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Shhh, don't let on, but at Massage Matters, the baby massage classes are not all about baby, it's about mum too.
When you think of baby classes, you probably just think about the advantages for the baby. Yes, baby massage helps promote a healthy digestive system and therefore supports weight gain; it helps ease tummy pain which can be common in newborns including colic, constipation and trapped wind – we have a specific massage routine to help with colic; as well as promoting the release of melatonin, the sleep hormone. To find out more about benefits for the babies click here, but remember this is about you too.
Baby massage can bring a whole heap of benefits for mums too.
It can be hard to have quality time with your baby, even though you're probably spending every waking and sleeping hour with them. With distractions such as phones, TVs, visitors, daily admin, to do lists, it can be hard to make time for just the two of you. The classes allow you to relax and focus on your baby, learn how to read their cues and enjoy them through spending quality time together.
The wonderful effects of oxytocin on both parent and baby is the reason why skin to skin contact is highly encouraged immediately a baby is born. Hearing, smell and eye contact play a very important part in the relationship between parent and baby. The amazing benefits can be continued long after this initial meeting by practicing regular and on-going baby massage. Mothers who deliver by c-section are often have lower levels of oxytocin and immediate skin to skin contact and regular baby massage is a great way to increase these levels in both the mother and the child.
Get to know other new mums in the area, which also means that your baby will also make friends. There's no rushing off after you've learnt the massage strokes. After 45 minutes of massage and relaxations, the home baked cakes and hot cup of teas & coffee come out. The classes give you a chance to relax, you'll be in an environment of other mums that genuinely want to hear about you and your baby because it is also their favourite subject of conversation too. This is often one of the favourite parts of the class.
You'll often hear 'they don't come with instruction books', which can leave you feeling like you know nothing about your baby and haven't got a clue what you're doing but that's not true. No-one knows your baby better than you, you are tuned in to their every cue and you have already achieved so much. Baby massage classes are often the first classes that new parents do and so when you arrive, you have already made it out of the house, arrived at the class, prepared for feeding and changing away from home and are meeting new people. Well done!
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Published at Wednesday, December 05th, 2018 - 21:02:09 PM. Kitchen Island. By Queena Carter.
A kitchen island proffers some terrific attached workspace to your kitchen, and it can also supply attached storage. In its most minimalist shape, a kitchen island may be only a general table. At another end of the spectrum, kitchen island plans might feature a cook superficial, dining area, storage space, wine cooler, bookcase, dishwasher, and simply about anything else ‐containing the kitchen sink!
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The Origins of Evolutionary Research in Jena
This is Charles Darwin's first sketch of an evolutionary tree of life (circa 1837), taken from his first notebook on transmutation of species, which is viewable at the Museum of Natural History in Manhattan, New York City.
By summer 1837 at the latest Charles Darwin believed in the common ancestry of different species, their gradual development by splitting and continuous modification. At this time he sketched his world-famous "Tree of life" in one of his notebooks with a few strokes, regarded as the first attempt to depict the phylogenetic development of species. In 1858 he presented his "Evolutionary Theory" at the Linnean Society of London and published his thoughts in his book "The origin of species".
In Germany the origins of evolutionary theory and research are closely connected with Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919). Ernst Haeckel first studied medicine and received his qualification as a doctor in 1858. From an early age, however he had been more interested in the natural sciences, at first in botany and from the 1850s also in zoology.
In 1860 Ernst Haeckel read Darwin´s book about the origin of species in its 1st German translation and adopted the theory. He dedicated a large part of his scientific research to its dissemination and further development, and would become the starting point of his worldview. In 1861 Ernst Haeckel came to Jena. In his work about the radiolaria, published in 1862, he clearly espouses Darwin´s evolutionary theory.
Ernst Haeckel, Age 26
When Haeckel came to Jena, many natural scientists were biding their time or were vehemently opposed to Darwin´s theory. But he also met researchers, who were open towards his theory or who had already engaged in the recognition and recording of evolutionary processes.
Carl Gegenbaur, professor for anatomy and zoology from Jena and Haeckel´s friend and sponsor is today considered as one of the fathers of evolutionary morphology and the most famous vertebrate morphologist of the 19th century. Gegenbauer´s standard work "Main features of comparative anatomy" (1859), where he identified structural similarities between different animals as evidence for their evolutionary development, was written in Jena.
Matthias Jacob Schleiden (around 1855)
Darwin´s theory also fell on fertile ground for Matthias Jacob Schleiden. Schleiden had been in Jena since 1839 and had been director of the Botanical Garden since 1850. In biology he became famous as co-founder of cell theory. Schleiden was among the first German botanists who accepted Darwin´s evolutionary theory. He had also long been interested in anthropology. Already in 1862 he had adapted Darwin´s evolutionary theory for his anthropology lectures and used it as starting point for his argumentation. He was also one of the first to consider the cultural development of mankind as a reflection of its biological evolution.
The linguist August Schleicher had been in Jena since 1857. He is known as the founder of the family tree theory in comparative linguistics and as a pioneer of Indo-European Studies together with Franz Bopp. A friendship developed between Haeckel and Schleicher, and Haeckel urged his friend to read Darwin´s book "The origin of species".
Schleicher, who had already depicted language families in the form of trees, recognized major parallels between the "life of languages" and " life itself". He presented these parallels in an open letter to Haeckel in 1863 with the title: "The Darwinian Theory and Linguistics". Schleicher concluded from the fact that languages are subject to the same development processes as animals and plants, that linguistics should also be conducted with the same scientific methods. It was important to find the protolanguage from which the various modern languages were derived.
August Schleicher's phylogenetic tree of the indo-european languages in his open letter to Ernst Haeckel.
August Schleicher
"Is the evolution of language not a main part of the evolution of mankind? […] That the natural scientific method is increasingly accepted by linguists, is also one of my strongest desires."
Inspired by Schleicher´s trees, Haeckel also began to present his thoughts and scientific results in the form of trees. 1866, three years after Schleicher´s letter, Haeckel´s "General Morphology" was published with illustrations of those phylogenetic trees, which have been the model for many phylogenetic figures.
In 1874 the probably most famous of Haeckel´s trees appeared: A strong oak tree with the human being on top as the crown of creation. His ideas have been extended to thoughts about lower and higher human races and to racial hygiene. These views as well as the idea of a continuous, linear upward development are nowadays regarded as obsolete and disproven. However, they threw the gates wide open for Nazi Germany to completely misuse Haeckel.
left: Monophyletic tree of the organisms by Ernst Haeckel (1866)
right: Pedigree of the human being by Ernst Haeckel (1874)
Research at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History picks up basic ideas and scientific approaches from these Jena researchers: Languages are investigated with methods from the natural sciences, as already proposed by Schleicher (Department for Linguistic and Cultural Evolution) and questions concerning the development of mankind and bio-cultural co-evolution are analyzed with modern molecular biological methods based on archaeological finds (Department of Archaeogenetics). With the foundation of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, the evolutionary sciences now have a location where evolutionary questions about diverse biological and cultural phenomena are being answered with the latest scientific methods at the very place where they originated in.
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Toronto ETO hosts Hong Kong Week opening ceremony and "Connect & Excel - Past, Present & Future" photo exhibition
The Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (Toronto) (Toronto ETO) hosted the opening ceremony of Hong Kong Week and the "Connect & Excel - Past, Present & Future" photo exhibition at the Dr Hin-Shiu Hung Art Gallery of the Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto today (June 18, Toronto time).
In delivering a welcome speech at the opening ceremony, the Director of the Toronto ETO, Ms Emily Mo, said the Hong Kong Week event under the theme "Connect and Excel" aims to promote Hong Kong's strengths, advantages and potential with an emphasis on the core values and attributes of Hong Kong, Asia's world city.
Given Hong Kong's high degree of connectivity, globally and with Mainland China and the rest of Asia, the city helps propel people and businesses to excellence in their chosen fields under a "Connect and Excel" theme. "Hong Kong's sound fundamentals not only relate to physical connectivity but also to financial, legal, scientific research and creative links as well as people-to-people connectivity," Ms Mo said.
Ms Mo also introduced the series of activities to be held in Toronto and Vancouver in the inaugural Hong Kong Week event organised by the Toronto ETO, which include the "Think Asia, Think Hong Kong 2.0" business conference to discuss how Hong Kong connects businesses between Canada and Asia, an academic seminar and a concert on how music connects Hong Kong and Canada, a Hong Kong-themed drama, dragon boat festival activities and photo exhibitions.
Entitled "Connect & Excel - Past, Present & Future", the photo exhibitions are jointly presented by the Toronto ETO and the Chinese Canadian Photographic Society of Toronto. More than 80 photos are being displayed to showcase Hong Kong's high degree of connectivity from different perspectives.
Among the photos, two newly commissioned infrastructure projects, namely the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge and the Hong Kong section of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link, which greatly enhance the connectivity of Hong Kong to the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and destinations further afield in Mainland China, are featured.
The photo exhibition also showcases the many types of transport and world-class infrastructure in Hong Kong.
Ms Mo invited guests at the opening ceremony and the Canadian public to learn more about Hong Kong's connectivity by visiting the photo exhibitions and participating in other Hong Kong Week activities.
Today 's opening ceremony was attended by the Consul General of the People's Republic of China in Toronto, Mr Han Tao; Members of the Provincial Parliament of Ontario Ms Daisy Wai and Mr Billy Pang.
Before the opening ceremony came to a close, the guests were treated to a Chinese instrumental performance by four professional musicians from the Hong Kong Oratorio Society (HKOS). Led by the Music Director of the HKOS, Professor Chan Wing-wah, the HKOS will jointly stage a concert with Kindred Spirits Orchestra of Markham and the Vancouver Oratorio Society on June 22 (Toronto time).
The "Connect & Excel - Past, Present & Future" photo exhibition will run from June 15 to 30 (Toronto time) in various venues in the Greater Toronto Area and in downtown Vancouver. The dates and venues are listed below:
June 18-20 Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto
June 18-22 North York Civic Centre in Toronto
June 18-30 Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library of the University of Toronto
June 24-30 Sunroom & Gallery, Robson Square, University of British Columbia in Vancouver
Other activities of Hong Kong Week include:
June 18 Seminar on "Connecting Hong Kong and Canada through Music" at
the Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library of the University of Toronto
June 21 2019 National Conference themed "Think Asia, Think Hong Kong 2.0" at Hilton Suites in Markham
June 21 to 23 Concord Pacific Dragon Boat Festival in Vancouver
June 22 "Voices of the World" concert at the Richmond Hill Centre for Performing Arts in Toronto
June 30 Hong Kong-themed musical performances "Try to Remember" at Michael J Fox Theatre in Vancouver
The Director of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (Toronto), Ms Emily Mo, speaks at the opening ceremony of Hong Kong Week and the "Connect & Excel - Past, Present & Future" photo exhibition at the Dr Hin-Shiu Hung Art Gallery of the Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto today (June 18, Toronto time).
Pictured from left are Honorary Advisors of the Chinese Canadian Photographic Society of Toronto (CCPST) Mr Tam Kam-chiu and Mr Stephen Siu; the Consul General of the People's Republic of China in Toronto, Mr Han Tao; the Director of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (Toronto), Ms Emily Mo; Member of the Provincial Parliament of Ontario Ms Daisy Wai; the President of the CCPST, Mr Edwin Ho; and Member of the Provincial Parliament of Ontario Mr Billy Pang at the opening ceremony of Hong Kong Week and the "Connect & Excel - Past, Present & Future" photo exhibition held at the Dr Hin-Shiu Hung Art Gallery of the Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto on June 18 (Toronto time).
From left: dizi master Yeung Wai-kit; pipa master Sha Jingshan; the Music Director of the Hong Kong Oratorio Society, Professor Chan Wing-wah; the Consul General of the People's Republic of China in Toronto, Mr Han Tao; the Director of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (Toronto), Ms Emily Mo; guzheng master Lau Shui-chung, and sheng master Wong King-chung attend the opening ceremony of Hong Kong Week and the "Connect & Excel - Past, Present & Future" photo exhibition held at the Dr Hin-Shiu Hung Art Gallery of the Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto today (June 18, Toronto time).
The Director of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (Toronto), Ms Emily Mo (middle); the Consul General of the People's Republic of China in Toronto, Mr Han Tao (left); and Honorary Advisor of the Chinese Canadian Photographic Society of Toronto Mr Stephen Siu (right) tour the photos at the opening ceremony of Hong Kong Week and the "Connect & Excel - Past, Present & Future" photo exhibition held at the Dr Hin-Shiu Hung Art Gallery of the Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto on June 18 (Toronto time).
The Director of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (Toronto), Ms Emily Mo, gives welcome remarks at a seminar entitled "Connecting Hong Kong and Canada through Music" at the Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library of the University of Toronto in the afternoon on June 18 (Toronto time).
The Director of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (Toronto), Ms Emily Mo (second left), is pictured with the Director of the Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library of the University of Toronto, Dr Jack Leong (first left), Professor of Musicology & Jean A. Chalmers Chair in Canadian Music of the University of Toronto, Professor Robin Elliott (second right), and the Music Director of the Hong Kong Oratorio Society, Professor Chan Wing-wah (first right), at a seminar held at the Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library of the University of Toronto in the afternoon on June 18 (Toronto time).
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When Kevin Kwan wrote the novel Crazy Rich Asians, he had no idea he might change Hollywood. The book, which focuses on the story of Chinese American professor Rachel Chu and her "crazy rich" fiancé, Nick Young, quickly became a bestseller, thanks to a classic romantic plot set in the glittering international stomping and shopping grounds of Singapore's financial elite. Two more books, China Rich Girlfriend and Rich People Problems, followed to complete the trilogy. Now the Crazy Rich Asians film is set to hit US theaters on August 15.
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Q: Probability a polynomial has a root which is a root of unity Consider a degree $n$ polynomial $P(x)$ with coefficients $c_i \in \{-1,0,1\}$ chosen uniformly and independently.

