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'Men in Black' and When Spectacle Isn't Enough
'Men in Black: International' shows that effects that were impressive a decade ago are no longer enough to draw an audience.
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[This story contains spoilers for Men in Black: International]
When the movie camera was first invented, the novelty of a moving image was enough to keep an audience enthralled. But after a little while, that novelty wore off and movies had to do more. They had to tell stories. To become bigger, longer, more complex. Each had to do things that other films hadn't done before, to seem new enough that audiences weren't left feeling like they paid for something they had already bought.
The Men in Black films, like most major action movies, have never been known for innovative storytelling or brilliant dialogue. But the previous installments have done well at the box office anyway. International did not, earning just $28 million domestically. There was plenty of behind-the-scenes drama that led to a final product that didn't click with audiences.There are arguments to be made that a bland storyline is to blame, or perhaps it's franchise fatigue.
There's another potential explanation as to why Men in Black: International has failed to click with audiences, and it has to do with spectacle. Spectacle has long been a key part of the draw of big-budget Hollywood films. And for a long time, spectacle in terms of what films were using the most cutting-edge technology — had the most lifelike monsters, the most extensive battle sequences and so on — quite often corresponded with what films did well.
Think of a film like Avatar (2009). No one was writing home about the story. In spite of the various box office records it broke, the actual content of the film has left little lasting impression on popular culture in comparison to other comparable box office successes. While Jaws lives on in references like, "you're gonna need a bigger boat" and the characters of the Star Wars films or the Marvel Cinematic Universe are household names, a lot of people would have a far more difficult time recalling any characters or lines of dialogue from Avatar. And this is because Avatar is the sort of film that reached the heights it did by merit of technical spectacle — immersing the audience in what, for many, was a compellingly photorealistic alien world.
When it comes to the visual effects in terms of sheer verisimilitude, 2019 audiences have grown so accustomed to what was deemed extraordinary just a decade ago that it's now much more likely to see a film prominently criticized for uncompelling CGI than admired for the photorealism of its VFX. What was once exceptional is now standard, and, because of that, what would wow audiences even 10 years ago is now taken for granted as standard operating procedure. Audiences in this day and age know they can't believe their eyes — they're not instantly wowed by the "unbelievable" the way they once were. And for films like the Men in Black franchise that's an ominous prospect.
There are numerous scenes in MIB: International that are intended to entertain by merit of spectacle. Scenes where the newly hired Agent M (Tessa Thompson) looks on in wonder at a many-legged alien or watches what first appears to be a dingy city subway car transform into a futuristic, luxuriously furnished high-speed rail.
The problem is that eclectic alien critters and metamorphosing trains just don't cut it on their own merits any more. Not in a world where audiences have already seen six Transformers films and watched epic zombie versus dragon battles in a television show.
The current state of technological advancements means that far more is possible than ever before, but it also means that audiences are harder to impress than ever before. For several years now, there's been a steady stream of narratively bland, generally generic blockbusters that have tried to coast along by merit of CGI wizardry — and it hasn't worked. For those big-budget action-adventure films that have done well as of late, there's usually at least one other selling point. The Marvel Cinematic Universe, for instance, has its beloved cast of characters and a massive fan base significantly invested in them, while the John Wick franchise has innovative, over-the-top fight scenes.
Even at the concept level, Men in Black: International runs into the basic issue of not having any particular angle or selling point that isn't covered by another ongoing franchise. Star Wars and Star Trek both have aliens, Harry Potter has a special world carefully hidden from normal people, James Bond has secret agents. It's not just that International lacks any unique appeal, but also that it's hard to even imagine where such an appeal might even be found.
Audiences evolve, and not all concepts have the same ability to change with them, no matter how hard studios may try. Perhaps, for the Men in Black franchise, that means it's time to retire.
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Due for completion in just four weeks, the $7 million redevelopment will see the addition of a state-of-the-art Stryker integrated theatre, an expanded recovery area and the refurbishment of patient rooms.
The expansion will also pave the way for new technologies to be introduced, said hospital CEO Gary Cadwallender, such as robotic-assisted surgical systems.
And it will improve patient safety, their flow through the hospital, plus they'll enjoy more privacy post-op with the conversion to more single rooms.
"Ultimately the upgrade is about improving the patient safety and experience and increasing the capacity of what we can do," Mr Cadwallender said.
"The number of theatres will increase from two to three, with the new integrated theatre containing a number of features including voice-activated lights and state-of-the art equipment.
"We now conduct around 350 to 400 surgeries per month; with the additional theatre we will be able to increase that by a further 100.
The upgrade is just part of a planned $30 million investment by Healthe Care in its three hospitals throughout the region – which also include Wollongong Day Surgery and South Coast Private.
The hospital operator took over the three facilities from Evolution Healthcare in April 2017.
Shellharbour Private, which was officially opened in April 1975, had been in real need of an upgrade Mr Cadwallender said.
"We've actually reduced the number of beds we have – so instead of rooms that contained six beds we will now have 30 single ensuite rooms and six twin rooms.
The hospital offers a range of surgical procedures, with specialties including urology, gastroenterology, gynaecology, ophthalmology and orthopaedics.
Red Eye Constructions started the redevelopment in June, and it's had minimal impact on patients according to Mr Cadwallender.
"We've had extended operating hours to ensure procedures didn't have to be cancelled," he said.
The redevelopment is set to be commissioned by the health department on November 8, with the public invited to the official opening on November 17.


