The absolute formless God, Sadashiv appeared in the form of "Lingodbhav Moorti" exactly at midnight on Shivratri. That is why all Shiv devotees keep vigil during the night of Shivratri and do Shivlingam abhishekham at midnight. Also remember God in his manifestation as Vishnu made his appearance as Krishna at Gokul at Midnight, exactly 180 days after Shivratri, commonly known as Janmashtami. Thus, the circle of one year (360 days) is divided into two by these two auspicious days.
Lord Shiva was married to Devi Parvati on Shivratri (different kalpa). Remember Shiva minus Parvati is pure Nirgun Brahman. With his illusive power (Maya, Parvati) He becomes the Sagun Brahman for the purpose of the pious devotion of his devotees.
It is also believed that on Shivratri (different kalpa) Lord Shiva became Neelkantham by swallowing the deadly poison that came up from the ocean during the churning of Kshir Sagar. The poison was so deadly that even a drop in His stomach, which represents the universe, would have annihilated the entire world. Hence, He held it in His neck, which turned blue due to the effect of poison. Shivratri is therefore also a day of thanksgiving to the Lord for protecting us from annihilation.


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They're not everybody's cuppa joe, but I'm a sucker for behind-the-scenes movies. Much to the dismay of anyone who might actually be concerned, I rated Birdman as my top film of 2014, in part due to the meta-novelty of watching Emmanuel Lubezki's camera float semi-seamlessly throughout a doomed Broadway show. I was just as taken with the artistry, innovation, and patience that writer/director Alejandro González Iñárritu employed in orchestrating a film about chaos as I was with its narrative. This is also the case with Adam Rifkin's crowdfunding comedy, Director's Cut, which, though it may not top my 2016 list, is certainly a movie I'll be thinking about for months to come.
Eleven years ago, writer Penn Jillette conceived of a horror movie in which a socially awkward, egomaniacal, and supremely untalented filmmaker named Herbert Blount makes his way onto a film crew. He becomes a fly on the production's wall and begins stalking the female lead, an actress with whom he has long been dangerously obsessed.
The idea sat on the proverbial shelf, as Jillette struggled with the illogic of Blount's unfettered film-set access. Years later, he became friendly with filmmaker Adam Rifkin, who loved the story and agreed to help make it a reality. Time, it seems, heals even narrative wounds, and the advent of crowdfunding websites like Kickstarter gave Jillette just the glue he needed to hold his script together: Herbert Blount would now be a mega-backer on a crowdfunded detective-thriller, his generous financial contribution netting him the "perk" of witnessing movie magic firsthand. He'd even get an on-screen speaking part.
Through the development process, Rifkin and Jillette decided to actually crowdfund their movie, and Director's Cut became a comedy. The result is a Blair Witch-style found-footage picture, one ostensibly finished by Blount and blending stolen elements from the "legit" movie-within-a-movie, Knocked Off, with "improvements" by the crazed wannabe director. Complicating matters is the fact that Blount uses Director's Cut to educate his audience on the finer points of filmmaking: pausing scenes and drawing diagrams on the still frames; incorporating excised footage (complete with time codes) back into the feature; and providing audio commentary over the theatrical version of his movie.
Another layer makes this an active moviegoing experience, instead of a passive one, and may involve psychic residue from Director's Cut's horror-genre origin. In Knocked Off, the movie-in-a-movie, two grizzled L.A. cops (Harry Hamlin and Hayes MacArthur) team up with an attractive FBI agent (Missi Pyle) to bring down a serial killer who recreates the crimes of famous madmen like Jeffrey Dahmer, Richard Speck, and Charles Whitman. The lighting, camerawork, and performances are all done straight, and could be cut scenes from any middle-of-the-road CSI spin-off. But in the context of Blount's clownish, "I can do better" meddling, Knocked Off becomes the backdrop for a note-perfect Mad Magazine send-up of generic cop thrillers.
Digging a bit deeper, Rifkin and Jillette's intent gets a bit murky. They stage the murder flashbacks with high-gloss, fantastical panache, making the killer the hero of his own twisted movie. This isn't unheard of in such films and TV shows, but Rifkin revels so heavily in blood-spattered breasts, vigorous stabbings, and women screaming in agony that his "parody" movie becomes downright unsettling. The line, if there was one, between genre commentary and exploitation all but disappears.
The Charles Whitman-copycat segment looks like something out of The Walking Dead, complete with CGI sniper-fire head shots. Later, a madman walks into a fast food joint and mows down dozens of patrons with a machine gun in bloody, action-movie fashion. Granted, Rifkin and Jillette couldn't have predicted the social climate in which their film would be released, but this is the wrong year for a mass-murder-of-innocents-as-entertainment picture: the morning after I saw Director's Cut, news broke of the Dallas ambush, in which five cops were assassinated during a protest.
Here's where things get really complicated. On the surface, the restaurant scene is supposed to be horrific, since it's a major set piece in a film about a psychopathic killer. One level beneath, Knocked Off director Adam Rifkin (played by Director's Cut director Adam Rifkin) frantically sets up the elaborate, one-take shot, which is populated by a bunch of crowdfunding extras with speaking parts. One level deeper still is Blount's editorializing of this scene, which was removed from the final cut of Knocked Off (but not Director's Cut), and contains a sort of mini-lesson from his (terrible) filmmaking class.
And then there's the scene's note-perfect button, an obvious end-gag in hindsight that still managed to surprise me in the moment--probably because the anticipation got buried beneath everything I listed above. In one five-minute stretch, I was impressed by the on-screen logistics, invested in the multi-tiered narrative, nauseated by the violence, and unabashedly amused.
That's a tidy summary of my experience with the film, but it's literally only half the picture. The script takes a very sharp turn as Herbert steps up his efforts to take control of Knocked Off and woo Missi Pyle. I won't get into exactly what happens, but the filmmakers punt their story right off the deep end, in the best possible way. The film becomes a gonzo collage of lo-fi adjustments to big(gish)-budget material, capped by Pyle's chameleonic transition from actress to character to fake actress (I'm still not sure I've covered all the dimensions, or kept them straight). Her comedic gifts buoy the screenplay just above levels that could, at certain points, be considered gross misogyny--particularly during a scene that finds the actress in a cold shower wearing a flesh-colored body suit with cartoon genitalia crudely filled in.
Director's Cut reminded me of the Mr. Plinkett inserts from Red Letter Media's video-review series, in which a deranged killer provides lengthy, insightful, and often hilarious film analysis while also exploring the depths of his bones-strewn basement. Rifkin and Jillette pull off something just as sharp, funny, depraved, and impossible-to-recommend-to-most-people. I loved it. Then again, I also loved Birdman.


