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Melbourne-based astrophysicists launch colouring book encouraging more girls to become scientists
Two Melbourne-based astrophysicists from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) have collaborated on a colouring book called Women in Physics.
The recently launched book encourages girls to follow their passions in science and learn about the amazing women who changed the course of history with their physics research.
GIVEAWAY: To celebrate the launch of Women in Physics, OzGrav is giving away free copies of the colouring book to three lucky winners. Simply share the book via Twitter (re-tweet) and tag @ARC_OzGrav to be in the draw. Winners will be announced Monday 20 December!
Cover of the 'Women in Physics' colouring book by Debatri Chattopadhyay and Isobel Romero-Shaw
The authors Debatri Chattopadhyay (Swinburne University) and Isobel Romero-Shaw (Monash University)—who are both completing their PhDs in astrophysics with OzGrav—are determined to educate children and young people about the pivotal scientific discoveries and contributions made by women scientists. They also want to encourage more girls, women, and minorities to take up careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine (STEMM), which is a male-dominated field.
Debatri, who is originally from India, came to Australia pursuing her PhD at Swinburne University in 2017. She was acutely aware of the lack of women in STEMM fields, as both of her parents worked in biological sciences. "My father is a scientist, so I was aware that this was a field I could go into, and he would talk about amazing biologists like Barbara McClintock, but there was almost no representation of female scientists on TV or in newspapers," she recalls.
"This colouring book will help children learn about the colourful lives and brilliant minds of these amazing women scientists. As a colouring book, it encourages creative minds to think about scientific problems - which is very much needed for problem solving", says Isobel, who designed the book and illustrated each of the featured scientists. "These women, who made absolutely pioneering discoveries, used their creativity to advance the world as we know it."
"I did intense research for the biographies of the women featured in the book and at every nook and crevice was amazed at the perseverance they showed. It is for them and countless others, unfortunately undocumented, that we can do what we do today," says Debatri. "With Christmas approaching, this book is a perfect gift for young children who have a hunger for science. It's both fun and educational!" she added.
Last year, both Isobel and Debatri were also selected to participate in Homeward Bound, a global program designed to provide cutting-edge leadership training to 1000 women in STEMM over 10 years. To raise awareness of climate change, this journey will also take Isobel and Debatri all the way to Earth's frozen desert, Antarctica.
The initiative aims to heighten the influence and impact of women with a science background in order to influence policy and decision making as it shapes our planet. In 2017-18, OzGrav Chief Investigator Distinguished Prof Susan Scott was also selected to participate in this program and embark on the journey to Antarctica.
"The saying that 'you can't be what you can't see' is addressed in this new colouring book," says Distinguished Prof Scott. "The important women scientists depicted in the book come to life as role models as they are coloured in. Women are underrepresented in physics education and work in Australia. Educating children about women scientists throughout history is an important step in encouraging more girls and women to take up STEMM careers and boost diversity."
In their "day jobs", Isobel tries to figure out how the collapsed remains of supergiant stars—black holes and neutron stars—meet up and crash together. She does this by studying the vibrations that these collisions send rippling through space-time—these are called gravitational waves. She also recently published an illustrated book, available on Amazon, called Planetymology: Why Uranus is not called George and other facts about space and words. Planetymology explains the ties between ancient history, astronomy, and language, and introduces the reader to the harsh realities of conditions on other planets.
Debatri is involved in doing simulations in supercomputers of dead stars in binaries or in massive collections of other stellar systems - called globular clusters. Her detailed theoretical calculations help us to understand the astrophysics behind the observations of gravitational waves and radio pulsars, as well as predict what surprising observations might be made in the future. Debatri is also a trained Indian classical dancer and was a voluntary crew member of the Melbourne-based tall ship `Enterprize'. She has recently submitted her thesis and joined as a postdoctoral fellow at the Gravity Exploration Institute, Cardiff University.
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Excellent initiative by two young mind in Physics to spread the awareness "if I can do it you can do too" and the necessity of more and more women scientist to seve the humanity caring each and everyone like a family.
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Wonderful initiative. Truly great tribute to M'm Curie and her daughter.Appreciate the quantum of struggle they had to undergo. Congratulations Debatri...for rightly evaluating it.
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Discovering the capital city of Vietnam and know more about the tradition, life style and the history as well by visiting many landscapes and relics.
Enjoying the strange beauty of a typical remote province in Vietnam, understand more about the daily life of the minorities and visit many interesting places.
Comfortable with the cool air and water of Halong Bay, one of the Seven Wonders of the World with many interesting activities like swimming, exploring caves and many others awesome places.
You want to enjoy the most wonderful views of the Northern provinces of Vietnam and discover this modern but classic country in a week! The Hanoi-Halong-Sapa-Hanoi give you the most memorable tour ever with the friendliness of the Hanoian and numerous relics of the capital of Vietnam, cooling your feet and explore hundreds of spectacular caves in Halong and lastly the strange beauty of a remote province, Sapa.
Today is your first day in Hanoi, you will receive the warmest greetings from our guide and lead to hotel for check in. Then you might take a rest or take your free time for a short tour around the beautiful capital of Vietnam, jogging around and enjoying the fresh air of lakes and parks like Sword Lake is recommended after a long flight as well as prepare for many other interesting things awaiting you in the next 5 days.
Enjoy welcome dinner in a lovely restaurant and overnight stay at hotel in Hanoi.
Today we will start our tour by taking a visit to Ho Chi Minh Complex which includes the Mausoleum of Ho Chi Minh(closed on Friday and Monday)and the Presidential Palace. Next, we will lead to the One Pillar Pagoda with its special structure. This pagoda, built in 1049, is so named because it stands on a great pillar with unique architectural style and a surrounding lotus pond. Then, we will end our morning by leading to the Temple of Literature, the first university of Vietnam built in 1070 in the Ly dynasty. The Temple of Literature is the symbol of the traditional education of Vietnam. Here, you can see many (82 is exactly) stone steles records of imperial examinations of more than 1,300 doctoral laureates of the Le and Mac dynasties.
After lunch, we will continue our tour by visiting one of the museums in Hanoi, Hoan Kiem Lake and Ngoc Son temple.
In the evening, free at leisure until transfer to Hanoi railway station for train to Lao Cai. Overnight Stay on Sapaly Express or similar.
Welcome to Lao Cai, today is the first day for you to discover this remote province with strange beauty. We will start our tour by enjoy the bustling atmosphere of the Coc Ly market. This market stands on the edge of the Chay River, which starts from China. Here, you can meet the locals of varying minorities like Flower H'mong, Black Dzao and Tay. More, you can buy many things here like the traditional clothes of the minorities, bracer or other odd things that you haven't ever seen before. More, the beauty of the riverbank and caves are also can't be ignored. Adjacent to the excitement market is Trung Do village of Tay minority. Here, you can visit a local's house, chat with them and know more about their daily life while enjoying a hot cup of tea. Back to Sapa in the afternoon and overnight stay at hotel in Sapa.
Start today with a visit of Muong Hoa valley. Stand on the top of the valley; you can enjoy the whole beautiful view of Sapa area with green paddy terrace blending with cool wind. Here, you can down to the valley and see directly the fields and know the growing processing of rice. Say goodbye to the fields, we will move to the villages of Lao Chai and Ta Van of Giay minority and peek into the local Catholic Church. Here is also another chance for you to know more about the daily life of the varying minorities in Vietnam. After visiting Ta Van, transfer back to Lao Cai for night train to Hanoi. Overnight Stay on Sapaly Express or similar.
Early morning arrival in Hanoi at around 5.00 AM, transfer to a hotel for a rest and breakfast.
08.00 AM: Shuttle bus transfer to Halong via 165km driving one way - 3.5hrs drive. This will be your first opportunity to see some of the rural areas of Vietnam. The drive goes through the Red River Delta, so we'll have plenty of chance for taking photo of Vietnamese farmers tilling the vast green paddy field. At half way, we will have a visit to a handicraft workshop with fine clothes and embroidered paintings.
With a quick rest stop en route, you will reach Halong City. Arrival in Halong around noon.
13.00: Have lunch on board then enjoy a fantastic cruise in Halong Bay, visit Dinh Huong, Ga Choi islets and magnificent Sung Sot cave before take the option of swimming at TiTop beach.
17.30: Relax and enjoy sunset.
19.30: Enjoy dinner on board.
21.00: Fishing or relax and spending a night on board.
Overnight Stay on V'Spirit Cruise or similar in Halong.
Early risers can enjoy a morning view of Bay's landscapes. Sitting on the upper deck we can enjoy the breath - taking beauty of the rocky islands rising from the crystal-clear water of the Bay. We can hear the birds singing, cicadas chirping ashore and the gentle lapping of the waves against our boat, the perfect soundtrack to accompany the fresh air and gentle breeze.
8.00: A morning cruise to visit Man's head island. Tortoise island. Visit to Bai Tu Long bay.
10.00: Arrange luggage and check out then have lunch on boat.
11.45: Arrive at the pier.
Disembark in Halong City, transfer back to Hanoi airport for your onward flight home. End of tour services.


