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Here are some images taken recently by the wonderful Mark Bigelow in an Oxford studio of me modelling alongside mature model (a ridiculous term, but there we have it) Alex B. Alex and I had mutually admired each other's blogs (hers is here) and outlook for a while. I find her very inspiring. It's nice to model alongside someone with such character. She is incredibly elegant, with trademark long, silver hair, yet absolutely down to earth and sweet, and I really hope I will be as creative, open-minded, pioneering and graceful at her age and beyond.
Some romantic images for you on this disgustingly gusty, rainy day - these were taken by the excellent ManCave Studio (great name, hey?), with whom I'll be shooting again sometime soon-ish if we can get our diaries organised.
Also, I just have a tiny weeny rant I'd like to vent... Please oh please oh please, if you're a new model starting out in this world and want to give yourself a 'stage name' or pseudonym, please oh please check what names already exist and are in wide circulation on the internet. I have mentioned this before, but I'm getting a little fed up, to be honest, of the amount of models I see with painfully similar names to my own.
New work by Jim Furness, who I've had the pleasure of modelling for a few times now (in Scotland, Switzerland and Australia), and who always produces stunning images.
It's bad of me to revisit old work when I have so much wonderful new stuff to show on here - or is it? Sometimes looking back and being grateful for some very special moments is rather nice! The series below, recently put together as a montage for my website (Faerie gallery; and do go and check out some other galleries I've recently updated there, by clicking here) is a definite contender for one of my favourite collections of all time. These serene, natural images were shot by Dave Aharonian in ancient rainforest in BC, Canada.
So there you have it; the truth behind the hocus pocus. What an incredibly peaceful place to have been able to experience. I am very lucky!
Siiiigh... Looking back at these is really making me crave another visit.
So far this year I've stuck mostly to my plan of scheduling in just one short trip per month; plans now include France, Germany, Holland/Netherlands (um...), Norway and possibly Belgium. At some point I might think beyond Europe... Will let you know when I do!


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How Simon Rich became the world's most ambitious comedy writer
By Wanda G. Stark	 Last updated Aug 31, 2021
Ais the youngest writer ever hired at Saturday Night Live, Simon Rich realized his biggest dreams ridiculously early in life. Everything that followed, including a switch to Pixar writing Upside down, directing his own shows at FX and TBS, and turning his New Yorker "Sell Out" story in the movie An American pickle starring two Seth Rogens, has exceeded his wildest imagination.
And for him, that's really saying something.
In this week's episode of The Last Laughing podcast, Rich reads a clip from his latest short story collection New teeth and reflects on his incredibly prolific career as the game's most ambitious comedy writer. Plus, hear stories about what it was like to write an episode of The simpsons, the rejected skit he presented to LeBron James on his very first SNL episode, and addressing Willy Wonka's origin story in the upcoming prequel with Timothée Chalamet.
When Rich, who is the son of columnist Frank Rich, started writing his unique brand of high-profile humorous fiction in college and in his twenties, most of his stories revolved around dating. Now that he's married and has two young children, he spends a lot of time imagining what the adult world must be like through the eyes of his children.
"I always end up writing about whatever I'm going through emotionally," he tells me. "So it would make sense for my stories to be consumed by parenthood. Because obviously that's where I feel right now and what I want to focus on as a writer. "
It has been roughly 14 years since Rich joined the editorial staff of SNL straight out of college, an experience he now says was "definitely scary" but also "exciting." Once there, he said, "It's really meritocratic. I never thought, 'Oh, I'm so young, you're not going to listen to me.' Because the way it works is that the skits are presented to people and they have no idea who wrote them, and then they are chosen or not based on audience reaction. He says he's never worried about the "politics" of whether Lorne Michaels loves him "because Lorne doesn't know who you are when you're a freshman writer he worries about things a lot. more important ".
TO SNL, he was constantly throwing up ideas far too elaborate to work within the confines of a live TV show. He remembers going to the then chief writer, Seth Meyers, and saying, "Here's a bunch of premises. Which of these do you think has the best chance of being shown on TV? Meyers would respond, "Well, certainly not those eight, but maybe that ninth."
It still goes back to SNL whenever her former writing partner, John Mulaney, hosts the show. "It's the best," he says. "Everyone is so tired. they did SNL for months and you just come in fresh.
Rich slowly figured out how to reduce his comedic outlook over the course of his four years at SNL, but by the time he got the opportunity to create his own scripted series based on his writing—Man seeking woman then Miracle workers– he decided to go bankrupt. "I basically forgot everything I had learned and was like, let's go, who cares? Fuck! "He said." I'm drawn to big swings. I always feel like it's more fun having a spaceship on the ground or having a conversation with an animal or setting on fire. something.
"I basically forgot everything I had learned and was like, let's go, who cares? Whore !"
But if the characters he writes have one thing in common, it is their fundamental lack of knowledge of the world around them. "From Homer Simpson to WALL-E, I love characters who are extremely uninformed, naive, confused," says Rich. "These are the characters I'm trying to write about."
"So in New teeth, an illiterate pirate begins the story, "he continues. "And then it's a laser disc machine that is gradually becoming aware of its obsolescence. There's a baby sleuth, there's a half-ape, half-man mutant superhero trying to figure out what to do now that there are no more aliens to kill and crush. There are all of these characters who are really trying to make sense of a world the reader is already familiar with. And weirdly what happens I find is that when you write from a naive point of view you can sometimes be more emotionally raw than when the characters are super witty and intelligent.
Then Rich adapts his pandemic-inspired story "Tips for Everyday Parents" into a film starring Ryan Reynolds and working behind the scenes of Timothée Chalamet Wonka prequel. Both a "lifelong Roald Dahl fan" and a Jew, he tells me he has managed to overcome the infamous anti-Semitism of his favorite author.
"It is always a difficult day in the life of a Jewish reader," he says. "But yeah, I mean I'm able to ignore it. I always think to myself, 'Hey he would have liked me although.' We would have had a few drinks and he would have said, 'You know what, Jew? Are you doing well. You are one of the good ones.
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More Desired than Our Owne Salvation
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Millions of American Christians see U.S. support for the State of Israel as a God-ordained responsibility. Robert O. Smith provides an in-depth look at the English Protestant tradition of Judeo-centric prophecy interpretation at the heart of this ...
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Millions of American Christians see U.S. support for the State of Israel as a God-ordained responsibility. American sympathies for the State of Israel are consistently and often substantially higher than for Arab states or Palestinians. More Desir...
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Fair-minded and sympathetic to Jewish, Muslim, and Christian concerns, Lutz and Smith provide a clear account of the Israeli-Palestinian situation and a compelling plea for Christian involvement in the area. Carefully sorting out the tangled histo...
Duplan Corp. V. Moulinage Et Retorderie de Chavonoz U.S. Supreme Court Transcript of Record with Supporting Pleadings
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The Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978 contains the world's most comprehensive collection of records and briefs brought before the nation's highest court by leading legal practitioners - many who later became ju...
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The question of the Christian Zionism - the religious and political support of the state of Israel - is fiercely debated within theology and the church, as well as in the wider political and social arenas. Examination of the issue is, highly relev...
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The question of the Christian Zionismthe religious and political support of the state of Israelis fiercely debated within theology and the church, as well as in the wider political and social arenas. Examination of the issue is, however, highly re...
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Renowned for his language arts teaching expertise, Del Crandall's rapport with his students and their parents was exemplary. The educator had raised the bar with his innovative writing and speaking techniques, and he was admired by his fellow coll...
Rafer Cartwright, the youngest of four siblings raised in a working class neighborhood on the outskirts of Kingston, Jamaica, had suffered through years of academic boredom at his local schools. Then along came Usain Alt, a history educator renown...
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I gotta tell you, I'm having a blast with this mystery! The first clue went super quick! heh It was only 4 'pieces'. Now this mystery was written for the 'square-in-square' ruler, but you can use a 6 ½" squaring ruler as well. I figured that if I lined up the points of the main square at 3 ¼" and then make sure you have your ¼" seam allowance – then it was a matter of matching up cross hatches for along the line of the square, then voila! There's my block all set to go all square up at 6½" How cool is that!
So I head off to do clue 2. That went super easy as well – Now the squares and rectangles don't line up edge to edge but that is good as your square is 4¾" and your rectangle is 3 x 5¼", so you overlap the edges and works just fine .. I know – clear as mud .. basically I didn't panic when I tripped over that on my first clue 😉 I put these up on my design board, and got super excited!! I'm not going to post that pic here as I'm trying to stay in the spirit of the mystery 🙂 If you want to see what I saw, you'll just have to do it yourself LOL ahem ..
Anywho, I got so excited I had to chat with Carmen last nite and share it with her .. needless to say, clue 3 didn't get done until today LOL ..


