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And the early buzz on 'She-Hulk'
Ezra Miller apologizes, says they are seeking mental health treatment… The controversial star appears to be putting their life back on track. As you'll recall this was the first of WB's three options for dealing with The Miller Problem. I'm sure the studio is happy that it won't have to scrap The Flash for now. You never know what could happen before next summer. I hope Miller does get the help they appear to need, but I won't be surprised if they're mostly absent from the DC movie's publicity tour. ⚡
Robert De Niro to play competing two mafia dons in Barry Levinson's Wise Guys… Bobby D is returning to the organized crime genre, reuniting with Barry L on Warner Bros.' theatrical-aimed Wise Guys. The 1950s-set feature is reportedly about warring patriarchs Vito Genovese and Frank Costello — and get this, De Niro "will be taking on both key roles." He's a regular Lindsay Lohan! The cherry on top? Goodfellas scribe Nicholas Pileggi wrote the script. Mamma mia! 🍝
New Academy CEO signals the Oscars will return to form… Why? Did something happen this year??? Bill Kramer is signaling that all categories will return to the broadcast in 2023, that the show will have consistent "multiyear" producers, and that the Oscars should "feel like a massive celebration of cinema and the awards." So a swing back to tradition, as I predicted the day after this year's telecast. It was the only likely outcome. 🏆
Almost 60% of Americans' entertainment time is spent on ad-supported platforms… Which might be partly why all the streamers are adding ad tiers. Alas, the utopic future of ad-free TV was not meant to be. 📢
Early reactions to She-Hulk episodes tout wacky comedic tone… Looks like Marvel's got another winner, but let's wait for the critics to weigh in before making any smash decisions. 🍅
Coalition of 1,425 showrunners and directors raises $2.5M for abortion access… Nice! Now it's time for the streamers and studios to step up! 👏
The Tonight Show hits 30M subscribers on YouTube… In response, Jimmy Fallon threw his head back, laughed, and clapped. ▶
Disney taps Hawkeye directors for Big Thunder Mountain feature… Can they tame the wildest ride in the wilderness? 🚂
Air Force One and Das Boot director Wolfgang Petersen has died at 81
On the Count of Three — Aug 17 | Netflix dark comedy film | 🍅 85%
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law — Aug 18 | Disney+ Marvel comedy series | 🍅
Bad Sisters — Aug 19 | Apple comedy thriller series | 🍅 100%
House of the Dragon — Aug 21 | HBO drama series | 🍅
If you're looking for a new show that you can binge in a day, Starstruck is sitting on HBO Max just waiting to be discovered. Created by and starring Kiwi comedian Rose Matafeo, this London-based episodic romcom is in the tradition of recent women-led, auteur-driven, London-based series like Fleabag, I Hate Suzie, Feel Good, and I May Destroy You. But Matafeo sets her show apart with a high concept (what if a regular girl accidentally beds a movie star?) and her hilarious, dry, very New Zealand sense of humor. Starstruck doesn't forget the com in rom-com, providing at least a few genuine laugh-out-loud moments each episode. This genre has become the 2020s version of the 1990s' comedian-driven sitcom (Roseanne, Seinfeld, Raymond etc), and Matafeo uses it to showcase herself as well as the best of those old sitcoms did for its stars. Matafeo's character is magnetic, flawed, and really funny. Her personality shines and though the character is far from perfect, you'll want to hang out with her and her friends — and you'll root for her to make it work with her unlikely beau. It's ironic then that Matafeo positions herself as the one being "starstruck" in the show, when in reality, we're the ones being starstruck by her.


In the midst of a full morning of wall-to-wall interviews yesterday, losing Democratic gubernatorial candidate Robert Fustero had time to consider what might have been if anyone had paid this much attention to him before Election Day.
"I've given more interviews since I lost than I did when I was running," the retired grocery stock clerk observed by phone from his Silver Spring home.
While Fustero struggles with the paradox of why he is more newsworthy as an electoral loser than he was as a candidate, the rest of us are left to ponder an even more intriguing question: How did a complete unknown who spent less than $1,500 manage to garner more than 20 percent of the vote against Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, a virtual household name (and not just any name) with one of the largest campaign warchests in Maryland election history?
If Robert Ehrlich beats Townsend in November - as Fustero believes he will - then the name "Fustero" might one day take on a certain meaning in Maryland politics. Loosely translated, that meaning would be "WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!"
Fustero himself believes his showing against Townsend should serve as a wake-up call for her campaign. Voters must not like her too much if they were willing to pull the lever for a complete unknown whose campaign consisted of appearing at sparsely attended forums and handing out a few hundred campaign fliers and buttons.
"Her people should be like, 'Here's this clerk from Giant Food who no one knew anything about, and look what he did.' "
He did it in an almost complete media blackout. A chief disappointment in not winning a chance at the State House is that he won't realize one of his fondest fantasies - consigning reporters who ignored him to press quarters nearest the janitor's closet.
On the campaign trail, Fustero says, he discovered deep dissatisfaction with Townsend, whom he believes is far too solicitous of the rich and powerful rather than the working classes.
"I think there is a strong disapproval or dislike, not just of her but of this administration."
Describing himself as a progressive Democrat in the tradition of Hubert H. Humphrey and Henry "Scoop" Jackson, Fustero believes Townsend lacks the common touch of, say, a Robert F. Kennedy.
"I don't want to say anything wrong, but she talks about her father all the time, but she's nothing like her father. He used to go into these neighborhoods and press the flesh. She doesn't do that. She goes in on a tour bus just for the photo op."
As for Democratic Party unity come this fall, that is not a Fustero priority. Townsend can forget Fustero urging his 105,000 supporters to switch their allegiances to her. "It's a matter of principle, not party; I ran against her for a reason."
Instead, he's leaning toward endorsing Spear Lancaster, possibly an even more obscure candidate who is running for governor as a Libertarian.
In this election year, Lancaster might just be unknown enough to be dangerous.


President Donald Trump's son-in-law turned senior adviser Jared Kushner and former national security adviser Michael Flynn reportedly scheduled an undisclosed meeting with Russian Ambassador Sergey I. Kislyak in December to "establish a line of communication" between the incoming administration and the Russian government, the New York Times reported.
The extent and frequency of their contacts remain unclear.
News of the meeting surfaced just as Attorney General Jeff Sessions continues to face condemnation from congressional lawmakers for failing to disclose two meetings he had with Russian officials during the 2016 election.
When Sen. Al Franken asked if there was any evidence that Trump surrogates communicated with the Russian government during the 2016 election, Sessions said he was "not aware of any of those activities" in his Senate confirmation hearing.


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The German Minister of Economy calls for a "European position" in the sale of arms to the Saudis
The German Economy Minister, Peter Altmaier, today called for a "European position" in relation to arms sales to Saudi Arabia, whose suspension announced Berlin and requested that other countries do not fill that "vacuum".
"It would be important for me to be able to reach a European position, which I share with Foreign Minister Heiko Maas," the minister told German public television "ZDF".
"And it is only if all European Foreign Ministers agree, then that impresses the Government in Riyadh," Altmaier said.
"It certainly does not have any consequences from the positive point of view if we, which is what we are doing, do not continue at the moment with our arms exports, but at the same time other countries fill that gap," he said.
The minister's statements are known the day after German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced the suspension of the sale of arms from his country to Saudi Arabia.
"With regard to arms exports, these can not take place at the moment we are," Merkel said Sunday in Berlin after a meeting with officials from his party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
Merkel had previously reiterated the condemnation of the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi that he had previously expressed in a joint statement with the foreign minister.
The chancellor also stressed that the explanations given so far by Riyadh about the death of Khashoggi are not enough and said that the German government will try to coordinate with its partners to take a common position before the Saudi Government.
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North Texas to Get the Only New Year's Eve Drone Show in the Country
Stryker Published: December 23, 2021
The future is now and I have always wanted to see one of these in person.
So in case you have no idea what I am talking about, for the past couple of years different countries have been experimenting with drone shows as a replacement to fireworks. You can check out one of the biggest ones above. Now I know some folks are saying I want my explosions still. Dallas is saying, why not both?
Dallas will still do their traditional big fireworks show for New Year's Eve. Apparently they have 4,000 fireworks ready to go for the big night. In addition, they have hired Sky Elements to bring in over 200 drones that will fly above the sky to give fans a lot more to ring in the new year. "It's going to be fantastic," said Rick Boss with Sky Elements. "This has been a great tradition in Dallas and we're so glad to add to it."
According to Rick, he is one of the only companies in the country capable of doing a show like this and he's apparently the only one running on New Year's Eve in the USA. I'm actually really excited for this because now we will be able to see what is better.
The fireworks or the drones. Many are calling these drone shows the future and I think they have the potential to put on a better show. However, the grand finale of a fireworks show is epic. Also, just once I want to witness what happened in San Diego a couple of years ago where every firework was shot off at once.
Would you rather have a ten minute show or 30 seconds of pure happiness. By the way, if you don't plan on going to Dallas for New Years, you can watch the show in Wichita Falls. KFDX (NBC in Wichita Falls) has the rights to Lone Star NYE: Countdown to 2022. The show starts at 11:30 on New Year's Eve.
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Liem said that Vietnam and Japan have enjoyed encouraging educational cooperation, including the Hanoi-based Vietnam-Japan University. He expressed his belief that this cooperation will be fostered, particularly when the two countries mark the 45th founding anniversary of their diplomatic ties in 2018.
The number of Vietnamese students in Japan has risen by almost 20 times over the last decade, reflecting Vietnamese people's demand for and respect of the education quality of Japan, the official noted.
Local authorities are ready to provide favourable conditions for Soshi to set up a representative office in HCM City, he said, pledging optimal conditions for foreign companies to do long-term business.
Tetsuya asked HCM City to help the group open an office here to connect families with their children studying in Japan and help Vietnamese graduates find jobs.
He noted that Soshi, which has opened offices and universities in many countries, wants HCM City to help it establish an international university to share more tertiary education experience, support foreign students in HCM City and help attract foreign investment into the city.
Soshi is a major education group of Japan that owns more than 120 educational establishments from the preschool to tertiary levels in Japan and New Zealand, serving about 30,000 students, including some 700 Vietnamese.


