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The Reports Of Our Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated…
Chamath Palihapitiya
When we established Social Capital in 2011, the goal was to develop meaningful solutions to meaningful problems — which is why we started with a focus on healthcare, education and financial services. They are areas that we believe share a common trait: a critical part of humanity's infrastructure that had not sufficiently benefited from the broader advancements in software. The byproduct was a world that was advancing rapidly but increasingly asymmetric — favoring the few at the expense of the many.
The motivation to do this was also quite personal — an abiding belief that many more people could accomplish much more, had these systems been working coherently for them.
Accordingly, I did what I could to jumpstart our work, committing as much of my capital as it took to achieve our mission and giving our team the courage to incubate and invest in solutions to hard problems overlooked by the vast majority of the investment community.
Looking back over the past seven years, I believe this approach has proved successful. We have worked alongside great teams to build solutions to hard problems like diabetes (Glooko), precision medicine (Syapse), climate change (Aclima), internet access (Swarm), reforestation (DroneSeed), education (Brilliant), urban planning (UrbanFootprint) and financial inclusion (Ezetap). Alongside these incubations, we've made startup investments in Slack, Intercom, Saildrone, Groq, Carta and many others that have enabled the growth and expansion of technology around the world. Together, our holdings in many public and private companies have created a portfolio that is performing very well.
Our public fund returns rank in the top 5% of all hedge funds globally according to Morgan Stanley and, collectively, our four private funds have beaten our peers' returns by 32%, on average, according to Cambridge Associates' VC benchmark.
As far as the business of investing goes, Social Capital was firing on all cylinders. We were the second fastest firm in our industry to pass $1B of assets, was managing more than $2B of capital, and investors were clamoring to get in. However, as the firm grew, I found us incrementally drifting away from our core mission and our strategy was increasingly that of a traditional investment firm. It became harder to take the risks we took in 2011 and it became easier to play the same game as every other VC — raise a fund, collect fees, manage limited partners, deploy the capital in obvious things, rinse, repeat. While this is a very reasonable path for most people, it wasn't right for me and my core team.
By the summer of 2018, we had finished a detailed examination of the many ways we could expand; a thorough process that gave us clarity on what was most important to the organization — it wasn't about raising more money from outsiders but rather executing on our mission without any constraints related to sector, geography, asset class or timeline.
When making critical decisions I've learned to take our time, ignore the noise, be emotionless and always be data driven. This framework has led to the right outcome many times even if it looked "foolish" at the beginning (starting Social Capital, buying the Warriors, buying Bitcoin, investing in Amazon, etc. etc…).
This is the next decision along this framework and brings us to today and how we intend to iterate Social Capital. We are no longer accepting new outside capital. By the end of 2018, we will have finalized a set of changes we began in 2017 and will become a technology holding company that will invest a multi-billion dollar balance sheet of internal capital only. Solving hard problems is what we started to do and solving hard problems is what we need to do more of. This requires a radical form of self-belief — not necessarily about our ability to solve them but in our desire to commit ourselves to the long, sometimes uncomfortable path towards progress.
At its core, Social Capital is returning to our founding principles — an organization that identifies hard problems and assembles experts, IP and experiments that allow us to learn about these problems deeply. Once we have conviction about a solution, we will then execute — by building and/or buying what it takes to solve the problem we identified. Rest assured, we will continue to make new investments — $50M–250M per company — and will focus our efforts on businesses where we can make a difference, in keeping with our mission and values. Importantly, we will continue to support our existing portfolio with capital and growth services as before. Our team will be there to help drive growth and our balance sheet can and will support follow-ons for companies that are tracking.
Making these changes will allow us to reprioritize operational discussions of investment rounds, dilution, cap tables, etc. in favor of technical discussions about ideas, problems and solutions.
But mostly, these changes will give us the freedom to pursue our mission without any distractions, work on the problems we have prioritized and do so for decades if that is what it takes to solve them.
I am proud we keep taking risks and have not gotten comfortable. I want to thank the team that has helped get us here and put us in a position to begin this next chapter. Several Partners have left Social Capital to join other VC firms or start their own while several more are in the process of doing so — I am proud to see them use our platform as a jumping off point for their next adventures and I wish them the best of luck.
I want to thank our limited partners who have entrusted us to be good stewards of their capital. I have always been the biggest investor in our funds and have managed your capital the same way I managed my own.
Finally, and most importantly, I want to thank the great entrepreneurs who are working tirelessly to improve the state of our world. It may feel, at times, that you are alone, but you are not and we will increasingly show up when you need us most — unconstrained and risk-on.
With respect,
Chamath
CEO @SocialCapital, Owner @Warriors, Merchant of Progress.
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NLRB Shifts Position on Successor Employers
by Zachary J. Weber, Faith C. Whittaker
A recent decision by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), Ridgewood Health Care Center, Inc. (Ridgewood), has changed how the Board will define a "perfectly clear successor" when evaluating whether an employer is bound by an existing collective bargaining agreement (CBA) after acquiring another business.
In a 3-1 decision, the Board held that the purchaser of a business was not a "perfectly clear successor" because it was not apparent that it would have hired all or substantially all of its predecessor's unionized employees absent discriminatory animus.
Under Supreme Court precedent, the purchaser of a business generally has the right to set the initial terms of employment and may decline to adopt an existing CBA after the takeover. However, a "successor employer"—a purchaser who substantially continues its predecessor's unionized business and hires a majority of the predecessor's workforce—has an obligation to recognize and bargain with the existing union.
If a purchaser misleads the union into believing it will retain all or substantially all union employees under the terms of an existing CBA then refuses to retain them because of discriminatory animus, the employer is considered a "perfectly clear successor" and must adopt the existing CBA. A 1996 Board decision, Galloway School Lines, had extended this rule so a purchaser would be a "perfectly clear successor" where there was evidence that the union's majority status would continue in the purchasing business. The Board's Ridgewood opinion explicitly overruled Galloway.
In Ridgewood, the purchaser originally told the union employees that it planned on retaining "99.9%" of them and would keep their existing CBA. During the transition process, however, the purchaser made it clear it would not retain many of the union employees. Ultimately, it retained 49 employees, hired 52 new employees, and refused to recognize the union. Following the takeover, the purchaser's president voiced her opinion that unions were unnecessary and the business might close if the union became the employees' bargaining representative. She also threatened to fire an employee for recruiting non-union employees to support the union.
The Board—affirming the decision of administrative law judge—found that the employer's refusal to hire four additional union employees demonstrated anti-union animus. Had the employer retained these employees, the union would have maintained a majority status among the employees, and the purchaser "would have been a successor employer obligated to bargain with the Union." However, the Board also found the purchaser did not create uncertainty whether it would have hired all or substantially all of the predecessor's unionized employees. As a result, while the purchaser was required to bargain with the union, it was not bound by the existing CBA as a "perfectly clear successor."
Employers are encouraged to contact legal counsel with any questions regarding the Board's decision and to ensure compliance with all provisions of the National Labor Relations Act.

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Business June 1, 2016 SYRIAN AIR STRIKES TARGET REBEL CAMPS IN IDLIB PROVINCE2016-06-01T00:00:00+00:00
DAMASCUS, Syria, – The Syrian air force carried out air strikes against a camp which belongs to jihadi rebel groups in the north-western province of Idlib on Tuesday, leaving many casualties, pan-Arab al-Mayadeen TV reported.
Two air strikes targeted the camp of the Jund al-Aqsa group, in the northern countryside of Idlib, said the report.
Meanwhile, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, tens of rebels from the Ahrar al-Sham Movement were killed by air strikes against their camps in Idlib.
The UK-based watchdog group said, senior trainers from the commanders of Ahrar al-Sham were at the camp, in the town of Sheikh Bahar, in the Idlib countryside.
The fresh strikes came, after air strikes targeted positions of the Jaish al-Fateh rebel group in Idlib at midnight, killing over 25 people.
The Jaish al-Fateh accused the Russian air force of carrying the strikes, which was later denied by Moscow.
Al-Mayadeen said, the midnight strikes killed rebels, while the Observatory said, civilians were among those killed, including children.
In retaliation, the Jaish al-Fateh fired at the government enclave of Kafraya and Foa towns in Idlib countryside, leaving unknown losses. Both towns are Shiite and besieged by the rebels.
The Syrian army was said to have started an offensive against Idlib, much of which is under the control of Jaish al-Fateh and other rebel factions.
Still, it's not yet clear whether the strikes were a prelude for an offensive in Idlib, near Turkey.
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But Norwegian company Unikia is looking to update the plain old lunch bag with its Compleat FoodBag, a reusable lunch box that keeps food fresh and protected in transit and rolls up compactly when the meal is over.
Being completely sealed at the bottom, the bag can act as a container for any type of food, from sandwiches to pasta and even soup. After putting your food inside, the top of the FoodBag rolls down like a traditional paper lunch bag and can be secured with a belt so its contents stay fresh. The bag is made primarily from BPA-free silicone, with the bottom and sides more solid to keep anything inside from being squashed in transit.
Once you're finished eating, the bag rolls up into a short cylinder just 4 cm (1.6 in) in diameter, making it easier to carry while preventing any leftover mess from leaking. It's also dishwasher safe, so cleaning it between meals shouldn't be a hassle.
Unikia is selling the Compleat FoodBag through its website at a price of €9.95 (US$13), plus shipping. It is currently being offered in blue, grey, yellow, and lavender colors, though the company has also shown both a red and a green variant, so those may be offered later.


