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La ligne de Lisieux à Trouville - Deauville est une ligne de chemin de fer française d'une longueur de 29 kilomètres, qui relie Lisieux, sous-préfecture du département du Calvados, à Trouville - Deauville. Elle constitue une antenne de la ligne de Mantes-la-Jolie à Cherbourg.

Ouverte de 1858 à 1863 par la Compagnie des chemins de fer de l'Ouest à double voie, puis électrifiée en 1996 et alors mise à voie unique, elle assure aujourd'hui un trafic exclusivement de voyageurs à destination des stations balnéaires de la Côte Fleurie.

Elle constitue la ligne n° du réseau ferré national.

Histoire

Chronologie
  : ouverture du tronçon de Lisieux à Pont-l'Évêque
  : ouverture du prolongement de Pont-l'Évêque à Trouville - Deauville
  : mise en service commerciale de l'électrification de la ligne de Mantes-la-Jolie à Cherbourg et de l'antenne de Trouville - Deauville en  -  et mise en service de la signalisation de type block automatique à permissivité restreinte (BAPR) sur l'antenne

La desserte de la Côte Fleurie
Les  et  est signé une convention entre le ministre des Travaux publics et les Compagnies des chemins de fer de Paris à Saint-Germain, de Paris à Rouen, de Rouen au Havre, de l'Ouest, de Paris à Caen et à Cherbourg. Cette convention organise la fusion de ces compagnies au sein de la Compagnie des chemins de fer de l'Ouest. En outre elle concède à titre définitif à la compagnie, parmi d'autres lignes, un embranchement de Lisieux à Honfleur. L'article 2 de la convention prévoit que la ligne devra être construite en totalité sous 5 ans, et que le tronçon de Lisieux à Pont-l'Évêque devra être achevé au . Cette convention est approuvée par décret impérial le . Cette liaison est réclamée par les autorités du Calvados et la chambre de commerce du Havre.

Les travaux à réaliser sont assez importants, avec le percement d'un tunnel de près d'un kilomètre sous la ville de Lisieux, réalisé dans un sous-sol difficile où alternent les bancs de calcaire, couches de sables humides et de glaise. Commencé en , il est achevé un an plus tard. Au-delà, la ligne suit le cours de la Touques. La réception des travaux a lieu le . Le , un premier tronçon de l'embranchement long de  est ouvert entre la gare de Lisieux et la gare de Pont-l'Évêque, un an après la date imposée par le cahier des charges. La liaison de Pont-l'Évêque à Honfleur est, quant à elle, mise en service le .

À partir de Pont-l'Évêque, un nouveau tronçon est destiné à desservir les stations de la Côte Fleurie sur les rivages de la Manche. Ce nouvel embranchement est concédé par une convention signée les  et  entre le ministre des Travaux publics et la Compagnie des chemins de fer de l'Ouest. Cette convention est approuvée par un décret impérial le .

Les travaux sont approuvés en  et démarrent aussitôt avec d'importants terrassements. Mais ils sont rapidement interrompus par les difficultés d'acquisition des terrains, les propriétaires demandant des prix trop élevés ce qui impose le recours quasi systématique au jury d'expropriation. Le jury ayant statué en mai puis , les travaux reprennent et sont achevés, y compris les stations et maisons de garde, pour la saison estivale suivante. Le , le prolongement de la ligne, long de , est ouvert jusqu'à la gare de Trouville - Deauville pour desservir les deux stations balnéaires de la Côte Fleurie.

En 1894, le rebroussement des trains à Lisieux est supprimé. En 1899, la ligne est mise à double voie de Pont-l'Évêque à Trouville - Deauville, puis en 1906 de Lisieux à Pont-l'Évêque. Le , la nouvelle gare de Trouville - Deauville est inaugurée par Raoul Dautry.

La Seconde Guerre mondiale provoque une forte réduction de l'offre, puis les installations ferroviaires de Lisieux sont bombardées avec la ville par les Alliés et rendues inutilisables. Il faut attendre  pour retrouver un minimum de circulations. Le , un nouveau bâtiment des voyageurs est inauguré en gare de Lisieux ; il remplace le baraquement de planches mis en place à titre provisoire après les destructions de 1944.

À partir des années 1970, avec l'achèvement de l'autoroute de Normandie, le trafic décline progressivement ; toutefois, il se maintient à un bon niveau lors des week-ends estivaux. Puis, durant les années 1980, la « fercamisation », fermeture du trafic de marchandises en wagons isolés avec report sur route, entraine la fermeture des voies de débord des gares de Pont-l'Évêque et de Trouville.

De 1993 à 1996, les travaux d'électrification de la ligne en  - , soutenus financièrement par la région Basse-Normandie, sont mis en œuvre, dans le cadre du programme global d'électrification de la ligne de Mantes-la-Jolie à Cherbourg avec son antenne de Trouville. Les ouvrages d'art sont mis au gabarit électrification, et les câbles de télécommunication sont alors enterrés. Ces travaux sont l'occasion d'adapter les voies au trafic : la voie, autrefois double, est alors remise à voie unique avec la dépose de la voie principale en limite d'usure sur l'ensemble du parcours, hormis à Pont-l'Évêque où elle fait office d'évitement intermédiaire de  de long accessible à . La vitesse de fond de la ligne passe alors de 120 à , avec ralentissement à  à Pont-l'Évêque.

La ligne se voit dotée du block automatique à permissivité restreinte (BAPR), suffisant vu le trafic attendu, et du contrôle de vitesse par balises (KVB). Un poste d'aiguillage à relais à commande informatique (PRCI) est installé en gare de Lisieux, opérationnel dès le . À compter du , il télécommande un poste de même type installé à Pont-l'Évêque, puis à partir du , celui de Trouville - Deauville.

Caractéristiques

Tracé

La ligne trouve son origine à Lisieux, ville qu'elle franchit par un tunnel long de  avant de s'orienter au nord puis au nord-ouest vers la Manche, à travers le paysage verdoyant du pays d'Auge en pente quasi continue de 1 à . Elle suit alors le cours de la Touques sur sa rive droite, fleuve qu'elle franchit peu avant son arrivée à Trouville. À noter que la partie de ligne de Pont-l'Évêque à Trouville - Deauville avait reçu le numéro officiel 378 000 avant d'être intégrée dans l'actuelle 390 000 et dans le même temps, la ligne de Lisieux à Honfleur, de numéro 377 000 a été rebaptisée Ligne de Pont-l'Évêque à Honfleur.

