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New Prostitution Museum pulls back curtain on Amsterdam's Red Light district
A NEW museum gives tourists a glimpse of life on the other side of the glass in Amsterdam's infamous Red Light district.
APFebruary 6, 20148:42am
ON any given evening, thousands of tourists stroll down the narrow canal-side streets of Amsterdam's famed Red Light District, gawking at ladies in lingerie who work behind windows, making a living selling sex for money.
Now a small educational museum that opens today in the heart of the district will show reality from the other side of the glass. RED LIGHT SECRETS Organiser Melcher de Wind says the Red Light Secrets museum is for those who want to learn more about how the area works without actually visiting a prostitute. It's located in a former brothel, one of the narrow buildings typical of Amsterdam. Visitors enter the museum by passing a hologram of a beckoning prostitute. Then the displays attempt to place prostitutes as part of society. There's a short film showing the many people who work with them: those who clean or repair their rooms, do their laundry, or run over to their windows with coffee or food during shifts. Prostitutes rent windows on a half-day basis and can work shifts that are 11 hours long, six days a week. They spend a lot of time waiting for customers. In their free time, they visit local hairdressers, nail salons and clothing shops. There's also a nursery school in the heart of the Red Light District, right next to the windows. In one scene in the film, a middle-aged prostitute in red leather receives an afternoon visit from her grade-school daughter. A LONG HISTORY IN AMSTERDAM The museum makes only a passing attempt to document the history of prostitution tolerance in Amsterdam - starting from the 16th century, when it was a port city flush with wealth from the spice trade and authorities turned a blind eye when sailors went ashore looking for women. Or during the Napoleonic Wars, when prostitutes first began to have mandatory medical checkups to combat venereal disease among soldiers. The museum focuses on the era since 2000, when prostitution became legal in the Netherlands. Since then the city has been struggling - it says with some success - to eradicate pimps and human trafficking. Yolanda van Doeveren, who manages the city's prostitution social programs, says the district is regulated by police officers, social workers, health workers, tax authorities and civil rights groups. A new woman who appears in a window will be noticed in a matter of hours and must be able to show that she's old enough and has approval to work. The legal age to work as a prostitute in Amsterdam has recently been raised from 18 to 21. Ms Van Doeveren says trafficking remains at the heart of the Dutch debate over the ethics of prostitution. There's also an acknowledgement, however, that the worst abuses of underage girls or prostitutes being exploited by pimps now take place out of sight in underground brothels - an ongoing challenge for police. IN THE WINDOW At the museum, the tour resumes: In one hallway, there's a work roster on a white board showing who's working in which room on what days, along with times for client appointments. There's also a chance to take a seat in an actual window in front of passers-by. And then the tour proceeds to a typical "peeskamer," Dutch for "workroom." Ilonka Stakelborough, an escort who heads a sex-workers union called "The Geisha Institute," says the rooms, about three metres long and two metres wide have a standardised look that could really use an update - black lights have been nearly universal since the 1970s. The beds are low and strong, near a sink and a small cabinet of lubricants, cleansers, condoms and sex toys. "No perfume," Ms Stakelborough says. "Because then the smell rubs off on a man's clothes and he has problems with his wife when he gets home." Are married men the main customers? No, you can't generalise, Ms Stakelborough says. Men of all types, married, unmarried, young or old visit prostitutes at all hours, she says - some even on their way to work in the morning. How do you know who's just coming to look and who wants to do business? "Eye contact," she said. THE PROSTITUTES Very few women who work as prostitutes ever earn more than a middle class income at best - and usually it's worse, according to Ms Stakelborough and Ms Van Doeveren. Ms Stakelborough says it's not the prettiest or youngest girls who get the most customers or earn the most. And escorts and high-end brothel prostitutes don't necessarily do better - they have fewer customers, longer sessions and lots of costs, for taxis or splitting profits with brothel owners, she said. A window typically rents for 150 euros ($229) for a half-day. Given the standard cost of about 50 euros for a 15-minute session, their take-home pay before taxes is only 150 euros after seeing six clients, or 250 euros after eight. Approximately 75 per cent of the women are from poorer countries, often Romania or Bulgaria. "Almost all the women who are here are here 'voluntarily', in the sense that they come knowing what they're going to do," Ms Van Doeveren says. "But you can ask yourself what their other options were." At the end of the museum there's a wall of quotes from prostitutes. "This job is not for the faint-hearted," wrote Eva from Holland. "I have become much harder." "It makes me feel lonely my mother doesn't know what I do," wrote Carmen from Romania. Visitors can write down their own sexual secrets in a mock-up confessional booth before heading back out onto the street. _____ If you go: The "Red Light Secrets" Museum of Prostitution is located on the Oudezijds Achterburgwal 60-62 in Amsterdam. The museum is open daily from noon to midnight. Admission cost: 7.50 euros.
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Fan Fiction:The Hofstadter Fraternal Combustion
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The Hofstadter Fraternal Combustion
Season no.
Giangster
"The Hofstadter Fraternal Combustion" is the first episode of the season 10 fan suggested episodes made by Giangster.
With Leonard and Penny's redo wedding ceremony around the corner, Leonard gets a visit from his younger brother Michael, as well as their long-lost older brother Daniel, both of whom have immense hatred towards Sheldon.
Leonard gets a surprise visit from his brothers, Michael and Daniel, who have come for his wedding ceremony with Penny, in spite of their anger at Sheldon. The two of them warmly greet Stuart, Howard, and Raj, while they really hit it off with Amy and Bernadette. Upon seeing Sheldon, the men immediately start attacking him, until Leonard tells them to calm down. After a while, Michael and Daniel decide to take Leonard on a guys' night out, just the three of them. With Leonard out with his brothers, the guys tell the girls the story of how and when they first met Leonard's brothers, and how they grew to hate Sheldon (the scenes switching between the brothers having a good time and the Apartment where the guys tell the story).
Leonard, Michael, and Daniel are seen having a great time together, involving: drinking a bar, eating at a Korean BBQ restaurant, going to a comedy club, etc.
Meanwhile at Apartment 4A; Stuart, Sheldon, Raj, and Howard begin to tell the story of how they first met Leonard's brothers, and how it involves Stuart first opening up the comic store...
Upon their return from their night out, everyone comments on how they had a great time. When Sheldon unintentionally insults all three of them, Daniel starts to blow up with rage at Sheldon. He goes on a tirade of how annoying Sheldon is, the fact that nobody cares what he thinks about anything, the pain he put both him and Michael through, and that he always takes advantage of Leonard by making him drive him everywhere, and with the roommate agreement. He and Michael then leave for their hotel, but not before he loudly utters the words that "someone should've told [him] long ago": "SHELDON LEE COOPER, GO TO HELL! YOU ARE A NARCISSISTIC JERK WHO ONLY CARES ABOUT HIMSELF, AND OUR BROTHER WOULD BE BETTER OFF WITHOUT YOU!"
The episode ends with the aftermath of Daniel's confrontation with Sheldon, Sheldon being in shock of how badly he treats Leonard. He then proceeds to make amends with his best friend for everything he put him through as the future regarding his feud with Daniel remains in question.
Michael and "Daniel" may have possibly met and visited the guys in the past, but stopped due to Sheldon getting on their bad sides.
Ironically, even though they're the ones in the Hofstadter family who are not scientists, both Michael and Daniel are named after famous scientists, Michael Faraday and Daniel Fahrenheit, respectively.
Daniel Hofstadter bears these traits:
He is the oldest of the Hofstadter siblings
He served four years in the US Marines
He is a graduate at Yale University
He works as an NSA Agent (and often points out that the CIA and FBI are too overrated)
His personality involving anger and rage is similar to Bernadette's
He often took care of his younger siblings like Bernadette did with her's, though he enjoyed the experience unlike her
He has lingering resentment towards both of his parents (Beverly for her cold personality and non-maternal parenting, and Alfred for always working instead of spending time with the family)
He has four kids
Sheldon's frequently mentioned List of Mortal Enemies makes its reappearance when it's discovered that Daniel is #1 on the list, while Michael holds the #2 spot.
The Hofstadter brothers are revealed to be so close that they have each other's backs and look out for one another. In addition they have a code: "You mess with one of us, you mess with all of us."
Possible Guest Stars
Justin Long as Michael Hofstadter
Bill Burr as Daniel Hofstadter
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There are fleeting moments when even the sport that made Stephen Curry famous is far from the front of his mind.
Take one late June morning in a Mediterranean mansion in Walnut Creek, Calif., he has on the market. With few sticks of furniture left inside, he thinks back to his decision weeks earlier to move his family out at perhaps the worst time on the calendar for him: smack in the middle of the NBA conference finals. "We thrive in chaos," he recalls with a chuckle.
