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Gorillaz – 'The Now Now' Review
The follow-up to 2017's bloated 'Humanz' is a trim and spritely listen
By Thomas Smith
For the first time in his career, we find Damon Albarn on the back foot. Since he and Blur swooned their way onto the scene in the early '90s, Albarn's discography is remarkably free of absolute missteps. Sure, Blur didn't cover themselves in glory on the half-arsed 2003 album 'Think Tank', and who actually has listened to much-derided side-project The Good, The Bad and The Queen. Gorillaz' last album, 2017's 'Humanz', however, is where things get a bit tricky.
Released six years after their last album 'The Fall', it's fair to say that people were just a little bit excited. In a time of political turmoil, the madness of the world's sketchiest band felt sorely needed. Hopefully, 'Humanz' was going to help us make sense of the world, too. It didn't, sadly. For fans and causals alike, it felt like Albarn slipped into the background too often, allowing guests like Noel Gallagher, Popcaan and Rag'N'Bone Man take the lead in places. The band have wilfully chosen to occupy their space in another dimension throughout their career, but 'Humanz' got caught in the cosmic doorway.
'The Now Now', then, is a welcome prospect. Their sixth album is made of 11-tracks recorded by Damon Albarn with producer James Ford in London earlier this year. He did so, mainly, because it "gives him a reason to go on tour" this year. The cynic in you will want to label this album as a quick cash grab, but you absolutely shouldn't, it's much more than measured release than that.
The obvious comparison to this record is 'The Fall', their fourth studio album. Released nine months after the grandiose 'Plastic Beach' in 2010, it was recorded on tour by Albarn largely on his iPad as they undertook their biggest US tour yet. It boasted just one feature, too. The late, great Bobby Womack popped up on 'Bobby In Phoenix' following his commanding appearance on 'Plastic Beach's' lead single 'Stylo'. It resulted in an album that proved to be a refreshingly lo-fi listen that was beloved by fans, but largely ignored by the mainstream.
On 'The Now Now', they follow the map they carved out back then but with a bit more swagger. Credited guests are limited to Snoop Dogg, soul legend George Benson and US house pioneer Jamie Principle. Like 'The Fall', it proudly displays its passport stamps, with songs like 'Kansas', 'Hollywood' and 'Idaho' appearing on the tracklist. Most importantly, it feels like Albarn and his alter-ego, 2D have reclaimed their place centre-stage.
The musical output of the cartoon band – made up of characters 2D, Murdoc, Noodle and Russel – works in tandem with their current storyline. As told in the latest instalment to Gorillaz' highly entertaining mythology, their wicked bassist Murdoc is banged up in Wormwood Scrubs, and 'The Now Now' is the product of the sensitive 2D reprising his role as the band's creative driving force. After the bonkers apocalyptic house party of the last record, it's about recalibrating with modern life – away from bad influences.
Albarn's lyrics are more introspective as a result. 'Humility', a G-Funk summer bop is paired with dreary lines about loneliness: "I don't want this isolation/See the state I'm in now?". Meanwhile, 'Kansas' and 'Fireflies' is as reflective as anything that appears on Blur's morose 1999 masterpiece, '13'. A welcome and honest release for a band that has too often favoured visual elements over relatable, dare we say it, human lyrics.
'The Now Now' is a spritely listen. Where 'Humanz' leaned too heavily on swampy, generic hip-hop beats ('Saturnz Barz', 'Submission'), 'The Now Now' prides itself on making 11 pop tracks that zip with energy, passion and an abundance of ideas. Some are stripped right down to their core and are all the better for it, like the largely instrumental numbers 'Lake Zurich' and 'One Percent'.
20 years after the outlines of the band was first sketched by co-creator Jamie Hewlett, the band clearly still stands as a vivid creative outlet for Albarn. He's managed to tap into the chaotic ethos so electrifying and unpredictable first time round, and reanimate the band's fortunes in dazzling fashion.

