Cast: Brendan Fraser, Josh Hutcherson, Anita Briem, Seth Meyers, Garth Gilker, Giancarlo Galtabiano.
Rated: (for adventure action and some scary moments).
Reviewed by Dustin Putman, May 16, 2008.
A loose, modernized adaptation of the classic fantasy novel by Jules Verne, "Journey to the Center of the Earth" is being billed as the first live-action feature film to be specifically made in the Real-D format. Although a standard two-dimensional version will be playing in theaters without Real-D capabilities, prospective audiences shouldn't even begin to consider seeing the movie that way. Since 3-D is how it was always intended to be seen, 3-D is how it should be seen. Ultimately, though, it's not really worth seeing at all, its only notable aspect being that, in years to come, it will stand as nothing more than a once-groundbreaking curiosity that rapidly became archaic and cornball—sort of like "Lawnmower Man"-era virtual reality. Animated pictures in Real-D have been hugely impressive (i.e. 2007's "Meet the Robinsons"), but "Journey to the Center of the Earth" proves that live-action efforts still have a ways to go to perfect the style. Sure, it's a giant leap forward from the dopey, red-and-green-lensed cardboard glasses, but there's still not enough of a "wow" factor to make up for the story's and characters' inadequacies.
When science professor Trevor Anderson (Brendan Fraser) learns that his university researching funds have been stripped from him, he becomes all the more determined to prove correct his controversial hypotheses. His biggest chance at doing that stems from seismic readings he picks up in Iceland, which also happens to be where his explorer brother disappeared without a trace years earlier. With 13-year-old nephew Sean (Josh Hutcherson) in tow and native beauty Hannah (Anita Briem) leading the way as their tour guide, Trevor and company soon find themselves trapped in a cave that leads them to an entirely new world—not unlike the aforementioned Jules Verne novel, which is directly referenced—at the center of the earth.
Directed by visual effects supervisor Eric Brevig (making his helming debut), "Journey to the Center of the Earth" has a few nifty action sequences further benefited by 3-D, one involving a runaway mining cart and another revolving around Sean's attempt to make his way across floating magnetic rocks freely suspended hundreds of feet in the air. Take the 3-D gimmick away, and the movie is a wasteland populated by lackluster material. Deciding that the aesthetics are primary over all else, screenwriters Michael Weiss and partners Jennifer Flackett and Mark Levin (2008's "Nim's Island") have penned a dreadful script. For a high-concept project such as this, the plot is about as minimal as they come, the characters are developed by the barest of threads, and the dialogue (particularly Trevor's incessant one-liners in the second half) is painfully tacky.
Playing like "The Goonies" without the wit or resonance, the film skips from set-piece to set-piece as the characters vaguely react to the amazing sights they behold and hairy predicaments they must overcome. From an oceanic scene with attacking sea creatures and a cell phone that miraculously works, to dinosaur chases where the humans always are able to outrun a giant and hungry Tyrannosaurus, to faux-fanciful interludes with glowing birds and stunning vistas, the movie isn't lacking in action and all the other stuff expected in a family entertainment. There's also a would-be heart-tugging moment where Sean mourns the death of a father he hardly got to know, as well as a light romantic subplot between Trevor and Anita. The problem is, all of the above is strictly predictable, thin as a pencil, and lacking involvement. The viewer watches the film, but never actually connects to it.
Of the cast members, Brendan Fraser (2005's "Crash") has the most experience, but his two major co-stars outact him. As Sean, the formidably gifted Josh Hutcherson (2007's "Bridge to Terabithia") isn't always comfortable working in front of greenscreen, but he has that rare natural ability to come out of left field and hit notes of such emotional and humane truth that they scarcely belong in a film of this sort. He continues to be a major talent. And, as Hannah, relative newcomer Anita Briem is fetching and unaffected. That she, like her character, is Icelandic lends a layer of realism to a motion picture that is anything but realistic. Fraser, by comparison, is in random, bland action-hero mode as Trevor, and the unfunny dialogue he is forced to utter doesn't help matters.
Whether seen in 2-D or 3-D, "Journey to the Center of the Earth" doesn't resemble a theatrical studio release so much as it does a lame-but-diverting theme park attraction. Briskly paced but soulless where it counts, the film acts as empty spectacle that, when it all comes down to it, isn't particularly spectacular. Kids will be entertained to a point, but most adults will see right through director Eric Brevig's weak, IQ-deficient veneer. "Journey to the Center of the Earth" is akin to "'Jurassic Park' for Dummies."


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Ultrasonographic Assessment of Gastrointestinal Tract Disorders in a Pediatric Emergency: Iconografhic Essay and Literature Review
Keywords: Parasites, Inflammation, Hernia, Radiation safety, Ultrasound-Power Doppler, Ultrasound, Paediatric, Gastrointestinal tract, Emergency
Authors: R. M. Villas Bôas1, A. Frota Coelho1, É. Fortaleza Nascimento Chaves Pedrosa1, V. Lauanna Lima Silva1, A. Aldo Melo Filho1, G. D'Ippolito2, E. Lima da Rocha1; 1Fortaleza/BR, 2São Paulo/BR
DOI: 10.1594/ecr2018/C-2902
DOI-Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1594/ecr2018/C-2902
Fig. 2: Usual pattern of different intestinal segments, note the difference in layer...
Fig. 5: Crohn's disease in the active inflammatory phase. Segment of ileum with...
Fig. 7: Appendicitis. Cecal appendix showing diameter enlargement, intraluminal fluid...
Fig. 17: Intussusception. Doughnut or pseudo kidney sign: hypoechoic outer ring and a...
Fig. 22: Ascariasis.Patient with intestinal obstruction due to multiple ascaris. Cross...
To describe the normal ultrasonographic imaging features of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. To review the main inflammatory, infectious and obstructive disorders of the gastrointestinal tract in the context of a pediatric emergency. To illustrate the radiologic features of these conditions using ultrasonography (US). To provide tips to avoid potential diagnostic errors.
The abdominal pain is one of the most common complaints in the pediatric and neonatal emergency room. Early diagnosis is a key tool to properly manage these patients. The particularities of the images of the gastrointestinal tract and of the diseases common to the pediatric age group are usually a challenge to less experienced radiologists. The US is a tool widely used to assess the gastrointestinal tract in children. Its main advantages are the easy access and the radiation free...
NORMAL ANATOMY The Gastrointestinal tract including the stomach, small bowels and colon should be evaluated in all patients with acute abdomen. The stomach has a normal wall thickness around 4 to 6 mm and it is better evaluated in the antrum full filled with water [1].Whereas the pylorus has a normal transverse diameter between 0.7-1.1cm , the length of pyloric canal is 1.0-1.3 cm and the thickness of the circular muscle is too thin to measure [2]. Normal bowel loops have a stratified pattern...
The Advances in equipment technology and in ultrasonographic techniques allow the assessment of structures and their dynamic behavior that until recently were considered inaccessible to the method used, increasing the diagnostic possibilities to the detriment of the methods classically used. We can mention other advantages such as the availability and mobility of the ultrasound equipment, besides cost and the possibility of repeating the exam without any side effects. However, such advances...
Villas Bôas RM Department of Radiology, Clínica Boghos Boiadjian Coelho AF Department of Radiology, Hospital Antonio Prudente Pedrosa EFN Department of Radiology, Hospital Antonio Prudente Silva VLL Department of Radiology, Hospital Antonio Prudente Melo Filho AA Department of Surgery, Hospital Infantil Albert Sabin, Fortaleza/Brasil G D´Ippolito Department of Radiology, Escola Paulista de Medicina-UNIFESP Lima da Rocha E Department of Radiology, Hospital Infantil Albert Sabin,...
1. Sporea, Ioan, and Alina Popescu. "Ultrasound examination of the normal gastrointestinal tract." Medical ultrasonography 12.4 (2010): 349-352. 2. Fonio, Paolo, et al. "Ultrasonography (US) in the assessment of pediatric non traumatic gastrointestinal emergencies." Critical ultrasound journal 5.1 (2013): S12. 3. Darge, Kassa, et al. "Ultrasound of the bowel in children: how we do it." Pediatric radiology 40.4 (2010): 528-536. 4. Biko, David M., Daniel G. Rosenbaum, and Sudha A. Anupindi....
Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Paediatrics- A review of relevant gastro-intestinal imaging modalities
V. Dattani1, F. Din2, A. Quddus2, F. C. Adams2, J. Russell2, A. El-Shater Bosaily2, I. Beal2, J. Maclachlan2; 1Hampstead, Mi/UK, 2London/UK
Pediatric intussusception: review and imaging contribute
S. Amante, M. Chaves, R. Sousa, S. Dutra, D. Garrido, R. Amaral, R. M. A. Cruz; Ponta Delgada/PT
Uncommon causes of right lower quadrant abdominal pain in the emergency setting
A. G. Tucci1, C. Massimo2, B. Cusati1, M. Di Meo3, A. Ragozzino1; 1Napoli/IT, 2Naples/IT, 3Pozzuoli/IT
Management of fatty liver sparing as a finding on US – is the follow-up enough?
V. Milotic, T. Pranjkovic, V. Kos, I. Hrstic, D. Ikic, K. Klaric, L. PENEZIC, M. Poduje, I. Grgorinić; Pula/HR
When the rules are broken: atypical presentation of hepatocellular carcinomas - an illustrative guide
P. H. D. Silva1, F. Velloni1, H. R. F. Dalla Pria1, S. L. Haiek2, F. Tamamoto1, L. F. D. Silva1, R. A. Santiago1, U. S. Torres1, G. D'Ippolito1; 1São Paulo/BR, 2Sao Paulo /BR
A primer on non-malignant cholangiopathies: current concepts and multimodality imaging evaluation
H. R. F. Dalla Pria1, F. Velloni1, R. A. Santiago1, L. F. D. Silva1, M. S. Zacarias1, F. Tamamoto1, A. C. Von Atzingen2, U. S. Torres1, G. D'Ippolito1; 1São Paulo/BR, 2Pouso Alegre/BR
The Mesenteric Organ? - New concepts and a novel radiological perspective on its disease
H. R. F. Dalla Pria1, F. Velloni1, R. A. Santiago1, M. S. Zacarias1, L. F. D. Silva1, F. Tamamoto1, A. C. Von Atzingen2, U. S. Torres1, G. D'Ippolito1; 1São Paulo/BR, 2Pouso Alegre/BR
Influence of respiratory movements in Standardized Uptake Value (SUV) in PET-CT studies with F-18-FDG
D. Faria, J. Vale, C. Dias, L. Rodrigues, L. Ferreira, P. M. Martins; Aveiro/PT

