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Ingram leads Duke past No. 13 Louisville, 72-65
Updated: 9:31 PM EST Feb 8, 2016
Derek Forrest
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Freshman Brandon Ingram had 18 points and 10 rebounds, and Duke beat No. 13 Louisville 72-65 on Monday night. Grayson Allen scored 19 points and Luke Kennard had 11 for the Blue Devils (18-6, 7-4 Atlantic Coast Conference). They shot 50 percent in the second half and hit 10 of 12 free throws in the final 3:14 while beating a ranked opponent for the first time this season. Donovan Mitchell scored 17 points and Quentin Snider, who fouled out with 2:01 left, added 12 for the Cardinals (19-5, 8-3), who shot 56 percent in the second half and erased a 15-point deficit but missed a chance to take sole possession of first place in the league.The key stretch came when Louisville had the ball down 66-62 with about 2½ minutes left. Ray Spalding left a layup short off the iron, Duke's Marshall Plumlee grabbed the rebound and it was at least a two-possession game the rest of the way.
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Freshman Brandon Ingram had 18 points and 10 rebounds, and Duke beat No. 13 Louisville 72-65 on Monday night.
Grayson Allen scored 19 points and Luke Kennard had 11 for the Blue Devils (18-6, 7-4 Atlantic Coast Conference). They shot 50 percent in the second half and hit 10 of 12 free throws in the final 3:14 while beating a ranked opponent for the first time this season.
Donovan Mitchell scored 17 points and Quentin Snider, who fouled out with 2:01 left, added 12 for the Cardinals (19-5, 8-3), who shot 56 percent in the second half and erased a 15-point deficit but missed a chance to take sole possession of first place in the league.
The key stretch came when Louisville had the ball down 66-62 with about 2½ minutes left. Ray Spalding left a layup short off the iron, Duke's Marshall Plumlee grabbed the rebound and it was at least a two-possession game the rest of the way.

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POTATO DAYS FESTIVAL BARNESVILLE, MINNESOTA
August 25 & 26, 2023
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About Potato Days
The weekend extravaganza is located in Barnesville, Minnesota. Our town is about 25 miles Southeast of the Fargo-Moorhead area right off of I-94. (Scroll down for a map)
Shops and booths run along Front Street. The main stage, seating, and food court can be found at the juncture of Front Street and 2nd Avenue Southeast.
In 2022 Potato Days will happen Friday August 26th from 10am to 10pm and Saturday August 27th from 7am to 1am.
The modern era of this celebration arose in 1991, but the origins of this event date all the way back to 1931.
Some of the main sources of motivation for this festival are to make memories, strengthen relationships, support local pillars, indulge in some tasty food, and have some good old fashion fun.
This gathering also signifies our ties to the past and honors the traditions and foundation laid down before us.
There is food, shopping, games, activities, contests, and entertainment for all to enjoy. No matter your age or taste, we are confident that you will find something that brings a smile to your face. It really is an ideal family outing.
This festival requires a great deal of year-round planning and coordination from the director, Jeff Swenson, and the Potato Days board. There are also quite a few other individuals who selflessly volunteer their time and effort. Without the support of sponsors and private donors there would not be enough resources to make this such an epic weekend. Even all those who are attendees and patrons are contributing. Many thanks are in order.
If you have any questions, concerns, suggestions, or feedback we are always all ears. Contact us here.
If you have fun pictures or videos from Potato Days, please share them on our Facebook and/or Instagram!
(links at the bottom center of this page)
A little more insight
Old fashioned fun awaits in Barnesville, Minnesota as the lowly spud takes center stage for the annual Potato Days Festival. Touted as one of the best potato producing areas in the country, Barnesville is proud to celebrate their potato heritage with two days of "spud"tacular excitement.
A perfect weekend getaway, the entire family will enjoy bushels of activities from sunrise to sunset. The festival, originally dating back to the late 30's, combines some of the more traditional fare with a new millennium twist. There's something for everyone, from the nostalgic Potato Picking and Peeling Contests to the updated Miss Tator Tot Pageant and the specialized art of Mashed Potato Sculpturing.
Besides a wild assortment of potato-theme contests, games and displays on the slate, the Potato Days Festival also boasts an "a-peeling" menu of potato favorites. The Norwegian influence is evident in the "spud"riffic smorgasbord which includes lefse, potato dumplings, potato sausage, baked potatoes, and potato pancakes. In addition, participants are invited to display their culinary talents as part of the National Lefse Cookoff and Potato Cookoff Competition.
Rated as one of the best festivals in the country by US News and World Reports, the Barnesville Potato Days Festival truly captures small town American at its finest!
What particularly stands out in the eyes of visitors from across the country is the festival's allegiance to its namesake...potatoes. Virtually everything you could possibly use a potato for is done over the two days...pick it, peel it, fry it, race it, bake it; but most of all enjoy it! One visit and we're sure that you'll agree, "It's a smashing good time!"
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This is the first big city of the West Coast, Seattle, Washington. As usual, it's raining. Almost like a storm is coming... After parking at a REI, we went shopping. Seb decided to buy a new raincoat that seemed way better than the old one. Ready to put it to the test, we walked outside and... there is the sun!
Nice view from the Space Needle.
Crescent Lake, Olympic National Park, WA
Mount St Helens, Wa.
We tried to see Mount St Helens but mountain weather is unpredictable. This is where the road ends in ''winter''. With a 15C temperature at the bottom we had a hard time believing it but I guess we will have to come back to see it.
Crescent City was a nice quiet town on the west coast. Our first town entering California from the north and our first beach.
Jedediah Smith Redwood State Park
The park is amazing with its narrow dirt road going through giant trees. It's almost unreal. It is just about 10 miles long but really worth the detour.
This is one of the biggest tree we saw on the west coast. It is really impressive to think that they were already there when the vikings discovered America.
West Coast Cliffs
West Coats road
The road was amazing. That's when you are missing the sports car. The view is also impressive with beaches, cliffs and the ocean.
This is the last moment in Fort St John for a while... We are now ready to leave this little town we called home for almost 5 years. It was a great adventure to move here and have a new start from nothing. We both had great jobs here, met a lot of interesting people and had fun. We moved here with a car full of stuff, we filled a house with stuff, we sold everything and we are now leaving with a backpack full. It is the beginning of our road trip to Québec via San Francisco and a few National Parks.
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Blood donations, legal tussles and Mister Rogers
Your Daily Package of queer headlines and quirky stories from around the world
By Niko Bell Oct 22, 2014, 1:30 PM EDT
Puerto Rican judge shoots down same-sex marriage (Puerto Rico)
A Puerto Rican judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging the territory's law restricting marriage to one man and one woman. United States District Judge Juan Perez-Gimenez based his decision on a 1972 Supreme Court refusal to hear a Minnesota gay marriage lawsuit, a precedent that most judges now see as outdated. In that case, Baker v Nelson, the Supreme Court said gay marriage was not a federal issue. Perez-Gimenez went further, saying gay marriage eroded the "fundamental unit of the political order." Dale Carpenter at The Washington Post writes that Perez-Gimenez's decision to base his arguments on the old, mostly disregarded Baker v Nelson might force the US Supreme Court to decide the issue once and for all.
Read more at The Washington Post.
Human Rights Watch: Jamaican gays face unchecked violence (Jamaica)
According to a new report from Human Rights Watch, gay men and lesbians in Jamaica are frequently harassed, insulted, beaten, raped or killed because of their orientation. Authorities do not step in to protect gay people, the report says, because police forces are often equally homophobic, and "buggery" laws still criminalize same-sex sexual behaviour. "LGBT people in Jamaica face intolerable levels of violence and cannot rely on the police," Human Rights Watch director Graeme Reid says.
Read more at Human Rights Watch or watch the video here.
Photographer captures 1980s gay couples at home (USA)
David Rosenberg at Slate profiles photographer Sage Sohier's book At Home with Themselves: Same-Sex Couples in 1980s America. Sohier captured pictures of gay couples at home in the midst of the AIDS crisis, when gay families were still highly stigmatized and hidden. Many of her subjects "seemed excited at the idea of being seen, and wanted their relationships to be recognized and valued," she told Slate.
See Sohier's photos at Slate.
Michael Long: Mister Rogers wasn't gay, just nice (USA)
In an essay at The Huffington Post, writer Michael Long argues that American children's entertainer Fred Rogers was not gay, just remarkably accepting. Long sifts the evidence for Rogers's homosexuality: lack of machismo, close gay friends, sympathy for gay rights and once counselling a gay co-worker to stay in the closet to preserve his career. Rogers, Long concludes, was not gay, just a pioneer in accepting people just the way they are.
Read more at The Huffington Post.
MP: Lift ban on sexually active gay men donating blood (UK)
Conservative British MP Michael Fabricant says the UK's ban on sexually active gay men donating blood is outdated and medically unfounded. Under current policy, gay men in the UK must be celibate for 12 months before donating blood. Fabricant says good testing is a better policy than discrimination. "How can it be logical that a straight promiscuous man who might have two different partners each night of the year can donate blood while a gay man in a monogamous, loving relationship cannot," he says.
Read more at the Telegraph.
Gay blogger accused of contempt of court for pointing out discrimination (Singapore)
Singaporean gay blogger Au Waipang appeared in court Oct 21 on charges of contempt of court for criticizing discrimination against gay people in Singapore's legal system. Au, writing about a court case involving a man who was forced to resign from his job for being gay, said he had low hopes because he lacked confidence in Singapore's judiciary. Prosecutors say that by criticizing judges, Au was suggesting that Singapore's legal system is not just or fair, amounting to contempt of court. The crime of "scandalizing the court" is based on a long-rejected English law but is still used in Singapore.
Read more at Au's blog, Yawning Bread.
Photo credit: Human Rights Watch
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The onset of stretch marks will never go unnoticed since they are always a different color than the rest of the skin and they appear as stripes. Most people in Delaware, Hockessin believe stretch marks only occurs in women, but the fact is anyone can get stretch marks despite gender and age. There are cases of teenagers, bodybuilders, and the obvious pregnant women having stretch marks.
When puberty begins there are a lot of physical changes in a teenager and one of these changes is the hormonal changes which affects how the body operates. Teenagers are mostly known to have a craving for food, and it is due to this factor they gain weight rapidly until the skin can't cope with the stretch.
Not all teens in Delaware, Hockessin get stretch marks, and this can be attributed to the genetic makeup of each. If in any case, you come from a family that has stretch marks you are likely to get them since you carry the same genes.
Hormones can also impact how collagen is produced in the body and when the production doesn't meet the rapid growth, the skin tears to allow for the expansion.
It might seem impossible for a bodybuilder in Delaware, Hockessin to get stretch marks, but the truth is they do get stretch marks. How is this possible? During exercises, bodybuilders focus on building muscles, and you might as well think they don't add weight because of the strenuous workouts they perform, but that is not true.
Muscles are located deep in the skin, and when they are stimulated to grow, they make the skin to stretch from the inside. In bodybuilders, muscle growth is rapid forcing the surface to extend beyond its threshold resulting in stretch marks.
Pregnancy comes with a lot of changes including stretch marks. The surprising fact is that not all women get stretch marks during pregnancy and this can be attributed to best skincare practice and eating healthy.
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Gaining weight for some people occurs very fast, and by the time they realize they are gaining weight the damage is already done. During the rapid weight gain, the skin stretches faster than collagen production, and as a result, the skin tears and stretch marks are formed.
There are few people in Delaware, Hockessin who are lucky not to have stretch marks during weight gain and when you observe most of them it is because they use moisturizing creams on their skin or they don't have stretch marks in their genes.
People think when you lose weight, you also lose stretch marks, but this isn't the truth. When you lose weight what happens is your stretched skin bounces back, and the stretch marks appear to increase because they are longer far from each other. Because the skin stretched beyond its' elastic limit, the surface forms creases from sagging skin.
Some medicines in Delaware, Hockessin, weaken the skin and affect the production of collagen in the skin. When the skin thins out the stretching limit decreases and hence when the skin stretches to the reasonable limit it tears.
An excellent example of a medication that affects the normal functioning of the skin is corticosteroid in the form of cream, pills or lotion. If you are using this type of drugs and you are experiencing stretch marks probably, it might be the cause.
It is important to discuss with your healthcare giver concerning other alternatives or possibly reducing the dosage of the corticosteroid.
People all over the world including Delaware, Hockessin have a different genetic makeup, and each person body operates relatively different when it comes to other matters. An excellent example of a genetic difference in people is some have thick long hair, and they don't struggle to grow hair and others have thin hair, and they need to put in lots of work to stimulate hair growth.
The same applies to stretch marks; there are people who gain weight, go through multiple pregnancies and lose weight without getting any stretch marks. On the hand, there are those who get stretch marks even with a slight gain, and it is because it runs in the family history.
Though stretch marks are not a health risk, it does come in the way of some peoples life. There are people in Delaware, Hockessin who have reported being bullied because of stretch marks and their self-esteem affected. It is because of the many individuals who are self-conscious about their stretch marks that creams and other stretch mark removal procedures were born.
Before you choose a treatment plan that is a match to your stretch marks, it is crucial to identify the root cause of their appearance. You can always get professional advice from Bio-Stria if you live in Delaware, Hockessin.
You are seeking advice from a professional such as an esthetician is the best option before you choose what you want. That way you are sure of whatever you are getting yourself into and not just doing a blind treatment without knowing if it works.
Keeping the skin moist helps the skin to be pliable and ready to receive any beneficial nutrients. Moisturizing is a crucial step in a skin regimen and can never ignore if you are looking to have smooth, healthy skin.
For those who reside in Delaware, Hockessin and are looking for a natural moisturizing cream, Bio-Idra is the best. Bio-Idra cream is made from organically occurring ingredients derived from plant origin.
The UV radiation can destroy the skin structure by affecting collagen production and using sunscreen or cream that can protect the skin from the effects of the sun will aid in a successful treatment plan.
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Q: XPath search in Multiple Values I have a XML like:
<user id="1">
  <first_name>Max</first_name>
  <last_name>Mustermann</last_name>
</user>

