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Prince William Community Band: Music by the People for the People
The band's ensemble, Occoquan Heavy Metal. Members (from left): Lee Culbreth, Don Stewart, James Davis, Dean Miller and Jack Tilbury, Prince William Community Band president.
By Amy Falkofske
The band's ensemble, Occoquan Heavy Metal. Members (from left): Lee Culbreth, Don Stewart, James Davis, Dean Miller and Jack Tilbury, Prince William Community Band president.
It's a Monday night at Saunders Middle School in Manassas, and local musicians are slowly trickling into the band room for their weekly rehearsal with the Prince William Community Band, a nonprofit musical group dedicated to providing area musicians with an opportunity to perform concert band music, and local residents with a chance to enjoy it.
The room is filled with the din of conversation mingled with sounds of brass, woodwind and percussion instruments warming up. Ed Jones, the band's conductor since its inception, steps onto the podium, and the room grows silent. His baton goes down and out comes the band's first full, robust note.
History Spans Decades
It all started almost 20 years ago when one of his former students who was a manager at the Music & Arts Center in Woodbridge approached Jones, the band director at the time at Woodbridge Senior High School in Lake Ridge. She told him that she was trying to start a community band and asked if he would conduct it. He agreed, and they placed an ad in a local newspaper to look for area musicians.
The response to the ad was tremendous, drawing in flutists, clarinetists, French horn musicians, trombonists and trumpet and percussion players—"the whole nine yards," said Jones.
"I came home one night to find my wife handing me my trumpet and a little newspaper clipping, and she said, 'Go play!'" remembered Gary Shoemaker, a founding band member and past president of the group.
On June 28, 1996, the band held its first rehearsal at the A.J. Ferlazzo Building in Woodbridge. With about 30 members and a few months of practice, the band conducted its first concert on Aug. 11 that year at the Locust Shade Park amphitheater in Triangle. Jones remembered fondly one of the first songs the band played: "Rakes of Mallow" by Leroy Anderson.
Over the years, the band grew, no longer fitting on the Ferlazzo Building's stage. Clarinetist and band Associate Conductor John Cznadel, band director at the time at Saunders Middle School in Manassas, suggested that the band rehearse there, which it has for 18 years, he said. With more than 70 members now, the group is about to outgrow the space at Saunders as well, Jones said.
The quality of the band's music also has grown, and the group has established itself as a solid member of the Prince William arts community. In 2006, the band won the Kathleen Seefeldt Award for Outstanding Arts Group in Prince William County, according to information on the band's website. In addition, Prince William Community Band has performed over the years with several renowned composers, musicians and musical groups.
Attracts Members throughout Area
Prince William residents comprise the majority of the band, but some members come from towns and counties surrounding this area, said tuba player and Prince William Community Band President Jack Tilbury. What draws talented players from other counties? It's the band's reputation, Tilbury said.
"It's a good band. I would say it's one of the better community bands in this part of the country," he said. He attributed that to Jones' success in attracting talented players. "He's been active in the county for a long time, and he knows everybody," said Tilbury, referring to Jones' decades-long history as a band director and music supervisor with Prince William County Public Schools. Players include area band directors and music teachers, along with retired U.S. Army Band members and also former students of Jones and Cznadel, he said.
"It's been a cool thing for me to see that kids, after they've left me and gone on, … still play their instrument, even after they graduate," said Cznadel.
The band is comprised of musicians of all skill levels and from all walks of life, and who all share a passion for music, Jones said. "The people in the band are just so enthusiastic about maintaining their ability to play, and they love band. Everybody is there because they love music. They love playing," he said.
Four Ensembles Play in Small Venues
Prince William Community Band has developed a number of ensembles, which perform on their own as well as with the band. Dunbar Saxophone Quartet, which the band's board member saxophonist Suzanne Marshall started, plays a variety of music and at a wide range of venues.
Occoquan Heavy Metal consists of five musicians from the band's big-brass section. This ensemble also plays a variety of music, including light classical, marches, rags and jazz, said Tilbury, one of the group's three tuba players. The ensemble also includes two euphonium musicians.
Prince William Brass is an ensemble of musicians on smaller brass instruments, including the trumpet, trombone and French horn.
The group plays at special ceremonies and commemoration events in smaller venues that the entire Prince William Community Band can't fit into.
Formed in 2012, the newest ensemble, Moonlight Jazz Orchestra, is an 18-piece jazz big band that performs at various events. In April, the group played at the popular Blues Alley jazz club in Washington, D.C.
Serves the Community
The band performs eight to 10 concerts a year, all free to the public, said Tilbury. "I think for us, it's more a matter of supporting the community," he said. The band's goal is to "be a family-friendly ensemble where you can bring the kids and have a good time," Tilbury said.
Jones said that a typical year for the band includes performing at the Prince William Arts Council's Arts Alive! festival, May 3 this year at the Hylton Performing Arts Center in Manassas, and the Prince William Community Band Concert, which will be May 17 at the Harris Pavilion in Old Town Manassas.
A couple of times a year, Prince William Community Band members also visit the retirement community Westminster at Lake Ridge, Jones said. Additionally, they sometimes perform at area elementary schools, where they talk to the kids afterward and let them hold and blow into the wind instruments, Shoemaker said.
"That's what we're here for," he said. "We provide the county with a lot of options for arts in an era where arts are not being supported as much in schools as they have been in the past. I think it's important that we get out there and talk about how art is very important to a child's development."
For more information about the Prince William Community Band, visit www.pwcb.org.
Amy Falkofske (afalkofske@princewilliamliving.com) is a freelance writer as well as the owner and photographer of Beautiful Moments by Amy Photography. She lives in Bristow with her husband and two sons.
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Astute and inventive, Camille Henrot's work has continued to develop through her examinations of nature and culture over the last decade. Coming from a background in film, Henrot has worked with a range of media, resulting in disparate forms that speak to the construction of culture. Her complex works often stem from extensive research and result in captivating images and objects. Her series of Ikebana works, Is it possible to be a revolutionary and like flowers?, uses the Japanese art of flower arrangement in response to famous book titles. Many of the books referenced, important political and philosophical tomes, are not necessarily considered in relation to the ornamentation of the flower arrangements. However, in Henrot's interpretations, the book titles serve as scientific labels, ones you would come across in a botanical garden explaining the species of the plants you are viewing. The production of knowledge and its manifestations are highlighted through a presumed disjunction. In this series, as with many others, Henrot turns traditional taxonomies and classifications on their head. Often incorporating scientific means, botany or anthropology, Henrot disrupts straightforward interpretations, troubling associations with culture and gender.
Camille Henrot – « Robinson Crusoé », Daniel Defoe (série « Est-il possible d'être révolutionnaire et d'aimer les fleurs ? »), 2012
Installation: Techniques mixtes Dimensions variables
Vue de l'exposition "Est-il possible d'être révolutionnaire et d'aimer les fleurs ?", kamel mennour, Paris, 2012
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In Objets Augmentés (2012), Henrot has collected various used and new household and recreational objects, such as a bicycle seat or a vacuum cleaner pipe, but she has reshaped them with clay and covered them in tar. Some of the objects are recognizable; while others become unfamiliar once their shapes are obscured or exaggerated and their surfaces tarred. Henrot's act is like expedited fossilization: she simultaneously destroys the objects, as we know them, and ensures their future status as artifacts. This new taxonomy speaks to the types of objects we use and how they may be interpreted in the future, articulating the biases and misinformation that guides much of archeological past.
Camille Henrot – Objets augmentés, 2013. Installation : objets trouvés, enduits de terre et de goudron. Dimensions variables
Vue de l'exposition "A Disagreeable Object", SculptureCenter, New York, 2012
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In her newest work, on view in the 55th Venice Biennale, Henrot similarly mines our past, present and future, ecstatically describing the origin of the universe as an event that is in constant formation, reinvented with every click of the mouse and every caress of an object, or body. The video was largely the result of a research fellowship awarded to Henrot at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. Her intensive research and time spent within the different museum within the Smithsonian resulted in Gross Fatigue (2013). Henrot doesn't expound on the genus and species of the taxidermied animals pulled out of the Smithsonian's archives, but we understand that they are part of cycle of life and regeneration that we are all subject to. Through the music, a ranting monologue (the voice of a man leads us through origin narratives), and images, the resulting work is a euphoric build up color, sound, and texture. Information is presented and quickly slips away into the ether, a demonstration of the ungraspable qualities around the creation of life, and the creation of knowledge. As in Gross Fatigue, Henrot's works fearlessly tackle the largest questions, but do so with an energy and force that deliberately directs us into the labyrinth. Henrot consistently carves out distinct experiences through her works, ones that are clever and complex, but never dull.
Camille Henrot – Grosse Fatigue, 2013. Vidéo (couleur, sonore) / Video (color, sound), 13 min. Musique originale de / Original music by Joakim. Voix / Voice by Akwetey Orraca-Tetteh. Texte écrit en collaboration avec / Text written in collaboration with Jacob Bromberg. Producteur / Producer : kamel mennour, Paris ; avec le soutien du / with the additional support of : Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin, Paris. Production: Silex Films.
Film présenté dans le cadre de l'exposition / Film presented on the occasion of "Il Palazzo Enciclopedico (The Encyclopedic Palace)", 55e Biennale de Venise / 55th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, 2013
Projet développé dans le cadre du / Project conducted as part of the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship Program, Washington, D.C.
Remerciements particuliers aux / Special thanks to: the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, and the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum © Camille Henrot – Courtesy the artist, Silex Films and kamel mennour, Paris.