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Teen activist Greta Thunberg: World officials 'misleading' instead of leading on climate change
By Owen Daugherty - 12/11/19 07:38 AM EST
Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg railed against business and political leaders in a speech on global warming, accusing them of not addressing the world's "climate emergency" with enough urgency.
"The real danger is when politicians and CEOs are making it look like real action is happening, when in fact almost nothing is being done, apart from clever accounting and creative PR," Thunberg said at the United Nations COP25 climate talks in Madrid, according to The Associated Press.
She added that leaders should be working toward "holistic solutions" at the event, instead of using it to "negotiate loopholes and to avoid raising their ambition."
She also pointed to pledges made by several countries to reduce carbon emissions, saying they are not enough, and instead called for no longer using the greenhouse gases responsible for rising temperatures.
"This is not leading, this is misleading," Thunberg said, according to the AP, adding that "every fraction of a degree matters."
Following her speech, dozens of climate activists, including representatives of indigenous peoples from several continents, reportedly joined Thunberg on stage to demand "Climate Justice!"
Thunberg has become a central figure in the global movement to fight climate change since leading school strikes in her home country of Sweden and elsewhere around the world, sparking young activists to refuse to attend classes as a way to protest against inaction on the issue.
She has drawn scorn from several world leaders for her advocacy. Most recently, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro called her a "brat" for her efforts to raise awareness of the need to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Following the Brazilian president's attack, Thunberg added the Portuguese word for "brat" to her Twitter bio.
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Lovoa trichilioides
Lovoa brownii Sprague
Lovoa klaineana Pierre ex Sprague
Common Name: African Walnut
Photograph by: Scamperdale
African walnut is a large, evergreen tree with a dark, heavy crown; it can grow up to 45 metres tall. The bole, which is usually straight and cylindrical but can be sinuous, can be branchless for up to 25 metres and up to 120cm, occasionally 200cm in diameter[
Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa.
http://www.prota.org
An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa.
World Agroforesty Centre
http://www.worldagroforestry.org/
An excellent online database of a huge range of trees giving very good information on each plant - its uses, ecology, identity, propagation, pests etc.
The tree is commonly harvested from the wild for local use as a medicine and source of wood. The wood is a valuable timber that is often traded. It is occasionally planted as a roadside tree[
The sawdust may be irritant[
Western tropical Africa - Sierra Leone to Zaire, south to Angola.
A canopy and emergent tree, scattered in evergreen forest and semi-deciduous forest at elevations up to 1,200 metres[
Medicinal Rating
Cultivation Status Ornamental, Wild
A plant of the moist tropics, where it is found at elevations up to 1,200 metres. It grows in areas where the mean annual rainfall is in the range 1,000 - 2,800mm and the mean annual temperature ranges from 20 - 29°c[
Prefers a moist but free draining locality on alluvial soils[
]. Often found on acid soils in the wild[
]. Young trees grow best if they are given some shade, though older trees prefer sunnier conditions[
Early growth is generally slow, with planted seedlings reaching 100 cm height in 2 years and 150 cm in 3 years[
]. In exceptional cases trees can reach a height of 2.5 metres after 1 year[
After the first few years, growth becomes faster, and there are records of young trees attaining 9 metres in height after 7 years[
In plantations in Uganda an average bole diameter of 25cm was reached after 25 years, whereas in Nigeria and Cameroon a mean annual diameter increment of 10 - 18mm was recorded[
In experiments in Gabon, 11-year-old trees planted in light shadow were 20 metres tall and 16.5 cm in diameter, whereas growth of trees planted in full sun was slower[
]. In natural forest the mean annual diameter increment is about 5 mm[
Natural regeneration is often abundant, although the seed suffers heavy predation. Seedlings of about 20 cm tall may be abundant even in full shade, where they may survive for several years, but saplings only grow where gaps develop in the forest canopy[
The pulped bark is rubbed on the chest to treat pulmonary troubles[
]. The bark is also used against dental caries[
Agroforestry Uses:
It is promoted in Uganda for tree planting programmes; it is locally planted as a shade tree in agroforestry programmes, for crops such as coffee and banana[
The heartwood is yellowish brown to greyish brown, often with golden and blackish markings; it is distinctly demarcated from the 3 - 7cm wide band of pale brown to pale grey sapwood. The grain is usually interlocked; the texture moderately fine to fine. The wood is lustrous and has an attractive appearance, with a ribbon-like aspect on quarter-sawn surfaces and a cedar-like scent. It is light in weight; soft; somewhat durable, being resistant to dry wood borers, somewhat resistant to fungi and susceptible to termites. It seasons fairly quickly with only a slight risk of checking and distortion; once dry it is stable in service. The wood is easy to saw and work with ordinary tools; there is some tendency of picking up of grain when the wood is quarter-sawn, and planing may be difficult because of the presence of interlocked grain, resulting in tearing; it finishes well, but for a fine polish the use of a filler is recommended; nailing and screwing properties are good, although there may be some tendency to splitting; gluing, painting and varnishing properties are satisfactory; the steam bending properties are moderate. The wood is highly valued for high class furniture, cabinet work, flooring, carpentry, joinery, interior trim, stairways, panelling and decorative veneer and plywood[
]. It is locally used for house construction, vehicle bodies, implements and handles, and to make canoes[
]. It is suitable for ship building, sporting goods, toys, novelties, railway sleepers, carving, boxes, crates, turnery and pulpwood[
The wood is also used as firewood and for charcoal production[
Seed - best sown as soon as it is ripe since it has a short viability[
]. Seeds start germinating after 8 - 16 days, with up to 90% germination rate for fresh seed, but only about 30% for 2 month old seed[
A successful method of propagation by stem cuttings has been developed in Cameroon. Long, thin cuttings with large leaf areas (50 - 200 cm²) made from apical nodes of multi-stemmed stock-plants rooted best, with a rooting rate of up to 60%[
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The Daily Dimwit: Monday Mail Day!!!
Got a few packages in the mail today!
First up, we have a package from Nomo's Sushi Platter... I am holding some cards for him and he went ahead and sent his part of the trade. Your part will go out with the group break cards Michael! Thanks!
A nice Bagwell jersey and Hector Gimenez auto... that's the third Gimenez auto I've gotten in the mail the past 2 weeks... too bad he didn't pan out!
Next up, a package from The Diamond King! He mistakenly sent a package to my old address, a month later it made it's way here, he felt bad and sent a "I'm sorry" package. Well, this good deed will not go unpunished! You're getting a "You had nothing to be sorry about!" package headed your way soon... meanwhile, he packed it full of AWESOME cards!
These are just the highlights folks! Lots of shiny!!!!! Awesome die cuts of Biggio and Berkman! I love seeing all that reflective silver!!!!
More shiny stuff!!! See that last card, seem a bit small and odd? Well it folds out, see below!
Biggio on the outside, Bagwell on the inside! A perfect card!!! I really hope they both get elected to the HOF on Wednesday. They deserve to go in together! Awesome Bagwell jersey relic to wrap it all up!
More shiny!!!! Almost all of the cards he sent were numbered! Great stuff Dustin, you're awesome!
Awesome Berkman, great Biggio relic and a 2011 GYPSY QUEEN STAMP CARD #2/10!!!! WOO HOO!!! My affinity for 2011 GQ is well known at this point. This is my second Stamp Card, as I previously picked up the Hunter Pence stamp in a trade as well. Would love to get all the Astros but at this point I don't think it's going to happen! People put an unnecessarily high price on them on eBay. But this one is AWESOME! Great Skylab stamp and a cool Spring Training pic of Myers. Thanks Dustin!!!!
I can't post without a note of sadness regarding Richard McWilliam. I know he has been vilified in the past few years, but I think many should thank him for revolutionizing card collecting in the 90's, when it started to go stale. He introduced many of the things we love today: relics, autos in product and even redemptions. In my mind he's an innovator and should be appreciated as much for the good as he is vilified for the bad. The hobby takes a hit with the loss of an industry leader. Hopefully Upper Deck can rise from the ashes a bit and get back on solid ground. RIP Richard McWilliam.
Glad you enjoyed everything, man. I just got mine today. Great trade!
I am happy that you enjoy what I sent you. No rush on a return package. Thanks.
Glad you got them this time!!


