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Class dismissed? No, not yet; What do kids and grownups think of the White House's call for longer school days?
ByScott Waldman
ALBANY — Meghan Campbell does not want to say goodbye to her future summer vacations.
It makes the eighth-grader at the Stephen and Harriet Myers Middle School nervous to hear that President Barack Obama is talking about longer school days and less summer vacation. Both those ideas could become reality as Obama and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan push to have the next generation of America's work force ready for the global economy and to compete with their peers who are spending more time in the classroom.
"If we have a longer school day, we won't have sports, but we'll learn more," Campbell said.
Obama knows he will certainly not win the support of most schoolchildren with this one. He wants to increase the length of the school day, saying the current schedule is based on an agrarian calendar that is outdated.
"Now I know longer school days and school years are not wildly popular ideas," the President told the Associated Press earlier this year. "Not with Malia and Sasha, not in my family and probably not in yours. But the challenges of a new century demand more time in the classroom."
Obama, the father of a sixth-grader and a fourth-grader, wants schools to add time to classes, to stay open late and to let kids in on weekends so they have a safe place to go.
Richard Iannuzzi, president of the 600,000-member New York United Teachers, said he is open to the idea of extended days. He said some public schools already have moved to longer years and longer days, and that administrators have developed scheduling that does not require teachers to be in school for 12 hours a day or 11 months a year. He said the focus should be in the schools where the extra learning is needed most.
"There's a lot of potential good in where this administration is going in terms of transforming the way we do business," he said Tuesday. "My goal … is to put those ideas out there in a way that's good for kids and fair for teachers."
The move also would mean that district schools would begin to resemble their counterparts in the charter school movement, which the Obama administration is looking to expand.
Albany's charter school students already spend a few more hours in school every day. At KIPP Tech Valley Middle School, which has some of the highest standardized test scores in the city, students are in school from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., compared with 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. in district middle schools. The Brighter Choice elementary schools, which also routinely post impressive scores, were the first in the state to offer classes year-round.
Both the Schenectady and Albany school districts have added time to their school days in recent years. Schenectady High School added an extra 30 minutes a day last fall, and Albany High tacked on an additional 45 minutes. Elementary and middle schools in both districts also increased their class time.
But Kerri Johnson, who taught an honors Spanish class on Tuesday, isn't sure that longer days are the answer. She said the government would be better off spending money on school supplies and books than simply increasing classroom times.
"I don't think that's the factor that's going to make the difference in the United States," Johnson said. "Parent involvement and supplies and technology, having these kids be more aware, is what's going to make us a better global competitor."
Jeanne Ringwald, 13, would rather get to school earlier every day than be in class during the summer. She said extra time would allow students more time to prepare for the standardized tests each year, but the eighth-grader said she will need some down time after she takes Regents at the end of the year.
"Kids need time to unwind," she said. "Every day we have a lot of homework."
Educators have long warned that the summer is the time when learning recedes. At Colonie Central High School, teachers spend every fall devoting a few weeks in math and English language arts to a review of materials from the previous year, principal David Wetzel said.
"The summer off is great to rejuvenate a kid, but more often than that it delays a student and sets them back," he said. "Two months is a long time."
And it's not just education that will improve by more time in school.
Duncan said extra school hours can be particularly valuable in impoverished areas in which day care is not an affordable option and kids are more likely to run the street at an earlier age.
"Those hours from 3 o'clock to 7 o'clock are times of high anxiety for parents," Duncan told the Associated Press. "They want their children safe. Families are working one and two and three jobs now to make ends meet and to keep food on the table."
The Associated Press contributed to this report. Scott Waldman can be reached at 454-5080 or by e-mail at swaldman@timesunion.com.


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The Register-Guard: The University of Oregon purchased the collected papers of novelist Ken Kesey and will make them available for academics and research.
California Science and Technology News: UO geologist Ilya N. Bindeman finds that another super-eruption from the still-alive Yellowstone volcanic field is less likely for the next few million years than previously thought.
KEZI-TV: UO Health Center leaders say they hope the app helps students make healthy sexual decisions.
KVAL-TV: The Northwest Scholastic Press Association and the UO School of Journalism invited young journalists to campus with the opportunity to improve their craft in a daylong event.
AroundtheO: Sponsored by the office for Research, Innovation and Graduate Education, the Research Faculty Breakfast is part of October Research Month.
Oregon Research: The Bowerman Sports Science Clinic will be open for walk-through tours and live demonstrations of the biomechanical analysis equipment.
UO Alumni Association: Homecoming events include reunions, pep rally and parade.
Oregon Law: Dave Frohnmayer, University of Oregon president emeritus and law professor, has been named to the board of directors for the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
AroundtheO: World-renowned sitar virtuoso Kartik Seshadri will demonstrate his instrument and the playing style of Indian classical music to students on October 18 at 2 p.m.
The Register-Guard: Tom Heinonen is headed to the UO Hall of Fame after coaching track for 28 years. The inductees will be honored this weekend.
Oregonian: The Ducks will take the field on Saturday wearing uniforms to honor cancer survivors and help raise money for the fight against women's cancers.


FORM Dance Projects in Western Sydney has announced an Audition Call for dancers, aged 15–25, to be part of a professional ensemble of 12 dancers, under the direction of choreographer Emma Saunders, on a large-scale festival production entitled Encounter, to be presented in 2019-2020.
Saunders, currently an Associate Artist of NORPA in Lismore, NSW, will run a performance task-based workshop audition. Secondary school to tertiary or professional dancers can audition from 4:30–6 p.m. on Wednesday, November 21 at Studio 404, located at 404 Church Street, Parramatta.
To register for the audition, email admin@form.org.au with subject line "ENCOUNTER AUDITION" with your full contact details, including email, mobile and address. If under 18, send parent/guardian contact details.
If employed, dancers must be available for creative development sessions from next month through April 2020. These sessions would be scheduled on selected school term week nights and occasional weekends at FORM's Parramatta studio. Dancers would also need to be available to go to a regional residency April 12–18, 2019 at fLiNG Physical Theatre in Bega, NSW.
Encounter is a cross-disciplinary project featuring orchestral music, contemporary dance and physical theatre. On this production FORM will partner with Western Sydney Youth Orchestra, Four Winds Festival, fLiNG Physical Theatre and Bundanon Trust. For more information, visit www.form.org.au.
Photo: Sharp Short Dance. Photo by Dom O' Donnell.