Équipement

La ligne est dotée d'une voie banalisée avec commande centralisée de la circulation. Elle est électrifiée, comme tout le réseau desservi par la gare de Paris-Saint-Lazare, en - monophasé et équipée du block automatique à permissivité restreinte (BAPR) et du contrôle de vitesse par balises (KVB), mais reste dépourvue de liaison radio sol-train. L'évitement intermédiaire de Pont-l'Évêque ainsi que les appareils de voie de Trouville - Deauville sont télécommandés de Lisieux.

Vitesses limites

Les vitesses limites de la ligne en 2014 pour les trains V 160 ou V 200 sont indiquées dans le tableau ci-dessous mais les trains de certaines catégories, comme les trains de marchandises, sont soumis à des limites plus faibles.

Exploitation

Lors de l'ouverture complète de la ligne en 1863, durant la saison estivale, trois trains aller-retour quotidiens relient Lisieux à Trouville - Deauville en une heure dix minutes, en correspondance avec les trains de Paris.

La Compagnie de l'Ouest met en route de nombreux trains de plaisir, et pour sa clientèle plus fortunée, un train de la Compagnie des wagons-lits (CIWL) réalisant l'aller-retour chaque week-end en saison de 1884 à 1890. Ce train, surnommé « le train bleu » en raison de la couleur de ses voitures-lits, est remis en route en 1909 par l'Administration des chemins de fer de l'État jusqu'en 1927. Les nombreuses réclamations effectuées après sa disparition entrainent la mise en route de voitures Pullman à partir de 1929. À cette époque, la ligne est parcourue en saison par des trains express reliant Paris-Saint-Lazare à Trouville, tractés par des locomotives Pacific 231.011-060, des 231.501-783 ou des 241.001-049. Des michelines apparaissent sur la ligne à partir des années 1930 : le , la micheline, prototype , relie Paris à Trouville en  à la vitesse commerciale de  et avec des pointes à , soit  de moins que le rapide de première classe de l'été précédent. Le , un autorail Bugatti WR « Présidentiel » relie Paris à Trouville en , cette fois en service régulier. Une seconde unité le rejoint l'année suivante, puis des michelines triples à partir de 1936.

La desserte omnibus est assurée par des locomotives 230.600, remplacées à partir de 1933 par des autorails Renault VH rattachés au dépôt de Lisieux qui relient Lisieux à Trouville en vingt minutes, avec un seul arrêt intermédiaire à Pont-l'Évêque. La traction des trains de marchandises est, quant à elle, confiée à des locomotives 140.500 ou 131 et 141 tender.

Durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, le trafic est fortement réduit, les autorails étant garés en raison des pénuries de carburant. Le faible trafic omnibus maintenu est assuré par des locomotives à vapeur rappelées pour l'occasion. Au début des années 1950, il n'existe toujours pas de liaisons directes au départ de Paris durant l'hiver, hormis lors des fêtes de Pâques et de la Pentecôte ; le service est alors assuré par des autorails ADP et X 2400 de Caen à raison de cinq liaisons aller-retour quotidiennes, et des U 150 d'Évreux en direction de Honfleur. Un aller-retour de première classe au départ de Paris est mis en place le week-end, assuré par un autorail Bugatti, puis à partir de 1955 par des rames à grand parcours (RGP) de type X 2700.

La mise en service des éléments à turbine à gaz (ETG) le  sur la ligne de Paris à Cherbourg a un impact direct sur la ligne : la desserte est renforcée avec une liaison Paris - Trouville assurée toute l'année, et ce matériel permet un gain de temps atteignant de 15 à  entre Paris et Lisieux, où les omnibus assurent la correspondance. Le , le service voyageurs est supprimé entre Pont-l'Évêque et Honfleur, avec transfert sur route au départ de Lisieux. En 1975, les ETG laissent la place à des rames à turbine à gaz (RTG), avec comme conséquence un gain de confort mais une légère détente horaire qui augmente les temps de parcours. Le trafic omnibus est quant à lui assuré des années 1970 aux années 1990 à l'aide d'éléments automoteurs doubles (EAD) dits « caravelles ».

Avec l'électrification de la ligne en 1996, les turbotrains disparaissent et laissent la place aux locomotives BB 16000 et BB 26000 en tête de trois express quotidiens, cinq en été, formés de voitures Corail. La desserte omnibus est alors assurée par des BB 25500 puis des BB 16500 du dépôt d'Achères, attelées à des coupons de rames inox omnibus (RIO) rénovées par la région Basse-Normandie avec une fréquence d'une dizaine de trains chaque jour.

La ligne est aujourd'hui exploitée par la SNCF sous les labels TER Normandie (jusqu'à 2016 TER Basse-Normandie) et Intercités. Hors saison estivale, elle voit circuler trois ou quatre trains Corail quotidiens aller-retour en provenance ou à destination de Paris-Saint-Lazare. Les BB 16000 ont laissé place depuis 2007 à des BB 15000 en provenance du réseau Est, libérées par l'ouverture de la LGV Est européenne. Le trafic TER, dorénavant assuré par des X 73500 et des Z 27500, est en constante progression avec désormais neuf allers-retours au minimum les jours de semaine. Les horaires sont cadencés sur cette ligne depuis  avec la plupart des départs à  de la gare de Trouville - Deauville et à  de la gare de Lisieux.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Liste des lignes de chemin de fer de France
 Ligne de Mézidon à Trouville - Deauville
 TER Basse-Normandie
 TER Normandie

Bibliographie
 François et Maguy Palau, Le rail en France - Tome II, 1858 - 1863, 2001, 223 p.

Liens externes
 Données techniques sur la ligne
 RFF - Bilan LOTI de l'électrification de Paris-Cherbourg (PDF)
 Avis du Conseil Général de l'Environnement et du Développement durable sur le bilan LOTI de l'électrification de la ligne ferroviaire Paris - Caen - Cherbourg