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BY NATASHA BARSOTTI — The owner of a Mississippi newspaper is defending a decision to run a story about a lesbian wedding on the paper's front page after intense backlash from readers, according to a Yahoo News report.
Jim Cegielski says the "deluge of hate calls, letters, emails, Facebook posts, soundoffs and random cross stares thrown in my direction" after the Laurel Leader-Call published the piece, entitled "Historic Wedding: Women Wed in Laurel Through Smiles, Tears," required a response.
The couple in the story, Jessica Powell and Crystal Craven, exchanged vows earlier in the month, Yahoo notes.
"We were well aware that the majority of people in Jones County are not in favor of gay marriage. However, any decent newspaper with a backbone cannot base decisions on whether to cover a story based on whether the story will make people angry," Cegielski wrote in an editorial.
"Our job is to inform readers what is going on in our town and let them make their own judgments. That is exactly what we did with the wedding story," Cegielski continued. "If there had been protestors at the wedding, we would have covered that the exact same way . . . but there weren't any. We never said it was a good thing or a bad thing, we simply did our job by telling people what took place."
He noted that the paper carries "stories about child molesters, murders and all kinds of vicious, barbaric acts of evil committed by heinous criminals on our front page and yet we never receive a call from anyone saying, 'I don't need my children reading this.' Never. Ever. However, a story about two women exchanging marriage vows and we get swamped with people worried about their children."
Noting that about 20 readers told him they think gay marriage is "an abomination against God," Cegielski said 15 people have cancelled their subscriptions to the Leader-Call because of the story.
"You have every right to cancel your subscription. But you have no right to berate and belittle anyone on our staff," he concluded.
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Caesar: I have a quick question regarding real estate. I lived in Houston about 13 years and I moved to Florida about six, seven years ago. When we moved, we rented the house that I have in Houston. My renters are about to leave and I need to figure out if I should put it back on lease or if I should sell it.
I've heard two stories. One, that if I sell it I would be taxed on the profit of the house, and the other story is that if I sell it, because I lived in that house more than five years, I wouldn't be taxed on the profit.
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Chris Frederick Talks About WorldPride 2019: New York City
By Eileen Shapiro -
Chris Frederick
WorldPride 2019 is quickly approaching, and New York City will be hosting the largest Pride celebration on the planet, marking the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising. Pride Month events begin on June 1 and will end with the Pride March grand finale on June 30. Global and domestic visitors and New Yorkers will gather together as friends and family supporting parties, rallies, arts, culture, history, equality and laughter, tears and hopes as one.
The colorful anticipation of WorldPride grows more vivid and vibrant everyday. Pride in itself is a unique experience for the masses and for each individual. The journey for equality has been an empowering venture. Stonewall50 & WorldPride 2019 is themed "Millions of Moments of Pride." It represents "the invaluable and countless experiences every person encounters during annual celebrations and commemorations around the world."
Each year Get Out! magazine turns to Chris Frederick, Executive Director of NYC Pride, for a first-hand preview of the events surrounding Pride. On this special year of WorldPride, he certainly has this journey mapped out.
With WorldPride rapidly in our midst, are you nervous?
I think every year there is a certain amount of nervousness. I think given the nature of what we're creating, the world is looking indirectly at these events to commemorate this really important moment. Yeah, I think it's natural to be nervous and to want to ensure that all of these events are as amazing as they possibly can be.
This year you're responsible for Pride Month, which I'm sure is a lot of extra work and stress. What is your own personal inspiration for all that you do for Pride?
My personal story is, I came out to my mom when I was 17. Being from rural Ohio, brought up in the countryside, I just happened to have stumbled upon the Pride March during a visit to New York with my mom when I was 17. It was kind of like that singular moment where I realized that I was part of a thing much larger than anything I ever anticipated. That singular moment is what continues to drive me in the fact that there are millions of people on the sidelines that are experiencing Pride for the first time, and the impact it leaves on a person for the rest of their lives is truly life-changing. The fact that we can create a dialogue on this sort of scale where the entire city is in this idea of love and acceptance is really what is such a driving force for me. So I think every year is different, every year has its own unique challenges, and I'm really excited to be a part of it.
Rumor has it that there will be two marches. Can you comment on that?
We are planning the best event possible. I think there are going to be other events and programs happening for that entire month of June, but we know that our event is going to be the largest and most visited. We have over 700 groups that are participating, and 150,000 different marchers at the moment that are participating. Most of our participants are from nonprofit organizations, so I think that this event is still very much community driven, with the community in mind, and we're focused on [doing] the best we can for our diverse community.
Facebook is passing around an article stating that ABC is covering Pride for the first time. Is that correct?
I saw that. Actually, ABC has been broadcasting it since 2017. We are very happy to have them covering it for the third year in a row. I think that we have a very great relationship with them. For me it was really important to have the Pride March on television, because there are so many kids out there or people out there that don't feel comfortable coming to Pride because they may be afraid, or they may not know anyone. To have it in people's living room is really important, because one of Pride's big pillars as an organization is to provide visibility on a mountainous scale. So we are really excited that ABC is continuing to be a strong partner in this regard.
Will the march be following the same route as last year?
It's kind of the same route. It starts around 26th and 5th Avenue, it goes down 5th Avenue, goes east on 8th Street, cuts across on Christopher and then goes north on 7th and ends at 23rd and 7th.
If the media is interested in joining, what should they do?
There's an application online. They go to worldpride.org and check out the media, which will explain how to get credentials.
I consider you the Pride leader, so if you could say anything regarding WorldPride, what would you want the world to know?
That's a great question. At the end of the day what we're really trying to showcase here is that you're not alone. You have a big community behind you that loves you and supports you no matter how you identify or who you are.
Is there any one particular event that you think everyone should absolutely participate in?
We are really excited about the opening ceremony at the Barclays Center. It's the first time that it will be done on a mass scale at the Barclays Center on June 26 with some really big names, including Chaka Khan, Whoopi Goldberg and Cyndi Lauper and more. We are really excited about it, because it is also going to be a fundraiser for three great organizations: Ali Forney Center, Immigration Equality and SAGE. So not only is it a really amazing arena show, but on a large scale we will be giving back to the community.
Is there anything else that you'd like to say that I haven't covered?
Check out our website at worldpride.org for any information about what we are doing. Our key plan is to be giving $250,000 to other LGBT nonprofit organizations, or more depending on how we land. At a minimum we will be giving away $250,000. We are producing 25 events, and we have about 70 to 80 official partner events that are online in our calendar. We think that it's going to be the biggest event in the history of the community, and we're expecting about 4.5 million people.
How many usually come to New York Pride?
We usually have about 2.5 million people on any given year. There will be about 2 million more than we normally see.
I have to ask you this for Mike Todd, publisher of Get Out! Can we expect Madonna?
YES! We're excited to be able to announce that Madonna will be performing at Pride Island Sunday and joining an amazing roster of artists at that event over the two days, including Grace Jones, Teyana Taylor, Kim Petras and more. They join a long history of legendary artists that have performed at official NYC Pride events on the pier, including Cher, Ariana Grande, Whitney Houston, Jennifer Lopez, Janet Jackson and more. We could not think of a better artist to help close out WorldPride for this important anniversary for our community.
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Wiretap: Goings on about town
By Peter Delevett	/ March 6, 2014 at 11:37 AM
For an outfit that only officially launched two weeks ago, Google Capital sure has been busy. The search giant's growth equity fund has pumped tens of millions of dollars into three companies: SurveyMonkey, Renaissance Learning and Lending Club. And on Wednesday, online real estate marketplace Auction.com got into the action with a $50 million infusion.
David Lawee of Lawee Google Capital
David Lawee, the former Google marketing and M&A chief who's now running Google Capital, told me the deal hits his outfit's sweet spot. "You want to be able to serve these companies in a way that may be different than you might serve smaller companies," he said. Auction.com, he noted, already has 1,000 employees, about a tenth of them in Silicon Valley. And the Irvine-based startup, unlike popular sites like Zillow and Trulia, doesn't just help buyers and sellers gather research, but "actually facilitates the transaction. There's no one doing this at this scale."
Auction.com president Jake Seid, a longtime tech investor in his own right, said Google's product-development and big data chops were as important as the size of the check. "We're in a special time in the growth of the Internet," he said. "Pillars of the economy are moving online." That includes real estate: Seven-year-old Auction.com said it handled $7 billion worth of transactions last year. Seid added, "We believe the entire market benefits from transparency and efficiency. That's what the Internet does."
– Nasdaq, which last year acquired SharesPost with plans to turn it into a branded marketplace for buyers and sellers of private-company stock, officially rolled out the result. Dubbed the Nasdaq Private Market, the San Francisco venture will give Nasdaq a piece of the action when startup CEOs decide to put off going public but still offer their investors and employees a way to cash out.
– Gary Kremen, who exploded to Silicon Valley fame via the Sex.com saga and more recently has been investing in more staid pursuits like cleantech, is opening up yet another new chapter: He's launched an accelerator for startups focused on digital currency Ripple. If you're not familiar with it, Ripple was released last year by by E-Loan founder Chris Larsen and Bitcoin pioneer Jed McCaleb; Kremen's PR folks spin it as "Bitcoin without the issues," issues like the recent cratering of Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox. Interestingly, though, Larsen told me via email that he doesn't see Ripple as an alternative to Bitcoin but as a "distributed payments protocol that grew out of Bitcoin" and lets people transact any currency, virtual or government-backed. Larsen added, "We stand behind the strength and resilience of the Bitcoin protocol and community." Nevertheless, he's psyched about Kremen's new effort.
Kevin Hartz, Eventbrite CEO
– And, online-ticketing startup Eventbrite announced a new product that lets users sell reserved seating for their events. PR people will tell you with chagrin that I almost never write about product news, but to me, Eventbrite CEO Kevin Hartz isn't any old entrepreneur: He was one of the first people I had coffee with when I started on the tech beat way back in 2000. Hartz had just sold a startup that set hotels up with high-speed Internet and was dabbling with a few ideas; one of them was putting some of the first money into the company that became PayPal. Hartz later became the first investor in Pinterest, which last I checked sported a $4 billion dollar valuation.
Last year, EventBrite sold $1 billion worth of tickets to everything from conferences to concerts, rodeos to road races. Hartz and his cofounder/wife, Julia, told me customers had been clamoring for the ability to sell assigned seating, and the new software helps event organizers figure out which tickets will sell first and where they should be priced. Other changes to the site's back-end architecture will let it handle sales 10 times faster, Kevin Hartz said.
It's been almost a year since EventBrite closed a $60 million funding round from Tiger Global and T. Rowe Price, and the 340-person startup's been growing rapidly abroad. Given how tech-friendly the IPO market has been, it wouldn't surprise me to see Hartz and Hartz march down that road in the near future … And having seen Kevin Hartz's earlier startup, Xoom, go public last year, I've gotta think Wall Street will be interested in the money-generating possibilities of Eventbrite's new product set.
Lawee photo, top, courtesy of Google Capital; Kevin Hartz photo courtesy Evenbrite.
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Parents' outrage at e-cigarette advert during I'm a Celebrity... that appears to be a woman talking about oral sex
ITV screened the 'crude' advert just after the watershed last night
Woman says 'I want you to get it out' in the ad - in a reference to an e-cig
Advertising watchdog launches an investigation after complaints
By Rob Cooper
Published: 11:35 EDT, 3 December 2013 | Updated: 13:51 EDT, 3 December 2013
ITV came under fire from viewers today for screening an 'offensive' e-cigarette advert during I'm A Celebrity which appeared to show a woman talking about oral sex.
A woman in a black cocktail dress uttered a series of suggestive phrases in the 20-second commercial screened just after the watershed.
Advertising watchdogs have launched a full investigation into the advert after receiving a 'significant number' of complaints.
'Crude': The woman in the advert appears to be talking about oral sex in the advert screened on ITV just after the watershed last night
'Unfunny': A man in the advert who is asked to 'get it out' by the woman - in a reference to an e-cigarette
In the commercial, the woman said 'I want you to get it out' and 'I want you to put it in my mouth', in an apparent reference to a sex act.
She added: 'I want to see how great it tastes'.
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However, in a twist at the end she makes clear that she is actually referring to an electronic cigarette.
Viewers branded the advert 'disgraceful' and unfunny while others said that it glamourised smoking.
The commercial screened at 9.10pm last night during I'm a Celebrity which this year stars Joey Essex from The Only Way is Essex and model Amy Willerton.
Commercial: The advert screened during I'm A Celebrity last night on ITV. Laila Morse, pictured, was voted off the show
Commercial: The advert was for an electronic cigarette. It is a device that simulates smoking but does not contain the harmful chemicals
Louise Edwards Tweeted at ITV's official account that she thought the advert was inappropriate.
She wrote: 'I really object to VIP advert just shown on ITV talk about the wrong messages to young people watching I'm a celeb £disgraceful.'
Reece Doyle even accused the advert of promoting sex crimes. He said: 'I really do not like the VIP advert. There are obvious allusions to rape. Utterly disgraceful.'
Jodie Pullman added: 'The VIP Ecig advert is awful. Needs removing off TV that does.'
A teenager wrote that it was 'awkward' to watch the advert nextr to his parents.
The Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) confirmed they were investigating the advert for VIP Electronic Cigarettes.
A spokesman said: 'The ASA has received a significant number of complaints about two TV ads for VIP electronic cigarettes.
'One ad shows a woman, and the other a man, both speaking directly to the camera.
'Complainants object that the language used in the ads is overly sexual and offensive while others object that the ad sexualises and glamorises e-cigarettes and/or smoking.
'We have now launched a formal investigation into these ads.'
Makers of the e-cigarette said they had created the commercial in response to an EU ban on actually showing their product on-screen.
'Crude': Viewers also complained that the advert on ITV glamourised smoking. Watchdogs are now investigating
Offensive: The makers of the e-cigarettes defended their advert which they described as 'tongue in cheek'
Miguel Corral, co-owner of VIP Electronic Cigarettes, defended the 'tongue-in-cheek' advert.
He said: 'I think it's safe to say that our ads could be considered controversial and definitely push boundaries.
'Due to advertising regulations we were not permitted to include the product in the ad, so we decided to take a tongue-in-cheek approach to appeal to an adult audience and communicate the superior taste of VIP products, whilst making it clear that the product does contain nicotine and that they are only available to smokers over the age of 18.
'We anticipated that the creative treatment for this campaign would cause comment and we were ready for this, but I want to make it very clear that as a leading e-cigarette manufacturer we take our responsibilities extremely seriously which is evident in our decision not to broadcast the ads before the watershed and follow the advertising rules closely.'
VIP E-cigarette advert during I'm a Celebrity provokes parents' outrage