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Origins of the Gods II: Greg Little on the Influence of Unknown Intelligences
Following last week's mind-opening interview with Andrew Collins, on this week's episode of Dreamland with his co-author Greg Little, we go deep into the issue of how transdimensional intellligences have operated to change human civilization in the past, and how they are still at work. Greg is an experienced psychologist,read more
Origins of the Gods Part One: Andrew Collins and a Game-Changing Discovery
Andrew Collins joins us on Dreamland to discuss recent findings relating to the evolution and history of shamanic practices, as depicted in his new book Origins of the Gods (written with Greg Little). He sheds light on the discovery that shamanic practice dates back over 200,000 years instead of theread more
Mysteries of the Denisovans: Amazing New Discoveries
Dreamland favorites Andrew Collins and Greg Little have teamed up to create an epochal book about the mysterious pre-hominid people known as the Denisovans. We travel from Siberia through a fantastic cataclysm that brought the last ice age to it violent end, to Gobekeli Tepe and the mysterious, fantastically fortifiedread more
Ancient South America: It's Hidden Legacy
On: May 9, 2015
We reprise a vintage Dreamland from 2002, explorer Greg Little's first visit to Dreamland! He reports on discoveries made in South America that support the predictions of Edgar Cayce. This remains one of our most fascinating lost history shows.
Find out more about Greg and his work at the AREFoundation website. Click here. To get Ancient South America, click here.


A report by the BBC has looked at how America remembers the First World War.
In particular, it addresses the American conception of the First World War compared to later wars, such as WWII and Vietnam, which saw a far greater level of American participation. It picks up on the clash over the site of the official memorial, and fears that as the centenary of the war arrives, it is struggling to retain a place of importance in the country's collective memory.
To see the BBC's report, click here.
To find out more about the argument over the official American World War One memorial, click here.