What is the probability that $P(x)$ has a root which is a root of
  unity?

Previously asked at https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/798082/probability-a-polynomial-has-a-root-which-is-a-root-of-unity

A: As discussed in comments, I think for large $n$ the probability that it has a root which is a root of unity is double the probability that 1 is a root. For large $n$, $P(1)$ is a random variable whose distribution is approximately normal and whose variance is $\sigma^2=2n/3$. The probability that $P(1)=0$ is then approximately $1/\sigma\sqrt{2\pi}$. Doubling this gives a probability $\sqrt{3/\pi n}\approx 0.98 n^{-1/2}$. This seems to agree quite well with the final two values in Matt F.'s list:
$$\frac{263}{729}=0.361 \qquad \sqrt{\frac{3}{7\pi}}=0.369$$
$$\frac{2267}{6561}=0.346 \qquad \sqrt{\frac{3}{8\pi}}=0.345$$

A: I get $$\left\{\frac{2}{3},\frac{2}{3},\frac{4}{9},\frac{35}{81},\frac{94}{243},\frac{275}{729}
   ,\frac{263}{729},\frac{2267}{6561}\right\}$$
for the monic polynomials of degree 1 to 8, using Mathematica:
f[a_, b_] := a x^(b - 1)

PolysOfDegree[n_] := First /@ Table[ x^n + Plus @@
                     MapIndexed[f, IntegerDigits[i, 3, n] - 1], {i, 0, 3^n - 1}]

TestFactors[n_] := Table[FactorList[x^i - 1], {i, 1, 2 n + 2}]
                   // Flatten // Union // Rest

HasRootOfUnityAsRoot[poly_] := Or @@ Map[ PolynomialMod[poly , #] === 0 &,
                                          TestFactors[Exponent[poly, x]]]

Prob[n_] := Count[Map[HasRootOfUnityAsRoot, PolysOfDegree[n]], True]/3^n

Table[Prob[n], {n,1,8}]

I've enumerated the polynomials of degree $n$, and enumerated the characteristic polynomials of roots of unity of degree up to $2n+2$.  Then it's just a matter of testing which are divisible by which.