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1Now it happened that when the crowd gathered around him to hear the word of God, and he was standing on the side of the Lake of Genesar 2He saw two ships that stood on the shore of the lake and the fishermen who had come down from them and were washing their nets. 3And one of them belonged to Shimeon Kaypha, and Yeshua went up and sat down in it, and he said to take it out a little from the land into the water, and he sat down and he taught the crowds from the ship. 4And when he had ceased speaking, he said to Shimeon, "Take to the deep and cast your nets for a catch." 5Shimeon answered and he said to him, "Rabbi*, we worked all night, and we have not caught anything, but at your word, I will cast the net." 6And when they had done this, they caught very many fish and the net was breaking. 7And they beckoned to their partners who were in another ship to come help them and when they came they filled those two ships, so that they were almost sinking. 8And when Shimeon Kaypha saw it, he fell before the feet of Yeshua and he said to him, "I beg you, my Lord, abandon me, for I am a sinner." 9For awe had seized him and all of them who were with him, due to that catch of fish which they had caught, 10Likewise also Yaqob and Yohannan, sons of Zebedee, who were partners of Shimeon, but Yeshua said to Shimeon, "Do not be afraid; from now on, you will be catching men for salvation*." 11And they brought those ships to land, and they left everything and they came after him.
12And when Yeshua was in one of the cities, a certain man who was full of leprosy came in and saw Yeshua and he fell down on his face and he begged of him and he said to him, "My Lord, if you are willing, you can purify me." 13And Yeshua reached his hand and he touched him and he said, "I am willing; be purified." And immediately his leprosy went from him and he was purified. 14And he commanded him: "Tell no man, but go show yourself to the Priest and offer for your cleansing, just as Moses commanded, for their testimony."* 15And fame went out about him increasingly, and many people were gathered to hear from him and to be healed of their sicknesses. 16But he was departing to the wilderness and praying.
27After these things Yeshua went out and he saw a Tax Collector whose name was Levi, who sat in The House of Customs, and he said to him, "Come after me." 28And he left everything, and rising, he went after him.
29And Levi made a great reception for him in his house and there was a great crowd of Tax Gatherers and of others who were reclining at dinner with them. 30And the Scribes and the Pharisees were complaining and they were saying to his disciples, "Why do you eat and drink with the Tax Collectors and sinners?" 31And Yeshua answered and he said to them, "A doctor is not sought for the healthy but for those who became very ill." 32"I have not come that I may call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
33But they were saying to him, "Why do the disciples of Yohannan fast faithfully and pray, also the Pharisees, but yours are eating and drinking?" 34But he said to them, "You cannot make the children of the bridal chamber fast as long as the groom is with them." 35"But the days will come when the groom will be taken from them and then they will fast in those days."
36And he told them a parable: "No man tears a strip from a new garment and places it on a worn garment, lest also the new tears the worn and it does not resemble the strip from the new piece." 37"And no man places new wine in old wineskins, lest the new wine should burst the skins and the wine is spilled and the skins are ruined." 38"But new wine is placed in new wineskins and both are preserved." 39And no man drinks old wine* and at once desires the new, for he says, "The old is sweet."


