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Media release: Eden Court unveils new chief executive
THE board of Eden Court Theatre is delighted to announce that its new chief executive will be James Mackenzie-Blackman, following Colin Marr's departure to lead The Edinburgh Playhouse after 20 years leading Scotland's largest arts centre.
James brings a wealth of experience to the role as chief executive, having worked in performing arts for over 17 years.
He has worked all over the world: previous posts include commercial director at the Lyric Hammersmith, executive director of the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain and he will be relocating from his current role as executive director at Sir Matthew Bourne's award-winning company, New Adventures, to lead Eden Court.
James is hugely qualified for the demands of Eden Court and its creative learning arm Eden Court CREATIVE.
During his six years at New Adventures he has been influential in the radically-evolving business as it grew and became part of Arts Council England's National Portfolio. James also has a strong record in developing creative talent with the company's charitable-arm, Re:Bourne.
James Mackenzie-Blackman, CEO-designate said: "I first visited Eden Court in 2008 and was immediately struck by the unique ecology of the business which unites a first-class programme of live performance and cinema with Eden Court CREATIVE connecting the venue to the community of Inverness and the wider Highlands.
"It is an honour to build on Colin's legacy and take up the leadership of Scotland's largest arts centre."
Jeanette Siddall CBE, chair of New Adventures & Re:Bourne. said: "We are tremendously grateful to James for all he has done for New Adventures. He is an inspirational leader, a highly-skilled and talented arts professional, and a warm, supportive colleague. We will miss him, and wish James and Eden Court every possible success for the future."
Jane Gill, chair of Eden Court, said: "We are delighted that the Eden Court's role in the arts world attracted such a high-quality field of applicants for the much sought-after position of chief executive, and so pleased James is heading north to join us.
"We are very much looking forward to discovering what James' wealth of experience, talent and drive will bring to the theatre as we enter a new chapter in Eden Court's history."
Before James's arrival in early 2018, Eden Court's interim chief executive will be Mike Griffiths, who takes up the role on November 1st.
Mike is an experienced arts administrator, producer and project manager with over 30 years' experience across a number of organisations. These include Northern Stage, Almeida Theatre, Scottish Opera and Citizens Theatre.
About Eden Court
Eden Court is a registered charity and is the largest multi-arts venue in Scotland housing two theatres, two cinemas, two dance studios and conference and meeting spaces. It presents around 490 live performances and 2,300 film screening every year as well as almost 60 classes a week. This activity attracts an audience of over 300,000 people every year.
Eden Court runs the largest creative learning programme of any UK theatre. As well as the extensive programme of weekly classes it also has creative workers throughout the Highlands working in schools and running youth theatre and dance companies. It is the only theatre in Scotland to offer Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) courses in Drama and Dance.
Pupils from across the Highlands have the opportunity to study at Eden Court for an SQA Higher Dance, Drama or Intermediate 2 exams. Aside from Eden Court, there is only one school in the Highlands where pupils can sit SQA Higher Drama exams. Eden Court is also the Scottish Government's partner for Cashback for Creativity where seized criminal assets are redistributed to provide meaningful artistic activity for young people at risk.
Eden Court is a registered charity and is grateful to receive regular funding from Creative Scotland and the Highland Council.
James grew up in South Devon where he was a proud member of the Theatre Royal Plymouth Youth Theatre and the Devon Youth Council. This mix of arts engagement and political advocacy for young people formed the foundation blocks for his career.
James achieved a First Class Honours degree in English Literature and Cultural History from Liverpool John Moores University.
Following University James started his career back at the Theatre Royal in Plymouth before a period working internationally in Nepal, Zurich, Czech Republic and the USA. On returning to the UK James took up the management of the Greenwich Musical Theatre Academy a European Social Fund project re-engaging young people outside the formal education sector with the arts.
James joined the Lyric Hammersmith in April 2006 where he held a number of positions leading all the theatres programmes for children, young people and emerging artists. In 2009, James was appointed commercial director at the Lyric leading on all income streams, marketing, public relations and visitor services. Alongside this role James was also associate director for the Lyric's capital project leading, collaboratively with the executive director, the £20m fundraising campaign, the visioning, design and procurement of a major capital project.
In September 2010, James joined the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain as executive director where he led the development of a new strategic plan and secured continued Arts Council funding in a period of major government funding cuts.
In February 2012, James joined New Adventures and Re:Bourne. In the role of executive director James oversees key stakeholder relationships, manages the staff team and acts as an advocate for the company's work on-stage and off-stage. Since 2012, the business has radically evolved and in 2015 the company joined Arts Council England's National Portfolio.
Photo credit: Danilo Maroni.
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Coachella Ferris Wheel – The World's Largest Transportable Ferris Wheel!
Did You Know Coachella's Beautiful Ferris Wheel…
by Kat Ballard
That beautiful Ferris wheel at Coachella (Le Grande Wheel) is the world's largest transportable Ferris wheel, only second in size to the London Eye and Le Grande Roue de Paris; both are so big they remain stationary. The Wheel arrives in 22 containers, it is transported to Reliant Park in 17 18-wheelers. Assembly required the use of a 60-ton crane and took 10 days to complete.
After spending 20 years as a ticket taker at carnivals, Ron Bussink, 43, envisioned this fabulous wheel. The ingenious Swiss designer is now president and chief executive officer of Nauta Brussink, Inc. which manufactured the wheel.
It took three years to build and requires more electrical power than all other rides at most fairs.
The wheel reaches heights of more than 150 feet. It is easily the highest vantage point for viewing the festival in its entirety.
Yet the Ferris wheel continues to serve various purposes to festival-goers. Metaphorically speaking, it is the North Star to the event. Everything can be found in accordance to where it is in respect to the Ferris wheel.
Getting separated from your group is no longer an issue, because the easy solution, if you get lost, is: "Just meet me at the Ferris wheel."
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Now & Then – Chevrolet at 100
Posted: November 1, 2011 in Chevrolet, General Motors
Tags: Chevrolet, Chevrolet Centennial, General Motors, GM, Louis Chevrolet
The Chevrolet Motor Car Company was founded on November 3, 1911 by automotive engineer and racing driver Louis Chevrolet and William C. Durant, the legendary founder of General Motors.
Louis Chevrolet in 1911
Born in 1878 in Switzerland to French parents, Louis Chevrolet had little formal schooling. From an early age, he worked as a mechanic for the nascent automotive industry in France. When he was 22, Chevrolet emigrated to Montreal, (French) Canada and the next year, in 1901, he moved to New York City. In 1905, he was hired by Fiat to be a race driver and his racing career took off. Shortly thereafter, he began driving for Buick, then owned by General Motors and Mr. Durant. While at Buick, he began to design his own engine for a new car.
The banks ousted Mr. Durant from GM in 1910, so it was natural that he turned to his colleague and friend, Louis Chevrolet, to form a new car company (no doubt, to compete with Buick and General Motors). Chevrolet's name was a natural fit for the new company due to his racing fame and the fact that he had a new engine and car design already under development. The Bow Tie logo was, by most accounts, a stylized Swiss cross, a nod to Chevrolet's heritage.
Chevy Bow Tie logo history
Mr. Chevrolet's disagreements with Mr. Durant over design drove him to sell his shares in the company to Durant in 1915. By 1916, Chevrolet had become large and profitable enough to allow Mr. Durant to regain controlling interest in General Motors and in 1917, Chevrolet was merged into GM.
