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"Fifty Shades Freed" -- Dakota Johnson Will See You Now
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She has become one of Hollywood's fastest-rising stars, playing the coveted role of Anastasia Steele in the feature adaptations of E L James' novels and worldwide phenomenon Fifty Shades of Grey and Fifty Shades Darker. Now, Dakota Johnson reprises her role as Ana in Universal Pictures' explosive romantic thriller Fifty Shades Freed (in Philippine cinemas February 7).
In the film, believing they have left behind shadowy figures from their past, newlyweds Christian (Jamie Dornan) and Ana fully embrace an inextricable connection and shared life of luxury. But just as she steps into her role as Mrs. Grey and he relaxes into an unfamiliar stability, new threats could jeopardize their happy ending before it even begins.
For her third time as Anastasia Steele, Johnson dove headfirst into Ana's challenging world and emboldened sense of self. She updates us with where the characters are: "In Freed, there's more suspense, more of a thriller aspect, with additional characters and more action—all of that is intertwined with the love story. A love story that has evolved and deepened. Anastasia and Christian are married, and Anastasia has received a promotion, raising the intensity of both her private and professional life."
She agrees with E L James and screenwriter Niall Leonard, though, when she states: "This is an epic love story but we do our best to keep it grounded and relatable. It's one of those inexplicable connections between two people that is completely undeniable. Throughout these stories, you find the protagonists faced with situations that require one or both of them to bend their wills and adapt to their version of love."
When it came to working with Johnson and Dornan, director James Foley takes a moment to reflect on the work they have put into the series. "Jamie and Dakota have the kind of instinctual connection to their characters that actors who are really good in their parts find. At this point, they are referencing something that they know; they're not making believe. Somehow, Dakota plugged into the psychology and the emotion of Ana, and Jamie relaxes even further into the role; in Freed, you see him find Christian Grey in himself."
Fifty Shades Freed is distributed by United International Pictures through Columbia Pictures.


Do you struggle with being able to feel the Father's love for you? Are you tired of trying to shake that restless feeling and nagging loneliness you've been carrying all your life?
In Grafted In, Michelle Wuesthoff is your guide to knowing how to lead your orphan heart to the Spirit of Adoption, step by step. In the midst of the ups and downs of parenting her adopted children, the Lord began to show her how she was functioning just like an orphan herself when it came to her relationship with him. And just like with her children, there was a process she could learn to bond with him, to love him, and to receive his love in return.
Michelle shows you how to rebuild the foundation of your identity the right way—on God's reckless, lavish love and on his truth. Then, she outlines specific steps for you to follow to be able to receive and embrace your own adoption. Through personal stories from her experiences as an adoptive mother and short-term missionary to Uganda, she teaches you, encourages you, and walks with you on your own journey home to the Father.
I'm Michelle Wuesthoff, the incredibly blessed mama to five amazing kids, and the luckiest wife I know. Sometimes I think I love coffee more than any substance known to man, but I'm not quick to turn down a glass of Chianti, either. I have serious beach house goals, and I scour the real estate sites each morning (coffee in hand) for the perfect one with a palm tree out front.
Speaking of dreaming, I do a lot of it. I am constantly seeking to create something and I'm always looking to make life better and more beautiful for myself and others around me.
It's pretty much an obsession!
I've always loved sitting with people, listening, sharing, and encouraging them where I can. Relationships feed me, inspire me, and make my life incredibly rich.
It's because of my passion for relationships that I began writing in earnest. I long to see people thriving: living their lives with purpose, on purpose, and embracing it wholeheartedly with the faith-filled expectation I call HOPE. I write books, blog posts, articles, and devotionals centered around the themes of spiritual and emotional wholeness, all from a Christian perspective.
I invite you to read some of my writings and be encouraged! You and the life you have are precious. Don't forget that.


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The Government of Canada had selected the Airbus C295W for its Fixed-Wing Search and Rescue Program.
Dec.8, 2016 - Today, the Government of Canada announced that it had selected the Airbus C295W for its Fixed-Wing Search and Rescue Program.
As part of the FWSAR program, the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) will purchase 16 C295Ws modified for Search and Rescue (SAR). The contract will also include in service support, provided through a joint venture between Airbus Defence and Space and PAL Aerospace.
The C295W features substantial Canadian content. Every C295 is powered by Pratt & Whitney Canada engines, pilots will be trained at a new facility developed by CAE, and the electro-optical systems for FWSAR will be provided by L3 Wescam. In-Service Support for the life of the program will be provided by AirPro, a joint venture between Airbus Defence and Space and PAL Aerospace. In-service support will be conducted by Canadians in Canada.
Canada's C295Ws will be delivered starting three years after contract award. In service, they will join five Airbus CC-150 aircraft used in the air-to-air refueling, transport, and VIP travel roles.
Canadian search and rescue (SAR) crews put their lives on the line every day, relying on their aircraft to deal with extremes of weather and terrain in the course of their duties. From demanding mountain contour search, Arctic and North Atlantic storms, to extremes of temperature, icing and precipitation, the requirements for a SAR aircraft have been well-documented. In the face of a SAR emergency, crews will face pressure to launch even when conditions are beyond the limits of their aircraft. This situation need not occur anymore now that Canada has selected C295W for its Fixed-Wing Search and Rescue Program.
The C295's 41-ft.-long cabin is the largest in its class, providing room for sensor and mission systems, plus crew rest and preparation areas.
With its ability to accommodate the most sophisticated sensors, Airbus Defence and Space's C295 is ideal for search and rescue missions (SAR) both day and night, and during all weather conditions.
When the contract is finalised, 185 C295s will have been ordered by 25 countries.


Android was once a big part of Intel's plans in mobile devices, but the company is now paying much less attention to the OS.
Intel is moving away from developing Android for x86 processors used in smartphones, since it is exiting the handset market. The company's commitment to Android development for tablets, however, is also under question.
Dell, for one, won't deliver OS upgrades to its now discontinued Android-based Venue tablets, which ran on Intel Atom chips. And like Dell, Intel is shifting its focus from tablets to 2-in-1s, which run mostly on Windows.
Meanwhile, it isn't clear if Intel will continue to offer Android as an option along with its Celeron, Pentium and Core processors. Intel's x86 version of Android was mainly for devices with Atom processors, which the chip maker is phasing out from tablets and PCs in favor of new chips, code-named Apollo Lake. Most Apollo Lake systems will run Windows, according to Intel executives. It's not sure if they'll support Android.Otherwise, Atom chips are now central to Intel's burgeoning internet of things business.
But Intel has struggled to break into the market of Android devices, much like ARM—which dominates mobile devices—has struggled to break the Windows dominance in PCs. Intel's history of switching mobile OS allegiances was one reason the company failed in smartphones.
Intel put its full weight behind Android in 2011 after striking out on multiple OSes. In 2007, Intel started working on Linux-based Moblin, which was merged with Nokia's Maemo into a new OS called Meego in 2010. Meego was merged with LiMo into Tizen, which is now in Samsung TVs and smartphones.
Even as Intel's Android efforts wane, though, its partnership with Google will remain strong, and will focus on the chip-maker's new target markets. Intel in April said it was laying off 12,000 people as it chased the growth areas of IoT, servers, connectivity, 2-in-1s, silicon photonics and FPGAs (field programmable gate arrays).
Intel is a lead partner in Google's Brillo, an embedded IoT OS with the underpinnings of Android. Brillo works on Intel's Edison development board, which can be used to make wearables, robots, smart home devices and other IoT gadgets.
And shipments of Chromebooks—most of which have Intel chips, and are based on the Chrome OS—are growing in an otherwise slumping PC market.
But the company is missing out on some of Google's most exciting projects like DayDream, a VR platform for Android devices.


