopia by Tessema et al. [4] (9.5%), in Ethiopia by Biadgo et al. [10] (6.6%), and in Islamabad by Waheed et al. [15] (14.3%). Moreover, these findings were also lower than other studies carried out in different countries, such as 43.2 and 29.5% in Ethiopia by Bisetegen et al. [3] and Azene et al. [5], respectively; 29.85% reported in Burkina Faso by Nagalo et al. [16]; and 21.6% in Cameroon of Noubiap et al. [17]. These relative different rates could be owing to that most of the participants in the global previous studies were commercial blood donors, whereas in our study are replacement blood donors, and may be also owing to different screening methodologies used.
In this study, the prevalence of HCV was 0.4%, and this rate is lower when compared with Eastern Sudan report, which was 3.1% [14] and elsewhere in the world [5],[18],[19]. Conversely, our result is greater than Ali et al. [13] and Elfaki et al. [20]; their study demonstrated no cases of HCV infection at the Elobied Hospital, beside Diwan and Mathur [21], who reported in India no cases of HCV infection among their donors. The relative variation of HCV infection across the studies could be owing to multiple risk behavior and different cultural practices. Culture practice (tattoo and share needles) is commonly presented among uneducated people [22]. Low HCV comparable with HBV may attribute to less infectivity of HCV, which is restricted transmitted through transfusion of blood or blood products.
In this context, the prevalence of HIV is 1.4%, which is lower in comparison with 10.6% presented in Nigeria by Amadi and Mba [23], 5.5% found in Maiduguri by Baba et al. [24], 3.8% in Ghana by Ampofo et al. [25], 3% in Kassala, Eastern Sudan, by Abdallah and Ali [14]. In another words, our findings were higher than the study done by Ali et al. [13] and Abu et al. [26], as shown in Nyala Hospital, Western Sudan, at 1%.A Treponema spp. positive prevalence of 6.6% in this report is lower than prevalence of 23% reported in southwestern Sudan by Atif and Magzoub [27], 15% seen by Elfaki et al. [20], and 13.5% showed in Ghana by Ampofo et al. [25]. Our results are higher than 2.7% highlighted by a study done in eastern Sudan by Abdallah and Ali [14], 3.96% prevalence in Burkina Faso by Nagalo et al. [15], 3.6% presented by Chikwenet et al. [28] in Nigeria, and 0.89% in Islamabad by Waheed et al. [15]. This might be explained by the association with the prevalence of HBV in this report where one could easily cross-over the other.
HBV is considered one of the most infectious disease around the world, but it is highly prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia [29]. In this study, the prevalence rate of HBV among blood donors was 11.7%; this figure is lower compared with 25% in north Ethiopia by Tessema et al. [4], 18.6% in southwest Nigeria by Buser et al. [30], and 14.9% in Burkina Faso by Nagalo et al. [15]. In contrast, the results of this study are higher than studies carried out in Ethiopia and elsewhere [10],[15], as well as the prevalence is greater than studies performed in north and central Sudan, with 5.1 and 5.6%, respectively [31],[32]. These variations could be attributed to population risk exposure and effectiveness of donor screening methods. In this report, sex has a significant association with syphilis, and this could be owing to the higher seropositive of syphilis for patients aged older than 35 years. A limitation of our study was the blood donors encountered may not idealize the general population in the prevalence rate, and this is owing to different characteristics of underestimation or overestimation may be indicated.
TTIs are prevalent among blood donors in Port Sudan and may significantly increase over time. Prevention and control of TTIs should be the major issue right now. Stringent selection of blood donors is highly recommended to emphasize the safety of blood to the recipient. Further studies are necessary to evaluate the risk factors, attitude, knowledge, behavior, sensitivity and specificity of screening used, laboratory safety measures updating, and donor authentications.
B.A.B.M. had conceived the main idea of the study and contributed in manuscript writing; M.A.B. contributed to the blood bank work; B.A.B.M and M.O.G. contributed in statistical analysis and interpretation; and S.A.O. supervised the study and critically reviewed the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final draft of the manuscript.
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Netflix Releases Free VR Game, Eden Unearthed, On App Lab For Oculus Quest
Netflix has released a VR game called Eden Unearthed on App Lab for Oculus Quest, available now for free.
The release has come as a surprise, with very little (if any) available info outside the App Lab listing. Netflix is listed as both the publisher and developer of the title on App Lab, which also has a April 21 release date listed as well. App Lab apps are not indexed in the same manner as Oculus Store titles, meaning that they can essentially be published without anyone else knowing if nobody is given the App Lab link.
Whether the April release date is an admin error or the app has been unlisted since then, it's definitely available now and it's entirely free. If you'd like to view a trailer, head over to the App Lab listing and take a look.
We jumped into the game and played for around 15 minutes. The game appears to be related to the Netflix anime series Eden. While it's not clear exactly what this VR project from Netflix is beyond being a tie-in, I am definitely impressed with what seems to be an experience of limited scope but high polish, immersion and comfort.
The game (and the anime it's related to) is set in the far future, in a world without humans, organized solely by robots. You take control of a futuristic motorbike and ride around a vast and changing landscape, collecting apples as fuel and avoiding obstacles to try max out your speed without bumping into anything. At various points along the track, you pull up beside a landmark and receive a short burst of narration to advance the story, alongside visuals on a small portable screen from your bike.
It's a very loose story and game structure — while you're clearly following some form of narrative, you can also ride along the track for as long as possible and compete for a global high score by traveling as far as you can before you run out of fuel.
The experience is clearly meant to be simple and perhaps educational, while also giving you a fun mechanic — the motorbike — to toy around with. Luckily, the bike controls really well and is super thrilling to pilot at high speeds. It's a very intuitive and clear control system, which has also clearly been designed with comfort in mind. The motorbike 'cockpit' in front of you goes a long way to quell motion sickness, as does the subtle vignetting when turning sharp corners.
Even after 15 or so minutes playing through Eden Unearthed, it's hard to gauge the project's scope and aim, but it feels somewhere between a game, immersive narrative and educational tool.
It could perhaps be the first of many upcoming VR projects from Netflix — former Facebook VR Content Head Mike Verdu is now with Netflix, as is producer Shonda Rhimes, who could be getting in on VR projects as well.
Eden Unearthed is available for Oculus Quest via App Lab. Keep an eye out for more news and info to come.
Note: Article updated the day of publication with more information about the Netflix show.
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Gurgey-le-Château ist eine französische Gemeinde mit  Einwohnern (Stand ) im Département Côte-d'Or in der Region Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. Sie gehört zum Kanton Châtillon-sur-Seine und zum Arrondissement Montbard.

Nachbargemeinden sind Lucey im Nordosten, Gurgy-la-Ville im Norden, Rouvres-sur-Aube im Nordosten, Arbot im Osten, Buxerolles im Südosten, Chambain im Süden und Faverolles-lès-Lucey im Südwesten.

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I love the sound of the ginger beer bug, think I might have to give that a try!
Yes, do! Let me know how it turns out, I've had some OMG this is better than boutique results, and some… got poured back to Neptune. Trial and error will win in the end so any tips you find will be very much appreciated!
Made a batch of your super Chinese eggs for our passage south, they are so yum!
They are aren't they. We often have them for lunch with some cracker, sliced cucumber and whatever else we have on hand.


