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In Too Depp: "Mortdecai," "The Boy Next Door," and "Strange Magic"
Mortdecai, a Clouseau-esque slapstick about a bumbling art dealer and a missing Goya, isn't so much a movie as it is a test, and one with a single question: Just how much Johnny Depp can you still stomach? For me, the answer turned out to be "more than I expected," because while director David Koepp's comedy is crummy in many ways, it did crack me up a good dozen times, and every time because its generally overexposed star did or said something that caught me completely, joyously off-guard.
Heavy Metal: "Iron Man 3" and "Space Junk 3D"
Iron Man 3 begins with narration by Tony Stark, the superheroic multi-billionaire voiced and eventually embodied, as always, by Robert Downey Jr. His tone is steady and somber as he makes ominous pronouncements about the uncertain state of the world and how we each create our own demons and such, but before long, Stark's more expectedly breezy, wise-ass nature takes over - he stumbles over his words and realizes his blathering isn't really going anywhere, and quickly puts a kibosh on the opening address. The whole routine is reminiscent of Woody Allen's hilariously neurotic "Chapter one ... " intro at the start of Manhattan, and immediately suggests that this second sequel to 2008's effects-laden blockbuster will be both deathly serious and happily insouciant. And it is. I'm just not completely convinced, in the case of Iron Man 3, that that's a good thing.
Power Surge: "The Avengers " and "Bully"
Prior to its national release, the scuttlebutt on The Avengers seemed to be that the Hulk totally stole the show. Having now seen director Joss Whedon's long-awaited, cinematic commingling of Marvel superheroes, I'm inclined to agree, because the angry green giant has been granted two fantastically unexpected, legitimately great moments in the film, and that's at least one more than anyone else has been given.
The Cough Heard 'round the World: "Contagion" and "Warrior"
I'm presuming, and hoping, that a bunch of you spent your weekend's cineplex allowances on Contagion, director Steven Soderbergh's bleak, elegant, deeply disturbing thriller about the planet's decimation by a new strain of flu-like virus. I'm also praying that none of you saw it while on a date, because I can barely imagine how awkward the drive home must've been. One cough or casual touch from your movie-going companion and you'd be frantically ransacking the car for hand sanitizer and a surgeon's mask.
Mississippi Yearning: "The Help" and "Glee: The 3D Concert Movie"
Based on Kathryn Stockett's much-loved bestseller, The Help concerns the tenuous relationships between black domestic workers and their privileged white employers in early-'60s Mississippi, and it's a fairly obvious movie, with director Tate Taylor opting for broad brushstrokes over subtlety, and the occasionally wrenching drama sitting, rather uncomfortably, alongside klutzy jokiness. Yet offhand, I can't think of another popular entertainment whose flaws matter less than this film's, because everything that's lacking in the picture is more than made up for in the fearless, emotionally precise, and oftentimes devastating portrayals of Taylor's cast. The Help is easy to complain about, but all it takes is one of the magnificent Viola Davis' fierce, tearful stares - or a blast of Octavia Spencer's anger, or a flash of Emma Stone's heartbreak, or a burst of Jessica Chastain's joy - to make your complaints feel positively moot.
Oscars / The Grouch: Notes on the 2011 Academy Awards Telecast
Before getting into what went wrong at last night's Academy Awards ceremony - and sadly, quite a bit went wrong - let's begin by addressing the one portion of the telecast that, for maybe the first time in Oscar history, went magically right.
The Plague Is the Thing: "Season of the Witch" and "Country Strong"
SEASON OF THE WITCH
For one of my New Year's resolutions, I thought I'd attempt a pretty tough one: To not accidentally (or intentionally) doze off during any 2011 movies. Mind you, this isn't something I do at a lot of screenings - a Skyline here, a Speed Racer there. But falling asleep at the cineplex is, for me, rather like snoozing while in your office cubicle; it seems the least I can do during a stretch of daytime work is stay conscious. And as a test for my new resolve, what trickier challenge could I have asked for than the very first 2011 feature out of the gate: Season of the Witch?
Isn't It "Iron"-ic?: "Iron Man 2" and "Babies"
As expected, the rocket-fueled title character flies across the screen pretty damned quickly in director Jon Favreau's Iron Man 2, but this might be the very first comic-book movie to boast dialogue that zips by even quicker. By now, summer-blockbuster crowds are so used to being wowed - or, for some of us, "wowed" - by pricey visuals and gargantuan action set pieces that the true thrill of Fevreau's and screenwriter Justin Theroux's sequel comes as both a relief and a shock; how on earth did Paramount (thankfully) agree to shell out some $200 million for what is, in essence, an updated take on a '30s screwball comedy? The climax in which our metal-plated superhero takes on more than a dozen artillery-laden robots is enjoyable enough, I guess, yet in terms of actual celluloid magic, it doesn't hold a candle to the sight of Iron Man 2's Robert Downey Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow arguing over whether Latin is, or is not, a dead language.
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World: "Alice in Wonderland" and "Brooklyn's Finest"
Beginning with 2001's Planet of the Apes remake, Tim Burton has cast domestic partner Helena Bonham Carter in all six of his most recent feature films, and he's never made better use of her beguiling, somewhat perverse charisma than in his new take on Alice in Wonderland.


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Q: How to handle or store multivalued dimensions in hierarchy in snowflake? I am having a scenario where I have multivalued dimensions and its hierarchy in tableau reports and I have to keep the data such that tableau does not make any wired sql or data loading also simple and future extendable.
I have dimension as below:
|----------+------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------|
| Product  | Product_category                                     | Product_Weight_GM     |
|----------+------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------|
| Rice Bag | medium grains,small grain,long grain,small grain     | 1000,5000,10000,25000 |
| Wheat    | small grain,medium grains,normal grain,medium grains | 100,200,500,800       |
|----------+------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------|

So Product weight is a hierarchy I could go via what strategy of dimensional model.

A: That data doesn't seem hierarchical to me. There is no relationship defined between each (grain size?) that I can see. Also, you seem to have some grain sizes listed multiple times within each row which doesn't seem right. Without having more context of what a "Product" is then I'd suggest something like his:
|----------+------------------+-------------------|
| Product  | Product_category | Product_Weight_GM |
|----------+------------------+-------------------|
| Rice Bag | medium grains    |              1000 |
| Rice Bag | small grain      |              5000 |
| Rice Bag | long grain       |             10000 |
| Rice Bag | small grain      |             25000 |
| Wheat    | small grain      |               100 |
| Wheat    | medium grains    |               200 |
| Wheat    | normal grain     |               500 |
| Wheat    | medium grains    |               800 |
|----------+------------------+-------------------|