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Floating docks can be constructed from any type of material that will float in the water. One material to use for a floating dock is PVC pipe. PVC pipe that is capped on each end will easily float on water and can support about 50 pounds per 10-foot section of four inch pipe. The frame for the your dock needs to be constructed from pressure treated decking. However, you need to first determine how big to build the dock.
PVC pipe can be used to support a dock in the water.
Determine the width and length for the floating dock with the tape measure, such as five feet wide by 10 feet long. Make a note of the measurements on a piece of paper.
Multiply five by 12 to determine the width of the dock in inches. Divide this number by four to calculate the number of 10-foot lengths of PVC pipe will be needed. Double the result to obtain the number of PVC end caps that are required.
Apply PVC primer to the outside edge of the first PVC pipe and the inside edge of a flat PVC end cap.
Apply the PVC glue to the outside of the PVC pipe and the inside of the PVC cap. Place the cap on the end of the pipe. Allow at least 20 seconds for the PVC glue to set. Repeat this step to glue the end caps on the other PVC pipes.
Set two 10-foot lengths of the 2-by-6 inch decking side by side lengthwise. The width of the two outside lengths needs to be five feet.
Place one five foot length of 2-by-6 inch decking on top of the 10-foot lengths so end of the wood is flush with the two outside lengths of decking.
Drive three screws into the five foot decking and into the 10-foot decking with the power drill.
Place the next piece of decking in place and attach with screws. Repeat this step to attach the remaining five foot lengths of 2-by-6 inch decking.
Turn the assembled dock over so that it the top side is facing the ground. Place the 10 foot sections of PVC pipe into the dock.
Secure the PVC pipe to the wood with nylon straps that are nailed to wood decking. Lift the dock and move it to the water.


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Smiths Detection's HI-SCAN 145180-2is has been formally approved for air cargo screening in the U.S. after successfully completing stringent qualification testing by the TSA (Transportation Security Administration).
The HI-SCAN 145180-2is joins 20 other Smiths Detection inspection systems already approved and included in the ACSTL (Transportation Security Administration's Air Cargo Screening Technology List).
Its dual-view X-ray inspection system and large tunnel helps cut cargo inspection times by allowing shippers to screen bulk items without the requirement of unpacking shipments, scanning individual boxes and then re-assembling them.
Able to screen objects up to 57" x 71" (145 cm x 180 cm), the HI-SCAN 145180-2is meets the maximum skid/pallet size allowed by TSA. Its dual-view capability also speeds throughput by providing the operator with two high-resolution adjoining images, eliminating the need to scan cargo twice.
Lance Roncalli, Managing Director of Vice President of Sales, Americas, Smiths Detection, said: "The HI-SCAN 145180-2is was designed to meet the ever-growing demands of air cargo screening. Its dual-view technology, large pallet screening capability and highly compact footprint offer customers outstanding value for cutting-edge threat detection while still supporting the smooth flow of air cargo."
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In today's paper – those Government idiots, some of whom do not know who their fathers are, have decided that bonny nurses should lose weight. Something to do with setting an example for overweight pie grabbers who use the NHS and cost it a fortune.
Mother is incandescent. In addition to having no staff, no decent payrise and being treated only marginally better than something you would find on the bottom of your shoe, they now want to stop nurses enjoying a Hob Nob. How very dare they. This coming from a Government which has Eric Pickles in it.
Mother is going to eat herself stupid. No longer will she deprive herself of ice cream and chips. Up yours Jeremy Hunt.
There will be no health and safety ramifications. Remember, Weebles wobble but they don't fall down……
Thoughts of A Magnificent Ginger Cat
Mother has had her letter bemoaning the glut of sport on TV published in the Radio Times. She thinks that this is the first step to her becoming the next J K Rowling. I feel that it's probably been a slow week correspondence wise.
She has also had a reply following her complaint to the Blood and Transplant people regarding the absence of her badge. Apparently they value every single donation and are not making as much of a fuss of 'landmark' totals any more. She can expect a certificate. Something else to paper the walls of the upstairs lav with….
Also in the paper today, a hormone replacement cream that is a miracle cure for depression.
Mother's ordered a bucketful………
Uncle Sergei (who by coincidence is the human version of a meerkat fixing the computermabob) says that in Russia people only say 'Please' and 'Thank You' when they really mean it. Such platitudes at every verse end are not for them apparently.
Mother says that he should go and live with Granny. You could diffuse a nuclear bomb and she wouldn't thank you for it.
Make her a cup of tea and you've got no chance……..
Life's a lottery
Mother is renowned for her hatred of sport and has tuned out BBC1 for the duration of the Commonwealth Games purely because the buggers have failed to realise that there is more to life than the shot putt.
Granny likes a bit of sport. She has been known to flirt with the javelin now and again and, until now, has failed to understand Mother's annoyance with wall-to-wall running, jumping and swimming. Not just the live stuff, but the highlights. And then the highlights of the highlights.
Tonight, Granny's beloved lottery results programme has been put back to 2230. Those who know Granny will know that nothing good happens after half past ten because it's her bedtime. She will have to check in the papers tomorrow. Impressed she is not……
When Granny wins the lottery, she can buy the BBC and show endless repeats of Murder She Wrote and Bargain Hunt. Sack Sue Barker, Claire Balding and Gary bloody Lineker. Be the heroine of sport hating couch potatoes everywhere……
Until then, hard luck ⚽⚾🎾🎱🏉🏀🏈🏊🚴
Wot, no badge
Mother has been to give blood today for the 75th time. Whilst not expecting dancing girls and a parade, she was at least expecting her badge. Guess what…….no badge. No anything except a card, a 'thanks for coming',a packet of custard creams and a drink of squash – three of which you get no matter how many units you've given. Oh, take that back – the custard creams are sometimes missing if nobody's had a chance to go to Aldi.
Apparently, everything now comes in the post. Within 14 weeks. If you're lucky…..
Mother has a message for Blood and Transplant. No badge, no more B+. She's had enough of being altruistic…….
All I'll say is that small things please small minds………
Mother has had the central heating engineer round today for the annual boiler service. She is now sitting in the living room sweltering because he had to put the heating on to test it – not really advisable on one of the hottest days of the year. She has also made cakes and had the oven on – I think she might melt…….
Anyway, we have been told that the 'earth readings are high' (actually at the top end of normal). Mother is unsure if this is a 'ground control to Major Tom' David Bowie type of thing or if it has anything to do with real soil and the pile of it at the bottom of our garden.
The gas meter is also in the wrong place (under the telly), which is a bit odd because that's exactly where the British Gas engineer put it when we had a new one a few years ago.
Oh, and the boiler outlet pipe over the kitchen roof is still threatening blindness to any burglar who tries to break into the back bedroom.
So burglars beware. Granny will clout you with the heavy duty torch she keeps in the bedroom (in case of power cuts of course. Mother says she can't have a baseball bat). In our house, you'll just get scalded and your face will peel off……..
It just dawn me how lucky I am to have uncles like Alex and Sergei. They must have much monies, although not look like meerkat. I am change name to Oleg. Although I not like grubs, will eat and think of inheritance.
Hold on, Uncle Andy says they are skint. Thank God I don't have to keep talking like this cus it ain't simples…….
Monkeying about
Shredded Wheat??
Top of the World, Ma
Sad kitty