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Q: disadvantages of using IQueryable ! Is there are any performance issues related to using IQueryable ?
Besides, if I use a cursor instead of using IQueryable (is that better) .
IQueryable vs IEnumerable vs IList ?
I use MongoDB as my database . Thank you

A: Those are just different interfaces, and as interfaces doesn't contain any implementation it doesn't matter for performance which you use.
When you loop over the values the enumerator of the actual class will be used, regardless of which interface you use to access it.

A: I don't know how the MongoDB C# binding works, but describe how it usually works:
When using IQueryable an expression tree is constructed, then translated into a format the database can understand and then executed in the database-server.
This typically has a small overhead(construct expression tree and translate it) compared to directly writing queries in the format the database understands.
With IEnumerable delegates are used, instead of expressions. It needs to iterate over the complete dataset and then filters using Linq-To-Objects. This is much slower.

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On August 15, a book that has been two years in the making will be published. Compiled by Katherine Piper, Hope for the Adoption Journey is a book written for a very special type of mom: Adoptive and foster moms.
The fact is, our parenting experiences are different and can often be isolating, but this book is written by a community of seasoned mothers who have been in the trenches and have a wealth support and hope to offer struggling families. It has been a huge privilege to be a part of this very important work!
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Looking Back…Moving Forward: The Heart of a Pediatric Neurosurgeon
Tags: brain tumor, head injury, intracranial pressure, pediatric neurosurgeon, premature infants, Shunts, valves
As we continue our interview series in commemoration of our 30th anniversary, Dr. Harold L. Rekate, Director of the Chiari Institute in New York, sits down and shares a personal account of what inspired him to become a neurosurgeon, a career shaped by hydrocephalus and its patients, and his relationship with the Hydrocephalus Association.
In retrospect, I feel that I must have been destined to become a pediatric neurosurgeon and to study hydrocephalus.
Few young people who have not had personal experiences with this very small specialty would feel drawn to it. In my own case, I have been certain that I wanted to be a physician since the age of 12. This goal derived from my feelings for my own pediatrician, Dr. Brisco in Annapolis, MD. From that point until my first clinical rotation in medical school at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond I knew that I wanted to be a pediatrician. Because I had expressed this goal, my first assignment as a third-year medical student was on pediatrics. During those three months, I found that I was not particularly excited about the subjects that I was studying or the disease processes that I was learning to treat. It was a bit deflating.
My next rotation was on surgery. I was amazed at how exciting every aspect of that rotation was. The faculty was replete with dynamic, dedicated faculty, and the residents were great teachers. During that rotation we had four one-week rotations on surgical specialties, including one week on neurosurgery. On my first day on the service I was met by Dr. David Silver, who at the time was a mid-level resident. We spent the next 21 hours together doing neurological exams, going to the emergency room and seeing head-injured patients, and working in the ICU. The first neurosurgical operation I saw lasted 14 hours and demonstrated the intellectual and technical challenges of neurosurgery. At 3 o'clock in the morning, I was disappointed to realize that the day was over. I was hooked. The neurologic examination was elegant, the disease processes were challenging, the surgical procedures were demanding, and the results were often immediate. I had found my calling. My fellow students were incredulous. I was committing myself to years of every other night call, long hours, and challenging procedures. The most important part of that decision was that my wife, Mary, was so excited for me. She could sense the way I felt and desired only the best for me. We have now been married for 46 years and she still supports me in this way.
In 1970, neurosurgery residencies were very competitive (as they are today). The resident match, which was actually for a general surgical internship, brought us to Cleveland to train at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU). The chairman at the time was Professor Frank E. Nulsen. Dr. Nulsen was instrumental in the development of the first effective valves to treat hydrocephalus. When he came to Case in 1953 as chairman of the newly created neurosurgical section, he began doing shunts and set up a clinic for the multidisciplinary care of children born with hydrocephalus and spina bifida. By the time I moved to Cleveland, this clinic served hundreds of children and young adults who had been cared for in this clinic since birth. Records and X-ray studies were compulsively maintained on all of these patients. Surgical procedures were documented in handwritten log books dating back to the first day of a patient's arrival. The population of Cleveland was very stable, and the majority of those patients were still available for examination and study. It was an extraordinary living laboratory and documented the life history of the treatment of hydrocephalus almost from the invention of the shunt.
As had been done by Case residents who had preceded me, I began to study this population with a view to writing papers and making presentations at meetings. I found much about hydrocephalus and its treatment confusing. There was so much that required study. My first epiphany regarding hydrocephalus came in 1973 when I was able to attend a meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) and listened to a presentation by Professor Fred Epstein in which he described the treatment of hydrocephalus in premature infants by wrapping the head with an elastic bandage. This was the first time that I realized that hydrocephalus wasn't an all-or-none phenomenon. Just because you could see the ventricles were too large did not necessarily mean that the patient needed a shunt. What was this thing called hydrocephalus?
With almost two years to go in my residency and in recognition of my interest in following up on the patients who were so important for the program and for Dr. Nulsen specifically, I was asked to remain at Case after residency and to become a pediatric neurosurgeon. I had come full circle from pediatrics to neurosurgery to pediatric neurosurgery. It felt like it was my destiny.
The intellectual environment at Case was quite remarkable. Dr. Nulsen demanded a great deal of the residents and we were constantly anxious because we knew that we were going to be asked question after question until we could not answer or got the wrong answer. You were never able to finish a session with him on a winning note. The anxiety drove me to be more prepared for discussions than I had ever been and probably more than I have ever been since. From him I learned what was important about the examination of a patient and the thought process leading to treatment decisions. While not always pleasant, it was always educational.
Dr. Joseph Foley was the director of the neurology department. Watching him do a neurologic examination was quite an experience. I was amazed at what could be gleaned from careful examination and thorough discussions with patients. This was at a time prior to the invention of CT scans or MRI scans. Many of the faculty members at Case were inspiring to me at that time and my experiences there will stay with me forever.
As a resident and a junior faculty member at Case, it is essential that an academic neurosurgeon be a "triple threat." He or she must establish himself or herself in clinical neurosurgery, teaching, and basic science research. Based on my experiences in medical school, I attempted to concentrate my research on brain tumors and, especially, the immunological aspects of brain tumor treatment. It soon became obvious that keeping up with two rapidly evolving areas of science without a great deal of overlap would be nearly an impossible task. At that time, the engineering school at CWRU was developing exciting relationships with clinical departments of the medical school. Professor Wen Ko of the Electronics Design Center had invented an implantable device to measure intracranial pressure telemetrically. The importance of such a device for hydrocephalus was immediately obvious. This relationship led to a lifelong study of hydrocephalus. Dr. Ko and I and a third player, Dr. Howard Chizeck of the Department of Systems and Design Engineering, established a program to study hydrocephalus from a biomechanical point of view. It took us two years of meeting for three hours per week to be able to even speak the same language. This work resulted in research that was funded by the National Institutes of Health and NASA. It also developed into a unique approach to the clinical study of hydrocephalus that has guided my thinking ever since. It has taken decades to see the full effect of these thought processes and observations. Unexpected results of treatment and complicated problems of hydrocephalus become understandable when the biophysics are analyzed.
I first became aware of the existence of the Hydrocephalus Association in 1988 when I was approached by two absolutely driven women, Cynthia Solomon and Emily Fudge. They were the founders of a patient support group in the San-Francisco Bay area and wanted to make the pediatric neurosurgical community aware of their existence and to create supportive bonds between the organization and the neurosurgeons who treat their children. That year I was the host of the 17th meeting of the Joint Section on Pediatric Neurosurgery that was held in December in Scottsdale, AZ. The two of them were supplied with a small booth and brought educational brochures and tremendous energy to Scottsdale. I physically and verbally brought as many attendees to the booth as I could and that was the beginning of a joint effort creating a vibrant coalition of searching families and willing teachers that was at the core of the Association in the early days.
Soon thereafter I was invited to give a few lectures at their biannual meeting in Monterrey, CA. It was truly exciting. Seeing all those people with their probing questions and energy for learning has to be inspiring to a physician interested in education. My most vivid memories of my participation with HA relates to several of the lectures given at the meetings. Once in a while, after completing the lectures, I was deluged with a line of people seeking clarification and more information to the point that we had to be driven from the room so the next session could start. How could anything be more life affirming?
The next step was meeting Pip Marks in her role as director of patient outreach and who was always found at the biannual meetings running hither and thither to make certain everything went smoothly and everyone was where they needed to be. While these three remarkable women have been for me at the heart of the association, I have benefited from enduring relationships with many related to working with HA.
I have been on the Medical Advisory Board (MAB) for many years and it has been an honor for me to serve and learn. I have recently resigned from the board so that younger energetic interested persons can share the energy that exists at the table with the MAB. I am still in active practice at the Chiari Institute and hope to remain a resource for the Association in any way that they desire. Nothing pleases me more than to be called for advice for management or help people who are desperately seeking answers to complicated problems.
In 2002 I was honored by the AANS/CNS Young Neurosurgeons and was asked to give a talk at their meeting. The title of my talk was "Who are our teachers?" This talk dealt with the issues discussed here. Where did I get my inspiration? I gave credit to the individuals listed above for being important in my development as well as to a few others who have shaped my thoughts and actions. I then concentrated on those whom I have learned the most from; I have learned the most from my patients. I have had the opportunity to care for a large number of patients from their first day of life into adulthood. I have learned about the effects of intervention on these people decades later. From them I have learned how much of a burden we are capable of shouldering. I have a new definition of courage involving the ability to accept what cannot be changed and the willingness to take risks in the hope for a better life. Each of my patients has benefited from my previous experiences with the patients and families who have come before. The British poet Gerard Manley Hopkins said, "What I do is who I am. It is why I've come." For me this has been a calling as I believe it is for the majority of pediatric neurosurgeons.
Congratulations to the Hydrocephalus Association for their 30 years of success in helping patients, their families and also those of us who are dedicated to finding answers and treating individuals touched by hydrocephalus.
8 Comments for : Looking Back…Moving Forward: The Heart of a Pediatric Neurosurgeon
Heather Yanda
Dr. Relate,
Long ago (1978-79, maybe?) I was one of your shunt patients at UH in Cleveland. I was about 8, and I remember your warmth, the way your mustache smiled, when you smiled.
I look back on those years often. After 14 surgeries (I have been told I am lucky), I am a healthy adult, though I can't really imagine those surgeries are really over.
I teach college English in upstate New York. I have a gentle life in a tiny town.
But those years have forever made a mark on me: maybe I am more apt to give people second chances; I think I look at things at particularly different angles. There has been a lot of fear in my life, but there has also been a lot of goodness, a lot of gratitude.
I will turn 50 this year, which I find surprisingly humbling.
Really, I just want you to know I have never forgotten you. You need to know: a long time ago, you made a difference — clearly, one of many.
Cindy smith
Hello, Dr.Rekate, My name is Cindy, in 1982 my daughter,Jamie Shanto, we're fortunate enough to have you as Jamie's neurosurgeon,as a.matter of fact Dr. Nulsen was at the first two meylo clinics. Jamie is now 37 years old and has had over 200 surgeries with most being shunt revisions, externalizations, chiari decompressions, 3rd ventriculostomy,she now is dealing with a fx in her spine opposite her trachia with a pocket of fluid present. She is still a fighter and im sure she always will be . I just want you to know that you still are remembered by those lives you have touched so long ago. My Dad, Jamie's grandfather even still talks about your personal and caring touch that came with your care.Thank you for being there when we needed you. ….The Jamie Shanto Family.
Keith Trawek
Dr Rekate-
I was one of those children in the 70's that you and Dr Nulsen saved and I've lived a full, healthy, successful life because of your intervention and care. When I got married, I learned that my wife's aunt in AZ Has NPH and has a shunt that I believe your work with NIH and NASA made possible. I now live in Austin and unfortunately we, as a community, lost a great heart and mind in the field of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Dr Timothy George. Hearing the outpouring of gratitude from his patients' parents, some of whom I know personally, I was reminded of you and wanted to say thanks. I remember you fondly, which, for something so tramatic as being a baby and child treated for hydrocephalus, says something about your care. Thanks for the countless lives you've impacted and the way you've shared the purpose God gave you with the world.
Gratefully-
Keith Traweek
Marsha r Drozdoff
Is there an active email for Dr Rekate? He did surgery at BNI on my daughter 23 yrs ago; she is having some disturbing symptoms and would like his recommendation or someone to review an unclear MRI report- thank you
CareyAnne Dawn Yager
I am grateful to Dr Rekate!!! He is an excellent neurosurgeon and I was privileged to be his patient at Barrow Hospital in Phoenix 10 years ago. I was far from a pediatric patient (I was 40) but he treated my colloid brain cyst surgically and saved my life! Me and my children are forever grateful to him.
Hello. My daughter Randi Wood was a patient of DR Rekate's in Phoenix in 1996. He put her original shunt in. Randi has been having some issues lately and we have been struggling to get her scene at Barrows. We are hoping to connect with Dr. Rekate in hopes he could possibly help us Thank you!!!
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Dr.Rekate was my daughters first neurosurgeon. He was still working with Dr. Nulson at RB&C in Cleveland.That was in 1982. Jamie is now 36 years old and has had her share of shunt revisions, infections and has had her Chiari decompressed, and in the last year has developed epilepsy. She has has too many surgeons to count but Dr. Rekate will always hold a special place in mine and my families heart. I remember one particular time that my parents and I went to eat and when we came back to the room Dr. Rekate was sitting in the rocking chair rocking my baby, she was 8 weeks old at the time. I remember thinking that when I found out he was leaving us that my daughter would never survive without him. Jamie is 36 yo now and just had her more than 100 shunt revision for yet another infection in April. Thank you Dr. Rekate for being the most caring , gentile and professional physician that Jamie and I could ask for. P.S. Jamie and I continue to battle the effects of spina bífida/ hydrocephalus and everything that comes with it. And she does it with grace , strength and confidence in her medical team.
Rebecca Bruner
Dr. Rekate saved my 2 year old son at Rainbow Baby Hospital back in 1984. This was just days before he left for Arizona. What a wonderfull caring surgeon he was. My son is now 35 and has done wonderfull all these years because of his brain stem decompression back in 84. He has just recently had some Chiari problems with swallowing again. How I would love to be able to get a consult with Dr. Rekate.