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History of ideas course offered to Year 10 students
by James Gilchrist
One morning recently, I had a conversation with my class about the similarities between the skull in Hans Holbein's Renaissance painting, The Ambassadors, and Yorick's skull in Shakespeare's Hamlet, which inspired the Danish prince's famous soliloquy on friendship, death and the levelling effects of mortality.
It was a gratifying, effortless dialogue with a group of girls, all of whom appeared thoroughly engaged by the topic and its wider context within a new Year 10 subject they have been studying, A History of Ideas.
I have been teaching for 20 years, but it is conversations such as these which give me a deep sense of vocational fulfilment.
Around five years ago, I took advantage of some curriculum leeway at our college to devise this course, A History of Ideas, as a Year 10 elective. It was intended to be a subject for students interested in learning about the great currents of thinking that have affected our modern world, with a particular emphasis on Western civilisation.
Topics were chosen with an eye to supporting studies that high school students commonly undertake to qualify for the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE).
For example, examining ancient Greek concepts such as hubris and Fate enhances students' appreciation of ancient Greek and Shakespearean tragedies in classical studies and English literature. An understanding of Aristotle and humanism deepens their contextual appreciation of Renaissance history. Learning about Marx and Darwin gives them valuable insights when studying the VCE history subject, 20th Century and Revolutions.
Other topics in A History of Ideas include Thomas Aquinas's medieval synthesis, Francis Bacon and the new scientific method, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the Enlightenment and Romanticism.
Films such as Dead Poets Society (1989) and the German science-fiction action-thriller, Run Lola Run (1998), were used to give a contemporary perspective to age-old views about the purposes of education and the role of fate.
Students enrolled in A History of Ideas are assessed according to fairly standard tasks and skills, such as research, analysis, essay-writing, oral presentations and exams.
At one point, however, they are invited to think creatively and conceive of an ideal school with its own distinctive philosophy, curriculum, rules and co-curricular activities. In performing this exercise they explore contrasting ideas of education.
In A History of Ideas we examine some of the "big" universal questions. For each theme drawn from the ancient, medieval and early modern world we can almost invariably find some corresponding contemporary issue, such as:
• Does overconfident or unscrupulous behaviour (hubris) inevitably lead to one's downfall? (e.g., Tiger Woods, Lance Armstrong and Kevin Rudd).
• Are people inherently good or bad? Should criminal justice grant offenders early parole or impose longer jail sentences?
• Is civilisation better than the natural world? Should concerns for the environment and indigenous rights take precedence over economic development?
• Are balance and moderation in all things the best approach to life? Or should our thinking be guided by moral absolutes and religious dogma?
• Should evidence always be used to oppose dogma and find answers to the unknown? How can we resolve satisfactorily the debate over climate change and the degree to which it may be influenced by economic activity?
As you may imagine, questions such as these make for a lot of stimulating and enjoyable discussion. Every year, girls at our college have selected A History of Ideas in more than adequate numbers in the midst of ongoing changes to the curriculum.
I confess to feeling a certain satisfaction in presenting some of the fascinating, and often admirable, ideas and principles on which Western civilisation has been founded.
In many education circles, by contrast, Western civilisation is held as uniquely responsible for promoting greed, corruption, oppression and colonialist exploitation.
However, it is vital that students should, without ignoring the negative aspects of their civilisation, at least come to appreciate the positive elements of their heritage and discover some of the great thinkers who have grappled with all-important questions concerning truth, responsibility, reason and how to live a good and honourable life.
A History of Ideas helps students to explore the nature of our civilisation in a more objective framework. For example, they can compare Rousseau's belief in humanity's inherent goodness and his idealised concept of the noble savage with the bleaker appraisals of humanity found in the writings of St Augustine, Charles Dickens and William Golding. This leads on to discussion about how much order and control should be imposed on people in society, how much we need to be "civilised", and so forth.
By way of introduction to the course, students read Norwegian author Jostein Gaarder's bestselling book, Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy (1991), before embarking on a study of a myriad of diverse sources to encourage their own thinking and discussion of the "great ideas".
A number of visiting teachers have been quite struck by the spirit of free inquiry and sophisticated level of discussion in the classroom, in addition to being astonished that a subject such as A History of Ideas actually exists.
Recently, some visiting French teachers and students became as animated in their involvement in the class as my own students, while an American student-teacher taught the subject herself for a term and loved describing to the girls the medieval world-view, and helping them analyse the debate between Luther and Erasmus on free will and salvation.
Inspired by the positive response of students to A History of Ideas, I have recently initiated a Year 9 elective called Inspiration Ink, which introduces students to great books that have shaped the world, while explaining the socio-historical context from which these books emerged. I hope next year to introduce an artistic perspective on social history in the form of A History of Aesthetics.
It has been a challenging experience to try to nurture and maintain these subjects within an increasingly crowded and regulated curriculum.
However, it has all been worthwhile, as these subjects are a pleasure to teach and help make every day in the classroom a stimulating and enjoyable experience for teacher and students alike.
James Gilchrist is a senior history teacher and head of humanities at Genazzano FCJ College in the Melbourne suburb of Kew.

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Disciplines Language Linguistic Theory
Signing the Body Poetic Essays on American Sign Language Literature
by Dirksen Bauman (Editor), Heidi Rose (Editor), Jennifer Nelson (Editor), William Stokoe (Foreword), W.J.T. Mitchell (Preface)
Illustrations: 5 b/w photographs, 5 line illustrations, DVD
About the Book About the Author Reviews Table of Contents Learn More Related Books
This unique collection of essays, accompanied by videos, at last brings a dazzling view of the literary, social, and performative aspects of American Sign Language to a wide audience. The book presents the work of a renowned and diverse group of deaf, hard-of-hearing, and hearing scholars who examine original ASL poetry, narrative, and drama. The videos showcases the poems and narratives under discussion in their original form, providing access to them for hearing non-signers for the first time. Together, the book and videos provide new insight into the history, culture, and creative achievements of the deaf community while expanding the scope of the visual and performing arts, literary criticism, and comparative literature.
The videos may be viewed online at ucpress.edu/go/signingthebodypoetic.
H-Dirksen L. Bauman is Professor in the Department of American Sign Language and Deaf Studies at Gallaudet University. Jennifer L. Nelson is Professor in the Department of English at Gallaudet University. Heidi M. Rose is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Villanova University.
"An exhilarating bilingual (ASL/English) reading/viewing experience." —Choice
"This is a startlingly original collection, challenging readers to think well beyond normative contours of the literary text toward a living art of the embodied sign. A significant contribution to literary, performance, and Deaf culture studies, Signing the Body Poetic will make us all see differently."—Della Pollock, editor of Remembering: Oral History Performance
"Signing the Body Poetic is both a book and an event—a long-anticipated work that questions and recasts some of our most embedded definitions of poetry and other language arts. The work of several generations of signing poets has made a place for gesture that eliminates once and for all the hegemony of the spoken word as the single determinant of poetry and language performance. That is the accomplishment analyzed and celebrated in these pages and in the accompanying DVD that clearly shows the work at hand."—Jerome Rothenberg, coeditor of Poems for the Millennium: The University of California Book of Modern and Postmodern Poetry
"Signing the Body Poetic is the first major scholarly work to celebrate and theorize American Sign Language artistic expression, ranging from poetry to theater and film. A must for anyone interested in contemporary poetry, drama, or literary theory."—Lennard J. Davis, editor of The Disability Studies Reader
"Signing the Body Poetic brings new and productive dimensions to the phrase 'body of literature.' This impressive collection details the aesthetics, the epistemological importance, and the cultural life of American Sign Language literature in clear, accessible prose. Close analyses of key texts in/as performances are enhanced by the accompanying DVD, itself an invaluable resource. This collection will be useful for scholars and general readers interested in the complexities of literary production and reception."—Judith Hamera, author of Opening Acts and editor of The Sage Handbook of Performance Studies
"This collection is as unique as ASL, merging linguistics, nonverbal communication, and performance both in the content of the chapters and in its form (text and DVD). Unlocking the performative dimension of ASL, it merges disciplines, communicative forms, and channels while demonstrating that our ability to communicate is not limited by the organs we use to do so but only by our ability to perform."—Michael L. Hecht, coeditor of Redefining Culture: Perspectives across the Disciplines
Contents of the DVD
Foreword—William C. Stokoe
Preface: Utopian Gestures—W.J.T. Mitchell
Users' Guide
H-Dirksen L. Bauman, Jennifer L. Nelson, Heidi M. Rose
PART ONE: FRAMING ASL LITERATURE
2. Face-to-Face Tradition in the American Deaf Community: Dynamics of the Teller, the Tale, and the Audience—Ben Bahan
3. The Camera as Printing Press: How Film Has Influenced ASL Literature—Christopher B. Krentz
4. Deaf American Theater—Cynthia Peters
PART TWO: THE EMBODIED TEXT: "WRITING" AND VISION IN ASL LITERATURE
5. Getting out of Line: Toward a Visual and Cinematic Poetics of ASL—H-Dirksen L. Bauman
6. Textual Bodies, Bodily Texts—Jennifer L. Nelson
7. The Poet in the Poem in the Performance: The Relation of Body, Self, and Text in ASL Literature—Heidi M. Rose
8. ASL Literature Comes of Age: Creative "Writing" in the Classroom—Liz Wolter
PART THREE: THE POLITICAL TEXT: PERFORMANCE AND IDENTITY IN ASL LITERATURE
9. "If there are Greek epics, there should be Deaf epics": How Protest Became Poetry—Kristen C. Harmon
10. Visual Screaming: Willy Conley's Deaf Theater and Charlie Chaplin's Silent Cinema—Carol L. Robinson
11. Hearing Things: The Scandal of Speech in Deaf Performance—Michael Davidson
Carol A. Padden
Appendix A: Time Line of ASL Literature Development
Appendix B: ASL Video References
Video playlist to accompany Signing the Body Poetic
A Grammar of the Seneca Language
Wallace Chafe
Vicarious Language
Miyako Inoue
One Thousand Languages
Peter K. Austin
Consonant Harmony
Gunnar Olafur Hansson
The Missing Spanish Creoles
John McWhorter
The Language War
Robin Tolmach Lakoff
Past Participles from Latin to Romance
Richard Laurent
Genes, Peoples, and Languages
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
The State of the Language
Christopher Ricks, Leonard Michaels
How Spanish Grew
Robert K. Spaulding