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The Dam School
Elton Camp
Franklin Roosevelt was president of the United States. The New Deal was in full sway. The Tennessee River passed through Marshall County, Alabama at the edge of the town of Guntersville. It had a long history of regular, devastating floods. At such times, small boats could navigate the streets of "North Town" in Guntersville. Crops and even houses were swept away. The situation added to the grinding poverty during the Great Depression. Some thought the entire Tennessee Valley, covering parts of seven States, was beyond saving. Its poverty, including many people living in hovels and near starvation, was a serious embarrassment to the Nation.
Roosevelt had a plan. During his famous first hundred days in office, he signed, on May 18, 1933, the act that established the Tennessee Valley Authority, commonly known as TVA. Some deplored it on political grounds as an example of socialism. Others welcomed the jobs it created, and still others were motivated in their approval by a genuine desire to help needy Americans who were unable to help themselves.
Flood control wasn't the sole issue. The river needed to be made more navigable and there was dire need of additional, inexpensive electricity.
Most people in the towns had electricity, but very few in the rural areas. Private power companies argued that it was too expensive to string lines in the country, especially for people who were too poor to afford electricity. The drive to provide rural electricity was based on the belief that it would both improve the standard of living and make the family farm better able to compete. If private power companies wouldn't provide the service, Roosevelt felt it was the duty of the Federal government to do it.
Central to the mission of the TVA was the erection of a series of dams, including one about seven miles from Guntersville. The mammoth project required a small army of workers. A village to house the supervisors, workers, and their families was built north of the river near the construction site. Many of the structures were thrown up quickly at low cost. A fundamental requirement was provision of a school to handle the flood of new residents. To that end, huge amounts of money were poured into the establishment of Hebron School. Far superior to anything else in the area, it was cutting edge in facilities and equipment and somewhat experimental in its teaching methods. Children already living in the vicinity also attended the school.
Authorities sought the best teachers available to staff the new institution. They must be open to new ideas. Eloise, a young elementary school teacher with the necessary Normal School diploma and two years of solid accomplishment on her resume was among those employed at what was locally termed "the dam school."
Prominent people sometimes inspected the school, as well as teachers from other institutions who came to observe the innovative teaching methods being employed.
"Some days, I'd have visitors lined around the walls of the room," Eloise recalled. "I told the class to carry on just like they weren't there, so the children quickly learned to ignore them."
On one such occasion, among the visitors was a very fat woman. A series of activities that day were conducted outside. The large lady started to sit on the school's concrete steps to watch.
"Just a minute," the principal said. "I wouldn't want you to get your dress dirty."
He half unfolded a newspaper, placed it on the steps, hesitated, made an appraising stare at the woman's broad posterior, picked it up, and opened it fully before he again laid it down.
His look and action didn't escape her notice. The woman jerked up the paper, folded it smaller, and angrily seated herself. It was a favorite story for weeks by the teachers who saw the entire episode. The administrator went on to make even worse blunders.
"When the dam's finished," the principal proclaimed in a faculty meeting, "a great wall of water's gonna rush behind it and fill the lake within a few hours."
His facial expression and animated delivery showed his excitement at the prospect of witnessing the virtual tidal wave. The enormous lake, largest of all the TVA impoundments, actually took many months to complete its gradual fill. His dearth of scientific knowledge was on a level with his lack of ethics as later developments demonstrated.
With the goal of increasing community involvement and support for Hebron, faculty members were assigned the task of visiting in the home of each child. The ones living in the dam village were easy to locate, but local children might live in almost inaccessible places in the hills and valleys surrounding the school. In such cases, the teachers obtained detailed directions from the child.
"You go past Reverend Beason's church to th' stand of pine trees, turn right on a dirt road, and stay on it 'till you reach th' big rock and turn left. It's up that way a fur piece 'long side th' creek," was a typical response.
"We had a good bit of trouble finding one house," Eloise recalled, "but after making a stop at a store for directions, we finally located the narrow lane that led from the road to the house. It was rough, in spots little more than two ruts with grass growing in the middle, but we could tell that it was traveled. After bumping along for a distance, the road passed between two huge boulders. Atop one was perched a shabbily dressed young man with a grizzly beard. Across his lap lay a shotgun."
"Whut's yore business heer?" he demanded. He spit tobacco juice to the side of the rock as he stared suspiciously at the callers.
After they uneasily explained their mission, he gestured them onward with the shotgun. "Th' house ez just a piece up th' road. Y'u can't miss hit," he said in a voice not entirely cordial.
"What do you think?" Eloise asked her companions. The hurried consensus was that they should proceed. To risk antagonizing the man wouldn't be wise. Besides, with no place to turn around, there was little choice unless they wanted to attempt to back the long distance to the road.
After about a hundred yards, the house came into view. The central portion of the dilapidated structure was of logs. A rickety front porch seemed at the point of collapse, but cane bottom chairs showed it continued in use. The roof was covered with wooden shingles upon which green moss had gained a considerable foothold. The windows were raised, but no screens covered them. A thin trail of smoke arose from the chimney despite the warmth of the fall afternoon. Additions, with shed-type roofs, extended from the left side and the back of the small residence. The weathered planks had never seen paint. In the front yard was an open shelter over a hand-dug well. A windlass with rope and a bucket allowed the residents to draw water. Barely visible behind the house was a small outdoor toilet. Alongside it was a good-size garden that, despite being near the end of its production, was free of weeds. It was enclosed with a high fence. The yard had no grass. To the left of the structure stood a cast iron wash pot. Three hound dogs lay in the shade under the front porch, but they raised their heads to bark lazily at the intruders. White chickens pecked randomly in the yard. A skinny mule stood in front of a barn of logs that was considerably larger than the house. A woman stood at a scattered pile of wood, collecting a few sticks for the fire on which she was cooking supper. She looked at the teachers, but said nothing.
"Looks like they added rooms as they had children," one of the teachers speculated.
Two young men with protruding ears, unruly hair, and wearing dirty shirts approached the car and stared at the visitors. Incongruously, one of them wore a wrist watch which he made sure to keep turned so that they could admire it. The two looked like older versions of Lucas, Eloise's student in the first grade. The awkward situation was defused as Lucas ran from the house toward the car.
"You actual came t' see me," the youngster said with an excited voice. "I didn't really think y'u would." The child gave each of the three a quick hug. "Maw, here they is," he called to his mother at the woodpile.
As her son beckoned to her, she ambled over to the car to greet the company. To do otherwise would be a violation of deeply ingrained tenets of southern hospitality. She wore a faded blouse and a skirt that extended to the top of her shoes. Her hair was clean, but long and pulled straight toward the back of her head. The mother's wrinkled face and neck had been exposed to the sun for too many years. She squinted her eyes in the manner of a person who needs glasses. Lucas was the last of her large brood of children. The difficulty of her life showed in her face, but she managed a smile that showed missing and decayed teeth.
Yet, she was surprisingly articulate and appreciative. "I thank you for coming," she said. "I'm so proud that Lucas has that fine school to attend. I grew up over in Georgia and went through the eighth grade. I hope he'll be the first in the family to graduate high school. Anything you can do for him, I'll appreciate."
At her invitation, the group accompanied her into the house. "Let's sit in the kitchen," she said. "I'm finishing up supper and need to add a bit of wood to the cook stove."
"Can they stay fer supper, maw?" the boy asked.
"Why for certain they can, son," she replied without hesitation. "We got plenty such as it is. It'd be a honor to have them."
The lady opened the door to the stove's firebox and thrust a few sticks onto the red embers. They immediately flamed up. She donned a long apron before she turned the slices of ham that were frying in a cast iron skillet. The aroma was enough to make anyone feel hungry.
A large pone of cornbread rested on a plate on the kitchen table, a bows of green beans and another of corn were alongside it. A mixture of sliced cucumbers and onions lay on a saucer. The meal also drew nonhuman attention: flies buzzed across the table and a few crawled on the food. The woman seemed oblivious to their presence.
"I felt my stomach do a flip," Eloise later told her husband when she related the adventure. "It'd have made me sick to eat a single bite, but I didn't want to hurt their feelings."
The group managed to decline the invitation courteously on the pretended basis of having eaten only shortly before beginning their visits and needing to make some more calls. The elated Lucas bragged at school the next day about the distinguished visitors to his house.
When the dam was complete, the directors of the TVA issued an invitation that allowed for no refusal. The teachers were to bring their classes to see the amazing structure. Eloise, along with her husband, made a preliminary inspection to see what was in store for the young children in her class.
No expense had been spared on the project. Concrete sidewalks and professional landscaping were everywhere in evidence. A set of restrooms, topped with an observation deck welcomed visitors. The north end of the dam was easy to approach on a long incline, but as the couple walked onto the concrete structure itself, Eloise felt mounting alarm.
The dam was far taller than it appeared from a distance. She walked to the downriver side and looked with apprehension to the alarming drop to the water.
"These rails are strong," she said, "but the gaps are big enough to let a child fall right through. I can't possibly watch them all. It's a tragedy waiting to happen."
By the day of her class visit, Eloise had solved the problem. She obtained a long, strong rope and tied it around the waist of each child and then anchored it to herself. "Even if one slips over the edge, all of us together can keep him from falling," she explained to the class. "But stay way back from the edge and don't take any chances." The field trip proceeded without incident as they walked across the top of the dam, peered into the depths of the lock, and descended into to the turbine room where electricity was generated. She breathed a sigh of relief when they were safely back on the north end of the dam and loaded onto the bus.
Some seemed to think that teachers surrendered their Constitutional rights when they signed an employment contract. At a faculty meeting, the principal issued instructions to the teachers as to how they should vote in an upcoming election.
"Do what I say if you expect to hold your jobs," he blustered. "And this is coming from a higher level than me."
At the next faculty meeting after the election, he stalked boldly to the front of the room. "You all knew how you were told to vote," he commenced. "You also knew what would happen if you didn't."
The man then called out each teacher's name and announced how he or she'd actually voted. The principle of secret ballot obviously meant nothing. When a big portion of the faculty, including Eloise, resigned in protest at the outrage, the principal himself was forced from his position.
"I just did what they told me to," he protested. "I didn't expect nothing like this."
His face turned red and his Adam's apple bobbed up and down as he proclaimed his innocence. He felt that he'd done no wrong.
The dam school continues in existence down to the present, although it is no longer any better or worse than others in the Marshall County system. It accomplished a great deal of good. Lucas not only went on to high school graduation, but with the aid of an academic scholarship, became a first generation college graduate. He returned to Hebron as a teacher and served as its principal for the final ten years of his career. He's now in his eighties and living in nearby Grant, Alabama.
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Monsters and Zombies? Nope, Americans Are Most Afraid of the Government
By Sara G. Miller 2017-10-12T11:41:50Z
Americans are more afraid of corrupt government officials and "Trumpcare" than they are of zombies this year.
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This year, the scariest Halloween costumes in the United States could be corrupt government officials or polluted water — at least according to a new survey ranking the top fears of Americans.
Chapman University released its annual Survey of American Fears yesterday (Oct. 11), and fears about the government and the environment dominated the top 10.
As in 2015 and 2016, this year, corrupt government officials topped the list, with 75 percent of survey respondents reporting that they were either scared or very scared of corrupt officials in the government. [End of the World? Top Doomsday Fears]
But the No. 2 fear this year was one that was entirely new to the list: "Trumpcare." Just over 55 percent of the people in the survey ranked this as something they were either scared or very scared of.
Coming in third and fourth were pollution of oceans, rivers and lakes; and pollution of drinking water, respectively — two fears that were new to the top 10, according to the survey.
Not having enough money in the future, high medical bills, U.S. involvement in a world war, climate change, North Korea's use of weapons and air pollution rounded out the top 10. Fears of the U.S. being involved in a world war and North Korea using weapons were new to the list, the researchers said.
Here are Americans' top fears of 2017. (Image credit: Chapman University)
"The 2017 survey data shows us that while some of the top fears have remained, there has been a pronounced shift to environmental fears," lead researcher Christopher Bader, a professor of sociology at Chapman University in California, said in a statement. Bader added that many of the top fears mirror top media stories, such as news about changes to environmental policies and health care.
Fear of heights ranked 38th on the survey, with 28 percent of respondents reporting being scared or very scared of it; fear of sharks came in at No. 41 (25 percent); and fear of insects and spiders came in at No. 50 (20 percent). Other fears that around 1 in 5 Americans said were scary or very scary included dying, public speaking, illegal immigration and racial or hate crimes.
And despite a preponderance of movies and TV shows with scary clowns and roving zombies, those two fears ranked nearly last on the list, with clowns coming in at No. 76 (7 percent) and zombies at No. 78 (5 percent).
Chapman University has conducted its annual fear survey since 2014. This year, the researchers asked about 1,200 adults from across the United States to rank their level of fear of 80 different topics, ranging from the government and the environment, to spiders and ghosts.
The full list can be found here.
Originally published on Live Science.