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My New Year's wish for Canadian oil/gas: Time to ditch outdated politics
Tim McMillan, president and CEO, Canadian Assoc. of Petroleum Producers. Photo: CBC.
CAPP understands link between climate policies and pipelines. Other energy associations not so enlightened
My New Year's wish for the Canadian oil and gas industry is a spanky new political worldview that embraces the energy transition, and an effective communications program that finally – finally! – engages with the Canadian public.
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One of the enduring mysteries of Canadian politics is how the Alberta-based industry completely and utterly missed the changes in energy politics over the past decade. It's not that industry executives, association worker bees, and sycophantic boosters missed the decline in the popularity of oil and gas. Oh, they understand that pretty well.
They just don't understand why or what to do about it.
Industry executives and their Yes Men in the energy media continue to believe they can regain lost political legitimacy by "educating" Canadians about energy issues.
Their argument is that if voters knew more, they would be more supportive.
Give Canadians more information. Yell louder at them on social media. Create public relations campaigns to improve "energy literacy" (which, ironically, are mostly read by those who already support the industry).
The problem is, no evidence supports that view.
Polling data suggests Canadians know as much – or as little – about oil and gas production, the Alberta oil sands, and pipelines as they've ever known.
What has changed is that Canadians now know more about climate change and global warming, and the role fossil fuels play in releasing greenhouse gas emissions.
And that change in perception has influenced their view of the Canadian oil and gas sector, according to pollster David Coletto, whose firm Abacus Data surveyed 15,000 Canadians in Oct. about their attitudes to federal energy and climate change policy.
"Almost all Canadians recognize the importance of shifting our energy use to one that's cleaner, one that's more efficient, and doesn't produce greenhouse gases or carbon emissions," Coletto told me in an interview.
When Coletto says "almost all," he means 86 per cent of Canadians support the transition from fossil fuels to cleaner energy sources and only 14 per cent are opposed, according to the Oct. poll.
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When it comes to political support for the energy industry, Coletto says that historically about 40 per cent of Canadians were staunch defenders of oil and gas and 60 per cent were agnostic on the issue or more supportive of environmental concerns.
But those numbers changed over the past 10 years. Now, he says, energy only enjoys 30 to 33 per cent support, which is a tipping point in some provinces – like British Columbia and Ontario – when it comes to electing governments.
Those should be alarming numbers for the Canadian Association of Oilwell Drilling Contractors, the Petroleum Services Assoc. of Canada (service companies), Explorers and Producers Association of Canada (Little Oil's lobby group), and the other Alberta-based industry trade groups.
The message, however, seems not to have made much of an impact in the C-suites of downtown Calgary office towers, with one lonely exception: the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (Big Oil's chief lobby group).
I've been highly critical of CAPP in the past because a) its leaders were oblivious to the political changes taking place in Canada; b) its communications strategies and campaigns reflected the same tired old "energy literacy" approach to influencing public opinion.
During the past year, however, CAPP publicly supported the introduction of the Notley Government's Climate Leadership plan, which includes a carbon tax, oil sands emissions cap of 100 megatonnes, and a commitment to lower fugitive methane emissions by 40 per cent.
And two weeks ago CAPP issued a press release praising the Trudeau Liberals for their pipeline policy, noting that in an Ipsos poll it commissioned, far and away most voters were also in favour.
"A majority of Canadians agree the Government of Canada has taken a balanced approach to pipelines," said President and CEO Tim McMillan in the Dec. 15 release.
"Canadians want to see governments take action on climate change but Canadians also want their governments to take action to grow our economy. These decisions can balance both – and Canadians support these decisions."
A tip of the hat to McMillan. His comments stand in stark contrast to his colleagues in other energy associations. Under his leadership, Canadian Big Oil has taken several tentative steps out of the 1950s and toward 2016.
Mark Salkeld, president and CEO of PSAC.
The only other association that comes close is PSAC, which this fall voted to allow renewable energy service companies to apply for membership. CEO Mark Salkeld says his members – which include global service providers like Halliburton and Schlumberger – are slowly getting onside with renewable energy.
But that dawning awareness hasn't yet filtered through to PSAC's communications efforts.
Nor have they for CAPP.
Take the Energy Citizens initiative, launched last year. The website is just more of the same old pro-energy propaganda: Our industry is safe. Energy creates jobs. We're getting better at protecting the environment.
That's not news to Canadians. In fact, it's an embarrassingly low bar, the bare minimum Canadians expect every major industry to meet.
But linking climate policies to energy infrastructure projects is new. And voters, as revealed by both the Abacus poll and CAPP's own polling, are way ahead of industry this time.
My New Year's wish is that CAPP will set an example for other energy groups with at least one new major communications initiative explaining how oil and gas fits into the energy transition everyone agrees is already happening.
And as a postscript, that laggards like the drilling contractors and small producers take the hint and re-examine their own communications strategies and campaigns.
Canadian voters and the federal government have got it right. CAPP is slowly and ponderously headed in the right direction. Now it's time for the rest of the Canadian oil and gas industry to catch up.
Disclosures: 1) CAPP was an advertiser in Beacon News, the predecessor to North American Energy News; 2) I took a 6-week leave of absence from my duties as Beacon News publisher in 2014 to complete a communications writing contract for CAPP.


