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On Thursday we launched our latest campaign, 'It's not a game: the very real costs of having a premature or sick baby'
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On Thursday we launched our latest campaign, 'It's not a game: the very real costs of having a premature or sick baby' Our research found that parents face additional costs of over £2250 during their baby's stay in hospital due to loss of earnings, travel and parking costs, accommodation and having to buy food and drink from expensive franchises and hospital canteens.
We launched the campaign with an event in parliament. We had a fantastic turnout; 40 MPs joined parents, children and healthcare professionals to show their support for Bliss. We're certain everyone had a great afternoon chatting, sharing stories and playing with giant dice!
There were inspirational speeches. A parent shared the impact on her family of all the extra costs they faced; representatives from the FAB project on the Wirral talked about some of the innovative work they've been doing to support parents; and MPs stressed the importance of ensuring parents are supported to be with their babies. Many of the speeches were emotionally charged and really brought home the impact of the financial pressures faced by the parents of premature and sick babies.
The campaign has had a great start, but we need to get more MPs talking about our findings and the changes parents need. There are plans for a debate in parliament in the coming weeks and we will be launching the campaign in Scotland and Wales later this spring. We're also carrying out research in Northern Ireland together with Tiny Life which we hope to share later in the year.
As you can see, we have lots to look forward to and there will be many campaigning activities to get involved in in the coming months! There are still things you can do to make a difference right now: we really need to make sure all MPs are aware of our report and our findings. You can email your MP and ask them to read the report, and tell them why you think it's important that they do so.
To keep up to date on the campaign and what you can do to support it please sign up to Action for Bliss our online network of campaigners. You can also follow us on Twitter or like us on Facebook to get involved with the conversation – make sure you use #notagame!
Finally, thank you. We could not have launched this campaign without the support of so many campaigners and healthcare professionals. We hope you like the report and that together we can secure the change we need for premature and sick babies and their families.


How to Block Crypto Mining on Android, Windows, Linux, MacOS, and iOS Devices?
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Crypto Mining is a controversial topic for its legality and usage and has become a hot topic across the globe ever since the birth of Crypto Currencies (such as Bitcoin). Some countries have gone to the extent of labeling Crypto currencies and Crypto Mining as illegal. While Crypto Mining may or may not be legal, infecting your PC or phone to mine Bitcoin without your consent is definitely illegal.
For what we know, Crypto Mining need a lots of hardware and resources to run. You would need exceptional hardware configuration on PC to run and keep it running 24×7 to mine good amount of Bitcoins.
Where do Crypto Miners find resources to run?
The simple answer is – You! Not everyone has the resources to mine Bitcoins, or any other cryptocurrencies out there, themselves. So the easiest target for some greedy webmasters or web developers it to use your computer or phone as crypto mining source for them.
Some malicious website have gone to the extent of implementing hidden Crypto Miners on their websites or software. So whenever you visit a malicious website, it simply uses your PC or phone as a piece of hardware to start Crypto Mining for them. So they are using your computer, Android phone, or iOS device to mine cryptocurrencies without your knowledge. This is straight up unethical and illegal.
However, illegal Crypto Mining is not just limited to websites. The software you download for your PC or even some apps on your Android or iOS devices may consists of Crypto Miners; that you may not know about. So our best advice is to not download software or apps from non-trusted sources.
Now, we are not here to talk about things you already know like don't install apps from untrusted sources, or don't visit piracy sites… yada yada. If your device is already infected, this tutorial will help you get over it. This guide will also help you Block any or most of the crypto miners and safely browse the internet.
How to Block Browser-Based Crypto Miners on your Computers and Phones?
Just like any Ad, Crypto Miners can also be blocked by simply adding filters to your AdBlocker. All you need to do is add the following list of crypto mining websites to your Ad-Blocking software on computer or phones.
If you have an Ad-Blocker extension installed on your PC Browser, simply add the following list to it.
Note: This list does not consists of all the Crypto Miners in the world. There may be a few miners left in the list. So if you find such mining websites, you can easily add them to the Blacklist.
Simply click the above link to add the Blacklist of your AdBlocker.
How to block Crypto Miners on iOS or MacOS?
1Blocker is a very popular VPN based Ad-Blocker for iOS and MacOS. You can also use the 1blocker package if you use it on iOS or Mac. Simply open the file in 1Blocker on iOS or MacOS to import it.
Alternatively, you can simply update the Hosts file to block it systemwide.
You can simply update the hosts.txt file to Block Crypto Miners from Windows, Linux, MacOS, iOS, and Android phones system wide. So any apps, software, browsers, websites, will all be protected from Crypto Mining.
All you need to do is simply add the following list to already existing hosts file or simply replace the hosts.txt. The first approach is better.
Method 1: Most of the AdBlockers on Android phones are host based AdBlockers. Just like the hosts.txt file on PC, Android also has hosts file. So in order to access this hosts.txt file, you will need a rooted Android device.
Download a Root Explorer and visit this location to make changes. Ensure that you give the file proper permissions before you go.
Alternatively, you can install the Hosts Editor app for Android.
Download Hosts File to block Crypt Miners and add it to the above apps.
Method 3: Moreover, if you have a Samsung Galaxy device, you can simply install Knox based AdBlocker such as SABS or Adhell and subscribe to the Hosts file from above.
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Playing for and with nature: Diane Moser debuts 'Birdsongs'
Diane Moser Trio recording session at Union Concregational Church Montclair, New Jersey. Aaron Denner, left, Ken Filiano and Diane Moser play "Birdsongs." COURTESY DENNIS CONNORS
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Disney heroines often sing to birds, who sing right back. Mary Poppins does the same.
Animation and fancy?
Or… documentary?
Birds apparently enjoy having musicians to play with.
Diane Moser doesn't sing with the birds, but she did play with them when she was in residence on an artist's fellowship for five weeks at the MacDowell colony in New Hampshire in the summer of 2008.
Her CD "Birdsongs," which launches at Central Presbyterian Church on Sunday, April 22, is the result.
"Every day I was recording with them and improvising with them and at night I'd listen to the recordings," Moser said.
At first she tried transcribing what the birds sang, but it was difficult as the birds often sing in half-tones. Then the pianist discovered that if she played to them, they would get excited and sing back.
"We ended up just kind of jamming," Moser said with a laugh.
The music includes light, vibrant staccato flute, melodic piano, and bouncy, almost Latin rhythms.
Moser's seventh C consists of two suites: "MadDowell's Woodlands part 1: Morning and Afternoon," and "MacDowell's Woodlands part 2: Evening," and a track titled "The (Un)Common Loon" labeled "Intermission." Before the suites, there is a track called "Birdsongs for Eric" (for Eric Dolphy).
Central Presbyterian Church is not only the venue for the album's Montclair launch. It had a launch in Catskill, New York, last week where Moser recorded the CD.
"It has the best acoustics that I've ever found," she said.
"Birdsongs for Eric" was composed for and played in the Eric Dolphy Freedom of Sound festival at Montclair State University in 2014. Dolphy, who died in 1964, was a multi-instrumentalist (saxophone, clarinet and flute) and jazz icon.
"Hello" and the tunes in the first suite are for "birds I hung Out with in the morning," Moser said. "'Won't You Come Out to Play,' those guys, I hung out with them in the afternoon. In the early afternoon, it is harder to get birds to come out because they are resting."
So she decided to test that theory by playing, and seeing if they would come out to play with her.
And they did.
Kyle Pederson is a former student of Moser's. Moser teaches at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music and in a low residency program in the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA music composition program. Pederson was her student in Vermont.
Moser commissioned him to write a piece for the project, and picked the bird of his state, Minnesota, to honor.
"The (Un)Common Loon" is really a programmatic piece," Moser said. It dramatizes the loon from morning to evening. . Technically, it's part of the suite, "a day in the life of the loon," she said.
Amy Marcy Cheney Beach, a regular at the MacDowell colony, composed "A Hermit Thrush at Eve" there in 1920-21. Moser composed the "Variations" that accompany it.
"Birdsongs" reflects a project that evolved over nine years, Moser said. She and her band have performed several of the tunes, and a few of the tracks on it have been recorded before in other arrangements: the playful "If You'll Call Me, Then "I'll Call You," dedicated to saxophonist Mark Dresser, and based on songs of the American Robin; and "Dancing with the Sparrows." She's performed some of the tracks with a quintet, with two flutes.
The new CD is a trio, with Moser on piano, Anton Denner on flute and piccolo and Ken Filiano on contrabass.
Moser prefers the light, fluid sound of this music in a trio.
"[Anton and Ken] play, you know, in between the cracks in the same way that birds sing," Moser said. The fluidity in the music allows the notes to breathe.
In New Jersey, Moser listens for different kinds of sparrows, and is hoping to hear a Baltimore oriole.
It's special, Moser said, that the concert will take place on Earth Day. And even though this concert will be indoors, she hopes sometimes when she plays that the birds will join in.
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Space exploration and astronomy have been immortalized in stamp form many times over the decades. See photos of of space-themed postage stamps from the United States and around the world here. This Image: The U.S. Postal Service will release a stamp in honor of astronaut Sally Ride - the first American woman in space - on May 23, 2018 in La Jolla, California.
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"Star Wars" U.K. stamps celebrate the upcoming release of the franchise's latest movies.
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GEAM_0629 Peptidylprolyl isomerase; Protein involved in protein folding (601 aa)
Protein involved in biological_process (119 aa)
Signal transduction histidine kinase; Protein involved in signal transducer activity, phosphorelay sensor kinase activity, protein histidine kinase activity, ATP binding, signal transduction, chemotaxis and phosphorelay signal transduction system (675 aa)
guaB
Inosine-5'-monophosphate dehydrogenase; Catalyzes the conversion of inosine 5'-phosphate (IMP) to xanthosine 5'-phosphate (XMP), the first committed and rate- limiting step in the de novo synthesis of guanine nucleotides, and therefore plays an important role in the regulation of cell growth; Belongs to the IMPDH/GMPR family (440 aa)
Beta-hexosaminidase; Protein involved in hydrolase activity, hydrolyzing O-glycosyl compounds and carbohydrate metabolic process (797 aa)
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DNA gyrase subunit B; A type II topoisomerase that negatively supercoils closed circular double-stranded (ds) DNA in an ATP-dependent manner to modulate DNA topology and maintain chromosomes in an underwound state. Negative supercoiling favors strand separation, and DNA replication, transcription, recombination and repair, all of which involve strand separation. Also able to catalyze the interconversion of other topological isomers of dsDNA rings, including catenanes and knotted rings. Type II topoisomerases break and join 2 DNA strands simultaneously in an ATP-dependent manner (804 aa)
DNA topoisomerase 4 subunit B; Topoisomerase IV is essential for chromosome segregation. It relaxes supercoiled DNA. Performs the decatenation events required during the replication of a circular DNA molecule; Belongs to the type II topoisomerase family. ParE type 1 subfamily (606 aa)
Ribonucleoside-diphosphate reductase; Provides the precursors necessary for DNA synthesis. Catalyzes the biosynthesis of deoxyribonucleotides from the corresponding ribonucleotides (760 aa)
Adenylyl cyclase; FIG01220640; Protein involved in protein binding, signal transducer activity, phosphorus-oxygen lyase activity, signal transduction, intracellular signal transduction, cyclic nucleotide biosynthetic process and regulation of transcription, DNA-templated (573 aa)
Exopolysaccharide phosphotransferase; Protein involved in transferase activity, transferring phosphorus-containing groups (365 aa)
Peptidylprolyl isomerase; Protein involved in protein folding
Exopolysaccharide phosphotransferase; Protein involved in transferase activity, transferring phosphorus-containing groups
Signal transduction histidine kinase; Protein involved in signal transducer activity, phosphorelay sensor kinase activity, protein histidine kinase activity, ATP binding, signal transduction, chemotaxis and phosphorelay signal transduction system
Adenylyl cyclase; FIG01220640; Protein involved in protein binding, signal transducer activity, phosphorus-oxygen lyase activity, signal transduction, intracellular signal transduction, cyclic nucleotide biosynthetic process and regulation of transcription, DNA-templated
Ribonucleoside-diphosphate reductase; Provides the precursors necessary for DNA synthesis. Catalyzes the biosynthesis of deoxyribonucleotides from the corresponding ribonucleotides
Beta-hexosaminidase; Protein involved in hydrolase activity, hydrolyzing O-glycosyl compounds and carbohydrate metabolic process
GEAM_0629 guaB GEAM_0629 GEAM_0665
Inosine-5'-monophosphate dehydrogenase; Catalyzes the conversion of inosine 5'-phosphate (IMP) to xanthosine 5'-phosphate (XMP), the first committed and rate- limiting step in the de novo synthesis of guanine nucleotides, and therefore plays an important role in the regulation of cell growth; Belongs to the IMPDH/GMPR family
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DNA gyrase subunit B; A type II topoisomerase that negatively supercoils closed circular double-stranded (ds) DNA in an ATP-dependent manner to modulate DNA topology and maintain chromosomes in an underwound state. Negative supercoiling favors strand separation, and DNA replication, transcription, recombination and repair, all of which involve strand separation. Also able to catalyze the interconversion of other topological isomers of dsDNA rings, including catenanes and knotted rings. Type II topoisomerases break and join 2 DNA strands simultaneously in an ATP-dependent manner
GEAM_0629 parE GEAM_0629 GEAM_3187
DNA topoisomerase 4 subunit B; Topoisomerase IV is essential for chromosome segregation. It relaxes supercoiled DNA. Performs the decatenation events required during the replication of a circular DNA molecule; Belongs to the type II topoisomerase family. ParE type 1 subfamily