Now that the season is behind him and his Golden State Warriors have collected their third championship in the past four years, he's chosen to not play any basketball for a three-week period, something he's never tried before. It's a new adjustment to his typical off-season regimen after the normally stout Curry missed 31 regular season and six playoff games due to recurring ankle sprains. He's essentially shutting his body down to give his muscles a break, then slowly ramping back up with biking and yoga.
Fatherhood isn't the only matter far from the basketball court that's getting more of Curry's attention today. The afternoon will take him to offices he keeps in Oakland for another new feature of his postseason: development meetings. He announced in April that he was getting into the entertainment business by way of a wide-ranging deal between the production company he had formed, Unanimous Media, and Sony Pictures Entertainment. The All-Star guard sat down with Variety to talk at length about the details of his new venture, including several films already in development — just one part of an ambitious partnership that aims to extend as far as video games, virtual reality and consumer products. But films and TV are the focus of the deal, with concentrations in three core areas: faith, family and sports.
Think of those subjects as the holy trinity that animates Brand Steph.
It's only natural that sports is in the mix. After all, it's an understatement to call Curry one of the best basketball players in the world today. With the joyful brio he displays on the court powering one of the most dominant teams in NBA history, he's shimmied his way into the hearts of basketball fans around the world.
But anyone with even a casual understanding of who Curry is would not be surprised that faith and family are the other legs of his strategy. He's been public about his devout Christianity throughout his career, and a self-professed family man. Ayesha Curry's own profile has been on the rise (she has a separate production deal with Endemol Shine North America). And their daughters Riley, 6, and Ryan Carson, 3, might possibly be among the best-known children of pro athletes, given their memorable appearances at post-game press conferences.
But don't think of Curry as a modern-day Mister Rogers; he's not going to rule out an expletive or two in programming that emerges from the Unanimous-Sony union.
Sony and Curry may seem an odd pairing, but not so strange considering the NBA and Hollywood are spawning plenty of strange bedfellows these days, including Curry's teammate Kevin Durant and rival LeBron James, whose move in late June to the Los Angeles Lakers was widely interpreted as an intensification of his already well-developed entertainment interests.
When Curry saw a few years ago what James and other athletes were starting to do in the entertainment space, he was intrigued. He turned to Jeron Smith, a former Nike brand manager and White House deputy director of digital strategy during the Obama administration, for guidance.
Curry and Smith formed Unanimous Media along with another producer Smith worked with while at Nike, Erick Peyton, who would take the role of lead creative. The name of the company is a double entendre, not only referring to Curry being the unanimous choice as the NBA's MVP in 2016 — a first in league history — but also denoting Curry's management philosophy, which calls for no greenlight to be made at the company without all involved agreeing on the decision.
One of the things on which Smith, Peyton and Curry were in agreement was that they would need a distribution partner. The star and his entertainment team began to make the rounds in early 2018 of a who's who of media and technology companies, demonstrating their intent to break into the content business.
In Curry, SPE saw the opportunity to make good on something the Japanese-owned company has talked a lot about under its new management at both the corporate level in Japan and at the studio, but hadn't executed on: getting all the many different components of the Sony machine to work together in support of one entity. It's an important mandate in an age in which mere art often takes a backseat to brand management, which conglomerates like Disney and Comcast orchestrate by maximizing synergies across their vast holdings in hopes the result is more than the sum of its parts.
The Unanimous team has huddled with execs from divisions all over Sony to advance ideas. On the TV side, every department — drama, comedy, unscripted, TV movies and miniseries — is working with Curry.
On the film side, execs believe a broadly appealing figure like the NBA star provides a four-quadrant fit for a studio that has found success recently with family-oriented fare including the "Jumanji," "Peter Rabbit" and "Hotel Transylvania" franchises.
It should come as no surprise that Curry's camp is developing film concepts themed to key Christian holidays like Easter and Christmas. Other concepts are more loosely tied to faith-based themes, according to Smith: an animated biblical story now under the watchful eye of Sony Pictures Animation and "Church Hoppers," a "Wedding Crashers"-esque comedy about a jilted groom who takes his pals along with him as he navigates the church scene in search of a new bride. Neither of these projects has been steered to Affirm, a reflection of the fact that while there will be productions from Unanimous-Sony with overtly religious themes, there will also be material that will tap a lightly spiritual vein. And projects that are intended to have sports or family themes may have no connection to faith at all. It's also possible Unanimous could land a movie in theaters via another studio thanks to projects put in motion before Sony entered the picture.
For Curry, success on the court brings a responsibility to be a role model, but he doesn't always have to operate in an evangelical mode. "It's not about me hitting people over the head with a Bible and telling them they have to believe a certain thing, or think a certain way," he explains.
Curry's Hollywood moment comes as the spotlight on the intersection of basketball and entertainment has never seemed so intense: The arrival of James in Los Angeles has seemingly signaled the vibrancy of this nexus. Plenty of NBA insiders opined James' move from Cleveland was partly motivated by his interest in strengthening his Hollywood connection. Of course, those close to James claim nothing could be further from the truth — that his choice to sign with the Lakers had no consideration beyond where he was best situated to win his next championship. But his new home puts him on a faster collision course with the juggernaut Warriors.
There was a time when entertainment pursuits were the kind of thing best left after the finish of an athletic career; witness the continued prominence of Kobe Bryant, who since leaving the game has nabbed himself an Oscar in the animated short category for "Dear Basketball," a project inspired by his own life. He's also the host of "Detail," a new series for ESPN+.
But James changed the rules of the game when he launched SpringHill Entertainment in 2013 and began stockpiling projects. Durant launched his own production company, Thirty Five Media, last year and began racking up his résumé. Now with Curry in the same game, the floodgates are about to burst open.
"I think between the LeBron deal and the Sony deal, a lot of people are now saying, 'Hmm, should we be thinking of something like this?'" says Lori York, a TV agent at CAA, where she works with such sports clients as Chris Paul and Aaron Rodgers.
Maverick Carter knows that all too well. As James' partner in SpringHill, he counsels the new Lakers star and juggles the entertainment endeavors of a number of other top NBA talents. The trend as he sees it is a manifestation of pent-up frustration among athletes too easily pigeonholed for not having interest beyond the sport in which they make a living. "I think the biggest misconception is that they only want to tell sports stories," he says.
But athletes are just as likely motivated by monetary opportunity, which has grown vastly in the peak-TV era, particularly among streaming services with an appetite unlike anything this town has ever experienced for acquiring content. "You see all of the companies from up north in Silicon Valley now coming down here and getting into it, whether it be Facebook, Amazon or Google, and that's not going to stop," Carter says.
Estimates from various agents active in the space peg the amount an athlete pockets from a project he or she fronts at anywhere from $100,000 to $1 million per episode.
The trend of athletes becoming content producers isn't limited to the NBA, of course; it's becoming more of a fixture for top stars in every major pro sport. Just last month, WME signed Oakland Raiders running back Marshawn Lynch and his BeastMode Prods. But the producing activity coming out of pro basketball is outpacing that of its counterpart U.S. leagues, a reflection of the plethora of breakout stars the NBA boasts at a time when its TV ratings seem to defy the gravity dragging down other sports.
Perhaps only James rivals the star power of Curry in the NBA. The $34.9 million Curry pocketed from the Warriors for the 2017-18 season makes him the best-paid player in the league. Factoring in endorsement deals including UnderArmour, Brita and JPMorgan Chase more than doubles that sum, making Curry the eighth-highest-paid athlete in all of sports. Notably, James made slightly less than Curry in salary and winnings but added $10 million more in endorsements, leaving him the sixth-highest-paid athlete and first among NBA talent.
A cynic might surmise Curry isn't really involved in Unanimous, just lending his name and massive social-media following to projects Sony steers his way. But he insists he'll be heavily involved, particularly during the off-season in the early going, to make sure the effort gets off on the right foot.
Watch a behind-the-scenes video from Variety's cover shoot with Curry below.