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Nate is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professional and a Certified Kingdom Advisor®. He is a General Securities Registered Representative and serves our clients in the development and annual review of comprehensive, written financial plans. He also builds a unique investment portfolio for each client designed to achieve their goals and dreams at an appropriate risk level. Nate joined Cornerstone in August of 2007 after a seven year US Air Force career culminating as a B¬52 Instructor Pilot and the Assistant Training Flight Commander for the 23rd Bomb Squadron in Minot, ND. He graduated from the US Air Force Academy with a B.S. degree prior to Undergraduate Pilot Training in Texas.
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Tim is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professional and a Certified Kingdom Advisor®.Tim has been with Cornerstone since November of 2010. He graduated from Campbell University with a degree in Business Administration and a minor in Marketing. He was a PGA member and served in various roles at North Ridge Country Club including First Assistant and later as the Teaching Professional. Tim works in the client service department, and he assists in providing our clients with the highest level of service.
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Royal Academy of Music welcomes back Academy Clubs for state-educated students
Hattie Fisk
The Royal Academy of Music (RAM) has announced the return of its Academy Clubs, offering select state-educated London secondary school students the opportunity to attend music weekend workshops this academic year.
RAM's Jazz Club course
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RAM will host sessions teaching jazz, composition, percussion, theory and musicianship, and will launch a series of more instrumental disciplines from 2022 onwards. The workshops are free, and are designed to broaden the horizons of students, encouraging them to explore conservatoire study at junior and degree levels.
Students attending the sessions will be recommended to the school from local music hubs and secondary schools, with pupils joining from the boroughs of Waltham Forest, Haringey, Brent and Newham.
Since the launch of the Academy Clubs, students have progressed to RAM's Junior Jazz, Junior Academy and undergraduate composition programmes. Jazz and Composers' Clubs will continue for their second year, welcoming budding percussionists – some of whom will be using instruments for the first time.
Claire Cooke, access and participation manager at the RAM said: 'The clubs are an opportunity for young musicians from across London to develop their musicianship, work with and learn from our tutors, and to meet like-minded individuals. We are already seeing the impact of these programmes on those gaining places into both our Junior Academy and Junior Jazz programmes, and in those studying for their undergraduate degree at the Academy.'
An attendee of last year's Composers Club said: 'It was great to get ideas and comments from professionals over the course of the two Sundays. It was also my first time getting my piece performed and recorded, which was very exciting.'
The first Springboard to Grade 5 Theory and Beyond summer school was created by the Academy last year, where students learnt key skills for the ABRSM exam from workshop leader Aga Serugo-Lugo and RAM teaching staff. This course has paved the way for other schemes this academic year, with more instrumentally focused courses to be announced for 2022.
RAM's Academy Clubs are funded by sponsors. To find out more visit www.ram.ac.uk
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El mutualisme és una relació a llarg termini entre individus de diferents espècies en la què els dos individus es beneficien. Les relacions mutualistes poden ser obligatòries per a ambdues espècies, obligada per a una, però facultativa per a l'altra, o facultativa per a les dues. Pot aparèixer fins i tot sense coevolució previa.

