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The Duality of Sex Work as Shown in 'Shiva Baby'
While not everyone may relate to the circumstances Danielle finds herself in in 'Shiva Baby', some are sure to understand her struggles as she is scrutinized for being a woman, a college student, an LGBT person, and a sugar baby.
Shiva Baby (1970)
(Spoiler warning for major plot points)
Shiva Baby (2021) follows college student Danielle (Rachel Sennott) as she traverses intense interactions between her family, her sugar daddy, and her ex-girlfriend. To make things more awkward, this all happens during a Shiva, a Jewish mourning ritual.
While not everyone may relate to the very specific circumstances Danielle finds herself in, they're sure to empathize with her character on at least one angle. Throughout the film, varying facets of Danielle's identity are dissected and chastised. Predominantly, her being a woman, a college student, an LGBT person, and a sugar baby are picked apart. Sometimes these facets of herself overlap and go hand-in-hand with each other. For example, she as a college student is in need of extra money. And so, Danielle turns to sex work as a job. While deemed unconventional, it can pay decently and is relatively accessible for a woman to make income.
A promotional poster for 'Shiva Baby'.
Although in recent times sex work has been glamorized, Shiva Baby displays the unsavory underbelly that may come with the field. It's great that sex work is becoming less scrutinized, however that doesn't necessarily mean we should romanticize it. For some, a component of sex work is empowerment. Danielle even admits that's partially why she started while explaining it to her ex-girlfriend, Maya (Molly Gordon). However, continually she is patronized and taunted both by Maya and her sugar daddy Max (Danny Deferrari). They take up a condescending tone whilst speaking to Danielle. Maya specifically uses very harsh, slut shaming language towards her ex after she learns what she does. There's an extra level of venom in her insults as Maya in ways is the antithesis of all of Danielle's shortcomings (or at least perceived shortcomings by those around her). She has a clearer structured future than Danielle and comes off more charismatic to the interrogating Shiva goers. She is living her life as what's seen as "correct" way. Maya sets the bar so high that she casts a shadow in which Danielle finds herself ensnared.
Maya and Max's wife Kim (Dianna Agron) are put on a pedestal by the elders of the group for their ambition and the stability they have. With Danielle, it isn't as cut and dry, especially with her work. In the film, she uses the guise of "babysitting" as a cover for the money she receives from Max. Whether Danielle fully processes it or not, she knows what would happen if she was honest about where the income comes from. Admitting to being a sugar baby would open her to scorn, further judgement, and violence in the worst cases.
In the sense of liberation, sex work is a double-edged sword. In certain lights it can allow a woman to feel free and have power, but at the same time set her up for harassment and patronization.
Maya (pictured to the left) helping Danielle (pictured to the right) carry trays of food to an elderly attendant's car. It's within this scene Danielle opens up to Maya on her reasons for being a sugar baby.
During its hour and eighteen minute run time, Shiva Baby tackles so much at once outside escorting. It touches on infidelity, anxiety about the future, familial expectations; it's a lot to absorb. The film juggles all these topics gracefully, capturing them realistically and in-depth. Something intriguing the movie alluded to was the homophobia Debbie (Polly Draper) holds. While making more of an effort than some parents do to be supportive of their child's sexuallity, she's far from what healthy support looks like. (Take for example, Lila at the end of her arc in Better Than Chocolate) Debbie might not be outwardly confrontational and upset about her daughter's queerness, but does take on a passive aggressive tone toward it. She clearly doesn't take Danielle's bisexuality seriously and makes a plethora of insensitive comments. Her dismissiveness is even present in the pep talk she gives Danielle while the girl has a mental breakdown. Besides affirming to her that she'll have a promising job in the future, Debbie also mentions how Danielle will "meet a great man and fall in love," showing disregard for her daughter's identity. In that way, the dynamic is true to life, presenting a more nuanced take on modern reactions to queerness than black and white homophobia or utmost acceptance. As a matter of fact, all aspects the film speaks of are presented without clear answers. Just as in real life, there are rarely any concrete rights or wrongs. Instead, there's various grey amongst a sea of differing opinions and choices people make, so vastly different from person to person. That's a major reason I appreciate the movie's take on sex workers. It doesn't try to moralize the matter, rather represent grittier factors.
Debbie condescendingly dismissing Danielle's bisexual orientation, saying she thought her daughter was done "experimenting".
Shiva Baby is a well-made film, but I don't understand the character's motivations. Obviously, Danielle is mortified by the revelation Max has a wife and daughter. So why then does she send a topless picture to him (an action that in the film's pinnacle scene is her undoing) and later attempt to go down on him? Conceivably it was a grasp at power, to still feel in control of the situation? It's not conveyed clearly enough. This may be the film showing her acting irrationally out of desperation, but I find it unbelievable that someone would genuinely think those actions would end well. It's not the choices I would personally make in that scenario, so perhaps my take is clouded. It could make more sense than I'm giving it credit for in the eyes of a different viewer.
I rate Shiva Baby an Incluvie score of 5/5! The storyline is woman centered (specifically a Jewish woman), and the main character is bisexual or pansexual. Sex work is also a major theme, which is often automatically demonized in narrative. The film manages to treat the topic respectfully.
As a general movie score, I rate Shiva Baby a 4/5! The atmosphere is so intense, one can't help but look away! The acting and dialogue flow so fluidly; it feels as if you're viewing real events being played back to you. The score is phenomenal and aids many scenes! I was nonetheless perplexed at character rationales, which took me out of the moment when such scenes arose.
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Kadeem Green raises to dunk the ball.
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Best team in the country? Ram right
In Editorial January 27, 2016 Leave a Comment
By Chris Blanchette
Aaron Best raised his arms as the buzzer rang throughout the Mattamy Athletic Centre.
This time, not for a game-winning shot, or the three-point shot for which he has become so known, but to celebrate history — a milestone in his five-year career as a member of the Ryerson men's basketball team.
As the Rams exited the court, embracing one another, it became clear that this was not just another season for a Ryerson program that had spent its first 25 years unable to reach double-digits in the wins column.
And with the CIS confirming Tuesday the Rams are ranked as the best team in the country, emotions are high.
As Best held his arms high in the foreground of a gym, lit brightly by a scoreboard that read Ryerson: 87 – Ottawa: 80, it felt for the first time that this team really had proven last year's success was no fluke.
That if anything, the third-place finish in the CIS championships was a sign of better things to come.
"We're not content. Our goal isn't to be number one, it's to stay number one and win a national championship," said Ryerson forward, Jean-Victor Mukama, who was responsible for the game sealing steal in Ryerson's win over Ottawa.
Ryerson made a statement by taking down the second-ranked Carleton Ravens for the first time since the 2000 season, defeating the first place Ottawa Gee-Gees the next night.
When the final buzzer had sounded and Drake's "Back-to-Back" boomed over the gym speakers, those first 25 years of suffering could not have felt more distant.
However, in order to acknowledge last weekend's success, the preseason questions that surrounded the team must be acknowledged as well.
Back in August, Ryerson head coach Roy Rana announced that he would be taking a sabbatical from the team for the 2015-16 season.
This meant that Patrick Tatham, who had been on the Rams' coaching staff since 2011, would assume Rana's old duties and become interim head coach.
On top of the coaching change, the Rams also lost key players in Jahmal Jones, Jordon Gauthier, Bjorn Michaelsen and Kadeem Green.
Despite the third-place CIS finish a year prior (the best in school history), Ryerson headed into the preseason and new year with an interim head coach, a crop of untested talent and a medley of questions that would need to be answered with important roles to fill.
In Ryerson's OUA home opener, they narrowly defeated the University of Toronto thanks to a buzzer beating layup by Juwon Grannum. Despite a shaky start to the season, Tatham was nothing short of confident in his team.
"I don't want to place any expectations on this team as far as championships go, but I can tell you that this team is definitely champion- ship caliber," Tatham said in November, after the home opener.
The Rams went on to finish the first half of the season with a 4-1 record, their only loss coming at the hands of the Windsor Lancers.
The second half of the season has seen the Rams rattle off four-straight wins. On top of the wins against Carleton and Ottawa, they have also defeated Queen's, which allowed them to gain sole possession of first in the OUA East.
A big help in these wins has been the return of big men Adam Voll and Green — who originally opted not to play this season but missed the sport and returned to the team a week ago. Their presence has aided the Rams inside, both in scoring and rim protection.
Ryerson is playing its best basketball of the season and as for where the team is headed, it seems that Tatham's preseason predictions were accurate.
"I told him (Rana) that this was going to be a pretty good team. It was just a matter of getting the young guys to play the Ryerson way," said Tatham.
In their next game the Rams will get another shot at third-ranked Brock on Feb. 3, who they lost 92-83 to in the preseason.
In addition to this season's success, it seems they are already finding a way to build towards the future. The Rams recently landed the Waterloo Warriors transfer Myles Charvis. According to Ta- tham, it was Charvis who reached out to Ryerson after Rana decided to go on sabbatical.
Tatham said that Ryerson shied away from Charvis when he was still in high school because guard and recent graduate Jahmal Jones was still in his third year.
Charvis averaged 20.3 points per game over 20 games in 2014-15 for Waterloo. He's a solid scorer with three years of eligibility left and will add even more depth to the Ryerson bench.
"He (Miles) had said yes long before this all happened," Tatham said. "He reached out to us after Roy mentioned leaving. The whole thing was sporadic really."
While seemingly a simple gesture, Best raising his arms encapsulates a quarter century of sweat and struggle. And as the collective Rams fanbase cheers on arguably the best team the program has ever seen, it's important to note that what they make look easy takes hours of dedicated repetition.
And riding high as only the best team in the country can, the Ryerson Rams men's basketball team will now turn their sights to the the pinnical of their sport — a national championship.