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STEPANAKERT—The Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Defense Army serviceman Private Artyom Arseni Varderesian (b. 1996) was killed by Azerbaijani fire on the Artsakh frontline at 2:55 p.m. on March 17. Later in the day, at around 5:30 p.m., another Karabakh soldier, Hovhannes Razmiki Harutyunyan (b. 1997), was killed by enemy fire.
According to press statements published by the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Defense Ministry, investigations to determine the details surrounding these incidents are underway.
The Artsakh Defense Ministry expressed condolences to the families of Varderesyan and Harutyunyan, as well as the members of their units.
On March 17 and the early hours of March 18, the Azerbijani Army fired more than 600 shots from different caliber weapons. The Artsakh Army took retaliatory measures, according to the Ministry.
Last week, the Artsakh Army quelled a diversion attempt by the Azerbaijani Army that took place around 11:20 p.m. on March 10. According to the Artsakh Defense Ministry, the army pushed the Azerbaijani troops back to their positions, killing at least two and wounding several others; the Artsakh Army suffered no casualties.
Always 20-21 year olds killed on the front lines. We never hear anyone older or senior in rank.
Astvaze hokiner lousavory. My condolences to the family and entire Armenian Nation.


Tournament poker is becoming a mainstream sport. Encouraged by television, more and more players are entering tournaments for a shot at a big payday. It's quite understandable; where else can you turn a mere $100 investment into thousands and thousands of dollars in a single day?
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As satellites have been getting very popular, a new breed of single table tournaments has cropped up: sit'n gos. Mostly spread online, single table sit-n gos are fun and popular. They have become a regular part of internet poker. At any time of the day, you can sit at a table and as soon as there are ten players the tournament will go. If you don't want to spend hours playing a multi-table tournament but still want to experience the feel of playing in a tournament, sit'n gos are for you.
These single table tournaments can be very profitable to the experienced player. You can enter many of them during a single day and make a nice long-term profit. One of the main reasons for this is that the action gets short-handed near the end. This benefits the more experienced players because they usually have an edge in short-handed play over the typical amateur.
Structurally speaking, satellites and sit'n gos are almost identical. Of course, satellites are usually spread in traditional cardrooms and sit'n gos in online cardrooms making for differences in the nature of the games that will impact your strategy (absence of physical tells online, ability to play more than one game, etc.). Concretely, however, the same number of players are involved, they last the same time, and the structure is similar. At a glance, both forms appear to require the same strategy. They are, however, very different in one aspect: the number of players making a profit. This subtle difference means that your strategy should be adjusted considerably depending on the type in which you are competing.
Since the object of poker is to maximize your profit, it is normal for your strategy to be based on what will make you the most money in the long run. You must, therefore, adjust your strategy according to the prize structure.
In a single table satellite, there is usually only one winner. This means that you have to accumulate all the chips to win some money. In a sit'n go, the top three finishers make money.
Basically, in a satellite you should not be making many adjustments as you get close to the money (close to the end). Folding a marginal hand when a smaller number of players are left in the hopes of striking a deal is usually a bad play, unlike in a traditional tournament where it can have merit. The goal in a satellite is to get all the chips.
Specifically, this means that in satellites you should play your normal ring game strategy most of the time. The fact that you are in a tournament setting is almost irrelevant. In sit'n gos and multi-table tournaments you should frequently forgo small edges in the hopes of gaining a larger edge later, or in creeping up another level on the pay scale. In a satellite, if a play has a positive expectation, you should make it, regardless of the fact that you can be eliminated from the satellite. For example, if you have a flush draw and you are getting proper odds to call, even for all of your chips, you should call even if it means that you will be knocked out more often than not.
In a sit'n go, when you get short-handed, you should frequently adjust your strategy so that you can sneak up another level in the money. For example, if four players are left and you have a small stack, you might decide to pass on a marginal situation like big slick. You are hoping another short-stacked player will go all-in and be eliminated, moving you into the money. Making a play like this might cost you some tournament chips, but it will earn you more dollars in the long run.
Poker is a very complicated game; that's what makes it so interesting. As an amateur player, try out pokerstars one-table tournaments. Simply know that in order to compete optimally you need to understand that the type of tournament determines the correct strategy.