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Under a Russian law that was approved by lawmakers on Wednesday March 6th, officials will have the power to fine or block online media platforms for publishing news they see as "fake".
However, Rights groups say the move is leaning towards censorship.
AFP reports that the vote was passed by Russia's lower house of parliament, which is overwhelmingly dominated by the pro-Kremlin United Russia party.
The law would allow prosecutors to decide what is considered as "fake news" and gives a media watchdog the power to demand an outlet delete the information.
Fines could reach 1.5 million rubles (over $22,700) if the violation leads to grave consequences like death or rioting.
Fake news circulated through the internet can "lead to mass unrest" and undermine state security, the bill's authors say.
After a blast on New Year's Eve that killed dozens, lawmakers in Russia took the first step to speak of the need for such a law.
Officials said it was a gas explosion, but some independent media suggested that it was a terror attack, whereby Isis claimed the alleged attack two weeks after it occurred, leading to public confusion.


A new leukemia drug hit the market last year – and approval was promptly suspended by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration amid concerns that it caused the potential for life-threatening blood clots and a severe restriction of the blood vessels.
The drug, known as Iclusig and ponatinib, has reportedly been linked to a number of fatal strokes and heart attacks, as well as incidents of blindness and a loss of blood to the extremities severe enough to warrant amputation. Our Boston product liability attorneys have learned that in some instances, death resulted less than two weeks after patients started their prescriptions.
Those who died were in their 20s and were not at any heightened risk for heart disease.
Now, the drug tapped for treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia, is about to go on the market again soon, this time with what the FDA says will be several new safety measures to address the risk of dangerous blood clots.
Drug maker ARIAD Pharmaceuticals agreed to voluntarily pull the drug from the market in October while the FDA investigated the large number of claims of adverse events.
It wasn't that the risk of blood clots was entirely unknown before. In fact, the drug did carry a warning label indicating such. As time wore on, however, it soon became apparent that the problems were much greater than what were indicated in studies performed prior to the drug's approval. Those studies showed about 8 percent of patients experienced a serious arterial blood clot, while about 3 percent had clots in their veins.
However, based on the FDA reports (which include only those instances that were reported directly to the federal regulators), some 24 percent studied over the course of 1.3 years and almost half of those studied over the course of 2.7 years had some kind of serious vascular incident.
A spokeswoman with the FDA was quoted by The New York Times as saying that a drug with that kind of safety profile can't be allowed to continue to be sold on the market.
However, even on the tails of the suspension, the FDA was quick to point out that it wasn't permanently withdrawing the drug. Because the form of leukemia that the drug is used to treat can be fatal, patients were given the option to decide whether they wanted to continue taking it during the suspension.
The drug was credited with turning this particular kind of leukemia from a death sentence into a chronic condition.
However, as the recent FDA reports have suggested, many have found the cure worse than the ailment.
The manufacturer must launch an investigation to further explore the appropriate dose and exposure of the drug and determine a potential level of toxicity.
Boston product liability claims can be filed by calling the Law Offices of Jeffrey S. Glassman for a free and confidential appointment — 1-888-367-2900.


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Q: Javascript: two references to the same primitive, changing at the same time? I want to be able to have two references to the same primitive value, and any change done via one should be reflected to the other "magically" - i.e. using C code as an example:
// (C code):
int value = 0;
int *p1 = &value;
...
int *p2 = &value;
*p2 = 1;
...
printf("%d", *p1); // gives 1, not 0

The only way I've figured it out so far is by using an extra object indirection:
var a = { valueWrapper: { num: 1, str: 'initial' } };
var b = a;

// change a

a.valueWrapper.num = 2;
a.valueWrapper.str = 'changed';

// show b

console.log(b.valueWrapper.num);
console.log(b.valueWrapper.str);

// outputs:
//
// $ node test.js
// 2
// changed

Is there a cleaner way?

A: In Javascript primitive types such as integers and strings are passed by value. There is no build in method to change that.
You can get rid of "valueWrapper" if it's not by design:
var a = {num :  1, str : "initial"};
var b = a;
a.num = 2;
console.log(b.num); // display 2

A: There is only one case - parameters and function argument object - they magically change each other even when value is primitive type (this doesn't work in strict mode).
    function magicLink(a,b) {
        arguments[0] = 5;
        arguments[1] = 10;
        console.log([a,b]);
    }

    magicLink(1); // [5, undefined]

This only works for parameters set during invocation.

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Why Micho remains confident
Aug 12, 2019 - 10:27 am By Neville Khoza
Orlando Pirates coach Milutin Sredojevic is confident his side will overturn the shock 1-0 defeat they suffered to Zambian side Green Eagles in the CAF Champions League.
The preliminary round defeat on Saturday makes the return leg at Orlando Stadium on August 23 a must-win for the Buccaneers if they are to avoid being dumped out of the competition.
READ: Pirates fall to Eagles in Zambia
Sredojevic has promised they will do what it takes to make sure they overturn the scoreline.
"We need to prepare ourselves, our chances are absolutely realistic," Micho told the media after the game.
"We shall do everything possible with performance and not talking, but with the performance on the field of play and we believe that we've got what it takes to get a result that will take us to the second round."
'Micho' felt the reason his side lost the game is that they did not create enough chances to force a draw or win, which would have given them an advantage heading into the second leg at home.
READ: Khoza comments on state of Bucs
"What we have created we didn't convert, and this is where our critical aspect is going. We need to create more to convert more and this is what we are planning to use in our home match," he explained.
"I have belief, confidence and trust in our players. I believe in the work that we will do, and we believe that we will show enough performance that will take us to the second round.
"We believed that we dominated in all the aspects of the game except for the crucial aspect and that it is putting the ball in the back of the net. In that regards, I will just say we applied ourselves very well and unfortunately that lapse of concentration at the start of the second half cost us that match.
"It's back to [the] drawing [board] for us, we believe that we deserve more from this game than losing. We shall analyse the game, prepare well and in two weeks' time try to score more than two goals to progress to the second round."
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Q: Xcode 4 became extremely slow and kills my hard drive My machine has 8 GB or RAM, Core 2 Duo 3,06 GHZ and it seems it is not enough for Xcode 4 (4.0.1).
From some time now it started to behave more and more slow. Auto completion, editing code as well as Xib files became almost impossible to use.
Other applications behave smoothly.
Activity monitor shows a lot of RAM usage (still few GB left of completely free memory, so it is quite OK) and huge disk activity usage. I can see on the graph high peaks of data being saved periodically when I work in Xcode. After 3 hours of work there is 10.5 GB of data written to the disk. Is it normal?
I have tried to disable auto-save but it did not help much.
What can be the other causes of this extremely slow behavior of Xcode 4?
It did not behave like this from the beginning and it is not during Xcode indexing. To be even more interesting: when Xcode is indexing my project after cleaning it takes less CPU power than when indexing is done (CPU raises up after indexing again). Heh?
UPDATE: Complete reinstall of Snow Leopard (to the cleaned disk) together with Xcode did not help much. Xcode was working quite well just for a day or so and then slowed down again to the degree it is hardly possible to work with.

A: I was running into performance problems with Xcode 4 and I tracked it down to the File->Source Control->Show Remote Status feature being on. Turning that feature off did the trick for me.
However, if that is not the issue then you should take samples of Xcode while it is having the performance issues. Either use the command line or the Activity Monitor application. This might give you a clue as to what the issue is. If it doesn't then post the sample here. Also, submit a bug to Apple with the sample.

A: The following helped me A LOT - purge the workspace file.
Xcode 4 - slow performance
I didn't download the applet they're talking about but just manually doing it is working very effectively so far...
[Update: corrected the link]

A: UPDATE:
The solution was to mock around with #import "header.h" statements. It looks like Xcode requires a lot of processing power for intellisense when you you have complicated / circular imports structure (tracked down by performance tools - Xcode was falling into infinite recursive function call loop). When I moved as many imports I could to the implementation files and used forward declarations in headers, the problem went away.
This is what I have tried before:

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*Reinstalling (complete removal by:
sudo
/Developer/Library/uninstall-devtools
–mode=al) and installed new version
4.0.2 - Did NOT help at all. Anyway - Is it really complete removal as my main custom Xcode preference settings has survived)?

*Defragmentation (iDefrag - full defragmentation with rebuiling B-Tree and Metadata) - Did NOT help at all.

*System cleaning and antivirus scanning - CleanMyMac, MacKeeper - did NOT help at all.

*Organizer - Repositories - cleaned all repositories (I use Git and Xcode somehow stores list there for its own reasons even if I use only command line to manage Git) - small improvement.

*Organizer - Projects - cleaned all Projects from the list except opened ones - small improvement

*File - Source control - disable Show Remote Status (was enabled somehow, thx to ThomasW for pointing to that), but did NOT help much.

*Xcode - Preference - General - Disable Auto-Save (prompt only) and both Live Issues (In Editors, In Issue Navigator) - quite a bit of improvement.

*Closed Utility Panel and Quick Help Pane - the biggest improvement!  . I can finally type smoothly again! What a surprise. Such a trivial solution. It looks like help indexing / search assistant simply sucks! Why it does not do lookups in the background or something?

