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The Funzastream
A stream of words from Henrik Fohns
Techtopia
Wired 25 år
Wired fylder 25. Samtidig er det også 25 år siden, at jeg mødtes med Hanne Møller, Anders Kjærulff, Peter Hesseldahl og Poul Erik Heilbuth for at lave konceptet til Harddisken, der desværre døde som 23-årig. Hvad Wired angår, så skrev jeg kortvarigt og i beskedent omfang for deres britiske udgave i 2011.
Jeg skrev også en lang feature om Lone Frank, som Wired så ikke ville have alligevel – her er den:
What her beautiful genome was hiding
By Henrik Fohns
Who am I? The universal question. Thousands of people continue to ask themselves this question, when they look in the mirror in the morning, and see a body decaying day by day, moving ever closer to the grave.
When Lone Frank looks at herself in the mirror she sees not only her own reflection but also the memory of her loving and beloved late father, who suffered from alcohol abuse and depression. And she sees her mother, who died from breast cancer in her early forties. Lone Frank knows that the slender 44 year old body in the mirror stores information about all of this. While others might just brush their teeth and get on with their working day, Lone wants to unlock the secrets of her body. The good news is that she knows how to do it. She has become her own test person.
On her desk in the living room she keeps a small metallic grey hard drive. It arrived in a bubble wrap envelope from China. It does not look like much, but it contains Lone Frank's genetic information. Her full genome. Sequenced by BGI – Beijing Genomics Institute. She is one of a select few across the world, who have had their full genome sequenced. Something which is still pretty expensive, but the price is coming down at a rate faster than Moore's law.
The most common form of DNA sequencing is through the tests, which you can buy via websites like 23andMe and DecodeMe, called consumer genetics. You have the DNA contained in your saliva or a scrape of your inner cheek sequenced at a lab, where they search for certain SNPs – single-nucleotide polymorphism – to ascertain whether or not you are disposed for a number of diseases and traits.
The 44-year old Ph.D in neuroscience, author and science writer at the prestigious Danish weekly Weekendavisen – Lone Frank – has been through all that. Now she has arrived at the gate of the final mystery of the "who-am-I" quest. Her full genome in a box. 21GB of information on a hard drive from China.
"I wasn't a part of the internet revolution or the early Commodore 64 movement, but I will be a part of the open genetics movement," she says firmly.
It is no coincidence that she makes this comparison. The genetics movement can easily adopt the old internet catch phrase "information wants to be free". The genome is nothing but information. Three billion base pairs of genetic information.
"Whether you are a flu virus, a slime mould, a manatree, or a manager, your genetic code contains the same components. Life is not based on chemical substances or molecules but on information, pure and simple," says Lone Frank quoting her new book "My Beautiful Genome".
Genetic information is like software programs and data which are expressed in binary code and can be read in the same way by different computers, be it a network of servers, a sleek Mac Book Air or a smartphone. The genetic code's message is the same. Similarly, a brain cell in a human being reads and translates "gene language" in much the same way as a yeast cell.
When Lone Frank stands in front of the mirror, she does not only see her pronounced nose from her great-grandfather, the thin, bony frame of his wife and her thin lips inherited from her paternal grandmother. She also sees the non-visible heritage of cancer and depression.
Partly due to professional interest – partly because of personal interest fuelled by her father's recent passing, Lone Frank started a search for her true self. She had already taken the gene test offered by deCODEme, because she was approaching her early forties, the same age at which her mother had died from breast cancer. The test deemed her out of immediate danger. But during a follow up interview with the CEO and founder of deCODEme – Dr. Kári Stefánsson – she learned that she was nowhere near certainty about her condition. It was only risk assessment.
Further medical examinations did not reveal any more, but her family history still pointed at a higher risk, simply because SNPs which are still unknown could code for cancer.
From her father she has inherited a higher risk of peripheral arterial disease (PAD), which is not surprising, because it was exactly what he died from. It means no smoking and minimizing the intake of cholesterol.
And then there is the part about depression.
Speaking to Wired she sits on her sofa. In the window behind her is a mood lamp, which is meant to heighten your mood during the long and dark Danish winter, now approaching rapidly after a wet and grey summer. She seems in control, but earlier the same morning she was lying on the sofa, screaming that she just couldn't handle life anymore. She has had several episode of clinical depression, which required drug treatment . Of course this raises the question; Does recurring depression and a consistently dark outlook on life derive from a few unfortunate genes, handed down from two different families? Her family history is a sad one with relatives suffering from depression and suicidal tendencies.
"Mental illness has no biomarkers. The shrink says: "I believe that you suffer from this or that". It is like medicine from the 18th. Century. The only difference is that today they have medications, but it remains trial and error," says Lone Frank, who has been on Prozac several times. Something she wishes to avoid though her psychiatrist thinks it is for the best.
From a psychiatric test Lone Frank has learned that she has a certifiably "disagreeable" personality, but she wants to go beyond questionnaires and into biology.
The consumer genetics tests from 23andMe and deCODEme do not test genes which are related to behaviour or the psyche.
But researching the subject Lone Frank finds out that studies suggest a heritability of depression of around 40 percent.
"Most of it is still a mystery but a few genes have been singled out as having an effect and not surprisingly they play a role in the brain's chemistry. Certain variants of these genes tweak the brain's physiology to make it more alert to negative emotional stimuli and less resistant to stress. Effects that clearly reveal themselves in experiments where volunteers of different genotypes are submitted to brain scans," Lone Frank says.
On learning this she decides to have her genes tested. Armed with 14 tubes of blood samples she goes to the Centre for Integrated Molecular Brain Imaging at Copenhagen University Hospitals (CIMBI) to learn more about how effectively her genes code for proteins that are related to the neurotransmitter serotonin. The research team test twelve different genes in trying to find a relationship between anxiety, depression and genes. Lone Frank also has to answer a couple of hundred questions covering all corners of her psyche.
The test of Lone Frank's genes confirms her suspicion.
"I have a cocktail of all the worst genetic variants. The ones connected to a low stress tolerance, social sensitivity and depression."
The COMT gene, where Lone has a double dose of the "worrier" variant, which inclines her brain to handle emotional strain poorly, and her BDNF variants, which turn up her reaction to stress, is a bad combination. On top of that, there are two copies of the less efficient MAOA variant, which disposes a person to aggressive and impulsive behaviour – or depression, in the case of women. Finally, she is saddled with two copies of the short SERT variant, which is a notorious guarantee of psychological abrasion. Or as her boyfriend frames it: "It's remarkable that you haven't ended up in a closed ward or on early retirement."
"It's a cocktail of all the bad stuff," she admits with a deep sigh.
The uncanny thing about this knowledge is the fact that you cannot do anything about it. The statistics tell you that these genes seem to be connected to a higher risk of depression, but it does not necessarily mean that it is the case for every carrier.
"Associating genetics with mental health is a provocation to a lot of people, because you can't do anything about it," says Lone Frank.
And yet she has gained inside knowledge of herself. Reading about the subject she can compare other research to her own profile and her life in general.
"Now I know it's not only the world being evil, but I do not have the same high stress tolerance as my colleagues at the paper. My reaction to stress is partly a genetic condition. I can now see my own life through another prism. When you start to look at your genome, you find out that the deck of cards you were dealt with is finite. You have to play these cards the best you can – and the 8 of Clubs is not the Ace of Spades. That is just a fact of life," she says.
These days Lone Frank tries to make her life less stressful. She tries to distinguish between the actual situation and her ability to cope with it.
"I have become better at looking at the situation from the outside. And there is an upside to the vulnerability coin. Researchers scrutinising the highly sensitive among us are finding that these delicate flowers may be more at risk, but at the same time their sensitive brains are better at noticing nuances and catching details. They may process information slower than more robust types but they also do it more thoroughly."
Which leads her to further experiments.
The Danish pharmaceutical company Lundbeck is conducting a preliminary study in biomarkers. They try to test the activity of selected genes in order to diagnose conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder, borderline personality disorder, and, especially, depression, and Lone leaps at the chance to become a research subject one more time.
Lundbeck is interested in how her organism chooses to interpret her genes. To get this information, they isolate white blood cells and calculate the number of RNA molecules, which are transcribed from a group of selected genes and provide a measure for how much of the corresponding protein can be formed.
This is not traditional genetics, it is epigenetics. Epigenetics is all about the strange and wonderful things that can't be explained by genetics itself. It is presumably in epigenetics that the encounter between inheritance and environment will be resolved.
"Until relatively recently most scientists believed that epigenetics was not relevant for adults – it was a phenomenon largely restricted to embryos, where the genome was programmed in ways that would govern the rest of the organism's life," says Lone Frank.
But epigenetics is interpreted and reinterpreted all the time. How does the body handle genetic information?
Cancer has many epigenetic factors. Some cells are turned on and some are turned off causing cancer or in the case of other genes – depression. What Lundbeck is trying to find, is a way to use an epigenetic test to define what kind of drugs people should take to turn cells on and off and thereby prevent the outbreak of certain diseases.
What Lundbeck and Lone Frank are looking for is a genetic signature. Like many cancers, a mental disorder could leave a signature that shows which genes have been turned on and off. This means that even though Lone Frank does not have a depression currently, you can still read from her pattern of genetic expression that she did have one and what happened.
Based on this pattern Lundbeck hopes to develop drugs which can turn genes on/off and thus treat the mental condition.
"In the future when you have a full genome sequencing you will receive concurring updates on stuff like your intestinal flora and probably also about epigenetics. Have some important genes been turned off or on in certain cells since you were last checked?" says Lone Frank.
At the end of 2010 the list of published, freely accessible genomes stood at two dozen. Research institutions hold unpublished records of almost two hundred people more. The 1000 Genomes Project is sequencing the genomes of over a thousand volunteers for public use, and the even more ambitious Personal Genome Project is endeavouring to collect a hundred thousand genomes. These genome collectors are pursuing all types of variation.
We humans do not just carry small, discrete SNPs, with an A in one and a G in another, ready to be noted and entered on a database. We also carry far more drastic mutations: large pieces of DNA may have fallen out, been duplicated one or more times or simply have moved around and landed in different places in the genome.
When a person is tested for a number of known SNPs a gene chip is used. Inside this ingenious, postage-stamp sized device, small pieces of DNA are placed, which flutter like sea grass on the ocean floor. Current gene chips can typically test between half a million and a million SNPs, drawn from across the landscape of chromosomes. This massive quantity of data is fed directly into a computer, and software is used to find patterns in the chip's genetic observations.