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SYSTEMA is the synergy of three components that create a TRUE WARRIOR – Combat Skill, Strong Spirit and Healthy Body.
This ancient Russian Martial Art, that only in recent years became known as SYSTEMA, is the most battle-tested fighting system in the world. Previously classified and used exclusively as the foundation for training some of Russia's most Elite Special Operation Units.
SYSTEMA absorbed all the unique principles from Russia's thousand year old native martial heritage. Its origins and essence lie in deep traditions of Warrior culture, based on strength, righteousness and humility.
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SYSTEMA is a complete set of concepts and components that enhance one's system and ability to perform in extreme conditions. Skills are forged through scientifically researched training methodology for the ultimate development of the practitioner; physically, psychologically and spiritually.
SYSTEMA does not advocate the destruction of others, unless there is absolutely no other way.
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The objective is not only to offer a very effective form of combat and self-protection, but also consistent and efficient education on personal health, self-discipline and a highly moral and spiritual lifestyle.
The unique Russian SYSTEMA training has no belts, no rituals, no set kata's (forms) and no ridged techniques. Students with all levels of experience train and grow together. Practitioners learn all aspects of combat, against single or multiple attackers, with and against any types of conventional or improvised weapons.
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Russian traditional stick massage and joint manipulation, relief of musculoskeletal pain, unlocking joints eg. stiff neck/acute back sprains and improving joint range of motion, are all an intrinsic part of the holistic system that we teach.
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At present, Vadim Dobrin is the Chief Instructor at Systema Southern Africa and Warrior School and the official Representative of Systema – Russian Combat System and Association of Russian Native Combat Arts – in Africa. He is also the founder of CQCIA (Close Quarter Combat International Alliance), affiliated to Systema Vasiliev (RussianMartialArt.com) and Systema Ryabko (SystemaRyabko.com).
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In the light of the results of a nationwide social study on child homelessness the USA appear like a Third World country.
Last year, approximately 2.5 million children, which corresponds to one out of 30 children, experienced homelessness in the United States of America. The statistics based on figures from 2013 as well as the research of route causes have been carried out by American Institutes for Research, and have been released with the report "America's Youngest Outcasts". Compared to the previous year 2012 the study depicts even the increase of homelessness by 8% on a national scale.
Major causes of homelessness for children in the U.S. include: the nation's high poverty rate; lack of affordable housing across the nation; continuing impacts of the Great Recession; racial disparities; the challenges of single parenting; and the ways in which traumatic experiences, especially domestic violence, precede and prolong homelessness for families.
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ALL ABOUT EVE…fasten your fig leaves, it's gonna be a bumpy ride! Lisa Daehlin at Cornelia Street Cafe
tags: all about eve, classical cabaret, nyc performances
Click here to see the POSTER ~ Painting and Poster design by Lisa Pahl
Lisa Daehlin singing and holding forth at Cornelia Street Café
MAP of 29 Cornelia Street, Greenwich Village, NYC
Monday, 24th February 2014, 8:30pm
MAKE A RESERVATION: call 212-989-9319
ALL ABOUT EVE… cavorting in the jardin du classical cabaret
Fasten your Fig Leaves, it's going to be a Bumpy Ride!
Classical and cabaret crossover artist Lisa Daehlin, joined by pianist Richard Pearson Thomas, leads us on a romp through the infamous foliage of Eden to parts hither and yon. Singing and sinewing of things primal, very, very old (yet somehow new again) the evening weaves together music, poetry, commentary, and jokes about that First Lady of them all… Eve! whose biblical sense (good/bad/other) has kept her the topic of conversation from ancient ogling to modern-day googling. Compositions by many, including Fauré, Porter, de Kenessey, Weill, and some guy in a beard yakking away with a hammer, chisel, and some stone tablets.
Though known for her rendition of "I'm a Stranger Here Myself," Lisa is no stranger to the cabaret stage, having performed incarnations of her show From Classical to Cabaret: The songs of Poulenc, Porter, Weill and Satie in venues as varied as the underground club to the concert hall. She has sung Dorothy Parker songs in the Algonquin's Oak Room. She has performed the music of Stefania de Kenessey at City Center and with the Annabella Gonzalez Dance Theater at Lincoln Center. The recording project for that company is now used in the performance repertoire.
Her one-woman show Twisted Stitch: Songs of Love and Knitting was featured in the Classical to Jazz festival at Cornelia Street Café (NYC), weaving together songs of Edvard Grieg, Franz Schubert, Maury Yeston and a world premier cycle of songs by Stefania de Kenesey.
RICHARD PEARSON THOMAS, composer and pianist, has had works performed by the Boston Pops, Covent Garden Festival, Houston Grand Opera, Chautauqua Opera, Portland Opera, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Banff Centre, Skylight Opera Theatre, and Riverside Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir. His songs have been sung in Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Wigmore Hall, Joe's Pub, and before the U.S. Congress. His work Race for the Sky, which was commissioned as a commemoration of the events of 9/11, has been performed by the Westchester Philharmonic Orchestra and in recitals nationwide.
Mr. Thomas's commissioned opera, A Wake or a Wedding, was premiered by the California State University at Fullerton Opera Theatre. His musical Parallel Lives was produced Off-Off Broadway by the Riverside Opera Ensemble. His musical Golden Gate, winner of the Michael Stewart Foundation Award, was presented in concert version by the Monmouth Civic Chorus. He is a frequent collaborator with The Mirror Visions Ensemble in the United States and Europe.
Mr. Thomas is on faculty at Teachers College/Columbia University and has taught at Yale and the University of Central Florida. His work with children as composer-in-residence of the Gold Opera Project was featured on CBS' "The Early Show," and singled out for praise by President Clinton.
Additionally, Mr. Thomas concertizes with singers worldwide. He is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music and the University of Southern California, and is a native of Montana.
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Q: $X^5-6X+3$ has two complex roots Show that the polynomial $X^5-6X+3$ has exactly two non-real roots.
I am struggling to solve this question for some time now and I wonder whether there is a theorem that helps to answer it.
Any help is appreciated.

A: The function is a polynomial of odd degree and positive coefficient. So you know it goes down on the left and up on the right, so it has to have one real root at least. A distinct real root is one where the function changes sign.  Try a few values:
$$f(-2) = -17$$
$$f(-1) = 8$$
$$f(0) = 3$$
$$f(1) = -2$$
$$f(2) = 23$$
So not only are there $3$ real roots, the first one is in the interval $(-2,-1)$, the second is in $(0,1)$, and the third is in $(1,2)$.
It only remains to check if that is all of them.
Taking the derivative, we get $f'(x) = 5x^4 - 6$, which has two real roots, meaning only two places where the function can turn around, and we have already accounted for those.  QED.

A: $$P'(x) = 5x^4-6$$ Equation $P'(x)=$ has exactly 2 real solutions so $P$ has exactly two extremal points at $x_{1,2} = \pm\sqrt[4]{6\over 5}$. Since $P(x_1)\cdot P(x_2)<0$ we have a conclusion.

A: Hint: You could prove that ist has three real solution, by considering , the part, where $f(x)>0$ and $f<0$  ($x$ real)  finding the the two extrema with $f'= 0$ helps.