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For the TV episode, see Fire and Blood (TV). For the fictional book, see Fire & Blood, Being a History of the Targaryen Kings of Westeros.
The US cover of Fire & Blood as posted by George R. R. Martin on his Not a Blog in April, 2018.
November 20th, 2018[1] (hardcover)
May 5th, 2020[2] (paperback)
Fire & Blood is a complete history of House Targaryen written by George R. R. Martin.[3] Although originally planned for publication after the completion of A Song of Ice and Fire,[4] Martin revealed his intent to publish the history in two volumes after the material had grown too large. The first volume, named Fire & Blood, was released on November 20th, 2018 as a hardcover,[1] and on May 5th as a paperback.[2] Before being titled Fire & Blood, the history was jokingly named the GRRMarillion[5][6] after J. R. R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion.
1 Publication History
2 Contents
2.1 Previews
3 Behind the Scenes
Much material published in Fire & Blood originates from the writing of Martin's 2014 book The World of Ice & Fire. The World of Ice & Fire, written from the perspective of Maester Yandel, contains sections from the perspective of Archmaester Gyldayn. These sections were written by Martin on his own; however, he wrote much more than at first intended, and in the end delivered 180,000 words on Targaryen history. The great majority of this[N 1] covered Aegon's Conquest up to the end of the Regency of Aegon III.[7]
As of 2014, more than 200,000 words had been written for Fire & Blood.[8] This entire historical account is said to cover Targaryen history through the reign of Aegon V Targaryen.[9]
In February 2017, Elio Garcia, Martin's co-author of The World of Ice & Fire, reported that he had spoken with Martin at WorldCon 75, held in 2017 in Helsinki, about the first volume of Fire & Blood. Garcia reported that – in addition to the never-published material developed for The World of Ice & Fire – Martin also created entirely new material for the book, having "worked some on just fleshing out a bit" the long reign of King Jaehaerys I Targaryen, which was previously only glossed over in the text known as "Heirs of the Dragon".[10]
On July 22nd, 2017, Martin revealed on his Not a Blog that the material for Fire & Blood had grown so large that the decision had been made to publish the fictional histories of the Targaryen kings in two volumes. The first volume, simply called Fire & Blood, covers the history of Westeros from Aegon's Conquest up to and through the regency of Aegon III Targaryen. In July 2017, Martin reported that the first volume of Fire & Blood was already largely written, whereas the second volume remains largely unwritten.[6] In April 2018, Martin said that Fire & Blood, Volume Two will be completed "a few years down the pike."[1]
When announcing the publication date of Fire & Blood on his Not a Blog, Martin revealed the manuscript to be 989 pages long.[1]
On March 9th, 2022, Martin revealed that he was considering the title Blood & Fire for the second volume.[11]
Fire & Blood contains the following texts:
Aegon I Targaryen Aegon's Conquest Aegon I Targaryen's Conquest of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros.[7] Largely similar to The Reign of the Dragons: The Conquest as it appeared in The World of Ice & Fire.
Reign of the Dragon - The Wars of King Aegon I Previously referred to as The Peace of the Dragon.[12] While Aegon I's reign had briefly been glossed over in The World of Ice & Fire, no parts of these texts had been published before.
Three Heads Had the Dragon - Governance Under King Aegon I
Aenys I Targaryen
Maegor I Targaryen The Sons of the Dragon[13] The reigns of Aegon I's sons, King Aenys I Targaryen and King Maegor I Targaryen, ending with Maegor's death and the ascension of Aenys's son Jaehaerys I Targaryen to the throne. An edited-down version of "The Sons of the Dragon" was released in October 2017 titled "The Sons of the Dragon" in the anthology The Book of Swords.[13]
Jaehaerys I Targaryen Prince into King - The Ascension of Jaehaerys I The long reign of Jaehaerys I, starting at Jaehaerys's regency, and ending with the death of Queen Alysanne Targaryen.
The Year of the Three Brides - 49 AC
A Surfeit of Rulers
A Time of Testing - The Realm Remade
Birth, Death, and Betrayal Under King Jaehaerys I
Jaehaerys and Alysanne - Their Triumphs and Tragedies
The Long Reign - Jaehaerys and Alysanne: Policy, Progeny, and Pain
Jaehaerys I Targaryen
Viserys I Targaryen Heirs of the Dragon - A Question of Succession Previously simply known as Heirs of the Dragon:[14] Detailing the succession crisis Jaehaerys faced in 92 AC and again in 101 AC, and continuing with the reign of Viserys I Targaryen. An abridged version, The Rogue Prince, was previously published in the anthology Rogues in 2014, uses the majority of this text, detailing the reign of Viserys I.[14]
Aegon II Targaryen The Dying of the Dragons - The Blacks and the Greens Previously called simply The Dying of the Dragons.[14] Six chapters on the great civil war known as the Dance of the Dragons, ending with the murder of King Aegon II. An abridged version of 30,000 words was included in The Princess and the Queen,[5] which was published in the anthology Dangerous Women in 2013.
The Dying of the Dragons - A Son for a Son
The Dying of the Dragons - The Red Dragon and the Gold
The Dying of the Dragons - Rhaenyra Triumphant
The Dying of the Dragons - Rhaenyra Overthrown
The Dying of the Dragons - The Short, Sad Reign of Aegon II
Aegon III Targaryen Aftermath - The Hour of the Wolf Together with the following four chapters previously referred to as The Boy King and His Regents.[14] Covering Lord Cregan Stark's time at King's Landing.
Under the Regents - The Hooded Hand Together with the previous chapter and the chapter after previously referred to as The Boy King and His Regents.[14] Detailing the reign of Aegon III under the rule of his regents and Hands of the King.
Under the Regents - War and Peace and Cattle Shows
Under the Regents - The Voyage of Alyn Oakenfist
The Lysene Spring and the End of Regency Detailing the final years of Aegon III's regency, following the return of his younger brother, Viserys, and Viserys's wife and her family.
Furthermore, Fire & Blood contains an overview of the entire Targaryen succession, and a family tree depicting the Targaryen family until 136 AC.
Fire & Blood is illustrated in a similar fashion as A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. As told by Martin, the hardcover book contains more than seventy-five black & white illustrations by Doug Wheatley.[15][1] The paperback version contains five additional illustrations.[2]
At San Diego Comic Con 2018, Random House made a poster available featuring the Targaryen family tree that will appear in Fire & Blood. They additionally provided a signup link for their mailing list giving access to a PDF of the family tree.[16] While this version of the family tree contained several errors,[N 2] the family tree was later republished in a finalized version and released online as PDF, from which all errors were removed.
The Targaryen family tree for Fire & Blood contains several differences compared to the one released in The World of Ice & Fire concerning the thirteen children of Jaehaerys I and Alysanne Targaryen. Prince Valerion, originally Jaehaerys's and Alysanne's ninth child, and Princess Saera, originally their twelfth born child, have been switched in birth order, making Saera the ninth born and Valerion their twelfth born. Four other children have shifted in their birth orders as well. Princess Alyssa was changed from the secondborn to the fifthborn, Princess Daella subsequently from being the fifth born to the eigthborn child, and Princess Maegelle from eighthborn to the sixthborn. Lastly, Prince Aeryn, originally the sixthborn, has been exchanged for Princess Daenerys, who has become the secondborn child of the king and queen. Regarding these changes, Elio Garcia has stated the following:
... George had some new ideas for some of the names and the stories of the children who died young, and corrected some issues that came out of his original birth order (we actually got the names of all the kids quite late in the production of TWoIaF—literally a month before we had to finalize the book—so there was not much time to interrogate it). However, the stories of those who live to adulthood, as published in TWoIaF, do remain the same (just, of course, much more detailed).[17]
On September 2018, on his Not a Blog, George R. R. Martin published a sample from the chapter on the reign of King Jaehaerys I, recounting their royal progress to the north in 58 AC. Alongside the excerpt a portrait of King Jaehaerys I and his sister-wife Alysanne by Doug Wheatley was released.[18]
George R. R. Martin has cited Thomas B. Costain's non-fiction books on the Plantagenet dynasty as an influence for Fire and Blood.[19]
↑ 160,000 words
↑ For example, Aegon I Targaryen and Rhaenys Targaryen were not connected to one another as spouses.
↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Not a Blog: Fire & Blood: On The Way (April 25th, 2018)
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Facebook: George R. R. Martin
↑ Not A Blog: The Rogues Are Coming...
↑ Not A Blog: The Dangerous Women Are Coming
↑ 5.0 5.1 Not A Blog: The Princess and the Queen (August 31, 2013)
↑ 6.0 6.1 Not a Blog: The Swords are Drawn (July 22, 2017)
↑ 7.0 7.1 Youtube: Westeros.org Discusses... Fire and Blood, (Retrieved on July 27)
↑ Not a Blog comment: Ten Thousand Ships (May 20, 2014)
↑ asoiaf.westeros.org: When is 'The World of Ice & Fire' coming out v.2 (April 19, 2014)
↑ Westeros.org Discusses... Worldcon (February 22, 2018)
↑ https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/2022/03/09/random-updates-and-bits-o-news/
↑ Vassals of Kingsgrave podcast, Elio Garcia.
↑ 13.0 13.1 Not a Blog: A Bit More (Fake) History (January 31, 2017)
↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 r/asoiaf.com: (Spoilers Extended) The Possibilities for GRRM's New Novella in the Book of Swords Anthology
↑ Not a Blog: Hugo Nominations Open (Feb 7th, 2018) – comment (Feb 14th, 2018)
↑ westeros.org: Fire and Blood Preview Targaryen Family Tree (July 21, 2018)
↑ Westeros.org: FIRE AND BLOOD Volume 1 (July 21, 2018)
↑ Not a Blog: A FIRE & BLOOD Excerpt just for YOU! (September 27, 2018)
↑ Penguin Random House: A Conversation with George R R Martin (at 15min12s)
Works by George R. R. Martin in the world of A Song of Ice and Fire
A Game of Thrones (1996)
A Clash of Kings (1998)
A Storm of Swords (2000)
A Feast for Crows (2005)
A Dance with Dragons (2011)
A Dream of Spring
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (2015)
The Hedge Knight (1998)
The Sworn Sword (2003)
The Mystery Knight (2010)
Blood of the Dragon (1996)
Path of the Dragon (2000)
Arms of the Kraken (2002)
The Princess and the Queen (2013)
The Rogue Prince (2014)
The Sons of the Dragon (2017)
The World of Ice & Fire (2014)
Fire & Blood (2018)
The Rise of the Dragon (2022)
Blood & Fire (TBA)
The Lands of Ice and Fire (2012)
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Enhancing implementation research within Canada's investments in the health of women and children globally
Renee Sharma, Helen Scott and Zulfiqar A. Bhutta
CMAJ March 06, 2017 189 (9) E332-E333; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.161093
Renee Sharma
Centre for Global Child Health (Sharma, Bhutta), The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ont.; Canadian Partnership for Women and Children's Health (Scott), Ottawa, Ont.
Helen Scott
Zulfiqar A. Bhutta
For correspondence: zulfiqar.bhutta@sickkids.ca
Few issues have received as much global attention in recent years as maternal, newborn and child health and survival, a cornerstone of the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals.
Recent research has focused on defining and developing a range of evidence-based interventions across the continuum of care for maternal, newborn and child health; as a result of the implementation of many of these initiatives, global maternal and child mortality fell from about 13 million deaths in 1990 to just over 6 million in 2015.1 Yet, progress has been uneven. Disparities between countries, as well as between populations within countries, are evident. These gaps in coverage of essential interventions are related to marginalization of some groups, social inequities and geographic issues.1
There has been comparatively little research on strategies to reach those in greatest need. We need to move from "what" to "how best" to package and scale up interventions to address maternal, newborn and child health, and to integrate these within existing programs, which remains a global challenge.1 If we are to achieve high, sustainable and equitable coverage of life-saving interventions, addressing this gap with good implementation research is essential, and Canada must contribute to such efforts.
The relatively new field of implementation science refers to "the study of methods to promote the integration of research findings and evidence into healthcare policy and practice," i.e., exploring the ways in which key players influence and interact with the uptake, adoption and implementation of evidence-based interventions, to try to improve delivery and scale up of interventions in specific local contexts.2 Related to this is the concept of implementation research, which was defined by Peters and colleagues as the "scientific inquiry into questions concerning implementation — the act of carrying an intention into effect, which in health research can be policies, programmes, or individual practices (collectively called interventions)."3 The intent of implementation science and related research is to investigate and address major bottlenecks that impede effective implementation of interventions, to test new approaches to improve health programming and to determine a causal relationship between interventions and their impact.4 There are few systematic exercises exploring the relationship of implementation research to major global priorities, and they are limited to specific areas such as the health care work force,5 community drivers of intervention uptake6 and demand-side financing.7 However, an increasing number of exercises are focused on specific implementation questions within countries or programs,8,9 in an attempt to strengthen implementation of evidence-based strategies.
Global gains in the health of women and children were made possible by concerted investments and efforts by many national governments, including Canada's, as well as other global organizations offering development assistance, with almost 19% of development assistance targeting maternal, newborn and child health in 2015.10 Many of these investments are focused on evidence-based strategies and essential interventions. However, mere consensus on evidence-based interventions and action plans is insufficient to influence policies or, more importantly, for tangible impact on the ground, unless it is accompanied by robust implementation that is guided by sound and relevant research.
Canada's funding of interventions to improve maternal, newborn and child health through the $6.35 billion Muskoka Initiative on Maternal, Newborn and Under-Five Child Health, over the last five years11 has been criticized for missing opportunities to invest in reproductive health and family planning. It is also unclear if the investments made across a range of approaches to maternal, newborn and child health had a substantial impact on the outcomes related to Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5, and the exact proportion of overall funding for health systems, implementation research and accountability.12
A recently undertaken multistakeholder review of Canada's investments in maternal, newborn and child health, and public consultations represent a unique opportunity to assess the impact and relevance of appropriate research to address implementation and impact. The review should consider priorities for Canadian investments in the health of women and children, and target strategies for scaling up and enhancing the effectiveness of key interventions in at-risk populations. Interventions and innovations to improve the health of marginalized populations at risk, those living in fragile states and active conflict zones, and displaced populations should be key priorities.
Given the range of possibilities for research and investment in the health of women and children, some focus and prioritization is needed. Which interventions should be targeted for implementation research and scale up? We suggest a multistep process that starts with an evaluation of the allocations of existing funding to health research, especially implementation research. This evaluation should be followed by consultations with funding bodies and country stakeholders to identify core priorities in the face of finite resources for implementation and research.
Notwithstanding the previous statements, some generalizations can be made about current areas of focus in implementation research. A focus on development, deployment and retention of adequate and well-trained human resources is key to reaching populations who are at risk. Of these, the major opportunity of reducing inequities might relate to working with community strategies and delivery platforms such as community support groups, health care workers and innovations that facilitate delivery of quality services. Major barriers to care seeking and impact also relate to poor quality of services in most midlevel referral health facilities.13 Strategies for improving quality of care, incentivizing care seeking, and using technology for monitoring and evaluation in such settings must be prioritized for research.
Because of finite resources and the need to set priorities, research into cost-effective approaches for scale up must receive attention. A Canadian strategy for investment in the Sustainable Development Goals for improved health of women and children that is guided by the best research for prioritizing implementation at scale will likely ensure impact, value for money and enhancement in global knowledge for reaching every woman and every child.
Limited research is available on packaging and scaling up interventions to best address global maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health, and their integration within existing programs.
Good implementation research is essential to achieving high-level, sustainable and equitable coverage of life-saving interventions. Canada must contribute to these research efforts and undertake a review of investments in implementation research within the Muskoka Initiative to date and opportunities moving forward.
Key areas for implementation research may include developing, deploying and retaining adequate and well-trained human resources; overcoming barriers to intervention access and uptake through community-based strategies and delivery platforms; improving detection and care seeking for childhood illnesses; improving quality of care and monitoring and evaluation; and identifying cost-effective approaches for scale up services.
Competing interests: None declared.
Contributors: Zulfiqar Bhutta wrote the initial draft, with substantial input from Renee Sharma and further comments from Helen Scott. All of the authors revised the manuscript critically for intellectual content, approved the final version to be published and agreed to be accountable for all aspects of the work.
Funding: The Centre for Global Child Health at The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, received funding from the Canadian Partnership for Women and Children's Health to conduct the research prioritization exercise and prepare a final report.
This article has been peer reviewed.
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Q: Weird sorting of string in C I was trying to solve this question. Question states that