The question posed by bioinformaticians is basic: Does one or more SNP recur far more frequently in sick persons than in persons, who are well. If it does, the mutation is considered a marker associated with the disease.
This is the kind of information that Lone Frank received on the hard drive from China and she frankly admits that she could not make anything of the information on the small hard drive. It stayed a black box of mystery to her until she handed it over to a friend, who is a bioinformatician.
In Denmark Lone Frank is also known in public for her fierce quarrels with religion. She is commonly featured in debates about abortion rights and ethical questions related to science. She has appeared on stage with the likes of the evolutionary biologist and author Richard Dawkins and the biology professor P. Z. Myers. This has made her a sort of heroine in atheist circles.
The bioinformatician Stinus Lindgreen, who has agreed to unlock the secrets of the Chinese hard drive, is also chairman of the Danish Atheist Society which fights for a separation between state and church in Denmark. Furthermore he runs an atheist brewery called Djævlebryg (the Devil's Brew) that among other beers produces an imperial stout called Gudeløs (Godless), which is also exported to America. Every time someone buys a bottle of Gudeløs, they donate one Danish krone (12 pence) to the Atheist Society.
Stinus Lindgreen works mostly on sequencing old DNA from 4000 year old inuit or 100 year old aboriginals. The sequencing is done by BGI, so the tall ponytailed atheist is familiar with the type of data he received from Lone Frank.
"It's a jigsaw of three billion base pairs that I have to assemble to a full genome and find the variants. I do not make the risk assessments, that's for biologists to do, all I do is assemble the picture," he says, while sipping coffee from an Atheist Society mug in his small office at Copenhagen University's department of biology.
On his computer monitor – 42 inches – we learn, what Lone Frank sees in her mirror every morning. On the screen Lone Frank has become only numbers and capital letters arranged in rows, which to an outsider make very little sense. But Stinus Lindgreen can quickly point out the interesting places, where mutations occur.
He has taken the information from BGI and compared it to, what he calls "a reference genome", which is the data from the human genome project available for free on the web. He is now looking for places in Lone's genome which are different from the reference genome. He is also doing a quality check of the data.
The DNA sequencing is organized in eight lanes on a plate of glass. One lane is reserved for quality testing; the seven remaining lanes are filled with DNA from the test person. When Stinus Lindgreen is putting the puzzle together, he is searching for what looks like a variation from the reference genome, but in some case it might just be a sequence of poor quality.
"I expect that for every thousandth position in a genome, I will find a difference. If the sample is of a high quality, I know for certain that this really is a mutation," Stinus Lindgreen explains.
The one in a thousand variations are what researchers are looking for, when they try to unlock even more secrets of our bodies. When consumer genetics companies produce their results and you browse your genetic data in a Facebook-like interface at their website, they only tell you about the very small number of genetic variations, which so far have been proved to play a part in the occurrence of diseases and traits. They look for variations known to have certain effects.
What Lone Frank hopes to do with her full genome sequencing is to use it for future checks. Whenever new variations are discovered, Lone Frank's genome will be ready to be referenced. If new research about cancer or depression turn up, she is ready, due to the content of the small Chinese hard drive.
Recently Danish and Chinese researchers have found more than 50.000 new DNA changes (mutations) in the genome. Between two and five percent of the 200 Danes who was surveyed in the test have these mutations. The researchers looked for the inherited elements in the development of a number of diseases, including blood clots in heart and brain, obesity and type 2 diabetes.
When new research like this is published, Lone Frank does not have to wait for the consumer genetics companies to offer tests that include the new SNPs. Stinus Lindgreen can run a reference test on Lone's genome right away to find out, whether she is also a carrier of the newly discovered mutations. That is why she finds it so important to have a full genome sequencing.
To most people this is futurism. What about the rest of us, who have not gone this far? How will the new world of genetics affect us in the shorter run?
For Lone Frank there is little doubt.
"Right now the FDA (US Food and Drug Administration) recommends for 70 different named drugs that you have a SNP test before you start using them. But surveys show that only one percent of American doctors use DNA testing before writing a prescription. This is important, because one in every five patient dies due to wrong dosage."
If you do a SNP test of certain genes, you can determine, how your body will translate certain drugs.
"Society needs to educate doctors. There is a lot of debate about regulating the market for consumer genetics, but there are already many test possibilities, which can be used for treatment and prevention. It is still an emerging technology, but it also took quite a while for computers to be recognized," Lone Frank says and continues:
"The genome is not a straight jacket but a soft pliable sweater. The more we know about our deepest nature, the better we can shape, form and transcend it."
She sees herself as a modern day astronaut. But space is no longer the place. Her own body is her final destination.
"My Beautiful Genome: Exposing Our Genetic Future, One Quirk at a Time" by Lone Frank is published by Oneworld
Henrik Fohns is host and editor at the radio show Harddisken at the Danish Broadcast Corporation in Copenhagen
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Syria - psychosocial support to displaced families
Cross-border aid deliveries in Syria
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US$5.5 billion pledged for the people of Syria and the region in 2020
April 2020 - Binish, Idleb governorate: 16 families, originally from Marret Al-Numan countryside south of Idleb, now live in a damaged school in the town of Binish. They were displaced 4 months ago and have no other option. They could not obtain a tent in the nearby IDP camps. Credit: OCHA
Binish, Syria. Sixteen families originally from Marret Al-Numan, in the countryside south of Idleb, now live in a damaged school in the town of Binish. They were displaced four months ago and have no other option as they could not obtain a tent in the nearby IDP camps. OCHA
Syria: Displacement in Binish, Idleb, April 2020
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In April, the World Food Programme (WFP) was forced to suspend its food deliveries to 600, 000 people in Raqaa and Dier ez-Zor governorates, two Islamic State (IS) controlled areas. Despite the challenges, throughout the month, agencies were able to deliver food to some 277,550 people in hard-to-reach areas and four million others across the country. "We must support unhindered and unrestricted food transport across front lines; this will ensure food now available in one part of the country reaches Syrians wherever they are in the country," said WFP Executive Director Ertharin Cousin. Photo: WFP/Abeer Etefa.
For the eleventh month in a row, an IS blockade stopped UNICEF from sending water treatment supplies to Dier ez-Zor and Raqqa governorates. When the Nasib border crossing between Syria and Jordan was closed -- after the opposition group known as the Syrian Free Army took over the area -- UNICEF was unable to treat 500,000 liters of water. Photo: UNICEF.
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Cross-border deliveries continued under the terms of UN Security Council resolutions 2165 and 2191, adopted in 2014. Between 15 December 2014 and 14 May 2015, the United Nations requested 44 inter-agency convoys; of those, only five were completed. In early April, the Nasib border crossing with Jordan was closed, which has been severely disrupting humanitarian and commercial deliveries to the southern part of the country. UN agencies are now shipping assistance through Latakia sea port and other border crossings. As of 10 May, UN agencies and NGOs had sent 117 cross-border shipments to Syria; 77 from Turkey and 40 from Jordan, including food for 2.4 million people, non-food items and medical supplies for 1.3 million, and water and sanitation supplies for 847,000 people. Photo: OCHA.
Some 220,000 people are estimated to have been killed and over a million have been injured since the conflict erupted in 2011. In five years, 76 humanitarian workers have been killed, 45 of them from the Syrian Arab Red Crescent Society. A total of 32 United Nations staff members have been detained or are missing. "Aid workers are risking their lives despite extremely dangerous and difficult conditions. They help the most vulnerable people in the world. Attacks on aid workers mean that people in need do not receive assistance. Such attacks violate international humanitarian and human rights law," said UN Humanitarian Chief Stephen O'Brien. Photo: EPA-STR/UNICEF.
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FQRS: Feminist, Queer Religious Studies
Post(card)s from LGBTQ Eastern Europe: Poznań, Poland
Over the past week and a half, I've had the honor and privilege of traveling to several Eastern European countries to meet with people who are involved in religiously-themed queer protest art. They have generously made time to meet with me, shared meals and insights, introduced me to their friends and collaborators, showed me around their cities, and generally helped me to understand the cultural, political, and religious contexts of their work. Although this trip is part of a larger project, a follow-up to Queer Nuns and an initial foray into sorting out the focus of my next book project, here I offer a bit of an academic travelogue in order to share some of what I'm learning and to bring more attention to the exciting work these folks are doing. There are four post(card)s, one for each city in which I conducted research: Bucharest, Romania; Odessa, Ukraine; Prague, Czech Republic; and Poznań, Poland.
Poznań is a thriving smaller city of around 500,000 people whose architecture tells a complicated story of changing leadership and warfare. In the nineteenth century it was actively colonized by Prussia, along with surrounding areas in western Poland. The Prussian government intentionally moved not only government agents but everyday Prussians – possibly including some of my own ancestors – to the area in order to make it more "German." Architecture from that time reflects both German aesthetics and a certain German nostalgia: ornately decorated apartment buildings on one block give way on another to nineteenth-century versions of half-timbered construction. Polish resistance to the colonization seems to have been slow and steady, and when Poznań's new International Trade Fair attracted several million visitors in 1929, shortly after Poland had been reunified, a massive building boom reflected not only broader developments in art deco design but also uniquely Polish design elements, some of which I'm told are unique to Poznań.
I was charmed, the first morning of my stay here, by what appeared to be sixteenth- or seventeenth-century buildings clustered shoulder to shoulder around a church in the old town square (pictured above). Later that day, I learned that the entire square is a mid-twentieth century reconstruction: Poznań, not only strategically located but considered by the Third Reich to be stolen territory, was a major target during the Second World War, and its entire town square was destroyed. Restoring it seems, in the telling of my new friends Piotr and Paweł, to have been the act of a people seeking a renewed sense of hope – and interestingly in this regard, Poznań was also the scene of one of the earliest salvos in the Polish resistance to communism. A monument in the city attests to this history.
Poland is noticeably religious, and due to its restrictive policy on immigration and the legacy of the Holocaust it's also fairly religiously monolithic. Still, having begun my journey in Bucharest, I found religion far less obviously present here than I might otherwise have expected. It might be more relevant to say that Poland is quite conservative and, as also stood out to me in Romania, that conservatism is bolstered by a dominant religion that is for all intents and purposes a state church.