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Pursuant to subsection 217(1) of The Municipalities Act, notice is hereby given that the assessment roll for the Rural Municipality of Sherwood No. 159 for the year 2022 has been prepared and is open to inspection of the Assessor during regular office hours from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on the following days:
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A bylaw pursuant to section 214 of The Municipalities Act has been passed and the assessment notices have been sent as required.
Any person wishing to discuss the notice of assessment or potential appeal may contact the Assessor at the Rural Municipality of Sherwood No. 159, PO Box 40029 Grasslands PO, 4400 Campbell St., Regina, SK, S4W 0L3. A notice of appeal, accompanied by an appeal fee which will be returned if the appeal is successful, must be filed with the:
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If we want to get serious about emissions, we have to look at trucking
Jason Tchir
Special to The Globe and Mail
Published September 25, 2019 Updated September 24, 2019
To cut greenhouse gas emissions, we can't keep on trucking like we have been, a UBC professor says.
"Since 2007, we've seen an almost 5-per-cent decrease in carbon dioxide emissions from passenger cars, but emissions from transport trucks have actually increased by nearly 14 per cent," says Walter Merida, director of the Clean Energy Research Centre at the University of British Columbia. "That's because Canada is a trading nation and a lot of our economy depends on the transportation of goods across very long distances."
In British Columbia, transporting freight on the road contributes to about 13 per cent of all greenhouse gas emissions.
The province has set a target to slash its total emissions from all sources by 80 per cent by 2050. To meet that, the trucking sector will have to cut its emissions by 64 per cent by 2040.
That means we'll need electric pickup trucks. But we'll also need electric big rigs – and we don't have any yet.
Companies, including Tesla and Volvo, say they're working on battery-powered semis. But batteries don't make sense for long-haul transport because they're too heavy, Merida says.
"In Canada, a truck with a full load is typically moving 25 to 30 metric tons over 600 or 700 kilometres between refuelling," Merida says. "You can't do that with batteries at the moment because you're carrying the dead weight of this battery just to move the vehicle."
One estimate suggests that a battery to power a semi over long distances would have to weigh more than 11 tons.
"Battery technology is relatively mature, so unless we have some sort of incredible breakthrough, I don't see any big decreases in battery size," Merida says.
So, how can we get Doritos across the country without producing CO2? With hydrogen.
Fuel for debate?
"When you have something big and heavy, you almost always end up needing a chemical fuel," Merida says. "The fuel of choice for the space shuttle was hydrogen, not gas or electricity."
Whether hydrogen is used in a fuel cell or burnt in an internal combustion engine, the only thing produced is water, Merida says. Plus, there's no waiting to charge.
"You can fill up it he same way you fill up with diesel now," Merida says.
Because of those benefits, there are at least 20,000 hydrogen fuel-cell fork lifts used in warehouses across the United States.
But there aren't any fuel-cell transport trucks yet. Nikola, an American company, is trying to get hydrogen fuel-cell semis on the road, along with a network of stations to fuel them, by 2022. Hyundai also announced last year that it will sell 1,000 fuel-cell trucks in Switzerland.
But for now, fuel-cell vehicles are absent from most Canadian roads. We only have a handful of stations, and they're only in British Columbia and Quebec. They were also built with light-duty vehicles in mind.
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Posts Tagged 'Mexico'
Books | Architecture Beyond Belief
Capilla Abierta de la Gratitud /
Gratitude Open Chapel
by Tatiana Bilbao Studio +
Dellekamp Arquitectos
Landscape of Faith
Interventions Along the
Mexican Pilgrimage Route
Edited by Tatiana Bilbao Estudio.
Photographs by Iwan Baan.
Paperback + jacket,
320 pages, 202 images,
English + Spanish text.
Mirador Espinoza del Diabolo /
Espinoza del Diabolo Lookout Point
by ELEMENTAL
El Camino de Santiago in Spain, Kumano Kodo in Japan, the Middle East's Abraham Path and The Pilgrims' Way in England: often enduring extremely arduous conditions, pious travellers around the world have walked, crawled and shuffled on their knees, along these famous pilgrimage routes for many hundreds of years.
But in Mexico where, every year, three million people trek the 117 kilometres of La Ruta del Peregrino (The Pilgrim's Route), over the isolated and rugged terrain that stretches from Ameca to Talpa de Allende, to visit the site where the Virgin is alleged to have appeared in the 17th century, the pilgrims weren't happy. For a start, the trail was badly marked; and while they were content to bear their crosses with equanimity, there were no proper resting places and they didn't see why they should continue having to put up with unsanitary conditions and the absence of fresh drinking water.
After decades of complaints, in 2008, the government finally acted. To appease the wayfarers, a project was launched with the initial aim of furnishing them with better conditions. Nine local and international architecture studios – Godoylab, Tatiana Bilbao Studio, Dellekamp Arquitectos, Christ & Gantenbien, Ai Wei Wei + Fake Design, Luis Aldrete, HHF Architects, ELEMENTAL, Rozana Montiel, Estudio Arquitectura – were invited to create infrastructural interventions along the route.
The iconic structures that resulted, provided people with places to rest and reflect. The aggrandisement of the journey and its rituals, however, was also intended to broaden its appeal thereby attracting an audience that might include more secular visitors, whose spending on local goods and services would help the government to achieve its bigger goal of boosting the area's economy.
Ermita Las Majadas /
Las Majadas Hermitage
by Tatiana Bilbao Studio
Mirador Los Guayabos /
Los Guayabos Lookout Point
by HHF Architects
Mirador Cerro del Obispo /
Cerro del Obispo Lookout Point
by Christ & Gantenbein
Vacio Circular / Void Temple
by Dellakamp Arquetitos +
Rozana Montiel
The vertical, chunky format of Landscape of Faith falls somewhere between that of a guidebook and a missal but whereas either of those would be chock-a-block with dense text, here words are confined to a short, general introduction, a concise essay on pilgrimage and brief descriptions of each separate project (plus an arcane prose poem by Verónica Gerber Bicecci), allowing generous space for Dutch photographer Iwan Baan's pictures.
Bahn (b 1975) produces work for the world's top architectural practices – SANAA, Herzog & de Meuron, OMA, Tadao Ando and Toyo Ito are among his regular clients. His appeal lies in his unique ability to focus on the connection between architecture and the surrounding environment, including those who populate it. In this instance, it could be said that he has done such a comprehensive job as to render an excursion to the isolated Mexican site, for all but the most penitent sinner or devout architecture groupie, almost unnecessary.
As the book reveals, when questioned, those who do go there appear to value the architectural structures less for their aesthetic merit than for the functional services they now provide and for the plentiful supply of flat surfaces on which they can leave commemorative graffiti.
Landscape of Faith is published this month by Lars Müller Publishers.
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Exhibitions | Josef (& Anni) Albers' Homage to Mexico
Detail of stonework,
Mitla, c1937
Gelatin silver print.
The Josef and Anni
Albers Foundation
Josef Albers in Mexico
Solomon R Guggenheim Museum
New York City | USA
> 18 February 2018
Study for Homage to
the Square: Consent, 1971
Oil on Masonite.
Solomon R Guggenheim
Museum, New York.
Gift, The Josef
Albers Foundation, Inc,
Josef and Anni Albers liked to travel. Between 1927 and 1933 when the Bauhaus – where he was professor of art and design and she taught weaving – was officially closed and their move to the USA, the pair had visited Tenerife in the Canary Islands, Barcelona in Spain, Avignon, Biarritz, and Paris in France, and Geneva and Ascona in Switzerland. No sooner had they arrived in America than they took a trip to Cuba, before, in 1935, they packed their bags for the first of their eventual fourteen visits to Mexico and Latin America.
In truth the German-born duo had known far more about Central and South America than they did about the United States, having fallen in love with the pre-Columbian art they saw in the collections of German museums. Once Josef was established in a teaching post at the newly founded Black Mountain College in North Carolina, they took advantage of their first opportunity – he even learned to drive just so they could make the journey – to go to Mexico.
Untitled (Great Pyramid,
Tenayuca, Mexico), c1940
Gift, The Josef and
Anni Albers Foundation
Prismatic II, 1936
composition panel.
'For the Albers, art and the visual had to be everywhere in your life, and in Mexico, art was everywhere,' Josef & Anni Albers Foundation director Nicholas Fox Weber, who knew the couple, was quoted as saying in a fascinating article on the Artsy website in January of this year, 'They felt that people there were living with visual flair, even if they were living in simple huts – the jewellery that women wore, the serapes, the blankets, the earthenware pottery. They just felt that it was the most natural thing in the world in Mexico to make the visual environment beautiful, which was the dream of the Bauhaus.'
Over the years, the couple amassed a collection of around 1,400 objects, some dating back as far as 1200 BC, including 16th century Aztec pottery as well as ancient and modern Mexican textiles.
In its forthcoming show the Guggenheim has chosen to focus exclusively on the influence Mexico exerted on Josef Albers' (1888 > 1976) work.
Variant / Adobe,
Orange Front, 1948–58
Foundation, Gift,
The Josef and Anni Albers
Foundation in honour
of Philip Rylands for his
continued commitment
to the Peggy Guggenheim
Collection 97.4555
Untitled (Uxmal,
Mexico), c1940
Museum, New York,
'Mexico is truly the promised land of abstract art,' Josef wrote to his former Bauhaus colleague Wassily Kandinsky. Although he never simply appropriated what he saw, the influence Josef derived from pre-Columbian art, objects and architecture is clear in the spirit in which he arranged the geometric shapes in his paintings and also in his photographs. The same can be said of Anni's fabric and jewellery designs. The colours Josef saw while travelling around Latin America had a big impact on his palette too, just as they did on Anni's.