Hak, you are so damn amazing. So damn amazing.
It was such a powerful volume. Yona is slowly becoming more and more tolerant. She is not as hasty as Hak who is driven by passion. I think, Yona first thinks of how to survive and also protect Hak. Then afterwards she thinks of overthrowing Soo-won. This chapter also shows how both Yona and Soo-won still care and love each other but, Yona is becoming more and more sensible to push away these harmful feelings. What hurt me was to see Hak going berserk like that. There truly was a shadow of death It was such a powerful volume. Yona is slowly becoming more and more tolerant. She is not as hasty as Hak who is driven by passion. I think, Yona first thinks of how to survive and also protect Hak. Then afterwards she thinks of overthrowing Soo-won. This chapter also shows how both Yona and Soo-won still care and love each other but, Yona is becoming more and more sensible to push away these harmful feelings. What hurt me was to see Hak going berserk like that. There truly was a shadow of death on him during that time. It seems like Zeno has some special abilities read or understand people. I just hope Hak realizes Zeno's comment of death lurking around him and try to take things lightly.
Siempre he tenido una cosa por las escenas de batalla y por eso este tomo me gustó tanto. Los dragones y Hak luchando juntos son lo mejor que me pasó. Más, la escena donde Hak ve a Soo-won fue la que me dejó sin palabras y la sed de sangre en los ojos de Hak hizo que fuera demasiado intenso; estoy segura que si no fuera por Jae-ha, Soo-won estaría muerto.También el hecho de que Yona y Lili se hicieran amigas me gustó mucho.
The front cover stars Hak- his furiosity for Soowon was unleashed in this episode, where he was willing to hurt innocent soldiers and Jahae just to get revenge on Soowon for hurting Yona. He was said to be radiating a deadly aura or in the korean version, 살기. He only backed down after Yona assured him that she was okay.I personally think the author dragged this too long and in this particular volume, there was little real context.
J'ai pris pas mal de retard sur cette série mais je viens de me rattraper en lisant 7 tomes à la suite (du 12 au 18). Et il s'y passe pas mal de choses entre guerres, révélations, moments de détente. Cette série continue d'être intéressante, d'évoluer. Dans le dernier tome, on apprend enfin l'histoire de Zéno, le Dragon jaune dont on ignorait encore beaucoup de chose, y compris son pouvoir. Bref, c'est toujours un plaisir de lire ce manga.
That was absolutely spectacular! It totally gave me chills! Hak! HAK! I can't say anymore.
Haaaaak ! You are the best male character ever !!!!!!
Agh this love/hate thing I feel for Soo-Won is driving me crazy! (On the other hand I'm glad Yona finally made a lady friend I love her).
Yona and Soo won meet again because of Lili and I know that being around each other is awkward for them though they both know that they still care for each other. It's really sad that now Yona hates Soo woon. I love the part where Soo woon uses his body to shield Yona and Zeno from the arrows. :")And Hak acting that way in front of Soo woon is frightening. He's really angry with Soo woon and it makes me sad. It's also nice that Yona and Lili became good friends.
Well, this was intense. I'm kind of shocked that it only took two dragons to hold Hak back really.I mean, I certainly haven't forgiven Soo-won. I doubt he ever will.I LOVE THIS SO MUCH!!!
English Edition. The dragons (and Hak) are hilarious when they battle.


It's harder to nail down Flint Rasmussen than you think. Whether it's his comedic influences, his ever evolving act or just his physical location over the course of the 25th PBR: Unleash the Beast season, Rasmussen is a man that is constantly on the move.
As the PBR's Exclusive Entertainer since 2006, Rasmussen is always working. And after 30-plus years in the Western sports world, Rasmussen has not lost a beat when it comes to the job he loves.
That commitment is what makes Rasmussen stand out so much. The PBR is one of the most unique sports in the world, and it takes some of the most unique people to bring it to life.
And when you have to face down a sold-out arena every week, and some angry bulls, it's understandable why it takes someone like Flint to take on the job.
Rasmussen has had to work that much harder to build a rapport with fans as the PBR has expanded its tour to include places like Chicago, New York City and other non-traditional Western sports markets.
To make things even harder, the 25TH UTB can have you in New York one week and Montana the next. Rasmussen gets a tad more serious now, just for a moment, to make it clear that winning over crowds like that week in and week out is no walk in the park, and the only reason it looks that way to fans is because of his extensive experience.
That's without even mentioning that, with the launch of RidePass, he is now being broadcast into homes all over the world. He admitted that it was tough managing such a larger audience at first, but it did push him.
Although like any good entertainer, he took it in stride. Rasmussen was motivated to get his second wind, and he realized it's not always bad to play the hits.
That takes confidence, a confidence that Rasmussen grew up with. He notes that it's always funny when people comment on how much they'd love to have his job because it looks easy. But the Montana native is quick to point out that nothing in the PBR is easy.
It's why his influences are also hard to nail down. Over the course of his career, Rasmussen has been everything from clown to barrel man, but his role now is unlike anything in the world of sports. As such, his influences are wide, but it's his personality more than anything that fuels it.
As popular as he is, Rasmussen realizes that he is not the star of the show, the riders are. His unique ability to draw in a crowd while also centering the riders risking their lives to reach 8 seconds is unlike anything in sports. The fact that Flint works in the dirt too, risking himself just the same, almost goes without mentioning.
What makes Flint Flint, will always be hard to nail down, but he will always be a cross-country traveling, wisecracking dancing entertainer, who also happens to deftly dodge 2,000 pound bulls with ease.


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Q: cmd /c and the & symbol in file path I ran into a problem, where I have a batch file located in a directory that has the and symbol in it.
When I try to run the cmd /c on the batch file the and symbol messes up the cmd program even though the path is double quoted.
C:\>cmd /c "C:\This & That\batch.bat"
'C:\This' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
The system cannot find the path specified.

I'm not sure what to do. I tried escaping the & , using ^& but that doesn't seem to work as I'm all-ready in double quotes.
If I run the same command line from a directory that does not have an & symbol it works fine.
C:\>cmd /c "C:\This and That\batch.bat"

C:\>echo "Hi There"
"Hi There"

Thanks for any help.