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emergency closing information
On rare occasions, it may be necessary to close District 65 schools and centers due to extreme temperatures, inclement weather, or other emergency situations. The decision to cancel school is always a difficult one, yet is made with the safety of students and staff in mind. As an alternative to closing schools for the entire day, District 65 has implemented a late start option where all schools and centers would open two hours after their normal start time. Please see additional information regarding late starts below.
In the event of a school cancellation, the district will communicate with staff and families as follows:
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Please ensure that the most current contact information is on file with the district. Any changes can be made via SISK12 (parent portal), email to parents@district65.net, or call 847-859-8055 / 847-859-8056. District 65 staff members can access the 'Change of Information Form' by navigating to the 'Staff Resources' section of our website and selecting 'HR Documents'.
LATE STARTS
If appropriate based upon weather conditions, the Superintendent may decide to delay the start of the school day by two hours. If this occurs, schools will open two hours after the regular start time and will dismiss at the regularly scheduled time. In the event of a late start, please note the following information:
Bus transportation will be provided with adjusted pick-up times two hours after the regularly scheduled time (+/- ten minutes).
Morning classes at the JEH Early Childhood Center will be cancelled.
Morning school age childcare will be cancelled; afternoon school age childcare will be in session.
No transportation to or from ETHS will be provided on Late Start days (students that attend math class in the morning).
Math class will be cancelled for elementary students that go to a D65 middle school for morning instruction. Students should go directly to their home school at the adjusted start time.
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How does District 65 make the decision to close schools?
There are many factors that are taken into consideration when determining whether or not schools should remain open such as weather conditions and forecast; safety of buildings, grounds and roadways; and the ability for students to travel to and from school safely. The Superintendent makes this decision in collaboration with the district's leadership team. On occasion, it may be decided that school is in session; however, afterschool activities and evening events may be cancelled. During inclement weather situations, the district remains in contact with the school bus company. Frigid temperatures, ice, and heavy snowfall can pose problems for the safe operation of school buses and consideration must be made for the length of time that children may be exposed to these conditions.
We understand that the cancellation of school can be an inconvenience for families and can make arranging childcare difficult. District 65 makes every effort to provide as much advanced notice as possible in the event of a school cancellation or change to the normal schedule. Many of the district's faculty and staff members are also parents and live in the surrounding area. District leaders must also monitor closures in neighboring school districts and take into consideration the ability of staff members and substitutes to get to school.
District 65 students that attend ETHS for math class
In the event that District 65 has enacted a late start and ETHS classes are still in session, transportation will not be provided back to District 65 schools. Students may still attend class; however, it is the family's responsibility to make transportation arrangements. If District 65 and ETHS both have a late start, class will be cancelled and students should go directly to their middle school at the adjusted start time (90 minutes after the normal start time).
Inclement Weather Procedures (when school is in session)
Students are allowed to enter school prior to the normal entry time whenever the weather is inclement, such as in times of rain or snow storms; when the combination of temperature and wind chill is below 20 degrees Fahrenheit; or if the playground is unsuitable for students to use (i.e. - ice or standing water). These guidelines are also used to determine whether or not students remain indoors for their regular physical education classes, recess periods, and when they will have shorter lunch recess periods. Students may enter early or remain indoors if weather conditions are threatening.