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If you're bringing the family to Bellevue on vacation, coming for business, or spending the weekend, fall is the perfect time of year to play in our neck of the woods. And now more than ever, Bellevue is a fantastic place to spend a week or a weekend. New luxury hotels in town like the W Bellevue and AC Marriott and great values on weekend stays at all our Bellevue hotel properties makes us truly the destination for staying and playing.
And this fall, there are great festivals to check out and a fantastic line-up of fun, family-friendly things to do throughout our city or just a short drive away.
Be sure to take the kids to KidsQuest Children's Museum in downtown Bellevue. A hands-on, interactive children's museum that encourages learning through play. With activities both indoors and out, it's a great place to spend an afternoon or entire day with the little ones all the way up to age 11 or so.
Enjoy a beautiful day outdoors with the family at one of our many gorgeous parks. The Bellevue Downtown Park reopened in July after a year of expansion and renovation. It's an urban oasis in the middle of downtown Bellevue with water features, a ½ mile walking path and the new Inspiration Playground with new interactive features that engage the senses and accommodate children of all abilities.
Are you a family that loves to hike? Why not hop on a trail at the Mercer Slough Nature Park. With over 7 miles of trails to pick from, you'll find the perfect path for an afternoon out with the entire family.
Looking for water views and other outdoor activities? Pick up a sandwich at Whole Foods in the Bellevue Collection and check out Enatai Beach Park for a waterfront view of Lake Washington while you picnic. After lunch, consider renting a canoe, kayak or paddle board and paddle around Lake Washington and into the slough.
For the perfect day indoors, look no further than Lucky Strike at Lincoln Square for an afternoon with the kids. There's premium bowling on 16 spacious lanes, fantastic food, and a world-renown arcade game area.
Explore Children's arts and crafts, inflatables, animal encounters, a petting zoo, entertainment, interactive children's activities, tractor rides, and vintage tractor displays. Have a fun-filled day with the little ones while searching for a pumpkin in the pasture to decorate. Admission and many activities are free while some have a nominal fee.
Join the fun at a series of Halloween inspired events on Saturday, October 28 at Halloween on the Hill at South Bellevue Community Center.
This one-day festival features events like The Great Pumpkin Race and Jump; race or jump your decorated pumpkin on wheels; Carnival on the Hill; carnival games, food, bouncy houses, and entertainment; Haunted Movie on the Hill; enjoy buttery popcorn while watching a Halloween classic on the big screen.
The Zip Scare Tour takes place every evening October 13-28 on the Zip Lines at Bellevue's Eastgate Park. You can enjoy scary, creepy fun zipping through the dark of night. There's one suspension bridge and three zip lines to thrill you, while you step off a platform and coast along in darkness. But not to worry; riders and platforms will be brightened with lights and glow sticks.
Held over the course of two days, the Salmon Days Festival in historic Downtown Issaquah celebrates the return of salmon to local waters. Taking place October 7-8 and just minutes east of Bellevue off I-90, this award-winning festival embraces Issaquah's unique history, culture, and ethnic diversity.
Look for a parade to kick it all off on Saturday as well as a kid's entertainment stage. Treat yourself to delicious cuisine from over 60 food booths. If you're an art lover or love to shop, you're in luck. Over 270 arts and crafts vendors will be there displaying their work.
Hayrides, Hot Air Balloons, and Corn Mazes, Oh My!
Prefer some old-fashioned fun of the past? Just a short drive away from Bellevue—you and the family can be transported to the days of yore at these fun farms and corn mazes.
A 24-acre working family farm in Happy Valley east of Redmond, Serres Farm has a pumpkin picking patch your kids will love getting lost in. Just put on your favorite boots and grab a wheelbarrow because it's time to start the hunt for the perfect jack o' lantern. A variety of pumpkins from miniatures to giant Great Atlantics grow in the field. Patch opens the last weekend in September and runs through Halloween.
And be sure to enjoy the spectacular cornfield maze. It'll take about 15-20 minutes to navigate this giant hand designed puzzle. The kids will also delight in the animal train ride all around the farm. Of course, what would fall be without an old-fashioned hayride? You can even race your favorite duck in a water propelled duck race.
Every Saturday and Sunday in October, you can visit the pumpkin patch, take a hayride and enjoy some hot spiced apple cider at Jubilee Farm. About 20 miles east of Bellevue, Jubilee has thirty acres of farmland open to the public. Bring the kids to visit the animals, play in the hay maze or watch a cooking demonstration. They'll delight while watching adults sling pumpkins with the homemade trebuchet. There's even a concession area for a quick bite.
The farmers market is open to the public in the fall on this biodynamic farm. It has operated in Snoqualmie Valley for more than 20 years.
Prefer to get carried away?
How about checking out fall's colors from hundreds of feet above Woodinville wine country? Hop aboard a balloon at Woodinville's Over-the-Rainbow hot air balloon company and take you on a ride of a lifetime.
Enjoy spectacular views looking over Lake Washington and the Seattle skyline. Beyond that is Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountain Range. And to the south, Mount Rainier, so big and beautiful it looks close enough to touch. It's an experience unlike any other.
This is just a sampling of things that we like to do in the fall in and around Bellevue. Check out Visit Bellevue's calendar of events and things to do for more fall visit inspiration.
Photo Credits, Top to Bottom: Bellevue Downtown Park via City of Bellevue, Zip Scare Tour via South Bellevue Community Center, Salmon Days via Issaquah Salmon Days, Farm via Serres Farm, Hot air balloon via Pixabay.


My frustrations about my untapped potential during my athletic career and recurring injuries (Read More: Why I learned the Be Activated System) have motivated me to understand the fundamentals, optimal progressions, and organizations of a training program to allow for sustainable peak performance. I absolutely love John Wooden's Pyramid of Success because it contains so much essential information that is easily communicated and understood. I am going to devote a blog post to discussing the importance of each of the fundamentals of successful movement and at the end I will discuss a hypothetical case study and what I would recommend if that person was my client.
So first let me be very clear about what I mean by pain. Pain is NOT muscle soreness or fatigue, although they can be quite uncomfortable. Muscle soreness and fatigue is simply your body's feedback that you need rest. So listen to it!
You are no longer pain-free when you have sharp or searing sensations. You do NOT push through these. Once you are no longer pain-free, you should immediately stop what you are doing. You need to seek professional advice from an appropriately-licensed physician or other health care worker to ensure that there are no structural abnormalities such as broken bones or torn ligaments.
Only when your physician has given you their thumbs up and ensured nothing structural is wrong should you explore modalities to address the underlying causes of your muscoskeletal injuries. The causes are usually improper muscle sequencing and the shutting down of the prime movers.
Pushing through fatigue and muscle soreness in the short-term to achieve a team goal is admirable and builds character. However, in the long-term it is a losing proposition. But playing through pain is always a loser's strategy. If you are in pain you must go back to the drawing board and explore the causes of it.


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«Армагеддо́н-попс» — пятнадцатый альбом группы «Гражданская оборона». Все песни для альбома были сочинены в 1988 году Егором Летовым. Как говорил сам Егор Летов, песню «Насекомые» он написал, находясь под влиянием шаманской ритуальной поэтики северных народов, «Ужас и моральный террор» — во время прогулок по уральским склонам, а песню «Новая правда» — «в состоянии крайнего, заиндевелого и скорченного озлобления».

Список композиций

 Всё записано 18 июля 1989 года на точке «АукцЫона» (Ленинград), а также 18—23 августа и 7—16 сентября того же года в ГрОб-студии (Омск).

 «Мы будем умирать» записан(а) 22 июля 1989 года на точке «АукцЫона».

Участники записи
Музыканты*
 Егор Летов — вокал, электрические и акустические гитары, бас, шумы
 Кузя Уо — гитара, подпевки, саксофон, шестиструнный бас, шумы
 Джефф Жевтун — гитара, подпевки, бас ()
 Аркаша Климкин — ударные, подпевки
 Серёга Зеленский — гитара (), бас (), подпевки
 Янка Дягилева — подпевки

Производство
 Егор Летов — продюсер, оформление, пересведение, реставрация*
 Наталья Чумакова — пересведение, реставрация, мастеринг*
 Андрей Кудрявцев — фото*, LP-оформление**

История релизов

Примечания

Ссылки
 Альбом на официальном сайте группы «Гражданская оборона»
 ГрОб-Хроники | Гражданская Оборона — Поганая молодёжь

Альбомы 1989 года
Альбомы группы «Гражданская оборона»

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We are very sorry to inform you that following the torrential rain we have had this week, the pitch is waterlogged and so training is OFF.
The Kwik cricket tournament on Sunday may still be on - a decision will be made by 9am on Sunday at the latest (possibly Saturday night by 8pm) and posted here.
The Race Night is still ON tonight.
Please bring raffle money & stubs if you come.


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Louis Cardis (1825 – 1877) was an American politician who served as a member of the Texas House of Representatives from 1874 until his assassination in 1877.

He was born in the Piedmont region of Italy. He served as a captain in Giuseppe Garibaldi's army before immigrating to the United States in 1854.

Cardis moved to El Paso, Texas in 1864. He quickly learned the Spanish language and established a political power base with the Mexican American citizens of the area.

He became involved in a dispute involving salt deposits and the shifting  of influence and political power from the Hispanic population to the Anglo. He was elected to the Texas House of Representatives with the help of Charles H. Howard.