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Digital technology is now a major part of our everyday life. Shopping on the web, transferring payments online, sending an accident report from a smartphone, the list goes on. Doing things electronically has become the status quo. And yet new innovations are still unveiled every day, virtual solutions which we now use without even thinking about it. And without thinking about it, we are saving time and money.
People know their way around the web. But what would happen if every single thing they did had to be done digitally? How would it benefit businesses if we prioritized digital methods over physical ones? There's an environmental advantage of course. But the real added value is measured in terms of cost and efficiency.
Less than 10% of people today are completely opposed to digitalization (Ipsos survey carried out on behalf of BearingPoint in 2016). 85% think that it's about making an environmentally-friendly gesture like recycling, while 84% appreciate the space saved by sending invoices electronically. And with secure, certified, and rapid solutions available in a host of sectors, this trend is all but confirmed.
Digitalization is gaining ground in businesses. While a policy promoting digitalization can help save substantial amounts of paper, it also helps foster a culture of collaborative working. Using digital tools is a sure way to increase efficiency and productivity. The information that a business needs can be accessed quickly and easily. Collaborative solutions allow everyone involved in the same project to work together, wherever they are in the world. With digitalization, a business knows no borders.
These days, issuing pay slips electronically is not just a way for businesses to do their bit for the environment. It's also a way to make savings, with lower mailing fees and printing costs incurred. And while some people are still apprehensive toward this solution, it offers a range of real benefits. An electronic pay slip can't be forged if it is signed electronically. And it is easy to store because it takes up less space. On top of that, it's protected from the risk of loss or destruction (in case of fire, moving home, incorrect address, etc.).
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OC Now Has Its First Democrat Majority on Board of Supervisors in Over 40 Years
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The new Orange County Board of Supervisors pose for photos on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023. From left: Republicans Andrew Do and Don Wagner, followed by Democrats Doug Chaffee, Katrina Foley and newly-elected Vicente Sarmiento. Credit: JULIE LEOPO, Voice of OC
After nearly a half-century of Republican control, Orange County's top elected body has now shifted to majority Democrat with the swearing in of former Santa Ana mayor Vicente Sarmiento.
Sarmiento had his first meeting as a county supervisor Tuesday, joining fellow Democrats Katrina Foley and Doug Chaffee – both of whom won re-election in November – and Republicans Andrew Do and Don Wagner.
During his ceremonial swearing in before the meeting, Sarmiento said his priorities are to make housing more affordable, reduce homelessness, improve public healthcare services, make the board more transparent, and beef up staffing and funding of civilian oversight over county law enforcement agencies.
Newly elected Orange County Board of Supervisor Vicente Sarmiento during his remarks at the supervisors' swear-in on Jan. 10, 2023. Credit: JULIE LEOPO, Voice of OC
"I'm very proud of the fact we adopted one of the most aggressive police oversight commissions before I left" the Santa Ana mayor's seat, Sarmiento said, adding he wants to "robustly increase the funding and staffing" of law enforcement oversight at the county.
Another priority, he said, is "to make sure our children and our youth are able to afford a home in the county they grew up in."
"I want that dream to be available for them."
Sarmiento didn't lay out specifics of how he would go about that, but said he's been learning about the challenges and what can be done.
He said he's the first Santa Ana resident on the Board of Supervisors in over 74 years, and "only the third Latino in the county history, to serve as a supervisor."
In one of his first votes as supervisor, Sarmiento was the sole dissenter on a $13 million contract increase for the overhaul of the county's Musick jail. He cited the fact he wasn't present for earlier discussions, and said the unexpected cost increase was due to design problems.
The county board decides nearly $9 billion in annual spending on local regional services like law enforcement, public health, social services and myriad other priorities like libraries.
With the shift – Republican Lisa Bartlett leaving and Sarmiento joining – Democrats now have three of the board's five seats – a controlling majority for most of the board's decisions.
But the reality is more complicated.
One of the three Democrats – Chaffee – is a moderate who often sides with his Republican colleagues on key issues, and was opposed by his own party in last year's election.
Supervisor Doug Chaffee, right, during his swear-in on Jan. 10, 2023. Credit: JULIE LEOPO, Voice of OC
He's considered the most likely swing vote that could decide controversial issues.
In his short swearing-in speech, Chaffee thanked his family for their support and hinted at the clashes he's had with Foley.
Among them, in 2021 he joined Do in blocking county health experts from being able to join Foley for weekly public coronavirus updates, at a time when the county had stopped doing such updates altogether.
"I look forward to collaborating with you, and developing a friendly working relationship – in spite of friction – on important issues affecting the quality of life of our residents," Chaffee told Foley at the beginning of his swearing-in remarks.
When Chaffee mentioned the "friction," audience members let out a laugh.
Foley thanked public employee unions for their support of her campaign, and said she's committed to representing every resident from homeless people to the wealthy who live in mansions.
"Thank you, labor. Thank you for sticking with me for 20 years! This is your house! You built it!" Foley said, thanking law enforcement and firefighter groups.
Supervisor Katrina Foley, left, during her swear-in on Jan. 10, 2023. Credit: JULIE LEOPO, Voice of OC
"There is such disparity representing people who are living on the streets and trying to get them help, versus representing people living in the most expensive homes in Orange County," Foley said.
"They all deserve our representation."
The last time Democrats had a majority on the Board of Supervisors was in 1980, when Jimmy Carter was the U.S. President.
That reign was marred by corruption scandals, including then-Supervisor Bob Battin's 1976 felony conviction for misusing county staff to work on his campaign for lieutenant governor.
After the swearing in, supervisors chose Republican Don Wagner – the previous vice chair – as their new chairperson for the year, as is tradition at the first meeting of the year.
But they split sharply over who their vice chair will be.
Chaffee sided with his Republican colleagues in picking Supervisor Andrew Do for vice chair, while Sarmiento and Foley supported Foley.
In his first speech as chairman, Wagner said he supports the social safety net for the most vulnerable.
"We must provide for the homeless and the least fortunate among us. There is a role for the social safety net," Wagner said.
"By ensuring liberty, we ensure that the people who know better collectively than does anyone in government individually, are best able to provide for themselves – reducing the scope and reach of that safety net."
Correction: A previous version of this article said the last time Democrats had a majority on the Board of Supervisors was in 1976. It was in fact in 1980, according to the Orange County Archives. Voice of OC regrets the error.
Nick Gerda covers county government for Voice of OC. You can contact him at ngerda@voiceofoc.org.
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Milo Ventimiglia Is A Con Man In Love In ABC's 'The Company You Keep' First Look (Exclusive)
By Philiana Ng, ETOnline.com.
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Milo Ventimiglia is going from daddy duty to a con man in love.
In ABC's upcoming heist drama, "The Company You Keep", the "This Is Us" star plays Charlie, a suave con man, who unexpectedly falls in love with Emma (Catherine Haena Kim), an undercover CIA agent. Their night of passion unravels a web of complications for the unlikely duo as their paths are unknowingly on a collision course.
ET exclusively premieres the first official promo for the new series, which makes its TV debut during "Dick Clark's Rockin' Eve With Ryan Seacrest" this weekend. In the 30-second spot, Ventimiglia's Charlie turns on the charm when he meets Emma at a bar.
Already, sparks are flying as they lie about their occupations — him a "yoga instructor," her a "pageant queen-turned-rocket scientist." And when they finally tell the truth about who they are — him a criminal, her a CIA agent — they can't help but laugh at the absurdity of the situation.
Interspersed between action sequences, high-stakes undercover missions and steamy make-out sessions, Charlie and Emma are one hot duo.
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Here's the official ABC synopsis for "The Company You Keep", based on the Korean drama "My Fellow Citizens": "A night of passion leads to love between con man Charlie and undercover CIA officer Emma, who are unknowingly on a collision course professionally. While Charlie ramps up the 'family business' so he can get out for good, Emma's closing in on the vengeful criminal who holds Charlie's family debts in hand — forcing them to reckon with the lies they've told so they can save themselves and their families from disastrous consequences."
Watch the promo below.
Rounding out the cast is William Fichtner, Tim Chiou, Freda Foh Shen, James Saito, Sarah Wayne Callies, Felisha Terrell and Polly Draper.
Ventimiglia serves as an executive producer alongside co-showrunners Julia Cohen and Phil Klemmer. Russ Cundiff, Jon M. Chu, Caitlin Foito, Todd Harthan and Lindsay Goffman are also EPs. Deanna Harris serves as a producer.
"The Company You Keep" premieres Sunday, Feb. 19 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on ABC.
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An Illustrated Talk by the renowned international author Fred Hageneder on August 23rd 2018
Posted on 6th August 2018 by Michael
The Woodland, Flora & Fauna Group invite you to an illustrated talk with a live harp musical interlude by the renowned tree researcher and international author Fred Hageneder entitled 'Wonders of Yew' on Thursday August 23rd at 7.oopm in the Village Centre, Trinity Road, Hurstpierpoint, BN6 9UY.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 23rd 2018 at 7.00pm
The Village Centre, Trinity Road, Hurstpierpoint BN6 9UY
Entry is free and all are welcome
The event and talk description is provided in detail below:-
This is an event dedicated to the remarkable story of the oldest living things in Europe and their endangered future. The yew is one of the most versatile life forms on earth – botanically rich and intriguing.
The story of the yew has a rich cultural and historical background – it was the Tree of Life, the tree in the Garden of Eden and the original Christmas Tree. Yet, the British obsession with using yew for the medieval longbow led to the destruction of yew forests across continental Europe because the wood was superior.
Today, the mass destruction of yews overseas means that the UK is a Noah's Ark for the conservation of ancient yews Worldwide. Eighty to eighty five per cent of these grow in British churchyards, where the Church is the guardian and custodian of this ancient heritage.
Fred Hageneder.
Fred Hageneder is a recognised authority on ethnobotany, and a founder member of the Ancient Yew Group. He has given presentations at the National Botanic Garden of Wales, the National Museum of Wales, Snowdonia National Park Environmental Studies Centre, Wakehurst Place Millennium Seedbank Centre, the National Arboretum Westonbirt, and at various ecological conferences in Germany, Spain and Turkey.
His books include: The Spirit of Trees: Science, Symbiosis and Inspiration (Floris Books 2001), Yew A History (The History Press 2007), and Yew (Botanical Series Reoktion 2013).
This talk provides a fascinating insight into the rich cultural and spiritual history of the yew tree and will immediately follow a brief introduction by The Woodland, Flora & Fauna Group as organisers of the event.
Fred has written various ethnobotanical books about the meaning of trees and their cultural and spiritual history which have been translated into ten languages and has given lectures around the world. He is a co-founder of the Ancient Yew Group working to enhance scientific and historical information about yew trees and their mythology. Come and hear his knowledge and expertise relating to this extraordinary species.
He spends a large amount of time working abroad and has to restrict the number of lectures he gives. This therefore, is a very rare opportunity to learn about our heritage from such a distinguished and internationally acclaimed expert and should not be missed.
We really look forward to seeing you there. Your support for our activities is highly valued. There is a car park opposite the building. We don't charge a membership fee or event charge but are grateful for any contribution you are able to make to help us with our costs in a retiring collection bowl.
Please invite your friends and family. All are welcome.
Michael Nailard. Chairman of The Woodland, Flora & Fauna Group.
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In Sunday's Chicago Tribune, Mark Caro offers a terrific analysis of today's music business that has artists and labels scrambling to tap into on-line sources of income. Far too often, these sources offer a pittance, calling into question whether artists can continue to create albums and make a living.
That the big labels screwed up and screwed up big in the late 90s when they fought tooth and nail the reality of the Internet goes without saying (and it's eerily similar to the ongoing battles between Time Warner and local network affiliates – will cable even exist ten years from now?), but it's doubtful that anyone could have predicted that online streaming would become the primary way people listen to music.
The very idea of owning one's music is becoming anachronistic. Sure, there continues to be a "vinyl revival," with LP sales increasing almost 6-fold since 2007 (a trend that couldn't make me happier), but on the whole album sales have reached historic lows, and digital albums aren't exactly booming either, growing a measly 1.9% in the second quarter of 2013, and possibly declining this quarter.
Which leaves streaming: YouTube. Pandora. Spotify. iHeartRadio. Slacker. SomaFM. For now, these services aren't providing musicians with the income that physical sales offer. Rates vary, but according the article, one would need to listen to a song 200 times for an artist to earn $1 on Pandora vs. earning, say, a dollar with a few sales on iTunes. The argument goes that once these streaming services grow, they'll be able to pay more to artists (as Spotify has in Sweden), but that remains to be seen.
Today, both of Sousa's concerns appear to have been mollified. Virtuosos are alive and well in every conceivable genre at every possible instrument. And live performance is the one thing keeping musicians fed and audiences interested. Performing used to be an artist's cash cow, a necessary ingredient to spur physical sales. Today, when access to musical recordings is ubiquitous, live performing is what's keeping music fresh, immediate and inspiring, and audiences are willing to shell out serious cash to experience it.
In David Byrne's book, he devotes a chapter to revealing the budgets and income of two of his recent recordings. It's enlightening, but ultimately not indicative of the average musician, since Byrne is still benefitting from the music business's past paradigm. Things have shifted, and independent artists today aren't reeping the benefits of the 1970s business model.
Perhaps one day the vinyl revival will really kick it into gear, and life will return to the glorious past yet again, whereby people gather in front of a turntable and take turns listening to the latest releases. But in the meantime, an artist's bread and butter appears to be performing. And perhaps that's the way it should have been all along.