Religions enjoy certain protections and privileges in Poland, but they must be officially registered with the state to benefit from these. And while all religions have an equal right to registration in theory, in fact my conversations indicate that officials find ways to avoid registering religions of which they disapprove. Paweł, who was my host and guide during my time here, explained that one group whose members are challenging the national government to live up to its constitutional commitments regarding religion are the Pastafarians, also known as the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Pastafarians have been responsible for important developments in Europe regarding minority religious rights; in 2011, for instance, a Pastafarian in Austria won the right to wear a colander on his head for his driver's license photo, thus easing the way for other religions whose adherents cover their heads in some way. Pastafarians in Poland work with a lawyer who defends their religious rights and is helping them to work toward registration. Currently, however, they seem to be stuck in a cycle wherein an official refuses their application, they sue, the court rules that they must be allowed to register, and then a new official takes office and the process restarts. The Ecumenical Catholic Communion, an LGBT-inclusive church that also ordains women, is facing similar challenges: every application they submit for registration turns out to have some sort of technical "error" and is denied on this technicality. Leaders of NARTH, on the other hand – a religiously conservative promoter of homophobic, biphobic, and transphobic pseudoscience – receive a warm welcome and an attentive ear as "American professors," and I'm told that protestors who named disgraced homophobic psychologist Paul Cameron a "pseudoscientist" were charged with slander and fined.
Much has been made in the press and the academy of Poland's blasphemy law, Article 196, so I was interested to hear the activists with whom I spoke downplay its force. Although one called it a "dead law," it's clearly still in use – but in ways that may allow the government to walk a line between harassing religious dissenters and avoiding charges in the European Court of Human Rights. Complaints of religious offense, which must be brought by private citizens under this law, are frequently dismissed by the courts, and when not dismissed they typically result in a fine and not in jail time. Nevertheless, those who are in any way vulnerable and especially those without easy access to legal advice and representation can quickly be deterred or silenced by the experience or the threat of being accused and having to appear in court even when the charges are subsequently dropped. This is exactly what happened in 2016 to a Sister of Perpetual Indulgence, now a former Sister, who lives here but who was apparently unwilling or unable to meet with me: he stopped answering phone calls from Paweł shortly before my arrival in Poznań. Paweł, experienced in both LGBT activism and activism for religious rights, and with access to experienced legal assistance through the Pastafarians, is more phlegmatic about these concerns, and is close to becoming a fully professed Sister; he hopes to start the first house of the Sisters in Poland. In Poznań he believes he has the right city for such a house; it is, he and others claim, the most liberal city in Poland, with a mayor who's marched in the pride parade each year since his election three years ago and a parade which saw no counter-protestors last year, only a week of homophobic and transphobic prayer vigils prior to pride week. Many cities in the U.S. should be so lucky.
Speaking with activists in Poznań gave me food for thought in several ways. It made me consider the fact that I've never heard a discussion in the U.S. of any European population as the victim of settler colonialism rather than the perpetrator, and made me wonder whether there's anything to be learned from such a discussion. It challenged the image I had – indeed, the image I think many Westerners have – of Poland, since I spent most of my time with a Poznań-born Pastafarian and novice Sister of Perpetual Indulgence who rides a bike decorated in rainbows all year round, in the midst of the whirlwind of an incredibly packed pride week that relies on the support of around a hundred volunteers, and ended my day in a crowded theater watching a docudrama about Tom of Finland.
I'd been particularly interested in meeting with Sisters in Poland because of Article 196 and the rumors that had reached the U.S. of a Sister "being arrested for blasphemy." My time with activists in Poznań offered me a more complex view of this law, and indeed of human rights concerns in Poland more broadly. In a country where same-sex eroticism was never criminalized, sexual discipline has been left up to vigilantism while government officials look the other way. In a country that has a blasphemy law that seems questionable, at the very least, in an E.U. member state, identification of perpetrators relies primarily on citizen accusers. Religious discrimination thus travels from the general populace into the courts via this system; while the courts may throw out many cases and may keep the punishments minimal (minimal to people with economic stability, that is) in cases that do result in a conviction, the structure of the law ensures a high likelihood that it will serve in practice to target dissenters and minorities. This observation is in no way meant to suggest that there are better ways of having blasphemy laws, by the way, but only to notice the interesting way in which the Polish state manages to create the appearance of keeping its hands clean while enabling the tyranny of the majority to access the penal system. Whether such a system can be subverted in the absence of an ability to change or undo it remains, I think, an open question – but a question that's certainly timely for both Pastafarians and Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.
As I head off to Vienna for the Queering Paradigms VIII conference, built this year around the theme of "Fucking Solidarity" and the specific context of Western attempts at solidarity with LGBTQ Russians (see http://qp8.univie.ac.at/), I bring with me more questions than answers – and this is just how I like things to be. A new academic year looms in the immediate future, which always feels to me like floating in a tiny canoe toward a massive waterfall. I'll check in again from the pool at the bottom, once I manage to resurface. In the meantime, from the Frankfurt airport – Tschüss!
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Melissa M. Wilcox (any pronouns) is Professor and Holstein Family and Community Chair of Religious Studies at the University of California, Riverside. Dr. Wilcox is the author or editor of several books and journal issues, and numerous articles, on gender, sexuality, and religion. Dr. Wilcox's books include Coming Out in Christianity: Religion, Identity, and Community; Sexuality and the World's Religions; Queer Women and Religious Individualism; Religion in Today's World: Global Issues, Sociological Perspectives; Queer Nuns: Religion, Activism, and Serious Parody; Queer Religiosities: An Introduction; and (with Nina Hoel and Liz Wilson) Religion, the Body, and Sexuality. Dr. Wilcox is currently working on a new research project on religion and spirituality in queer and trans leather and BDSM communities.	View all posts by Melissa M. Wilcox
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Winners included the voices of several Reservoir catalog hits, with Reese's Perfect Combo award notably going to the boys in "F**kin' Problems": 2 Chainz, A$AP Rocky, Kendrick Lamar, and Drake.
Drake also scored Best Hip-Hop Video and Track of the Year ("Started From the Bottom"), while Jay-Z won Best Live Performer and Hustler of the Year, Kendrick Lamar took MVP of the Year, Lyricist of the Year, and Album of the Year for Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City, plus the Sweet 16 prize for his verse in "Problems". A$AP Rocky and Nicki Minaj snagged the Made You Look fashion nod, and French Montana won Best Club Banger with Rick Ross, Drake, and Lil Wayne ("Pop That"). Mike Will, who made the music bed for Platinum hit "Bandz A Make Her Dance", was recognized as Producer of the Year, and Big Sean won Best Mixtape for his Detroit release.
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PSU Women's Ice Hockey falls at #5 Norwich
#5 Norwich
Plymouth State (2-5-0, 2-4-0) 0 0 0 0
#5 Norwich (7-1-0, 4-0-0) 2 2 2 6
1st - 08:36 - Amanda Conway (#5 Norwich)
1st - 18:40 - Carley Sedlar (#5 Norwich)
2nd - 15:53 - Taylor Tom (#5 Norwich)
2nd - 18:47 - Amanda Conway (#5 Norwich)
3rd - 05:04 - Sophie McGovern (#5 Norwich)
3rd - 14:13 - Ingrid Holstad-Berge (#5 Norwich)
Sh: Amanda McPherson - 4
Sv: Becca Bridge - 36
G: Amanda Conway - 2
A: 4 Players (#10, #12, #20, #28) - 2
Sh: Amanda Conway - 7
Sv: Alexa Berg - 21
Bridge makes 36 saves in setback
NORTHFIELD, Vt. – Freshman Becca Bridge (Gadsby, Alberta) made 36 saves, but #5 Norwich University was too much for the Plymouth State University women's ice hockey team as the Panthers suffered their first shutout loss of the season, falling 6-0 to the Cadets in a New England Hockey Conference (NEHC) game at Kreitzberg Arena on Saturday afternoon.
Norwich tallied a pair of goals in each period on the way to its seventh straight win. The Cadets have scored five or more goals in six of those games while posting four shutouts and surrendering just four total goals in that span.
Plymouth State was held off the scoreboard for the first time this season, ending the longest streak of not being shutout to start a year (six games) since the 2010-11 season.
Plymouth State has dropped two straight to dip to 2-5-0 and 2-4-0 in the NEHC, while Norwich improves to 7-1-0 and 4-0-0 in league play.
Plymouth State 0, #5 Norwich 6
Plymouth State (2-5-0, 2-4-0 NEHC)
#5 Norwich (7-1-0, 4-0-0 NEHC)
Senior Amanda Conway (Methuen, Mass.) scored the first of her two goals on the day at the 8:36 mark of the opening period to give the Cadets an early lead.
Norwich would add a goal with just over a minute to go in the frame for a 2-0 lead at the first intermission.
The Panthers held the score through most of the second period, but the hosts struck twice in the final four minutes of the frame to make it a 4-0 advantage.
Norwich added another two goals in the final stanza to account for the score.
Bridge reached the 30-save mark for the third time this season, but fell to 2-5-0 on the year.
Her counterpart, sophomore Alexa Berg (West Fargo, N.D.), stopped all 21 shots she faced to post her second shutout of the year, improving to 3-1-0.
Plymouth State battled to the end, firing nearly as many shots in the third period (nine) as the first two combined (12).
Neither team was able to capitalize on its power play opportunities as PSU went 0-for-3, with Norwich going 0-for-1.
Straight From the Coach's Mouth:
"I was really proud of the team today," said head coach Mykul Haun. "Although the outcome was not what we wanted, our second half of the game was our best all season. They [Norwich] were a fast-skating team with lots of talent, but I felt that we just couldn't capitalize on our opportunities. It's a good measuring stick for us to see where we match with the top programs and the reality is that we are not far off."
PSU hosts NCAA Division I Saint Michael's on Tuesday (Nov. 26) in its final game before the Thanksgiving recess.
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Within the great tradition of painting, Linda St. Clair has set herself apart as an innovator who creates animal portraits that explore the personalities of creatures great and small. Whether her subjects are of the barnyard, domestic or wild variety, they are undeniably the product of an artist inspired by wildlife's vital energy and its broad emotional range.
St. Clair's body of work is infused with a strong narrative sense, a clear articulation of mood and spirit, and an intricate knowledge of animal anatomy. Each painting is completed during a single, intense session out of her studio in Santa Fe.
The artist's seminal years were spent on a Tennessee farm where she learned the mannerisms and attitudes of the dogs and cows living on the property. As a teenager, she left the country life behind and moved to Dallas to pursue a career in marketing. Later, under the guidance of her late husband, painter Dean St. Clair, Linda sharpened her craft and devoted her full attention to painting.
To get a clearer perspective of an animal's spirit, St. Clair travels frequently to find and photograph them. She's traveled to the North Pole to study polar bears, Africa to observe elephants and zebras, and Yellowstone National Park to watch grizzly bears.
Whether the subjects are lions or lambs, horses or hares, or the flamboyant and feisty barnyard rooster, St. Clair's work is characterized by the contrast of warm and cool colors, loose brushstrokes and bold color, light and shade, and thin and thick textures. Themes of parenthood, strength, and the soft, silent language of affection can all be seen in her work.
St. Clair's paintings are exhibited and collected throughout the nation and worldwide. She is a two-time recipient of the Grumbacher Gold Medal and member of the Society of Animal Artists in New York. Her work is featured in galleries in Sedona, Arizona; St. Helena, California; Beaver Creek, Colorado; Ketchum, Idaho; Hilton Head Island, South Carolina; Washington DC; Jackson Hole, Wyoming; and her home city of Santa Fe.
"My goal is offer the viewer a rare, if not surprising, glimpse into an animal's individuality, its endearing qualities and often complex internal state. I want my work to tell a story, to make us feel a connection with the subjects, to remind us all that upon closer inspection, animal emotions and relationships are not unlike our own." ~ Linda St. Clair