A: We can apply Descartes' Rule of Signs
$f(x) = x^5 - 6x + 3\qquad$// 2 sign changes, 0 or 2 positive roots.
$f(-x) = -x^5 + 6x + 3\;\,$// 1 sign change, thus 1 negative root.
$f(0) = 3 \\ f(1)=-2$
Since f is continuous, there must have a root between 0 and 1.
→ there are 2 positive roots, 1 negative root.
→ Complex roots = 5 - 2 - 1 = 2


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With his siblings following in his footsteps, Donovan McCoy is very aware of his impact not only as a brother, but as a role model
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When something exciting and monumental happens in your life, sometimes it can take a moment for it to sink in. That was the case for Donovan McCoy when he saw his name pop up on the TV announcing his selection as the 15th pick in the 2020 Ontario Hockey League (OHL) draft.
"My dad kind of jumped on me because he got it a bit early," McCoy says. "It didn't really hit me until everyone started celebrating and then I started celebrating."
The celebration was quickly followed by a phone call from Peterborough Petes general manager Michael Oke to congratulate McCoy.
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The excitement of the moment was not lost on McCoy's siblings. The love of hockey runs deep in his family, with three of his five siblings also playing the game.
Rheydan, who is nine months older than McCoy, has played alongside his brother frequently growing up. They became interested in hockey after spending time at rinks with their dad, Norman McCoy, since he does arena maintenance for the recreation department with the City of Belleville.
"(Rheydan's) playing in Napanee, going to a few junior camps," the 16-year-old says. "He might have a longer road, but I talk to him all the time and I tell him it's not impossible to get here."
His sister, 11-year-old Kalysia, has a great hockey mind and uses her height to her advantage in her age group, according to McCoy.
"If she keeps trying, she can do whatever she wants, hopefully make it to [Team Canada] or even play at higher levels for women's hockey."
Ten-year-old Brycen really admires his older brother. In fact, he even chose to wear the same number as McCoy when he played for the Quinte Red Devils.
"My younger brother, he follows me and does a lot of things that I do," McCoy says. "He's always asking me about different guys on Peterborough, or even with the [National Men's Under-18 Team summer development camp], I know when I get home, he's going to have a whole questionnaire for me to answer."
His other two siblings, 22-year-old Anthony Aylesworth and six-year-old Adria, are the only ones who do not play hockey, but Adria is expected to hit the ice when she's older. With the family following in his footsteps, McCoy is very aware of the impact he has not only as an big brother, but also as a mentor.
"I feel like I'm (a coach) for my younger siblings, just being able to teach them things here and there, even if we're at home or on the ice with each other," he says. "I just feel like a big role model, almost like a teacher."
For families that have multiple hockey players, there's a lot of planning and sacrifices involved—something Norman McCoy knows all too well.
"There were some weekends, especially two years ago, if you'd seen our calendar on the fridge, they were all colour-coded for each child and it was just a rainbow of colours from Sunday to Sunday," Norman says.
Faced with four unique hockey schedules to balance, Norman is very grateful for the support of family and friends in the hockey community. Having a village of supportive people has made it easier to make sure every child is where they need to be.
"When they say that [it takes a village], it's not being cliché, it's very true," he says. "You need good people around you to help you do it, especially families that have multiple kids in hockey. You can only be in one place at one time."
Of course, the balancing act can be tough at times. Sometimes personal time for Norman and McCoy's stepmom, Tammy, got pushed to the side to allow for driving to tournaments and first periods of games have been missed from juggling other schedules. But for Norman, he would do it all again in a heartbeat.
"Seeing where they all ended up and where the rest are going, as the journey is still kind of taking off for them… it was definitely sacrifices worth making."
Those sacrifices are not lost on McCoy, either. He's very grateful to have support from his dad, his stepmom, his mom Lisa Aylesworth, his stepdad Ron Anderson and all of his siblings.
"It really means everything to me just knowing that they're there, right with me," McCoy says. "I'm just glad that they were willing to take those sacrifices and help me get to where I am today."
Although it has been more than a year since McCoy was drafted by the Petes, the COVID-19 pandemic has delayed his OHL debut. During the extended off-season, McCoy went to the gym, got on the ice when he could and worked with trainers to complete summer programs to stay in game shape.
"It was really hard at first," he says. "I had to really train my mind to not be down on myself as the season kept getting pushed back or cancelled. I had to keep looking at the positives on what I was doing, just being hopeful that something will come eventually."
The pandemic also provided some extra family time before McCoy leaves for Peterborough. It's important that he takes time to show his support to his siblings, so whenever he didn't have hockey, McCoy says he would be out cheering them on at their games.
"You couldn't ask for a better relationship between all these kids together," Norman says.
Back at home, McCoy helps his younger siblings with schoolwork, makes lunches and spends time playing together, whether it's video games or mini-sticks.
"I think I'm still undefeated in my family," he says of his mini-stick career. "I don't think any of them will beat me, so I'll probably be undefeated for a little bit longer."
With the OHL on track to return in October, McCoy is looking forward to finally playing with his new teammates at the Petes' training camp. His family has already planned a road trip to see his exhibition games and home opener.
But one of McCoy's favourite parts about playing in Peterborough? It's only a 90-minute drive away from his home in Belleville.
"My friends have been bugging me saying that they're going to be coming down to Peterborough a lot since it's close. That's always a good thing to know that I got my friends and my family just down the highway from me that are always there supporting me."
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Helping in a time of need
When a historic weather event caused devastating flooding and landslides in British Columbia, the hockey community came together to help affected residents and teams
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Rallying in lavender
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Coming together to save a life
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Advice to a Would-Be Film Critic
Lisa Nesselson, a Variety critic based in Paris, shared with us this "reply to a Northwestern roommate of mine in search of words of wisdom about our chosen profession."
The friend wrote to her: "I am teaching a class in Forms of Journalistic Writing... and the form I plan to discuss Monday is "criticism." And for this purpose I am contacting a handful of cherished critic friends with this request: Pen me, please, a pithy sentence or two that reflects your thinking about what you do. It could be a point of advice to a would-be film critic, or the thing you like most or hate most about it, or a statement of principle you adhere to, just something pertinent that would be worth sharing with upper-level college journalism students."
Nesselson replied:
Your request comes at an interesting juncture.
I met for coffee yesterday morning with a very nice 29-year-old American who lives in NY and writes, rather well, freelance, about film for the Village Voice. People his age and younger who envy my position (such as it is) want to know whether they'll ever be able to make a living as film critics. This fellow's degree is in computer systems and he says "Young people want to go where the energy is and the truly energetic field in American journalism is writing about business." This depresses him because he wants to continue writing about film.
I actually assumed I was pretty much part of the last generation of "serious" film critics (not to be confused -- I hope! -- with "pretentious"). But lately, like clockwork, I've been approached by bright eyed and bushy tailed Americans who claim they want to be me when they grow up. Some of them can write and some of them can merely hustle. In my experience, those who hustle make headway.
When people find out what I do, the reaction tends to divide up between, "What a totally cool job!" and "Yeah, okay, but what do you really do, to make money?"
The answer is: This is what I really do to really not make money.
My definition of a good critic is somebody who communicates their enthusiasm for work they find of merit, without ruining the option of you, the reader, also discovering the film's merits. I like to think there's a certain range between "Totally awesome -- it rocks!" and "It sucks."
What one does or doesn't say about a film depends on why you're writing about it. When I'm supposed to be assessing the commercial prospects of a film for Variety, a TRADE paper, I'm wearing a different hat than for other outlets. Because for a trade paper, in the crudest possible terms, a "good" movie is one that makes money and a "bad" movie is one that doesn't.
(Apply that to people, and you have a rough but not completely inaccurate capsule description of Life in America....)
If you're reviewing movies in an everyday life context (as opposed to for posterity), then what people want to know is: Is it worth my time and money to make a special trip to see this movie, this week? What I've never been able to reconcile is that when a movie is about some topics it's "only a movie" but if it has a character or line of dialogue that some group objects to, then it allegedly becomes an incredibly powerful medium freighted with deeper and possibly harmful meaning.
I teach American students from SMU in Dallas, many of whom have never seen a film in black and white before they take my course on the French New Wave or 'Paris in the Movies.' Their reactions and assumptions tend to educate ME more than I'm educating them.
And, as of January, I've been asked to teach the English conversation class for students in Exhibition and Distribution at France's film academy, La FEMIS. Although they are deeply committed to running theaters and distributing films, they all disregard the Academy Awards and their French equivalent, the Cesars, as irrelevant. That seems to be a completely healthy attitide. The reason? Informed cynicism. They simply assume that the people in a position to vote have only seen a handful of the films in the running and that, if they vote at all, they just vote for friends or what they've heard is good or like the sound of. For them the results are arbitrary and meaningless.
Try telling the editor of any entertainment section in America that the Oscars are arbitrary and meaningless... (That said, of COURSE I'm thrilled when MY favorites get an award and the recognition that goes with it).
I'm afraid I've failed your assignment and gone way over my two sentences.
In closing, I'd say the privilege of being a critic really kicks in when I get to write "the Variety review" of an important film and I feel like I really, truly, am the "right" person for the job. I'm enormously proud of my reviews of "Bowling for Columbine" and "Irreversible" (both written on tight deadlines in the pressure cooker of Cannes) and I've been told that my review of "Memento" has helped other people understand the film.
But I have colleagues who just crank out copy, figure one word is as good as another and everything they write will be glanced at at best and then discarded, so why knock yourself out? Variety always wants to know what's "hot" (a word I would retire, if I had the power...). But why would anybody who aspires to make movies or act in them for the long haul ever want to be "hot?"
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go lurk outside Brad and Angelina's apt. since that's where the money is...