Són exemples de mutualisme la que existeix en els líquens, en què un fong ofereix protecció en forma de medi aquós a una alga o liquen a l'interior del seu cos a canvi aquesta li cedeix part de l'energia de la fotosíntesi. Altres relacions poden ser la que es produeix en els nòduls de les arrels d'algunes fabàcies amb bacteris del gènere Rhizobium en què aquests són protegits dins del teixit radicular de la planta mentre que aquesta es beneficia del nitrogen fixat pels bacteris. La relació mutualista pot arribar a consolidar-se d'una forma tan estreta com la dels líquens en la què, en alguns casos, és impossible trobar els dos membres de l'associació (fong i alga o liquen) de forma aïllada. Quan és possible trobar els individus del liquen fora d'aquesta associació generalment presenten morfologies força diferents de les que tenen quan estan associats.

Un gran percentatge d'herbívors tenen una flora intestinal mutualista per ajudar-los a digerir la matèria vegetal, més difícil de digerir que les preses dels animals. Aquesta flora intestinal està formada per protozous que digereixen cel·lulosa o bacteris que viuen als intestins dels herbívors. Els esculls de corall són el resultat de mutualismes entre organismes coral·lins i diversos tipus d'algues que viuen al seu interior. La majoria de les plantes terrestres i dels ecosistemes terrestres es basen en els mutualismes entre les plantes, que fixen el carboni de l'aire, i els fongs micorrizes, que ajuden a extreure aigua i minerals del sòl.

Un exemple de mutualisme és la relació que hi ha entre els peixos pallassos ocellaris que es troben entre els tentacles de les anemones marines de Ritteri. El peix territorial protegeix l'anemone dels peixos que mengen anemones i, al seu torn, els tentacles urticants de l'anemone protegeixen el peix pallasso dels seus depredadors. Un moc especial del peix pallasso el protegeix dels tentacles punxants.

Un altre exemple és el gobi, un peix que de vegades conviu amb un llagostí. El llagostí excava i neteja un cau a la sorra en què viuen tant els llagostins com el peix gobi. El llagostí és gairebé cec, deixant-lo vulnerable als depredadors quan es trobi fora del seu cau. En cas de perill, el gobi toca el llagostí amb la cua per avisar-lo. Quan això succeeix, tant el llagostí com el gobi es retiren ràpidament al cau. Diferents espècies de gobis (Elacatinus spp.) també netegen ectoparàsits en altres peixos, possiblement en un altre tipus de mutualisme.