This morning one of my Pilates clients made a post-holiday remark I often hear: "Oh, I felt so stiff before the class! Now I am much better!" It reminded me that flexibility is one of those things we do not appreciate for its own sake, but we definitely notice its absence, or when we lack it. So, today's post is all about flexibility and stretching: How do you define flexibility; Guidelines for flexibility training; and How flexible can Pilates make you. And, as a free bonus: How to finally master the splits?
Why do you think many instructors report that flexibility is one of the most neglected aspects of fitness among their clients? Perhaps, because flexibility work often requires relative stillness and time, and in our modern society, there is constant dynamism and the desire to get things done quickly. People want to feel they are doing something and being active.
Yet, it's worth to find a balance between "doing" and "not doing" by setting aside some time for flexibility exercises. Do you really need to be flexible? If you keep thinking the answer would only be positive if you are going to participate in the Circus de Soleil, and you keep neglecting your all-round flexibility, you may not find you are soon even unable to touch your toes. Who is a good enough friend to cut your toenails for you?
The keynote here is that, on the one hand, there are always some areas in your body that could benefit from adding some flexibility (shoulders, lower back, hamstrings, neck, to name a few). On the other hand, you may also find that some specific stretch exercises may be a pretty welcome complement to your beloved practice, whether it is tennis, dancing, golf, running, or daydreaming!
Wikipedia defines flexibility as referring to the absolute range of movement in a joint, or series of joints, and length in muscles that cross the joints to induce a bending movement or motion.
Obviously, flexibility varies between individuals, not only in terms of differences in muscle length, multi-joint muscles and tissue injury, but also in terms of age, activity level, and gender. And though people usually believe they are old too increase their flexibility, the truth is, any one of any age can become more flexible with the proper techniques and willpower to commit to it.
More than that, stretching exercises are highly recommended for seniors to improve and maintain a good range of motion in the joints and to prevent injuries. After all, it is not how old you are, it is how flexible your spine is, and how well you are functioning.
So if you are inspired enough now to take your flexibility to the next level, please, take it very gently. No leaping ahead to advanced stretching routines; "slowly" and "carefully" are the watch words. Even when you are fortunate enough to already be rather flexible (due to your everyday classes, or just thanks to nature), be careful and patient.
It may seem odd, but you never know where your body is right now, and what its shape is. So start with the middle effort, and then proceed to your maximum effort on your way to the end of the exercises. For example, if you have six repetitions of The Neck Pull Pilates exercise, the range of motion should be increased little by little from the first to the last repetition.
We beg you not to neglect this patience issue because your muscles, once they have been overstretched, will remind themselves of it for a very long time.
Warm up and cool down before and after your stretching routine. It is always a good idea to work with warm muscles because they lengthen more easily this way. If you do cardio, you can do some light stretching before a workout, and dedicate 20-30 minutes to flexibility training after it.
Follow a correct breathing pattern. To assist in relaxation, exhale as the muscle lengthens. Try not to hold your breath throughout the stretch.
Don't overdo it. Proper stretching should never be painful or include bouncing. Slight muscle tension is all what we aim for.
Even if you want be flexible in some particular body part (for instance, you aim to do front splits and stretch your legs insanely), pay attention to each muscle group. Doing so invigorates your progress.
Keep in mind that our bodies need time to repair, so a proper work-rest regime is essential.
How Flexible Can Pilates Make You?
To keep it short, Pilates can give you the flexibility you need in daily life. For most of us, flexibility is needed to perform everyday activities with relative ease. Regular Pilates training will help you with that, and may even add some grace to your movement. Additionally, being flexible reduces the chance of experiencing occasional and chronic back pain. Sounds nice?
To get out of bed in the morning, to lift luggage when travelling, or reach that canned soup on the top shelf in the grocery store, we need certain level of flexibility. Without adequate flexibility, daily activities become more difficult to perform. With ageing, flexibility tends to decrease, and often a sedentary lifestyle and poor posture habits accelerate this process.
We all need more flexibility in our upper back and shoulder girdle, for example, because of our day-to-day work at computer desks. And you know, after you have been seated for a few hours in front of the PC screen, trying to deal with the deadline you've been set by your boss, and without any rest, well, it could be great for your promotion, but it is not so joyful for your back and your upper body.
The bad news is that our body and our bones will adjust to the stress applied. This means we may get used to that incorrect posture. The good news is that it is both treatable and preventable by easy to perform flexibility routines. Stretching exercises, Pilates in particular, when practiced regularly, help prevent this loss of mobility, while addressing all neglected muscle groups.
Oh, and one more note: improved flexibility may enhance performance in aerobic training and sports. That's why specialized programs such as Pilates for golf, Yoga for runners, and so on, are so popular.
Check out the next video for exercises for overall body flexibility both for beginners and advanced students.
Even if you are not a professional ballet dancer you might know that a split is a physical position in which the legs are in line with each other and extended in opposite directions. There are two general forms of splits; side splits (executed by extending the legs to the left and right of the torso), and front splits (executed by extending one leg forward, and the other leg to the rear, of the torso).
First, the splits is a position which is highly regarded as an indicator of flexibility. And it is far beyond that practical, daily flexibility everyone needs, which I described above.
Second, it might be necessary for advanced movements in martial arts, sports and dance, as well as if you're going for your Olympic limits.
Finally, it brings aesthetic value to the world and boosts your self-confidence, because it feels awesome and looks impossible!
Never attempt the splits without stretching. Stretch the upper body first, then back muscles, and only after that – leg muscles.
Warm up before stretching for the splits: jogging for five minutes or an active, fast walk for ten minutes would be great.
Wear adequate clothing (not jeans).
While you are stretching breathe in and out deeply. This will help you reach deeper into your stretch.
Try to make sure your knees are kept straight.
When finishing a stretch, come up slowly from the position. Joint capsules and ligaments may not return to their optimal length if they are overstretched because of their elasticity; therefore the risk of injury is increased during exercise. Do it little by little.
Ideally, lengthening the muscles should be done gradually and should involve a slow sustained posture. Fast or bouncing movements may result in a shortening of the muscle, because of reflex responses.
To release a muscle, the joint involved should not be taken to the end of its range of motion, and it should be completely supported. Be patient and careful!
Once you can do the splits, practice every day.
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Mini Intro about The Vampire Diaries Season 2: The vampire diaries is an American show with seven seasons. Its based on the novel written by same name by L.J. smith. It's second season has 22 episodes. Leads are played by Nina Dobrev, Paul Wesley and Ian Somerhalder. It has a huge cast. The best thing about the series is its storyline and wonderful chemistry between the actor. Whether it be love between Stefan and Elena or love-jealous-hatred between Salvatore brothers, or the friendship between Elena. You may also check out The Vampire Diaries Season 1 review.
What do I conclude after watching The Vampire Diaries Season (2010-2011)?
Here is the complete synopsis of 22 Episode of The Vampire Diaries Season 2 in my own way. So let's begin the Vampire Diaries season 2 review. Just like the first season, this one is also interesting. The first season ended with the return of Katherine. She tries to kill John Gilbert. Jeremy decides to kill himself and become a vampire after Anna's death. Elena arrives at home and saves both of them. Caroline gets injured and admitted to the hospital. Damon realizes after talking to Elena and Jenna that he kissed Katherine and she has returned to mystic falls.
Katherine also pays Stefan a visit. Salvatore brothers get worried about her intentions. Damon suggests that vampire blood can heal Caroline. Sheriff informs Damon that mayor Lockwood is dead. At mayor's funeral, Katherine shows up as Elena. Bonnie after touching her recognize and tries to attack but Katherine is stronger and doesn't get affected. Stefan arrives and starts to ask questions to Katherine about her plans. She doesn't answer any.
At the same day, Mason Lockwood arrives, who is the uncle of Tyler. Mrs. Lockwood tells Damon that Mason is not a part of the council. Katherine tells Stefan that she has returned for him because she loves him. Stefan tells her that she hates her and she compelled him to love her all those years ago. She stabs Stefan and says that this is not the end, it's the start. Elena tends Stefan as he heals. Damon being Damon starts teasing him and persuading him to fight reminding him about the kiss. Stefan says that he'll not fight him because they are brothers and they need to stick together. He also tells him that he cannot hate him for being in love with Elena after all those emotionless years.
At the Salvatore house, Damon is drinking and Katherine shows up. She tries to kiss him but he refuses. But then he does the same. Suddenly he breaks off and asks her one question and says that he'll forget these 145 years and start anew if she answers. But she tells him that she always has loved Stefan and leaves. Heartbroken and hurt Damon arrives at Gilbert house where Elena is astonished to see him. He is drunk and asks her about her feelings for him. She says see loves Stefan and always will. Angrily Damon wrings Jeremy's neck causing him to die. Elena starts to cry but is relieved to see the ring of John on Jeremy's hand. she is disappointed and angry at Damon.