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The public release of iOS 8.1.1 has taken a step closer, as iOS 8.1.1 beta is now live, along with its release notes. We know when iOS 8.1 was released it came with several fixes, as well as Apple Pay. However, some people were still having issues with their iOS devices and so seeing this last update soon to be released will come as good news.
We can understand why iOS users would say that Apple has gone downhill since Steve Jobs passed away, and each time a new product or service is released it is inundated with issues, and iOS 8 and Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite with its WiFi issue are fine examples of that.
You can see the iOS SDK Release Notes for iOS 8.1.1 Beta here, which is said to include bug fixes and improved stability for certain iOS devices, such as the iPad 2 and iPhone 4S, which we will look into later today.
It is not yet certain just how long we will have to wait until the iOS 8.1.1 release date, but we doubt it will be too long, just as long as developers do not find too many problems with this beta.


Patrick Collard - Guitar - Brandy`s Rag, A little slow Ragtime song I wrote many years ago for my poor long suffering dog "Brandy" (sadly gone now to doggy heaven !)....who shared many a night curled up on the sofa next to me as I ploughed thru the small hours playing my guitar !! LYRICS You wander thru this old house and I can`t help but smile, You move along so slowly then settle for a while, Your big brown eyes so sorrowful yet I know that you`re not sad, You really are.....the best friend a man ever had. What do you Dream about when you sleep at night?, Do you think of holes to dig or cats that you can fight?, You could never make me sad, Even though sometimes you`re bad. I wonder what goes on in your World and how do you feel right now, As you lie here by my side trying to sleep somehow, Cos` it`s four oclock in the morning and I`m still writing your song, But you don`t cry and you don`t sigh at being awake for so long.


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While at Kohl's I got my school shopping done. They had an awesome clearance section- which had just the things I was looking for: (jersey?) knit skirts. I also got some tanks to wear at practice- they were $2.80 each. I know, I'm pretty awesome at finding deals.
Yeah, it's an HP. All my friends but one got HP's. They all like theirs. Therefore: I got a new HP instead of another silly dell computer. Haha, it was very funny: Dad said, "Now you shouldnt have problems with this one. At least I hope." Then I thought my baby didn't come with a charger. Called Dad and bestbuy to complain. Then I found it. Then I couldn't find my SD card slot. Called Dad to say it didn't have one (it's crucial to blogging you know!) then he found it. Then I tried to put in my extended batteru, but I couldn't get it to fit. Had Dad work on it. Finally I was right: it was the wrong battery lol. Now I gotta figure out how to get the extended battery when it's not in the stores yet since this is such a new computer and I leave town in a week- and its currently on sale for $60 off.
Now all I'm concerned about is loading the *edited out* security thingy. I might win an iPod if I do this before school! I'm all up for free stuff and deals so if you ever feel like sending me stuff, go right ahead.
Sorry for the long post. I think that it could be mainly attributed to my outstanding humor, so your eyes shouldn't fall out just yet. I'm off to watch more swimming/ get ready for bed. I'm tired and have a busy day ahead of me tomorrow. It will be my last saturday in town and last day of work/ saturday morning water aerobics.


