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Want to Make Your Voice Heard? This Is How You Can Get Congress's Attention
Maggie Mallon
For millions of Americans, social media has been an outlet to express their thoughts and emotions regarding last week's presidential election. For Emily Ellsworth, a writer and former staffer for two of Utah's Republican congressmen (Jason Chaffetz and Chris Stewart), it's been a way to dispense information about how to best reach your congressional representative and make sure your voice is heard.
Ellsworth spent six years communicating directly with constituents. Upon seeing thousands of people take to the street in protest of Donald Trump's impending presidency (full disclosure: Ellsworth told CNN she is a registered Republican but campaigned for Hillary Clinton), she wanted to use her insight on how the government works—and what congressional representatives actually focus on—to give the demonstrators more information about how to spread their message.
Ready for a masterclass? In a series of tweets of the weekend, Ellsworth wrote:
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After these tips went viral over the weekend, Ellsworth took to Twitter again on Monday to share some additional advice to those who want to reach out directly to their congressional reps, writing:
Looking for other ways to get involved after the election? We've got you covered with 14 organizations that could use your help.
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Demi Lovato Is Taking a Social Media Break—Here's What's Going On
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International sanctions are actions taken by one country against another, either unilaterally or multilaterally. Their aim is to change the behaviour of the target country's regime in order to maintain or restore international peace and security, or to improve the situation in that country.
International sanctions are generally imposed by the United Nations or the European Union. Trade sanctions typically involve a ban on trade, possibly limited to certain sectors such as armaments, or with certain exceptions (such as food and medicine). Financial sanctions target individuals in government, government bodies and terrorists or terrorist groups.
Art businesses operating in the UK, like any other UK business, must abide by international sanctions. They are not allowed to do business with certain individuals or organisations, and they are not allowed to handle types of artworks subject to trade restrictions.
It is a criminal offence to breach an international sanction without the appropriate licence or authorisation.
Afghanistan, Belarus, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia & Serbia, Iran, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, North Korea, Republic of Guinea, Republic of Guinea-Bissau, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Zimbabwe.
Financial sanctions have also been imposed on Al-Qaida and other terrorist groups.
For each country (with a slight variation for the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia & Serbia), regulations are in force imposing restrictions on any dealing with the funds or economic resources (which includes all assets which may be used to obtain funds, and therefore would include artworks) of a designated person, if the individual dealing with the funds or economic resources knows, or has reasonable cause to believe, that they belong to a designated person.
A "designated person" is a person or entity listed under the relevant legislation.
The Treasury keeps an updated consolidated list of all designated persons – available at http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/d/sanctionsconlist.pdf. Note that there are currently no designated persons in Eritrea or Lebanon.
In some instances, the Treasury may, on application, issue a licence permitting a particular dealing with a designated person.
Additional financial sanctions are imposed on Iran and Syria. Those imposed on Syria are unlikely to affect art businesses, but Iranian sanctions could have a significant impact.
Wide restrictions are imposed on the transfer of funds to Iranian financial institutions or persons or entities resident in Iran. It should be noted that the restrictions are not absolute bans and there may be instances where funds can be transferred.
unless a specified exception applies. The exceptions are, however, very narrow. The only one that may apply to art businesses is where the transfer is in connection with a specific trade contract, and prior authorisation has been obtained from the Treasury pursuant to a request by the payment service provider of the payer. "Specific trade contract" is not defined, but, in our view, it is likely only to apply where the consignor or seller of the art is acting in the course of business.
Note that banks are obliged to carry out customer due diligence and may refuse to make a payment if they do not receive all information requested relating to the beneficiary.
if the transaction is of €40,000 or more, and the Treasury provides authorisation before the transaction takes place, which, again, must be requested by the payment service provider of the payer.
There are no restrictions on transferring funds to Iranian nationals who are not in, and do not reside in, Iran (assuming they are not listed as a "designated person", and funds are not transferred to an Iranian bank account).
b) no restrictions apply if his/her bank account is with a non-Iranian bank, unless he/she is a designated person.
Art businesses should note that it is not permitted to provide insurance to (a) any Iranian entity (whether connected to the government or not), although the provision of insurance to a "natural person" is allowed; and (b) any Syrian government body.
From time to time, the UN and EU impose sanctions on the import and export of specified goods from and to certain territories.
Pursuant to a UN resolution, the UK has imposed a ban on the handling, importation and exportation of any item of illegally removed Iraqi cultural property. This is defined as "Iraqi cultural property and any other item of archaeological historical, cultural, rare scientific or religious importance illegally removed from any location in Iraq since 6th August 1990". Any person who holds or controls any such item must deliver it to the police.
Separately, a range of EU sanctions bans the import of certain goods into the UK. Current sanctions should not affect auctioneers and dealers unless they sell jewellery. The importation of diamonds and raw and semi-manufactured precious metals from government bodies in Iran and Syria is prohibited.
Restrictions on the importation of precious stones from Burma were lifted in May 2013.
From an export perspective, auctioneers and dealers should note that there are currently EU regulations in force prohibiting the sale, supply, transfer or export, directly or indirectly, of luxury goods, including works of art and antiques, to Syria and North Korea.
Government guidance on current restrictions on imports from particular countries is available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/do-i-need-an-import-licence.
A person (whether an individual or a corporate body) who breaches any of the sanction measures commits a criminal offence. Further, where an offence is committed by a corporate body with the consent of an officer of the body corporate, that officer will also be guilty of the offence.
A person convicted of an offence for breach of a financial sanction may be liable for imprisonment for a maximum term of two years and/or a fine. The penalties for breach of a trade sanction are more severe: dealings with illegally removed Iraqi cultural property could lead to imprisonment of up to seven years, as well as a fine, and those breaching export controls on the supply of luxury goods to Syria may face up to 10 years' imprisonment plus a fine.
Please note that this note deals only with financial and trade sanctions under UK laws. Any transaction originating in other countries will be subject to the laws of those countries.


A 2:2 (or above) UK Honours degree, or equivalent internationally recognised qualification, in Law or a related subject(International Relations, Political Science, Criminology, and Criminal Justice).
Students will critically engage with many of the human rights issues that feature strongly in public debate today, gaining comprehensive understanding of international human rights law and its interconnection with international criminal and comparative criminal law.
This course places particular emphasis on the radical transformations that international human rights law has experienced since the beginning of the 21st century, with the genesis of the International Criminal Court, the on-going process of the United Nations reform and the post 9/11 shift to a more securitarian approach to criminal process values, especially regarding the war against terror.
A detailed analysis of the theory, history and development of human rights, and an examination of the main regional mechanisms of human rights protection.
An overview of a variety of contemporary human rights topics, including the examination of major developments and recent tendencies in the field of international human rights protection.
Analysis of contemporary topics and challenges of international human rights protection.
Brunel Law School has an excellent reputation in this field. The International Human Rights Law Review - a peer-reviewed international journal - is edited at Brunel Law School. The School is able to attract a number of leading guest speakers to support further debate and learning's around the complexity of human rights, and provides students with a wider variety of perspectives particularly in the international context.
The course is aimed at graduates from all over the world who are keen to develop an expertise in the evolving discipline and develop a career in international human rights law.
You will develop an expertise in the corpus and complexities of international human rights law.
You will acquire critical and analytical skills in the complex field of international human rights law.
You will be able to demonstrate through original research the application of knowledge, practical understanding and critical appreciation that can contribute to the discourse on international human rights law.
You will gain professional skills required to develop a career in international human rights law.