William C. Durant, founder of General Motors
The rest is a long and storied history of the American automotive industry. As long as I can remember, GM's Chevrolet division has been slugging it out with Ford's Ford division to be the sales leader in the United States. In Detroit, it's still a closely watched race at the end of each calendar year.
Chevrolet is deeply interwoven into the fabric of American society. Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie and Chevrolet, right? In fact, the history of Chevrolet is the history of the 20th Century. Throughout two World Wars, The Great Depression, Vietnam, the Cold War, the Atomic and Space Ages, the Summer of Love, and the digital revolution, Chevrolet has endured and reflected the collective mood, style and aspirations of an idealistic, young nation.
In the first decade of the 21st Century, Chevrolet and its corporate parent, General Motors, saw their darkest years in generations, culminating with GM's historic 2009 bankruptcy. Newly invigorated with a clean balance sheet, new management and refreshed products (that people are buying), the new General Motors, with it's top-selling Chevrolet Division, is now leading the automotive industry out of the Great Recession that still poisons our nation.
Chevrolet has lost no marketing opportunity to mark its centennial. The feel-good, nostalgia ads have been running on all media platforms for several months and every auto magazine has devoted both editorial and pictorial content to the event.
While it may have been running on TV for a couple weeks, I only caught this new commercial, Now & Then, on Monday. It played both in full 60 second long form and in an edited 30 second version. Below is the long form, complete with the emotional and heart-felt Ray Charles rendition of America the Beautiful.


Insight Out 2018, the network event for women in exact and natural science, took place on 27 September 2018. The programme consisted inspiring lectures, workshops and networking activities. More than 150 women in science gathered to share insights and experiences and connected with fellow researchers.
The programme consisted of personal stories and practical tips by our speakers Anna Watts (Associate Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Amsterdam), Tinka Jacobs (Reliability and Productivity System Engineer at ASML) and Rietje van Dam-Mieras (board member TKI BioBased Economy). Chair of the day was Ans Hekkenberg (editor at New Scientist).
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After rolling up 12.7% of gains over the last month we were down .6% last week and are now up 6.0% for the year. Meanwhile, the DOW was up .10% and the NASDAQ was up .4%. For the year the DOW is down .9% and NASDAQ is now up 6.7%.
ARIS, EXTR, TSYS earnings last week.
Some of our stocks are just stupid cheap—compared to their net cash on hand divided by their stock price.
Check this list:
CCUR 44%
SYNC 63%
PRSS 56%
MTSL 35%
MTSL, CKP, CRNT, ATEC, AVID, EXTR and SYNC, can still be bought.
Last week we went 4 stocks up, 6 down and 3 even. Since inception we are now 72 stocks up and 20 down for a 78.3% winning percentage (80% is our target win %). Of our closed-out positions 65 have been winners and 14 have been losers for an 82% win percentage and a 35% average net gain per position.
The model portfolio assumes $10,000 invested in each stock (unless we double-up–then it is $20,000), less $10 commission each way (TD Ameritrade rate).
MER Telemanagement Systems. (NASDAQ-MTSL)-Recommended 9/22/2015)
Buy Price $1.25
Valuation $3.56
Closed up $.03 at $1.29
UP 3%
Checkpoint Systems Inc. (NYSE-CKP)-Recommended 9/16/2015)
Valuation $18.28
Closed down $.50 at $7.48
Q3 earnings due out Tuesday, November 4, 2015 after the market close.
Down 4%
Ceregon Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ-CRNT)-Recommended 8/20/2015)
CRNT will announce Q3 2015 earnings on Monday, November 2nd before the market opens.
UP 20%
Avid Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ-AVID)-Recommended 1/20/2015)
Buy Price $10.25 (Was $14 before 8/15 double up at $8.08.
Valuation $22.24 (Was $22.59 $23.86, $28.10)
Q3 2015 earnings due out Thursday, November 5, 2015 after the market close.
AVID announced Q2 2015 earnings (quarter ended June 30, 2015) on 8/10/2015.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/avid-announces-financial-results-second-203852725.html
Revenues were $110 million down from $125 million last year. They made a Non-GAAP profit of $.05 per share versus a $.15 profit last year. Our valuation moved down a bit to $22.24 from $22.59 last quarter. They upped their 2015 guidance to $74-$80 million of adjusted EBITDA from $72-$78 million. Also, while the debt for the acquisition of Orad was on the balance sheet at June 30, the revenues and profits were not. You would think that AVID lost money and lowered their guidance by 50% with the way the market reacted.
Down 18% BUY
Alphatec Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ-ATEC)-Recommended 9/2/2014)
Buy Price $.59 ($1.56 before doubling up on 8/10/2015 at $.66 and adding $10,000 at $.34)
Valuation $2.54 (Was $2.61, $3.11, $2.95, $3.00)
Closed up $.03 at $.35
ATEC announced Q2 2015 (June 30, 2015) earnings on August 4, 2015.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/alphatec-holdings-announces-second-quarter-200500460.html
No one liked them as the stock plummeted more than 50%. Revenues were $46.6 million ($50.2 million in constant currency) compared to $53.2 million last year. EBITDA was down 50% from $7.7 to $3.8 million. Our valuation came in at $2.54 compared to the previous $2.61. We are cutting ATEC to a HOLD until they can reverse the negative trends in revenue, gross margin and EBITDA.
CafePress, Inc. Inc. (NASDAQ-PRSS)-Recommended 5/19/2014)
Buy Price $4.01 (Was $5.40 before adding $10,000 at $3.19 on 3/2/2015)
Valuation $9.09 (Was $12.50, $11.17, $12.51, $11.27)
Closed unchanged at $4.71
Q3 2015 earnings due out Thursday, November 12, 2015 after the market close.
PRSS announced Q2 2015 (6/30/2015) earnings on 8/14/2015.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/cafepress-reports-results-second-quarter-201500378.html
Not bad. They continue to slim down the business to its core. They are divesting their EZ print business now also. Revenues fell to $21.8 million from $29.1 million last year, but their loss from operations declined to $1.8 million from $4.4 million last year. Adjusted EBITDA was positive $.7 million versus negative $1.8 million last year. Cash fell to $46 million ($2.64 a share from $56 million due to working capital changes and the repurchase of $2.3 million worth of stock. Our valuation was $8.95 down a tad from $9.09 last quarter.
UP 17% HOLD
Extreme Networks, Inc. Inc. (NASDAQ-UNTD)-Recommended 3/12/2014)
Buy Price $3.43 (was $3.95 before we added another $10,000)
NEW Valuation $7.69, (Was $9.47, $6.99, $9.34, $8.24, $9.68, $8.52)
Extreme announced Q1 2016 (September 30, 2015) on October 29, 2015.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/extreme-networks-reports-first-quarter-200500547.html
Revenues came in at $124.9 compared to $137.0 and they made $.07 a share versus a loss of $.01 a share last year on a Non-GAAP basis. Our valuation came in at $7.69 a share versus $8.24 last year but better than our estimate of $7.45 for this quarter. Based on their guidance for next quarter our valuation should go up. Despite beating guidance for the quarter and raising guidance for next quarter the stock did nothing, so we are changing this to a BUY. .
UP 5%, BUY
Synacor Inc. (NASDAQ-SYNC)-Recommended 12/17/2013)
Valuation $5.71 (Was $6.61, $5.58, $5.21, $5.44, $6.67, $6.39)'
SYNC has closed the acquisition of Zimbra.