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Colchester man, accused of raping student, claims there was "instant attraction" between them
Sultan Mohammed, 24, of Almond Way, Colchester, told Ipswich Crown Court there was an instant attraction between him and the student he is accused of raping Picture: ARCHANT - Credit: ARCHANT
A Colchester man accused of raping an Essex university student has claimed they had consensual sex after there was "an instant attraction" between them.
Sultan Mohammed told a jury at Ipswich Crown Court that the woman had invited him into her room and they had flirted with each other.
"It was an instant attraction," he said.
Mohammed, who told the court he had played football for Colchester United, said he had been to a party on the university campus and had then wandered around the student accommodation looking for an "after party" or " drink-in".
He claimed he had entered the alleged victim's accommodation block through an open communal door and had knocked on a door after hearing music.
He claimed the door was opened by the alleged victim who suggested they had their own drink-in.
He said they had talked and flirted before having sex on her bed.
He claimed that during sex she had made him feel uneasy by asking his name several times and he had said: " I think we should stop."
He said that after leaving the woman's room he had continued wandering around the site looking for a "drink-in".
He denied raping the student by having sex with her while she was asleep.
"I'm not a rapist. I don't have to rape women," he said.
Mohammed, 24, of Almond Way, Colchester, has denied rape on October 3 last year
It has been alleged that the student woke up to find Mohammed having sex with her and initially "froze" before pushing him off her.
Andrew Thompson, prosecuting, claimed Mohammed had been prowling around the Colchester campus in the early hours of the morning and had "probably been looking for some sort of sexual encounter."
He said Mohammed had come across an insecure door to student accommodation and allegedly entered the unlocked room where the student was asleep.
After leaving the woman's room Mohammed, who isn't a student at the university, was allegedly seen on CCTV trying other doors and windows on the campus.
He was interviewed by police after his handprint was found on a window he had allegedly tried to enter.
The trial continues.


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Q: #define include alternative for hardware cursor? This program I'm working on has a 3D (hardware/non-hardware) cursor option that I'm trying to make a config option for.  Right now it's set using a preprocessor #define macro that sets the types of CursorType, CursorName, and CursorDisplay.  Currently, the only way that I can toggle on or off the 3D cursor is to comment or uncomment the #define USE_3D_CURSOR line (which is very bad).
#define USE_3D_CURSOR
#if defined (USE_3D_CURSOR)
  #include <osgDB/ReadFile>
  #define CursorType osg::Image *
  #define CursorName const stringobj&
  #define CursorDisplay osg::Texture *
#elif defined (_MSC_VER)
  #include <windows.h>
  #include <osgViewer/api/Win32/GraphicsWindowWin32>
  #define SLASH "\\"
  #define CursorType HCURSOR
  #define CursorName LPTSTR
  #define CursorDisplay HMODULE
#elif defined(__linux__)
  //...

So as I said before, I'd like to change this to be a config file option that can be set before runtime.  But, I'm not sure what is the best way to go about doing this.  Should I use templated functions maybe?

A: That's not possible by definition, since #define and #include statements always will be evaluated during compile time.
You'll need a kind of OS abstraction layer for this, instead of the #define CursorType etc.
In other words: Define abstract interfaces to describe cursor specific behaviors, and have OS specific implementations for these. Use a factory pattern to instantiate the correct implementations at compile time, use the interface to configure specific behavior and capabilities and properties at runtime.
I'd recommend reading about the Factory, Facade and Decorator patterns. IMHO the whole thing is a bit too complex to provide you with a code sample here (may be I'm just too lazy now). If s.o. else gets what I mean, and is willing to give one, or has a good source to such abstraction layer, feel free!