Its been almost 2 years since the last time I updated this blog. The truth is that ever since I moved back to Greece life changed completely.
Mind you, I never stopped painting but the main focus of the local gaming clubs was -and still is- fantasy wargaming. Therefore my precious napoleonics got a prominent position in my glass cabinet and I took my fantasy armies to the field.
I never forgot though the great times I had with the West Tokyo Wargamers and for this reason I always hoped that one day I would find people in Athens that would want to game Napoleonics in 28mm.
Eventually I saw some wonderful looking Scots on the Steve Dean forums painted by a fellow Greek. The good news is that this guy (Andreas is his name) is located here in Athens and regularly meets and games with some friends in my local gaming club!
The moment I have been waiting for has come and after meeting with Andreas in the local club we agreed that we should arrange an introductory game of Black Powder at some point in April or May.
This means that my 7 battalions of French and my 6 Battalions of Prussians will take the field in the near future!
Obviously this had a great effect on my painting mojo and I have resumed painting in earnest! Rest assured that I will be updating this space soon! Another French battalion is about to arrive ready for inspection!
An Athenian Hoplite by Victrix.
Anyway I hope you like it.. My next update will probably be much richer!
Watch this space as I will be updating it very soon!
The flags are missing but I should have them in my hands some time this coming week.
Well it has been quite some time since I updated this space so I believe an update is in order.
Although I still have not finished my Prussian brigade and I still have quite a few unpainted packs of metal French (Perry) I succumbed to the shiny new toy syndrome and bought myself a boxed set of Russian infantry from the Perrys.
As usual, the quality of this set is very high and the detailing on the models is excellent. My only complain I guess are the bayonets. Some of them are not that well cast and I need to be careful when I start cleaning the figures.
I am planning to organise my Russians around the forces that fought at the Shevardino redoubt. Therefore as a starting guide I am using the OoB from the GdB scenario book.
Now the real problem is getting the Green look nice on a figure of only 28mm... The purists out there will tell you that Russian Green was almost black but if I go for the right shade (that mind you no one can replicate 100%) I would end up with a black and white horde of figures.... What I am thinking of doing instead is to paint them in a dark shade of green (probably shaded with a black wash) and highlighted by mixing a cream colour to the green. Alternatively I could highlight them using a yellowish green but that would make them too fantasy like so I guess thats not an option.
Work started on another French Line Battalion!
A couple of weeks ago I updated my blog trying to motivate myself to paint more.
On the other hand however I finally decided to start working on some more French line infantry. I went again for metal Perry figures and I chose the ones standing at attention. For some reason I think these minis really look cool.