Cardis had a falling out with Howard after Howard staked an exclusive claim to the salt deposits. Cardis had his allies imprison Howard, and Howard retaliated by shooting Cardis to death with a shotgun on October 9, 1877.

Two months later Howard was killed by Cardis' former supporters from San Elizario.

See also
 List of assassinated American politicians

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1825 births
1877 deaths
Military personnel from Piedmont
People from El Paso, Texas
Italian emigrants to the United States
Members of the Texas House of Representatives
People murdered in Texas
Male murder victims
Assassinated American politicians
Deaths by firearm in Texas
19th-century American politicians
Italian people of the Italian unification
American people of Italian descent

Assassinated American State House representatives


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Caragaș (in russo Карагаш)  è un comune della Moldavia controllato dalla autoproclamata repubblica di Transnistria. È compreso nel distretto di Slobozia.

Comuni del distretto di Slobozia


Employees become a member of the Virginia Retirement System (VRS) and earn service credit that counts toward retirement eligibility.
A natural death benefit equal to twice your annual salary is provided to you free; for accidental death, the benefit is the natural death benefit doubled. Under certain circumstances, supplemental coverage such as dismemberment, safety belt, repatriation, and felonious assault benefits may apply. Administered through the Virginia Retirement System, the group policy is issued by Minnesota Life. Within 31 days of your termination date, the policy can be converted to a private policy.
Gives you an opportunity to purchase additional life insurance for yourself and your family. Employees must enroll within 31 days of hire date or otherwise must complete a Health Status form. You may purchase coverage for one, two, three, or four times your salary up to a maximum of $600,000. Insurance is available for an employee's spouse and children: spouses are eligible for up to 50 percent of the maximum amount of members' optional group life insurance coverage not to exceed $300,000. Minor children who are at least 15 days of age may be covered in increments of $10,000, $20,000 or $30,000, depending on the level of coverage selected; one premium covers all children. The premium is based on your salary, level of coverage selected, and age. Employees who take normal retirement may continue a portion of optional life. If both you and your spouse are eligible for Optional Life as employees, you may not elect spouse coverage. Likewise, either you or your spouse, not both, may elect coverage for your children.
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This is the Eighth Edition of The International Pharmacopoeia, published in 2018.
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The International Pharmacopoeia is based on advice and decisions from the WHO Expert Committee on Specifications for Pharmaceutical Preparations (ECSPP). All specifications included in this Eighth Edition have been developed following the WHO consultation process and were adopted by the ECSPP.
New and revised texts. New and revised texts are introduced for 40 monographs on pharmaceutical substances, 13 monographs on dosage forms and one method of analysis.


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Q: SELECT em PHP só retorna a partir do segundo INSERT do mesmo usuário O resultado do seguinte SELECT
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         include_once("conect.php");
         $id = filter_input(INPUT_GET, 'id', FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);
         $result_usuario = "SELECT * FROM produ_usu WHERE id = '$id'";
         $resultado_usuario = mysqli_query($conn, $result_usuario);
         $row_usuario = mysqli_fetch_assoc($resultado_usuario);

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só retorna dados a partir do segundo INSERT com mesmo id (id do usuário).
Eu sei que o problema é causado pela linha
$row_usuario = mysqli_fetch_assoc($resultado_usuario);

logo abaixo da linha
$resultado_usuario = mysqli_query($conn, $result_usuario);

Comento a linha e o SELECT retorna após o primeiro INSERT de um usuário com seu id normalmente.
Resumindo, não entendi o porque com a famigerada linha só retorna a partir do segundo insert
A pergunta é: porque com essa linha retorna somente após o segundo insert do mesmo id?

A: O mysqli usa um cursor pra controlar os itens que você recupera através do mysqli_fetch_assoc que avança 1 item a cada ve que ele é chamado,  e como você já deu um mysqli_fetch_assoc lá em $row_usuario = mysqli_fetch_assoc($resultado_usuario); , o teu while tá iniciando no item seguinte.
Isso é melhor explicado na doc do php https://www.php.net/manual/pt_BR/mysqli-result.fetch-assoc.php

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In this impressive and unprecedented seven DVD set, Nostalgia Ventures brings you twelve full hours of classic television entertainment - all original programs from the 1950s based on popular radio shows of the 1940s. You'... more »ll laugh with Jack Benny, George Burns and Gracie Allen, "The Life of Riley", and "Our Miss Brooks", thrill to the adventures of Boston Blackie, Philip Marlowe, and "Mr. District Attorney", and relive childhood memories with Roy Rogers, "The Lone Ranger", and "Flash Gordon" - all carefully restored for quality viewing. « less
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Festivals in Iva, SC. Festivals, Marketplace Expos, Craft Shows.
This South Carolina Festival will have fine art, fine craft, crafts, homegrown products and corp./information exhibitors, and 6 food booths. This event will also include we will have a dj providing music.
This South Carolina Festival will have fine art, fine craft, crafts, commercial/retail, homegrown products, corp./information and antique/collectibles exhibitors, and 3 food booths.


We're seeking an Associate, Anti Money Laundering Compliance to work in our Vilnius office. In this role, you will operate within the Global Sanctions and Interdiction (GSI) team. The GSI is responsible for monitoring transactions and identifying potential Global Sanctions violations and protecting our brand and customers from possible fraudulent activities.
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The Department of Transportation's Land Transportation Office on Saturday welcomed the decision of the Quezon City Regional Trial Court denying the petition for a temporary restraining order filed by a lawyer against the DOTC (now DOTr) Road Transportation IT Infrastructure Project.
In a decision dated Sept. 26, 2018 penned by Judge Maria Luisa Lesle C. Gonzales-Betic of Branch 225 of the QC RTC, the court denied the issuance of TRO for lack of merit.
"We welcome the decision of the QC RTC to deny the prayer for the issuance of the TRO due to lack of merit. With this, the LTO is able to freely pursue the implementation of the project," LTO Assistant Secretary Edgar C. Galvante said.
The prayer for the TRO adjunct to the main suit of Injunction for the DOTr-LTO's project titled, DOTC (now DOTr) Road Transportation IT Infrastructure Project, Component B, including its subcomponents which stemmed from the complaint filed by a certain lawyer Salvador B. Belaro Sr., who claimed that the splitting of the project into components is in violation of Republic Act No. 9184 or the Government Procurement Reform Act.
In its decision, the court ruled that the complainant failed to present meritorious grounds for the issuance of a TRO. The only ground on which the application for a TRO is based is protection from unnecessary government spending should the project fail and the IT system becomes inoperative.
The court pointed out that the TRO/Injunction is not designed to protect contingent or future rights.
"An injunction is not a remedy to protect or enforce contingent, abstract, or future rights; it will not issue to protect a right not in esse and which may never arise, or to restrain an act which does not give rise to a cause of action. There must exist an actual right.
According to Galvante, the objective of the DOTr-LTO RoadTransportation IT Infrastructure Project is to establish a state-of-the-art and ISO-compliant IT system that will support the current and future demands of the agency's operations. This includes establishing an LTO online platform to facilitate transactions.
This initiative is in line with Republic Act No. 11032, otherwise known as "Ease of Doing Business and Efficient Government Service Delivery Act of 2018," and aligned with President Rodrigo Duterte's thrust to eradicate corruption and red-tape in government transactions.


On November 17, 2011 The Common Good presented a special "Election Panel 2012" with three of the best experts on election strategy. A powerful bipartisan trio – Ken Mehlman, the brilliant former Chair of the Republican National Committee, Robert Shrum, the amazingly clever Democratic political strategist and messaging expert, and Richard Wolffe, author and journalist, known as a keen observer of the American political scene, gave a frank discussion and prognostication of the American political landscape. A truly memorable evening.