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- Alice stealing Toadie's laptop during the fake break- in.
- David giving Alice medical advice about medication withdrawal.
- Toadie concerned about his wife's behaviour.
- Alice disappointed that Sonya so far is resisting temptation.
- Ned reading Bea's thoughts in her journal.
- Bea and Ned pashing.
- Terese wondering if the age gap with Leo will become an issue.
- Leo and Terese declaring their love to each other.
- Paul unamused at Terese bringing Jane to Erinsborough.
- Paul pleased at receiving a good night kiss from Jane.
Jane and Paul are out on 'a date' at The Waterhole so Terese and Leo give them a wide berth to get to their own table. "Should we ask them to join us?" Jane asks, but Paul vetoes that plan as he doesn't want to disturb them. Jane asks about his history with Terese, and he reassures her that the vague interest he had in her is all in the past, he has moved on.
Meanwhile when we cut to the table Terese and Leo are at, Leo comments that they appear to be having a good time. "Yes, it's nice," Terese replies with the fake happy smile on her face.
Piper doesn't quite get the hint that she is a spare wheel when Bea and Ned want to share a pizza alone. Eventually, she finally twigs that they have got together and decides to safely retreat to her room to give them privacy, even though Bea said she was more than welcome to share their pizza.
PIPER: No, its fine, you guys have already sacrificed a pizza for love, so don't sacrifice the night too.
"Time goes incredibly fast when we're together," Jane remarks after they finally realise the time after spending some time out in the balcony admiring the view. By this point in the night, you can cut the UST between then and the inevitable happens – they start kissing, before she retreats (alone) to her room. Paul looks like he's just scored the winning goal in the Grand Final with the huge smile on his face.
Its like a mini- party in #22 that Terese and Leo come home to - Piper is having a whale of a time with Ned and Bea playing Chloe's drinking game (spill it or swill it). Piper is asked who in Ramsay Street she wants to secretly hook up with and her reply is nobody after what happened with Cassius and Tyler. Terese is more than relived to hear she wants to stay single and Leo decides they should join in with the game too, so he can hear some of Terese's secrets!
Alice quickly hides Toadie's (stolen) laptop when she hears him park his car. He is surprised to hear that everyone is asleep when he enters the house and asks if Sonya ate anything (no) then puts it down to her coming down with the flu or something. Alice shows him a drawing Nell did and comments that it must be hard everyone relying on him. "It won't be like this forever," he replies and seeing the home drawn picture makes it worthwhile. "You can see how much Nelly loves her dad," Alice remarks.
The next question everyone is answering is which song was playing when they had their first kiss. As the answers go around, the age difference between Terese and the others becomes very much apparent especially when she reveals her song (Rick Astley's 'Never give you up') and Piper goes on about it being so old.
Sonya looks awful as she hunts for her appointment book and Toadie suggests she stays home and goes back to bed, but there is nobody to cover so Sonya valiantly heads off to work.
After Toadie heads out the door, Alice suggests that Nell makes a drawing of Sonya before she does to Kindle. However, the crayons Alice hands over are darker colours (grey, black, brown) citing that's all she could find when Nell asks where the pink one was.
Amy spots Jane as she is about to head into the Harold's for a much needed coffee after her late night with Paul. Jane is very complimentary about Paul and asks Amy for advice (telling her about seeing Leo and Terese) in case she puts her foot in it with him. Amy explains that Leo's relationship with Terese "was a surprise" and it took Paul a bit to get used to it, even though his relationship with Terese ended long ago. Jane is curious to know why she and Leo don't live in the penthouse suite and Amy goes for the easy answer – they simply wanted to live with their respective partners.
AMY: You know what it's like when you fall in love. Hopefully its dads turn next.
Whatever Nell has drawn, it seems to thoroughly meet with Alice's approval!
With a coffee safely bought, Jane runs into Terese and subtly questions her on how things are going with Leo (good despite the age difference comments) and Jane is behind Terese with the double standards women face. She also can't but sing the praises of where Leo gets his good stock from and is liking the fact Paul's attention is on her, after the long years spent looking after her Nan.
Ned is following up on one of Bea's revelations last night (that she used to be a busker) and she explains that it was a way to keep her going when she lived on the streets. He gives her the encouragement to take it up again adding that he'd like to hear her sing.
Meanwhile Terese, Leo and Amy are holding a mini- summit to discuss how things are going between Paul and Jane. Terese wonders if they've been a touch naïve – while she is good for him, is it good the other way around?
TERESE: Come on guys, she's a sweet, kind and generous soul who only sees the best in him. And we've just duped her, we've loured her here, and we've thrown her to the wolves.
They reckon though that if they do get together, she will bring the best out of their dad. While Terese would like that to happen, she thinks Jane has a right to know what. "Its early days," Leo says, plus Jane is just visiting, so suggests they just wait and see where things go.
Alice drops by to show Toadie the picture Nell drew and let's just say you can now see why Alice reacted like she did earlier – its not very flattering at all, indeed it makes Sonya out to be all dark and angry.
ALICE: It's a little bit different from her usual fare, wouldn't you say?
Alice wonders if Nell is being affected by Sonya's moods and again, perhaps unknowingly without realising it, is taking things out on Nell with the pressure she is under? "Leave it with me," Toadie replies, promising to look into it.
Terese approaches Jane to ask if there is anywhere, they can chat in private and is shown to the conveniently placed bench right outside the school door!
Terese begins by asking how long she is going to be in town beyond the initial timeframe, but Jane doesn't know yet and is curious to know why Terese is asking.
TERESE: The truth is, we really didn't bring you here for the Face of Lassiters promotion, we brought you here for Paul.
"But why?" Jane asks and Terese explains the "dark and vengeful place" Paul was in and what he did to Leo and herself.
JANE: And this is because he still has feelings for you?
TERESE: I think he felt betrayed, but I made it very clear to him a long time ago that nothing could happen between us.
TERESE: Paul was becoming self- destructive and we were worried but then we remembered how well the two of you got along the last time you were here, and we thought seeing you might help him.
JANE: So, you made me the sacrificial lamb?
"Yes," Terese replies and admits that it was wrong before apologising to her. Terese just felt it right that Jane knew the truth before making any further decisions.
Paul thinks he is meeting Jane for lunch, having hastily put together something but he's actually there so she can hear his side of the story after her visit from Terese. "She had no right talking to you," he begins with and makes it clear he knew nothing about the plans to bring her to Erinsborough. He does add that he did figure it out though and was planning on telling her, but she thinks he's just as bad as them for not telling her.
JANE: How am I supposed to trust you?
Sonya has taken Toadie's advice and got someone in to cover for her, so she can come home and go to bed (she really looks quite ill). She apologises for her behaviour and Toadie can see she is ill and promises to bring her a hot water bottle after noticing that she's shivering.
Sonya passes Alice on the way to her room and she tells Toadie about playing tea parties with the "poor little dear" after Nell had to come home early from Kindle. "Poor little dear. Is that how you see Nell?" Toadie asks, confused with how his daughter has been described but Alice is quick to say no, however her observation is that the lass is troubled.
TOADIE: If you're talking about the picture that she drew, I've already spoken to Nell about that and umm Sonya wasn't shouting, she was singing. Nell drew it to make her feel better.
Alice fakes relief at the explanation but despite her doing a lot for the family, Toadie chastises her for crossing the line and insinuating that Sonya is mis- treating Nell. "I thought you asked me to help?" Alice replies and Toadie agrees that is correct, but she needs to put more faith into Sonya. Alice can't apologise profusely enough and begs to be allowed to look after Sonya, she's got another recipe!
TOADIE: I'm going to look after Sonya, I'm going to look after everyone today, so you can have the afternoon off.
ALICE: Oh no, there's no need, I'd rather stay.
JANE: I actually thought that you cared about me.
PAUL: And I do care about you. God, you're about the only good thing in my life at the moment.
"Well only because you've ruined everything else apparently," she is quick to point out! Paul concedes that point and admits he isn't proud of the way he's behaved "but outside of that, I thought you and I had a real connection," he adds.
PAUL: I know you felt it too.
JANE: The connection I felt was with an honest, well- adjusted man. One that apparently doesn't even exist.
Paul suggests that they start again but she wonders who he will be this time – a fireman or an astronaut?!
JANE: (interrupting) Paul, tell me, do you still have feelings for Terese?
JANE: And there's my answer. If you think I'm sticking around, you're sadly mistaken. As soon as my contract with the school is up, I will be leaving Erinsborough and in the meantime, I'll be seeking alternative accommodation.
PAUL: Oh come on, you don't have to do that.
JANE: Yes. Yes, I do. We're over.
- Susan admitting the whole thing is getting out of hand.
- Mark yelling at Bea and ordering her to take the rest of the day off.
- Leo giving Aaron a serve.
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Q: Show that $A^2 = 0$ iff $\operatorname{im}(\alpha) \subset \ker(\alpha)$. I am tasked to solve the following problem.
Let $A \in M_2(K)$ be a certain "fixed" matrix and $\alpha : M_2(K) \rightarrow M_2(K)$ be a map defined by: $\alpha(M)= A \cdot M$ for all $M \in M_2(K)$. I have already shown that $\alpha$ is linear and that if $A$ is invertible, then $\alpha$ is invertible.
I now have to show that $A^2 = 0$ iff $\operatorname{im}(\alpha) \subset \ker(\alpha)$ and I dont have any idea how to do that. I am a newbie to linear algebra, and I am unfortunately pretty weak on proofs, so any hints/ suggestions would be appreciated.
P.S. I have also found the matrix of $\alpha$ in the canonical basis of $M_2(K)$ which I think is this:
$$\begin{bmatrix}a & 0 & b & 0\\0 & a & 0 & b \\ c & 0 & d & 0\\ 0 & c & 0 & d \\\end{bmatrix}$$
Given that $A= \begin{bmatrix} a & b \\ c & d
\end{bmatrix}$.

A: You are really just asked to play with the definitions of $\textrm{im}(A)$ and $\ker(A)$.
If $\textrm{im}(A)\subseteq\textrm{ker}(A)$, it should be obvious that $A^2=0$. Indeed, for all column vector $X$, $AX\in\ker(A)$, which means $A(AX)=0$, namely $A^2X=0$.
If $A^2=0$, let $X\in\textrm{im}(A)$, there exists a column vector $Y$ such that $X=AY$. Left-multiplying this identity by $A$ leads to $AX=A^2Y$, but since $A^2=0$, if follows that $AX=0$, namely $X\in\ker(A)$.
In a similar fashion, can you adapt the above proof to show the following statement?

Let $A$ and $B$ be two square matrices of the same size, then $AB=0$ if and only if $\textrm{im}(B)\subseteq\ker(A)$.