Deu 6:2 so that you will fear Adonai your God and observe all his regulations and mitzvot that I am giving you - you, your child and your grandchild - as long as you live, and so that you will have long life.
Deu 6:3 Therefore listen, Isra'el, and take care to obey, so that things will go well with you, and so that you will increase greatly, as Adonai, the God of your ancestors, promised you by giving you a land flowing with milk and honey.
Deu 6:5 and you are to love Adonai your God with all your heart, all your being and all your resources.
not the secular school system.
In the Hebrew text, the word Shabbat appears 89 times. In the Greek text of the Brit HaDasha (NT), the word for Shabbat "Sabbath" appears an additional 63 times. This is an astounding total of 152 scriptural references to one single word! As a powerful point of comparison, the term "born again" appears only in the Brit Hadasha and only four times. The four occurrences are even more astoundingly paired together! The first pairing appears in John 3 and the second time together in 1Peter 1. It is profound. The Body of Messiah uses the term "born again" as a foundational concept –yet the Scriptural references of that very term are few and far between. However, Adonai, and specifically Yeshua/Jesus in the Brit HaDasha (NT), teach about the Shabbat in far more Scriptures and in far more depth.
If you would like this 44 page in depth study by Messianic rabbi & rebbitzen Kelly Dinnerman please do. Our whole goal is to hopefully make your spirit awaken to ADONAI'S most important weekly Holy day.
2. Hear, O Israel: YHVH [the LORD, the Most High] is our Elohim. He is One. He alone is ADONAI (Deuteronomy 6:4 & Isaiah 43:10-11). He is the Creator of heaven and earth, of all living beings, and of everything both visible and invisible (Genesis 1:1, Colossians 1:15-17). Although He is limitless in power, authority, time, matter, and space, He has chosen, in His infinite wisdom, to reveal His nature to humanity in perceivable and comprehendible manners. Scripture records G-d revealing Himself in the following manners: as fire (covenant with Avraham between the two halves of the cow; Genesis 15:17), as the form of a man not born of a woman, (when He approached Avraham with the two angels; Genesis 18), as a burning bush (spoke to Moshe; Exodus 3:2), as the fourth Man in the furnace, (Daniel 3:25), as the promised Messiah being a Man made of flesh and born of a woman (Isaiah 7:14, Galatians 4:4). Although there are numerous examples of G-d revealing Himself to humanity in various ways and forms, of those ways and forms, He has chosen to refer to Himself in the following primary contexts: as the Father (HaAv), as the Son (HaBen) Y'shua, and as the Ruach HaKodesh (Holy Spirit/Breath). What makes these primary contexts important is not only the fact that God used these forms to reveal Himself to humanity, but in doing so, He refers to Himself in these primary contexts as the one and only true and living G-d.


In Canada, Father's Day is widely known with lot of enthusiasm and fanfare. Since, the custom of celebrating Fathers Day moved to Canada from US, Fathers Day in Canada can also be celebrated on third Sunday of June. Just as in US, folks in Canada too put on roses to precise gratitude for his or her father. Traditionally, if the individual is sporting crimson rose, it symbolizes the individual's father is alive. Likewise, white rose signifies that the individual's father is not any extra.
Children in Canada specific affection and honor for his or her dad by presenting them playing cards, flowers and sweets. In trendy occasions, a number of different gifts of affection together with neckties, shirts, digital devices, stationery objects and so forth are additionally gifted to father by loving youngsters. Another noticeable development about Fathers Day celebration in Canada is that aside from their organic father folks want "Happy Father's Day" to their grandfathers, stepfathers, foster father, uncles or every other man who's as affectionate and loving in the direction of them as a father.
Immense recognition of Fathers Day pageant has turned the event industrial to a big diploma. Days earlier than the pageant markets put on a pageant look as gift and card sellers attempt to lure the folks and harp on the emotional significance of the event.
Dining out with household is one other well-liked Fathers Day custom in Canada. No surprise, eating places and consuming joints witness a bumper rush on the event.


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The Downward Spiral: Twenties Joy
by Dean Kissick
With the dawn of a new decade comes the possibility that all could start over, be good again. Why not? Dean Kissick takes us on a journey in search of exhiliration in art, theatre, and elsewhere. Follow his trek from Mexico to New York, out of the glum and into glam and glee.
I've had some happy times in galleries this year. One Sunday afternoon in the large basement of Artists Space's new premises on Cortlandt Alley, I see Jutta Koether slow-dancing to jazz with one of her paintings, spinning it around, while slideshows of her drawings and found images play on the walls. She recites some poetry and says, among other things, that looking at cave paintings is like diving through time.
"There are," I think, "a lot of people here. Who are they all?"
The feeling is of a nice and crowded café, or the avant-garde dream of what a café should be; as though we're all diving through time to a century or so ago.
At MoMA PS1, playwrights Emily Allan and Leah Hennessy premiere their comedy Star Odyssey inside the geodesic dome in the yard, inside of which is projected a twinkling planetarium of stars. They've recently completed a short residency at CERN's particle physics laboratory, and followed the trail of Byron and Shelley some of the way across Europe, during which time they wrote this homoerotic human-android fantasy dripping in early-19th-century English romantic poetry. It awakens obscure fetishes within me I wasn't aware I possessed. In its blend of cyborg utopianism with the Luddite passion of the romantic poets, it also celebrates the latter's longing for passion and excitement in the face of the gloomy despair of the industrial age; which is surely what we need more of today as well – more passion, more sensation, more romance and glory!
One has to try and be different. And right now, when so many have succumbed to doom and foreboding and self-pity and self-loathing, shouldn't we try and be more optimistic? It's a new decade and a moment of great possibility.
The 2020s could be about unhinged optimism, I tell myself. In the morning my mindful happiness course asks me to imagine a light inside me growing larger than the world, larger than the cosmos. I lie on my apartment floor picturing the ending of Akira. In the afternoon I hang out in the upstairs café of Kinokuniya Japanese bookstore and write Serbian cabaret with the artist Irena Haiduk. The day after I go to laughing yoga in the basement of a library on the Upper East Side with some artists and walk around pointing at people and laughing. At one point everybody becomes too hysterical and the group leader has to calm us down. There's a girl who shows up late and stands slightly apart from the group and doesn't really laugh. She did the same the previous week apparently. Most intriguing person I've crossed paths with in months.
After a brief sojourn in the East Village, where I was lured by the promises of a shiny new venue, the club night Glam returns to China Chalet with a fantastic homecoming party. Laws are now enforced less strictly than before. At a party in a Brooklyn loft I take acid for the first time. My train ride back to Manhattan is great. Walking home around 4 or 5 in the morning I pass an elderly couple by the children's playground on Houston. The old man stands outside by the fence. The old lady is twirling around and around in the playground pointing at the sky and laughing and calling to him to come join her. They seem so happy.
In Guadalajara I enjoy the city's PreMaco art festival. In Mexico City I don't go to any of the art fairs but I do catch food poisoning. Following a remarkably thorough guide of locations from Roberto Bolanõ's trilogy The Savage Detectives (1975–1996), written by a fan that's never visited the city, I visit the block where the Font family must have lived a couple of times, at different hours of the day, and retrace various walks and scenes from the story and wonder at the life of a passionate, bisexual Mexican Visceral Realist poet. Every day I walk around the city in an increasingly delirious state and dream of a different life.
The sculpture garden of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in the suburbs is full of overgrown, degrading modernist forms you can climb over. It's fantastic. There's a giant stone circle, the Espacio Escultórico, where students lounge on top of steep monoliths, high in the air, reading their books or looking out across the city to the snow-covered mountains. A group wanders through the meadow in the centre and screams and laughs.
I go see Diego Rivera's murals at the Museo Mural Diego Rivera, the Palacio Nacional, and the Palacio de Bellas Artes. The last one, Man, Controller of the Universe, is a recreation of a mural that was originally commissioned for New York's Rockefeller Center but was destroyed in 1934. It has rows of chairs laid out and visitors sit and watch it like a movie. I also go to Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo's house and studio museum, and Frida Kahlo's house museum, and Leon Trotsky's house museum around the corner. At the Elena Garro Cultural Centre, a large bookshop in a striking architectural setting, in an old building within a more modern building, I have a flashback to childhood and how it feels to visit this sort of place for the first time. And I think, "My god, I love museums so much. And bookshops and libraries and cultural centers. And cities, walking around cities for days," and my heart soars. A great wave of joy. It's usually at such moments of exhaustion, and disorientation, that you have the most powerful experiences of art.
On the way home I stop at Leonora Carrington's Cocodrilo sculpture in the financial district, below the skyscrapers. It floats above the sidewalk in front of a glossy new luxury mall, rung around with fluorescents and video advertisements, and has an anarchist symbol daubed on its cheek.
In New York I spend a day in bed hallucinating. The morning after, curator Laura McLean-Ferris and I ride a train up to Irena Haiduk's cabin in the woods to help prepare her performance Cabaret Économique. We form a band with musicians Christian Schmitz and Danny Bauer and dancer Maggie Segale. A few days later we perform the cabaret – an evening of saucy love songs, waltzes, absurdist theatre, and dark Balkan comedy – in the gorgeous, mirrored pink candlelit Serbian social club Irena has built inside the Swiss Institute, and it feels like we're diving through time once more and my dreams of the avant-garde are coming true. The 20s are historically a good decade for cabaret. And this, I believe, is what many people want from art right now: a wild live experience; that can't be sold, or captured on Instagram; that's neither careful nor polite; that can go very wrong.
Our last show is on Valentine's Day, and afterwards some of us go to a party thrown by fashion designers Gauntlett Cheng at MX Gallery in Chinatown, on the fifth floor. I lounge around in the back room for hours. Everybody's sharing molly and ketamine and coke and wearing angel wings. It feels like we're a fresco on the ceiling of a Florentine chapel. Heavenly New York night.
DEAN KISSICK is Spike's New York Editor. The Downward Spiral is published online every second Wednesday a month. Last time he wrote about Maurizio Cattelan's banana, Comedian (2019).
Dean Kissick
Jutta Koether
Artists Space
China Chalet
Irena Haiduk
Swiss Institute
Jutta Koether at Artists Space
Emily Allan and Leah Hennessey. Star Odyssey: The Pilot on January 25, 2020. Presented at MoMA PS1 as part of VW Sunday Sessions 2019-20. Photograph: Maria Baranova
Glam at China Chalet
Espacio Escultórico UNAM
Diego Rivera, Mural Palacio Nacional, Mexico
Diego Rivera, "Man, Controller of the Universe", Mural, 1933
Cocodrilo by Leonora Carrington on Paseo de la Reforma
Dean Kissick performing in Irena Haiduk's "Cabaret Économique", Swiss Institute, New York