How can I create the XPath to get the user_id when I search "Max Mustermann"
Thanks

A: If that example XML is accurate, including the indentation (i.e. there is a whitespace-only text node in between the closing </first_name> and opening <last_name> tags), then you can simply use normalize-space():
//user[normalize-space() = 'Max Mustermann']/@id

This works because the string value of an element node in XPath is by definition the concatenation of all its descendant text nodes, and applying normalize-space to that value will strip off the leading and trailing whitespace and collapse any internal runs of whitespace characters down to a single space.
If the XML doesn't contain those whitespace text nodes then the user element's normalize-space() value would be MaxMustermann, so you'll have to construct the value for comparison by hand:
//user[normalize-space(concat(first_name, ' ', last_name)) = 'Max Mustermann']/@id

A: Something like this...?
//user[first_name='Max' and last_name='Mustermann']/@id

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Last Friday evening, I went along to the Donkey in Leicester to watch Idle Empire. I first saw them as an acoustic duo back in the days when I was involved in compering OBS showcases. A friend, Laura, who I'd not seen for some time got in touch with me out of the blue and asked if I'd go along – for she's now managing them.
The Leicester Mercury appears to be publishing more of my reviews again (albeit for bigger shows like Rick Astley at De Montfort Hall) so I thought I'd send a write-up of this gig into the paper. To my knowledge it's not been used. Phil Bull took some great photos from the evening that are also gathering dust. Waste not, want not.. It's not my best writing ever but let's add it to a Sonic Breakfast.
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Deism is a worldview. It is the belief that if there is a god he is not intimately involved with or concerned for man and the world, and that he does not interfere with the laws of the universe. Deism is a religion based on human reason rather than revelation.
The peer-reviewed journal of the British Association for the Study of Religions (BASR). It began as a journal published on disk. In 1993 it became a web-based journal and part of the Internet Journal of Religion hosted at the University of Marburg.
Articles are available online in PDF format, with old-format items accessible here.
– Source: A Biblical Guide To Orthodoxy And Heresy Part One: The Case For Doctrinal Discernment (an article from the Christian Research Journal, Summer 1990, page 28) by Robert M. Bowman.


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Q: Intelligently decide on the correct SI prefix for a number I have a field in my MS Access database for the length of a DNA sequence.
DNA sequences are measured in basepairs (bp or b). This is an integer value. However, often they are between 1000-10000, so it is sometimes convenient to use kilobases (kb) instead.
In my field, I want to enter the value as integer showing the number of basepairs. I want Access to look at how big this number is, and if it is smaller than 100, display as #" bp", and otherwise divide it by 1000 and display as #.###" kb".
If possible, it would be great if I could also enter some numbers directly as kb, and have Access convert them to bp, provided this does not involve too many keystrokes per entry.
Is this possible in MS Access 2013? If so, how?

A: For display purposes, you could create a separate Text field and use it to store the formatted value. For a table named [dna]
id - AutoNumber, Primary Key
dnaSeqCount - Long Integer
dnaSeqDisplay - Text(100)
you could create a Before Change data macro like this

so you could enter the integer value into [dnaSeqCount] and have the [dnaSeqDisplay] formatted automatically:
id  dnaSeqCount  dnaSeqDisplay
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 1            1  1 bp
 2           99  99 bp
 3          100  0.100 kb
 4          101  0.101 kb
 5          109  0.109 kb
 6          110  0.110 kb
 7          111  0.111 kb
 8          999  0.999 kb
 9         1000  1.000 kb
10         1001  1.001 kb
11         1009  1.009 kb
12         1010  1.010 kb
13         1999  1.999 kb
14         2000  2.000 kb
15         2001  2.001 kb