Xcode is still slow but now it is almost possible to work with production quality performance. Anyway it is quite a shame that Core 2 Duo 3,06Ghz / 8BG DDRIII Ram / Momentus XT SS Hybrid can hardly make it. I was so close to buy OCZ Vertex SSD or some other super extra SSD because of this.

A: No this is not normal. I use a MAcbook Pro and it works quite normally, not sucking any more RAM than any other app. Occasionally it chews some CPU and RAM, but s restart and it's back to behaving. I put that down to XCode 4 still being quite new after the rebuild.
If you are getting this sort of behavior, I'd suggest completely uninstalling XCode and all developer tools. Make sure you get the SDKs and everything out. Reboot. Then reinstall and see if it improves.
Oh, and I use Git for all my projects.

A: For me, Storyboard was almost unusable until I clicked on the View Controller and then "Editor - Resolve AutoLayout Issues - Clear All Constraints in View Controller".
I had been trying to fix layout issues and was also toggling the [3.5" / 4" Retina] button in the constraint tool bar (lower-right of the Storyboard window).
Once I cleared this, Xcode performance was back to 100%.


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EXCLUSIVE: Top Ghanaian Actor Majid Mitchel's Love Child In South Africa Revealed, Allegedly Dumps Babymama, Child Without Care
For those close to top Ghanaian actor and current AMAA best actor, Michel Majid, his arrogance to some of his friends, fans and the media is nothing to write home about. That is even a matter for another day. One thing that cannot also been taken away from this handsome, half-cast and tall actor is his love for anything under skirt. Though he is happily married with kids; Keira and Zara, but Majid still reportedly gets many ladies lubricate his 'joystick' at every given opportunities. This may have brought about his encounter with a South Africa-based entertainer who was in Ghana in December 2009 for a shopping spree. As our source told us, this lady (name withheld but we would address as Lady K), is aged 25 and her name starts with letter K and ends with letter Z. She sings at some fun spots during weekends and owns an entertainment outfit in South Africa. Revealing exclusively to Nigeriafilms.com how the pair met, our source said their first meeting was in December 2009 in Accra Mall. Majid then took her to a club and then retired to Madindi Hotel in Ghana. While the two of them played their away matches on a neutral stadium, Majid thought he had an 'Edwin Vandersar' as his shot-stopper not knowing there was a 'Lionel Messi' that has already netted a goal in a very impossible angle. "So, when Lady K called Majid to inform him of the latest development, he flared up. He later change his phone contacted. I felt for her, but there was nothing I could do to help her," , the source informed us. "I remembered Lady K called Majid on Friday, September 24, 2010, two days after his birthday, that she has given birth to his (Majid) child which happened to be a girl. It was a mixed feelings but there was nothing he could do but to tell the lady that he was not part of it. He then told her to send pictures of the baby to him which she did," our source revealed to us. The source further told us that in August 2011, shortly before the baby, who was later Sandra, was about turning one, the mother wanted Majid to set his eyes on his daughter, but he (Majid) didn't make it come to pass. "When Lady K wanted to come to Ghana with the child in August 2011 with the aim of Majid seeing the baby for the first, he kicked against it. He told Lady K to come to Ghana alone because Sandra was too young to fly from South Africa to Ghana. "Lady K had no choice but to agree to him. The funniest thing was that when the lady came to Ghana, Majid told her that he was not in Ghana. As a result, he didn't show up to meet with her when she arrived," our source pitifully told us. Our brief investigation on Lady K shows that she is still unmarried and has put the child under the care of a family friend. We also gathered that Majid has practically abandoned them in South Africa as he is believed not to bother about their upkeeps. When Nigeriafilms.com contacted Majid on this story, he denied having any daughter in South Africa he is aware of. He then told us that the story is not true. Soon after, he called us back and asked if we were still going to publish the story, we told him we might publish it. But that if we publish it, his side of the story would be stated. He then said he recorded our conversation with him which we didn't raise eyebrow on even though he did that without our permission. Majid is happily married with two kids. Our source told us that the celebrated actor fears his wife and that he does everything possible to make sure his sex scandals don't get to her even though he tries to cajole her on some reported ones.
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Fox Kids Worldwide is born
The Fox Children's Network, a subsidiary of Fox Broadcasting Company, and Saban Entertainment have formally consolidated to form a single holding company known as Fox Kids Networks Worldwide....
By Barry Hillier
The Fox Children's Network, a subsidiary of Fox Broadcasting Company, and Saban Entertainment have formally consolidated to form a single holding company known as Fox Kids Networks Worldwide.
An initial public offering was filed in September. The offering will be co-managed by Merrill Lynch & Co., Allen & Company Incorporated and Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. An announcement for the release and sale of stock is expected imminently.
Under the new agreement, Haim Saban, chairman and CEO of Saban Entertainment, continues to have responsibility for all Saban-related operations and Margaret L'esch, named chairman and CEO of Fox Kids Networks Worldwide, continues her role in overseeing all operations pertaining to the Fox Children's Networks and ancillary operations.
Fox Kids Networks Worldwide will operate as a fully integrated global children's television entertainment company that will develop, acquire, produce, broadcast and distribute animated and live-action children's programming.
The agreement follows a strategic alliance between the Fox Broadcasting Company and Saban in October 1995. 'Our determination to agree to this combination is the direct result of our success in working together as an alliance,' says Saban. Together, we can now move forward from a significantly stronger foundation to expand our collective businesses on a global basis.'
The merger is seen by Fox as a necessary ingredient for future success in the worldwide expansion of Fox Children's Network. 'Together, we are greater than the sum of our parts,' says L'esch. 'I think that this move will make the difference as to whether or not we're really successful in the international arena. By bringing [Saban] on board, it gives us an insurance policy and the tools we need to build a very strong international television company. I think it makes the difference between success and failure.'
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Småprickig hackspett (Campethera punctuligera) är en fågel i familjen hackspettar inom ordningen hackspettartade fåglar. Fågeln förekommer i savann i ett band söder om Sahara, från Mauretanien till Sydsudan. Beståndet anses vara livskraftigt.

Utseende och läte
Småprickig hackspett är en medelstor hackspett med grön rygg. Hanen har röd hjässa och rött mustaschstreck, medan honan är vitstreckat svart på främre delen av hjässan, röd på bakre delen och har ett vitfläckat svart mustaschstreck. Undersidans utseende varierar geografiskt, beigefärgad med små prickar i större delen av utbredningsområdet men i öster vit med tydligare fläckar. Den kan förväxlas med nubisk hackspett i det begränsade område där de möts, men småprickig hackspett skiljer sig genom mindre streckat ansikte och inte lika kraftigt tecknad ovansida. Arten är även lik guldstjärtad hackspett, men är fläckad snarare än streckad undertill. Lätet består av en serie "kreek" som avges i en högljudd duett.

Utbredning och systematik
Småprickig hackspett delas in i två underarter med följande utbredning:
 Campethera punctuligera punctuligera – förekommer från sydvästra Mauretanien söderut till Sierra Leone och österut till Centralafrikanska republiken, södra Tchad, norra Demokratiska republiken Kongo och möjligen sydvästra Sudan
 Campethera punctuligera balia – förekommer i Sydsudan och nordöstligaste Demokratiska republiken Kongo

Levnadssätt
Småprickig hackspett hittas i olika savanntyper, inklusive torr törnsavann. Den ses vanligen i par.

Status
Arten har ett stort utbredningsområde och beståndet anses stabilt. Internationella naturvårdsunionen IUCN listar den därför som livskraftig (LC).

Noter

Externa länkar

 Läten på xeno-canto.org

Hackspettar
Fåglar i etiopiska regionen

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Are you ready for a few good laughs at yet another installment of English bloopers? Today, we'll be looking at how apostrophes often result in grammatical catastrophes!
When it comes to written English, apostrophes are commonly used, but often misunderstood. The apostrophe looks like an elevated comma, and can be found directly to the left of the 'Enter' key on your computer keyboard.
Even in informal writing and friendly emails, it's important to use apostrophes properly. Out of place punctuation makes your written work seem sloppy and unprofessional.
CORRECT: I can't go to school.
Which is the same as: I cannot go to school.
Which is the same as: I do not smoke.
CORRECT: It's so cold in here.
Which is the same as: It is so cold in here.
WRONG: The cars windshield was broken.
CORRECT: The car's windshield was broken.
WRONG: A dogs tail cannot be straightened.
CORRECT: A dog's tail cannot be straightened.
WRONG: Shreyas's collection of stamps is awesome.
CORRECT: Shreyas' collection of stamps is awesome.
WRONG: The two students's belonging were confiscated.
CORRECT: The two students' belongings were confiscated.
WRONG: The Mehta's house is across the street.
CORRECT: The Mehtas' house is across the street.
WRONG: The girl's were late.
WRONG: There were no chair's in the room.
CORRECT: There were no chairs in the room.
2. To indicate a pronoun's possession.
WRONG: This land is our's.
CORRECT: This land is ours.
WRONG: This dog is her's.
CORRECT: This dog is hers.
CORRECT: The company maintains its standards.