A run-down, 1950's ranch style home on this sunny, generous, flat site was cleared to make way for a beautiful new English country style home with a grand garden, swimming pool and guest house. Large, luscious, formal spaces were designed to showcase the homeowner's artwork and lifestyle with high ceilings, elegant windows and glass doors to bring in natural light. A creative and refined contemporary lighting scheme successfully enriches this elegant, private art gallery. Classical design notes were combined with modern sensibilities as the new floorplan takes full advantage of passive solar cooling and heating, affording all public rooms views of the beautiful garden and pool area.


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Q: Raising priority/sched policy of all thread of a process (linux) chrt? I'd like to set SCHED_RR (and priority) on all threads of a particular foreign process.
What would be the best way, to do it from shell
and another case - programatically from another process when it creates it as a child.
Thanks!
I suck at shell scripting, and don't know how to run "chrt" for all threads of a process, just in case that matters, threads have different names.

A: You can also use the -a argument.
chrt -p -r -a ${mainpid}

Note that this wouldn't change the priority of the threads that would start in future after you run chrt.

A: Try this, to rise the priority of udevd:
display priority of all threads of a process
$ for p in $(pidof udevd); do chrt -p $p; done
sample output
pid 1249's current scheduling policy: SCHED_OTHER
pid 1249's current scheduling priority: 0
pid 1248's current scheduling policy: SCHED_OTHER
pid 1248's current scheduling priority: 0
pid 788's current scheduling policy: SCHED_OTHER
pid 788's current scheduling priority: 0
rise the priority of all threads of a process
$ for p in $(pidof udevd); do chrt -p 45 $p; done
sample output:
pid 1249's current scheduling policy: SCHED_OTHER
pid 1249's current scheduling priority: 0
pid 1249's new scheduling policy: SCHED_RR
pid 1249's new scheduling priority: 45
pid 1248's current scheduling policy: SCHED_OTHER
pid 1248's current scheduling priority: 0
pid 1248's new scheduling policy: SCHED_RR
pid 1248's new scheduling priority: 45
pid 788's current scheduling policy: SCHED_OTHER
pid 788's current scheduling priority: 0
pid 788's new scheduling policy: SCHED_RR
pid 788's new scheduling priority: 45

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Reagan has come a long way. She and her littermate were dropped off at Upland Animal Shelter in Upland, CA, covered with fleas and ticks, and now she's well groomed and prances with seeming delight when people talk about how cute she is, says Rebekah Cherniss of Fontana, CA, who adopted her.
Reagan is always eager for a walk.
The Chernissses saw Reagan, then called Muffin, on Petfinder when they were dealing with the death of their beloved dog, Baylee. Shortly after, they went to an adoption fair and, though they looked at many dogs in their pens at the event, none felt right. They decided to go to the Upland Animal Shelter to meet her. They rounded one more corner, however, and there she was, sleeping on a table. She was recuperating from being spayed the day before.
The little Chihuahua/Dachshund mix has become an unofficial "Chiweenie" Adoption Ambassador, Rebekah says. "We have been able to explain her mixed breed and shelter origin to many people while we're out on our walks. " She is a cutie, so it's no wonder she won the top prize in a local cute pet contest and was a runner-up in her ladybug costume at a Halloween costume party.
She has completed the AKC Good Citizen program and attends a Puppy Playtime at a retail pet store.
Her other interests include hunting for "badgers" (really gophers), riding in her bike basket or car, camping and hiking, and just snuggling on the couch, warm in one of her little sweaters.
"We love her so much," Rebekah says. "We are thankful that the shelter saved little "Muffin" so we could have our Reagan." Her adoption day made the Cherniss family complete once again.


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Q: Format of Textfile? There was a problem when I copied a Text file from Linux to Windows.
The Text was not as the original, it was shifted to almost one line, also the line break setting couldn't help.
The content was from a website and it was copied in the right format as on the website to the text file on Linux.
I used then on Windows the comandline tool more:

more < textfile.txt > formatted.txt

So I could get back the original format.
Is there some configuration which might hold the format directly when copying the file between Linux and Windows ?

A: Before copying, use the Linux utility unix2dos: UNIX to DOS text file format converter.
After copying back from Windows, use the Linux utility dos2unix: DOS/MAC to UNIX text file format converter.
Other utilities and programming libraries can perform this line-ending conversion as well.