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Asbestos? Types and associated fibers
September 18, 2018 By EE&G Environmental
Asbestos is a set of six naturally occurring silicate minerals, which all have in common their eponymous asbestiform habit: i.e. long (roughly 1:20 aspect ratio), thin fibrous crystals, with each visible fiber composed of millions of microscopic "fibrils" that can be released by abrasion and other processes. They are commonly known by their colors, as blue asbestos, brown asbestos, white asbestos, and green asbestos.
Asbestos mining existed more than 4,000 years ago, but large-scale mining began at the end of the 19th century. When manufacturers and builders began using asbestos for its desirable physical properties. Some of those properties are sound absorption, average tensile strength, affordability, and resistance to fire, heat, and electricity. It was used in such applications as electrical insulation for hotplate wiring and in building insulation. When asbestos is used for its resistance to fire or heat, the fibers are often mixed with cement or woven into fabric or mats. These desirable properties made asbestos very widely used. Asbestos use continued to grow through most of the 20th century until public knowledge of the health hazards of asbestos dust led to its outlawing by courts and legislatures in mainstream construction and fireproofing in most countries.
Inhalation of asbestos fibers can cause serious and fatal illnesses including lung cancer, mesothelioma, and asbestosis (a type of pneumoconiosis). A concern of asbestos-related illness in modern times began with the 20th century and escalated during the 1920s and 1930s. By the 1980s and 1990s, asbestos trade and use were heavily restricted, phased out, or banned outright in an increasing number of countries.
Despite the severity of asbestos-related diseases, the material has extremely widespread use in many areas. Continuing long-term use of asbestos after harmful health effects were known or suspected, and the slow emergence of symptoms decades after exposure ceased, made asbestos litigation the longest, most expensive mass tort in U.S. history through a much lesser legal issue in most other countries involved. Asbestos-related liability also remains an ongoing concern for many manufacturers, insurers and reinsurers. On July 12, 2018, a Missouri jury ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay a record $4.69 billion to 22 women who alleged the company's talc-based products, including its baby powder, contain asbestos and caused them to develop ovarian cancer.
Asbestos derives from the ancient Greek ἄσβεστος, meaning "unquenchable" or "inextinguishable". The name reflects the use of the substance for wicks that would never burn up. The word is pronounced /æsˈbɛstəs/, /æzˈbɛstəs/ or /æzˈbɛstɒs/.
Types and associated fibers
Six mineral types are defined by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as "asbestos" including those belonging to the serpentine class and those belonging to the amphibole class. All six asbestos mineral types are known to be human carcinogens. The visible fibers are themselves each composed of millions of microscopic "fibrils" that can be released by abrasion and other processes.
Serpentine class fibers are curly. Chrysotile is the only member of the serpentine class.
Chrysotile
Chrysotile, CAS No. 12001-29-5, is obtained from serpentinite rocks which are common throughout the world. Its idealized chemical formula is Mg3(Si2O5)(OH)4. Chrysotile appears under the microscope as a white fiber.
Chrysotile has been used more than any other type and accounts for about 95% of the asbestos found in buildings in America. Chrysotile is more flexible than amphibole types of asbestos and can be spun and woven into a fabric. The most common use was corrugated asbestos cement roofing primarily for outbuildings, warehouses, and garages. It may also be found in sheets or panels used for ceilings and sometimes for walls and floors. Chrysotile has been a component in joint compound and some plasters. Numerous other items have been made containing chrysotile including brake linings, fire barriers in fuse boxes, pipe insulation, floor tiles, residential shingles, and gaskets for high-temperature equipment.
Amphibole
Amphibole class fibers are needle-like. Amosite, crocidolite, tremolite, anthophyllite, and actinolite are members of the amphibole class.
Amosite
Amosite, CAS No. 12172-73-5, often referred to as brown asbestos, is a trade name for the amphiboles belonging to the cummingtonite–grunerite solid solution series, commonly from South Africa, named as a partial acronym for "Asbestos Mines of South Africa". One formula given for amosite is Fe7Si8O22(OH)2. Amosite is seen under a microscope as a grey-white vitreous fiber. It is found most frequently as a fire retardant in thermal insulation products, asbestos insulating board, and ceiling tiles.
Crocidolite
Crocidolite, CAS No. 12001-28-4, is the fibrous form of the amphibole riebeckite, found primarily in southern Africa, but also in Australia and Bolivia. One formula given for crocidolite is Na2FeII
3FeIII
2Si8O22(OH)2. Crocidolite is seen under a microscope as a blue fiber.
Crocidolite commonly occurs as soft friable fibers. Asbestiform amphibole may also occur as soft friable fibers but some varieties such as amosite are commonly straighter. All forms of asbestos are fibrillar in that they are composed of fibers with breadths less than 1 micrometer in bundles of very great widths. Asbestos with particularly fine fibers is also referred to as "amianthus".
Other regulated asbestos minerals, such as tremolite asbestos, CAS No. 77536-68-6, Ca2Mg5Si8O22(OH)2; actinolite asbestos, CAS No. 77536-66-4, Ca2(Mg,FeII)5(Si8O22)(OH)2; and anthophyllite asbestos, CAS No. 77536-67-5, (Mg,FeII)7Si8O22(OH)2; are less commonly used industrially but can still be found in a variety of construction materials and insulation materials and have been used in a few consumer products.
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Early uses
Asbestos use dates back at least 4,500 years when the inhabitants of the Lake Juojärvi region in East Finland strengthened earthenware pots and cooking utensils with the asbestos mineral anthophyllite (see Asbestos-ceramic). One of the first descriptions of a material that may have been asbestos is in Theophrastus, On Stones, from around 300 BC, although this identification has been questioned. In both modern and ancient Greek, the usual name for the material known in English as "asbestos" is amiantos ("undefiled", "pure"), which was adapted into the French amiante and Portuguese amianto. In modern Greek, the word ἀσβεστος or ασβέστης stands consistently and solely for lime.
The term asbestos is traceable to Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder's manuscript Natural History, and his use of the term asbestinon, meaning "unquenchable". While Pliny or his nephew Pliny the Younger is popularly credited with recognizing the detrimental effects of asbestos on human beings, examination of the primary sources reveals no support for either claim.
Some archaeologists believe that ancients made shrouds of asbestos, wherein they burned the bodies of their kings, in order to preserve only their ashes, and prevent them being mixed with those of wood or other combustible materials commonly used in funeral pyres. Others assert that the ancients used asbestos to make perpetual wicks for sepulchral or other lamps. A famous example is the golden lamp asbestos lychnis, which the sculptor Callimachus made for the Erechtheion. In more recent centuries, asbestos was indeed used for this purpose. Although asbestos causes the skin to itch upon contact, the ancient literature indicates that it was prescribed for diseases of the skin, and particularly for the itch. It is possible that they used the term asbestos for soapstone because the two terms have often been confused throughout history.
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Immunosuppressants: Cyclosporine, Methotrexate, Everolimus, Sirolimus, and Tacrolimus is a topic covered in the Davis's Lab & Diagnostic Tests.
To monitor appropriate drug dosage of immunosuppressant related to organ transplant maintenance.
Whole blood collected in lavender-top tube for cyclosporine, everolimus; sirolimus; tacrolimus Serum collected in a red-top tube for methotrexate; specimen must be protected from light.
Therapeutic targets for the initial phase post-transplantation are slightly higher than during the maintenance phase and are influenced by the specific therapy chosen for each patient with respect to coordination of treatment for other conditions and corresponding therapies. Therapeutic ranges for everolimus, sirolimus, and tacrolimus assume concomitant administration of cyclosporine and steroids.
Bladh, Mickey Lynn., and Anne M. Van Leeuwen. "Immunosuppressants: Cyclosporine, Methotrexate, Everolimus, Sirolimus, and Tacrolimus." Davis's Lab & Diagnostic Tests, 7th ed., F.A. Davis Company, 2017. Nursing Central, nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Davis-Lab-and-Diagnostic-Tests/425359/all/Immunosuppressants:_Cyclosporine__Methotrexate__Everolimus__Sirolimus__and_Tacrolimus.
Bladh ML, Van Leeuwen AM. Immunosuppressants: Cyclosporine, Methotrexate, Everolimus, Sirolimus, and Tacrolimus. Davis's Lab & Diagnostic Tests. 7th ed. F.A. Davis Company; 2017. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Davis-Lab-and-Diagnostic-Tests/425359/all/Immunosuppressants:_Cyclosporine__Methotrexate__Everolimus__Sirolimus__and_Tacrolimus. Accessed April 18, 2019.
Bladh ML, Van Leeuwen AM. Immunosuppressants: Cyclosporine, Methotrexate, Everolimus, Sirolimus, and Tacrolimus [Internet]. In: Davis's Lab & Diagnostic Tests. F.A. Davis Company; 2017. [cited 2019 April 18]. Available from: https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Davis-Lab-and-Diagnostic-Tests/425359/all/Immunosuppressants:_Cyclosporine__Methotrexate__Everolimus__Sirolimus__and_Tacrolimus.