SYNC announced Q2 2015 (June 30, 2015) earnings on 8/4/2015.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/synacor-gains-ebitda-momentum-revenue-200100723.html
Revenues were $24.7 million up slightly from $24.2 million the prior year. They had a Non-GAAP loss of about $.3 million compared to a loss of $1 million last year. SYNC's valuation fell from last quarter to $5.29, but was a tad higher than last years $5.21.
Down 48%. BUY
Dex Media Inc. (NASDAQ-DXM)-Recommended 5/10/2013)
Buy Price 6.46 (Was $15.14 before adding $10,000 on 3/30/2015)
Valuation $21.00 (Was $31.00, $31.00, $34.00, $37.98, $34.36, $31.50, $24.25)
DEX and it's creditors are in the skirmish stage of their war to restructure their crushing debt load. The good news is that DEX started early. They decided not to pay an interest payment that was due September 30 (which they announced) and now the creditors want to talk.
Q2, 2015 earnings were announced August 6, 2015.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/dex-media-announces-second-quarter-110000263.html
Revenues were $387 million, down from $474 million last year and down from $406 million last quarter and adjusted EBITDA was $159 million up from $143 million last quarter and down from $176 million last year. Overall not a great quarter. For the year they are guiding to revenue of about $1.5 billion and $525 million of EBITDA. In their original projection for 2015 they were looking at revenue of $2.077 billion and EBITDA of $782 million. Clearly they are not making their projections. Net debt was $2.144 (their original projection was to end 2015 with $2.004 billion of debt—a goal they will likely make. Based on this performance we have lowered our valuation to $4.71 a share. DEXM is a HOLD
DEX announced a major restructuring on December 11, 2014. They expect to incur
$70-$100 million of expenses to achieve $150 million of ongoing expense savings with $110 million of that coming in 2015. They expect to begin deleveraging their balance sheet (meaning Net Debt to adjusted EBITDA ratio) in 2016. No question that's what they need to do.
Down 97% HOLD
Bridgeline Digital Inc. (NASDAQ-BLIN)-Recommended 8/24/2012)
Buy Price $3.95 ($ 5.85, $6.20 before 12/15/2014 and 2/14/2014 $10,000 adders)
Valuation $6.20 (Was $6.10, $5.85, $5.98 $7.55, $8.75, $8.80, $1.83, $9.15, $10.95, $11.75, $12.80, $11.20)
BLIN announced Q3 2015 earnings (quarter ended June 30, 2015) on 8/14/2015. Revenues were $4.9 million down from $6.2 million last year but up from $4.8 million last quarter. They lost $.20 per share on a Non-GAAP basis compared to $.24 last year. Our valuation rose to $6.20 up from $6.10 last quarter on better margins. Overall, while margins and EBITDA (adjusted) improved it was pretty much a nothing quarter. Have to wait longer here as they eke out an existence and hopefully get this little boat moving in the right direction. HOLD
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/bridgeline-digital-announces-financial-results-120000429.html
Down 71%, HOLD
Telecommunications Systems Inc. (NASDAQ-TSYS)-Recommended 6/14/2012)
Buy Price- $1.37
NEW Valuation $7.01 (Was $5.78, $5.43, $6.55, $6.88, $6.12, $5.99, $5.32, $6.81, $6.28, $4.89, $6.02, $6.72, $5.49)
Q3 2015 earnings were announced on, October 29, 2015.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/telecommunication-systems-reports-third-quarter-200500194.html
Revenues were $101.1 million, up from $95.3 million last year and adjusted EPS was $.12 compared to $.05 last year. Overall a very nice quarter-again. Our valuation jumped to $7.01 $ up from $6.88 last year and up from $5.78 last quarter.
We are now waiting on the outcome of their "strategic alternatives" investigation with Lazard. This is still a HOLD.
UP 199%, HOLD
Concurrent Computer (NASDAQ-CCUR)-Recommended 2/4/2011)
Buy Price-$4.58 (Was $5.08 before $.50 special dividend)
Valuation $11.49 (was $16.38, $13.07, $14.80, $17.72, $15.01, $15.10, $14.55, $14.77, $16.26, $16.20, $15.37, $13.53, $15.85, $14.13, $11.38, $14.04, $18.54, $15.99)
Closed down $.08 at $6.29 (including $1.20 of dividends)
Pays $.48 annual dividend.
Q1 2016 earnings due out Tuesday, November 3, 2015 after the market close.
Q4 2015 (6/30/2015) earnings were released on 8/25/2015.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/concurrent-reports-fourth-quarter-fiscal-200100937.html
Dissappointing. Revenues fell to $13.8 million from $17.8 million last year and they lost $993,000 pre-tax compared to a profit of $2,032,000 last year. They blamed consolidation in the service provider sector for the sales decline and indicated it won't get better in 2015. It is obvious that CCUR should not be a stand alone company. We think it is time to get this sold.
Our valuation plummeted to $11.49 from $16.38 last quarter. Cash per share fell to $2.80 , still over 50% of the market cap. We will keep a HOLD on CCUR until we see what the new CEO can do and they get revenue growth back. We continue to collect the 10% dividend.
UP 37%, HOLD
ARI Networks (ARIS.ob-Recommended 8/19/2006)
Buy price $1.61 (Was $1.78 before another $10,000 added, was $2.06 before double up),
NEW Valuation $5.95 (was $6.66, $6.47, $5.96, $6.02, $5.67, $5.57, $5.70, $6.71, $6.41, $6.14, $5.97, $6.21, $6.13, $5.82, $5.81, $5.72, $5.65, $5.39, $4.86, $5.60, $5.73, $5.54, $5.74, $5.96, $4.72, $5.19, $5.66, $5.63, $5.61, $5.71, $5.49, $5.34, $5.03, $5.28, $5.28, $5.21)
Closed at $3.69 down $.03.
Q4 2015 (quarter ended 7/31/2015) were announced on Wednesday, October 28th.
Another nice quarter operationally. Revenues were up 23% from last year at $10.9 million and they made $.02 a share. Revenues cracked $40 million for the year and they made $.07 a share.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ari-network-services-inc-announces-200400126.html
While all was good, our valuation fell a bit to $5.95 due to shares outstanding rising to just over 17 million, but only included a partial quarter from their latest acquisition. Hopefully, a full quarter from this acquisition will offset the additional shares.
Dave O
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Rafael Nadal held off a late surge from birthday boy Stefanos Tsitsipas to claim the 80th title of his career with victory at the Toronto Masters on Sunday.
However Nadal later raised doubts about he would be chasing an 81st title at next week's event in Cincinnati, refusing to confirm that he would play the event as scheduled.
Earlier, a vocal crowd of local flag-waving Greek fans had sang Happy Birthday to the 20-year-old Tsitsipas as Nadal reflected on a successful campaign.


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The ultimate price of state secrets
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A stunning European film premier marks the beginning of 2005.
PRAVDA.Ru's exclusive interview with the filmmaker.
Jean-Michel Carre's latest documentary entitled "Kursk: A Submarine in Troubled Waters" proved to be a huge success after its premier on French television on January 6th 2005. The film presents an alternative account of the Kursk tragedy while attempting to unveil a curtain of secrecy.
Pravda.Ru is honored to be the first newspaper to ever come up with the version which has become the basis for the film. The article "World War III Could Brake Out on Sunday" first appeared on the Pravda.Ru's website on August 22nd, 2000. In it, it was baldly stated that the collision of Russian and American submarines could have resulted in the worst political crisis ever to occur between the two countries. "On Sunday 12th August an incident occurred in the Barents Sea which almost led to the start of a third world war. For several days the world hung on a thread and a political faux-pa could have led to an exchange of nuclear strikes," read the article. It is also quite noteworthy to mention that back then hardly anyone paid any attention to the publication. However, as the film demonstrates, the topic remains relevant nowadays.