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Ever since I can recall, there has always been a deep fascination for and great love of colour, nature and art. My decision to pursue a life in art, came after experiencing certain inspirational and uplifting feelings, which were evoked simply by gazing upon and contemplating various paintings created by Masters of long ago.
Mostly self taught as an artist, I had worked as a graphic artist and art director in the 1970's and 1980's for advertising agencies: George Pattersons, Leo Burnett, D'arcy McManus Masius and Fortune Advertising. Leaving advertising in the mid 80's, I began freelancing full time as an artist, illustrating for various children's books and magazines, including painting a 30ftx6ft (10mx2m) mural for a major opal company, Opal Field Gems, in Adelaide.
My work was entered in various exhibitions locally and nationally, which included a nationwide touring exhibition. The style of work, incorporates realism through to impressionist and abstract.
I have travelled to Europe, Asia, South America, the United States and the Pacific, living and working for a short while in Fiji, as a farmer (permaculture, organic and re-forestation) in the late 1980's, with my husband. After the coup in 1989, we moved to North Queensland, Australia, where we continued our farming practices.
In late 1992, my husband and I went our separate ways and after witnessing a miraculous vision of a White Eagle on the property, my whole life took a turn around and I began drawing, albeit mostly spirit faces, in 1993 and painting started in 1996. My work has since been published nationally and internationally in magazines, such as Wellbeing magazine, as prints and as cards for charities such as Oxfam (Community Aid Abroad). My work also resides in various collections throughout Europe - Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Sweden and Asia.
After returning to my hometown, Adelaide (South Australia) in 1996, I pursued 18 months of training at the Adelaide Central School of Art from Lisa Young and Anna Platten. I had also taken up the rare intensive Masterclasses with one of Australia's most successful and famous portrait painters – Robert Hannaford.
I have now been working full time as an artist for over 20 years. Supporting myself solely with painting commissions by word of mouth, selling paintings, prints, cards, and of course traveling around Australia doing spirit portraits of guides and deceased loved ones as well as doing readings and Public demonstrations with TV's Sensing Murder Psychic - Scott Russell Hill and many amazing Mediums such as UK's Tony Stockwell and Christine Morgan in Sydney.
This is what I LOVE to do and am really grateful to be doing the kind of work that can uplift and inspire as well as assist in bringing some comfort and closure for the bereaved !
"I was blown away, not only with the magnificent drawing but with the things Marie told me. So much of it was spot on. It was really empowering to find I'm on the right path to achieve my life purpose. It's great to actually hear that, especially when the going gets a bit rough! I recommend anyone who wants to get a clearer idea of what's going on for them to book a session with Marie! Love and Light"
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My work was entered in various exhibitions locally and nationally, which included a nationwide touring exhibition. The style of work, incorporates realism through to impressionist and abstract. I have travelled to Europe, Asia, South America, the United States and the Pacific, living and working for a short while in Fiji, as a farmer (permaculture, organic and re-forestation) in the late 1980's, with my husband. After the coup in 1989, we moved to North Queensland, Australia, where we continued our farming practices.
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Meeting of the heroes A FORMER fighter pilot has had an emotional reunion with the Frenchman who rescued him after he was shot down during World War Two.
Air Commodore Sir Archie Winskill met Felix Caron at the spot near Calais where he parachuted out of his Spitfire after it was shot down in August 1941.
The reunion at the weekend was the first time in more than 50 years that the 81-year-old war veteran had seen Mr Caron.
"We chatted away like long-lost brothers," said Air Cdre Winskill, who was Captain of the Queen's Flight at RAF Benson from 1968 to 1982, and was hit four days after fighter ace Douglas Bader was shot down.
"It was marvellous to see Felix again. We have both changed but I still recognised him - it was a very emotional moment."
Air Cdre Winskill, who fought in the Battle of Britain, lives in Phyllis Court Drive, Henley, with his French wife Christiane, who he met in London in 1945. Coincidentally, she was born in the village of Adruicq, near St Foulquin, where her husband was shot down four years earlier.
Mr Caron was just 18 at the time of the accident and lived on a farm in St Foulquin.
He fed Air Cdre Winskill for three days while he hid from the Germans in a cornfield.
Air Cdre Winskill, who spoke French, was later given a false identity card by the French Resistance and masqueraded as a French citizen while making his way to neutral Spain by train and bicycle. He then went to the British Consulate in Barcelona and was flown back to England, when he was de-briefed by the security department MI9. "I remember thinking that I just did not want to get caught and spend the rest of the war in a PoW camp," added Air Cdre Winskill.
"If Felix had not been there, that's what would have happened. The French people who helped me were terribly brave. If they were caught, they could have been tortured."
Following the crash over France and his return to England, he was awarded the DFC, and commanded a number of different squadrons.
He was shot down over the Tunisian coast in 1943 but swam ashore and managed to make his way into safe territory.
"I've never met anyone who, like me, was shot down twice and escaped," he said.
After the war Air Cdre Winskill worked for the former Air Ministry, and he was awarded the CBE. He became an Air Cdre in 1963 and kept his post as Captain of the Queen's Flight after his retirement from the RAF in 1968. He was later awarded the KCVO and CVO.
Mr Caron, 75, lives in the village of Bourbourg, near St Foulquin, and still owns Air Cdre Winskill's flying helmet. The two last saw each other when Air Cdre Winskill returned to the area just after the war ended.


Vanities for bedrooms become one of the most important thing people must to get to make the whole complete room. Bedroom vanity sets in so many choices : from wood, metal to rattan. But actually, the valuable vanity is the one with best beautiful decor. Yes, vanity with beautiful decor will make people put attention, love and then, buy it instantly.
Of course people prefer vanities for bedrooms with mirror than without one. Especially woman. They will consider the bedroom vanity with big mirror, with full elegant or classic decoration. Most people usually come with different tastes : they love wood because its strong and classic style, they love metal for more modern chic, or rattan for simply and its lower price. They also have different opinion about colors, some people love neutral and classic colors like white, black or brown, some people love the idea of colorful bedroom vanity like pink, blue, or wallpaper-flower-theme one. For example, woman maybe will choose pink or flower theme for their bedroom vanity, because they love the sweet color and patterns of flower. Man, maybe will come with different conclusion, he will choose vanity with the simplest décor and neutral colors like black, white or brown. Well, in other words, it's all about different tastes, right?
So, the last question you maybe wanna ask, where to buy the bedroom vanity with beautiful decor? I can say, there are so many ways. From online to offline. Just by see and click on web to directly come and consider it. If you want the instant solution, you can try online way. There are so many furniture shops you can find. They sell so many vanities for bedrooms, with so many various of decorative accent. You can consider before buy it. But if you want to go offline way, you can go to the nearest furniture shop in your town. See directly, think deeply, and ask the owner about the style, the price or another little details. If you get the best one, don't forget to share the story or experience with me, I will love to hear your best story about get the vanity with beautiful decor!
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Hell High is a 1989 American slasher film written, produced, and directed by Douglas Grossman. The film centers on a school teacher who suffers a mental breakdown after being harassed and attacked by a group of her students, driving her into a homicidal rage.

Plot
As a child, Brooke Storm goes to play with her dolls in a shack along biking path in the marsh near her home. A man and his girlfriend arrive by motorcycle, and Brooke hides behind the shack while the man violently attempts to force his girlfriend to have sex with him. When she refuses, the two depart on his motorcycle. As they turn around and pass by the shack, Brooke throws a bucket of wet mud at them, causing him to lose control of his motorcycle, and both are killed when they are impaled on nearby fenceposts.

Eighteen years later, Brooke lives alone in her childhood home, and is haunted by the deaths she caused as a child, which are now considered unsolved murders. Brooke works as a domineering and neurotic high school biology teacher who is unliked by her students. One of them, senior Dickens, is particularly antagonistic toward Brooke, and when he taunts and humiliates her during an exam, she slaps him in the face. Dickens and his friend Jon-Jon follow Brooke home in their car, and spy through her bathroom window while she masturbates in the shower.

