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The Vanguard Group, Inc. ( IRSH)
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Biden inauguration: How to watch with friends and family on Yahoo
More than 3 million people in England were vaccinated against coronavirus in less than a month, new figures show. A total of 3,189,674 Covid-19 jabs were administered in the country between December 8 and January 14, according to provisional NHS England data released on Friday. The figures come as the Government prepares to rapidly scale up its mass-vaccination programme – administering as many as half a million jabs from next week, according to reports.
President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will be sworn into office on Wednesday, Jan. 20, at noon ET at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
R rate remains steady as infections appear to decline in London and south east
UK's R number is estimated to be between 1.2 and 1.3.
Pfizer will 'temporarily' reduce deliveries of the COVID-19 vaccine to Canada
Anita Anand, Minister of Public Services and Procurement, announced that Pfizer will be temporarily reducing deliveries of its COVID-19 vaccine to Canada.
Swipe at Scottish Labour as Blair says ex-Tory leader was SNP's only opposition
The brutal assessment comes as Scottish Labour searches for a fifth leader in seven years just months out from key elections.
Fox News claimed Nancy Pelosi 'violated her own pronoun rules' by calling herself a mother. They lied
Fox News hosts have falsely claimed that by calling herself a "mother" in a speech on Donald Trump's impeachment, Nancy Pelosi "violated her own gender pronoun rules".
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Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott's Job Is in Jeopardy, Insiders Say
Brad Trent/ReduxAmid ongoing ratings struggles, Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott and President Jay Wallace are fighting for their jobs as their boss Rupert Murdoch has swooped in to take a more hands-on role at the network in recent days, multiple network insiders told The Daily Beast.In fact, according to people familiar with the situation, Scott's days at Fox News may shortly be coming to an end, following a tumultuous few months in which the conservative cable news giant's ratings have sagged following the November election. A not-insignificant portion of the network's conservative viewership have abandoned Fox for Newsmax, a rival pro-Trump channel that openly disregards factual reporting. To make matters worse, Fox has also suffered historic ratings losses to CNN and MSNBC, despite an intensely dramatic news cycle.In response to a request for comment for this story, a Fox Corporation spokesperson said: "Your premise is wrong. It is wishful thinking by our competitors." But when pressed for a statement of support for Scott from Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch none was forthcoming.Scott may be taking the brunt of blame, insiders said, for the network's ratings issues. Additionally, last month, more than a dozen current and former Fox News women—both behind and in front of the camera—told The Daily Beast that the CEO has yet to be held accountable for her role as a prominent enabler for late founder Roger Ailes' alleged serial sexual misconduct; and that she helped foster a misogynistic workplace culture that allegedly objectifies female staffers and ignores or silences their complaints of misconduct. The New York City Commission on Human Rights also confirmed last month that it is currently investigating Fox's corporate culture. (Prior to the publication of that Daily Beast article, Fox News attempted to get a statement of support for Scott from Lachlan, but it wasn't forthcoming even after the story ran, according to people familiar with the matter.)Rupert Murdoch, who turns 90 in March, is returning to the United States after spending most of last year in the United Kingdom, and reversing Fox's ratings decline is his top concern, according to a person familiar with his thinking. He had been waiting to receive the second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine—which he has received in recent days—before coming stateside.The media mogul is now playing a more active role in decision-making at the network with his son, Lachlan. Part of their increased involvement, sources said, included the overhaul of Fox's daytime lineup, which was announced Monday and included moving news anchor Martha MacCallum out of the early primetime 7 p.m. slot in favor of more opinion-based programming at that hour—an obvious attempt to appeal to a hardcore conservative base.The Murdoch pair are said to be "disenchanted" with Scott and Wallace, with the poor ratings being the main topic of conversation. "I mean Rupert got involved with the shuffling of the lineup so that's never a good sign for someone in charge," a current Fox staffer told The Daily Beast. "What is the point of having a manager running your business if you have to run the business yourself?""Fox News has been absent a leader with the exception of [Fox Corporation's Chief Legal and Policy Officer] Viet Dinh running the operation between the network and the White House," another insider told The Daily Beast. "Rupert re-taking the reins is a sign of the gross mismanagement to date."Knowing that her job is on the line, Scott has remarked to more than one Fox executive that she "doesn't care if they get rid of me because I've got enough money now to never work again," according to a person who has spoken with her. A Fox News spokesperson vehemently denied Scott ever made the remark.According to multiple insiders, there is speculation that David Rhodes, a former Fox News vice president could return to replace Scott. Two people familiar with the matter said Rhodes, who has also led Bloomberg and CBS News, is often mentioned as Lachlan's top pick to take over the network CEO role. According to a current staffer at Fox News, the Murdochs "like Rhodes a lot," adding that they felt that Scott was "always a temporary solution."Rhodes has privately pointed out that his personal politics, which lean libertarian, are significantly more conservative than the beliefs of his brother Ben, a top national-security policy aide to former President Barack Obama. He is currently based in London, heading up a new opinion-centric TV channel for the Murdochs' News UK.The Stench of Roger Ailes Still Clings to Fox News CEO Suzanne ScottWallace, meanwhile, has been in hot water ever since Fox's decision desk accurately called Arizona for Joe Biden on election night—a matter of much internal consternation, often seen as a key reason a chunk of Trump-loyal viewers deserted the network for Newsmax.Chris Stirewalt, the network's political editor who oversees the team that made the projection, has been missing from Fox's airwaves since mid-November. And the network has attempted in recent weeks to pull back fleeing viewers by leaning hard-right where it can, often using news broadcasts to amplify the pro-Trump punditry delivered by Fox's opinion hosts and commentators.The network's aforementioned lineup reshuffling is also an attempt to appeal to a viewership more interested in the ravings of right-wing culture warriors than in factual news reporting. Beyond moving MacCallum into a less-viewed daytime slot to clear room for more opinion programming in the evening, Fox moved news anchors Dana Perino and Bill Hemmer out of their solo-hosted shows and into a rebooted version of late morning broadcast America's Newsroom."This new powerful lineup ensures FOX News Media will continue to deliver outstanding coverage for our viewers who depend on the most trusted names in the business," said Scott in the network's press announcement.MacCallum, in particular, has been viewed as the face of Fox's ratings struggles, particularly after her stunning December 9 loss in the key demographic ratings to Newsmax host Greg Kelly, an unwaveringly pro-Trump TV personality.Fox News Swears It's Not 'Demoting' This 'Straight News' Anchor After Newsmax Ratings LossFollowing Election Day and through mid-December, MacCallum saw her ratings drop 44 percent compared to pre-election, while Kelly's show in the same hour experienced an astronomical 486-percent surge in viewership."Since Roger [Ailes'] departure, the network hasn't had real leadership or an organizing principle, and it shows," Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy opined in a statement to The Daily Beast.But MacCallum's show was hardly the only Fox program to suffer a marked ratings decline following the election. In fact, every weekday hour experienced double-digit decreases from the election through mid-December. The precipitous drop was also striking as it capped off a 2020 that saw the network once again finish as the most-watched basic cable network while setting a record in cable news viewership.And the new year hasn't brought Fox News much positive ratings news either. Adding insult to injury, Newsmax once again beat the network in head-to-head ratings on Tuesday, this time topping Fox in the key demographic (viewers ages 25-54) during two separate hours.And following the deadly insurrectionist Capitol riot—incited by the network's most loyal viewer, President Donald Trump himself—Fox News has been trounced in the ratings by both CNN and MSNBC, marking the first time Fox finished third across all dayparts to those networks since September 2000.In fact, since Dec. 28, despite the historical news cycle, Fox News' total viewership is down 15 percent compared to this time a year ago, according to Nielsen data. By comparison, CNN is up an astonishing 150 percent and MSNBC has increased its audience 89 percent over the previous year."They are reaping the whirlwind of having gotten their audience hooked on the heroin of outrage because as soon as someone comes along and is more outrageous those addicts will move over there," Jon Klein, former president of CNN/US and current chairman of TAPP Media, told The Daily Beast."They don't care where they get their fix from," he added. "So whoever ends up running Fox News is going to have to wrestle with that conundrum."