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Paula Shaw (* 17. Juni 1941 in New York City, New York) ist eine US-amerikanische Theater- und Filmschauspielerin.

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Paula Shaw wuchs in der Bronx auf und studierte Schauspiel am Bard College. In den 1960er Jahren wurde sie zunächst als Theater- und ab den 1970er Jahren auch als Filmschauspielerin tätig. Sie spielte 2003 "Pamela Voorhees" im Horrorfilm Freddy vs. Jason sowie "Mrs. Byrne" in der Serie Mr. Young ab 2011 oder "Charlotte Jeffers" in Cedar Cove – Das Gesetz des Herzens 2013. Insgesamt wirkte sie in über 80 Filmproduktionen mit.

Filmografie (Auswahl)
 1976–1977: Wir vom 12. Revier (Barney Miller, Fernsehserie, 3 Folgen)
 1982: Das schönste Freudenhaus in Texas (The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas)
 1989–1994: Schatten der Leidenschaft (The Young and the Restless, Fernsehserie, 8 Folgen)
 2002: Insomnia – Schlaflos (Insomnia)
 2003: Freddy vs. Jason
 2005: Terminal City (Fernsehserie, 9 Folgen)
 2011–2013: Mr. Young (Fernsehserie, 44 Folgen)
 2013: Cedar Cove – Das Gesetz des Herzens (Cedar Cove, Fernsehserie, 12 Folgen)
 2017: Destination Wedding
 2020: Five Star Christmas

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Theaterschauspieler
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Geboren 1941
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Ністорешть, Ністорешті () — комуна у повіті Вранча в Румунії. До складу комуни входять такі села (дані про населення за 2002 рік):
 Биткарі (234 особи)
 Бредету (212 осіб)
 Валя-Нягре (32 особи)
 Ветрешть-Херестреу (372 особи)
 Ністорешть (408 осіб) — адміністративний центр комуни
 Поду-Шкіопулуй (360 осіб)
 Роминешть (314 осіб)
 Унгурень (223 особи)
 Феджету (173 особи)

Комуна розташована на відстані 161 км на північ від Бухареста, 39 км на захід від Фокшан, 111 км на північний захід від Галаца, 87 км на схід від Брашова.

Населення
За даними перепису населення 2002 року у комуні проживали  осіб.

Національний склад населення комуни:

Рідною мовою назвали:

Склад населення комуни за віросповіданням:

Посилання
 Дані про комуну Ністорешть на сайті Ghidul Primăriilor

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Комуни повіту Вранча


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David Lee Wengler, 74, North Platte
by: Odean Colonial Chapel - Jan. 3, 2023
David Lee 'Dave' Wengler, 74, of North Platte, passed away at Great Plains Health on Nov. 19 following health complications.
David was born to Jacob and Margaret Wengler on May 11, 1948, at Roseland, where he grew up. The family later moved to Hastings where Dave attended school. He went to work as a welder for T&L
Irrigation building new pivots then for Overhead Door Company in Hastings and North Platte.


Blue, a handsome pit bull, had the unthinkable to happen to him: his family left him behind.
Blue lived with a family in California for about a year, but when the family moved, they surrendered him to Carlson Shelter in California, a shelter known as a high-kill facility.
He was so emotional he broke down in tears. The volunteers tried to offer him a treat, but he was so overwhelmed with the emotion of what was going on, all he could do was cry.
The photographs show tears dripping from potential allergies, but I think we all know how tears ended up on this beautiful boy's face.
Thankfully, volunteers from Saving Carson Shelter Dogs posted the video on the bottom of the article across Social media. The video was created to gain attention in hopes that someone would take Blue home and give him a forever home!
Blue became best friends with Jennifer McKay. Jennifer visited not once, not twice, but three times, and took him home on the third time!
McKay visited a third time, Blue perked up and went straight to his future owner!
Since Blue has been out of the kennel and in a home, he has been a brand new dog. Blue got to his new home, took a bath and went for a walk, and made himself right at home sleeping on the living room couch.
When Blue is not sleeping or riding in the car with the windows down, his favorite thing is looking at himself in the mirror.
Blue knows he is in good hands.
Thank you to the millions of volunteers across the world who help animals in need, like Blue, find a forever home!
Meet Mickey, The Smallest Dog In The World. He Is Also The Cutest Thing You Will Ever See.
This Dachshund Goes On A Wild Vacation And It's All Captured On Film!