The next day, Jon-Jon goes to pick up his new waver classmate Queenie at her home to attend the football game, where they meet with Dickens and their prankster friend, Smiler. The four disrupt the football game by driving Dickens' car onto the field before fleeing. Dickens devises a nebulous revenge prank against Brooke, and brings his friends to the marsh where the young couple were killed eighteen years prior. There, they gather swamp mud and then approach Brooke's house, donning Halloween masks. They climb onto her roof and begin pounding their feet, and throwing mud at the windows. When Brooke steps outside, they dump a bucket of mud on her, triggering traumatic memories of the deaths she caused as a child.

The teenagers flee when Brooke's friend Mink arrives, finding Brooke in a paranoid fugue state. Mink provides Brooke with a quaalude to calm her nerves. After she leaves, Dickens enters the house and finds Brooke nearly incoherent. When Dickens attempts to sexually assault Brooke, Jon-Jon, Queenie, and Smiler attempt to stop him. A fight ensues, during which Brooke leaps from her bed and jumps through a second-story window. Assuming Brooke to be dead, Dickens sends Jon-Jon to the local diner to steal a belonging from one of the school's football players, which they can leave behind in Brooke's house, framing the football players for her murder. Jon-Jon slashes the quarterback's tires and steals a jersey from his car. The quarterback and his teammate chase after Jon-Jon on a motorcycle, but lose control and crash.

Meanwhile, Queenie angrily leaves the house. Outside, she finds Brooke crying in the woods. Queenie approaches Brooke, relieved to see that she is alive, only for Brooke to bludgeon her to death with a rock. When Jon-Jon goes to investigate, Brooke also bludgeons him, rendering him unconscious. Brooke returns inside the house, where she stabs Smiler through the temple with a pencil, killing him. When Dickens goes to help him, Brooke lunges down the staircase with a butcher knife, and stabs Dickens in the chest. Jon-Jon regains consciousness and returns inside the house, where he finds an injured Dickens bound to a wall, where Brooke is preparing to perform a live autopsy on him. Jon-Jon incapacitates Brooke and frees Dickens, but she soon awakens. Armed with the butcher knife, Dickens leaps on top of her, and is impaled with a firepoker she is wielding; Brooke's throat is slashed in the process. Jon-Jon leaves the quarterback's jersey in the house, and returns home and hides in his bedroom.

At school the following day, police arrive when Brooke fails to appear. They enter the biology class, overseen by a substitute teacher, and swiftly arrest the school quarterback. Jon-Jon is momentarily relieved, until he hallucinates that Brooke is the substitute teacher.

Cast

Production
The film was shot on location in Westchester County, New York.

Release
The film was released theatrically in the United States beginning May 12, 1989.

Critical reception

Richard Harrington from The Washington Post gave the film a negative review, writing, "Even within the limited expectations of the horror genre, it's not particularly satisfying, since the chills are all on the cheap. However, sitting through Hell High is likely to bring back at least one high school memory, that of a long, long, long detention, made worse because you have to pay for it." Cavett Binion of AllMovie was unimpressed by the film, calling it a "routine slasher-thriller", though one that "deviates slightly from the standard formula by way of a fairly intelligent script."

Most reviews were negative. However, Brett Gallman on his website Oh, the Horror! considers it "a weird, gangly, messy perversion of 80s slashers", commending the film's darker narrative, performances, and dismantling of the typical slasher film formula.

Home media
Hell High was released on DVD by Shriek Show on July 13, 2004. It was later re-released by the company as a part of its three-disk, High School Horrors Pack on November 15, 2005. On July 18, 2022, Arrow Films released Hell High on Blu-ray in North America and the United Kingdom, featuring a new restoration from the original film elements.

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1980s slasher films
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Neural Recall: Brain area may support fact and event memory
By Bruce Bower
A small, inner-brain region called the hippocampus boasts a well-earned reputation as a memory hub. However, researchers disagree about whether the hippocampus specializes in remembering only experiences or instead coordinates recall of both experiences and factual information.
Support for the structure's double-barreled role comes from a group of six adults who suffered rare brain damage limited largely to the hippocampus. The analysis appears in a pair of reports in the April 10 Neuron.
"It looks like the human hippocampus is normally needed for semantic [factual] memories as well as for episodic [event] memories," says Larry R. Squire of the University of California, San Diego in La Jolla, who directed the investigations.
Passage of time loosens the injured hippocampus' cloaking of both forms of memory, Squire adds. All six brain-damaged patients remembered facts and events from more than a decade before their injuries occurred. They largely lacked recollections for material encountered in the 10 years before hippocampus damage and in its aftermath.
The patients, ages 36 to 64, had developed brain damage and memory loss after age 30 as a result of medical conditions such as viral encephalitis.
The first study explored factual memory. Five of the patients and 12 adults with uninjured brains answered multiple-choice questions about notable news events that occurred between 1950 and 2002.
Then, all six patients and 14 adults with healthy brains heard a list of famous and fictitious names. Famous names referred to people who became well known before 1970. Half remain alive today, and half had died between 1990 and 2001.
Participants decided whether each name referred to a famous person and, if so, whether that person was still alive.
Patients remembered little about news events that happened after they suffered brain damage or in the 10 years before, Squire's team found. However, patients and healthy adults alike recalled much of the news from the distant past and identified most of the famous people they had known about for decades. Only the patients, though, couldn't remember which famous people had died since 1990.
In a second study, the six patients with hippocampus damage and two others with broader injuries to the brain region that includes the hippocampus reported detailed autobiographical memories from childhood and adolescence. Their reports contained as much detail, including factual information, as those of 25 healthy adults. Previous studies had documented amnesia in these patients for personal events that occurred in the years shortly before and after their injuries.
In a commentary published with the new studies, Wendy A. Suzuki of New York University says the findings contrast with an earlier report that three children with hippocampus damage retained enough new factual knowledge to perform adequately in school.
The brain may undergo dramatic reorganization to shore up factual memories after hippocampus damage in childhood, Suzuki proposes. It's also possible that even without marked brain changes, memories of day-to-day experiences in the classroom enable such children to pass their tests, Squire says.
If you have a comment on this article that you would like considered for publication in Science News, send it to editors@sciencenews.org. Please include your name and location.
A version of this article appears in the April 19, 2003 issue of Science News.
Larry R. Squire
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Wendy A. Suzuki
Center for Neural Science
About Bruce Bower
Bruce Bower has written about the behavioral sciences for Science News since 1984. He writes about psychology, anthropology, archaeology and mental health issues.
Electrodes show a glimpse of memories emerging in a brain
Ripples in rats' brains tied to memory may also reduce sugar levels
Newborn cells clear space in brain's memory-maker
By Tina Hesman Saey November 12, 2009


The tree of life is one of the oldest symbols in the world and is pretty much universal . So that is what I made today a tree pendant . This Pendant is based of the usual shadow box but it is not a pierced and cut design .You work your way inward from the edge without having to punch a hole and feeding your saw blade through it . You start out again with 2 circles of equal size. I use my trusted disc cutter . A disc cutter is one of the first things I would get as a new metal smith . It is so much easier to make circles fast and equal in size. Yes you can cut out you circles with a saw by following along the lines of a drawn circle , but even though I am pretty good at sawing I was never able to saw out a perfect circle by hand .
Take your 2 circles and draw a tree on one of them , If you are not good at drawing directly on the metal , draw on a piece of paper until you have a tree you like then you can glue your drawn tree onto the metal and wait until th glue is dry and then start cutting from the edge in . My edge is the roots of the tree . Carefully saw out your tree , the smaller your tree or shape the more intricate the design the more difficult it is to saw and you might brake some blades. A good metalsmith that saws a lot will not brake the blades . Mine are actually wearing out before breaking and I get many pieces out of one blade . However in the beginning I broke them right and left . I always buy the 144 bulk pack by riogrande.com .
After you are done with sawing out your tree I would recommend cleaning your piece with some sandpaper to clean up the edges and to make it easier to solder. If you need to see a tutorial on how to solder you can look at some of my other entries ,some of them show you in detail on how to solder.