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Shoubra Palace of Taif. (Photo by Sarah Bawazir/Colors of Saudi competition)
The Shoubra Palace was built in 1907, as the first historical palace in the beautiful city of Taif.
It represents distinctive architectural elements, and is one of the most important historic features in the city.
It is now a heritage and antiquities museum. The museum has three sections: The period before Islam, beginning from the Stone Age to Jahiliya; Islamic heritage; and the Kingdom's unification. It contains a large number of important artifacts.
This photograph was taken by Sarah Bawazir as part of the Colors of Saudi competition.
Topics: Shoubra Palace Taif
ThePlace: Saudi Arabia's Najran, a city marked for its rich history
ThePlace: Saudi Arabia's AlUla contains Mada'in Saleh, the Kingdom's first UNESCO site
ThePlace: Jubbat Hail, an old caravan route through the Nefud Desert
ThePlace: Al-Khuraybah, the Lion Tombs in Saudi Arabia's AlUla
Saudi executive to head Arab League copyright team /node/1616306/saudi-arabia
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JEDDAH: A Saudi Arabian candidate, Sami Al-Sudais, was named chairman of the Arab League's Technical Committee for Intellectual Property on Tuesday.
The two-year unanimous appointment recognizes Al-Sudais' work on intellectual property projects as executive vice president for Intellectual Property Policies and Partnerships at the Saudi Intellectual Property Authority (SAIP).
The decision came during the committee's fifth meeting, organized by the Department of Intellectual Property and Competitiveness at the Arab League headquarters.
"One of the committee's chief objectives is to enhance coordination in the domain of intellectual property in Arab countries, unify opinions and benefit from the experiences and capabilities in the Arab countries, and improve the intellectual property system in the Arab countries," Al-Sudais said.
SAIP initiatives are aimed at strengthening the intellectual property system in the Kingdom in addition to preparing the national strategy for intellectual property, he added.
Intellectual property is a key aspect of Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 initiative to encourage business.
"Whenever we ensure that there is a compatible intellectual property system at the national level, we will ensure the facilitation of doing business as well as attracting foreign investment," Al-Sudais said.
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Phase III of trainer Mark Casse's great western venture begins today with the opening of the inaugural Bing Crosby Season at Del Mar.
Phases I and II – the Del Mar summer meeting and the Santa Anita fall session which concluded with the Breeders' Cup last weekend – were ones of moderate success. Casse had five wins from 38 starters at the Del Mar summer meeting and three wins from 26 starters at Santa Anita. Better than half his representatives, however, finished in-the-money at each meeting.
To start the Crosby meeting, Casse, a six-time Sovereign Award winner as Canada's top trainer, has 40 stalls at Del Mar, the largest of any contingent. While the majority of trainers have opted to keep parts of their stables elsewhere and ship in for races, Casse is here for the duration.
Three of the four horses that Casse saddled at the recent Breeders' Cup he plans to race here .
They are Kaigan (10th in the Mile), Conquest Harlanate (11th, Juvenile Fillies Turf) and Conquest Typhoon (4th, Juvenile Turf). None of the three raced here last summer.
The one Breeders' Cup horse for Casse that did prep at Del Mar, Conquest Eclipse, finished fourth in the Juvenile Fillies.
"The Breeders' Cup has been hard on me," Casse said. "Going in we didn't know what Conquest Typhoon would do and he actually ran well, finishing fourth beaten three lengths and he ran way farther than anyone else.
"The disappointment was Conquest Eclipse." The 2-year-old daughter of Malibu Moon, third in the Del Mar Debutante and second in the Chandelier at Santa Anita in her second and third career starts, was never a factor as the 4-1 co-second choice in the betting as D.Wayne Lukas-trained 60-1 shot Take Charge Brandi went wire-to-wire.
One highlight of the meeting, for Casse and Del Mar fans, figures to be an appearance by Lexie Lou, the 3-year-old filly who last summer provided Casse with his first victory in the Queen's Plate, first jewel in the Canadian Triple Crown.
"She'll run in the Matriarch or we may run her against the boys in the Hollywood Derby," Casse said. The Matriarach, a $300,000 Grade I event for older fillies and mares at one mile on the turf is Sunday, November 30. The Hollywood Derby, a $300,000 Grade I event for 3-year-olds at 1 1/8 miles on turf, is Saturday, November 29.


