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the ISS National Lab Board of Directors Selects Chairperson
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL. (December 20, 2012) – The new Board of Directors for the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (the ISS National Lab), the nonprofit organization promoting and managing research on board the International Space Station (ISS) U.S. National Laboratory, designated France Córdova, Ph.D., as the group's Chairperson last week in Washington, D.C.
As Chair, Córdova will serve as the the ISS National Lab Board spokesperson, and will preside over future Board meetings. The meeting that took place in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, December 13, 2012, was the organization's first official meeting of the new, permanent Board.
Córdova is President Emerita of Purdue University, where she holds the position of professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. Her previous positions include Chancellor of the University of California at Riverside, Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of California at Santa Barbara, NASA's Chief Scientist, Department Head at the Penn State University, and Deputy Group Leader at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Since her days as a graduate student at the California Institute of Technology, she launched rocket and satellite payloads and authored or co-authored over 150 scientific and policy papers.
"I am honored to have been selected as chair of the the ISS National Lab Board of Directors and I am eager to work with such accomplished and experienced individuals," said Córdova. "We all affirm the importance of the the ISS National Lab mission – to maximize utilization of the ISS – and plan to put our networks and abilities to bear to lead this organization."
"France holds more than three decades of high-level management and scientific experience, and was a clear choice for the other Board members," said the ISS National Lab Interim Executive Director Jim Royston. "In addition to France, we have a brilliant group of professionals that are enthusiastic and equipped to guide the organization."
Additional members of the the ISS National Lab Board of Directors include:
Scientific Members:
Bess Dawson-Hughes, M.D., Director, Bone Metabolism Laboratory, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University
Andrei E. Ruckenstein, Ph.D., Vice President Research & Associate Provost, Boston University
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, Ph.D., Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Medicine, Director of the Stem Cell and Tissue Engineering Laboratory, Columbia University
Managing Members:
Lewis Duncan, Ph.D., President, Rollins College
Leroy Hood, M.D., Ph.D., Co-Founder & President, Institute for Systems Biology
Howard Zucker, M.D., J.D., Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University
About the ISS National Lab: The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (the ISS National Lab) was selected by NASA in July 2011 to maximize use of the International Space Station (ISS) U.S. National Laboratory through 2020. the ISS National Lab is dedicated to supporting and accelerating innovations and new discoveries that will enhance the health and wellbeing of people and our planet. The the ISS National Lab goal is to bring the magic of space down to earth. For more information, visit www.issnationallab.org.
About the ISS National Laboratory: In 2005, Congress designated the U.S. portion of the International Space Station as the nation's newest national laboratory to maximize its use for improving life on Earth, promoting collaboration among diverse users and advancing STEM education. This unique laboratory environment is available for use by other U.S. government agencies and by academic and private institutions, providing access to the permanent microgravity setting, vantage point in low earth orbit and varied environments of space. The ISS National Laboratory Office at NASA's Johnson Space Center currently facilitates research initiatives on board the station's National Lab, but management of America's only in-orbit laboratory is transitioning to the ISS National Lab.
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Ellie Goulding talks behind the scenes of Divergent
Date: March 20, 2014 Author: Monica	Category: Video Vault
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ELLIE GOULDING contributed vocals to several songs on the DIVERGENT: Original Motion Picture Score composed by electronic artist Junkie XL and executive produced by composer Hans Zimmer (The Dark Knight, Inception).
Goulding, whose vocals are woven throughout the movie, is the inner voice of the main character, Tris.
Click HERE to view behind the scenes footage with commentary by Ellie, Junky XL and director Neil Burger.
Divergent: The Original Motion Picture Score is available now on iTunes and Amazon
The soundtrack features a brand new song "Beating Heart" as well as songs from Goulding's sophomore album, Halcyon.
For more about Divergent, visit: Divergentthemovie.com

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If you are blessed enough to take that dream vacation, you're likely going to have a plethora of photos memorising the trip. You should! Pictures kind of act like portals in time. You can look at a photo from your honeymoon, or that trip you took to New Zealand, and instantly recall the trip in greater detail than you might be able to simply reminiscing.
Additionally, these photos can act as evidence of your travels. Life is short, but life is long; that which happened before tends to drift away until it becomes dream-like, and may as well have happened to someone else. As you look back on it, you may wonder if you were ever so care-free—but there are the photos to remind you!
As such, a lot of people take care to carefully display their favorite pictures from their travels. You don't have to display them any specific way, either. Your imagination is the limit. Following are three ideas to help you get to thinking on the ways which best resonate with you.
Ornate frames, or those with a pristine and clean metal finish, can compliment a room. You might blow up a few pictures of the family in the jungle, and offset the larger photos with a few smaller ones. There are frames for pictures large and small, and you can put them in any configuration you like.
This is a more classical means of displaying photos, and depending on the interior décor of the room you're showcasing them in, this may be the best way for you to display them.
Your photos could represent a centerpiece to a room. You might offset them with a backdrop in the background that complements the imagery in the pictures you're displaying. You can check this catalog from DennyMFG.com to find some ideas on backdrops for your favorite photos.
Such backdrops can additionally change the "sense" of a room, and you can even use them for other purposes like your own at-home photo shoots, allowing such display strategies to fulfill multiple purposes.
A collage which groups a multitude of pictures together can have a powerful impression, and be very evocative in terms of memory stimulation. Additionally, even beyond your ability to revel in memories of fine times, the ultimate result could very well itself be appreciable by those who weren't on the trip with you.
When you have fine images of you or your family on an adventure, visitors may see those pictures and imagine themselves having similar vacations in the future. You could, through your display, act as a muse to those who encounter your photos.
Also, you might hang pictures from a mobile that hangs from a point over a window seat where the wind from a summer's breeze can pass through them, and make them sway in an aesthetically pleasing way. Going the artistic approach can help you maximize your imagination in ways that complement your home; so don't be afraid to experiment.
Life has a lot of ups and downs, but family vacations or trips abroad often represent some of the finer aspects of the journey—indeed, psychologists often agree vacation is good for mental health. It's only right to help yourself remember these times. Pictures can take you back, they can inspire others, and they can beautify your home. How you display them is up to you; don't be afraid to be creative and try something new!
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The Adventures of Sam and Caroline: We're here! It's not as cold as you might think!
We're here! It's not as cold as you might think!
Wow, we had the most amazing weekend of wedding, family, friends and fireworks. A lot of people stayed through Monday night, and we had a fun time spending Fourth of July with them and watching fireworks together. Then Tuesday was a whirlwind of errands and packing as we got ready for our red-eye flight to Reykjavik.
Fortunately, everything went smoothly and we landed at 6:30am in Iceland. We navigated with no problems to our hostel, and spent the day walking around and getting to know the city. You can see some photos below to get a taste of the area. It has a very small feel to it, since the population is only about 200,000 (for comparison, Boston proper is about 600,000), but it still has most of the cultural features of a larger city. We managed to see the symphony building today, a brand new gorgeous glass structure right on the waterfront.
We started off by just walking around, and this cemetery was the first thing we found. It looked just like a fairy tale cemetery. Surprisingly, the graves weren't actually that old. We didn't find anything earlier than about 1850. It was incredibly beautiful and peaceful.
You can get a feel for the beautiful city from these shots around the central lake, called Tjörnin. Good luck pronouncing that! All the words in Icelandic are a gajillion letters and way too many that we don't recognize!
We had an amazingly delicious pizza (that's arugula on top!), and we found a relaxing place to lay out in the sun while it was shining through the clouds.
This church is one of the landmark sites in Reykjavik. It's stark and simple, but the architecture feels very powerful. Sam fell asleep!
We went to this nice little cafe to warm up with some hot chocolate. It was really similar to the 1369 Coffeehouse in Cambridge. They had this cool wall that you could write on with chalk, so Caroline commemorated our wedding in a heart.
On the way back home we walked by the beautiful new symphony. We thought we'd just peek in, but amazingly the front door was open. We started walking around and tried to make our way into the main hall just to see it. We went down a lot of back hallways and wrong turns, but we finally made it in! Inside, a guy was tuning a piano, so we were very quiet!
On the way back, Caroline noticed this statue, which is sort of famous, at least enough that it looked familiar to us. So we took a picture to wrap up a great first day! Tomorrow we are going on a tour of the amazing nature features on the island – geysers, waterfalls, hot springs and more! We will post again shortly. In the meantime, leave comments since we'd love to hear from you!
You two sound like you're having a great time! Enjoy!
Have you ever seen a door that opens like this?
We went to Sweden today!
Laundry – Not so easy if you don't speak Danish!
Our hostel is very nice!


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Agostino Pio "Austin" Gatt (born 29 July 1953) is a former Maltese politician, who served in a number of ministerial posts.

Early life
Austin Gatt received his education at the Lyceum and the University of Malta. He read Law and graduated as a Doctor of Laws in 1975. He practiced law as a partner with one of the oldest law firms on the island.

Politics
Gatt joined the Nationalist Party Electoral Office in 1976.
In 1980 the Nationalist Party entrusted Gatt, with building a party organization to eliminate the possibility of electoral fraud in the 1981 general elections', this problem having been prevalent in the previous General elections. In 1981 elections the Nationalist Party polled 51% of the votes.