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Space | 07. August 2018 | posted by Freya Scheffler-Kayser
Always on Saturday... everyday life on the ISS
Credit: ESA/NASA
Saturdays on the ISS: ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst during the weekly 'house cleaning' out in space
Visit Alexander Gerst's Flickr gallery for more photos
The International Space Station ISS orbits Earth every 90 minutes, which means that the astronauts witness 16 sunrises and sunsets every single day. All the same, Alexander Gerst and his colleagues maintain virtually the same circadian rhythm as we do in Europe. They are awake when we are awake, and sleep when we sleep. Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) applies on board the Space Station. During summer in Germany, we are two hours ahead of UCT, but only one hour ahead in winter. So the six astronauts living on the ISS are only just getting up while we are already on our way to work. read more
Space | 31. July 2018 | posted by Volker Schmid
From horizon to horizon - Alexander Gerst phones home
Credit: DLR (CC-BY 3.0)
Künzelsau residents say 'Hello Alex!' and greet the ISS
At about 16:30 on 26 July 2018, the main street of Künzelsau, Alexander Gerst's hometown, resembled a festival: around 5000 people were on their feet. The street was packed and everyone listened attentively to the stage announcements, waiting for the call from the ISS. The event had been underway since 11:00, starting with a press conference in the Town Hall. All that remained was to quickly integrate a few additional charts into the short presentation and then it would be underway. Following the official welcome and the opening address by the DLR press spokesperson, it was my turn, focusing on the experiments and benefits of research on the ISS. But just minutes earlier, I suddenly received an e-mail on my phone. read more
Space | 24. July 2018 | posted by Clemens Plank
SOFIA's record-breaking campaign in New Zealand
Credit: © DLR
Although they worked in shifts, almost the entire German SOFIA and GREAT team in New Zealand made it onto the photo
Christchurch, New Zealand, 2 June 2018, 11:03 local time – the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) lands right on time for her fifth deployment 'down under'. We use the term deployment in connection with SOFIA to describe a temporary posting of the observatory with regular flight operations at a location other than its home base in Palmdale, California. Christchurch is the destination for June and July, when we get away from the short summer nights in California to take advantage of the benefits provided by New Zealand's winter. In addition to the longer winter nights, this is due in particular to the clear skies above the South Pacific. What is more, the Southern Hemisphere allows us to see a part of the sky that, from California, remains 'hidden' beneath the equator and is therefore simply invisible. This includes the centre of the Milky Way, as well as the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, which are of great interest to astronomers. read more
Loss of power for the ISS MFX-2 experiment
Image: NASA
DLR's MFX-2 experiment on the ISS
Time is a precious commodity – especially in a unique laboratory complex such as the International Space Station (ISS). When something fails to go to plan, the result is additional stress and strain for the planners, researchers and everyone downstream who is involved in experimentation – everyone is keenly waiting for his/her timeslot. Last week it was DLR's MFX-2 Planetary Simulator that was involved. This had to be rebooted following an unexpected loss of power and some data was lost. The loss of power possibly damaged the start-up file on the USB boot stick. It is possible that the USB boot drive suffered damage as a result of the additional radiation experienced at an altitude of 400 kilometres. read more
Space | 18. July 2018 | posted by Freya Scheffler-Kayser
Direct line to astronaut Alexander Gerst
Students speak by radio with Alexander Gerst on the ISS
Working with the younger generation – getting children and young people interested in space, natural sciences and high-tech professions – is an important part of Alexander Gerst's 'horizons' mission. The ARISS calls – live radio contacts between selected schools and @Astro_Alex – are particularly popular. ARISS stands for 'Amateur Radio on the International Space Station' and is organised by Alexander Gerst, the mission team at the DLR Space Administration in Bonn and the German Amateur Radio Club (DARC). Each mission usually involves radio contact with three or four selected schools in Germany. But because it is such an unforgettable experience for the students, and demand far exceeds supply, Gerst made a personal effort to increase the number long before 'horizons' was underway. Ten ISS radio contacts have now been organised with 14 schools and three DLR_School_Labs in Germany, as well as with one school in St. Vith (Belgium). read more
Space | 13. July 2018 | posted by Christian Karrasch
CIMON – when science fiction becomes reality
Picture-book launch of the SpaceX Falcon-9 from Cape Canaveral in Florida, USA, on the morning of 29 June 2018. CIMON is on board in the Dragon capsule
Cape Canaveral, Florida – it is really thrilling – go CIMON, go! Accompanied by a thunderous roar, the SpaceX Falcon 9 launcher slowly rises from the launch pad above a dazzling stream of fire, delivering 7600 kilonewtons of thrust to thwart gravity painting a spectacular picture against the early morning skies over Florida. This 'dragon's tail' was even visible from the ISS itself. It takes the Dragon capsule for the SpaceX CRS-15 (Commercial Resupply Service) mission three days to arrive at the International Space Station (ISS), carrying a payload of precisely 2676 kilograms (provisions, equipment and scientific experiments) in the 'dragon's body'. What made this supply flight to the ISS so special was that it included a whole series of German experiments for Alexander Gerst's 'horizons' mission. Among them was CIMON (Crew Interactive Mobile Companion). read more
Space | 13. July 2018 | posted by Marta Cortesao
Monitoring microbes in spaceflight: the search for innovative antimicrobial surfaces
Marta Cortesao at ILA Berlin 2018 Science Slam, presenting what mould is, and its presence on the ISS
The International Space Station (ISS) is more than just a laboratory. To astronauts, it is their home. To survive outside of Earth's protective atmosphere, astronauts depend on the station's closed environment, where they have constant temperature and moisture, an atmosphere, and several life-support systems such as water recycling and waste management. When you are in such an isolated habitat, especially one surrounded by harsh space conditions, you want everything to go exactly as planned. So, what happens when your food, walls, windows and systems become colonised with unwelcome microbes? read more
Aeronautics | 11. July 2018 | posted by Johann Dauer
Unmanned helicopter superARTIS delivered humanitarian goods
Preparation of the next flight
During the second week of the pilot operation in the Dominican Republic, the superARTIS team performed different humanitarian delivery missions together with Wings for Aid and the World Food Programme. The flights took place in an area called 'Bajo Yuna', which suffers from frequent flooding and related 'last mile' delivery problems. These flight tests are one of the founding stones to connect DLR's UAS projects with applications in humanitarian technology. read more
Aeronautics | 28. June 2018 | posted by Johann Dauer
Helicopter UAS superARTIS on a humanitarian mission in the Dominican Republic
Discussions with local stakeholders such as the Red Cross and identifying possible missions for the simulation
Last weekend, a team from Wings for Aid and DLR travelled to the Dominican Republic (DR), to test Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) for humanitarian aid. They planned to deliver disposable boxes carrying 20 kilograms of emergency goods and drop them safely at their destination using DLR's helicopter UAS, superARTIS. read more
Space | 28. June 2018 | posted by Johannes Weppler
From Stuttgart to the ISS – the arduous journey of a student experiment
Credit: KSat e.V./Sandro Schönhoff
PAPELL experiment team with NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine (centre)
The 'horizons' mission is very exciting – not just for us, the members of the DLR mission team. It is also a fascinating time for student groups from the universities of Stuttgart, Duisburg-Essen and Frankfurt – all of them winners of the 'High-flyers' competition, which was organised by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the German Physical Society (Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft; DPG) in 2016. read more
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Vitamin T has a great client looking for a marketing coordinator for a 3-4 month contract in Rosemont. The most important skills included event planning, merchandising and experience with excel. Sound like you? Apply today!
The Marketing Coordinator will assist in executing marketing programs and trades shows, coordinating print and fulfillment, coordinating brand builders, and assist in coordinating promotional analysis reporting.
• Assists in the development and implementation of promotional programs and launch activities, including writing program creative briefs, proofreading and editing multi-channel content.
• Assists in tracking the results of marketing programs for continuous improvement.
• Implements processes for updating brand builder merchandising program. Works with the vendor to update the website.
• Assists in the management of print merchandising, inventory details, and fulfillment process and launch activities. Tracks use and provides status reports.
• Updates the fulfillment ordering site to reflect current programs and monitors the material and inventory levels to support sales.
• Works with internal and external sources, including 3rd party vendors, to achieve timely implementation of marketing programs. Assists in managing relationships with outside suppliers and vendors. Negotiates print cost savings opportunities.
• Coordinates all aspects of the trade show process including pre- and post-show logistics to ensure a successful show.
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The Washoe County School District has partnered with Renown to create and pursue an internship program, in which high school students within our community are able to gain exposure and firsthand experience within their particular field of interest.
Though Renown is a health network, it offers a diverse field of careers and passions that all coincide with the Renown setting. Ranging from medical to fine arts, this internship program offers so much to a variety of people and their interests. Renown is so much more than stethoscopes and syringes. Renown is a diverse community of varying interests and occupations. It is because of this that the Renown Internship Program is so successful with what it offers and teaches.
The close to 30 students in the program this year are eager and excited to learn and grow throughout the course of the semester. They will need 45 hours of on-site service and are already tackling their hours and having fun in the process. Through projects and collaborations, these students are able to establish relationships and dabble in a professional environment. This experience allows for students to better evaluate their career choice and gain insight into what tasks their career consists of.
An internship also allows for a student to experience and witness a passion and interest of theirs, without the mandated use of textbooks and algorithms. Instead, an internship offers exposure to the reality of the working world — how it functions, its complexities and its adaptability to the ever-changing workforce. An internship allows for a bond between intern and occupation.


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package tv.amwa.maj.enumeration;

import tv.amwa.maj.industry.MediaEnumerationValue;
import tv.amwa.maj.integer.Int64;

/**
 *
Specifies the kind of a {@linkplain tv.amwa.maj.model.Package package}. This is used when searching
 * for a package.

 *
 * @see tv.amwa.maj.model.Package
 * @see tv.amwa.maj.model.ContentStorage#countPackages(PackageKind)
 *
 *
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public enum PackageKind
	implements MediaEnumerationValue {

    /**
     *
Package is a {@linkplain tv.amwa.maj.model.CompositionPackage composition package}.

     */
    CompositionPackage (0),
    /**
     *
Package is a {@linkplain tv.amwa.maj.model.MaterialPackage material package}.

     */
    MaterialPackage (1),
    /**
     *
Package is a {@linkplain tv.amwa.maj.model.SourcePackage source package} described by a
     * {@linkplain tv.amwa.maj.model.AAFFileDescriptor file descriptor}.