Josef Albers in Mexico at the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum will feature a selection of rarely seen early paintings from Albers' Homage to the Square and Variant / Adobe series, as well as a selection of works on paper, photographs and photo-collages, many of which have not been on public display.
All images artwork and photographs by Josef Albers, © 2017 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, courtesy Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York
Tags: Bauhaus, Josef Albers, Josef Albers in Mexico, Mexico, New York City, Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, USA
Sculpture | Ruth Asawa: Line as Form
Friday, May 3rd, 2013
Ruth Asawa: Objects & Apparitions
Christie's Private Sales
Exhibition 6th -31st May, 2013
Associated with the formulation of modernism, the concept of line as form is an ineffable paradox that was first explored at the Bauhaus in the 1920s and early 30s. Unlikely then, in 1947, for high-school graduate Ruth Asawa, to stumble upon a language that expressed the complex notion in the looped-wire baskets used for selling eggs in Mexico's markets. But the promising and curious student, born in 1926 of Japanese immigrant parents, who had grown up during The Great Depression and began studying drawing and painting with professional Japanese artists in the internment camps, where she and her family were confined during World War II, had already travelled to Mexico two years earlier to study Spanish and Mexican Art, and by the time her return visit came around had come under the influence of former Bauhaus master Josef Albers and architect Buckminster Fuller, both teachers at Black Mountain College in North Carolina, where she had enrolled. 'The artist must discover the uniqueness and integrity of the material', Albers had explained, and intrigued with the idea of experimenting with wire as a medium, Asawa began to loop and twist it in a similar fashion to the Mexican basket makers, producing 3D forms – essentially, drawings in space – made from a single continuous wire. 'I was interested in wire sculpture because of the economy of a line,' Asawa said, 'making something in space, enclosing it without blocking it out. It's still transparent.' Many of these sculptures were designed to be hung from the ceiling, and later Asawa hit upon the idea of creating transparent forms within the transparent forms, increasing the complexity and playfulness of her creations.
It wasn't until 1953 that Asawa began exhibiting her work – in the meantime having been married and given birth to two of the six children she would have by 1959 – in solo and group shows at the San Francisco Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of Modern Art and at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. By this time she had met and formed a life-long friendship with legendary photographer Imogen Cunningham (1883 -1976). Cunningham, famed for her images of flowers, nudes and industrial landscapes, sensitively captured the sublime lightness and fluidity of Asawa's work in still life compositions. She produced many pictures of the artist working, as well portraits in which Asawa becomes an element inextricably enmeshed with the sculptural forms of her creations.
In the 1960s, Asawa received major commissions to make public art and in 1970, her work was exhibited in the American Pavilion at the Osaka World's Fair. So well-established as an artist was she by the early 70s that her sculpture and paintings began being shown in a string of retrospectives at important US venues – San Francisco Museum of Art (1973), Fresno Art Center (1978 and 2001). Asawa is reprented by the Rena Bransten Gallery in San Francisco. Virtually unknown in Europe, in New York, her work can be found in major collections including that of the Solomon R Guggenheim and Whitney Museum of American Art; Objects & Apparations is her first major solo show in the city in over 50 years. Forty-eight works, including sculpture and works on paper – for sale or for private loan – will be presented in a show that takes place in the elevated setting of the 20th floor of 1230 Avenue of the Americas, at Rockefeller Center. Christie's will offer the sculpture Untitled, above, from the Ruth Asawa Family Collection at their May 15th Post-War and Contemporary Art evening sale.
Imogen Cunningham photographs from top
Ruth Asawa, Sculptor, 1956
(Ruth Holding a Form-Within-Form, 1952)
Hanging, six-lobed, multi-layered continuous form within a form
Estimate $250-350,000 (£160-225,000)
Ruth Asawa 2, 1957
All photos: archive pictures ©Imogen Cunningham
Courtesy Christie's New York
Tags: Bauhaus, Black Mountain College, Buckminster Fuller, Christie's Private Sales, Christies, Imogen Cunningham, Josef Albers, Mexico, New York, New York City, Ruth Asawa, San Francisco, World War II
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Who's Moving: WaterAid, Unicef UK, Shaw Trust and more
04 Nov 2019 News
Ndidi Okezie, chief executive of UK Youth
The Family Holiday Association has appointed Kat Lee as its new chief executive. Lee is joining from Girlguiding, where she was head of youth programmes.
Philippa Harris, chair of trustees, said: "We are delighted that Kat has agreed to join us to drive that change for the future. Her experience supporting girls to achieve at Girlguiding coupled with her energy and outlook reflects our ambition for the future of the Family Holiday Association."
Lee said: "I am delighted to be joining The Family Holiday Association as CEO. The charity has a proud history of supporting the families who need it most to take a break, connect with one another and make memories they can treasure forever. I am looking forward to working with staff and partners to enable many more families to step away from the challenges of daily life and have fun together on a much-needed break."
She will take over as chief executive at the Family Holiday Association on 6 January 2020.
UK Youth has appointed Ndidi Okezie as new chief executive.
Unicef UK has appointed Nick Roseveare MBE as its interim executive director. He has previously held permanent chief executive roles at the Mines Advisory Group (MAG) and at Bond, and an interim role at The Children's Society.
He started at Unicef UK on 30 October and will remain in post until a permanent executive director is confirmed.
Roseveare said: "I am absolutely delighted to be asked to lead Unicef UK through this important transition period. I am keen to maintain momentum and help to accelerate progress on key projects and processes for next year and support all colleagues to feel empowered to bring their best energies and expertise to their roles."
Children's Hospices Across Scotland (CHAS) has appointmented Rami Okasha as its chief executive, following Maria McGill's decision to retire this year.
Okasha will take up the post on 31 January 2020. Okasha is currently the director of transformation and innovation at CHAS.
Okasha said: "CHAS is a truly magical organisation that supports children and families going through the hardest of times. It is an extraordinary honour, both personally and professionally, to be asked to lead the team and to succeed Maria McGill."
George Reid, chair of CHAS, said: "Rami was appointed by the board after an extensive search, attracting high-calibre candidates from across the UK. I am personally delighted by this appointment and know that Rami will continue to ensure that CHAS works effectively with all of its partners across Scotland. Maria and Rami will be working closely on transition during the months ahead."
Carers Trust has appointed Gareth Howells as its new chief executive. He begins in December 2019, after he leaves Carers Trust South East Wales, from the chief executive post he has held since July 2015.
Howells has held senior management positions within the Mind network, housing, local government and the private sector. He was also a young carer himself.
He said: "I'm passionate about the rights of unpaid carers and having been a young carer myself, I understand first-hand the unique challenges and pressures carers face. I'm looking forward to working with our trustees, our staff, our network partners and unpaid carers to improve support, services and recognition for unpaid carers across the UK."
Shaw Trust has made Stephen King its chief finance officer.
He has worked with housing associations including Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing, Watford Community House and Clapham Park Homes.
Chris Luck, Shaw Trust's chief executive said: "We are delighted to have attracted Stephen to Shaw Trust to take on this substantial role within the organisation. We currently manage and deliver major contracts supporting vulnerable and socially isolated people, we are responsible to them to ensure we perform, and Stephen's role ensuring we have fiscal accountability for taxpayer's money is vital."
Kathleen Kelly has been made director of collaboration to lead new place-based initiative LocalMotion.
She previously led the development of the National Lottery Community Fund's partnership funding approach and was assistant director of communities and social policy at the Greater London Authority.
She said: "I'm excited to get started on a project which will give local communities a much-needed lift. Many communities are facing increasingly difficult circumstances, with the charities that support them having to pick up the pieces of a broken system in the context of an increasing squeeze on their funding".
Fundraising, policy and communications
Erin Segilia Chase has joined CARE International UK as executive director for fundraising, partnerships and communications.
She joins from Catalyst Consulting Group, where she served as a global director and head of the philanthropy practice. She has held senior roles at New York University, The Legal Aid Society, and The American Cancer Society, and served as director of Philanthropy at Impetus – The Private Equity Foundation. She is a member of the board of trustees of International Alert, Center for Civilians in Conflict and the Global Leadership Board of Seeds of Peace.
Laurie Lee, chief executive of CARE International UK, said: "We are all excited to welcome Erin, who is a senior leader with great experience in philanthropy, fundraising and international justice. She will help our teams take risks, and try new things, in fundraising and impact investing.
"She will help CARE's #March4Women, lendwithcare and market-leading private sector engagement fulfil their amazing potential."
Gemma Hope will join Leonard Cheshire as director of policy. She has spent the last decade with the Shaw Trust.