An 'Abecedarian' is a word whose letters appear in alphabetical order.
Write a program which will determine whether the given word is
abecedarian or not and print 1 if abecedarian, 0 if not.
Input : user enter a string or word.
Output: print `1` if word is Abecedarian else `0`.

Now I solved the problem that I will sort the string and if the sorted string is same as original string then it will be Abecedarian. But in C code it is giving wied result for inputs. Code is below with input and outputs
// is added by me in output for explanation
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>

int cmpfunc (const void * a, const void * b)
{
   return ( *(int*)a - *(int*)b );
}

int main(void) {
    char orginalString[80];
    char copiedString[80];
    scanf("%s",orginalString);

    strcpy(copiedString,orginalString);
    printf("Original string before sorting = %s \n",orginalString);
    printf("Copied original string before sorting = %s \n",copiedString);

    qsort(orginalString,strlen(orginalString),sizeof(char),cmpfunc);

    printf("Original string after sorting = %s \n",orginalString);
    printf("Copied original string after sorting = %s \n",copiedString);

    if(strcmp(orginalString,copiedString) == 0) {
        printf("%s is an Abecedarian word\n",copiedString);
    }
    else
        printf("%s is not an Abecedarian word\n",copiedString);

    return 0;
}

Input 1
abcdef

Output 1
Original string before sorting = abcdef
Copied original string before sorting = abcdef
Original string after sorting = fedabc // should remain abcdef, if obeying desc sort then should be fedcba
Copied original string after sorting = abcdef
abcdef is not an Abecedarian word

Input 2
fedcba

Output 2
Original string before sorting = fedcba
Copied original string before sorting = fedcba
Original string after sorting = abcdef // here it is correct
Copied original string after sorting = fedcba
fedcba is not an Abecedarian word

You can check with other inputs and will see that sorting is not working as it should be. Now I'm not very good in memory management in C.
Is there any memory issue/tweak that is doing this kind of trouble?

A: You can do this more efficiently by simply checking that the characters in a string are non-descending:
int
is_abecedarian(char *s)
{
    if(s[0]==0) return 1;

    while(s[1] && s[0]<=s[1]) ++s;
    return s[1]==0;
}

Note that I'm assuming that the string s is either all uppercase or all lowercase. And a character encoding that has a-z in increasing numerical order.

A: To answer your actual question, the reason this fails is because you're dereferencing the data as an int, not a char. This means you're dereferencing more bytes than necessary, and comparing bytes that might have nothing to do with 'a'. 'a' by ascii standards is 0x61. If you dereference 'a' as an int, you might end up with 0x61FFFFFF or 0xFFFFFF61 depending on how the type cast is implemented. Thus you're not actually comparing the chars, but the chars and surrounding bytes as well.

A: You are comparing characters, char, not integers, int.
Change your comparison function to
int cmpfunc (const void * a, const void * b)
{
   return ( *(char*)a - *(char*)b );
}

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Venado Tuerto è una città della provincia argentina di Santa Fe, situata nel dipartimento di General López.

Geografia
Venado Tuerto è situata nella regione della Pampa, a  a sud-ovest del capoluogo provinciale Santa Fe ed a  a sud-ovest di Rosario.

Storia
Venado Tuerto fu fondata il 26 aprile 1884 da Eduardo Casey, un imprenditore argentino d'origine irlandese. Ottenne lo status di città il 16 dicembre 1935.

Cultura

Istruzione

Musei
 Museo Cayetano Silva

Teatri
 Teatro Ideal
 Teatro Verdi

Infrastrutture e trasporti
Venado Tuerto è situata all'intersezione tra la strada nazionale 8, che unisce Buenos Aires alle province dell'ovest, e la strada nazionale 33, che unisce il centro industriale di Rosario con il porto di Bahía Blanca.

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Venado

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Q: Kotlin for Android: OnItem Selected Listener I am developing an android project with Kotlin
I would like to get values of x and y outside listener and print the multiplication value on textview gpa1 but they are unchanged
class sem1gpaactivity : AppCompatActivity(){
var x:Int=0
var y:Double=0.0
var z:Double=0.0

override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
setContentView(R.layout.sem1gpa)
val firstterm01 = arrayOf("0", "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8")

val spinner = findViewById<View>(R.id.spinnerfirsttermh1) as Spinner
val spinnerArrayAdapter = ArrayAdapter(this,
android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item, firstterm01)

spinnerArrayAdapter.setDropDownViewResource
  (android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item) // The drop down view
spinner.adapter = spinnerArrayAdapter
spinner.spinnerfirsttermh1!!.onItemSelectedListener = object :
AdapterView.OnItemSelectedListener {
   override fun onItemSelected(p0: AdapterView<*>?, p1: View?, p2: Int, p3:
Long) {

      when (p2){

          0->  x=0
          1->  x=1
          2->  x=2
          3->  x=3
          4->  x=4
          5->  x=5
          6->  x=6
          7->  x=7
          8->  x=8

      }

   }

    override fun onNothingSelected(p0: AdapterView<*>?) {}
}

val firstterm02 = arrayOf("A", "A-", "B+", "B", "B-", "C+", "C", "C-", "D+", "D", "F")
val spinner1 = findViewById<View>(R.id.spinnerfirsttermh11) as Spinner
val spinnerArrayAdapter1 = ArrayAdapter(this, android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item, firstterm02)
spinnerArrayAdapter1.setDropDownViewResource(android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item) // The drop down view
spinner1.adapter = spinnerArrayAdapter1
spinner1.spinnerfirsttermh11!!.onItemSelectedListener = object :
AdapterView.OnItemSelectedListener {
    override fun onItemSelected(p0: AdapterView<*>?, p1: View?, p2: Int,
p3: Long) {
        val spinnerLanguage2 = spinner1.getSelectedItem().toString()
        when (p2){
            0->  y=4.0
            1->  y=3.7
            2->  y=3.3
            3->  y=3.0
            4->  y=2.7
            5->  y=2.3
            6->  y=2.0
            7->  y=1.7
            8->  y=1.3
            9->  y=1.0
            10-> y=0.0
        }
                          }
    override fun onNothingSelected(p0: AdapterView<*>?) {}
}
z=x*y
gpa1.text = z.toString()
}}

z result zero because x and y are not changed and text view show 000
i tried to put textiew code in the fun in listener of first spinner and show only x it work but when i put textview code outside listener it show nothing