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Evangelical schools worry over post-9/11 visa rules.
By Bob Smietana| November 1, 2004
Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, a tenured professor of theology at Fuller Theological Seminary, says he is happy to be back home in California following a month-long exile to his native Finland.
Kärkkäinen, along with his wife, Anne, and two daughters, returned to Pasadena on September 5. They had been forced to leave the United States on July 31 when the Department of Homeland Security revoked Kärkkäinen's "special immigrant religious worker" visa.
Immigration officials, now under the supervision of the Department of Homeland Security, questioned Fuller's tax-exempt status. They ruled that Kärkkäinen's role as a seminary professor was not a "traditional religious occupation." They also claimed that Kärkkäinen, who has two doctorates and two master's degrees and served as president and theology professor at IsoKirja College in Keuruu, Finland, did not have the necessary experience for his position.
First learning that Kärkkäinen's visa would be revoked last December, Fuller appealed. The courts clarified Fuller's tax-exempt status and Kärkkäinen's status in a "traditional religious occupation" in his favor. But immigration officials ruled that the records Fuller submitted about Kärkkäinen's work in Finland were not specific enough.
And two new problems arose during the appeal. Since Fuller is an interdenominational seminary, it did not fit under new post-9/11 rules, which require that schools be affiliated with specific denominations. Also, as Fuller does not have an official relationship with the Pentecostal church that ordained Kärkkäinen, he did not qualify as a religious worker.
Kärkkäinen returned under a less-restrictive visa category. Fuller's lawyers have also submitted a new religious worker application.
Howard Loewen, dean of the school of theology at Fuller, said that Kärkkäinen's situation "cuts against the very mission and vision of Fuller as an evangelical, multidenominational, global institution." More than 600 of the seminary's 4,300 students are from outside the United States, he said, as are a dozen faculty members.
Loewen said that Fuller has become "a little gun-shy" about bringing in new international faculty members.
There is more and more global cooperation among churches and seminaries, says Barry H. Corey, vice president for education at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
in South Hamilton, Massachusetts. Gordon-Conwell, like Fuller, is not tied to a specific denomination and has six faculty members from overseas.
"Ten years ago, we were not so concerned about having international faculty," Corey said. "Now, there is tension between the desire to become a more global institution and the difficulty of getting and keeping international scholars here."
In August, the Department of Homeland Security revoked the visa of Tariq Ramadan, a Muslim scholar and Swiss citizen. Ramadan is the grandson of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, a group with a terrorist history in Egypt. Ramadan, generally considered a moderate voice, was to begin teaching on August 24 at the University of Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies.
"What amazes me," Kärkkäinen said, "is that the world's most influential country and its administration are obviously unable to make a distinction between threats and friendly, productive immigrants."
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Weblog reported on the flap when it occurred: Weblog: Fuller Prof Ordered to Leave U.S. | U.S. forces tenured Fuller theologian to leave country (Aug. 09, 2004)
More information about Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen can be found at Fuller's website.
News elsewhere includes:
Finnish theologian forced out of US because of visa rule changes | A Finnish theologian at the largest interdenominational seminary in the United States is being forced to leave the country due to new rules governing visas for religious professionals. (Ecumenical News International—29 July 2004)
U.S. Ousts Theologian | A renowned Finnish theologian and tenured professor at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif., has been forced to leave the United States because he did not qualify under new visa regulations for religious professionals. (Religion News Service—August 7, 2004)
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Greening of the Supply Chain; Staples Takes Action
Walmart, Dell and others have been leading notable efforts to "green" their supply chain as part of their comprehensive program to reduce GHG and improve sustainability. These efforts include 3 parts: 1. reduce in operations, 2. reduce in their own produced manufacturer, and 3. reduce in supply chain.
Staples announcement to drop one of it's supplier is an example of how important brand protection is to brand-sensitive firms, particularly in retail.
Staples Cuts Off Paper Supplier
By TOM WRIGHT, Wall Street Journal
February 8, 2008; Page A4
Office-supplies retailer Staples Inc. has severed all contracts with Singapore-based Asia Pulp & Paper Co. Ltd., one of the world's largest paper companies, in a move that shows concerns over forest destruction and global warming are having an impact on big U.S. paper buyers.
Until recently, Staples sourced about 9% of its total paper supply from APP and used the paper for its own Staples-branded stock, mainly photocopy and office paper. Staples had stuck with the company even as other large paper sellers in the U.S., Europe and Asia, including Office Depot Inc., stopped buying from APP in recent years because of alleged environmental misdeeds.
The Framingham, Mass., company canceled its contracts late last month, said Mark Buckley, vice president for environmental issues at Staples. Staples is expected to announce the move next week.
"We decided engagement was not possible anymore," Mr. Buckley said. "We haven't seen any indication that APP has been making any positive strides" to protect the environment. Remaining a customer of APP was "at great peril to our brand," he added.
APP representatives didn't return calls seeking comment. In the past, it has said it is moving toward relying for all of its wood on plantation trees but needs to cut natural forest to maintain production levels.
APP runs one of Asia's largest pulp mills on the Indonesian island of Sumatra and has operations in China. The retailers worry that APP is destroying natural rainforest to feed its mills.
Concerns over rainforest destruction have been heightened in recent months because new data show that Indonesia is the world's third-largest emitter of carbon dioxide, the heat-trapping greenhouse gas, behind the U.S. and China. Fires set to clear natural forests and forested peat swamps after they have been logged are the major cause of those emissions.
APP last year sought permission to use an environmentally friendly logo issued by the Forest Stewardship Council. In October, after inquiries from The Wall Street Journal about APP's planned use of the logo, the FSC barred the company from using it.