She said: "I've long admired Leonard Cheshire because of its commitment to evidence-based research and innovative approaches to improving the lives of disabled people, in the United Kingdom and across the world. I'm also particularly excited about working with international partners like the UN and World Bank."
The Prime Minister has appointed Catherine Goodman, Lord Tony Hall and Stuart Roden as trustees at the National Gallery for four years from 1 November 2019 to 31 October 2023.
Goodman is director of the Royal Drawing School. She trained at Camberwell School of Arts & Crafts and at the Royal Academy Schools for her MA.
Hall is the editorial, operational and creative leader of the BBC. He is responsible for the BBC's public service, as well as its commercial operations, in the UK and around the world. He took up the post in April 2013. In January 2019, He was also appointed president of the European Broadcasting Union. He was chief executive of the Royal Opera House from 2001-2013.
Until January 2019, Roden was chairman of Lansdowne Partners and chairman of the management committee having previously co-managed the developed markets funds since their inception in 2001. He is non-executive chairman of Hetz Ventures and a trustee of The Centre for Social Justice, Jewish Care and The Rabbi Sacks Foundation.
Greenfingers Charity has appointed Sue Allen as a trustee. She is the founder of Millbrook Garden Centres, sits on the board of trustees for the Garden Centre Association and is chairman of the GCA Trust.
She said: "Having been involved with Greenfingers from the very early days, when the first ever garden was created at Demelza House in Kent, I am delighted to now feel able to give my time and energy to the charity once more as a trustee. Having spent many years on the management committee, it is a bit like coming home, although that home has seen great expansion and lots of improvements and is now a much larger, higher profile charity."
WaterAid has appointed four new trustees.
The new trustees are Alyson Clark, Harpinder Collacott, Guido Schmidt Traub and Hilary Wild. The trustees retiring are Anna Segall and Peter Newman.
Tim Wainwright, chief executive for WaterAid, said: "We are thrilled to welcome four members to WaterAid's board of trustees this October. Our new trustees bring a wealth of knowledge and a range of valuable expertise, with experience of different sectors from development, to energy and climate."
Clark has been a legal adviser in private practice with Clifford Chance, and since 1996 at GE, a leading global high-tech industrial company. Collacott has led Development Initiatives, an organisation providing data-driven analysis to support poverty eradication, as executive director since 2015. She is also a trustee of Bond.
Traub is executive director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Wild is a chartered accountant and has a portfolio of independent roles within international organisations, specialising in financial management, audit, risk and governance.
Cancer Research UK has appointed two new trustees who will join in January 2020. They are Professor Moira Whyte and Professor Nic Jones.
Jones is director of strategic initiatives at the Manchester Cancer Research Centre. Whyte was formerly director of the Medical Research Council. She is a member of the MRC Strategy Board and chair of the MRC Training and Careers Group.
Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, chair of Cancer Research UK, said: "I am delighted to welcome Nic and Moira to our governing council. They have extensive expertise in biomedical research and clinical leadership which will be invaluable to Cancer Research UK in furthering our mission of beating cancer sooner".
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How to Enjoy Museums With Kids
Jennifer Marino Walters September 6, 2021 Leave a comment
National Air and Space Museum (Smithsonian photo by Jim Preston)
Museums across the country are starting to reopen after being forced to close during the pandemic. Many of them, such as Baltimore's Port Discovery Children's Museum, Philadelphia's Please Touch Museum and the National Children's Museum in Washington, D.C., are geared just for kids. But "grown-up" museums can be as fun and engaging for children with a little planning and preparation on your part.
Explore these expert tips on how to successfully visit — and dare we say, enjoy — museums with your kids.
Consider everyone's interests
You can find a museum to fit almost any interest. Is your child a budding astronaut? Try the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. Does she love trains? Baltimore's B&O Railroad Museum is a good bet. Consider your interests as well, as your enthusiasm can rub off on your kids.
Or pick a museum based on what your child is learning about in school, even if he doesn't seem into it. "Sometimes magic can happen in unexpected places," says Beth Maloney, director of interpretation at the Baltimore Museum of Industry.
Work out the logistics
Visit the museum's website and figure out all the details ahead of time. How will you get there? How long will it take? Are you allowed to eat inside? If so, can you purchase food on-site or will you need to bring your own? Is the museum wheelchair or stroller accessible? Are bags allowed inside? What are the COVID-19 and masking policies? Be sure to also check what days and times the museum is open, as many have limited hours due to COVID-19 or are closed on certain days of the week.
Discuss proper behavior
"Talk with your kids about 'Museum Manners' — quiet voices and bodies, touch only what you are allowed to and be respectful of other visitors," says Sarah Erdman, a museum consultant with Cabinet of Curiosities in Northern Virginia. "Kids can absolutely be joyful and excited about what they see, but they should behave more like they are visiting a library than a playground."
Set up a game plan
Explore the museum's website with your kids and have them choose which exhibits they most want to see or programs they want to participate in. This involvement will help get them excited for the visit and ensure you fit in what they most want to do.
Steven F Udvar-Hazy Center (Smithsonian photo by Mark Avino)
Meter your expectations
"You will not see the whole museum, and you may not have this deep philosophical discussion about the meaning of art — and that's OK," says Erdman. "If you and your children enjoy your time together and they want to visit again, that is a win! If they see one thing that has an impact on them, learn something new, or have a new idea about something, that is a successful visit."
Let your kids be your guides
Give your children a map of the museum and let them be in charge of your route, but don't get too set on a specific order. "Museums are different from books. You can explore them in multiple ways," says Maloney. "It's OK to jump around."
Get interactive
"Children learn really well through hands-on experiences, which is why interactive exhibits are so popular with families," says Erdman.
While more and more museums are offering hands-on and multimedia exhibits, some of these features may be temporarily closed due to COVID-19. But there are many ways to create interaction yourself. Most museums allow you to take photos or sketch with pencils. Younger kids may enjoy playing "I Spy" or looking for specific things, such as finding all the dogs in a painting.
"My kids and I will imagine we are furnishing a house and pick the pieces that we want in there, or make up stories about the things we are seeing," Erdman says.
Have your children think about how the objects are presented, such as why certain pieces might be grouped together or whether a painting would look different in a different frame. Older kids and teens can discuss how the museum presents certain topics and what it's leaving out. Does the science museum discuss climate change? Does a historic house talk about the enslaved people that lived there?
Know your family's limits
"There is something called 'museum fatigue,'" warns Maloney. "Tune in to everyone's feelings and know when to call it a day. It's about the quality of time you spend at the museum, not the quantity." Be sure to take plenty of breaks.
Discuss what everyone learned and enjoyed. Ask your kids if there's anything they're still curious about or want to learn more about on a future visit.
Do more research
Visit the museum's website, check out books from the library or watch YouTube videos to learn more about what you saw.
Use any photos you took or drawings your kids created to make a collage, a scrapbook page or a pretend museum.
Plan your next visit
Talk to your kids about which museum they'd like to visit next, or what they'd like to see during your next visit to the same museum.
And remember: Be present, be flexible and enjoy your time together. "Visiting a museum as a family is as much about the time spent together as about what you see," says Maloney. "I still remember visiting a museum with my grandma when I was a little kid."
This story first appeared in our September 2021 issue.
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Jennifer Marino Walters is a freelance writer specializing in parenting and lifestyle topics. She is also the author of 12 books for children, with two more on the way. Jennifer lives in Burke, Virginia with her husband and three children. When she's not writing, she loves to explore the D.C. area with her family!
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MLM077: Engine or Anchor? 0
In this episode, I challenge you to consider if you are the engine driving your business forward and leading, or the anchor holding the business back because of your fears.
[:25] Jennifer wants you to consider if you are the engine or the anchor in your business.
[:44] As loan officers, we may think that we are the engine.
[1:02] Are you also the anchor that is pulling the business back, and not allowing it to breathe and move forward?
[2:10] Your highest and best use is edu-selling — learn to let go of the other, smaller things.
[2:45] Do spend some time this week to ask yourself if you are the engine moving your business forward and leading, or the anchor that's keeping your business back because of your fears.
[3:11] Jennifer is writing a book that will be released in mid-April — listen in to hear what she has to say about it, and do support her by purchasing and reading it!
MLM076: Six Steps to Seven Figures 0
In this episode, I get to sit down with Pat Hiban, who has been very successful in the real estate industry in the last few years. As a published author, Pat shares with us some steps to put us on the path to success, and other insights to the industry!
[:30] Jennifer introduces her guest for this episode —
Pat Hiban.
[2:05] We have just seen some big changes like the inauguration, and rates have gone up. What is Pat's opinion on what he sees happening in the real estate market in 2017?
[6:27] Are we still going to have a seller's market?