Jill Emery, who worked closely with the film director, has agreed to answer Pravda.Ru's questions pertaining to the process of making the documentary.
PRAVDA.Ru: How did you find the article? Is it true that you decided to make the film after you read our article?
Jill Emery: We found out about this article when it first came out on the Pravda website through our Russian scientific specialist here in France who checked the web every day for us to see if there was anything interesting. He immediately made a copy of it (thankfully) because when we checked the site again it had disappeared...Jean Michel was in Russia at the time and it really made him open his eyes and ears and collect other sources of information in different papers which also disappeared rather quickly.
Numerous articles from various other Russian newspapers like "Versiya" are quoted in the film.
PRAVDA.Ru: What is the purpose of the film?
Jill Emery: The purpose of the film…was to make people aware of the fact that everything is not always what we are shown at face value, that authorities and the press don't always tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth even if they are wearing military outfits or are prime ministers etc. That we live in a complex world where the reason of state is often predominant and more important than individual lives. This is the same in every country in the world. When the Americans lied about the weapons of mass destruction, about Saddam Hussein being responsible for 11/9, it was the epiphany of diplomatic lies, there was Vietnam, the Cuban Crisis, so many other moments in history we know about and there are hundreds more hidden secrets we know nothing about.
The film surprisingly shows that Vladimir Putin, far from being what people initially thought is an intelligent statesman who wants to develop his nation on an international basis even if that means sacrifices. Democracy should mean being so sure that your choices are the best ones for the nation that you don't lie to the people as George W Bush has...unfortunately statesmen find the risk of losing power too great.
PRAVDA.Ru: Do you plan to showcase the film in Russia?
Jill Emery: Yes we would very much like the Russians to see the film, however…we don't know what the result would be like. How will the families react? How will the authorities react…
PRAVDA.Ru: What difficulties did you run into while working on the documentary?
Jill Emery: There were no real difficulties in making the film. It just took 4 years for the different elements leading to our conclusions and theory to trickle out. Journalists don't take all the time we did. They can't. A lot was shot in Russia as well as in the UK, the US and Norway. The only difficulty was that the Russian producer we initially worked with refused to introduce us to anyone who had a different point of view from the official one and even people like Popov demanded a lot of money to be interviewed. Our attitude was that we didn't want to pay anyone for two reasons, the first being that information that is bought cannot necessarily be trusted, this was the main reason. Apart from that we didn't have the money to pay people. We wanted to interview Vladimir Putin, but this was refused. Gorbatchлv refused to be interviewed too. However, although people tried to prevent us from doing so we managed to meet Nikitin and Pasko.
We in fact show in it how Vladimir Putin himself proved his statesman ship through the catastrophe, in spite of popular belief...albeit accepting to sacrifice the possible lives of those of the crew who had not been killed by the explosion. We think that other statesman in other countries would have done the same. They have so in the past as our British specialists told us. Submarine warfare and cold war-fare has a number of secrets that the general public has never been informed of. It so happens that in the Kursk catastrophe everything was out in the open. No one has ever known exactly what happened on the French submarine la Minerve which sank off the coast of France in 1969, or the Euridice 8 in 1970 with 59 killed and hundreds of other unsolved tragedies. Nobody knows that British submariners who had survived a similar catastrophe had been interned once rescued so that people would not find out the truth about the incident.
Our film could have concerned any country in the world. Power and its secrets are universal.
Interview conducted by Anna Ossipova
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Ready to Take a Beautiful Road Trip Through California?
California is home to some of the world's most stunning landscapes, some of which are best seen from your car. If you've never been on a classic California drive-thru road trip, you're missing out on stunning views of cliffs, mountains, forests, and, of course, the Pacific Ocean.
We're sharing our guide for planning a drive through California: some of our state's most revered, historic, legendary drives. Jump in your car, clear your schedule, and hit the road!
Highway 1 presents 735 miles of the most jaw-dropping, stunning scenery that the West Coast has to offer. It may not seem like much at first as you pull away from the freeway ramps in Orange County. Once you hit Laguna Beach, however, you'll be engulfed in luxe life along the Pacific Coast Highway. You can take in your share of villas, yachts, shops, restaurants, and, of course, endless miles of beaches. The road moves forward beside LAX airport and then heads to Santa Monica and further onward.
If you want to hit the water, make a stop at Aliso Beach Park. The beach is surrounded by beautiful homes as well as the area's finest shopping and cuisine. You'll enjoy the hills and cliffs that surround Aliso Beach as well as the long stretches of coastline scenery.
If you want to see the diversity of the Southern California landscape, try this 90-mile drive out of San Diego that winds through California. It will provide plenty of panoramic contrasts sure to delight any automotive adventurer.
The directions are simple: Start out at La Jolla or Del Mar and take SR 56 east to Highway 67, then turn onto Highway 78. You'll drive by countless farm stands as you ascend the Cuyamaca Mountains. The road is lined with apple farms, so stop somewhere and get some from a local market. From there, you'll find yourself in the desert – but not before you cruise through field upon field of wildflowers that make their home in the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. The flowers come into full bloom throughout February and March. One of the greatest attractions of the area is totally free: stargazing at Borrego Springs.
If you begin your trip from Redding and then drive up I-5, you'll navigate through the northeastern Shasta Cascades. First, there's Shasta Lake, which is the largest reservoir in California. If you love to fish, then that is one of the premier sports to drop a line or engage in watersports.
The best is yet to come as you view Mount Shasta. The 14,162-foot mountain is awe-inspiring as it rises above the beautiful scenery that surrounds it. From there, try to take in the cliffs and tapering spires at Castle Crags State Park. After that, you'll drive from one breathtaking natural wonder to the next: McArthur-Burney Falls, placid Lake Almanor, bubbling mud pots, and finally, Lassen Volcanic National Park, home to steaming geysers.
We've already mentioned Highway 1. But within that 700+ mile stretch lies several smaller road trips that you can take in your car. A popular drive with tourists and locals alike is the 30-mile stretch of Highway 1 that covers three of California's most world-famous beaches.
Starting at Dana Point, you can visit Laguna Beach, Newport Beach, and Huntington Beach. Start with whale watching at Dana Point Harbor, continue with the Festival of Arts Fine Art Show in Laguna Beach and the yacht harbors in Newport Beach, and end with surfing in Huntington Beach, one of the West Coast's best spots to catch a wave!
California produces some of the world's most elegant and delicious wines. Although there are several roads in and out of wine country, Highway 101 from Malibu to Lompoc is your best bet. From Malibu, you'll be wowed as you wind through the Santa Monica Mountains before you eventually end up at Santa Barbara – don't miss the Channel Islands!
Once you pass Santa Barbara, drive inland toward Lompoc, home of pinot noir vineyards. Stop in at the Lompoc Wine Ghetto, where you can enjoy a wine tasting and get a stunning view of the summer flowers in full bloom.
The Rim of the World is a 100+ mile drive-and-hike excursion that must be seen to be believed. The picturesque route follows lakes, mountains, and wooded areas. You'll start on Highway 18 near the Bernardino Mountains, a road lined with small villages. You can continue driving or get out and enjoy a hike at one of several trails.