—Diana Falzone was an on-camera and digital reporter for FoxNews.com from 2012 to 2018. In May 2017, she filed a gender discrimination and disability lawsuit against the network and settled, and left the company in March 2018.Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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Michelob Ultra Beer Goes Green With Aluminum Used in iPhones
(Bloomberg) -- Michelob Ultra beer is getting an upgrade: it'll be served in cans made from the same aluminum used in iPhones and Apple watches.The appeal of the metal is a better carbon footprint. Beermaker Anheuser-Busch InBev NV and metal producer Rio Tinto Group said Friday that the new cans are partly made using a "carbon-free" process that eliminates greenhouse gases. The specialty metal comes from a joint venture between Rio Tinto and Alcoa Corp., called Elysis, which has counted Apple Inc. among its backers.American consumers have been demanding and paying more for food and beverages that make sustainability claims, causing many traditional brands to scramble for an edge among shoppers.The move to lower-carbon cans advances "the transition toward more sustainable packaging" and also provides traceability, Tolga Egrilmezer, Rio Tinto's vice president of sales and marketing, said in a statement. "Responsibly produced aluminium can play key role in helping our customers deliver the sustainable products expected by today's consumers."The new aluminum-making process emits oxygen instead of carbon, a process that could revolutionize the industry if it's successful at a commercial scale.More details: The Michelob Ultra cans were manufactured at Anheuser-Busch's Metal Container Corporation facility in Jacksonville, Florida, using the Elysis aluminum cast into sheet ingots from Rio Tinto's plant in Quebec, Canada.The companies did not provide specific volume or mix of aluminum coming from the Elysis joint-venture.Anheuser-Busch partnered with Rio Tinto in October to market the lower-carbon cans.(Updates with context in final bullet)For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2021 Bloomberg L.P.
Correction: Aspocomp issues a profit warning: the operating result for 2020 will be slightly unprofitable
Aspocomp Group Plc, Inside Information, January 15, 2021 at 5:15 p.m. This release replaces the stock exchange release that Aspocomp Group Plc published today, January 15, at 11:30 a.m. EET. A typing error in the first paragraph of the English-language release has been corrected. The earlier version incorrectly referred to a "loan provision." This has now been corrected to "credit loss provision." Aspocomp's January-December 2020 net sales is estimated to be EUR 25.6 million. Demand in the telecommunications networks and automotive segments in the fourth quarter was lower than expected. Due to the low net sales and the EUR 0.3 million credit loss provision recorded in the first quarter, Aspocomp's operating result for January-December 2020 is estimated to be lower than previously forecast and to be approximately EUR -0.1 million. In its previous outlook for 2020 (the Interim Report on November 4, 2020) Aspocomp estimated that its net sales and operating result for 2020 will fall significantly short of the 2019 level. In 2019, net sales amounted to EUR 31.2 million and the operating result to EUR 3.4 million. Aspocomp's Financial Statements release January 1- December 31, 2020 will be released on Wednesday, March 10, 2021 at around 09:00 a.m. (EET). In conjunction with the publication of Aspocomp's Financial Statements release 2020, Aspocomp will provide an outlook for 2021. For further information, please contact Mikko Montonen, President and CEO, tel. +358 40 5011 262, mikko.montonen(at)aspocomp.com. ASPOCOMP GROUP PLC Mikko Montonen President and CEO Aspocomp – heart of your technology A printed circuit board (PCB) is used for electrical interconnection and as a component assembly platform in electronic devices. Aspocomp provides PCB technology design, testing and logistics services over the entire lifecycle of a product. The company's own production and extensive international partner network guarantee cost-effectiveness and reliable deliveries. Aspocomp's customers are companies that design and manufacture telecommunication systems and equipment, automotive and industrial electronics, and systems for testing semiconductor components for security technology. The company has customers around the world and most of its net sales are generated by exports. Aspocomp is headquartered in Espoo and its plant is in Oulu, one of Finland's major technology hubs. www.aspocomp.com
(Bloomberg) -- U.S. retail sales declined at the close of the holiday-shopping season, wrapping up a painful year for the nation's merchants as the pandemic forced store closures and kept consumers at home.Total retail receipts decreased 0.7% in December from the prior month after a downwardly revised 1.4% drop in November, Commerce Department figures showed Friday. The median forecast in a Bloomberg survey of economists called for no change in December.The unadjusted value of sales increased just 0.6% in 2020 compared with a year earlier, the weakest in 11 years."The December retail results were an absolute disaster," Stephen Stanley, chief economist at Amherst Pierpont Securities LLC, said in a note. "Clearly, consumer spending slowed down sharply in November and December as the virus gained ground and forced closures of stores and restaurants in many key states."The disappointing results reflected weaker sales at department stores, online merchants and restaurants, indicating the biggest part of the U.S. economy -- consumer spending -- took a step back in fourth quarter. At the same time, a separate report showed much firmer manufacturing output, which has been a bright spot in the recovery.For all of last year, the modest increase in the value of retail sales followed a 3.6% gain in 2019. The S&P 500 fell for a second day, while the dollar rose and the yield on the 10-year Treasury note declined.While additional fiscal support for households will help bolster Americans' financial positions, the next handful of months for retailers may be challenging until many more Americans are vaccinated and travel and leisure activity is restored.Stimulus PackageFederal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said during a virtual event on Thursday that the economy is still far from where the Fed would like it to be, but that "there could be quite exuberant spending and we could see some upward pressure on prices" as the pandemic recedes."The real question is, how large is that effect going to be, and will it be persistent?" he said.The coronavirus relief package signed by President Donald Trump in late December -- which included $600 stimulus checks for individuals and extended unemployment benefits through March -- could limit further deterioration in retail sales early this year.President-elect Joe Biden released details of another relief package on Thursday, which proposes additional government stimulus payments of $1,400.Retail sales excluding autos declined 1.4% in December, the most since April. So-called control group sales, which exclude food services, car dealers, building-materials stores and gasoline stations, plummeted 1.9% last month, also the most in eight months. The measure is often considered more reflective of underlying consumer demand.Other Friday ReportsFactory output climbed 0.9% in December, almost double the median estimate of 0.5%, on stronger production of consumer goods, business equipmentConsumer sentiment declined in January, with the University of Michigan's preliminary index dropping to 79.2 from 80.7 in the prior monthManufacturing in New York continued to expand in January, though at a slightly slower pace than a month earlierPrices paid to U.S. producers rose less than expected in December. The producer price index for final demand climbed 0.3%, Labor Department figures showed(Adds manufacturing output, economist's comment)For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2021 Bloomberg L.P.