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November 13, 2013 at 5:00 am by Rilla Peng
QSU member Joel Munoz leads the presentiation "Behind the Wigs: An Examination of Drag Culture". According to the Comparative Literature major, the drag movement can be traced back to as early as the 1800s, when cross-dressing was utilized for operas.
The Queer Student Union held a presentation entitled "Behind the Wigs: An Examination of Drag Culture" to explore the meaning behind drag performance and its role in popular culture yesterday at the UCen.
The presentation was led by fourth-year comparative literature major and QSU member Joel Munoz. Clad in a black fringe dress, cheetah-print high heels and a blonde wig, Munoz began the discussion announcing his own drag name, Athenna Anastasia Lunaire, and outlying a brief history of the subculture he and a number of other UCSB students take part in.
According to Munoz, UCSB has been holding student-run drag shows for roughly 13 years. This drag subculture, however, did not simply pop into existence, as the entire movement goes back to the 1800s, when cross-dressing was frequently used in operatic productions.
"In opera, women were given pant roles to play men so they could have higher voice settings; so their voices could hit notes men couldn't traditionally hit," Munoz said. "Likewise, men cross-dressed as women to give a sort of comedic effect, or something like that. It was a precursor to performance-based art."
According to Munoz, the actual subculture of drag did not form and become part of the larger LGBTQ community until the 1900s to 1950s, pioneered by figures such as Andy Warhol and Jackie Curtis as well as club personalities such as Club Kids — a 1980s group infamous for their exaggerated costumes and heavy drug use. At the time, Munoz said, the term "drag" in "drag queen" came from a German term "trägt" meaning "dress" or "wear," while the "queen" part was initially used as a derogatory word for queer or gay men.
Munoz discussed various drag events such as the annual outdoor festival Wigstock, a pride parade that has shown resistance to mainstream heteronormative culture since it first surfaced during the 1980s. In detailing these historical events, Munoz described the progress that has been made by drag culture, as he said the later half of the 20th century offered individuals more legal freedoms in expressing themselves and engaging in cross-dressing.
"Before that, it was illegal to even wear women's clothing. You could get thrown into jail or face other implications, such as having to worry about job security afterwards," Munoz said. "It was a really bold statement to go out and wear these things, congregate with people who were also members of the queer and LGBTQ community and show pride for who you are and not be scared to be who you want to be."
He also highlighted famous drag figures such as RuPaul and displayed a set of videos of drag performance style, including upscale designer Marco Marco's October 2013 Los Angeles Fashion Week runway show that featured drag queens as models.
According to Jake Harries, a first-year undeclared major and QSU member who attended the event, the different sorts of models — as well as the many genders and body types — in drag-style fashion surprised him.
"I thought what was interesting was when we were watching the runway and they weren't all girls. They weren't all drag queens and weren't all super, super feminine," Harries said. "I didn't know that drag could still be showing off the male aspect of it."
Additionally, Munoz introduced various ways of looking at the gradual mainstreaming of drag subculture. One view, Munoz said, would be the fetishization of drag models and their bodies and the over-sexualization of the queer community. Another view, Munoz said, would involve exploring notions of appropriation versus commercialization of drag within pop culture. In this sense, the subculture could be seen as inevitably paying a "cost" by being made mainstream and institutionalized.
"This shows me celebrating drag culture and mainstreaming it, but it could also be interpreted as appropriating a culture that others are not a part of, who can potentially profit on a commercialized way of representing drag," Munoz said. "It's a job, you know? You're the taking the wig off at the end of the day, and so it's about how much it means to you. What's the point?"
Eyra Dordi, first-year sociology major and QSU member who attended the event, said she was intrigued by the argument asserting that the drag subculture is being commercialized.
"I like learning about more marginalized communities within the LGBTQ communities. I'm queer so drag is kind of interesting," Dordi said. "I feel like I've learned a lot about the mainstream stuff and I want to look into the other stuff."
Munoz said drag can be used to explore identity — many transgender women initially use drag as such, only to realize they are not comfortable with the bodies they have — while other times drag is used to embrace the body and identity that one already has. Munoz points to himself as an example of the latter.
"There's a struggle between finding yourself and finding what feels good to you. I am a very proud member of the drag subculture; I just really like being feminine," Munoz said. "With drag, I am sort of reclaiming my identity by not being afraid to show off. That's why I personally do it. I want to be body-positive. I love my body; I love myself. I love drag, and I think I look sexy, you know?"
Photo by Kenneth Song / Daily Nexus
A version of this article appeared on page 3 of November 13, 2013's print edition of the Daily Nexus.


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Losing is never fun, but almost losing and making the comeback that will put your team in the history books is worth every second being behind. While the less enthusiastic fans make their way to the exits, the faithful remain and experience the improbable.
Sports don't care who you have on your team or what seed you are, skill doesn't always beat hard work, if one team works harder for the whole game they have a better shot at winning.
This is a list of the most unlikely comebacks in sports; the comebacks that have fans of both teams rioting in the streets for completely different reasons.