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Something I get asked often is how to add color tones to your images. Often the easiest option is to use filters either in Lightroom or with a plugin software such as Google Nik. However, as you delve deeper into the world of color grading you will eventually become curious how to create your own effects.
There are obviously an enormous number of ways to achieve a certain look to your photos. The Adobe Kuler plugin for Photoshop is an incredibly powerful option that is available to anyone with Photoshop (for free) and provides complete control over the look and feel of an adjustment.
The first concept to grasp is color theory. You know, the whole color wheel thingy and colors complementing one another… Well this is huge. And while you don't need to be an expert on the subject, it helps to know the basics which will eventually lead to a better understanding of the subject as you use it in practice. One article I have found extremely helpful on his topic was written by one of my favorite landscape photographers of today, Ted Gore. Gore has won several accolades in his field and produces some of the most amazing images I have ever seen. His article titled "Color Theory and Landscapes Photography" goes into great detail about color harmonies and how to work them into your images. He explains the difference between analogous, complementary, and monochromatic color harmonies (as well as several others that are much less obvious) and gives great examples of how he uses them in his work. I highly recommend this read as it applies not only to landscapes imagery but color grading and application on any photograph. At its core the idea is that certain colors simply work well together and are pleasing to the viewers' eye when introduced into an image with subtlety. For example, blue and yellow are complementary colors. When the darker tones in an image are "cooler" and the lighter tones are "warmer," the image is more aesthetically pleasing than if the color tones were simply left to chance.
This is where Adobe Kuler comes in. For one, the Adobe Kuler tool is free if you already have a Creative Cloud membership and you can also install the tool directly into Photoshop (directions provided here). Once installed, it is available by going to Window > Extensions > Adobe Color Themes which creates a new tab in your workspace. How is this useful? The tool provides a built-in color wheel which allows you to create custom complimentary color tones. More importantly though, it contains a ton of color pallets already available for use that follow the "rules" of color theory.
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The new Aurora HDR 2017 is at least 50% faster in comparison with the previous version. So you'll create more fantastic HDR photos in a shorter period of time. Speed improvements cover all aspects of Aurora HDR 2017.
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Hello, photographers. For the last two months, I've been doing market research for my project Photolemur and looking for different tools in the area of photo enhancement and photo editing. I spent a lot of time searching, and came up with a large organized list of 104 photo editing tools and apps that you should know about.
High dynamic range (HDR) is the next big thing in both movies and TVs. We've seen 4K in the cinema and ultra HD arrive in our homes, with more and more content for both appearing. Now Technicolor is getting behind the tech, and is offering a way to both back-render standard range (SDR) content as well as stream full HDR video.
HDR is the visually rich step up from UHD fidelity which the move from 1080p to 4K simply hasn't been.
Essentially, HDR is designed to give far more depth to an image, offering more range to colours and more detail to shadows. Imagine a ray of sunlight in a variety of orange and yellow hues rather than just straight white light.
I recently checked out Dolby Vision, that company's proprietary HDR tech, at a screening of Pixar's Inside Out and it was stunning. Having seen an SDR version of the movie now, and how flat the iridescent colours look by comparison, I'm sold.
Technicolor, though, is claiming its HDR tech is both open and able to be applied to SDR content for a high dynamic range upscale. It's also planned to be one of the HDR options available to the upcoming Ultra HD Blu-ray specification.
That alone will massively boost the amount of HDR content available.
The upscaling gives content providers real-time access to the colour information in a video, allowing for direct control over both the highlights, lowlights and mid-tones. As well as being able to apply this to existing content there's speculation that it could work for live events, such as sport, too.
Quite how the upscaling will compare with full HDR content, only time will tell.
Adobe made a big announcement for Lightroom CC/6 yesterday, but if you use Adobe Camera Raw for your RAW processing, don't worry: Adobe didn't forget about you. Adobe also quietly rolled out Adobe Camera Raw 9, an update that includes a few of the same big features that were introduced with great fanfare for Lightroom CC.
Like Lightroom CC, Adobe Camera Raw can now combine multiple RAW photos into a single RAW HDR photo or panorama. The tools are found as new options in the Filmstrip's dropdown menu.
The big performance gains in Lightroom CC have also appeared in ACR. Camera Raw can now use your computer's Graphical Processing Unit (GPU) as well, making your image editing much faster — especially as high resolution 4K and 5K screens start appearing on more and more desks.
All I wanted to do was save a few videos on my iPad for presentation.
But, already, I'm getting ahead of myself. A few days ago, I downloaded the Mac OS X 10.10.3 Beta, Apple's not-yet-ready for launch operating system. It packs many improvements, the most noteworthy being an entirely revamped photo managing interface. Gone is Apple's multi-prong photo solution that included Aperture for the experts and iPhoto for the rest of us. In its place is a new Photos app, which takes many a nod from its iOS counterpart.
Upon first glance, the new Mac Photos app is an enormous improvement when it comes to handling massive amounts of images. And let's face it, after six generations of iPhones, with high-quality DSLRs and action-cams aplenty, most of us have more pictures than we'll ever need, let alone look at again. I personally have more than 15,000 in my library.
This app makes you fall in love with your forgotten photos all over again. Using the Mac's touchpad, you can pinch and spread your fingers to zoom out and in on your images, respectively, just as you would if you were browsing your photos on an iOS device. The most impressive part of the interface is how it renders your pictures instantly, turning icon-sized images into full-fledged photos in a snap.
Earlier this month, a leaked product page revealed a number of features that will be found in the upcoming Lightroom 6. One of them was an HDR merging tool that combines multiple exposures into a single HDR image. Here's a first glimpse at how the feature will work.
In this 2-part webinar, professional photographer and educator Reed Hoffmann provides tips and techniques for capturing spontaneous HDR exposure brackets and merging, aligning de-ghosting and tone mapping them using the HDR Express 3 stand alone application and Adobe Lightroom plug-in. This Webinar was originally recorded on Nov 11, 2014.
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In this tutorial John Omvik demonstrates the basic Adobe Lightroom workflow using the HDR Express 3 plug-in with the full workflow to produce natural looking tone mapped images from high contrast (HDR) scenes.
Capturing a high contrast scene has always vexed photographers. We've all tried neutral density filters for landscapes and lighting equipment for interior shots in order to balance the wide range of light levels in our scenes. The results could be good but the work to get to the final image was intense. No longer!
Capturing high contrast scenes is now as simple as shooting three or more images of varying exposures and then merging those images into one high dynamic range file that reveals all your shadows and highlights. The magic is done with HDR software. But, not all HDR software is created equal.
Previously, HDR applications performed their contrast manipulation or "tone mapping" by creating an 8-bit or 16-bit image. Using an 8-bit or 16-bit file to create a large, high dynamic range file significantly reduces the file's dynamic range, clips its color range and degrades the precision of image data.
That's why we created our stand-alone HDR applications HDR Expose 3, HDR Express 2 and the Photoshop plug-in 32 Float v3. These are the only HDR applications that merge multiple exposures into a full 32-bit file using our patented Beyond RGB™ color model. And, most importantly, these are the only HDR photo editing applications where all tools and operations work in 32-bit, floating-point precision.
HDR Expose 3 and HDR Express 2 use powerful image alignment algorithms to create an HDR image from multiple exposures. The resulting 32-bit image is then ready to have its wide contrast range adjusted to fit into the contrast range of your output device. Unlike other HDR applications which "tone map" their 8-bit or 16-bit image into a useable range, our applications take all the valuable data in your HDR image and "dynamic range map" it into a file that retains naturally clear highlights, vibrant mid-tones and beautifully open shadows.
HDR Expose 3 and HDR Express 2 can do this for you with a single click using the Dynamic Range Mapping tool. And, with HDR Express you have additional one-step tone mapping and style preset buttons. You can also choose to have full control over the mapping process by individually adjusting the image's dynamic range, brightness, highlights, shadows and saturation. With these powerful tools you can dial in a beautifully natural HDR image or a highly stylized image depending on your artistic vision.
In digital photography the colors and brightness of each pixel are recorded as binary numbers. Depending on the power of your image editing application the numbers used to describe those pixels are restricted to 8-bits (256) or 16-bits (65,535). Naturally, the more numbers you have available to you the more variation you can describe in each pixel. The more variation that you can describe, the richer and more detailed your digital image will be.
Because color information is restricted to at most 16 bits in the RGB space used in most image editing applications and output devices, RGB is inherently a restricted color model — it is a restricted color space that cannot describe all the colors that can be seen by the human eye.
Imagine the tonal variations available to you by working in 32-bit, floating point mode in the Beyond RGB color space, the basis of HDR Expose 3, HDR Express 2 and 32 Float v3. The Beyond RGB color space brings all the colors your eye can see to the task of creating your HDR photography image.
Because the 32-bit floating point Beyond RGB color model is not based on the RGB model, the brightness and contrast changes made to your image in HDR Expose 3, HDR Express 2 or 32 Float v3 will not alter your original colors as you would in an 8-bit or 16-bit program.
In fact, every tool and operation in HDR Expose 3, HDR Express 2 and 32 Float v3 always works in the high-precision 32-bit floating point mode. This is why many pro photographers are using HDR Expose 3, HDR Express 2 and 32 Float v3 to perform non-color-destructive brightness, contrast and color adjustments to their non-HDR images. These pros create their images from RAW camera files and save out their files in 32-bit format as a base reference file before moving on to Photoshop or other programs for further editing. Why lose data before you have to? Why lose data at all?
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I reviewed Pro HDR many years ago when it was among the first High Dynamic Range apps and best of the camera apps for the iPhone. In short order, Apple added HDR capability to its own software, but in general the third-party apps do a better job.
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Arjan Meijerink was born in Almelo, the Netherlands, in 1976. He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering (both with honors) from the University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands, in 2001 and 2005, respectively.
In 2000 he was a Trainee at Ericsson Business Mobile Networks in Enschede, developing error concealment techniques for Bluetooth voicelinks. From 2001 to 2005 he was a Research Assistant in the Telecommunication Engineering Group, carrying out his Ph.D. research in the Coherence Multiplexing project, resulting in the thesis Coherence multiplexing for optical communication systems. From 2005 to 2007 he was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the same group, working on photonic beamformers for broadband phased array receive antennas, using fully integrated, ring resonator-based optical beamforming networks. This involved the system-level design, theoretical performance analysis, and experimental prototyping of dedicated beamformers for airborne satellite reception (the SMART project) and radio astronomy (the Broadband Photonic Beamformer project).
From 2007 to 2011 he pursued a tenure track as an Assistant Professor in the Telecommunication Engineering Group. In 2009 he was a Visiting Lecturer in the Wireless Communications Research Group at the Queen's University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, U.K., and in 2010 he was a Visiting Scholar in the Wireless Devices and Systems (WiDeS) Group at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles, U.S.A.
In 2011 he obtained a tenured position as an Assistant Professor in the Telecommunication Engineering Group.
Arjan Meijerink is involved in research on new radio transmission techniques for short-range applications, such as wireless sensor networks. His particular interest is in resilient, low-power transmit-reference modulation techniques, stochastic channel modeling, and UWB-based ranging and localization techniques.
Arjan Meijerink has published more than 50 papers in international journals, conferences and symposia, and holds one patent. Publications (co-)authored by Arjan Meijerink can be found in EEMCS EPrints or Google Scholar.
At the 22nd Symposium on Information and Communication Theory in the Benelux (held on May 15&16, 2001), he shared the Best Young Researcher Presentation award, presented by the Gauss Foundation, for his paper Generalization and Performance Improvement of a Coherence Multiplexing System.
He was awarded the second prize in the IEEE Region 8 Student Paper Contest 2001, for his paper Performance improvement of a generalized Coherence Multiplexing System. He presented this paper in the oral finals during the EUROCON'2001, International Conference on Trends in Communications, Bratislava, Slovakia, July 4–7, 2001.
He won the second prize in the KIvI Telecommunication Award contest at Schiphol, on April 2, 2004.
In 2013 and 2014 he was awarded the Opel (Educational Prize Electrical Engineering) by E.T.S.V. Scintilla, the study association of Electrical Engineering at the University of Twente.
In 2014 he also qualified for the final of the Central Education Award of the University of Twente, in which he won the third prize.