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An article for The Times Literary Supplement.
Most of the women who have ever lived left no trace of their existence on the record of history. In sixteenth-century Europe, it is likely that no more than 5 per cent of women – at most – were literate; ordinary women left no letters, diaries, or notebooks in which they expressed what they felt or thought. For us, their voices are silent.
From the mid-1530s, and especially from the 1550s, ordinary women and men in France started converting, in ever increasing numbers, to Calvinism. The Calvinists rejected the authority of the Pope, abhorred the Catholic Mass, and deplored what they saw as the corruption, hypocrisy, and idolatry of the Roman Church. Their Catholic enemies mocked them with the name "Huguenots".


"When [the two witnesses] finish their testimony, the beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit will make war against them, overcome them, and kill them" (Revelation 11:7).
At the end of the testimony of the Two Witnesses, at the time they fell silent, the beast from the bottomless pit would defeat and kill them. This beast came from the same place as the locusts of chapter 9, thus, he is of the devil.
This beast would make war with the Two Witnesses, overcome them, and kill them. How is it that the beast can kill the Two Witnesses of God?
Acts 6 and 7 shows that the world cannot contend with the Church (one Witness) when it speaks the word of God (the other Witness). The world used brute force to silence a member of the Church, giving the impression that they won against him and his word (Acts 6:10; 7:54–59).
The beast that fought the Two Witnesses, the Church and the Scriptures, will not use logic, Scripture, or persuasion, but will use whatever power it deems necessary, whether it be the government or the sword.
This very thing happened with one particular beast that arose in the past and it persecuted the Church heavily, so heavily that it is hard, almost impossible, to find the Church existing for a while in history.
There have been many such beasts as this in the past. There is another one right now trying to silence the Church and the Scriptures.
Beware of the beast of secularism. It uses the government now, but what shall it use next! This beast of chapter 11 will be more easily identified as we move along in Revelation.