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'Fusion: A collection of short stories from Breakwater Harbor Books' authors' is the WINNER of the Best Anthology category for the '2014 eFestival of Words Best of the Independent eBook Awards!'
This festival was put together by Bards and Sages Publishing, a Publisher of Speculative Fiction and Roleplaying Games since 2002, and nominations were voted on by the general public. The winners were announced during the actual festival which included virtual panel discussions, live author Q & As, seminars and workshops.
BHB's authors are honored to have won top honor in the Anthology category and are also honored to be considered beside the other high quality Anthologies involved! Check out Fusion below and go to Amazon to get your free copy today! Below is also the link to the eFestival website!
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Featuring gripping Independent authors from around the world, FUSION is the first collection of short works published by Breakwater Harbor Books. Contributing heart-pumping tales of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror and Crime are seven stories that will thrill you, rivet you and some will even make you sleep with the light on. Authors from across a wide variety of genres, Dee Harrison, Ivan Amberlake, Claire C. Riley, Scott J. Toney, Mindy Haig, Cara Goldthorpe and C.M.T. Stibbe.
The Sliver of Abilon – A Mirrorsmith Tale – 'and you thought it was safe to look in the mirror?'
Diary of the Gone - Without a girlfriend, bullied by the Principal's son, and haunted by the dead, Callum Blackwell thinks his life can't get any worse. But he's wrong.
Life Ever After. Nina's Story: Part one. – When the dead begin to rise, it's time to put your differences aside and run!
NovaFall – When the Meteor falls, the essences will come, forging flesh and planetary souls as one.
Cybilla. – To claim his Muse, one man must find the gate between the mortal and the immortal worlds.
Capturing Perfection – An artist's tale of love, loss and beauty in Renaissance Milan
Until The Ninth Hour – Until a man loses his daughter to a serial killer, until he loses his best friend, until he is down on his luck, Darryl Williams must put all thoughts of retaliation out of his mind.
An excerpt from Dee Harrison's The Sliver of Abilon – A Mirrorsmith Tale
Junah Venmark, Master Mirrorsmith, exited the wayportal directly into the seaweed stench of Abilon. The foul odour tickled the back of his throat and he gagged on a rise of bile. Mirrorsmith Guild protocol demanded that he preview his destination before he arrived but it could not prepare him for an assault on his other senses. He vomited onto the trackway, just thankful that there was no-one to witness his most pitiful entrance ever. He loathed the smell of mouldy greens – it stirred up too many reminders of his wretched childhood in the back alleys of Varna, largest city on his homeworld of Vargo – but this was kabbige soup intensified tenfold.
When his heaving subsided, Junah sank down onto his rump, trying to ignore the early evening dew which was soaking into his leggings. He pulled a kerchief from his belt-purse, to wipe the spittle from his lips, and cursed this ill-favoured world. Sissik, his wail, chittered and scurried around him like a silver-furred cyclone, mewing her distress. Junah winced when she skipped onto his tender stomach, the better to peer into his face with her large, prosimian eyes. He ran a finger down her spine and she slowly relaxed beneath his touch.
Junah ill? She sent.
No, I'm fine, Little One he reassured her. He grimaced. The smell caught me out, that's all.
Sissik wrinkled her own nose. Nasty, nasty stink, she concurred.
Junah delved into his purse a further time and extracted a couple of lozenges from a packet. A few chews later and he could smell nothing.
"Next time I'll take 'em before I get here," he promised out loud. "Not that there'll be a next time!"
Junah clambered to his feet and peeled the sodden fabric from his buttocks. Sissik took her accustomed place on his shoulders, hiding beneath his long, dark hair and curled around his neck like a fur collar. Wails were native to all the worlds of the Regium, even the undeveloped ones like Abilon. Some wails, the silver-furred ones like Sissik, were prized for their ability to generate the acoustic frequencies that Mirrorsmiths depended upon. Others, the plumper, browner ones, made good eating. Whenever Sissik irritated him, which was often, Junah threatened to dye her coat russet. Now, however, she was quiescent, understanding that it was time for work.
The wayportal, part of the network of gates that connected all the worlds of the Regium, had opened between a pair of standing stones that dominated the headland to the north of Abilon.
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'Fusion: A Collection of short stories from Breakwater Harbor Books' authors' is a FINALIST in the Best Anthology category for the '2014 eFestival of Words best of the Independent eBook awards!'
'Fusion: A collection of short stories from Breakwater Harbor Books' authors' is a finalist in the Best Anthology category for the '2014 eFestival of Words Best of the Independent eBook Awards!'
This festival is put together by Bards and Sages Publishing, a Publisher of Speculative Fiction and Roleplaying Games since 2002, and nominations are currently being voted on by the general public. That means its time for YOU (Stop looking at other people around you), yes you to go and vote Fusion to the top of the pile! In August the winners will be announced during the actual festival which will include virtual panel discussions, live author Q & As, seminars and workshops.
BHB's authors (myself among them) are excited and honored to be finalists! In addition Claire C Riley is a finalist in the Best Novel category for Limerence and Ivan Amberlake is a finalist in the best Contemporary Fantasy/Urban Fantasy category! Check out Fusion below and go to Amazon to get your free copy today! Below is also the link to the eFestival website!
http://www.efestivalofwords.com/2014-finalists-for-best-of-the-independent-ebook-awards-t513.html
Amazon TOP 5OO REVIEWER, Dii, reviews NovaForge! Five Stars!
"Another gem in the pile that defies genre! NovaForge by Scott J. Toney is an excellent science fiction read, but it's also a wonderful fantasy, filled with imagination, creativity and adventure. Sometime in the future on Solaris, a planet far, far away a meteor crashes and scatters dead souls over the entire planet, enslaving people's minds. Only one man can control these souls and there are four brave warriors who are out to stop him, each empowered by "essences" who give them each a distinct ability. Are these "essences" really friend or foe? How many planets have been destroyed when they accepted the dead souls into their bodies? Is the call of amazing power so great that people are willing to give up their own souls or will they find the price too high, after it's too late? Is this invasion a matter destiny or can this destiny be changed?
Scott J. Toney builds an amazing world to journey through, teasing our own imaginations to grasp onto each word and to see what he sees, feel what his characters feel and become part of the action as its screams by at breakneck speeds one moment and slows enough to meet the characters on a more personal level. Is there a touch of romance, here, too? I believe so! The camaraderie that grows between our four heroes is earned and feels right as the weight of the future weighs heavily on their shoulders. Without wasting a word, Mr. Toney writes with a sense of timing and intrigue that will hold you prisoner until that last page. I guess that means we are on parole until the next book in this trilogy arrives!" - Dii, Amazon TOP 500 REVIEWER
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'Fusion: A collection of short stories from Breakwater Harbor Books' authors' has been nominated in the Best Anthology category for the '2014 eFestival of Words Best of the Independent eBook Awards!'
This festival is put together by Bards and Sages Publishing, a Publisher of Speculative Fiction and Roleplaying Games since 2002, and nominations will be narrowed down to finalists and then voted on by the general public starting in July. In August the winners will be announced during the actual festival which will include virtual panel discussions, live author Q & As and even run a seminars and workshops.
I am excited and honored to have the nomination alongside my fellow BHB authors. In addition Claire C Riley has been nominated in the Best Romance and Best Novel categories and Ivan Amberlake has been nominated in best Contemporary Fantasy/Urban Fantasy! Check out Fusion below and go to Amazon to get your free copy today! Below is also the link to the eFestival website!
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That Time The Mimic Was in X-Men: Evolution
One of my all-time favorite comic book characters is The Mimic from the early days of the X-Men. I was only allowed to read so many comics from my dad's collection when I was a kid, and some of those comics were the first handful of appearances the Mimic made when he fought and then joined the X-Men. These were just random issues, but they buried this character in my heart and I've been a big fan ever since.
And did you know that the Mimic exists within the world of the X-Men: Evolution cartoon? He didn't appear in any episodes, though. The Mimic only ever appeared in the short-lived tie-in comic book series.
Why the big "M" on his shirt if he's not yet the Mimic?
And that's pretty much the point of this article. I just wanted to celebrate the Mimic a bit. I've been watching the fifth season of My Hero Academia and I'm a big fan of Neito Monoma, the character with the Copy quirk and therefore a version of Mimic's powers. And what better way to celebrate the Mimic than to mention this fun bit of Mimic trivia!
X-Men: Evolution was a fun show and a major fan favorite. It had a ton of X-Men characters throughout its run. My favorite X-Men character, Multiple Man, had a minor role on the good guy team. That was fun. But Mimic never made it into the show itself.
Just the short comic book series.
Xavier always requests tea
He played a classmate of Spyke who kept pushing him to take more risks while skateboarding. They discover Calvin's powers and Spyke brings him to the Xavier School, where Calvin's powers go wild.
Foolish Cyclops eyes
In the end, Xavier calms him down, discovers that he's not a mutant and then Calvin gets a chip on his shoulder and walks out. Short and sweet. And then forever lost in time. But as a Mimic fan, it's just fun to know he — sort of — exists in the X-Men: Evolution universe. It's not often that the tie-in material gets to adapt new characters separate from the main series.
Oh, hey, did you know that Mimic also appears in the X-Men Animated Series from the 90s? He had a very brief appearance in the Days of Future Past/Age of Apocalypse alternate timeline. But while everybody else gets post-apocalyptic redesigns, Mimic shows up in his original 1960s bright orange duds!
That was definitely fun! And this has been your tiny bits of Mimic Monday Trivia.
Posted in Comics, Marvel, X-Men
Tags: Mimic, The Mimic, X-Men Animated Series, X-Men: Evolution
In a Little More Than 2 Years, Nearly Every Single One of My Favorite Comic Book Characters Has Been Killed
As a longtime comic book reader, I have my personal list of favorite characters. Everybody has one, right? Those characters that you love to read about and see pop up in new comics. For a lot of people, their favorite characters are big name superheroes, like Spider-Man or Batman. For me, I tend to prefer the smaller supporting characters. That's just what happens when you read a lot of comics and are exposed to a lot of characters.
As such, when I started this blog back in 2011, one of my earliest Lists of Six was my top six favorite comic book characters of all-time. With the exception of one name, that list has remained pretty firm over the past eight years.
In the past two years and a couple months, nearly every character on that list has been killed. Several characters in my Honorable Mentions addendum have been killed. And a couple other characters I love have either been killed or nearly killed within this time frame.