We all know them—the golden arches of McDonalds, Coke and Coca-Cola and its distinctive bottle—this is branding on a huge scale.
The concept is basically burning your company, website name or slogan into the minds of customers.
However good branding need not be confined to mega business.Small and medium businesses can profit by developing their own distinctive personality. For instance your company's branding includes your logo, colour schemes, domain name, motto or tagline. In a way branding is applied psychology—it is often a subliminal process by which a business uses strategies to get people to remember their products and services over a competitor.
However even the giant corporation Coke can be wrong. When it launched in China they wanted to retain the Coca-Cola name. The first attempt in Chinese was "Ke-kou-ke-la – sounding similar but regrettably meant 'bite the wax tadpole' or 'female horse stuffed with wax'. Poor branding may offer a negative impression. It is more advantageous to offer a new brand than to persist with a bad image. Good image is hard to build, but it is even harder to restore.
Companies need to incorporate into their brands a broader definition of their audiences and adopt values that have a human focus, authenticity, transparency and integrity. Branding has been around in the corporate world for more than 100 years, beginning with companies like Proctor and Gamble. A good brand will achieve a clear message; confirmation of credibility, emotionally connecting targets; buyer motivation; and maintaining user loyalty.
Your brand offers a promise – it states your values and strengths in a recognisable manner to the market. However there is a second side to branding that many companies either ignore or do not understand.
This is the development of a successful employer brand – you must understand what perceptions and beliefs current employees and potential candidates have about your organisation's culture and brand promise.
"It's important to understand why candidates either want to join you or wouldn't even consider you as an employer," Robert Half Finance and Accounting division director, Kim Smith, said.
Utilise focus groups, interviews, employee surveys and other research tools to bring your current employer brand into focus. Determine what steps are needed to change conditions into the employer brand your organisation wants.
Finally, just as a business is not static, neither is your employer brand. You need to regularly measure success and its continued relevancy. Unfortunately statistics reveal that 87 per cent of companies world wide do not believe it is necessary to involve employees in company decisions. Also 25 per cent of organisations do not take employees' views into account when developing company values or mission statements.
Whether you are a large, small or medium business-try some lateral thinking about employer branding. More than likely changes will make current employees more productive and candidates will be knocking the doors down to work for you.


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Sharon Superintendent Michael Calla to give Shenango commencement address
Penn State Shenango Advisory Board Member and Superintendent of Sharon School District Michael J. Calla will give the commencement address at the 2019 Penn State Shenango Fall Commencement Ceremony at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 20, in the campus auditorium. Jo Anne Carrick, campus director and chief academic officer, will confer baccalaureate and associate degrees on the graduating students.
Calla has been with the Sharon School District for more than 30 years. Before his appointment as superintendent, he served as the district's supervisor of curriculum and instruction from July 2002 until June 2013. In addition, Calla has over 40 years of working in all levels of public and parochial education—as a teacher, assistant principal, principal, and central office administrator.
Calla has made numerous presentations to state professional groups, most recently on the importance of peer coaching in elementary schools at the Pennsylvania Association of Federal Program Coordinators conference. He also serves on the advisory boards for Butler County Community College, (LindenPointe), Mercer County Career Center, and Penn State Shenango.
One capstone of his tenure as superintendent for the Sharon City Schools was his participation in the Secretary of Education's Superintendent's Academy as a member of the initial cohort of 88 invited superintendents from across the commonwealth. The two-year academy involved training provided by both national and international educational experts.
This year's graduating student address will be given by Miranda Hayes of Masury, Ohio, who will be receiving her bachelor of science degree in human development and family studies. She is currently completing her senior capstone in the campus' Student Affairs Office.
Hayes started her higher education journey directly after graduating from high school in 2002. After completing one year at Penn State Shenango, she withdrew. In fall 2015, Hayes returned to the Shenango campus as a nontraditional student and a mother of one, declaring her major as human development and family studies (HDFS). Once again, she completed one year but had to take a personal leave of absence due to the death of her father. In the fall of 2017, she returned to the Shenango campus to complete her degree.
Now, at the end of two difficult years both personally and academically, Hayes will be graduating with her bachelor's degree in HDFS with a minor in psychology.
A few of Hayes' accomplishments while at Shenango include being named to the Dean's List each semester since her return in 2015, receiving the Osher Re-entry Scholarship, and spending her last semester helping Shenango's on-campus food pantry, the Nittany Nook, survive and thrive!
"I owe my success to God and to the amazing faculty and staff at Shenango who have shared in my journey," said Hayes. Her future plans include furthering her education to obtain a master's in social work and continuing to raise her two young children.
The fall commencement ceremony will conclude with the induction of the graduates into the Penn State Alumni Society by Shenango Alumni Society President Carl Aaron Sizer III.
For more information about this year's commencement ceremony, contact the Registrar's Office at 724-983-2856.
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Divine Mercy Sunday - My Catholic Life!
Below are some beautiful prayers from the Diary of Saint Faustina. These prayers are especially appropriate for Divine Mercy Sunday but should be pondered and prayed throughout the year and throughout your life.
"O Jesus, stretched out upon the cross, I implore You, give me the grace of following faithfully the most holy will of Your Father in all things, always and everywhere. And when this will of God seems to me very harsh and difficult to fulfill, it is then I beg You, Jesus, may power and strength flow upon me from Your wounds, and may my lips keep repeating – Your will be done, O Lord (…) O most compassionate Jesus, grant me the grace to forget myself that I may live totally for souls, helping You in the work of salvation, according to the most holy will of Your Father…" (Diary, 1265).
"O Greatly Merciful God, Infinite Goodness, today all mankind calls out from the abyss of its misery to Your mercy, to Your compassion, O God; and it is with a mighty voice of misery that it cries out. Gracious God, do not reject the prayer of this earth's exiles! O Lord, Goodness beyond our understanding, Who are acquainted with our misery through and through and know that by our own power we cannot ascend to You, we implore You: fill us with Your grace and keep on increasing Your mercy in us, that we may faithfully do Your holy will all through our lives and at the hour of death. Let the omnipotence of Your mercy shield us from the darts of our salvation's enemies, that we may with confidence, as Your children, await Your final coming…" (Diary, 1570).
"…a soul should be faithful to prayer despite torments, dryness and temptations, because often the realization of God's great plans depends on such prayer. If we do not persevere in such prayer, we frustrate what the Lord wanted to do through us or within us. Let every soul remember these words: And being in anguish, He prayed longer" (Diary, 872).
as a fount of Mercy for us, I trust in You" (Diary 187).


Browsing the archives for the IAWTV category.
Promoting the IAWTV Awards – want to be in a video?
We have been talking about the IAWTV Awards for a while now, about why we decided to nominate 'Mind My Brains, Darling!' and why we support the Awards and the community endeavour. We feel that not being nominated in categories that had 150+ entries is no shame and we are proud to do our bit to help promote the Awards. And that's where we could use a little help.
Make your own 30 second video about why you watch MMBD* and upload it to your YouTube channel and follow the guidelines on the IAWTV site. There are prizes to be won!
We'll be watching the IAWTV Awards on January 12th live on the IAWTV YouTube channel at 6:00 PM PST and we hope you will be, too.


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Roller by Laura Gaiger
Roller (2019)
Laura Gaiger
Subject: Places/landscapes/interiors
Tags: Dark, Red, Machinery, Farming, Child
Original painting in oil on canvas.
Laura Gaiger studied at Glasgow School of Art, graduating with a BA (Hons) in Painting and Printmaking. After a period working in Glasgow, she is currently undertaking an MFA at Bergen Faculty of Art, Music and Design, in Norway. Laura's paintings deal with the elusive nature of memory and the past, combining autobiographical sources with references to historical painting, dreamscapes and invention. Her work has been influenced by the French scientist and philosopher Gaston Bachelard, by the phenomenon of the romantic pastoral, and by the Jungian tradition of the collective unconscious.
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Pride tends to kill the joy out of life. Life is more fun when we don't take ourselves too seriously and are able to laugh at "us".
The popular belief is that confident people laugh at other people when infact it's actually the opposite. Small men will laugh at big men in an attempt to feel better about themselves. The person who can laugh at himself is the bigger man of the two since he shows confidence by sharing his weaknesses with the world.
If you look closely enough, you will find things to laugh about yourself. Don't be afraid to share those with world!


The online startup Storefront (www.thestorefront.com), for example, connects store owners and landlords with retail spaces in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco for $150 to $1,500 a day. how to make the best ramen noodles in microwave Do you want to start a retail store online with little money? If YES, here are 50 best highly profitable small wholesale & retail business ideas for small towns in 2019.
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Small retail stores also need to understand their customer flow and make sure their store layout is designed to earn a profit. When you know the type and amount of customers you have and their browsing patterns, then you know how and where your merchandise needs to be placed throughout your store to keep the customers and cash flowing into your business.
Getting your product onto retailer�s shelves is not easy. It takes a lot of time and effort. Before you go leaping ahead to that all important sale, first you must know how you will get your product to retailers and fulfill your contract.