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Eight start-ups will pitch at the EIT Health Summit
Eight start-ups were chosen to go on to the finals after the second of the three European Health Catapult (EHC) Semifinals, this leg focusing on medtechs, was held in Grenoble, France on 1-3 October 2018. Around 15 excellent start-ups participated in a two-day intensive training working on strengthening their value proposition and their pitching talents.
On the third day, the EHC start-ups delivered a pitch in front of an expert and investor jury. In total, the Medtech Catapult Semifinalists asked for approximately €66 million for future investments. In the afternoon, the start-ups had an opportunity to network and establish further connections with investors and health industry representatives.
The EHC investor jury selected eight medtech start-ups to go through to the finals of the European Health Catapult competition which will be held during the EIT Health Summit on 3-5 December 2018, in Lodz, Poland. There they will be joined by Biotech and Digital Health start-ups and all the finalists will pitch their innovations to compete for recognition, the attention of investors and prizes worth a total of €135 000.
2018 EHC Medtech Semifinal Winners
Aenitis Technologies - EIT Health France
Continuous, contactless and pressureless sorting of cells in suspensions - Cost effective and efficient Bioprocessing solutions are main issues in cell therapy. Aenitis develop innovative patented medical devices for continuous, contactless and pressurless sorting of cells in suspensions, using Acoustic Radiation Forces. With large added values, Aenitis answer in cell therapy units and blood banks' challenges on cell sorting, on cell washing and on cell isolation for blood, tissues and stem cells processing. Its 1st CE marked devices should be on the market by early 2021.Supported by major companies and largely awarded in Europe, Aenitis received over €5,8M grants and €2M VC funding. In order to close a €3,2M series A funding, Aenitis is still looking for €1,2M.
HydrUStent, LDA - EIT Health Innostars
HydrUStent - Non-degradable is so 20th Century - Every year around ten million people worldwide need a urological STENT. But did you know that almost 100% of these people develop a bacterial infection within 30 days of implantation? And also, require a second surgery for stent removal? Imagine that we have a product that avoids this. HYDRUSTENT does that! HydrUStent is a biodegradable, anti-bacterial and tailor-made stent which underlying technology has been protecting by a patent. HydrUStent not only reduces the risk of bacterial infection but it also cuts down half the number of surgical procedures reducing the treatment cost by 60%. HydrUStent is a Portuguese spin-off company from 3Bs Research Group, University of Minho a leading group in Biomaterials research. The biodegradable ureteral stent is our first product from a patented biodegradable drug-eluting medical devices pipeline.
INGA Wellbeing - EIT Health BeNe
Comfortable, dignified clothing to empower patients and promote a faster recovery - To counter the debilitating impact of the hospital gown, INGA Wellbeing worked with nurses to create award-winning day- and nightwear that accommodates with IV lines, drains and monitors. Able to dress themselves, patients feel in control and are more likely to walk and enjoy visitors and thus improve their wellbeing and recovery. Medical staff are able to access the body quickly and easily for routine examinations and treatments, saving valuable time, and providing the kind of respectful care that ensures a good patient experience. Sales have begun online and we are working with a prominent Belgian hospital to develop an institutional version that can loaned to patients during their hospital stay. In this way, we hope to make our clothing solutions more widely available and to encourage sales of the consumer range.
Medical Magnesium GmbH - EIT Health Germany
Medical Magnesium develops the next generation of implants - Medical Magnesium is a medtech start-up that revolutionises modern patient care by developing and marketing bioabsorbable orthopedic implants made of magnesium. The current standard of care to cure bone fractures requires a removal surgery of the permanent implant material. Patients inevitably suffer from unnecessary pain, longer healing time, high risk of infection causing increased healthcare costs. Medical Magnesium has developed a new class of bioabsorbable implants that eliminate the need for a removal surgery, as they absorb in a controlled manner after healing the fracture. Together with leading users from orthopedics and trauma surgery the team strives for a better patient care.
Plasmacure B.V. - EIT Health BeNe
Healing chronic wounds and preventing from amputation - Around 10 million patients in Europe develop diabetic foot, venous leg and pressure ulcers. For 3% of diabetic foot patients these wounds result in an amputation. This decreases quality of life for patients. Our goal is to prevent this and heal wounds with Plasoma. Plasoma is a chronic wound healing device consisting of an electronic pad that creates a cold plasma in the wound and a pulser that sends the electric current to the pad. When applied to the wound the cold plasma kills the bacteria and stimulates healing. This quick and painless treatment decreases the risk for amputation and contributes to a patient's quality of life.
SensArs Neuroprosthetics - EIT Health Germany
Restoring limb functionalities to people affected by extremities amputation or nerve damages - SensArs Neuroprosthetics is an EPFL spin-off that was founded in Saint-Sulpice in 2014 by Francesco Petrini and Stanisa Raspopovic, two researchers of EPFL, and Silvestro Micera, professor of EPFL and Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (Italy). Since its creation SensArs has raised more than 500'000 CHF in non-dilutive grants, and has filed two patent applications. Thanks to this support, SensArs has developed SENSY, unique worldwide device to restore sensory feedback to lower limb amputees from their prosthesis. SensArs has also conducted a pilot trial with three lower limb amputees, preliminarily proving that SENSY reduces the risk of falls, increases the perception of the prosthesis as part of the body, and diminishes phantom limb pain. Lower limb amputees are about four million only in USA and Europe. SensArs is now organising a series A fund raising of six million. This money is needed to develop the final version of SENSY, and to run a clinical trial with 40 patients to gather CE mark and start commercialisation.
VitaDX International - EIT Health France
Innovative medical device for early bladder cancer diagnosis - VitaDX combines fluorescence imaging and image processing using machine learning algorithms to detect cancerous cells in a urine sample. The company was created in 2015 and our 12 people are based in Rennes and Paris. We are strongly supported since the beginning of the company by the regions Ile-de-France and Bretagne, BPI, the SATT Paris-Saclay. Our clinical trial on 1400 patients will end in early 2019 and the first solution, VisioCyt, will be commercialised in early 2020. We have fundraised €2.6 M in two turns of financing with business angels and Venture Capitalists and are looking for €3 M in early 2019.
TADA Medical - EIT Health Scandinavia
No more patient injuries caused by dislodged medical tubes - Global statistics show that 10% of medical tubes are accidentally pulled and damaged, resulting in loss of medicine, patient injury and possibly death. TADA Medical has invented a fail-safe connector made to keep the tube, patient and personnel safe. Our connector is cheap and mass producible, perfect for protecting the 3.5 billion tubes currently at risk of being pulled. The market is estimated to €7 billion a year. We have a highly competent team of doctors and engineers, and a patented technology with the potential to set a new EU-standard for tube protection and take the global fight for patient safety to the next level.
About European Health Catapult
The EHC is a training and competition programme, jointly organised by EIT Health. It awards the best-of-the-best business concepts from MedTech, Biotech and Digital Health across Europe.
During the two-day Semifinals, 42 European high-profile health start-ups are teamed up with mentors (i.e. experienced entrepreneurs, investors, experts in the field) to optimise the companies' business plan and provide intensive pitch training in order to improve the start-ups' ability to perform a funding roadshow in front of top-level seed or A series Investors.
The Semifinal is closed during the third day of a public event when the start-ups will meet investors and industry representatives and seven of them will be selected to participate in the EHC Finals during the EIT Health Summit in December 2018.
For further enquiries contact:
Anais Delicourt, anais.delicourt@eithealth.eu

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Evansville, IN (10/20/2022) — The community is invited to attend the University of Evansville Honors Program common read speaker event, which will include a presentation by author Linda Villarosa. The event will be held Monday, October 24, in Eykamp Hall, located on the second floor of Ridgway University Center. It will begin at 6:00 p.m.
Villarosa will discuss her recently published book, Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation. It was the common read for UE's Honors Program freshmen this year. Under the Skin is a landmark book that tells the full story of racial health disparities in America by revealing the toll racism takes on individuals and public health. In this book, Villarosa lays bare the forces in the American healthcare system and in American society that cause Black people to "live sicker and die quicker" compared to their white counterparts. Anchored by unforgettable human stories and offering incontrovertible proof, Under the Skin is, according to Oprah Daily, "perhaps one of the most important and thought-provoking publications of the year."
In addition to authoring her book, Villarosa is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, where she covers race, inequality, and public health. She also serves as an associate professor and journalist in residence at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at City University of New York (CUNY), and she teaches journalism, English, and Black Studies at the City College of New York.