Already, the attorneys general of more than 20 states have filed lawsuits to stop the Federal Communications Commission's decision to repeal net neutrality protections. Here in Washington, we supported the passage of a new law that restores net neutrality protections in our state by barring ISPs from blocking websites or charging more for the delivery of certain sites. On the national level, we're also focused on federal legislation that would restore net neutrality protections for all Americans.


What could be more British than putting Great Britain in Minecraft? How about adding Dr. Who?
According to the BBC, Dr. Who skins will be coming to the Xbox 360 version of the game in September. The pack will costs $2.99 and include The Twelfth Doctor, five other Doctors, each Doctor's companions, and some enemies including Daleks.
This pack is just the first of several planned packs that will be released after the broadcast episodes in Doctor Who Series 8, the BBC said in a press release. Each pack will feature at least six Doctors. Doesn't mean that there will only be two packs? Maybe there will be alternate versions of the Doctors.
Anyway, start building your Tardis now. You have to figure out a way to make it bigger on the inside than on the outside.


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Actors You Didn't Know Were In Bond Movies
When it comes to the Bond movies, there's likely very little you don't know: everyone seemingly has the 007 actors, the Bond girls, the cars, the gadgets and the one-liners all committed to memory.
However, the cast doesn't begin and end with Bond – it takes a wealth of actors to make a movie, and some of the bit-part players occasionally go on to find fame of their own…
Dolph Lundgren in A View To A Kill (1985)
Before he was Gunner Jensen, before he was He-Man, even before he was Ivan Drago, Dolph Lundgren was mysterious KGB henchman Venz. The mountainous Swede made his movie debut in Roger Moore's 1985 outing as 007, although Venz didn't have any lines and wasn't even mentioned by name.
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He pointed a gun at Grace Jones when she threatens to break an agent's back, and he appeared as a blur in the background of a few shots over someone's shoulder, but that's about it. Still, it set him on the path to 'Rocky IV' and 'Expendables' infamy, so Venz secured his place in cinematic history.
Benicio Del Toro in 'Licence To Kill' (1989)
All untamed eyebrows and Eddie Munster stares, Benicio Del Toro also made his movie debut as a henchman in a Bond movie (unless you count 'Duke The Dog-Faced Boy' in 'Big Top Peewee'). Not only does he get actual lines and fight scenes (duffing up Bond and coming this close to killing him, like every other henchman EVER), Del Toro's bad guy Dario even gets a catchphrase of sorts.
When asked what he did with a hostage's wife, Dario replies dreamily: "Don't worry… we gave her a niiice honeymoooon!" Sadly he meets an ignominious end at the bottom of an industrial shredder. But 12 years later? Boom: Oscar. Where's your Academy Award, Timothy Dalton?
Joanna Lumley in 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' (1969)
We'll overlook her proper movie debut as 'Second Robot Saboteur' in 1969 exploitation action Some Girls Do (we haven't seen it but we're thinking Austin Powers and fembots) and consider Joanna Lumley's brief outing in 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' as the real deal.
Playing 'The English Girl', part of Blofeld's harem, Lumley didn't make much of an impact on screen, but behind the scenes she provided German, Chinese and Norwegian accents for international dubbing – she even taught the other Bond girls how to crochet. Of course, Lumley's spy credentials would be guaranteed some years later when she joined 'The New Avengers', alongside 'OHMSS' co-star Patrick Macnee.
Sammy Davis Jr in 'Diamonds Are Forever' (1971)
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The erstwhile Rat Pack swinger made a cameo playing himself in 'Diamonds Are Forever', Sean Connery's much heralded return to the role of Bond, but alas it was not meant to be. Just before Mr Wint and Mr Kidd kill Shady Tree, there was a scene with Davis Jr playing on the roulette table at the casino.
When Bond shows up in his trademark white tux and bowtie, Sammy quips: "They ain't ever going to find a cake big enough to put him on top." Sadly for Sammy, the scene was deemed to ruin the pacing of the film and found itself on the cutting room floor.
Charles Dance in 'For Your Eyes Only' (1981)
You wouldn't think Charles Dance would have a lot in common with Dolph Lundgren, but like the muscular star, Dance also made his movie debut in a Bond movie (they also both like lazy Sundays and long walks in the rain). He played Claus, a – you guessed it – villainous henchman who's got it in for 007.
After several unsuccessful attempts to kill Bond – including a tussle on a ski-slope and an incident with a dune buggy – Claus is terminated via a harpoon to the back. Interestingly, Dance later played Ian Fleming in TV movie 'Goldeneye', a biography on the Bond author.
Big Ron Off Of EastEnders in A View To A Kill (1985)
You probably knew him from the Queen Vic, where he'd frequently prop up the bar, or the Albert Square market, where he'd often be seen interacting with minor characters just off screen – yes, 'Big' Ron Tarr was 'Eastenders' royalty.
Before he "won the lottery and moved to Spain" (i.e. he died in real life), Big Ron actually made a few appearances in some pretty high profile movies, including George Lucas' fantasy adventure 'Willow' and 1985 Bond outing 'A View To A Kill', in which he played a burly guard. His character didn't have a name, but we'd like to think it was Ron. It was always Ron.
Minnie Driver in 'GoldenEye' (1995)
Before her big break in 'Good Will Hunting', Minnie Driver made a small but memorable appearance in Pierce Brosnan's first Bond movie. She played Irina, the Russian girlfriend of Robbie Coltrane's gangster Zukovsky, who takes to the stage in a nightclub wearing a red cowboy hat and a low-cut top.
After 007 describes her singing as "like strangling a cat", Irina waltzes off stage in a strop. Another memorable pre-fame Minnie Driver appearance? Daniella 'Dan' Forest, the transgender agony aunt with "great big hands, like a goalkeeper" on Alan Partridge's chat show, 'Knowing Me, Knowing You'.
Gerard Butler in 'Tomorrow Never Dies' (1997)
What a difference a decade makes. In 2007, Gerard Butler kicked a hole in the fabric of pop culture in '300' as the mighty King Leonidas, fond of yelling, spitting and punting messengers into bottomless pits.
Rewind 10 years, however, and Butler was still green, amassing around six seconds of screen-time in this forgettable Bond adventure as a sailor on the soon-to-be-sunk HMS Devonshire. "Sir," he purrs in his unmistakable Scottish burr. "We're fourteen degrees down by the stern!" Star quality, that. Out of acorns, mighty oaks grow.
Goldie in 'The World Is Not Enough' (1999)
We're going to go out on a limb and say that drum and bass star Goldie (real name Clifford Price, no laughing at the back) was hired for this 1999 Bond movie more for his golden teeth than he was his acting abilities (although he did also appear in Guy Ritchie's 'Snatch' and 'Eastenders').
As bodyguard Mr Bullion, Goldie betrayed his boss, Zukovsky, and revealed himself to be in the employ of true villain Elektra King. He did have a few lines, most of which were muffled from behind his Jaws-esque, blinged-out grill ("I see you put your money where your mouth is," quips 007), but it was a performance that was marginally less embarrassing than his stint in the 'Celebrity Big Brother' house in 2002.
Richard Branson in 'Casino Royale' (2006)
We're stretching the definition of the word 'actor' to its absolute limits here, but yes, that mysterious bearded gentleman on whom 'Casino Royale"s camera lingers for slightly too long is indeed Virgin benefactor and international playboy Richard Branson.
While Bond busies himself with matters of national security in Miami airport, you'd be forgiven for not noticing the flaxen-haired tycoon getting scanned in the security gate. To be fair, it was the least Eon producers could do, given Rich provided a fleet of Virgin Airlines planes for the shoot. In a way, he was the real hero.
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Just like every other industry out there, us media types have a whole alphabet soup of commonly used acronyms and jargon at our disposal. And sometimes we fall into the trap of assuming everyone speaks our language, when they don't. But, these terms are important to understand – and even more importantly – act on, for any organization who has a website, publishes a magazine, and/or is investing in digital marketing. So, in the interest of adding value for our clients, and combatting the glazing over of the eyes when we slip into acronym overload, we thought we'd define via blog post some of the most commonly used acronyms and terms within media, marketing, and publishing today.
Check it out – and if we missed one, let us know, we'll add it.
Audience Acquisition: The act of attracting and growing an audience to elevate the visibility of an organization, brand or event.
Big Data: In marketing, Big Data refers to analyzing large, complex data sets to gain deeper insights into customers and customer behaviors.