I don't…I don't know what's going on.
I don't presume to think this is some sort of targeted attack on yours truly. I think this is just the unfortunate cost of loving minor comic book characters, the sorts of characters that can be chewed up and spit out as any given writer sees fit.
But damn, this has been pretty hard on the soul.
And I guess I just felt like listing them off, as if that would help me somehow. Let's start with my favorite characters list:
Multiple Man was killed in Death of X #1 in October 2016.
He's still dead. Multiple Man has returned to comics, replaced by one of his duplicates. And his character has been re-written as a feckless coward. So that's some good salt in the wound.
The Mimic was killed in Extermination #5 in December 2018.
This one was really disappointing. He made a surprise appearance in Extermination after being out of comics for a few years. I knew from the moment he appeared that he probably wouldn't survive the series, and I had to wait several months for those fears to be confirmed.
Phil Urich was killed in Amazing Spider-Man #797 in March 2018.
Phil was my favorite superhero as a kid, and the first comic I actively started collecting on my own, issue-by-issue. I endured years of him being transformed into an unrepentant villain before they finally put him out of his misery.
Tim Drake was killed in Detective Comics #940 in September 2016.
Thankfully, his death was a fake out. He survived and returned to service shortly thereafter. He's even gone back to being just "Robin" instead of the far more ridiculous "Red Robin". So there's at least one happy ending in this list.
That's it for my list of favorites. I listed "Robin" on that list as more of the concept of the character. Damian Wayne, the current Robin, is still alive…but if I'm being honest, he hasn't really been 'Robin' in a long time. The concept of 'Batman and Robin' as a team is pretty dead. So does that count? Not to mention that Damian was killed in early 2013. So for a short while there, Robin was dead.
The Spot is also still alive, but he's the one character I would probably take off my list of favorites. I've always been a big fan of the Spot, and will always be a big fan of the Spot, but there are characters I like better. Which is probably why he's still alive.
How about some of those Honorable Mentions at the bottom of the page?
Mach X was killed in Thunderbolts #12 in April 2017.
Technically speaking, we didn't see a body, and that's usually a good sign they might come back. But we haven't seen Abner Jenkins since then, so he's as good as dead.
The Scorpion was maybe killed in Venom Annual #1 in October 2018.
I'm not too sure about this one. It does appear that Venom kills the Scorpion, but then Scorpion has been showing up in the pages of Amazing Spider-Man recently. I may have to check and see if there's an explanation.
Strong Guy was killed in Uncanny X-Men #12 in February 2019.
This is the most recent, and inspired this list. Strong Guy is Multiple Man's best friend, and one of my favorite duos in comics. And now they're both dead, and neither one particularly cares about the other these days. So just bleakness all around.
Avalanche was killed in Uncanny Avengers #1 in October 2012.
That happened a year after I started my blog and he's still dead. The recent X-Men Gold comic introduced a new Avalanche, but I didn't read it, and I'm pretty sure the character didn't stick around. The X-Men have since ignored the new Pyro also, and he joined the X-Men towards the end of that comic. So that's not looking good.
That's the major list. Eight of my favorite comic book characters have been killed since I started this blog, most of them within the past two years or so. And only one of them has been properly 'resurrected' in that time. It's just a little soul-crushing.
That's not counting the time Stingray was nearly killed in a recent Avengers comic. Or the speculation that Simon Baz, my favorite Green Lantern, is probably going to be killed in Heroes in Crisis.
I don't have any larger point to make. And I'm largely just whining. But c'mon. There's only so much my soul can take. Is it really so wrong to have favorite comic book characters? Is there somebody specifically targeting me?
When will it stop?
All I really know is that Beta Ray Bill had better be very careful now that he's a member of the Guardians of the Galaxy. There's almost no way he's going to survive that comic.
Posted in Comics, Multiple Man, My Life, Robin
Tags: Abner Jenkins, Avalanche, Beetle, Beta Ray Bill, Jamie Madrox, Mach V, Mimic, Multiple Man, Phil Urich, Scorpion, Simon Baz, Sm, Stingray, Strong Guy, The Mimic, Tim Drake
Welp, the Mimic is Dead
I knew this was coming. From the very moment I found out the Mimic was going to appear in the Extermination comic, I knew his days were numbered. I held on to a little bit of hope that he'd somehow make it all the way to the end, that there was no reason to kill one of my all-time favorite comic book characters…but it was a fool's hope.
At least he gets to go out like a badass.
That was the ending to Extermination #4, the previous issue from a couple months ago. We were all led to believe that was Young Cyclops…who gets immediately harpooned by Ahab. It was a big cliffhanger.
But in this week's Extermination #5, we find out that was Mimic…who had somehow found the time to grab Cyclops' visor off his head, shove Young Cyclops to the side and attack.
That's not even how Mimic's powers work. He doesn't need the visor to use his copied Cyclops powers. They really just wanted that fake out kill to make people think Young Cyclops had been killed instead. But more on Mimic's powers in a bit.
This has not been a good year for me. They killed Phil Urich. They nearly killed Strong Guy and Stingray. And now the Mimic is dead for no good reason. At least he died a hero.
And to think, all this time, his death was just waiting for us. Like Malcolm Reynolds said, about someone carrying a bullet for you and you don't even know it. All this time the Young X-Men were around, their removal was going to involve killing the Mimic. Yeah, the original creators that brought them into X-Men comics probably didn't plan it this way. I'm sure using the Mimic was just a quick fix idea that got thrown into the mix at this late stage. But the future is the future, and this was always going to happen this way.
But you want to know what the worst part is? The part that really sticks in my craw?
The creative team had to willfully ignore everything in this issue that would have normally let him live. Based purely on how his powers work, the Mimic didn't need to stay dead by the end of the issue.
Mimic copies the powers of people in his proximity. He doesn't need to touch them, like Rogue, he just has to be near them. He has some measure of control as to who he mimics and when, but it's otherwise automatic. In fact, this is how he "came back to life" the last time he was "killed" back in the early 1970s. The Mimic automatically copied the powers of a nearby Wolverine and healed the radiation that had killed him.
And wouldn't you know it, there were three Wolverines in the big fight in Extermination.
Honey Badger, X-23 and Old Man Logan are in the same scene, in close proximity to the Mimic. All he'd have to do is nothing, and his powers would automatically copy any of them and he'd heal the simple chest wound and be fine.
It's not like Mimic was a major player in Extermination. It's not like his death was crucial to saving the world or anything. It was a throwaway death so that Marvel could get a fake out cliffhanger in the penultimate issue. There's absolutely no reason why there couldn't be a throwaway panel at some point in the issue.
"Oh, hey, Mimic, you're back?"
"Yeah, I just copied Logan over there and healed. I'm fine, thanks."
Done and done.
But nah, Marvel decided to keep him dead. Because why not? Where's the harm?
I'm not particularly bothered. It stinks that he's dead, but death never sticks in comics anymore. Just this year, we've had Jean Grey and Multiple Man come back from the dead. This final issue of Extermination also brings another X-Man back from the dead. And there's no way they're going to keep Cable dead after he was killed earlier in Extermination.
So Mimic will be back someday. I just gotta wait for it.
Tags: Extermination, Mimic, The Mimic, Young X-Men
The 6 Best Comic Book Characters with ALL THE POWERS (of one specific team)!
Forgive the all-CAPS shouting in the headline, but what better way to describe this list of characters? This is a list of comic book villains who combine all the powers of a specific super team. I'm not just talking about power mimics or power thieves, either. I'm not talking about your Rogues or your Peter Petrellis or your Synchs or your Absorbency Lads.
These are characters who, for whatever reason, limit themselves to copying the super-powers of just one group.
ALL THE SUPERHEROES!
Maybe they were built by a mad scientist to oppose a specific super team. Maybe they have a magical power and just decided to focus on one group. Maybe they've got a super weapon that combines the powers of all the other super weapons in the comic. Whatever the case may be, these guys have one specific power set in their battles against one specific super group. It's kind of a pigeon-holed role, but everybody needs a gimmick.
So join me after the jump for six comic book characters who possess all the powers of one specific super team! Dazzle in the specificity!
Posted in Comics, DC, Lists of Six!, Marvel, Superman, X-Men
Tags: Mimic, The Mimic
Mimic to Return to Comics; All 6 Fans Rejoice!
So this is some comic news that will excite all half a dozen fans of The Mimic, myself included. The Mimic will appear in an upcoming storyline of X-Men: Legacy sometime in 2012.
Long thought lost and forgotten after his Dark X-Men appearance, the Mimic's upcoming issues were announced by X-Men: Legacy writer Christos Gage in an Oct. 16 interview with iFanboy. X-Men: Legacy stars Rogue as a teacher to young mutants, and she has taken Wolverine's side after X-Men: Schism. Here's what Gage had to say:
In my second arc, we'll see Mimic and Weapon Omega show up, and chances are good that at least one of them will be around for a while.
Exciting news! Mimic is one of my all-time favorite comic book characters. He has appeared in comics only a handful of times since his debut in the 1960s. So every little appearance is something to be celebrated. As I said, this news isn't very interesting to anyone except Mimic fans. And this blog post is for them.
I'm not foolish enough to get my hopes up that Mimic will be the one of them sticking around for awhile.
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Appointment of bishop of Kankan, Mgr Alexis Aly Tagbino
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Coup: "Calm situation in Conakry; waiting for the meeting between the coup leaders and the deposed ministers"
Marburg virus occurs for the first time in West Africa
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On December 8, 2021 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Rev. Sebastian Mba Nguema Mokuy, of the diocesan clergy of Ebebiyn, as Rector of the interdiocesan major Seminary located in the diocese of Bata, in Equatorial Guinea. (SL) (Agenzia Fides, 23/12/2021)
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From Planet Rock, By Scott Colothan.
Blues rock virtuoso Gary Clark has premiered the video for his interpretation of The Beatles' 'Come Together'.
Lifted from the official soundtrack to the upcoming DC Comics superhero movie Justice League, the video melds some previously unseen clips from the film with footage of Gary performing his amped-up version of the track in an apocalyptic landscape.
The film stars Ben Affleck (Bruce Wayne, Batman), Henry Cavill (Clark Kent, Superman), Amy Adams (Lois Lane), Gal Gadot (Diana Prince, Wonder Woman), Ezra Miller (Barry Allen, Flash), Jason Momoa (Arthur Curry, Aquaman) and Ray Fisher (Victor Stone, Cyborg).
Justice League: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is released on Friday 10th November ahead of the movie hitting cinemas the following week. Featuring the score by Danny Elfman along with songs from Gary Clark Jr. with Junkie XL and the White Stripes.
With just a digital pre-order available from Amazon, but I am sure there will be a physical copy released.