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Spraynard carries on the sophomoric yet imperishable pop-punk tradition.
By Kelefa Sanneh
Illustration by Jashar Awan
The singing starts before the band does, and so there is no avoiding the opening couplet, delivered in a plaintive voice by a man who evidently hasn't forgotten what it's like to be a boy: "I am every person that you've ever ignored / I am the flaming bag of dog shit on your porch." It is a kind of mission statement, and also an efficient sorting device. Those charmed by this collision of the earnest and the asinine will surely enjoy "Mable," the ebullient new album by a West Chester, Pennsylvania, pop-punk band called Spraynard, which is due out on July 10. And those uncharmed may nevertheless feel a grudging admiration for the unlikely longevity of pop punk itself, a seemingly silly genre that still works as well as it ever did, more than twenty years after "Dookie," the Green Day album, pushed it into the mainstream.
Pat Graham is the guitarist and singer of Spraynard, and his musical life was shaped by a hip older sister, who took him to see Green Day when he was ten. Graham soon graduated to more obscure bands, but never lost his faith in the power of fast tempos and bright melodies, and when he was nineteen he formed Spraynard with two childhood friends. The band released a pair of slapdash but memorable (and modestly popular) albums and then, three years ago, suddenly broke up, because Graham was increasingly stressed out by the prospect of turning his larkish band into a serious concern. Spraynard reunited last year, and gradually Graham decided to rededicate himself to the band full-bore, although not quite full-time—both he and Pat Ware, the drummer, have the same suitably flexible jobs they have had since high school, at a batting-cage complex owned by Graham's brother.
Like many of the most important pop-punk bands, Spraynard has figured out that the genre's juvenile reputation doesn't preclude thoughtfulness. In fact, the continued vitality of pop punk owes a lot to deft songwriters like Graham, who understand that energetic songs need not be cheerful. (In this respect, the genre's true trailblazer is not Green Day but Blink-182, who chronicled depression and diarrhea with equal gusto.) "Mable" is full of songs about strained relationships, not all of them necessarily romantic—it is possible that Graham's most traumatic breakup, and reconciliation, was with his band. And even at his most impassioned he can sound decidedly reasonable, yelping, "Some nights you will need to sleep alone, and that's alright / Is it alright if that's not tonight?" The band plays Amityville Music Hall, on Long Island, on June 27, and then Shea Stadium, the do-it-yourself space in Brooklyn, on July 16, by which time the kids (including the grownup kids) in the crowd will have no excuse not to know all the lyrics to the new songs, and sing along. ♦
Published in the print edition of the June 29, 2015, issue.
Kelefa Sanneh has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2008.
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Call for public input on determination and verification manual (DVM) - second draft
At its fourteenth meeting, the Joint Implementation Supervisory Committee (JISC) decided to develop a determination and verification manual (DVM) under joint implementation (JI), as a means to provide guidance to independent entities and JI project developers regarding determinations and verifications.
At its fifteenth meeting, the JISC agreed on the scope of DVM, defining the nature and the structure of a DVM, and requested the secretariat to launch a call for public input seeking to provide texts of the contents of a DVM, based on the nature and structure of a DVM as agreed by the JISC. The call was open from 27 April until 17 May 2009.
At its sixteenth meeting, the JISC, taking into account the inputs from the call, considered the first draft DVM prepared by the secretariat in consultation with selected JISC members, and requested the secretariat to prepare a second draft in consultation with selected JISC members, and launch a call for public inputs on the second draft for four weeks.
Call for public input on DVM - second draft
Public inputs are invited regarding the following document:
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This Dorfman Pacific bucket hat is a great all-around hat for playing golf, fishing, gardening, relaxing or just about anything. Made of poplin, it is an inexpensive way to cover your head and ears and when you're ready just roll it up and go. It has 4 stitched air vents, a poplin sweatband and a double pleated band in contrasting colors. Typically this particular bucket hat is worn by men but it can also be a unisex style.


Fine Bone China made in England. Highland Beauty is one of the most popular patterns featuring a lovely mauve thistle motif. It has a Classic victorian style scalloped edge and subtle embossed feel to suit elegant and fine dining.


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You'll love this new style design in a contemporary cuff bracelet.
This sterling silver cuff is small but mighty.
I love the simplistic design with the single oval CZ bezel set. It gives a very clean look.
You'll love wearing this alone or as a stack bracelet with others.
This fits a standard 7" wrist and cannot be adjusted because the silver is not pliable. It is hefty.
Bilagaanas was one of my first wholesalers that I found in Albuquerque back in the 80"s.
Their huge facility is Native American crafted and represents many renowned New Mexican artists.
You'll love this new style design in a contemporary cuff bracelet. This sterling silver cuff is small but mighty. I love the simplistic design with the single oval CZ bezel set. It gives a very clean look. You'll love wearing this alone or as a stack bracelet with others. This fits a standard 7" wrist and cannot be adjusted because the silver is not pliable. It is hefty. Bilagaanas was one of my first wholesalers that I found in Albuquerque back in the 80"s. Their huge facility is Native American crafted and represents many renowned New Mexican artists. Hand crafted in New Mexico.


There is a Memorandum of Understanding between SEC (Singapore Environment Council) and SNOC (Singapore National Olympic Council). The Memorandum is all about giving athletes Eco Kit for the upcoming SEA (South East Asia) games, which will be held in Myanmar from December 11 to 22, 2013. The Eco Kit will contain reusable pieces like dishes and towels.
When you play, you should think of the friends you would win not the enemies or opponents you will beat. Your sport will serve as you avenue to meet new people. You will meet many people with the same interest. Isn't it thrilling?
Sportsmanship is a conduct that is considered fitting for athletes. It covers the playing fair, respect for fellow athletes and graciousness should you lose. This is an important for all athletes. You need to accept that sometimes, you will lose. If you cannot accept that, playing is not for you.
Discipline in sports means ensuring proper behaviour during training and the actual game. It is more like a mindset. You should be trained to have order and control.
When you play, you should enjoy every second of it. Whether you win or lose, taking pleasure in what you do can make a difference. There are athletes that are very serious that they don't remember to have fun. Games were developed so people can have fun not to create misunderstanding and dispute.
Good luck to the athletes and may they bring home gold.
This entry is filed under About the Sports.