Gatt's contribution to the Nationalist Party continued when he was appointed as Chairman of the Management Board of Independence Print Company Limited. The company incorporated all the commercial activities of the Nationalist Party. Gatt was also the head of the Legal Office of the Party, representing the party in a number of constitutional cases. In 1987 he again led the organization of the Party to monitor electoral fraud and eventually became Chairman of the Board of Directors of Independence Company Limited and Euro Tours Company Limited.

Secretary General of the Nationalist Party
After the Nationalist Party was elected to Government in 1987, Gatt was elected Secretary General of the Party on 5 February 1988. This meant that Gatt became responsible for the overall organization of the Party and for the implementation of policies approved by the Executive Committee and the Administrative Council of the Party. Gatt spearheaded a complete reorganization of the Party's political, administrative and commercial structures and was responsible for preparing and ensuring the implementation of all plans for the General Elections of 1992 and 1996.

Shadow Minister for Justice, Local Councils and Housing (1996-1998)

Gatt contested the general elections for the first time in 1996 and was elected from the First District. Between 1996 and 1998 he was Party spokesman for Justice, Local Councils and Housing and was entrusted by the Nationalist Party to set up the Party's television station.

Minister for Justice and Local Government (1998-2003)

Following the Nationalist Party victory at the General Elections of September 1998, Gatt was appointed Parliamentary Secretary in the Office of the Prime Minister, and six months later, Minister for Justice and Local Government.

Gatt, embarked on various ambitious tasks in all areas within his portfolio. Amongst these there are the creation of an information economy and society in Malta, the introduction of e-Government, a major administrative reform in the law courts, and the transformation of Local Government Authorities.

Minister for IT and Investment (2003-2008)
Gatt was re-elected to Parliament in 2003, from the First District. He was appointed as a Minister for IT & Investment, responsible for the creation of the Information Society and Economy, ICT in Government, AirMalta plc, Gozo Channel Co. Ltd, Sea Malta Co. Ltd., Maltacom plc, Malta International Airport plc, Enemalta Corporation, Water Services Corporation, Malta Freeport Corporation, Public Broadcasting Services Limited, Malta Drydocks Corporation and Malta Investment Management Co. Ltd. In March 2004, following a cabinet reshuffle, Dr Gatt was once again entrusted with the portfolio of Minister for Information Technology and Investment with Industry being added to his portfolio in 2004 after the resignation of John Dalli from Cabinet.

Minister for Infrastructure, Communications and Transport (2008-2013)
After the March 2008 general election, Gatt was appointed as Minister for Communications and National Projects with responsibility for IT, the Water Services Corporation and Enemalta, Malta Shipyards and the roads on March 12, 2008.On 14 April 2008, the government announced that the name of the Ministry for Communications and National Projects was changed to the Ministry for Infrastructure, Transport and Communications (MITC). Following the Cabinet mini-reshuffle on 9 February 2010, Water Services Corporation and Enemalta portfolios were withdrawn from the Ministry and given to the Ministry of Finance, the Economy and Investment.

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Members of the House of Representatives of Malta
1953 births
Living people
Recipients of the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana, 2nd Class
Nationalist Party (Malta) politicians
People from Floriana
Government ministers of Malta
20th-century Maltese politicians
21st-century Maltese politicians
Communication ministers of Malta
Infrastructure ministers of Malta
Justice ministers of Malta
Transport ministers of Malta

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HP In The Balance To Form Coalition Government
(Leader of CTP – Tufan Erhürman)
Since the HP left the UBP-HP coalition, on October 6, the TRNC has been without a government. Following Prime Minister Ersin Tatar's election to the Presidency, Tatar asked the deputy chairman of the UBP Ersan Saner to form a coalition government but he was unable to do so. Neither the HP nor the CTP would agree to form a coalition with the UBP. President Tatar then asked the leader of the CTP Tufan Erhürman, to try and form a coalition government.
Erhürman has been in talks with the other parliamentary parties and so far, the CTP-HP-DP and TDP have agreed to form a coalition with early elections slated for September 2021. However, the People's Party (HP) will decide at a meeting it will hold this evening, if it will join the coalition.
The Settler's Party, YDP said that it would not join the coalition but would support it from the outside on the understanding that there would be early elections in September next year.
On October 6, the HP resigned from the coalition with the majority party, UBP because it said that it had been sidelined in arrangements to reopen Maraş/Varosha.
Tufan Erhürman has until 5 December to form a coalition government or hand the task back to President Tatar.


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New Moon Speak – Tamara Newmoon
About Tamara
I'm here to honor and celebrate the sacredness of life. My work is held as a prayer and offered as a vehicle for personal and collective healing, deepening awareness, and self-transformation.
I'm humbly honored to hold space for each of us to reconnect with our deep center and align with our highest source. In opening your lens of perception, I mirror your deeper truth back to you.
I am very fortunate to love the work that I do. I have been giving psychic readings for 20 years, holding shamanic circles for 14 years, and teaching workshops for 10 years.
As with all things born from pure inspiration, these offerings have evolved organically, and will continue to take new forms. I have a Bachelor of Science degree in Ecology (with a focus on Botany) from the University of Texas. I have also been immersed in the studies of Traditional Amazonian Medicine, Western Herbalism, Ashtanga yoga, and improvisational body-based performance.
I am grateful to all of the teachers and guides that have graced my journey.
"As close to an Earth goddess as one could hope to meet, Tamara Newmoon's gentle sweet spirit belies the power and depth that lies within. My journeys with her have been among the most spiritual, profound and deeply moving as any I have ever experienced. A powerful guide and voice for the plants, Tamara is one of the most authentic healers and also one of the best guides I know to lead one into the spirit realms."
- Rosemary Gladstar, herbalist – Sage Mountain, VT
In school, science fascinated me. And on the side, I talked to plants and I sang with butterflies; I wasn't your average science student! I got frustrated on the academic path because it felt like there was a disregard for the sacred, a forgetting of the passion, and no allowance for mystery. After graduation, I departed from science and joined an improvisational ritual theatre company, called The Living Tarot. We toured the country for two years and gave thousands of readings with improvisational theatre and music. I moved to Seattle and continued ritual theatre, immersed myself in the study of western herbalism, and began giving individual readings to clients.
And then, the tsunami. On the morning of December 26th, 2004, I was out for a morning swim off the coast of Thailand when I was swept up by the tsunami. My life changed that day. In my delicately close encounter with death, I saw how powerfully beautiful and connected life is. I felt a new call towards working with Spirit in a deeper way. And a couple of years later, when I stumbled upon Amazonian medicine while traveling in Peru, I found the bridge between science and spirit. And my heart sang.
"We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released."
— JEAN HOUSTON
"I am grateful for the healing Tamara has brought into my life with her immense skill, intuition, and integrity. I've experienced enormous shifts that have helped me live a more integrated, connected, and joyful life. Tamara brings tremendous, yet gentle, strength to her work as a healer and it's clear that this is the work she was meant to do on behalf of individuals, the planet, and beyond. Tamara's healing work touches on the infinite world that lies beyond, the world that is connected to our hearts, deep experience, and the seed of wisdom that lives within each of us and connects us all to each other."
— Mara R, Teacher - Boulder, CO
"When I think of Tamara, I cannot help but smile and feel endless gratitude. She has opened my heart to joy and to God in a way that I had never before imagined possible, and guides others on the path with her integrity and her centered clairvoyance. She reaches from her grounded place far into the cosmos to sing the song of one's soul so that one can hear it, and understand the universe better. One sitting with her completely changed the course of my life, and serves always to remind me of what true alignment feels like. Through all of her gifts, she is approachable, gentle, direct and compassionate, which makes her the most wonderful teacher. She opens a way for her clients to see and share in the same light that she spins in, and even more, to be that light. We are so profoundly blessed to have her here upon this earth, at this time."
— Sonya Lea, Writer, Intuitive and Mentor - Banff, Alberta
"Tamara is a true gift... the rare type of gift that unwraps you. The first time I heard her chant, my heart was enveloped by the white light of beautiful melodies in an ancient tongue that released rivers of tears to wash me clean and allow me to love myself again. She has helped me purge behaviors that do not suit me and has quietly guided me to cherish and develop those that do. Tamara has planted seeds of wisdom that I know will continue to sprout, grow, and flower for the rest of my days. With her help, I have allowed myself to dispel the fears of the wild challenges during these changing times and I now welcome this wonderful awakening and transformation that is upon us."
— Gemini B, Astrologer - Seattle, WA
"It is an honor to have Tamara be a part of my spiritual path. She is human, yet she taps into such a deep dwelling and one that I go to for teaching, for advising, and sometimes for comfort. Tamara is a wizened teacher to me because she herself is constantly a student, putting her teachings to work everyday. She is living proof, in times when the earth is hurting and our communities fighting to be strong, that we can come through such dark times finding light within ourselves and that the teachings will provide us with warmth, love, and peace. Her work has helped me through times of mystery, and if I listened to her carefully she provided me with rich guidance and discovery. Tamara is my teacher, she witnesses my work along this path I walk, best of all she is part of my tribe and community. It is a true gift to work with such light."
— Rebecca Egbert, Midwife - Bozeman, MT
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Dormitories is an acceptable word in Scrabble with 14 points. Dormitories is an accepted word in Word with Friends having 15 points. Dormitories is a 11 letter long Word starting with D and ending with S. Below are Total 517 words made out of this word.
Note There are 5 vowel letters and 6 consonant letters in the word dormitories. D is 4th, O is 15th, R is 18th, M is 13th, I is 9th, T is 20th, E is 5th, S is 19th, Letter of Alphabet series.