While Daniel Enger, BSN, RN, CNOR, had envisioned both a career in nursing and a career in the military, he saw them as two separate aspirations, not two jobs he could hold at one time. It didn't dawn on him that he could package these professions together until he attended a job fair during his junior year in college and learned more about the U.S. Air Force Nurse Corps.
Today, as a veteran and nurse, Enger plans to complement his existing professional tool kit by earning his master's degree in health systems management at Rush University's College of Health Sciences. Here, he discusses how his experiences prior to coming to Rush put him on his current path and what he hopes to achieve once he completes his degree.
How did you find your way into the U.S. Air Force Nurse Corps?
When I was a senior in high school, I considered aerospace engineering. But after the space shuttle Columbia exploded and the resulting massive budget cuts at NASA, I realized I wanted a career with a little more security.
My parents were both nurses, and I knew that nursing offered lots of opportunities for different career tracks, such as clinical work, administration and research. I also considered the military because my uncle had served for more than 20 years.
While looking at colleges, I considered the Reserve Officer Training Corp program, but I realized it wasn't for me. Then, while pursuing my bachelor's degree in nursing at Mt. Mercy in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, I talked to Air Force representatives at a job fair. And it dawned on me that I could serve in the military as a nurse. I couldn't believe it hadn't occurred to me before!
I could fulfill my dream of doing both nursing and serving in the military. And after graduation, I joined the U.S. Air Force Nurse Corps as a nursing officer and did that for about six and half years.
Tell us about your experiences in the military as a nurse.
I was first stationed in Dayton, Ohio, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, and later Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. The Air Force paid for me to get my certification as an operating room nurse, and I worked as a nurse circulator and service line manager, coordinating with staff surgeons and scrub technicians — who prepare patients and operating rooms for surgeries — to ensure everyone had the proper equipment and supplies for procedures. In that job, I assisted the anesthesia team and acted as liaison with waiting room staff and families.
While I worked in a variety of specialty areas, I mostly worked among ear, nose and throat, or ENT, specialists. I also served a six-month tour in Afghanistan. It was right after the troop surge, and it was a high point in terms of casualties. It was all trauma, all the time. It was an eye-opening experience; everything happened so fast, but I took a lot away from it. It helped me develop my appreciation for team work.
What led you to Rush's Health Systems Management Program?
In the Air Force I developed a strong interest in the administration and management of day-to-day activities in the operating room. So, after I finished my main stint in the Air Force, I started to look for programs that would help me achieve my ultimate goals of becoming director of perioperative services in a hospital and, eventually, chief nursing officer.
While I looked at many programs, I was drawn to Rush for several reasons. The teacher-practitioner model was a huge draw. To learn from those who are in the field is a big plus. Everything you learn in Rush classrooms is based on current practice situations.
You just completed your first year at Rush. What have you enjoyed so far?
One thing I really like so far is that students give a lot of presentations. I made presentations in the military, so I'm fairly comfortable with it. But I think the practice we get at Rush really sets us apart from other programs.
During the first year, we are matched up with different departments at Rush and work with them throughout the school year. I worked in the purchasing and supply chain department. Everything was pretty much new to me, so there was a big learning curve, but I got involved with a variety of projects and the staff was willing to work with me and patiently listen to my questions. And I had lots of questions!
I'm really looking forward to my summer internship at Vizient, which is a member organization that strives to improve health care in areas such as clinical, operational and supply chain performance. I'll report to a Rush HSM graduate who has said this kind of job offers the chance to get close to the bedside without being at the bedside, so I'm pretty excited about it as I still want to have a role in patient care.
Where do you think you'll go after you graduate?
I'm actually headed to DePaul next to get my MBA. One of the many advantages of serving in the military is the GI Bill, which covers my tuition. I figured I might as well make the most of it and get as much exposure to corporate finance as I can.