Finished in 18th place at the UMW Opener... Placed 35th at the CAC Championships with a time of 25:40.
Ran cross country and track at Spotsylvania High School in Spotsylvania, VA. MVP and captain for cross country and track… Conference Champion… State Qualifier… Senior Class Vice President…National Honor Society Member.
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Religion and the State: International experts explore the political dimensions of religion
The University of Western Sydney is set to host a conference of international experts that will explore the global links and relationships between politics and religion.
The 'Religion and the State: Regional and Global Perspectives' conference, sponsored by the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, will be held at the UWS Parramatta campus from 17-18 July, 2009.
Associate Professor Adam Possamai, from the UWS School of Social Sciences, says the conference will delve into a wide range of interesting and topical issues.
"From the right to religious liberty in communist countries to the boundaries between Church and State in Australia, all over the world there is evidence of relationships between religion and the political state," says Associate Professor Possamai.
"By understanding the roles that religion plays in social, intellectual and political life, we are in a better position to anticipate the influence that established religions may have upon our collective futures."
The two-day 'Religion and the State' conference will feature presentations from an esteemed group of Australian and international experts in the fields of Social Sciences and Theology.
Featured presentations will include:
* Professor Jack Barbalet, from the School of Social Sciences at UWS, will explore the relationships between religion, family structure, and the political state in China.
* Dr Doug Porpora, University of Drexel, USA, will examine President George W. Bush's use of religious language to frame America's war on terror, as well as the mainstream secular reaction to the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib.
* Professor James Beckford, University of Warwick, UK, will discuss the provision of religious and spiritual care to prisoners in the USA and Western Europe.
* Professor Michael Hill, National University of Singapore, will present on the topic of the changing policies towards religion in Singapore.
* Emeritus Professor Riaz Hassan, Flinders University, will discuss the nature of Islam as a blueprint for social order which encompasses all areas of life including law and the state.
Danielle Roddick
d.roddick@uws.edu.au


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Recently we have seen Kanye West flat out releasing new music, from Pusha T's album Daytona to his own projects Ye and Kids See Ghosts and more to come from Nas and others. With this flood of new music we see YouTuber True Geordie drop a new episode for his True Life Stories series which focuses on the man himself, Mr. West.
It is a documentary which takes us from the birth to the current day in the life of Kanye West. We see how he managed to kick start his career by producing beats for Jay-Z to the release of his debut classic The College Dropout. With this rise to fame he went on to dominate the music charts for over a decade now.
This film also touches on the more personal side to Kanye, we see how the death of his mother greatly effected him and how he went on to marry Kim Kardashian, having two children which seemed to have given him the love and stability he needed.
We delve into the depths of his mind, trying to better understanding the reasoning for his sometimes crazy antics and how his fans feel about him showing support for Donald Trump.
Civilization: Is the West History?
Fred & Rosemary West: The House of Horrors
Jimi Hendrix the Uncut Story
The Seven Ages of Elvis
Strangeways: Britain's Toughest Prison Riot
Twenty-five years ago nearly 2,000 inmates broke out of their cells and took over strangeways prison in Manchester, the worlds media caught every moment of the rooftop siege, but what made strangeways
What happens when "normal" gets turned upside-down...and what obstacles must you face to get back? "Motivations" is a look inside the everyday struggles of my mother as she battles progressive Multi
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Secrets of the Tower of London
The Tower of London a royal palace and mighty fortress, infamous prison, place of execution and torture. With unprecedented access this film goes deep into the archives to uncover extraordinary relics
Phil Ochs: There but for Fortune
As the United States continues to embroil itself in foreign wars, Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune is a timely and relevant tribute to an unlikely American hero. Over the course of a meteoric music ca


Well, folks, it's a done deal. I am willing to sell my soul for anything and everything that Alyssa Cole writes. After adoring the first book in this series, A Princess In Theory, I knew this companion novel was going to be a hit for me. I mean, just look at the two beautiful people on that cover! Do they not give you shippy feels that you want to drown in??? I am beyond thrilled to say that the inside of A Duke by Default was even more glorious than the outside. I know I am notorious for always pushing books on you guys, but friends, when I say ALL of you need this book in your life, I truly do mean it.
I could write an entire essay on said grump. You all know how much I love my heroes stoic, grumpy, but secretly soft. Tavish hit all those marks for me. I'll say that Tavish was very rude to Portia when they first met as she wasn't exactly what he was expecting his apprentice to be - she's fashionable, American and gorgeous. What would she even want to work at an armory??? Boyfriend here was completely unaware of just how smart, talented and devoted Portia could be. Thankfully, Tavish was also a guy who knew how to apologize and I swear, every time he apologized to her or thanked her for boosting his armory business my heart would just swell in happiness. I had so much love for this guy and this love only grew throughout A Duke by Default. As with Portia, Tavish also made quite a few discoveries about himself and his heritage that put him in the limelight because of Portia's meddling. I was worried for a minute about how he would react angrily, but I was pleasantly surprised. Tavish was a stand-up guy and ugh, where can I find one in real life, Ms. Cole?
The romance between the two was soooooooo good. Just the thought of them makes my heart ache - you know that's a sign of an epic memorable romance. They initially wanted nothing to do with each other and there was a bit of animosity between them as a result of Tavish's rudeness, but the CHEMISTRY. OOOOOOF. I nearly died of all the swoon-worthy moments between them. When they finally gave in to their attraction, it was truly worth it. Their romance was definitely slow-built and while I devoured all the romantic butterfly-in-the-stomach inducing moments, my favorite thing about these two was how they pushed each other to be better. They were a beautiful and complementary couple in every way. Besides the romance, I loved all the secondary characters, including Tavish's brother and sister-in-law - they were a fun addition to the story. Portia, her friend and newly-minted Princess Naledi, and Naledi's cousin were all part of this group chat that we are allowed to take a look at and OMG. It was one of my favorite parts of A Duke by Default and had me cracking up. They truly made for an awesome girl group and I couldn't get enough. We also meet the hero of the next book, and boy is he going to be a treat!
I think I've rambled sufficiently about how much I loved A Duke by Default. I hope I've managed to convince everyone to read this one. It's honestly one of the purest books I have ever read. I will most definitely be re-reading this one soon!
What is your favorite hero trope? Have you read books by Alyssa Cole?


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EAST MIDLANDS BLIND ARTIST TAKES TORCH TO LEXUS LEATHER IN NEW ARTWORK COMMISSION
by Claire Lawrence
Unique works to go on display at Lexus Leicester's showroom.
Originally published by Dluxe Magazine
Before any leather is considered good enough for use in a Lexus, it is burned, ripped, scuffed and scored in a battery of gruelling tests to find just how well it will maintain its quality through years of wear and tear. East Midlands artist Claire Lawrence, who is registered blind, has captured the spirit of these tests in her creation of a series of new artworks, using the same leather for her canvas.
In a further interpretation of Lexus's principles of "creating amazing," she has been inspired by the multi-sensory qualities of the leather. Her creative process involves burning holes in the leather, which are then laced with stitching before being coated with a clear varnish, adding extra dimensions of visual interest and tactility.
Claire said: "I usually work with canvas and at first I found the leather much harder to stitch and burn, and the burning was also more controlled. At first I was hesitant about varnishing the leather, as it was so beautiful, but I was encouraged by Lexus to do whatever I usually would to create my artworks.
"I am so glad I did, as the varnish on the leather is so crisp and enhances the burn and the colour of the material. They look far more organic, with the leather appearing to gain a flesh-like quality."
Richard Rhodes, Lexus Leicester Head of Business, said: "Claire's work is very special and adds an intriguing new dimension to Lexus's concept of quality and craftsmanship. We are delighted to be able to support the work of a very talented local artist and hope that our customers and other visitors will enjoy seeing the exhibition."
Claire was diagnosed with a degenerative eye condition when aged eight. She went on to complete an art degree, but a subsequent sharp decline in her vision curtailed her artistic ambitions. It was the chance gift of a blowtorch in 2013 that proved the inspiration for a new creative approach that has produced new work and the Lexus commission.
"As I have tunnel vision, I can never see the piece as a whole, only sections of it, so in a sense my art is a representation of my eye sight," said Claire.
Copyright 2016 - Claire Lawrence
Website by Will Chidlow


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Q: Rails best practices - Parameter or polymorphic model? I have two models : Ownership and Loan.
In order to validate the transaction, I use boolean on both models : current, agreed, available. But it may be redundant. So I'm asking myself if I should create another model, let's call it status, with this three booleans, and add polymorphic associations with Ownership and Loan.
What do you think about it ? Should I delete the boolean from both models and create a polymorphic model which contains each boolean ? Or should I keep it my way ?