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package org.apache.geode.internal.cache;

import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.doReturn;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.mock;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.spy;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.when;

import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;

import org.apache.geode.distributed.internal.membership.InternalDistributedMember;
import org.apache.geode.internal.cache.LocalRegion.NonTXEntry;
import org.apache.geode.internal.cache.region.entry.RegionEntryFactoryBuilder;

public class TXStateProxyImplTest {

  private InternalCache cache;
  private LocalRegion region;
  String key = "testkey";
  TXStateProxyImpl tx;
  LocalRegionDataView view;
  private TXId txId;
  private TXManagerImpl txManager;

  @Before
  public void setUp() {
    cache = mock(InternalCache.class);
    region = mock(LocalRegion.class);
    txId = new TXId(mock(InternalDistributedMember.class), 1);
    txManager = mock(TXManagerImpl.class);
    view = mock(LocalRegionDataView.class);
  }

  @Test
  public void getKeyForIteratorReturnsKey() {
    RegionEntryFactory regionEntryFactory =
        new RegionEntryFactoryBuilder().create(false, false, false, false, false);
    RegionEntry regionEntry = regionEntryFactory.createEntry(region, key, null);

    KeyInfo stringKeyInfo = new KeyInfo(key, null, null);
    KeyInfo regionEntryKeyInfo = new KeyInfo(regionEntry, null, null);

    boolean allowTombstones = false;
    boolean rememberReads = true;

    when(region.getSharedDataView()).thenReturn(view);
    when(view.getEntry(stringKeyInfo, region, allowTombstones)).thenReturn(mock(NonTXEntry.class));
    when(view.getKeyForIterator(stringKeyInfo, region, rememberReads, allowTombstones))
        .thenCallRealMethod();
    when(view.getKeyForIterator(regionEntryKeyInfo, region, rememberReads, allowTombstones))
        .thenCallRealMethod();

    TXStateProxyImpl tx = new TXStateProxyImpl(cache, txManager, txId, false);

    Object key1 = tx.getKeyForIterator(regionEntryKeyInfo, region, rememberReads, allowTombstones);
    assertThat(key1.equals(key)).isTrue();

    Object key2 = tx.getKeyForIterator(stringKeyInfo, region, rememberReads, allowTombstones);
    assertThat(key2.equals(key)).isTrue();
  }

  @Test
  public void getCacheReturnsInjectedCache() {
    TXStateProxyImpl tx = new TXStateProxyImpl(cache, txManager, txId, false);
    assertThat(tx.getCache()).isSameAs(cache);
  }