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Dunfermline Fish and Chicken FryFounded in 1890 this small town was named for the home of Andrew Carnegie in Scotland. In keeping with its Scottish name, Dunfermline's early inhabitants were immigrant miners mostly from Scotland, England, and Wales. As in many mining towns, a lot of the simple, single-story homes were originally owned by the mining companies. It was also for a time home to George Bennard, author of over 350 religious songs. The village hall site on Center Street is home to the Annual Dunfermline Fish and Chicken Fry, a locally famous fundraiser.
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Millet was originally a staple in Northern China, but it is now also common fare in India and Africa. In North America, interest in millet has grown beyond its use as birdseed, which means it is becoming easier to find it in health food and grocery stores, packaged for human consumption. Millet meal or flakes offer a quicker-cooking version of millet that makes a creamy, mild-flavored breakfast porridge. Millet is naturally gluten-free and high in fiber and B vitamins.
Combine the millet flakes, milk, water and salt in a medium saucepan. Bring the mixture to a boil.
Reduce the heat, cover the saucepan, and simmer for 15 to 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Season your millet porridge to taste, and serve immediately.
Practical Gastroenterology; Whole Grains and the Gluten-Free Diet; Amy E. Pagano, R.D.; October 2006
Leafy Cooking: Porridge with Millet Flakes and Dried Fruit
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This recipe makes four servings.
Sprinkle dried fruit and/or nuts on millet porridge, if desired, just before serving. It's also good with a splash of olive oil or honey.
Use millet within 3 months of purchase for optimum freshness.
Ann Wolters has been a writer, consultant and writing coach since 2008. Her work has appeared in "The Saint Paul Almanac" and in magazines such as "Inventing Tomorrow" and "Frontiers." She earned a Master of Arts in English as a second language from the University of Minnesota.


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The Timan-Pechora Basin is a sedimentary basin located between Timan Ridge and the Ural Mountains in northern Russia. The basin contains oil and gas fields.

Oil and gas extraction
A planned project to mine its oil and gas was conceived in the mid-1990s and approved by United States and Russian Governments.  As of September 29, 2004, Conoco and LUKoil planned to jointly develop this Basin.

Since 2004 the production increased and the importance for LUKoil increased. However, the production began to decline in 2010. Large investments are needed to increase production rates or at least to maintain production at levels over 17 million tons annually.

Oil extraction has produced limited environmental damage. In particular it has caused eutrophication and organic contamination of waters as interpreted from low diatom diversity and absence of pollution sensitive diatoms among other things. Possibly oil extraction is also behind lower avian diversity at some locations as transport activity might have disturbed wildlife. Despite this much of the Pechora region can be described as "semi-pristine" from an ecological point of view.

In a 2018 assessment, the United States Geological Survey estimated for undiscovered, technically recoverable continuous resources, the mean totals for the region are 1,425 million barrels of shale oil, or 1.4 billion barrels of oil; 45,721 billion cubic feet, or 46 trillion cubic feet of gas; and 737 million barrels of natural gas liquids.

See also

 Trebs and Titov oil fields
 Pechora coal basin

References

External links
"Joint U.S. - Russian Statement In Support of the Timan Pechora Project" from the White House Office of the Press Secretary on September 28, 1994
"Conoco in Russia" at the Moscow International Petroleum Club
Map of the Timan Pechora Hydrocarbon Region at Blackbourn Geoconsulting
"Oil giants ready to battle for Rosneft" from the CIS Oil & Gas Report in December 1997

Foreland basins
Geology of European Russia
Oil fields of Russia
Sedimentary basins of Russia
Lukoil

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Claire Clarke serves up a stunning Croatian honey cake recipe, with intricate layers of rum-soaked, honey-infused sponge and chocolate custard. A technical bake for those looking for a challenge. This recipe is taken from 80 Cakes From Around the World by Claire Clark, published by Absolute Press.
This is one of the most popular desserts in Croatia and consists of honey sponge soaked with rum syrup and layered with honey and chocolate custard. I really like the way it looks when cut into oblongs.