A: I do not think you need a polymorphic association here, but moving those fields to a separate model sounds like a good idea since it appears from your description that this can be a simple lookup table.
I would create a Status model and define those three attributes as such:
# Schema Information
# id     :integer   not null, primary key
# status :string(8) not null
#

class Status < ActiveRecord::Base
  CURRENT = find_by_status('current')
  AGREED = find_by_status('agreed')
  AVAILABLE = find_by_status('available')
end

Then in your Ownership and Loan models I would add a status_id field which hold's the Status.id.  And you would access these status constants as Status::CURRENT and so on.

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AMPED™ FEATURED ALBUM OF THE WEEK: BON IVER/I,I
Sometimes, an artist's career trajectory is carefully planned. From label contracts and recording budgets to marketing strategies and touring schedules, the build up to a debut album is often less about music and more about business. However, there are always exceptions to every rule and singer/songwriter Justin Vernon is one of those exceptions. The origins of his band, Bon Iver, and their 2007 debut album started almost by accident and the subsequent commercial success of the band has always been about the music and nothing else. Sure, critical success and two Grammy Awards are always good for 'business' but for Vernon, it has always been about the music. And to think that it all started in a cabin in Wisconsin…
August 30, 2019 Steve Schnee
AMPED™ FEATURED ALBUM OF THE WEEK: REDD KROSS/BEYOND THE DOOR
We are so very lucky that Redd Kross exists. Formed by brothers Jeff and Steve McDonald in 1978, the band has gone through numerous line-up shuffles – plus a few name changes (from The Tourists to Red Cross to Redd Kross) – over the decades. However, the band's love of classic Pop, Punk and Rock 'n' Roll and their fascination with everything pop culture has made them one of the most beloved bands by anyone 'in the know'. Better yet, they appeal to a wide spectrum of fans – from Punk to Power Pop. Redd Kross fans might be the same ones you'll see at a Black Flag show or a Cheap Trick gig. And more than likely, the band's fans own records by Annette Funicello, adore Peter Sellers movies, and prefer Quisp over Quake cereal. Redd Kross represent the fun side of life. There might still be heartbreak and sorrow in Redd Kross' universe but nothing that a Buzzcocks 7" single can't cure!
AMPED™ FEATURED ALBUM OF THE WEEK: OH SEES/FACE STABBER
Musicians, by and large, carve their own paths. They take their influences, fuse them together, and create their own noise. Some of those musicians absorb more influences and make adjustments to their own sound along the way. While some of them might be distracted by the bright lights of YouTube viral videos and social media sycophants, we are still left with those that make music because they want/need/have to. Success might be their ultimate goal but how do you measure success anyway? Is a 'one hit wonder' like Starbuck more successful than artists like R. Stevie Moore or Daniel Johnston, two enormously creative artists that have built up devoted fanbases without even the slightest hint of massive commercial success? Some say that the hitmakers win out, but in all actuality, the winners are the fans who can enjoy the commercial Top 40 cheese while also enjoying those artists that inspire us to take chances, to move forward, and to be ourselves…
THE RUBINOOS: An EXCLUSIVE Q&A with Jon Rubin, Tommy Dunbar, and Chuck Prophet!
SPAZ: FROM HOME is just about to be released. How are you feeling about the album and the reaction you've had to it so far?
JON RUBIN: I love the record and the way it was recorded and I think it sounds exciting. I am completely blown away by both fan reaction and the reaction from people less familiar with The Rubinoos.
TOMMY DUNBAR: It might be a little early to gauge the response, but I'll say it was super fun making the record! Writing with Chuck Prophet was a total pleasure, and the rehearsals were a joy as always. But what really set it apart for me, was that we got to set up and play in a really great studio, with minimal overdubs. Also, Chuck introduced us to our wonderful engineer, Mr. Paul Kolderie. It's a rare thing to be able to only worry about playing and singing, at least these days.
AMPED™ FEATURED ALBUM OF THE WEEK: SMOOTH HOUND SMITH/DOG IN A MANGER
Smooth Hound Smith has come a long way since they formed in Southern California. Yes, you read that right – Smooth Hound Smith is a they, not a he or a she. Comprised of multi-instrumentalist Zack Smith and his wife, vocalist/percussionist Caitlin Doyle-Smith, the duo formed in Southern California back in 2012. Caitlin was performing with her band Dustbowl Revival and Zack sat in on one of their sets. Without even realizing it, the seeds of their future were planted at that very moment. Caitlin would eventually add percussion and vocals to Zack's 'one man band' performances. Marriage would soon follow. Eventually, Zack's 'one man band' concept was cast aside, replaced with the introduction of Smooth Hound Smith as a duo. Along the way, Zack and Caitlin left the comforts of Southern California, eventually settling in East Nashville, Tennessee.
August 9, 2019 Steve Schnee
THE RUBINOOS' From Home reviewed!
Some things are inevitable – someone from the 'older generation' (age 50+) will hear a classic '60s Pop tune on the radio and utter, "They don't make music like this anymore!" His friends will nod in agreement or offer a fist bump and, once the song is over, they go off to take a nap. I'm sure that scenario is being played out somewhere in this world at this very moment…
AMPED™ FEATURED ALBUM OF THE WEEK: BERLIN/TRANSENDANCE
The history of Synth/Electro Pop band Berlin spans four decades and includes a healthy handful of hit singles, a few musical detours, a break-up, some reunions, and a legacy that refused to die. The roots of the band were planted in 1978 when John Crawford formed his first band, The Toys. Within a year, the band had changed their name to Berlin and the core line-up featured vocalist Terri Nunn, keyboardist/guitarist David Diamond, and bassist Crawford. Nunn left after the release of their debut album and the band soldiered on with a new vocalist before briefly calling it a day. With band members pursuing other projects, Crawford decided to revive Berlin for an EP side-project. He reached out to Nunn, who agreed to rejoin. When PLEASURE VICTIM was released in 1982, its success surprised everyone. Armed with three classic radio hits – "Sex (I'm A…)", "The Metro", and "Masquerade" – PLEASURE VICTIM was a smash and paved the way for even more success.
RIDE: An EXCLUSIVE Q&A with Andy Bell!
STEPHEN SPAZ SCHNEE: Your album THIS IS NOT A SAFE PLACE is just about to be released. How are you feeling about the album and the reaction to it so far?
ANDY BELL: Very excited about it. So far, the reaction has been better than we could have hoped for.