Circulation: The number of copies a publication distributes per edition.
CTOR (Click-to-Open-Rate): Also known as the "effective rate," CTOR is a measurement that determines how effective the content of an email is at convincing recipients to click on a link. The CTOR can be calculated by dividing the number of unique clicks by the number of unique opens.
CTR (Click-Through Rate): The number of users that clicked on a specific link whether on a website or in an email. CTR can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of an organization's email or online advertising campaign.
Community-based Media: Media channels, such as social networking sites, websites, or magazines, which are devoted to a specifically targeted community or audience.
Content Curation: The process of collecting, organizing and distributing information that is related to a specific topic or interest area.
Content Syndication: The act of providing website material to multiple other sites, with credit given to the original site's author.
Conversion: The act of converting a website visitor into a regular customer, whether through a membership registration, a direct sale, a newsletter subscription or other desired activity.
Conversion Rate: The proportion of visits to a website that result in a sale or other desired action. In general, the conversion rate can be calculated by dividing the number of desired actions achieved by the number of visits.
CPM (cost per 1,000 impressions): A commonly used measurement term in online advertising, CPM is calculated by dividing the cost of a campaign by the total number of impressions (expressed in thousands).
Digital Strategy: The process of identifying a roadmap to achieve an organization's business goals through the integrated use of online platforms, such as websites, emails and social media.
Engagement: The act of drawing in customers to interact with an organization or a brand with the goal of building stronger loyalty to that organization or brand.
Impression: A metric that is used to measure the number of times an ad is seen.
Infographic: A graphic depiction of data or information that presents complex ideas clearly and in a highly visual way.
Integrated Media: A form of content creation that cohesively and consistently integrates an organization's content across multiple communication channels, such as publications, advertising, events, websites, social media, etc.
Lead Generation: A process that creates interest in an organization's product or service with the goal of converting that interest into a sale. Leads can come from a variety of sources, such as the Internet, sales calls, advertising, referrals, emails, events and list building.
Link Strategy: Important for search engine optimization (SEO) success, a link strategy defines how an organization will increase the number of high-quality sites that link to the organization's website. A link strategy can help an organization improve search engine rankings and website traffic.
Metadata: Generally, data about data. In marketing, organizations can use metadata to glean insights about a customer and their buying habits, enabling greater engagement and increased click-throughs and open rates.
Online Traffic Source Mix: The variety of online sources (e.g., search engines, direct traffic, social media, blogs, partners) that are referring users to an organization's website.
Open Rate: The number of people who open an email sent by an organization. The open rate can be calculated by dividing the number of email messages opened by the number of email messages sent.
Page Views: The number of times a user visits a web page. Page views are useful in determining a website's traffic but have limitations, as a single user can rack up many page views on one website.
PPC (Pay-Per-Click): Also called cost-per-click, PPC is an online advertising method in which organizations pay a website when their ad is clicked on by a user.
ROI (Return on Investment): Refers to the benefit gained from an action (such as an advertising campaign) compared to the cost. A high ROI means the benefits were high relative to the cost.
SEM (Search Engine Marketing): An online marketing strategy that promotes a website through the use of tactics like search engine optimization (SEO) and pay-per-click (PPC).
SEO (Search Engine Optimization): An Internet marketing tactic that is used to increase the number of visitors to an organization's website by improving the site's ranking on the results page of a search engine like Google, Yahoo or Bing.
Unique Visitors: The number of different individuals requesting pages from a website during a given time period, such as a week or a month.
Aqueous Coating: A clear, fast-drying water-based coating that is used to protect printed pieces and improve durability. More environmentally friendly than varnish or UV coatings, aqueous coatings are often used for postcards and mass mailings.
Bleed: A printing term that refers to printing that extends beyond the edges of the printed piece. The bleed is trimmed off after printing to ensure the ink runs fully to the edge of the page.
CMYK: Refers to the four inks used in color printing – Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Key (black). Ink is typically applied in the order of the abbreviation.
Co-Mail: A mailing process that combines individual pieces of mail into new, pre-sorted bundles in order to save money on postage.
Co-Palletize: A mailing process that groups bundles of pre-sorted mail onto pallets. The pallets are then drop-shipped to achieve a postage discount.
DPI (dots per inch): Measures the resolution, or clarity, of an image both on screen and in print. In general, the higher the DPI, the more detailed the printed image is.
Font: A complete set of type of one size, weight and style.
Four-Color Processing: Also called process printing, four-color processing is a system of printing that separates a color image into four different color values – cyan, magenta, yellow and key/black (CMYK) – to reproduce the original color image. This process is universally used in the printing industry.
Pantone Color: A standardized color system that allows any printer to exactly reproduce the original desired color.
Perfect Binding: A widely used soft cover binding method in which the pages and cover are glued together at the spine. Typically used for paperback books, annual reports, manuals, catalogs and other thick brochures.
Periodical: A publication issued on a regular schedule, such as daily, monthly or quarterly. Periodicals, which qualify for special mailing prices, include newspapers, magazines, journals, and newsletters and must meet specific requirements for eligibility such as regularity (published at least four times a year).
Resolution: Measured in dots per inch (DPI), resolution refers to the image's clarity. A higher resolution means a more detailed image is presented.
RGB: An acronym for "red, green and blue," RGB is a color model that adds the three colors together in a variety of ways to create a broad selection of colors. A common problem with files sent for commercial printing is that the graphics are not converted from RGB mode to CMYK mode before sending the file to the printer.
RIP (Raster Image Processing): In desktop publishing, RIP refers to the process of translating a digital file, such as a PostScript file, which includes information about fonts and graphics, into a high-resolution raster image (also known as a bitmap) for printing.
Saddle Stitching: A binding method that joins the pages and cover with staples down the centerfold. Often used for magazines.
Standard A: A class of U.S. Postal Service bulk mail, which has a minimum quantity of 200 pieces or 50 pounds of mail per mailing. Standard A mail includes flyers, circulars, newsletters, bulletins and catalogs.
Trim Size: The actual size of the final page after printing and cutting off excess edges.
UV Coating: An extremely high-gloss ultraviolet (UV) coating for printed pieces that offers more protection than varnish or aqueous coatings. May crack when scored or folded due to the thickness and hardness of the coating.
Varnish Coating: A clear ink coating for printed pieces that offers a lesser degree of protection than aqueous or UV coatings. Can be used to add shine to specific elements on a page or to cover the entire page for light protection and sheen.
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While this module has been designed to assist the recently promoted crew leader, it is beneficial for anyone in management. The course covers basic leadership skills and explains different leadership styles, communication, delegating, and problem solving. Job-site safety and the crew leader's role in safety are also discussed. This edition goes into detail on project planning, scheduling, and estimating with new performance tasks to assist the learning process.
Instructor: Jay Tornquist. Jay has been an instructor for over 20 years in the areas of safety, management, and a wide variety of continuing education courses. Jay has held positions such as Safety Director, Human Resources Director, and Education Director where he has implemented new and creative ideas to help programs strengthen and grow. Jay has been extensively involved with the NCCER (National Center for Construction Education and Resources) as a Master Trainer, Certified Instructor, and helped with curriculum development.