     */
    FilePackage (2),
    /**
     *
Package is a {@linkplain tv.amwa.maj.model.SourcePackage source package} described by a
     * {@linkplain tv.amwa.maj.model.TapeDescriptor tape descriptor}.

     */
    TapePackage (3),
    /**
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Package is a {@linkplain tv.amwa.maj.model.SourcePackage source package} described by a
     * {@linkplain tv.amwa.maj.model.FilmDescriptor film descriptor}.

     */
    FilmPackage (4),
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Package is a {@linkplain tv.amwa.maj.model.MaterialPackage material package} and the primary
     * package within its package.

     *
     * @see tv.amwa.maj.model.Preface#getPrimaryPackage()
     * @see tv.amwa.maj.model.Preface#setPrimaryPackage(tv.amwa.maj.model.Package)
     */
    PrimaryPackage (5),
    /**
     *
Matches any {@linkplain tv.amwa.maj.model.Package package}.

     */
    AllPackages (6),
    /**
     *
Package is a {@linkplain tv.amwa.maj.model.SourcePackage source package} described by a
     * {@linkplain tv.amwa.maj.model.PhysicalDescriptor physical descriptor}.

     */
    PhysicalPackage (7),
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    private final int value;

    PackageKind (int value) { this.value = value; }

    /**
     * @see tv.amwa.maj.industry.MediaEnumerationValue#value()
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    @Int64 public long value() { return (long) value; }

    public String symbol() { return name(); }

}

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The Center for Media, Religion and Culture is pleased to launch the Third Spaces Blog as a place to survey and reflect on contemporary mediations of religion and spirituality. We begin with a perhaps too-obvious premise that much of what we know of the "religious" is at least present in, if not actually generated in and by, the media and processes of mediation. The media landscape is rich with examples of religion and things that bear a close resemblance to religion. Film, music, gaming, television, smart phones, and social media are significant spaces where the "religious" is produced, consumed, negotiated, and remediated. As such, we are not interested in the study of religion solely in terms of the technical properties of the media and their impact on the religious experience. We look at these media as complex texts of social practice which produce their own spiritual repertoire, discursive logics, aesthetics of persuasion, and architecture of circulation. We hope this blog will become a dynamic discussion forum where research fellows of our center share examples of case studies and key findings from their research projects. We also hope to engage the larger community of scholars, religion practitioners, media professionals who are interested in the growing and creative intersections between religion and the media.
We called our blog Third Spaces as a reference to a working theoretical concept our center is developing to understand better the particularities of the lived and mediated experience of religion and spirituality today. As you will see in subsequent posts, we are interested in the ambivalent encounters of old and new forms of mediation and of religion and how the emergence of convergent spaces facilitates the creation and negotiation of religious practices and communities. We believe that to understand mediated religion today we must pay attention to the innovative ways in which religion migrates into new realms that are not always associated with the sacred.


Written by Sean Grundy, the one-off radio drama will explore the obstacles faced by the young Tolkien and his future wife when they fell in love over 100 years ago.
Tune in BBC Radio 4 on Saturday 19 August at 14:30.
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien and Edith Mary Bratt first met in 1908. They were both orphans living in a boarding house in Birmingham. Despite the difference in their ages and religions – she was 19 and Protestant, he was 16 and Catholic – they fell in love.
When Ronald's guardian, Father Francis Xavier Morgan, found out, he forbade him to see Edith again until he came of age at 21. Ronald reluctantly obeyed and later left the city after winning an exhibition to Oxford. Edith went to live in Cheltenham. At midnight on the night he turned 21, Ronald wrote to Edith declaring his undying feelings. Unfortunately, in the intervening years, she had got engaged to someone else. He raced to her in Cheltenham, they walked through the countryside and Ronald had one chance to win Edith's heart.
Their love was the inspiration for the Beren and Luthien story at the heart of Tolkien's novel The Silmarillion.


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Q: I am getting variables with bundle but its not updating im trying to develop a pedometer. I got steps with sensor but ı need send them to fragment. For that ı used a bundle. Steps variable is passing to fragment but its only getting first value. That first value is zero and i gave that value when i create  variable. This value is updating ım seeing that on stepsTextview. But in bundle not. How can ı get updated variables when sensor changed?
Activity Code:
@Override
public void onSensorChanged(SensorEvent sensorEvent) {
    if (sensorEvent.sensor == stepCounter){
        stepCount = (int) sensorEvent.values[0];
        textView.setText(String.valueOf(stepCount));
        CountStepFragment fragment = new CountStepFragment();
        Bundle bundle = new Bundle();
        bundle.putInt("Adım", stepCount);
        fragment.setArguments(bundle);
    }

}

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Bundle bundle = this.getArguments();
    if (bundle != null) {
        myInt = bundle.getInt("Adım",0);
        Log.i("sda",String.valueOf(myInt));

    }

A: what you're doing here is passing that variable one time
Bundle bundle = new Bundle();
bundle.putInt("Adım", stepCount);
fragment.setArguments(bundle);

this only happens when you create the fragment
in order to achieve this in your fragment, you'll have to find a way to implement this code inside the actual fragment :
@Override
public void onSensorChanged(SensorEvent sensorEvent) {
    if (sensorEvent.sensor == stepCounter){
        stepCount = (int) sensorEvent.values[0];
        //now use stepCount to update your fragment
    }

}


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RTMapExample new installTitle: 'ColoredAfrica03'
		code:
		'

			b := RTMapBuilder new.

	countries := RTMapBuilder africanPopulation.
	countriesName := countries collect: #first.
	max := (countries collect: [ :c | c at: 2 ]) max.

	cn := RTMultiLinearColor new
		colors: (ColorPalette sequential colors: 8 scheme: ''GnBu'');
		command: [ :aCountry | (countries detect: [ :c | c first = aCountry ]) second / max ].

	b countries: countriesName.
	b color: cn.
	b scale: 2.
	b build.
	^ b view'


It was in Alsace that the great history of textile printing was written. Even before 1759, when Louis XV issued the decree which allowed its full development from a craft to a prestigious royal industry. At Ribeauvillé, in the hollow of a valley, the Manufacture d'Impression sur Etoffes has been refining and perfecting its knowledge of fabric printing for more than two centuries. Uncompromising in the choice of fabrics: the finest cotton yarns are woven into a peach-like satin: an inimitable talent to make the colours shimmer, with sometimes more than twenty nuances in the same design. And constant creativity in the choice of patterns, inviting us to a table which is so much more than just a decorative object.
Still today, the Beauvillé collection is produced entirely in France and since 2009 is proud to display the label «Entreprise du Patrimoine Vivant» (Living Hertitage Company).


The Gionee X1 is a budget smartphone that offers decent performance with 2GB of RAM and Android 7.0 Nougat at an affordable price. It has a 3000mAh battery which, when managed well should last for a day. The X1 makes it easier for selfie-lovers to take photos with its front camera using the rear-mounted fingerprint sensor which doubles as a security unlocker.
The Gionee X1 comes compact with a 5-IPS LCD inch display which has a 720 x 1280 (HD) pixel resolution and 294 PPI pixel density, offering a reasonable display quality. It has rather unnecessarily-large bezels on the top and bottom, resulting in a 66.2% screen-to-body ratio and 16:9 aspect ratio.
This smartphone has a metal aluminium body design with antenna lines running through its rear on the top and bottom. It has something for the security freaks with a fingerprint sensor placed below the main camera module on the rear. The phone comes at an average thickness of 8.8 millimetres.
The Gionee X1 is powered by a 64-bit MediaTek MT6737 processor with four cores clocked at 1.3GHz. Its graphics operations are carried out by a Mali-T720 GPU.
The phone offers decent multi-tasking with 2GB of RAM and comes with 16GB of internal memory for app installation and file storage, with the option of installing the default memory up to 256GB using an external microSD card.
The X1 sports an 8MP camera with Auto-focus for capturing clearer still images, a 1.4" sensor size and 1.12um pixel size at the rear with a LED flash which provides lighting.
The selfie shooter at the front is also an 8MP camera that should produce good selfiesand its shutter can be activated with the fingerprint sensor on the rear of the smartphone.
The Gionee X1 packs a 3000mAh battery which is capable of taking the user through a whole day on average use. It comes with a dual SIM slot and supports 4G networks with Voice-over-LTE (VoLTE). Amongst other connectivity options, the smartphone is capable of accessing FM Radio.
Out of the box, the Gionee X1 runs on Android 7.0 (Nougat) with Gionee's Amigo UI version 4.0 layered on top for extra software features and customizable options.
The X1 is currently not available in Nigeria at the time of writing and there is no word on its pricing and availablity.
Platform: Android Operating System (Android 7.0 Nougat) with Amigo UI 4.0.
2G Bands: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900.
3G Bands: HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100.
4G Bands: LTE (with VoLTE).
Resolution: 720 * 1080 pixels (HD).
Dimensions: 144.3 * 72.2 * 8.8 mm.
Chipset: 64-bit 1.3GHz MediaTek MT6737 processor.
External Storage: expandable up to 256GB with microSD.