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Now Playing Review – TRON: Legacy
Posted on December 21, 2010 by Lauren
Back during San Diego Comic-Con 2010 TRON: Legacy was easily one of the biggest crowd pleasers. Sure the panel swayed the audience by putting our voices into the movie (unless it was all just a mean trick to laugh at us stumbling over their "follow the bouncing ball" games), but the footage they brought worked its charm on its own as well. Now that there is more than just a few minutes of footage to show the viewing audience it is easy to say that Legacy sure is as worthy of the "OOO" and "Ah" responses it earned that day in July from its visuals, but unfortunately it doesn't quite deliver the all around amazing film I had hoped for.
Technically a sequel, Legacy takes place almost 3 decades following the plot of the 1982 original. This time around we go back to the grid following a new character, Sam, who gets transferred into this digital world after following a mysterious text back to his father's arcade. Once he is there it is discovered that his father, who has been missing for the past 20 years, has actually been trapped in this world of his own creation, with no hope of escaping until now. And as we know, nothing is ever really as simple as just a mouse-click away.
Feeling the pull of my deep running Chuck fandom, last summer I decided to give the original Tron a gander to see why it deserved all the screen time in poster form on Chuck's wall. Well, with me being a girl spoiled by the films of today, it is no shock that I was not really excited by the cutting edge graphics of the early 1980s. It really is a film of that time, and with Legacy, we get a film that, technologically speaking, does not fail to deliver the peak of what today's visual effects artists have to offer.
Legacy starts out strong with the introduction of Sam's character in the real world, and once he is sucked into the computer things really begin to escalate in excitement. Showing off The Grid's key attractions, the reintroduction into this world is one that will not be forgotten. As a dark world, The Grid looks like an electrified metropolis that comes to life when the sun goes down, and since there is no sun to rise here we are treated to the spectacle of this world for the entirety of the film, something that never loses it's magnificence.
On top of that, The Grid is more than just pretty pretty lights, throwing some amazing "gaming" sequences into the mix, all being upgraded from their original forms. Starting with the disc battles, Sam puts his athletic skill sets to good use in this confined mixture of aggressive Frisbee, air-hockey and indecisive gravity. Without giving Sam or the audience a moment to breathe, he is then thrown into the next survival challenge on the light cycles. Though we are given more than our fair share of these life or death games, it is still sad to see them go…
…Especially once looking back over the film post viewing. These first 45 minutes or so of the film really set the bar high for all that is to follow. The action is intense, interesting characters are introduced and written well, and the story feels promising in its simplicity as a rescue mission. Unfortunately once this leg of the race is completed the rest of the movie plays out like a runner getting winded and cramping up after over-exerting himself early on. The visual awe remains a constant throughout the entirety of the movie, leaving the blame for why the movie disappoints on the story. Though the grid is an interesting world to explore in thought, as the matrix was the first time I was baffled by its explanation, thanks to the 27 year gap between this film and its predecessor everything it has to offer now seems like something we have all seen time and time again. As the opening seems to pull from the look of Batman Begins, everything within The Grid screams "we <3 Star Wars," from the locations, visuals, dialog, characters, story, and even bits of the wardrobe.
As upsetting as it is to feel that this film never reaches its full potential, the stunning visuals and soundtrack do make it a film worth seeing. Heck, after sleeping on my disappointment I am more than ready to go see it again, even if it is to just gawk at the first half once more.
Final Grade: B-
Tags: Beau Garrett, Bruce Boxleitner, Garrett Hedlund, James Frain, Jeff Bridges, Michael Sheen, Olivia Wilde, Tron, Tron LegacyCategories: Film Review


Kappa Chakka Kandhari !! The names of 3 special vegetables ( Tapioca, Jackfruit, Chilly) that every Malayalee is nostalgic about, the smells and the tastes that grand mothers dished out from their kitchens cooking on country clay ovens, carefully prepared in earthen pots. The taste of fish from the river and tapioca from the garden mixed with earthy love would make many an afternoon special while lazing under the trees in a country made hammock!! With changing times, very few are lucky to enjoy such pure unadulterated moments. With the globalization of the Kerala cuisine coupled with fusion recipes across the world most people outside the region identify it with Appam, Stew, Avial and some fish curry with coconut milk, Biryani, whole set of payasams made with anything that can be remotely cooked in milk or coconut milk and a variety of chips.
Frankly, I am no exception and when my friend asked me to come along for a curtain raiser event of Kappa Chakka Kandhari which promised a trip down memory lane with food, I was more than happy. This is a brain child of Augustine Kurian and John Paul along with Chef Regi Mathew who are extremely passionate about this curated cuisine which to them is a brand that will redefine the perception of the Malayalee cuisine. A quick conversation with Augustine Kurian and Chef Regi Mathew revealed that they had a team who visited villages in Kerala, tasted food directly from the home kitchens, researched on recipes and techniques and came up with a list of dishes that they wanted their patrons to experience prior to launching their outlet.
It was a huge spread complete with starters, curries and desserts sans any kind of carbs – rice, parotha or appam !! Sometimes the accompanying bread and rice items just kill the appetite in its zest to fill the stomach. All the dishes were laid out in earthern ware and the tables had trays of chips and pickles. I gorged on the jack fruit chips which were crisp and golden and did not have that familiar stench of stale coconut oil like the one from the neighborhood store. The accompanying fruit pickle and the garlic/chilly fry just made it all the more tasty. Had to remind myself a couple of times to control.
The story down memory lane would remain incomplete without the desserts. The Uniyappams were soft and had the right balance of sweet, the pineapple cake with jam was swoonworthy !! It was dense yet soft without the over addition of baking powder to make it fluffy. The Mango Chutney coupled with some dates and raisins was something that set the tongue clicking. To keep it as authentic as possible, there was chilly ice cream and jack fruit ice cream. One spoon of the chilly ice cream and it set my throat aflame which had to be quickly quietened by an helping of the melt in the mouth jack fruit one.
While, I was gorging a young boy band (Atma) was crooning chart buster Bollywood and Kollywood numbers and while it is hard to keep me away from foot tapping soulful music; this spread managed to do that with minimal distraction !! Need I say more; A big Thumbs Up from a Non Malayalee foodie and am sure it will strike more than a chord with the Malayalee with its evergreen authentic touch. I did pick up more than a bottle of pickle from the store and needless to say, I love the taste just hoping that it was a little less oily.


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Thank to everyone that attended! Special thank you to the UT Club for hosting us! We had a great time!
Our next event will be Thursday, February 10th from 6-9 at The Dogwood on West 6th. The Dogwood will be serving $4 Deep Eddy cocktails and $2.50 Buckethead beer — for our group! For more details and to RSVP visit http://bit.ly/fckj2H Hope to see you there!
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Continuous handling of receipts linked to higher urine BPA levels
by The JAMA Network Journals
Study participants who handled receipts printed on thermal paper continuously for 2 hours without gloves had an increase in urine bisphenol A (BPA) concentrations compared to when they wore gloves, according to a study in the February 26 issue of JAMA.
Human exposure to bisphenol A (BPA) has been associated with adverse health outcomes, including reproductive function in adults and neurodevelopment in children exposed shortly before or after birth. "Exposure to BPA is primarily through dietary ingestion, including consumption of canned foods. A less-studied source of exposure is thermal receipt paper, handled daily by many people at supermarkets, ATM machines, gas stations, and other settings," according to background information in the article. Thermal paper has a coating that is sensitive to heat, which is used in the process of printing on the paper, and has been shown to be transferred to skin with handling.
Shelley Ehrlich, M.D., Sc.D., M.P.H., of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, and colleagues conducted a study to examine the effect of handling thermal receipts on urine BPA levels. The authors recruited 24 volunteers who provided urine samples before and after handling (with or without gloves) of receipts printed on thermal paper for a continuous two hours. BPA was detected in 83 percent (n = 20) of urine samples at the beginning of the study and in 100 percent of samples after handling receipts without gloves. The researchers observed an increase in urinary BPA concentrations after continuously handling receipts for 2 hours without gloves, but no significant increase when the participants used gloves.
The clinical implications of the height of the peak level and of chronic exposure are unknown, but may be particularly relevant to populations with occupational exposure such as cashiers, who handle receipts 40 or more hours per week, the authors write. "A larger study is needed to confirm our findings and evaluate the clinical implications."
Widespread exposure to BPA substitute is occurring from cash register receipts, other paper
More information: JAMA DOI: 10.1001/jama.2013.283735
Journal information: Journal of the American Medical Association
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Food Habits: Eats insects, seeds, grain (Terres 1980); mainly seeds (Stiles and Skutch 1989).
Habitat Comments: Breeds in tall grass areas, flooded meadows, prairie, deep cultivated grains, and hayfields (AOU 1998). Nests on ground in small hollow in area of concealing herbaceous vegetation. Tends to return to breed in same area in successive years, especially if that site has had good Bobolink productivity (Bollinger and Gavin 1989). Prefers habitat with moderate to tall vegetation, moderate to dense vegetation, and moderately deep litter (Tester and Marshall 1961, Bent 1958, Harrison 1974, Bollinger 1995), and without the presence of woody vegetation (Sample 1989, Bollinger and Gavin 1992). Found in native and tame grasslands, haylands, lightly to moderately grazed pastures, no-till cropland, small-grain fields, oldfields, wet meadows, and planted cover (NatureServe 2011, and citations therein).