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The Home Rule Crisis 1912 – 1914
Unionist Opposition to 3rd Home Rule Bill
In 1886 & 1893, the Home Rule Party had unsuccessfully attempted to force Home Rule onto the table of British politics. The House of Lords, many of whom had connections with Ireland and were generally steadfast supporters of the British Empire, refused to allow it to pass. On both occasions, it was vetoed by the House of Lords.
In 1911, The Parliament Act (1911) was passed. This reduced the veto of the House of Lords to a delay, effectively ending the House of Lords blocking of Home Rule. the 3rd Home Rule Bill was tabled in the House of Commons in 1912.
Unionist Reaction:
Realising that the House of Lords could no longer guarantee the security of Unionism in Ireland, Edward Carson and 470,000 Unionists in the north of Ireland signed the Solemn League & Covenant in September, 1912. In this declaration, they declared that they would use:
"…any means necessary…"
to prevent the introduction of Home Rule in Ireland. Unionists feared Home Rule for three reasons:
As Unionists were mostly Protestant, they felt that they would become a minority in a Catholic-dominated Home Rule Ireland.
Unionists were proud of their association with the British Empire and felt it was their duty to protect its integrity in Ireland.
Unionists feared that the industrialised areas of the north of Ireland, such as Belfast, would suffer economically from the breaking up/ weakening of the union between Ireland & UK.
The Ulster Volunteer Force
The Irish National Volunteer Force
Gun-Running at Larne (UVF)
Howth Gun-Running (IVF)


In the wake of the perennial burgeoning (though unfairly overlooked) wave of ever-widening mitotic sub-divisions in the indie rock genre vying for validation, it seems all too easy for artists to wear their self-supposed sanctimoniousness as a badge of honour. Not Andre LaFosse, it seems. His collection of 'mid-life crisis rock' in The Hard Bargain are, for an entirely instrumental album, refreshingly accessible. From the outset, LaFosse eschews the esoteric pomp of his avant-garde roots, with the punchy, pounding riff of Subway Psychology rolling right on in and unashamedly claiming your attention, daring you not to nod your head or tap your feet. Dragged through the crushingly apocalyptic grunge of Twelve Sided Dice into the ethereal mist of the titular track, the listener is often coaxed into zoning out in the crossfire, but resistance will bear rich rewards in subtle sprawling wave layers and viciously evolving form, serving as a championing indictment to the album's extended track lengths. Shades of the avant-garde are to be found in the haunting dejection of Zen Gun, rising from beautifully smooth melody lines to overwhelming, head-crushing static dissonance. The melodic quiver of Remediation carries you through to the closing swan-song quagmire of Balancing Act, which, while impressive and beautifully crafted expansive pieces, do leave you wondering quite where the punch of the album has gone off to.
Though it never quite recaptures the energetic burst of the first track, the album serves as LaFosse's exploration of the limitless breadth of his guitar's buzzy growl and heavenly evocative choral wail. Not a full-circle affair, the album traverses vast music ground with the simple guitar-bass-drums format, leaving you in a very different state to that which it found you in, for better or worse.
If The Hard Bargain is that quirky uncle whose maladroitness only serves to endear you to his oozing vintage cool, then Do The Math is the full-blown lunatic, annexed and extradited from your family gatherings. A work bursting at the seams with oftentimes terrifying dynamism, the album is quite the far cry from LaFosse's other 2012 offering (Though if you're looking for more of his sickly-sweet guitar lines, those are still to be found pervading the ultramodern synthesizer maelstroms).
The album opens in stellar fashion; the first track Retcon pulsing slowly into life with beautifully rudimentary hum, blended with taut yet moving guitar-fire leitmotifs. LaFosse's skill and musicality are showcased here wonderfully; his physical and theoretical control of melody throughout the track as it escalates to increasing levels of synthetic angelic buzz set the underlying tone of the album well. Semblance of Terra Firma is henceforth annihilated however, with the heralding of Hard Sci Fi; the subtle and restrained control of the previous track is obliterated in a distorted sonic onslaught, as fuzzed out guitars trade blows with a chorus of wayward 56k modems. The concurrent tracks follow suit, crafting sonic ravines of wonderfully chaotic synth with LaFosse's signature guitar lines, before affording you a return to a less frantic, albeit increasingly overwhelming, experiment in subtlety in The Process of Elimination. The extraterrestrial space war of Slow Motion Saturation follows, leading the way into some of the most dissonant and experimental work in Strange Games. The closing tracks of the album present brilliantly fuzzed out, digitized guitar alongside discordant industrial rhythms in Basilisk, before the epic curtain fall of the ever-mutating formal masterclass medley in Siren Song/Yawning Abyss/The Turing Test, bringing the album to a fantastic all-encompassing conclusion in a final mitigating blowout, determined to knock loose any residual scepticism from lingering non-believers.
While from time to time the album does get carried away, it is always volatile with buzzing energy, never becoming inertial even in its calmer moments. It is difficult to ignore the fact that the sheer synthetic bedlam of the work can oftentimes become overwhelming, as the fusion of melody and electronic pulse is compromised in favour of experimentation. Yet, across the 10 tracks, there is enough of a firm grounding with LaFosse sticking to his guns; the best moments of the album reveal themselves in the seamless synergy of the artificial and the organic. LaFosse's masterful use of guitar in various distorted and unmolested guises throughout the work, in tandem with, rather than in conflict with, pounding robotic fury form a thoroughly enjoyable, solid offering with more than enough room for the odd alienating experimental detour for flavour.
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EU Embassies to the Holy See present measures to reduce CO2 emissions
This Wednesday, 3rd November, EU Embassies to the Holy See presented a series of measures taken to reduce CO2 emissions. The effects of climate change are clear, and the EU has set the goal to reduce CO2 emissions by a minimum of 55% by 2030, and reach carbon neutrality by 2050. Therefore all actions contributing to a reduction of our planet's pollution are more relevant than ever.
EU Embassies to the Holy See presented a series of measures taken to reduce CO2 emissions.
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CO2 reduction measures by EU Embassies to the Holy See
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#OrangeTheWorld - say NO to gender-based violence 2021
Born equal, yet striving for equality
Young people call on adults to create a better future
The Ambassadors to the Holy See Literary Award 2021The book "Mio Dio, come sei buono. La vita e il messaggio di Charles de Foucauld" by Father Andrea Mandonico wins the second edition of the Ambassadors to the Holy See Literary Award 2021.
#OrangeTheWorld- say NO to gender-based violence 2021 As we come to the end of the 16 days of action for the Elimination of Violence against Women, Alexandra Valkenburg, Head of the EU Delegation in Rome wanted to reiterate that gender-based violence is a violation of human rights and has no place in the European Union or anywhere else in the world.
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This Kenyan artist is illustrating African women like you have never seen before
By Aisha Salaudeen, CNN
Published 7:03 AM EDT, Wed October 23, 2019
Chai & Changa: Inspired by Khanga fabrics originating from the coastal area of East Africa. Tea (chai) is big in Kenya and here it is used in celebrating beautiful, dark African skin.
Phoebe Ouma
Giraffe manor: Nairobi, Kenya, draws people from around the world. This image shows that one can enjoy the safari and Kenyan tea in lovely places around the country.
Maasai necklace: A woman adorned in handmade traditional jewelry from the Maasai tribe.
Girls and head wraps: The women use Kitenge fabric, predominantly used in East Africa, to style themselves.
Kericho: Inspired by the tea fields in Kenya.
Lake Nakuru: Inspired by the lake known for its flamingos.
A woman enjoying her vacation in Lamu, Kenya. Inspired by Swahili architecture from Lamu.
Yellow cab: Inspired by the debut of fashion brand Maxhosa at the 2019 New York fashion week.
An illustration of Maison D'Afie's Bunny Wu dress.
This Kenyan artist is illustrating African women like never before
Phoebe Ouma spends a lot of her time with a pencil between her fingers, sketching women and clothing she finds interesting.
Born in Nairobi, Kenya's capital city, she says she has always been artistic.
"I have always been drawing," she told CNN. "It is a thing I have been good at."
Ouma, 23, is fascinated by African women and the fashion industry, and often pieces together illustrations of African brands that inspire her.
She became conscious of the need to tell stories of African women when she was in high school.
"I had this folder in high school where I used to keep some of my drawings. Most of my models had white complexions and I didn't realize I was doing this until someone pointed it out," she said.
According to Ouma, she subconsciously picked up illustrating white people from reading magazines that didn't represent people who looked like her.
She would later decide to make a conscious effort to share stories of women who had the same skin color, and experiences similar to hers.
"I made up my mind that whenever I put my work out for people to see, I would be intentional about making it reflect some of me," she said.
In 2019, she started publicly sharing stories and sketches of women from different parts of the continent, drawing inspiration from people and places she visits.
In one of her illustrations, Ouma describes the women in Kericho, a town in Kenya famous for its tea farms.
"I used to go to the village during the holidays and we'd usually drive by the tea fields in Kericho. It looked so beautiful to me, and there are a lot of women who work on the tea fields," she told CNN.
The illustration references tea as a huge part of Kenyan culture and the women who drink the tea, which is produced by other women on the farms.
Ouma says she is also fascinated by fashion from across the continent.
She started illustrating brands from Africa because she struggled to find African illustrators telling stories about the fashion industry.
"During fashion weeks, you see illustrators from all over the world sharing stories through their work. And you see fashion houses getting their stories told.
"But when we have our own fashion weeks, I feel like I cannot find enough content about it. People are not using illustrations," she said.
A graduate of fashion design and marketing at the University of Machakos in Kenya, Ouma now recreates designs from brands she finds interesting.
She says she's interested in re-enacting the work of designers who portray African print and culture in ways that non-Africans can relate to.
"Sometimes it is not the brand that has reached out to collaborate with me, sometimes I am the one who wants to tell their story," she said.
In 2018, she recreated one of the designs from Cameroon-based fashion brand Maison D'Afie, citing the brand's ability to connect with a much wider audience outside Africa as inspiration.
Ouma says the dress references the stylish Sawa tribe from Cameroon's coastal region, and its green colors reflect the rainforest around the area in which the tribe lives.
"I think it is interesting the way they put it in a modern way because they are letting people see Africa in a way that it has never been seen before," she said.
"As much as we appreciate the traditional things for Africa, we want other people to enjoy the culture with us," she added.
Ouma, who now illustrates full time, says people sometimes underestimate the work she does.
"One of the challenges has been finding people who see the value in what you do. They think it's the same as paying to use a picture online, they don't understand that illustrations are custom-made for specific stories," she said.
In the next few years, Ouma wants to be more present in Africa's fashion industry, sketching for her favorite designers from across the continent.
"Eventually, I will get to designing clothes full time… but I want my illustrations to tell stories so I watch videos and read books about it so that I can become better," she said.