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Junesploitation 2016 Day 7: Cars!
Days of screaming wheels, nights of reckless pleasure!
Posted by Patrick Bromley at 2:00 AM
Labels: car movies, junesploitation 2016
J.M. Vargas June 7, 2016 at 2:12 AM
Writer/producer/director/star/stunt driver H.B. Halicki's THE JUNKMAN (1982, 96 min.) on DVD for the first time. Also available on YouTube.
You want car porn, britches? Step right up to the greatest show on Earth and genre cinema circa 1982 (oh-oh, that year... again! :-P) to ever be financed and filmed by a millionaire who can't stop showing off his car collection, or how awesome he is. From the moment a series of moving little toy credit opens the flick until it's closing credits (sexiest 'This Movie is Rated PG by the MPAA' tag at the end of a movie... EVER!!!), you are looking at someone's unhealthy, complete obsession with cars and mechanical devices... and themselves. You know how Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" is about humanity being blasé about the awesome everyday things it can do and surround it? "The Junkman" is in awe of cars, planes, toys, explosions, H.B. Halicki and everything gear-related. It's the early 80's equivalent of "Top Gear: The Movie." Even the throwaway scene of firefighters putting out a flaming car wreck conveys a 'Wow! Look at these guys' tools, it's awesome!' feeling. Even the cops in this flick drive decked-out Camaro muscle cars!
It helps to have seen 1974's "Gone in 60 Seconds" and to know who H.B. Halicki is to get what is essentially the car version of 1989's "No Holds Barred" (Harlan B. Hollis = the 'Rip' that everyone knows is really Halicki). "The Junkman's" first act is basically "Kill Bill's" Deadly Viper Assassination Squad if they were in a live action "Speed Racer" episode. Cars flip, planes fly under bridges and stuff blows up real good for 45 min. straight! Unfortunately there's still an hour of movie left, and the weak acting/predictable story really start taking their toll. Feel free to turn off "The Junkman" halfway through, though you'll be missing out a yellow Corvette pulling a stunt/gag that the James Bond people nakedly stole for "A View To A Kill" three years later. Strictly for people who feel TV's "Dukes of Hazzard," "The A-Team" and "Knight Rider" waste too much time with smart writing and character development. You know, 90% of those shows' audience. ;-)
First category comment?! Feels like an F This Movie badge of honor:)
Vanishing Point (1971, Dir. Richard C. Sarafian)
Sorry to kick off the comments with something probably everyone has seen, but I hadn't until now and I have no idea why!
Totally loved it. The cars, the soundtrack everything about this movie exudes cool. And while it may not quite have the existential 'Easy Rider' type of punch that it probably had in the 70s it is still hugely entertaining now.
Glad to finally see this one. Hoping there's a blu ray I can track down.
I stand corrected. No one beats J.M to the first comment.
Don't worry. Thursday-Saturday and Monday I work overnights, so those days feel free to post first, early and often. ;-)
BTW Grant, did you see the European or the American version of "VP"? Basically did you see Kowalski pick a beautiful British hitchhiker on a dark road before the end (European version) or not (American version)? Great flick regardless of which version you watch, just curious.
Ross June 7, 2016 at 3:38 AM
Just finished watching this for the first time also. Beautiful looking movie. Really loved it.
J.M. No such beautiful British hitchhiker in the version I watched. I'm intrigued though, is that the only difference?
Pretty much yeah, that's it. It's a nice character moment for Kowalski that nevertheless padded the movie up just before the final race, which is a no-no for a racing movie. It got taken out of American cinemas to speed-up the pace and rush head-first into the finale. On the DVD I have and the Blu-ray of "VP" both versions are included.
Patrick McAllister June 7, 2016 at 8:46 AM
The Vanishing Point Blu-Ray is $6 on Amazon right now.
Daniel Epler June 7, 2016 at 8:55 AM
According to this thread's title we went back in time. A reference to the DeLorean?
Patrick Bromley June 7, 2016 at 10:58 AM
Oops. Fixed.
Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry (1974)
Wasn't a huge fan of this although the stunts and driving are good. I just never really found the leads and their banter as endearing as I think I was supposed to. It did work somewhat well as a double feature with Vanishing Point though.
VooDooFuzz June 7, 2016 at 7:06 AM
What about that ending though?
Ross June 7, 2016 at 2:31 PM
Yeah, it was unexpected and I liked that the credits pretty much immediately started rolling.
Travis Larsen June 7, 2016 at 5:44 AM
Dead End Drive-In (1986)
Its the future and the economy has collapsed causing a major crime wave. A teenage couple gets lured into a drive in movie theater where police have been trapping delinquents where they become prisoners. You go there to see a movie and they steal your tires and have electrified fences so you can't get away.
I've heard alot about this Australian exploitation movie and I was expecting more mad max style action. It finally cuts lose in the last ten minutes but I wish there was more of that kind of stuff. No one crashes cars like the Australians. The rest of the movie follows a wet noodle of a main character who reminded me of a less skinny DJ Qualls from the New Guy. He was very bland and uninteresting. His girlfriend is a fox though. I love the premise and it was interesting to see that the guy wants to escape the situation but his girl wants to stay because there's no life for her on the outside. I wish the movie would've explored that more. I liked it overall it just had potential to be great if the whole movie had the energy of the last 10 minutes. There's enough in it to like to recommend though.
Russell June 7, 2016 at 6:54 AM
Gas-s-s
I think I love this movie. There's a hilarious opening credits sequence with a cartoon John Wayne type, plus lots of weirdness and great cinematography. Imagine an Easy Rider inspired Richard Linklater scribed Mad Max ripoff, with a hint of Alejandro Jodorowsky and Dr. Strangelove. This is incredible. Watch it whenever you can.
Kyle Mulford June 7, 2016 at 7:29 AM
Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow (1959) (first time viewing)
I really enjoyed this little 50's drive-in comedy. A group of hot-rod teenagers is about to be evicted from their clubhouse. A reporter doing a story on them is trying to help them out. They find a woman who can't sell a house she owns because it's haunted, so they decide to use that. It's full of crazy 50's lingo, fun weird music, goofy comedy, and it had a Scooby-Doo ending before Scooby-Doo existed. The best part is a sarcastic, smart-ass parrot. Man: "Polly want a cracker?" Parrot: "What the hell would I do with that?" The parrot talks through the last half of the movie and I got a kick out of it. I really enjoyed this movie. It's only 64 minutes long and is on Amazon Prime.
The guy shooting guns during the "Geronimo" musical number is one of my favorite things in a movie ever.
Michael Giammarino June 7, 2016 at 1:03 PM
Another TCM Underground DVR watch for. I echo everyone's sentiment. This was fun. Seriously, what was up with the band firing guns? Wildest thing I've ever seen.
Kyle Mulford June 7, 2016 at 4:17 PM
I wonder how much property damage they do on nightly basis. Or do they just not have a roof there, because the guy behind the counter somehow shot a bird out of the sky. My 4 year old watched the first half of this movie with me and the only commentary she had was "Daddy, why do they keep shooting guns?" The only response I had was "I have no idea."
Steve K. June 7, 2016 at 8:12 AM
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) (first time viewing)
Two hours of glorious, nitro-fueled insanity. George Miller takes us back to my favorite post-apocalyptic world, where guitars with flame throwers not only exist, but are put to practical use. Tom Hardy acquits himself ably as Max, and Charlize Theron is terrific as Furiosa. The Road Warrior is still my favorite of the series, but this is easily next on the list.
Lindsay June 7, 2016 at 8:17 AM
The flame throwing guitar is one of the most epic things I have seen in a while.
VooDooFuzz June 7, 2016 at 4:26 PM
So I have this bloke who lives about 10 miles away, he is an internet star - he was a plumber turned inventor (Rather like Dick van Dyke in my Junesploitation pick today) he has built his own fire guitar....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwWw9g0EgHA
We're a funny lot around here!
Fast 5 (2011)
Sometimes you have a long day, and you want to come home and watch something shiney, something where nearly every piece of dialogue is a one liner (in a good way not a Die Another Day way), something with Dwayne Johnson, something with very pretty cars, none of them I can name, and a character constantly eating chips, something familar. I have seen this movie many times and I love it. I think this might be one of my favourite action movies. I have no idea what this says about me.
I also watched Fast 5. For me absolutely the best in the whole series. The car chase with the safes is just fantastic, as is the foot chase through the favelas. Perfect action, great one liners, cool story. What else can I wish for?
Frank Levesque June 7, 2016 at 8:55 AM
I'm debating between Fast 5 and Need for Speed. Haven't seen either and have only seen the first Fast when it originally came out. I hear Fast 5 is great fun, but wondering if jumping into a story I'm not familiar with would dull the experience. On the other hand, I hear Need for Speed is just dull.
Definitely watch fast five. Need for speed is bad.
I saw Need for Speed in theaters and I kind of loved it. Haven't seen it since then though
Michael Giammarino June 7, 2016 at 11:35 AM
Need for Speed impressed me because it wore its drive in influence on its sleeve from the very first scene.
If you're going to watch Fast Five and you've only seen the first, I would just bite the bullet and make it a marathon. Going from 1 to 5 is a big jump.
Frank Levesque June 7, 2016 at 4:31 PM
Thanks for the advice folks. Went with Need simply since it's a one off. Should've kept Smokey and the Bandit in the hopper instead of watching a few weeks ago.
Over the top action, sci-fi with several genre favorite actors, including a pre-Rocky Stallone! This movie is SO '70s. It's dated to its core, which makes it a perfect junesploitation watch. I also loved all the incredibly on the nose political commentary. It's funny that especially this and The Hunger Games are about the same thing, and yet this little genre movie has so much more to say than that whole series. Even with its total lack of subtlety.
Screw oppressive government!
Travis Larsen June 7, 2016 at 10:02 AM
Dude excellent choice. This movies awesome.
Ronan C June 7, 2016 at 11:17 AM
Mad Max 2 (1981)
Still my favourite of the Mad Max movies. Mel is on top form and only having 16 lines in the whole movie. Amazing action for the time and with a fraction of the budget of American blockbusters. Plus there's the feral kid with a razor sharp boomerang and a big bad called The Humungous. What's not to love.
Mikko Viinikka June 7, 2016 at 11:21 AM
Daniel pretty much summed up the movie earlier, so I'll just say it was a blast. This is what Junesploitation is all about!
Paul Calvert June 7, 2016 at 12:14 PM
Is this a movie about cars? It's going to take a while to digest this one, although I very much enjoyed it. The score was wonderful and really contributed to the atmosphere. Cronenberg always leaves you a little off balance after watching his movies. I love it! Not quite Junesploitation material, but I've never seen a movie quite like this, so 5 stars.
One of the things I like about Cronenberg is how unapologetic he is about setting and filming his movies in Toronto/Canada. Most movies would go out of their way to hide the license plates and landmarks, and claim it's somewhere in the US. I remember my pleasure in seeing the CN Tower in Videodrome, and thinking you don't usually see that in the movies!
Also, Holly Hunter's face and name is front and center on the DVD cover. However, the Canadian actors Deborah Kara Unger and Elias Koteas played much larger parts in the movie. Oh well, I'm sure this is the distributor, and not Cronenberg (and sorry if I'm being negative in what should be a joyous month).
Travis Larsen June 7, 2016 at 1:00 PM
Points for creativity on this one!
Cronenberg is Canadian and most of his films are Canadian productions. He's always been a driving force in the Canadian film industry.
Sleazy Spader at his sleaziest best too!
Rob DiCristino June 7, 2016 at 12:48 PM
FAST & FURIOUS 6 (2013):
I love this movie. While FAST 5 is the series high point, this one is so gleefully aware of its insanity that it never stops being fun. The FAST team started out as stereo thieves; now they're goddamn superheroes. The "family" truly becomes one in this installment, with some great pairings and bickering throughout. The plot is nonsense, the stunts are insane, but it's just so damn genuine. Franchises like this should always mean what they say and never apologize, no matter how ridiculous.
Daniel Epler June 7, 2016 at 1:08 PM
I feel like this series is the '80's action movies' of today. Just gleefully over the top, cheesey, crazy action flicks. And they're so insanely successful and popular I don't know why studios aren't making more movies like them. Not every action movie has to have superheroes guys.
Patrick McAllister June 7, 2016 at 1:49 PM
Gal Gadot is more of a Wonder Woman in this movie than Batman V Superman.
FF6 > BvS
JP June 7, 2016 at 1:06 PM
The Car (1977)
It's clearly vying to be Jaws on land, but it's more on the level of Jaws 2 on land. It's not terrible, but it sure as hell ain't Jaws (or Christine or Duel for that matter).
Sheriff James Brolin's town is being menaced by a demonic car, which is running innocent people down all willy-nilly. The car itself is a very cool design, a dangerous-looking behemoth of steel and glass. Cool design aside, a driverless car doesn't make for a terribly compelling villain and the movie overall suffers as a result.
Saw that at age 12 on the big screen and have been a fan since then. Of course it´s silly and cheesy, but I still like it. A perfect guilty pleasure for me.
Mikko Viinikka June 7, 2016 at 1:36 PM
The Fast and the Furious (1955)
One of Roger Corman's first movies and the first one produced by AIP, back then called American Releasing Corporation.
A wrongly imprisoned man breaks out of jail and takes a woman in a sports car hostage, then enters a cross-border race in order to avoid capture and get to Mexico.
The chemistry between John Ireland and Dorothy Malone is fun on occasion, but the movie as a whole is a great big bore.
Fun fact: The makers of The Fast and the Furious (2001) bought the rights to the name of this movie but not the story.
Unless the title is trademarked, they're not copyrightable. I don't think the title use in this case was much of a hassle.
I spoke too soon. Apparently Roger Corman did license the title to Universal. That's certainly not the norm. Unless he'd heard about the script making the rounds around Hollywood, the title and its premise, and he threatened Universal with legal action if they didn't settle with him. It's possible.
All I know is Corman said somewhere that Universal contacted him, wanted to use the title and paid a fair price for it. Of course there could be another side to it.