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Goodbye to Ken
6:16 pm - May 4th 2008
by Steve Platt
London, my London, looked little different this morning, when I tried to shake off the mares of the night before (Bojo and the BNP at City Hall) in the Regent's Park summer series 10k race. I did about as well as the Labour Party on Dismayday, leaden legs limping lumpenly to the finish line.
The sun was shining, the plane trees were fruiting, the bus lanes were still functioning, there was still the same myriad mix of people, united in our variety. This is the city I never dreamt I would stay in when I first arrived here from the provinces. And this is the city I have grown to love and call home.
For someone who likes nothing better than solitude and the wild open spaces, I have become curiously attached to this humming, heaving metropolis. It was only the other day that I was telling someone that when I go I want my ashes to be given to a turning tide on the riverside beach at a Waterloo sunset, when the golden sunlight reflects back from the river to the sky, from Westminster looking west to St Paul's looking east.
It's on this stretch of river that Ken Livingstone aimed the rockets from the old GLC's final firework display towards the parliament of Maggie Thatcher. It seems like an eternity ago now that he so ired the Tory harridan that she abolished London-wide local government altogether. Tony Blair brought it back and when he tried to keep Ken out of it, it was Ken that gave New Labour its first bloody nose instead.
Livingstone wasn't always the nicest man on London's political map – no one who rises so high in politics ever can be. He only became leader of the GLC in 1981 by executing a putsch against the man who had led Labour to election victory within 24 hours of the polls closing. He could be rough, tough, sharp-tongued and abrasive. Accusing a Jewish reporter of behaving 'like a concentration camp guard' wasn't the most politic of remarks; nor was his refusal to grit his teeth and apologise afterwards. He made lasting enemies, often unnecessarily, often in his own ranks. I was once on the receiving end of a hungover Ken's caustic; I know what it feels like, I always voted Ken without illusions.
But London without him at its helm is a lessened city. His backing for minorities, his belief in diversity, hoisted a rainbow flag to which we could rally long before such opinions became mainstream; when to say something like "Everyone is bisexual. Almost everyone has the sexual potential for anything", as he did, was to invite political purgatory. To make the now obvious point that there would be no peace in Northern Ireland until you started talking to the 'men of violence' showed bravery at the time beyond the call of political duty.
When Thatcher and the hard-right Tories held sway over the government of Britain, when she spoke of the miners as the 'enemy within', or of people feeling 'swamped' by blacks and Asians, we could say of London, 'Not here, not us', and Livingstone would offer a different voice.
When Blair took us to war under false pretences, and when that war brought bombers onto our tubes and buses, Livingstone led us in a different vision of London, what it is and what it represents.
London, despite everything, is a far, far better place to live than when I first arrived here when Ken was starting his climb up the greasy pole of politics. And many of the improvements of the past eight years – from the congestion charge and public transport to community policing and affordable housing – are down to Livingstone in particular.
I thought Boris Johnson was commendably gracious in his acceptance speech Friday night (when you're a winner you can afford to be). But the best we can hope for from him is that he doesn't mess up on what Livingstone has begun. It's hard to imagine Bojo being so brave or imaginative in his own right.
And the people who voted for him to give Gordon Brown a kicking, or because they want the right to drive and park where and when they like in London, or because they think Livingstone had become too arrogant, or because they think there are too many immigrants moving in, or because they're sick to death of young yobboes, or because they're worried about their mortgages, or because they think bendy buses are a disaster, or because they're apoplectic about speed humps, or because they never see a police officer round where they live, or because they don't like that new skyscraper, or because the neighbours play their music too loud – well, it will be interesting to see how Bojo deals with that ragbag of complainants now that he has to do something rather than simply join them.
As for the Evening Standard, how on earth are they going to fill their pages now that they've won their 30-year war on Ken?
This is a guest article. Steve Platt is a former editor of New Statesman magazine and is now a contributor to various publications, including Red Pepper. He blogs at Plattitude.
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6:51 pm, May 4, 2008
1. Mary Ingrams
Sums it up so well, it's exactly how I feel. I love London so much and can't bear to think what Bojo is going to do to it. At least Andrew Gilligan will be out of a job as well
2. leon
But the best we can hope for from him is that he doesn't mess up on what Livingstone has begun. It's hard to imagine Bojo being so brave or imaginative in his own right.
Boris won't be running our city, his advisers and Conservative HQ will be.
The Daily Express have done very well out of a dead Diana, I'm sure the Evading Standard will find something else to bitch about….
I wrote a rambling long angry mini-essay to much the same effect elsewhere yesterday. You put it much better than I managed to. He's obviously an egotist, his rise in politics isn't particularly edifying and I have many issues with things he's said and done (most of all his stance on MMR, and his pretty unforgivable refusal to criticise the police over the de Menezes shooting). It's hard to understand exactly what makes him tick – it's obviously partly just ambition, but had he merely been ambitious he wouldn't have been so naive as to alienate so many people, he wouldn't have refused to apologise for so many things on so many occasions and he wouldn't have been so brave as to take on so many unpopular – but utterly just – causes.
For all the things he's said and done, and for all that he might not be the nicest person in the world, he has, even if it has been at times for electoral gain, done all the things you outline and more. As I say, I don't agree with a lot of the things he's said and done but it's hard to think of many people who have done more for progressive politics in Britain. I love Ken and I know I really shouldn't.
4. Sunny Hundal
it's hard to think of many people who have done more for progressive politics in Britain. I love Ken and I know I really shouldn't.
Spot on. And reading these articles just makes me more depressed. 🙁
Jesus…you know he hasn't died you know!
These reactions to his electoral defeat – that even he takes the blame for – is a getting a bit 'Diana syndrome' like…
6. Alexandra
leon said
No, but London might be about too. Or at the very last change for the worse.
As Steve Platt says it's a far better place than it was -congestion charge, transport, etc have made a difference. It's also a better place than when I came to London 15 years ago and I don't want to see it going backwards.
11:20 pm, May 4, 2008
7. Bandolero
Oh for crying out loud.
Another sad leftie harking back to… you guessed it! Margaret Thatcher!!!
It just hasn't hit anyone on the left yet that this year's new intake to the NUS- the freshers- were all born AFTER Thatcher was deposed. The doors are wide open now- there is no longer any notion of Labour being a 'natural' party of government.
Writers still looking for comfort from the old Thatcher blanket are about as relevant today as she is.
Find a new story to tell.
No, but London might be about too.
You're off your rocker if you think the election of Boris Johnson is going to cause London to 'die'.
9. Alice
If you think that then you are in for a nasty shock if the Tories ever get back in. It's not about being a 'natural' party of government but about making the Labour Party the representatives of the working class once more. Or is the working class also irrelevant and only students count?
Remember what they say about those that don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Saying that I don't see where this article is seeking comfort from the old thatcher blanket or at 25 am I too old to understand how the doors are wide open now.
8:30 am, May 5, 2008
10. cjcjc
I liked Ken at first too.
"Everyone likes Ken, except those who actually know him." Neil Kinnock I think that was.
I like that sign above County Hall – "Trust the People".
Well the people have spoken.
And it's rather pathetic that Ken supporters now want to disenfranchise the "suburbs" as a result.
And FFS can we please, as Leon says, cut the bloody hyperbole.
London isn't going to "die".
11. DonaldS
@10 cjcjc
> London isn't going to "die".
> Ken supporters now want to disenfranchise the "suburbs"
If you're referring to the other thread about the Standard (wot I wrote), you need to get your dictionary out. I don't want to disenfranchise them. Just send them to another franchise, where they belong.
And now I'm off for the day – to the suburbs.
10:27 am, May 5, 2008
I live in zone one so I have no direct interest but it is the suburbanites who are most affected by the area of policy over which the mayor has most control ie transport.
13. Declan
Doesn't mean we don't know what she did, i don't remember ever having a tory government, and im sad to admit that soon, i'll have too:(
14. Leon
i don't remember ever having a tory government, and im sad to admit that soon, i'll have too:(
I do, very well indeed. In fact I actually remember some of the Thatcher one too…
15. angela
Ken had two sides. One is as you describe, and he has been a good public servant as Boris said. I am sure he will go on to make another career for himself either in the media, where he will do well, because he is such a character, or in politics in some other form.
However, the side of Ken iIdon't like and that I suspect was the real reason he lost, was what I think of as his "dodgy" side. i should like more financial openess – donations declared and everything financial clearly set out on the web. The Lee Jasper thing hurt Ken because he did not seem to welcome the enquiry.
Ken has had two chances, many people feel that that is enough.
16. Steve Platt
I too think Ken had two sides (as I mentioned in my piece), but I've never been aware of either of them being 'dodgy', certainly not in a financial sense. Lee Jasper didn't do anything wrong, as far as I've read – the worst you can level against him is guilt by association (the Rev Wright syndrome). But mud sticks, especially when it's London's only paper that throwing it about, and Livingstone suffered because he stood by his advisor.