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Rupert Grint shares his thoughts on HBO's planned Harry Potter TV show
By Emily Garbutt published 5 February 21
Grint also admitted he's only seen three Harry Potter movies
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Rupert Grint has shared his thoughts on the planned Harry Potter TV show on HBO – and admitted that he's only seen three of the movies in the franchise. Grint played Ron Weasley, Harry's best friend, in all eight of the Harry Potter movies and made up part of the "golden trio" with Daniel Radcliffe's Harry and Emma Watson's Hermione.
It was recently announced that a Harry Potter TV show is reportedly in development at HBO, although no actors or writers are currently attached to the project and there haven't been any hints about plotlines or characters.
"It'll be weird if it was a continuation kind of thing," Grint said when asked about the series in a recent interview with Variety. "I weirdly feel quite protective of that character. Even when I saw the stage shows, it was a very strange experience. … If it's like a different group of friends, I guess it would be interesting."
Although he may be protective of Ron, that doesn't extend to watching the character on screen, it turns out. "I've probably seen the first three at the premieres, but after that I stopped watching them," Grint admitted. "But now that I have a daughter, I will probably have to watch them with her."
Since his time in the wizarding franchise, Grint has had roles in TV shows like Snatch, Sick Note, and The ABC Murders, and he's currently starring in The Servant, M. Night Shyamalan's Apple TV Plus series about a woman who is so traumatized by the death of her baby that she starts to believe her therapy doll is real.
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Among the handful of "first-tier" potential nomination candidates in both parties, two are considered safe bets to eschew public financing for both the primaries and general elections.
Giuliani also is expected to have no trouble raising money from a variety of major donors both in the Republican Party -- where economic and national-defense conservatives outnumber rich religious conservatives -- and even among Jewish Democrats who admire his stand on Israel.
Toner said that realistically, the huge amounts of money required for the 2008 campaign would winnow out, earlier than usual, many potential candidates in what was expected to be a very large field in both parties.
Hard money policies are those which are against Fiat money and therefore usually in support of the Gold standard, or other standard based on other precious substances.
The most common uses of hard money is for business purposes, when time is of the essence and when the borrower or the asset do not fall within the often stringent loan criteria (also known as the 'sweet spot') for banks.
Hard money is often used as a bridge loan for real estate purchases — a short term financing solution for any number of reasons, either to avoid a probem or take advantage of an opportunity.
The system of funding political campaigns -- both to help elect a candidate or work toward the defeat of another -- is complex and often perceived by the public to be riddled with irregularities and loopholes.
Soft money is loosely defined as unlimited donations to political parties from individuals, organizations, or unions intended to fund purported "party building" activities primarily at state and local levels.
At the same time, the FEC said the 527s are permitted to use a mixture of hard and soft money for political communications that mention national as well as state and local candidates or for ads about issues, such as health care and trade policies.
To the extent that power is a function of money, then changes in the system (including possible restrictions on use of the media for political speech) must be made to mitigate the perfidious impact of money on politics.
It is also a hard-knuckle political battle in which the different political parties, incumbent candidates, and interest groups fight to structure the rules in a fashion that increases their political clout and hinders their political adversaries.
Since the media makes a great deal of money from during political campaigns, they are not to pleased to "donate" that time and it may not be the case that the public is willing to pay for the commercials from their tax money.
A political process in which politicians are bought and sold — that is the condition of American governance we are invited to contemplate.
If money cannot be shown to buy a specific vote, yea or nay, it can be shown to facilitate access, to obtain its provider a place at the table where his business is settled, to attract attention among many competing demands for the attention of our politicians.
She chronicles the growing importance of "soft money," the large contributions individuals, corporations, labor unions, and other organizations are allowed to make to political parties, thus circumventing the legal limits on giving to individual campaigns.
Though wealthy individuals, corporations, and unions are thus sharply limited in their hard money contributions, the sky is the contribution limit with soft money.
Originally, soft money was to be spent on grassroots campaigning by state and local parties for brochures, door knocking, and get-out-the-vote efforts.
Political parties may be part of the problem with electoral politics, but properly reviving them is very much part of the solution.
Of that, $1.5 million was soft money and the rest was hard money contributions from PACs and individuals.
This money worked to great effect when the time came to block SEC efforts to clamp down on the burgeoning and lucrative practice of selling consulting services to companies at the same time as auditing their books.
The center, which tracks money in politics, said the company reported spending $825,000 on lobbying in the first six months of last year in the mid-year report it filed with the Clerk of the House and Secretary of the Senate.
Before entering politics, John McCain was a fighter pilot schooled in the art of waiting for a hard target to appear in his sights.
The bill raises to $2,000 the limit on "hard money" contributions that can be given directly to a campaign, increases contribution limits for those facing wealthy opponents, and tightens disclosure requirements.
Now that the hard money limit is $2,000, there is little reason for him to change his tactics.
Howstuffworks "What is the difference between "soft money" and "hard money" campaign donations?"
In the simplest terms, "hard money" is from political donations that are regulated by law through the Federal Election Commission.
The largest expense in a modern political campaign is advertising, and most of the controversy about hard or soft money ultimately points to how much advertising a candidate can buy.
The contributions to these funds are regulated by law: Corporations and labor unions can't contribute to campaigns for federal elections, and individuals are limited to contributing a maximum of $1,000 to a federal candidate, and $20,000 a year to a political party for the purpose of telling people whom to vote for.
There are many sources of finance: direct donations from individuals, organizations, especially Political Action Committee and political parties -- "hard money" -- and indirect, unregulated "soft money" donations to organizations that support a candidate but are not officially affiliated to his or her campaign.
Soft money refers to contributions given, at least nominally, to a political party for "party building" activities rather than for the direct support of particular candidates and campaigns.
Political parties are active in federal elections at the local, state and national levels.
Rather than focusing on the positions being taken by Democrats seeking their party's nomination for president, the media spotlight often stays on the amounts of money that those contenders have raised -- as if the importance and validity of a campaign can be gauged by the size of its bank account.
Meanwhile, in politics, after years of ballyhoo about "campaign finance reform" and the banning of "soft money," the power of bucks is greater than ever.
And: "Some expect the Bush campaign may raise a record $200 million, largely through individual 'hard money' donations, before the election is through." That would be about double what the Bush campaign raised for the 2000 election.
It would also raise the "hard money" contributions limit from $1,000 to $2,000 for House candidates, allow even higher contributions to candidates facing wealthy opponents, and restrict broadcast "issue ads" if they featured a federal candidate.
Such ads would have to be paid for with hard money and could not be broadcast within 30 days of a primary election or 60 days of a general election.
Democrats got $63 million in soft money donations, or 53.5 percent of their total donations in 2001.
It's hard to believe that something like soft money, the term of which is bandied around so often in the media, in the context that it is most often used, is actually illegal and that those who give and receive money termed soft are actually breaking the law.
Any die hard "The West Wing" fan will know that it was the Federal Elections Commission that created a loophole that allows soft money and it is this loophole that muddy the waters that soft money floats in, allowing such money to be influential in so many political campaigns.
I myself am not yet sure whether soft money is the vice it is claimed to be, or a legitimate, morally correct way to raise funds for issues and campaigns.
Republicans called the provision, which was written in general terms, a new loophole in which soft money could be used to pay debts involving regulated "hard money." They said it would favor Democrats, who in recent years have raised a greater proportion of their total funding through soft money.
According to GOP aides, their goal in focusing on this provision was to win support of an amendment to change the effective date of the Shays-Meehan bill to Feb. 14, rather then have the bill take effect after the November elections.
In support of the provisions, Larry Noble, executive director and general counsel to the Center for Responsive Politics, said the provisions would not supersede current law, which clearly states that soft money may only be used to pay for soft money debts.
At the time, soft money only comprised about 20 percent of funds raised by federal candidates and parties, but it came in eye-popping amounts. For instance, at the 2000 Republican National Committee fl-tie fundraising gala, nearly 1,600 of the wealthiest donors in the country gave a total of $21.5 million.
That's an average contribution of about $13,400—far more than most of us could ever fathom. Since the money was technically not to be used to influence federal elections, there were absolutely no limits on the size of these contributions.
There are other problems, too. Much of the soft money that previously went to parties has found its way to outside groups.
The contribution of money to political parties and candidates is an important way in which large corporations and wealthy capitalists exercise disproportionate influence over politics in the United States.
Much campaign money still goes unreported, and new loopholes are being created with each election.
It provides complete databases of hard money contributions for each election since 1994, available for downloading (very large files).
Speaking under her professional name, Cherie Booth, she is one of six well-known people contributing to Lent Talks, a series of reflections on life and faith to mark the traditional period of abstinence in the run up to Easter.
Politics is serious business, but it's good to let your hair down and have a laugh once in a while.
YouTube offers political geeks two options: the dull and worthy contributions of politicians who think that they have discovered a new platform for their rhetoric, or clips at their expense.
When it comes to money in politics, most people think in terms of "hard money" – money for federal candidate campaigns that comes from legal sources, subject to contribution limits, and reported to the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
Hard money stands in contrast to "soft money" – money for political purposes that comes from sources and in amounts otherwise prohibited for federal candidate campaigns. To learn more, please start with our primer located under "In the Spotlight."
While it bans soft money contributed to the national parties from companies, unions, and wealthy individuals, the Shays-Meehan bill and a Senate-passed companion bill would increase current limits on regulated "hard money," which must come from individual donors and regulated political committees.
The one amendment on which Shays-Meehan opponents prevailed dealt with continued use of soft money for a fund to construct a party headquarters building.
The measure could triple the hard money limits for such candidate if an opponent spent $350,000 or more of his or her own money on a campaign.
The real deadline for Congress to provide more money for the war in Iraq is well beyond the April 15 deadline cited by President Bush and Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
Democrats are raising concerns about President Bush's nominee for ambassador to Belgium because he gave money to the group that impugned Sen. John Kerry's war record during the 2004 presidential campaign.
Giuliani has criticized his Senate opponent, Hillary Rodham Clinton, for her establishment of a soft money committee last fall, but he never publicly ruled out creating one of his own.
Soft money is not subject to campaign contribution limits.
While Clinton's soft money account is relatively small - it had totaled more than $700,000 as of the end of last year - and Giuliani's is new, both are expected to become more important closer to Election Day, when the two camps will likely pour money into television advertisements and seek large sums quickly.
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The Republicans pushed hard for increasing the aggregate maximum an individual can contribute in a given year.
A presidential aura With the crowds growing, the campaign money flowing and the media swarming, John Kerry is looking more and more like the front-runner.
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Now that the year-old ban on so-called soft money donations to the parties - the large, unlimited contributions from corporations, unions, and wealthy individuals - has been affirmed, the raising of limited "hard money" donations is a central part of the game.
The longer-term picture is less predictable, but the high court itself, in its majority ruling, echoed the common view among observers of money in politics that funds will inevitably find their way into the system - and that Wednesday's ruling will not be the final word.
Ornstein also notes that while the GOP is better than the Democrats at raising hard money, the Republicans rely heavily on expensive direct mail, so some of their edge disappears when one looks at the bottom line.
As air traffic control captain Trudeau in the 1990 Bruce Willis vehicle "Die Hard 2," actor turned senator Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., instructs landing aircraft to remain in a holding pattern until hijackers are no longer controlling Dulles Airport.
So, as in "Die Hard 2," Thompson and the McCain-Feingold crew took two hours and kept the Senate in a holding pattern.
The strategy of CFR opponents is to pass amendments of questionable constitutionality and simultaneously vote for the non-severability amendment that would cancel out any attempts at true reform.
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Public financing pays for the bulk of those costs, but a lot of money finds its way into party coffers through a murky web of donations from individuals, assorted interest groups, and, most importantly, corporations.
Some 59% of Germans mistrust their political parties, according to a survey released July 27 by consultant McKinsey & Co. "It's legalized corruption," says Hans Herbert von Arnim, a professor at the German University for Administrative Sciences in Speyer and leading critic of the campaign finance system.
It's unclear how decisive the private money is. Political parties receive ample public funds and free television time.