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Lunch Spree: Life as a Freelancer and the at-Risk Finances
What's Going Through My Boss's Mind When He or She Returns to the Office?
A growing number of employers are hiring temporary or independent contractors as their primary on-the-job employers, and the wider they bring in gig workers, the more at-risk employers are of managing all kinds of unexpected issues with their employees, from unpredictable schedules to gross client interactions. Many of the managers, supervisors, and business owners we interview for this piece say their biggest worry about returning to the office is whether their new contractors will keep a lid on their enthusiasm. (Maybe that's a good thing; sometimes we may feel more at home than we would in our regular jobs.) As such, some employers are setting up their employee networks or creating workshops on what they need to do to keep everyone in check.
– Chloe Angyal
4 Problems With Working Overtime as an Independent Contractor
Let's dive into some of the biggest drawbacks of being a contract worker, according to three Washington-area freelancers.
– Chris Zabazaba
5 Things Human Resource Managers Would Like You to Know
1. The Managers' Switching Costs
It's not easy to come up with a new pre-employment vetting process when you're only working with clients. "Even the . . . company that you have an employment relationship with is not responsible for holding you to the same standards as a traditional employee," says Sara L. Michel, who has a master's degree in organizational behavior.
– Kris Emery
1. The Security Issue
When going through background checks before signing a new contract with a company, companies are required to develop and present a plan of action for hiring a contractor. Failure to do so can result in costly legal action by the government, says Kenneth N. Peters, who manages the non-profit transportation think tank TransitCenter.
– Sandra Shaheen
2. The Rich/Poor Conflicts
There's often little transparency regarding the compensation given to freelance contractors. Even if you're told the company pays per task, should you actually see the dollar amount before accepting? If you're a professional, maybe yes. Shouldn't you see the dollar amount before accepting less? When you're not collecting a salary, shouldn't it matter as well?
– Kimberly Surridge
3. The Media Saturation
Your work and personality are just so well-known that you're more likely to get the kinds of media coverage that you feel is appropriate to your identity. One woman whose firm charged individuals a flat rate for services concluded, "What really bothers me is clients who do this press, they are not bound by the same media standards as the owner."
– Syed Zafar Mahmood
4. The Prone Host
It is nearly impossible to negotiate the first day back at work after a three-week vacation. One freelance journalist for a major metropolitan paper says she was thrilled to get back to work, but learned a lot from the experience. "Everyone is going to say, 'Yeah, OK,' and just ignore you for a little while," she says.
– Libby Hill
5. The Owned/Employed/Palatable
Confused yet? Work permits differ for freelancers, contractors, and partnered employees. Know your legal rights.
– John Larson
Freelance columnist: Columnist/writer/editor/designer/instructional designer/print buyer/packager/emphasizer: All freelance workers are independent contractors.
The Young Workers Project helps young professionals in Washington, D.C., the nation's capital, define what it means to live and work here.
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The Autobiography of a Lunch Spree
Job Hunting the Modern Way
How to Find Good Benefits — According to a Guy Who's Been Doing It for More Than a Decade
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Jeff Healey Concert Films Jeff Healey Top Tracks Related Artists Top Tracks on Qello
Jeff Healey Concert Films
Captured here for the first time ever is the Jeff Healey Band's 1999 performance at Montreux. Featuring 10 songs from their set, the band (Healey, Joe Rockman on bass, Pat Rush guitar, and Tom Stephen on drums) whips the crowd into a frenzy with a high energy, minute blues jam. Included in this set are the show opening "My Little Girl", their cover The Doors "Roadhouse Blues" (featured in the movie "Roadhouse") and perhaps their well known song, "Angel Eyes", which was a Top 10 smash in the US in 1988. As a bonus, fans are treated to 4 tracks from their 1997 Montreux appearance at Stravinski Hall.
Jeff Healey / 56 min
Live in Belgium
Filmed in July 1993 at the world famous Peer Blues Festival in Peer, Belgium, The Jeff Healey Band were touring in support of their album "Feel This". In this show, the band, normally a trio, doubles in size with a pair of backing vocalists and a keyboard player, which takes the entire performance to a brand new level! This set features selections from the aforementioned "Feel This" album, "See The Light" and "Hell To Pay" albums.
Jeff Healey / 1 hr 21 min
Beautiful Noise
Jeff Healey And The Wiz
Originally recorded for the Canadian TV show "A Beautiful Noise" (Toronto - January 2006), this programance includes additional interview and musical footage. Healey, playing trumpet and guitar, leads his excellent band The Jazz Wizards forward into musical history. As always, he delivers jazz from the past with humor, respect for the tradition, and a contemporary attitude. Healey gained worldwide fame as a stunningly original rock/blues guitarist. His passion, however, was the infectious and joyful music from the classic jazz era - the days when Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver, Louis Armstrong and Bix Beiderbecke ruled the music world.
Jeff Healey And The Wiz / 57 min
Jeff Healey Top Tracks
Hoochie Coochie Man
Live At Montreux / Jeff Healey / 07:50
Heart Of An Angel
Live in Belgium / Jeff Healey / 05:29
Angel Eyes/Roadhouse Blues/See The Light
That's What They Say
Stop Breakin' Down
While My Guitar Gently Weeps/My Little Girl
Evil And Here To Stay
Sessions At West 54th
The acoustic bluesman caught live in New York City, June 10, 1997.
Keb' Mo' / 1 hr 15 min
"I always like stories about people that drink and have drug problems and women problems," said Johnny in the film. "It's just interesting." Johnny Winter: Down & Dirty, the definitive, feature-length documentary by acclaimed Lemmy co-director and producer, Greg Olliver, will be available worldwide on March 4, 2016, on DVD and iTunes. The package will feature never-before-seen photos and bonus footage, including extended interviews and his final studio performance, a solo resonator version of the Son House classic, "Death Letter." Produced independently through Secret Weapon Films in NYC, director Greg Olliver was welcomed into the Johnny Winter family during the final two years of Johnny's life, capturing the making of his Grammy-winning Step Back (Best Blues Album, 2015), and traveling the world from Beaumont to Hong Kong. Winter continued to perform over 200 sold out shows a year until his death on tour in Switzerland in 2014. The film also features Clive Davis, Edgar Winter, James Cotton, Billy Gibbons, Warren Haynes, Luther Nallie, Joe Perry, Tommy Shannon, Susan Tedeschi, Derek Trucks and more.
Johnny Winter / 1 hr 27 min
One Night in Dublin
Runtime: 1 hr
On August 20th 2005, on what would have been his 56th birthday, a statue of Phil Lynott was unveiled in Dublins Grafton Street by his mother. There to witness the event were members of Thin Lizzy from throughout the bands career. Later that evening they joined forces under the leadership of Gary Moore for a concert that paid tribute to Phil Lynotts memory. The core band of Moore, Jethro Tull bass player Jonathan Noyce and Thin Lizzys one and only drummer Brian Downey were joined by the stellar guitar talents of Brian Robertson, Scott Gorham and Eric Bell for a set of Lizzy and Gary Moore classics.
Gary Moore / 1 hr
Recorded in High-Definition for the PBS concert series Soundstage, this unforgettable performance features staggering renditions of "Thrill is Gone" and "Let the Good Times Roll" as well as special guest appearances by Terrence Howard, Solange and guitarist Richie Sambora - each of who takes turns sitting in with the blues legend.
B.B. King / 54 min
Muddy Wolf at Red Rocks
16 songs transcribed note for note from the live album that captured Joe's tribute to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf at the iconic Colorado theater.
Joe Bonamassa / 2 hr 11 min
Live: The Real Deal
Buddy Guy Live: The Real Deal features the legendary bluesman in a special set at his own Chicago club, Buddy Guy's Legends, with guitarist G.E. Smith and The Saturday Night Live Band.
Buddy Guy / 55 min
Hurt Bird Bath