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Posted by bwhite21 in Book Review, Reading Suggestions
Book review, books, fables, Fiction, L. Annette Binder, Laura Kasischke, Literary Fiction, Michelle Latiolais, mythology, Pushcart Prize, Rise, Sarabande Books, Short fiction, Short Stories, Storytelling, University of California Writing Program
L. Annette Binder, the author of a notable first collection of short stories, took a detour in her life. Born in Germany, she grew up in Colorado Springs. Western locales are the setting for some of her stories. A Classics major at Harvard, she did graduate work at Berkeley, before becoming a Harvard law grad. References to Internal Revenue Revenue Rulings do not often appear in short stories. Given her background in Classics a few of these stories are myths drawn from the Greeks, the Bible and German folk tales. Her writing developed at the University of California, Irvine's Programs in Writing where she was mentored by Michelle Latiolais, Ron Carlson and Jayne Lewis. Like Laura Kasischke's collection of short stories which I previously reviewed, "Rise" is published by Sarabande Books. This collection was received their Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction. A number of her stories were Pushcart prize winners. The Foreward to "Rise" was written by Laura Kasischke, who recognized the wonder in these tales. "Rise"is a superb debut collection of stories.
The first three stories borrow from myths: "Nephilim", "Galetea" and "Nod". The first is a love tale between Freda, a giantess and a young boy who does chores for her. In "Galetea" a woman cosmetically sculptures her body, transferring her grief from the loss of her daughter, as if, like Pygmalion, she could bring a sculpture to life. "Nod" ironically is a story about a man who is sleep deprived.
My favorite story is "Dead Languages". Ms. Binder is presently expanding it to novel length. A baby does not speak and the parents are concerned. When the child speaks they don't understand what he is saying. They go to specialists to decipher the language. The answer lies in Ms. Binder's background. "Sea of Tranquility" is a fabulist extrapolation. A man is farsighted; very farsighted. Even as Ms. Binder stretches your imagination she creates characters you know and feel. The ending of "Sea of Tranquility" is unexpected and lovely.
There are stories steeped in the reality of human frailties. "Tremble" is a story about a heavy and shy young man's infatuation and lack of love. In "Shelter" a neighbor border dispute is taken to an extreme. "Sidewinder" leads you along a number of paths. It educates you about snakes and minerals, but is metaphorical for abusive relationship witnessed by a child. In "Rise" the dead retrieving the living through inconsolable guilt. A daughter expires from the same disease that took her Dad in "Lay My Head". In the story, Ms. Binder conveys a folk tale, whose moral reflects the simplicity and beauty of her writing.
"Once there was a boy who wanted only to go home. His boss wished him well and gave him a lump of gold as big as his head to thank him for his service. But the gold was heavy and when a rider came along the road, the boy gladly traded it for a horse. But the horse galloped and threw the boy and when a man came by with a cow, the boy traded in his horse because walking was better than riding. And the cow became a piglet because beef was stringy but the piglet had sweet juices. And the piglet became a goose because there was nothing better than crackling goose skin and the fat beneath. The boy was happy with all his trades until he saw a scissor-sharpener working by the road. "How lucky you are", the boy said, "to know a fine craft." The kind man looked around for a good sharpening stone and found one in the field. "Here you are", he said, and the boy took the stone in exchange for his goose, and he was happy again because fate provided. But the stone was heavy and he wasn't careful and it fell into a stream. And the boy thought how lucky he was, how truly lucky, to be free of this heavy stone, and he walked the rest of the way home."
American Ulysses A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
Eleven Days
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden
A Girl in Exhile
Dinner At the Center of the Earth
Political Economy and International Affairs
Racial Killings
Regulation/Compliance
Sovereign Immunity
U.S. Federal Regulation
Veterans and VA