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Zinc deficiency may contribute to increased inflammation among HIV-positive individuals
by University of Massachusetts Amherst
In a new study, University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers Krishna Poudel and colleagues report that zinc deficiency may contribute to chronic inflammation among HIV-positive individuals. Theirs is believed to be the first investigation to explore the association between serum zinc levels and inflammation among people with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, while taking their anti-retroviral therapy (ART) into account.
As the authors note, zinc functions as an anti-inflammatory agent, and zinc deficiency is a common micronutrient abnormality seen in people with HIV. But more work is needed to determine whether zinc supplements might help to reduce inflammation and further, to identify a subpopulation of patients who might benefit from this, they add.
Poudel, an associate professor of community health education at UMass Amherst's School of Public Health and Health Sciences, with his colleagues epidemiologist Elizabeth Bertone-Johnson and Kalpana Poudel-Tandukar of the UMass Amherst College of Nursing, report in the current issue of Biological Trace Element Research that they observed a significant relationship between serum zinc concentration and serum C-reactive protein (CRP) concentration in HIV-positive individuals: higher zinc concentrations were associated with lower CRP levels.
CRP is a biomarker of inflammation that has been associated with several parameters of HIV disease progression and the focus of extensive epidemiologic investigation because it is also an independent survival predictor, Poudel says.
"The fact that several studies have suggested that zinc might be something important for us to be aware of led us to analyze this micronutrient in HIV-positive patients," Poudel says. "We hypothesized that lower concentrations of serum zinc would be associated with increased CRP concentrations in HIV-positive individuals, taking into account of ART."
For this work and several other studies, Poudel established a cohort of about 322 people living with HIV in the Kathmandu, Lalitpur and Bhaktapur districts in Nepal's Kathmandu Valley, the Positive Living with HIV (POLH) Study. The UMass Amherst team conducted a cross-sectional survey among 311 HIV-positive POLH participants, 177 men and 134 women, 18-60 years old. They measured serum and zinc CRP concentrations by standard methods and used a questionnaire, in-person interviews, blood samples and Indian food tables to estimate dietary zinc intake and CRP levels.
Using linear regression statistical analyses and adjusting for demographic, lifestyle and HIV-clinical factors, they found average CRP concentration significantly decreased as serum zinc concentrations increased in men and women and in all age groups.
Poudel and colleagues recommend more research, in particular that more powerful prospective design studies be conducted rather than cross-sectional, which will allow them to rule out the possibility that inflammation may influence zinc levels rather than the other way around.
But overall, the authors say this finding, if confirmed, may lead to intervention strategies to reduce inflammation and improve health and quality of life for those HIV-positive people, including those who take ART to control the disease.
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It's not just fans who have a hard time with beloved characters' deaths; these actors and actresses were traumatized after being killed off on-screen.
Marion Crane's death in Psycho is so iconic that you don't need to have seen the 1960 Hitchcock classic to know that she's stabbed in the shower by Norman Bates—it's just something that, at some point, you know about. If this scary bit of our cultural lexicon has kept you out of the shower, you aren't alone.
Janet Leigh, who played Crane, never took a shower at home again. When a bath wasn't available when traveling, she would go through great lengths to lock all the doors and leave the shower curtain open. "I'm always facing the door, watching, no matter where the showerhead is," she told the New York Times in her 60s.
It wasn't until we shot the scene where Jesse is trying to revive Jane, pretty aggressively, that it started to f*ck with my head," Breaking Bad actress Krysten Ritter later recalled.
Hurt portrayed his characters' deaths in more than forty films, but none were as gruesome as Alien. After four hours of prep and rain gear for the entire crew, an alien burst out of Hurt's chest, leaving a trail of "blood" three feet long that smacked co-star Veronica Cartwright (Lambert) in the face and caused her to faint in shock.
Sarah Wayne Callies went through a lot as Lori Grimes on The Walking Dead: a post-apocalyptic love triangle that ended in death, giving birth during a zombie attack, and of course, being shot in the head by her child to make sure she didn't become a zombie herself.
The actors who work on Game of Thrones have a lot of different reasons to love appearing on the HBO drama: the intricate battle scenes, ornate costumes, dreamy locales, and the notoriety. But every Game of Thrones actor has the same least favorite part: getting killed off.
One of the most famous movie endings of all time is also one of its most famous death scenes: the brutal shooting of Bonnie and Clyde. Before the groundbreaking, award-winning film was created, characters shot on camera usually went quickly, with very little blood.
Bonnie & Clyde changed all of that, with a rain of bullets over an entire scene that took three days to shoot. Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, who played the bandits, were reportedly so cold they shivered as crew members set up dozens of squibs (blood packets) under their clothes to fire off and blow them to bits.
The Battle of Hogwarts will live on as one of the most infamous fictional battles in all of history, and when Fred Wesley went down, it was a turning point for the character of Harry Potter, who felt if he had given himself over to Voldemort, his friend's young brother might not have fallen.
South Park makes fun of literally everyone and everything, but when they took on Scientology in 2005, one of their cast members took offense. Isaac Hayes, the soul singer who was the voice of the school chef, was a practicing Scientologist whose management team consisted of all folks from the religion, often called a cult by its ex-members.
They prompted Hayes to leave the show, and Chef suffered death by falling off a cliff…and being torn apart by a pack of wild animals…and some gunshots. After having been brainwashed by child molesters. Hayes' career never recovered and he passed away three years later.
Dr. Lawrence Kutner on House was one of actor Kal Penn's favorite roles, but he was forced to give up the gig when he was offered an even better role—as a real-life advisor to President Obama as the associate director of the White House Office of Public Engagement.
Penn didn't know how he would be written off the show and was as shocked as the audience to find out it would be suicide. "[The] news struck me in the same way we hope it strikes the audience: there was a little bit of anger and some depression," he told Entertainment Weekly.
You may never watch Die Hard the same way again after knowing this bit of trivia: Alan Rickman looks genuinely scared when villain Hans Gruber falls to his death because he was legitimately frightened after the stunt wasn't performed as planned.
As the episodes approaching the Lost finale ticked away, the main characters on the eerie show seemed to be meeting their doom one by one. Favorite couple Jin and Sun were no exception, finally reuniting and then drowning in the second-to-last episode of the cult classic series.
No one knows what groundbreaking music Jim Morrison would have produced if not for his tragic death at the age of twenty-seven, so it's understandable why so many find the enchanting musician's death tragic. But Val Kilmer may have taken portraying the late rock 'n' roll star too far when he starred in the 1991 biopic The Doors.
In addition to spending hours with Morrison confidant Paul Rothchild, he reportedly visited Morrison's favorite bars and clubs, wore some of his clothing, and even memorized pretty much all of his songs. Kilmer's versions of them were so close to the originals that even Morrison's bandmates couldn't tell the difference.
The doctors who have died on Grey's Anatomy almost outnumber the patients. But one of the most dramatic doctor deaths on the show was the plane crash death of Lexie Grey, the sister of main character Meredith who had a star-crossed relationship with (Mc-)steamy Dr. Sloan.
To film Lexie's season finale death scene, actress Chyler Leigh laid under the wreckage of a fake plane for two days of filming, preferring to stay in place rather than move around. She later told TV Guide that it was an honor to see her character to her very end.
Since no one can stop the killer robot, Kinney gets riddled with a Bonnie & Clyde–level of canon-sized bullets while writhing around the office. The lesson Kevin Page learned? "First, never agree to let the special-effects guys wire you with as many squibs as they like because those things hurt!" the actor wrote on Dallas' Guide Live.
Will Gardner (played by Josh Charles) was the glue that kept the fictional law firm of Lockhart & Gardner going on The Good Wife—as well as the sexual tension that kept viewers coming back to see what would happen next with Julianna Margulies' Alicia Flockhart.
No one on this list has had a character die as many time as Joseph Mascolo, whose Days of Our Lives villain Stefano DiMera bit the bullet more than ten times during three decades—yet somehow turning back up alive every time.
Although Stefano died via plane crash, fiery car wreck, and a nasty brain tumor, it was when he was supposedly murdered by his son in 2012 that got the actor most upset. "It was very difficult," Mascolo told Soap Opera Digest. "[Neither] Stefano nor EJ would have had wanted it that way." Luckily, he wasn't dead after all.
Connie Britton excels at working her way into audiences' hearts, so it's no surprise that her departure from Nashville in its fifth season was devastating to her fans, coworkers, and crew alike. It was also difficult for Britton herself, whose character died in a classic TV fashion, a car crash.
If Leatherface's victims in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre look particularly terrified, they are. Director Tobe Hooper pushed the cast to the edge in the Texas heat, and by the final scene, "we were really just on the verge of mental collapse," Leatherface actor Gunnar Hansen told Esquire.
Actress Marilyn Burns (Sally) had it the worst, being tied to a chair and hit with a (pretend) sledgehammer over and over. She couldn't see Hansen's face and was reportedly terrified. Sally, however, survives the movie. Her boyfriend (played by Allen Danziger), gets his face sliced open with the sledgehammer, but in this case, he got off easier.
When you work as an "enforcer" for a gang, chances are your days are numbered—especially when you're starring in a TV show. So it was no surprise to J.R. Ramirez when his character, Julio Romano, got killed off on Power. What he couldn't have expected was a painful on-set injury during the scene.
"I broke my hand five hours into [the shooting of the death scene] without knowing," Ramirez told TV Line. "I heard a 'pop!' right away, but I thought I was fine…until 30 minutes later." The injury, which was caused by a fake lead pipe getting stuck on his pinky finger, needed surgery to fix.
And although Peter isn't exactly dead at the end (depending on how you look at it), Wolff called the shoot "very, very isolated" and "terrifying." "I don't think you can go through something like this and not have some sort of PTSD afterward," Wolff explained to Vice.
Many actors report being cursed or visited by spirits after filming a scary movie. Jennifer Carpenter, who played Emily Rose in The Exorcism of Emily Rose, also succumbed to eerie feelings after portraying the real-life psychiatric patient who had an exorcism performed on her shortly before her death.
Carpenter was reportedly freaked out by her stereo turning on all by itself in the middle of the night during shooting. The creepiest part? She said it would play only the phrase "I'm still alive" from the Pearl Jam song "Alive." Although the scary phenomenon went away, Carpenter's freaked-out feeling did not.
Oftentimes when an actor leaves a series, he has to worry about his character being killed off. But for Tobias Menzies, when he left Outlander he had to worry about taking two characters with him, since the show takes place in two different time periods.
28 Days, a 2000 film starring Sandra Bullock as a lovable rehab patient, met with mixed reviews. But it was a memorable movie for actress Azura Skye, who plays Bullock's roommate Andrea in the movie. After Andrea overdoses, Bullock's character tries to revive her by slapping her, only to have her ultimately pass away.
Pro tip: If you have a guest spot on a sitcom as the love interest of a main character, don't diss the person who plays that character on a radio show! Actor Jay Thomas learned this the hard way when he was fired from his gig playing Carla's (Rhea Perlman) husband Eddie on Cheers.
Perlman was reportedly listening when Thomas knocked having to kiss her, and it wasn't long before he was written off Cheers in the most dramatic way possible: by a freak Zamboni accident (unfortunately for Thomas, off-screen). And at the funeral, Carla finds out some other news about her husband: he was a polygamist.
Now he's known as a bonafide movie star, having starred in such blockbusters as Creed and The Black Panther. But back when he was just a teenager, Michael B. Jordan appeared on one of HBO's first drama series, The Wire, as Wallace, a boy who gets roped into the world of drug dealing.
"It's a complicated thing to be dead when you're still very much alive and eager to make a name for yourself," wrote the actress who was supposed to be a real person in the 1999 movie that kicked off the horror movie "found footage" craze.
Anthony Edwards – Dr. Mark Greene on E.R.
Anthony Edwards is the man behind one of the most famous deaths in the history of film: Goose in Top Gun. But it was his death as ER's Mark Greene, the character for which he is best known, that really got to him.
Edwards teared up while speaking to Yahoo Entertainment about his character's death, explaining that it meant so much more than a fictional character being written off a show: "It's why we listen to music or why we watch TV shows…we still want to be told a story and have it relate somehow to our lives," he said.
They say everyone dies alone, but for Jerry McCafferty, it took three crew members to help him bring the death of his True Blood character John Burke to the screen. "It was heavily choreographed, which added to the stress of the acting," he told the Awl.
Actor Bradley Gregg started appearing in films as a teenager, but A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 was the only horror film he ever made. And who could blame him, with his character, Philip Anderson, being led through a creepy hospital by the veins?
Jules, one of the first to be killed in the 2011 horror flick The Cabin in the Woods, doesn't go down easily. After being stabbed by a zombie and then brutally trapped in a bear trap, her head is mercilessly sawed off—and she does it all while looking fantastic.