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Corporate Medical Malpractice and Stolen Body Parts - Three Decades on and Parents are Still Fighting for Justice
Tuesday, June 11th 2013 at 8:15 am
Christina England, BA Hons
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Helenor Bye was just twelve years old when she was experimented on and killed in a drugs trial being carried out in Wales in 1977. In a bid to cover up the truth, the hospital butchered her little body and stole her organs, telling her parents that she was still alive. Today, three decades on, her parents are still fighting for justice for their beloved daughter, who just weeks before she died had presented a bouquet of flowers to the Queen.
22nd February 2013, BBC Dorset reported a national audit in 2012 found police forces had kept almost 500 body parts from cases dating back to the 1960s. Mr. and Mrs. Bye are hoping that this discovery will enable them to finally bury the remaining body parts of their daughter Helenor, who died in suspicious circumstances whilst in hospital in 1978. (1)
In 1977, twelve year-old Helenor Bye was misdiagnosed with epilepsy and given Sodium Valproate (Epilim in the UK, or Depakote in the US), which was on trial in the UK at the time. (2) She later died a slow and agonizing death caused by toxic poisoning. If this was not enough, she had all her vital organs stolen for testing, in a bid to cover up the truth. Her family has been trying to get justice for their daughter ever since.
Helenor Bye was full of life and had a great sense of fun. Her family and friends remember her as a compassionate, caring child and it was her enduring ways that led her to be chosen out of thousands of local children, to present the Queen with a bouquet of flowers at her Silver Jubilee held at Caerphilly Castle on June 27, 1977.
In July 1977, a few days after playing in a public paddling pool, Helenor became ill and was taken to Bridgend Hospital by her parents Derek and Joan Bye with a suspected bladder infection. Dr. Trevor Hyfyn Jones, the paediatrician treating Helenor arranged for her to have an IVP, (an intravenous pyelogram) telling her parents it was 'normal procedure' to find out if there was any underlying problem with Helenor's kidneys. What her parents did not know was this procedure was very dangerous and could lead to serious side effects.
On 22nd February 2013, BBC Dorset reported a national audit in 2012 found police forces had kept almost 500 body parts from cases dating back to the 1960s. Mr. and Mrs. Bye are hoping that this discovery will enable them to finally bury the remaining body parts of their daughter Helenor, who died in suspicious circumstances whilst in hospital in 1978. (1)
Within hours Helenor became seriously ill and her parents were advised by the general practitioner's (GP) to take Helenor back to Bridgend hospital. At the hospital, Helenor's condition quickly deteriorated but despite the couple's desperate pleas Helenor did not receive any treatment. Mr. Bye alerted the doctors to the possibility of inflammation to the brain and asked for an EEG to be done as soon as possible. The hospital's response was cold and harsh and he was rudely informed that this would take weeks to arrange.
A Deadly Diagnosis
Helenor remained in the hospital for a total of five days. Her parents were told on the fifth day to take their daughter home. When Mr. and Mrs. Bye asked what was wrong with their daughter, no one was able to give them a satisfactory answer. Instead, they were ordered to carry on giving their daughter the drug Epilim (Sodium Valproate) to control their daughter's epileptic condition?!!
Mr. Bye trained and experienced in working with those suffering from epilepsy questioned the doctor's diagnosis and asked Dr. Jones how he had been able to diagnose the condition without performing a full EEG examination. Instead of receiving a polite explanation the family were threatened and told that if they did not agree to the prescription of Epilim, Helenor would be removed from them by social services.
Faced with the prospect of losing their daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Bye requested a second medical opinion but this request was denied under the threat of intimidation. The
Bye family left the hospital after Dr. Jones reluctantly agreed to monitor Helenor's progress on a monthly basis. Dr. Jones only agreed to this however, if the Bye family agreed to maintain a dosage of 800mg per day, telling them that it would be dangerous to withdraw the drug or stop it instantly.
It was not revealed until twenty-four-years later that during her five day stay in hospital Helenor had been prescribed Valium and Mogadon and taken to Glanrhyd Hospital for a full EEG examination.
The EEG report dated 18.7.77 states:
"Abnormal recording generalised dysrhythmia increased by overbreathing possibly due to low grade encephalitis."
According to the Bye family, the low-grade encephalitis was caused as result of the IVP which paediatrician Trevor Jones concealed by falsely diagnosing Helenor with epilepsy.
Forced to Watch Their Daughter Die
Mr. and Mrs. Bye said that from this point they watched their beloved daughter
Helenor progressively deteriorate as she began to suffer the horrendous side effects of
Epilim. Within weeks, Helenor began to suffer from sleeplessness and coordination problems. Despite this and the fact that Helenor had lost a lot of weight due to continuous vomiting, the paediatrician advised her parents that this was nothing to worry about and her body was adjusting to the medication.
The truth was that Helenor was slowly being poisoned to death and her symptoms were an early sign that she was extremely ill, something that should have been obvious to Dr. Jones had he read the product insert for Sodium Valproate (Epilim) which states:
• Liver problems and problems of the pancreas may show as a sudden illness which may happen in the first six months of treatment. This happens in a very small number of people taking Epilim Chrono. It includes feeling and being sick many times, being very tired, sleepy and weak, stomach pain including very bad upper stomach pain. (3)
Instead of recognising the documented adverse reactions to Epilim however, Dr. Jones (Epilim) decided to blame Helenor's severe weight loss on the slimming disease anorexia nervosa and psychiatric problems referring her to a psychiatrist!
On Friday, April 21, 1978, Helenor, emaciated and weighing a mere three-and-a-half stone, was taken back into Bridgend hospital, with Epilim poisoning. (Hospital records record Epilim toxicity.)
Dr. Jones, obviously realising his error immediately withdrew the drug, despite knowing that this was dangerous!
Doctors Weekend Off Proved More Important Than His Patient
On the advice of the ward sister, Mr. and Mrs. Bye privately contacted Professor Peter
Gray, University Hospital of Wales who agreed to transfer Helenor to his care. In desperation, Mr. Bye phoned Dr. Jones to arrange the emergency transfer. The paediatrician however, refused the transfer, stating, "It's my weekend off." Mr. Bye told me that Dr. Jones continued by adding:
"There is no emergency attached to her medical condition. Her medical records are not up to date. I will review the matter on Monday." [April 24, 1978]
This so called 'non emergency' was a little girl weighing just over 3 stone, barely clinging on to life. By Sunday 23rd April 1978 Helenor had fallen into a deep coma. Frantic attempts were made to contact Dr. Jones as the ambulance was ready and waiting to take Helenor to Cardiff. Eventually, after numerous phone calls, Dr Jones reluctantly arrived at the hospital at 11:15 pm with the medical notes, but continued to argue with the ambulance crew over his own personal travel arrangements, before finally agreeing to Helenor's transfer.
Helenor's mum traveled in the ambulance while Mr. Bye followed in the family car.
Mrs. Bye told me during an interview:
"I was holding Helenor's hand but I could get no response. I knew at that moment that my beautiful daughter had already died."
When they arrived at Cardiff, Professor Gray was waiting for them. He took one look at his patient and cried, "Oh, my God. Emergency, emergency, intensive care, intensive care."
Helenor was immediately taken to the intensive care unit. The early hours of Monday, April 24, was the last time that Joan and Derek saw Helenor.
Body Parts Stolen to Cover up Medical Malpractice
On April 24, 1978 Professor Peter Gray informed the Cardiff Coroner that Helenor Joyce Bye was clinically dead on arrival.
However, the Bye's were told a different story because that same day paediatrician, Dr Corrie Weaver informed Mr. and Mrs. Bye that Helenor was dangerously ill in intensive care and that they were doing their utmost to save Helenor's life. This same paeditrician then requested signatures from the Bye's for clinical biopsies to be carried out over the course of the next three days on Helenor's liver, kidneys and brain.
Mrs. Bye refused to sign the forms because she knew deep down that her daughter had died in the ambulance. Mr. Bye, however, still clinging to the extremely slim chance that the hospital staff was telling the truth agreed to sign the paperwork. He said:
"Finally, at 3:30 pm on Thursday, April 27,1978, Dr. Corrie Weaver informed us that everyone at the hospital had done all they could to save Helenor's life and the coroner had been informed that her life-support machine had been switched off. We were even denied our rights to say goodbye to our beloved daughter."
Helenor's medical records clearly state that she died on the April 24, 1978, so why were Mr. and Mrs. Bye lied to and why was Helenor kept alive artificially for three further days? More importantly why did her medical records released years later under FOIA state: April 27, 1978, "Discussed case with Mr Weeks [neuro surgeon] and Professor Gray, for coroner's permission to send brain to neuro pathologist in Bristol [Dr Bromwell} Brain death certain"?
It was not until the Byes went to say a final farewell to their beloved daughter at the chapel of rest that the true extent to the hospitals betrayal hit them. With tears in his eyes Mr Bye told me that:
"As I lifted my daughter's head to kiss her goodbye, I noticed something was not quite right. Instead of her lovely curly hair I could feel staples at the back her head. As I looked at her body in more detail I was filled with horror when it dawned on me that I was not burying my beautiful daughter, I was burying her carcass because it was obvious that all of her vital organs were missing!"
It is now 35 years later and every single avenue has been blocked. Mr. and Mrs. Bye have been threatened and even arrested for trying to get justice for their daughter. Mr.
Bye told me that they have had a total of three funerals to date but still have not buried their entire daughter. They know without any doubt that Helenor was used as little more than a guinea pig in a drug trial for a disorder that she never had in the first place. Her organs, they believe, were stolen to find out what effects the evil drug Epilim had on them, and of course, without her organs, it would be practically impossible to determine how Helenor Bye died.
The post-mortem showed Helenor's organs were normal, however, due to the fact her brain had already been removed this organ could not be examined?
Rule 3[c] of the Coroner's Rules 1953 which states:
"If the deceased died in a hospital, the coroner should not direct, or request, a pathologist, or staff of, or associated with that hospital, to make a post-mortem examination, if the conduct of any member of the hospital staff is likely to be called into question."
This meant that no further post-mortems could be carried out.
Dr Jones Rubs Salt in the Wounds
Even though Dr. Jones was said to be responsible for the misdiagnosis and death of an innocent child this did not prevent him from exploiting her tragic death for his own gain and in 1980 he published an article in the Lancet. (4) He wrote:
"A twelve year old girl presented in July 1977, with a clear history of temporal lobe epilepsy confirmed by EEG."
Although this of course was a lie as he made one fatal error. He wrote:
"The post-mortem findings suggest that this child may have had a sodium valporate induced secondary hyperammonemia".
This admission meant that he had always known that Epilim caused Helenor's death.
In 2006 BBC Dorset reporting the case wrote:
"An inquest in 1980 ruled out epilepsy, finding Helenor died of hyperammonemia - a type of ammonia poisoning that caused all her organs to fail." (5)
The Epilepsy Societies table of anti-epileptic drugs use for adults clearly states in the section on side effects:
Sodium Valporate
"Nausea, stomach upset, diarrhoea, and weight gain (due to increased appetite), increased levels of ammonia in the blood, and reduced platelets in the blood."(6)
It is doubtful that Mr. and Mrs. Bye will ever get the justice they deserve. Helenor's life was stolen from her in a series of medical blunders and cover-ups, leading to fraud, as the authorities desperately tried to cover up and disguise the truth of what happened. Helenor's body was cruelly stripped of every single organ that could identify the cause of death, without her parents consent. Her devastated parents have being trying to locate their daughter's organs ever since to give Helenor the funeral she deserves. Despite being knocked back time and time again Mr. and Mrs. Bye still fight for justice and have dedicated their lives to supporting others.
I would like to thank Derek and Joan Bye for allowing me to write Helenors tragic story and supplying me with all the documentation that I required.
1. 22nd February 2013 BBC Dorset – Police Kept Body Parts Without Informing Parents //www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21544227
2. 1975 A Richens Controlled trial of sodium valproate in severe epilepsy
//www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1675109/pdf/brmedj01471
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3. Epilim product insert
//www.medicines.org.uk/EMC/medicine/10912/XPIL/Epilim+Chrono/
4. In Memory of our Beloved Angel Daughter
//www.angelfire.com/poetry/helenor/ See bottom of page for Lancet 1980
5. BBC News Grief over Child's Fourth Funeral //news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5277580.stm
6. Epilepsy Society //www.epilepsysociety.org.uk/AboutEpilepsy/Treatment/Antiepilepticdrugsusedinadults
Christina was born and educated in London, U.K. After taking an A Level in Psychology and a BTEC in Learning Support, Ms. England spent many years researching vaccines and adverse reactions. She gained a Higher National Diploma in Journalism and Media Studies and in 2016 she gained a BA Hons degree in Literature & Humanities. She currently writes for VacTruth, Health Impact News, GreenMedInfo, The Liberty Beacon, Vaccine Impact and Medical Kidnap on immunisation safety and efficacy. She has co-authored the book, Shaken Baby Syndrome or Vaccine Induced Encephalitis – Are Parents Being Falsely Accused? with Dr. Harold Buttram and Vaccination Policy and the UK Government: The Untold Truth with Lucija Tomljenovic PhD, which are sold on Amazon. Websites: Profitable Harm, Carers Against Medical Injustice
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His heart fell as he opened the door. His son was gone, and one dead Lycan lay on the floor.
"Noooooooo!" He screamed. Everything had gone wrong. His love was gone, his sanity was gone, and now his child was gone, he wasn't even sure if he had any friends left.
In anger, rage and strenght, he punched a solid hole through the wood wall to his left, right through a support stud. He felt nothing.
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Max struggled to sit up. "Go now. take my car, it's in the street out back. If you meet up with him again, tell him thanks. And here." Max held out her keys.
Posted on 2009-05-02 at 03:31:12.
He took the keys from Max's hand.
"You're getting in the car."
He lifted her, laying her in the backseat.
"Travis, come on! Time to go!"
He gunned down three lycans as he was waiting for Travis, putting solid rounds into their torso and head.
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Max curled up and didn't bother to protest.
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But he turned around and ran, almost smahing through walls, through the entire lenght of the building. On his way through Seths office, he loaded himself with as much guns and ammo as he could carry, and he threw them in the trunk.
Posted on 2009-05-02 at 04:00:04.
Seth jumped in the car and was impressed. Max could drive a straight drive.
He threw the car into first, popped the clutch, and peeled out of the HQ garage. He sped past a group of lycans, wondering what they were chasing after. Perhaps it would be Derric.
He looked into the mirror and spoke up.
"Max, do you know where Rose's family is?"
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"Just outside town. It's like a little town, hard to miss." Max shivered and nearly puked.
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Seth popped the handbrake and downshifted, sliding around the next curve, heading towards the outskirts. Flying past buildings, he saw the compound on the horizon.
It really was it's own town. Even had it's own prison, looks like.
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Max was the medic...he didn;t know anything about this kind of stuff.
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well, do this real quick.
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Maryland Film Festival Announces Opening Night Shorts and 2014 Closing Night Film; Advanced Online Ticket Sales Now Active!
Published April 25, 2014	Uncategorized Closed
Tags: APPROPRIATE BEHAVIOR, Closing Night Film, FAULTS, LITTLE ACCIDENTS, MFF 2014, Opening Night Shorts
Maryland Film Festival concludes our 2014 lineup announcements by unveiling our Opening Night Shorts program, and our Closing Night film, Sara Colangelo's Little Accidents. Also announced were two late-breaking features added to MFF 2014's lineup, Riley Stearns' Faults, and Desiree Akhavan's Appropriate Behavior. Advanced online ticket sales are now active; click here for film schedule and to purchase tickets.
MFF 2014's CLOSING NIGHT FILM