A: so this would be the best way.
You also need to escape the & with ^ and run double double quotes.
cmd /c ""C:\This ^& That\batch.bat""

or you can set a location variable and use && to run the set and cmd /c after each other.
set "location=C:\This ^& That" && cmd /c ""%location%\batch.bat""

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On several occasions, we have made freely available .GRF files.
Each time, I had stated in the tutorial : "This file contains no preview or animation, unlike files. GRF that are provided in the library of Boris Graffiti. It is therefore not advisable to copy in the library of Boris Graffiti, you would have neither the preview nor the animation of the effect". For technical reasons (downloads, bandwidth, server disk space) I made available files without preview because in terms of size, a file with preview is on average 10 times larger than a file without preview. So this tutorial will allow you to create your own preview and your animations in order to include your effects in the library of Boris Graffiti.
Boris Graffiti is a plugin integrated with Studio, but you can also use it outside of Studio using Boris Graffiti Keyframer. It is a handy tool to create effects outside a movie because you then put all the resources of your computer to work for Boris Graffiti instead of sharing them with Studio, with excellent performances. You can install versions of Boris Graffiti Keyframer on several computers without additional licenses.
The dots represent the installation folder of your programs (Program Files, Program Files (x86)... depending on your operating system).
By default, you will have the same interface as when you switch to "Advanced mode" from Studio, that is, by default, you will be in the presence of windows : Control, Composite, Timeline and Text.
The only difference is that in the Composite window, as a Video 1 you have the image of a balloon.
Nota : On the track "Background", you can replace the video 1 (the ball) by the video 2 (a brick wall) but the flanged Boris Graffiti plugin integrated in Studio does not accept 2 video (I have tried yet. .. then Video 1 or Video 2, in Studio it's the same thing ...).
Now, you'll need an Boris Graffiti effect for the rest of this tutorial. Of course you can build one from scratch but to gain a little time, I suggest you load the first effect of the first directory. Use the menu "File/Open Settings" and you are looking for eg : C:\.......\Boris FX,Inc\Keyframe Library\GRF 5.0 Keyframe Library\animated\animated backdrops\comeTogether.grf that you open.
C:\.......\Boris FX,Inc\Keyframe Library\GRF 5.0 Keyframe Library.
You will have to choose where you save your new files. GRF. Personally, I chose to add a folder "LePapy " because the classification of Boris Graffiti seems to me quite subjective and somewhat rough.
You can add a folder "Perso" (or a folder with your name), either with Windows Explorer outside Boris Graffiti, either during the registration of a file Boris Graffiti, using the icon "Create a new folder" at the top of the window "Save As" in Windows Explorer.
Using the menu "Window" of Boris Graffiti Keyframer and adding to the 4 windows already selected the window "Library browser", your Keyframe Library tree should then have a look of this type.
Then, using the menu "File/Save settings as ..." you save effect "comeTogether.grf" under the name "Test.grf" for example in the folder you previously created or that you create for the occasion.
Here is what you see in the library of Boris Graffiti if your file "Test" was recorded without preview.
Nota : If you do not see the thumbnail, refresh the display by changing the folder and then returning to your registration folder.
Do not be devastated because you can still see a temporary animated preview of your effects.You will even have two ways to get your preview and your animation.
By simply clicking on the icon of your effect "Test.grf", it will appear in the preview window.
Depending on the quality of the preview choosed with button "Change preview quality", you will have a more or less quickly preview depending on the quality selected. On the screenshot, the button "Preview Quality" is a staircase, to signify that the straight lines are not smoothed so that the quality of the preview is at its lowest.
The button "Generate Thumbnails" allows you to generate a preview of your effect in the thumbnail.
This button is normally disabled but if you open a folder in which there is an effect without a preview, it becomes active.
It is quite certain that when you apply this effect in Studio, Video 1 (the ball) will be replaced by the real video 1 which is applied on the effect Boris Graffiti.
Clicking the button "Generate Thumbnails" launches the creation of the preview of the first thumbnail without preview contained in the folder. This creation is accompanied by a rapid display of a window of creating the preview.
And now ... you're almost at the end of your pain, the thumbnail of the effect represents the preview of your effect.
A second on small the button "Generate Thumbnails" launches the creation of the preview of the second thumbnail without preview contained in the folder, etc.
So here is the final phase, which consists in achieving a thumbnail in all respects similar to those used by Boris Graffiti in its library. If you look previews of titles provided by Boris Graffiti, they are all presented on a gray gradient background gradient from top to bottom from white to black.
Because you want your effects look like those of Boris Graffiti, you'll replace the video 1 (V1, ie the image of the ball) with a gradient.
The default is a gray gradient that will be displayed but the gradient from right to left instead of top to bottom. You change the angle of the gradient which is 0 by default and you set it to - 90. You then get exactly what you want.
You are now ready to save your effect. Do not forget to check the little box "Save Preview" well hidden in the bottom left of the window for your backup includes preview and animation in your backup file.
And the miracle happened ... The thumbnail of Test2.grf reflects preview and its background with gray gradient. Simply click on the button "Animate Thumbnail Previews" for the animation begins.
As a reminder, the second button from the left "Preview Selection" starts the animation of the display window "Library Browser".
And this time you can change the folder as many times as you want, when you return to your personnal folder you will not get any more "No parking".
Thank you! Very important tool for our creation.
To be honest I don't think I even understand this tutorial but that is no reflection on you, it is just my lack of practice with experimenting and learning that is at fault.


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Zebeda Rekhviashvili (; ;  born February 16, 1991, in Georgian) is a Georgian born Serbian judoka. He won a Bronze Medal at the 2013 European Judo Championships.

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1991 births
Living people
Male judoka from Georgia (country)
Serbian male judoka