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SHOULD PAPERS SHAME READERS' POOR NEWS DIETS?
USA Today reflects (!) on its audience's reading choices. (Graphic by USA Today)
USA Today may not be the most high-brow of newspapers. But — unlike some Canadian news organizations — it did raise an eyebrow when it reported on which stories its readers were choosing to read.
Earlier this week, I mentioned how political news wasn't among the 25 most read stories on the Victoria Times Colonist's Website in 2013 — even though it was an election year in British Columbia. Nor did such stories make the list of the 10 most read Gazette stories on the Montreal newspaper's Website.
It was a phenomenon that was repeated to a somewhat lesser degree at the Globe and Mail — and could be seen at other Canadian news outlets.
Stories about politics were also nowhere to be found on USA Today's 10-most-clicked-on stories list, which included news about everything from the Boston bombings to Kim Kardashian.
But this is how the American newspaper framed those results:
Take a good long look in the digital mirror. These are the stories you clicked on most in 2013. Yes, you. (And thousands more like you.) Some of the stories that made this list might surprise you. Some may not. Some of them may even be a bit shameful. Should we care that Miley Cyrus' antics broke into the top 10? Twice? The incredible rescue of Amanda Berry, Michelle Knight and Gina DeJesus from captivity inside a Cleveland home didn't make it. Nor did any news about the government shutdown. But Kim Kardashian having a baby is up there. Media organizations decided daily how to balance what you need to know and what you want to know. But no matter what, the readers' actions tell the story, too.
This entry was posted in Media on February 2, 2014 by Sean Holman.
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Zoologie
Anaconda peut désigner :
 anaconda, nom qui désigne trois espèces de serpents semi-aquatiques, de l'ordre des ophidiens : ce sont de grands boas « constrictor », du genre Eunectes, vivant en Amérique du Sud et se nourrissant de mammifères et d'oiseaux.

Fiction

série de films d'horreur américains
 Anaconda, le prédateur (1997), de Luis Llosa ;
 Anacondas : À la poursuite de l'orchidée de sang ou Anaconda 2 (2004), de Dwight H. Little ;
 Anaconda 3 : L'Héritier (2008), de Don E. FauntLeroy ;
 Anaconda 4 : Sur la piste du sang (2009), de Don E. FauntLeroy ;

autres
 Anaconda, conte écrit par l'auteur uruguayen Horacio Quiroga (1921) ;
 Angela Anaconda, série d'animation canadienne ;
 Anaconda, chanson de Nicki Minaj sortie en 2014.

Opération Anaconda
Anaconda peut désigner :
 Plan Anaconda, stratégie de l'Union des États-Unis contre les Confédérés, durant la Guerre de Sécession ;
 Opération Anaconda en Guyane (2002), opération de gendarmerie en Guyane française ;
 Opération Anaconda (2002), opération américaine dans le but de détruire les forces talibanes dans la vallée de Shahi Kot, en Afghanistan.

Autres
Anaconda peut aussi désigner :
 Anaconda, personnage de l'Univers Marvel ;
 Anaconda, ville du Montana, aux États-Unis ;
 Anaconda, montagnes russes du parc Walygator (anciennement Big Bang Schtroumpf, Walibi Schtroumpf et Walibi Lorraine) de Maizières-Lès-Metz en Lorraine ;
 Anaconda, montagnes russes en métal du parc Kings Dominion, situé à Doswell, aux États-Unis ;
 Anaconda, en informatique, installeur de distributions GNU/linux, dérivées de Red Hat (Fedora) et sur certains dérivés de Gentoo ;
 Anaconda, en informatique, distribution libre et open source des langages de programmation Python et R ;
 Anaconda Copper, premier producteur mondial de cuivre au début du  ;
 Anaconda Vice, au catch, technique d'étranglement ;
 Colt Anaconda, revolver de calibre .44 Magnum.


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Camerata Romeu Delighted Chamber Music Lovers in Camagüey
Submitted by: lena campos
With an exellent music, Camerata Romeu charmed the local audience in Camagüey playing well-known themes of Cuba's vast musical wealth and other international themes.
As if chamber music emerging from their violins, violas, cellos and basses would turn into magial dust, the audince felt under the spell of 18 virtous female musicians who managed to make an enviable performance.
Twenty years after its foundation, Camerata Romeu has consolidated its repertoir and sonority being something worth listening to in a concert. One can perceive that in the interesting arrangements the group has made of Cuba's antologial themes like "Te Amaré", "Chivo que rompe tambó" and "Soy campesino", tunes that although originally were not composed for string orchestras, their well-done arrangements for this group have proved the contrary.
Young musicians who study at the "Luis Casas Romero" College of Art and at the "José White" Conservatory also appeared on the stage along with Zenaida Romeu's group, totaling 60 artists. Before closing the concert, Zenaida Romeu thanked Pablo Milanés, Rolando Montes de Oca and the late Beatriz Vázquez, who always helped her to crystalize her musical project. "La bella cubana", by José White, and "Camerata en guaguancó", by Guido López Gavilán, were the themes she chose to end the concert that received in Camaguey a standing ovation after more than one and a half hour of performane.
Fuente: Radio Cadena Agramonte


The new movie "Tim Timmerman, Hope of America," which comes out on March 3, was filmed last year at Mountain View, and many of Utah County's students attended pretend classes and football games for the film.
Not only are students going to enjoy this movie just by seeing their friends act as extras, but after seeing the premiere, this movie is worth the watch.
In a Q&A I had with Cameron Sawyer - the director and writer - stated, "By far the biggest most important decision I made after creating the story, was just persistence. It's been a challenge to make this movie during every stage. From writing the story, to raising the money, to filming the movie, to getting it out to theaters, it's been so hard!
"I have wanted to give up numerous times, and I can't tell you how many times it has seemed like things weren't going to work out. But every day brings new opportunities, and I've found that if you really fight for something and stick with it, much of the time problems tend to work their way out.
I admire Cameron for his hard work and positive attitude; he is an incredible example to us. He loves making movies and I'm betting he'll make more.
Let's show our love and support for local talent, go see "Tim Timmerman, Hope of America" which has its red-carpet premiere in theaters on March 2nd, at the Jordan Commons Megaplex at 7:00. See you there.


Original Solos for the Classical Guitarist. By Lawrence Long. For Guitar (Classical and Fingerpicking). Solos. Contemporary. Level: Beginning. Book/CD Set. Size 8.5x11. 24 pages. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
By Marie Hill (Editor). For Piano. Classical. 160 pages. Published by Music Sales.


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package org.apache.maven.plugin.ejb;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.List;

import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
import org.apache.commons.io.input.XmlStreamReader;
import org.apache.maven.archiver.MavenArchiveConfiguration;
import org.apache.maven.archiver.MavenArchiver;
import org.apache.maven.artifact.DependencyResolutionRequiredException;
import org.apache.maven.execution.MavenSession;
import org.apache.maven.plugin.AbstractMojo;
import org.apache.maven.plugin.MojoExecutionException;
import org.apache.maven.plugins.annotations.Component;
import org.apache.maven.plugins.annotations.LifecyclePhase;
import org.apache.maven.plugins.annotations.Mojo;
import org.apache.maven.plugins.annotations.Parameter;
import org.apache.maven.plugins.annotations.ResolutionScope;
import org.apache.maven.project.MavenProject;
import org.apache.maven.project.MavenProjectHelper;
import org.apache.maven.shared.filtering.MavenFileFilter;
import org.apache.maven.shared.filtering.MavenFilteringException;
import org.apache.maven.shared.filtering.MavenResourcesExecution;
import org.apache.maven.shared.utils.io.FileUtils.FilterWrapper;
import org.codehaus.plexus.archiver.Archiver;
import org.codehaus.plexus.archiver.ArchiverException;
import org.codehaus.plexus.archiver.jar.JarArchiver;
import org.codehaus.plexus.archiver.jar.ManifestException;
import org.codehaus.plexus.util.FileUtils;