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New Delhi, 08 June 2019: While the Indian Men's Hockey Team have made a roaring start at the FIH Men's Hockey Series Finals Bhubaneswar Odisha 2019 where they registered a 10-0 win against Russia in their opening game and a 3-1 win against Poland on Friday, their counterparts the Indian Women's Team left for the FIH Women's Series Finals Hiroshima 2019.
The team led by Skipper Rani left from the Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi, in the early hours of Saturday for this important event which is part of the Olympic Qualifying pathway. "We go into this tournament with a lot of confidence we carry from our recent tours in Spain, Malaysia and Republic of Korea. Our performance has been on the rise over the past year and the fact that many of us have been playing together for quite a few years gives us an edge," said Skipper Rani on the eve of their departure.
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It was a historic moment for the Indian Women's Team when they qualified for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games as Indian Women had last played at the Moscow Olympics in 1980 on the basis of invitation. "It was the first time that India had ever qualified for the Olympics in Women's Hockey. We did create history but we certainly don't want it to be a one-off qualification. Our team is capable of repeating it again and we will aim to finish on the top in this tournament," asserted Rani.
India are grouped with Poland, Uruguay and Fiji in Pool A while 18th Asian Games Champions Japan, Chile, Russia and Mexico are grouped in Pool B. India start their campaign against Uruguay on 15 June 2019. India will need to finish within the two positions by making it to the Final in order to qualify for the Olympic Qualification event later this year.
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2019 COMPETITION RESULTS
2022 Words and Music Writing Competition Results
2019 Words and Music Writing Competition
Winners, Runners-Up, and Honorable Mentions
2019 results below
Each spring, the Peauxdunque Review invites submissions to the Words and Music Writing Competition, a writing contest in poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, public high school short story, and "Beyond the Bars" (a multi-genre competition for incarcerated juveniles), associated with the Words and Music writers' conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, November 21-24, 2019. Winners in the poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction categories receive $1,000 plus admission to all Words and Music conference events. Public High School Short Story winners receive $500 plus admission to all Words and Music conference events. First runners-up in the poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and public high school short story categories receive admission to all conference events. The winner of the Beyond the Bars category will receive $500. Finalists in all categories receive half-off all conference events. Winners and first runners-up in all categories will be published in a subsequent issue of the Peauxdunque Review, and all entrants will be considered for publication.
Short Story Category:
Kim Chinquee
Final-Round Judge - Short Story
Sheila Arndt
Short Story - Winner
Susan Finch
Short Story - Runner-Up
The 2019 short story category of the Words and Music Writing Competition final-round judge was Kim Chinquee. Kim is a regular contributor to NOON, Denver Quarterly, Conjunctions, and has also published work in Ploughshares, The Nation, Story Quarterly, Fiction, Mississippi Review, and over a hundred other journals and anthologies. She is the author of the collections Oh Baby, Pretty, Pistol, Veer, Shot Girls and Wetsuit. She is Chief Editor of ELJ (Elm Leaves Journal) and Senior Editor of New World Writing. She co-directs the writing major at SUNY-Buffalo State, and lives in Glenwood, NY.
Kim selected the short story "Cherchez la Femme," by Sheila Arndt as the 2019 winner in the short story category. Kim notes regarding the winning story: "The twists and turns in this piece are convincing, visceral, striking, and at times almost painful: the insides and outsides of this character's body! Wow. The compelling voice, the oddness, the sensory details, the humor, and all the truths make it a real winner." Sheila is a reader, writer, and MFA candidate living in New Orleans. She cares about the modern and postmodern, critical theory, Americana, saltwater, garlic, canines, old blues, and new dreams. She is beyond thrilled to have her story, "Cherchez la Femme," chosen by and published with the Peauxdunque Review! Her poetry and prose has been published in The Tishman Review, Gravel, and Literary Orphans, among other places, and has received an Honorable Mention from Glimmer Train. Follow her: @ACokeWithYou_ and www.sheilamarndt.com
Kim selected "That Thing With Feathers" by Susan Finch as the runner-up, noting, "Really compelling conflict and plot, and the backgrounds about the other marriages. I really appreciate the hope in the end." Susan is an Associate Professor at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. Her work has appeared in The Chicago Tribune, Crab Orchard Review, New Ohio Review, Nimrod, Beloit Fiction Journal, and elsewhere. Her fiction has received several awards, and most recently, she was selected as a finalist for the Nelson Algren Literary Prize. Currently, she is working on a novel and a story collection.
There are six stories that are Honorable Mentions in the short story category: "I Too Can Slip," by Courtney Sender; "All His Teeth," by Alex Jennings; "Double Walker," by Katherine Conner; "Rescue," by Kaitlin Murphy-Knudsen; "The Seabird," by Jack Cape; and "The Sky Ride," by Missy Roback.
Creative Nonfiction Category:
Nathaniel Rich
Final-Round Judge - Creative Nonfiction
Benjamin Aleshire
Creative Nonfiction - Winner
Creative Nonfiction - Runner-Up
The 2019 creative nonfiction category of the Words and Music Writing Competition final-round judge was Nathaniel Rich. Nathaniel's April 2019 release, Losing Earth: A Recent History (MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux) chronicles the critical time period when scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world to act on climate change before it was too late. Nathaniel is a writer-at-large for the New York Times Magazine; his essays on literature appear regularly in the Atlantic, Harper's, and the New York Review of Books. His reported pieces have appeared in various anthologies, including the Best American Nonrequired Reading and the Best American Science and Nature Writing. Nathaniel is also the author of three novels: King Zeno (MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018); Odds Against Tomorrow (FSG, 2013); and The Mayor's Tongue (Riverhead, 2008). His short fiction has been published by McSweeney's, Vice, the Virginia Quarterly Review, and the American Scholar; the stories "The Northeast Kingdom" and "Blue Rock" were both finalists for the National Magazine Award for Fiction, and the latter was awarded the 2017 Emily Clark Balch Prize for Fiction. Nathaniel served as Fiction Editor of the Paris Review between 2005 and 2010.
Nathaniel selected "Love for Sale," by Benjamin Aleshire as the 2019 winner in the creative nonfiction category. Nathaniel notes regarding the winning piece: "The reflections of a poet for sale, who has seen too much and seen it too often, in 'a sinking city on the vanishing coastline of a dying planet.' The author has a poet's sensibility for finding beauty in common places: stones smoothed by a river into hearts, balconies 'weeping with ivy,' a smily-face laced in cirrus. Soul-weary but light-hearted, 'Love for Sale' is an ode to the mysteries of language and the sorrows of enduring love." Benjamin lives in New Orleans. His work has appeared in the The Times of London, Iowa Review, Boston Review, and on television in the US, China, and Spain. Andrei Codrescu selected his manuscript POET FOR HIRE as runner-up for the 2019 Faulkner-Wisdom prize in narrative nonfiction. As a poet-for-hire, his clients include Princeton University, House of Yes orgy-goers, Sir Tom Stoppard, Shakespeare & Co, the Bellagio, Bernie Sanders, and Jimmy Page. He serves as assistant poetry editor for Green Mountains Review. You can find him on Instagram at @benjamin_aleshire, or in the flesh at the corner of Royal & St. Peter.
Nathaniel selected "Cherall" by Nick R. Robinson as the runner-up, describing the piece as "The sprawling misadventures of an orphan who can't bring himself to accept companionship, no matter how lonely he becomes. He finally finds something resembling a home though the process of writing, recounting a history of his failures and regrets." Nick grew up in Junior Village, a Washington D.C.-based, government-run orphanage that was the largest and oldest institution of its kind in America. A ninth-grade dropout, Nick earned a general equivalency diploma and graduated from the University of the District of Columbia. In 2006, he left an executive position at Microsoft Corporation to begin the thirteen-year journey of scribing his coming-of-age memoir, Our Family Walks. A graduate of the creative writing programs at Florida Atlantic University (2009, MFA) and the University of Missouri (2016, Ph.D.), Nick is currently an Assistant Professor of English at Claflin University. He is represented by Miriam Altshuler and can be contacted at [email protected]
There are two pieces that are Honorable Mentions in the creative nonfiction category: "Glowing Wonders of Waitomo," by Whitney Mackman; and "My Tree," by Gavin McCall.
Poetry Category:
Brad Richard
Final-Round Judge - Poetry
Kate Leland
Poetry - Winner
Yoruba Baltrip-Coleman
Poetry - Runner-Up
The 2019 poetry category of the Words and Music Writing Competition final-round judge was Brad Richard. Brad is the author of four collections of poetry–Habitations, Motion Studies, Butcher's Sugar, Parasite Kingdom–and three chapbooks, The Men in the Dark, Curtain Optional, and Larval Songs. Recipient of numerous awards for his writing and teaching, he was named the 2015 Louisiana Artist of the Year. Founding chair of the creative writing program at Lusher Charter School, he directs the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards of South Louisiana.