Silent auction, live auction, music by Kim Baxter, Dance Factory performances.
Open to the public ( free will donation suggested) to raise funds to assist those whose lives have been devastated by the bomb cyclone.
24 Hours of Giving, to benefit local nonprofits.
By donating on Giving Day, you can help your favorite nonprofit earn cash prizes!
Clay pieces are on sale and proceeds go to the artist in Disability Supports of Kansas. See the program, enjoy the artwork, and support their mission!
PAC - "The" Photo Destination for Prom, Senior, Wedding, or Family photos.
April 2nd-13th, North Platte Art Guild & Platter Painters, "Annual Spring Exhibit"


The Sycamore Music Boosters invites the community to Portillo's in Sycamore for a no-cook dinner fundraiser on Wednesday, May 16 from 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm. Stop in and enjoy delicious hot dogs, burgers, salads and shakes while supporting Sycamore Music Boosters! A percentage of sales during this time will go to the Sycamore Music Boosters. Please be sure to show a Portillo's flyer for proceeds to be applied; flyers have been distributed throughout the community and can be found on our Web site and Facebook page (just show it on your Smartphone when ordering!).The Sycamore Music Boosters support all students in grades K-12 in various music programs offered within the district and comprises of a group of volunteers families and friends of students enrolled in music education classes in Sycamore Schools.


ANY FM TENNIS PLAYERS OUT THERE?
Hi, I have not been able to play the sport I love in a very long time because of muscle pain, fatigue and a few other symptoms associated with fm. Is anyone out there an FM tennis player? if so, have you been able to continue playing tennis after being diagnosed? I just want to know if there is a hope for me to return to play.
Well, my daughter plays tennis.
She is 14. She begged me to practice with her. I did as much as I could. Had flare up that lasted 4 days. Good days are hard to come by these days.
FM is different with everyone.
Some of us have trouble even sweeping their own floor.
Others seem to be able to exercise. My doc is working on trying to get my flare ups under control. It just depends on you.
Limit yourself. Everyone is different. Do what you can that doesn't send you in a flare up.


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Radiant Future: The Neon Tunnel at 127 John Street, New York
Richard McKenna / January 28, 2020
Exhibit / January 28, 2020
Object Name: 127 John Street neon tunnel
Maker and Year: Rudolph de Harak, Howard Brandston, 1971
Object Type: Corrugated iron tunnel
Image Source: Flaming Pablum, et al
A rendering of the future in the form of a short stretch of corrugated steel, this neon tunnel that once greeted visitors to the foyer of 127 John Street in New York City feels innately familiar, even archetypal. Despite its appearance, the tunnel did not actually lead directly to a disconcertingly utopian future, but only to the elevators that ferried the building's blue-collar workers up to their workplaces. Completed in 1971, 127 John Street was originally designed as a classic slab of second-wave International Style corporate office space by architecture practice Emery Roth & Sons. The building's developers—brothers Melvyn and Robert Kaufman—were well-known for quirky decoration and the practice of turning ground level space into "plazas" that was not born simply out of generosity: forward-looking local construction ordinances offered floor space bonuses for their inclusion, encouraging developers to channel their greed into an engagement with public space. The Kaufmans employed graphic designer Rudolph de Harak to provide whimsical visual touches, which included a huge three-story digital clock and canvas covered scaffolds on the street outside to enliven the building's otherwise bland frontage and foyer.
Most of De Harak's other contributions to the building's appearance, however, feel as affected and dated as old greeting cards in comparison with the tunnel's sleek glow. Accessible from the building's entrance on Fulton Street, the corridor was illuminated by blue argon-gas-filled tubes, the work of architectural lighting expert Howard Brandston, with whom Harak had previously collaborated on the futurist Canadian Pavilion at the Montreal Expo in 1967 and the American Pavilion at Expo 1970 in Osaka, Japan. As well as providing a generation of New Yorkers with formative experiences, the tunnel's ready-made shorthand for futurism provided an eye-catching backdrop for photography, and was especially popular with musicians for promo shots, NY band The System actually filming part of their monster "You Are in My System" inside it and the building's lobby.
Why should a 250-foot stretch of corrugated steel sewer culvert decorated with neon piping constitute such a commanding and beguiling image of "the future"? Perhaps partly because of the optimism implicit in the nature of tunnels themselves: like jet bridges and subway tunnels, they evoke passage, acceleration, the traversing of barriers, and perhaps even escape and transformation. Its cool visual temperature and paring down of space and perspective provided a sensation of propulsion that recalled TV series The Time Tunnel (1966-1967), hinting that the gateway would catapult those traversing it to some other place—perhaps one less venal and prosaic. The tunnel's streamlined forms and its lack of sharp right angles also gave it a strange sense of weightlessness—of being unmoored from the everyday—and the neon punctuation seems almost to draw the onlooker inside, similar to the contemporary installations of artists like Doug Wheeler and James Turrell of the Light and Space arts movement. Vector graphics—the computer-generated geometric lines used to create "wireframe" images—had been around since the mid '60s, and the glowing geometric lines seen on the Orion III shuttle's control panel in 1968's 2001: A Space Odyssey may be one source of the tunnel's inspiration, as perhaps was that same film's "Star Gate" sequence—which itself took up motifs developed by artists and animators like John Whitney and Jordan Belson. The tunnel also reflected the hunger for experimental environments pioneered by architectural practices like Archigram and Archizoom that produced the same year's Instant City. And at least part of the feeling of recognition surely derives from memories of the New You Shop, the plastic surgery parlour in 1976's Logan's Run which clearly took it as inspiration.
The tunnel was eventually dismantled in 1997, when the office building was in the process of being converted to apartments as part of the wave of gentrification then investing the city. Several of the artists—including Howard Brandston—-involved in creating 127 John Street's installations successfully sued the new developers under the Visual Artists' Rights Act; unfortunately, the elements of the decor preserved by the settlement did not include the tunnel. The images that remain of it, though, show a powerfully ethereal, dreamlike space that is one more small reminder of how much more stimulating our built environment could be if only we were in a position to demand it.
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Didn't this make an appearance in the 1976 Logan's Run film?