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The length of the vetting process can vary according to individual circumstances, and it is for Departments and agencies to take this into account in their recruitment and personnel procedures. It is not Government policy to comment on the total numbers subject to security vetting, but in the year 1999-2000, 926 people were refused a CTC, or had such a clearance withdrawn. Information concerning the ethnic and national background of these individuals is not held centrally.
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The public spending plans for 2004-05 have not yet been announced. It is not therefore possible to provide a figure for total health care in 2004-05.
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The Prime Minister [holding answer 22 January 2001]: I have no plans to raise this issue with President Putin.
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Olivier Theatre, National Theatre
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I'll admit it: in the past, I've struggled with Othello. Never having seen it on stage, reading it on the page fell rather short of summoning up its wrought emotion and passion that I'd heard so much about. That all changed on this Sunday afternoon. This is absolute proof of what I've always said: that reading Shakespeare will always, inevitably, miss the mark somewhat — it's written to be performed, and the cast of this National Theatre production deliver one hell of a performance.
The aggressive, pumping music that builds around the auditorium of the Olivier Theatre sets up the driving pulse of this forceful show. During the first few scenes, those audience members unfamiliar with the play are in danger of getting lost, but once the production gets into its stride you can't help but be swept along in its imperious and earthy power.
The setting of the modern military base sets up and follows through on all the vital aspects of the plot in an incredibly neat way - the comradeship that is necessary for Othello to believe Iago's lies, the violence always simmering near the surface, the marked fragility of Desdemona next to the soldiers, the importance of rank and hierarchy that provokes such envy... There is never a moment in which the play feels squeezed into this mould; rather, it seems a perfect fit. Yet at the same time it illuminates this oft-delivered script in surprising and new ways, which the cast grasp and take forward with relish, finding comedy in this tale of jealousy, bitterness and revenge.
Adrian Lester takes on the title role with relish, delivering a stirring performances with subtleties of every feeling: forceful, passionate, brutal, pained - his emotion burned out from the stage. Quite simply, he was everything you could ask for from your Othello. Yet Rory Kinnear (as Iago) is more than you could possibly want. His staggeringly good performance steals the show, being appropriately dastardly and brilliantly two-faced; yet it is his sardonic humour that puts Kinnear's own stamp on the role, as his bitter sarcasm raises many a laugh - and let's face it, it's not a play where there is usually much to laugh about. Shifting effortlessly between smooth lies and shuddering hatred for Othello, this is a masterful performance. His on-stage chemistry with Lester was brittle with sparky emotion, but it is his exchanges with Roderigo (Tom Robertson) that show off this talent for comedy. While Robertson's rather pathetic posh-boy act may have been an easy route to a laugh, the characterisation also establishes the necessary hierarchy of power with ease.
Elsewhere, Broadchurch's Jonathan Bailey shows surprising mettle as Cassio, presenting light-hearted humour but also deep pathos that catches the audiences off-guard, as an innocent caught up in the machinations of Iago. Newcomer Olivia Vinall makes for a spirited yet suitably naive Desdemona, her girlishness standing out amongst the camouflage of the army. Particularly impressive is Lyndsey Marshal as Emilia: fiery yet nuanced, she starts off rather in the background but capitalises on her character's plot arc to blaze into the heart of the gory action in the final scenes.
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Nicholas Hynter's production may have a rather long running time, but the audience are gripped from start to finish. There is earthy, raw emotion here, but it does not lose the grandeur of Shakespearean tragedy: Hytner has struck the perfect balance with his faultless cast. The final moments capture a devastating futility as Othello finally comprehends his wife's innocence and the utter waste of life which can not be undone. Unmissable.
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"So, once humans are subjugated and docile, the Fae take out the Knights and rule the world," I said.
All three shrugged.
"More likely, they plan to finish the job by subjugating the Knights," Tiana said. "Then, in their fever dreams, they'll use human slave magicians as cannon fodder to win the Winter Court and launch their conquest of the Seelie." She gave me a wink. "Political idiocy is something the Fae invented before humans crawled out of their caves." She waved her hand in the air in a random way. "There are many things in which we can claim superiority to humans, but I daresay, our tendency to embrace stupidity is on a par with yours."
"The woman tonight was Unseelie?"
"We all are," Tiana said. "That doesn't mean the Knights don't have Seelie friends. Watch your back around us just as you would around other humans."
Oriel put his arm on my shoulder. "I realize we can be confusing, because the Fae don't have the concepts of good or bad, naughty or nice. You should consider us in terms of malevolence and benevolence. I once heard Roisin compare us to human children. We're instinctual. We know what hurts and what feels good. We know anger, hunger, and pleasure, but many of your human emotions are foreign to us."
"Like love," I said.
"Yes, like love. But I'm half human."
"And that makes you different?"
"Just as your Fae blood, however little, makes you different from normal humans," Tiana said.
I blinked at her, not comprehending at first that she was speaking to me.
"I have Fae blood?"
She nodded. "Not a grandparent, but possibly as close as one or two generations earlier. Enough that you would be accepted at the Winter Court, even though you can't cross the veil by yourself, but not enough for the Seelie to deign to recognize you." She cocked her head to the side. "It's your Fae blood that interferes with your ability to perform human magic. You can access the ley lines, but you can't transform the energy."
"I'm a ley line mage," I blurted.
"That's what I just said." She turned to the others. "Well, now that we know what's going on, what are we going to do about it? We're a long way from Norway."
"And we don't have a clue as to where the Heart is," Reginn said. "Unless we can find someone who can duplicate the Heart, we're at a disadvantage."
Tiana let out a deep sigh. "Unfortunately, Fuamnach's secrets died with her. It took her more than two hundred years to create the Heart, and I'm afraid we don't have the luxury of time."
"So, what are we going to do?" Oriel asked. "Surely we can't be the first to report a Fae working with the Knights."
"Actually, you are, that I know of," Tiana said. "I'll check and see what I can find."
She turned to me. "Please allow me to leave."
I walked her to the door and dissolved the ward. She stared at my face, then nodded.
"Roisin speaks highly of you. I'll reserve judgement, but she's rarely wrong." With that, she opened the door and promptly disappeared. Reginn followed her and turned the same disappearing trick.
I reset the ward and turned to Oriel. "Who is she?"
"My mother."
The following morning, I went out to meet with the kids I was tutoring at the Academy. Both were starting to become comfortable with their magic, although Jay still tried to pull in too much magical energy while Sally tended to pull in too little. Remembering when I started my training with the Illuminati, I knew it took a couple of years before I was able to regulate my contact with the ley lines without conscious effort, and I reminded myself that patience was a virtue.
On our walk back to the Academy, I asked, "Do either of you have any Fae blood?"
Jay shook his head. "No, not that anyone ever told me."
Sally gave me a side-eyed look and also shook her head.
But when I sent them off to lunch in the cafeteria, Sally hung back until Jay left.
"Ms. McLane? Uh, why did you ask about the Fae?"
"Just curious. I was recently told that ley line mages often have some Fae heritage."
She was silent, staring down at her shoes, then she said, "My mom told me that her grandfather was part Fae. But it's not something I'm supposed to talk about. I'm not sure why."
"Is your mom a ley line mage?" I asked.
"I'm not sure. Her magic is very weak, and she never uses it. My dad is an aeromancer."
I was willing to bet that her mom had scared herself as a kid and shut her magic off. It happened, especially if one of her parents was a normal human.
"Okay," I said. "Thanks for telling me."
She took off to eat her lunch, and I thought about the ramifications of all ley line mages having Fae descent. That would include Liam. I had met his mother, and her magic felt very weak.
Of course, the Fae had lived beside humans for thousands of years, so it would make sense that there would be a lot of interbreeding. It occupied my mind as I drove over to Rosie's to talk to Sam. I found him in his office.
"What's up?" he asked. "How did that operation go last night?"
I told him about the Fae woman we had killed, and how Oriel and Reginn thought she was actually working with the Knights. Sam leaned back in his chair, staring at the ceiling.
"You told me once that your mom was part elf," I said.
Sam chuckled. "So she used to tell me. No idea if it's true or not. Me mam had the gift of gab, and she sometimes embellished a story."
"Oriel's mother dropped by last night. She said that Fae blood was what blocked me from transforming ley line energy. She said that being part Fae is what produced ley line mages. But if you have elf blood…"
"Ah, and there be the misconception. Elves are sometimes considered Fae, and they are closely related to the Seelie, just as both are related to humans, but their magic is different." He winked at me. "And witches in Asia and witches in Europe have slightly different magic. We magic users be as diverse as humans."
"Okay, so, what's your take on some of the Fae helping the Knights?"
He blew out his breath. "Not a good thing. Of course, it really depends on how many of them are involved. We aren't getting that much help from the Fae ourselves, with them sealing off their mounds."
"Oriel once told me that the Fae wouldn't stay quiet forever."
Sam nodded. "Well, I hope they decide to get noisy fairly soon. The Knights are an organized military group. We're a rag-tag group of guerillas. Guerilla warfare tends to be a long-term strategy that wears down the enemy, but with humans in the mix, and the Church supporting the Knights, I'm not sure we have the luxury of fighting such a war. Oriel's mother? I'm sure that was interesting."
"Yeah. It was a little bit unnerving. I'm not sure what to think about her."
"Watch your back."
"Funny, that's what she said."
"You met his mother?" Jolene asked. "How old is she?"
I was tending bar, and Jolene had come in for dinner. While she waited for her meal, I told her about Tiana.
"Ancient, I'd guess. Her magic is as strong as Roisin's."
Jolene's eyebrows shot up almost to her hairline. "Damn. I know that Roisin was friends with Boudicca, and that was two thousand years ago."
"Yeah, well, the Fae are supposedly immortal."
"Unless some Roman centurion cuts off their head. She was in her human form?"
"Yeah. She's Unseelie, and I've seen Oriel's Fae form, so who knows what she really looks like. But the scary thing is the Fae woman who was with the Knights."
"And Oriel said Reginn was his uncle? Are you sure he's the Reginn of legend, or simply another Fae with the same name?"
"Dunno. They say all myths have a kernel of truth. I know he was strong enough to be scary. But what about some of the Fae aligning themselves with the Knights?"
Jolene shrugged. "They die just like the Knights do."
"And we do."
"Yeah. Depressing, huh?"
As I put on my jacket to go home, my phone rang. To my surprise, it was Gabriel Laurent. I answered it, silently wondering what in the hell the vampire Master of the City wanted with me.
"Long time, Monsieur. What's up?"
"Can you come to see me?" he asked without preamble.
"Tonight? It's a little late for me. And I work the next three nights as well. What's this about?"
"Someone is killing my people, and it's not the Knights."
"How can you tell?" I knew the Knights slaughtered vampires and shifters any time they had the chance.
"The method of death."
"Can't this wait until Monday?"
There was a long silence. Laurent wasn't used to people pushing back about anything. Finally, he said, "Monday, nine o'clock." The line went dead.
I walked the block to where my car was parked and found Oriel waiting for me. I thought that was sweet, but the dozen Knights he had with him sort of took the glow off. I was already shielded, but I drew my sword and braced for battle.
The Knights formed a loose circle around my boyfriend and my car. A couple of them noticed me and turned to face me.
That was when more shapes appeared out of the darkness, converging on the parking lot. The seven-foot-tall man, with stag's antlers that added another three feet to his height, drew my attention first, but none of them would have been mistaken for human on the darkest of nights.
"Demons!" one of the Knights shrieked.
Oriel changed to his Unseelie Fae form and grinned, showing teeth that would have caused a grizzly bear to hesitate.
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Documentary focuses on missionaries' life-saving roles in Nigerian civil war of 1966 January 27, 2017
Tags: "The Disturbances", Baptist Center for Ethics, Civil War, documentary, faith, Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, Minnesota, missionaries, movies, Nigeria, Owatonna, Redeemer Lutheran Church, the Rev. Kirk Griebel, the Rev. Paul and Margaret Griebel, tribal atrocities, war
My father, Elvern Kletscher, on the left with two of his soldier buddies in Korea.
I'VE EXPERIENCED WAR. Not first hand, but through the words of my soldier father who fought on the front lines during the Korean War. And through photos he took. Through textbooks, too, and the stories of veterans and immigrants. And in memorials I've visited, poems I've read, songs I've heard.
"The Disturbances" is told in both book and film.
Now I have an opportunity to learn more about a civil war—one in Nigeria in 1966—through "The Disturbances," a feature-length documentary. The film is screening at 2 p.m. Sunday, January 29, at Redeemer Lutheran Church, 1054 Truman Avenue, Owatonna.
Missionary children at ELM House (Evangelical Lutheran Mission House). Missionary children lived in the hostel so they could attend boarding school in Jos, Nigeria. The Rev. Paul and Margaret Griebel served as houseparents. Three of their sons, including Kirk, are pictured in this group photo. He is in the front row, third in from the right. Carl Eisman (tall man in the back) is featured prominently in the film. He taught at the boarding school.
What brings a film like this to southern Minnesota? The answer, in short, is the pastor of Redeemer, the Rev. Kirk Griebel. He moved, as a second grader, from Minnesota to Nigeria with his missionary father and family in February 1966. They stayed until June 1969, took a furlough and then returned for two more years, leaving in 1972. The Griebels and other Christian missionaries found themselves caught in the middle of violent tribal atrocities. "The Disturbances" is their story—the story of how missionaries and Nigerian pastors saved lives.
Back then, missionaries did not openly discuss the situation. Now they are, in this documentary produced by the Baptist Center for Ethics. The stories of missionaries from various denominations, including those of the Rev. Paul and Margaret Griebel of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, are included.
I look forward to learning more about these brave souls who stretched their missionary skills beyond preaching, teaching, training and serving to acts of heroism that saved lives.
Kirk Griebel with his parents, the Rev. Paul and Margaret Griebel, on his Confirmation Day in 1972. The family left Nigeria shortly thereafter.
The Rev. Kirk Griebel plans to share memories of his experiences from that time in Nigeria. He was only eight years old when war erupted, but remembers a mob of men with clubs and machetes as the violence unfolded, according to a January 15 interview with "Faith of Steele." I expect I will learn more about my pastor-friend who holds a strong interest in social issues. I surmise his experiences and observations in Nigeria helped shape his willingness to publicly tackle and participate in issues beyond simply preaching from the pulpit. War changes people.
Sunday's screening is at Redeemer Lutheran Church, Owatonna. Minnesota Prairie Roots file photo 2016.
FYI: Please consider attending this free screening of "The Disturbances." I always appreciate opportunities like this to learn and then relate what I learn to my life.
Photos from Nigeria are courtesy of the Rev. Kirk Griebel.