[7:21] What is the difference between building horizontal lines of incomes, versus vertical lines of income?
[9:50] As a loan officer, what kind of advice would Pat be giving to loan officers to start the horizontal lines of income?
[12:15] If you need to start doing something other than being a loan officer, where do you start? What would be the first thing that Pat would recommend for you to do?
[13:21] What are the six steps to seven figures? Pat explains the concepts he provides in his book.
[16:51] It is important to have mentors. Where would someone just starting out find mentors?
[18:41] What are the other 4 steps to seven figures?
[23:45] What else can Pat share with us about success? What is something that drives Pat nuts about why people are not successful?
[24:52] What is something that holds people back from success?
[25:53] Looking back at his real estate success, what are some tips and strategies that Pat has, to bridge that gap between knowing you need to follow up, and actually doing it?
[27:38] What did Pat look for in a loan officer?
[29:04] How do loan officers crack a nut like Pat?
[30:30] In what way are your loan officers helping your business, other than just getting the job done.
[32:20] What else would Pat like to share?
[35:46] Leave Jennifer a review on iTunes!
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In this episode, I get to sit down with Jason Treu, of Jason Treu Coaching. He is a leading expert in human behavior, and shares with us some great insight into building strong, meaningful, productive, and lasting relationships. Tune in to hear more!
[:39] Jennifer introduces her guest for today —
Jason Treu.
[1:20] How do we really, truly develop a relationship with someone? What are the follow-up steps to develop strong relationships with people we like?
[4:45] The refrain "It's important to go deeper," is overused now, because nobody understands how. What are the steps to go deeper?
[7:30] What kind of advice can Jason give about the questions we should be asking?
[11:47] There is a fine line between active listening and trying to build rapport. How can we balance that?
[17:20] Loan officers have some barriers and stigma to overcome — that people don't want to talk to loan officers!
[19:03] How long should the ideal meeting be? In short meetings, how do we get to the crucial part of talking about us?
[22:52] It's great to ask about someone's passions and interests, but you have to direct that toward business questions too.
[23:42] Look at really successful people. Find out what they are doing! Then, do that!
[25:44] Jennifer always says "Don't hide behind keyboard confidence." How do we continually perpetuate a personal relationship with a contact?
[30:14] Would Jason recommend trying to help a client in all areas, or just focus on one area at a time?
[33:37] What are some of the secrets to working a room to create extraordinary relationships?
[39:25] The key is you have to be in the right room, to get the right results and relationships.
[41:40] One of the key things about going to a networking event, is knowing why you're going there.
[46:03] Jason shares some projects he's really interested in! Also, be sure to check out Jason's website for lots of great resources!
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MLM074: Write Notes! 0
Writing notes is crucial to your business. In this episode, I share some tips about writing notes to just about everyone. It's really not that hard!
[:31] Jennifer has been getting a lot of questions about writing notes. It's extremely important to your business to write notes!
[3:45] It's great to send emails immediately after a meeting, but if you send a note, and it arrives a few days after the meeting, you bring yourself to the top of mind, just as they're beginning to forget about you. And, it makes people smile!
[5:35] When you have note writing as part of your system and process, other people can write your notes for you, based on the way you write notes.
[7:35] Jennifer gives us three things to help up write good notes. 1) Use blue ink, not black. 2) The first sentence should be about the meeting you had with them. 3) The second sentence should be complimentary. 3) The last sentence should be an action sentence.
[11:05] Try to set up the second meeting at the first meeting! You need to have more meetings if you're really excited about working with someone.
[12:52] Your referral partners need to like you, trust you and know you — you need to work on building that trust once you meet someone you like.
[15:42] Writing notes can make an unbelievable, significant impact on your business. Jennifer shares a personal anecdote.
[17:46] Who does Jennifer write thank you notes to? Just about everybody!
[20:07] Don't make writing notes difficult. You're not writing an essay; you're not writing a love letter!
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MLM073: Get In Touch With Your Money Feelings! 0
In this episode, I get to sit down with Joan Sotkin, the founder of Prosperity Place. As practitioners in the mortgage lending space, we make a lot of money, but also experience lots of ups and downs. Tune in as Joan shares the reasons behind this, and how to overcome it!
[:30] Jennifer welcomes her guest for this episode —
Joan Sotkin.
[1:20] Jennifer tells us about Joan. For over 25 years, Joan has helped entrepreneurs and practitioners use their inner resources and practical techniques to experience freedom from personal and professional financial struggles.
[2:04] Where does the disconnect happen that mortgage practitioners don't look at their business as a business, and end up in the red so often?
[6:20] Loan officers can even be considered mini lottery winners!
[6:48] Your perception of yourself influences how you manage your wealth.
[9:13] What are some external factors that are affecting our thoughts about money, and how we perceive money, as related to the competition?
[14:33] What are some self-talk strategies you can employ to give yourself a quick pep talk?
[17:10] It's a lot about understanding that you can't be like others, and you shouldn't expect to be.
[17:30] Joan shares her Power Word Technique, a way of reprogramming your subconscious.
[20:06] What are some suggestions Joan has for us, to start making decisions that we are going to take care of our money, and find out our emotions, and how to control them?
[20:20] Joan has an offer for you! You can get her courses Financial Freedom Formula — A Holistic Approach to Success and Simple Meditation for Busy Entrepreneurs, at a discounted rate!
[21:17] Joan talks about the five key ways to improve your relationship with money.
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[26:41] It's important to make real connections with clients, not just with their money. And to do that, you need to be comfortable with yourself.
[28:23] What does Joan consider to be the bottom line action a person needs to take, to build a strong foundation in their business?
[32:06] Jennifer shares some of her own personal strategies to save. One of the most important tips — Pay yourself a salary!
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Last month marked another tradition from my husband's family that I am likely to embrace. This one is not a hard sell except for the mosquitos but it was a warm, wet spring which might not be the case ever year, right? The tradition is: Mount Cardigan. My husband, his siblings, and his parents spent parts of many summers at the Appalachian Mountain Club Cardigan Lodge in New Hampshire. They would rent two platform tents, one for the parents and one for the children. The platform tents have been discontinued which is a good thing. I heard they were moldy and drippy when it rained. You can still pitch your own tent just beyond the lodge, though, or hike two miles up to the High Cabin. We stayed in the lodge proper in a private bunk room with shared bath for a few nights.
One of the activities we completed at the lodge a pond study with Katie, one of the naturalists on staff during our stay. Our family of four were the only participants which made for an intimate and meandering lesson. Katie was a natural with our children. She has a great rapport with children in general; we had listened to her presentation on beavers the previous night. Outdoors she really shone. My son strode into the pond immediately and with encouragement from Katie and her dad, my daughter waded in and eventually became so absorbed she was chest deep in the water.
Katie talked about ponds in general and the pond at Cardigan specifically in terms of the wildlife we could expect to find there. Given the time of year, we could see various frogs and the red-spotted newt. We also observed the blue dasher dragonfly and a few other insects we could not identify. I liked that Katie was honest about what she did not know but she also worked with us to figure out an answer or to get closer to one. We learned that the dragonfly spends much of its life as an aquatic animal. When we see a dragonfly, it's in the final phase of its life. My son was adept at netting aquatic adults of the red-spotted newt. We had seen a terrestrial-bound juvenile on one of our hikes. It took a group effort to net a bullfrog. It's a quick and intimidating amphibian. We were less lucky when it came to the green frog.
Our aquatic study was pleasantly interrupted by a skirmish between blue jays and much smaller birds which I could not see clearly enough to identify. We had seen blue jays and cedar waxwings the day before in the same area but the second set of birds were too small to be waxwings. I really should purchase a pair of travel-light binoculars. We wrapped up the pond study exploring the transition area between the pond and the nature trail.
If Mt. Cardigan is accessible to you, I recommend a visit. I hope to write about the two at least one of the hikes we did during our stay. We did not hike to the summit but the there's much to see at lower elevations. If you have children under five and would like a guided experience, AMC offers a Wee Wanderers program.
I love this post! Family summer vacation traditions like this are wonderful to read, a total escape! I was in Northern NH last summer and that area is magical! I spent time at Shelburne Farms outside of Burlington where you could see the Adirondacks on the other side of Lake Champlain. I visited Hanover as well, where my host (who used to live in Hanover) described dusty summer through hikers coming off the Appalachian trail into town for a shower.
Thank you, Bryony! I appreciate your comments on the blog.
I definitely felt in need of afternoon showers after our little hikes so I can only imagine the state of those long-haul hikers. I definitely want to return next summer and maybe we'll add Burlington and Hanover to our list.
I realized later that Burlington is in Vermont! Ack! It is all gorgeous country.