Katherine arrives at hospital and bites Caroline. When Caroline wakes she thinks its a dream. She feels hungry and starves for blood. Giving in the temptation she drinks blood from blood bag and compels nurse to discharge her. At college, everything goes normally. Uncle Mason asks Tyler about moonstone. At the carnival, Damon threatens Jeremy. Stefan arrives and tells Damon about some arm wrestle challenge between Lockwood's. They arrive and Stefan is challenged. He fails and Damon's doubt about Mason being supernatural heightens. He compels a boy to mess with Mason to agitate and make him angry. Salvatore brothers watch as they fight and gets confirmed that mason is not normal.
The boy whose nose is broken sits outside as Caroline arrives. Due to temptation she kills him. Stefan, Damon, Elena watch the same and shocked to see Caroline as a vampire. Damon suggests to kill Caroline for avoiding the situation like Vicky but everyone disagrees. Bonnie blames Damon for all this and almost burn him but Elena saves him. Stefan helps Caroline for controlling the urge. Tyler finds the moonstone. Next day Alaric arrives at the Salvatore house and tells Damon, Elena and Stefan about Isobel's research on werewolves. Damon doesn't believes it and for further research he, Alaric and Elena head to duke university.
At the university, Isobel's co researcher Vanessa tends them but shoots a crossbow at Elena. She is saved by Damon. Later she helps them and tells them about the Aztec curse. According to which vampires are slaves to sun and werewolves to moon. She also informs that a werewolf bite can kill a vampire. Elena gets frustrated because of lack of information about Katherine but Damon asks her to be friends with him again and he will tell her. She refuses and asks him whether he knew about the ring on Jeremy's hand before killing him. He says no and Elena tells him that they cannot be friends anymore.
Elena informs Stefan about werewolves and how they shift at full moon and can kill a vampire. He goes in search of Caroline who bites Matt but makes him forget by compulsion. Mason in wolf form almost kills Caroline but is saved by Tyler. Later Tyler realizes that Mason is a werewolf. Matt breaks up Caroline because of her jealousy. Caroline wakes up with Katherine staring at her. Mason tells Tyler that the curse needs to be triggered for becoming a werewolf. They have to kill a human in his lifetime and the curse will be his.
Katherine makes Stefan dream about Elena and Damon together. Stefan again asks her reason for her return to town. She answers that she came for him. Stefan stabs Katherine with vervain and locks her up. She reveals that George Lockwood was a werewolf and helped her to escape in exchange of 27 vampires and the moonstone in 1864. She planned everything from the start. At Gilbert house, Damon makes Alaric invite Mason to see and confirm if he was a werewolf or not. In the kitchen Mason confronts Damon and says that he means no harm but later Damon tries to kill him but fails. Mason says that he has earned an enemy.
Next day at the volunteers day, Stefan apologies for Damon to Mason but he still seeks revenge from him. He tells sheriff that Damon and Stefan are vampires. She refuses to believe but he proves it by making Damon drink wolfs-bane. Sheriff arrests Damon and Stefan and tries to kill them but Caroline and Elena save them. Sheriff is shocked to see here daughter as a vampire. Stefan is injured badly. Elena offers him her blood. Liz doesn't accepts Caroline as her daughter. They lock her in a cellar. Jeremy tells Tyler about knowing of Lockwood's secret. Tyler tells him that he has given the moonstone to Mason.
Turns out that mason loves Katherine and believes that she does the same. Alaric finds out that the moonstone can break the Aztec curse. Bonnie touches Mason and gets a vision of him and Katherine kissing. She uses her power to know that Mason is looking for moonstone for Katherine as she has promised to remove the curse so that they can be together. Damon torches him and rips his heart out.
Stefan and Elena head towards the well where moonstone is kept. Stefan jumps in it without knowing that it is full of vervain. He gets injured and Elena jumps in too to save him and for the moonstone. Damon calls Katherine and informs her about death of Mason and moonstone. Later she threats Elena and persuades Jenna to save herself. Elena decides to stay away from Stefan for the sake of her family. With Mason gone, Katherine needs a werewolf and to trigger Tyler's curse. She persuades Matt to make Tyler kill him. However someone does get killed and Tyler's curse is triggered. Caroline witnesses everything.
Stefan and Damon along with Jeremy, Bonnie and Alaric make a plan to kill Katherine at the masquerade party. Katherine also comes with a witch Lucy who later support the Salvatores. At the end Katherine is captive and is locked at the tomb. She tells them that Elena is the doppelganger and needs to be protected. Meanwhile Elena is kidnapped. Elena is kidnapped by Trevor and his loyal friend Rose so that they can give her to Elijah, one of the originals.
Salvatore brothers realize that Elena is kidnapped and Bonnie helps them to locate her. Damon and Stefan go in search for her. Meantime Elijah arrives and is shocked to see a doppelganger that too human. He spares the life of Rose but kills Trevor for his treachery. Damon stabs Elijah in heart and saves Elena. Rose warn Salvatores that Klaus is after Elena. Later Damon professes his love to Elena but also makes her forget by compulsion. Elijah revives and removes the stake. Further Katherine's past in 1400s is shown. She gives birth to a girl but her father takes away the baby as it is illegitimate.. She cries hysterically for the baby. At present, Jeremy and Bonnie hang around more. Bonnie meets a new guy luka. She gets to know that Luka and his father are male witches.
Elena and Caroline go to visit Katherine. Elena provides her blood and she tells her how she was chased by Klaus. Trevor and Rose helped her but she still chose to become a vampire and is still running away from him after 500 years. She tells her that Klaus gets what he wants and there is nothing stopping him. Damon and Rose visit Slater at a bar. Elijah breaks the glass walls of the bar by coins and Rose gets frightened and burnt. Originals can also use compulsion on other vampires. Elijah uses compulsion on Slater and makes him call Rose to tell that in order to save Elena they need moonstone and a witch and then makes him kill himself. Damon and Stefan plan to get the moonstone back from Katherine.
Bonnie lifts the spell for a fraction of time but Stefan gets stuck in with Katherine. Elena and Rose reach Slater's house and see that he is dead. She decides to surrender herself for protecting others from Klaus. Damon forbids her and in the meanwhile vampires cone to take Elena away. Elijah saves them. Damon gets confused on how can he be alive after he killed him. Later Elijah says to Luka's father that he saved Damon because he can keep Elena safe and that's what he wants.
Tyler is still unaware of Mason's death. Caroline tells him that she's a vampire and helps to cope up with his first transformation. He tries to contact Mason and a woman hears the message. Tyler's first transformation is painful but Caroline keeps him in check. Jules the werewolf arrives at mystic falls calls someone to tell about Tyler. Later she goes to the bar and Damon and Alaric start pestering her. She warns Damon that it is a full moon night. At home, Jules in wolf form tries to attack Damon but accidentally bits Rose.
Elijah arrives at Gilbert house and tells Elena that he can protect her friends and family but she will do as he says. He clarifies that he is not after moonstone but something else. Elena agrees. Elijah helps Stefan to get out of the tomb as promised to Elena. Stefan says that they should contact Isobel. Later Rose's health deteriorates and she loses her mind. Damon has to kill her. Jules meet Tyler and tells him that vampires are enemies. She informs him that Caroline is lying to him. Damon feels guilty for death of rose.
Caroline is kidnapped by the wolves and Salvatores come to her rescue. But they all are saved by Jonas who is sent by Elijah to protect Elena's friends. Caroline is hurt by Tyler because he doesn't saves her. It is also revealed that John is still working with Isabel to get Katherine out of the tomb. John asks Alaric for his ring back. Damon and Stefan are attacked by wolves but Elijah save them. Tyler decides to leave with Jules. Bonnie uses her power to get into Luka's head and tell Damon about Elijah's actual plan. Elena already knew it all.
Damon plans a dinner party with Elijah and others. He plans to kill him by the special dagger given by John. At the 11th hour, they get to know that a vampire who kills an original dies himself. Alaric stabs him and lock Elijah in a cellar. But he didn't knew that the dagger must remain in its place. Till then it was too late. Elena stabs Elijah afterwards. Katherine is released because of Elijah's death. She says that she wants to help them. Jonas takes away Bonnie's powers. Stefan reveals his past as a ripper and how Lexi helped him.
After knowing that Elijah's dead the male witches try to unstab him. But Katherine realizes it. In the process Luka dies. Raged Jonas comes to kill Elena but dies. He gives Bonnie her powers back. Caroline declares her love for Matt. Isobel arrives unexpectedly and kidnaps Alaric and Katherine. Later it is revealed that she was compelled by Nicklaus. She burns herself in front of Elena after apologizing. Damon brings Bonnie and Jeremy to the spot where witches were killed. Bonnie asks for their powers and succeed. When Katherine awakes she gets to know that Alaric's body is now possessed by Klaus.
Matt knows about vampire and tell sheriff about them. She asks him to play along with Caroline. At the dance, Klaus kills Bonnie and leaves Ric's body. Later Damon informs that Bonnie is alive and they made Klaus think that she's dead. Elena puts out the dagger off the chest of Elijah. She again allies Elijah. He reveals that they both are brothers. Klaus killed the whole family. Aztec curse is a myth. The curse is just on Klaus as he is a hybrid. After removal of the curse he'll become invincible.
At the Dooms day, Tyler and Caroline are kidnapped by Klaus for the ritual. However Damon and Matt save them. In the process of shifting, Tyler bites Damon. But Klaus has a backup werewolf-Jules, vampire Jenna and witch Jonas daughter. At the ritual everyone is killed but Elena survives because of Bonnie. Curse gets removed but just as Elijah was going to kill Klaus, he promises him to reunite with his family. Later everyone pay obituary to Jenna. Stefan comes to Klaus for any solution of a werewolf bite which is his blood itself. Klaus asks him to become a ripper and leave the city with him. Stefan agrees for the life of his brother. Later Katherine arrives with Klaus's blood to heal Damon and informs them that Stefan is not coming back. Stefan kills humans at the order of Klaus….(Here's is the end of the complete summary of the "The Vampire Diaries Season 2".
I thought season 2 was epic. I watch this show for two reasons; the characters and the story and watching all the side stories culminate into an incredible plot and all the characters change and grow in really interesting ways was really fun for me. I'm not a fan of the bull crap sun and moon curse revelation or the whole hybrid thing (way too underworld for my taste) but it was still epic.