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Purposeful Pints at Copper Trail Brewing Co.
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Genetic transformation as a tool for the introduction of agronomically important genes into citrus plants.
Pena, Leandro; Cervera, M.; Juarez, José; Navarro, A.; Ortega, C.; Pina, J. A.; Duran, N.; Navarro, L.
Pena, L., Cervera, M., Juarez, J., Navarro, A., Ortega, C., Pina, J.A., Duran, N., Navarro, L. (1997). Genetic transformation as a tool for the introduction of agronomically important genes into citrus plants.. Eight International Symposium on Plant Bioregulators in Fruit Production, (463), 61-68.
A procedure for increased efficiency of production of transgenic citrus plants was developed by using an Agrobacterium-mediated transformation and shoot tip grafting in vitro regeneration system. The disarmed Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain EHA 105 harboring the binary vector p35SGUSINT was cocultivated with stem and epicotyl segments from young seedlings. The beta-glucuronidase (GUS) gene in the T-DNA served as reported in the histochemical assay and the neomycin phosphotransferase II (NPT ii) gene provided resistance to kanamycin and was used as selectable marker. Shoots regenerated under kanamycin selection were harvested from the stem se,aments within 5 months. Shoot basal portions were GUS-assayed for screening transformants and the remaining portions were shoot tip grafted in vitro for production of whole plants. Integration of the GUS and NPT II genes and expression of their mRNAs in the regenerated plants was confirmed by polymerase chain reaction (PCR), Southern and Northern analysis. This transformation procedure showed the highest transgenic plant production efficiency reported for citrus. We are using this system to introduce the gibberellin-C20-oxidase gene, in sense and antisense, in citrus plants trying to modify tree size.


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Otherwise there is no other option than using a third-party app. They will help you to save your mobile data and you can watch the video offline whenever you want. But one important thing to be noted is that these third-party apps are not available in your Google Play store. You need to get it from external sites.
Before downloading any apps make sure to get it from trustable source. When you attempt to download any app enable downloading form external source first. You can do that on Settings>> lock and security>> Unknown sources. A message will show that the app is dangerous you can tap on OK option there.
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Tubex is a free app Android user can use to download YouTube videos. It helps you to download any videos fast. The app supports many files like MP3, Mp4, FLV etc.
Also, the app lets you to download more than one file at a time without affecting its speed.
Enter the download link or video name and tap on download button. The files will download on to your device memory card. Enjoy any videos without spending data without any interruption.
This is a safe app to download YouTube videos. It is free and comes with a good user interface. You can see all the popular platforms on the app homepage itself when you open the app.
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Shindo.tests("Storage[:aws] | file", ["aws"]) do

  require 'tempfile'

  file_attributes = {
    :key => 'fog_file_tests',
    :body => lorem_file,
    :public => true
  }

  directory_attributes = {
    :key => uniq_id("fogfilestests")
  }

  @directory = Fog::Storage[:aws].directories.create(directory_attributes)

  model_tests(@directory.files, file_attributes, Fog.mocking?) do

    tests("#version") do
      tests("#version should be null if versioning isn't enabled").returns(nil) do
        @instance.version
      end
    end

  end

  @directory.versioning = true

  model_tests(@directory.files, file_attributes, Fog.mocking?) do

    tests("#version") do
      tests("#version should not be null if versioning is enabled").returns(false) do
        @instance.version == nil
      end
    end

    @directory.files.create(:key => @instance.key)
    @instance.destroy

    tests("#versions") do
      tests('#versions.size includes versions (including DeleteMarkers) for all keys').returns(3) do
        @instance.versions.size
      end

      tests('#versions are all for the correct key').returns(true) do
        @instance.versions.all? { |v| v.key == @instance.key }
      end
    end

    tests("#destroy") do
      tests("#destroy a specific version should delete the version, not create a DeleteMarker").returns(2) do
        @instance.destroy('versionId' => @instance.version)
        @instance.versions.all.size
      end
    end

    tests("multipart upload") do
      pending if Fog.mocking?

      # A 6MB file
      @large_file = Tempfile.new("fog-test-aws-s3-multipart")
      6.times { @large_file.write("x" * (1024**2)) }
      @large_file.rewind

      tests("#save(:multipart_chunk_size => 5242880)").succeeds do
        @directory.files.create(:key => 'multipart-upload', :body => @large_file, :multipart_chunk_size => 5242880)
      end

      @large_file.close

    end

  end

  @directory.versions.each(&:destroy)
  @directory.destroy

end

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High School Girls Basketball
High school girls basketball: Kanab shocks with upset win over top-ranked Wasatch Academy
By Trent Wood Feb 22, 2018, 11:05pm MST
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RICHFIELD — It is often the case in close games, at any level of basketball, that free throws, missed or made decide the game.
Intentional fouls are a regular occurrence, usually gifted to a team's worst free-throw shooter.
The tactic is meant to prolong the game, limit points scored and give the losing team a shot, however slim, at an incredible comeback.
Trailing by five points with just over three minutes remaining in their quarterfinal contest against the Kanab Cowboys, the Wasatch Academy Tigers decided it was time to apply that tried and occasionally true stratagem.
It backfired in a big way for the top-seeded Tigers, thanks to Kanab junior Sidney McDonald.
McDonald connected on 15 of 16 free throw attempts in the fourth quarter, lifting the Cowboys to a stunning 67-58 upset victory.
"It happened and I kind of laughed about it," Kanab head coach Kade Glazier said. "(Sydney) is our best free throw shooter and she came up big down the stretch. It was amazing that she was able to do that."
Making her star turn, a regular occurrence this season for McDonald, all the more impressive was her less than stellar play prior to the fourth quarter.
McDonald, who finished with a team-high 19 points, had just one point through the first three quarters.
"She struggled early on and started getting down on herself," said Glazier. "The thing about a good basketball player is they always rebound and I told her that at halftime. I told her to keep firing and her shot would come."
While McDonald struggled early on, the rest of the Cowboys did not. Instead, they excelled and took a six-point advantage into the half.
"I was kind of wondering how our game was going to show up, whether we would show up like that or if we would come out and be scared and intimidated," said Glazier. "I've got to hand it to the girls, they came out and fought from 32 minutes away to the final seconds. They weren't scared of (Wasatch Academy) and they came out and fought every second of it. It was amazing to watch."
Leading the Kanab charge in the first half was Brinley Cornell with 12 first-half points. Josie Lathim added six first-half points, helping Kanab withstand multiple rally attempts by the top-ranked Tigers.
Wasatch Academy began to find its footing after halftime, and after outscoring the Cowboys 15-13 in the third quarter, the Tigers, specifically star Manu Oliveira, tied the game at 38 points apiece less than a minute into the fourth quarter.
Wasatch even took the lead, 42-41, on a Nataly Dunka layup with five minutes remaining, but the Cowboys refused to break.
A 3-pointer by McDonald put Kanab back on top and a layup by Lathim, coupled with a mid-range jumper, courtesy of Cornell, gifted Kanab the five-point lead that ultimately triggered the game-deciding foul fest.
From there, it was all McDonald and all Kanab.
"It means a ton," Glazier said of the win. "We placed fourth in our region, but I think that our region prepares us for games like that. When you have five or six really tough teams that you have to go against, we are used to games like that."
"We just beat the No. 1 team in the state!," he added. "It means a ton. They played really well."
Up next for the Cowboys is a semifinal contest against the Millard Eagles, set to be played Friday evening at 5:50 p.m.
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