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type Response struct {
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Il ramarro orientale (Lacerta viridis ) è un sauro della famiglia dei Lacertidi, di colore verde brillante, rapidissimo nei movimenti. Può vivere fino a vent'anni.

Descrizione

La forma del corpo è quella tipica delle lucertole. Le dimensioni sono però maggiori: la lunghezza può raggiungere i 45 cm (coda compresa), anche se generalmente non supera i 12 cm (coda esclusa).

Nei maschi, il dorso è verde brillante; nelle femmine è più scuro e presenta da due a quattro striature longitudinali chiare.

Le parti ventrali tendono al giallo. Nei maschi il pene è di color giallo ocra.

Nel periodo degli amori, la gola dei maschi diventa azzurra.

I maschi si distinguono inoltre dalle femmine per le dimensioni della testa (più grossa) e per una maggiore larghezza della base della coda.

Biologia

I ramarri sono animali territoriali con abitudini diurne. Frequentano di preferenza i pendii assolati, i prati con cespugli, le boscaglie e i bordi di strade e sentieri. Non è facilmente visibile a causa della sua indole timida che lo spinge a nascondersi in presenza dell'uomo. Contrariamente alla Lucertola muraiola non si arrampica volentieri, ma preferisce restare mimetizzato tra l'erba. Il ramarro passa inattivo il periodo invernale in anfratti del terreno.

Alimentazione
I ramarri si nutrono di insetti e altri piccoli artropodi, uova di uccelli. La loro alimentazione è integrata da bacche e altri prodotti vegetali.

Se nati in cattività, si possono adattare a cibarsi di carne, venendo meno all'istinto di catturare solo animali vivi.

Riproduzione
I ramarri depongono da 5 a circa 20 uova dal guscio non rigido, lunghe 15–18 mm. Le uova vengono collocate in buche scavate nel terreno, al riparo della vegetazione, e si schiudono dopo 2-3 mesi circa.
Nella stagione riproduttiva, i maschi lottano tra loro sollevando la parte anteriore del corpo, in modo da evidenziare il sottogola azzurro, e avanzano frustando l'aria con la coda, finché il rivale non dà segni di sottomissione. Una volta conquistata la femmina, durante l'accoppiamento, queste vengono trattenute dai maschi tramite un morso sul fianco: in primavera è quindi possibile riscontrare sul loro corpo evidenti cicatrici a forma di "V".

Distribuzione

Il ramarro orientale è distribuito nelle regioni a clima temperato dell'Europa orientale (Austria, Germania, Slovenia, Bosnia ed Erzegovina, Croazia, Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, Grecia, Bulgaria, Repubblica Ceca, Slovacchia, Ungheria, Moldova, Polonia, Romania, Ucraina) ed in Turchia.
In Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Emilia-Romagna e nella parte orientale del Veneto il suo areale si sovrappone parzialmente a quello della Lacerta bilineata, diffusa in Europa occidentale.

Note

Voci correlate
 Rettili in Italia
 Lacerta bilineata

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Lacertidae
Fauna europea
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Take ten minutes today to watch the above graduation speech delivered yesterday at Emory University's medical school, by Dr. Rachel Pocock. When she started medical school four years ago, she says, she read The Little Way of Ruthie Leming, and remained inspired by my late sister's example throughout her training. She tells her graduating class that all doctors ought to have the same compassionate qualities as Ruthie, who was a small-town school teacher, and that everybody should aspire to create a town like St. Francisville, where folks care for each other in good times and in bad.
My family, and the memory of our Ruthie, is so honored by Dr. Pocock's tribute. Fortunate are those who will call her their doctor. And fortunate is her fiancé, Deep Shah, who sent me this clip, to be spending the rest of his life with such a woman.
Rod Dreher is a senior editor at The American Conservative. He has written and edited for the New York Post, The Dallas Morning News, National Review, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, the Washington Times, and the Baton Rouge Advocate. Rod's commentary has been published in The Wall Street Journal, Commentary, the Weekly Standard, Beliefnet, and Real Simple, among other publications, and he has appeared on NPR, ABC News, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and the BBC. He lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with his wife Julie and their three children. He has also written four books, The Little Way of Ruthie Leming, Crunchy Cons, How Dante Can Save Your Life, and The Benedict Option.
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We were delighted to be named Employer of the Year at Ashton Sixth Form College's annual Higher Education Evening of Celebration.
Our Principal Emma Merva received the award from the college's Principal Anton McGrath and the Mayor of Tameside Councillor Denise Ward at a celebration evening held in Dukinfield Town hall.
Throughout the 2017/18 academic year, our school has provided placements for two PGCE students from Ashton Sixth Form College. We have also hosted learning experience days for trainee primary school teachers, and our Principal has delivered lectures and keynote speeches for the college's teacher training cohort.
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Criterion bows a Bruce Lee box, plus The Hills Run Red, Home Media Awards winners, and a peek at Dune
We've got a bit of fun news today, some release news and some other...
First up though, we also have a new disc review. Dennis has just turned in a look at director George Marshall's classic Destry Rides Again (1939) now on Blu-ray from the Criterion Collection. It's a classic western starring James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich that's well worth your time.
And while we're speaking of Criterion, that brings us to our first bit of release news, which is that Criterion has just announced a Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hits Blu-ray box set (Spine# 1036), which is set to include The Big Boss (1971), Fist of Fury (1972), The Way of the Dragon (1972), Enter the Dragon (1973), and Game of Death (1978). [Read on here...]
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All right, we're working on a bunch of things today, but we wanted to chime in quickly with this...
Universal is officially bringing The Blues Brothers, Jaws, and Back to the Future to 4K Ultra HD this year. We've been saying that the titles were coming for a while now (because we knew that from our industry sources) and we've had the titles listed in our 4K Ultra HD Release List for months.
But I've now gotten the studio to confirm on the record that Jaws and Blues Brothers are indeed coming to the format this year (BTTF was confirmed last year). Street date is still TBA, but expect them likely this summer.
I've also gotten the studio to confirm that what you see at left is indeed the final 4K cover artwork for John Landis' The Blues Brothers on the format. [Read on here...]
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All right, we've a LOT of ground to cover today: Tons of news and announcements, plus some good stuff here at The Bits for you too. Let's start with the latter...
Tim has turned in new reviews of Meteor (1979) on Blu-ray from Kino Lorber and also Dave Parker's It Watches on DVD from Uncork'd Entertainment. Both are worth your time. And if you like It Watches, be sure to check out Dave's Sweet Tooth from Tales of Halloween, as well The Hills Run Red and The Dead Reborn too.
Also today, in honor of the late George Romero, I wanted to share a special feature we did here at The Bits way back in 2001: Telling Tales with John and George. I had the honor of spending an afternoon with George and filmmaker John Harrison (Frank Herbert's Dune) while they recorded the audio commentary for Paramount's Tales from the Darkside: The Movie DVD. It really gives you a good sense, I think, of who George was as a person: Truly one of the kindest, warmest, and most engaging people I've had the pleasure to meet in my 30+ years in this industry. I hope you'll enjoy it. [Read on here…]
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[Editor's Note: This feature was first published on the original Bits website back on November 01, 2001. We republish it here for the enjoyment of those who many not have seen it before. We'd like to dedicate it to the memory of our friend George A. Romero.]
You know how they say it never rains in California? Well, they lie. What they mean to say is that it never rains in California... unless you really need to be somewhere. But they also say something about April showers, right? So on this appropriately gloomy morning in April, I'm racing up the 405 freeway in a heavy downpour, running late for an appointment. But not just any appointment. I've been invited to sit in on the audio commentary recording session for Paramount's new Tales from the Darkside: The Movie DVD, with its director, John Harrison, and screenwriter, the legendary George Romero. Who could pass a chance like that up? Certainly not me. [Read on here...]
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#16 - LITTLE KIDS ARE PERSISTENT!
This is the 16th video in a new series of short teachings by Barry Adams to help grown ups change and become like little children in their hearts. In this short video, Barry talks about the glorious persistence of little children when they ask for something from their parents.
In Matthew 7:7-11, Jesus encourages us to not give up but keeping on asking too because we have such a good, good Father!