Beautiful and snowy at my parents' place for Thanksgiving, and yes, this is the view from their living room. The turkey was delicious, the stuffing bad for me, the candied yams so full of butter and sherry that I forgot they were originally tubers.
Of course, Thanksgiving now involves other traditions. This year, my brother and I helped take the lawnmower attachment off his sit-down lawnmower and put on the snowthrower. I'm slightly less handy than a one-armed man without thumbs, but I helped around the periphery.
We had good, traditional Thanksgiving. Much food, enjoyable conversation, and time with beloved family. It strikes me as so very strange that we have the quintessential Thanksgiving: New England, and family that can get together without screaming, sulking, of sniping. For this, and for the reasons behind it, I am extremely thankful.
If you'd like a window into my family's thanksgiving, my brother took many pictures, and posted them to his flickr site.
Case in point, the fascinating, if incredibly one-sided 'argument' between a group of professional authors and the editor of SNM Horror Magazine.
"You are so blind. You don't understand, you weren't there at the beginning. You don't know how good it was, how important. This is it for you, this jumped-up fire-work display of a toy advert."
Simon Pegg has articulated my feelings better than I've been able to.
Go buy Spaced and see what all the fuss is about.
An interesting bit I've heard kicked around the Internet is: "If Obama is elected, the first thing he'll do it take care of his own people."
One concept in semiotics is the level of abstraction, a phrase that assigns a framework to the attributes we assign to an object. What categories we put it into. Obama is; the son of a 'broken' home, the son of a Kenyan, a lawyer, a husband, a male, a world-traveler, a Harvard graduate, a senator, a professor, a father, an admitted former drug user, a smoker, a published author, former editor of the Harvard Law Review, a basketball player, a successful politician, and a human being, a comic-book reader, and a liberal, among many other designations. To single any one out, I think, says a great deal more about the individual interpreting the statement than it does about the president-elect.
There's a certain amount of trepidation involved in reviewing an American classic. Apocalypse Now is extremely popular, regularly placing in most top 50 lists, and even gets a reference in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It's one of those 500 pound gorillas of film, most film makers assumed that you've seen it.
And I haven't. Or hadn't.
First, I should say that I come at it from a different place than most people. I should have read Conrad's Heart of Darkness before I saw the film, simply because I like to have a bit of background before I take on a classic. However, I have read King Leopold's Ghost, which recounts the atrocities that happened in the Belgian Congo that form the backdrop of Heart of Darkness. So yes, the majority of the atrocities described in the book (which I haven't read yet) are based on reality, rather than being metaphorical, which I believe is the assumption. I've also read Kim Newman's novella "Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula" which mixes his Anno Dracula universe with the experience of creating Apocalypse Now.
Apocalypse Now is an extremely American film. It involves one very American metaphor while employing the central motif of the uniquely American genre, the Western.
Ever since Huck Finn, the river has been a metaphor for life in American literature. The protagonist drifts down the river, and sees all the random places that it takes them, and the strange people they meet. Apocalypse Now utilizes this metaphor of the river as life, merging it with the Greek river Styx, which the dead had to cross over in order to get to Erebus (the name of the boat Captain Willard takes). This is an American journey down the river Styx into Hell.
Additionally, Apocalypse Now is a Western. Ken Hite in his Dubious Shards (yes a secondary source, I need to read the originals) says that the central conflict of the Western is this: Anyone who picks up a gun is a barbarian. Yet only someone with a gun can deal with a barbarian. In the best of Westerns, this leads to conflict for the hero. In Apocalypse Now, Kurtz is repeatedly said to be effective. He was an admirable, civilized man who achieved great things. Yet his actions are so barbarous that the price of victory is too great to be bourn by a civilized nation. Which is why the protagonist, Willard, is dispatched to take him out. The phrase "Terminate... with extreme prejudice" is popularized in this film.
In addition, many Westerns, especially those of John Ford, use the landscape as a character. Ford often uses a sweeping establishing shot of the landscape to establish mood. In the same fashion, Coppola uses the lush Philippine jungle to convey the differentness of the jungle from urban America.
With these two metaphors firmly in place, the film moves very strangely, in what is likely a deliberately surreal fashion, from farce to horror. The majority of the farce is delivered by the famous character of Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore. Kilgore, the epitome of subtlety in character naming, is an arrogant loose canon who gets his men and civilians killed because he uses military means to achieve nonmilitary objectives. Either the narration is right and Kilgore will get through the conflict without a scratch, in which case his invulnerability makes his presence intolerable since he risks nothing while his men risk all, or he is not, in which case he'll take a bullet off-screen at some later date. He is supposed to represent all that is crazy and wrong with the officers in Vietnam. He seems overly-ladled with insanity and lacks complexity. Yes, he helps the child toward the end of his sequence, which is supposed to be an encapsulation about the contradiction of the way Americans treat war. We'll gun down enemies, and then help to fix up the wounded. I found him broadly painted, and lacking in nuance.
I find Coppoloa's hand too heavy on the film. A lot of time is spent showing us the absurdities, and he wants to make sure that we catch them all. Kilgore's role could have been reduced significantly, giving us a background taste of his madness, instead of a front-row seat. But the sophistication of audiences is different than it was in 1979, we are much more used to picking up minor cues and taking a large inference from them.
The film is at its best when the boat is on the river. We watch passively, with our own thoughts as the fog and green miles pass us slowly by. Coppola evokes mood beautifully utilizing the local jungle and fog. The image of the bomber's tail sticking silently out of the river is one of the most powerful of the film. Rather than preach at us, Coppola allows the audience to look at this enormous thing that appears out of the mist, and consider what we know about it. Something that cost America millions of dollars, and was crewed by six or seven men. Where are they now? We don't know. What was it bombing when it went down? We don't know. How was it shot down? We don't know. Those questions with empty answers made a stronger impression on me than Kilgore's Wagnerian madness.
The ending is a bit of a disappointment. Kurtz becomes Frazier's Corn King, and Willard the one who will kill him and receive the worship of the simple natives. Coppola does not spend any time investigating the culture of these people, but simply allows us to know that a charismatic white man has made himself the local god-emperor. It was a perfectly cricket assumption in '79, but it hasn't aged well for me. Hollywood still employs it, however. In Dances With Wolves, the white man goes native and then shows the Indians how to live their lives, and I didn't bother to watch the Cruise film where the white man shows the Japanese how a samurai honor should be maintained. This cultural arrogance sticks in my craw.
Apocalypse Now Redux's perfect metaphor is contained within itself. Like Marlon Brando, it arrives with great ballyhoo, only to show itself bloated and unprepared. While it has some genuinely astonishing moments, they are buried in a lot of self-indulgent rambling.
This is why I don't review films.


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Tokyo Olympics: Team GB win gold medals in mixed swimming and triathlon relays
Britain's mixed teams in the swimming medley and triathlon power to two golds - and Team GB now stands just behind Australia in the table.
Saturday 31 July 2021 12:25, UK
World record for Great Britain as they triumph again in the pool
Team GB has added two gold medals to its haul at the Tokyo Olympics in new mixed male and female relay races.
At the Tokyo Aquatics Centre, the world record was broken in the 4x100m medley relay that saw Great Britain's swimmers triumph in three minutes, 37.58 seconds.
Kathleen Dawson, Adam Peaty, James Guy and Anna Hopkin finished 1.28 seconds ahead of China who took silver, with Australia getting bronze.
It comes as Team GB also won gold on Saturday in the first-ever mixed triathlon relay, while there were also bronzes in the windsurfing and boxing.
Image: James Guy, Adam Peaty, Anna Hopkin and Kathleen Dawson are Olympic champions. Pic: Rob Schumacher-USA TODAY Sports
Image: The team celebrate after winning the gold
After the swimming race Team GB star Adam Peaty said: "The strategy is not about getting me pumped up, it's trying to get me pumped down.
"It sounds silly but if I see someone ahead of me I just want to go - I see red mist and I've got to get you!
"There's no point doing any of this if we're not inspiring people. That's what the Olympics is about, right? To do better and chase dreams. It's incredible to be part of that and hopefully the people back home are pumped!"
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Great Britain's win in the 4x100m medley is all the more remarkable considering Dawson slipped on the wall at the start of the race.
Team GB has now secured seven medals in the swimming at Tokyo 2020 - four gold, two silver, and one bronze - matching a tally last seen at the 1908 Olympics in London.
The 4x100m medley relay is a new event at the Games - featuring teams of two women and two men.
Each athlete swims a 100m leg in one of the four strokes: backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly and freestyle.
Great Britain made a stunning comeback and when Peaty jumped into the pool, Team GB was in sixth.
Image: Dawson swam the opening leg for the team. Pic: AP
The breaststroke champion pushed GB to fourth with a time of 56.78 seconds - and the team went into the lead after Guy, who won gold in the 4x200m freestyle relay earlier this week, clocked 50 seconds in the butterfly.
Hopkin completed the final freestyle leg in 52 seconds flat.
The medley relay has shaped up to be one of these most unpredictable events in the pool, with the lead continually changing.
Dawson said after the race: "I had a little bit of an issue at the start. I couldn't quite feel my hands and then somehow, I slipped when I went in - I wasn't sure what I did when I did it!
Gold for Team GB in mixed triathlon relay
Image: The GB team won the first-ever mixed triathlon relay at the Olympics
"I managed to keep calm, focus on getting the best performance out of myself I could."
The race also gave Peaty his second gold of the Games and means he now has four Olympic medals.
Eirianedd Munro, Peaty's partner, wrote on Instagram: "I'm in tears! What an incredible race. So proud!!!"
It was the second gold for Team GB in the early hours of Saturday after Jess Learmonth, Jonny Brownlee, Georgia Taylor-Brown and Alex Yee won the mixed triathlon relay.
Image: Individual silver medallist Georgia Taylor-Brown was on the third leg
After an excellent leg from Learmonth, Brownlee managed to break away from his rivals, delivering an advantage of nine seconds.
Taylor-Brown and Yee - who both won silver in the individual events - went third and fourth, with Yee bringing Great Britain home 14 seconds clear of the US team. France were third.
It was Jonny Brownlee's first-ever gold medal after he claimed bronze in London and silver in Rio - and it comes in his final Olympic race.
The 31-year-old joked afterwards that adding gold to his collection meant he had now "completed" the Olympics.
Since triathlons were introduced to the Olympics in 2000, Britain has won eight medals - including three golds.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson congratulated Britain's Olympians, tweeting: "Huge congratulations to .@TeamGB for their world record-breaking win in the pool and win in the triathlon mixed relay. Fantastic! "
Image: Emma Wilson, from Christchurch in Dorset, won bronze in the windsurfing
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Great Britain boxer and serving soldier Karriss Artingstall won a bronze medal despite losing her featherweight semi-final against Japan's Sena Irie.
Meanwhile, in the windsurfing RS:X, Team GB's Emma Wilson was edged into bronze by Charline Picon of France, with China's Yungxiu Lu winning gold.
The trio entered the medal race knowing they would be on the podium, but Lu needed a top-four finish to clinch the gold, with Picon crossing the line first ahead of Wilson.
Image: Karriss Artingstall - a serving soldier in the Army - won a bronze in the featherweight class
Wilson, 22, from Christchurch in Dorset, said: "Those conditions were so physical, I gave it everything and I'm super happy to get that medal. I just emptied my body out there, it's amazing.
"I've come fourth so many times it means so much to finally get on the podium and to do it at the Olympics is great."
On the rugby field there was disappointment for Team GB's sevens team, as they lost their bronze medal match 21-12 to Fiji.
New Zealand beat France in the final to take the gold.