You can add these two registry settings to your Windows 7/8 machines, to STOP the "Get Windows 10" (GWX) upgrade prompts.
Rename the file extension from ".txt" to ".reg". Usually, you can do this in file properties.
Double-click the file, and click "YES" when prompted to make changes.
I created a batch file that creates the reg file, then runs regedit, to import these keys in to the registry.
Once you save the file, double-click to run it.


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Here is a picture frame I recently completed for my Dad's birthday. Curly maple and Purpleheart, splines are hard maple. Finish was a dilute application of Transtint vintage maple, sanded back to the facegrain to pop the curl, followed by 1 thinned coat of Arm-R-Seal gloss as a seal coat. This was followed by 4 coats of full strength Arm-R-Seal gloss wiped on, and the last coat a thinned coat of the Arm-R-Seal.
Thanks for looking, comments appreciated!
Very Nice Job! Miters are very tight, as are the joints between the Maple/PurpleHeart, and the curl is beautifully popped! Thanks for showing!
Beautiful I dig it, frames are really hard for me. You did a awesome job.
Really nice work. May I ask how you got the miters so perfect?
Beautiful frame and I have the same print. Looks like I am going to buy some curly maple and get to work.
garbonsai doing it again, if I had had more time, I would have built myself a miter sled for the table saw. For this project though, I stacked and cut the two long pieces together and the two short pieces together on the miter saw. I used carpet tape to stick the boards together and a couple of screws on the cutoff ends to keep everything nice and tight.
@danofpaco: That's impressive. Even with a sled, my miters usually don't turn out that nice. Congratulations.
Beautiful work. Much better than my first posted project! Welcome to LJ's!
I like the combination of the woods, very nice work!


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Q: Why is this specific function returning 'none'; i'm trying to demonstrate a growing list? I want to see the list in realtime growing and when its done I want to query the appended list via indices.
l=[]
def GrowingList(list):
    try:
        import random
        while True:
            rlist=lambda: print([random.randint(0,12)])
            list.append(rlist())
            print(list)
        return GrowingList(list)

    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        pass

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Grown list
[None]
Grown list
[None, None]
Grown list
[None, None, None]
Grown list
[None, None, None, None]

When I query the new compiled list it shows 'none' for every index:
>>> l
[None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None]

I am new to programming so just chill. This list is just a practice function of how lists can be automatically grown. 'Grown list' is just a example of what I want to put within the list.

A: You are using print in lambda which will return None. Also your return is having a recursion which is not necessary.
edit : you can remove the complete lambda part and directly append the random value to list.
You can use below modified code :
import random
l=[]
count=1
def GrowingList(list):
    try:
        count=1

        while True:
            rlist=random.randint(0,12)
            list.append(rlist)
            print(list)
            #below three line is added to break the code after 10 iteration you can remove them if you want to break on keyboard interrupt.
            count+=1
            if count > 10:
                break
        return list

    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        pass

output:
[1, 10]
[1, 10, 8]
[1, 10, 8, 11]
[1, 10, 8, 11, 2]
[1, 10, 8, 11, 2, 10]
[1, 10, 8, 11, 2, 10, 12]
[1, 10, 8, 11, 2, 10, 12, 5]
[1, 10, 8, 11, 2, 10, 12, 5, 0]
[1, 10, 8, 11, 2, 10, 12, 5, 0, 8]
[1, 10, 8, 11, 2, 10, 12, 5, 0, 8, 8]