Brad selected "All the Men Who Own My Underwear," by Kate Leland as the 2019 winner in the poetry category. Brad notes regarding the winning poem: "In 'All the Men Who Own My Underwear,' the speaker details, with playful warmth and clinical detachment, how she sold her worn 'black Calvin Klein knock-offs' on Craiglist in order to finance her grad school application fees. A poem about power and knowledge, work and sexuality, fantasy and agency, it is never a poem about exploitation: the speaker's business is to construct a persona which she sells, 'double zipped inside plastic bags and overnighted for a fee,' to willing buyers she need never meet. The poem's craft is equally precise and purposeful, from the acephalic pentameter of the title to the unnerving use of passive voice throughout. Most disarming of all, however, is the poem's humor, down to the last line: 'All it felt like was laundry.' Hat off to this marvelous poem and its author!" Kate is a poet from Austin, Texas. She is currently an MFA candidate at The University of Mississippi and holds a B.A. in English – Creative Writing from Hendrix College. She works as an associate editor with Sibling Rivalry Press Her work has appeared in The Hunger and Rust + Moth, and her debut chapbook I Wore The Only Garden I've Ever Grown was published in January 2017 with Headmistress Press. She lives in Mississippi with one cat and a collection of half-dead houseplants.
Brad selected "Pressing Day" by Yoruba Baltrip-Coleman as the runner-up, writing this about her piece: "'Pressing Day' evokes the memories of a girl whose grandmother regularly straightened her hair with a hot comb. In the world of that fraught ritual, ultimate authority resides in that comb 'long as a ruler, the sovereign scepter,' which literally forces the girl to bow her head and submit to it and all it represents. Half-willing, half-forced, the girl endures the ordeal and hides her ambivalence: 'What if I don't want hair that hangs? Who doesn't?' Richly patterned in its imagery and sounds, this was a great pleasure to read." From Reno, Nevada but now a transformed New Orleanian, Yoruba began writing poetry and fiction after publishing several research articles at Dillard University, where she taught Health Education and Theory in the Department of Public Health. Yoruba was a finalist in the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Writing Competition in 2017 for both the poetry and novella categories, and short-listed in 2018 for poetry. In 2019 she was a finalist in the novel-in-progress category and runner-up in the poetry category. She also writes YA novels. Yoruba BC's current poetry collection, Tangles, Knots and Knaps is forthcoming.
Seven poems have been designated as Honorable Mentions in the poetry category: "Exit Slip" and "Lake Looks Like a Lady Lake" by Ash Goedker; "Capsized" and "Pomegranates" by Tiara Brown; "The Morning After My Brother's Suicide" and "We Say Pain and It Means According to Which Organ," by Kate Leland; and "Parasites," by Kelly Anderson.
Short Story by a Public High School Student Category:
Final-Round Judge - Short Story by a Public High School Student
Nichole Cloke
Short Story by a Public High School Student - Winner
Torey Bovie
Short Story by a Public High School Student - Runner-Up
The 2019 short story by a public high school student category of the Words and Music Writing Competition final-round judge was Maurice Carlos Ruffin. Maurice's debut novel, We Cast a Shadow, was published by One World/Random House to widespread critical acclaim in January 2019. Maurice's work has also appeared in Unfathomable City: a New Orleans atlas, AGNI, Kenyon Review, Callaloo, Massachusetts Review, the Bitter Southerner, LitHub, Virginia Quarterly Review, and the LA Times, among many others. He is the winner of the Iowa Review Fiction Award, the So to Speak Journal Short Story Award, and the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Competition for Novel in Progress.
Maurice selected "With Hindsight In Mind," by Nichole Cloke as the 2019 winner in the public high school student short story category. Maurice notes regarding the winning story: "'Hindsight' is an ambitious story about a young woman reassessing a formative experience in her life: her rape by her teacher. The story is nuanced, provocative, and full of insight that will make readers reconsider the very nature of free will. This is an unforgettable work of fiction." Nichole is a student at Benjamin Franklin High School and studies creative writing at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. She is the treasurer of Franklin's Society of Women Engineers and is actively pursuing a career in engineering. She has received the 2019 Quarante Club Prize for Poetry, has won a Silver Key in the Humor Category of the Scholastic Writing Awards, and was a short story finalist in the 2019 William Faulkner – William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition.
Maurice selected "Cicada" by Torey Bovie as the runner-up, writing of her story, "The narrator in Cicada speaks in a voice that both vivid and charming. He quickly and confidently transports us into a hilarious day in his life. Readers will wish they could spend even more time with the narrator and his family." Torey is a New Orleans native who loves writing poetry and fiction and serves as a member of the 826 New Orleans Young Writers Council. He attends Benjamin Franklin High School and New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA). Toni Morrison wrote: "Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city." These words resonate with Torey and pushed him to realize that there will be no progress without action. It encourages him to break boundaries and push barriers with his writing, even to the point where he makes himself uncomfortable. Torey believes he is extremely blessed to be able to write. He realizes his ancestors were not given the opportunity to write, so his ability to exercise his rights and skills feels like a personal form of protest. He takes inspiration from the colloquialism of his family, his favorite authors, and many other innovative people of color. The preservation of culture is very important to him, especially in writing. Torey's writing will be published in NOCCA's upcoming 40th edition of Umbra and in 826 NOLA's This Is My Happy Face. He received the 2018-19 Silver Key Scholastic Award and an honorable mention in 2017-2018.
In addition, the editors of the Peauxdunque Review have designated an "Editor's Choice" selection from among the remaining finalist pieces: "The Disappearance of Either My Objects or My Sanity," by Nyela Joshua. This story was wowed over by the editorial staff, remarking on the story's "bold, weird spirit," and its "sparks of genius." Other Honorable Mentions in the public high school student short story category are "Ernest and I," by Pia Mulleady; "Mundele," by Juliet Bel; "Streetcar to the 7th Ward," by Donatella Henry; "Recalling the Gulf War," by Elijah Zitler; and "Let the Good Times Roll," by Sidne Gard.
Beyond the Bars Category:
Zachary Lazar
Final-Round Judge - Beyond the Bars
Connor Sanders
Beyond the Bars - Winner
Griffin Batiste Tadoe
Beyond the Bars - Runner-Up
The 2019 Beyond the Bars category of the Words and Music Writing Competition final-round judge was Zachary Lazar, selecting winning work from entries by incarcerated juveniles nationwide. Zachary is the author of five books, including the novels Sway and I Pity the Poor Immigrant, a New York Times Notable Book of 2014. His honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship and the 2015 John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for "a writer in mid-career whose work has demonstrated consistent excellence." His latest novel, Vengeance, was published in February of 2018.
Zachary selected "Down Here," a poem by Connor Sanders as the 2019 winner in the Beyond the Bars category. Zachary notes regarding the winning poem: "This is a solemn and powerful poem whose tight refrain makes every word matter. It manages to have flow and force at the same time." Zachary selected a poem by Griffin Batiste Tadoe, "Problem Child," as the runner-up, writing, "This poem moves with grace and surprise even though it's about tribulation. The poet uses images and rhythm to paint a vivid picture of the street."
Other finalists and Honorable Mentions in the Beyond the Bars category (identified here by titles and by the authors' initials, per the request of the juvenile facility where this group of writers resides) are "Dim White Light" by A.L.; "I Am" by A.T.; "Message to the Streets" by Griffin Tadoe; "Life" by J.W.; "The Princess and the Frog" by K.C.; and "Whispers" by P.D..
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There is no competition for me when it comes to tarts. If I had to choose one, even over tart au citron, tart tatin, tarte aux poires and chocolate tart, it would be the little glazed strawberry tarts with creme patissiere you get in Parisian bakeries. Unbeatable. However, I'm not in Paris as often as I'd like so they remain an occasional piece of heaven.
Most tarts take a little effort though, and that's fine. But not this one. Today's recipe is a really quick shortbread tart with a simple chocolate ganache topped with fruit, herbs, chia seeds, honey and strawberry powder (you can use cocoa if you prefer).
The base is the standard shortbread 1:2:3 recipe (sugar, butter, flour) but I've used coconut sugar and coconut flour instead. You can use caster and wheat if you prefer, the recipe is the same. This way gives a lovely coconutiness to the base which goes very well with the chocolate and is also gluten free for those of you who are gluten intolerant.
You'll have some shortbread mix left over as well for bonus biscuits which you could use for this recipe or just plain with a cup of Earl Grey tea. Use your favourite soft fruits and plenty of honey. Pretend it's one of your 'five a day'.
Mix together the butter flour and sugar in a bowl by hand until well combined and breadcrumb-like.
Press evenly into a fluted 20cm (9″) tart tin and bake at 170c for about ten minutes, or until golden brown. Make sure it's evenly cooked.
Bring the cream to just below the boil then pour onto the chocolate and stir well until melted, glossy and smooth. Pour into the tart case then top with the fruit, chia seeds and herbs and leave somewhere cool to set.
Yum! This tart looks delicious, good job!