  @Test
  public void isOverTransactionTimeoutLimitReturnsTrueIfHavingRecentOperation() {
    TXStateProxyImpl tx = spy(new TXStateProxyImpl(cache, txManager, txId, false));
    doReturn(0L).when(tx).getLastOperationTimeFromClient();
    doReturn(1001L).when(tx).getCurrentTime();
    when(txManager.getTransactionTimeToLive()).thenReturn(1);

    assertThat(tx.isOverTransactionTimeoutLimit()).isEqualTo(true);
  }

  @Test
  public void isOverTransactionTimeoutLimitReturnsFalseIfNotHavingRecentOperation() {
    TXStateProxyImpl tx = spy(new TXStateProxyImpl(cache, txManager, txId, false));
    doReturn(0L).when(tx).getLastOperationTimeFromClient();
    doReturn(1000L).when(tx).getCurrentTime();
    when(txManager.getTransactionTimeToLive()).thenReturn(1);

    assertThat(tx.isOverTransactionTimeoutLimit()).isEqualTo(false);
  }
}

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Radar are still under a trial phase, the system may have service interruptions
The map shows the reflectivity data, as measured by the instrument, at different temporal steps so as to allow a monitoring of the evolution of the phenomena in the last 6 hours (an acquisition every 15 minutes). The time is displayed in UTC format, to calculate the current time 1 hour should be added (2 under daylight saving time). Please note that the system is still under test, so the outputs need a further verification of significance.
X-band radar system in Tuscany
Radar Elba: installed by the LaMMA Consortium in July 2012 at Cima di Monte (Isola d'Elba) to a height of 480 meters above sea level. The radar has been funded under the cross-border project "ResMar" Italy-France Maritime Operational program, with the aim of realize a mosaic in which to merge radar data of the partner regions: Tuscany, Liguria, Sardinia and Corsica.
Radar Livorno: installed by Livorno Port Authority in November 2012, the system is managed by the LaMMA Consortium. The radar is currently under a test phase.
Radar features
The two X-band radar operate at a frequency of 9.4 GHz, and have a global footprint of about 100 km of radius each. The system provides scanning PPI (Plan Position Indicator) that scans 360 degrees of the observed area. By varying the elevation of the antenna, the radar make a vertical scan of the observed cloud system in the direction of its maximum intensity, allowing you to analyze the various layers of the cloud and estimate the relative content of rain.
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Even when multiple keys can operate the known cut, the Find Bitting feature will generate a "Cutting Tree". The "Cutting Tree" is a list of the possibly correct keys, sorted into an order that minimizes the number of key blanks that need to be used to cut and treat every possible key combination.
spiking the green wire or simply so difficult that you need specialist tools, InstaCode will point you in the correct direction. It's like having access to decades worth of locksmith experience on your phone!


This blog was written by Sarah Harriman. Meet our blogging fitness specialists at the NIFS website.
A quick glance around the fitness center and you'll see dozens of people, each with a different goal drawing them in to exercise. What motivates these people to come in the door and keep them coming back day after day?
Motivation can be both extrinsic ("My wife made me come to the gym") and intrinsic ("I want to go to the gym"). While both may be effective short term, someone in it for the long haul needs to tap into his or her inner self.
Healthy competition: Make bets with friends and family. Who can lose the most weight in a month? If you're an athlete, find local events or races. Or, make bets with yourself. How many days in a row can you be physically active?
Specific goals: Not seeing improvement can be a leading contributor to lack of motivation. Take a look at your goals and make sure they are specific and measurable. Instead of "I want to lose weight," try "I will lose 10 pounds before December 1." Or, modify "I want to be a faster runner" to "I will decrease my 5K time by 10 seconds before September 30." With clear goals you'll feel like you're making progress and you'll be less likely to be discouraged.
A vision: Where do you see yourself as it relates to your goal? Keep track of how your actions contribute to that vision. Be honest and record your thoughts daily on a notepad or in a journal.
Motivation loves company: Sharing your goal with a friend can help build your confidence and build on successes. Finding a buddy to partake in your goal not only adds a psychological boost, but ensures accountability. Or go high-tech with your goal by updating your Facebook status, posting a tweet, or blogging about your progress. With a post like "Heading out for a three-mile run!" or "Five pounds down, three to go!" you'll likely be encouraged and may gain some followers.
Meet other ladies who enjoy triathlon!
Beat my husband's sprint triathlon time.
Pass more people than pass me.
What's your goal and how do you stay motivated?
It's probably just my desire as a wellness center manager at a Continuing Care Retirement Community for the National Institute for Fitness and Sport to recommend exercise for most questions I get. But when I speak with residents, one of their major concerns as they age is losing their cognitive function, which is most commonly associated with the development of Alzheimer's disease. A growing body of research is emerging to support my answer that exercise is one of the best medicines, especially in regard to exercise's ability to prevent Alzheimer's.
Alzheimer's disease continues to grow in prevalence worldwide, expected to affect 1 out of 85 individuals over 65 by 2050. With the cause of Alzheimer's still unknown, much of the current research is being focused on lifestyle and behavioral habits that decrease the risk of developing it.
So how much does exercise help in the prevention of Alzheimer's disease? Deborah Barnes, a mental health researcher at the San Francisco VA Medical Center (SFVAMC), analyzed data from studies around the world involving hundreds of thousands of participants about modifiable lifestyle habits that can prevent Alzheimer's disease. Barnes found that the biggest modifiable risk factor in the United States was physical activity. She stated that the most exciting thing about the study was that some very simple lifestyle changes, such as increasing physical activity, could prevent more than half of the Alzheimer's cases.
Other modifiable risk factors that were identified by the study included smoking, hypertension, obesity, and diabetes, most of which can also be modified by increased physical activity.
So what steps can you start to take to increase your physical activity?
In the world of technology, time equals improvement and efficiency. Back in the day we had computers that occupied the space of an entire room and Zack Morris–sized cell phones. Now we have computers that fit in the palm of a hand and Zoolander-sized cell phones. It seems that as more is discovered in the world of technology, items have become smaller and more efficient. Interestingly enough, this concept does not seem to apply to people.
In 1995 when the United States began tracking obesity rates, Mississippi had the nation's highest adult obesity rate at 19.8 percent. Now, 16 years later in 2011, Colorado has the nation's lowest adult obesity rate at 19.4 percent. As you can see, what used to be the upper end of the nation's obesity scale is now at the extreme low end of the spectrum. This is concerning because common conditions associated with obesity include but are not limited to high cholesterol and triglycerides, type 2 diabetes, and heart disease, all conditions that can be avoided with proper nutrition and activity.
Nowadays, we have low-calorie options at stores and restaurants, fitness centers popping up on virtually every corner, and educational tools at our fingertips. We can download an app on our tiny cell phones to count calories or find a healthy restaurant or fitness facility, but do we? Something common to the field of technology and humans is that bigger is not always better. What has changed in our society that has influenced the adult obesity rate to increase so severely?
We all know that emotional eating can sabotage even the greatest of weight-loss efforts. Typically we envision emotions that coincide with emotional eating to be primarily negative. New research, however, shows that positive emotions can also have an influence on what we choose to eat.
The Journal of Consumer Research recently published findings in an article titled "Helpful Hopefulness: The Effect of Future Positive Emotions on Consumption" that suggest happy people are more likely to snack on candy bars, whereas hopeful people choose more often to snack on fruit.
The relationship between happiness and food choices literally creates an emotional rollercoaster. In addition to the preceding research, scientists have studied the emotional side-effects of food, and have found intriguing results: Participants who consumed apples reported feelings of satisfaction, happiness, and heightened energy, while individuals who ate chocolate cited the same joyous feelings; however, they were closely followed by feelings of guilt.
So what do we make of this? Karen Page Winterich and Kelly L. Haws, the authors of the "Helpful Hopefulness" study offer this conclusion: "The next time you're feeling well, don't focus too much on all the good things in the past. Instead, keep that positive glow and focus on your future, especially all the good things you imagine to come. Your waistline will thank you!" Couldn't have said it better myself!
Many corporations, spurred by corporate wellness initiatives, are going with healthier cafeteria and vending options. What does your workplace offer, candy bar or fruit bar?
We're right in the heart of blueberry season, so it's a great opportunity to look at what makes this delicious summertime favorite so nutritious.
Blueberries are constantly receiving positive press, and deservedly so: their antioxidant power ranks them among the top "super foods" that provide vital health benefits. According to WebMD and the American Dietetic Association, blueberries boast the power to help prevent cancer, heart disease, and high cholesterol, and can benefit the immune system, cognitive function, eye health, and digestion. Their antioxidant content and high levels of fiber; vitamins A, E, and C; potassium; and manganese provide these benefits.
Are Blueberries a New Secret Weight Loss Weapon?
If the previously mentioned health benefits weren't enough to send you hurrying to the produce section of the nearest supermarket, what about the fact that a recent study has shown promise for the blueberry in its ability to fight obesity on a molecular level? According to a recent study at Texas Woman's University, polyphenols (a type of antioxidant) from blueberries hindered the development of adipose (fat) cells in mice. The effects were dependent on the size of the dose; the highest dose had the most impact on the cells.
Further studies are needed, as the jury is still out on the potential effects of polyphenol doses in humans. However, one can't help but wonder: is the ability to bottle a blueberry's nutritional power on the horizon?
In the meantime, the old-fashioned way of consuming your polyphenols through a diet rich in unprocessed foods such as fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds (and even wine, tea, coffee, and chocolate!) should certainly be adequate. In fact, Mother Nature may see to it that this remains the best means, as it appears that there are polyphenols that cannot be extracted that are an important part of these foods' nutritional value.
Think about simple ways that you can add more blueberries to your diet. They make great toppings for yogurt, cottage cheese, ice cream, cold cereal, and oatmeal. Add them to smoothies and fruit salads, or simply enjoy a handful for dessert or a snack. They're most nutritious in their raw state, but adding them to pancakes, waffles, muffins, breads, and more will still add a sweet, nutritious burst of flavor.