He did, as a matter of a fact. If I'd heard this before, it must have been a long time ago, because it didn't ring a single bell when you mentioned it. He did own the title, but he struck a deal with Universal where, in exchange for the title rights, they gave him some stock footage he wanted. I suppose he owns the rights to every one of his titles. Considering how little money went into his productions, he certainly knew how to set up the deals to get the money to make them. You have to be a huckster to be a successful independent producer, and Rover's the best that ever was. That's probably why the Hollywood studios continue to learn from him and apply his methods today. Corman is a slick, and very smart, guy.
*Roger's the best that ever was
Shannon Briggs June 7, 2016 at 2:15 PM
Bullitt (1968 dir. Peter Yates) on Blu-ray.
The forever cool Steve McQueen is a cop that is determined to find the person responsible for the murder of a witness under his protection. The streets of San Francisco is sight of one of the greatest car chases in movie history. Great performance by McQueen and a fantastic cast including Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Duvall, Norman Fell, and a slimy Robert Vaughn.
Mac McEntire June 7, 2016 at 2:40 PM
THE CHASE (1994)
The ads for this movie were everywhere in '94, but I've somehow never seen it until now. You know the plot: Charlie Sheen plays a two-bit crook who takes Kristi Swanson hostage, and the gimmick is they spend the entire movie in the car evading cops. Sheen is a terrific jerk and Swanson is super-cute. Funny how this was the same year as Speed.
HOT ROD GIRLS (1956)
Lacking in both hot rods and girls, this is one of those 1950s cautionary tales of juvenile delinquency gone wrong. You're not missing anything.
ACCELERATOR (1999)
A group of misguided Irish youths get involved in a car thievery plot. It's yet another '90s Pulp Fiction/Trainspotting rip-off. But, oh, those Irish girls with their lilting accents and constant swear words.
Smokey Bites the Dust (1981)
This is the kind of straight to VHS movie that my siblings and I would have loved as kids, complete with teens committing clear felonies played for laughs outsmarting keystone cops police and authority figures in a small town that's closer to a cartoon than anything in the real world.
In short, a kid name Roscoe steals his friend's car and kidnaps the homecoming queen in order to win over her affection and takes her sheriff father and other cops on a car chase that covers about 89% of the film's runtime. The movie is clearly aping Smokey and the Bandit, and has no qualms about it, as "Smokey" is in the title and there's not a single character in the movie with that name.
It's objectively bad, but it hit on a lot of nostalgia I have for these kinds of 80's movies and I actually kind of enjoyed how silly it was.
Karl Hungus June 7, 2016 at 4:05 PM
Stephen King, in the first and only film he's ever directed, has admitted that he remembers next to nothing about working on this film due to extreme cocaine and alcohol abuse. A band of travelers and locals hole up in a truck-stop diner and fend off killer cars and big rig trucks. Starring Emilio Estevez. $10,000,000 budget. Completely bananas.
I hope you listened to "the only" commentry for this??
Actually I kinda love this film. Kids being killed by coke-tin spewing vending machines - who wouldn't love that?
Karl Hungus June 8, 2016 at 12:20 AM
Dang! Did not realize there was an Fthismovie commentary. Welp, guess I'll have to watch again!
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062803/
The Italian Job (1969) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064505/
Car Double Bill
That super-cool, hard-as-nails character actor Benny Hill only appeared in two main-stream feature films and these were they.
As they happened to be virtually next to each other on my video shelf & hadn't seen either "for a dogs age" (Thanks JB) I decided, "Sure, why not?"
I posted earlier today on Twatter (sic) that if anyone were to question Chitty Chitty Bang Bang being part of a exploitation/genre festival they should be reminded of that scary-ass child catcher, castles with dungeons, toys that come to life & mad scientists!
It also has the best musical and dance scenes of any film I've watched so far in the festival (OK, after Segal's ballet dancing scene in The Glimmerman).
If you're British, by law, you have to be able to do the impression of Charlie Croker saying "You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors orf".
I am and can.
I would also think that scene of the mini coopers, lights on, escaping down the tube tunnels as the main theme kicks in is one of the most magical car chase segments ever!
I even got a shiver writing that!
It could also quite possibly have the best ending in film history.
A fun but rather mammoth night of viewing!
Personal ratings 5/5
Revenge is a dish best served by running a meaningless race?
Clearing your name is best accomplished by running a meaningless race?
POOTS! (to quote Mr. Riske)
Adam Riske June 7, 2016 at 5:19 PM
POOTS!
Dennis June 7, 2016 at 6:03 PM
Rosebud, Rosebud, Rosebud!
Monsterman 2004
One of my favourite underated little movies, A roadtrip gone wrong in redneck country, Hillbillys, Monster trucks, Satanism, Witchcraft, a sexy lady, Gory sewn together body parts, A killer called Fuck Face, lots of blood, what more could you need?
This film is more Comedy horror than Horror comedy, its even got a sex scene with Yoda voices, its a short 91mins, a film that knows what it is and doesent try to be anything else, you can tell it was made by people that know and love the genre, I have always thought it deserved more credit than it got
I don't think a film could sound any more perfect!!
Dennis June 8, 2016 at 10:46 AM
It really is fun, I hope you get to see it, wait till you find out what Rosebud means and why all the Rednecks are missing limbs?
If you like Comedy horror then you will love this
Duel - 1971
I watched Spielberg's first flick for the first time and really enjoyed it, its a simple story of a Oil Tanker and the mysterious driver following and terrorising a normal motorist. The film is a TV movie but doesn't feel like it at all, its just a solid thriller with an intimidating antagonist which we never see, which added to it.
Luke Ciancio June 7, 2016 at 9:03 PM
Will always remain one of my favorite Spielberg movies.
The Road Warrior (1981)
Love cars day on Junesploitation. Didn't have time to watch all of the picks I found today, but I had to make time for my Mad Max.
I really don't have to say why it's worth watching. The 13 minute chase at the end might be one of the best chase scenes ever. Also, razor sharp boomerangs save lives.
Matt Sollenberger June 7, 2016 at 7:29 PM
The Driver (1978, dir. Walter Hill, on DVD) – First Time Viewing: Stripped-down, simplistic, and awesome. This movie contains 3 legit great car chases (I miss actual stunts these days). Ryan O'Neal is the driver (inspiration to Refn's Drive), Bruce Dern is the cop trying to catch him. That's it. I loved Dern's scene-chewing performance. It was a great counterpoint to the near catatonic O'Neal. Highly Recommended (4 out of 5 Griers).
Zach June 7, 2016 at 8:04 PM
I watched this one as well! Great choice.
Chayse Spence June 8, 2016 at 2:13 PM
Watched this last night! Really fun. Watching O'Neal rip the Mercedes apart with precision was a delight.
Dan Snyder June 7, 2016 at 7:41 PM
I got more mileage out of this than others. The titular car is pretty fantastic, and there is a nice sense of dread. No one is safe! A perfect film for Junesploitation, and I'm glad I finally got to see this one.
E.S.A.D.D. June 7, 2016 at 7:56 PM
Roadgames (1981, dir. Richard Franklin)
Not what I was expecting. For some reason, I've thought David Hess was in this thing forever (turns out that's Hitch Hike.) This one has Stacy Keach as a truck driver who talks to himself a lot and thinks he's caught on to a serial killer on the road. He picks up Jamie Lee Curtis hitchhiking, and the general vibe is of Duel meeting Rear Window. Actually pretty impressive, suspenseful, and funny. Keach is great. Trailer.
E.S.A.D.D. June 7, 2016 at 10:02 PM
Crash! (1977, dir. Charles Band)
Watched this on the strength of Chaybee's reaction to it last year in the same category. He was dead on. This movie is lunacy. It feels like something a ten year old dreamt up. Pure nonsense. Sue Lyons rocks blood-red contacts, and uses a psychic connection with her black convertible (thanks to a Hittite amulet) to get revenge against bitter old wheelchair-bound ex-husband Jose Ferrer. Did I mention it doesn't make sense? Trailer.
Brian Sager June 7, 2016 at 8:59 PM
Every time I watch this, I have an overwhelming urge to carry George Miller around on my shoulders while playing "Simply the Best" on a boom box.
I just installed some new audio equipment. The sound design on this movie kicks all sorts of ass.
Sol June 7, 2016 at 10:06 PM
Maximum Overdrive (1986) (with F This Movie commentary)
There's no way I would have made it through this without the hilarious commentary. I also wouldn't have watched it if it weren't for the commentary so...thanks?
Nice, I saw this with the commentary, I remember JB noticing the blood is pouring upwards and why was the blood pouring upwards?
COCAINE!
That was the reason for a lot of the executive decisions in this movie
Brent Petersen June 7, 2016 at 10:08 PM
The Dorm That Dripped Blood (1982)
Who's the killer? Is it a car?
No. Although, someone gets their head crushed by a car so there you go. This has a few good moments but overall it wasn't great. The best part of the movie is how the killer is revealed. I'm lying because it is the dumbest. If you like slashers then this might be worth checking out.
Frank Dahlmeyer June 7, 2016 at 10:24 PM
The Cars that Ate Paris (1974)
One of Peter Weir's first feature length films. A small town creates an economy based on items salvaged from automobile accidents they actively cause. Fun 70s practical effects (gore, mashed up 'Mad Max' cars) in a filmonth that feels like The Wicker Man or 70s Craven. Can't wait for Scream Factory or someone comparable to get their hands on this baby.
I honestly did not go into this movie thinking it would have anything to do with cars, but here we are. It has a car chase and some of the plot hinges on his dad's Porsche so I'm gonna count it.
I really enjoyed this movie! Tom Cruise was fantastic, Rebecca De Mornay was great, Joe Pantoliano was... Joe Pantoliano. I thought the writing was interesting and funny and I was pretty invested the whole time. The famous underwear dancing scene was understandably famous, but way more inconsequential then I thought it would be.
Michael Pomaro June 7, 2016 at 11:15 PM
CHRISTINE may not be great, but it's better than it gets credit for. Also, John Stockwell is fantastic in this movie.
Patrick Bromley June 7, 2016 at 11:16 PM
Fast Company (1979, dir. David Cronenberg)
I enjoyed this because it's David Cronenberg and I like thinking about his car obsession. The movie feels a little generic but definitely entertaining in a '70s drive-in way.
J.M. Vargas June 8, 2016 at 12:11 AM
The ending that feels like they replaced the final reel with a Keystone Cops short and the "motor oil" sex scene (listen to the commentary track and Cronenberg being genuinely shocked that it's back on this print) are alone worth the price of admission.
Mike P June 7, 2016 at 11:34 PM
Haven't seen this in so long I figured it was due for a rewatch. It did not disappoint. My favorite scene is when Christine is engulfed in flames chasing down Buddy.
Michael Giammarino June 7, 2016 at 11:51 PM
Eat My Dust (1976)
Ron Howard steals a stock car to impress a girl and they go off on a cross country speed-happy romp, always trying to outrun the police and Howard's father, the sheriff. Ron Howard's directorial follow up to his debut feature Grand Theft Auto, Eat My Dust is standard 70s drive-in car chase fare. Howard cracks the storefront off the front of a store. Cop cars get into some inventive fender benders. If there's a difference between this movie and the usual car chase films of the decade, I'd say there's an innocence to this film you don't find in those other pictures. Oh, and there couldn't be a Roger Corman car chase movie without a cameo from Paul Bartel, right?
TOMBARTMAN454@GMAIL.COM June 8, 2016 at 12:19 AM
Transporter 2 (2005)
It had been a little bit since I had seen this one, and while I remember it being ridiculous I forgot HOW ridiculous this flick is. If you told me that this movie was the inspiration for Fast Five I would not be surprised in the slightest, as well as the tower jumping scene from Fast 7, albeit this one is only from one regular building to another. As for car action there is a good amount here but theres also a good amount of fisticuffs and even jet ski work.
This movie will not be for anyone looking for any sense of reality however as all the performances are quite over the top (particularly the lead villainess) that being said its all wrapped up in less then 90 minutes and you might be able to learn some French cooking.
I think this was probably Luc Besson's Man on Fire cash-in. It's the kind of movie Cannon might have made back in the day. Only thing is, if Cannon had made it, it would've been rated R. And it would have been great.
TOMBARTMAN454@GMAIL.COM June 8, 2016 at 3:18 AM
Oh Cannon would have added a lot of stuff. I'm reminded of what my wife said when I showed her the Cannon documentary "Electric Boogaloo" "I've never seen so many tits in one movie"
Kyle H June 8, 2016 at 1:03 AM
Gone in 60 Seconds (1974)
I've had this movie on DVD for a while now, but I've honestly only watched it all the way through one time other than tonight. That being said, It has been in my player several times over the years. It is not well acted, it's not particularly well made.
So why has it graced my DVD player so many times?
Final car chase.
40 minutes long.
Over 90 cars wrecked.
Carsploitation at its finest
Check out my review of "The Junkman" at the start of this string of comments. Sounds like something that'd be right up your alley, except the 40 min. car chase happens at the start of the movie and the cars wrecked number approx. 300. :-O
Yeah, My Gone DVD has a Junkman featurette on the disk. Has a bunch of clips in the featurette. Looks so crazy!
It's on YouTube, click link above. YouTube is your friend. :-)
Mark Ahn June 8, 2016 at 1:15 AM
Bullitt (1968) first time viewing
That is a beautiful car. You'd drive like that too if you were looking for parking in San Francisco.
Red Line 7000 (1965)
Blends soap opera level drama with some good racing footage as we enter the lives of stock car racers on the circuit. This movie is very 60's through and through but us an interesting curiosity since it was directed by the great Howard Hawks, stars a very young James Caan and even has George Takei in a small pre Star Trek role. Plus there's a truly bizarre musical number that has to be seen to be believed. Not the greatest racing movie I've seen but still worth checking out streaming for free on Amazon Prime.
Jack Thursby June 8, 2016 at 10:09 AM
Highwaymen (2004)
Jim Caviezel stars as a widow who drives around looking for the serial killer who ran down his wife. Somehow this came out the same year as The Passion. Super disappointed that this wasn't also endorsed by the Pope. I think he'd dig the old testament retribution. Yes, it doesn't hold a candle to Robert Harmon's The Hitcher but it's a hell of a lot of fun and at 75 minutes you don't really have an excuse NOT to watch it.
Doug June 14, 2016 at 11:55 AM
Smokey and the Bandit (1977): HOW HAVE I NEVER SEEN THIS WHOLE THING BEFORE? So dumb and fun. Emphasis on the fun. Read Heath's column on it: http://www.fthismovie.net/2013/02/heath-holland-on-smokey-bandit-and_12.html