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Canada failed to protect elderly in first wave of COVID-19 — will the same mistakes be made again?
Sep 26, 2020 HerbalDepEcoNa
This is an excerpt from Second Opinion, a weekly roundup of health and medical science news emailed to subscribers every Saturday morning. If you haven't subscribed yet, you can do that by clicking here.
As COVID-19 cases surge across Canada and outbreaks in nursing homes flare up once again, experts say vulnerable elderly populations are at extreme risk in the second wave due to a lack of government action.
Long-term care facilities bore the brunt of the first wave of the pandemic in Canada, with more than 70 per cent of deaths from COVID-19 occurring in those aged over 80, about twice the average of rates from other developed countries.
"That is one of the most damning failures that's taken place through the pandemic," said Dr. Andrew Boozary, executive director of health and social policy for Toronto's University Health Network.
"If we were going to be judged by how we protected our most susceptible and people who are structurally vulnerable — we failed them."
Dozens of COVID-19 outbreaks have recently been reported in nursing homes in Ontario, B.C., Alberta and Quebec as the second wave arrives in much of Canada.
WATCH | Trudeau discusses the federal government's role in long-term care:
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau explains what prompted his government to begin a dialogue with the provinces around national standards for long term care facilities. 1:49
In his address to the nation Wednesday night, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the situations experienced by "too many elders" in long-term care homes is "unacceptable."
"That has to change and it will change," he said. "We will be working with the provinces and territories to set new national standards on long-term care."
But Canada's systemic failures in long-term care are nothing new, and neither are the calls for action.
Long-term care deficiencies a longstanding issue
A July report from the Royal Society of Canada, an association that includes some of Canada's top scientists and scholars, described COVID-19 as "a shock wave that cracked wide all the fractures in our nursing home system." It called on the federal government to act "immediately" on creating national standards of care.
Months later, no concrete action has yet been taken, and the second wave of COVID-19 infections is well underway in previously hard-hit provinces, such as Ontario, B.C. and Quebec.
On Friday, Trudeau conceded during a press conference that problems in long-term care facilities "existed long before COVID-19."
Canadian Armed Forces personnel, along with hospital staff and some education workers, were among those brought in to assist long-term care homes during the first wave of the pandemic. A military report subsequently detailed abuse, neglect and cruelty inside nursing homes. (Ryan Remiorz/The Canadian Press)
"The systems that we had were inadequate all across the country," he said. "They were not up to the task of protecting our seniors appropriately."
But experts question why the process of fixing those systemic issues has only now just begun.
"The writing is on the wall that this had to happen yesterday," said Boozary.
"To not ensure that every measure, every resource is in place to protect these families and their loved ones — to me is just damning, it's egregious."
The prime minister was quick to point out that long-term care is "very clearly a provincial jurisdiction," adding that the federal government was busy helping the provinces "get the situation under control" early in the pandemic.
"Whether it was sending in the military or the Red Cross or sending extra financial support to vulnerable health care workers, the federal government was busy acting," he said.
But Trudeau also said the need for national standards of long-term care only became clear to his government after "conversations with Canadians and the provinces" following the devastation caused in the first wave of the pandemic.
Long-term care facilities unprepared for second wave
A group of major stakeholders in Ontario's long-term care system sent a 60-page letter to Ontario Premier Doug Ford and the ministers of both Health and Long-Term Care this week calling for "immediate action" to protect the health of residents, staff and family members.
"In the absence of these measures and support from government, Ontario's long-term care homes are not currently ready to manage a second wave of COVID-19," said the letter, which was first reported on by the Globe and Mail.
WATCH | Canada's prime minister on the country's second wave of COVID-19:
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke to Canadians in a rare national address from his office on Parliament Hill. 1:47
"The recent surge in cases in Ontario and other provinces is a warning that we have little time to waste," it stated. "We need decisive action now."
Dr. Anna Banerji, an infectious disease expert and faculty lead for Indigenous and refugee health at the University of Toronto, said she's not convinced Canadian long-term care homes have made the necessary changes to protect elderly residents in the second wave.
"We don't want to see the same kind of disasters that we were seeing in the spring where we had all these people dying and the people that were living were basically living in squalor," she said. "If that occurs again, it's a real failure."
Banerji said nursing homes need to ensure they have no more than one resident per room with individual access to their own bathroom, while staff should have adequate personal protective equipment and infection control training — something they lacked in the first wave.
Dr. Aisha Lofters, a family physician and researcher at Women's College Hospital in Toronto, said nursing homes also need to ensure staff aren't putting residents at unnecessary risk.
"In the early days, we saw a lot of people who were working in multiple long-term care homes, working part-time and casual, having to move from home to home to home," she said.
"We saw the devastating effects of that."
National standards of long-term care need enforcement
Dr. Naheed Dosani, a physician and health-justice advocate in Toronto, welcomes the creation of national standards for long-term care, but hopes those homes in violation of them will face serious consequences.
"One of the things that we need to be aware of is that at least in Ontario, it was shown that for-profit homes especially had a higher proportion of deaths," he said.
Dosani said he wants the national standards to create a baseline for where care needs to be in nursing homes across Canada, so that seniors aren't left to suffer the consequences.
"They already suffered in the first wave. My hope is that they don't have to suffer and less people have to die in the second wave," he said.
"Why would we allow this to happen in the second wave? The federal government has the ability to set that bar where it needs to be so that standard of care is met so that doesn't have to happen again."
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Custom pet portraits, gifts, and more!
Pawblo Picasso: Pet Portrait Artist Extraordinaire
Pawblo Picasso, the lesser-known Picasso brother, was born in Malaga Spain in 1883, just two years after his brother Pablo. Like his brother, he exhibited a talent in the arts at a very early age. His father was a painter as well, known for his specialization in the depiction of birds and other game animals. Combining the influence of his father and his love for household pets, Pawblo began his path as a professional pet portrait artist.
By the age of 7, Pawblo already had his first exhibition, "Woof," which was an artistic catalogue of the many stray dogs inhabiting the streets of Malaga.
He became known around Malaga for his inherent ability to capture the personality in animal's faces, and he started receiving his first pet commissions around the age of 9. Encouraged to create a name for himself within the art world, Pawblo moved to Paris by the age of 13. He had heard about the Parisians and their love for their pets, and had hoped to capitalize on that opportunity.
Young Pawblo posing with his pet portraits on a sunny Parisian day in 1909
While in Paris, his style greatly evolved. He continued to capture the personality of the pets, but his portraits became overall less traditional as he began to use bright colors in the background, and started to flatten the image of the pet His work would later be recognized as the true pre-cursor to the modern pop art movement.
Towards the end of his life, his portrait backgrounds became limited to blue colors, and art historians refer to this time as Pawblo's "blue period." Pawblo died in 1977 at the age of 94 in a small town outside of Paris, with his wife and 5 dogs, 8 cats, 2 birds, and one turtle by his side. His mark in the art world did not go unnoticed. His obituary described him as,
"a man with great influence and talent, and his love for pets will forever be captured in his artistic legacy."
(DISCLAIMER: In case you didn't figure this out already, Pawblo Picasso is a fictional character and his story is almost entirely fabricated. Interestingly enough, the real Pablo Picasso's father was indeed known for his paintings of birds and other game animals, and Pablo was an avid lover of animals.)
Pablo Picasso posing with "Lump" (photo source: dreamdogsart.typepad.com)
Pablo Picasso posing with his cat (photosource: Lasgalen Arts)
"Bad artists copy. Good artists steal."
— Pablo Picasso
Copyright © 2014, PAWBLO PICASSO, LLC. All rights reserved. Pawblo Picasso, LLC retains the exclusive rights to all images produced and shown herein or elsewhere. No images may be reproduced or used without the express written consent of Pawblo Picasso, LLC.


I love how soft and pretty today's card turned out.
I decided to revisit the emboss resist technique, but "fine tuned" it by adding one further step at the end of the process to end up with this soft looking background.
Step 1 - I stamped and clear heat embossed my butterflies on Whisper Card Stock.
Step 2 - I used my Daubers and a selection of ink pads and built up a rainbow of colours, blending each one into each other.
Step 3 - I grabbed my Whisper White Stampin' Craft ink pad and swept it face down across the entire front of my card stock, covering the whole thing with a layer of chalky white ink. I immediately wiped if off thoroughly using some kitchen roll. Then I repeated that process two further times, until I had the soft ethereal blended effect that I was after.
I finished by adding the topper, stamping my sentiment in Tuxedo Black Memento Ink.
Jennifer MacGuire inspired this card. I watched her using the Trapped Emboss Resist Technique, which gives a different effect, whereby she performed STEP 2 above first, then STEP 1, followed by STEP 3, thereby trapping the colours.
I just simply decided to try the "Emboss/Resist Method", so that I did not "trap" the colours, ending up instead with white butterfly outlines.
Tomorrow I will share the card I made using the Trapped Emboss/Resist Method.
Thank you for looking. I do hope you like the card and give the technique a go. I really enjoyed it.
Have a great day everybody and happy stampin'. It's the weekend - YAY!
This is such a pretty card!!! I agree with the previous person would love to see a video! Am also a beginner stamper and "seeing" something like this does help! :) Thank you for sharing with us!


Seeing as you all liked my last beauty related post, I thought I'd do another one.
I decided to give my skincare routine a bit of a revamp recently. Something that is quite a big step for me as I have the most sensitive skin ever and have to be very careful with what I slap on my face.
These are three products that I've been left speechless about. Which, if you know me is difficult.
I like to call them the three amigos. Because, they are going to be my skins friends forever. All by La Roche-Posay a brand that I literally can't fault.
The Cicaplast Baume B5 cream is something I use overnight. It's a bit like a face mask and is great for hydration and healing the skin if you've had a breakout or have any redness left from a spot. I've been using it for the last week and, I've noticed a difference in my skin already - it's definitely much more 'fresher' looking and less dry.
Effaclar Duo + is a wonder. I'm not sure what they put in the tube but, it totally does exactly what it claims to do. Smear it over your face before going to bed and when you wake up the next day, any blemishes or spots will be noticeably smaller. Keep applying it for a few days and, they'll be gone.
Effaclar A.I is also a dream to use. It's specifically designed to target individual blemishes and, helps reduce the redness left over from them. Apply directly to the spot/blemish before bed and when you wake up and, it will be gone in a few days.
All available online and at selected Boots stores. Escentual have a third off French beauty products throughout March so, perfect for saving the pennies!