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2020 Lenten Retreats
2020 Syracuse Catholic Women's Conference
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We regret to announce that the 2020 Syracuse Catholic Women's Conference is cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. We look forward to seeing you in 2021. God Bless you!
Our Featured Speakers
Fr. Larry Richards
Father Larry Richards has been a priest since 1989 for the Diocese of Erie, Pennsylvania and he currently serves as pastor of St. Joseph Church/Bread of Life Community in Erie. In 2004 Father founded The Reason For Our Hope Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to'spreading the Good News' by educating others about Jesus Christ and the Catholic faith through CDs, DVDs and books. He is the author of "Be a Man! Becoming the Man God Created You to Be", a #1 best seller for Ignatius Press, having sold over 100,000 copies. He also has a second book called "Surrender! The Life-Changing Power of Doing God's Will" published by Our Sunday Visitor which has sold over 40,000 copies. Father released a Catholic Men's Bible, NABRE, with Our Sunday Visitor in 2014, and also a Scripture Devotional Calendar entitled "No Bible, No Breakfast! No Bible, No Bed!" Father hosts the EWTN radio show called "The Reason For Our Hope", and a live EWTN radio show called "Open Line".
Sr. Jane Dominic Laurel
Sr. Jane Dominic Laurel is a member of the St. Cecilia Congregation of Dominican
Sisters of Nashville, Tennessee. She received her Doctorate in Sacred Theology
from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome, Italy. She has been
active in her religious community's teaching apostolate for over fifteen years and has assisted with the theological formation of the newest members of her religious congregation. In addition to contributing articles to a number of journals and magazines, including the Vatican newspaper (L'Osservatore Romano), The
National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, The Linacre Quarterly, and the Baylor
University Medical Center Proceedings, Sister has served as editor-in-chief of her
Congregation's book, Praying as a Family (also available in Spanish, Chinese, and
Arabic versions). With EWTN, she directed a television series of the same title.
She has also served as the creator and founding Director of the University of
Dallas Studies in Catholic Faith & Culture Program.
Victoria Vassat
Tori Vissat is a young, vibrant Catholic lay woman who works for FOCUS (Fellowship of Catholic University Students.) She has been leading, mentoring and guiding women in the faith for the past 7 years. She served 5 years on the international mission team for FOCUS where she took hundreds of students on mission trips around the world. As of recent, Tori helped form "The Freedom Project," a department of FOCUS that seeks to help young people gain healing in the areas of addiction, trauma and chastity. Tori has been featured on EWTN, the "Catholic Feminist Podcast" and the "SHE BELIEVED" podcast. Her writing can be seen on "The Catholic Woman Blog" and the FOCUS blog. In her spare time, Tori enjoys cooking, reading and searching for the best cold brew coffee.
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Get answers to frequently asked questions about living with a Boston Scientific ICD or S-ICD below. If you don't see the answer to your question, feel free to give us a call at (866) 484-3268.
When will I get my permanent Medical Device ID card?
Your permanent Medical Device Identification (ID) card will be mailed to you a few weeks after your implant. This wallet-sized card helps identify you as a patient with an implanted Boston Scientific medical device. If you do not receive your permanent card within eight weeks, call 1-866-484-3268 to order a card.
What if I move or change doctors?
If your name or address changes, or if you get a new heart doctor, let us know so we can update our records.
Do you have information I can share with my family about my implanted heart rhythm device?
You can download and print information about your device to share with your family by selecting your Boston Scientific device model on the resources page. These info sheets include answers to commonly asked questions about ICDs and S-ICDs and a summary about your device—including a photograph and dimensions. You may also want to share your patient manual with them. If you would like to request a new manual, call Boston Scientific Patient Services at (866) 484-3268.
How does the EMBLEM S-ICD differ from transvenous ICDs?
With a transvenous ICD (TV-ICD) device, electrical wires are fed through your veins, into the heart, and across the heart valve. Once the wires are in place, they are attached to the heart wall. The subcutaneous placement of the EMBLEM S-ICD does not require electrical wires in the heart and is designed to reduce complications associated with the implantation of TV-ICD electrical wires. Learn More About S-ICDs at the link below.
Is a shock from an ICD or S-ICD painful?
With both transvenous and subcutaneous ICDs, people have reported a wide range of experiences as a result of receiving a shock, from a mild thump to a kick in the chest. While the shock may be painful, it is over in an instant. This means your device is monitoring and responding to dangerous heart rhythm irregularities.
If you receive a shock while in contact with another individual, they may feel a harmless tingling sensation that lasts for an instant.
Will my ICD or S-ICD interfere with mobile phones and other electronic devices?
Being too close to electronic or strong electromagnetic devices may cause interference with your device, such as running motors and large magnets. Most medical equipment will not interfere with your ICD or S-ICD, but be sure to inform your health care professional that you have an implanted device. Learn more at the links below.
What information is stored in my device?
Your doctor can learn about changes to your heart condition from your activity level, heart events, and treatments from the information stored in your device.
Since your device is on 24 hours a day, it can provide a good picture of your heart rates and rhythms, your activity level, and how much help your heart needed to beat normally. If you receive therapy from your device, your doctor can see pictures (electrograms) about what happened.