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Lost Concert Recordings From 1968 Unearthed
MICHIGAN HISTORY PROJECT NEWS
Michigan History Project Discovers Treasure-Trove of Historic Recordings ANN ARBOR, MICH., July 16, 2018
The non-profit Michigan History Project has recently discovered a treasure-trove of historic musical recordings made in Ann Arbor, Michigan during the 1960s by such artists as Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Tim Buckley, Doc Watson, Odetta, and others.
The recordings were made at Canterbury House, then and now home to the Episcopal student ministry at the University of Michigan. In the sixties, Canterbury House was an inclusive place of worship that also served as a countercultural nexus and hip music venue where top-name folk and blues acts would play.
The discovered 7-inch reel-to-reel audio tapes include a series of concerts by Joni Mitchell from 1968, a performance by Neil Young from that same year, and shows by other folk, blues, and bluegrass artists including Tim Buckley, Doc Watson, Odetta, Dave Van Ronk, David Ackles, Jim Kweskin (both solo and with the Jug Band), Len Chandler, Spider John Koerner, and the New Lost City Ramblers.
more at http://michiganhistoryproject.org/michigan-history-news.html

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Fireworks () is a 1954 West German period musical comedy film directed by Kurt Hoffmann and starring Lilli Palmer, Karl Schönböck, and Romy Schneider. Palmer's rendition of the song "O mein Papa" became a major hit. It was Palmer's debut film in her native Germany, having spent many years in exile in Britain, and launched her career as a major star in the country.