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Cosmic Fail! Getting into Space Is Still Really, Really Hard
By Mike Wall
A Zenit rocket launches into space carrying Russia's Phobos-Grunt spacecraft toward Mars on a mission to collect samples of the Martian moon Phobos. Liftoff occured on Nov. 9, 2011 Local Time from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan (Nov. 8 EST). (Image credit: German Aerospace Center (DLR))
As the troubles of a stranded Russian Mars probe show, humanity has not exactly mastered spaceflight despite more than 50 years of practice.
Russia's Phobos-Grunt spacecraft got stuck in Earth orbit shortly after its Nov. 8 launch, and hopes of salvaging the unmanned probe's mission to the Martian moon Phobos appear all but lost. Such mishaps have been distressingly common lately: Nearly 10 percent of all space missions launched in the last year have failed.
All of which goes to show that spaceflight remains a difficult proposition, experts say, even 54 years after our species lofted its first object — the Soviet satellite Sputnik I — into orbit.
"Accelerating payloads to orbital velocity of 17,500 miles per hour in just a few minutes requires controlling a very high amount of explosive energy," said space policy expert John Logsdon, professor emeritus at George Washington University.
Developing the systems to harness and direct that energy is tough, Logsdon added, as is devising spacecraft that can survive the bumpy blastoff and work in the harsh environment of space.
"The combination of the mechanical challenges of a successful launch and the technological challenges of spacecraft operation make success in space missions one of the hardest of human endeavors to achieve," Logsdon told SPACE.com in an email. [The Best Spaceships of All Time]
A rough year for spaceflight
Since Dec. 5, 2010, a total of 74 space missions have lifted off the pad. Some have sent scientific probes racing toward Jupiter or the moon; others have launched satellites or astronauts to Earth orbit.
Counting Phobos-Grunt, seven of those 74 missions have suffered major failures. The picture gets even grimmer if you include Japan's unmanned Akatsuki probe, which sailed past Venus on Dec. 6 instead of entering into orbit around the hellishly hot planet (Akatsuki launched in May 2010).
Five of the recent mission failures were Russian. In addition to Phobos-Grunt, three separate satellite launches went bad, and the unmanned Progress 44 supply ship crashed while hauling a bellyful of cargo to the International Space Station.
These problems could point to systemic issues within the Russian spaceflight program, some experts say.
"These and other failures point to serious follow-through quality control failures long expected and of concern to Russian space analysts," Charles Vick, a senior technical and policy analyst at Globalsecurity.org, told SPACE.com after the Progress 44 mishap.
The other two big setbacks affected China and the United States. A Chinese Long March rocket failed to loft an experimental satellite to orbit in August. And in March, NASA's $424 million Glory climate satellite crashed into the Pacific Ocean after the nose-cone fairing on its Taurus XL rocket failed to open as planned.
An artist's concept of the Phobos-Grunt spacecraft nearing the Martian moon Phobos, something the failed probe never got to do. (Image credit: Roscosmos)
Higher reliability possible
The occasional failure is to be expected because spaceflight is so challenging, experts say.
"There's a lot of energy exchange required," said Richard Cook of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., deputy project manager of NASA's $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission. "We're taking a 10,000-pound spacecraft, and we're putting it on top of a [1.2 million-pound] launch vehicle, which is all required to get it into orbit."
MSL, which is due to launch Nov. 25, will drop the car-size Curiosity rover onto the Red Planet to investigate if it was ever capable of supporting life. [Photos of NASA's Curiosity Rover]
"Physics and gravity are working against us big-time here, and because of that it doesn't take a very big mistake," Cook said of MSL's launch. "You're right on the tipping point, and things [can] very rapidly go bad."
Logsdon voiced similar sentiments.
"As long as we use chemical propulsion to get payloads to orbit, there will be launch failures," he said.
However, the number of failures over the past year has been abnormally high. Many rockets have success records around 97 or 98 percent, Logsdon said. And the space shuttle, which NASA retired in July after 30 years of service, failed just twice in 135 missions, putting its reliability at about 98.5 percent (though those two failures tragically resulted in the deaths of 14 astronauts).
"So it is possible to launch with very high reliability," Logsdon said. "It seems as if we are having a particularly bad year; most years do not have as many failed missions as 2011."
Mars is a tall order
The year is not done yet, of course, and several more high-profile missions are on the docket. One of these is MSL.
While lofting a satellite to Earth orbit can be tough, sending a robotic explorer to another world is far more challenging still. MSL will be the 40th mission to Mars; 60 percent of the previous 39 failed to achieve their main mission goals.
Curiosity will have to survive liftoff, an 8 1/2-month cruise through deep space and a novel and perhaps harrowing landing on Mars, in which a hovering, rocket-powered sky crane will lower the 1-ton rover on cables. And after that, Curiosity will brave the Red Planet's high radiation and fluctuating temperatures for two Earth years or more.
"It's the difficulty of the long series of things that have to work, as well as the environment," Cook told SPACE.com. "I think those are the two main challenges."
Cook said the MSL team has done all it can to prepare for these challenges, and mission personnel are confident that Curiosity will be a success, as other recent NASA Mars efforts have been. But, as with any space mission, there are no guarantees.
"We feel like we've had a really good test campaign," Cook said. "But there is an element of it that you really can't control — Mars — and so it's never a slam dunk."
This artist's concept features NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover, a mobile robot for investigating Mars' past or present ability to sustain microbial life. Curiosity launched toward the Red Planet on Nov. 26, 2011. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech )
Getting better in the future?
Cook said he envisions scientific spaceflight getting more reliable as the years roll by and engineers get more and more experience under their belts.
But it probably won't be routine for quite some time, Cook added, because we just don't do space exploration missions very often. For comparison, he brought up aviation, which had a lot of accidents back in the 1920s and 1930s.
The aviation industry got safer quickly, because there was strong economic pressure to make passenger air travel work on a large scale, he said.
"I think we're going in that direction, but we're still in the equivalent of the early days," Cook said. "And I don't think the slope is as fast as it was in the aviation industry, just because there's not enough pressure to do it often enough to commoditize it."
Another factor also makes it tough for scientific spaceflight to be routine, according to Cook. We don't want to answer the same questions over and over again, so each mission tends to be different, and more ambitious, than the last.
"The science questions become a lot harder," Cook said. "Now we have to go find out if Mars was habitable in the past. That means that the science payload's got to be a lot bigger, and it's got to be a lot more sophisticated. You kind of push forward in every axis."
You can follow SPACE.com senior writer Mike Wall on Twitter: @michaeldwall. Follow SPACE.com for the latest in space science and exploration news on Twitter @Spacedotcom and on Facebook.
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Michael Wall is a Senior Space Writer with Space.com (opens in new tab) and joined the team in 2010. He primarily covers exoplanets, spaceflight and military space, but has been known to dabble in the space art beat. His book about the search for alien life, "Out There," was published on Nov. 13, 2018. Before becoming a science writer, Michael worked as a herpetologist and wildlife biologist. He has a Ph.D. in evolutionary biology from the University of Sydney, Australia, a bachelor's degree from the University of Arizona, and a graduate certificate in science writing from the University of California, Santa Cruz. To find out what his latest project is, you can follow Michael on Twitter.
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We are pleased to announce this fall's Open Board Meeting will be held at the shelter on Wednesday, October 18th at 6 pm. The meeting will be held in front of the Harry Valentine Visitor Center. We are looking forward to meeting with our donors, volunteers, and both old and new friends of the shelter.
We conduct two open board meetings each year to provide an opportunity for the public to learn more about the shelter and meet our Board of Directors. Many of our staff will be present to answer any questions you may have. This is a good time to learn more about the different functions and services the shelter offers and how you can help!
So many people ask us on a regular basis if we receive funding from organizations such as the Humane Society of the United States or ASPCA. The answer is no, we do not receive any funding from national animal welfare agencies or any State, County or City entities. As a private, non-profit, 501c3 organization, we receive our funds from the generosity of our donors, public donations, bequests, and grants.
If you have any questions about our upcoming Open Board Meeting please feel free to call the shelter at 805-646-6505. Thank you and we look forward to seeing you all on October 18th!


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Freeform to air 'Hocus Pocus' 30 times during 31 Nights of Halloween
LOS ANGELES – "Hocus Pocus" fans are in luck. The cult classic is returning to Freeform's 31 Nights of Halloween this year – in a big way.
The cable channel says it's going to air the film 30 times over the month of October – about 48 hours' worth of hijinks from the Sanderson sisters.
If "Hocus Pocus" isn't your cup of tea, there are plenty more films on the cable channel's full schedule, including everything from animated classics, like "The Nightmare Before Christmas," to horror films, like "Scream."
Freeform's 31 Nights of Halloween run from Oct. 1 to Oct. 31. Click here to learn more .