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Q: ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid in PatientVisitDetailsController#auto_build I have models
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  belongs_to :procedure_code
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end

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class ProcedureCode < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :patient_visit_details, :dependent => :destroy
end

When I pass query for search record like
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Then following error comes
Mysql2::Error: Unknown column 'procedure_codes.type_code' in 'where clause': SELECT COUNT(*) FROM `patient_visit_details` WHERE `patient_visit_details`.`deleted_at` IS NULL AND (patient_visit_id > 0) AND `patient_visit_details`.`patient_visit_id` = 6 AND (procedure_codes.type_code IN (6,7))

The type_code is present in the database but still getting unknown column.

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Specifications: If you are bored of the common all-in-one Apple iMac desktops, you should consider getting the HP TouchSmart IQ526 desktop. It is much more than just a all-in-one desktop as it also features a touch-screen monitor. This model comes complete with a wireless mouse and keyboard.
The HP TouchSmart IQ526 desktop comes with a 2.2Ghz processor, 4GB of RAM and a whopping 640GB hard drive. For graphics, it is powered by a NVIDIA GeForce 9300GS graphics card. For connectivity, this model comes with 802.11b/g/b wi-fi, Bluetooth, 5 USB ports and a series of standard connectors. The 22-inch display is a touch-screen and has a 1440 x 900 resolution.
Design: Overall, the HP TouchSmart IQ526 desktop is generally black in color. The display/CPU unit measures at 4.3 x 26.2 x 19.4 inches and weighs around 35 pounds. The display/CPU unit leads backwards and is held up by a stand behind it, much like a picture frame. It rests on two tiny transparent stands on its side.
Features & Performance: The combination of powerful specs that includes a powerful graphics processor makes the HP TouchSmart IQ526 desktop competent desktop model for above average computing tasks. It was generally speedy and was flawless in running heavy applications. The touch-screen feature was very fun to use, but not as responsive as those on an iPhone or iPod touch. Nevertheless it was quick enough to be effective. The powerful specs, touch-screen feature and stylish (and slim) good looks make it a very versatile desktop. It would make a wonderful addition to the kitchen, living room or any workspace. Whether you are looking to get a stylish yet powerful desktop for work or play, the HP TouchSmart IQ526 desktop would make a good buy. It currently costs around $1096 each, a great price for an all-in-one desktop of this class.