The film is based on the 1950 stage musical Das Feuerwerk partly written by Erik Charell. It was made at the Bavaria Studios in Munich and on location in Switzerland. The film's sets were designed by the art director Werner Schlichting.

It is a circus film set at the beginning of the twentieth century.

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West German films
1954 musical comedy films
German musical comedy films
1950s German-language films
Circus films
German films based on plays
Films based on operettas
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Films set in the 1900s
1950s German films
Films shot at Bavaria Studios
German historical films
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Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1947, Gerri Johnson-McMillin has been creating art since early childhood. She loved the fiber arts, crocheting, sewing, needlepoint. She took her first basketry class in 1972. While her main interest is basketry, she enjoys weaving, spinning, and knotting.
The love of the ocean and what's beneath plays an influential part in Gerri's art. She is known for her Fishbone Vessels and Knotted Fiber Sculptures. Gerri is a national and international exhibiting artist and has her artwork in the permanent collections of the Long Beach Museum of Art and the Museum of Ventura County.
Since 1999 Gerri has been an Artist-in-Residence at Studio Channel Islands Art Center in Camarillo, CA and in 2006 was President of SCIART. She was instrumental in developing the Fiber Art Studio at the Center.
"Form, Color & Expression thru Fiber"
Syd Entel Galleries, Safety Harbor, FL. June 26-July 26, 2008
International Juried basket exhibition. Juror: John Garrett, Pink Lady fishbone vessel. HGA Convergence 2008, Tampa, FL. June 25 - 28, 2008
"Medusae (the jellies)"
Solo Installation, Koch Gallery, SCIART, Camarillo, CA, Jan. 12 - Apr. 26, 2008.
Beyond the Basket: Contemporary Work in Fiber, Metal & Wood
del Mano Gallery • June 23 - July 21, 2007
Material Content: Basketry Sculpture in the 21 Century
Craft Alliance • March 18 - May 15, 2005
See Gerri's complete exhibition history.
2004 1st Place Award for 3D Art, "5th Annual Juried Members Exhibition"
Cash award. Juror: Wayne Healy and Lawrence Gipe
2004 Award for non-Traditional and most innovative, given by Thirteen Moons Gallery.
"Don't Fence Me In, Containing the West" International Juried basket exhibition. Emanation fishbone vessel. HGA Convergence 2004 Denver, CO. June/July 2004. Cash Award. Juror: Kevin Wallace
2003-04 Best of Show Award, "Points of Light"
Gardens of the World, Thousand Oaks, CA. Cash Award. Jurors: Roxie Ray-Bordelon and Kathy Waggoner
2003 Juror's Choice Award, "2003 Open National Exhibit"
Long Beach Arts Gallery, Long Beach, CA 302 fishbone vessel. Juror: Roland Reiss.
2002 1st Place Award for Three Dimensional Art, "A Classic Competition 2002" Carnegie Art Museum, CA. San Miguel, fishbone vessel. Cash Award.
2000 1st Place Award for Three Dimensional Art, "A Classic Competition 2000"
Carnegie Art Museum, CA. Women, knotted fiber sculpture. Cash Award. Juror: Louise Lewis
2005 Co-curator with Deborah Jarchow, three fiber art exhibitions: "Designing Weavers: A 30 Year Retrospective," "Artwear Celebrated," national juried wearable art exhibition, juried by Anita Luvera Mayer, and "Uncommon Threads." Studio Channel Islands Art Center, Camarillo, CA June 4 - July 30, 2005.
2002 Co-curator with Louise Lewis, Director of CSUN Art Galleries. "Fiber Optics: Contemporary Basketry and Knotting." Art Galleries, California State University, Northridge, Oct. 18 - Nov. 16, 2002.
1999 "From Fiber to Form, the Unexpected," Invitational show of 23 fiber artists. Studio Channel Islands Art Center, located on the campus of California State University, Channel Islands, Camarillo. November 1999 - January 2000.
2003 "Studio 83 Celebration 1983-2003," J. Handal Evans Gallery, Studio Channel Islands Art Center, Camarillo, CA. June 2003. Juried three-dimensional art.
"An Evening with Gerri Johnson-McMillin," Focus On The Masters Tuesday Talk Series, interviewed by Donna Granata, Feb. 7, 2006
Conversations with the Artists, "Focus on Fiber" Studio Channel Islands Art Center, Camarillo, June/July 2005
Conversations with the Artists, "Celebrating Nature: Craft Traditions/Contemporary Expressions", Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA, October 2004
Conversations with the Artists, "Show & Tel-art of connection", Zimmer Children's Museum, L.A., CA, August 2004
Conversations with the Artists, "Baskets: Sculptural Constructions" Santa Fe, NM, August 2004.
Weavings of the Zapatac people of Oaxaca" for Designing Weavers, Los Angeles, CA. February 2004
Conversations with the Artists, "The Inspired Vessel", Barnsdall Art Park, LA Municipal Art Gallery, CA. January 2004
Conversations with the Artists, "Interweave", Pierce College, Woodland Hills, CA. October 2003
Weavings of the Zapatac people of Oaxaca" for Ventura County Handweavers and Spinners Guild, Ventura, CA. August 2003
Conversations with the Artists, "Fiber Optics: Contemporary Basketry and Knotting", Art Galleries, California State University, Northridge, CA. November 2002
Lecture to Docents for exhibition "Fiber Optics: Contemporary Basketry and Knotting", Art Galleries, California State University, Northridge, CA. October 2002