Restaurants and food spots that offer the taste of Bacolod City.
Emotional support animals are not just regular pets. They have a very important role to play in the lives of those who are diagnosed with mental health disorders.


Dominated by Burrow Mump, a natural hill topped by a ruined uncompleted church, the Somerset Levels are one of the most important inland wetlands in Britain if not the world. The area plays host to a diverse range of wading birds and wildfowl and is home to the RSPB reserve near Fivehead and the newly opened reserve at Greinton, just 1 mile up the road. Visit the Willows and Wetlands Centre at Stoke St Gregory and learn about the cultivation of 'withies' and the traditional industry of weaving and hurdle making.
Is nestled between the Blackdown, Quantock and Brendan Hills and the landscape is that of rich agricultural land, patchwork fields interspersed with soaring church towers, woodlands, orchards and traditional villages offering the best of Somerset welcomes. The 45 mile West Deane Walk takes in the delights of the vale at its best.


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<#
    .SYNOPSIS
    Gets a cardholders account.

    .DESCRIPTION
    Gets all cardholder accounts or a single cardholders account if a cardholder id is specified.

    If the result returns null, try the parameter "-Verbose" to get more details.

    .EXAMPLE

    .LINK
    https://github.com/erwindevreugd/PSDataConduIT

    .EXTERNALHELP PSDataConduIT-help.xml
#>
function Get-CardholderAccount {
    [CmdletBinding()]
    param
    (
        [Parameter(
            Position = 0,
            Mandatory = $false,
            ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName = $true,
            HelpMessage = 'The name of the server where the DataConduIT service is running or localhost.')]
        [string]
        $Server = $Script:Server,

        [Parameter(
            Position = 1,
            Mandatory = $false,
            ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName = $true,
            HelpMessage = 'The credentials used to authenticate the user to the DataConduIT service.')]
        [PSCredential]
        $Credential = $Script:Credential,

        [Parameter(
            Mandatory = $false,
            ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName = $true,
            HelpMessage = 'The id of the cardholder for which to get the account.')]
        [int]
        $CardholderID
    )

    process {
        $parameters = @{
            Server   = $Server;
            PersonID = $CardholderID
        }

        if ($Credential -ne $null) {
            $parameters.Add("Credential", $Credential)
        }

        Get-Account @parameters
    }
}

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Entrepreneur Podcast Takes Deep Dive Into Scripps CEO's Book
Chris Van Gorder explains why he wrote "The Front-line Leader: Building a High Performance Organization from the Ground Up"
Scripps Health President and CEO Chris Van Gorder recently talked with The Entrepreneurs Library podcast about the inspiration behind his new book, "The Front-line Leader," and what leaders in all types of organizations can learn from it.
"You have to balance your caring for your people with strict accountability," Van Gorder told podcast host Wade Danielson. "If you don't hold people accountable you're not going to be successful as an organization, and if you're not successful as an organization you won't be able to care for your people."
The book on effective leadership is now available in bookstores and online.
Van Gorder will donate all sales from the book back to Scripps Health, which is a non-profit health system.
Listen to The Entrepreneurs Library podcast: A Look Inside "The Front-line Leader" with Chris Van Gorder


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CALLIGARIS was founded in Manzano, Italy by Antonio Calligaris. What began as a single chair design in 1923 has expanded to more than 800 catalogue products sold in 100 countries across the world. Calligaris furniture emphasizes the Italian design philosophy that products should not only be beautiful and artistically crafted, but also functional, ergonomic and designed to simplify everyday life. While creativity and technical know-how are crucial, the selection of raw materials is equally important. Calligaris works with leading companies to develop innovative materials that ensure comfort, aesthetics and unique colors.