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Image- Mini and many friends.
So think flowers/ images featuring flowers.
I went for the super cute Mini and many friends. There are so many little elements in that set that you can merge up a cute little scene in no time! As always, my lil sprout was on my mind so the little sentiment in my paper pad was just perfect and I couldn't resist adding it in there!!
Then I nestled them all in to some super sweet little blooms, awwwwww.
So today my tummy has settled some but my scampy temp is still sitting at 37.4 and I need it back to its perfect little 36.3!! I have a day of chilling out ahead of me.I feel a little relaxing crafting coming on!! he he he!!!! the truth is I am not so good at this resting thing. I like to be busy and doing stuff so adjusting to a slightly more laid back Lou is taking some getting used to!
Right, off for a cup of berry tea and then it's time to ring the Drs about a patch of skin on my back thats a bit sore.....I think it may actually be my super powers finally coming in but I'm sure the doc will write it off as normal stuff !!!! bwah ha ha ha ha!!!


Update at 10:35am: The individual has been safely taken into custody, and it is safe for citizens to return to the area, according to the Angels Camp PD.
Original story posted at 10:10am: Angels Camp, CA — There is a heavy law enforcement presence in the 500 block of Amador Avenue in Angels Camp.
The Angels Camp PD reports that officials are trying to negotiate with a person inside a home that is threatening harm to themselves. Additional law enforcement officials are on the way to the scene. The PD requests that you avoid the area.


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Appy Food & Drinks reveals Minions juice drinks
Appy Food & Drinks has unveiled a new juice drink featuring Despicable Me's popular Minions characters.
The new Tropical flavoured drink with Universal licensing will join the 'Family Value Range' of wholesome children's drinks.
The 'Family Value Range' is at the heart of Appy Kids Co as a brand; it is important to Appy that families are not taxed for choosing healthier products so they have pledged to always keep this range affordable by sourcing ethically grown fruits directly from well contracted farmers.
The range (rrp £1 per 5-pack) is packed in convenient pouches for easy drinking on-the-go and sweetened with stevia to keep calories low.
The existing juice pouches within the range have also undergone a revamp and boast an improved recipe that is fortified with vitamins A, C, & E and the mineral Calcium to aid healthy growth.
New milk drinks from Appy Kids Co
British food and drink brand Appy Kids Co is expanding its portfolio of healthy products with its new dairy drinks range.
AMC Group is launching FreshJ: a range of high quality, freshly-squeezed juices to be produced at the company's new state-of-the-art plant in Skelmersdale.
Cocktail mixer brand Funkin is supporting its Nitro Canned Cocktails with a nationwide advertising push.
Red Bull capitalises on England's Cricket World Cup success
Red Bull is celebrating the success of its 'Be More Pro' summer campaign, featuring cricketer Ben Stokes as one of the brand's key athletes, after England's win at the 2019 Cricket World Cup Final.


Abstract: A famous theorem of Szemerédi asserts that any set of integers of positive upper density will contain arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions. In its full generality, we know of four types of arguments that can prove this theorem: the original combinatorial (and graph-theoretical) approach of Szemerédi, the ergodic theory approach of Furstenberg, the Fourier-analytic approach of Gowers, and the hypergraph approach of Nagle-Rödl-Schacht-Skokan and Gowers. In this lecture series we introduce the first, second and fourth approaches, though we will not delve into the full details of any of them. One of the themes of these lectures is the strong similarity of ideas between these approaches, despite the fact that they initially seem rather different.


According to 6Wresearch, India Consumer Flash Memory Storage market (Pen Drive, Micro SD and SD cards) shipments registered 27.9 million units during CY 3Q 2014. The market experienced a decline of around 8% over CY 2Q 2014. SanDisk endured its market leadership in all the three segments followed by Samsung and Transcend. In the current quarter, Samsung registered a substantial growth of around 90% and overtook Transcend as compared to the previous quarter.
"Shift in demand towards higher capacity Consumer Flash Memory Storage devices can be witnessed in the India market. The consumers are shifting towards 8GB SKU from 4GB in last few quarters. Built in memory limitation and declining prices would further boost the market growth for higher capacity flash storage devices", stated Anuj Mehrotra (Research Analyst, 6Wresearch India Electronics Division.
During CY 3Q 2014, the ownership cost of 8GB Consumer Flash Memory Storage devices has experienced a continuous declining trend. For instance, the average prices of 4GB and 16GB capacity devices have experienced a decrease of more than 45% and 5%, respectively as compared to the previous quarter.
In the Pen Drive Storage segment, 8GB storage capacity holds lion share of the market, although 16GB Pen Drives observed significant growth of around 12% over the previous quarter. Further, the market is expected to reach new heights in the coming quarter primarily due to declining ownership cost of devices.