Some premier attractions include Lake Arrowhead, Heaps Peak Arboretum, Running Springs, Keller Peak Fire Lookout, and Big Bear Mountain Resort. These attractions are open all year long. You are just as likely to enjoy the white snow during the winter as you are the full, lush greenery in spring and summer. And if you need a snack along the way, the North Pole Fudge and Ice Cream Company should be your top choice.
There is so much to see on Highway 395 through the High Sierras that it's difficult to know where to begin or end your trip. The area is perfect for multi-day trips if you plan to spend the night. Starting at South Lake Tahoe near Emerald Bay State Park, you can drive toward Mono Lake Tufa State Natural Reserve where you'll see stone towers that look like they came out of the Lord of The Rings trilogy.
From there, go in any direction and you'll be surrounded by either mind-blowing scenery or family-centric, fun activities. There are many opportunities to hike, ski, snowboard, or go off-roading. If you're a foodie, then bookmark Erick Schat's Bakery and grab some Sheepherder's bread.
If you want to get a view of Yosemite National Park, hop on to Highway 120 – this will extend your driving time just a bit. Once you are in Yosemite National Park, you can explore Tuolumne Meadows, Wapama Falls, and Merced Groves. There you can marvel at the giant sequoias or hang out in historic Groveland or Coulterville.


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HSE has announced the winners of the Academicus Modus competition of student projects. They will receive a year-long grant for their research, the results of which will be published in an academic journal.
HSE has been organizing the student research paper competition for many years. This time, its winners had the opportunity to participate in Academicus Modus, an extramural school which took place in March in Voronovo in the Moscow region. Here, students were able to develop their academic skills, talk to scholars and editors of academic journals, and work on team projects, the best of which were awarded grants by HSE. One of the main requirements for the project was interdisciplinarity.
Four projects were selected as finalists at Academicus Modus. This included projects examining internet metaphors, the future of professions, artificial intelligence, and online learning. A presentation of each project then took place at Shukhov Lab. The project entitled 'Control or trust: dishonest online behaviour' by a team supervised by Evgeniia Shmeleva, postgraduate student at HSE's Institute of Education, was announced the overall winner.
According to Evgeniia Shmeleva, the project focuses on online students' behavior. 'Our team discussed possible mechanisms which trigger peer pressure in online learning, the circumstances that lead to dishonest behavior online, and the role of physical presence in dishonesty: is it easier to cheat on an online platform than it is to cheat in the presence of a real teacher?', she explained.
The authors received a year-long grant of 300,000 rubles. The jury also awarded a second prize (100,000 rubles) to another interesting project which examines internet metaphors. Here, researchers look at how the perception of the internet impacts the authorities' policies regarding various online resources.
The results of the projects should be presented within the coming year and are set to become the basis for papers which will eventually be published in academic journals.
One of the competition goals is to attract students into academia. With this purpose in mind, HSE has founded the ΧΣΕ (ChiSigmaEpsilon) Research Club to bring together students involved in research. According to its organizer Valeria Utkina, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Public and Local Service, the Club is going to organize schools, mini courses, workshops, and competitions, as well as create teaching and learning aids, provide consultation for academic work, and support student participation in research projects. The Research Club will also help the participants of the two teams that made it to the finals of Academicus Modus but didn't win, to complete their research.


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The Sunshine Coast based RACQ LifeFlight Rescue team are trading in their uniforms for the day and lacing up their running shoes in the hopes of winning gold at Aussie World's Australia Day 'Dunny Races' tomorrow.
The race involves a team of five fast and fit competitors - with four team members pushing and pulling a homemade outhouse shed along a grass track, while the fifth member buckles up as team jockey.
The event always stirs up some friendly competition, with the LifeFlight team going head-to-head with radio stations and other community groups, all competing for the $2,000 grand prize.
The athletic LifeFlight team who will step up to the starting line consists of helicopter aircrewmen and base staff, ready to take on Australia's finest fellow 'dunny racers' and if they're first past the post, they will donate their winnings to the lifesaving charity.
The nail-biting race is an Australia Day event highlight and draws a crowd every year – including coverage from local and national media.
The event is free and starts on the Aussie World Oval from 8am, Thursday 26th January.
LifeFlight Community Engagement Officer Jodi Durkin will be available for interviews before and after the race.


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Stock picks for 2013 - Solid performers give great income
Marriott believes that an investment strategy based on a bottom-up selection of companies that will be resilient to unexpected events, is likely to produce a more predictable outcome. Selecting shares which generate reliable income streams and which are resilient to unexpected events is likely to produce a more predictable outcome, to the benefit of the retired investor. These companies tend to focus on basic necessities, enjoy global or countrywide distribution, have strong balance sheets and in many ways are distinctly independent of their home economy. By the nature of their business, they will be largely unaffected by broad governmental, political and economic decisions. They tend to fare well in both recessionary and growth phases of the economic cycle and are seldom at the mercy of a new idea, trend or fashion. Their products are generally everyday necessities, with market dominance a function of their brand.
Great companies you will see in a Marriott portfolio
Proctor & Gamble
P&G provide products that are used daily in homes around the world. 25 billion batteries are consumed every year and P&G's subsidiary Duracell is the world's leading manufacturer. P&G's Gillette has 70% of the global market for razors and blades. Every day, at least a billion people use a P&G product, many of which have been market leaders for decades. With manufacturing plants all over the world, P&G is a giant in the global consumer product market.
Johnson & Johnson is a global manufacturer and distributor of pharmaceuticals, medical supplies, and dozens of everyday brand name consumer products. Having been in business since 1886, many people grew up with Johnson's baby products. The company's consistent performance has enabled it to generate an exceptional track record that few, if any, companies can match: 29 consecutive years of earnings growth and 50 consecutive years of dividend increases.
With over 8,000 brands, Nestlé probably owns more brands than any other company in the world. From Kit-Kat to Cremora, the company sells over 1 billion products a day in 130 countries. This unrivalled portfolio of brands allows Nestlé to be a part of the day-to-day lives of people in every corner of the globe.
SABMiller is the world's second largest brewer. It bottles and distributes beer worldwide and owns many of the premium international brands.
Spar is South Africa's third largest food retailer. Over the past 40 years, domestic food inflation in South Africa has averaged 11% p.a. With food being one of our most basic necessities, Spar has been able to pass on food price increases without sacrificing margins or turnover, and boasts an impressive dividend track record.
Clicks has the largest retail pharmacy chain in South Africa with over 300 in-store dispensaries. Like food, pharmaceuticals are a basic necessity.
What these companies have in common are trusted global brands and products that are basic necessities. It is understandable that they remain largely unaffected by macro events. The charts below show the dividend track records of P&G, Johnson & Johnson, Nestlé, SAB, Spar and Clicks: The charts below show the dividend track records of these counters:
However, not all great companies have the ability to produce predictable dividends
There are many global companies with powerful brands and coveted products, which are not in the Marriott portfolios. We narrow down the choice of securities by selecting only those with a consistent and reliable dividend track record over a reasonable period of time and those which are attractively priced. Thus, although widely regarded as successful companies, with inconsistent earnings companies such as Apple, General Motors or Anglo American are not in our portfolios.
Reliable dividend payers also tend to outperform over the long term
Many investors think of reliable dividend payers as stodgy, uninteresting companies that produce mediocre returns. This, however, is not the case. Studies have shown that companies which pay dividends, and grow them, outperform the market over the long term.
The table below highlights the annualised total return of Johnson & Johnson, Nestlé, Proctor & Gamble and the S & P 500 index for the past 20 years.