Rhombic. Oval. Heart. Circular. Lozenge. Distinctive lilac bands. Vivid blue spots. Striking dark brown saddles and rings. Ornate yellow and gold rings. Pale blue marbling. You'd be forgiven if you thought I was describing the work of a Renaissance master obsessed with geometry, or that of an impressionist dancing with the changing light on each visible brush stroke. Well, to be fair, you're not entirely wrong. I do speak of masterpieces. Works of art on live canvases that glide gracefully through water as a carpet would through the air on an Arabian night. I speak of the Batoidea - the rays of the world that evolved from shark-like ancestors some 200 million years ago and have swam our oceans and rivers ever since.
Rays of the World (RoW) is the world's first 'complete pictorial atlas of the world's ray fauna' – a major milestone in documenting ray diversity and an important step towards raising awareness of such a little-known, yet frequently encountered group of animals. As part of the broader and global collaborative project, The Chondrichthyan Tree of Life, the book serves as a comprehensive and reliable tool to aid the identification of ray species. Unfortunately, frequent misidentification and relatively little research attention towards rays has resulted in much of the published data being incomplete or inaccurate – quite alarming when between approximately 20% to 36% of ray species are threatened with extinction (with the exception of amphibians, this is the highest rate of any vertebrate group!).
Until recently, I'd been excitedly waiting months on end for RoW to be published. My affection and respect for an often 'ignored' species have grown immensely since my postgraduate days of caring for and studying pregnancy in southern fiddler rays (Trygonorrhina dumerilii). Dr. Lindsay Gutteridge (née Marshall), who illustrated RoW, formed a significant foundation of my studies as her paper was the only one that documented the reproductive cycle of the southern fiddler ray. Without her paper, I would've stumbled endlessly through the dark and my project may not have even gotten off the ground. Suffice it to say, finally getting my hands on RoW and a chance to interview Lindsay was like Christmas and my birthday all rolled into one!
Lindsay has no official artistic training and claims her talent is simply a result of passionate interest and '…just working at it… the more that you do it, the more you perfect your craft.' Her artistic talents and exceptional aptitude for spatial recognition served her well during her postgraduate studies where she developed systems to identify shark species from their fin morphology. It was through her PhD supervisor Peter Last, her Honours supervisor Will White, and Gavin Naylor (all three are also editors of RoW) that her talents, both scientific and artistic, would merge to deliver the definitive illustrated guide, RoW.
Projects are often constrained by time and budget and some might ask, 'Why not just use really good photos? Wouldn't this be quicker, easier and just as effective?' Yes and no. Photos can help you identify fish, and unlike paintings, they don't take tens of hours to craft. However, for the purpose of distinguishing species, especially those that are closely related (e.g. the Pristidae family – the sawfish; or the leopard whipray (Himantura leoparda) versus the coach whipray (Himantura uarnak)), photos aren't as effective as you'd think. Lindsay explains that '…as an illustrator you can really take out that ambiguity that you have in photos…', which can arise from bad lighting or angles skewing proportions. Interestingly, Lindsay explains that '…there are also species that don't have any photos… [only] line drawings and descriptions from hundreds of years ago.' In such cases, using artistic license but within the realms of scientific evidence and accuracy, Lindsay was able to interpret the colours, shapes and shading through her knowledge of similar ray species within their respective groups.
Note the subtle differences in form, pattern and colouration in the leopard whipray (left) versus the coach whipray (right). Image: Lindsay Marshall, as seen in Rays of the World (2016), CSIRO Publishing.
I've always enjoyed the creative arts since I was a child. Seeing Lindsay's artwork, reading her research papers and listening to her approach and views on conservation have only emboldened my long-standing belief that science and the creative arts are very much complementary – they're not all that different. Like artists, truly great scientists challenge ideas. With stunning creativity and by thinking outside the box, scientists are often able to answer some of the fascinating questions we have about our world.
The giant stingaree. Images: Bineesh. K. K [CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons (left) & Lindsay Marshall as seen in Rays of the World (2016), CSIRO Publishing (right).
Art can also complement science, helping to communicate concepts and issues in a manner that is engaging and appealing to a much broader audience. If we take the conservation of rays (or any species for that matter) as an example, the science of taxonomy provides us with evidence as to what species we have, what species we're losing and where to direct conservation efforts. The artwork accompanies the taxonomy and serves a functional purpose, providing detailed and accurate images from which to identify species in the field. For me, I think that art's biggest strength is that it speaks to everyone in their language. No matter where you're from or what level of education you might possess, Lindsay's art is able to bring each of the world's ray species to life, showcasing their sublime beauty and shining rays of light on otherwise unknown or obscure animals.
Rays are sadly in serious trouble. At the very least, this book invites the reader or casual browser to truly appreciate the diversity of such magnificent creatures. RoW is both a field guide and a piece of art. To me, rays are a perfect manifestation of form, shape, grace and beauty. However, unlike most masterpieces, I'd much rather see rays alive and well long into the future than relegated to a museum of wonders passed.
This book belongs on your bookshelf... if you love natural history art, snorkelling, diving, and animal diversity.
Banner image courtesy of NOAA's National Ocean Service (Stingray at Sunrise) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons.
Those of us familiar with the coastal waters of Victoria may also be familiar with these curious creatures. Divers, snorkelers, and fishermen alike will probably have encountered these peaceful and placid elasmobranchs which make their home in our shallow marine habitats.
Also known as banjo sharks or green skates, these animals were named for their resemblance to violins. They feed mainly on crustaceans, fishes, polychaetes, and molluscs amongst seagrasses and on sand beds close to the Victorian coast. Found from Western Australia to as far east as the Lakes Entrance area, they are often spotted from the jetties around Port Phillip Bay. They are not harmful to humans as their tail is not barbed, and are generally considered to be peaceable and passive in nature.
The Southern Fiddler Ray is viviparous, which means that the adult females give birth to live young. Pupping occurs around April to May after a 12 month gestation period, with up to five pups born to each mother. During the first eight months of pregnancy, the pups undergo little development inside their mother, with rapid growth occurring in the final four months prior to birth. Pups average about 21 to 25 cm in length with healthy adults reaching over 140 cm.