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Music Video Sins
Music videos are great, except for when they suck. Sometimes, even great music videos suck... you just don't realize it until some asshole loser points out all the flaws he can find. At Music Video Sins, we're dedicated to pointing out all the sins we can find in music videos, some big and some small. Some are downright microscopic. Try and remember, a high sin count does not directly translate to a songs overall quality or enjoyability, and it doesn't reflect our opinion of it. It's just a list of sins, man. You either like it or you don't. If you do... awesome... we'll make more. If you don't... what the hell is wrong with you?
Gary: Tank Commander
BBC Two,
This Comedy Unit production, follows the exploits of this flamboyant perma-tanned serviceman, who looks on his time in Iraq as a holiday and whose antics are more camp than Dogwood
#Cybriety
Two technology-obsessed girls decide to give it all up and lead internet-free lives.
Robson Arms
CTV,
If you've ever lived in an apartment before you may not get to know your neighbors. At Robson Arms, you do. The Single Mom, The odd couple, the quirky family and the interesting super are some of the many characters whose lives you peer into. Each episode focuses on a certain tenant or more and shows how they interact with each other; be it a love affair or shoplifting. One roof, different worlds, do you know who your neighbors are?
NBC,
From the Producers of The Cosby Show and Roseanne comes Grand, a new ensemble comedy about life in a ficticious town. The series focuses on a tough-minded maid who lives in a trailer park, an ambitious middle-class businessman and a wealthy factory owner.
E arrivata la felicita
| Comedy, Romance/Dating
È arrivata la felicità is a series about love and family in all its shapes and forms told from an hilarious and contemporary angle. Written by Ivan Cotroneo, Monica Rametta and Stefano Bises and co-directed by Riccardo Milani and Francesco Vicario this series features two very different characters: Angelica (played by Claudia Pandolfi) and Orlando (Claudio Santamaria). They both live in Rome but come from totally different backgrounds: Orlando is an architect, son of sophisticated, left-wing intellectuals, who do volunteer work; Angelica manages a bookshop in the Testaccio neighbourhood, where her parents - slightly close-minded - also manage a legendary neighbourhood bar. When the two meet Angelica, widowed for a few years with two adolescent twin daughters Laura and Bea, is about to marry a sort of Prince Charming, Vittorio. Orlando however, is a very confused full-time father since his wife ran off with her German lover, leaving him to juggle house, job and his two sons: fifteen year old Umberto and Pigi, a mini-philosopher still in primary school. What will their meeting spark off?
The Daily Show Nederlandse Editie
Comedy Central NL,
| Comedy, Talk Shows
An official Dutch version of The Daily Show. The program is similar to the original, except with Dutch news and a Dutch view on international news. The show is hosted by comedian Jan-Jaap van der Wal. The first episode featured a guest appearance by Jon Stewart (recorded at the New York studio), who gave his official blessing for the show.
Komt Een Man Bij De Dokter
SBS 6,
A popular sketch program with jokes that bring a smile to the faces of young and old, shown in their own way in appealing sketches.
NET 5,
In Bitterzoet we see the thirty year olds Anna (Anniek Pheifer), Caro (Tina de Bruin) and Esmée (Jennifer Hoffman) who have known each other since their student days. The friends all have their own lives, but see each other regularly. Dating, wrinkles, sex, education: nothing remains unspoken.
In Verliefd op Ibiza the series, we follow the lives and romantic escapades of various Dutch characters who live in Ibiza.


Given available resources and shifting taxpayer demands, the IRS will be making a number of taxpayer service changes for the 2014 filing season.
The changes, which were made following input from stakeholders in the tax community, reflect the need for increased use of automated self-service options. With limited resources to support person-to-person services on the phone or at Taxpayer Assistance Centers, the IRS is emphasizing services, such as those found on IRS.gov, to help meet a number of taxpayer needs. This approach will free up IRS assistors on the phone or in person to help with issues that cannot be resolved through other avenues, such as issues involving identity theft.
Taxpayers should find these automated services easy to use and convenient. Many are available 24 hours and seven days a week.
Due to resource constraints, fewer tax returns have been prepared at IRS walk-in offices in recent years. For several years, return preparation has only been available in a limited format – only offered at some IRS offices and not every day of the week at some locations. In addition, taxpayers had to have income below the Earned Income Tax Credit thresholds to receive this assistance.
With the growth in electronic tax preparation and continued resource limitations, the IRS will be directing qualified taxpayers during the upcoming filing season to more than 13,000 volunteer partner sites across the country rather than limited services at the IRS's 250 walk-in offices. The IRS will refer taxpayers who visit the walk-in offices for tax preparation to the nearest volunteer site for tax return preparation.
In addition, the IRS Free File program on IRS.gov offers free e-file and tax software to help taxpayers prepare their returns.
Early in 2014, a new online request option called "Get Transcript" on IRS.gov will allow individual taxpayers with an SSN to instantly view and print a copy of their tax transcripts. With Get Transcript, taxpayers will save both time and effort. When the new service is available, transcript requests will generally be referred to the online tool. Taxpayers will be able to use the tool to authenticate, view and print copies of their transcript in one session. Taxpayers will still also be able to request that a transcript be mailed to their address of record by using the existing online tool or sending in Form 4506T. A specific date when Get Transcript will be available will be announced early in 2014.
The tool will be available for five types of transcripts: tax account, tax return, record of account, wage and income, and verification of non-filing.
The majority of tax law questions the IRS receives each year are about basic tax law issues. This includes questions pertaining to Forms 1040A, 1040 EZ and related items on Form 1040 such as filing status, dependents, exemptions and taxable income. During each filing season (January to mid-April), the IRS will continue to answer these basic tax law questions.
A small percentage of taxpayers seek help with other, more detailed tax law questions that frequently take more time to address. Beginning with the 2014 filing season, the IRS will refer taxpayers with these more complex questions to a number of other resources available on IRS.gov, IRS tax publications and the software packages taxpayers may already be using. This step reflects the continuing adoption of tax preparation software. More than 90 percent of all taxpayers use of tax return preparation software, either on their own or through their tax professional, and the tax law help is included as part of the software.
Most tax law questions are asked during filing season. To focus IRS resources on the filing season, outside of the January – April time frame the IRS will refer all taxpayers with tax law questions to the resources listed above.
Traditionally, the most common question the IRS receives is about when people can expect to see their refund. In recent years, the IRS has issued more than 90 percent of refunds in less than 21 days. With the continued growth of the internet and mobile apps, the IRS will direct all refund inquiries during the first 21 days after a taxpayer files electronically to the "Where's My Refund?" tool available in English and Spanish through the IRS2Go phone app, IRS.gov and the automated telephone service. IRS customer service representatives will only be able to research the status of a refund if it's been 21 days or more since the return was filed electronically or more than six weeks since a paper return was mailed to the IRS or if the Where's My Refund? tool directs them to contact the IRS.
The Practitioner Priority Service (PPS) provides tax professionals a dedicated channel to resolve taxpayer client account issues. Over the past few years, a growing number of customers who were not tax professionals used this service. Beginning in January, the IRS will limit PPS to tax professionals and requests related to resolving client related issues. All other requests will be referred to other appropriate resources for service. This change is expected to help the IRS provide better service to more tax professionals and help free up other resources for customer service.
The IRS's EIN Online Assistant continues to be a success with more than four million requests processed per year electronically compared to just over 588,000 requests made for an EIN via our manual telephone option. Beginning with the 2014 filing season, the IRS will refer all EIN requests to the EIN Online Assistant and refer only those with questions about a previously assigned EIN to a live IRS representative.
Any savings realized from these initiatives will be reinvested into improving service on the phone and at our walk-in sites.


Shroomery - These mushrooms were potent, as was the dose!
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These mushrooms were potent, as was the dose!
I received an 1 ounce of dried mushrooms from a friend who just returned from the state of Oregon.
my 1 week vacation from work for this event.
The next morning my dear friend and ultimate trip buddy arrived at about 11 am. We both weighed out about a 1/4 of an ounce for each of us. The time was about 12:30 pm in the after noon. We then kicked back and begun discussing what it was we wanted to achieve from this experience. We both agreed not to have any expectations due to the positive high spirits that we both felt. We kept the television and other electronic equipment off to clean out any negative electronic magnetic chaos that our bodies might have been retaining. We both had our acoustic guitars with us just in case of a divine musical inspiration. I am about 6 ft and weigh about 175 lbs. My friend is about 5 ft 10 in and weighs about 200 lbs just for the record.
speaking to each other but, we were connected in our minds. I glanced over at the clock and it read: 8:18pm. This number was so significant to me but, I couldn't remember consciously why. I then remembered that it was my birthday, August 18th to be exact. I then began to cover all the clocks in the house and noticed that it looked a very deep orange outside. The sun was setting! I raced outside so that I wouldn't miss it! I looked to the west and seen the most beautiful sun half hidden behind a beautiful pink/ orange and white cloud.
It was weird because it was the only cloud in the sky. I then looked to the east and saw it. The moon was HUGE! It was almost red in color. The sky began to look purple, then dark blue, then black with with different colored specks.
I retreated into the house to light all the candles and was in a slight panic because all I could see in the dark was Mexican motif kaleidoscopic images all over everything. I then seen a spark jump out of the colors and remained hanging in the air as a flame. It was my friend's lighter lighting a candle. I seen the room light up more and more as he went from candle to candle lighting them. The whole room was now writhing in restlessness and exposing cosmic colors within each ripple of positive madness. As my friend sat back in my recliner, I seen the recliner accept his energy and sigh with relief as he let out a breath of relief. I saw his eyes and they were like two round glass holes in his head. His skin was crawling with different unrecognizable shapes. The whole room appeared to be breathing and writhing restlessly. I would blink from time to time yet the image of what I was looking at would not cease for that moment. It would change into something else in my mind. It was dark outside now. We were out int the country so there were no lights of any kind around except for very distant streetlights from a far away town dancing on the horizon and changing colors more and more rapidly.
I began to laugh nervously. Ever thing was writhing and unrecognizable now. I know someone was just here a minute ago. My friend was missing inside these restless moving colors. He's over there somewhere. What does that mean, to be "over there" anyway. I suddenly realized I couldn't tell the difference between my eyes being open and shut. I think it was brighter behind my eyelids than it was with my eyes open. I suddenly felt dripping wet with sweat. I tried to call out to my friend but, could not verbalize anything. It came out in moans and coos. I was transforming into something else. I laid on the floor.
writhing restlessly with my environment. I started to see images of my childhood. I saw an old red barn. Everyone thought it was haunted. I was an infant back then! I was becoming an infant again. I felt myself shout out loud. Not out of panic or negativity but, just a release of energy I felt I was withholding from the world. I then saw myself sitting on one of my rugs and my friend was sitting on the rug across from me. He had a very wise look in his eyes. He was connected to me mentally. He understood . He was going through it with me. We had just passed our peak time.
Suddenly I realized that I was lying on the floor still and my buddy was still sitting in the recliner. He looked like he was watching over me. I sat up and I giggled nervously he then replied," that old barn was spooky huh? I just grinned.
We then piked up our guitars and begun to play some of the best music I had ever heard with these ears. We wrote a song that night called, "Color of Lost and Found". We then went outside to enjoy the night. Watching all the colors, and kaleidoscopes churn and breathe out of everything. As the sun came up I felt that I was blessed with the presence of a higher power that night. I had never connected minds with someone like that. All the next day we tried to discuss what we had experienced but, we just couldn't find the words. Up until today, i thought I never would be able to find the words. I remember everything in detail like it was yesterday. That was the most spiritual event I had ever experienced.