With the numbers breaking badly against him, a dwindling pool of votes left for King County Election officials to count and facing long odds for a shift in his fortunes, state Sen. Joe Fain, R-Auburn, on Friday evening conceded the 47th Legislative District race to Covington Democrat Mona Das.
Fain's bid for re-election was marred by accusations by former Seattle city official Candace Faber that he'd raped her in 2007, on the night she graduated from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Fain was not in office at the time of the alleged assault.
Fain has denied the charge and asked for a thorough investigation.
Trailing by more than 500 votes in the latest tally, Fain conceded the race, releasing his message on Facebook.
Das did not respond to a request for comment Friday.
"I want to congratulate Senator-Elect Das on her new opportunity to serve South King County in the Washington state Senate," Fain wrote in an email message. "I look forward to supporting her during the transition in any way I can. The past eight years have been the most professionally rewarding time in my life. I'm so grateful to my supporters, friends, constituents and colleagues for giving me the opportunity to serve.
Das continued to build her lead over Fain in the most recent tallies from King County Elections. By 4 p.m., Friday, Fain had dropped to a 548-vote deficit, garnering 26,755 votes, (49.49 percent) to Das' 27,303 votes (50.51 percent).
The next posting is at 4 p.m., Monday, but the math was looking increasingly grim for Fain, who had lost ground in every update.
During his time in office, and in an era when the modern political culture creates plenty of partisan warriors but far too few diplomats, Fain wrote, he tried to be a bridge between parties and ideologies. For the state and country to thrive, he continued, people must start listening to one another with open minds and open hearts.
"We cannot fear what we see as different. We cannot vilify one another as a way of grasping for power. Only a free, open and respectful society is capable of facing and overcoming the challenges before us. While I will miss the endless challenges and rewards of legislative service, these election results widen the door to my family and two young boys who need and deserve a full-time dad who has been largely absent during the long winter months of the previous legislative sessions.
"Elected service in America is not prestigious. We are all just everyday citizens who are called, for a time, to give what we can on behalf of our neighbors. That is the system I love and trust. Thank you for putting your trust in me these past two terms. I'm so proud of what we have accomplished together," Fain concluded.
Fain's defeat comes in the throes of a looming investigation.
In late September, Faber, a former foreign service officer and an employee of Seattle's Information Technology Department, said Fain had raped her in a Washington, D.C., hotel room in 2007, following a night of drinking that celebrated her graduation from Georgetown.
Faber first made the allegation in a tweet and later posted her story on Medium.
On Thursday, a state Senate subcommittee agreed it would spend funds to hire an investigator to look into the allegation.
Given the outcome of the election, it is unclear if the committee will proceed with the outside investigation.
Fain, 37, was first elected to the state Senate in 2010 and reelected in 2014. He served as the Senate minority floor leader during the 2018 legislative session.
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Close Anna Ardovs doubted her talent
The actress recalled childhood in the program "Relish". Anna Ardova spoke about his beloved grandmother, a pupil of Konstantin Stanislavsky who believed that the granddaughter would become a talented actress.
The star of the sitcoms, theater actress. Mayakovsky Anna Ardova became a guest of Ivan Urgant in the program "Relish". The actress chose to showcase their culinary abilities dish with pasta – pasta salad with tuna and shrimp and stuffed shells and cheese.
Ardova from a creative family. Her father Boris Ardov – animator, Director, actor, mother, Peace Ardova, actress of the youth theater, grandfather – Victor E. was a writer and playwright, grandmother – Nina Olshansky studied at the Stanislavsky, she, by the way, mom Alexei Batalov, who, respectively, Anna Ardovs had relatives uncle. And stepfather of the future the winner of the prestigious TEFI was beloved by the audience, Aramis Igor Starygin.
For cooking pasta in the Studio of the First channel Ardova remembered his happy childhood and recounted the dialogue that happened at her grandmother during school years
Ardova from childhood wanted to be an actress and definitely like Faina Ranevskaya. She shared her desires with her grandmother, hoping to hear the approval. But the reaction was quite different. Was like family don't really believe in the talent of the actress.
"I came to grandma and say – I want to be as Faina Ranevskaya. I thought now I tell her, and she told me – "well done, Anita, no pretty want to be like, a real actress." Instead, Nina said to me, "Well, swung at the first actress!", – said Anna.
Ardova was still alive, and that its main role is comic. And as often happens with talented comedians, life Ardovs, which this year will be 49 years, not always in a major key.
In the Studio of the program "Smak" Ardova appeared in black clothes. In the beginning of last year Anna and her husband, actor Alexander Shavrin announced the divorce after 20 years of marriage. And at the end of the year 30 Dec Shavrin died. It turned out that he was struggled with cancer. Ardova, who dryly commented on their divorce, never told the press about the personal after the death of the former husband. The actress flew off to rest, which aroused the indignation of the public.
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About the reasons of divorce, or how she survives the death of the former husband, Anna chose not to speak. But her daughter Sophia, which the stepfather Aleksandr Shavrin was raised as a mother, convinced that her parents always loved each other, and all who knew her father still can't accept his death.
By the way, children Ardovs and Shavrina continued acting dynasty – Sophia is in the Moscow art theatre. Chekhov, Anton and the younger is studying acting at College in the theater of Oleg Tabakov.
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Thursford: Fabulous at 40!
It's the must-see spectacular which brings coachloads of people to a tiny Norfolk village. Rowan Mantell reports as the biggest Christmas show in Europe hits 40 years of yule-tastic joy
A scene from the Thursford Christmas Spectacular, celebrating its 40th anniversary this year
All the sparkle of Christmas is here – on a village farm transformed into a winter wonderland. Angelic voices soar through starry skies, the woodland glistens with fairy lights and a once humble barn has become a sumptuous theatre, ablaze with sparkling lights and festive joy.
Tens of thousands of lights sparkle from the trees outside. Inside, a forest of shimmering decorations awaits the crowds. There is glitz, glamour, laughter, love, music, dancing, sentimentality, nostalgia and sleigh-loads of festive fun. This is the Thursford Christmas Spectacular, Europe's biggest Christmas show, in tiny Thursford village, usually a community of about 100 souls, a few miles from Fakenham.
A Thursford Winter Wonderland .
A cast of 130 performs in front of more than 180,000 people during the six-week run of this festive phenomenon. Year after year people travel from across the country to be part of the experience, with coaches arriving from Scotland, Wales, Cornwall and Kent and just about everywhere in between.
The flamboyant, fabulous, festive extravaganza, celebrates its 40th anniversary this winter. It began on a much smaller scale, with a farmyard carol concert for around 50 people. Staged to raise funds for the upkeep of the historic steam engines and fairground rides of the Thursford Collection, the concert was such a success it was repeated the following Christmas, and the next, and the next, growing in size and sparkle and spectacle until it had reached millions of people from across the country. Many now come every year, booking as early as January for the following festive season.
Each three-hour concert sparkles with music, dance, humour and variety. Singers, dancers and star turns segue from show-stopping chorus lines to soul-stirring carols in a superb choreography of concept and costumes, talent and tradition. The amazing Wurlitzer organ rises from the stage as the virtuoso organist creates near-miraculous music, his hands and feet skittering across multiple keyboards.
The Thursford Christmas Spectacular and Santa's Magical Journey take place at the Thursford Collection of steam engines and fairground rides, founded in the 1970s by George Cushing. He fell in love with steam-driven fairground rides when he first visited nearby Walsingham Fair as a child.
George Cushing pictured in the early 1960's on a steam ploughing engine
Today the Thursford Collection is the world's largest assembly of steam engines and organs. George's son John took over his role as director and producer of the Thursford Christmas Spectacular. John still loves Christmas and says: "Christmas is a wonderful time for all; and the Thursford Christmas Spectacular is the perfect outing for every generation.
"Music has formed a huge part of the Christmas season for hundreds of years and we are no exception to that rule! Our hope is to leave you with a glow in your heart and a smile on your face from a memorable experience."
George Cushing with a hand-carved French Marenghi organ at Thursford in 1979
And if you want to take some of the magic of a Thursford Christmas back home, then a range of shops stock food and drink, decorations and gifts, clothes and crafts.
There is also a fun-filled festive fantasy for families with younger children. Santa's Magical Journey is a wonderland of giant dancing penguins, toy-making elves, furry polar bears and teddy bears, plus mischievous snowball-throwing snowmen, all lining a glittering route to Santa's toy-filled grotto. Santa himself will be at home, waiting to greet children with a gift.
Thursford, 40 Glorious Years, is a celebration of the phenomenon that is the Thursford Spectacular. The lavishly illustrated book, published by Archant and priced at £5.95 will be on sale from Thursford, EDP offices across the county and selected shops, from November 7.
Santa's Magical Journey begins on Saturday, November 26 and runs every weekend, and then daily from December 17 to 23.
Thursford Christmas Spectacular opens on Thursday, November 10 and runs until Friday, December 23.
Tickets range from £28.50 to- £40, from www.eticketing.co.uk/thursfordchristmasspectacular
The Thursford Collection, Thursford, near Fakenham, NR21 0AS; 01328 878477; www.thursford.com
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An Autumn for Crippled Children – Forget Forever
Thursday, 12th December 2013 By David E. Gehlke
The internet age has taken the mystique out of bands. It's not that difficult to figure out what INSERT YOUR BAND HERE is up to by checking out their Facebook profile or Twitter feed. Most of it is rather useless drivel, sandwiched between quasi-pertinent updates on shows and/or album work. Gone is new album anticipation, while the notion of "too much information" serves to flood the senses. It's really no different than the poor souls who feel the need to update their respective social media profiles with their every waking move. It's overkill. Netherlands' An Autumn for Crippled Children, obviously, feels different.
"I think being visible [on social media] would gain us even more exposure I think," begins vocalist/guitarist MXM. "We made this decision when we formed the band to concentrate on nothing but the music. We are not displeased with what that brought us so far. I have very little interest in social media and so does the rest of the band."
(Note: The band has a Facebook page, but hasn't made an update since they started their page in 2010.)
Their disinterest makes sense. AAFCC plays a raw, but immense, seismic, melodic, depressing, soothing, and multi-faceted brand of black metal. It's like as if Alcest played music as if they got out of bed on the wrong side, early Katatonia just without the forceful vocals, and possibly Burzum without the stupid ideology. To that end, the band has enjoyed four albums in four years run, including this year's fantastic Try Not to Destroy Everything You Love.
"We have our own recording 'studio' which is permanently set up," adds MXM when asked about the band's torrid output. "We have some gear, it's not a proper studio, so we can record whenever we want and work on things as long as we want. I think a year between albums is pretty normal."
Pondering how the band would sound with a clean and proper production job proves to be difficult, especially for MXM. "No, it would not work. We love old analogue productions. We just can't afford it. We just make the best of equipment we have. We have no 'set' sound we try to capture. We just do what we think is the right thing for AAFCC."
According to MXM, Try Not To Destroy Everything You Love is about "Heartbreak, personal growth and hope," themes that have come to define the band's previous output, including 2011's Everything and last year's Only the Ocean Knows. And contrary to appearances, the band took the "less is more" approach to the new album, even if some of these songs are overflowing with can't-miss ideas (see: "Avoiding Winter," "Never Complete").
"We just started writing songs, brainstorming subjects, rehearsing and see what comes out," he admits. "I think we really cut out all excess things. These songs are very to the point."
DR could probably devote an entirely new feature regarding the strength of the band's back catalog. Each of the band's four albums are utterly recommended, with highlights all over the place, including the dire "Forever Never Fails" and "Formlessness" from Everything; the brilliant, ethereal movements of "Past Tense," "Yes I Know…Love and Death…Always," and "The First Snow This Year" from Only Ocean the Knows. Therefore, it was only fair we asked AAFFC's main composer what his preferred songs were.
"From Everything I personally like: 'Nothing/Everything.' I like the continuous building of tension and the second melody (0:50). From Only the Ocean Knows, my favorite is the title track. I think it's such a simple song but works so good. The simple piano part at the end is the highlight for me. 'Hearts of Light' is also a favorite. You can never really choose between 'children' can you?"
For a band so purposely limited in the press and live show department (AAFCC does not perform live), a memorable quote from Frank Zappa seemed right when approaching the band for an interview: "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture." It's something any worthy journalist can identify with; same for those who devote their creativity to music. Alas, for AAFCC, it really is only about the music. Not social media, or "likes," or tweets, or any of that rigmarole.