A: the text will not change like this because the app excute oncreate method only one time when the activity first created unless you destroy the activity and create it again , so you can do this by changing your gpa1 text inside the both spinner listener , like that :
in the fist spinner listener
spinner.spinnerfirsttermh1!!.onItemSelectedListener = object :
        AdapterView.OnItemSelectedListener {
        override fun onItemSelected(p0: AdapterView<*>?, p1: View?, p2: Int, p3:
        Long) {

            when (p2){

                0->  x=0
                1->  x=1
                2->  x=2
                3->  x=3
                4->  x=4
                5->  x=5
                6->  x=6
                7->  x=7
                8->  x=8

            }
            z=x*y
            tv.text = z.toString()

        }

        override fun onNothingSelected(p0: AdapterView<*>?) {}
    }

in the second spinner listener
spinner1.spinnerfirsttermh11!!.onItemSelectedListener = object :
        AdapterView.OnItemSelectedListener {
        override fun onItemSelected(p0: AdapterView<*>?, p1: View?, p2: Int,
                                    p3: Long) {
            val spinnerLanguage2 = spinner1.getSelectedItem().toString()
            when (p2){
                0->  y=4.0
                1->  y=3.7
                2->  y=3.3
                3->  y=3.0
                4->  y=2.7
                5->  y=2.3
                6->  y=2.0
                7->  y=1.7
                8->  y=1.3
                9->  y=1.0
                10-> y=0.0
            }
            z=x*y
            tv.text = z.toString()
        }
        override fun onNothingSelected(p0: AdapterView<*>?) {}
    }


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Ex-Metallica Bassist Jason Newsted: Guns N' Roses Taught Me 'What Not to Do'
Graham Hartmann Published: May 24, 2017
In 1992, one of rock's most ill-fated tours took off as Guns N' Roses and Metallica embarked on a string of stadium dates. Plagued by riots, late start times from GN'R and a hellish accident that left James Hetfield with second and third-degree burns, the tour left a huge impression on then-Metallica bassist Jason Newsted.
In the 25 years since the chaotic tour, fans have heard all the stories, but Newsted said he learned a great lesson after the tour. After Jason Newsted took us on a personal tour of his 'RAWK' art exhibition in New York City, he sat down to recall how Guns N' Roses taught Metallica "what not to do."
"We chose to play first, of course, because we wanted to play on time," Newsted remembers. "If we're going on at 8:01, we're on at 8:01. That's the way it's always been. That's why Metallica's still touring now and crushing everybody and selling more records."
"[Guns N' Roses] showed me what I don't ever want to become," Newsted adds. "Antics, pissing away of money, disrespecting people that work for you… Looking down on people who look up to you — worst thing you can do, especially in this business. I saw them do that a lot and I didn't like it."
Summing up Guns N' Roses' career, Newsted claims, "As a band, they were powerful for about three and a half years and really had their sharp teeth and after that everything fell apart."
Watch what Newsted had to say for yourself in the exclusive video above.
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Series 1: Practice on the border of architecture, performance and installation.
Pascal Schöning is an architect, film maker and installation artist. Teaching a Film Unit at the Architectural Association between 1991 and 2008, Schöning consistently used film to question the notion of architecture's permanence (1). Often using polemic and emotive "sites" for architectural projects, Sarajevo in 1997 and Hiorshima on the fiftieth anniversary of its bombing for example, he argued that in such places "buildings are not enough"(2). At times these projects involved the use of film as a documentary tool in the process of site analysis or understanding the "sense of a particular place" (3), at others however, film became a design tool and even, in some instances, the "building project" itself.
One such example of this last phenomenon was the use of filmic projection on building facades in an attempt to "alter architectural reality through the application of light"(4). Used at the Europa Exhibition in Linz, Austria, in 1994, it was also used on a larger scale on the AA building itself in Bedford Square later that same year. This use of film as an "architectural material" was also central to Schöning's installation works, which have also used as a platform for the exhibition of student projects. "Cinematic House", 2006, was a perfect example. Here, a film and light installation was created in the small AA gallery which turned the space into what was called "a site of mood enhancing projections" which "dematerialised" the "solid" location (5).
Published with the exhibition and display of student work, was Schöning's book, Manifesto for a Cinematic Architecture, in which he proposes an approach to architecture that questions its "object status". He also proposes the idea of "spatiality"; an ultimately indefinable concept involving "a process of continually adding and subtracting perceptions from the sensorial experience"(6). Cinematic architecture is, for Schöning, representative of the conflicts between the stable and the temporal which underline experience but which cannot be captured in architecture as built, solid form. Both the installation and the student projects it displayed then, represented a particular theoretical view of architecture that he and his students sought to primarily implement through the medium of film. Their work thus became a physical and mediated synthesis; a cinematic architecture that was inherently hybrid in nature but which operated in the physical realm.
Hybrid Artworks worked throughout the 1990s and has recently reformed with new members; a combination of architects, designers, artists and actors. It deliberately plays with the notion on intangible places through the filming of spaces and the re-projection of the filmic images back into the space in question. It is a technique that attempts to layer our reading of places and blur our understanding of the physical and the mediated on the one hand; and our understanding of the present and the past on the other. The group is inspired by post structural literary theory and its insistence on multiple and simultaneous readings of texts as well as the writings of Paul Virilio and contemporary society's obsession with the moving and mediated image.
The early works of Hybrid Artworks were experimental – formalist – architectural films; video pieces in which the camera attempts to film the familiar in ways that alter our perception of it (1). Focusing on existing built spaces these early films used the language of film to distort our reading of it; the close up, the dissolve, faded and blurred imagery of the built environment created short films that become a challenge to read. Mediation makes the built world into something deliberately strange.
Although they began with films however, Hyrbrid Artworks is primarily an installation-performance group for whom the architectural spaces used as sets are partly physical – partly ephemeral filmic ensembles in which live action and filmed events interact. They have used standard theatre settings and completely non-standard performance venues in city centres. Their largest project however used an intermediate space; an art gallery. The project entitled Incidental Legacy was split into three events; each performed as part of a different arts, literate and music festivals over a period of one year (2). Entitled Shadows, Memories and Echoes these three consecutive pieces represented a variation on the use of filmic imagery and recorded soundscapes to alter the physical perception of the performance space and, by extension, the audience interpretation of the work's narrative content (3).
In the first piece the audience was seated as per standard conventions of theatre. In the second, the audience was free to move around the piece and in the final work, the audience was absent from the event as a body; the work took on the form of an installation and the audience entered and left over a period of two weeks. The piece was intended to move from the world of theatre, into performance art and finally to installation. In the process there was gradually more use of pre-recorded and re-projected filmic and sound material and fewer physical elements and props. The piece and the space became gradually more mediated as t progressed. In its final manifestation, the piece had no actors, was made up of only TV monitors and video projectors and the audience as a holistic body dissipated into a slow stream of visitors, They entered a gallery fully of projected images of the gallery itself; a fully filmic reconstruction of the space; an intangible place.
The New York based architects Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scoffidio use architecture, installation and performance as the media through which they question the character of the contemporary image, screen and lens based society in which we live. The duo set up in 1979 and in recent years have begun to collaborate with Charles Renfro; a collaboration that coincided with their success as architects and thus their gradual move away from pure performance and installation.
Their performance pieces have been presented in Europe and the United States, their installations too have had international repercussions whilst their buildings and architectural projects have grown in significance and can be found in several countries and states. Amongst their projects are Cloud building constructed for the Yverdon Expo in Switzerland, 2002, The Institute of Contemporary Arts in Boston and the redevelopment of the Lincoln Centre in New York City.
Central to their work and its theoretical underpinnings is their questioning of visioning technologies, and in particular, how the moving image has weaved its way into the cultural fabric of the twentieth century. In short, they explore the impact of the media on contemporary culture (1). In some pieces they introduce CCTV into the fabric of buildings, in others they deliberately film the public in order to turn them into the objects of display whilst sometimes they investigate how visioning technologies alter our relationship to each other and indeed to ourselves. In some pieces they have used imagery to invert our sense of place and almost literally turn buildings inside out. Although the practical building requirements of their latest projects have inevitably limited their overt theoretical investigations they continue to be committed to probing questions like the blurring of the real and the virtual, the standardisation of sight and our dependency of technologies of vision.
In examining these issues over the past thirty years Diller and Scofidio have been involved in collaborations with actors, dancers and performance artists of various kinds and have produced a wide variety of performance pieces. These include Who's Your Dada produced to coincide with the Dada exhibition at MOMA New York in 2006, Moving Target, a dance piece choreographed by Charleri Danses and performed internationally in 1996 and Rotary Notary and His Hot Plate based on the work of Marcel Duchamp in 1987 (2). One of their most lauded pieces was Jet Lag; a piece involving digital artists, actors and sound engineers. Other notable works include their 1998 exhibition at MOMA, New York, entitled entitled Para – Site and their 1992 work Loophole. Installed at the Artillery Armory building in Chicago, USA, Loophole.