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Chill Factore is the UK's largest indoor real snow facility with a 180m long and 100m wide slope. Located at Trafford Park in Manchester, it is the fourth real snow centre that the architects, FaulknerBrowns, have delivered in the UK, building on the success of their Xscape lifestyle destinations. Chill Factore is divided into two distinctive zones. With a selection of bars, restaurants, retail outlets and a climbing wall, the warm alpine-themed streetscape meanders towards the exhilarating cold snow zone. Views out from the street towards the snow zone create a sense of excitement as visitors arrive for their snow experience. Divided into three separate pistes, the snow zone caters for skiers and snowboarders of all ages and abilities. A toboggan run and children's play zone complete the authentic, family friendly, alpine experience. The unique 'pistol' arrangement of the plan delivers an expansive internal snow environment capable of accommodating mogul, ski cross and boardercross activities. The slope is configured with a 180m long section for capable skiers to hone their skills, whilst the 100m wide base allows for a separate training zone with a shallower pitch for beginners to learn in safety. The innovative arrangement at Chill Factore promotes self-sufficiency of the core snow offer allowing the design team greater freedom to create a striking and iconic building form. The width at the slopes base promotes expansive views up the slope from the mixed retail and leisure space, bringing spectators closer to the action. Chill Factore is a landmark leisure destination of national significance which is now home to Snowsport England and Disability Snowsport UK. The quality of the facilities has played a major role in the recent success of British Winter Olympians. (Text: FaulknerBrowns Architects). Architects: FaulknerBrowns Architects
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If this is your first time giving ang pows and you're clueless about who to give and how much to give, here's a simple guide. Do add on if I've missed anything.
What is the significance of ang pows?
The tradition of giving ang pows originated as giving "ya sui qian" (压岁钱) to children to ward off bad luck. Now giving of ang pows, or "lai see", during the Lunar New Year it symbolises wishing someone good luck and good luck for the coming year.
Who should give ang pow?
Traditionally married couples or the elderly give ang pows to those who are not married. The elderly may continue to give ang pows to the married younger relatives to symbolise good fortune or good luck.In modern days, it's not uncommon for children to give ang pows to their parents once they are working. Some adults may also give ang pows to their younger cousins, nephews and nieces or children of friends as a token of well wishes.
When do you give ang pows?
You may give any pows during the 15 days of Lunar New Year celebration. But don't let it stop you from giving earlier or later. I know some people like to give ang pows as a token to their hair stylist, manicurist especially since after they've done a good job at dolling them up for the Chinese New Year.
Must you give new notes?
Haven't you heard, Singapore is going green this year and you're likely to receive good as new S$2 notes from the banks. So while it's nice t receive crisp new notes, the chances are they are likely to be good as new. But hey, money is money right?
I hope this has been useful and do let me know if I've missed out anything.
Counting down to Chinese New Year!


Established in 2010, Molly Roffey's Irish Pub is strategically located near two MRT (subway) stations - Bras Basah and City Hall. It has a cosy set up with wooden chairs and furnishings.
Besides going there for drinks after work, the pub serves lunch in the day. People and students in the vicinity can come down to the pub and enjoy their two-course lunch set with beverage at a nett price of $10.80. Located around the Bras Basah area, the pub is surrounded by offices and schools. The price of the lunch specials is reasonable and more importantly, they change their menu frequently.
If you are in the area, why not give them a try.


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Die Ponte Dona Ana ist eine Eisenbahnbrücke über den unteren Sambesi zwischen den Orten Sena und Mutarara in Mosambik und verbindet so die beiden Hälften des Landes.

Die insgesamt 3543 m lange Brücke mit einem Kapspur-Gleis galt als die längste Eisenbahnbrücke der Welt und ist gegenwärtig die längste Eisenbahnbrücke Afrikas. Sie besteht aus 33 stählernen, genieteten Fachwerkbögen mit Pfeilerachsabständen von 80 m und 7 Bögen von 50,3 m sowie einer 550,4 m langen Vorlandbrücke, die an eine niedrige Trestle-Brücke erinnert. An ihrer nördlichen, flussaufwärts gelegenen Seite hat sie einen Fußgängersteg.

Die Brücke wurde zwischen 1931 und 1935 während der portugiesischen Kolonialzeit erbaut, um das britische Protektorat Nyassaland (bis 1907 British Central Africa, heute Malawi) und die mosambikanischen Kohleminen von Moatize mit dem Hafen von Beira zu verbinden. Auftraggeber waren die Central Africa Railway Company und die ebenfalls britische Trans-Zambesia Railway Company. Finanziert und betrieben wurde die neue Strecke mit der Brücke von der Nyasaland Railways Ltd. Gebaut wurde die damals Lower Sambesi Bridge genannte Brücke von der Cleveland Bridge & Engineering Co., die 40 Jahre zuvor die Victoria Falls Bridge gebaut hatte. Auf der Baustelle waren zeitweise zwischen vier- und sechstausend Mitarbeiter beschäftigt. Erst 1968 wurde die Strecke von portugiesischen Unternehmern erworben.

Ende 1982, während des mosambikanischen Bürgerkriegs, machten RENAMO-Rebellen das Bauwerk unbrauchbar.

1995 konnte die Brücke, gefördert durch Mittel des USAID, als einspurige Straßenbrücke wieder instand gesetzt werden. Sie war damit zwar nicht Teil einer großen Verkehrsstraße, bot aber eine alternative Möglichkeit, in Mosambik den Sambesi zu queren. Die einzige andere Möglichkeit war die Ponte Samora Machel in Tete. Die Ponte Dona Ana war bis dahin die letzte Brücke vor der Mündung des Sambesi in den Indischen Ozean. 2007 begannen jedoch die Bauarbeiten an der Ponte Armando Guebuza bei Caia, die die Fähre von Caia ersetzt und seit ihrer Fertigstellung im August 2009 die letzte Brücke vor dem Ozean ist.

Die Ponte Don Ana wurde ab 1. Juli 2006 umgebaut und ist seit 2009 wieder als Eisenbahnbrücke in Betrieb.

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The high desert plains of Wyoming are home to a diverse crowd of species. While most attention seems to be given to the the biped species that wears boots and hats, there's a growing number of web sites interested in the winged, scaled, four footed and furry animals that call this area home. If you happen to have a web site about the animals living in or near Cheyenne, please add it to this page.
A site of interest to wild horses and people who are interested in wild horses on public lands.
Cheyenne Animal Shelter and animal control works to improve conditions for animals sharing our community.
A veterinarian services from Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Hongo Bird Dogs is a trainer of championship bird dogs.


Yes there is a crisis at the border, and not only at the U.S. border with Mexico, but at borders around the world. Famine, wars, dictatorships have been loosed on the peoples of the world by the big imperialist powers, the chief of them being the U.S., at the head of which sits Trump. Famine, war and violence have driven people to cross borders, fleeing from where their families have lived for generations, seeking escape.
The people who run things today, the people who benefit from the world's wealth are a tiny minority. They are able to do what they do because the working people of the world, the vast majority, are divided. Divisions in our class are a weapon in the hands of our enemies – to be used against us.