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Sustainability – Dominion Packaging, Inc.
Supplying a competitive product and maintaining a safe and renewable environment is the only path to a secure future.
During each calendar year Dominion recycles over 23,000 gallons of liquid waste, with the majority being consumed as supplemental fuel for concrete construction component kilns. This material is then used to reduce the purchase of fossil fuels required to operate the kiln. All plastic strapping, packaging materials, office and break room waste, pallets, obsolete equipment, and press parts are recycled.
We have installed controls on our presses that will allow our catalytic incinerators to sustain complete combustion of solvent laden process air without the use of supplemental fuel. We have also invested more than $3,000,000 in new incinerators, which will further reduce energy consumption and increase the VOC destruction rate to over 99%.
Dominion has converted to water based coatings in order to reduce dependence on petroleum derivatives. We have also developed high gloss specialty coatings to replace energy consuming ultraviolet and electron beam coatings.
We installed a closed loop system that delivers chilled water to the presses. This system eliminates the need to add fresh water to the system.


May 4, 2016 – WAYNE, Pa.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Intact Vascular, Inc., a developer of medical devices for minimally invasive peripheral vascular procedures, today announced that positive twelve-month results from its Tack Optimized Balloon Angioplasty – Below-the-Knee (TOBA-BTK) clinical study were presented at the SCAI 2016 conference by Dr. Christian Wissgott, Assistant Director, at Westküstenklinikum Heide in Heide, Germany.
The TOBA-BTK study enrolled 35 subjects at 6 sites in Europe and New Zealand. All study subjects were suffering from critical limb ischemia, a form of peripheral arterial disease, in one or both legs. Of the subjects enrolled, 32 were treated with the 4 French Tack Endovascular System following standard balloon angioplasty in the tibial and peroneal arteries. The Tack Endovascular System is a new technology designed to repair dissections (or tears) in the artery wall that frequently occur as a complication of balloon angioplasty. The system allows physicians to repair these dissections while leaving a minimal amount of foreign material in the artery, reducing mechanical stress on the artery, and preserving future treatment options.
Patients in the study demonstrated a marked improvement, as measured by the Rutherford Classification System, a 7-stage scale ranging from no symptoms (class 0) to gangrene (class 6). The study data suggest that an increasing number of patients continue to improve, with 75% of patients experiencing a 4 or 5 step improvement in Rutherford Classification from baseline (p<0.0001) at 12 months. Dr. Wissgott continued, "The Tack Endovascular System holds much promise for improving the long term outcomes associated with balloon angioplasty below the knee. I look forward to building on these exciting results in the expanded TOBA II BTK clinical trial that is currently being planned." Peter Schneider, M.D., Chief of Vascular Therapy at the Kaiser Foundation Hospital in Honolulu, and Intact Vascular's Founder and Chief Medical Officer, added, "The existing treatments for arterial dissections below the knee involve leaving a great deal of metal behind, and in the small arteries of the lower leg that is plagued with problems. The Tack implant takes a very novel approach and allows the treating physician to target therapy only where it is needed to promote healing of the injured artery." Based on these promising results, the company is pursuing an expanded study (TOBA II BTK) that will assess the performance of the Tack Endovascular System in a larger population and will include U.S. and international investigators. About Intact Vascular Intact Vascular is a privately held medical device company that develops minimally invasive peripheral vascular products. The Tack Endovascular System is designed to optimize peripheral balloon angioplasty results in the treatment of peripheral arterial disease. Visit www.intactvascular.com for more information. This press release contains "forward-looking statements" concerning the development of Intact Vascular's products, the potential benefits and attributes of such products, and the company's expectations regarding its prospects. Forward-looking statements are subject to risks, assumptions and uncertainties that could cause actual future events or results to differ materially from such statements. These statements are made as of the date of this press release. Actual results may vary. Intact Vascular undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements for any reason. Contacts Intact Vascular, Inc. Andrea Dunkle, adunkle@intactvascular.com, 1-484-253-1048 Tack Endovascular System™ and Tack™ are trademarks of Intact Vascular, Inc. The Tack Endovascular System™ is CE Mark Authorized under EC Directive 93/42/EEC. Not Available for Sale in the United States. CAUTION: Investigational device. Limited by Federal (United States) law to investigational use.


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