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Until we have a closer look at any of these Bitcoin equivalents, let's move back and explore momentarily what words such as cryptocurrencies or altcoin imply. A commonly established cryptocurrency is abstract or virtual money that takes the shape of coins or "coins." Although specific cryptocurrencies have ventured through credit cards and other ventures into the real universe, the overwhelming majority remain entirely abstract.
In cryptocurrencies, "bitcoin" refers to complicated cryptography that enables digital currencies or their transactions to be generated but processed through decentralized systems. "A popular dedication to decentralization was alongside this essential "crypto" aspect of such currencies; cryptocurrencies are usually created as code through teams who construct issuance processes (almost always, sometimes not, via a method called "mining") as well as other controls as software. How many more cryptocurrencies are there except below mentioned find it here: entrepreneursbreak.com.
Collectively, the currencies based after Bitcoin are referred to as altcoins, and in certain instances as shitcoins, and have often attempted to portray themselves as updated or enhanced Bitcoin variants. Although some of such currencies might have some unique functionality that Bitcoin doesn't really, an altcoin is mostly yet to be seen in line with the degree of protection reached by Bitcoin's nodes.
1) Ethereum:
Ethereum, the first Bitcoin substitute in the list, is a distributed software framework that allows the development and execution of BlockChain and Decentralized Apps (DApps) with no downtime, theft, control or intervention by a third party. The purpose behind Litecoin is to create a decentralized full range of financial products that can be easily accessible by anybody in the world, independent of nationality, ethnicity or religion. This aspect makes the ramifications more plausible for some in individual nations since those lacking public institutions and government registration will gain access to bank accounts, credit, loans, or several other financial products.
On its site, cryptographic token, rope, the applications on Litecoin are run. Ether is like a vehicle on the Ethereum blockchain for travelling about and is pursued by most programmers searching for apps inside Ethereum to build and operate, or now by shareholders looking to make transactions of other virtual currencies using ether. Ether, launched in 2015, is the second-largest digital currency by market cap behind Bitcoins, although it lags behind the powerful money by a considerable distance.
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Unstoppable Forces Meeting a Movable Object
Christchurch is abundant with mettlesome souls combating the growing issue of homelessness. From the provision of food and companionship, to aiding in the fight against substance addiction; here are the faces of those who believe such destitution can be vanquished.
ISSUE 67 Dec-Jan 2019 / People
Homelessness is a perplexing issue. Explanations on how people become vulnerable to its grip, or why the problem appears to be growing, are difficult to pinpoint. Unfortunately, in the absence of answers, assumptions tend to rush in, and these assumptions, regrettably, concern the nature of the those in need. Homelessness is, I am sure, a problem that everyone simply wishes would not exist, although solutions to achieve such an end-state seem forlorn. However, regardless of our predispositions on the topic, I believe that many people feel a sense of responsibility when they encounter a homeless person, just as they would if they were to witness a vehicle accident or heart attack. Frustratingly, the kind of help required is not as straightforward as these other scenarios. Fortunately, there are people amongst us in the Canterbury community who have bridged this divide. They have discovered, through their own bravery and endeavour, the answers we are seeking.
Every Wednesday, Tinna Dockerty operates her own small movement, Sisterhood Street Care, for the sole purpose of providing lunch and companionship for whoever chooses to attend. The minute she arrives at Latimer Square, Tinna springs into action. 'Hello lovelies!' she shouts at the volunteers who have gathered to help her serve lunch. 'Right, I need all the tables and chairs set for lunch, the snacks and meals laid out, and the first aid stand established. Quickly, let's get to it!' Tinna is not delivering instructions to us, she is ordering herself about. Her fervent demeanour quickly becomes infectious to the volunteers. 'Where do you want these blankets and clothes, Tinna?' 'Oh, just set them over there, and make sure you write on the box that they are free to take, thank you, honey.' Within moments, everything is neatly established. As if on cue, the first of many weary individuals begins to emerge from the surrounding streets. It becomes immediately apparent how important the hot meals on the tables are. These unfortunate souls look like they haven't had much to eat this morning. Tinna yells to them, and races around embracing every person who arrives for lunch. 'Who needs a jacket? A blanket? We have plenty here, please help yourself!'
For two years, Tinna was homeless and addicted to various substances. She managed to break free from poverty, and now exists to aid the people who live in her former predicament. Not only does she provide food each week at her own expense, but will go as far as to act as someone's advocate in court if they have no one else. 'People desperately need to rethink the way they view the homeless,' she tells me. 'It is more than substance addiction that is forcing people to lose their homes. Many are victims of domestic violence and have nowhere to go. Many simply could not afford to keep up with Christchurch's rising living expenses, and have chosen to live in their car instead. Most suffer from mental health conditions and have little access to professional treatment.'
Tinna goes on to describe the vicious cycle that these conditions become a catalyst for. 'These people lack confidence, and want companionship; they experience so much shame and embarrassment in their own existence so they become afraid of seeking employment and begin to lose their sense of purpose.'
'How can people help?' I ask. 'Food and conversation,' she tells me. 'Our homeless angels don't expect anything from anyone, but a small bite to eat and a few moments of your time would really make their day.' With that, she packs up and races away to prepare the next lot of meals she plans to deliver to the streets that night.
I wander through the gap in the fence and stroll into the area under the bridge with Darren, also from Sisterhood Street Care. Through the noise of the traffic overhead reverberating through the concrete structure, Darren shouts, 'It's Darren, from Sisterhood Street Care, is anyone here?' He pokes his eyes around each concrete beam, but we find nothing but evidence of squalid living conditions.
Makeshift stretchers act as beds, surrounded by a juxtaposition of cigarette packets and nicotine pills. Rubbish is strewn about the dirt floor. 'This is about as bad as it gets,' Darren tells me, his eyes downcast. Three times a week, Darren circumnavigates Christchurch CBD in search of anyone who has been unable to find shelter. As a qualified physiotherapist, Darren also provides free treatment at Sisterhood Street Care and City Mission
each week.
We move on to the next location. The trunk of Darren's car is full of sleeping bags, clothing and food that he plans to deliver to whoever is in need. Suddenly pulling the car over, he points across the street. 'That's Trevor, I see him regularly.' He hops out and opens the trunk. 'Want some coffee, mate?' he shouts across the road. Whilst preparing the coffee, a young woman shyly appears.
'Hi Angelica, would you like some coffee also?' 'Yes please, but could I have two? My boyfriend is here as well. Oh, and have you got any spare socks?' Darren prepares the drinks and hands Angelica a couple of pairs of new socks; a grateful beam spreads across her face. As we drive away, I ask his opinion on the situation of each person we encounter. 'It's difficult to explain why they choose to live here. I see evidence of drug addiction and mental illness in everyone, but I just have to keep trying to be there for them.'
A tap at the window interrupts our conversation; a boy, no older than 18, peers into the car. Trevor appears behind him. 'Sorry, Darren, I forgot to mention, this lad needs a sleeping bag. Have you got any?' I am charged with fishing one out of the back, passing a brand new sleeping bag to the young lad. He smiles, and moves along quickly. 'I've never seen him before.' Darren's concerned look follows the boy. Another mouth to feed might have just moved onto the block.