Who Wore Splendid Better - Ruby, Suri or Violet?
Violet Affleck wore the Pink/Navy Rugby dress by Splendid with matching pink leggings and Navy Canvas shoes by Superga, while shopping for groceries with her mom in Brentwood,CA on July 6th 2008.
Ruby once again opted for the Tank version of this oh-so-popular Rugby Dress, which she paired with her favorite Classic Crocs in Navy, while shopping with her parents at Fred Segal on July 6th 2008.
Ruby Maguire is my new "addiction" - voting for her!, tank dresses are my weakness and they simply fit better, rather than those loose tunic styles, both for girls & women.
Suri's shoes are out of this league and just dont go with comfy & play-wear look of this Splendid dress.
Viloet's safe choice with the leggings is cute, but too much pink imho.
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Who Wore Splendid Butterfly Print Better - Ruby, Suri or Zahara?
Zahara choose the top to show off this pretty Butterfly Print on April 1st 2008, paired with cargo pants and Checked Slip-ons by Vans Kids.
Ruby Maguire wore the tank version of the Butterfly Print in Seashell by Spledid on April 12th 2008, accessorized with her trusty Raeden Sandals by See Kai Run.
Suri wore the tunic version of this Butterfly Print on April 10th 2010, accessorized with Bunny Slippers and Bunny Ears Headband.
Why on earth did Suri need to wait 2 years to wear this adorable Butterfly Print?
and i am not a fan of Suri's Easter themed accessories.. might be cute for a party, but definitely not cute for a shopping trip.
Thanks to Kat from PopSugar TV for sending me this adorable video!
Suri Cruise had a sweet 4th birthday! Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' daughter celebrated her big day on Saturday with a cupcake party at her Beverly Hills home. Her actual birthday was Sunday.
They ordered more than four dozen unfrosted cupcakes from Sprinkles -- plus vanilla and milk chocolate frosting so the tot could decorate them.
Suri loves sweet treats. In March, she ditched a dance class to go on a chocolate run with her mom.
Last year, Suri turned three with a trampoline party in Beverly Hills.
Thanks to Jolla, you can check out this article from OK! Magazine about Suri's Shopping Spree.
Suri is all smiles and sooo cute in a pink dress! as she their NYC apartment with her nanny on Monday, 12.
Suri is wearing Cozy Cotton Tunic Dress in Coral by Crewcuts, and her new favorite Blue patent shoes (most likely from Bonpoint).
Suri is also carrying her plush friend - Elephant from Webkinz Jr. toys range by GANZ, first seen on April 9th 2010.
Suri went to visit Katie on the set of "Son of No One" in Queens, NY.
Suri takes her nanny to see "Wicked" on Broadway on Monday, 12.
Suri & Katie were spotted leaving their NYC apartment on Sunday, 11.
and Barbara Patent Sandals by Maloles Petit, first worn on October 4th 2009.
Suri accessorized her outfit with Fleurs Framboise Headband by Bonpoint.
or at least pocket looks like that..
Suri and Katie visited the ABC Carpet & Home Co store in NYC on Satruday, 10.
- even though the dress is by Splendid (and dont throw tomatoes here - but i consider it a playwear brand) - its not striped!
Suri visited her movie star mama Katie Holmes on the New York set of her new movie "Son of No One" on Friday, 9.
but she has a new plush friend - Elephant from Webkinz Jr. toys range by GANZ.
and a new controversial picture of almost-four-year -old Suri drinking from her bottle..
Suri carries a large U.S. Postage envelope, as the duo left their home and headed to Baltazar in Soho for dinner on Thursday, 8.
Suri is wearing H&Y white Ruffle Silk Dotted dress and a new pair of Blue Patent Shoes and dark blue socks.
Suri is accessorized her outfit with Green Doggy Backpack by Manuella, first spotted on November 21th 2009.
UPDATE: iam 100% sure the shoes are from Bonpoint, purchased earlier.
after spending yesterday's morning at Chelsea Piers, S&K continued their day with a shopping spree in NYC on Thursday, 8.
Suri is wearing the same Splendid dress as earlier in the day.
Suri wore a familiar pair of cosy-piggy slippers as they headed to an indoor play center at Chelsea Piers in New York on Thursday, 8.
Suri is wearing White/Heather Stripe Dress with flap pockets by Splendid, which she first wore on April 4th 2010.
Suri is wearing Pig Slippers by Happy Feet brand.
Suri spotted leaving their NYC apartment with her nanny on Wednesday, 7.
as far as i can tell, Suri is wearing the exact same outfit as yesterday.
Suri is spotted leaving Chelsea Piers with her nanny on Tuesday, 6.
Suri is wearing Pink/Navy Stripe Rugby Dress with ruffle by Splendid Littles.
Suri is also wearing her trusty Salina Safari Patent-Leather Ballet Flats by Crewcuts, which she first wore arriving to Tokyo on March 11th 2009.
Hey, this is a real cute picture! Suri made a friend while dining at City Bakery on Monday, 5.
Suri & Katie went to one of their favorite NYC eateries - Alice's Tea Cup, on Monday 5.
Today was Katie's first shooting day on the set of her new movie "Son of No One".
Suri accessorized her "outfit" with Estelle Hairband in Lime by Bonpoint, first worn on February 10th 2010.
Suri is wearing her trusty Salina Safari Patent-Leather Ballet Flats by Crewcuts, which she first wore arriving to Tokyo on March 11th 2009.
Suri & Katie went to catch a performance of DanceBrazil at NYC's Jouyce Theatre on Sunday, 4.
later they stopped by City Bakery Shop for a quick treat.
Suri is wearing White/Heather Stripe Dress with flap pockets by Splendid.


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(not real photo of the landscape, but accurate in its ambiance! Providence was doing major construction for the whole 4 years of my attendance).
Jarrett, I think we were gypped!
Regardless, I think we were both glad we went and came back. We look happy, don't we?