Once there was a disciple of a Greek philosopher who was commanded by his Master for three years to give money to everyone who insulted him. When this period of trial was over, the Master said to him: "Now you can go to Athens and learn wisdom."
When the disciple was entering Athens, he met a certain wise man who sat at the gate and insulted everybody who came and went. He also insulted the disciple, who immediately burst out laughing.
"Why do you laugh when I insult you?" said the wise man.
"Because," said the disciple, "for three years I have been paying for this kind of thing -- and now you give it to me for nothing!"
"Enter the city," said the wise man, "it is all yours."
Abba John used to tell this story, saying: "This is the door of God by which our fathers, rejoicing in many tribulations, enter into the City of Heaven.
Whenever I have hesitated to punish myself, they have punished me.
Whenever I have flattered myself, they have scolded me.
Whenever I have filled myself with arrogance, they have spat upon me.
Whenever I have made myself wise, they have called me a fool.
which has entangled me in the dreadful web of illusory life.


Throughout the winter, things were looking good for the start of the new season of the High School Clay Target League this spring. Calls and emails poured in to our coaching staff about how to get kids signed up and school resource centers and cafeterias were packed wall-to-wall with students and parents looking to get registered at our informational meetings. By early February, our volunteers realized what we had on our hands as we had blown through our bottom mark of 120, then through our cap of 150 students. With the excitement building community-wide, I even let the season's light snow totals feed the idea in my mind that the final, hard-cap of 180 kids signed up for the six local high school teams in my area would be shooting in shorts and t-shirts in an early spring.
Then March, as it so often does, roared through with three snow storms, dumping almost 20 inches of thick, wet, heavy snow. While most of it had melted off after each event, leaving jagged, crusty late-season snow banks, last week's arctic slap left a coating six-inches deep, covered by a frozen-rain film. Our coaching group met ahead of our opening day, bumped up a week and into the chilly grasp of March by the Easter Holiday – a fact that was often lamented in our discussions. We laid out the plan to deal with the most recent piling of snow that covered the nearby gun club. Rallying the troops via email and phone, we mustered 50 strong for Saturday afternoon.
Armed with shovels, chisels and snow blowers, layered head to toe in hats, jackets, waterproof boots and thick gloves, we followed the trails carved by skidsteers and tractors that opened the main walkways and house paths. Scraping snow, ice and slush from gun racks, picnic tables, and patios and clearing a place for more people to park, we made the club look like shooting season as best as possible, despite the four-foot drifts in the areas coming off the hillside.
With a little added melting, the sidewalks and trap house lines were walkable by the Sunday afternoon start. In muck boots and jackets, caps and scarves, the first flight of 55 shooters took the stand and the crack and snap of spring's first shotgun blasts echoed out over the prairie. The remaining berms of snow between each post behind the trap thrower gave a unique vantage point as I watched shooters of all stripes take aim at a new season and for many, a new pursuit. They too plowed through the cold conditions, which while not unfamiliar to anyone who has participated in the spring league before, still provided the added challenge of cold hands when concentration was key.
With each new squad that came to my assigned house, and those up and down the line at the gun club, the piles of snow got smaller and excitement for the season continued to grow. Not only because my rubber boots cut a trail through the berms to stand behind and help each shooter with form, stance and hold points, but also because the weather rose to meet us, with winds dying down and temperatures nearly touching forty; a win with all the ground cover and prevailing patterns still keeping things cooler than average.
By the time the fourth flight rolled through and took their last shots, the melt was on. The popping rhythm up and down the line of green houses had taken on a summer-like beat, and we could say in our end-of-day meeting with all honesty that things went as smoothly as the conditions could have allowed. With the last shot of the day and the call of "dead, open and out," the nearly 180 participants that had passed through had gotten a taste of another trap season, and many dozens of new shooters had been introduced to the sport. Despite the challenges of early spring, they showed they were ready to enter the ranks of shooting sports enthusiasts and that they couldn't be slowed down by the worst of what the weather had to offer…in our outdoors.