Offshore companies are offering best value
While the dividend yields of SA companies that produce reliable income streams remain below their historic averages, first world companies like Proctor & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson and Nestlé are offering attractive dividend yields. The chart below highlights the current dividend yields of a selection of first world companies relative to yields 12 years ago:
Based on current valuations it is possible to invest in a portfolio of some of the largest and most recognisable companies in the world on a yield well in excess of the current yield of the JSE All Share Index. These attractive valuations afford investors the opportunity to improve the overall quality of their personal portfolio by increasing their offshore exposure.
With regard to local equity exposure, notwithstanding demanding valuations, choosing companies with predictable dividends will serve investors best. This will ensure the overall portfolio's resilience to unexpected events.
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In a world of conflict and strife, how can we be advocates of peace and justice? In this volume acclaimed scholar-monk Bhikkhu Bodhi has collected and translated the Buddha's teachings on conflict resolution, interpersonal and social problem-solving, and the forging of harmonious relationships. The selections, all drawn from the Pali Canon, the earliest record of the Buddha's discourses, are organized into ten thematic chapters. The chapters deal with such topics as the quelling of anger, good friendship, intentional communities, the settlement of disputes, and the establishing of an equitable society. Each chapter begins with a concise and informative introduction by the translator that guides us toward a deeper understanding of the texts that follow. In times of social conflict, intolerance, and war, the Buddha's approach to creating and sustaining peace takes on a new and urgent significance. Even readers unacquainted with Buddhism will appreciate these ancient teachings, always clear, practical, undogmatic, and so contemporary in flavor. The Buddha's Teachings on Social and Communal Harmony will prove to be essential reading for anyone seeking to bring peace into their communities and into the wider world.
Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi is the premier English language translator of the Pali Canon. An American Buddhist monk from New York City, he born in 1944. He obtained a BA in philosophy from Brooklyn College and a PhD in philosophy from Claremont Graduate School. After completing his university studies he traveled to Sri Lanka, where he received novice ordination in 1972 and full ordination in 1973, both under the leading Sri Lankan scholar-monk, Ven. Balangoda Ananda Maitreya (1896-1998). From 1984 to 2002 he was the editor for the Buddhist Publication Society in Kandy, where he lived for ten years with the senior German monk, Ven. Nyanaponika Thera (1901-1994), at the Forest Hermitage. He returned to the U.S. in 2002. He currently lives and teaches at Chuang Yen Monastery in Carmel, New York. Ven. Bodhi has many important publications to his credit, either as author, translator, or editor. These include The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha (Majjhima Nikaya, 1995), The Connected Discourses of the Buddha (Samyutta Nikaya, 2000), and The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha (Anguttara Nikaya, 2012). In 2008, together with several of his students, Ven. Bodhi founded Buddhist Global Relief, a nonprofit supporting hunger relief, sustainable agriculture, and education in countries suffering from chronic poverty and malnutrition. He lives in Carmel, NY.


Just imagine. You're 27 years young, a four-time Formula 1 world champion, loved by your quadruple-constructors'-title-winning team and the multi-billionaire who funds it.
After the unbelievable run of racing success you've had a year of more modest achievement, but you know that your tightly drilled crew are working hard to get back to winning ways. You're safe in the knowledge that you're driving the best-handling car on the grid and that the engine manufacturers are desperate to deliver more power.
So what do you do? Stay, knuckle down, toil day and night to get back to the head of the field? No.
Seduced, utterly smitten, in a fit of misguided lust you do as so many F1 drivers – who should've known better – have done in the past and fall hook, line and sinker for the intoxicating, Latin-infused, cat-herding crazy-horse fiasco that is Ferrari.
Sebastian Vettel may have (a rumoured) 50 million reasons a year to wear red for the next few seasons, but I'd wager the German will quickly being seeing the same colour when he realises just what a colossal mistake he's made.
Perhaps not, maybe I'm wrong. Miracles – some misguided fools believe – actually happen. But I'm confident that I'll not be eating humble pie anytime soon.
Top F1 drivers are a feted bunch, praised from an early age, living the life many of us can only dream of. Cosseted and protected in a warm embrace by their ever-attentive, dedicated team, they rarely – if ever – get to see anything other than their immediate sporting surroundings.
When these top-of-the-tree pilotes get itchy feet and want away, their managers and advisers are dispatched to spread the word and get the best deal.
Thinking of slipping into a scarlet red race car anytime soon?
I've got a suggestion. Let's take a stroll. Come with me, my multi-millionaire-ego-the-size-of-a-small-country-superstar 'friend'. Let's walk up and down the F1 pit lane and see what we can see.
Spend five minutes watching the Red Bull crew working in their spacious, spotlessly clean, über-well-run, impressively calm garage. Now let's walk down to McLaren. Sure, the Woking-based outfit have been a little off the pace lately, but just look, look at that pit box. One could eat one's dinner off the floor it's so clean. Nothing is out of place, everyone working in harmony to prepare the gorgeous chromed cars. Now the Williams pit. Bright, fresh, organised, this engineering-led English outfit look the part – both on and off the track – on every level.
Next? No, you're not looking at a World War Two bomb factory, this is Ferrari!
Clutter, noise, a spaghetti-like spider's web of tangled wires cascading from the roof and spilling all over the floor, a painful grating drilling sound echoing through the air, disorganised chaos all around.
Having spent the post-Abu Dhabi Grand Prix test watching all this, perhaps Sebastian is having second thoughts. That bank-busting contract will be acting as a comfort for now but Vettel's already a very rich man and winning is what he's all about.
I'm sure he'd deny it, but Vettel's got something to prove. I – and many others both within and without Formula 1 – are suspicious. We wonder, just how talented is the 2010,'11,'12 and '13 champion? Sure he can race and has proved his passing prowess, but the questions remain. Did the German's abilities simply tie in perfectly and so conveniently with the Adrian Newey Tarmac-tearing-up-ultra-downforce-generating-monster-machines that hot-blew their way to success? A driver has to make the most of the machine that he's in, and boy did Seb do that. Many a time I was awestruck at his ability to wring every ounce of speed from his RB6, 7, 8 and 9.
Following the incredible success inspired by the combined brilliance of Todt, Brawn, Byrne and Schumacher, Ferrari have been on a wayward drift. The brilliance of Fernando Alonso – dragging truck-like cars into positions they had no right to be in – masked the wretched decline from the glory years of the Schumacher era to – in 2014 – a miserable and winless season.
Romance, allure, desire, passion, the adulation of a nation, the ingredients that so capture those who should resist the siren-like call of the Scuderia.
A fool's paradise for sure.
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Revelation by Randi Cooley Wilson
I found Revelation by Randi Cooley Wilson quite by accident. I was looking to write a blog about #gargoyle books and I came across hers. So, I investigated. I found her book on Amazon. I tweeted her. She was kind enough to tweet back. Then, I downloaded Revelation to my iPhone Kindle app and off I went. I was doing so much reading, I had to read upside down to unkink my neck. No joke. She was nervous because we both love gargoyles, so it was fun tweeting her my progress as I read. Well, I have to say I loved this book. It has everything in it your paranormal heart could desire: gargoyles, angels, faeries, an assortment of demons and of course gargoyles, wait I said that already. There were so many things I liked about Revelation, so lets start with the main guy, Asher. Holy cow. Holy moly. Holy hotness.
This is what I saw when I read about Asher. Conflicted. Intense. Indigo eyes, she said. Jeans and white T-shirt, she said. Tattooed with a---- (you'll have to read that yourself).