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What is health anxiety?
posted: Dec 31, 2019.
Health anxiety, also known as hypochondria, is a disorder that's characterized by extreme or excessive anxiety related to a condition or an illness. It's marked by an obsessive worry (usually irrational) about being sick or becoming diagnosed with a serious medical condition.
Suzanne's story
Suzanne, 43, was diagnosed with epilepsy when she was 27 years old. She'd been out at a party, and had consumed a little too much alcohol. The next morning, when she woke, she felt a little out of sorts but chalked it up to her irresponsibility. Mere hours later, she was seizing – not long after that, she was diagnosed with epilepsy.
Suzanne's spiral downward was swift; she was already prone to bouts of sadness, but this change in her health affected her deeply. She grew depressed and anxious, worried that overdoing anything – jogging, reading, spending time outdoors – would result in another seizure, or another illness altogether.
As the years went by, Suzanne's family grew weary over her constant concerns over her health. When she would come down with a cold, she was convinced it was some other more serious respiratory condition. When she was rear-ended by another vehicle on a snowy afternoon, she told everyone she was sure the jolt had formed a tumor in her brain. She would watch medical shows ad nauseum and learned the official names and related treatment of hundreds of diseases, putting more effort into learning about illness than she was in her current, actual state of health.
"It's a battle I fight every day," admits Suzanne. "It's really affected my relationships because even my family thinks I'm a freak.
"My logical mind tells me it is all in my head, but I can't seem to get rid of this nagging feeling that I'm going to die. It's not like I'm making it all up because I do feel it all. The left side of my head is tingly 75% of the time and I can't retain information. I have back problems that prevent me from being really mobile. I can't look at a computer screen for very long because I start to get a headache and it takes me days to recover from it. I also have an irregularity in my right breast that I'm being tested for right now.
"I just don't know how to get it across to people that the reason I have anxiety over my health is because I'm one of those rare people who seem to get everything."
But despite all of Suzanne's fears and her certainty that her body hosts a collection of illnesses and ailments, she admits that all her medical tests have come back negative.
Her cousin, Jameson, is sympathetic but growing less so as the years go by.
"She's isolated herself from the outside world because of all this (anxiety)," he shares. "A lot of the family has stopped talking to her, because she's kind of got that Eeyore thing. You know, 'Poor me, poor me.' She's in a constant state of complaining, worrying, and trying to convince people she's sick, and when people find out she's not, it's like they get slighted, you know? Like, 'Okay, Suz, you're making this crap up. We don't believe you anymore.' And that, I think, makes it worse for her, and she feels even more alone.
"I fully believe loneliness brings a whole set of physical symptoms anyway, so it's probably why I tend to have more patience for her than other people. I can guarantee she's feeling all the things she's feeling, not because she's got rubella or measles or whatever else she says she has, but because she's lonely and depressed."
How do you know you have health anxiety?
When people fall ill, it's obviously natural to get concerned. You worry about being able to get to work, or care for your family, or just function for the next day or two – or in some cases, even longer.
But health anxiety is a different thing. Health anxiety brings with it a persistent belief that your symptoms are actually those of a serious medical condition. The worry you have over your health becomes so consuming, so distressing, that it affects how you live, think, and operate. For those with severe health anxiety, it can become absolutely crippling. Like Suzanne, if you have health anxiety, even a bill of health from a medical professional isn't enough. A lot of times, anxiety can even cause physical and painful symptoms, which are the physical symptoms of anxiety.
What are the causes of health anxiety?
There doesn't seem to be an exact cause for health anxiety, but experts and researchers have concluded that certain factors might be to blame:
A stressful event (a car accident, a false diagnosis)
The possibility of a serious ailment or condition (but that turns out not to be positive)
A lack of understanding of sensations in the body
A history with an actual serious illness
A background of abuse, especially as a child
A family history with serious illnesses
A personality that's prone to worry, anxiety or depression
Excessive research on illnesses and medical conditions
Mental health professionals warn that health anxiety, which often begins in early adulthood, can worsen with age. This could be because older people worry about memory problems, or that physical pains do just become more prevalent in aging bodies, leading to anxious individuals thinking there's an increased chance of other serious conditions.
Can health anxiety be diagnosed?
Hypochondria, or health anxiety, isn't included in the American Psychological Association Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Today, a person who may have been diagnosed with hypochondria in the past could be diagnosed with having somatic symptom disorder or illness anxiety disorder. Somatic symptom disorder is used as a diagnosis if the person has multiple symptoms they feel are distressing and extremely worrisome, while illness anxiety disorder is the diagnosis for those who have no physical symptoms or only mild symptoms.
Typically, your physician will order a physical exam or even a number of tests to rule out any conditions you're truly concerned you may have. However, if or when those tests come back clear, proving your physical health, your doctor may opt to refer you to a mental health professional. Your doctor or your mental health professional are likely to ask about your use of drugs or other substances, request that you complete a psychological questionnaire or self-assessment, and perform a full psychological evaluation, one that includes questions about your perceived symptoms, your family history, stressful situations or events, and other worries or concerns about other areas in your life.
Officially, what constitutes health anxiety disorder?
The American Psychiatric Association says that if you recognize your behavior in the following, you likely have a health anxiety disorder. (Please note that this is for information purposes only, and is not an official diagnosis.)
Are you preoccupied with having a serious illness?
Are you preoccupied with developing or coming down with a serious illness?
Are you experiencing only mild symptoms, or any physical symptoms at all?
Are you obsessively preoccupied with an existing illness or medical condition?
Are you excessively preoccupied with your family health history?
Do you behave unreasonably and irrationally by performing health-related behaviors, like screening yourself for illness, avoiding doctor's appointments to avoid diagnosis, excessively visiting the doctor because you're sure you have an illness, or checking up on disease symptoms online?
Are you preoccupied with having an illness for at least six months?
Has the illness you've worried about changed in the last six months?
What is the treatment for health anxiety?
When one is diagnosed with health anxiety, a mental health professional will focus on providing that individual with a way to improve his or her symptoms as well as his or her ability to function on a day-to-day basis. While medication is sometimes included as a part of regular treatment, psychotherapy or talk therapy seems to be the gold standard for treatment. Physical exercise can also relieve the anxiety.
Cognitive behavioral therapy, also known as CBT, is the most common treatment for health anxiety. CBT is considered one of the most powerful tools to fight health anxiety because it teaches you valuable skills on how to manage the disorder.
When you're in therapy for health anxiety, you'll be able to identify those health anxiety worries and learn other ways that you can translate those sensations in your body you once thought were symptoms of a disease. CBT will improve your awareness of how your worries are actually affecting not only your physical being, but also your emotional state. After regularly attending therapy, you'll be better equipped to cope with those anxious moments and stressful thoughts, and you'll be more likely to stop examining your body for signs of illness.
Successful therapy, which may include medication in extreme circumstances, will improve how you function at home, in your social life, at work and in your intimate relationships.
If you believe you or someone you love may have health anxiety, visit us at www.hopetherapyandwellness.com and make an appointment today.
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Ucom CEO Hayk Yesayan told a press conference that Armenia has improved its ranking by more than 50 points when combining the data of 2016 and 2017, which is a result of the introduction of the Ucom 4G+/LTE Advanced mobile network.
"This award is the result of our work of the past year, when last year in September we began offering 4G+ services in Armenia, starting from Yerevan, and now we are available in the entire country. The most important thing is that this isn't only the achievement of Ucom, but Armenia's ranking has been improved also", he said.
Yesayan says almost 80% of the population can use the 4G and 4G+ services, and by April 88% of communities will be entirely covered with this network, thus increasing the percentage to 98.
"The speeds of 4G+ enable to provide up to 250 MB speed, which is quite high. The most important thing is that the average speed in the active network is more than 30 MD. 2 MB speed is required to watch a movie in maximum HD quality, 9-10 MD for very high HD, meaning we provide almost 10 times more internet", he said.