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Fright Club: Best Horror of the 1950s
July 29, 2018 maddwolf	Leave a comment
When we first started this podcast, one hundred thirtysomething episodes ago, we devoted specific shows to the best horror movies by the decade. We started with the Sixties, but we got called on that at one point by a listener who wanted to know what we thought were the best horror movies of the Fifties.
We have finally responded to that (hopefully) very patient listener, and enlisted the help of our old friend Phantom Dark Dave. Together, we wander through the cold war movies that scared a generation.
5. Godzilla (1954)
Is Godzilla the best film on this list? No. But, more than any other film in the genre, it spoke directly to global anxieties, became a phenomenal success, and changed the face of horror.
As Japan struggled to re-emerge from the 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, director Ishiro Honda unleashed that dreaded kaiju—followed quickly by a tidal wave of creature features focused on scientists whose ungodly work creates global cataclysm.
Far more pointed and insightful than its American bastardization or any of the sequels or reboots to follow, the 1954 Japanese original mirrored the desperate, helpless impotence of a global population in the face of very real, apocalyptic danger. Sure, that danger breathed fire and came in a rubber suit, but history shows again and again how nature points out the folly of man.
4. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Director Dono Siegel was the first filmmaker to bring Jack Finney's Cold War nightmare to the screen. He wouldn't be the last, maybe not even the best, but what he did with this eerie alien tale tapped into a societal anxiety and quickly became one of the most influential and terrifying films of its time.
Doc Miles Bennell (Kevin McCarthy) is just home from a short trip when he's inundated by patients swearing their loved ones are not their loved ones at all. Sure, they look the same and have all the same skills and memories, but there's no warmth, no passion.
With this, the fear that our very nation could be overtaken by an outside force – Russians, say, for terrifyingly immediate sake of argument – working its way through not by force, but by quietly taking over each and every person in one town, then spreading from town to town to town.
It's the kind of insidious evil that fuels contagion horror, infestation horror, even demonic horror. But Invasion of the Body Snatchers spoke to a society's deepest fears and became a touchstone for all SciFi to follow it.
3. Dracula (Horror of Dracula) (1958)
In 1958, Hammer Films began its long and fabulous love affair with the cloaked one, introducing the irrefutably awesome Christopher Lee as the Count.
Their tale varies a bit from Stoker's, but the main players are mostly accounted for. Peter Cushing steps in early and often as Van Helsing, bringing his inimitable brand of prissy kick-ass, but it's Lee who carries the film.
Six foot 5 and sporting that elegant yet sinister baritone, Lee cuts by far the most intimidating figure of the lot as Dracula. Director Terence Fisher (what?!) uses that to the film's advantage by developing a far more vicious, brutal vampire than what we'd seen previously.
Still, the film is about seduction, though, which gives Lee's brute force an unseemly thrill. Unlike so many victims in other vampire tales, it's not just that Melissa Stribling's Mina is helpless to stop Dracula's penetration. She's in league. She wants it.
Ribald stuff for 1958!
2. The Bad Seed (1956)
The minute delicate Christine's (Nancy Kelly) husband leaves for his 4-week assignment in DC, their way-too-perfect daughter begins to betray some scary behavior. The creepy handyman Leroy (Henry Jones) has her figured out – he knows she's not as perfect as she pretends.
You may be tempted to abandon the film in its first reel, feeling as if you know where the it's going. You'll be right, but there are two big reasons to stick it out. One is that Bad Seed did it first, and did it well, considering the conservative cinematic limitations of the Fifties.
Second, because director Mervyn LeRoy's approach – not a single vile act appears onscreen – gives the picture an air of restraint and dignity while employing the perversity of individual imaginations to ramp up the creepiness.
Enough can't be said about Patty McCormack. There's surprising nuance in her manipulations, and the Oscar-nominated 9-year-old handles the role with both grace and menace.
1. Diabolique (1955)
Pierre Boileau's novel was such hot property that even Alfred Hitchcock pined to make it into a film. But Henri-Georges Clouzot got hold if it first. His psychological thriller with horror-ific undertones is crafty, spooky, jumpy and wonderful.
And it wouldn't work if it weren't for the weirdly lived-in relationship among Nicole (Simone Signoret) – a hard-edged boarding school teacher – and the married couple that runs the school. Christina (Vera Clouzot) is a fragile heiress; her husband Michel (Paul Meurisse) is the abusive, blowhard school headmaster. Michel and Nicole are sleeping together, Christine knows, both women are friends, both realize he's a bastard. Wonder if there's something they can do about it.
What unravels is a mystery with a supernatural flavor that never fails to surprise and entrance. All the performances are wonderful, the black and white cinematography creates a spectral atmosphere, and that bathtub scene can still make you jump.
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Fright Club: Mothers and Daughters in Horror
April 12, 2018 maddwolf	Leave a comment
The relationship between mothers and daughters informs an awful lot of great horror films from The Exorcist to Black Swan. Frightmare suggests that becoming your mother is inescapable. The Woman tells us that if we can't raise our daughters right, a more alpha mom might show up and do it for us. The Ring and Mom and Dad remind us that moms aren't perfect. They have bad days. Sometimes they may want to drop you down a well.
We focus on five horror films where that relationship between mother and daughter informs and impacts the storyline in a substantial way.
You may be tempted to abandon the film in its first reel, feeling as if you know where it's going. You'll be right, but there are two big reasons to stick it out. One is that Bad Seed did it first, and did it well, considering the conservative cinematic limitations of the Fifties.
4. Hounds of Love (2016)
It is the late 1980s in Perth, Australia, and at least one young girl has already gone missing when the grounded Vicki (Ashleigh Cummings) sneaks out her bedroom window to attend a party. She doesn't like staying with her mom, who left her dad and ruined the family and her life.
So she sneaks out, which isn't nearly as dumb a move as is accepting a ride from Evie White (Emma Booth) and her husband, John (Stephen Curry).
Writer/director Ben Young's amazing feature debut works on so many levels and showcases a master visual storyteller almost as brilliantly as it shines the light on three phenomenal performances.
What is it that may finally undo the evil the Whites have planned? One mother's relentless devotion to her daughter and another mother's sudden, stabbing empathy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNEurXzvHqE
3. Eyes of My Mother (2016)
Francisca's mother had been an eye surgeon back in Portugal.
"We used to do dissections together. She always hoped I'd be a surgeon one day."
Though Mom appears only in Act 1 of writer/director Nicolas Pesce's modern horror masterpiece Eyes of My Mother, her presence echoes throughout the lonely farmhouse Francesca rarely leaves.
Yes, the skills her mother imparted coupled with the trauma Francesca faced bleeds together to create a character whose splintered psyche keeps her from seeing that she's taking some extreme measures to cure her lonliness.
This is one of the most beautifully filmed horror movies ever made, and as impeccable as the cinematography, the sound is even more important and magnificent. Together with restrained performances and jarring images, Eyes of My Mother is a film that sticks around even after it's gone. Like a mom.
2. The Witch (2015)
There is a lot going wrong for poor Thomasin (Anya Taylor-Joy). But it all starts when the baby goes missing on her watch. Her mother (Kate Dickie) never forgives her for it and soon Mother is finding faults with Thomasin, making accusations that even Father, who knows better, won't defend.
For The Witch to work, for us to tentatively hope that Black Philip talks back, Thomasin has to basically lose everything, and it all starts with her mother's love and respect. Soon her mother's bitterness turns to competition for the affection of the menfolk, accusations of all sorts of wrongoing, all of which spirals out of control until Thomasin has no one left, no one who will love her and look after her, except that goat.
Robert Egger's unerringly authentic deep dive into radicalization, gender inequality and isolation is all sparked with one act that irrevocably ruptures one relationship.
1. Carrie (1976)
There is nobody quite like Margaret White. Oscar nominee Piper Laurie saw the zealot for all her potential and created the greatest overbearing mother film has ever seen. (We never did see Mrs. Bates, did we?)
Sissy Spacek (also Oscar nominated for her performance) is the perfect balance of freckle-faced vulnerability and awed vengeance. Her simpleton characterization would have been overdone were it not for Laurie's glorious, evil zeal. It's easy to believe this particular mother could have successfully smothered a daughter into Carrie's stupor.
De Palma and screenwriter Lawrence D. Cohen streamline King's meandering finale. Wise, because once the dance drama is done, we just want to find out what happens at home, and Mrs. White doesn't disappoint.
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Fright Club: Evil Children
July 9, 2016 maddwolf	Leave a comment
If horror films reflect the hysteria and fear of the moviegoing public, then we, as a planet, are definitely afraid of our children – or of children in general. There are countless examples of murdering, mutant, bloodthirsty, demonic youngsters. Whether they are born monsters or have been claimed by the Dark One, whether they belong to roving bands of toughs or happen to be your own evil offspring, children seem to play upon our deepest fears. So let's celebrate that today with a count down of the scariest children ever!
6. Let The Right One In (2008)
In 2008, Sweden's Let the Right One In emerged as an original, stylish thriller – and the best vampire flicks in years. A spooky coming of age tale populated by outcasts in the bleakest environment, the film breaks hearts and bleeds victims in equal measure. Kare Hedebrant's Oskar, with his blond Prince Valiant haircut, falls innocently for the odd new girl (an outstanding Linda Leandersson) in his shabby apartment complex. Reluctantly, she returns his admiration, and a sweet and bloody romance buds.
As sudden acts of violence mar the snowy landscape, Oskar and Ali grow closer, providing each other a comfort no one else can. The film offers an ominous sense of dread, bleak isolation and brazen androgyny – as well as the best swimming pool scene perhaps ever. Intriguingly, though both children tend toward violence – murder, even – you never feel anything but empathy for them. The film is moving, bloody, lovely and terrifying in equal measure.