But, I digress. Let's get to the center of the story. The focus is on Eve, an orphan raised by her maternal aunt, who has just begun college as a communications major stuck in a boring architecture class, where she meets Asher St. Michael (Mr. Indigo Eyes). He's infuriating. She's tenacious. His lips are more interesting than the professor's boring lecture on medieval building design. It doesn't take too long for Eve to realize something is up between her terrifyingly real nightmares and her inexplicable draw to Asher. She faces off with demon dogs and a bent gargoyle, all of whom are agents of Lucifer. Eve discovers she has a special place among humans and the paranormal creatures she encounters. Her ability to fulfill her destiny, or not, will affect everyone around her.
Bottom line, Randi has created fantastic characters and a great paranormal world.This is a wonderful new adult/young adult read. It was fast. Easy to get into. And can I say...THAT ENDING!! What?! I'm on to book two because I need to know what happens. I enjoyed this book until my neck hurt, so how could I give it less than 5 stars? Available @ Amazon, Smashwords, and Barnes and Noble.
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Achilles: Lover or a Fighter?
First, let me state that of all the books that I've ever read in my life, HOMER is my favorite author...the Iliad and the Odyssey are my most prized books. So, when I found the Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller I was, shall we say..."stoked." Superficially, I liked the ancient helmet of raised gold on the cover. I read the back and thought, "okay" this should be a decent portrayal of a beloved character...Achilles.
It's hard to talk about this book and Miller's particular view of Achilles without making comparisons to a more widely-known portrayal of Achilles in the movie TROY. The only things I loved about that movie were the costumes and the casting of Brad Pitt as Achilles (with the exception that he was too old, but he was definitely the "golden" type and hunky...). In the film, the story was butchered beyond repair. They could never do a sequel without eliminating other mythological stories, say the bathtub murder of the cuckolded Agamemnon by his estranged wife Clytemnestra, because OOPS! Hector killed him in the movie. And Achilles chopping off the statue head of Apollo when he knew damn well his mother was a sea nymph was an act tantamount to him snubbing his nose at the arbitrary nature of the gods' will, which he knew existed because his mother was one of them. I highly doubt that Achilles would ever do that. And Orlando Bloom as a mewling Paris made me wish Legolaus, a worthy warrior-prince, would show up and target him with an arrow in the heel. And the relationship between Achilles and Patroclus...cousins? No. No. No. What David Benioff did to Homer was nothing short of sacrilege, as far as I'm concerned, and since this is less about how awful I thought the adaptation of the Iliad was in the movie TROY and more about the adaptation of that story in the Song of Achilles, I will stop now.
Miller's story of Achilles was much more on point with the basic mythology of Achilles. I enjoyed her inclusion of Achilles young wife, the ruse almost wedding to sacrifice Iphigeneia, his education by the centaur Chiron, and the eventual arrival of Achilles's little-spoken of son, Neoptolemus. I applaud her for taking the relationship of Achilles and Patroclus into a more appropriate love-zone. They definitely shared a close loving bond, a bond close enough that Patroclus's death caused Achilles to lose all his marbles and fly completely in the face of tradition and the gods. The best evidence we have by Homer about their mutual affection is the extent of Achilles's grief regarding Patroclus's death. That said, Miller takes us right into their bed, a literary interpretation that made me realize I was NOT reading a YA novel, but one meant for a more mature audience of women, non-homophobic men, and classical Greek mythology lovers. I suppose that is one of only three criticisms:
1. that it read like a young adult novel
2. that Patroclus was as mewling as Paris in the movie TROY
3. that Thetis was a grotesque, shining blob with a grating voice and gnashing teeth
Why did Miller make Patroclus such a thin and weak sounding character? Was it too hard to conjure the image that two warriors might be boon companions and in love? At least in the movie, Patroclus was a much more sturdy character visually and more militaristic, which is more in line with the Patroclus of the ancient Greeks. I find it hard to believe that Achilles, the greatest among the Greeks, the captain of the Myrmidons, would find a love interest in a "mewling" anyone. Patroclus becomes the physician, in Miller's novel, who in the end begins to seem more like a man.
Thetis. Sea-nymph. Lower-level goddess. Love interest of Zeus. Neither the movie nor this book do justice to her at all. Miller makes her out to be grotesque, frighteningly eerie...which raises the question: Why would Zeus want to bed anything that hideous? Or Peleus for that matter? "Her mouth was a gash of red, like the torn-open stomach of a sacrifice, bloody and oracular. Behind it teeth shone sharp and white as bone." I sort of envisioned the Sea-Witch from the Little Mermaid...how would this vision make Hera jealous? It was a weak point for me.
All in all, I liked the book. I liked her story. It fell short of the "epicness" we expect for anything related to Homer. Achilles and Patrolcus's relationship, the primary focus of this work, was a step in the right direction paying homage to a love story between warriors (okay, one warrior and one tent-wife-turned-physician). And because Miller was brave enough to write this love story, as a love story, I liked it enough to give it five stars.
Graceling Hooked Me!
I was hooked by the middle of the book. This is a fantasy story about a girl named Katsa who is "graced" (born with) a special ability to "kill". Her uncle, King Randa, uses her ability to his advantage. Katsa is his personal killing machine. Soon, she meets "Po" who is also "graced". They set off on an adventure to find Po's grandfather. It was their story that hooked me. Kristin Cashore built the tension between Katsa and Po so slowly, it felt like I was watching a pot boil, and you know how painfully slow that is...yet you watch anyway! And once the simmering started, I couldn't stop reading.
The world Cashore created felt real, believable, like Middle Earth (although not so detailed and steeped in ancient lore). The main characters were rounded, full of spunk. The twists through the forest were well worth waiting for. It's certainly a YA book, with one "sexy" scene that sort of through me off (I wasn't expecting it), however, it was handled very tastefully and appropriate for high school. Can we say YA-14? I'm sure I will be reading the rest of her books. Graceling


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Extra Short Nanowires Best for Brain
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If in the future electrodes are inserted into the human brain – either for research purposes or to treat diseases – it may be appropriate to give them a 'coat' of nanowires that could make them less irritating for the brain tissue. However, the nanowires must not exceed a certain length, according to new research from Neuronano Research Center at Lund University in Sweden.
This is the conclusion from an experiment in which the long-term effects of nanowires of different sizes were tested. The nanowires were mixed into a saline solution that was injected into the brains of lab animals, and the results were compared with an injection of saline alone.
The nanowires that were only 2 micrometres long did not have any greater effect on the brain tissue than the pure saline solution, whereas nanowires of 5 and 10 micrometres caused inflammation in the surrounding brain tissue. After a year, there were also fewer nerve cells remaining in the vicinity of the longest nanowires, which suggests that over time they had had a neurotoxic effect.
"We also saw clumps of dead cells containing nanowires, especially with the longer wires. These are probably immune system cells that have tried to neutralize the foreign body. The cells in the immune system's 'cleaning patrols' are often up to 10 micrometres in diameter. They are therefore not able to enclose the long nanowires and die in the process", said Cecilia Eriksson Linsmeier.
Dr Eriksson Linsmeier is a researcher at the Neuronano Research Center, an interdisciplinary centre at Lund University where researchers in medicine, says engineering and science collaborate to develop electrodes that can be inserted into the brain. This technology can already help patients with Parkinson's disease and epilepsy. However, current electrodes are quite large and stiff, which over time causes scar tissue to form in the brain, in turn reducing the electrodes' capacity to influence the nerve cells.