"We do it for promotion, fans and maybe the label," finishes MXM. "Fans and label deserve some kind of info/exposure, otherwise we would be arrogant assholes. Both fans and labels invest time and money in you. You got to give something back. But doing the interviews is not what we really like. It's a necessary evil. I agree with Zappa: A little info etc., but the music is the most important thing for us."
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Dario Argento's 'Animal' Trilogy
October 30, 2010 VirginieSelavy
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Title: The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Format: DVD/Blu-ray
Distributor: Arrow Video
Director: Dario Argento
Writer: Dario Argento
Based on the novel The Screaming Mimi by: Fredric Brown (uncredited)
Original title: L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo
Cast: Tony Musante, Suzy Kendall, Enrico Maria Salerno, Eva Renzi, Umberto Raho
Dario Argento's directorial debut The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo) was released in Italy on 19 February 1970, followed in quick succession by Cat o'Nine Tails (Il gatto a nove code, 11 February 1971) and Four Flies on Grey Velvet (4 Mosche di velluto grigio, 17 December 1971). Although not a trilogy in terms of reoccurring characters, there are enough links between the three films that make them worth considering as a sequence that is linked thematically and stylistically, even if the middle film is only an 'animal' film in name alone.
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage is an astonishing debut film. As a reviewer who has seen all but one of the director's movies (1973's comedy drama Le cinque giornate [The Five Days], which remains unreleased in America and the UK) and both of his episodes of the TV series Masters of Horror, I have to admit that I was beginning to doubt the director's talent in recent years: my memories of his excellent early films began to fade and were replaced by his recent output, which has gone from the below average Do You Like Hitchcock?, The Card Player and Non ho sonno in the first half of the last decade to the actually unwatchable – Giallo and Mother of Tears: The Third Mother – in the last three years. However, returning to The Bird with the Crystal Plumage after a gap of several years has revealed a film that is still fresh, innovative and deserving of its status as a seminal giallo.
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Having not read the uncredited novel by Fredric Brown, I don't know whether any of the striking set-pieces, costumes and characters can be attributed to Brown, but the plot is significantly different from the novel's (filmed previously in 1958 by Gerd Oswald), so it's possible that Argento only kept the book's basic premise of an artist obsessed by a traumatised woman who is being stalked by a serial killer. There are numerous memorable scenes in the film: the powerless spectator trapped behind glass as he witnesses a murder, the police pathologist who wears dark glasses while a bank of open reel computers process the evidence behind him, a couple having sex while a metronome ticks, the protagonist throwing a cigarette packet to a suspect to see which hand he catches it with, and bizarre lines of dialogue such as 'How many times have I had to tell you that Ursula Andress belongs with the transvestites not the perverts'!
This is a film that provides a segue from the noir genre that inspired it – the femme fatale and the amateur detective following her – to a new form of filmmaking and storytelling that seems equally inspired by Ennio Morricone's jazz score (Argento often cut his films to his musical scores) and Freudian dream logic. While Mario Bava can stake a claim as the progenitor of giallo cinema, Argento also looks elsewhere to international filmmaking (he was a professional film critic before becoming a script writer) with chase scenes reminiscent of The Third Man, featuring close-ups and characters lit by car headlights, the familiarity of those elements made strange by Morricone's discordant strings and the director's fast zooms and cuts.
Only the final scene of the movie disappoints, as a police expert explains the motives and psychology of the killer; Argento doesn't have the blank stare of a comatose Norman Bates to juxtapose with the banal monologue, so instead cuts to random shots of planes on runways as the hero sits waiting to leave the country. While the director doesn't seem to know how to end his first film, in the third film of this unofficial animal trilogy, Four Flies on Grey Velvet, it seems like he doesn't know how to continue beyond a fascinating beginning, as will be seen below.
The Cat O'Nine Tails
Title: The Cat O'Nine Tails
Writers: Dario Argento, Luigi Collo, Dardano Sacchetti, Bryan Edgar Wallace (uncredited)
Original title: Il gatto a nove code
Cast: James Franciscus, Karl Malden, Catherine Spaak, Pier Paolo Capponi, Horst Frank
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage was a massive hit, making twice its budget back in Italy alone, so it's unsurprising Argento made a follow-up within a year and would make his third film another six months later. The Cat O'Nine Tails starts with a similar premise: a vulnerable man – this time blind, rather than trapped behind glass – is the only witness to a murder when a laboratory break-in leads to the death of a security guard.
Bird, Cat and Flies' lead protagonists were American TV actors Tony Musante, James Fransiscus and Michael Brandon respectively, Bird's lead actress (and former 'Bond girl') Suzy Kendall is British, while Cat's witness (who ends up as Fransiscus's sidekick when he starts investigating the crimes) is Czech-American film star Karl Malden, whose post-Argento career would mainly be on television. The casting of Americans as the leads shows the director's international aspirations – understandably, following the popularity of Leone's Westerns with American leads, who would be dubbed into Italian for the local releases. Cat in particular is a slick thriller in the American mould, Argento keeping his own stylistic flourishes to a minimum compared to the other films in the 'trilogy', and including an exemplary car chase and cross-cutting between scenes in the style of American spy shows such as Man in a Suitcase and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Other international affectations include a climactic rooftop chase that recalls Hitchcock's Vertigo and a Morricone score similar to the music of Lalo Schifrin, as well as references to Edgar Allan Poe, who would inform much of Argento's work. The opening credits of Four Flies on Grey Velvet would make this explicit – a beating heart against a black background – and here we have grave-robbing, someone trapped in a locked tomb, and rats menacing a bound child. German cinema also gets a look in, with an uncredited rewrite by 'Krimi' scribe Bryan Edgar Wallace and Teutonic star Horst Frank.
Argento may have also looked to the work of Michelangelo Antonioni – another Italian director working with English-speaking actors at the time – as many of Cat's twists and turns recall the obsessive nature of the photographer investigating a crime in that director's Blow-Up, made five years earlier. In contrast with the frustrating endings of Blow-Up and The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, Argento and his three collaborators provide The Cat o'Nine Tails with a satisfying conclusion: the killer tries to convince Malden's character that he murdered his little girl and should be executed at his hands in revenge, which recalls the beginnings of the previous and next film by the director.
The fact that all three of Argento's films made in 1970-71 contain an animal in their title suggests that at some point during production of his second film, he or the producers decided to brand them as a trilogy. But although the titles of Bird and Flies refer to clues that lead to the discovery of the killer, The Cat o'Nine Tails doesn't feature a cat anywhere on screen or in the foley recording, nor does it feature the 17th-century torture device. One explanation of the title is that it refers to the number of suspects that Franciscus investigates, while I prefer the idea that it suggests the multiple chromosomal combinations that get discussed in a scene about the genetic psychopathy of the killer. Either way, since the title has no reference to the plot, this suggests it was added to the film late in production, to tie it to its predecessor and thematic sequel, which Argento would have already started work on before Cat arrived in cinemas.
Title: Four Flies on Grey Velvet
Format: DVD (Region 1)
Distributor: Mya Communication / Ryko
Writers: Dario Argento, Luigi Cozzi, Mario Foglietti
Original title: Quattro mosche di velluto grigio
Cast: Michael Brandon, Mimsy Farmer, Tom Felleghy, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Fulvio Mingozzi
Watching a director's films in chronological order, you expect trends to dovetail, and in this sense Argento's first three films almost feel like they were made in the wrong order. Bird mixes a traditional thriller with the director's more surrealistic leanings, Cat is the most conventional and least Argento-like of the three films, and Four Flies on Grey Velvet is the most surrealistic of the three, with a negligible plot that exists purely to superficially connect the gory murders. So instead of the third film recapitulating, or elaborating on, the first two, it feels like The Bird with the Crystal Plumage was separated into its constituent parts in the next two films.
Four Flies on Grey Velvet is the weakest of Argento's early output, but in comparison to films he would make three decades later, it's an underappreciated gem that provides the template for much of the director's later work – theatrical, random and bizarre deaths that serve mainly to indulge the voyeurism and fetishes of horror aficionados. The opening features a rock/jazz band at practice being observed by a mysterious man in sunglasses who leaves a trail of burning cigarette butts on the floor. When one of the musicians leaves and eventually realises he's being stalked, he follows the mysterious figure into a theatre; there, he gets maneuvered into inadvertently murdering the stalker while being photographed by a character in the shadows, who's wearing a pig mask and talking in whispers. This striking and memorable set-piece isn't really followed up in the plot – the musician isn't blackmailed to any notable degree for a start – but is echoed in scenes that are artistic and thematic reflections of the opening, showing how unconcerned the film is with telling a traditional narrative.
The progression of violence on screen is also noticeable in Argento's first three films – Bird is fairly tame by today's standards, Cat contains a few violent deaths, in particular a character hit by a moving train, captured in slow motion, but Flies seems to exist purely for the depiction of violent deaths that are almost dreamlike at times – a reoccurring scene shows the lead character dreaming of his own decapitation in a bleached-out arena, which seems like a lost scene from an Italian 'swords and sandals' movie. The disjointed nature of Argento's third film isn't helped by Morricone's shortest score to date – apparently he and the director fell out during the film and wouldn't work together again for another 25 years. It segues from repetitive minimalism (which predicts John Carpenter's score for Halloween) to strange comedic counterpoints to the action, such as a chorus of 'Hallelujahs' accompanying the arrival of Bud Spencer's character, who helps the musician with the murder investigation. This musical sting is presumably an in-joke aimed at Italian audiences related to Spencer's reputation playing a deus ex machina in B-movies, or even an obscure reference to the pseudo-religious 1968 album The Book of Taliesyn by Deep Purple, who were Argento's first choice to score the movie, but it stops the film in its tracks by bruising, if not breaking, the fourth wall. Due to the crumbling relationship between Argento and Morricone, several scenes unfold with no music whatsoever, and these are the ones that tend to drag, in between the lurid and bloody executions on screen.
Perhaps encouraged by recent success, Argento uses the film as a way to experiment with his craft: a scene where an otherwise useless private detective stalks the killer is framed mainly in shots of arms and legs on a crowded metro train, and there are jump cuts during a sex scene (which may have influenced Nic Roeg when he travelled to Italy to shoot Don't Look Now three years later). Without a complete score to fill the running time of the film, Argento uses the absence of music experimentally in one scene where we hear the sounds of driving juxtaposed with the lead character's thoughts of travel. The nightmarish plot just about allows for the absurd pseudo-science where the four flies of the title are revealed when a bright light is projected through the severed retina of one of the victims.
As I suggested at the start, this is a trilogy of films that is linked through visual and thematic motifs. Each film is concerned with the act of looking and being seen; for example, in Cat, the killer cuts a hole through a door to look through it, and the hero's girlfriend tries to stab his eye. There are also strange characters on the periphery that alternately aid and retard the investigation, for example the homeless man in a shack who keeps cats in cages for food in Bird. To this is added unusually honest (for the time) portrayals of homosexual characters on screen (which were cut as much as the violence in early English-language prints), the use of the P.O.V. of the murder weapon (pace Peeping Tom), femmes fatales, city-based locations and the jazz-like riffing on a central theme.
While neither The Cat o'Nine Tails nor Four Flies on Grey Velvet are quite as good as Argento's first film – the second being slightly too slick and anonymous, the third a little too free-form and under-plotted – the three complement each other and are all worth watching for fans of giallo as they are among the best examples of the genre. As Arrow Video are releasing lavish new DVD / Blu-Ray editions of Bird and Cat, one can only hope they obtain the rights to Flies as well, to allow British audiences to see one of Argento's rarest films and complete the set of three.
Prior to its DVD re-release from Arrow Video, Midnight Movies presents a special screening of Dario Argento's classic gory 80s horror Demons on Friday 26 November 2010 at Curzon Soho. One fateful night in a Berlin cinema, art imitates life as one by one the audience are possessed by blood-hungry, puss-filled demons. More details on Curzon Cinemas website.
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Q: Use Dataframe names in loop Pandas I have several data frames and need to do the same thing to all of them.
I'm currently doing this:
df1=df1.reindex(newindex)
df2=df2.reindex(newindex)
df3=df3.reindex(newindex)
df4=df4.reindex(newindex)