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Neill Dixon
President,
Canadian Music Week CMW
@NDdixon
There are those who make music — and there are those who make music happen.
Neill Dixon, who heads Canadian Music Week, has a 45-year history in Canada's music industry, and has played a significant role in its growth and development.
After graduating from College in London, England, he came to Toronto in 1967, and spent three years at the tail-end of the folk music "boom" running Grumbles, a coffee house that featured major names including a young Bruce Cockburn, Ian & Sylvia, Gordon Lightfoot, B. B. King, and a memorable week-long double bill with the late Jim Croce and Randy Newman.
He then moved into international management with artists as varied as Martha Reeves, Jr. Walker, Triumph and Long John Baldry, worked briefly with RCA Records as Ontario promotion manager, before becoming VP promotion and A&R manager at GRT Records.
Dixon then spent a five-year period as one of Canada's most influential talent bookers, buying talent first for the El Mocambo in its glory days as the most important live music venue in the country, and then at the Ontario Place Forum, when he introduced the first major pop concert acts to the venue.
A four year period in the early '80s saw Dixon in a new role, as co-owner and president of Solid Gold Records, an independent label that garnered 27 gold and platinum records — for such artists as Triumph, The Good Brothers, Chilliwack, Headpins, and Toronto — in less than five years.
In 1985, Neill Dixon opened an "umbrella company" he named Charttoppers, to allow him to handle a wide variety of different functions in the music industry, including record promotion, event production, television production, sponsorship organization, and numerous consulting assignments.
Working with the Juno Awards, Molson Breweries, Pepsi-Cola, Ontario Lottery Corporation— among dozens of others — he devised and executed countless music marketing promotions.
Neill Dixon's involvement with Canadian Music Week began in 1983 as programme director of an annual music business conference organized by The Record. In 1993 he took over the event and added a new music showcase festival called Canadian Music Fest now running it under the auspices of the Canadian Association for the Advancement of Music & the Arts (CAAMA).
In the last decade, Canadian Music Week' has become the most important single event in this country's music industry. It has attracted an "A list" of speakers — from Sir George Martin and Clive Davis to Alice Cooper, Moby, Lionel Richie, David Crosby and Gene Simmons.
The event offers a number of complementary components. In addition to the Executive Conference, and festival, in recent years Neill has introduced a number of Canadian awards shows, a film festival and new talent searches as well as a music, education and careers fair called TuneUp. Neill has also put his extensive world wide database to good use by passionately promoting Canada's best export ready artists and built CMW's importance as an export development engine. This year's Spotlight on France and Focus on Italy serves to open new markets and sales opportunities for music companies worldwide.
The country's largest internationally-targeted new music festival, Canadian Music Fest builds new fan bases for Canadian artists and offers reciprocal opportunities for artists from other cultures. As Neill puts it "It is our mission to build bridges of trade and culture between Canada and the world."
Follow Neill on Twitter: @nddixon
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Home > Plan a trip > Nature > Birds & wildlife > Snow birds
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Wildlife reality show
Web cams open a window into lives of eagles, bears and other wild things.
Spring bird festivals
After a long winter, birders welcome the return of feathered friends.
All eyes on Wabasha
Bald eagles are drawn to this Mississippi River town, along with flocks of binocular-toting visitors.
Life on Horicon Marsh
At an avian rest stop, humans learn about life on the wing.
Owls, owls, everywhere
Influxes of magnificent birds have birders hurrying up north.
Where eagles land
Near winter gathering spots, towns capitalize on the birds' popularity by throwing festivals.
Birding by rail
On Wisconsin's Chippewa River, a little train rolls into a bird-watcher's Eden.
Owl aboard
In southeast Minnesota, a live-wire named Alice is the star of a late-winter festival.
Wings over the Mississippi
Tundra-swan watchers have a honkin' good time during the November migration.
Eyeballing bison
Once creatures of Old West yore, the new national mammal can be seen in a park or preserve near you.
5 great places to watch birds in fall
Tag along with experts, and you'll get to see the migration up close.
Playing the field in Wisconsin
In April, the kooky courtship of prairie chickens brings out the bird watchers.
Cranes of Wisconsin
Near Wisconsin Dells, a global village of birds lives, loves and thrives.
Open sesame on the sloughs
In winter, eagle-watchers and snowshoers can explore frozen Mississippi byways.
Birding with the pros
In spring, a symphony of trills and chirps draws hikers into the woods.
Looking for bald eagles
In winter, the cold forces the birds to go where they're easier to see.
Snow birds
A wintering flock of trumpeter swans has put Monticello on the map.
For more than 25 years, Sheila Lawrence fed the flock from her back yard on the Mississippi.
It's winter in Monticello, and the livin' is easy.
For trumpeter swans, the largest water bird in North America, the Mississippi River town is a virtual Club Med, thanks to balmy waters from the nuclear power-generating plant upstream and a daily all-you-can-eat spread of dried corn.
The first swans showed up in the winter of 1986, as the late Sheila Lawrence was feeding the ducks and geese in the yard of her riverside home. They appreciated her hospitality, and every year more came, first by the dozens, then by the hundreds.
Now, as many as 2,000 trumpeter swans winter around Monticello, the highest concentration east of the Rocky Mountains. Typically, half of them belly up to the buffet at the Lawrence house each morning, consuming 1,600 to 2,000 pounds of corn, with a little help from ducks and geese.
It's quite a sight. In the morning, the big birds begin to congregate on the water in front of her house, feet skimming the water as they glide to a landing on outspread wings of 7 to 8 feet.
Sticking close to kin, they soon turn the shoreline into a raucous playground, blustering, showing off and squabbling over insults, real or imagined.
The noise is the first thing everyone notices. From the street, it's a buzz, like a nest of angry hornets; from the river's edge, it's cacophony, a high-pitched tumult of honks, squawks and screeches.
"I think they need to tune their trumpets," joked John Vander Louw of Woodbury, who came to see the swans with his wife, Lyndis.
Onlookers also have increased by the hundreds, sometimes clogging the narrow, dead-end residential street with cars and even tour buses.
The tiny "park" next to the Lawrence house, where people can watch the swans from behind a rail fence, actually is a storm-sewer easement, and there's never been space for parking.
The city considered moving the swans to a real city park on the other end of town but it turned out Mississippi Drive is the perfect place for wintering swans, said parks superintendent Adam Hawkinson.
There's a shallow shelf on which swans can rest, the current is slow and there's no boat or people traffic — although trumpeter swans are aggressive with each other, they're very skittish around humans.
'It's been a really good deal; we just wish we had another half-acre," Hawkinson says.
In Monticello, the swans tolerate only Jim Lawrence, who took over for Sheila when she became ill in 2010. He moves among the swans with slow, measured steps, filling tubs and throwing out corn.
Sometimes, photographers ask if they can get even closer, but he always say no.
"The swans are right here, just in front of them," said Sheila Lawrence before her death in April 2011. "There's no other place you can see something like this around here."
A good show
A family watches the swans from Swan Park.
Every morning about 9:30, Jim Lawrence starts up the auger that moves corn through a pipe, from the gravity wagon in the driveway down to the river, where he empties it from buckets into tubs.
Sometimes, he pulls out binoculars to better see the band number on a bird, which he reports to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.
It's a lot of work, and he does it every day for as long as the swans stay, usually from mid-November through February.
In February, parents start to drive away the 1-year-old cygnets, and the 3- and 4-year-olds start to select mates, whom they will keep for life. That's when the amorous behaviors begin.
"You can tell in various ways — how they hold their necks, how they hold themselves," Sheila Lawrence explained. "They'll kick their feet, and raise themselves out of the water."
It's a show that onlookers appreciate.
"It's really entertaining," said Julie Gunther of Eagan, who was visiting with her husband, Steve. "It's amazing that something that big can be so graceful."
Rebounding population
Considering trumpeter swans weren't even seen in Minnesota between 1884 and 1966, when Hennepin Parks started to breed them in captivity, the size of Monticello's swan population is astounding.
By 1930, trumpeter swans were thought to have vanished from the entire United States. Then a few nests were found near hot springs in a remote part of Yellowstone.
More nests were found in Alaska in the 1950s, and Minnesota was the first state allowed to collect eggs from them, using funds contributed by taxpayers via the "chickadee check off," said Steve Kittelson, the DNR's trumpeter swan restoration coordinator.
In 1933, the entire country had only 50 breeding swans; now, Minnesota alone has 17,000. Some winter along the Otter Tail River in western Minnesota, and others in quiet pockets along the central and upper Mississippi and St. Croix.
A few go to Oklahoma and Arkansas for the winter, but most stay in Minnesota year-round.
Ideally, Minnesota's swans would resume previous migration patterns and head south for the winter, Kittelson says. But many of those who did were shot, he said, and others have found habitat near locks, dams and power plants that didn't exist 200 years ago.
"We probably can't go back to that,'' he said.
Trumpeter swans come in for a landing at Swan Park.
Before she retired, Sheila Lawrence had switched to nights at her job so she could spend more time with the swans.
"The trumpeters really captured my heart," she said. "If you watch, you realize what special birds they are. They're so majestic, so graceful and beautiful; they're just beautiful birds. They're just amazing.''
Here's a DNR video that includes Sheila feeding and talking about her beloved swans.
Trip Tips: Swan-watching in Monticello
Getting there: From the Twin Cities, head west on I-94 and take the first Monticello exit, which leads to County Road 75 (East Broadway). At the first stoplight, turn right onto 39, drive a quarter-mile and turn left onto Mississippi Drive.
Drive past the park and around the cul de sac, parking on the south side of the road only. Observe posted signs and do not block residents' driveways.
When to go: Jim Lawrence feeds the birds at 10:30 a.m. every day from mid-November through February, and it's fun to watch the swans flying in. However, for quieter observation, you may want to visit earlier or later.
Before traveling to Monticello, check the city swan update. On warmer days, the swans may go into the fields to feed.
Swans also can be seen downstream, just inside the city limits at Battle Rapids, where there's a clearing off County Road 39.
For details on planning a swan-watching getaway, see Winter weekend in Monticello.
Donations: Lawrence is not reimbursed by the city or state for the corn he buys. To contribute, put money in the box at Swan Park or send to the Monticello Trumpeter Swan Fund in care of US Bank, 307 Pine St., Monticello, Minn. 55362.
What to wear: Standing is a cold business, and the warmer you dress, the longer you can watch. For tips, see Staying snug in winter.
Taking children: Make sure they read the 1970 classic "Trumpet of the Swan'' by E.B. White, author of "Charlotte's Web'' and "Stuart Little.'' It's about Louis, born without a voice, and Sam, a boy who loves wild things.
Information: Monticello tourism, 763-295-2700; Trumpeter Swan Society.


The discovery of a wartime relic near Watchet station forced the West Somerset Railway to suspend its services on May 18.
WSR General Manager Paul Conibeare said: "A member of our permanent way team discovered the object beside the line during a routine check. The emergency services were called, and we suspended our train services."
Trains began running again once an Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit had removed the item, believed to be a Second World War anti-aircraft shell.


RHS senior Lily Andrew has been selected to sing in Nashville with a prestigious choir.
Lily Andrew, a senior student-director for chamber choir, is traveling to Nashville this week to sing as part of a nationally-compiled choir.
The National Association of Music Educators 2015 National Honor Ensembles will be meeting for three days of clinics and rehearsals where students selected from across the nation will have an incredible opportunity to refine their skills and grow as singers.
Lily auditioned for the program last spring and was notified of her acceptance over the summer.
Mr. Shawn Spiess, Rocklin High's choir teacher, gave terrific support and preparation to Lily in order to make the trip a reality.
Robert Goodwin, another senior at RHS, was also accepted into the program although he will be unable to attend.
The three-day event will culminate in a command performance at the Grand Ole Opry on Wednesday, Oct. 28. Lily is excited for this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
"I love singing in choirs, especially honor choirs, because I get the opportunity to be around really talented people who help me to grow as a musician. Since there will be attendees from all over the US, I hope I'll get to meet some new people. I'm also excited to work with the director because I've been taught something valuable from each director I've worked with," Lily said.