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"Reborning" – Los Angeles theater review
Photo by Ed Krieger.
A strange and disturbing play, Reborning by Zayd Dohrn introduces us to the world of one-of-a-kind, life-like baby dolls — aka 'reborn' dolls — and the people who desire them. But the story the playwright fashions around this premise is extremely questionable…
A reborn doll is a manufactured vinyl doll that has been transformed to resemble a human baby with as much realism as possible. Although many consumers collect reborns as they would regular dolls, others use them to replace a child they once lost or a child that has grown up. The dolls often come with fake birth or adoption certificates, and their "parents" care for them as they would an infant.
In Reborning, a young artist who crafts custom-made dolls begins to suspect that a demanding client may be the mother who abandoned her at birth.
Ryan Doucette and Joanna Strapp play a young couple, Daizy and Kelly. Each are artists who work with prosthetics — living together in Queens and both working from home in their respective studios. We first meet Kelly laboring intently on a 'reborn' baby doll she is crafting. She's swigging beer, rocking out to loud music and not wearing any pants — it's probably a typical Sunday at home in her workshop. When one of Kelly's clients, Emily (Kristin Carey) shows up unexpectedly, this marks the beginning of an uncomfortable relationship between the two women that delves deeper than artist and customer. It's also the first of many inexplicable moments that eventually add up to a highly artificial and improbable script. Why on earth would Kelly ever let an uninvited client into her private space, especially given that she'd just lit up a joint?! That Emily would help herself to a toke of the roach while snooping doesn't fit her uptight persona. I guess that's the point, but it's not presented in a credible fashion.
We learn that Emily is intrusive, pushy and demanding. We also learn, through contrived conversations, that Kelly is a barely functioning, messed up individual with a traumatic past. Her well-meaning yet somewhat selfish boyfriend Daizy finds himself unable to cope when Kelly's obsession with her work drives her to a psychotic breakdown. That's where the story takes a truly bizarre detour.
Dohrn seems to be trying to cram too much jumbled storytelling and character quirks into his one-act play which, though only running for around 75 minutes, still manages to baffle and drag.
Worse yet — the playwright's sense of humor is in decidedly poor taste. All his attempts at comedy feel limp. Daizy running around sporting a giant phallus (the prosthetic items he makes are custom-ordered and realistic-looking dildos) is not, in and of itself, hilarious, yet we see that lame sight gag in more than one scene. Daizy pretending to rape a baby doll is definitely not amusing. Sure, it illustrates he's gross and immature but that really crosses a line into offensive territory. The actors give decent performances of their dislikable characters but they are let down by the material. Simon Levy directs. This production is billed as a "darkly funny psychological thriller" and an "edgy comedy/drama" and I consider that pitch entirely misleading.
Not recommended.
Reborning by Zayd Dohrn.
Performances:
Jan. 24—March 15, 2015
• Thursdays at 8 p.m.: Jan. 22 (preview), 29; Feb. 5, 12, 19, 26; March 5, 12
• Fridays at 8 p.m.: Jan. 23 (preview), 30; Feb. 6, 13, 20, 27; March 6, 13
• Saturdays at 8 p.m.: Jan. 24 (opening), 31; Feb. 7, 14, 21, 28; March 7, 14
• Sundays at 2 p.m.; Jan. 25; Feb. 1, 8, 15, 22; March 1, 8, 15
The Fountain Theatre
5060 Fountain Ave.
(Fountain at Normandie)
(323) 663-1525 or here.
$15-$34.95:
• Premium Seats: $34.95 (VIP center section, includes 1 free beverage)
• Regular Seating: $30.00 (assigned by box office)
• Patrons 30 years old or younger: $20 ("30/20 Club"– valid ID required)
• Students: $20 (valid ID required)
• Seniors: $25 (Thursdays and Fridays only)
• Rush tickets: $15 (15 mins prior to curtain, subject to availability – Thursdays and Fridays only)
Secure, on-site parking: $5
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But here he was in Florida, almost on the lam, while so many other Trinidadians who, it was generally known, were guilty of one crime or another were free to stay or to leave the country as they wished. It was a case of politics, he said, recalling that in 2010 he had been told by both Patrick Manning and Kamla Persad-Bissessar that he should stay put in Florida, where he had fled after the Government's $7 billion bailout of the stricken Colonial Life Insurance Company (Clico).
But as the future unfolded it was clearly not the whole story and in Port-of-Spain Harry Harnarine would say to me that "the trouble with Lawrence is that he is a coward; he doesn't have the guts to fight. He would cave in rather than defend his actions." Harnarine, in fact, had shown effrontery when he had faced the commission of enquiry in defence of allegations concerning the Hindu Credit Union's balance sheets.
But the story of Duprey was different; he was reluctant to face the commissioner and the battery of lawyers trying to get at the truth.
Referring to his witness statement of October 22, 2012, which he said had been submitted by his attorneys to the commission of enquiry into the failure of Clico and CL Financial Ltd, Duprey reiterated that he had done nothing wrong and that he had been a hardworking and dedicated citizen of T&T and that he worked hard to create wealth for all. He was, he stated, instrumental in the creation of thousands of jobs in the energy and development sectors as well as saving and developing jobs in the financial services and spirits sector.
However, the global financial collapse and the refusal of the Government to support the group in the time of need had been responsible for the run on CIB and the cashflow problems that developed. And then there were whisperings from within that caused the panic.
As his story unfolded in the lobby of the Comfort Suites, one felt that his world was collapsing around him as financiers and investors were replaced by lawyers and liquidators. Powerlessly he was watching the disintegration of an empire. Instead of buy, buy, buy the new command was sell, sell, sell. It was the only way he would escape debtors' prison. And so on the blocks were hotels and real estate, Floridian property in which he and his wife, Sylvia, once had so much pride of ownership.
But the nosy T&T newspapers had investigated and probed and put up for public scrutiny every square foot of property that bore the Duprey imprimatur. And yet, never crestfallen, Duprey turned up every day in the lobby of the Comfort Suites at 1800 South Federal Highway in Fort Lauderdale to tell his story. It was his way to find the redemption he had said from the start of our meetings he was seeking.
He was still the smiling sphinx, talkative and irrepressible, but behind his eyes one could see the stress from meetings with bankers and lawyers, with brokering one company against another, with seeing million-dollar assets reduced in value from mortgages unpaid. The only time he retreated into uncharacteristic silence, in fact, was when his wife drove us around the city and he sat in the passenger seat next to her and took no part in the conversation that spluttered between her and her backseat guests, giving neither traffic advice nor plans for the day. It was when I felt the hostility he harboured for members of the media for what he saw as harassment and an invasion of his privacy.
But his curiosity about our purpose—and the knowledge that I had written the book on his uncle, Cyril Lucius Duprey—forced on him a détente and old-world politeness. He would even appear to be enthusiastic about the idea of writing a book on him and on his adventures with Colonial Life and the CL Financial Group of Companies, even though there was always the caveat that his wife had warned him against speaking to reporters.
It was clear that he did not trust the media, but in our case he wanted to be sure that we would report his story as he wanted it reported.
The distrust had begun with the politics of the region. "West Indian politicians," he said, "are the laughing pirates of the Caribbean. They never intend to carry out any policy or promise they make to the electorate. They get up in the morning and say, 'Lord, keep these people ignorant.' "That is what makes insurance work in the region so necessary and so successful. We fill a need that the politicians do not fill. We offer our policyholders a future.
"I met Patrick Manning not more than two or three times, but I could see that he was no different from other politicians whom I knew very well in Barbados and Antigua. They have no real desire to raise the living standards of their people; all they hope for is their vote to keep them in office. "Manning's secret wish was that he would win the election and put himself as President for life. He thought that I would finance this action.
There were two things that irked the politicians. "The first was the power we had, through the financial growth of the company, and the second was the legitimacy of the wealth we had created. This was the raison d'etre of our companies: poverty alleviation. We needed to raise pension funds and we focused on getting growth from savings.
Later, when we met Harry Harnarine at the Guardian offices in Port-of-Spain he said, smiling: "There was always a gap between Lawrence and his board of directors and managers. Lawrence always looked at the human side of things and tried to humanise conditions.
Lawrence had spoken of Carolyn John, for example, who hadn't been able to get financial reports out on time. "I can walk into Colonial Life any day and see why the company is in the state it is in," Harnarine said. "What did Lawrence tell you? He sees his downfall as the killing of the phoenix? And he thinks that the ill-will came from the salary he earned every month?
"Well, that is partly true. Five million dollars a month is a salary to envy. But he was clearing the path for agouti to run on. And I am not surprised, as he says, that André Monteil was planning to take over leadership of Colonial Life from him." The internecine warfare and office politics had blinded most employees to the precarious situation in which the world financial crisis had landed Colonial Life.
I hadn't forgotten my reasons for contacting Duprey: it was to write a sequel to the book I had done on his uncle, Cyril Lucius Duprey, who in 1937 had founded the Colonial Life Insurance Company with the help of Cyril Monsanto. But while it was fairly easy then to get some facts about the birth and early years of the elder Duprey, it was another matter to get from Lawrence Duprey the story of his boyhood in Trinidad and his student life in Canada, his marriage to his first wife and the truth about his and his wife's properties in Florida.
Meanwhile, coming into my mailbox since this series with the Sunday Guardian began were stories about his first wife's claims and his statement that he was without the means to honour her expectations. I have neither the stomach nor will for this kind of journalism and the fact is e-mails like this one did raise questions in my mind about the truthfulness of some of Lawrence Duprey's confessions and the stories of his birth and youth in Trinidad.
"I come from a slum landlord background. I know what it is to go into the homes of very poor people and see how they live. "It is knowledge of these wretched lives that motivated me, that made me see how the politicians were failing societies in the Caribbean and how it was important to them for Caribbean people to remain poor and stupid.
The work at CL Financial, Lawrence was saying, began to change the pattern of ownership of businesses in the country. "We bought shares from Barclays and then we bought Angostura. I bought 80 per cent of the shares in Bacardi and we had 35 per cent of the shares in Neal and Massy. We were bigger than anyone else. We controlled Republic Bank, the Bank of Commerce, the Express and the Guardian. It was scary. When I bought Angostura from Bacardi, nobody knew about it.
"We literally controlled the whole country. It was because of this that they used to bad-talk me. In Guyana, we were in control of forestry and insurance and we were building homes. Up the Essequibo we had gold mines. In the USA we had hotels. I will show you tomorrow.
What about the reports of his own businesses in Florida? Did they exist, and did they follow the philosophy he demanded for the companies of Sidney Knox and Thomas Gatcliffe who for years had been the titans of businesses in T&T?
"They didn't build skills," Duprey insisted, "and they were not as aggressive or concerned about creating markets outside the Caribbean as Butch Stewart has done. They lacked the entrepreneurship and bravado of the Jamaicans. That's why it was easy for us to develop the various brands of CL Financial and to make the company a world leader. Now I hear they want to change the name of Clico to something like Atrius!
And still no word of the Green Island Real Estate and other companies he and his wife were reported to own and manage in Florida. But do you want to know what Shiva Persad, British American's financial adviser, did concerning 6,000 acres of farm land that was sold to a Dubai businessman for US$300 million? Or why Branker was interested in 6,000 acres of land next to Disney World in Orlando? And how CL Financial lost US$70 million on the deal and why Branker was fired from British American?
But who goofed? Duprey or his lieutenants? And if so, what about the responsibility of the government regulators? Surely Government cannot be exonerated from its role as caretaker of the nation's patrimony. All reports on subsidiaries were tabled at CLF board meetings and were discussed by the CLF board of directors.
"In the case of the CIB, the director of Insurance Companies had the power to recommend to the Central Bank of T&T a corrective course of action." But Duprey was unaware that any action like this had been taken. What had prevented Mervyn Assam, who at the time of the global financial crisis was at the head of the CIB, from bringing to the board the liquidity problems being experienced by CIB?
But Assam, Duprey insisted, was a capable and efficient manager. It is not difficult, while talking with Duprey, to empathise with the Godfather persona that he projects: the casual appearance and the large, round smiling face and the wide embrace.