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National Bullying Prevention Month: Lessons for Educating Your Students
By Elizabeth Riley Boyer |
The impacts of bullying on young children and teenagers, both physical and emotional, cannot be understated. Over the last decade, wonderful organizations like PACER and StopBullying.gov have brought much-needed attention to the issue of bullying. But there's still a lot of work that needs to be done, especially when it comes to educating our students about the issue. In honor of October's National Bullying Prevention Month, we've rounded up some differentiated close reading and argumentative writing lessons, featuring engaging and authentic informational and literary texts, about bullying to share with your students. Sign up for a free ThinkCERCA account to view these lessons >>
Free Close Reading Lessons
An Experiment in Discrimination (Grades 3-5)
Calling Someone Fat Names Can Make Them Eat More, Researchers Say (Grades 6-8)
"Am I Pretty or Ugly" Videos a Symptom of Toxic Media Culture (Grades 6-8)
We Have to Prevent School Bullying (Grades 9-10)
Applied Argumentative Writing Lessons
Words Can Hurt (Grade 3)
Are Cliques Good or Bad (Grade 4)
Just Call Me Frank (Grade 5)
Bullying: What We Can Do (Grade 6)
The Real Problem (Grade 7)
Words Can Hurt You (Grade 8)
How Many People Does it Take to Stop One Bully? (Grade 9)
School Shootings Illustrate the Need for Empathy (Grade 10)
Bullied NY Bus Monitor Teaches Kindness Year Later (Grade 11)
When a Bullied Kid Grows Up (Grade 12)
Differentiated Lesson Sets for Grades 4-12
Bullying: How does bullying affect everyone involved: the victim, the bully, and the bystander?
Conflict and Dominance: How do conflict and the struggle for dominance affect the human spirit?
Elizabeth Riley Boyer
Elizabeth Riley Boyer is an experienced journalist, digital content strategist, and operations manager. Prior to joining ThinkCERCA, she was part of the founding team at Impact Engine, Chicago's first social impact investment fund and accelerator. As Impact Engine's Director of Operations & Communications, Elizabeth oversaw the company's overall processes, day-to-day planning and finances, curriculum development, marketing strategy, and community outreach.
Elizabeth also spent three years at Chicago magazine, most recently as its Digital Engagement Editor, where she managed the organization's social media and reader engagement initiatives. Elizabeth also works as a freelance content strategist, writer, and communications consultant. Her recent writings on impact entrepreneurship have been featured by the Huffington Post and Crain's Chicago Business.
In 2007, Elizabeth helped open a private school for underprivileged children while volunteering for a nonprofit organization in the Dominican Republic. This experience inspired her to quit a paper-pushing job at an insurance brokerage firm to pursue a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University. Elizabeth also holds a bachelor's degree in American studies from the University of Texas at Austin.


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Death and Beauty. The Contemporary Gothic in Art and Visual Culture
20.02.15–10.05.15 09:00–15:00
5th floor, Gallery of Contemporary Art
The exhibition deals with dark, Gothic themes in art and visual culture, and analyses their relationship with the world of beauty, advertising and glamour. Although Gothic culture is rooted in the Middle Ages, many of the art styles that came after it used Gothic and added new layers and concepts to it. This is true of Romanticism in particular, but also of art trends and subcultures of the 20th century. Gothic culture has strongly influenced, for example, the punk subculture, which in turn has had an impact on art with its radical aesthetics. Another Gothic wave brushed through Western visual culture in the 1990s, when the visual language of art was influenced by the rapidly growing advertising industry and media, globalisation and terrorism, as well as the daunting "trauma of the era": AIDS. Today, Gothic can be seen as a platform from which various approaches that combine horror, beauty and supernatural phenomena have risen, along with its dissonant and ambivalent aesthetic code referring to carnal desires and complex psychological states.
Those themes reached Estonia in the last decade of the 20th century. In 1992, the photographers Peeter Laurits and Herkki-Erich Merila founded the group DeStudio, which brought the visual language of advertising into art. They reacted to the "trauma of the era" by using destructive and shifted body images in their works. Toomas Volkmann has also used the arsenal of advertising photography, but the depictions of the human body in his works manifest a more complex treatment of sexuality and gender constructions. Toomas Kalve's series "Mortuary", from the same period, demystifies death, showing it in a prosaic-poetic manner. Ene-Liis Semper and Mark Raidpere exploit their own bodies in art in a brutal and symbolic manner. Semper is interested in the manipulative nature of the body and its naturalness. Raidpere depicts a psychotic experience from its onset to its subsiding in his series "Io". Raidpere's work is also a "condition portrait" of the hectic and volatile circumstances of the 1990s.
In the last few years the subject of death has also been approached from an apocalyptic perspective: the 3D animation of the AES + F group "Last Riot" presents a violent yet bloodless fantasy of a technology-based future, where everyone is fighting against everyone, including themselves. The Swedish artist Tobias Bernstrup mixes Gothic art with Romanticism, as well as with the present day. His point of departure is a painting by Caspar David Friedrich which was destroyed in World War II, and he places it in a timeless context, as well as in the context of this day and age. The focus of the legendary Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein is on the image of the child as someone in a constant state of danger, but also on lust and abjection constructions characteristic of pop culture. Laurentsius's portrait of Tilda Swinton, "Fuckin' Hitchcock", deals with media-based images of lust. A strong parallel to Helnwein's incubi is provided by Anton Vill. His paintings composed as a contemporary horror story are terrifying and fascinating, with fantasy and reality presented in a complicated symbiosis, occasionally even with a political undertone. Andres Tali's "Van Eyck's Lamb" shows the pointlessness of violence through the depiction of a sacrificial ritual, moving swiftly between the mediaeval culture of torture and modern brutality. Billeneeve and Kris Lemsalu take a more playful approach to the subject with their grotesque costumes, creating an imaginative false-mirror picture of morbid themes. The metal and punk band Winny Puhh combine the absurd and the horrifying with vigorous stage activity, pushing the boundaries between art and auto-aggression.
The exhibition can be approached through the authors and their works in various ways. One possibility is to take it as a reflection of hectic political and social developments; another possibility, which is partly associated with the previous one, is to see it as an expression of the contemporary horror genre, in which numerous sci-fi and horror films and stories are rooted. The world today is restless and complicated. Political situations are complex and very often cannot be discussed directly. Issues that are suppressed, or intuitive and inexplicable due to their complexity, have always been expressed through art, and this is still so.
The curators of the exhibition are Eha Komissarov and Kati Ilves.
The exhibition "Death and Beauty. The Contemporary Gothic in Art and Visual Culture" will remain open at the Kumu Art Museum until 10 May 2015.
Exhibition may contain disturbing material.
Participating artists: AES + F, Tobias Bernstrup, Billeneeve, DeStudio, Gottfried Helnwein, Toomas Kalve, Laurentsius, Peeter Laurits, Kris Lemsalu, Mark Raidpere, Ene-Liis Semper, Andres Tali, Anton Vill, Toomas Volkmann and Winny Puhh
Works from the collections of: the Art Museum of Estonia, Tartu Art Museum, Andréhn-Schiptjenko gallery, Multimedia Art Museum (Moscow) and private collections.
Exhibition designers: Helen Oja and Raul Kalvo
Graphic designer: Kaarel Nõmmik (Stuudio Stuudio)
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5 Great YouTube Series For Seniors
Most everyone is familiar with the idea of streaming video content online. Websites like Netflix have paved the way for video content by providing the ability to stream entire seasons in one sitting. But those are shows produced by studios and aimed at the traditional style of watching movies and television. YouTube, on the other hand, is something different.
There's a smorgasbord of content just waiting to be discovered on YouTube with more being added by the minute. While it's produced by regular people, this content is often as entertaining as the big budget Hollywood productions. Even better, there are plenty of creators with life experiences that can make content relevant to specific age groups or people with various interests. Here are a few creators to get you started with a YouTube viewing habit.
Cyber Seniors Corner
Cyber Seniors Corner is a YouTube channel that showcases seniors and helps teach you how to do certain tech-related things. The first video on the channel featured a woman named Shura making a grilled cheese with a clothes iron, but the channel has evolved since. There are still videos of people sharing their own tips and tricks like Shura, but there's also an ongoing series of videos teaching seniors all aspects of modern technology.
You'll find videos on everything from basic internet usage to how to make music in Garageband. It's an excellent resource and ongoing series of videos for anyone looking to broaden their scope of all things technological.
Prowalk Tours
There are few things in this world like traveling and exploring; it's one of the top things people consistently list as a goal. However, we can't always just up and go to all the locations of the globe at any time. Plus, the world is a big place; it's virtually impossible to see it all even if we could travel any time we wanted.
That's where Prowalk Tours comes in. Prowalk Tours provides walking, drone and scooter tour videos of locations all over the world in stunning ultra-high definition. Want to climb Mt. Vesuvius or see the pyramids at Giza? What about the Sphinx or the Eiffel tower? Prowalk Tours has you covered. With detailed tour videos lasting from 20 minutes to an hour, you can travel the world and see the sights all from within the comfort of an assisted living apartment at Park Regency Loveland.
Over 50 And Fantabulous
While entertainment has no age, it's also sometimes nice to watch things that you can relate to.
This was the idea behind the YouTube channel Over 50 and Fantabulous. The channel seeks to provide clean, fun content for those within a similar age range as the creator, a woman named Lynn. The channel focuses on a variety of interests, from cooking to thrift store shopping and even spending time in God's word. It's an excellent place to find like-minded individuals of a similar age to have a sense of community in entertainment.
Kevin and Lill
Kevin and Lill is a unique channel that's part comedy and part bonding experience between a grandmother and grandson. It's a hilarious blend of the clash between Kevin and his grandmother, Lill, as they teach each other numerous life lessons from their respective generations. The channel is technically Kevin's, but the real star is Lill.
That's because Lill is a big personality that shines through the videos and connects with so many people. She's been featured on multiple TV shows, including those hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and Steve Harvey, and draws crowds of people wherever she goes.
Most everyone loves music in some form. It can be the soundtrack to our lives, a way of relaxing to release tension or even a way to express things we otherwise couldn't. But that said, we all tend to have a fondness for music from a certain period of our lives. It's natural to love the tunes that were with us as we grew up. But that can make finding new things to listen to a bit difficult.
This is where Postmodern Jukebox shines. This channel is a music channel where the performers sing modern songs and current hits but with a twist. They sing them in the styles of music from the past, such as big band and 1920's style jazz. It's an interesting mashup that is entertaining in its own right, but might also be a way for you to enjoy new music.
No matter what kind of entertainment you're looking for — music, fellowship or technology lessons — YouTube has a series for you. If these creators' series are of interest to you, consider searching for more based on the suggestions YouTube offers at the ends of these videos. Or, even better, discuss it with your neighbors at Park Regency Loveland to see if they've discovered something you might like too. Because that's part of the joy of good entertainment: discussing it with friends and neighbors.
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Q: jquery.maskedinput allow optional characters in middle of mask? I have asimple text box that has the following mask:
$('#txt_DateOfBirth').mask('99/99/9999');