Maryland Film Festival 2014's Closing Night film will be Sara Colangelo's drama Little Accidents, which explores the aftermath of a coal-mining disaster on a small Appalachian town. The film, which premiered at Sundance 2014 to great acclaim, stars Elizabeth Banks, Boyd Holbrook, Chloë Sevigny, Jacob Lofland, and Josh Lucas, and was shot by Rachel Morrison (Fruitvale Station, Sound of My Voice). The script was developed at Sundance Labs, and won the 2011 Maryland Filmmakers Fellowship, which is administered by Maryland Film Festival. Director Sara Colangelo and some of her filmmaking team will host the screening, which will take place the evening of Sunday, May 11th in MICA's Brown Center. The Closing Night party will take place in the Filmmaker Tent Village immediately after the screening.
MFF 2014's OPENING NIGHT SHORTS
Maryland Film Festival prides itself on its special advocacy for short-form filmmaking. We first devoted our Opening Night to short films in 2002, and have done so each festival since 2004. Past years' Opening Night programs have included work from filmmakers such as David Lowery, Lauren Wolkstein, Frances Bodomo, Riley Stearns, and Bobcat Goldthwait. In addition to devoting our opening night to shorts, MFF 2014 will also feature 10 short-film programs, featuring work of all genres from around the globe.
All Opening Night shorts will be hosted by their filmmaker on the evening of Wednesday, May 7th in MICA's Brown Center.
MFF 2014's Opening Night Shorts are:
THE BRAVEST, THE BOLDEST
THE BRAVEST, THE BOLDEST Director: Moon Molson
Two Army Casualty Notification Officers arrive at the Harlem projects to deliver Sayeeda Porter some news about her son serving in the war in the Middle East. But whatever it is they have to say, Sayeeda ain't trying to hear it. Moon Molson is the director of previous MFF shorts Pop Foul and Crazy Beats Strong Every Time; The Bravest, The Boldest screened in the Shorts Competition at Sundance 2014.
EASY Director: Daniel Laabs
A character study that follows the relationship between two brothers; one on the verge of becoming an adult, the other becoming a teenager. Daniel Laabs is the co-director of MFF 2011's short film 8; Easy premiered within SXSW 2014.
I WAS A TEENAGE GIRL
I WAS A TEENAGE GIRL Director: Augustine Frizzell
Emma and Jesse are close friends. One night, after an intense breakup, they have a heartfelt conversation that challenges the boundaries of their friendship in an unexpected way. I Was A Teenage Girl premiered within SXSW 2014.
MORE THAN TWO HOURS
MORE THAN TWO HOURS (Iran) Director: Ali Asgari
It's 3 a.m., and a boy and a girl are wandering the city. They are looking for a hospital to cure the girl, but it's much harder than they thought. More Than Two Hours was nominated for the Palme d'Or for best short film at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
VERBATIM Director: Brett Weiner
A jaded lawyer wastes an afternoon trying to determine if a government employee has ever used a photocopier. All the dialogue in this film comes from an actual deposition filed with the Supreme Court of Ohio. Verbatim premiered within the Shorts Competition at Sundance 2014.
LATE-BREAKING ADDITIONS TO MFF 2014's FEATURE LINEUP:
APPROPRIATE BEHAVIOR
APPROPRIATE BEHAVIOR (Desiree Akhavan)
Shirin is a young woman caught between identities: bisexual, but afraid that coming out to her parents will prevent her from being the perfect Iranian-American daughter; a hip Brooklynite whose friends—and particularly her ex-girlfriend—can't understand her trepidation about being honest with her family about her sexuality. In the depth of its characters and relatability of its situations, Desiree Akhavan's warm and hilarious debut feature stands alongside filmmakers like Noah Baumbach, Lena Dunham, and Nicole Holofcener in delivering romantic comedy of the very highest order.
FAULTS (Riley Stearns)
Ansel Roth is one of the world's leading experts on cults, and has built a career out of helping former members overcome brainwashing and reintegrate into society. He's also a broken man, joylessly slogging from hotel to hotel in a futile attempt to promote his poorly received second book to ever-dwindling crowds. So when he's approached by a distraught couple seeking his help in rescuing their daughter from a new and powerful cult family, Ansel's anything but enthusiastic—until they put a large sum of money on the table. From Riley Stearns, director of MFF 2013's Opening Night short The Cub, comes a brilliant film that confidently moves between dark comedy, thriller, serious drama.
Maryland Film Festival 2014 will take place May 7–11, 2014 on seven screens in downtown Baltimore. Our full lineup includes approximately 50 feature films and 10 short-film programs from around the world. All U.S. feature films will be hosted by filmmakers. MFF 2014's full line-up is available here: http://www.md-filmfest.com/festival/film-guide
MARYLAND FILM FESTIVAL: OPENING NIGHT TITLES ANNOUNCED
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Maryland Film Festival (May 8-12 in downtown Baltimore) is proud to announce our 2013 Opening Night Shorts program, an eclectic mix of work from an extremely talented array of filmmakers. Maryland Film Festival has played a special role in advocating for short-form film and video since the festival's launch in 1999, and has dedicated each of its Opening Nights to short films since 2004. The MFF 2013 Opening Night Shorts program will take place Wednesday, May 8th at 8pm, in The Brown Center (1301 Mt. Royal Avenue) on the Maryland Institute College of Art campus.
Maryland Film Festival 2013's Opening Night Shorts Films are: Frances Bodomo's Boneshaker, a drama about an African family lost in rural Alabama starring Quvenzhané Wallis (Academy Award nominee, Beasts of the Southern Wild); Grainger David's The Chair, the story of one boy's reaction to an outbreak of poisonous mold in his small town, nominated for Cannes 2012's Short Film Palme d'or and winner of SXSW 2012's Short Film Jury Prize; Riley Stearns' 16mm-shot The Cub, a note-perfect dark comedy about humans living amongst wolves that was nominated for Sundance 2013's short-film grand-jury prize; Dara Bratt's observational documentary Flutter, a portrait of an ordinary man living in the extraordinary world of butterfly collecting; Chetin Chabuk's Jujitsuing Reality, an inspiring documentary about Scott Lew, a screenwriter living with ALS; and Lauren Wolkstein's elegant and sly Social Butterfly, in which a mysterious American woman (Anna Margaret Hollyman) arrives at a teenage party in the South of France.
In addition to approximately 50 feature films and this Opening Night program, Maryland Film Festival 2013 will include nine more programs of short films, totaling approximately 80 short films including comedy, drama, animation, documentary, and experimental work, as well as Maryland Film Festival's signature, mind-bending "WTF Shorts" program. Other filmmakers with new short-film work in MFF 2013 include acclaimed filmmakers such as Tsai Ming-liang, Amy Seimetz, Clay Liford, Dustin Guy Defa, Kat Candler, Kelly Sears, Annie Silverstein, Steven Schardt and the team of Lucas Leyva and Jillian Mayer; shorts with performances from Martin Starr, Brie Larson, Kate Lyn Sheil, Will Oldham, and Tunde Adebimpe; and shorts from Baltimore-based directors such as Karen Yasinsky, Alan Resnick, Phil Davis, Lorenzo Gattorna, and the team of Nicholas Kovacic and Matthew Riggieri.
Maryland Film Festival's Opening Night Shorts program is made possible by the generous support of the William G. Baker, Jr. Memorial Fund, creator of the Baker Artist Awards.
Maryland Film Festival has now announced the majority of its 2013 lineup, with the announcement of its 2013 Closing Night soon to come. A full list of the feature films announced for MFF 2013 follows:
12 O'CLOCK BOYS (Lotfy Nathan)
16 ACRES (Richard Hankin)
AATSINKI: THE STORY OF ARCTIC COWBOYS (Jessica Oreck)
AFTER TILLER (Martha Shane and Lana Wilson)
AUGUSTINE (Alice Winocour)
BEFORE YOU KNOW IT (PJ Raval)
BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO (Peter Strickland)
BLUEBIRD (Lance Edmands)
THE BOY EATING THE BIRD'S FOOD (Ektoras Lygizos)
BUTTER ON THE LATCH (Josephine Decker)
BY AND BY: NEW ORLEANS GOSPEL AT THE CROSSROADS (Matthew T. Bowden & Joe Compton)
COMPUTER CHESS (Andrew Bujalski)
DOWNLOADED (Alex Winter)
DRINKING BUDDIES (Joe Swanberg)
FILL THE VOID (Rama Burshtein)
GOOD OL' FREDA (Ryan White)
HERE COMES THE DEVIL (Adrián García Bogliano)
HIT & STAY (Joe Tropea and Skizz Cyzyk)
I AM DIVINE (Jeffrey Schwarz)
I USED TO BE DARKER (Matt Porterfield)
IF WE SHOUT LOUD ENOUGH (Gabriel DeLoach and Zach Keifer)
IT FELT LIKE LOVE (Eliza Hittman)
LEVIATHAN (Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel)
THE LOST WORLD (Harry O. Hoyt)
MUSEUM HOURS (Jem Cohen)
PARADISE: FAITH (Ulrich Seidl)
PARADISE: HOPE (Ulrich Seidl)
PARADISE: LOVE (Ulrich Seidl)
THE PERVERT'S GUIDE TO IDEOLOGY (Sophie Fiennes)
PIT STOP (Yen Tan)
POST TENEBRAS LUX (Carlos Reygadas)
PRINCE AVALANCHE (David Gordon Green)
THE RAMBLER (Calvin Reeder)
REMOTE AREA MEDICAL (Jeff Reichert & Farihah Zaman)
SWIM LITTLE FISH SWIM (Lola Bessis and Ruben Amar)
A TEACHER (Hannah Fidell)
THIS IS MARTIN BONNER (Chad Hartigan)
TOUCHY FEELY (Lynn Shelton)
V/H/S/2 (omnibus)
WATCHTOWER (Pelin Esmer)
WE ALWAYS LIE TO STRANGERS (AJ Schnack and David Wilson)
WILLOW CREEK (Bobcat Goldthwait)
WHITE REINDEER (Zach Clark)
ZERO CHARISMA (Katie Graham and Andrew Matthews)