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How restaurants and food brands can win over Gen Z
By Janet Forgrieve
(Image credit: Pixabay)
Industries that have obsessed on the needs and desires of millennials are starting to turn their attention to the next generation, and restaurants and food businesses are no exceptions. Gen Z, those born after 1996, make up 26% of the population now and their presence is expected to grow to 40% by 2020, said Marisa Allan, vice president of partner innovation at Unidays. The UK-based student affinity network, which has grown to about 5 million US members since opening its New York office three years ago, recently launched a restaurant division.
"There's a really big opportunity now because of their life stage. They're a population that's extremely connected on social and digital channels," she said. "They're moving to new cities, making new friends and experiencing new cultures and foods. They're forming habits now and making adult decisions for the first time. They're making memories that will stay for a lifetime."
Gen Z commands about $828 billion in spending power, and much of the group's spending goes toward food, according to a Unidays survey of 1,800 college students last summer.
"What we're starting to see is they're spending more on food than predecessors and being more frugal elsewhere," Allan said.
Almost half of the students surveyed spend between $10 and $20 on a restaurant order and 15% drop upwards of $20, according to the report titled "Gen Z: What Restaurants Need to Know."
The group is the first to grow up as digital natives, raised with phones in their hands that give them a long geographical reach when it comes to influencing and being influenced by their peers, Allan said.
"They're willing to pay attention, but looking for brands to teach them something or provide a resource, make them laugh or give them something of value."
They're also looking for food that fits in with their values, according to a separate report by NPD Group. The group was raised in a culture that's often focused on food and the importance of nutrition and, in addition to transparent labeling and shorter ingredient lists, they're also looking for experiences.
"Gen Z's will be a seismic force for the food industry as they emerge into adulthood under more prosperous economic circumstances, yet with their own differentiating set of values," NPD's David Portalatin said in a news release.
Health and nutrition also emerged as a key value in the Unidays study. About 41% of Gen Z members surveyed said they're willing to pay a premium for healthier food, compared to 32% of millennials, Unidays' Allan said.
"For previous generations sustainability, organic, locally sourced ingredients, those weren't part of the conversation. With this audience, those key issues are top of mind and it's important to talk about them."
Currently, members of Gen Z spend less on groceries than their Gen X and Gen Y counterparts, but that's poised to change as they age, and their influence will grow along with their spending. Demand from Gen Z is expected to drive the development of packaged foods that reflect their racial and cultural diversity, according to research from marketing firm Acosta.
Which offers will get Gen Z through the door?
In addition to moving past the idea that Gen Z doesn't have the money to spend on food, food brands and restaurants should keep some other things in mind when marketing to the youngest consumers, according to the Unidays report.
The group has raised ignoring traditional advertising to an art form. Just 8% learn about new menu items from TV and 4% from display advertising, the survey found, while around 41% find out about new foods while in the restaurant. Word-of-mouth is also key – 20% hear about new items from social media and 19% from friends. All that said, 93% said they're driven by discounts to try new restaurants.
Community-based offers to groups that Gen Z members are likely to be a part of are key when marketing to this group, the report says, starting with student discounts. About 48% of college students don't have campus meal plans and 78% take advantage of student deals offered by local and independent eateries.
"Student discounts or special offers are a powerful way to make a splash and give back to students by investing in them and their future," Allan said. "When we talk to businesses we learn so much about their challenges to margins, so if you understand the needs of the business you can align a student discount that meets that objective."
For example, if a restaurant has slower traffic at night, it could offer special promotions after 8 p.m., which would appeal to the 80% of students surveyed who said they would eat at off peak times if there was a discount.
"There are a lot of different ways [restaurants] could create programs that are a win-win," she said. "When it comes to loyalty and repeat business, the hardest part is getting them into the restaurants and tasting the food. If you can create compelling offers and tell the story of the brand, that gets them on track to become loyal customers."
Pretty pictures and impulse buys
Gen Z members are also spontaneous – only 5% plan their meals in advance and 48% try a new quickservice eatery each month, according to the survey. Mobile offers and promotions that reach students when they're likely to be hungry can be effective in wooing spur-of-the-moment diners.
The generation is also accustomed to communicating in images, so restaurants and food brands would do well to include food pictures and videos in their social media marketing and promotional offers to Gen Z, the study says.
Of course the food has to live up to the pictures.
"At the end of the day, nothing's going to replace a great-tasting product," Allan said. "You can have the most viral social campaign but if your menu items aren't what they want, it doesn't matter. [It's driving the] emergence of this new category of fine casual. You can walk over to Madison Square Park and I wouldn't be surprised if one out of every four people on line are Gen Z."
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World's Top 10 Slimmest Smartphones!
People resort to good eating and exercise habits in order to look thinner and glamorous. The mobile manufacturers have also adopted the same principle in designing slimmer Smartphones that looks stylish and has all the best features. Here are some of the thinnest Smartphones that is available in the market, based on reports made by The Times of India.
Samsung has taken the world of Smartphones by storm. A waist of 8mm takes it to the tenth spot on the list of thinnest Smartphones, irrespective of the fact that it has a 6.3 inch display which also makes it the biggest Smartphone in the market today. The device runs on Android 4.2 and is powered by a 1.5 GHZ dual core CPU. A camera of 8mp is also installed into the Smartphone making it one of the fully featured products in the market.
The 9th spot is shared by 3 Smartphones combined, Samsung Galaxy S4, Sony Xperia Z and the Lenovo S920 with a thickness of 7.9mm. All three Smartphone's run on the Android operating system. Galaxy S4 and Xperia Z have a 5inch screen while Lenovo is installed with a 5.3 inch screen. The Samsung Galaxy S4 is compared to a real life companion with features that is conducive in the daily lives of individuals.
With a 7.6 mm thickness the Apple iphone 5 takes the flagship of being the 7ththinnest smartphone in the market. It is currently the best selling phone in the market. The iphone5 runs on ios6 and has a 4 inch display screen. Its other features include 1.2 GHZ dual core CPU and an 8 mp camera installed in its back. It is 1 millimeter thinner than the Galaxy S3 and 0.2 millimeters thinner than the HTC'S remarkably thin One S.
The ZTE Grand S was launched at the consumer electronics show. It takes the 6thspot on the list of thinnest Smartphone's with a width of 6.9mm. A Screen of 5 inch features with full HD display and powered by a1.7GHZ quad-core CPU makes it one of the most sought after phones in the market. It has a 13mp camera that runs on Android 4.1.
A thickness of 6.68mm makes the Huawei Ascend P1S fifth on the list of thinnest Smartphone's by falling short of a narrow margin of 0.03mm. It has a 4.3 inch touch screen, 1.5 GHZ dual core processor and an 8 mp camera on its back. The Smartphone runs on Android 4.1. It also has a gorilla glass on top. The Ascend PS 1 also has an 8-megapixel camera main camera with back-side illumination, LED flash, HDR image capture, and 1080p HD video recording.
The Oppo Finder currently stands 4th on the list of the slimmest Smartphone's with a miniature presence of just 6.65mm thickness. It runs on Android 4.0 also called ice cream sandwich with a screen display of 4.3 inch. Installed with an 8 mp shooter camera it is powered by a 1.5 GHZ dual core CPU.
Vivo X1 was launched by Chinese manufacturers BBK Electronics last year. It has a thickness of 6.55mm which takes it to the list of the third slimmest Smartphone as of today. It has a display screen of 4.7 inches with an 8mp camera on its back. Powered with a 1 GHZ dual core CPU it runs on Android 4.1. The developers have put substantial effort on coming up with a state of the art Cirrus Logic CS4398 digital-analog converter, a CS8422 sample-rate converter and a pair of Beyerdynamic MMX 71 IE earbuds that are offered at affordable packages.
The Alcatel One Touch Idol Ultra is a premium looking smartphone. The company claims it is the world's slimmest Android smartphone. This phone was launched in India in the month of May and during the initial days of its launch it took the second place in the list of slimmest phones with thickness measuring 6.5mm. A 4.65 inch screen is fitted into this phone which is powered by a 1.2GHZ dual core CPU. Installed with an 8mp camera on its back the phone runs on Android 4.1.
It certainly is one of the best, if not the best Smartphone with a waistline of 6.18mm. Powered by a 1.5GHZ processor, the phone has an 8mp camera and a 4.7 inch screen that runs on Android 4.2 also called as the Jelly Bean. It is made entirely of glass and steel and resembles the iPhone 4 or 4S, with a black edge on a silver frame. If one is looking for a smart looking phone then the low price would come into the mind of the customer.


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Why Do I Find SETI Research Such a Downer?
Recently, the BBC reported on new research that tries to quantify the number of intelligent civilizations in our galaxy.
The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has been heavily influenced by solutions to the Drake Equation, which returns an integer value for the number of communicating civilizations resident in the Milky Way, and by the Fermi Paradox, glibly stated as: 'If they are there, where are they?'. Both rely on using average values of key parameters, such as the mean signal lifetime of a communicating civilization. A more accurate answer must take into account the distribution of stellar, planetary and biological attributes in the galaxy, as well as the stochastic nature of evolution itself. This paper outlines a method of Monte Carlo realization that does this, and hence allows an estimation of the distribution of key parameters in SETI, as well as allowing a quantification of their errors (and the level of ignorance therein). Furthermore, it provides a means for competing theories of life and intelligence to be compared quantitatively.
The findings of the research paper mean that there should be at least 361 intelligent civilizations in our galaxy and possibly as many as 38,000.
But, while researchers often come up with overall estimates of the likelihood of intelligent life in the universe, it is a process fraught with guesswork; recent guesses put the number anywhere between a million and less than one.
"It's a process of quantifying our ignorance," said Dr. Forganal, the University of Edinburgh researcher who carried out the work.
So my question is this: if there are alien civilizations but we can't talk to them or even potentially recognize them as intelligent then what good is it to us to know of their existence? Isn't it the ultimate cosmic tease to have them out there but not be able to do anything about it?
But I don't know if I buy that. Don't get me wrong: I certainly hope there's intelligent life out there amongst the stars; I certainly hope the SETI folks are wrong and we can and do make contact with it. I think communication (hopefully frequent) with alien life would indeed make us rethink some of our stupidity and short-sightedness.
But knowing they're out there but we can never, ever talk to them? What is that supposed to do? Isn't that a bit like suggesting that even though you're in solitary confinement you should take heart that there are at least other people somewhere in the prison where you can't see or hear or interact with them?
2 Responses to Why Do I Find SETI Research Such a Downer?
We're in a global economic crisis. I sincerely hope this kind of thing is first on the chopping block.
We still don't have any real idea how to go faster than light. Rather than say "What if?" we can't communicate with aliens, we should take that as given.
I know that's depressing, but it's our current understanding of the universe. It might change in the future, but there are pretty good reasons (like causality) to think that it won't. For that reason, I don't really mind if the SETI folks listen to empty space. Anything interesting they might hear will be at least hundreds of years old.
The second bit of bad news is that any aliens are just as likely to attack and destroy us as they are to solve our problems. Heck, maybe they'd just put us in a petting zoo.
We're not enslaved or dead at the hands of the Klingons, the Kzinti, or the Cylons. Cheer up!