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Justice Systems
Clone of Man beheaded and crucified in Saudi Arabia
1 June 2009, 00:00 UTC
An "horrific" public execution and crucifixion of a man in Saudi Arabia has been condemned by Amnesty International. Ahmed bin 'Adhaib bin 'Askar al-shamlani al-'Anzi was beheaded and his body crucified in a public place in Riyadh on Friday. He had been sentenced for the alleged abduction and murder of a father and son. He was also punished for previous offences of Luwat (homosexual intercourse), possession of sexually explicit materials and for raising a gun against security forces seeking to arrest him. "It is horrific that beheading and crucifixions still happen," said Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, Deputy Programme Director of Amnesty International's Middle East and North Africa programme. "King Abdullah should show true leadership and commute all death sentences if Saudi Arabia is to have any role to play as a global leader or member of the G20." Trial proceedings in Saudi Arabia fall way short of international fair trial standards. They usually take place behind closed doors without adequate legal representation. Convictions are often made on the basis of "confessions" obtained under duress, including torture or other ill-treatment during incommunicado detention. Those who are sentenced to death are often not informed of the progress of legal proceedings against them or of the date of execution until the morning they are taken out and beheaded. Saudi Arabia continues to defy the UN General Assembly resolution adopted in 2007 and 2008 calling for a moratorium on executions. Amnesty International recorded a total of 102 executions in Saudi Arabia in 2008. Due to the strict secrecy of the criminal justice system in Saudi Arabia, it is not possible to know how many have been sentenced to death, but Amnesty International is aware of at least 136 individuals currently believed to be awaiting execution.
Saudi Arabia: 10 things you need to know about a kingdom of cruelty
Romania: Written observations submitted to the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Muhammad & Muhammad v Romania


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Select your Fabrik cover, top plate and stand to personalise your speakers. With so many colours and textiles to choose from, and designer collections like Timorous Beasties, there's a look to complement any interior.
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Enjoy all the musicality and finesse of an integrated Linn speaker packed with technology, in our most compact design yet. Designed to be personalised for you and your home, the size and styling are subtle but the performance will stand out.


text:
from __future__ import absolute_import
from __future__ import division
from __future__ import print_function
from __future__ import unicode_literals

from shell_quoting import ShellQuoted

def fbcode_builder_spec(builder):
    # This API should change rarely, so build the latest tag instead of master.
    builder.add_option(
        "facebook/zstd:git_hash",
        ShellQuoted("$(git describe --abbrev=0 --tags origin/master)"),
    )
    return {
        "steps": [
            builder.github_project_workdir("facebook/zstd", "."),
            builder.step(
                "Build and install zstd",
                [
                    builder.make_and_install(
                        make_vars={
                            "PREFIX": builder.option("prefix"),
                        }
                    )
                ],
            ),
        ],
    }


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  $ = RSpine.$;

  Model = RSpine.Model;

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    headers = {
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    if (RSpine.token) {
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    Base.prototype.ajaxQueue = function(params, defaults, record) {
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        type: 'GET',
        url: Model.salesforceHost + "/api?path=" + options.endpoint
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    Collection.prototype.recordsResponse = function(data, status, xhr) {
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    Collection.prototype.failResponse = function(xhr, statusText, error) {
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      return this.model.trigger('ajaxError', null, xhr, statusText, error);
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    function Singleton(record) {
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      this.recordResponse = __bind(this.recordResponse, this);
      this.model = this.record.constructor;
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        options = {};
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      return this.ajaxQueue(params, {
        type: 'GET',
        url: options.url
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    Singleton.prototype.create = function(params, options) {
      if (options == null) {
        options = {};
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      return this.ajaxQueue(params, {
        type: 'POST',
        contentType: 'application/json',
        data: this.record.toJSON(),
        url: options.url || Ajax.getCollectionURL(this.record)
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        contentType: 'application/json',
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  Include = {
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    url: function() {
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    url: function() {
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NEWARK, N.J. (AP) New Jersey Devils forward Mike Cammalleri is not going to play again this season.
Coach John Hynes announced Tuesday that Cammalleri is not going to be able to play because of an injury to his right hand and wrist. He has not played since Jan. 26.
Hynes refused to disclose the exact nature of the injury, but said Cammalleri would not need surgery.
Cammalleri had 14 goals and 24 assists in 42 games.
Goaltender Cory Schneider practiced on Tuesday for the first time since spraining a knee earlier this month. There is a chance he may be able to play this weekend, Hynes said.


Philadelphia, Pa. : Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 1988.
vi, 189 págs. : ilustraciones ; 25 cm.
"A compilation of the material ... presented at the Regional Conference on Theory and Applications of Multivariate Splines held at Howard University in Washington, D.C., ... August 10-14, 1987"—Pref.


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In many ways, the story of Reedsport is a microcosm of the story of Oregon. Since the mid-1800s, the town has seen economic booms driven by abundant natural resources and has endured long periods of bust as those resources dwindled and priorities changed. Reedsport has both flourished and floundered. The town is about two miles up the Umpqua River from Gardiner, south across the Reedsport Bridge near the mouth of the Umpqua River. Beginning in 1852, homesteaders resettled the area around what would become Reedsport, but the town was not platted and named until about 1900. The post office was established in 1912 and the town was incorporated in 1919.
Long before white settlers arrived in the early 1850s, the region was the homeland of the Siuslaw-speaking people who fished the salmon runs on coastal rivers and built plankhouses from local cedar. In 1861, as an increasing number of whites settled on the south coast, the U.S. Army removed the Siuslawans and Lower Umpquas to the Alsea Subagency. Many tribal members returned to the Reedsport area after 1876, and by 1916 the Lower Umpqua, Coos, and Siuslaw tribes had established a confederated government. Although the tribes opposed termination, they were part of the Western Oregon Termination Act of 1954. The Confederated Tribes of the Lower Umpqua, Coos, and Siuslaw was re-recognized in 1984; tribal headquarters is in Coos Bay, about thirty miles south of Reedsport.
The Umpqua is the second largest river (after the Klamath) between the Sacramento and the Columbia Rivers. Because the river is easily navigable and its mouth is not difficult to cross, the location was a good choice for settlement. The first ship to attempt to cross from the ocean into the Umpqua River was the Bostonian, which arrived on October 1, 1850, with a captain and crew seeking trading opportunities. The ship foundered and was wrecked, but no lives were lost and most of the cargo was saved. Just ten days later, the Kate Heath, a ship carrying members of the Klamath Exploring Expedition who intended to build a settlement on the river, successfully made the crossing. The crew of the Bostonian would establish the town of Gardiner nine miles upriver, while the Kate Heath sailed to the head of the tidewater where its passengers helped establish Scottsburg.
Warren Reed, a local landowner and businessman, led efforts to build a town between the Umpqua River and the Rainbow Slough, where the Elmore Packing Co. had built a fish cannery in 1910. He named the town Reedsport for his uncle Alfred W. Reed, a prominent early settler of Gardiner.
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, commercial fishing operations netted huge numbers of salmon from the Umpqua River, which workers processed and canned on the Reedsport waterfront. Ships sailed upriver to Reedsport and took on the canned salmon for export. The waterfront docks and fish-processing plants were built on stilts and pilings over a marshy tidal flat. The area was filled in by 1927 and now makes up much of downtown Reedsport.
Eventually, the "green gold" of the Coast Range forests became the driving force of the Reedsport economy. In 1912, the arrival of the Southern Pacific Railroad brought about an explosion of logging activity on the lower Umpqua. Several mills were built near the town, and huge log rafts crowded into the river along the waterfront. By the 1950s, logging dominated the local economy. While fishing and farming provided important opportunities, timber fallers, choker setters, equipment operators, truck drivers, and millwrights put the bread on Reedsport tables. During those years, the Lower Umpqua also experienced the beginnings of a recreation-based tourist industry, which remains vital today.
Two events during the 1960s had a lasting impact on the Reedsport community. In 1963, International Paper opened its Gardiner paper mill, which became one of the largest employers on the Oregon coast, with a workforce reaching more than seven hundred. By 1990, nearly 4,900 people lived in Reedsport. The mill was shuttered in 1999, and the area's economy is still recovering from the loss. By 2015, the population of Reedsport had declined to 4,100. The second event was the Christmas Flood of 1964, which inundated downtown Reedsport—and most other coastal towns—and damaged almost every building. In 1968, the Army Corps of Engineers encircled the part of town that had flooded with a levy system.
Congress created the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area, with its headquarters in Reedsport, in 1972. The dunes attract thousands of tourists each month, and the recreation industry has become the most important component of the region's economy. ATV riders, fishermen, crabbers, and campers visit the area year-round, and more than ten thousand people attend the DuneFest each summer. Reedsport hosts the Oregon Divisional Chainsaw Carving Championships each June, attracting carvers from all over the world, and vintage car owners and thousands of enthusiasts attend Kool Coastal Nights in the fall.
Aerial photo of Reedsport, 1942
Courtesy Oregon Hist. Soc. Research Lib., 006319
Keith Tymchuk
Beckham, Stephen Dow. Land of the Umpqua: A History of Douglas County, Oregon. Roseburg: Douglas County Commissioners, 1986.
Douthit, Nathan. Uncertain Encounters: Indians and Whites at Peace and War in Southern Oregon, 1820s-1860s. Corvallis: OSU Press, 2002.
Alsea Subagency of Siletz Reservation
In September 1859, Joel Palmer, the Superintendent of Indian Affairs for Oregon, established the Alsea Subagency on the Coast Reservation to manage Indians who lived between Coos Bay and the Alsea River. The federal government managed reservation lands through a series of agencies and subagencies, where federal Indian Agents administered ...
The Coos Bay estuary is a semi-enclosed, elongated series of sloughs and tidewater streams that drains approximately 825 square miles of southern Oregon's rugged Coast Range. For much of its history since the 1850s, the area has been notable for the huge volume of lumber shipped to world markets ...
Umpqua River
The Umpqua River, approximately 111 miles long, is a principal river of the Oregon coast, draining an expansive network of valleys in the mountains on the western slopes of the Cascade Range. The river, whose entire length is in Douglas County, is formed by the confluence of the North Umpqua ...
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The luxury of ocean view.
The fresh seasonal sea creatures such as "sea orchin" or "oyster" is kept alive in water tank.
The seasonal materials will be taken out right before your eyes.
For the best of taste, please have those fresh ingredients when they were just broiled under charcoal fire.
Viewing the red-dyed ocean by the sunset from bath.
Ships are coming and going, somehow this is completely relaxable.