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Architecture builds interdisciplinary bridges to the Humanities
Report on the Second International and Interdisciplinary Conference on 'Built Form and Culture' Research at the University of Kansas <1>
by Nold Egenter
ON THE WIDER FRAMEWORK OF THIS TOPIC
Architecture today is in a quite ambiguous position within the framework of sciences and technology. It can only be defined with difficulties. Though architecture needs the engineer in whatever it designs, it sets itself far apart from mere 'engineering', which defines itself fully - as e.g. in bridgeÐbuilding - as technology. <2>
The view supporting the architectÕs outlook focuses on the history of important architectural monuments: pyramids, palaces, temples, cathedrals, etc.! Architecture interprets itself as art, as a high form of art: built art.
Paradoxically, with this claim, something important is removed from the sphere constituting architecture. Architecture seen as the history of imposing monuments develops into a subject of art history. There it is viewed from quite a different perspective than that of its artistic creator, it is analyzed from a scientific angle, which yields quite different optics, as will be shown by the last text of this book. <3>
Further, in the large spectrum of art, architecture is only a very small part of what the art historian chooses from the totality of a society to consider it aesthetically valuable and to preserve it in the eternal heaven of history. That is to say, architecture is a rather secondary matter, one among many, such as e.g. altarpieces, tapestries, or china, but is - and this is the crucial point - dealt with in exactly the same way, judged by the same aesthetic criteria.
To the practising architect, on the other hand, the work of the 'art-scientist' then becomes the fundament for his own orientation, what in fact constitutes him as an architect. He bases his understanding of his own work, his intentions, his interpretation of his role on this product of art history, certainly scientifically done with honourable intentions.
On the other hand, the art historian d/evaluates the work of the architect, sings his praises, and consecutively runs him down with his deadly critique. He glorifies the architect, makes his work become part of eternal history - or not; so to speak, he represents the 'Last Judgement' in an architectÕs life. A strange sort of fossilized symbiosis? An autistically closed circle of internal vibrations? Aesthetic autocracy? In any case, a relatively autonomous circle is shown which functions on insider principles and largely excludes the lay public. There is a strange smell of historyÐmaking. Who celebrates whom? And: where is the human dweller in all this business? Just the genius? The artist? And his highÐpriest, eulogist, and venomous censor? <4>
This strangely contradictive and anachronistic puzzle reveals itself only to those who understand it as a structural Renaissance relic with pseudoreligious undertones. One should recall Pietro di Aretino, the first art critic. He recognized the mood of the times. A new society needs new gods. The artist as creator of the human world. One the one hand, Pietro di Aretino cultivated this secularized myth in his writings, but, on the other hand, he cunningly used his pseudotheological position in this post-medieval demigodly cult by cleverly manoeuvring between the new geniuses and the rich patrons of his time, the aristocracy and the clergy - evidently in consideration of his own financial interests. He is said to have treated Michelangelo rather shabbily. <5>
Art and Architecture, a kind of post-medieval substitute for religion? It is really amazing how this notion has persisted throughout the centuries. Throughout the eras of enlightenment, revolution, democratization, and industrialization, in both capitalist and communist, and even in fascist societies, the famous architect always remained a godlike figure, whose genius created new worlds for the new elites (see Speer and Hitler!). Always at his side, the loyal art historian, the high priest, who praises 'the creation', and converts everyday laymen to believers in 'good form'!
Modernism devoted itself to technology, installing its rationalistic and functionalistic programmes, its aesthetics of the machine as the ruling principle, and thus preserved the structurally quite outdated post-medieval Renaissance myth of the architectÕs genius, and, at the same time prevented the intrusion of the scientific method into its domain. The dialogues remained focused on technology and aesthetics. In the same way, the preservation of the Renaissance myth prevented the intrusion of the human dimension. In the sense of NeufertÕs famous book, man remained schematically reduced to his synchronically measured quantitative and qualitative 'needs', but never was allowed to enter the system Ð practically and theoretically Ð as a human and cultural dweller. He thus remained a more or less mechanical or functional part in the technologically rationalized artist-art schema.
With this myth cities and megalopolises are built: nowadays mini-Michelangelos are systematically cloned at our architectural design academies. Similarly, the art faculties at universities provide their cloned counterparts: mini-Pietro di Aretinos. Together they are allowed to celebrate their limitless gigantomanias, without any modern, or reasonable, or scientifically precise idea justifying it. Processes of this sort led to the situation we are confronted with today, namely that there exists one of our most costly domains in political economy which has not the least scientifically founded idea of its impacts on man.
The following text describes an interface at which new ideas sprang up. Architecture does research! For someone who knows the field, knows this to be a battle cry!
ARCHITECTURE, ART, AND ANTHROPOLOGY: THREE THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
"Presently, architectural theory essentially divides into two realms, that of the designer, which provides insight into the ways of creating the architectural object, and that of the historian, which describes or explains the artefact once created."
Within this context most architectural theorists have regarded architecture as art, the main purpose of which is to express the artistic intentions of the designer. Cultural and social conditions were only considered if they contributed something to explaining these intentions. From this point of view, architectural theory assumes that architecture is always something created by the architect and that the cultural significance of architecture is of secondary importance.
"On the other hand, the anthropologist looks at the architectural artefacts broadly, as phenomena which represent the ideology of a culture, and which manifest social values. Architecture is seen as encompassing built forms, whether designed by people who call themselves architects or by others, thus including the various forms of popular or vernacular design as well as "high" architecture. This is an important point because this view allocates importance to the nature of the objects and the context, more than to authorship. The anthropologist is concerned with understanding how ordinary people use and understand the architectural artefact, and what cultural behaviour and attitudes are supported by the form of built environment." This is how Robinson (:99), in her contribution to the Second International and Interdisciplinary Congress on Built Form and Culture (1986), sketched out three different standpoints which are implicitly or explicitly concerned with architectural theory.
It is a recognized fact that in art, for instance, the United States is a favourable breeding ground for developments involving a certain distance, even lack of concern, regarding historical structures. This is particularly true of recent trends in architectural theory.
In Europe the collapse of the theoretical basis of modern architecture in the late 1960s led to a considerable breakdown in orientations. By 1972 Corboz already distinguished seven different trends. <6> Today there are even more 'alternatives' - not surprisingly there is great confusion among architects today. There is talk of a "lack of orientation" (anything goes), of "short term aesthetization of everyday life" etc. Or there is complaint that "there are no more utopias"! <7>
On the other hand, the much lamented 'crisis of architecture' also recalled academic architectural history from its state of banishment. Art circles began to be intensively preoccupied with architecture and reinstated the method of historical style long believed to be dead to the rank of 'architectural theory'. Products of this methodological revival include late and postmodern styles. In addition, the newly established 'art history of architecture' acquired new 'histories', which seemed to imply a need for much new object research. Nineteenth century art history was 'rediscovered', the Middle Ages acquired new importance. In addition to these new fields of activity with the laborious research they entailed, the art historian was increasingly involved in conservational tasks, e.g. the preservation of historical centres of settlement. In the course of a more general reaction against modernism, the long neglected study of peasant dwellings was greatly intensified, for instance in folklore.
This strong revival of the European tradition had the result that lines of architectural research which began in Europe about 1970 were scarcely noticed here, namely those which tried to make good the theoretical deficit of modern architecture by means of a longÐterm broadening of anthropologically based research. Such firm connections with the rich historical heritage of European architecture have thus largely hindered the spread of inquiry into questions of architectural theory which are so absolutely necessary today.
Matters stand quite differently in the USA where, in the last 20 years, a movement has come into being which sooner or later will have far-reaching effects on our understanding of architecture. <8> This will be briefly described here.
BUILT FORM AND CULTURE RESEARCH
The title "Built Form and Culture" was thought up by Amos Rapoport. His little book, published with the title "House Form and Culture" in 1969, proved to be an astonishing jewel, had wide circulation and an extraordinary influence. For the first time it brought home to many architects the fact that their own horizon was much too narrow; that apart from familiar practical and historical aspects of architecture there was an enormous range of built forms that had hardly been investigated and which were nevertheless worthy of study. Rapoport's most general terms, 'house', 'form', and 'culture' made it clear that architecture was susceptible to a comparative approach far exceeding the narrow perspective of the art historian's 'styles'. At the same time Rapoport's approach to the genesis of form and his inquiries into the 'factors' determining the rich formal variety of world architecture were highly stimulating. The works of Christian Norberg-Schulz and Christopher Alexander also helped to extend this field of study. Although employing different methods, these pioneering publications had one thing in common, namely, they raised the level of architectural discussion from that of specific aspects of this or that project, building plan, or exemplary structure (i.e. from the functional typology of architectural practice) and introduced general terms of cultural relevance. For instance, Alexander contrasts 'community' and 'privacy', while Norberg-Schulz uses the terms 'existence' and 'space' in relation to architecture.
As a result, a research programme has taken shape in the USA during the past 15 years. Under the title 'Built Form and Culture' - Research, it has greatly developed recently. <9> The architectural departments of various universities are working implicitly or explicitly on this programme. Furthermore, the University of Kansas at Lawrence, has, for some years offered a postgraduate course, leading to a master's degree in this subject.
The Built Form and Culture' - Studies at the University of Kansas are concerned with "the understanding of socio-cultural aspects of architecture and settlements and the understanding of built environments as cultural phenomena", with "humanistic approaches to the study of both everyday indigenous architecture and stylish monumental architecture" and with the "examination of the roles of architecture and the design professions in relation to society ..." Generally speaking: architecture is emancipating itself from the domination of art history and is attempting to understand itself anew in the wider framework of the humanities. Interdisciplinary and intercultural approaches to the study of relationships between built form and culture are being encouraged and "the roles of architecture and the design professions in relation to society" are being studied. In addition, greater interest will be shown in an architectural and urban design education that is "more sensitive to the values and ways of life of other cultural groups." <10>
The optional postgraduate subject of 'Built Form and Culture' can, as mentioned, lead to a master's degree. Typical are studies and research on relationships between built environments of different scales and associated socio-cultural processes. It is not only open to students of architecture and the design subjects, but is also intended for students of cultural anthropology and philosophy. <11>
An important component in this new line of research and study is the biennial 'Conference on Built Form and Culture', first held at the University of Kansas in Lawrence and later to be held at other universities. The outstandingly interesting 'Second International and Interdisciplinary Conference on 'Built Form and Culture' - research will be detailed in the following.
FIRST INTERNATIONAL AND INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE ON 'BUILT FORM AND CULTURE' - RESEARCH IN 1984
There was a big attendance even at the first conference. It was attended by about 200 participants from 5 countries and 30 US states. And they showed that there really is interdisciplinary interest in the subject. Participants represented 15 different disciplines. Under the subtitle 'Approaches and Implications of Socio-cultural Aspects of Built Environments', participants considered how best to promote the broad study of socio-cultural aspects of architecture and urban construction and how professional design and design training could be made more receptive to the various values and life styles of different cultural groups. <12>
This first conference was evidently highly stimulating. It was followed by increased interest in the cultural aspects of built form, and not only in architectural circles. The humanities showed their growing interest, above all those where environment plays a part, e.g. branches of cultural geography, applied anthropology, environmental psychology, sociology, social history, and political science. Another result of the first conference can be seen in the international associations of interest groups which were formed at the end of the conference. There are now close links between the North American Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA), the European International Association for the Study of People and their Physical Surroundings (IAPS) , and the Southwest Pacific People and the Physical Environment Research Organization (PAPER).
SECOND CONFERENCE, 1986
Objectives were to be even more clearly defined. 'Why do we need to understand built environments better and how does this lead to improvements in research, education, and environments?' were questions raised in the programme. Researchers and university teachers, professional designers and building promoters were to report their experiences with the new cultural-anthropological standpoint. Methods, approaches, and theories were to be compared and difficulties between theory and practice were to be clarified.
The programme covered the following topics:
the study of environments with respect to continuity and cultural change;
architecture in the light of political and religious developments;
design principles of vernacular, popular, and stylish architecture;
and finally, the relationships between the 'developed' and 'developing' worlds in respect of their built environments.
Broadly speaking, the whole programme was backed up by a structure which is best shown in graphics (Fig. 1).
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A beautifully refurbished Grade II Listed character home set in this sought after village with a lovely established 85' west facing garden. The property comprises three bedrooms, two bathrooms, three reception rooms and kitchen with adjacent utility. The property is in a quiet side road and the village amenities are within a short walking distance.
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      HttpResponse response = client.execute(post);
      if (response == null) {
        System.out.println("this is null");
      }
      int code = response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();