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Travellers can also use the app to look up safety scores for their lodging.
A travel-organising app has launched a new feature that will tell its users when they need to be extra vigilant about pickpockets and walking alone at night.
Neighbourhoods are scored across categories such as women's safety, access to health and medical services and political freedoms.
TripIt Pro subscribers — those who've ponied up $49 (R660) a year for more features — will also be able to look up information like embassy contacts, currency conversions, socket, plug requirements and tipping advice for 180 countries.
In a recent Gallup poll, Singapore, Norway and Iceland topped an index of the world's safest places, while Venezuela landed at the bottom of the heap.
For the report, 1 000 adults in 142 countries were asked if they trusted their local police, felt safe walking alone at night, and if they had experienced an assault or theft in the last 12 months.


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China Praises Venezuela's Response to Crisis, Backs Russia Against U.S. 'Military Intervention' There
By Tom O'Connor On 2/22/19 at 3:10 PM EST
World International Affairs China Russia Military
China praised the Venezuelan government's response to a mounting political crisis that threatened to erupt into widespread violence, and joined Russia in warning the United States not to step in.
Beijing and Moscow are among the world governments that have continued to recognize Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro after National Assembly leader Juan Guaidó declared himself leader last month in a political challenge recognized by Washington and its allies. As Guaidó's Saturday deadline for Venezuelan security forces to accept U.S. aid was dismissed by Maduro as a foreign plot, clashes at the border prompted international anxieties.
China blamed foreign meddling. "We have noticed that in recent times, the Venezuelan government has maintained calmness and restraint and has spared no effort to maintain domestic peace and stability and to effectively avoid large-scale bloody conflicts," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang told reporters.
"If the so-called 'humanitarian aid' supplies are forcibly delivered to Venezuela and then a violent conflict is triggered, it will have serious consequences, which no parties want to see," he continued. "China opposes military intervention in Venezuela and opposes any behavior that has led to tensions in Venezuela or even caused unrest."
Chinese children wave flags upon the arrival of the Chinese hospital ship Peace Ark at the port of La Guaira, Venezuela, to offer week-long free medical assistance to the country's crisis-stricken health system, September 22, 2018. China was joined by countries such as Bolivia, Cuba, El Salvador, Iran, Nicaragua, North Korea, Russia, South Africa, Syria and Turkey in backing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. FEDERICO PARRA/AFP/Getty Images
President Donald Trump has left military action "on the table" in forcing Maduro to step down amid allegations his government mishandled the country's failing economy, perpetrated human rights abuses and rigged elections. Trump, who has already expanded sanctions against Maduro's government, said last week that sending troops to Colombia, an entry point for U.S.-sent supplies, was a possibility.
The Venezuelan president accused Trump of attempting to stage what his government considered to be the latest of several U.S.-backed coup attempts against the oil-rich, socialist-led nation in Latin America, which has also been the venue for decades of U.S. intervention against leftist forces. That viewpoint was backed by Russia, which in December 2018 sent nuclear-capable bombers to Venezuela for training in a show of support, and has repeatedly warned the U.S. to stay out of Venezuela.
Moscow has remained ambiguous on whether it would offer military support should Caracas ask for it—as Syrian President Bashar al-Assad did in 2015—but confirmed as recently as last week that such a request had not been made. Still, in a development reminiscent of the crisis in Syria, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova claimed Friday that "the U.S. and its NATO allies are considering the possibility of buying a large batch of weapons in one of the Eastern European countries in order to provide them to the Venezuelan opposition."
"This is what they mean when they talk about delivering humanitarian aid," said Zakharova, who also suggested that Ukraine may be involved and that the weapons would be slipped in via a neighboring country.
U.S. soldiers load a C-17 cargo plane with food, water and medicine for a humanitarian mission to Venezuela, at Homestead Air Force Base in Homestead, Florida, February 22. Venezuela and Russia claim the operation could be a cover to sneak in weapons to Venezuelan opposition members looking to unseat President Nicolás Maduro. RHONA WISE/AFP/Getty Images
Maduro's fears of such an operation have prompted him to begin sealing Venezuela's borders, including the one it shares with Brazil, a far-right-led American ally that publicly floated the idea of bringing in a U.S. military base in response to Venezuela's relationship with Russia. As Venezuelan opposition figures approached the border Friday, national guard figures intercepted them, allegedly opening fire with rubber bullets that led to the death of one woman and at least a dozen more injured.
Elsewhere along the western border with Colombia, two concerts were arranged, both for and against the Venezuelan government. In the Colombian border city of Cucuta, U.K. billionaire Richard Branson organized a "Venezuela Aid Live" festival for supporters of Guaidó. A rival, pro-government "Hands Off Venezuela" show, reportedly featuring up to 150 artists, will take place less than two miles away, in San Antonio, Venezuela.
Maduro still has the support of fellow regional socialist allies Bolivia, Cuba, El Salvador and Nicaragua, as well as others abroad, including Belarus, Cambodia, China, Iran, North Korea, the Palestinian National Authority, Turkey, South Africa and Syria. Guaidó has been endorsed by the U.S. and most of Latin America, along with the European Union, Albania, Australia, Georgia, Israel and Japan.
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Support for asylum seekers threatened with eviction
Published: 08 Aug 2018 17:39
Communities and third sector
£110,000 for emergency response.
In response to the threat of asylum seekers in Glasgow facing homelessness and destitution, emergency Scottish Government funding will allow charities to provide support until their legal options have been exhausted.
The Destitute Asylum Seeker Service (DASS) is being given £110,000 for the next six months, allowing three partner charities to double their capacity to help people back into asylum support and provide stable and safe accommodation. They are:
The Scottish Refugee Council, whose Destitution Advocacy Project provides advice and advocacy
The Refugee Survival Trust, to increase the amount of work carried out by their Destitution Advisers, policy and accommodation workers
The British Red Cross, for prevention work to help avoid people becoming destitute
Communities Secretary Aileen Campbell said:
"While we welcome the pause in the issue of lock change notices, this is only a temporary measure, and the fact remains that destitution and homelessness are built into the current asylum system – placing hundreds of people at risk.
"The plight of people threatened with eviction demands a resolute and humanitarian approach and we cannot see people turned on to the streets because of the failure of the Home Office's asylum policy. We all have a moral duty to do what we can to help those most in need and this additional funding, while a short term solution, will provide urgent assistance needed.
"The Scottish Government wants to work with the Home Office to improve support for asylum seekers at all stages of the process, and find a sustainable, long term solution to ensure that the current situation, caused by the Home Office's failed processes, can never happen again in Scotland. This needs to include equity of funding for Glasgow City Council which is a Home Office dispersal area and has welcomed asylum seekers. It is unacceptable to deny funding to Glasgow when it is available to English councils."
Sabir Zazai, Chief Executive of Scottish Refugee Council said:
"The last few weeks have shown just how desperately we need a safety net for people at risk of homelessness and destitution.
"Our asylum advisors provide intensive support and advocacy for people at a critical moment in their lives, when their claim for refugee protection is refused and they face destitution on the streets of Glasgow. People often find themselves in this situation through no fault of their own. The UK's asylum system is complicated and mistakes in decision making and administrative delays leave people in limbo, vulnerable and homeless. But we all have rights. Our service works with people to help them access those rights and assess their options, intervening to prevent people falling into abject destitution, something no one should face in our society."
The Destitute Asylum Seeker Service assists refused asylum seekers who have exhausted their appeal rights to find a route out of destitution and resolve their situation.
The Scottish Refugee Council already receives £534,000 per year from the Scottish Government's equality budget, while British Red Cross receives £25,000 per year.