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Latinidad in the Age of Trump: On Ricardo Ortiz's "Latinx Literature Now"
By Renee Hudson
IT'S A STRANGE TIME to be Latinx and, especially, a scholar of Latinx Studies. While the Trump administration imagines and enacts a comprehensive program against Latinx (and especially Central American) bodies, there's the continued attempt by Latinx scholars to theorize what latinidad is and what it means. In fact, we might even say that the terrors of the Trump presidency have pushed theories of latinidad into a crisis. The surveillance and detention centers at the United States Southern border have exacerbated a tension latent in the concept: that it foregrounds Mexican American experiences. Like the US Border Patrol's "Other Than Mexican" (OTM) phrasing, latinidad conceives of entire populations and peoples in relation to Mexican immigrants first and foremost. This homogenizing tendency extends into considerations of how latinidad is raced: is it capacious enough to account for the racial heterogeneity of people of Latin American descent? Or does it erase Black and Indigenous Latinxs by assuming whiteness? As Cristina Beltrán has demonstrated, the idea of a unified Latinx identity assumes a "sociohistorical process whereby various Latin American national-origin groups are understood as sharing a sense of collective identity and cultural consciousness" despite differences in race, religion, and class (among other identitarian categories).
While such critiques of latinidad can seem to lead to a return to cultural nationalist forms of identification, as exemplified by the Chicano movement, they also point to the potential and possibility of a latinidad that can account for and incorporate such critiques, while also offering a more inclusive framework for what it means to identify as Latinx. Ricardo L. Ortiz's Latinx Literature Now: Between Evanescence and Event offers just such a vision, as he draws upon (and calls into being) the speculative futures of Latinx scholarship. He begins his book by highlighting the strange relationship between Latinx scholarship and its historicization — how it has happened, will happen, and is still happening. He writes:
This essay offers itself as an opportunity to reflect on […] how some rough concatenation of US Latinx literary production, and a corresponding concatenation of US Latinx literary studies, might be said to have done (and to continue to be doing) whatever work defines them in their respective spaces and modes of practice.
Through words like "rough" and "whatever," Ortiz underscores the unknowability of Latinx literary production and Latinx literary studies. But these qualifiers do not necessarily reflect a critique of the field or the literature it examines; rather, they demonstrate and enact other sites of possibility for both. Through such rhetorical gestures, Ortiz points to the future project of latinidad as one in which definitions are fluid and in flux, including that of literature itself, which he argues "mim[es] extra-literary discourses, like history or philosophy or criticism or theory, in order to enact that self-naming, that claim to self-knowledge."
Drawing upon the work of José Esteban Muñoz, Ortiz argues for an analogous relationship between latinidad and queerness to think about how latinidad emerges "as desire, as wish, and as project: that is, as a not-yet-realized occasion for the production of resources for survival and cultivation." In creating such a parallel between latinidad and queerness, Ortiz highlights the utopian possibilities for latinidad. With this framing, Ortiz moves beyond the "prison house" of the present, as Muñoz describes it, to imagine the future perfect of latinidad. He projects a future site of knowing — a future perfect when Latinx Studies, and Latinxs themselves, will know what Latinx literature and latinidad was. In pointing to the "still-just happening, or not-yet happening, or about-to happen," Ortiz suggests the unique position of Latinx Studies within Ethnic Studies as the former operates within the realm of the speculative, the site of future possibilities.
Such moves characterize his book, which frequently turns to the conditional to imagine what Latinx scholarship could look like. For example, at the end of his third chapter, on Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies and In the Name of Salomé, he writes, "A more extensive version of this discussion might have turned next to Alvarez's parallel narration of Salomé's daughter Camila's life story," and, "Such extended work could also revisit the question of the archive." These and other uses of the conditional demonstrate how Ortiz resists a singular narrative of latinidad. Instead, he offers multiple conceptualizations that open up Latinx literature and literary study and, more importantly, cue us in to a latinidad that we can use. Our current political moment may be characterized by fear and disbelief as Latinx futures appear to be foreclosed and negated, but Ortiz presents a theory of latinidad that offers hope by opening up new horizons of study.
Indeed, Latinx Literature Now posits imaginative sites of inquiry for theorizing latinidad that are far from mainstream practices, such as joining together Area and Ethnic Studies by incorporating Latin Americanist critics like John Beverley to theorize Latinx literature. Ortiz also argues for the inclusion of Edwidge Danticat as a Latinx author. The latter is an especially useful intervention as it highlights the shared histories of colonization between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Further, his project foregrounds blackness in latinidad, rather than reinforcing its complicity in white supremacy and the continued prevalence of the idea of mejorar la raza — to better the race by marrying lighter-skinned people. Incorporating Haiti and the Caribbean beyond the Spanish Caribbean operates against such racial logics and instead highlights shared histories of colonization, occupation, and resistance. Latinx Literature Now is thus uniquely suited for thinking latinidad in the age of Trump. Where Trump homogenizes Latinxs, Ortiz expands definitions.
Ortiz further complicates notions of latinidad by theorizing "always-already" Latinxs as those who are already enmeshed with the US because of mixed-status families and/or the need to flee their home countries because of US exports like the MS-13 and the 18th Street gangs. The always-already Latinx formation offers a view of latinidad that is not reliant on static conceptions of identity but focuses instead on transnational historical and political processes that entangle Latin American countries with the US — from the fear of communism to the United Fruit Company to the drug trade. In this way, the always-already Latinx framework looks backward to examine such histories and how they have influenced contemporary understandings of latinidad. Such work builds on Kirsten Silva Gruesz's idea of errancy and Robert McKee Irwin's notion of the "almost Latino." Gruesz offers a way to rethink immigration such that we "would stop caring about whether the migrant has intention or not, whether he ultimately takes root or moves to another place. It would take him in no matter what." Irwin's formulation, meanwhile, considers how the "almost Latino" describes "one whose process of becoming Latino is thwarted," leading to "truncated, disrupted, obstructed Latinidades." Thus, while Gruesz and Irwin focus on latinidad as errant and truncated on the way to the US, Ortiz gestures outside of the US to further highlight how US economic and political interventions have led to entanglements with US-based latinidad even if one is not within the US.
Latinx Literature Now is a particularly timely piece of literary criticism, not only because of our current political moment, but because of the increasing institutionalization of Latinx Studies. Colleges and universities are dedicating resources to departments, programs, and centers and continue to hire tenure-line faculty within the field, but as Lorgia García Peña's recent tenure denial at Harvard demonstrates, Latinx Studies as a valued and viable area of study is still far from secure. In fact, what García Peña's tenure denial and others like hers illuminates is that even during the Trump presidency, when Latinxs are being caged and killed, institutions of higher education still do not see the value of Latinx lives, much less literature and culture. In this way, one of Ortiz's major accomplishments in Latinx Literature Now is to demonstrate how Latinx literature is a literature of survival, despite active and ongoing state violence in places as varied as Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and, well, the United States.
Ultimately, Ortiz reveals that because Latinx Studies as a field is still in flux, it is up to those of us writing and living in the "now" to create Latinx imaginaries that include "rough concatenation[s]" and "whatever" to reach for the utopian. A series of provocations, Latinx Literature Now suggests frameworks that can account for a diverse range of Latinx authors who are publishing in the "now," from Myriam Gurba, Carmen Maria Machado, and Valeria Luiselli to Daniel José Older, Lilliam Rivera, and Adam Silvera. Rather than hypostatizing Latinx literature, Ortiz encourages us to embrace the realm of the speculative in our conceptions of latinidad so that we don't falsely adhere to the idea of a unity that doesn't exist but, instead, turn to shared histories, affinities, and dreams while also creating a future for a latinidad that does not yet exist.
Renee Hudson is an assistant professor of Latinx literature in the English department and an affiliated faculty member in the Latino Studies Program at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Latinx Literature Now
Between Evanescence and Event
By Ricardo L. Ortiz
The Ghosts That Have Always Been Here: Queer Abuse in Carmen Maria Machado's "In the Dream House"
By Rosa Boshier
Sunrise Over Maafa: On Edwidge Danticat's "Everything Inside: Stories"
By Joanie Conwell
Jennine Capó Crucet and Post-Trump Latinx Literature
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Beyond People's History: On Paul Ortiz's "African American and Latinx History of the United States"
By Samantha Schuyler