      if (code != 200) {
        HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
        ContentType contentType = ContentType.getOrDefault(entity);
        Charset charset = contentType.getCharset();
        if (charset == null) {
          charset = Charset.forName("UTF-8");
        }
        String errorBody = EntityUtils.toString(entity, charset);
        log.info("createProject: Unable to process request.  HTTP code: " + code + " responseBody: " + errorBody);
        throw new PostEditException("createProject: Unable to process createProject request.  HTTP code: " + code + " responseBody: " + errorBody);
      } else {
        HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
        ContentType contentType = ContentType.getOrDefault(entity);
        Charset charset = contentType.getCharset();
        if (charset == null) {
          charset = Charset.forName("UTF-8");
        }
        String taggedResult = EntityUtils.toString(entity, charset);
        jobj = new JSONObject(taggedResult) ;
      }

    }catch (NoRouteToHostException re) {
      log.error("createProject: unable to route to host."+re);
      throw new PostEditException("createProject: unable to route to host.",re);
    }catch (IOException ie) {
      log.error("createProject: problem executing HTTP request."+ ie);
      throw new PostEditException("createProject: problem executing HTTP request.",ie);
    }catch (Exception e) {
      log.error("createProject: an error occurred." +e );
      throw new PostEditException("createProject: an error occurred",e);
    } finally {
      post.releaseConnection();
    }
    return jobj;
  } //createProject