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copyright © 2010 by Joan Kron
Nipping and Tucking in Tinseltown Hollywood and plastic surgery started out together, and now, it seems, there
can't be one without the other. By Joan Kron
Oscar time is high season for cosmetic surgery in Los Angeles. No matter who ends up winning—whether it's Jodie or Jessica or Winona or Miranda or Susan—Hollywood's beauty doctors are usually the ones who come out ahead. Even before the nominations are announced, many film folks "who expect to be in the running or know the TV cameras will be on them at the ceremonies" check in for face and body work—eye tucks, face-lifts, or liposuction, says someone who should know.
At the eleventh hour, there's a rush for wrinkle treatments. "It's not exactly a quiet time in my office," says Beverly Hills dermatologist Arnold Klein, a collagen specialist. "Fewer wrinkles never hurt when you're on-camera." (If his patients win, says Klein, he often receives cases of champagne. "It's Academy Awards for them, but it's Christmas for me.")
Then comes the second wave. "Our patients tend to respond more after the awards have aired," says L.A. plastic surgeon John Williams. He and many of his colleagues consider the Oscar telecast a potent motivator, attracting a stream of new patients—many from out of town—to Southern California's approximately 333 plastic surgeons.
"There's an assumption that if you have the surgery done in an entertainment location, you'll look like an entertainer," says Santa Monica plastic surgeon Steven M. Hoefflin, who estimates that one-third of his patients come from outside Southern California.
Aspirants often arrive for their consultations clutching pictures of stars they admire. Julia Roberts may reportedly command $14 million for a sequel to Pretty Woman, but her face, though distinctive, "is not a face people want to emulate," says Edward Terino, a plastic surgeon based in Los Angeles. "She's not thought of as a classic beauty, even though her features are extremely interesting and attractive." Patients often cite specific facial features and then mix and match. Roberts's mouth is mentioned occasionally, but most coveted are Kim Basinger's lips, Jodie Foster's nose, Sophia Loren's eyes, and Sharon Stone's cheekbones.
Frequently, the physical characteristics that patients envy, such as Melanie Griffith's pouty lips and ample bosom, owe more to plastic surgery than to Mother Nature. But that should come as no surprise. Ever since Louis B. Mayer advised the budding Greta Garbo to get her teeth fixed and to lose weight because Americans didn't like their movie stars fat, Hollywood bas been turning the barely dumpy into the exceedingly dishy with diet, exercise, massage. electrolysis, hairdressing, makeup, teeth capping, chemical peels, and, yes, plastic surgery—although actors would sooner confess drug addiction than surgical modification.
On their way up, stars like Merle Oberon and Marilyn Monroe had facial surgery to photograph better. On their way down, stars like Joan Crawford, Lana Turner, Burt Lancaster, and John Wayne had work done to photograph younger. "Actors' faces are their fortune—and as they age, their misfortune," says Richard Aronsohn, an ear, nose, and throat specialist who has practiced cosmetic surgery in Hollywood since 1958. When Joan Crawford and Bette Davis finally began looking their age, the only leads they could get were in horror films. Most actors, of course, want to postpone that unappealing career track as long as they possibly can.
"No one is more cutting-edge on plastic surgery alternatives than "visual entertainers,'" says Hoefflin, referring to television and movie performers. He estimates, conservatively, that "50 percent of them have had or will have aesthetic surgery." And, he adds, "they will be the first to fly anywhere in the world for treatment."
But Hollywood's plastic surgeons work hard to keep these patients at home—catering to their desire for pampering, privacy, and, some would say, excessive procedures. Hoefflin (who transformed Michael Jackson with several nose operations) has no hesitation about changing a patients looks drastically "if the patient feels strongly enough about achieving a certain result and it is surgically possible and safe." And Jackson isn't Hollywood's only plastic surgery overachiever. Gloria Swanson had several face-lifts. Phyllis Diller has had so many procedures she supplies a list (to any one who asks) of the doctors who performed each one. Dolly Partons recent autobiography, Dolly, thanks no fewer than four plastic surgeons.
The highly visible makeovers grab attention, but it's the constant maintenance surgery that keeps Hollywood's beauty doctors busy. "A little eye work. The tilt of the nose. So minuscule it's almost unnoticed. It's as if the doctors are on retainer," says one veteran plastic surgery nurse. "The youth and renown of the patients would surprise you," she says conspiratorially.
Even an earthquake of 6.6 on the Richter scale could not close down the operating rooms for long. Los Angeles rumbled to a standstill at 4 A.M. on Monday, January 17, 1994. Later that morning, at plastic surgeons' offices throughout the area-roadblocks, collapsed freeways, and aftershocks notwithstanding-many patients scheduled for elective surgery showed up. "We had patients waiting outside our door on Monday morning," says an assistant to Hoefflin, who was in the operating room using backup generators within 48 hours. Other doctors were operating on Monday. "I picked up post-op patients Tuesday afternoon," reports Nola Rocco, proprietor of the Hidden Garden, a Beverly Hills recovery facility. As they say, the show must go on.
The film industry and cosmetic surgery have been codependent since they were both in their infancy. Modern cosmetic surgery took off after World War I, utilizing techniques developed to treat casualties of modern warfare. The film close-up dates from the same period. It was invented by director D. W. Griffith and cameraman G. W. "Billy" Bitzer. "The close-up eradicated the distance between viewer and actor," writes Jib Fowles in his 1992 book about celebrity, Starstruck, allowing moviegoers "to study every feature, every tic of feeling." And every imperfection.
Creating the illusions while managing the imperfections required legions of specialists, as anyone who reads film credits knows. But makeup, lighting, special lenses, and lens coatings—such as Vaseline and gauze—can correct only so much.
Film actors became willing guinea pigs for each new surgical development and often lived to regret trying such "advances" as paraffin injections. "We dreamed about some alchemy to fill hollows and wrinkles," says Edward Lemont, one of Hollywood's earliest plastic surgeons and an expert in treating the complications of paraffin, (In his 70s, he no longer practices, although he continues to teach.) Actors braved nose surgery in the 30s and 40s (when perfect profiles were prized). Unfortunately, noses were often "overdone," says Lawrence Seifert, assistant clinical professor of plastic surgery at UCLA: "Scooped, pinched, and turned up. Chicken McNugget. Everyone had the same nose." In the 50s (when the television camera exaggerated every wrinkle), male actors suddenly "discovered facial folds, bags under their eyes, baldness, ears sticking out, traumatic scars, a crooked nose" and wanted them fixed, said the late plastic surgeon Michael Gurdin in a 1983 interview. In the sweater-girl 50s and the braless 60s, actresses were among the first women to have breast implants. In the late 70s, just as more skin was being exposed in films, liposuction came to Hollywood, direct from France, where it had been developed.
Plastic surgeons believe Phyllis Diller was the most influential star for Middle Americans—as strange as she may appear to some. She took plastic surgery public when denial was Hollywood's modus operandi. (And, in large part, it still is.) Franklin Ashley, the doctor who performed Diller's first face-lift, in 1971, considered her his legacy, says his widow. Because of the star's honesty, says plastic surgeon A. Richard Grossman of Shennan Oaks, California, the public's attitude about cosmetic surgery "went, in one decade, from fear to acceptance to desire."
For years actresses who wanted to avoid surgery endured the "Hollywood lift," a face-tugging device rigged up by makeup artists with glue, silk thread, and rubber bands. But it was hard on the ears and would sometimes snap in the middle of a scene. "I haven't made one in years," says Michael Westmorc, the makeup designer and supervisor for the Star Trek television series and movies.
The advent of larger movie screens—and better-quality film made surgical nips and tucks more necessary than ever before. "A tight close-up magnifies the face hundreds of times. Even the smallest mole shows up," says Westmore. "In the old days, we used heavy makeup base; today we're using thinner makeup, and you can really see the texture and coloring of the actor's face."
In Hollywood now, plastic surgery is not the last resort of aspiring actresses—it's often the first. "It's as if their bodies, their faces, are tools of their profession," says L.A. plastic surgeon Peter Bella Fodor. "Perhaps it's a rationalization, but they say, 'I would do better if this or that were changed.'" The performers' managers or agents often advocate surgery.
I'm not reticent about recommending breast reductions or augmentations to a client," says Shelley Browning, the president and CEO of Creative Partners, a Los Angeles talent-management company. Browning, a former model, calls herself an "architect of development." "One of the key roles we perform," she says, "is to make sure clients look as good as they can." She concedes "there are certainly stars who are less than physical perfection. The first ingredient of success is incredible talent. No amount of plastic surgery can make someone without talent a star. But I do believe that when you are beginning, you need everything going for you."
Actors frequently elect to have surgery when "they are up for a particular role and want to look closer to the age of the character, or just want to look like themselves—but better—on test shots," says Steven Hoefflin. The business is so competitive, he says, that one star's rejuvenation often drives her competitors to take similar measures.
Once a face is well-known, though, it cannot change much. "The most emphatic way in which stars can alienate themselves from their audience is through the brutally simple, ineluctable process of aging," writes Jib Fowles. He goes on to quote Marilyn Monroe's insight on the subject. "When my looks start to go," the actress once supposedly said, "so will most of my fans."
"Characteristic features must be maintained," Hoefflin says. "An actress with lovely eyes, whose eyes start sagging, wants to maintain them." In such cases, plastic surgery may not be mandated contractually, because of liability problems, but it is subtly (and not so subtly) encouraged. A few years ago, when a cinematographer complained about the way a fortyish Oscar winner was looking in the dailies, filming halted long enough for the star to have an eye-lift. "We paid for it," says one of the producers.
During the making of The Bonfire of tile Vanities, Julie Salamon writes in her book The Devil's Candy, "The men...were brutal in their analysis" of Melanie Griffith's looks. "The cinematographer [Vilmos Zsigmond] kept carping, "She doesn't mind those lines around her eyes? Those bags?'...He thought to himself, 'How could Sherman McCoy be in love with...an old bag?'" Someone suggested using Preparation H: '"That'll shrink 'em.'" Griffith, who was 34 at the time and a new mother, did nothing about her eyes but took three weeks off and had breast implant surgery instead.
"It is very common for young actresses to proclaim that they'll never have plastic surgery—as if they'll never get old," says John Williams, who was briefly married to Eva Gabor and who has operated on scores of famous faces. "But almost invariably, when they do begin to age, they change their minds. Some change so radically they become obsessed with what we can do for them."
Hollywood surgeons delight in trading stories about this or that patient who appeared on TV insisting that she had never had—and would never consider having any plastic surgery. Doctors say actresses lie even to them. "Zsa Zsa Gabor sat in my office," says a prominent plastic surgeon, "and told me she had never had anything done—and I could see the scars."
Certifiable holdouts such as Diane Keaton and Anne Bancroft are not exactly plentiful. "Five years ago, I would have said no way," Jessica Lange said in a recent interview with Women's Wear Daily. "But as you age, you start thinking, Well, there's always that option."
"I don't know of one woman out here who doesn't think about it while driving," says actress Lesley Ann Warren, 46, describing her daily face-lift rehearsal in the rearview mirror "one hand on the wheel and one hand pulling your face back." Best known for her role as the chorus girl in Victor, Victoria, Warren has, so far, resisted surgery. "I have been conscientious about the way I've chosen to live," she says, citing healthy eating, homeopathy, Chinese herbs, and psychic healing. She believes that because of her habits, "my looks and my age don't match." But she does worry about what will happen when she reaches her 50s. "There may come a time when the pressure of the loss of beauty becomes more than I can bear," she says.
That will all change if Barbra Streisand proceeds with the film property she is developing. It is a remake of The Mirror Has Two Faces, a 1959 French film. Streisand's version is about married college professors whose lives undergo great change when the wife's plastic surgery transforms her into a great beauty. Streisand—not surprisingly—will direct, produce, and star, but it has been rumored she won't need surgery for the part. The transformation to goddess (or so the gossip goes) will be done with digital imaging. Says a Streisand spokesman, "If [that] decision has been made, she has not made it known."
If the Chanel No.5 model can morph into Marilyn Monroe in a TV commercial, then Barbra Streisand and a whole generation of actresses can be given virtual-reality nose jobs and face-lifts. The question is, If Streisand falls in love with her morphed movie image, will she want to translate it into flesh? If nothing else, the film promises to be a shoo-in for an Oscar in the category of special effects.
Monroe's Doctrine
Marilyn Monroe had plastic surgery, although there is certainly no unanimity on how much or who did it. In 1949 Monroe was a $75-a-week contract player" who was "getting nowhere fast." According to Patrick McGrady, in his book the Youth Doctors, after overhearing someone refer to her as "a chinless wonder," Monroe had a tiny chin graft.
The work was performed by the late plastic surgeon John Pangman. However, Donald Spoto, in Marilyn Monroe, the Biography, credits late plastic surgeon Michael Gurdin with inserting a "silicone prosthesis in her jaw...to give her face a softer line" and "removing a slight bump of cartilage from the tip of [her] nose." According to A. Richard Grossman, a plastic surgeon who worked with Gurdin in 1964, Pangman also gave Monroe breast implants. They were probably made of Ivalon sponge, the toublesome material that predated silicone gel. Other sources say Monroe may also have had now-forbidden liquid-silicone injected into her breasts. Shortly before her death In 1962, "Marilyn's breasts were infected. They were oozing," says Rosemary Ashley Eckersley, the widow of Franklin Ashley, Hollywood's other prominent plastic surgeon of that era. "Marilyn wanted Frank to do something about them, but he wouldn't."
Face-lift Films
Hollywood's denizens may have amnesia when it comes to their personal experiences with plastic surgery, but filmmakers have used cosmetic surgery as a plot device in more than 60 films since World War I.
Many scenarios revolve around spies and criminals who need new faces to escape detedion, or around characters who have been disfigured. Joan Crawford portrayed a woman whose face was disfigured—on just one side—in the 1941 film A Woman's Face. During most of the film, audiences saw only her good side.
The surgeons in these films are often diabolical, drunk, or deranged. But, boy, are they skilled. A back-alley doctor in Dark Passage (1947) transforms an accused murderer—played by a nondescript looking actor—into Humphrey Bogart. In Seconds (1966), amoral surgeons transform a melancholy businessman into a youthful (and taller) Rock Hudson. Shattered (1991) concerns misguided surgeons who rebuild the face of an amnesiac auto-accident victim (the wife's lover) so that it is the spitting image of her dead husband's.
Only a handful of these films deal with what Hollywood knows best-rejuvenation and subtle cosmetic improvement. In Ash Wednesday (1973), Elizabeth Taylor let makeup people give her a double chin and worse so she could play an over-the-hill corporate wife. The film uses real face-lift footage (though none of it actual Taylor face-lift footage) and honestly depicts postoperative swelling and bruising.