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Dynamic Risk Pathways is the first software application to provide the real-time capture and easy-to-understand, predictive visualization of risk pathways to help organizations proactively manage and mitigate process safety risk
CHICAGO, IL (Oct. 21, 2020) – Sphera, a leading global provider of Integrated Risk Management software, data and consulting services, today announced its Dynamic Risk Pathways solution, the industry's first real-time, process safety management Digital Twin solution.
Sphera's Dynamic Risk Pathways is the industry's next generation Operational Risk Management (ORM) Digital Twin technology for modeling and predicting process safety risk exposure for defined risk scenarios. By using the real-time status information from asset integrity inspections, safety critical equipment, Internet of Things (IoT) sensor data, maintenance and operational activity, and deviations from normal operating conditions, operational teams are provided with a single, shared view of the impact on Major Accident Hazard (MAH) risk scenarios.
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Lenders give GNC until June 30 to meet terms of loan agreements
GNC Holdings Inc., a global health and wellness brand, announced on Friday that the early maturities of its largest loans have been extended until the end of the month.
GNC's Tranche B-2 term loan, FILO term loan and revolving credit facility have early maturities that could have been accelerated to Monday if certain conditions were not met.
Related: GNC delays loan maturity date by a month in hopes of refinancing
Due to the impacts of COVID-19 on its business, GNC would not be able to meet some of these conditions, the company said.
Lenders agreed in May to extend the spring maturities from May 15 to June 15. A condition of that deal was that GNC had liquidity of $ 100 million or more. In the statement released on Friday, GNC did not report its current liquidity or the amount of debt. At the end of March, the company owed $ 895 million. The second term ends on June 30.
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I marshmallow (termine inglese; in italiano toffolette o cotone dolce) sono dei cilindretti di zucchero, forma evoluta di un dolce ricavato in origine dalla pianta Althaea officinalis e consumati principalmente negli Stati Uniti. Sono di solito di colore bianco e morbidi al tatto.

Nome

Il nome deriva dal fatto che i marshmallow venivano in origine preparati da petunia dell'Althaea officinalis (volgarmente chiamata marshmallow), una malvacea.

Consumo

I marshmallow possono essere preparati secondo una varietà di modi: i più noti sono la cottura sul fuoco per essere mangiati da soli (di tradizione anglosassone, e richiamata in molti libri e film), o inseriti tra due biscotti Graham insieme a un pezzo di cioccolata formando così lo s'more.

I marshmallow si prestano anche come ingrediente di dolci più elaborati, come per esempio una torta (marshmallow pie).

Storia

Nel ventesimo secolo i marshmallow sono stati diffusi negli Stati Uniti grazie a un nuovo processo di fabbricazione inventato da Alex Doumak negli anni cinquanta. Qualche forma dei marshmallow già esisteva nel 2000 a.C. presso gli Egizi. Nel XIX secolo i marshmallow erano popolari in Francia, dunque i francesi hanno iniziato a cercare di fabbricarli in modo più efficace: intorno al 1850, invece di fare il dolce sbattendo a mano il succo estratto dalla radice della pianta di altea, li hanno fatti con gelatina di grano; comunque il procedimento era ancora molto lungo. Quindi Doumak ha inventato il processo utilizzato oggigiorno, in cui gli ingredienti del marshmallow vengono estrusi e poi tagliati e impacchettati. Dopo l'invenzione di Doumak, il marshmallow è diventato estremamente popolare.