Is there a neater way of doing this?
Maybe something like
df=[df1,df2,df3,df4]

for d in df:
     d=d.reindex(newindex)

A: Yes, your solution is good only necessary assign to new list of DataFrames by list comprehension:
dfs = [df1,df2,df3,df4]
dfs_new = [d.reindex(newindex) for d in dfs]

Nice solution with unpack like suggest @Joe Halliwell, thank you:
df1, df2, df3, df4 = [d.reindex(newindex) for d in dfs]

Or like suggest @roganjosh is possible create dictionary of DataFrames:
dfs = [df1,df2,df3,df4]
names = ['a','b','c','d']

dfs_new_dict = {name: d.reindex(newindex) for name, d in zip(names, dfs)}

And then select each DataFrame by key:
print (dfs_new_dict['a'])

Sample:
df = pd.DataFrame({'a':[4,5,6]})
df1 = df * 10
df2 = df  + 10
df3 = df - 10
df4 = df / 10
dfs = [df1,df2,df3,df4]
print (dfs)
[    a
0  40
1  50
2  60,     a
0  14
1  15
2  16,    a
0 -6
1 -5
2 -4,      a
0  0.4
1  0.5
2  0.6]

newindex = [2,1,0]
df1, df2, df3, df4 = [d.reindex(newindex) for d in dfs]
print (df1)
print (df2)
print (df3)
print (df4)
    a
2  60
1  50
0  40
    a
2  16
1  15
0  14
   a
2 -4
1 -5
0 -6
     a
2  0.6
1  0.5
0  0.4

Or:
newindex = [2,1,0]
names = ['a','b','c','d']
dfs_new_dict = {name: d.reindex(newindex) for name, d in zip(names, dfs)}

print (dfs_new_dict['a'])
print (dfs_new_dict['b'])
print (dfs_new_dict['c'])
print (dfs_new_dict['d'])

A: If you have a lot of large dataframes, you can use multiple threads. I suggest using the pathos module (can be installed using pip install pathos):
from pathos.multiprocessing import ThreadPool

# create a thread pool with the max number of threads
tPool = ThreadPool()

# apply the same function to each df
# the function applies to your list of dataframes
newDFs = tPool.map(lambda df: df.reindex(newIndex),dfs)

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Buchanan medical marijuana facility vote tabled
By: Jess Arnold
Posted: Oct 23, 2017 10:16 PM EST
NOW: Buchanan medical marijuana facility vote tabled
BUCHANAN, Mich. - The Buchanan City Commission has tabled its vote on the location of the medical marijuana facility after a group of business owners presented a petition at Monday night's meeting.
The meeting kicked off with a public hearing, where many neighbors said they're still not on board with the facility.
"Rather than just looking at a potential or hopeful potential income or revenue from it, that you would think about the moral character of the community," said Corbin Detgen, who lives in Buchanan.
"It seems as though the people that come in and say they don't want it, you go ahead and do what you want to do and don't worry about the people. I realize there's money to be made, and the money is good for Buchanan. I realize that's the main thing you're looking at, but I don't agree that it should go downtown. I think it should be in an area away from the city," said Thomas Wilson, who also lives in Buchanan.
The Buchanan City Commission is looking at putting in a medical marijuana facility in the former home video store across the library.
They've also looked at opening in an industrial area away from downtown.
For months, the commission has looked at regulatory issues as community members spoke out against weed working its way into the heart of their city.
While many are still opposed, other business owners are excited about the opportunity they say a medical marijuana facility would bring.
"The buildings are just sitting there. They're going to be collapsing soon, because nobody's spending any money on the buildings. And that video store building, somebody's going to come and want to spend half a million dollars on the building and fix it up. It's going to be left behind for the community 50 or 100 years from now," said Dean Ulrich, who owns Dean Antiques in downtown Buchanan.
"The economic development that you guys are potentially looking at here, Buchanan hasn't seen that in a long, long time, and if they don't grab ahold of these ideas, then they're going to lose," said William Haas, a potential business owner in Buchanan.
The commission has to verify the 20+ names and addresses on the petition before voting on the ordinance, so the vote has been moved to November 13.