/**
 * Build an EJB (and optional client) from the current project.
 *
 * @author Emmanuel Venisse
 * @version $Id$
 */
// CHECKSTYLE_OFF: LineLength
@Mojo( name = "ejb", requiresDependencyResolution = ResolutionScope.RUNTIME, threadSafe = true, defaultPhase = LifecyclePhase.PACKAGE )
// CHECKSTYLE_ON: LineLength
public class EjbMojo
    extends AbstractMojo
{
    // TODO: will null work instead?
    private static final String[] DEFAULT_INCLUDES = new String[] { "**/**" };

    private static final String[] DEFAULT_CLIENT_EXCLUDES = new String[] { "**/*Bean.class", "**/*CMP.class",
        "**/*Session.class", "**/package.html" };

    /**
     * The directory location for the generated EJB.
     */
    @Parameter( defaultValue = "${project.build.directory}", required = true, readonly = true )
    private File outputDirectory;

    /**
     * Directory that contains the resources which are packaged into
     * the created archive {@code target/classes}.
     */
    @Parameter( defaultValue = "${project.build.outputDirectory}", required = true )
    private File sourceDirectory;

    /**
     * The name of the EJB file to generate.
     */
    @Parameter( property = "jarName", defaultValue = "${project.build.finalName}" )
    private String jarName;

    /**
     * Classifier to add to the artifact generated. If given, the artifact will be an attachment instead.
     */
    @Parameter( property = "ejb.classifier" )
    private String classifier;

    /**
     * You can define the location of ejb-jar.xml file.
     */
    @Parameter( property = "ejb.ejbJar", defaultValue = "META-INF/ejb-jar.xml" )
    // The initialization is needed to get the unit tests running which seemed to lack lookup for the defaultValue.
    private String ejbJar = "META-INF/ejb-jar.xml";

    /**
     * Whether the EJB client jar should be generated or not.
     */
    @Parameter( property = "ejb.generateClient", defaultValue = "false" )
    private boolean generateClient;

    /**
     * The files and directories to exclude from the client jar. Usage:
     *

     *
     *

     * <clientExcludes>
     *   <clientExclude>**/*Ejb.class</clientExclude>
     *   <clientExclude>**/*Bean.class</clientExclude>
     * </clientExcludes>
     *

     *
     *

     * Attribute is used only if client jar is generated.

     * Default exclusions: **/*Bean.class, **/*CMP.class, **/*Session.class, **/package.html
     */
    @Parameter
    private List<String> clientExcludes;

    /**
     * The files and directories to include in the client jar. Usage:
     *

     *
     *

     * <clientIncludes>
     *   <clientInclude>**/*</clientInclude>
     * </clientIncludes>
     *

     *
     *

     * Attribute is used only if client jar is generated.

     * Default value: **/**
     */
    @Parameter
    private List<String> clientIncludes;

    /**
     * The files and directories to exclude from the main EJB jar. Usage:
     *

     *
     *

     * <excludes>
     *   <exclude>**/*Ejb.class</exclude>
     *   <exclude>**/*Bean.class</exclude>
     * </excludes>
     *

     *
     *

     * Default exclusions: META-INF/ejb-jar.xml, **/package.html
     */
    @Parameter
    private List<String> excludes;

    /**
     * The Maven project.
     */
    @Parameter( defaultValue = "${project}", readonly = true, required = true )
    private MavenProject project;

    /**
     * The Jar archiver.
     */
    @Component( role = Archiver.class, hint = "jar" )
    private JarArchiver jarArchiver;

    /**
     * What EJB version should the EJB Plugin generate? Valid values are "2.x" or "3.x" (where x is a digit). When
     * ejbVersion is "3.x", the ejb-jar.xml file is optional.
     *

     * Usage:
     *
     *

     * <ejbVersion>3.0</ejbVersion>
     *

     *
     * @since 2.1
     */
    @Parameter( property = "ejb.ejbVersion", defaultValue = "2.1" )
    private String ejbVersion;

    /**
     * The client Jar archiver.
     */
    @Component( role = Archiver.class, hint = "jar" )
    private JarArchiver clientJarArchiver;

    /**
     * The Maven project's helper.
     */
    @Component
    private MavenProjectHelper projectHelper;

    /**
     * The archive configuration to use. See Maven
     * Archiver Reference.
     */
    @Parameter
    private MavenArchiveConfiguration archive = new MavenArchiveConfiguration();

    /**
     * To escape interpolated value with windows path. c:\foo\bar will be replaced with c:\\foo\\bar.
     *
     * @since 2.3
     */
    @Parameter( property = "ejb.escapeBackslashesInFilePath", defaultValue = "false" )
    private boolean escapeBackslashesInFilePath;

    /**
     * An expression preceded with this String won't be interpolated. \${foo} will be replaced with ${foo}.
     *
     * @since 2.3
     */
    @Parameter( property = "ejb.escapeString" )
    protected String escapeString;

    /**
     * To filter the deployment descriptor.
     *
     * @since 2.3
     */
    @Parameter( property = "ejb.filterDeploymentDescriptor", defaultValue = "false" )
    private boolean filterDeploymentDescriptor;

    /**
     * Filters (properties files) to include during the interpolation of the deployment descriptor.
     *
     * @since 2.3
     */
    @Parameter
    private List<String> filters;

    /**
     * @since 2.3
     */
    @Component( role = MavenFileFilter.class, hint = "default" )
    private MavenFileFilter mavenFileFilter;

    /**
     * @since 2.3
     */
    @Parameter( defaultValue = "${session}", readonly = true, required = true )
    private MavenSession session;

    /**
     * Generates an EJB jar and optionally an ejb-client jar.
     *
     * @todo Add license files in META-INF directory.
     */
    public void execute()
        throws MojoExecutionException
    {

        if ( !sourceDirectory.exists() )
        {
            getLog().warn( "The created EJB jar will be empty cause the " + sourceDirectory.getPath()
                               + " did not exist." );
            sourceDirectory.mkdirs();
        }

        if ( getLog().isInfoEnabled() )
        {
            getLog().info( "Building EJB " + jarName + " with EJB version " + ejbVersion );
        }

        File jarFile = getEJBJarFile( outputDirectory, jarName, classifier );

        MavenArchiver archiver = new MavenArchiver();

        archiver.setArchiver( jarArchiver );

        archiver.setOutputFile( jarFile );

        File deploymentDescriptor = new File( sourceDirectory, ejbJar );

        /* test EJB version compliance */
        checkEJBVersionCompliance( deploymentDescriptor );

        try
        {
            // TODO: This should be handled different.
            String[] mainJarExcludes = new String[] { ejbJar, "**/package.html" };

            if ( excludes != null && !excludes.isEmpty() )
            {
                excludes.add( ejbJar );
                mainJarExcludes = (String[]) excludes.toArray( new String[excludes.size()] );
            }

            archiver.getArchiver().addDirectory( sourceDirectory, DEFAULT_INCLUDES, mainJarExcludes );

            if ( deploymentDescriptor.exists() )
            {
                // EJB-34 Filter ejb-jar.xml
                if ( filterDeploymentDescriptor )
                {
                    filterDeploymentDescriptor( deploymentDescriptor );
                }
                archiver.getArchiver().addFile( deploymentDescriptor, ejbJar );
            }