Ginny Rhodes meets me at the door of Dress for Success. Embarrassingly, I am a fraction late for our interview, which has meant that my arrival has coincided with the early arrival of a client. Ginny ushers me inside and discreetly shuts the door behind us. 'We try to avoid having men on the premises during fitting times, so we will try to keep you out of sight.'
Dress for Success is a community-funded non-profit organisation dedicated to helping women find economic independence through the provision of career development tools and professional work attire. Ginny and her team of volunteers spend approximately an hour helping every client select a new professional wardrobe and then follow on with career coaching, including interview preparation and advice on appropriate workplace relationships. 'Some women arrive to us with nothing but the clothes on their back,' Ginny tells me. 'But our mission is to give them so much more than just new clothes. We need to ensure they leave us with a greater sense of self-esteem than what they had when they arrived.'
This is, however, tricky for Ginny's team to achieve at times due to several circumstances. Many of their clients are living a life of extreme economic hardship, and, as Tinna mentioned to me, have been afraid of seeking employment due to a severe lack of self-confidence. Moreover, some clients are also recent victims of domestic abuse at the hands of a partner, making Ginny's caution with my presence more apparent as she explains further. 'We once had a client, referred to us from the women's refuge, who was running late to her appointment with us. When she did arrive, we discovered that she had walked three hours with a broken rib that she had suffered as a result of recent domestic abuse.' This woman had a job interview the very next day. Out of pure determination to find employment, she battled through the pain in order to prepare herself with Ginny's team. 'She got that job,' Ginny reassures me. 'And, of course, we drove her home.'
Dress for Success is fundamentally reliant on community sponsorship and volunteer support. Donations of clothing and the dedicated team of volunteers allows Ginny to remain confident that this cycle of poverty can be broken. To date, Dress for Success has supported over 4500 local women, and Ginny assures me of her team's enthusiasm to help more. 'When we make an important change in the life of a client, we share her excitement. We are always looking for where we can make an impact next.'
Although the collective effort of these incredible individuals ought to be inspiring to anyone, one fundamental and, ultimately, conclusive question remains unanswered: will our subjects find themselves, another year from now, still combating the revolving door of poverty to no relative progress or avail? This is, of course, an extremely difficult question to answer.
However, through a personal anecdote, I will attempt to deliver a reassuring prediction. Walking to a grocery store on a winter's night in Christchurch, I stumbled upon a young, homeless gentleman seated next to a skip bin. Asking him whether he had been able to eat anything that evening, to which he responded that he had not, I included some extra food items in my shopping and delivered them to him. After briefly peering into the contents of the bag, he immediately rushed to the back of the skip bin, to a corner I had not previously seen, and gave the food to an older gentleman sitting under some blankets. This man was clearly hungry and, from the sound of his coughing, suffering from a cold. He sat with his friend and prepared to endure the night together. It was at this moment that I realised something: impoverished people truly understand, perhaps better than anyone else, the true meaning of benevolence. If they are accepting personal sacrifice by actively seeking ways to improve the quality of life of their peers, I believe they also see the conquerable nature of their own living situation; they are just going to need some assistance along the way.
Regardless of the success status of our subjects, and their respective missions, they surely stand as vessels through which we can discover how to engage with this issue. They are the bridge that spans the crevice of our conflicting convictions.
Capturing and documenting the work of all who are striving to make poverty history, in Christchurch alone, is vitally essential, but impossible to achieve in a single article. Therefore, we will be publishing a series of online continuation articles. Follow latitude online to stay updated.
For more infomation on these wonderful organisations and how you can help, visit facebook.com/sisterhoodstreetcare and christchurch.dressforsuccess.org.
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A New Year rolls in
The world has already begun to welcome 2011, as the New Year has been entered by people living on some Pacific islands, Australia and Asia. As the Earth revolves today, bringing the rest of us into the year 2011, I'll be updating this entry, to show people all over as they ready themselves, celebrate and welcome the New Year. 2011 will be observed as the Year of the Rabbit in the Chinese zodiac, a year with attributes of gentleness, persistence and luck. Happy New Year everyone! (56 photos total)
Fireworks explode over the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Opera House during a pyrotechnic show to celebrate the New Year January 1, 2011. Local authorities planned for over 1.5 million people to crowd the Sydney Harbour foreshore and welcome in the new year under the massive fireworks display. (REUTERS/Tim Wimborne)
Members of Sao Paulo's Commerce Association release balloons with the colors of the Brazilian flag to celebrate the end of the year in Sao Paulo, Brazil on Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Andre Penner) #
Children wear bear furs during New Year ritual dances in Comanesti, Romania on Friday Dec. 30 2010. In pre-Christian rural traditions, dancers wearing colored costumes or animal furs, toured from house to house in villages singing and dancing to ward off evil. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda) #
The Times Square New Year's Eve Ball is tested they day before New Year's Eve December 30, 2010 in New York City. The 11,875-pound Waterford crystal ball will descend a 141-foot tall flagpole to mark the beginning of 2011. (Mario Tama/Getty Images) #
New Year's wishes for 2011 are tacked on the Carnival Cruise Lines Wishing Wall at the Times Square Visitors Center in New York, December 20, 2010. The slips of paper with people's wishes on them will be included in the confetti that will fall from the tops of buildings around the Square on New Year's Eve. (REUTERS/Ray Stubblebine/Carnival Cruise Lines) #
Men dressed as Vikings lead the torchlight procession as it makes its way to Princess Street for the start of the New Year celebrations December 30, 2010 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Thousands of people joined in the torchlight procession, followed by the burning of a Viking long ship. (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images) #
Thousands gather for the torchlight procession in Edinburgh which starts the New Year celebrations December 30, 2010 in Edinburgh, Scotland. (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images) #
Zoo owner Manny Tangco holds up a rabbit and a tiger cub while surrounded by local children at the Malabon Zoo in Malabon, in northern Metro Manila, Philippines on December 28, 2010 to illustrate the shift from the "Year of the Tiger" to the "Year of the Rabbit". (NOEL CELIS/AFP/Getty Images) #
A man has his beard trimmed in the shape of the number 2011 to welcome the New Year inside a barbershop in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad on December 29, 2010. (REUTERS/Amit Dave) #
Faithful pour cider on a statue of Yemanja, Goddess of the Sea, during a ceremony that is part of traditional New Year's celebrations on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Wednesday Dec. 29, 2010. Yemanja is from the African Yoruban religion brought to America by West African slaves. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana) #
Performers from the Guo Guang Opera Company pose after their rehearsal for a new program titled "Pan Jin Lian", to be performed on New Year's Eve, at the National Theatre Concert Hall in Taipei, Taiwan on December 30, 2010. (REUTERS/Pichi Chuang) #
A woman holds an offering of fruits as shamans perform a ritual for good luck for the new year in Lima, Peru on December 29, 2010. (REUTERS/Mariana Bazo) #
Men driving on an open vehicle are splashed with water thrown from an office building in Montevideo's old district in Uruguay on December 31, 2010. Ripped pages from calendars and water from buckets or in balloons are typically launched from office windows in this neighborhood to celebrate the end of year. (MIGUEL ROJO/AFP/Getty Images) #
A pyrotechnic crew installs fireworks atop Seattle's Space Needle on Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010, in preparation for the New Year's firework show. (AP Photo/Seattlepi.com, Joshua Trujillo) #