so , I am trying to write a test case to mock the HttpClient.
so I Wrote the Mockito test case as :
PowerMockito.mockStatic(HttpClientBuilder.class);
    HttpClientBuilder builderMock = Mockito.mock(HttpClientBuilder.class);
    PowerMockito.doReturn(builderMock).when(HttpClientBuilder.class, "create");

    HttpClient clientMock = Mockito.mock(CloseableHttpClient.class);
    CloseableHttpResponse responseMock = Mockito.mock(CloseableHttpResponse.class);

    Mockito.doReturn(clientMock).when(builderMock).build();
    Mockito.doReturn(responseMock).when(clientMock).execute(Mockito.any());

    classname obj= new classname();
    Method m = classname.class.getDeclaredMethod("createProject", String.class);
   JSONObject result =(JSONObject) m.invoke(obj,"accesstoken");

But when I debug the program, I see the real httpclient is created instead of the mocked one. How Do I create the mock httpclient so that I can mock the status and response as well.

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Contemporary photographs of 19th century art
Review of "Karl Bodmer's America Revisited" by Robert Lindholm.
Wyatt Orme Dec. 8, 2014 From the print edition
Citadel Rock is visible for miles along the upper Missouri River. It marks the approximate midpoint of the White Cliffs region of the river, and has been featured in the skethces of several later artists as well.
Karl Bodmer
The mountainous peaks in the background of Bodmer's image are here reduced to the river bluffs enclosing the valley.
Robert M. Lindholm
The Seven Sisters are among the few formations that appear in more than one of Bodmer's sketches.
These free-standing columns of white sandstone have defied the erosive power of wind and rain for ages, showing almost no change in the more than a century and a half since Bodmer's brush captured them.
The buffalo skull atop this Assiniboin rock cairn is believed to have helped Indians draw bison to their hunters and ensure a successful hunt.
Though no trace remained of the bison skull, rangers at Fort Union National Historic Site discovered its base of tumbled-down stones resting on a hilltop northeast of the fort.
Karl Bodmer's America Revisited
Robert M. Lindholm, W. Raymond Wood
240 pages, hardcover:
University of Oklahoma Press, 2013.
In 1832, just under three decades after Lewis and Clark trekked across North America, another, lesser-known voyage covered similar ground. A group of Europeans led by Prince Maximilian Alexander Philipp of Wied-Neuwied (in what is now Germany) traveled from Massachusetts to Montana, then back to New York, accompanied by Swiss artist Karl Bodmer.
In Karl Bodmer's America Revisited, contemporary photographer Robert Lindholm tracks down and shoots the same vistas and landmarks Bodmer depicted. Each page presents two images side-by-side: Bodmer's romantic renderings of the past and Lindholm's photograph of the present landscape. The book winds its way through the pastoral Midwest, the Black Hills of South Dakota, and then to the unusual riverbank formations in central and western Montana. Bodmer was clearly captivated by these towering rocks, and Lindholm's photographs reveal why: Tall and austere, they still arise from meandering banks to stand like statues, perfectly still and unchanging as the water, and the years, flow by.
From boxes of memorabilia, sifting out a life
A high school football team's wartime resistance


Oral hygiene is often neglected by many until the consequences show and you realize you shouldn't have neglected it in the first place. When things go bad in your oral department, it can get pretty serious and you end up with excruciating pain that seems to never end. This does not occur a lot but some people tend to be more susceptible to oral diseases. This could be due to prior health management or even sometimes genetics – in which case, they really can't do too much about it. To be on the safe side and not trigger any harmful situations related to your oral hygiene, the best thing to do is to actually take care of your teeth. Taking care of your teeth is not something that you have to put too much effort into, in fact it is so effortless that you can simply incorporate it into your daily routine, you should incorporate it into your daily routine. The few extra minutes you spend on it can save you a whole lot of excruciating pain in the future. Read on through for some tips on maintaining good oral hygiene.
That's right! Just because you have perfect pearl white teeth does not mean that they don't need a checkup every once in a while. Your teeth could look sparkling and clean from the outside and you seem to be in no pain but you can actually never know what is going on the inside, often oral diseases can stay dormant and then all of a sudden hit you like a meteor. To avoid any painful surprises, make those appointments and go see your dentist on a routine schedule. Any great dentist in werrington would advise you strongly to make those appointments even if you are super healthy. Get them checked and make sure you are healthy inside out.
This is imperative. No debate about that. The reason for this is the build-up of bacterial activity during the long night where you don't use your mouth or teeth and thus enable the bacteria to grow and reproduce. They feed on the food particles left in your mouth and teeth and grow rapidly. When this continues for a long period of time, they begin to break down the teeth themselves. You may go without pain or even notice it until they hit a nerve. When this happens, you will be an unbearable pain that won't go away easily. The pain may even spread to your head and make you sick. You will have to ultimately get the tooth pulled out depending on the extent of the damage caused. Avoid this whole dramatic experience altogether by simply making it a point to brush your teeth both morning and night time.
Coffee is acidic and can harm your teeth if you have it first thing in the morning. Brush your teeth, have some breakfast or at least some water before chugging on that coffee.