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Aameny Rest Camp offers camping facilities with ablution blocks with warm showers and flushing toilets. There is a table in the shade available for campers to use.
There is also eight rondawels, each sleeping two guests (two of the rondawels have en-suite bathrooms). Aameny Rest Camp also has 10 rooms with en-suite bathrooms and air-conditioning. Each room sleeps two guests. Wi-fi is available.
There is restaurant facilities available on the premises.


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Elmer finite element software tutorial
Elmer finite element software tutorial - Training
lecturers: Thomas Zwinger
Peter Råback
Elmer is an open source multiphysical simulation software mainly developed by CSC. Elmer includes physical models of fluid dynamics, structural mechanics, electromagnetics, heat transfer and acoustics, for example. These are described by partial differential equations which Elmer solves by the Finite Element Method (FEM). Parallel scalability of Elmer has been demonstrated up to thousands of processors. Elmer development was started in 1995 but only after it's open source publication in 2005, the use and development of Elmer has become international. Currently Elmer is used by thousands of researchers around the world.
The intent of the tutorial is to give an overview of Elmer demonstrating its use both on a workstation with a GUI and on a supercomputer platform using the same case. Special emphasis will be given to the parallel techniques of Elmer.
This tutorial is organized as a part of the PARA 2012 conference but it is open for anyone interested, not requiring participation to the conference. There are also three Elmer related contributed presentations on the conference.
Below is the preliminary rough program of the course. There will be full three hours of lectures and demonstrations while the last optional hour will go hands-on. A detailed program will follow later.
Overview & Introduction to Elmer
Demonstration of ElmerGUI (material)
Introduction to Solver Input File
Parallel computing with Elmer including demonstration
Scalability and Bottlenecks in Parallel Computations
Hands-on session & open questions
The tutorial will be given in a demonstration mode but those who are interested may install Elmer on their laptops and may thereby follow some of the steps.