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No one is made of asphalt
Trading places to make a statement.
Discover the faces of homeless Berliners as they slip into an unfamiliar role, transforming into those who could never image being in their shoes.
The streets have no smile. In Berlin roughly 11,000 people are living in the shadows, fighting for their survival every day.
"No one is made of asphalt" depicts the faces shaped by the streets of Berlin. It didn't take long during the makeover process to see a complete transformation in our models. They moved different, they spoke differently, they couldn't stop smiling. Neither could we.
"DRINK AWAY THE PAIN. DRINK UNTIL YOU GIVE A SHIT ABOUT LIVING."
"My mother drank me into disability during pregnancy, my father beat me nearly into death."
Bodo is the good soul of Warmer Otto, a homeless shelter. He works more than 40 hours a week on a voluntary basis. He never had a chance in life from the beginning.
"AS A WOMAN
IN THE STREETS, YOU'RE FAIR GAME. YOU BETTER FIND A MAN TO PROTECT YOU."
"My helper syndrome has always driven me into the wrong arms."
Unhealthy love affairs drove her to the needle, revenge landed her in jail. At 52, Judith's taste in men may not have changed, but her attitude towards heroin has.
"If not for the fall of GDR, I would be a rich man today."
Klaus has been living on the streets for more than 20 years and feels unchallenged by the state. He is the self-proclaimed "King of the Gesundbrunnen," the station where he sleeps.
"When your social pillars break away, you're not only unable to cope with yourself, but with everything."
Claudia's parents died at the same time she was finishing university and her boyfriend left her. Depression and petty charges piled up making her an opponent to the system.
"The day my wife died was my funeral too."
Kurt has been homeless since 2015. The death of his wife was the beginning of a deep downward spiral consisting of alcohol, jail and violence.
"WE ARE FIGHTERS. IF WE WEREN'T, WE'D BE DEAD."
"Gambling is worse than heroin. You do not even need a fix, it just clicks."
Hannes has been addicted to gambling since he was nine years old. Today, the only thing the musician bangs on are ATMs. After he lost everything, Hannes was diagnosed bipolar and still suffers from manic depression.
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Sold based on a price of three times the net yearly income. Successful highly profitable and modern car wash in an urban city of Hudson County, NJ. This car wash has an average gross income of $900,000 and a substantial net income to the owner. The facility has been fully remolded during the past year and is in excellent working condition. The present staff has been at the facility for the past ten years and will remain post-closing. This is an excellent opportunity which offers years of income to the owner operator. The facility consists of 2,500 square feet in a clean modern setting with state of art equipment. This business, as an updated hand car wash, has a drive-in area which prepares and washes the vehicle in a coordinated manner for the best possible service.


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Our team members' vast knowledge and experience with real estate, home building, construction, and development allows CRA to provide a complete range of brokerage services. These services may include market evaluation, buyer evaluation, marketing, offer solicitation, contract negotiation, reporting, escrow assistance and tracking, and entitlement support.
CRA provides complete commercial Real Estate Brokerage services to land owners, developers, builders and lending institutions. Our core business values are founded on a firm commitment to honesty, integrity, accountability, and unprecedented customer service.
Michael Martindale, principal and designated broker of CRA garnered valuable experience with the lender process in distinct homebuilding cycles over his long career. From 1989 to 1991, Michael worked with many lending institutions including Bank One, Citibank, Bank of America, private lenders and the RTC in workouts, trades, restructures, foreclosures and REO marketing. Michael also assisted with 'Note' sales used to extricate builders and lenders from situations where a property's viability was reduced or eliminated.
CRA's agents are focused on one task, understanding the local market. As a result, they have developed a level of expertise so well acclaimed, they are often called upon by educators and economists to share their comprehensive market perspective.
The sales staff's collective career experience prior to joining CRA range from project entitlement and acquisitions to land development and home building. Unlike other brokerage firms, CRA is a cooperative sales environment where sales people work as a team and do not compete with one another.
The research department has an extensive array of market information and is continually monitoring sales and comp information to ensure we have the most current and accurate sales data.
We represent your interests exclusively.
CRA's extensive market knowledge and research department both provide sophisticated tools to assist in lender valuations and asset solutions.
CRA is accustomed to operating under Confidentiality Agreements in order to protect parties' interest.
Our knowledge and expertise helps us identify the highest "probability" buyers and focus marketing efforts appropriately.
CRA's sales staff are very familiar with the homebuilders' processes and inner workings, which can help lenders best assess their alternatives for specific assets.
We can minimize time that may be wasted on potential buyers that may be disingenuous or may lack financing to close the deal by pre-qualifying potential buyers.
We know our integrity is on the line each time we negotiate a sale, so you have our assurance that we will provide you with a honest opinion on the market value of your property.
We pay for all marketing efforts and materials. We earn our fee only at escrow closing.