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In race to find a COVID-19 treatment, CEO of tiny biotech company is 'very optimistic'
The drug being developed would only require one pill to be taken daily.
ByGuy Davies andRashid Haddou
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Early cases of COVID-19 are believed to be linked to a live-animal market in Wuhan, China.
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As manufacturers around the world race to find a drug to treat COVID-19, a tiny British-Norwegian company developing a treatment for the illness says it is "very optimistic" for the potential of a new drug that would require a patient to take only one pill a day.
BerGenBio, a biotechnology company that employs just 38 people based in Bergen, Norway, and Oxford, England, has developed a drug called bemcentinib, which is currently in phase two of clinical trials.
Richard Godfrey, the CEO of BerGenBio, told ABC News that he has high hopes that the drug, which was initially developed to treat cancer, will benefit coronavirus patients.
MORE: What it's like inside the Oxford trial leading the race for coronavirus vaccine
Laboratory studies have also demonstrated antiviral activity against Ebola and the Zika virus, he said, "so we had an inkling already that our drug could potentially work in serious viral infections."
The teams at Oxford and Bergen worked closely with the University of Iowa to evaluate the efficacy of the drug. Bemcentinib works by binding to a protein called AXL tyrosine kinase, which prevents it from activating other processes in the cell.
Richard Godfrey, the CEO of BerGenBio, said he was "very optimistic" for the potential of bemcintinib to treat COVID-19.
In doing so, the drug can build the cell's resilience, Godfrey said.
"By inhibiting AXL with our drug, you prevented the virus from getting into the cell," Godfrey told ABC News. "And you also prevented the deactivation of the antiviral immune response that that's critical for our bodies to clear infections … so it's a dual mechanism of action that the virus can hijack. That's really important."
MORE: Remdesivir could be promising drug candidate to treat coronavirus
There are dozens of potential COVID-19 treatments in development across the world, and given the unknown nature of the disease, we could see multiple combinations of drugs to be tested in trials, Godfrey said.
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How it started and how to protect yourself: Coronavirus explained
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Tracking the spread in the US and Worldwide: Coronavirus map
"Consistently, we're learning in drug development that it's very rare that there's one magic pill, that there's one drug to treat the disease," Godfrey said. "Normally it's a combination of drugs, whether it's complementary mechanisms or mechanisms that support another. So I think we're going to see combinations emerging, and we already are seeing those being trialed."
MORE: Drug treatment a stopgap for vaccine to eradicate COVID-19: Chief scientific officer
Bemcentinib will be tested on 120 COVID-19 patients in British hospitals, only half of whom are taking bemcentinib in order to allow a head-to-head comparison of its potential benefits.
"It is, quite simply, just a one-a-day pill that the patients take," Godfrey said. "I'm very, very optimistic for the benefit that our drug will bring to patients."
Editor's note: This article has been updated to reflect that bemcentinib will be tested in British hospitals.
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Tim M. Berra (* 31. August 1943) ist ein emeritierter Professor für Evolution, Ökologie und Biologie an der Ohio State University in den Vereinigten Staaten.