I had a hunch when the itinerary said I'd be in a wine cellar at 9am the following day that this was going to be good. I had no idea. Welcome to Moldova.
Iubesc Moldova – I love Moldova. Why write it in a guidebook when you can put it on a wall?
I'll be honest – I had no idea what a Moldova was. A sweet dessert? An astronomical event? A fine hat worn by the likes of Humphrey Bogart? The truth is, when the opportunity for the trip came up, I said "Yes, of course, I'd love to!" and then quickly talked to my dear friend Google. "What is Moldova?" I asked.
Parts of Moldova are accessed by time machine.
And it's easy to find the facts and figures about Moldova. Google told me all about how it's a wee country snuggled between Ukraine and Romania, that it's a former member of the U.S.S.R, that it's on the path to joining the European Union. There's talk of borders, uneasy relations with Russia, stories of the struggle for independence.
Cricova – an absolute must-see. The little town of Cricova needed limestone to build their homes, and nearby capital city, Chisinau. So, they started to dig. And dig, and dig. Soon, they had 80km of underground tunnels. Dark, damp, and cool. Then one day, a genius (or possibly a miner with a bottle of wine in his lunchbox) made the brilliant connection – wine likes dark, damp and cool spaces. And voila – a huge, underground wine cellar was born, home to wines from all over the world, some bottles are over 100 years old. They make tasty wine too, keeping over 500 hectares of their own vineyards. Step into one of their gorgeous tasting rooms for a sample, or six.
Roaming the underground streets of Cricova.
Here's the fun part – the wine cellar is actually a series of underground streets. Hop on their trolley, descend 280 feet underground, and take a tour along streets named after wine – Strada Sauvignon or Strada Cabernet, neighbourhoods of merlot, pinot. It's a labyrinth and I can't imagine a more exceptional place to get lost. I tried really hard, but they kept finding me.
Purcari – A picturesque estate with cellars dating back to 1827, swans roam the grounds, and when you've had 9 glasses of wine for dinner, you even feel compelled to try and pick up one of the peacocks that linger on the balcony. The peacocks apparently don't like this. The property is gorgeous, and the wines are certainly worth having the nine-glass headache the next day. And, Queen Elizabeth digs this stuff, apparently she regularly orders the 1990 vintage. I hope she doesn't have any peacocks.
Chateau Vartely – looking for a romantic weekend away? This is just the spot. Heck, I'd go back solo just for the mushroom soup. The Vartely Winery,located 45km from Chisinau and built on an old stone quarry, offers the perfect weekend escape. With three luxurious chateaus and 12 apartments, each a showcasing traditional Moldovan architecture, this estate combines hospitality, gourmet dining, and an endless supply of wine.
How's a girl to choose? A night in each please?
While this is an average sized winery by Moldovan standards, it has a capacity to process 5000 tons of grapes per year, about 95% of the wines here are sent abroad, from the USA to Japan. After a tour of the facilities, our group indulged in a phenomenal meal. We waddled out of there like sleepy children with full, happy tummies.
I sampled a million wines in Moldova. A bottle from Vartely came home with me.
And a random backyard press – one of my favourite wine encounters was this contraption. It speaks volumes about Moldova – something that appears rustic, old world, and a little simple offers unexpected thrills. It's easy – grapes go in the top, tasty wine and 100 fruit flies come out of the bottom. I don't need to know how it all works, I'm happy to just drink it all up.
I must must must get one of these for my backyard. Grapes in, wine out.
Of course, Moldova is so much more than delicious wine. Stay tuned for part two where I'll tell you stories about slipping back to the USSR, churches and monasteries that will leave you gobsmacked, and villages and people full of charm. And the food – I'm still trying to work off the 74 pounds I gained in one short week. Three cheers for stretchy pants!
Some notes: A huge thank you to USAID's Competitiveness Enhancement and Enterprise Development ll who kindly sponsored this familiarization tour. There's lots more to learn about Moldova Tourism, here's a good place to start. The opinions, and hangovers, are entirely mine.
I'm so glad you've enjoyed the article – I'm grateful for the time I was able to spend in Moldova, it was a wonderful discovery! I hope more tourists come your way and discover for themselves the beauty, delicious food and kind people of Moldova, it's a hidden gem!
On my fifth trip to Moldova I decided to stay. It was a simple decision; I found a precious gem and we will be married soon. Come to Moldova and be prepared to change your home address.


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Aldo Nova – 2.0
In the early eighties Margaret Thatcher turned the U.K. upside down and got every Brittish rocker upset, as she closed coal mines that hadn't been profitable for decades. On the other side of the Atlantic a B-actor baptised as Ronald Reagan moved into the White House. Things could not be worse many said.
In the very same era Aldo Nova's LP "Subject" touched down on my turntable. It was pure magic. The sound was a compressed mess, but in a cool way. Songs like "Monkey On Your Back", "Hold Back" and "Africa" grabbed me totally. The production was perfect for Aldo's rather weak voice and strong melodies.
It is now 2018. We have Theresa May and Donald Trump in charge over the English-speaking part of the world. That is also the year when Aldo Nova comes up with the brilliant idea to re-record a few old tracks and put it on an album named "2.0". Besides having the good judgement not to include any of the songs from "Subject" album, I have nothing more to say. He should have let sleeping dogs lie.
Mrs Thatcher's classic phrase echoes in my head, "you should know when to go."
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