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Nevada County Public Health Awarded National Accreditation through the Public Health Accreditation Board
by Nevada County Public Health Department September 8, 2021 September 8, 2021
September 7, 2021 – Jill Blake, Nevada County Public Health Director, announced today that the Nevada County Public Health Department (NCPHD) has achieved national accreditation through the Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB). "It is truly an honor to be recognized nationally for meeting these very high standards of excellence," Blake said.
The national accreditation program, jointly supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, sets standards against which the nation's 3,000+ public health departments can continuously improve the quality of their services and performance. To receive accreditation, a health department must undergo a peer-reviewed rigorous assessment process to ensure it meets or exceeds these quality standards and measures. Participation in the PHAB accreditation program is optional. Health departments that achieve PHAB accreditation join an elite group throughout the state and the nation.
"On average, it takes a local health department 3-5 years to achieve accreditation. We officially kicked off our accreditation process in late 2014 and finished in October 2019. The final phase of the process is a three-day site visit, which was scheduled for May 2020 and was, of course, delayed due to the pandemic," said Blake. "It is a long road we have travelled, finding great value in a lengthy process that helped us to identify our strengths as well as areas where we could improve our performance."
Accreditation is maintained for five years. Nevada County Public Health becomes the 21st local health department in California (of the state's 61 eligible local health departments) to have achieved accreditation status to date. "I am incredibly proud of our team for their dedication to meeting these nationally recognized standards," said County Executive Officer Alison Lehman. "This is an acknowledgement of the Public Health department's deep understanding of our community's health needs and commitment to providing high-quality, accessible services to our residents."
"The value of becoming nationally accredited through PHAB extends far beyond the interior walls of the health department," said PHAB President and CEO Paul Kuehnert, DNP, RN, FAAN. "People living and working in communities served by these health departments can be assured that their health department is strong and has the capacity to protect and promote their health. Just going through the accreditation process itself helps health departments pinpoint the areas that are critical to improving the work they do for their communities."
Often called the "backbone" of the public health system, local public health departments across the nation provide services to promote healthy behaviors; prevent diseases and injuries; and prepare for and respond to public health emergencies, as well as work with partners in all sectors to reduce health disparities.
Director Blake concluded, "I want to thank the department's amazing staff for their hard work and continued commitment to this process to achieve excellence. We will continue to look for innovative ways to improve what we do as we maintain accreditation over time. Nothing would make us happier or more satisfied than to realize our vision in which all of our Nevada County communities are healthy, safe, equitable, and thriving."
To learn more about PHAB and the accreditation standards achieved in Nevada County, visit www.phaboard.org.
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Media mogul John C. Malone and venture capitalist Scott Paterson have announced they are retiring from the Lionsgate board of directors and will not stand for re-election.
The company made the disclosure about the retirements in a July 13 8-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. It noted that the decision by the duo to leave the board did not stem from any dispute.
Malone joined the Lionsgate board in February, 2015, when Lionsgate and Malone's Starz agreed to a stock swap that resulted in Lionsgate giving Starz 3.43% of its common stock. Lionsgate wound up buying the premium cabler for $4.1 billion at the end of 2016 in a deal that left Malone as Lionsgate's second-largest shareholder with about 10%. Mark Rachesky is Liongate's largest shareholder at 38% and serves as chairman.
Lionsgate is expected to file its proxy for its annual meeting on July 27. That will include its nominees for the 13-member board of directors. The company has traditionally held the annual meeting in Toronto during the Toronto Film Festival.
Malone, 77, is the majority owner of Liberty Media, Liberty Global, and Qurate Retail Group. The other 11 members of the Lionsgate board include Rachesky, vice chairman Michael Burns, chief executive officer Jon Feltheimer, Gordon Crawford, Emily Fine, Michael T. Fries, Lucian Grainge, Daryl Simm, Hardwick Simmons, and David Zaslav.
Fries is the chief executive office of Liberty Global and Zaslav is the chief executive of Liberty Global affiliate Discovery Inc.