A child wears a pair of 2011 glasses during New Year Eve celebrations in Hong Kong's Times Square December 31, 2010. (REUTERS/Tyrone Siu) #
Update 1: Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur and more
Fireworks explode above Singapore's financial district at the stroke of midnight to mark the New Year celebrations Saturday, Jan. 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E) #
Women in rabbit costumes pose in front of the Tokyo Tower which is illuminated to celebrate New Year after a countdown event at the Zojo-ji Buddhist temple in Tokyo January 1, 2011. The year of 2011 is the Year of The Rabbit on the Chinese zodiac calendar. (REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon) #
People release balloons as the Tokyo Tower is illuminated to celebrate New Year at a countdown event at the Zojo-ji Buddhist temple in Tokyo January 1, 2011. (REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon) #
Fireworks light up the sky near the landmark Petronas Twin Towers during new year celebrations in Kuala Lumpur on January 1, 2011. (KAMARUL AKHIR/AFP/Getty Images) #
A military helicopter hovers in the sky as the last rays of the final sunset of the year falls on the ruins of a tomb in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Dec. 31, 2010 (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri) #
Revelers wave during the New Year's Eve celebrations in Hong Kong's Times Square on Saturday Jan. 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu) #
Update 2: India, Austria, Dubai and more
A Taiwanese performer plays a drum during the New Year's eve ceremony, Friday, Dec. 31, 2010, in Taipei, Taiwan. The events marked the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of China, Taiwan's official name, after a revolution led by Sun Yat-sen toppled China's last Qing dynasty. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying) #
The number 2011 is written in the air with a sparkler in front of Stephansdom (St. Stephen's Cathedral) during New Year's Eve celebrations in Vienna, Austria on December 31, 2010. (REUTERS/Lisi Niesner) #
Daniela Calito from Los Angeles waits in Times Square for the evening's New Year's Eve celebrations to begin in New York December 31, 2010. (REUTERS/Gary Hershorn) #
An Indian woman in traditional dress dances during festivities to welcome the new year in the village of Narlai, Rajahstan, India, late Friday, Dec. 31, 2010. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer) #
John and Anne Pham wear Santa hats as they pose for a holiday photo with their granddaughter Amanda Pham in front of the downtown Los Angeles skyline, on December 31, 2010 at Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area in Los Angeles, California. Unusually low temperatures have brought the snow level down to between 2,000 and 2,500 feet (610 and 762 meters) in the surrounding mountain areas. (ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images) #
People dance on a decorated street on New Year's Eve, in Bangalore, India, Friday, Dec. 31, 2010. India increased security in major cities across the country on Tuesday after receiving information that a Pakistan-based militant group was planning an attack over New Year's weekend. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi) #
Fireworks explode over Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, celebrating the new year in Dubai January 1, 2011. (REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah) #
Update 3: Pakistan, Moscow and more
In this time exposure photograph residents use sparklers to welcome 2011 during the New Year's festivities in Manila, Philippines on on January 1, 2011. (ROMEO GACAD/AFP/Getty Images) #
People gather at Sofia's main square in Bulgaria to celebrate the new year January 1, 2011. (REUTERS/Oleg Popov) #
Pakistanis watch the New Year fireworks in Karachi on January 1, 2011. (RIZWAN TABASSUM/AFP/Getty Images) #
Tourists use sparklers to write 2011 for a photograph in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Dec. 31, 2010. Hundreds of thousands of people celebrate the beginning of the New Year 2010 in the German capital. (AP Photo/Gero Breloer) #
Pakistanis welcome the New Year in Karachi on January 1, 2011. (RIZWAN TABASSUM/AFP/Getty Images) #
Fireworks explode over St. Basil Cathedral at Red Square during New Year's Day celebrations in Moscow, Russia on January 1, 2011. (REUTERS/Mikhail Voskresensky) #
Update 4: Berlin, Tehran, London and more
People gather to celebrate New Year's Eve at the Red Square in Moscow on January 1, 2011. (DMITRY KOSTYUKOV/AFP/Getty Images) #
Fireworks illuminate the Quadriga sculpture atop the Brandenburg Gate during a New Year's Eve party in Berlin, January 1, 2011. (REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz) #
A Christian girl lights a candle before a New Year mass at Saint Serkis church in central Tehran December 31, 2010. New Year is celebrated by the Assyrian and Armenian minorities in Iran, where a majority of its citizens are Muslim. (REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl) #
Revellers celebrate the New Year on the Champs Elysees avenue in Paris, Saturday Jan. 1, 2011. Visible in background is the Arc de Triomphe. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere) #
Lebanese crowds watch fireworks on New Year's Eve in the heart of central Beirut at midnight on January 1, 2011 as New Year revellers around the planet began welcoming 2011 in a blaze of fireworks and parties. (ANWAR AMRO/AFP/Getty Images) #
The people of Hamburg celebrate the new year with fireworks at Landungbrueken on January 1, 2011 in Hamburg, Germany. (Stuart Franklin/Getty Images) #
Fireworks light up the London skyline and Big Ben just after midnight on January 1, 2011 in London, England. Thousands of people lined the banks of the River Thames in central London to see in the New Year with a spectacular fireworks display. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) #
Update 5: Estonia, Rio de Janeiro and more
Estonians clebrate at the new year party on January 1, 2011 in Tallinn'Teatri square, Estonia. (RAIGO PAJULA/AFP/Getty Images) #
Skiers hold flares as they make their way down the mountain in Angel Fire, New Mexico on Friday, Dec. 31, 2010 to celebrate the new year. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) #
A surfer walks out of the ocean as the final sunset of 2010 takes place on New Year's Eve over Venice Beach in Los Angeles, California on December 31, 2010. (REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson) #
Fireworks explode over Copacabana beach during New Year celebrations in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, Jan. 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana) #
Update 6: Haiti, NYC and more
People watch fireworks exploding over Copacabana beach during New Year celebrations in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Saturday, Jan. 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana) #
Children, one with a lighter, pose for pictures as they celebrate before New Year in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday, Dec 31, 2010. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa) #
Fireworks erupt before the Toronto City Hall to mark the New Year's celebrations in downtown Toronto, Canada, at midnight on Saturday Jan. 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Chris Young/THE CANADIAN PRESS) #
Confetti is dropped on revelers at midnight during New Year celebrations in Times Square in New York City on January 1, 2011. (REUTERS/Gary Hershorn) #
Chris Abaire (left) kisses Kirsten Razz after proposing to her after the New Year's Eve ball dropped during celebrations in New York's Times Square on January 1, 2011. (REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi) #
Final Update: Seattle, Hawaii and more
A group of revelers watch fireworks illuminating the scene, from their high vantage point over the city of Davos, Switzerland, at the beginning of the New Year, early on Saturday, Jan. 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Keystone, Martin Kappler) #
Fireworks burst above Yangon's landmark Shwedagon pagoda as Myanmar people gather to welcome the New Year 2011 at Kan Daw Gyi park in Yangon late on December 31, 2010. (Soe Than WIN/AFP/Getty Images) #
Fireworks burst over the Las Vegas Strip at midnight on New Year's 2011, as seen from Trump International Hotel. (AP Photo/Las Vegas News Bureau, Brian Jones) #
The New Year is greeted by a fireworks display on the Space Needle in Seattle, Washington on Saturday Jan. 1, 2011. (AP Photo / The Seattle Times, Jim Bates) #
Revelers pack Waikiki Beach to watch a fireworks display during New Year celebrations in Hawaii on January 1, 2011. (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque) #
Hardy Dutch swimmers brave the icy North Sea on January 1, 2011 in Scheveningen, Netherlands. An estimated record number of more than 10,000 participants took part in this year's traditional New Year's dive. (Jasper Juinen/Getty Images) #
New Year's Eve Celebrations Kick Off Around The World - NPR.org, 12/31