Feb 14th, 2013: Over 700 gathered at St. Laurent Metro this Valentine's Day to make this year, Montreal's 4th annual memorial march for missing and murdered women the largest yet.
The first women's memorial march was held in 1991 in response to the murder of a Coast Salish woman on Powell Street in Vancouver. Her name is not spoken today out of respect for the wishes of her family. Out of this sense of hopelessness and anger came an annual march on Valentine's Day to express compassion, community, and caring for all women in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, Unceded Coast Salish Territories. Twenty-two years later, the women's memorial march continues to honour the lives of all missing and murdered women.
Feb 14th 2013, Montreal. The will to fight comes from a heart overflowing with love.
Ellen Gabriel is a Native/human right activist, and former president of Quebec Native Women (QNW). She joined the members of her community of Kanehsatà:ke in March 1990 as they erected barricades to protect The Pines from the expansion of a golf course in the municipality of Oka. She was chosen by the People of the Longhouse and then by her community to be a spokesperson for them during the 1990 Oka Crisis.
Video by Spencer Mann; Black and white photos: Thien Vo; Colour photos: Irina Gaber.


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Resist, reform or re-run: short- and long-term reflections on Scotland and independence referendums
Research and practitioners' insights
Ciaran Martin
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The issue of independence or maintaining the three-century-old Union continues to dominate the politics of Scotland and is likely to be one of the defining post-COVID-19, post-Brexit topics for the whole of the UK. Polling shows the constitutional question is the most important consideration in the Scottish parliamentary election in May 2021. Regardless of the outcome of the election, the issue will not go away.
In this paper Ciaran Martin, Professor of Practice in the Management of Public Organisations at the Blavatnik School of Government, delves into the constitutional issues related to a Scottish independence referendum, drawing on direct personal experience from the 2014 referendum and the negotiations preceding it.
The author argues that there could be a potential clash between the mandate of the Scottish electorate on the one hand, and the laws of the United Kingdom as a whole on the other, over the question of whether to hold a further referendum (in 2014 Scottish people voted to remain in the United Kingdom by a margin of 55 to 45 per cent).
This potential clash of laws and votes is not the only hotly debated topic. Other questions abound over the rules of any future referendum, what prospectus should be put forward by the pro-independence and pro-Union sides about what happens if their argument triumphs, and what reforms are possible that might increase support for Scotland remaining in the Union above the precarious levels shown in recent surveys.
Ciaran was Constitution Director in the Cabinet Office from 2011-14. In that role, he was appointed by the then Prime Minister, David Cameron, and the then Scotland Secretary, Michael Moore, as the lead civil servant negotiating the rules for what became the 2014 independence referendum in Scotland with the Scottish Government. When the Edinburgh Agreement was signed on 15 October 2012, providing for that referendum, Ciaran was one of six people at the table alongside Mr Cameron and Mr Moore, and opposite then First Minister Alex Salmond, then Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, and his civil service opposite from the Scottish Government, Ken Thomson.
The paper includes a foreword by Sir Tom Devine, Scotland's leading historian and Professor Emeritus at the University of Edinburgh.
Watch the launch lecture with Ciaran Martin, Sir Tom Devine and Ngaire Woods.
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John Carpenter delivers the ultimate in alien terror in this chilling story about an Antarctic research team that discovers a form-changing alien buried in the snow for over 100,000 years.
Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter, David Clennon, Keith David, Richard Dysart, Charles Hallahan, Peter Maloney, Richard Masur, Donald Moffat, Joel Polis, Thomas G. Waites
Horror-meister John Carpenter (Halloween, Escape from New York) teams Kurt Russell's outstanding performance with incredible visuals to build this chilling version of the classic The Thing. In the winter of 1982, a twelve-man research team at a remote Antarctic research station discovers an alien buried in the snow for over 100,000 years. Once unfrozen, the form-changing alien wreaks havoc, creates terror and becomes one of them.
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Earth Sculpture; Or, The Origin of Land-forms
By James Geikie
stage in the process of demolition. Isolated cones and groups of cones crumble away, until all the lavas and tuffs ejected from the old vents may have disappeared, and the only evidence of former volcanic action that may remain are the basal portions of the dikes that proceeded from the foci, and the solid cores with which the latter were finally plugged up. (See Fig. 75.) As these cores usually consist of more
Fig. 75. View Of Neces = Cores Of Old Volcanoes. (Powell.)
durable materials than the rocks they pierce, they tend to form somewhat abrupt conical hills. It goes without saying that such extreme cases of denudation are met with only in regions where volcanic action has for a long time been extinct. Excellent exam
pies on a relatively small scale are furnished by the so-called "Necks" of Scotland, of which the accompanying section (Fig. 76) shows the general phenomena. Similar structures occur in many parts of Europe and North America.
Fig. 76. Section Of Highly Denuded Volcano. Minto Hill,
Roxburghshire.
A■, throat or neck of volcano plugged up with ejectamenta, angular and subangular stones, grit, dust, etc.; St Silurian rocks; D, Old Red Sandstone strata.
Frequently the products of great volcanic eruptions of vast geological antiquity have been largely preserved, owing to their subsequent burial under sedimentary accumulations. Many of the hill-ranges of Central Scotland, for example, are built up of lavas and tuffs. These are the relics of volcanoes which came into existence in Palaeozoic times, and after erupting molten and fragmental materials for longer or shorter periods, eventually died out, becoming submerged and covered with sedimentary accumulations to depths of several thousand feet. Subsequent elevation of the region brought these sediments under the operation of the agents of erosion, and in time great thicknesses were removed, so that ultimately the ancient volcanic rocks were again laid bare and in their turn exposed to denudation. But if the lat
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ter now form hills, it is simply because they consist for the most part ot more durable rock than the formations amongst which they lieIt is needless to say that all trace of their original configuration has disappeared. Indeed that had already vanished before the extinct volcanoes became entombed. Now ±r.d again the sites of the old foci ot eruption seem to be indicated by bosses and dikes of intrusive rock. but the general form and aspect of the hills are solely the results of erosion, determined and guided balneological structure and the nature and character of the old volcanic materials. They are true hills of circumdenudation. (See Fig. 77.) The massive or fissure eruptions of former times have in like manner been largely modified by subsequent epigene action. Although some of these belong to a comparatively recent geological period, they have yet been so carved and cut up, that their original plateaucharacter has become obscured or even lost Yet there can be no doubt that they formerly existed
as broad plains and plateaux, occupying many thousands of square miles. The older hills of Iceland, all the Faroe Islands, and the basalt hills of the Inner Hebrides and Antrim are the relics of vast plateaux, which were all probably at one time connected. The general aspect of the hills carved out of such plateaux is well illustrated by the Faroe Islands, to which some reference has been made in Chapter III.
It is believed, as already mentioned, that massive eruptions have proceeded rather from systems of fissures than from separate and individual foci, after the manner of most modern volcanoes of the cone and crater type. During the eruption of the plateau-basalts of Antrim and the Inner Hebrides, molten rock underlay not only those regions, but wide areas beyond, in the north of Ireland and through out central and southern Scotland and the north of England. All these areas are traversed by dikes of basalt, which become more and more abundant as they are followed towards the regions occupied by the basalt-flows. It is from these dikes that the latter appear to have proceeded. From the dikes that are now seen striking across Scotland and the north of England probably no outflow of lava took place ; the fissures up through which the molten rock came did not in those regions reach the surface. They are now exposed simply owing to denudation. Not a few dikes indeed still lie concealed. In the coalfields these are found cutting across the lower seams, but wedging out before the upper seams are reached.
The larger dikes in central Scotland often form conspicuous objects in a landscape. Owing to the superior durability of the basalt, they rise above the surface of the sedimentary rocks they traverse, and may occasionally be followed for miles, running as they do like great walls or prominent ridges across dale and hill. As examples may be cited two large parallel dikes which may be traced for many miles from Friarton Hill, near Perth, in a westerly direction. Near Dupplin, the more northerly of the two gives rise to a long prominent bank, which is followed for some miles by an old Roman road. In the neighbourhood of Crieff both dikes are equally conspicuous, rising as bold wall-like ridges, the more prominent of the two forming the steep crag upon which Drummond Castle is perched. When dikes cut through rocks as durable as themselves they cease to produce any marked feature at the surface. On the other hand, when the rocks traversed by them are the most resistant, the presence of the dikes is indicated by long trenches or hollows at the surface. Nothing could be so impressive and suggestive of the potency of long-continued erosion than the cropping out of these remarkable dikes. Their intrusion appears to have taken place in Tertiary times, and the great majority of those which occur in the mainland of Britain never actually communicated with the surface at the time of their formation. They cooled and consolidated below ground, yet we now see them laid bare not only in the low grounds and