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Rhetorics, Poetics, and Cultures: Ref...
Rhetorics, Poetics, and Cultures: Refiguring College English Studies
James Berlin978-0-9724772-8-4
James A. Berlin
Expanded Edition
Winner of the 1998 CCCC Outstanding Book Award
978-0-9724772-8-4 (paperback, $27.00); 978-0-9724772-9-1 (hardcover, $50.00); 978-0-9724772-5-3 (PDF, $19.99), © 2003 by Parlor Press. 268 pages, with illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index.
Rhetorics, Poetics, and Cultures is James Berlin's most comprehensive effort to refigure the field of English Studies. Here, in his last book, Berlin both historically situates and recovers for today the tools and insights of rhetoric—displaced and marginalized, he argues, by the allegedly disinterested study of aesthetic texts in the college English department. Berlin sees rhetoric as offering a unique perspective on the current disciplinary crisis, complementing the challenging perspectives offered by postmodern literary theory and cultural studies. Taking into account the political and intellectual issues at stake and the relation of these issues to economic and social transformations, Berlin argues for a pedagogy that makes the English studies classroom the center of disciplinary activities, the point at which theory, practice, and democratic politics intersect. This new educational approach, organized around text interpretation and production—not one or the other exclusively, as before—prepares students for work, democratic politics, and consumer culture today by providing a revised conception of both reading and writing as acts of textual interpretation; it also gives students tools to critique the socially constructed, politically charged reality of classroom, college, and culture.
This new edition of Rhetorics, Poetics, and Cultures includes JAC response essays by Linda Brodkey, Patricia Harkin, Susan Miller, John Trimbur, and Victor J. Vitanza, as well as an afterword by Janice M. Lauer. These essays situate Berlin's work in personal, pedagogical, and political contexts that highlight the continuing importance of his work for understanding contemporary disciplinary practice.
James A. Berlin began his teaching career in elementary schools in Flint and Detroit, Michigan. After earning a Ph.D. in Victorian literature at the University of Michigan, he became assistant professor of composition at Wichita State University. While there, he served as first director of the Kansas Writing Project, an affiliate of the National Writing Project. He next taught at the University of Cincinnati, where he was director of freshman English. From 1987 until his death in 1994, he was professor of English at Purdue University. Professor Berlin was author of Writing Instruction in Nineteenth-Century American Colleges (1984) and Rhetoric and Reality: Writing Instruction in American Colleges, 1900-1985 (1987). His subsequent publications included Cultural Studies in the English Classroom (edited with Michael J. Vivion, 1992) as well as a number of essays on the relations of rhetoric, postmodernism, and cultural studies.


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La Cattleya endsfeldzii es una especie de orquídea litofita que pertenece al género de las Cattleya.

Descripción
Es una orquídea de tamaño pequeño, de hábitos  litofitas con pseudobulbos cónicos que llevan una sola hoja, oblongo-lanceolada, surcada transversalmente. Florece a finales de primavera y principios de verano en la naturaleza y en el invierno [enero y febrero] en el cultivo con una inflorescencia de 40 a 50 cm de largo, más larga que  la hoja con una abertura de varias flores bien espaciadas que abren sucesivamente.

Cultivo
Esta especie requiere, encapsulado en una mezcla bien drenada para permitir el secado después de cada riego, luz brillante, clima cálido para enfriar las temperaturas y un reposo invernal seco prolongado con nebulizaciones ocasionales.

Distribución
Se encuentra en Brasil en Minas Gerais en elevaciones de 900 metros.

Taxonomía
Cattleya elongata fue descrita por (Pabst) Van den Berg y publicado en Neodiversity: A Journal of Neotropical Biodiversity 3: 7. 2008.
Etimología
Cattleya: nombre genérico otorgado en honor de William Cattley orquideólogo aficionado inglés,

endsfeldzii: epíteto otorgado en honor de Endsfeldz, descubridor de la especie a finales de los años 1900.
Sinonimia
 Hoffmannseggella endsfeldzii (Pabst) V.P.Castro & Chiron
 Laelia endsfeldzii Pabst
 Sophronitis endsfeldzii (Pabst) Van den Berg & M.W.Chase

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Flora de Brasil
Plantas descritas en 2008
Plantas descritas por Pabst
Plantas descritas por Van den Berg