During Wednesdays' Apple Special Event, the iPhone Xs and Xs Max were introduced on stage, touting the largest OLED display ever in an iPhone on the Xs Max, and the Xs being the most powerful iPhone ever. But, it has been long awaited for Apple to create a cheaper model that still features most of the features of the more expensive model. This year, Apple delivered on that promise with the Xr.
Let's dig in on why the iPhone Xr just might be the most value-oriented iPhone in a long time.
Image: Apple, the iPhone Xr in Coral.
The iPhone Xr keeps the same basic design of the previous iPhone X and new Xs. But, the Xr has a few cool features that actually make it a worthy option compared to its more expensive sibling.
First off, the iPhone Xr features a 7000-series aerospace-grade aluminum body with glass on the front and rear. For the display, Apple went with a 6.1′ inch Liquid Retina LCD display with a resolution of 1792×828 and 326 pixels per inch.
Image: Apple, the Liquid Retina Display on iPhone Xr.
Despite the display being an LCD rather than OLED, it still features a P3 Wide Color Gamut display and True-tone display technology. Like the Xs and Xs Max, the Xr features HDR10 and Dolby Vision support, along with a 120 Hz display.
To learn more about the A12 Bionic chip, read our article on the iPhone Xs and Xs Max as the chip is the same.
Image: Apple. Product Red, Yellow, Silver, Coral, Space Grey, and Blue.
The iPhone Xr is available in multiple colors like (Product)RED, Yellow, White, Coral, Black, and Blue. Being that Apple wants the Xr to be the iPhone for the masses, it wanted to cater to multiple tastes, and allow people to express themselves with their favorite color on iPhone without a skin or case.
The iPhone Xr may only be a single-lens camera, but, it does not sacrifice features, detail, or image quality. Similar to Xs and Xs Max, iPhone has long been the leader of smartphone cameras. Again, this year, it is no exception.
Like the Xs, the Xr features Smart HDR, Optical Image Stabilization, and a first for a single-lens system, portrait mode with advanced bokeh and depth control, all behind a Sapphire Crystal lens cover.
Up front, the Xr features the same second-generation Face ID and True-Depth sensors as the one in the Xs and Xs Max. The updated 7-megapixel sensor is much quicker and far more accurate thanks to the A12 Bionic chip with improved Neural Engine.
Like the iPhone Xs and Xs Max, iPhone Xr features faster Gigabit LTE capability and introduces the same dual-sim capability with a digital e-SIM and a nano-sim.
Apple claims that the iPhone Xr lasts 1.5 hours longer than the iPhone 8 Plus. With a total talk time of 25 hours, and usage of 15 hours on the internet, and 65 hours of audio playback.
The iPhone Xr starts at $749 for the 64 GB configuration. It can also be had in 128 and 256 GB models, with those costing $799 and $899 respectively.
The iPhone Xr will be available for pre-order starting Friday, October 19th, and will be available Friday, October 26th.
According to the Apple website, the following countries will receive the iPhone Xr on those dates: Andorra, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Greenland, Guernsey, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Isle of Man, Italy, Japan, Jersey, Kuwait, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Monaco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Oman, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, the UAE, UK, US and US Virgin Islands.


The Cloaca Maxima in Rome, a sewage infrastructure going back 2000 years and still functioning today.
Cities have always attracted people to move from the countryside into their boundaries because they have been perceived, through the centuries and millennia (the first historically recorded urban settlements with thousands of people go back to 5,000 years ago, in Mesopotamia, Indus valley and Egypt) as the place to be. First it was about storing agricultural products, then about creating wares and protecting the riches (and citizens) from assaults that those riches invited. These "riches" were agricultural surplus initially and then they were complemented and overtaken by artisans' products.
Indeed, what characterized cities was their infrastructure. The better the infrastructures the more attraction existed to people to move into the cities.
Cities were born in symbioses with infrastructures, natural ones first like rivers, then roads and more recently logistic, telecommunications and education infrastructures.
Infrastructures make a city possible (water, sewage) and make it effective in managing resources and producing wealth.
Infrastructures were basically of two sorts: the ones enabling the "operation" of the city and the ones generating wealth. These latter were both "material" and "immaterial". Usually material infrastructures served, serve, both the operation and the generation of wealth. A road infrastructure was needed to the operation of the city and at the same time fostered the exchange of goods thus sustaining the economy.
More recently in the human settlement history, "immaterial" infrastructures have increased their importance. One of the first most powerful immaterial infrastructures were the administrative glue that made empires possible: we found it in India, China, Persia, and Rome. A millennium later Venice created an immaterial infrastructure that ruled the westerns world by controlling its economics fundamentals.
The building of the Venetian Arsenal started in 1104, and when Venice acquired control of the Brenner pass in 1178, they likewise prevailed in the silver trading from Germany. The control of the spice commerce, from Malacca, Ceylon and India established Venice as one of the greatest economic powers of the time.
Medieval and Renaissance Venice was an amazing example of both hard and soft infrastructures. The first industrial "patent" was created in Venice at the Arsenale and it was about ship building, ships that were a core infrastructure for Venice defense and thrift.


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IDP Camp Burns in Arakan State
Mrauk-U Township, Arakan State
After the sun had set on Tein Nyo IDP camp, a small candle fell over at one of the IDP houses causing the house to catch fire. Within half an hour the fire had spread, burning down the majority of the camp. Over 3000 people called Tein Nyo IDP camp home after having to run from the Burma Army attacks in Arakan state over the past years. The meagre shelters of the IDP camp aren't equipped with electricity and are made of bamboo, tarps and any materials they can find in nearby forests; thus making candlelight important.
663 homes were burnt down out of 875 homes in the camp. Currently 2565 are left homeless, including children, women and elderly people, now sleeping under the open sky. Fortunately no one was killed in the fire. The Burma army told the people they would not help to rebuild any of the shelters and urged the IDPs to go back to their respective villages, but the people still fear fighting and unrest and don't want to return. Due to the ongoing military coup and previous restrictions put in place by the Burma army, aid groups and NGOs are unable to access the area of this camp to provide relief.
Currently there are over 8000 IDPs in Karen State who are facing similar hardship to the 3355 IDPs in Tein Nyo IDP camp, making up a small percent of the total IDPs in Arakan State and across Burma. The Burma Army seized control of the government on February 1 2021, and has since been killing people in the streets of Yangon and other major cities. Currently over 250 people have been killed in Yangon by the Burma Army since the coup began.
Free Burma Ranger teams already on the ground in Arakan state will respond and provide basic emergency relief and shelter for these IDPs who have lost everything; clothing, kitchen materials, food supplies, and their shelters.
Below are photos showing the devastation of the fire.
Thank you and God bless you.
Free Burma Rangers