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Himachal bans school vehicles older than 15 years
Shimla: Himachal Pradesh has banned plying of school buses older than 15 years and fixed the age of drivers to 60 to ensure the safety of students, an official said here on Sunday.
"The government has decided to cap the life of all school vehicles, including buses and cabs, to 15 years," the government spokesperson told IANS.
The stringent rules come in the wake of a school bus accident in Nurpur town in Kangra district on April 9 that claimed 28 lives, including 24 students in the age group of nine to 12 years.
A notification in this regard was issued by Principal Secretary (Transport) Jagdish Sharma last week.
The new rules included that the drivers above 60 years of age will be debarred from driving and a driver must have a five-year experience of driving heavy vehicles. The driver will also have to undergo eye check-up every year.
The new guidelines will be applicable to all modes of transport, including buses and small vehicles like cabs and vans.
As per the notification, each school transportation vehicle must have vehicle tracking system, CCTV cameras and a speed limit of 40 km per hour, besides provision of grills on the bus windows.
The carrying capacity of each school vehicle be limited to one and a half times the seating capacity declared in the registration certificate.
The driver and the conductor should be neatly dressed and wear name tags.


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The federal Ministry of Economic Development, which supervises privatization of state-owned assets like Sovcomflot, disclosed to Moscow media this week that the first share sale, planned for next year, will be for a 25% stake. This will be followed a year later by the sale of 25% less 1 share.
It had earlier been announced that one of the stakes is to go to a strategic investor; he will be chosen behind closed doors at the Kremlin. Gennady Timchenko, owner of Gunvor, the Geneva-based oil trader, is the frontrunner unless the entire transaction plan is disrupted by the UK High Court, which will decide who is guilty in the case of the Sergei Frank, current chief executive, versus his predecessor, Dmitry Skarga. A ruling by the court is expected after the holidays end in January.
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Economic Ministry spokesman Taras Sobko refused today to say what valuation the government is putting on Sovcomflot.
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... with DAVID BOWIE! The 1980 Floor Show was really recorded live at the Marquee, circa October 1973. It aired on The Midnight Special the following month. Your selist includes: "Sorrow," "Everything's Alright," "Space Oddity," "I Can't Explain," "Time," "The Jean Genie," and "I Got You Babe," ft. Marianne Faithfull.
BOB DYLAN streams selections from The 1966 Live Recordings.
SLEIGH BELLS advance streams Jessica Rabbit.
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WIRE's Colin Newman talks to PopMatters about his solo releases and the future of the band.
JENS LEKMAN talks to the Village Voice about Postcards, Ghostwriting, and his next LP.
SUZANNE VEGA talks to Salon about her tribute to Carson McCullers.
PETER GABRIEL: Ten of His Best.
NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases include Trolls, which is currently scoring 76 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; Doctor Strange, which is currently scoring 90 percent; and Hacksaw Ridge, scoring 89 percent.
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MARIAH CAREY settled her divorce with ex-husband Nick Cannon by calling him directly and begging him to let her marry Australian billionaire James Packer — only to split with her fiancé days later, sources tell Page Six.
THE DARK TOWER is moving from February to Summer 2017.
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THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER's WEB -- the sequel to The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo -- may move forward without David Fincher as director.
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EAGLES may be drafted to keep drone-delivered contraband out of the UK's prisons.
A PIT BULL cried when kids were afraid to pet him on Halloween (there's a happy ending).
ORPHANED ANIMALS -- a buffalo, zebra, and two elands -- formed their own family.
Neutral Milk Hotel, Luna, Queen of Jeans, Steely Danzig, Big Cat
Thursday, November 03, 2016 - 08:00 AM
BASH & POP: Tommy Stinson's band returns with something "On The Rocks."
NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL, Halloween, 1997; featuring the first full-band performances of the songs 'The King of Carrot Flowers Pt 1' and 'Holland, 1945'.
LUNA, Sept. 29, 2016 in Alexandria VA.
QUEEN OF JEANS release their self-titled debut EP.
STEELY DANZIG: "I'm A Fool To Do Your Mother."
THE MOUNTAIN GOATS played "Cubs In Five" the first time I saw them at the Pitchfork Music Festival in 2006.
JAPANDROIDS talk to Pitchfork about growing older, domestic bliss, and finding a new kind of intensity.
LEONARD COHEN: Rolling Stone goes inside You Want It Darker.
THE SMITHS: Johnny Marr has responded to Morrissey's recent remarks about being pro-Brexit and being in favour of UKIP leader Nigel Farage - adding that his political beliefs are yet another reason why a reunion of The Smiths is unlikely.
THE STROKES' Nick Valensi Gives Advice on Forming a Rock Band, Songwriting, and Gear. (Thx, Frank Yang.)
LINDAY LOHAN explains her new, strange accent.
VAL KILMER has denied that he has cancer - despite claims made by friend and fellow actor Michael Douglas.
TAYLOR SWIFT tops the latest Forbes list of the highest-paid women in music.
JOHNNY DEPP is joining the cast of the next Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them.
LIL WAYNE doesn't "feel connected" to the Black Lives Matter movement.
DISNEY has its biggest year ever at the global box office with two months left to go on the calendar.
A BIG CAT needs help washing her butt.
A PIG was taken into custody after trespassing on Auckland's Northwestern Motorway.
A RHESUS MONKEY was recently spotted near Hudson Beach, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
A MALNOURISHED MOMMA DOG AND HER PUPS, saved by a bachelor party in the woods.
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Wednesday, November 02, 2016 - 08:00 AM
MARGARET GLASPY shares a video for "Emotions and Math."
JOHN PAUL WHITE plays a mini-set for World Cafe.
THE LEMON TWIGS stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.
ALL SONGS CONSIDERED features tracks from Priests, Kevin Morby, James Chance, and more.
RAMIN DJAWADI covers the Rolling Stones, Radiohead, Soundgarden, and The Cure for the Westworld soundtrack.
LEE HAZLEWOOD & NANCY SINATRA: "Some Velvet Morning." Can I tell you about Phaedra?
MARK MOTHERSBAUGH (Devo) talks about the synths that changed pop.
ST PAUL & THE BROKEN BONES are profiled at Paste.
TANYA DONNELLY talks to Artist Direct about the new Elliott Smith tribute album. (Thx, Frank Yang.)
THE BEST NEW BANDS of 2016, according to Stereogum.
BRANGELEXIT: Justin Theroux ( Jennifer Aniston's husband) may have weighed in.
PRINCE HARRY is so serious with actress Meghan Markle that an engagement could be in the not-so-distant future, insiders suggest.
BRADLEY COOPER & IRINA SHAYK have discussed marriage and kids.
MARIAH CAREY's divorce from Nick Cannon became final after years of waiting ... just days before her relationship with James Packer exploded.
MICHAEL FASSBENDER will play two roles in Alien: Covenant.
TIPPI HEDREN, MELANIE GRIFFITH & DAKOTA JOHNSON: Three generations of stardom in one family portrait.
ESTONIA: Since the Ukraine war, Estonia has stepped up training for members of the Estonian Defense League, teaching them how to become insurgents, right down to the making of improvised explosive devices, or I.E.D.s, the weapons that plagued the American military in Iraq and Afghanistan. Another response to tensions with Russia is the expansion of a program encouraging Estonians to keep firearms in their homes.
MEGAN THE PUG: You will let me know when those pugs stop screaming, won't you, Clarice?
A 13-FT ALLIGATOR dressed for Halloween in Coconut Grove.
EXHAUSTED SNOW GEESE have been literally dropping out of the sky on the Sunshine Coast and landing in yards and on roadways, unable to return to their flocks to complete migration.
VAST SWARMS OF LADYBUGS are invading homes across Britain carrying a dangerous sexually-transmitted infection.
Iggy Pop, Preoccupations, Dave Rawlings Machine, Wallaby
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TEMPLES share a video for "Certainty."
IGGY POP plays a career-spanning set on Austin City Limits,oening with "lust For Life," because of course.
PREOCCUPATIONS, f/k/a Viet Cong, stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic.
DAVE RAWLINGS MACHINE stopped by WFUV's Studio A for a chat and mini-set.
THE RAVEONETTES share their latest single, the surprisingly upbeat "Choke On Love."
SLOPPY HEADS brin Yo La tengo's James McNew along for "Always Running."
WORLD PARTY: Karl Wallinger "Put the Message in the Box" and gets "Way Down Now" for Twofer Tuesday.
R.E.M.'s Peter Buck revisits Out Of Time at 25, and talks about hip-hop ant election at Aquarium Drunkard.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN talked about his memoirs at the The Guardian.
BILLY CORGAN's request to gain the voting rights necessary to take over Nashville-based wrestling promotion TNA was rejected by a judge in Nashville.
CURLY PUTMAN, the country music songwriter who penned classics such as "Green, Green Grass of Home" and "D-I-V-O-R-C-E," has died aged 85.