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arun Posted On January 14, 2022
A 20-year-old woman belonging to a scheduled caste (SC) community filed a complaint against her husband on Wednesday alleging that he thrashed her often for about five months, as she refused to have sex with him after he called her 'untouchable'. The husband belongs to the Darbar community
Ahmedabad, January 7: A 20-year-old woman belonging to a scheduled caste (SC) community filed a complaint against her husband on Wednesday alleging that he thrashed her often for about five months, as she refused to have sex with him after he called her 'untouchable'. The husband belongs to the Darbar community. Gujarat Shocker: Private School Teacher Rapes 16-Year-Old Girl In Kutch By Promising Good Marks In Exam, Forces Her To Steal Jewellery; Booked
The woman and her husband are residents of Jotana taluka in Mehsana. They fell in love and married on September 2, 2021. They were living at Memnagar in the city after their wedding, according to a report in The Times of India.
She alleged in the FIR that her husband behaved well for about two months after their wedding, but later picked fights with her over petty issues. The woman said her husband used to say that he could not go to his village as people mocked him for marrying an SC woman.
Along with her husband, her in-laws, whenever they visited her house in Memnagar, humiliated her for coming from an SC community. She said they used caste-based slurs against her and even her husband insulted her, calling her "untouchable".
She then began opposing him and refused to have sex with him saying "how can you have sex with an untouchable", the FIR states. Five months ago, when she refused to have sex with him, he thrashed her and since then he has raped her multiple times, she alleged in the FIR.
On Monday, her husband again picked a fight with her and hit her with an iron rod till she fell unconscious. She then went to her parents' place in Jotana and was admitted to hospital on Tuesday, where a medico-legal complaint was filed.
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Man Booked For Raping Minor, Forcefully Changing Her Religion Gujarat:
Man Attacks Scheduled Caste Wife After She Refuses Sex Over Being Called 'Untouchable'; Booked A 20-year-old woman belonging to a scheduled caste (SC) community filed a complaint against her husband on Wednesday alleging that he thrashed her often for about five months, as she refused to have sex with him after he called her 'untouchable'.
The husband belongs to the Darbar community
On the basis of the medico-legal complaint, Chatlodia police filed a case of causing hurt and domestic violence but did not charge her husband under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.
Courtesy : LY
Note: This news piece was originally published in latestly.com and used purely for non-profit/non-commercial purposes exclusively for Human Rights objectives.
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In this next screenshot, I've identified several of the loudest areas/peaks, which are preventing me from applying a global amplitude increase, as these areas would be pushed beyond the audible spectrum and would sound (even more) terrible if boosted as is.
Notice how these peaks are either right at the edge of the top/bottom of the 1.00 / -1.00 spectrum, or are approaching the outer limits, steadfast? In order to boost our levels globally, these peaks will first need to come down in size. How do we do this without using the traditional fade in / fade out commands, while creating something a bit more "custom" to our needs? I'm glad you asked!
Notice how new blue lines appear across the top/bottom of the waveform? See the new white area surrounding the middle part of our waveform? Those are normal, and will appear / disappear whenever the Envelope Tool is selected / deselected.
To begin using the tool, we'll need to zoom in on each individual peak we'll be smoothing out. I like to click with the Selection Tool as close to the peak as possible and use the keyboard shortcut ⌘+1 to zoom, but Audacity offers several different ways of zooming, so it's up to you.
Going back to my Envelope Tool, I'm going to use my mouse to move along the outer blue line that appears on either the top or bottom of the waveform when the Envelope Tool is selected and create several marker points used to hold the envelope constant on the outer edges and to smooth out the peak in-between the "hold" points.
For basic edits like this, I use one marker point on either side of the peak to hold everything else in place, and a single marker point to reduce/smooth the peak. You are welcome to use more to create a smoother fade if desired.
If you ever need to remove a marker point, simply drag it past the outside of the waveform / blue line and it will disappear. If the blue line moves in toward the center when adding points, simply click and drag the marker point back to the edge to maintain the track's original amplitude.
Now that we've smoothed out the first peak, we'll need to repeat this action for the tallest peaks found within the remainder our audio. I'll be working on the (3) peak areas outlined above in Step 1.
Now that we've smoothed out as many peaks as we could, and our envelope has been adjusted to our liking, we can move forward with Mixing and Rendering our changes. This can be done easily by clicking Tracks >> Mix and Render. Voila! See the envelopes disappear? See how the peaks have become much lower?
Now we have some headroom to adjust the amplification. Go to Effect >> Amplify and the dialog window will pop up and show you the maximum amount of amplitude you can apply without clipping. In my example, this round of adjustments cleared an additional 1.4 dB of space for me to increase! Hit OK and watch as your entire waveform expands.
If you like what you hear, you're done! If you would like to get more loudness out of your recording, then repeat Steps 2 and 3 above and you'll be well on your way to achieving the loudness you desire for your track!
When satisfied, click File >> Export to save the audio file to disk. That's it!


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Finales are $45 to $115 each (depending on choice and size of party) and each adds about 15-20 minutes onto your party.
Dry Ice: When you think of a Mad Scientist, the image of bubbling potions comes to mind, but did you know that this famous movie image is actually chunks of dry ice in colored water? Kids love to watch the vapor roll off dry ice, while the Mad Scientist makes a dry ice shower, shows a number of dry ice demonstrations, and explains what makes this ice so special.
Cotton Candy: The Mad Scientist will bring a cotton candy machine and make cotton candy right before your very eyes. Children will learn how heat changes the property of sugar crystals into a tasty treat. Who knew science could taste so good! (Requires electricity).
Second Take-Home Project: You can choose to have each child make two Take-Home Projects such as a Bouncy Ball and a cup of Slime.
Van de Graaff Generator: See the force of thousands of volts of static electricity from our Van de Graaff generator. (Requires electricity.) You won't feel a thing, but your hair will stand on end! Kids won't be shocked, but will be surprised by how much fun they'll have.
Kid in a Bubble: All of the guests in a Junior Party (for kids under age 5 only), gets to watch as the Mad Scientist puts each of them inside a giant soap bubble! Preschoolers love this finale. Get your camera ready because this is the photo op!
Sun Bead Keychain: Spot invisible UV rays! With the Sun Bead Keychain you make, you can use the beads to determine if there is exposure to ultraviolet radiation. If there is, the beads change color! Figure out what factors affect the exposure.
Magic Cube: This finale is a must for the Magic Party. Each child has the opportunity to put together this mysterious, magical (scientific!) mirrored cube, and learns magic tricks (scientific demonstrations) to show their friends. Each child gets to take home their very own Magic Cube!
Reserve early before all of the Mad Scientists are booked!