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At each stage of Japan's post-war economic recovery, businesses were "pleased, but not satisfied" with the results and constantly pushed for more improvement. The concept of Kaizen seems to have close parallels with the business and management philosophy expressed in Pleased But Not Satisfied by David L. Sokol.
David Sokol has been in the news many times over the past few months due to his increasing prominence within Berkshire Hathaway. Mr. Sokol is Chairman of MidAmerican Energy which is one of Berkshire's most important subsidiaries. In addition, he has assumed the Chairman and CEO roles at NetJets, a Berkshire subsidiary that has suffered from serious operational problems during the current economic downturn. Many followers of Berkshire Hathaway believe that Mr. Sokol may be on the short list to eventually succeed Warren Buffett as CEO. It is only natural for shareholders to be curious about Mr. Sokol's approach to management.
Mr. Sokol has succeeded in creating a very concise guide to his business philosophy that can be read easily in only a couple of hours. After providing a brief account of his background in business, Mr. Sokol sets forth the "six commandments" of business: Customer Commitment, Employee Commitment, Financial Strength, Integrity, Environmental Respect, and Operational Excellence. While many of his examples are related to MidAmerican's business, these principles apply equally to any business.
One aspect of Mr. Sokol's management philosophy that is reinforced throughout the book is the importance of accountability for those in management roles, particularly when it comes to the responsibility managers have toward their direct reports. Managers who engage in lazy behavior such as granting all of their employees similar scores on generic performance reviews or "punt" when it comes to supervision by saying they do not "micromanage" are not only harming the business but doing a disservice to employees looking to them for leadership.
Goal setting, budgeting, and actively measuring results receives quite a bit of attention, and rightly so. Mr. Sokol's recommendation to carefully plan, execute, measure, and correct throughout a project may seem obvious but it is definitely the exception rather than the rule in most organizations. The very subject of performance metrics can cause a revolt among under performers in an organization who will protest that their jobs are too "complex" or the industry is too "dynamic" for metrics to be established. Such individuals exist in every organization but have no role in a system that is seeking continuous improvement.
Metrics are critical because, in most organizations, what is measured is what gets the attention of managers and employees. By setting key performance indicators at the corporate level and having each operating unit do the same, managers can clearly communicate what is important and what is not. In my experience, great employees will welcome measurement and be motivated by scorecards while poor employees will object. Mr. Sokol's recommendation to always measure against a plan and to correct for changing assumptions and events can improve the results of any organization.
One of the main jobs of Berkshire Hathaway's CEO is to allocate capital. At Berkshire, this is no small task due to the large amounts of cash flow generated by the operating companies that regularly flow to headquarters for reallocation to other operating companies, purchase of entire businesses, or deployment in publicly traded securities. As a result, Berkshire Hathaway shareholders will want to pay particular attention to Mr. Sokol's chapter on acquisitions and business expansion.
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import tensorflow as tf
from typeguard import check_argument_types

from neuralmonkey.model.stateful import TemporalStatefulWithOutput
from neuralmonkey.model.parameterized import InitializerSpecs
from neuralmonkey.model.model_part import ModelPart
from neuralmonkey.nn.utils import dropout
from neuralmonkey.decorators import tensor
from neuralmonkey.attention.base_attention import (
    get_attention_states, get_attention_mask, Attendable)

class AttentiveEncoder(ModelPart, TemporalStatefulWithOutput):
    """An encoder with attention over the input and a fixed-dimension output.