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A New Black Christmas Sharpens the Feminist Edge of the Original But Dulls Its Scares
https://portside.org/2019-12-17/new-black-christmas-sharpens-feminist-edge-original-dulls-its-scares
Portside Date: December 17, 2019
Author: Beatrice Loayza
Date of source: December 13, 2019
Walking home alone at night, the appearance of a strange man can cause alarm, even if it's just some random guy minding his own business and scrolling through Twitter. As a precaution, you slide your keys between your fingers as a makeshift weapon, a means of protecting yourself should the worst-case scenario play out. As women, we often laugh off our shared paranoia, but the possibility of danger remains credible; we're instilled with fear of violent men, a fact that rings as true today as it did 40 years ago, when Bob Clark's pioneering sorority slasher Black Christmas made its debut. In that film, men rage against their perceived loss of control over women, whom they terrorize and mutilate as a means of reclaiming power. Clark's surprisingly feminist thriller was progressive in its treatment of issues like abortion and sexuality, which provides fertile ground on which contemporary retellings can be built. Directed by Sophia Takal (Always Shine), who shares screenwriting credit with April Wolfe, the latest Black Christmas reboot understands the frustrations and lived horrors of modern sexual politics, but stumbles over its scares and the finer points of its feminist messaging.
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Imogen Poots, Cary Elwes, Aleyse Shannon, Brittany O'Grady
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Aside from the yuletide sorority-house setting, this new Black Christmas barely resembles Clark's classic. Riley (scream queen Imogen Poots) is haunted by the memory of her rape by the president of the school's most prestigious fraternity, the same one to which founder Calvin Hawthorne once belonged. The members of Delta Kappa Epsilon, or the "dekes," resent Riley's accusations, seeing it as part of a broader "social justice warrior" vendetta. Pushback against "the man" can be seen all around Hawthorne College, most notably in the form of Riley's headstrong sorority sister, Kris (Aleyse Shannon), who petitions to revamp the male-dominated, anglocentric curriculum and oust the traditionalist Professor Gelson (Cary Elwes), a shady reptile of a man whose ancestors owned slaves (in the North). Takal and Wolfe initially seem apprehensive to embrace Kris' crusade, portraying her as somewhat overbearing as she guns for signatures outside Gelson's class. Even her own sisters eye her efforts skeptically; it registers as the film's non-committal way of pre-empting accusations of empty "wokeness."
Riley suspects foul play when her sorority "little" goes missing. Naturally, the college police are incredulous; it's one of the many ways in which the film addresses authority's reluctance to believe women. Before long, Riley and the other girls are harassed with creepy text messages—a natural technological update on the original's prank phone calls, but one that packs none of the perverse punch. Films like Personal Shopper and Unfriended demonstrate that presumably impersonal modes of communication can be wielded to incredibly suspenseful ends, but the texts in Black Christmas flub a tension-building element so central to what made Clark's film scary. They function merely as a clunky indication that trouble is on the horizon.
Riley and her sorority sisters are like family, a point perhaps unnecessarily emphasized by the decision to make her character an orphan. Though it occasionally lands like a superficial expression of womanhood, the talk of diva cups and vibrators isn't entirely out of place considering the messy intimacy of college life and the sexual awakenings fostered therein. Riley, Kris, Marty (Lily Donoghue), and Jesse (Brittany O'Grady) aren't exactly lived-in characters, but Takal and Wolfe's warm, often humorous characterizations bring out the women's discrete personalities.
Tensions run high after the girls crash a fraternity bash and their video-recorded call-out of Riley's rapist goes viral. In the aftermath of the incident, their holiday potluck is interrupted by a murderous hooded figure with a crossbow. The ensuing home invasion sequence is eerily lit by green and red Christmas lights as the women crawl and hide from their attacker, though the dull choreography of hide-and-seek leaves much to be desired. But the actors, especially Poots and Shannon, lend a jittery despair to the scene. This PG-13 Black Christmas isn't too concerned with spectacular deaths—in that department, it lacks the bravado of Clarke's version (there's nothing as memorable as the iconic caroling death of Margot Kidder's Barb) and the gore of the previous remake from 2007. The best kill in Takal's update happens within the first 10 minutes, a scenario that nightmarishly calls upon the last-ditch use of keys as weapons of self-defense.
Despite a bumpy execution, this Black Christmas works in the way it summons the anxieties of women and how they're attuned to the danger of men lashing out against "persecution" that undermines their privileges and reputations. But rather than dive deeper into that element, Takal and Wolfe get sidetracked in the third act creating a juicy mystery with supernatural dimensions. The outcome feels forced and scatterbrained, much like the war cry of female empowerment that abruptly but predictably draws the events to a close. Black Christmas is not entirely unwelcome in a world of useless reboots; its college dynamic is compelling, and it launches a satisfying critique of the havens of toxic masculinity that old-guard fraternities often perpetuate. It has plenty of ideas, but falls short in delivering the scares.
Note: April Wolfe is an occasional contributor to The A.V. Club. She has never met Beatrice Loayza.
Source URL: https://portside.org/2019-12-17/new-black-christmas-sharpens-feminist-edge-original-dulls-its-scares