Today it's my turn to host the blog tour for Lilly's House by Cassandra Parkin. I have to say I completely and utterly love this book. It's one of those that drags in you from the very first chapter and you just have to keep going.
When Jen goes to her grandmother's house for the last time, she's determined not to dwell on the past. As a child, Jen adored Lily and suspected she might be a witch; but the spell was broken long ago, and now her death means there won't be any reconciliation.
Lily's gone, but the enchantments she wove and the secrets she kept still remain. In Lily's house, Jen and her daughter Marianne reluctantly confront the secrets of the past and present - and discover how dangerous we become when we're trying to protect the ones we love.
I love a twisty, turny book and you definitely get that with this novel. The trips back to past are not jarring like in some books, it's seamless.
I was hooked all the way through.
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Amin and colleagues presented results of a trial designed to determine the maximum tolerated dose (MTD), safety, and activity of nivolumab (NIV), a fully human IgG4 PD-1 immune checkpoint inhibitor antibody, in combination with either sunitinib or pazopanib in patients with mRCC that was treatment-naïve or relapsed after 1 line of therapy. Their preliminary data show that NIV plus S or P has encouraging antitumor activity and a manageable safety profile.
In this study, patients with mRCC (0 or 1 prior systemic therapies) received NIV in combination with S (50 mg, 4 weeks on, 2 weeks off; Arm S) or P (800 mg daily; Arm P), until progression or unacceptable toxicity. The starting dose of NIV was 2 mg/kg every 3 weeks (N2), with planned escalation to 5 mg/kg (N5). Based on tolerability, the Arm S N5 cohort was expanded to include treatment-naïve patients.
Seven patients were assigned to Arm S N2 and Arm S N5. No dose-limiting toxicities (DLTs) were observed, and MTD was not reached. Arm S N5 was then expanded with 19 additional patients (total n = 33). Patients in Arm P, which enrolled 20 patients at N2, had 4 DLTs (elevated liver enzymes [n = 3]; fatigue [n = 1]), leading to closure of this arm.
Grade 3/4 treatment-related adverse events (AEs) were observed in 24 of 33 patients (73%) in Arm S and 12 of 20 patients (60%) in Arm P. The most common grade 3/4 AEs included elevated liver enzymes (18%), hypertension (18%), and hyponatremia (15%) in Arm S, and elevated liver enzymes and fatigue in Arm P (20% each). Grade 3 pneumonitis occurred in 1 patient (Arm S N5). Grade 3/4 AEs led to discontinuation of the tyrosine kinase inhibitor or both drugs in 36% of patients in Arm S and 25% of patients in Arm P (N5). Dr Amin noted that renal AEs, including acute renal failure, and hepatic AEs were higher than expected with these agents used alone.
The Table summarizes response rate and PFS data for the 2 arms of this phase using RECIST 1.1 criteria.
Amin and colleagues concluded that the combination of PD-1 inhibition with NIV and VEGF inhibition with S or P warrants further investigation, but should be approached with caution in light of the higher-than-expected rates of renal and hepatic AEs.
National Cancer Institute website. Renal Cell Cancer Treatment: PDQ®. Stage IV and Recurrent Renal Cell Cancer. Last modified: February 21, 2014. www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/renalcell/HealthProfessional/page8. Accessed June 1, 2014.
Kroeger N, Choueiri TK, Lee JL, et al. Survival outcome and treatment response of patients with late relapse from renal cell carcinoma in the era of targeted therapy. Eur Urol. 2014;65(6):1086-1092.


If you live a sedentary lifestyle, or find yourself in a seated position for most of the day (i.e., students, office workers, long hours sitting in a car), your back will often become incredibly tight and sore as a result. Your legs will also cramp up, particularly your hamstrings.
Sitting does a load of damage to our bodies. Even researchers have made comparisons to sitting as equivalent to smoking. Sitting too much can lead to diabetes, heart disease, colon cancer, strained neck and shoulders, disk damage, weak abs, tight hips and an inflexible spine.
Making sure that your spine is in alignment and relaxed will allow it to properly support your entire body and head. Proper alignment of the body puts less stress on the spine, and helps you have good posture.
The cervical spine helps support the weight of the head and has the greatest range of motion (for movement of the head). The thoracic spine helps hold the rib cage and protects the heart and lungs – not much range of motion in this area. The lumbar spine helps bear the weight of the body, and the vertebrae in this area are much larger in size to help absorb the stress of lifting and carrying heavy objects. Lastly, the sacral spine helps to connect the spine to the hip bones.
The lumbar spine is the most common source of back problems, including pain that radiates to the legs or feet. The sacral spine can also be a source of pain, as it is made up of fused bone segments that can deteriorate in times of stress, malnutrition or lack of physical activity.
Practicing yoga and performing body weight exercises can help improve posture, and alleviate pain in certain parts of your body. Chiropractic treatments and massage are also useful, but they will not build muscle to help support the spine, which is why yoga and body weight exercises practiced on a weekly basis, are incredibly helpful.
The yoga sequence below is incredibly helpful for the lower back. If you practice this demonstrated pose below for 2 minutes every single day, you can free yourself of any sort of lower back pain you have.


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Cavia aperea är en däggdjursart som beskrevs av Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben 1777. Cavia aperea ingår i släktet egentliga marsvin och familjen Caviidae. IUCN kategoriserar arten globalt som livskraftig.

Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life. Wilson & Reeder (2005) skiljer mellan 6 underarter.

Individerna blir i genomsnitt 27,2 cm långa och saknar svans. De har en robust kropp och korta extremiteter. Vid framfötterna finns fyra tår och vid bakfötterna tre tår. Alla är utrustade med kraftiga klor. Den långa pälsen har en mörk gråbrun till svartaktig färg.

Detta marsvin förekommer med flera från varandra skilda populationer i Sydamerika. Arten saknas i Amazonområdet. I norra Sydamerika finns en stor population från nordvästra Colombia över Venezuela till Surinam. Även i Ecuador förekommer mindre populationer. Den andra stora populationen hittas från centrala Brasilien till västra Bolivia och till centrala Argentina. I bergstrakter når Cavia aperea 3000 meter över havet. Habitatet utgörs av savanner och liknande områden.

Flocken består vanligen av en hane, två honor och deras ungar. Arten äter huvudsakligen gräs och dessutom ingår blad, frön, blommor och bark i födan.

Flera individer delar ett underjordiskt bo. De är aktiva mellan gryningen och skymningen. Honor kan para sig flera gånger per år. Dräktigheten varar cirka 62 dagar och sedan föds upp till 5 ungar, vanligen 2. Ungarna är vid födelsen bra utvecklade. De kan redan under första dagen äta fast föda. Trots allt diar ungarna sin mor cirka tre veckor. Ungarna blir könsmogna efter 30 dagar. Med människans vår kan Cavia aperea leva 8 år. I naturen blir den ofta offer för medelstora rovdjur, som mårddjur.

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Custom stickers printed for outdoor durability.
Large sheets of vinyl material are screen printed so we can get several copies of your sticker up on the sheet and print them all at the same time. Generally sticker sheet sizes are around 20″ x 27″ which is useful for creating a gang run set-up. The trick is to piece them together with the right sizes and shapes so you can use as much of the material as possible.
Contrary to popular belief, we don't print stickers one at a time…That would take us a hecka long time to print thousands of stickers one at a time.
Once the stickers are printed, they move onto to the die cutting phase of production. Think of a big steel rule cookie cutter cutting out all the individual stickers at once.
VIDEO: Here's a quick video of how we screen print custom stickers on a master sticker sheet on our automatic screen print press.
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