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Mammoth Murmur
By Jamie Funk
Hailing from Boston, MA, Mammoth Murmur has been together for about six months or so.They met each other in 2013 and already have a little teaser of an EP entitled Mammoth. The band consists of Jacob Aviner (vocals, guitar) who is the main songwriter, Andrew Peck (drummer), Sebastian Leal (bass) and Claire Goh (violin). For playing together for such a relatively short time.
It's hard not to be impressed by the chemistry they are displaying on this EP. They fuse styles, don't self-indulge and know when to restrain for the betterment of the song.
One of the best contributing factors that makes these songs work is the parts that Goh comes up with on her violin. The sad sweeping swirls of violin on the first song "Portraiture" adds multiple dimensions of emotional resonance that would otherwise be left vacant. The violin is an essential ingredient to "Portraiture" but everyone else in the band holds their weight as well. Aviner is a good vocalist who has a suitable voice and inventive lyrics, while the bass plays in the pocket with the drums.
"Ink and Paper" is a song in which Aviner delivers a solid vocal performance and sings metaphorical lyrics such as "Bleed your pen paper, Fold a crane, write a name. Send it round the river bed" that is fun to pick apart. Perhaps the most enjoyable part of the song is the nonchalant whistling that occurs a little more than half way through the song.
Mammoth closes with "Prime" which is the strongest as well as the most melancholy track on the album. I loved the jazz influenced drumming the song starts with that creates a nice backbone for the rest of the instruments to rest upon.It was also nice to have the bassist flex his muscles towards the end of the song.
The only complaint I have with this EP is the production is a bit sub par at points. For instance, I thought the guitar was a bit too low in the mix on the first song. Aside from that the songs are solid and a good starting point for a band that has just started their journey.
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Google Talkback For PC (Windows And Mac) Free Download
Have you ever wondered how the blind or visually impaired people use their devices? In this age and era, it's impossible to see someone without a technological gadget for example phones and laptops. However, you may have known that some people cannot use these gadgets without further assistance.
Google Talkback is a screen reader software that acts as the accessibility service for the visually impaired personnel. The application can be used on any device, including phones and laptops. The page below explains how you can set up the software on your laptop and gain access to whatever is on the screen.
What is Talkback?
How to activate accessibility services on your Android device
How to use Google Talkback on your PC
Google Talkback For PC FAQs
Simply put, Google Talkback is an accessibility service that helps the blind and the visually impaired get what is on the screen of the devices. The platform reads what is on the screen and adds in spoken, vibration, and audible feedback on your screen. The feedback you get from Talkback explains what you are required to do or what you are doing or the notifications on the screen.
You may have noticed that this service may come pre-installed on most Android devices. The accessibility is also updated when improved.
As mentioned earlier this application comes pre-installed on Android devices. to use it you have to activate it. To activate Talkback on your Android device, follow the instructions before;
Under systems click on settings.
Click accessibility.
In the services section, click on the on/off button under 'Talkback'.
Click on the top right-hand corner on the screen.
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Google talkback is an Android application and to use it on your PC you will have to use the AndyOS Android emulator to emulate Android on your Windows or Mac computer. Once you download it you can head straight to Google, play on the emulator and search for Talkback, and click on Google Talkback to install it.
Since talkback has become a very popular app, there have been several questions that people ask about the application. However, here are the three most important questions that people have asked about using Google Talkback for PC.
How can I get Talkback on my Windows Laptop?
This question is asked by most caregivers and the best way to install the app on PC is by using an Android emulator. There are so many Android emulators out there, but the most trusted ones are BlueStacks and AndyOS Android emulators. You need to download either of them and use it to download the app on your PC.
Is there a Windows version for Google Talkback?
No, there is no Windows version for Google Talkback, you need to use an Android emulator to download the accessibility application on you.
Google Talkback is one of the most advanced technologies in today's world. Now the blind and the visually impaired can have their chance with electronic devices and thus they will not be left out of the rest of the world. One thing we wish to happen is that there will be a Google Talkback for the PC version.
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Gold dipped to $1,266 and silver to $14.55 on Thursday morning, May 2, but the metals rallied to $1,285 and $14.93 by Tuesday. Meanwhile, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 493 points on Tuesday.
With silver now under $15, the gold/silver ratio has reached its highest point in the 21st Century. Since the year 2000, the average ratio of the price of one ounce of gold to one ounce of silver has been 64-to-1. Last week, the ratio surpassed 85-to-1, the highest ratio since the early 1990s, when the ratio reached 90-to-1. We don't believe in the artificial 16-to-1 ratio under the Bimetallic Standard of the 1890s, or any magical ratio like 64-to-1, but the current 27-year high of 86-to-1 shows how much of a bargain silver is now. Call us now for our special silver offers!
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With over 2,000 billionaires around the world, "The Hobby of Kings," has now become the hobby of the very rich. In the last year, I have learned of at least five billionaires who are currently competing for high-quality "trophy" coins. These are coins at or near the top of the population ("top of the pop") report.
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According to Bloomberg, gold purchases by central banks in the first quarter were the highest in six years and the 12-month totals ending March 31, 2019 set a 12-month record high for central bank gold buying.
Net central bank gold purchases totaled 145.5 tons in the first quarter, 68% above the first quarter of 2018 and the highest first quarter since 2013, according to the World Gold Council. Russia remains the largest buyer as they continue to unload their U.S. dollars in favor of gold. Other regular gold buyers included Turkey and Kazakhstan, but last quarter brought some new buyers to the fore. Ecuador added to its gold reserves for the first since 2014. Other buyers included Colombia and Qatar. China increased its gold reserves by 11.2 metric tons in March to a total of 1,885 metric tons (60.62 million Troy ounces).
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Navajo Nation Enters New Lockdown As Coronavirus Cases Rise
By Reese Oxner
Sharon Chischilly
Miss Navajo Nation Shaandiin P. Parrish puts on a white gown to help distribute food, water, and other supplies to Navajo families on May 27, 2020 in Huerfano on the Navajo Nation Reservation, New Mexico.
After warning of "uncontrolled spread" of the coronavirus last week, the Navajo Nation entered a lockdown Monday in an effort to stop infections.
Nonessential businesses are closed. Schools have been moved to online learning. Roads within the nation are closed to visitors. The lockdown will last at least three weeks.
"Unfortunately, it appears that this pandemic is going to get worse before it gets better. The projections from our health care experts indicate that the Navajo Nation, as well as the country, is on an upward trajectory in terms of new cases of COVID-19," Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez said in a Sunday statement. "Please hold yourselves and your loved ones accountable and please pray for our Nation."
The reservation spreads across parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. The government ordered a lockdown for the nation of over 170,000 between March and August in an effort to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
Now, cases are rising again, both within the reservation and in the surrounding states. The government has shifted its reopening status to code red, invoking its strictest lockdown protocols.
On Sunday, the nation reported 117 new cases and four more deaths. Overall the government has recorded 13,373 cases.
Contract tracers found the infections spread from outside the nation, KJZZ's Laurel Morales reported, when residents visit family or friends and then return
Tribal officials say they still have a few ICU beds left. The surrounding states' hospitals that the tribe relies on are close to capacity.
Nez recently vetoed a plan to reopen the nation's casinos at a reduced capacity. He said the government will instead explore relief options to support Navajo businesses.
"We cannot put a price tag on the health, safety, and lives of our Navajo people. Revenues do not outweigh the precious lives of our elders, children, and gaming employees," Nez said.
In August, the government distributed $24.6 million in CARES Act funds to avoid layoffs of gaming employees.
The nation is battling pandemic fatigue among its residents, NPR's Dustin Jones reported. Previously, its department of health eased weekend restrictions to combat fatigue and to deter outside travel.
The rise in cases comes as the United States is facing surging case counts all over the country. Since the start of the pandemic, the U.S. has recorded more than 11 million cases.
"We all have a role to play to protect ourselves and our relatives," said Dr. Jill Jim, executive director of the nation's health department, in a statement. She said cases are approaching the nation's record high of early May.
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