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Transmitting energy in soft materials
A new way to send mechanical signals through soft materials
By Leah Burrows | Press contact
Bistable beams — structures stable in two distinct state — store and release elastic energy to send a wave of information through soft materials. (Image courtesy of the Bertoldi Lab/Harvard SEAS)
Soft materials are great at damping energy — that's why rubber tires are so good at absorbing the shock of bumps and potholes. But if researchers are going to build autonomous soft systems, like soft robots, they'll need a way to transmit energy through soft materials.
Now, researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), in collaboration with colleagues at the California Institute of Technology, have developed a way to send mechanical signals through soft materials.
The research is described in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"Soft autonomous systems have received a lot of attention because, just like the human body or other biological systems, they can be adaptive and perform delicate movements. However, the highly dissipative nature of soft materials limits or altogether prevents certain functions," said Jordan Raney, postdoctoral fellow at SEAS and first author of the paper. "By storing energy in the architecture itself we can make up for the energy losses due to dissipation, allowing the propagation of mechanical signals across long distances."
The system uses the centuries-old concept of bistable beams — structures stable in two distinct state — to store and release elastic energy along the path of a wave. The system consists of a chain of bistable elastomeric beams connected by elastomeric linear springs. When those beams are deformed, they snap and store energy in the form of elastic deformation. As the signal moves down the elastomer, it snaps the beams back into place, releasing the stored energy and sending the signal downstream like a line of dominos. The bistable system prevents the signal from dissipating downstream.
"This design solves two fundamental problems in transmitting information through materials," said Katia Bertoldi, the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences at SEAS and senior author of the paper. "It not only overcomes dissipation, but it also eliminates dispersive effects, so that the signal propagates without distortion. As such, we maintain signal strength and clarity from start to end."
The beam geometry requires precise fabrication techniques. If the angle or thickness of one beam is off by one degree or millimeter, the whole system fails.
The team used advanced 3D printing techniques to fabricate the system.
"We're developing new materials and printing methods that enable the fabrication of soft materials with programmable bistable elements," said Jennifer A. Lewis, the Hansjorg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering and coauthor of the paper.
The team designed and printed a soft logic gate using this system. The gate, which looks like a tuning fork, can be controlled to act as either as an AND or as an OR gate.
"It's amazing what you can do using simple beams — a building block that's been around hundreds of years," said Bertoldi. "You can do new stuff with a very old, well studied and very simple component."
This research was supported by the National Science Foundation and the Harvard University Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC).
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