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How I learned to teach English through a video screen
By Natalia Milán
Natalia Milán teaches English to children by video conference ©
Photo: Camila García
Natalia Milán teaches English to Uruguayan primary school children via remote videoconference. She describes what it's like to teach English to a class from the other side of a video screen.
Learning English in Uruguay has been traditionally a privilege for those who can afford classes in private language institutes and those who attend private bilingual schools. In 2008, teaching English as a second language became mandatory by law. However, the public education system struggles to fulfil its obligation to teach English to every child from first to sixth grade, as there aren't enough teachers.
I currently work as a remote English teacher for Plan Ceibal's English programme for Uruguayan primary public schools, 'Ceibal en Inglés'. I teach my classes from Plan Ceibal's facilities in Montevideo, connecting with my students through video conference. The programme is optional and schools sign up individually. It targets public schools, where children are unlikely to access private English tutoring. So far, 97 schools have joined the project.
Clap, wave and move to make the children comfortable
I was quite nervous before my first lesson, having no previous experience teaching children. I knew this would be a great challenge and a learning experience for me, as well as for the children. I must rely on the classroom teacher's collaboration to manage the class, and we work as a team. In addition to my remote class, the classroom teacher teaches two classes during the week. We use an online platform, where lesson plans and materials produced by the British Council are made available to both teachers.
I had never used videoconference equipment prior to this, and it was also the children's first experience with this technology. At first, they seemed shy and apprehensive. They sat neatly in rows, in their white uniforms with blue bows, looking intensely into the camera.
The greatest challenge was overcoming the children´s reserved behaviour, and I quickly learned that I couldn´t take myself too seriously. They asked a lot of personal questions, and I just had to answer them. Also, I discovered that clapping, waving and moving around makes them feel more comfortable, so communicating enthusiasm through body language is very important. I also discovered that making 'funny noises' —that is, teaching phonetics— became a great icebreaker. When things go slowly, we quickly shift to reviewing pronunciation. We always get a good laugh.
Now, after a few remote classes, the children's confidence is growing. They are not embarrassed to show their enthusiasm, and proudly show me their drawings. Their spoken English is improving at a rate which is a joy to witness.
Make sure the technology is reliable
Luckily, we haven´t experienced technical difficulties so far. The schools that participate in the project have been equipped with fibre optic broadband, which makes the videolink connection very reliable. Working in real time means I must have everything ready in my laptop when we watch videos and look at flashcards. We are still learning how to use our online platform, where both teachers and children log in with their usernames and have access to games, videos, online exercises and evaluations.
Keep the classroom teacher close
Having a good relationship with the classroom teacher is essential to the success of this project. We have weekly meetings, where we discuss the contents of the next lesson and consider what needs revision. I talk to some of the teachers via Skype, while in other cases, we co-ordinate the next lesson by e-mail.
I have met extraordinary teachers that always do what is in the children's best interest. I am very much impressed by this, and the enthusiasm of both teachers and children is what makes this job worthwhile. I am thrilled to see how fast the children are learning!
Update, 16 October 2015: Through the Plan Ceibal en Inglés programme, which started three years ago, we are currently teaching 3,300 videoconference classes from Uruguay, Argentina, the Philippines, and the UK to children in Uruguay.
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WestJet announces dividend increase and normal course issuer bid
CALGARY, Feb. 8, 2012 /CNW/ - WestJet Airlines Ltd. (TSX:WJA) announced today that its Board of Directors has approved a 20 per cent ($0.01) increase in its quarterly dividend per common voting share and variable voting share to $0.06 per quarter from $0.05 per quarter. The next quarterly dividend is payable on March 30, 2012 to shareholders of record on March 14, 2012.
In addition, WestJet announced that the Toronto Stock Exchange ("TSX") has accepted its notice to make a normal course issuer bid to purchase outstanding common voting and variable voting shares on the open market in accordance with the rules of the TSX.
As approved by the TSX, WestJet is now authorized to purchase up to 6,914,330 common voting shares and variable voting shares, representing approximately five per cent of WestJet's currently issued and outstanding shares under the normal course issuer bid. On any trading day, WestJet will not purchase more than 81,843 shares. As of January 31, 2012, there are 131,252,093 common voting shares and 7,034,510 variable voting shares issued and outstanding.
WestJet is authorized to make purchases during the period of February 10, 2012 to February 9, 2013 or until such earlier time as the bid is completed or terminated at the option of WestJet. Any common voting shares or variable voting shares WestJet purchases under this bid will be purchased on the open market through the facilities of the TSX at the prevailing market price at the time of such transaction. Common voting shares and variable voting shares acquired under the bid will be cancelled. TD Securities Inc. will be appointed as the broker firm responsible for making purchases of shares under the bid on behalf of WestJet.
During the period between November 5, 2010 and November 4, 2011, WestJet completed the purchase and cancellation of 7,264,820 shares under its prior normal course issuer at a volume weighted average price of $14.57 per share and for total cash consideration of $106.0 million.
WestJet believes that, from time to time, the market price of its common voting shares and variable voting shares may not reflect their underlying value. At such times, the purchase of common voting shares and variable voting shares for cancellation may be advantageous to shareholders by increasing the value of the remaining shares. The purchase of shares will also offset the dilutive effect of the issuance of shares pursuant to WestJet's compensation plans.
This news release contains certain statements that may constitute forward-looking information within the meaning of applicable securities laws. This information includes, but is not limited to WestJet's intentions with respect to the normal course issuer bid and purchases thereunder and the effects of repurchases under the bid.
This information is based upon certain material factors or assumptions that were applied in drawing a conclusion or making a projection as reflected in the forward-looking information. By its nature, this information is subject to inherent risks and uncertainties that may be general or specific. A variety of material factors - many of which are beyond WestJet's control - affect the operations, performance and results of WestJet and its business and could cause actual results to differ materially from the expectations expressed in any of this forward-looking information.
The forward-looking information in this news release is current to the date hereof, and is subject to change following such date. While WestJet may elect to do so, unless required by applicable law, it undertakes no obligation to update this information to reflect new information or circumstances at any particular time. Additional information about the risks and uncertainties about WestJet's business is provided in its disclosure materials, including its annual information form, filed with the securities regulatory authorities in Canada, available at www.sedar.com.


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Must An Employer Grant a Request for Indefinite Leave?
What do you do when an employee wants leave for a medical condition, but has already exhausted or is not eligible for leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act? Tread carefully.
Maybe you're not a covered employer under the FMLA. Maybe the employee is not eligible for FMLA leave, or has already exhausted all leave available under the FMLA. Or maybe you have a policy that says the maximum amount of leave any employee can take is 12 weeks, and the employee has already exceeded that limit.
Before terminating an employee in such a circumstance, employers with 15 or more employees must analyze the request further under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Although employers are allowed to have leave policies that establish a maximum amount of leave, they may have to make exceptions for employees who require more leave because of a disability.
The EEOC takes the position that "no-fault" maximum leave policies (under which employees are automatically terminated after they have been on leave for a certain amount of time) are unlawful. That is, an employer may not automatically terminate an employee after a certain amount of leave has been exhausted. The EEOC states that the employer must provide additional leave time under the ADA after FMLA leave is exhausted, unless: (1) granting the leave would result in undue hardship, or (2) there is another effective accommodation that would enable the employee to perform the essential functions of his or her position. Moreover, according to the EEOC, in evaluating what constitutes an undue hardship, the employer must consider whether it has a vacant, equivalent position for which the employee is qualified and to which the employee can be reassigned to continue his/her leave for a specific period of time and then, at the conclusion of the leave, can be returned to the new position.
So, even if an employee who needs medical leave has no available leave under your policies or the FMLA, the employer must go through the "interactive process" to determine whether the employee has a disability and if so, whether there is a reasonable accommodation the employer could make that would enable the employee to perform the essential functions of his or her job.
Courts evaluate the employer's policies, the individualized circumstances of the disability, and the employer's resources when determining whether an extended leave should be granted as a reasonable accommodation. Among the factors employers should consider: whether the employee provided a specific return date; whether the medical certification shows the additional leave will enable the employee to perform the essential functions of the job on return; the size and breadth of the employer's operations and workforce, and whether the employee's absence creates an undue burden on co-workers. For example, if the doctor says the employee needs two more weeks of chemotherapy after which she should be able to return to work at her 50-person call center job, that's likely to be a reasonable accommodation an employer would be hard pressed to refuse.
In another case, Echevarria v. AstraZeneca Pharmacetical LP, a pharmaceutical sales representative was diagnosed with severe depression and anxiety. The employee presented medical certification and requested leave estimated to last approximately five months. At the end of the employee's five-month leave, the employee stated that she was unable to work. Her psychiatrist estimated her incapacity would last an additional 12 months. The court held that this additional leave request was unreasonable. Importantly, the court noted that the employee was unable to demonstrate that the requested additional leave would enable her to perform the essential functions of her position at a determinable time.
Employers should keep in mind that an employee who suffers a work-related injury and needs time off to recover may be entitled to leave rights of indefinite duration under state workers' compensation laws.
The takeaway: employers should not assume that they do not have to provide additional leave once the employee has exhausted other available leave. Employers faced with the challenge of an employee with a disability seeking medical leave after FMLA leave has been exhausted, or when the employee is not eligible for FMLA leave, should contact experienced employment counsel for an individualized assessment of the employer's best course of action prior to terminating the employee.


For fans of Let's Pretend This Never Happened and I Heart My Little A-Holes comes a candid and hilarious collection of essays on motherhood from the award-winning television comedy writer and producer of 2 Broke Girls and The King of Queens, who swears she loves her kids—when she's not hiding from them.
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Founded in 1985, by Adrian Olabuenaga and Lesley Bailey his wife. Their first product collection was a limited edition series of jewelry designed by Peter Shire, a member of the famous Memphis group. Later, with the help of Barbara Radice & designer/architect Ettore Sottsass, ACME's new collection (Memphis Designers for ACME), was a huge collection of jewelry over a hundred works, with 14 designers and architects, including Andrea Branzi, Aldo Cibic, Michele De Lucchi, Ettore Sottsass, Matteo Thun, etc. This collection debuted at the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum 1986, along with the last stop for the MEMPHIS touring show, before returning to Italy . This was followed by many collections; such as "Architects for ACME" (curated by Phillip Johnson), "Artists for ACME" (curated by Billy Al Bengston), "Alchimia for ACME" (curated by Alessandro Mendini), "ACME Collection" (curated by Rod Dyer), "Hispanic Artists for ACME" (curated by Carlos Almaraz), working with many designers from different backgrounds and specializations, achieving success and gaining new status in the design industry. After that, ACME developed into different products like wristwatches, men's accessories, leather goods, etc. ACME also completed an architectural work, where Ettore Sottsass designed CASA Maui for Adrian and Lesley in Maui, Hawaii. In recent years, ACME has continually created new collections and developed new technologies to produce writing tools, driving new possibilities for designs in this area.