It is sometimes loaded programmatically with a proper date that doesn't exactly match the mask (i.e. a single digit month or day). If it is loaded with a date like that, as soon as the input box has focus, it reverts back to __/__/____. If changes are made or not, when the input box loses focus the dynamically loaded date comes back. It's being set by:
$('txt_DateOfBirth').val(date); // example: date holds "12/1/1949" as string

Because the date does not perfectly match the mask it seems to break masked input. How can I add optional characters to the middle of a mask?

A: Which plugin are you using?  I'm guessing that your using Bush's inputmask.  You can define your own masks, like you did in the comment but I don't think you can define optional parts (other than defining a mask for each case).
You may want to take a look at RobinHerbots mask (it's based on Bush's mask, so should be trivial to convert).
The nice thing about Robin's masking plugin is that you can define optional characters in a mask (or multiple masks, for that matter)
You should be able to do the following (characters in brackets are optional)
$('txtDateOfBirth').inputmask({ mask: '[9]9/[9]9/9999' });


Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Union government has planned a number of infrastructure projects in Jammu and Kashmir. The state has seen a rise in separatist activities, with scores of youth taking to stone pelting against India security forces, in the last one year. The Government of India hopes that the infrastructure and development projects would encourage the misled Kashmiri youth to utilise their energy for creative purposes and join the mainstream development process of the rest of the country.


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NASCAR Confronts Racism in Powerful Messages Before Race in Atlanta
by Kyle Dalton on November 13, 2020
NASCAR is not necessarily known for its diversity. It has one black driver in Bubba Wallace on the Cup Series. Driver Kyle Larson was suspended indefinitely in April for using a racial slur during an iRacing event. In the initial days following the death of George Floyd, the racing series remained largely silent until a statement on June 1 appeared on Twitter. Today, before the start of the Folds of Honor Quik Trip 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway, NASCAR stepped up in a big way by delivering multiple messages addressing the current unrest in our nation.
Bubba Wallace and Jeff Gordon offer their perspectives
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Less than an hour before the green flag dropped at the Folds of Honor Quik Trip 500 in Atlanta, the Fox Sports broadcast joined the ongoing national conversation on racism and racial inequality and what is happening in cities across the country.
Bubba Wallace described how he had talked with his NASCAR competitors in recent days and encouraged them to use their voices. He concluded with an emotional text he received from his mother the day after George Floyd died.
"Good morning, I pray as the mom of a black son I never have to hear you crying out, I can't breathe. I love you, Bubba, and your life matters to me," Wallace read the text, before breaking into tears.
Following the interview with Wallace, the cameras returned to Jeff Gordon in the studio, who then offered his thoughts in an emotion-filled statement.
"Bubba Wallace is like many drivers I've encountered along the way—thoughtful, talented, fiercely competitive. We share in the fact that we made it to the pinnacle of motorsports, the NASCAR Cup Series, but our journeys, both professional and personal, are vastly different. I'll never know what it's like to walk in Bubba's shoes or the shoes of anyone who has experienced racism. But I do know; I can be better. We can do better to create positive change. I've been in NASCAR for more than 25 years, and when people are in pain, and the world is in crisis, our community doesn't take that lightly and wants to do their part to help. But we need to step up now more than we ever have in the past. We are listening. We are learning. We are ready for change."
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NASCAR President Steve Phelps addressed today's competitors prior to today's race at @amsupdates. pic.twitter.com/7fZLUMkWxj
— NASCAR (@NASCAR) June 7, 2020
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On the final lap before the drop of the green flag, the pace car stopped as did all the cars on the front straightaway. Pit crew members all stood on the pit row wall including some holding shirts saying "I Can't Breathe" as NASCAR president Steve Phelps addressed the competitors over the radio, which was also broadcast to the national television audience watching.
"Thank you for your time. Our country is in pain, and people are justifiably angry, demanding to be heard. The black community and all people of color have suffered in our country, and it has taken far too long for us to hear their demands for change. Our sport must do better. Our country must do better. The time is now to listen, to understand, and to stand against racism and racial injustice. We ask our drivers, our competitors, and all our fans to join us in this mission to take a moment of reflection to acknowledge that we must do better as a sport and join us as we now pause 30 seconds to listen."
NASCAR President Steve Phelps
When the message ended, the cameras showed several pit crew members visibly shaken and moved to tears.
NASCAR airs video message from drivers
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— Chase Elliott (@chaseelliott) June 7, 2020
RELATED: Young NASCAR Drivers Chase Elliott and Ty Dillon Using Platform to Address Social Issues
As the drivers and pit crews observed a moment of silence, the broadcast showed a video that was posted on Chase Elliott's Twitter timeline a few hours earlier that presented a unified message from the NASCAR drivers in a similar style to what the NFL players produced earlier this week. Among the drivers included were Elliott, Wallace, Alex Bowman, Brad Keselowski, Denny Hamlin, Martin Truex Jr., Ty Dillon, Jimmie Johnson, Kyle and Kurt Busch, and several others including NASCAR legend Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Bubba Wallace opened with "We're no strangers to moving fast," and the rest of the drivers continued the message.
"We're no strangers to moving fast, and we know how life can have that same quality. But now is the time to slow down and reflect. The events of recent weeks highlight the work we still need to do as a nation to condemn racial inequality and racism.
"The deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and countless others in the black community are heartbreaking and can no longer be ignored. The process begins with us listening, and learning, because understanding the problem is the first step in fixing it.
"We are committed to listening with empathy and with an open heart to better educate ourselves. We will use this education to advocate for change in our nation, our communities, and most importantly, in our own homes. Even after the headlines go away, all of our voices can make a difference, no matter how big or how small, it is all of our responsibility to no longer be silent.
"We have a long road ahead of us, but let's commit to make that journey together. Our differences should not divide us. It is our love for all mankind that will unite us as we work together to make real change."
After the drivers' video ended, Fox Sports' Mike Joy took over and finished with a powerful statement of his own. "We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men, ALL men are created equal. That's from the Declaration of Independence. As true or truer now, as it was then."
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