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Why You Should Take Note of Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya, Whose Shapeshifting Assemblages Build a Mythology of Survival
"Ex Situ Canis Latrans" at Murmurs L.A. shows this artist's powerful symbolic use of broken and decaying materials.
Barbara Calderón, September 1, 2021
Installation view of Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya, Tlahuelpuchi (2021) in "Ex Situ Canis Latrans" at Murmurs L.A. Image courtesy Murmurs L.A.
The writhing carcasses of alien creatures hover above a post-apocalyptic landscape in Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya's solo show at Murmurs L.A. Made from trash, slimy silicone, and taxidermied animal parts, these monstrous works ooze and dribble from their protuberances, alluding to decay, death, and the carnal while encoding a mythological metaphor about dystopic survival. Like many of his Latinx peers, Montoya is concerned with ambiguous subjects who live in the shadows: night shift workers, the invisible labor force, immigrants, queer and othered communities. Yet he's one of few challenging dominant tastes in Latinx art that favor representational, pop aesthetics, or explicit cultural motifs. Instead, Montoya's work uses the abject and the fantastic to make critical work building on familiar narratives of trauma and resilience. His show "Ex Situ Canis Latrans" investigates the unsightly, challenges notions of taste, and uses the imaginative as material, making Montoya one of the most experimental and daring artists of our moment.
Two massive sculptures form the protagonists in "Ex Situ Canis Latrans." One is suspended in parts like wriggling tentacles, and is named Tlahuelpuchi (2021); the other is a more fully formed conglomerate mass named A Being Mistakenly Called 'La Nave de Kylo Ren' (2021).
The latter hovers above a platform loaded with dark black rocks, formed from a fusion of discarded motor oil and desert sand. Styrofoam from Chinese take-out and packing materials—some stained with terracotta dirt—are assembled as cityscapes or small-scale renderings of past civilizations on the floor throughout the gallery. A small back room with walls painted black and an eerie soundtrack hold smaller avian sculptures ensconced on the wall.
Installation view of Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya, A Being Mistakenly Called 'La Nave de Kylo Ren' (2021) at Murmurs L.A. Image courtesy Murmurs L.A.
Like the gory aftermath of a car crash, animal appendages are rearranged into a mash of gooey flesh, horns, and auto parts in A Being Mistakenly Called 'La Nave de Kylo Ren' (2021). Yet the object-being seems to have survived by absorbing the remnants of human waste, transforming blind spot mirrors into extra eyes and boom box parts into protective shields.
Most materials embedded in the silicone structure—including goat legs and disposable razors—are refuse Montoya gathered from the desert around Juarez, the highways in L.A., and on other metropolitan adventures. Like someone cataloguing pieces of treasure, Montoya documents each discovery with glee in the material listed in the description for each of the works. One reads "motorcycle part of a man with an inflated ego driving too fast on a sharp turn on Mcnutt Rd."
Detail of Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya, A Being Mistakenly Called 'La Nave de Kylo Ren' (2021) at Murmurs L.A. Image courtesy Murmurs L.A.
As the objects are woven or fashioned into the sculpture-beings that dangle from the warehouse ceiling, the implied usage and characteristics of the materials transform. Car fenders, normally heavy and onerous, fly through the air like bat wings. T-shirts that once cloaked the torso have been dipped in tan-colored silicone and now look like the membrane of entrails.
After you realize the inversion of purpose in Montoya's use of these objects, the sculpture begins to reveal its story and uncanny animism. From precarious, valueless trash, it enters a process of "always becoming," a characteristic of queer assemblage described by the late scholar of queer, Latinx, and performance studies Jose Esteban Muñoz. In an essay titled "Performing the Bestiary," Muñoz wrote, "Becoming is simply a constant process of flight, change, movement within the assemblage… Becoming is a kind of deterritorialization of the body itself."
Detail of Rodriguez Montoya, Tlahuelpuchi (2021) in "Ex Situ Canis Latrans" at Murmurs L.A. Image courtesy Murmurs L.A.
Like a vision of squirming snakes suspended midair, Tlahuelpuchi (2021) also conveys a state of becoming. Brown horns jut from the multi-part creature's greenish-blue skin—the color of iridescent jade—while crumpled car parts protect her vulnerable exterior like turtle shells. The tentacles hold golf balls resembling lusty turtle eggs at the brink of bulging from their nests, of the kind found at the meeting of three tributaries in a canyon in Juarez. Adapting the Tlaxcallan myth of a female vampire named Tlalepuelchi in a text he wrote to accompany the Murmurs show, Montoya writes that "Tlahuelpuchi is a vampire born before linear time… born to the people who sweep quetzal feathers with makeshift brooms."
Construction workers and those who work the night shift—like Montoya's own father—influence the cunning, dexterous nature embodied by these extraordinary creatures or imagined characters. "I saw this woman picking up trash with a beautiful stick she made specifically to pick up trash," Montoya told me, explaining the inspiration for his found object assemblage. "It was such a beautiful stick. She led me to think about a creature going through detritus to feed itself." For Montoya, "creating mythology allows for the small gestures to become hyper. I can allow the seemingly mundane things in my day-to-day to become these gorgeous gestures."
Montoya's work reminds me that mythologies are constantly being socially constructed, and they're not all positive, such as conspiracies surrounding the vaccine. Ancient rulers also spread certain folklore to sustain their power. Devising mythologies is a method societies use to fill in the gaps about what they don't understand or what they fear. For a young Montoya, the stories of ghosts, vampires, and witches helped him comprehend ambiguous characters outside the heteronormative realm. For him, mythmaking has been a form of psychological survival.
The mythology of shapeshifting employed by Montoya's organisms is described by the godmother of Chicana queer feminist theory Gloria Anzaldúa as "nahualismo." She believed la naguala to be "a concept borrowed from indigenous thought, serv[ing] as a vehicle for deconstructing and decolonizing embodiment and being." Anzaldúa describes shapeshifters as outsiders who cannot reconcile their multiple identities and are forced to inhabit life on the edges of society. Of course, shapeshifting is also an obvious metaphor for a practice that many othered communities rely on to move through the world. The first half of the show's title "Ex Situ" is Latin, meaning to remove in order that an endangered species survives.
Installation view of work in Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya at Murmurs L.A. Image courtesy Murmurs L.A.
Montoya is known for his love of the unpalatable, the decaying, and the putrid. Details like the milky liquid made from silicone that oozes a single drop from the tip of one sculpture's horse hoof provide evidence. "If you can get past the filthiness of a thing, you can experience something rare and beautiful," he tells me, describing unexpectedly majestic encounters he's had with roadkill.
Montoya's imaginative world is an illustration of an abysmal reality. "For me, the work is a visual metaphor that allows for one to reckon with trauma but also to go past it. How do you move forward? How do you contain a body that is no longer whole?," he asks. Though themes of adaptation, resiliency, and trauma dominate discussions around artists of color, it's rare to see the vehicles of fantasy, narrative, and the abject used to interrogate them. Montoya's body of work is experimental in the sense that it pushes against the representational aesthetics and cultural performativity that dominate what is considered 'Latinx' art.
Installation view of work in Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya's "Ex Situ Canis Latrans" at Murmurs L.A. Image courtesy Murmurs L.A.
The work is confrontational and immersive in its ability to push its viewer to question their aesthetics and unpack their repulsion. A lot of artwork fixates on the raw wound. I argue Montoya's work goes a step further in pushing the viewer to meditate on the unpleasant wound in order to witness it's crystallization into scab and then scar. "It's almost like you know you're fucked, but you're still going through it," the artist explained. "We're in this otherness, looking at the shadows, and we're able to see the fucked up America. But It feels like a collective experience that we're all living through and edging ourselves not out but through it."
"Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya: Ex Situ Canis Latrans" is on view at Murmurs L.A., 1411 Newton St., Los Angeles, through September 26, 2021.
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The facility will use first-party data to help improve customer experience
Beverley Ho with Kelvin Leung, who will head up 1-to-1
Y&R Hong Kong has launched a new first-party data analytics and activation service, with the simple stated aim of "helping brands win more business". Named '1-to-1', the in-house service will collect information directly from customers to help deliver more personalised content.
"Marketers have acknowledged that first-party data delivers the highest return on investment of any data type, giving [brands] competitive advantage because it is unique to their business," said Beverly Ho, general manager of Y&R Hong Kong. "The authenticity of first-party data provides deeper insight, inspires more meaningful and targeted messages to audiences with improved efficiency using programmatic advertising."
The service is expected to be particularly relevant to the Hong Kong market, given that the mobile subscriber penetration rate in the territory reached 233.7 percent in December, according to the latest statistics from the Office of the Communications Authority.
"The heartbeat of marketing in this mobile-led digital economy lies in building personalized relationships with consumers," said Ho. "To achieve this, we need to know consumers well, and the closest version of today's consumer truth lies in brands' own first-party data."
Leading the rollout of the new service will be Kelvin Leung, who joins Y&R as head of digital commerce. Leung is experienced at building digital services, having set up a regional affiliate programme in six different markets in his former role as head of partnership at Compare Asia Group, the financial products comparison platform. Before this, he worked in advertising and marketing at agencies in both Hong Kong and Canada, including a two-year stint at iProspect Hong Kong as a search market specialist.
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The majority of rape cases are going unsolved
The majority of rape cases are unsolved in Greater Manchester. Library image
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More than two-thirds of rape cases in Greater Manchester are closed by police because of evidential difficulties, figures show.
The Home Office data – which also shows that just one in 22 cases ends with anyone being charged – reflects the difficulty police face in bringing suspects to court.
This week, it was revealed that rape victims are being told they must hand over their mobile phones to police or risk prosecutions against their attackers not going ahead.
In 2018, 3,664 rape investigations were concluded by GMP.
Just 170, or five per cent, of them resulted in a suspect being charged.
The most common reason for rape investigations being closed was evidential difficulties, preventing the case proceeding, even though a suspect had been identified and the victim supported police action.
This accounted for 30 per cent of cases.
In a further 26 per cent, a suspect had been identified, but the victim did not support police action, or withdrew support from it.
In 13 per cent, the crime was confirmed by police, but no suspect was identified and the victim declined or was unable to support further police action.
Another 23 per cent of cases were closed with police concluding that the crime had been investigated as far as reasonably possible, pending further avenues of interest opening up.
Recently, consent forms asking rape victims for permission to access their messages, photographs, emails and social media accounts have been rolled out across the 43 forces in England and Wales.


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Newton coach expects state champion Cedar Grove to 'bring it' in Saturday football scrimmage
Newton football coach, Terrance Banks is ready to test the physicality of his team against a state champion caliber opponent. - photo by File Photo | The Covington News
COVINGTON, Ga. — Scientifically speaking, a theory cannot be proven until it has been tested through experimentation.
That being said, the Newton football Rams will step into its first laboratory-like atmosphere Saturday, when it takes on the Cedar Grove Saints in a 6 p.m. scrimmage at Sharp Stadium.
The theory to be tested? Whether or not Newton coach Terrance Banks, now entering his fifth year at the program's helm, will have a team that's as physical as he thinks it can be.
"We're ready now for the test," Banks said. "We're ready for Saturday to see where we are. It's no secret by now that we've been saying that we want to have the most physical team on the planet. And on Saturday, especially for those first two quarters when the top units go at it, we'll get a chance to see where we stack up."
Newton will get a formidable challenge in Cedar Grove, which is the defending Class AAA state champion. The Saints finished the 2016 campaign with a 13-2 record, including a dominating run through the Class AAA playoffs where it defeated each of its playoff opponents by a combined score of 193-60 before beating Greater Atlanta Christian 30-19 in the title game.
The Cedar Grove matchup may be one of strength on strength, featuring Newton's stingy secondary with the likes of Naval Academy committed safety Jaison Taylor squaring up against 6-foot-3, 190 pound Cedar Grove wideout, Jadon Haselwood.
Haselwood committed to Georgia back in March, and was considered the highest ranked receiver coming out of high school to commit to the Bulldogs since now-Cincinnati Bengals wideout, A.J. Green pledged in 2008. But Banks says that's not a challenge his team is scared of.
"With them, I mean, you've got a state championship team," he said. "The guys they have on that team, you have UGA commits and big guys who can go get the ball. They're well-coached. Coach (Jermaine) Smith and I are friends. And listen. They're coming here as a 3A school, and we're a 7A school and we say we're physical. Well, we're going in knowing that we need to look like a 7A program."
Newton will have some star power of its own to contend with, starting with Clemson pledged defensive tackle, Darnell Jefferies and UAB running back commit Nuru Tinch. Cedar Grove lost its 2016 starting quarterback to graduation, whereas the Rams will have a stronger, faster and more game-savvy Myron Middlebrooks back under center for his senior year.
And although the game says "scrimmage" on the schedule, Banks said he's not expecting either team to treat it that way.
"When it's best on best during that first part of the game, it definitely will be best on best between both teams," he said. "They're going to bring it, and we're gonna have to be bringing it too."