4. Them (2006)
Brisk, effective and terrifying, Them is among the most impressive horror flicks to rely on the savagery of adolescent boredom as its central conceit.
Writers/directors/Frenchmen David Moreau and Xavier Palud offer a lean, unapologetic, tightly conceived thriller that never lets up.
A French film set in Romania, Them follows Lucas and Clementine, a young couple still moving into the big rattling old house where they'll stay while they're working abroad. It will be a shorter trip than they'd originally planned.
What the film offers in 77 minutes is relentless suspense. I'm not sure what else you want.
Creepy noises, hooded figures, sadistic children and the chaos that entails – Them sets up a fresh and mean cat and mouse game that pulls you in immediately and leaves you unsettled.
3. The Brood (1979)
Dr. Hal Ragland – the unsettlingly sultry Oliver Reed – is a psychiatrist leading the frontier in psychoplasmics. His patients work through their pent-up rage by turning it into physical manifestations. Some folks' rage turns into ugly little pustules, for example. Or, for wide-eyed Nola Carveth (Samantha Eggar), rage might turn into bloodthirsty, puffy coated spawn. This is Cronenberg's reimagining of procreation, and it is characteristically foul.
Cronenberg is the king of corporeal horror, and The Brood is among the best of the filmmaker's early, strictly genre work. Reed and Eggar both are unseemly perfection in their respective roles. Eggar uses her huge eyes to emphasize both her former loveliness and her current dangerous insanity, while Reed is just weird in that patented Oliver Reed way.
But it's the climactic image of procreation – of motherhood and childbirth – and the way the filmmaker and his leading lady subvert that life-giving moment, turning it into something beastly, that will stick with you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVQkJJxjdIM
2. The Omen (1976)
Gregory Peck brought impenetrable gravitas to this film, making everything seem very serious and worthwhile. This could be no ordinary horror flick – not with Atticus Finch in the lead.
Peck plays Robert Thorn, a rising politician and best friend to the President of the United States. He agrees to a delivery room switcheroo when he's told his own son perished during childbirth, but another baby born simultaneously was orphaned. He brings home the tot, his loving wife (Lee Remick) none the wiser.
Eventually she does develop a sixth sense about the cherubic little Damien, though.
This mid-Seventies gem is gloriously over-the-top with its self-serious approach to the coming of the antichrist. Richard Donner – who would go on to direct a couple Superman movies, a bunch of Lethal Weapons, as well as the Goonies – made a name for himself as a director with this bloated and deadly serious bible thumper.
The film's sinister elements – Mrs. Baylock, that dog, and Jerry Goldsmith's intensely creepy (and Oscar winning) score – combine with Peck's elegant heroism to keep the film fascinating, but all would have been for naught except for Harvey Stephens's impish perfection as Damien.
1. The Ring (2002)
Gore Verbinski's film achieves one of those rare feats, ranking among the scarce few Hollywood remakes that surpasses the foreign born original, Japan's unique paranormal nightmare Ringu.
The Ring – thanks in large part to the creepy clever premise created by Koji Suzuki, who wrote the novel Ringu – is superior to its source material principally due to the imagination and edge of the fledgling director. Verbinski's film is visually arresting, quietly atmospheric, and creepy as hell.
This is basically the story of bad mom/worse journalist Rachel (Naomi Watts) investigating the urban legend of a video tape that kills viewers exactly seven days after viewing.
The tape itself is the key. Had it held images less surreal, less Bunuel, the whole film would have collapsed. But the tape was freaky. And so were the blue-green grimaces on the dead! And that horse thing on the ferry!
And Samara.
From cherubic image of plump cheeked innocence to a mess of ghastly flesh and disjointed bones climbing out of the well and into your life, the character is brilliantly created. (It's actually a full grown man who climbs herky-jerky out of the TV.)
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Plank is often treated as a minor transition pose and sometimes as a core strengthener. I, however, believe it is so much more. Not only does it use gravity in a crafty way to insist we integrate our extremities as PART OF our core, it can teach us about our subtle imbalances.
When we place our hands and feet on the mat with intention and find the true length of our body, we set up a blueprint for a number of poses that we practice on a regular basis — Downward Facing Dog, Chaturanga, Cobra, Upward Facing Dog, Lunge, and all the standing postures built on these basic forms. So really, Plank is kind of a big deal.
In this version, leg/belly activation is lacking resulting hips that are far too low.
In this version the tail is tucked toward the heels and results in the core overworking and disconnecting from the work of the limbs.
We need to set it up right, with attention to detail. If our hands and/or feet aren't positioned properly, we will over-stress small joints and damage them over time. If they aren't properly active, we'll lose some of our core integration and potentially injure our spinal joints. Plank is where we learn to strengthen these structures so we can support ourselves in more advanced postures. We must be mindful of intricate actions all the way from our hands to our feet in order to maintain this potentially empowering posture.
Comes to your hands and knees on your mat to make the shape of a table.
Place hands on mat wide enough that ELBOWS are truly shoulder width.
If our hands are too narrow on the mat two things happen: we over engage our chest muscles, throwing us off balance, and we risk impingement of soft tissue structures in the shoulder joint. Both of these conditions lead to injury over time. Some people also have a lateral deviation in the elbow joint that results in the forearms point out to the sides when the upper arm bones are parallel. We call it a Carrying Angle. These folks will need to take their hands wider than their elbows for all postures where the hands are on the ground. See details in the Glossary.
Soften elbows enough that you can point them back toward thighs.
This action equals external rotation at the shoulder. External rotation creates safe space in the shoulder joint AND helps to engage the shoulder blade into place for better weight bearing alignment. Don't lock your elbows. Locked joints don't use muscles for counteractive support, so the ligaments take all the forces and eventually degenerate.
If needed, rotate hands outward so that knuckles of index and middle finger can root down to mat.
If your knuckles buckle away from the mat, all of your weight will move into the wrist joints. It's better to have the bones of the hands in both physical and energetic alignment in order to get all the power of Hasta Bandha integrated with the arm, shoulder and core. For people with a Carrying Angle, your turn out may be significant.
Keep the front plane of the shoulder just barely behind the crease in the wrist to avoid wrist hyperextension.
Hyperextension in the wrist results in impingement of soft tissues and a lack of strength in the flexors (the muscles that curl your fingers and press your hand into the ground). You cannot engage the Hasta Bandha if you cannot engage your flexors.
Press the knuckles and fingertips into Earth with more vigor than your wrist bones.
Triceps wrap back and in toward ribs.
This reaffirms the external rotation at the shoulder joint. It's easy to lose this action while paying attention to other details… do this action often throughout the pose just to make sure you haven't lost it accidentally.
Push the Earth away from you like Cat Pose.
This engages the chest muscle that help create lift out of gravity. Keep this in action as you move into the next step, you want to maintain them at the same time.
AT THE SAME TIME — Shoulder blades gently pull together toward spine to help lengthen sternum like Cow Pose.
Adducting the shoulder blades will activate the shoulder girdle muscles as a counter action to the power of the front body, creating lift AND length. It will also help strengthen the Traps and Rhomboid muscles… necessary for a safe Chaturanga!!
Tuck bottom points of shoulder blades toward armpits with serratus anterior rooting them to the ribs.
This is a very fine tuned kind of movement… frankly, not everyone will have awareness enough to engage serratus on it's own. PRETEND you can do it. Don't laugh. Just pretend you could pull the outer edge of your shoulder blade just a little closer to your arm bone… like you could just tuck it up under your armpit. Someday, after enough pretending your brain will realize you are serious about this and it will do it.
Lift the front ribs toward spine using a deep contraction at the solar plexus.
This keeps you from going into a backbend, keeps your organs from dragging you to the floor and adds levity to the hips and heart.
Reach one foot to back of mat, tucking toes deeply so the heel aligns over the ball of the foot.
You don't want your heel reaching much further back than your toes or you lack engagement of Pada Bandha and the entire lower extremity.
Reach the other foot back in the same manner, finding hip-width alignment.
It's good to get in the habit of hip width feet. It's easier on your hip joints as you bear weight and sets up your blueprint for better balance in all poses, creating a square framework from which your spine can stay on axis.
Keep tail bone soft, do not clench glutes.
If you clench your glutes, you tend to tuck the tail. A tucked tail flattens the curve in the lumbar spine (low back).
Push back with toes and forward with hands to help integrate extremities with core.
These opposing forces work the same way as Counteraction works on a single joint, they create stability across the entire system.
Your heels, hips and heart should be on a relatively straight line, a subtle curve in your lumbar spine.
You should always be aware of the neutral curves of the spine. Keep them engaged even when you're not upright in gravity, it helps keep the paraspinal muscles alive and kicking regardless of your relationship to gravity.
Ribs lift and arms rotate externally to broaden chest.
Refine your posture in small ways with every breath. There are a lot of steps to even the most simple pose when your entire body is working together. It's easy to lose one point or another, so go through the finer points mentally/physically as you maintain the pose longer and longer.
Throat lifts up to cervical spine to support the neck.
Dropping your head will place a ton of strain on the base of the neck and make your heart feel very heavy. Using the vocal cords to lift the neck will prevent you from breaking at the base of the skull and keep the back neck long.
MODIFICATION: To drop your knees for support, bend them deeply and roll forward over the toes.
Try not to draw knees forward under the hips, otherwise your pelvis takes over for the work in your mid and upper core.