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Interstellar Film Was Conceived by Theoretical Physicist Kip Thorne
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Fact: The 2014 Interstellar film was conceived by the same man who conceived Contact (Helen Hunt); Kip Thorne is a real life theoretical physicist. Steven Spielberg caught wind and immediately wanted the movie!
For those who know nothing about theoretical physics or more importantly theoretical physicist, Kip Thorne, is well-known for his contributions on gravitational physics and astrophysics and is a leading worlds experts on astrophysical implications on Eintein's general theory of relativity (Sorry if this doesn't peek your interest). Thorne is most well known for his theory on Wormholes (those that can be used to transport or for time travel). The movie Interstellar is loosely based off of a general concept of the new book Kip Thorne wrote called, "The Science of Interstellar."
But what is the movie Interstellar about?
Kip Thorne explains not only Spielberg, and the Nolan brothers, but the rest of us, what does Interstellar mean? The point of the movie is to attack the current situations on the planet and how human civilization is causing problems. In order for the species to survive, they must find another habitable planet using wormholes. McConaughey's character is important because the treacherous landscapes of various planets requires skilled pilot hands, which he has. The planet only has so much time left before it becomes uninhabitable. More so, the movie explains the reality of time dilation and space travel. The movie does its best to explain the laws of physics explained in Kip Thornes book, which deals with a multitude of physics concepts. But the most important two comes from physics time dilation (time change between observers; time can move faster or slower to the observer between distances) which is viewed while they land on other planets, and what occurs around in Black Holes.
Anyways, Christopher and Jonathan Nolan frequently talked with Thorne over the phone. In an interview with Scientific American, Thorne stated that it was very rare for him to have to explain in great detail what he was talking about. The Nolan brothers had done their homework. The movie presents a lot of physics that have been criticized by those not as well known to science. One of the biggest criticisms Thorne has dealt with had to do with the 'strength of ice.' He states,
"I have said this elsewhere, but there was one item in the film that troubled me in terms of the laws of physics, and that was the strength of ice not being sufficient to support the structures seen on one of the visited planets. Most places that have mentioned this, though, tend to leave out the second part of my statement, which is that if the strength of ice is the most egregious error in the film, we're doing pretty good!"
It's hard for the vast general public to come to grips with various laws of physics including the creation of black holes and time warps, especially when you have a movie like Interstellar that doesn't do necessarily the best job of explaining what it's talking about or dealing with. That is why it was suggested to other who want to understand more to get Kip Thorne's book.
Originally, to understand the comings of what many viewers dubbed 'the black hole film', Steven Spielberg moved his company "Dreamworks" from Paramount to The Walt Disney Company in 2009. From there, he ran into Jonathan Nolan who recommended his brother Christopher Nolan, who would become the director of the project. For this part, Christopher Nolan was paid $20 Million to direct the movie plus 20% of the movie gross…. (Ummmm… I am changing my career path). To research for this part, Christopher went to NASA and the SpaceX program.
Jonathan Nolan was asked by Spielberg to write the script to Interstellar, where Jon went to California Institute of Technology (where Kip Thorne taught and researched) to learn the science behind the content he would write. When casting came around, Christopher really wanted to take a look at Matthew McConaughey especially after his work in Mud. He believed that actor Matthew McConaughey had the acting chops for the part.
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Situated on the High Street in the heart of Harlesden, the staff at Dracula Restaurant are dedicated to bringing authentic Romanian cuisine to London, for those looking to try something different. Using fresh, high quality ingredients, Dracula Restaurant offer traditional Romanian dishes, including grilled meat and fish, as well as stews and Romanian side dishes. Decorated in true Romanian fashion, this warm, welcoming restaurant is the perfect place to bring friends and family to try a new cuisine.


Setting data free allows companies and individuals to develop analytical tools that figure out connections. Providing this through an open platform, with focus on collaborative work and user empowerment, provides a route towards products and solutions that have significant social impact.
The Digital Catapult Centre is a new initiative that seeks to unlock this big data potential, both with open sources and through providing a secure environment that allows proprietary corporate data to be released publicly. The Centre's aim is to drive economic growth in the UK, and help data innovators bring new products and services to market through building platforms and programmes.
One such platform under development is the Environmental Data Exchange (EDX), a free service that makes available reams of environmental data to help our society better understand the world around us, and enables innovative projects to help us reduce our environmental impact.
Current EDX sources include organisations such as the Met Office, DEFRA, the World Bank, the Environment Agency, the National Grid and DECC. An API for software development is on the way through the EDX roadmap, and the exchange is actively looking for new datasets to onboard and index.
The overall aim is to build and support a community of users around EDX who can advance ideas using valuable, accurate data. End users include start-ups that can use the information to work at speed with reduced risk, and focus resources on solving real, data-driven problems.
EDX is providing a valuable service that opens up data points on our environment – with massive potential for positive community results. The datasets are available through their website, so stop by, take a look, and see if any of them are useful.
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A whimsical way to add motion and light to the garden, this quirky penny farthing spinner features a rotating front wheel illuminated by 4 bright white LEDs.
Powered by solar panel, it needs no mains electric and can be placed anywhere in direct sunlight, where it will recharge by day and automatically switch on at night.
Includes spiked feet for easy installation into the lawn or border. Made from metal with a rustic brushed bronze-effect finish.


Twenty years ago, the majority of new accounts opened by banks were trust accounts, while only a small minority were advisory accounts. That has since flipped 180 degrees. Now, the majority of accounts are advisory, with only a small percentage being trust accounts. Yet, many bank wealth management groups still put all of their accounts onto their trust accounting platform, since it is more convenient.
A growing industry trend is for banks to start their own registered investment advisor (RIA) and implement an investment advisory accounting and portfolio management platform. Then, new advisory business can be opened on the new platform and existing business can be migrated over in time.
The majority of new accounts that banks are opening do not have a trust associated; they are straight advisory accounts.
How has the agency and trust businesses come together over the past 20 years?
What are the technology impacts from the agency and trust businesses being commingled together on the trust accounting platform?
What are the considerations for any bank that is planning to launch their own RIA?
We are planning a series of video discussions on bank wealth management technology and trends. Watch this space for updates!


Maree O'Sullivan is an independent Audiologist working in her privately owned clinic in Ellerslie. Her focus is assisting adults with hearing loss, to improve their communication with family, friends and colleagues.
After the hearing test, Maree will clearly communicate your hearing results to you as well as your next steps, as required. These may include hearing or tinnitus management strategies, the trial of hearing devices or referral to another professional if needed.
If you are interested in trialing hearing devices, we usually set aside time for you to have a listen in the clinic, so you can experience for yourself the benefits of hearing through hearing aids.
Recent work has a locum Audiologist has included working in clinics in Auckland and around New Zealand, mostly with adults with hearing aids. See her LinkedIn profile for more details.
Maree has the experience to accurately assess your hearing, spend time finding out about your hearing challenges and personalise a solution to best meet your needs.
Maree has been a Full Member of the New Zealand Audiological Society (MNZAS) since completing the her Clinical Certificate of Competence (CCC) in 1997.
The letters NMZAS CCC when signed next to an Audiologists name means they have met strict clinical requirements and must continue up skilling and training to remain a member.
Please see the New Zealand Audiological Society website for more details about the benefits of seeing an NZAS Audiologist.
Maree lives in Ellerslie with her husband and twin boys. Maree is the owner / operator of Auckland Hearing.
Our clinic coordinator Anna also lives in Ellerslie with her family.