It rains a lot here in April. At least it has this year. We've had some monsoon type rains in the last week or so. There's a construction project going on right next door, and the holes that have been dug by the workers in order to set rebar & concrete posts, are now five foot deep lakes.
These "lakes" have grown significantly since this picture was taken two days ago.
I might add, we are none too happy about this project. It is a 13 story highrise. We are constantly measuring and sighting it to try and determine whether it is going to completely block our view of the Cajas. Right now, our belief is that we will still have our view out the kitchen window and part, if not all, of the dining room window. Keep your fingers crossed for us.
On April 1st, we were walking over to get our hair done. (Cut for Gil = $1.50, cut, color & highlights for me = $18.) We pass a fenced-in field on the way where there have always been a couple of calves. But on this day, no calves. Instead, we found two little pigmy goats who wanted some attention.
While I was getting my hair done, Gil headed to El Centro where there was a parade kicking off the April festival season. April not only has Easter, but April 12th is Cuenca foundation day. This was a fun parade with stilt walkers, dancers, big-headed costumes, bicyclists, majorettes, lots of school children, and lots of color!
Speaking of color, that's another surprise. My hair color is different this time. Not because I asked for it to be. Sigh. Well, it will grow out and I'll be sure to tell her "mas rubio" (more blond for those of you who are non-Spanish speakers) next time.
And finally, Pepe brought the sewing room furniture. I'm in heaven. I've been spending a lot of time in there. I now have a huge cutting/drafting table, a sewing machine table, a three way mirror, and drawer inserts that hold my notions and threads. I designed what I wanted, and Pepe built it. He did a beautiful job and each piece is exactly as I designed it. It's fabulous.
Getting my sewing room furniture, which took quite awhile to receive but was worth it, allowed me to finish the blanket I was making for our darling Spanish teacher Sonia who is having her first baby. The baby is due in early May, and I was really worried that the furniture would not arrive in time for me to finish the blanket. (Pepe had my sewing machine for two weeks too before he brought the furniture and the machine back.) The hand embroidery was completed (while I was waiting for my sewing room furniture all these months, I started learning how to do hand embroidery), but I needed the machine to do the binding. Gil didn't get a good picture of the whole blanket because it had been folded up and needed ironing for a good picture, and we were about to go out the door to give it to her. Anyway, here are a few pictures of the embroidered pieces.
Can you guess that she is having a boy?
Nice work, Deborah. Congratulations on receiving your furniture for the sewing room. I know every fabric shop owner in Cuenca is smiling.
your sewing room furniture is AWESOME.


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Follow in the footsteps of The Queen in this highly acclaimed luxury development.
Featured nationwide across the screens of BBC One, to the pages of Property Week and The Times, 52 Old Elvet has a magnificent 300 year old history in the heart of the city, and the perfect luxury location for enjoying your University years (or, a level of premium living).
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Throughout the 19th century, when Queen Victoria was on the throne and Durham's coalfields put the North East at the forefront of the Industrial Revolution, some of the county's most prominent figures would meet here, at 52 Old Elvet. Here deals were made, royalty was entertained and, when dinner was over, cigars smoked, and port poured, they would retire to a purposely-built billiard room to the rear of the building. Designed by Charles Hodgson Fowler – also architect to the Dean and Chapter of Durham – this vast, vaulted room, whose glass panelled roof is supported by polished timbers in the Art Nouveau style, has now been beautifully converted into two, highly contemporary, split-level apartments. Both entered from the rear of the building, they are noticeably more modern.
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Art Review by Katherine Keltner.
Jennifer Packer's solo show, The Eye is not Satisfied with Seeing, installed on the 8th floor of the Whitney Museum of American Art, is well worth a visit. Packer paints from observation and the works clearly show her attention to tender consideration, imbuing the figures, who appear almost viscerally lost in thought, with emotion. The works largely are about the Black experience and include several works about individuals who have recently been killed by police violence and with it the lack of consideration for the Black body. Though Packer is a painter, and the works are paint on canvas or linen, she seems less concerned with the materiality of paint and more concerned with drawing. The works read as drawings in paint with all of the movement and feeling found in the best of drawings.
Blessed are Those Who Mourn (Breonna! Breonna!), 2020, Oil on canvas, 118 x 172 ½ inches
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On stepping off the elevator, one is met with a very large painting entitled Blessed are Those Who Mourn (Breonna! Breonna!). It presents part of Breonna Taylor's home, based on various photographs that emerged after her death. Filled with yellows and greens and a solid pink square in the upper right quadrant, the painting depicts a domestic scene that feels both intimate yet also very regular. Packer includes various objects that she, or any viewer, would likely also have at home, drawing a connection between Taylor and the artist or the viewer, and highlighting Taylor's own humanity. The sole figure is lying on a sofa, one leg bent, one hanging over the sofa's left arm, enjoying the comfort of being in the privacy of home. This security makes even more poignant the violent invasion of Taylor's private space that we know is to come.
Next to this work, and several other works in the show, is a wall label that gives some historic context to the events surrounding the painting's subject. The facts surrounding Breonna Taylor's death are plainly written and lie in contrast to the intimacy of the rendered space of Taylor's home.
All of the works in the show are figural: either of a human figure or of flowers as symbols of remembrance, honor, and mourning. And they all relate to the experience, a direct depiction, or portrait of a Black person, whether a figure who was killed by police violence or, someone unknown to the viewer, perhaps a friend of the artist's. Each work has a feeling of memorialization, a tinge of sadness, and a depth of humanity that fills the figures with solemn reflection.
Packer is seemingly a virtuoso with charcoal. My co-visitor, another artist, and I remarked that this might be the most facile and gorgeous use of the media we could recall seeing in contemporary work. There are a number of charcoal drawings on paper, and charcoal lines are also visible in many of the paintings.
Untitled, 2017, Charcoal on paper
In Untitled (above), the material is so smoothly applied it is nearly creamy, yet distinct lines float clearly over it to add to the forms. There is such a balance between an overall softness and delicate line delineation that is unusual with the medium.
Packer's use of paint, too, seems to draw from her experience and facility with drawing in general and charcoal specifically. The paintings mix moments of greatly varying transparencies and levels of finish that reveal the thinking behind the work.
The Body Has Memory, 2018, Oil on canvas, 60 x 48 inches
Leaving some of that visible allows the viewer to feel privy to something more intimate in the artist's process. Paint is loosely or thinly applied with a variety of brush sizes and opacities in individual works so that both finished and unfinished elements exist together and heighten the viewer's engagement with the piece. Line too plays a large role so that the figures, forms, and space are often suggested by a simple line or gestural mark.
Some of the emotive power of Packer's work is amplified, if not created, by a perspectival framing that seems to zoom in on certain features in the figure(s).
Lost in Translation, 2013, Oil on canvas, 54 ½ x 42 ½ inches
In Lost in Translation, the viewer looks up, sideways, and straight on at the figures. Packer's use of foreshortening provides an extremity to the view that adds to the painting's piquancy.
Interestingly, there are only two or three really large paintings that are traditionally considered museum-sized, while most of the works on view read as sketches or studies. The smaller works are just as thoughtfully complex, rich, and complete in their subject and composition, size be damned. These works, perhaps above all, make clear that Packer is a very thoughtful witness to life and underscore her keen observational powers. She reminds us of our shared humanity. This is a show not to be missed.
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Breathing Room, Flowers for Frank Bramblett, 2015, Oil on canvas, 48 x 29 inches
Jennifer Packer: The Eye Is Not Satisfied With Seeing, is on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art through April 17. It was first presented at the Serpentine Gallery, curated by Melissa Blanchflower and Natalia Grabowska, before traveling to the Whitney. The Whitney show is organized by Rujeko Hockley, Jane Panetta, and Ambika Trasi.
Katherine Keltner is a Brooklyn-based artist whose body of work includes paintings; drawings; photo-based, mixed media collages; installations; and artist's books. Her work has been exhibited at galleries and art fairs nationally and internationally. Keltner is a co-editor and writer for POVarts. She is currently at work on an oral history project of Barbara Rose which will become part of the Getty Research Institute's permanent collection.
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