The following table lists major awards given to JPL Robotics personnel over the past 20 years. Please click on the award names for more information.
2006 ASPRS John I Davidson Award for Practical Papers Initial Results of Rover Localization and Topographic Mapping for the 2003 MER Mission Mark Maimone, Larry Matthies, et al.
2006 Center Best One NASA Peer Award CLARAty: Coupled Layer Architecture For Robotic Autonomy Issa Nesnas, et al.
2005 The Industrial Robot Highly Commended Award For the paper "LEMUR IIB: a Robotic System for Steep Terrain Access", at the CLAWAR 2005 conference. Brett Kennedy, Avi Okon, Hrand Aghazarian, Yoseph Bar-Cohen, Mike Garrett, Lee Magnone, et al.
2004 INCOSE Outstanding Paper Award Towards a Systematic Approach for Selection of NASA Technology Portfolios Alberto Elfes, et al.
2004 NASA Inventions and Contributions Board Major Space Act Award Planetary Rover Absolute Heading Using a Sun-Sensor Ashitey Trebi-Ollennu, et al.
2004 NASA Software Of The Year Award Science Activity Planner Jeff Norris, Mark Powell, Paul Backes, et al.
2000 NASA Group Achievement Award MER/FIDO Black Rock Summit, NV Field Trials Paul Schenker, et al.
1999 NASA Group Achievement Award FIDO Silverlake, CA Field Trials Paul Schenker, et al.
1997 NASA Software Of The Year Award DARTS: Dynamics Algorithms for Real-Time Simulation Abhi Jain, et al.
1994 Best Video Award, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation Remote Surface Inspection Technology for the Space Station Samad Hayati, J. Balaram, Homayoun Seraji, Richard Volpe, et al.