Three children, all siblings, were killed in a fatal car accident on Monday evening when a vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed struck the vehicle they were riding in and pushed it into oncoming traffic.
According to investigators, Maricela Mendoza was taking her children to their evening karate class when she pulled out onto Singleton from Peoria at approximately 56:30 p.m. Police say that Mendoza had a clear distance to pull out to make the left hand turn.
However, Xavier Mandell Taylor, who was travelling westbound on Singleton, broadsided the left side of Mendoza's van. Taylor's vehicle hit the van with enough force to send Mendoza's vehicle into traffic coming in the opposite direction.
The victims in the crash have been identified as 3-year-old Lizbeth, 6-year-old Bryan, and 11- riding in the front seat. The 13-year-old has since been released from the hospital.
On Saturday, a prayer vigil and balloon release was held by community leaders to show support for the family The family will be struggling to pay for the three funerals and so a GoFundMe account has been set up to help the family meet the costs.
A funeral mass for the three children is planned for Tuesday evening.
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For any parent nothing could be as tragic as losing a child. Parents, grandparents and guardians do anything and everything they can in order to make sure the children under their care are safe. It seems unimaginable that anyone could even begin to cope with the tragic loss of three children at once.
If you, your child or loved one has been injured or hurt, or has been tragically lost in an accident, please give us a call. We will sensitively listen to the details of your case and outline the various options to proceed with your lawsuit.
While nothing and no amount of money in the world can even begin to alleviate such a tragedy, our attorneys have years of experience and will diligently fight in order to help you receive maximum compensation. We will also help handle all of the insurance, medical and other expenses that arise and we will work to insure that justice is served. Your initial consultation with our firm is confidential and is without cost or obligation to you. You do not have to go through it all on your own. We can help. Call us today.


Two fun items from Rimworld that just happened.
Near my starting position there was a large sealed off chamber. When I dug one square away from the inner wall, a warning came up about an ancient evil possibly residing inside. As this was early, I didn't dare break the inner wall just yet. Time passed, I gained more colonists, they gained better combat skills and gear, and eventually I felt it was time to see what the chamber contained.
I gathered everyone together, set them to combat, and had one person dig their way through the wall. As soon as that section of the wall was down, the chamber was revealed to contain multiple cryosleep caskets. It was a bit spooky, with the chamber made from all dark slate, and containing nothing but those caskets.
Re-positioning everyone for combat inside the chamber, I again had one colonist open the first casket. Soon as that happened, all of the caskets flew open. Each contained a human, along with multiple engineered beetles. The humans were in various states. Some were too injured to move, one was walking about aimlessly, and two were instantly aggressive. The aggressive ones were put down fairly quickly by my team, as we were all armed and healthy, while the enemies were recovering from cryosleep and unarmed. Still, they were well trained, and got in some hard punches before going down.
I took the remaining humans as prisoners, with the hope of convincing them to join my colony in time. This also meant tending to their various wounds, along with feeding them. I sealed off the chamber in fear of the beetles becoming aggressive or causing trouble. As time went on, the prisoners all recovered and joined the colony, while the beetles starved and died. Salvaging the caskets provided some nice materials, and the room itself made for a nice addition to the base.
While all of that was happening, a general problem of what to do with corpses came up. Initially I was digging graves for everyone, including enemies such as raider, because when colonists walk by a dead body out in the open, they don't like it and get all sad and mopey. This was becoming unmanageable however, since graves don't decay and the initial burial site was prime real-estate for expansion.
I dug up the graves that were in the way, but this resulted in the skeletons of the dead laying about, which again my colonists did not particularly like. As a solution, I created a special 'stockpile' area, inside an old ruin, that was to only be used for decaying corpses. I then blocked decaying corpses from all other stockpiles, dug up all the graves, and watches as my colonists, much to their initial horror, moved every last corpse into the new stockpile. I happily named the stockpile "Mass Grave", and I now have a ruin full of bodies and skeletons in various states of decay. Sealing off all but one entrance ensured my colonists didn't see the site as they walked by. Problem solved.


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A security increase often occurs when a nation, state, or institution has recently suffered from a serious incident or is under the perception that there is an increased risk for an incident to occur that endangers or potentially endangers its well-being.

Historically, security has been increased by governments and private institutions for a variety or reasons, including incidents that have occurred to themselves, to other similar institutions, or to the world, nation, or region following a high-profile event or a perceived threat of one. When this occurs, many identify the move as elevated, heightened, or "beefed-up" security.

Those who are forced to make changes or be extra-vigilant as a result or the increase sometimes refer to the new era as the "security age."

Institutions which often increase security in response to perceived risks include airports, government buildings, international borders, hospital, schools, religious institutions, and tourist attractions. The September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001 resulted in security being greatly increased around the world.

Common methods employed to increase security include:
Increased presence of police officers and/or security guards
Photo ID checks
Use of surveillance (human or video)
Use of certain instruments, like metal detectors or X-ray scanners
Banning items seen as a potential hazard in a secured area
Random searches
Increased enforcement of existing rules and regulations that were previously overlooked
Background checks
Warning the public of the perceived threat

Notable security increases

Oklahoma City bombing
Following the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, security was increased at high-profile government buildings around the United States. Jersey walls were erected around some buildings to prevent vehicles from coming too close. Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House was closed off to traffic.

September 11 attacks

Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, numerous measures were by the United States and other countries to increase security in many settings. Soon after, the United States launched the Department of Homeland Security.

Boston Marathon

After the Boston Marathon bombing, police vowed to install additional security measures—including bag checks and additional barriers—while maintaining a friendly, happy atmosphere. Police banned backpacks, strollers, suitcases, glass containers, some costumes and props, weight vests, and items larger than . More than 3,500 uniformed Boston Police officers were present for security.

January 2015 Île-de-France attacks
France has deployed soldiers at sensitive sites during French military operations overseas.

The January 2015 Île-de-France attacks led to the deployment of gendarmes and soldiers at major civic centers in France and other European countries. The attacks lead to counter-terror operations in Belgium and other countries. There has generally been an increase in soldiers being deployed around Jewish schools and synagogues in France and Belgium.

Concern around Terrorism in the European Union has risen in the wake of the 2015 Copenhagen shootings.

References

Security


There are 253 Oven Cleaning specialists in Thamesfield, and last month we helped 154361 homeowners get quotes for their home improvement jobs.
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5 More Early Masterpieces By Legendary Directors
A little while ago I wrote an article giving 5 early masterpieces by legendary directors that I had decided to cut down from 10 to 5 for the sake of length. I decided to look back and make some changes on the remaining 5 and give an updated list since people seem to really enjoy list-based articles. The criteria I used to choose which films got picked and which didn't was simple: if the film wasn't one of the director's first three films, then it didn't get included. I didn't want to repeat any directors from the last article so I also removed Mean Streets, Fight Club, Magnolia and Reservoir Dogs, and replaced them with some other masterpiece films to add a little directorial variety. So, without further ado, I present you with 5 more early masterpieces by legendary directors...
5. Evil Dead II (1987)
The first Evil Dead could have easily been on the list, but the second slightly edges it out because I find it to be overall a better film. The fact that Sam Raimi was able to make Evil Dead on his first ever attempt at filmmaking is truly amazing - what's more amazing is that he was able to top himself in such a huge way with the second Evil Dead. Where the first was a very well done horror film the second was able to tread the very thin line between horror and comedy more than any other film in existence to create a truly remarkable achievement for someone who had only made one prior film. Raimi also was able to make a film that can be quoted and enjoyed on multiple viewings which is very rare for the horror genre since it seems the overwhelming majority of horror films tend to lose all of their luster once you know where the scares are coming from. Raimi was able to remedy this by making his film a laugh out loud comedy that warrants endless amounts of viewing.
10 Ways J.K. Rowling Has Ruined Harry Potter
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My favorite movies are Before Sunrise, Pulp Fiction, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alien and Her so don't be surprised to see those pop up in my writing from time to time. I'm currently in school for Journalism/English and I have an obsession with all things cinematic on the side.
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Aggression and Violence 1st Edition by David M. Stoff and Publisher Psychology Press. Save up to 80% by choosing the eTextbook option for ISBN: 9781317780014, 1317780019. The print version of this textbook is ISBN: 9780805817553, 0805817557.