ADELE talks about post-partum depression and mega-stardom at Vanity Fair.
VAL KILMER is battling cancer — and "things don't look good for him," says actor and former co-star Michael Douglas.
MARIAH CAREY blames Scientology for her breakup with billionaire James Packer.
IDRIS ELBA and...Madonna?
THE FLASH loses its second director.
SNOW WHITE is going live-action at Disney.
TWIN PEAKS co-creator Mark Frost recently released The Secret History of Twin Peaks, a sequel-of-sorts to the iconic television series, and shared a 16-minute snippet from the audiobook.
WELBY THE WALLABY picked out a halloween costume that suited his short arms.
20 PIGLETS....in a car trunk.
GENETICALLY-MODIFIED MSOQUITOES are to be deployed to fight the Zika virus. Or trigger the zombie apocalypse. One of those.
BRITISH SLUGS taking up a new habit?
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Monday, October 31, 2016 - 08:00 AM
ANDY SCHAUF shares a video for "Quite Like You."
JIM JAMES advance streams Eternally Even.
KRISTIN HERSH advance streams Wyatt At The Coyote Palace.
HOPE SANDOVAL & THE WARM INVENTIONS advance streams Until The Hunter.
LAMBCHOP advance streams FLOTUS.
BILLY PRESTON: "Nothing From Nothing."
BOB DYLAN was left speechless by the news that he was to be awarded the Nobel prize for literature, he has said, breaking more than two weeks of silence since the announcement.
AEROSMITH meets President Obama on Air Force One.
15 SINISTER TRACKS, ranked for spookiness by Stereogum.
SEVEN ALBUMS That Creep Out Pitchfork Staffers.
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Boo! A Madea Halloween repeats atop the chart with 16.7MM in what turned out to be a very scary weekend for cinemas.It could easily end as the second-biggest of the franchise behind Medea Goes to Jail. Inferno placed with 15MM, well short of the 25MM gurus predicted. That's...not good for a film with a 75MM production budget and likely the same amount in marketing costs. It's doing god biz overseas, but the past few years have not been good to director Ron Howard. Jack Reacher: Never Go Backshows with 9.6MM, and the 39.7MM domestic total so far is going to need help overseas against even its reasonable 60MM budget. The Accountant took the fourth slot with 8.5MM and is doing alright as it slowly begins rolling out in other countries. Ouija: Origin of Evil rounded out the Top Five with 7MM; you'd think this would have held better for Halloween, but it's already made 43MM worldwide against a 9MM budget. Overall receipts were bad in this frame. Maybe folks are waiting on Doctor Strange.
BRANGELEXIT: The FBI has concluded its probe into Brad Pitt, California's DCFS is still investigating. Pitt and Angelina Jolie are also selling their N'awlins home.
BILL MURRAY...or Tom Hanks?
PRINCE HARRY is secretly dating a US actress, model and human rights campaigner.
A HACKER linked to the nude photo release of female celebrities including Kate Upton, Jennifer Lawrence and Kirsten Dunst, was sentenced Wednesday to 18 months in federal prison for a phishing scheme that gave him illegal access to more than 100 email accounts.
RUSSIAN AND U.S. JETS have near weekly close calls.
ISLAMIC STATE group fighters killed at least 232 people in and around Mosul last week as Iraqi troops advanced on the city, the UN rights office said Friday.
JOLENE meets her favorite toy for Halloween.
THE SQUIREEL THREAT: Kendall Seifert says he's being unfairly targeted after Colorado state raided his unusual business premises, where he runs both a swingers club and a wildlife refuge.
THE FIRST ELK in South Carolina since the 1700s has been spotted.
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Journalism faces some huge political, economic and technological challenges, but behind the gloomy headlines there is a lot to be excited about. Andy Chatfield, course co-leader of Falmouth Flexible's MA Journalism, tackles four lazy myths about the state of the profession.
Myth 1: Journalism is a dying profession
Journalism is changing but certainly not dying.
The media landscape has transformed more in the last 20 years than in the preceding 120 – and 'jobs for life' are certainly thinner on the ground.
But the technological changes which have stripped away parts of the mainstream media, including many local and national newspapers, are now creating unique and exciting opportunities for vigorous, collaborative and profitable independent journalism. Where the reporting, production and distribution of news once required a lot of people and a lot of money, a lot can now be achieved by one creative soul armed with a smartphone. Add a decent wifi or 4G signal and the world is our oyster.
For the agile and enterprising, these are very exciting times. Organisations like the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists offer extraordinary opportunities for global collaboration, while new payment experiments by companies like Blendle and hashtagourstories typify a new can-do, problem-solving spirit.
Myth 2: Everyone is a journalist these days
A lot of people seem to THINK they're journalists - and it's true that anyone with a phone and a Twitter account can capture and distribute news of fires, crashes and protest marches rapidly and often with great impact.
But such citizen journalist, however powerful, rarely provides little more than the first hit of raw information in the news cycle.
Verifying facts, putting events into perspective, and following the ripples that any significant story creates takes more than 280 characters and 10 seconds of dramatic shaky video.
Trained journalists area still best placed to corral this material to help citizens make sense of the world and, in the words of the American Press Institute, 'provide citizens with the information they need to make the best possible decisions about their lives, their communities, their societies, and their governments'. Commentators like Mandla Chinula of ijnet suggest quality editorial, not clickbait, is the future of profitable journalism.
Falmouth Flexible's part-time, online MA Journalism will help you think radically, learn to adapt and exploit new forms of news media. Contact our Course Advisor team to find out more about the course and the application process.
Myth 3: Reporters are amoral cynics
Our MA Journalism is predicated on the opposite assumption – that the febrile politics of our times is spawning a generation of journalists who care about their communities, nations and the world - and want to make a positive difference.
This is not the same as activism. Journalists still need to keep a healthy distance from the politicians, community leaders and businesspeople they are holding to account and rigorously apply core principles like accuracy.
But they can choose which stories to tell and how to tell them, giving a voice to those with little power, exposing misconduct and highlighting the essential truths in complex issues such as climate change.
As long ago as 1997, BBC reporter Martin Bell argued for something he called the 'journalism of attachment' in the context of war reporting – the victims needed representation. It provoked a lot of debate in media circles, such as this article after the death of Marie Colvin in Syria, but Bell was arguing against the kind of bland neutrality which can dehumanise some journalism – and prefigured a trend which seems to have accelerated since.
Myth 4: News organisations just peddle 'fake news'
The web is awash with lies and with claims by often very powerful people, from the US President down, that journalists are spreading it.
The mainstream media has its black sheep like any industry, but accuracy and fairness remain at the heart of journalism practice and its codes of conduct in democracies worldwide. Indeed, the polarisation of political debate and the challenges of sorting the wheat from the chaff in the whirl of social media and aggressive bot activity have led to a renewed commitment by many leading media organisations to the disciplines of verification – or fact-checking, in simple language.
For all the controversies surrounding its shortcomings as a news aggregator, Google itself is playing a growing role in helping reporters spot and debunk fake news, such as in this initiative in India, while many news outlets provide readers with tips on how to spot dodgy stories. The Guardian has gone one step further, running a project called Newswise which helps primary school children decode reliable and unreliable information in fun and engaging ways.
Trust is the fundamental currency of journalism – no reporter, newspaper or broadcaster can last long without it.
Falmouth Flexible's part-time, online MA Journalism will equip you to work independently, anywhere in the world. Contact our Course Advisor team to find out more about the course and the application process.
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For this challenge I started with the color stamp by Imaginice. I wanted to do a puny saying, but after choosing this loud background paper I decided to go another way and use a Paper Smooches sentiment. It really helps to pop the blues. I could not resist using this paper because it contains all the colors of the Olympic Flag. If you want to join in please go here.
Fun fun fun!! I love your crayons representing the colors of the Olympic flag! Thanks for playing along with us this month at Words2ScrapBy.blogspot.com.
Hi, Linda. This is adorable! Love the bright, fun paper -- and the Paper Smooches sentiment. Great job matching up the colors of the brads with the crayons. Thanks so much for joining our February Olympic challenge at W2SB.
Linda, this is a great card for this challenge. Nice, bright and cheery.
You were able to incorporate all the colors in a bright, fun way. Love the brads.