I marshmallow nei media
 Nella serie Disney DuckTales - Avventure di paperi in un episodio zio Paperone mette i marshmallow nella cioccolata calda. Non esistendo un corrispettivo italiano della parola inglese marshmallow, nella versione italiana si usa il termine "meringhe" che però è a base di chiara d'uovo.
 Nel cartoon A tutto reality, al termine di ogni puntata, la squadra perdente viene convocata attorno al falò dove il presentatore Chris McLean annuncia il nome di chi è destinato a lasciare per sempre l'isola ed i personaggi rimanenti sono premiati con un marshmallow.
 Nelle strisce dei Peanuts i marshmallow sono la componente fondamentale dei pasti intorno al fuoco di Snoopy e della sua compagnia scout composta da Bill, Conrad, Harriet e Oliver, gli amici del piccolo uccello giallo Woodstock. Non esistendo un corrispettivo italiano della parola inglese marshmallow, il traduttore Franco Cavallone inventò il termine "toffolette".
 Nel film Ghostbusters - Acchiappafantasmi uno dei principali nemici degli acchiappafantasmi è il gigante Stay Puft Marshmallow Man vestito da marinaretto.
 Nel testo della celebre canzone dei Beatles, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds si parla di una marshmallow pie.
 Nella serie TV How I Met Your Mother, i protagonisti Marshall Eriksen e Lily Aldrin sono soprannominati "Marshmallow and Lilypad".
 Nella serie TV "The Vampire Diaries" (6º episodio della 3ª stagione) Damon finge di flirtare con Rebekah, insegnandole come gustare i marshmallow arrostiti sul fuoco.
 Nel telefilm Scrubs - Medici ai primi ferri Elliot viene ripetutamente chiamata marshmallow dall'infermiera Roberts.
 Nel film Star Trek V: L'ultima frontiera del 1989, il capitano Kirk, Spock e il dottor McCoy, in licenza sulla Terra, accampati in una foresta del Nord America, allestiscono un fuoco e cenano a base di fagioli e whisky. Dopo cena Spock estrae da un cilindro un marshmallow destando sorpresa nei suoi compagni che gli chiedono come facesse a conoscere quel dolce, al che Spock risponde di aver compiuto una ricerca sugli usi e costumi umani.
 In una scena del film L'amore non va in vacanza (The Holyday), Cameron Diaz e Jude Law consumano marshmallow insieme alle due figlie di lui, le piccole Sophie e Olivia, dando vita ad un simpatico quadretto familiare.
 Nella pagina iniziale del romanzo Fahrenheit 451 di Ray Bradbury si dice che il protagonista, impegnato a bruciare dei libri e la casa che li contiene, vorrebbe "above all, like the old joke, to shove a marshmallow on a stick in the furnace"; l'espressione rimanda all'abitudine di arrostire i marshmallow sul fuoco, ma il traduttore italiano scrive "spingere un'altea su un bastone dentro la fornace", traducendo marshmallow con il nome della pianta di origine (altea) e non con quello del dolce da essa ricavato, il che rende l'espressione in parte incomprensibile al lettore italiano. In una traduzione successiva, essa è stata poi resa "più di ogni altra cosa avrebbe voluto cuocere un marshmallow, lo zuccherino infilato su un rametto e rosolato nel forno dell'incendio come in un vecchio gioco".
 Nel film del 2011 Una notte da leoni 2 i protagonisti sono drogati per mezzo di marshmallow sofisticati da uno dei personaggi (Alan).
 Nel cartone animato Rio il protagonista, un'ara di Spix di nome Blu, dichiara che la sua colazione preferita è a base di latte caldo e marshmallow.
 La versione 6.0 del sistema operativo Android pubblicata nel 2015 ha come nome di versione Marshmallow.
 In Mirmo!! i marshmallow sono i dolci preferiti di Murmo
 Nella sitcom The Big Bang Theory il fisico teorico Sheldon Cooper è solito mangiare dei piccoli marshmallow nella cioccolata calda.
 In una puntata de I Robinson la piccola Rudy chiede alla madre se può mettere i marshmallow nella cioccolata ma, trattandosi di un telefilm degli anni 80, il termine viene tradotto con "meringhe".
 Nel film Papà, ho trovato un amico il piccolo Thomas J. chiede all'amica Vada come pensa che sia il Paradiso e Vada risponde che è un posto dove "Non si fa altro che andare a cavallo e mangiare marshmallow".

 Nella popolare serie Happy Days Fonzie, ogni volta che Marion Cunningham gli offre una tazza di cioccolata calda, pretende anche "le caramelle alla malva" che sono appunto i marshmallows. Sempre i marshmallows, ma stavolta chiamati in maniera corretta, fanno parte di una coppa di gelato che Fonzie chiede quando accompagna un bambino a festeggiare il compleanno nell'episodio I problemi di Potsie.

 Nella serie TV Piccoli brividi tratta dall'omonima serie di libri, l'episodio Il campeggio degli orrori nomina due volte i marshmallow.

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 Crema di marshmallow
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Suresh Raina's cousin also killed in a deadly attack, Tweeted that criminals should not escape
Indian cricketer Suresh Raina's fufa died on Saturday in a robbery attack. While aunt and two cousins were seriously injured. Now Suresh Raina has informed through one of his tweets that his cousin has died on Monday night.
Suresh Raina has demanded strict action against the criminals from Punjab Police and the Chief Minister of the state Captain Amarinder Singh. Raina says that criminals should not be spared. He said that we have the right to know what happened that night.
Suresh Raina wrote- "What happened in Punjab with my family was beyond terrible. My uncle was put to death, my aunt and my two brothers suffered serious injuries. Unfortunately my cousin too died while battling for life last night. My aunt is still very critical and is on life support.
Next Raina wrote, "We don't even know what happened that night." I request the Punjab Police to take cognizance of this matter. At least we have the right to know who did this heinous act with them. Those criminals should not be released, so that they can not carry out such incidents further.
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Banda, Dec 26 : Three children and their mother were burnt to death in a fire which spread from a bonfire in Dubey Purva Mau village in Banda district of Uttar Pradesh.
Additional Superintendent of Police, Mahendra Pratap Chauhan, said, "Kallu, a resident of Dubey Purva village in Marka police station area in Banda district is a daily wager from Jaipur, Rajasthan. He lived there along with his wife and three children. The sparks emanating from the bonfire lit due to the cold gutted the entire house. Possible other reasons behind the fire are also being probed."
According to the locals, the villagers raised an alarm when they saw the flames engulfing Kallu's house. By the time they were able to break open the door, the entire house had turned into rubble. There was only burnt debris and smoke everywhere. On receiving information, the police arrived and the fire brigade too reached the site.
Villagers said the mother and her three children were burnt to death in the fire in the kuccha house which began from a bonfire. The police and the fire brigade personnel put out the fire and removed the bodies from the rubble.
The Sub-Divisional Magistrate said prima facie the cause of the fire appears to be the sparks from the bonfire. But only an investigation can confirm the actual reason.


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Agathotoma aculea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae

Description
The length of the shell attains 6 mm, its diameter 2 mm.

(Original description) The small shell is purple brown, banded with white, or is varicolored. The protoconch consists of 1½ loosely coiled, smooth whorls. The teleoconch contains four subsequent whorls. The axial sculpture shows six, somewhat sigmoid rounded, light-colored ribs continuous up the spire, with excavated, much wider interspaces, with fine axial striation, which slightly wrinkles the spirals. The spiral sculpture sows numerous sharp, often paired grooves separated by wider flattish interspaces which are faintly marked by the axial striation. The aperture is narrow and measures about ⅓ the total length of the shell. The anal sulcus is conspicuous. The outer lip is thickened, smooth inside. The columella is simple. The siphonal canal is hardly differentiated.