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Q: Get distance to border in 2d grid with numpy/scypi I have a 2D map in which every square belongs to different players or no one. Tiles belonging to a player are side by side and are usually enclosed by tiles that don't belong to anyone. The map has no boundary but wraps around.
I would like to get the distance from each tile to the border of tiles that belong to no one. Currently I use following BFS-algorithm:
def get_distances(self):
    distances = np.zeros((self.width, self.height), dtype=np.int)

    unknown = [square for square in self if square.owner == None]
    toVisit = deque(unknown)
    visited = set(toVisit)

    while toVisit:
        curr = toVisit.popleft()
        visited.add(curr)

        for direction in (NORTH, EAST, SOUTH, WEST):
            neighbor = self.get_target(temp, direction)
            if n not in visited:
                toVisit.append(neighbor)
                visited.add(neighbor)
                distances[neighbor.x, neighbor.y] = distances[curr.x, curr.y] + 1

    return distances

Since I need to calculate this very often, performance matters. I already use numpy and scipy to create things like diffusion maps for which scipy.convolve2d has been extraordinary helpful and fast. Besides that, I don't have a lot of experience with both libraries and need some external help to find the things I require. Can you help?


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Mitchell High School Library Media Specialist Tracy Deyton was selected as a recipient of the 2019 Sunshine Citizen Award given by the NC Open Government Coalition at a ceremony Monday, March 11, at Elon University.
Sunshine Day brings together journalists, media companies, attorneys and the public to celebrate openness and transparency in North Carolina government. The celebration coincides annually with North Carolina Sunshine Week to bring awareness to the importance of open and accountable government in the state.


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Published: 7:46 PM April 7, 2009 Updated: 8:13 AM October 14, 2020
YOUR East London Advertiser has been shortlisted as weekly newspaper of the year again. The Advertiser won the award in its category last year in the UK Press Gazette Awards. The paper s staff have also been shortlisted in other categories. Gemma Collins,
THE East London Advertiser has been shortlisted as weekly newspaper of the year again.
The paper won the award in its category last year in the UK Press Gazette awards.
Now its staff have also been shortlisted in other categories.
Reporters Gemma Collins, Victoria Huntley and Julia Gregory have all been shortlisted as Weekly Newspaper Reporter of the Year.
Snappers Joe Greaves-Lord and Spencer Griffiths are in the running for the award as Weekly Photographer of the Year.
Sports reporter Jonathan Clegg is nominated as Weekly Sports Journalist of the Year.
Our successful campaign to keep the Bancroft Archive & Local History Library open at Mile End has also made the shortlist for Campaign of the Year.
The newspaper has been established in East London for 122 years.


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Simopoulo () is a village and a community in the municipal unit of Pineia, Elis, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Ilida. Simopoulo was the seat of the former municipality Pineia. It is situated in the sparsely populated hills of northern Elis. It is 5 km east of Efyra, 7 km west of Agia Triada and 23 km northeast of Pyrgos. In 2011, the population of the village was 369, and the population of the community, which includes the village Agios Nikolaos, was 390.

Population

References

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Low cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pressure headache is caused by an internal spinal fluid leak and may range from obvious and disabling to subtle and nagging. The brain normally sits inside a bag filled with spinal fluid that extends down from the skull into the spine. The bag consists of membranes called the meninges (as in meningitis). The fluid helps to circulate waste products out of the brain and provides cushioning and support. When the pressure of this fluid is too low typically when there is a small leak somewhere in the meninges — the brain may sag downward when the patient is upright, stretching the meninges and nerves lining the brain and causing pain.
What are the symptoms of low pressure headaches?
The classic symptom is a headache that becomes severe when the patient is upright and quickly disappears when the patient is lying flat. So, the headaches are typically absent first thing in the morning, and start or worsen shortly after getting out of bed. The pain is often worse at the back of the head, and may be accompanied by some neck discomfort and nausea. Rarely there are more serious neurological symptoms caused by stretching nerves or the downward displacement of the brain.
What causes low pressure headaches?
In most cases, there is an obvious cause of the leak, such as a spinal tap, spinal surgery, or trauma to the head or neck. In cases when postural headaches develop shortly after an obvious potential cause, diagnosis is usually easy to make. Subtle cases can be trickier to diagnose. There may be no obvious precipitating event, or perhaps the leak was caused by a sneeze, a violent cough, or some other unrecognized minor trauma. Some patients — particularly those with hyperflexibility of the joints — may be born with meninges that are more susceptible to tearing with relatively small degrees of force.
How are low pressure headaches diagnosed?
The condition may be frustrating to diagnose even when the cause is strongly suspected, particularly in the less dramatic cases.
Brain MRI with injected contrast dye may reveal "enhancement" of the meninges lining of the brain and sometimes indicate evidence of the brain "sagging" downward from the skull toward the neck. MRI of the neck and back occasionally reveals spinal fluid leaking out of its normal location.
Computed tomography (CT) myelogram (a CT scan of the back after dye is injected into the spinal fluid) may reveal the site of the leak directly.
CSF cisternogram — a procedure in which a radioactive dye is injected in the spinal fluid and detected by a special radiation-detecting camera — may reveal the leak directly, or may only show indirect evidence of the leak's presence but not its exact location.
Lumbar puncture (spinal tap) may reveal lower than normal spinal fluid pressure, but might increase the severity of the symptoms temporarily.
Sometimes we are 100 percent sure a leak is lurking somewhere but may be unable to find it with any test.
How are low pressure headaches treated?
Treatment usually begins conservatively with strict bed rest, increased fluid intake, and caffeine (either in drink form or by pill). If this cautious approach fails to result in closure of the hole, an epidural blood patch may be performed. In this procedure, the patient's own blood is removed from a vein with a syringe and injected into the spine, either at the exact site of the leak or at a safe location in the low back. Often a blood patch results in rapid plugging of the hole and nearly immediate relief of symptoms. This procedure may need to be repeated a few times to be successful.
If the exact site of the leak is known, an interventional radiologist can sometimes glue the hole using a needle under X-ray guidance. Sometimes a neurosurgeon is needed to repair larger tears found in the spine, or a neurosurgeon or otolaryngologist (ENT) must fix leaks inside the skull.
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Danier began as an independent family owned design house, manufacturer and retailer in 1972. With an expertise and heritage creating leather garments, handbags and accessories we have evolved into an essential fashion destination with a modern sensibility and timeless aesthetic.
So after 34 years of being in business, Danier Leather is closing it's doors, but before that they are doing a massive liquidation sale on all of their stores, outlets and online. This is a sad day for another Canadian owned company. I myself own a few of their leather jackets which is what they are known for. They make good quality products but I guess they just haven't evolved with the times and the trends.
So if you are in the market for some good quality leather, I would suggest stock up and head to the closest Danier store or online.


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*print-level* controls how many levels deep a nested object will print. If it is false, then no control is exercised. Otherwise, it is an integer indicating the maximum level to be printed. An object to be printed is at level 0; its components (as of a list or vector) are at level 1; and so on. If an object to be recursively printed has components and is at a level equal to or greater than the value of *print-level*, then the object is printed as ``#''.


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Sociology & anthropology
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