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Alex Bialek set up Luke Morris in the first and gave the Red Raiders a 2-0 lead in the second with help from Alex Morina. Connor Evans scored later in the period to get the Pelicans with a goal. Angelo Zodda made 19 saves for North Rockland and Liam Ronan made 26 saves for Pelham.
At the Applebees Winter Classic in Plattsburgh, Danny Fitzgibbons got the Garnets on the board with 9:29 to go in the second period. Liam Hurley gave Rye a 2-1 lead with 10:08 left in the game, but the Cougars netted the equalizer with 5:45 left in regulation. Anabelle Thomas made 28 saves, including two in overtime. Will Chader handed out a pair of assists.
Zach Garnsey netted the equalizer for the Crusaders, knotting the score 3-3 with eight minutes to play in the second period. The Eagles responded with a 5-1 run. Garnsey finished with a pair of goals. Aidan McDonough and Jack Walsh also scored for Stepinac.
At the Applebees Winter Classic in Plattsburgh, Will Chader gave the Garnets a 3-1 lead when he scored with six minutes gone in the third period, but the Eagles responded with three unanswered goals. The last two were short-handed. Sasha Vasyuta and Declan Lavelle also scored for Rye. Anabelle Thomas made 30 saves for the Garnets.
Brian Callaghan finished with three goals and one assist for the Mall Rats. It was a 1-0 game after one. Sean Kunz, Michael Murray, Cameron Chazan, Josh Kleinhandler and Kevin Stush also scored for Clarkstown and Craig Kunz made 23 saves. Jack Peffer had the Legends' goal.
Barrett Lunder had the Indians up 1-0 heading into the first intermission, then Mike McKeon, Jack Browne and Anthony Protomastro stretched the lead with second-period goals. Ice Cats goalie Spencer Rockmore was subjected to 65 shots.