Distribution
This marine species was found off Cape San Lucas and Magdalena Bay, Baja Californica

References

  Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273-308.
  Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.

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Gastropods described in 1919
Molluscs of Mexico


I usually keep a box of granola bars at my desk at work. They're the perfect 3:00 snack before my afternoon run. I've just run through a whole box of Clif Coconut Chocolate Chip Clif bars, and before that it was a box of Coconut Cream Larabars. I appreciate the convenience of picking up a box of granola bars, but I knew they had to be pretty easy make at home myself.
I'd picked up the new Peanut Honey Pretzel Luna bar last weekend, and I liked it a lot, but decided to adapt it with some of my favorite flavors. I'd made a double batch of Ashley's maple almond butter last weekend and wanted to use it in these bars.
The maple almond butter is definitely a more subtle flavor than peanut butter. You can easily swap in peanut butter for the almond butter and honey for the maple syrup to make a closer match for the new Luna Bar flavor. This recipe makes 16 bars, and freezes well.
Spread the oats and coconut on a cookie sheet and toast in the oven at 350 degrees for 10 minutes or until the coconut is golden.
In a large bowl, mash the bananas and then mix in the maple almond butter and maple syrup until smooth.
Mix the oats, coconut, puffed rice and pretzels into the bananas mixture.
Pour the mixture into a greased 8×12" baking pan.
When the granola bars have cooled, press the chocolate chips into the top of the bars. Wait until they're completely cool before you cut the bars.
oh my gosh, those look so good! We buy granola bars all the time, so will definitely be trying these out soon!
Thanks, Christy! Let me know how they turn out for you. I've eaten through them so quickly I'll be making another batch this weekend. This time I'm thinking I'll go the peanut butter and honey route. Plus I have some peanut butter chips in my pantry that need a job!
Ahhh! These look absolutely delicious, Beth! I'm always a fan of homemade granola bars!