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The cost of marginalising Tech-Voc Education (Pt 3): corporal punishment, "weak" students and loss of teacher time
Letters to the Editor Tuesday 16 October 2018	Guest Columns, View Point 1 Comment
"In the old 10%-entering-secondary-school days, some schools allowed students to follow an accelerated four-year programme to take the external examination.
"Would it not make sense to have a similar programme which provides six or maybe even seven years as the norm to cater for the weaker students or, alternatively, have specially trained teachers and smaller classes in mixed-ability groups?
"[…] One other time aspect involves the hours of work for teachers; these need to be reviewed to permit adequate time for staff meetings. At present, [there is a] loss of teaching time as staff meetings have had to be scheduled during teaching time."
The following guest column—which is the final of three parts—was submitted to Wired868 by former Trinity College (Moka) principal Michael Clarke, who also in Curriculum Development at the Ministry of Education and was Chief Examiner for CSEC Geography until 2016:
Photo: Trinity College Moka students support their team during Coca Cola North Zone quarterfinal action against QRC at the Hasely Crawford Stadium on 13 November 2017.
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It seems to me that an urgent examination needs to be made of the inputs of time in the Education System, the age at which we start school at the primary level and the length of time spent in secondary schools.
In Scotland, I have learnt, children start primary school at a slightly later age than in England where pupils enter the primary system at the same age as ours do here in T&T. In Scotland, Form 5 performance is generally better than in England.
Maybe if our children remained a little longer in pre-school, fewer children would struggle at primary level. I think it is an idea worth looking at. Our pattern of six or seven years of primary and just five guaranteed years of secondary school was established when the popular belief was that only the top 10% or so were suited for secondary education; nowadays, remember, all students are guaranteed a secondary place. And all are expected to be able to get a full certificate in the same five years as the top 10%.
But the patch that offered secondary access to all primary school students did not make any adjustment to the time students spend in secondary schools. Does it not defy logic that a child who struggled through primary school will complete the secondary programme successfully in five years?
There was a time when 11+ pupils who had not yet learnt to read were given one year of remedial teaching on admission to secondary school and were then expected to complete the secondary programme in the next five years.
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It may be possible to do so but that would require lower teacher-pupil ratios and some adjustment in teaching methods. The System did not provide that. Is that not patently unjust?
In the old 10%-entering-secondary-school days, some schools allowed students to follow an accelerated four-year programme to take the external examination. Would it not make sense to have a similar programme which provides six or maybe even seven years as the norm to cater for the weaker students or, alternatively, have specially trained teachers and smaller classes in mixed-ability groups?
Given the continuing heavy investment in Education—again the biggest beneficiary of the 2018-19 Budget—we owe it to ourselves to research the best time for schooling.
But I suspect that that is yet another change that the System will resist even if the research suggests the need for change.
One other time aspect involves the hours of work for teachers; these need to be reviewed to permit adequate time for staff meetings. At present, following a circular issued in the 1970s to accommodate the shift system, teachers are not required to be on the premises after the end of the last period.
That circular led to loss of teaching time as staff meetings have had to be scheduled during teaching time. That seems to me tantamount to curtailing playing time in the game to enable the coaches to plan strategy and tactics.
Photo: A substitute teacher sketch in comedy, Key & Peele.
Further, co-curricular activities were also curtailed as the rostering of a responsible adult to remain on the premises for about 45 minutes after school as "duty teacher" also died a natural death.
One wonders if TTUTA, the teachers' union, would be agreeable to having the relevant circular revised.
On the evidence of the relatively recent public reaction by Lynsley Doodhai, the President of that union, to statements made by the Education Minister on teachers' responsibilities for students' safety, there is little room for optimism.
The benefits of exalting the Tech Voc subjects and assessing boys and girls separately will not merely be improvements in self-image and performance but also in discipline. Some people wrongly ascribe responsibility for a marked increase in disciplinary problems in schools to the removal of corporal punishment by the then minister of Education, Kamla Persad-Bissessar in 2001. The real cause, however, is the Curriculum and its endemic attitude to the "weaker" students.
In 1991, newly appointed Diego Martin Secondary Principal Paula Daniel formally stopped corporal punishment—already rarely used in the school by then—and continued the use of alternative sanctions. The students continued to respect the Code of Conduct which made teachers responsible for treating even minor infractions themselves.
Problems are thus largely detected early and nipped in the bud. That has been the status quo at the school for going on three decades and discipline in the school has not collapsed.
Photo: A school teacher administers corporal punishment in Uganda.
When, in 2001, the Ministry of Education moved to outlaw corporal punishment in all schools, that decision met with a mixed response. I remember no reference to the Diego Martin Secondary experience/experiment which, one feels, could have been used to garner at least some support for the policy.
It is instructive to note that the Servol Life Centres, established in 1970 by the late Fr Gerard Pantin, receive students who are perceived as potential "disciplinary problems." The reports are that many of these students are transformed into role models although the system operates without corporal punishment.
Within the conventional school system too, many PE and Music teachers contrive to get these same "troublesome" students to work in harmony with no recourse to corporal punishment. The system is still complaining about that change, one of the major beefs being that effective alternative sanctions have never been put in place.
I think I have said enough to show that our Education System needs an upgrade. There are other areas in the System that need attention (for example, the streaming of entry to secondary schools).
But if we begin by taking a close look at the three issues highlighted here, the attitude to and timing of Tech-Voc Education, the assessment of boys and girls in co-ed schools and the length of time we guarantee for secondary education, I submit that we are likely to go a long way towards improving discipline and helping all our students develop their full potential…
…with no need for corporal punishment.
Photo: A teacher (right) offers some help to his student.
(Courtesy Mase TV)
Editor's Note: Click HERE to read Part One as Ex-Trinity College (Moka) principal Michael Clarke explains the cost of the marginalisation of technical-vocational education in Trinidad and Tobago.
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The cost of marginalising Tech-Voc Education (Pt 2): full certificates and the ignored gender agenda
The cost of marginalising Tech-Voc Education: a country of 'technicians' but not 'technologists'
Discussion: Should T&T be reaping the benefits of the end of corporal punishment by now?
Day in the life of a school teacher: Some students work after school packing groceries…
My revered teacher: Daly's tribute to the late Father Roland Quesnel
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Q: Way to disable "System" service or process for a short period of time? Python I'm not sure if it is a service or process, but is there a way to disable it or stop it? A file which I'm trying to copy is being run by the system but the system does not require this .sys file.
If there is way in python I would be even more ecstatic to read the response.

A: As a general rule, if Windows says that it needs a file, you will be very hard pressed to get it to completely relinquish control. While that process is running, it will have exclusive rights (read, write, and execute) to the file (or files) in question, so I will highly doubt that there will be an effective hack while running Windows.
My personal suggestion would be to get a live boot disk so that you can run Linux off of either a USB or an optical drive. Boot into the alternate OS, copy the file, and then be on your merry way.


Don't expect to pay anything less than R500 this Christmas. The cheapest toy on the trends watchlist is the L.O.L. Surprise! Pearl Surprise, and even at R450, it's a rip-off, considering all you get is a fizz shell filled with miniature dolls.
Still stuck on what to get your bestie for Christmas? Well, thanks to Google, you now can choose from a list of trending gifts and find out what the rest of the world has on their festive wish list for 2018.
On the topic of dolls, the JoJo Siwa Singing Doll (www.toysrus.co.za; R599.90) sits at 25cm tall and she belts out tunes like a canary on a hot tin roof. But if you really want to be the giver of joy, why not splash your hard-earned cash on the DJI Tello Quadcopter Drone (www.loot.co.za; R1,999)? It can perform flying stunts and shoot quick videos with EZ Shots.
Coffee lovers have certainly been doing their homework – the Keurig B Single Serve Coffee Maker (www.ubuy.za.com) is said to be the Mercedes of coffee makers. Retailing for almost R1.5K, it's not hard to see why: it has a portable design, switches off automatically after 90 seconds and brews the perfect coffee in any size cup.
For the Nigella wannabe, there's the KitchenAid Professional 5 Plus Series Stand Mixer. Unfortunately it's not yet available in South Africa. On the electronics front, gamers are still lusting over the Nintendo Switch (www.makro.co.za; R6,499) and the MSI Optix MAG Series Gaming Monitor.
Millennials are here for the retro turn up this Christmas as fashion goes old school with Vans Old Skool sneakers (R799) and Ray-Ban Erika Sunglasses (www.sunglassconnexion.co.za; R1,670). When it comes to health and beauty, good hair (Revlon Pro Collection Salon One-Step Hair Dryer and Volumizer) and shiny teeth (Quip Toothbrush) are priorities on the list.


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Nalchik: attack organized by same forces responsible for terrorism in Ingushetia, Dagestan and North Ossetia, officials say
According to one of the versions the attack is connected with the incident that took place in Nalchik the day before. During the investigation conducted after the discovery of a large hiding-place near Belaya Rechka (Nalchik suburb) with about 500 kilograms of explosives ten militants were spotted. "They resisted vehemently. Three militants were killed in the night struggle. Seven others were blocked," deputy interior minister Alexander Chekalin said. By morning the armed gang together with the leader was destroyed.
Militants act in the same way as in previous attacks. However, the law-enforcement bodies were not prepared to this attack. Members of the Federation Council Issa Kostoev (from Ingushetia) and senator from Chechnya Musa Umarov acknowledged this fact.
According to Ingushetia's representative the attack was organized by the same forces that were responsible for terrorism in Ingushetia, Dagestan and North Ossetia. The band is not solitary. There are certain international forces behind, who finance the militants, ITAR-TASS reports.
Russian minister of internal affairs interrupted his working visited to Luxembourg where he was meant to take part in the meeting of ministers of justice and internal affairs of Russia and the big three of EU.
The reasons for the interruption was the situation in Kabardino-Balaria. Rashid Nurgaliev is constantly provided with the information about the course of operation in Nalchik. "The head of the ministry receives the latest news about the situation in Nalchik in real time and gives orders to his subordinates", said the personnel of the ministry's press-center, Interfax reports.
The head of the Joint Staff of Russian Military Forces, general Yuri Baluyevsky said that by Thursday's evening 59 militants had been destroyed in Nalchik. "200 militants in total attacked Nalchik", he told journalists in Moscow.
116 people were injured during the operation.13 people were killed.
Meantime, there is only one resistance area left, Interfax reports. A.M.