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We are proud to be a non-profit organization, promoting and introducing the art of Bonsai and Suiseki to the Sacramento community since 1946.
We are proud to say that we are the oldest bonsai club in the state of California and our club is only getting bigger in size.
The Sacramento Bonsai Club, established in 1946, is the oldest club in the United States and is an active club with active members. The club has special guest instructors and "hands-on" workshops led by instructors or members at our monthly "second Monday evening" meetings. There are also scheduled Saturday transplanting workshops held at Maruyama Nursery in Sacramento.
The art of suiseki (viewing stones) is also taught by knowledgeable members who have guided us on past collecting trips and dai-making workshops.
Please join us in our celebration of the art of Bonsai and Suiseki!
Please click here to view this years calendar of events.
We encourage everyone to visit our club meeting as our guest, and become a member. Join us in practicing the delicate and peaceful art of bonsai, though it can really be noisy and exciting! Becoming a member is easy!
Simply visit our Membership Page, fill out the form and that is it! You will be contacted by email directly from a club member to inform you about the details. Cost of membership is $20 for the full year.


You will need an Apostille Certificate, also known as the Hague Apostille, confirming the authenticity of the signature and the capacity in which the person signing the document has acted. The process of obtaining an Apostille is called Legalisation.
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We apply for your document's Apostille and we translate it in your target language.
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the Hitchcocks aboard the Queen Mary in March 1939
RMS Queen Mary is a retired ocean liner that sailed primarily in the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967 for the Cunard Line.
The Queen Mary along with her running mate, the RMS Queen Elizabeth, were built as part of Cunard's planned two-ship weekly express service between Southampton, Cherbourg, and New York City.
The liner was officially retired from service in 1967 and made her final voyage from Southampton on 31st October. She sailed to the port of Long Beach, California, United States, where she remains permanently moored.
The liner had several links to director Alfred Hitchcock:
The Hitchcocks, along with Joan Harrison, travelled from Southampton on 18/Aug/1937 to New York.[1]
The Hitchcocks returned to the U.S. the following year, departing from Southampton on 01/Jun/1938. Whilst in America, Hitchcock signed a contract with David O. Selznick.[2]
Along with Joan Harrison, the Hitchcocks left England and moved to America in March 1939. They sailed from Southampton on 04/Mar/1939.
After completing filming on Stage Fright in London, Hitchcock returned to America from Southampton on 22/Sep/1949.
The Hitchcocks travelled from New York to Europe in October 1955 to oversee the foreign dubbing of The Trouble with Harry. They arrived into Southampton on 24/Oct/1955.
Following the success of Psycho, Hitchcock considered a number of projects, including The Blind Man which would end with a chase scene on the liner.
Images from the Hitchcock Gallery (click to view larger versions or search for all relevant images)...
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↑ They returned from New York aboard the MV Georgic.
↑ They returned to England aboard the SS Normandie, which departed New York on 13/Jul/1938.
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Bluefin Tuna Doesn't Stand a Chance Against EU's Industrial Fishing Boats
Sustainability made simple
Michael Graham Richard Michael_GR
A commercial tuna fishing vessel. Photo: Wikipedia, CC.
Are We Waiting for the Total Annihilation of Bluefin Tuna to Act?
Bluefin tuna is already critically endangered and probably shouldn't even be fished in the first place, and it now has to face the poisoning of its spawning ground in the Atlantic by the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and an over-sized EU's industrial fishing fleet that is catching its quotas in no time.
Image: Wikipedia, public domain.
Too Many Fishing Ships, Too Few Tunas
Highly effective and high-tech purse seine fishing boats set off for the high seas on May 15th, but bad weather prevented them from catching any fish for the first ten days. The season was due to close a month later, on 15th June, but had to be ended early on June 9 because the quotas were reached. The purse seine boats can catch massive amounts of tunas as they gather to spawn.
"That EU purse seine fleets have in the space of a week caught their whole annual quota of bluefin tuna in the Mediterranean is further proof that these boats are simply not appropriate for this fishery and that the whole operation is entirely unsustainable - not to mention economically unviable."
France's purse seiners, for example, had already caught 1,456 tonnes by June 8th - some 86 per cent of their quota for the year - while Spain's had caught 728 tonnes, over 90 per cent of their quota.
"Purse seiners are so hyper efficient they leave no chance to the tunas they target in the peak spawning period when the fish are at their most fragile," said [Dr Sergi Tudela, Head of Fisheries at WWF Mediterranean]. (source)
What are we waiting for? Do we really need bluefin tuna to be extinct before we do something? We need a well-enforced international fishing ban for many years to allow the species to recover. Ask any expert (who isn't a consultant of the fishing industry).
Via WWF
More on Bluefin Tuna
How Will the BP Oil Spill Affect Critically Endangered Bluefin Tuna?
Japan Will Ignore Ban on Bluefin Tuna, Says The Fish Isn't That Endangered
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Beijing Zoo Puts their Animals on the Menu
A commercial tuna fishing vessel. Photo: Wikipedia, CC.Are We Waiting for the Total Annihilation of Bluefin Tuna to Act?Bluefin tuna is already critically endangered and probably shouldn't even be fished in the first place, and it now has to face the
ICCAT Increases Protection for Bluefin Tuna, Swordfish and Sharks, ...
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Sassetti announces the promotions of Shawn Carter to Senior Manager, Korina Carrillo to Manager, and Johnathan Bollas to Senior. Each brings with them a unique skill set, and the firm is excited to enter a new chapter with these gifted individuals.
Shawn joined Sassetti in 2016, and has over 11 years of accounting experience. He has worked with not-for-profit organizations, as well as employee benefit plans and privately held companies. Shawn is a graduate of Northern Illinois University, and is a member of the firm's audit quality committee.
Shawn can be reached at 708-386-1433×122 or carter@sassetti.com.
Korina joined the firm in 2015. She has over 12 years of experience, and has worked in audit, consulting and tax for regional CPA firms, in addition to serving as a controller for a privately held company. She is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. She also earned an MBA with a concentration in Accounting from the Liautaud Graduate School of Business at UIC.
Korina can be reached at 708-386-1433×134 or carrillo@sassetti.com.
Johnathan was previously an intern with Sassetti, and joined the firm full-time in 2017. A Chicago native, he graduated from DePaul University with a degree in accounting. Johnathan works largely with not-for-profit organizations, but also has experience working with for-profit companies and employee benefit plans.
Johnathan can be reached at 708-386-1433×107 or bollas@sassetti.com.


Everyone knows how terrible and annoying the Tinnitus will be, so there is no need to explain it. It makes you crazy by the continuous ringing in your ears. You will regret every second of your life if you live your whole life with this dazzling sound. Imagine someone shouting in your ears constantly or undergoing an unbearable noise in your ears all the time! Can you live with it calmly? You do not want to kill that tinnitus if it's just a person? If you go through all this and think that there is no constant solution to cure this, then you are wrong. Because there is an amazing solution that will destroy your tinnitus once and for all! Tinnitec is the product what we all discussing about. Do you want to know how it works when it treats tinnitus completely? Read this review until the end.
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It is made of a unique combination of effective ingredients that have been proven to remove chronic tinnitus which gives suffering for many years. Using it regularly can provide a significant result within a few days. Changes in your diet, exercise and expensive surgery may be recommended. However, they finally realized that it did not work as expected and did not achieve the desired results. Here Tinnitec can be helpful. Unlike other products, it uses a mixture of basic elements that can recreate audio tracks in the brain. This is done by increasing the amount of dopamine and reducing tinnitus. In addition, it contains antioxidants and anti-inflammatory ingredients that can safeguard and protect your hearing.
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