Berra erhielt drei Fulbright-Stipendien nach Australien (1969, 1979 und 2009) und lehrte an der Universität von Papua-Neuguinea, bevor er 1972 an die Ohio State University wechselte. 1992 wurde er Gastprofessor an der Universität von Concepcion in Chile, 1996 Gastprofessor an der University of Otago in Neuseeland. In den letzten 40 Jahren verbrachte er mehr als 8 Jahre für Feldforschung in Australien.

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McCarrick case: Vatican starting to acknowledge mistakes
Oregon Catholic father of four killed trying to protect fellow passengers
Pope asks forgiveness from victims of clergy sex abuse in Chile
Pope: Lent breathes life into world asphyxiated by sin
Priest says Egypt's Christians feel they could be martyrs at any time
Retired pope says criticism against Pope Francis is 'foolish prejudice'
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- On the eve of the fifth anniversary of Pope Francis' election, retired Pope Benedict XVI defended the continuity of the church's teaching under his successor...
Planned Parenthood says it will no longer take payments for fetal...
By Catholic News Service NEW YORK (CNS) -- The president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America said Oct. 13 that the organization's clinics will no longer accept reimbursement for...
Pope Francis arrives in U.S. to begin three-city visit
By Catholic News Service JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Md. -- Pope Francis arrived in the United States the late afternoon of Sept. 22 to begin his first apostolic journey as pontiff. His...
Initial reaction to refugee ban ranges from concern to opposition
By Mark Pattison WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Within hours of President Donald Trump's new executive order March 6 banning refugees from six majority-Muslim nations, Catholic and other religious groups joined secular...
Back-to-school homework for students includes preparing to meet pope
By Christie L. Chicoine NEW YORK (CNS) -- Being called to the principal's office during the school year can cause angst even among the most mischievous students. But for those...
By Rhina Guidos PANAMA CITY (CNS) -- One thing is clear about World Youth Day 2019: This one is not focused on convening great masses of people, or the most...
Bishops object to death penalty as punishment in Boston bomber case
By Christopher S. Pineo and Gregory L. Tracy BOSTON (CNS) -- As the trial of Boston Marathon bombing defendant Dzhokhar Tsarnaev went to the jury April 6, the Catholic bishops...
Families called to share joy, love, life with the world, pope...
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Pope asks prayers for refugees after 71 found dead in truck
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Pope pledges church commitment to fight child abuse online, offline
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Pope prays for exploited women, Mary's intercession on feast of Assumption
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Shazam plans to move into wearables this year
Posted on March 3, 2015 by Anna Washenko
Wearables have been the big buzz of the tech world recently, and where the tech game goes, the app developers will follow. Rich Riley, CEO of Shazam, spoke with Gizmodo at the Mobile World Congress 2015 and said that the company is looking to push into the world of smaller screens and wrist access. "I think you'lll see us move into wearables in 2015," he said. "You'll see us do something there for sure."
The upcoming Apple Watch is expected to be a major driver of interest in smartwatches. Shazam is already a close companion of Apple's, with its sound-recognition software incorporated into its mobile operating system, but its apps are available for Android and Windows as well. With other products from Samsung available and the big success of the Pebble on Kickstarter, it's likely that the tagging service will be showing up on at least one of the wrist platforms.
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Q: Runtime migration from python2.7 to 3.8 I am working to move the AWS lambda function from the current runtime of python 2.7 to 3.8. I have run 2to3 on the function but I am not getting any changes that may be needed.  am I able to just move to change the run time to 3.8 without any issues?
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import boto3
import urllib3
from botocore.exceptions import ClientError
http = urllib3.PoolManager()

def handler(event, context):
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        if event['RequestType'] == 'Delete':
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                except ClientError:
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                    pass

        sendResponseCfn(event, context, "SUCCESS")
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                     'Reason': 'Log stream name: ' + context.log_stream_name,
                     'PhysicalResourceId': context.log_stream_name,
                     'StackId': event['StackId'],
                     'RequestId': event['RequestId'],
                     'LogicalResourceId': event['LogicalResourceId'],
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    http.request('PUT', event['ResponseURL'], body=json.dumps(response_body))

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RefactoringTool: Skipping optional fixer: idioms
RefactoringTool: Skipping optional fixer: set_literal
RefactoringTool: Skipping optional fixer: ws_comma
RefactoringTool: No changes to index.py
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A rundown of Montana's trout.
For most fisher folk in the US, trout and Montana seem to naturally go together. But amazingly enough, most people are pretty naïve about the different kinds of trout we have here. All trout are in the family Salmonidae. In general, all "salmonids" are non-spiny, ray-finned fish that also have an adipose fin on their back, which is a small, soft, fleshy fin located between the main dorsal fin and the tail (caudal) fin. Trout are also classified by their habitat: preferably cold, clear water. Southwest Montana's native salmonids include arctic grayling, westslope cutthroat, Yellowstone cutthroat, and mountain whitefish.
Rainbow Trout: Oncorhynchus mykiss
Without a doubt our most popular game fish, the rainbow trout is native to the Pacific Coast from California all the way up to Alaska. Rainbows can be considered the "chicken of the freshwater fish world." The species has been planted in freshwater streams and lakes around the world. Rainbow trout are particularly popular to fight and catch since they often jump clear out of the water.
Cutthroat Trout: Oncorhynchus clarkii
Cutthroats are often known to be fairly gullible and easy to catch, but the fact that they are native and inhabit many fast-moving rivers and streams definitely puts them in the "trophy" class. It's important to consider that in the areas they still survive, the feeding season is very short. For these guys, there is no messing around.
Eastern Brook Trout: Salvelinus fontinalis
The Eastern brook is a very colorful fish, with hues ranging from olive green to dark brown, a silver belly, and light spotting. Unlike the "freestone river" cutthroat and rainbow, they are more inclined to be found in slower, often-vegetated water with a finer sand or gravel bottom. They prefer cover and a shaded habitat. "Brookies" have been introduced to many mountain lakes and streams, and may become stunted through mutual competition for food.
Golden Trout: Oncorhynchus aguabonita
It is safe to say the golden trout is considered the most beautiful of all the trout species—their entire body is a myriad of color. Originally from California, golden trout have been planted in several alpine lakes of Montana. The Beartooth Range is one of the best areas to search for them, and the hikes to the lakes can be as spectacular as the fish. Mid-July is your best bet, and if you hit the spring spawing period, you'll have the best luck fishing by a lake's inlet or outlet. This would likely be a trophy fishing trip for this particular species.
Brown Trout: Salmo trutta
Browns are known to go to deep water, particularly as they age. In reservoirs and lakes, they can be very difficult to catch. As brown trout age, they feed more on larger prey, such as other fish. For the larger trout enthusiast, big-river browns—particularly during the fall spawning period—are a popular target.
Arctic Grayling: Thymallus arcticus
The Arctic grayling deserve mention—not only because they are native and have a beautiful, sail-like dorsal fin, but also because they still survive in Montana. The local population still exists, but its habitat alteration has had a severe impact. In recent years, land owners, state/federal land managers, biologists, and conservation organizations have made great strides in cooperating to save this species in its wild habitat. Planted populations of graylings do exist in high-elevation lakes, so they can be legitimately fished for in Montana.
Ken Sinay is the director of Yellowstone Safari Company in Bozeman.
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