The Tokaj Renaissance Association has opened a wine shop in the recently renovated building of the Tokaj Museum, almost opposite the Tokaj Coffee House. The brief, informal opening ceremony on 10th May saw some glasses of Furmint clinking and a few spontaneous words spoken by mayor of Tokaj town György Posta and László Kalocsai, Dereszla estate manager and president of the Association.
When the shop is fully stocked up, fifty-four different wines, three from each of the eighteen members of Tokaj Renaissance will be available for purchase by the bottle and some even for tasting by the glass in the shop or on the terrace just outside. Opening hours are initially from 10 am to 6 pm every day, subject to later change depending on actual demand.
Founded in 1995, Tokaj Renaissance is the oldest winegrowers' organisation in the Tokaj region, their primary goals being to promote Tokaji wines both in Hungary and abroad, and to safeguard Tokaj traditions. The current membership includes Alana-Tokaj, Barta, Béres, Bodvin, Budaházy-Fekete Kúria, Dereszla, Disznókő, Dobogó, Erzsébet Cellar, Füleky, Gróf Degenfeld, Patricius, Royal Tokaji, Samuel Tinon, Sauska, Tokaj Classic, Tokaj Nobilis and Tokaj Portius.


The tech titan and its cohorts are done laying down 5,600 miles of cable in the ocean.
The $300 million trans-Pacific undersea cable backed by six companies, including Google, that connects Japan and the US is now online. It connects Oregon with the Chiba and Mie prefectures in Japan with 9,000 km (5,600 miles) of wires. However, those aren't the only places that will benefit from its capacity to deliver speeds that can reach a whopping 60 terabits per second. The "FASTER cable," as it's called, has connections across the West Coast that cover Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area, Portland and Seattle, among other locations. It can also improve internet connections in Japan's major cities and even in other Asian metropolises.
According to Google SVP Urs Hölzle, its 60Tbps total capacity is "more than any active subsea cable, and 10 million times faster than your cable modem." Japanese company NEC Corporation began building FASTER back in 2014. Besides Google, the project was also backed by China Mobile International, China Telecom Global, Global Transit, KDDI and Singtel. The big G completely owns one part of FASTER, though, particularly the cables connecting Japan and Taiwan, which have a smaller, but still impressive, capacity of 20 Tbps.


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Outlander Recap: Ready or Not
By Ester Bloom
Je Suis Prest
Editor's Rating 3 stars ***
Sam Heughan as Jamie. Photo: Ed Miller / Starz/Sony Pictures Television Inc. All rights reserved.
Who wins a war? The scrappy upstarts with passion in their hearts and righteousness in their eyes? Or the well-established, well-organized, well-trained armies of the establishment? Every so often, as in the case of the American Revolution, a band of rebels will eke out an unlikely win. Far more often, uprisings end the way the student revolt does in Les Misérables, with a bitter, lonely survivor surveying the wreckage and saying, "Oh my friends, my friends, don't ask me what your sacrifice was for…"
Even when an insurgency thinks it's ready, it probably isn't; it's merely raring to go. That is certainly the case in this pretty grim episode — titled, dryly, "Je Suis Prest" (medieval French for "I am ready," after the Fraser family motto) — in which Jamie frets that he has too little time to turn a bunch of farmers into soldiers who stand any chance against the British. Dougal, his headstrong and impulsive uncle, tries to convince Jamie that Highlander enthusiasm will carry the day. Sorry, Dougal. Like Hamlet says, the readiness is all. And Jamie knows it.
As the episode begins, Claire and Jamie reunite with more of the MacKenzies whom we remember from season one. They have synced up with the other new recruits for some training before everyone joins Bonnie Prince Charlie's army to fight the Redcoats. Claire gives a big smile to old pals Rupert and Angus, but Dougal gets a more tight-lipped welcome. The last time she saw that bald bastard, he was wrestling with her in a cave, trying to stop her from saving Jamie's life — and to instead accept him as her marital substitute.
"It is our time," Dougal now tells Jamie, full of pride to be fighting alongside his nephew against the usurper on the English throne. As you may recall, he pimped out the sight of Jamie's body on various country roads to raise funds for the Jacobite cause; he's thrilled that it's finally time for action, and the nephew whom he had to bully into showing his scars now stands with him. "For glory. For Scotland," Dougal says. He's drunk on his own Kool-Aid. Our heroes aren't, but that doesn't matter. They've committed to this fight, so they're going to do their damnedest to win.
Plaids, bagpipes, bannocks for breakfast: We're planted so securely back in the Highlands that the detour to Paris may as well as have been a fever dream, save for the welcome presence of Fergus. Murtagh has found his calling as a drill sergeant, barking at his recruits as if he were auditioning for a Kubrick film. Jamie is in his element, leading and disciplining and making speeches to his men, though he doesn't seem to take much pleasure in any of it. He's seen battle, he's trained in France with a real army, and he knows true soldiers when he sees them. So does Claire, who keeps flashing back — flashing forward? — to her time as a battle nurse, when she made small-talk with cute Yanks destined never to see Texarkana or Yonkers again.
The burden of the future, and her inability to change it, presses on Claire. She's been a Cassandra since she arrived in the past, but the stakes are much higher now, and the knowledge she's cursed with weighs more heavily. These men will be cannon fodder. Worse, she's suffering from PTSD. It makes her jump every time she hears a gunshot and curse at men who don't deserve it — as well as Dougal, who most certainly does.
Jamie's uncle is busy undermining him, although at least he's spurred by a surplus of enthusiasm rather than malice. (And narcissism, as Claire points out, in a clunky and unnecessary scene.) At one point, Dougal goes all Braveheart with his men and disrupts a training session by charging in with a war cry, chest bare and face painted. God is on their side, Dougal argues, so a good ol' Highland battle cry is all they need to scatter the British. Dougal doesn't seem to remember or care that William Wallace's rebellion failed; Wallace, who was actually hanged, drawn, and quartered, faced the same gory end that Claire heard about in Paris.
In any event, Jamie is unswayed by Dougal's wishful thinking, and he assigns Dougal and the MacKenzies the much more mundane task of sentry duty after his own men fail him. (Which, again, underlines the point of the episode: If these proto-soldiers can't patrol their own camp effectively, how on Earth do they expect to take on a global superpower?)
Then, Dougal and the MacKenzies fail him too. A little English spy, drawn by the fires, slips into camp and nearly manages to slit Jamie's throat. Jamie saves his own life, and Claire's quick thinking saves the spy himself. She starts play-acting being Jamie's English captive so that the young Redcoat, in lieu of trying to withstand torture, can sacrifice his honor to save hers. In exchange for a promise that the monstrous Red Jamie, as the boy calls our hero, will not molest Claire, he agrees to reveal his name (William Grey) and lots of details about the English camp where he's stationed, including its location and the number of men stationed there. Since his information turns out to be accurate, the boy is left tied to a tree rather than killed and the Frasers get to do a little raiding. Who would've guessed that sabotage agrees with our hero? Jamie finally looks like he's having some fun.
Before he leaves the camp, Grey tells Jamie that he's in his debt, and he hopes to discharge that obligation as soon as possible. Grey is humiliated and furious so, as he puts it, in a rather stilted way, he wants to repay the debt so he'll then be free to kill Jamie. In that case, Jamie replies, he hopes they never meet again. They will, of course: The laws of television and of Chekhov's gun demand it. And probably quite soon.
That's because, as the episode ends, it's clear Jamie thinks that he and his soldiers have done all the preparation they can. He has won their respect and their loyalty, in part by taking off his shirt to voluntarily submit to the same physical punishment doled out earlier to the sentries who were taken unaware. The moment serves as a nice call out to (and implicit rebuke of) Dougal, who made Jamie take off his shirt to gin up feeling against the British. This time, Jamie does it to show that his scars don't define him, that he will add more to the collection if necessary, and to build cohesion among his men.
Afterwards, Jamie leads the crew up to join Bonnie Prince Charlie's army, to meet their fate at last.


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