            // create archive
            archiver.createArchive( session, project, archive );
        }
        catch ( ArchiverException e )
        {
            throw new MojoExecutionException( "There was a problem creating the EJB archive: " + e.getMessage(), e );
        }
        catch ( ManifestException e )
        {
            throw new MojoExecutionException( "There was a problem creating the EJB archive: " + e.getMessage(), e );
        }
        catch ( IOException e )
        {
            throw new MojoExecutionException( "There was a problem creating the EJB archive: " + e.getMessage(), e );
        }
        catch ( DependencyResolutionRequiredException e )
        {
            throw new MojoExecutionException( "There was a problem creating the EJB archive: " + e.getMessage(), e );
        }
        catch ( MavenFilteringException e )
        {
            throw new MojoExecutionException( "There was a problem filtering the deployment descriptor: "
                + e.getMessage(), e );
        }

        // Handle the classifier if necessary
        // TODO: For 3.0 this should be changed having a separate classifier for main artifact and ejb-client.
        if ( classifier != null )
        {
            projectHelper.attachArtifact( project, "ejb", classifier, jarFile );
        }
        else
        {
            project.getArtifact().setFile( jarFile );
        }

        if ( generateClient )
        {
            generateEjbClient();
        }
    }

    private void generateEjbClient()
        throws MojoExecutionException
    {
        String clientJarName = jarName;
        if ( classifier != null )
        {
            clientJarName += "-" + classifier;
        }

        String resultingClientJarNameWithClassifier = clientJarName + "-client";
        getLog().info( "Building EJB client " + resultingClientJarNameWithClassifier );

        String[] excludes = DEFAULT_CLIENT_EXCLUDES;
        String[] includes = DEFAULT_INCLUDES;

        if ( clientIncludes != null && !clientIncludes.isEmpty() )
        {
            includes = (String[]) clientIncludes.toArray( new String[clientIncludes.size()] );
        }

        if ( clientExcludes != null && !clientExcludes.isEmpty() )
        {
            excludes = (String[]) clientExcludes.toArray( new String[clientExcludes.size()] );
        }

        File clientJarFile = new File( outputDirectory, resultingClientJarNameWithClassifier + ".jar" );

        MavenArchiver clientArchiver = new MavenArchiver();

        clientArchiver.setArchiver( clientJarArchiver );

        clientArchiver.setOutputFile( clientJarFile );

        try
        {
            clientArchiver.getArchiver().addDirectory( sourceDirectory, includes, excludes );

            // create archive
            clientArchiver.createArchive( session, project, archive );

        }
        catch ( ArchiverException e )
        {
            throw new MojoExecutionException( "There was a problem creating the EJB client archive: "
                + e.getMessage(), e );
        }
        catch ( ManifestException e )
        {
            throw new MojoExecutionException( "There was a problem creating the EJB client archive: "
                + e.getMessage(), e );
        }
        catch ( IOException e )
        {
            throw new MojoExecutionException( "There was a problem creating the EJB client archive: "
                + e.getMessage(), e );
        }
        catch ( DependencyResolutionRequiredException e )
        {
            throw new MojoExecutionException( "There was a problem creating the EJB client archive: "
                + e.getMessage(), e );
        }

        // TODO: shouldn't need classifer
        // TODO: For 3.0 this should be changed having a separate classifier for main artifact and ejb-client.
        if ( classifier != null )
        {
            projectHelper.attachArtifact( project, "ejb-client", classifier + "-client", clientJarFile );
        }
        else
        {
            projectHelper.attachArtifact( project, "ejb-client", "client", clientJarFile );
        }
    }

    private void checkEJBVersionCompliance( File deploymentDescriptor )
        throws MojoExecutionException
    {
        if ( !ejbVersion.matches( "\\A[2-3]\\.[0-9]\\z" ) )
        {
            throw new MojoExecutionException( "ejbVersion is not valid: " + ejbVersion
                + ". Must be 2.x or 3.x (where x is a digit)" );
        }

        if ( ejbVersion.matches( "\\A2\\.[0-9]\\z" ) && !deploymentDescriptor.exists() )
        {
            throw new MojoExecutionException( "Error assembling EJB: " + ejbJar + " is required for ejbVersion 2.x" );
        }
    }

    private void filterDeploymentDescriptor( File deploymentDescriptor )
        throws MavenFilteringException, IOException
    {
        getLog().debug( "Filtering deployment descriptor." );
        MavenResourcesExecution mavenResourcesExecution = new MavenResourcesExecution();
        mavenResourcesExecution.setEscapeString( escapeString );
        List<FilterWrapper> filterWrappers =
            mavenFileFilter.getDefaultFilterWrappers( project, filters, escapeBackslashesInFilePath,
                                                      this.session, mavenResourcesExecution );

        // Create a temporary file that we can copy-and-filter
        File unfilteredDeploymentDescriptor = new File( sourceDirectory, ejbJar + ".unfiltered" );
        FileUtils.copyFile( deploymentDescriptor, unfilteredDeploymentDescriptor );
        mavenFileFilter.copyFile( unfilteredDeploymentDescriptor, deploymentDescriptor, true,
                                  filterWrappers, getEncoding( unfilteredDeploymentDescriptor ) );
        // Remove the temporary file
        FileUtils.forceDelete( unfilteredDeploymentDescriptor );
    }

    /**
     * Returns the EJB Jar file to generate, based on an optional classifier.
     *
     * @param basedir the output directory
     * @param finalName the name of the ear file
     * @param classifier an optional classifier
     * @return the EJB file to generate
     */
    private static File getEJBJarFile( File basedir, String finalName, String classifier )
    {
        if ( classifier == null )
        {
            classifier = "";
        }
        else if ( classifier.trim().length() > 0 && !classifier.startsWith( "-" ) )
        {
            classifier = "-" + classifier;
        }

        return new File( basedir, finalName + classifier + ".jar" );
    }

    /**
     * Get the encoding from an XML-file.
     *
     * @param xmlFile the XML-file
     * @return The encoding of the XML-file, or UTF-8 if it's not specified in the file
     * @throws IOException if an error occurred while reading the file
     */
    private String getEncoding( File xmlFile )
        throws IOException
    {
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        try
        {
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            return xmlReader.getEncoding();
        }
        finally
        {
            IOUtils.closeQuietly( xmlReader );
        }
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}


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Koala joey Rescued From Barbed Wire By Its Mum
Help me, mum! The heartwarming moment a koala saves her joey after it gets its fur tangled in a barbed wire fence
Two videos posted to YouTube show a mother Koala's heartwarming determination to set her baby free from a barbed wire fence.
The moments were captured by Sue Moxon on the Sunshine Coast in early August, and show the joey caught, by the neck, in the fence and struggling desperately to break free.
The first of Moxon's videos shows the mumma Koala pulling and pushing the little one and even offering it a hug of reassurance. The second video follows on from this and shows the joey eventually breaking free and scampering up a near-by tree and into safety.
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The koala walks around the fence post and places her hand on the joey's head before the pair grab each other's arms.
The mum appears to try and pull the joey out from under the fence.
"It was just a really awesome thing to witness and be a part of," Moxon told the Sunshine Coast Daily.
"I think watching that mother interact like that, and trying to problem solve, pushing against the barbed wire and trying to get her off it, it was great."
The joey managed to escape the fence's grip with its skin in tact, only losing a little hair to the ordeal. There is no doubt that this little koala has learnt his lesson and will never play near a spikey fence ever again.
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