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The Film Sufi
Devoted to the discussion of film expression
"Marooned in Iraq" - Bahman Ghobadi (2002)
Marooned in Iraq (Gomgashtei dar Aragh) was Bahman Ghobadi's second feature film, following on from the amazing achievement of his debut effort, A Time for Drunken Horses. Like that earlier film, the setting is Iranian Kurdistan and the language spoken in the film is Kurdish, not Farsi. Marooned in Iraq, though again dealing with the harsh reality facing Kurds, adopts a lighter tone than A Time for Drunken Horses and could be said by some people to be a tragicomedy. In this respect, the film raises a question:
Does this film successfully combine humour with the macabre circumstances of war in an authentic way? In fact, is that even possible? In this connection, Roberto Benigni's film, Life is Beautiful (La Vita è Bella), despite its popularity, was not in my view a successful combination of these two themes. So did Marooned in Iraq succeed where Life is Beautiful, in my view, did not?
The story of Marooned in Iraq concerns a renowned retired Kurdish musician, Mirza, who has received word that his former wife, Hanareh, now in Iraqi Kurdistan, urgently needs his assistance and wants him to come to her. This is not such an easy thing to do. The Kurdish border area is very rough terrain, and it is full of armed bandits and smugglers who prey on anyone travelling through the area. In addition, the setting is apparently during the time of the Iran-Iraq war, and Iraqi warplanes are bombing the area, while the Iraqi military is impressing stray civilians captured to serve in their army. So Mirza summons his two sons, Barat and Audeh, both of whom are also musician/singers and formerly members of Mirza's group, to accompany him on the dangerous trip across the border in search of Hanareh. On their journey through the ruggedly beautiful mountains of Kurdistan, the three travellers find themselves engaged in various misadventures with colourful people from villages of the region. The early episodes are shown with energy and broad humour, but they progressively become more enshrouded with the grim realities of war as the film proceeds. And the frequent sound of Iraqi jet planes flying overhead is a constant reminder of the violent circumstances in which the Kurdish people find themselves.
Early on, as they drive in Barat's flashy sidecar-equipped motorcycle, they encounter a man who has flogged a mullah, and the three travelers stop to lend assistance. It turns out that this violent man is unhappy that the mullah has not stopped the family of the woman he wants from marrying her off to someone else. In short order he and an accomplice get the upper hand and march them all of at gunpoint towards the village where the wedding will take place. Mirza and his two sons are quickly recruited into a performance for the wedding ceremony, where the musicians perform their lively and passionate song, "Hanareh" -- a high point of the film. But this scene is eventually interrupted by an exchange of gunfire between the unhappy suitor and the bride's father.
After escaping that fracas and getting back on the road, the trio are stopped by armed bandits who rob them of everything: money, motorcycle, clothes, and even Barat's gold fillings. It's not long before they hitch a ride to the next village and see their motorcycle having just been sold in the bazaar. Later, they come across a school teacher who is teaching war-orphaned children about airplanes. Airplanes have a good side and a bad side, he tells them: they carry goods and people, but they are also employed for dropping bombs. He takes the children to a hilltop cliff, from where they throw dozens of paper airplanes, a visual symbol highlighting the contrast between the innocence of the Kurdish young people and the harsh cruelties of the ongoing war.
Finally, they come to a newly discovered mass grave of Kurdish civilians executed by Saddam Hussein's military, and reference is made to a nearby mass grave that has 15,000 corpses. As the going gets more dangerous and the threat of the two sons being impressed into Iraqi military service more evident, Mirza finally makes his way alone on foot to the city where Hanareh is supposed to be.
What he finds is that most of the men are dead and many of the women are disfigured and enfeebled by the effects of mustard gas from Iraqi air attacks. Mirza is finally directed to a woman whose voice is ruined by the mustard gas and who is so disfigured that she refuses to show her face, who knows something about Hanareh. Fully covered from his sight, this woman (who may, in fact, be Hanareh) informs him that he cannot meet Hanareh, but that Hanareh wants him to take her young daughter to Iran with him for safety. Mirza sets back on foot with the child on his back, and the long closing shot, reminiscent of the final shot of A Time for Drunken Horses, shows Mirza crossing over the barbed wire fence that marks the border between Iraq and Iran.
Although the film was released to the Western public at about the time of the US invasion of Iraq, which, of course, entailed a heightened public awareness of the Iraq situation and which may have influenced the title change, the events in the film appear to be set just after 1988, during the Iran-Iraq war. This is because of the depiction of what appears to be the effects of the Iraqi chemical weapons attack on the Kurdish town of Halabja in 1988, which killed around 5,000 people. That attack was clearly an attempt to kill civilians and has been labelled an act of genocide by Human Rights Watch. Here is what the BBC said about it:
Most of the wounded, who were taken to hospital in the Iranian capital Tehran, were suffering from mustard gas exposure. Those who escaped death have developed respiratory or visual problems from the cocktail of chemicals dropped on the city. According to some reports, up to 75% of the victims were women and children. The injured survivors seen by reporters showed the classic symptoms of mustard gas poisoning - ugly skin lesions and breathing difficulties.
The US government initially ignominiously claimed that the attack was from Iran, but evidence showed that it was an Iraqi attack. Certainly Ghobadi wants a reference to that atrocity to be recorded and remembered in his anthem to the Kurdish people. Marooned in Iraq was given an award at the Chicago Film Festival, but because the US government resisted giving Ghobadi a visa, he refused to accept the award.
With all these grisly goings on, I come back to the question posed earlier? Where is there latitude here for authentic humour? Or do the humourous earlier scenes just si t uncomfortably with the latter parts of the film? In the case of Marooned in Iraq, I believe that the parts do make a coherent whole. The film is not just a comedy, but actually a tribute to the Kurdish people and to their culture, which (as I understand it) encompasses a life full of hope and passion. This is why music is such an essential element to the film. It's not just that the principal characters happen to be musicians, but that music is a deep-level tonic that fortifies Kurdish people to engage in life passionately, in all its circumstances. In fact an alternative title of the film in Iran was "Avazhayé Sarzaminé Madariyam" ("Songs of My Motherland"). The music here has some of the same features and attractions as gypsy and flamenco music, which also expresses an earthy passion for the joys and sorrows of life. Both the gypsies (Roma) and Kurds are stateless peoples who have endured centuries of persecution as minority populations, but something inside them has enabled them to endure. For his part, Ghobadi has ended both of his first two films with Kurdish people passing across borders that he considers to be artificial, political separations that only cause problems and set people against each other. He explicitly has Mirza stomping down on the barbed wire marking the border at the end of the film, thereby offering his own opinion of the value of borders.
Another subtext in Marooned in Iraq is the place of Kurdish women in society. Women seem to be symbolic of a hopeful future for the Kurds. Early in the film during a brief interlude shot mostly as a lyrical series of closeups, we see village women industriously working together to make mud bricks. Women shown later in the refugee camps are all working to help their people. Mirza and his two sons are all seeking different women in the film. Moreover, Mirza is trying to find his former wife, Hanareh, Audeh is looking for another wife so that he can finally sire a son (he already has seven wives and 11 daughters), and the bachelor Barat is looking for his soul mate. Audeh never finds that 8th wife, but he does get his wish for a son by being persuaded to adopt two orphan boys that he intends to train as musicians. Barat falls in love with a women without having seen her face, but simply by virtue of having heard her beautiful singing voice. When he talks to her (only seeing her shadow behind a wall), he tells her that he loves her beautiful voice and would like her to be his bride. She says she will accept on the condition that he teach her to sing, and when he responds that Iranian women cannot sing in public, she runs away. Near the end of the film Barat meets this woman again, where she is searching for the body of her brother. This time, with his eyes more open now (he has finally taken off his self-image-enhancing sunglasses that he has been wearing throughout the film), he humbly offers whatever assistance he can provide. She doesn't answer, but does show her face to him. So he, too, finds grounds for a more hopeful future.
In the story, Mirza's Hanareh, who had dreamed of being a professional singer, had run away to Iraqi Kurdistan with his best friend, Seyed, 23 years earlier. If you date this film from its release in 2002, this earlier event would be placed right after the Iranian Revolution and the founding of the Islamic Republic of Iran, when women were banned from singing in public. Although the Halubja poison-gas bombing massacre suggests to me that this film should be placed just after 1988, Ghobadi has admitted in an interview that the explicit reference to 23 years earlier was meant to coincide with the decree banning women singing in public.
Given what must be difficult shooting conditions, Marooned in Iraq has outstanding production values. The cinematography is excellent, and Ghobadi employs scenic cutaways skilfully to maintain a fluid visual rhythm. Unlike some other Iranian filmmakers, Ghobadi employs numerous camera setups in order to maintain a continually interesting visual profile for the film. The rugged Kurcish landscape presents a picturesque backdrop, but Ghobadi chose to shoot during the winter, when much of the mountain scenery was covered in snow. He chose this time of year so that the mountain background would be more bleak and abstract and not dominate the figures in the foregound.
It's also interesting that Ghobadi did manage to achieve a humorous tone for certain scenes, even though he was working with an entirely nonprofessional cast. He has said in interview that he spends months with his main actors before shooting starts in order to learn about their characters. Then he only asks them to behave in ways that are natural to their personalities. In Marooned in Iraq, two of his actors were professional singers (Mirza's two sons) who were used to projecting their personalities in passionate songs, and so could project in front of the camera, too. This is perhaps why Ghobadi had the characters shouting at each other much of the time. Mild, subtle interactions would more likely have exposed the inexperience of his actors.
The overall message of the film is a tribute to the unyielding hopefulness of the Kurdish people and their musical culture that supports that hope. Mirza never gets to see Hanareh in the film, but he brings back her young daughter to Iran. It is she who represents the hopeful future for Kurdistan.
Posted by The Film Sufi at 8/03/2008 02:31:00 PM
Labels: ***½, Ghobadi, Iranian
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