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Bring in your jam jars today!
Christmas Bazaar Mufti Day is today! Children can wear their own clothes in exchange for donations to the two Tombolas. For the Adult Tombola we are collecting wine and chocolates and for the Kids' Tombola please decorate jam jars and fill them with small goodies such as mini toys, sweets, play jewellery, rubbers, tattoos and stickers. Trolleys are waiting at both gates to be filled up with your goodies.
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Sava Senior Care
Sava Senior Living Nursing Home Negligence Lawyers
Sava Senior Care operates five facilities throughout Illinois in cities including Westchester, Odin, Mount Vernon, Hamilton and Burbank. These facilities provide long-term and short-term compassionate care, offering services to assist patients with various needs including:
Comprehensive nursing care
Bariatric issues
Intravenous therapies
Respiratory therapies
Physical and occupational therapies
Neurological disorder care
Hospice services
In addition, Sava Senior Care provides extensive post-operative care for various conditions including amputation (strengthening and reconditioning), cardiac bypass, total knee replacement and total hip replacement.
Health Inspections and Staff Ratings
The U.S. CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) rates nursing facilities throughout the nation, including those owned and operated by Sava Senior Care. The rankings include health inspections performed during scheduled and unexpected appointments by a certified inspectors.
The CMS also rates the nursing staff based on staff hours performed by the medical team including the RNs (Registered Nurses), LPNs (Licensed Practical Nurses), LVNs (Licensed Vocational Nurses) and CNA's (Certified Nursing Assistants). Additional ratings include quality measures ranking the home's ability to provide the medical, hygiene and daily needs of each patient. Finally, Medicare and Medicaid provide an overall rating that averages health inspections, staff ratings and quality measures as a snapshot image of how the facility performs inclusively.
Illinois Facility Ratings
The large national nursing facility chain operates five homes in Illinois. The list below contains the name of each facility and current rankings, including:
Brentwood Sub-Acute Healthcare Center in Burbank – This facility maintains below average health inspections, above average staffing and average quality measures giving it an overall average of three out of five stars.
Montebello Healthcare Center in Hamilton – The CMS rates this Hamilton facility as above average with five out of five stars in quality measures, three out of five stars in staffing and health inspections.
Nature Trail Health Care Center in Mount Vernon – Medicare and Medicaid rates this Mount Vernon health care center above average overall with three out of five stars for staffing and quality measures, and four out of five stars in health inspections.
Odin Health Care Center in Odin – This nursing facility in Odin ranks above average overall because of its five out of five quality measures stars and three out of five stars for staffing and health inspections.
Westchester Health and Rehabilitation Center in Westchester – Even though this Sava Senior Care facility in Westchester maintains a five out of five stars quality measures rating, its overall average is only three stars due to its very low staff rating and average health inspection rating.
In recent years, Sava Senior Care has had significant legal issues with sizable lawsuit verdicts, settlements and compensation awards involving nursing home abuse and neglect. Many cases filed by surviving family members include serious issues where their loved one was injured or died at these facilities due to bedsores (pressure sores; pressure ulcers; decubitus ulcers), malnutrition, dehydration, or other injuries.
Many Sava Senior Care issues are the result of low quality of care, inadequate staffing, poor management and taking steps to increase profits at the cost of patients. In 2011, surviving family members filed suit against the corporation when a loved one, a Michigan nursing facility resident, choked to death when consuming food. The lawsuit claimed staff and caregiver negligence at the facility, which led to his death. The case was resolved with a $2.35 million verdict.
In a 2013 case, a lawsuit was filed against a Sava Senior Care Center in Colorado claiming "recurrent negligence" of a patient staying at the facility for over three years. During that time, the resident experienced an array of severe injuries that included multiple pressure sores, dehydration, malnutrition, UTIs (urinary tract infections), high potassium levels (hyperkalemia) abrasions and skin tears, substantial weight loss, and multiple serious life-threatening infections that included E. coli. This lawsuit resulted in a $300,000 verdict for compensatory damages and an additional $3 million to cover punitive damages as a punishment designed to improve quality of care at the facility.
While Sava Senior Care claims to focus their attention, staff training and care on their residents, numerous long-term and short-term patients have suffered serious harm or death at the hands of caregivers while staying at their facilities.
Other Claims Made Against Sava Senior Care
Lawsuit Alleges Man Dies as Nursing Staff Watches
This dispute arose at a Sava facility in Georgia. It garnered a lot of attention because the victim was a decorated veteran. Also, it appeared, at least from the plaintiff's contentions, that some of the nurses merely looked on as the man suffered. He began losing oxygen at some point and called out for help. Initially, it appeared that things would be taken care of and fixed. Staff rushed to the scene. However, that to did not translate into medical attention or to an ER transfer. The latter did not occur for more than an hour. Also, in the meantime, despite the defendants' claims, nurses did not administer CPR. This was confirmed when the plaintiffs were able to evidence video proof. That shows nurses apparently laughing as the man died. The man was survived by children and grandchildren. They brought this action against the facility and related professionals.
Plaintiffs Allege Sava Senior Locations are Dumping Patients
Sava Senior has nursing homes in many states, some of which are located in Illinois. Plaintiffs filed an action stating that half a dozen of their California facilities are dumping patients. Dumping is essentially eviction. This process with nursing homes is federally regulated because these places normally hold sick, elderly, and other vulnerable segments of society. The home must give 30-day notice and explanation to the resident and representative, make arrangements if possible, for transfer, and have an appeals system. Apparently, that did not happen here. Some were left stranded and ended up in the emergency room as a result. The suit asked for an injunction in order to stop this from happening as well as similar future incidents. Normally, homes dump patients for similar reasons including the following: the resident is dangerous; the resident cannot pay; or the home is shutting down. However, residents have rights and there is a system to prevent their illegal eviction.
Children Bring Lawsuit after Mother Dies in Illinois Nursing Home
The nursing home resident affected here was an elderly woman. She had been in and out of facilities for several years before this incident. She entered the Sava home in question after she broke a bone. Staff treated her at a hospital but then transferred her to the home for long-term care. Bed sores emerged while she was at the hospital. However, they got worse and even became infected while she stayed at the nursing facility. When she passed away not long after, her surviving children thought these developments were to blame. They brought a lawsuit against the hospital and home. They alleged both defendants were to blame and left it to them to sort liability portions. Eventually, the family ended up receiving over $100,000. That money mostly came from the hospital with the remainder coming from the Illinois Sava nursing home.
Attorneys Willing to Fight Sava Senior Care
As with many large nursing home chains, Sava Senior Care may attempt to delay or deny a legitimate claim. The attorneys at Rosenfeld Injury Lawyers LLC stand with you and will do what it takes to see your case through resolution via arbitration, mediation or trial. Whatever the circumstance our firm is uniquely positioned from a litigation perspective to go toe to toe with any corporate nursing home operators, such as Sava Senior Care. Contact our office for a Free Consultation regarding your potential case.
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Even Hollywood wouldn't buy MGM script
For creditor consideration
12 October 2010 By Jeffrey Goldfarb Follow @jgfarb
Activist Carl Icahn squashed an earlier plan to merge the storied but troubled studio with Lions Gate. Now he supports the idea while still suing Lions Gate. Icahn s change of heart could be sensible, but the plot twists are farfetched even by cinema s fantastical standards.
Lions Gate Entertainment sent a merger proposal to MetroGoldwynMayer Studios on Oct. 11, following detailed discussions with Carl Icahn, the activist investor who owns a big equity stake in Lions Gate and a slug of MGM's debt.
We believe that this combination of Lions Gate and MGM would enhance value for all constituencies and we believe this proposal as submitted is far better for MGM holders than the current proposal to combine MGM with Spyglass, Icahn said in a statement.
MGM, home to the James Bond and Pink Panther film franchises, proposed a prepackaged bankruptcy plan on Oct. 7 that would wipe out $4 billion in debt and put the founders of Spyglass Entertainment at the helm. The plan provides for MGM's secured lenders to exchange the outstanding debt for about 95 percent of the company's equity upon emerging from Chapter 11.
Reuters: Lions Gate seeks MGM deal, gets Icahn's support
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The Bag Monster
The Bookshelf Rethought, Part 3
The Bookshelf Rethought: 5 More Innovative Designs
Carriers Rethought
Groupie paradise, FedEx vs. Donald Trump, why Earth is getting shrink-wrapped by strangers, and what TV show has an official couch.
What do vehicles, plastic bags, shipping containers and coffins have in common? They all carry their contents from one place to another. And they can all be rethought in ways that may well outsmart, outcool and outweird the original purpose.
BETTER THAN THE VAN
Couchsurfing has been around for quite some time now. And just like anything that's become really, really big really, really fast, it was only a matter of time until it niched out. Enter Better Than The Van — a niche stay-for-free community designed specifically for bands and artists on tour. Even the search function is niche-level particular: you can narrow down your results by age range, weekday/weekend preference, and host's relationship to music — consumer (a.k.a. fan) vs. producer (a.k.a. in a band).
We suspect the majority of couch-offerers would end up being in a band themselves — simply because nothing breeds empathy like having had the same miserable, sleep-folded-in-half-on-the-back-seat-with-drummer's-protein-bar-wrappers experience.
Plus, we think it's a great way for up-and-coming bands to make new friends, for up-and-coming music fans to discover new bands they dig, and for artists to meat each other and possibly sprout some killer collaborations.
QUIK HOUSE
No matter how many CFL's we swap for incandescents, our homes remain environmental Big-Foots. Luckily, going residentially green doesn't have to mean settling for a hippie shack in the Ohio outback.
It may, however, mean inheriting the living space of a FedEx box.
Enter Quik House. You know those "bed in a bag" things at department stores? We'd call Quik House a "house in a box"… except it is the box. It's a prefabricated "house kit" made from recycled shipping containers. But don't be fooled — the 2,000-square-foot dwelling includes 3 bedrooms and two and a half bathrooms. It assembles in less than a day, so it should be less than 3 months between the time you order it online and your housewarming party.
You can further greenify the already super tiny-carbon-footed house with the optional solar and wind energy sourcing available. And speaking of customizing, you even have the option of getting your Quik House tagged by local graffiti artists.
At $125-$165 per square foot, including everything except the land, this isn't just a smart investment in the planet's future, it's also a pretty good real estate deal.
MUSEO AERO SOLAR
If this kind of static environmental statement isn't your thing, how about one in flux? Museo Aero Solar makes you reconsider what you choose to carry your groceries in. Thousands of plastic bags compose the "flying museum," a hot air balloon propelled solely by solar energy. It travels from country to country and whenever it makes a landing, more bags are added, increasing both its size and the next flight distance.
Since its inception several months ago, Museo Aero Solar has toured three continents. Upon each landing, the local community gets to add to the quilt and shape this ever-growing flying canvas.
We like the idea of calling it a museum: it's a visceral exhibition of our excess, constantly growing to reflect our never-ending consume-produce-waste cycle. The irony, of course, is that with an estimated 1 trillion plastic bags consumed annually worldwide, most of which end up in landfills, it's virtually impossible for the museum to run out of resources. If the project carries on and continues to increase in size, it could eventually cover earth's entire atmosphere.
How's that for a global warming wake-up call? We hear shrink-wrap makes things even hotter.
COFFIN COUCHES
On a brighter note, Coffin Couches: corpse carriers repurposed into living room furniture.
Apparently, there's some sort of government regulation (gotta love those) that prevents funeral homes from reselling unused coffins to the general public. So the guys behind the unorthodox venture approach said funeral homes with a recycling attitude and snag 18-gauge steel coffins with minor flaws, sculpting them into an impressive array of leather and vinyl couches.
We're pretty sure those new media and interactive technology gurus couldn't possibly outdo the "immersive TV experience" of watching Six Feet Under on one of these babies.
https://www.themarginalian.org/2008/06/30/top-4-repurposed-carriers-and-containers/
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