The researchers at the Neuronano Research Center therefore want to develop electrodes that are both smaller and more flexible. They also want to furnish the electrodes with a coating of nanowires, which could produce both a more tissue-friendly surface and better registration of signals from the nerve cells. However, it is important that the nanowires do not damage the tissue if they were to break off from the electrode.
The nanowires that were only 2 micrometres long did not have any greater effect on the brain tissue than the pure saline solution, whereas nanowires of 5 and 10 micrometres caused inflammation in the surrounding brain tissue. Image credit: The researchers/Biomaterials.
"We have studied a worst case scenario, in which the nanowires break off from the electrode and spread through the brain tissue. In order to proceed with research on brain implants, we must be able to prevent all possible side-effects", said Cecilia Eriksson Linsmeier.
For the same reason, the study was allowed to continue for an unusual length of time. The effect of the nanowires on the animals was studied both twelve weeks and one year after the injection of the nanowires into the brain. In this context, a year is an extremely long time frame – half the lifespan of a rat.
"A lot of changes take place in the brain as the animal ages. We also found that the long nanowires had certain effects that were not seen until after a year. The short nanowires, on the other hand, did not produce any obvious harmful effects either in the short or the long term", said Dr Eriksson Linsmeier.
She believes that the group's findings could be of significance both for future electrodes and in other contexts, such as the development of nanoparticles as drug carriers. This will most probably also require the particles to be small enough not to trigger an immune response.
About this neurotech research
Contact: Cecilia Eriksson Linsmeier – Lund University
Source: Lund University press release
Image Source: The image is credited to the researchers/Biomaterials and is adapted from the Lund University press release
Original Research: Full open access research for "Size-dependent long-term tissue response to biostable nanowires in the brain" by Lina Gällentoft, Lina M.E. Pettersson, Nils Danielsen, Jens Schouenborg, Christelle N. Prinz, and Cecilia Eriksson Linsmeier in Biomaterials. Published online December 16 2014 doi:10.1016/j.biomaterials.2014.11.051
Size-dependent long-term tissue response to biostable nanowires in the brain
Nanostructured neural interfaces, comprising nanotubes or nanowires, have the potential to overcome the present hurdles of achieving stable communication with neuronal networks for long periods of time. This would have a strong impact on brain research. However, little information is available on the brain response to implanted high-aspect-ratio nanoparticles, which share morphological similarities with asbestos fibres. Here, we investigated the glial response and neuronal loss in the rat brain after implantation of biostable and structurally controlled nanowires of different lengths for a period up to one year post-surgery. Our results show that, as for lung and abdominal tissue, the brain is subject to a sustained, local inflammation when biostable and high-aspect-ratio nanoparticles of 5 μm or longer are present in the brain tissue. In addition, a significant loss of neurons was observed adjacent to the 10 μm nanowires after one year. Notably, the inflammatory response was restricted to a narrow zone around the nanowires and did not escalate between 12 weeks and one year. Furthermore, 2 μm nanowires did not cause significant inflammatory response nor significant loss of neurons nearby. The present results provide key information for the design of future neural implants based on nanomaterials.
"Size-dependent long-term tissue response to biostable nanowires in the brain" by Lina Gällentoft, Lina M.E. Pettersson, Nils Danielsen, Jens Schouenborg, Christelle N. Prinz, and Cecilia Eriksson Linsmeier in Biomaterials doi:10.1016/j.biomaterials.2014.11.051 .
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I've been following the journey of a particular book called The Sweet Life from creation through to its final version. The book, which offers up gifts that originate deep within the ocean, is fascinating.
It started years ago when a group of women were called to travel to various places around the world. They set up sacred stone circles in many places, and the sites can be visited by readers who want to experience the journey themselves.
The book is now available on Amazon for those who want to hear from the very special beings who protect our planet and all humans on it. Guaranteed to be a deeply moving read, and perfect for book clubs.
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The Revolutions breaks ground in the world of theatre
When I entered the Studio Theatre at the Isabel Bader Centre on Thursday, it was like walking into someone else's home.Continue...
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Get your head in the game with Monday Nights
I tend to think the theatre's a safe place, so you can understand my surprise when I heard, "This is a real, theatrical basketball experience with real, theatrical basketballs, so let's make sure you protect your beautiful faces and be safe," announced to the audience prior to a performance.Continue...
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It's the end of the world as we know it
After the year of 2016, it may come as no surprise that a play about the end of the world is now playing at the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts.Continue...
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Review: Where the Universe Sings
When I walked through the familiar doors of The Screening Room's theatre, I wasn't expecting to be the youngest person in the room by at least 30 years. In the midst of this mature crowd, I took my seat for the film we'd all gathered to witness, Where the Universe Sings: The Spiritual Journey of Lawren Harris.Continue...
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Drama queen and comedy machine
"Nothing kills me more than when people make art that doesn't really say anything. I'm just like 'bye'," Rachel Manson, ArtSci '17, said in an interview with The Journal. Amen.Continue...
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The Servant of Two Masters serves up laughter and love
On Thursday, the Dan School of Drama and Music opened their fall major, The Servant of Two Masters.Continue...
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Queer Ecologies: Breaking down walls
On Saturday, Toronto-based artist, performer and researcher Alvis Choi, otherwise known as Alvis Parsley, delivered a bewildering yet brave piece of theatre to an intimate crowd of 25 people at the Isabel Bader Centre for Performing Arts.Continue...
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Curtains raised on new musical theatre program
Every day, music echoes through the halls of the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts. On Thursday though, voices were raised to celebrate a new, multi-institutional program.
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Staging gruesome with grace
Gruesome Playground Injuries, a commonplacetheatre production, provides an in-depth look at pain and the ways it strengthens human connections.Continue...
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Theatre technicians, not theatre rejects
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New Hampshire Department of Health Services: https://www.dhhs.nh.gov
List of New Hampshire Hospitals: https://www.ahd.com/states/hospital_NH.html
How many hospitals are there in New Hampshire?
There are 36 hospitals in New Hampshire. This includes 2 government hospitals and 9 private hospitals, with over 3,000 beds.
Who regulates hospitals in New Hampshire?
The Health Family Licensing Unit regulates health facilities in New Hampshire. It also provides licensing forms for residential treatment centers and other adult day care programs.
How Many Nursing Homes are there in New Hampshire?
There are over 70 certified Medicare and Medicaid nursing homes in New Hampshire for the 17 percent of the population over 65 years old.
Who regulates Long-term Care (Nursing Homes) in New Hampshire?
The Bureau of Health Facilities Administration regulates nursing homes in New Hampshire. Medicare provides regulations that residents must qualify to enter these services.
What is the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services Responsible for?
The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services works to protect the health and well-being of its citizens. It provides resources on health related matters including: mental health, developmental disability, substance abuse, and public health.
What HIPAA law(s) must be followed in New Hampshire?
Both the HIPAA Privacy Rule and New Hampshire law give rights to one's medical record. The HIPAA Privacy Rule sets standards applying to health care providers across the US. Individuals have the rights to see and get a copy of their medical records and have information added to their medical records to make it more accurate. They also have the rights to file a complaint with the state agency for any violations of the law.
HealthCare Compliance Issues in New Hampshire
Healthcare compliance issues in New Hampshire include: Mandatory Reporting, Healthcare Liens, Out-of-Network Billing Laws, and Waste, Fraud, and Abuse Preventions.


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