    Based on "A Structured Self-attentive Sentence Embedding",
    https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.03130.

    The encoder combines a sequence of vectors into a fixed-size matrix where
    each row of the matrix is computed using a different attention head. This
    matrix is exposed as the ``temporal_states`` property (the time dimension
    corresponds to the different attention heads). The ``output`` property
    provides a flattened and, optionally, projected representation of this
    matrix.
    """

    # pylint: disable=too-many-arguments
    def __init__(self,
                 name: str,
                 input_sequence: Attendable,
                 hidden_size: int,
                 num_heads: int,
                 output_size: int = None,
                 state_proj_size: int = None,
                 dropout_keep_prob: float = 1.0,
                 reuse: ModelPart = None,
                 save_checkpoint: str = None,
                 load_checkpoint: str = None,
                 initializers: InitializerSpecs = None) -> None:
        """Initialize an instance of the encoder."""
        check_argument_types()
        ModelPart.__init__(self, name, reuse, save_checkpoint, load_checkpoint,
                           initializers)

        self.input_sequence = input_sequence
        self.hidden_size = hidden_size
        self.num_heads = num_heads
        self.output_size = output_size
        self.state_proj_size = state_proj_size
        self.dropout_keep_prob = dropout_keep_prob

        if self.dropout_keep_prob <= 0.0 or self.dropout_keep_prob > 1.0:
            raise ValueError("Dropout keep prob must be inside (0,1].")

    @tensor
    def _attention_states_dropped(self) -> tf.Tensor:
        return dropout(get_attention_states(self.input_sequence),
                       self.dropout_keep_prob, self.train_mode)

    @tensor
    def attention_weights(self) -> tf.Tensor:
        mask = get_attention_mask(self.input_sequence)
        hidden = tf.layers.dense(self._attention_states_dropped,
                                 units=self.hidden_size,
                                 activation=tf.tanh, use_bias=False,
                                 name="S1")
        energies = tf.layers.dense(hidden, units=self.num_heads,
                                   use_bias=False, name="S2")
        # shape: [batch_size, max_time, num_heads]
        weights = tf.nn.softmax(energies, axis=1)
        if mask is not None:
            weights *= tf.expand_dims(mask, -1)
            weights /= tf.reduce_sum(weights, axis=1, keepdims=True) + 1e-8

        return weights

    @tensor
    def temporal_states(self) -> tf.Tensor:
        states = self._attention_states_dropped
        if self.state_proj_size is not None:
            # pylint: disable=redefined-variable-type
            # pylint property-related bug
            states = tf.layers.dense(states, units=self.state_proj_size,
                                     name="state_projection")
            # pylint: enable=redefined-variable-type

        return tf.matmul(a=self.attention_weights, b=states, transpose_a=True)

    @tensor
    def temporal_mask(self) -> tf.Tensor:
        return tf.ones(tf.shape(self.temporal_states)[:2], tf.float32)

    @tensor
    def output(self) -> tf.Tensor:
        # pylint: disable=no-member
        state_size = self.temporal_states.get_shape()[2].value
        # pylint: enable=no-member
        output = tf.reshape(self.temporal_states,
                            [-1, self.num_heads * state_size])
        if self.output_size is not None:
            output = tf.layers.dense(output, self.output_size,
                                     name="output_projection")

        return output

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The largest jackpot winners in Virginia Lottery history were J. R. and Peggy Triplett of Winchester, who won a $239 million jackpot on February 20, 2004, with a Mega Millions ticket they bought in Stephens City.? Virginia's second-largest jackpot winner, Steve Williams of Shenandoah, won $200 million in the October 16, 2009, Mega Millions drawing.
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The preliminary set of July's German CPI figures headlines the economic calendar in European hours. The headline year-on-year inflation rate is expected to tick down to 1.5 percent, revisiting the six-month low set in May. A weaker outcome echoing a sting of disappointing data in recent weeks may hurt the case for ECB stimulus reduction. That may weigh on the Euro, though it has been remarkably resilient lately.
The spotlight then turns to the second-quarter US GDP report. Consensus forecasts see the annualized growth rate accelerating to 2.7 percent from 1.4 percent in the three months through March. Unlike the Eurozone, recent US economic news-flow has increasingly improved relative to expectations. That may open the door for an upside surprise that rekindles bets on another Fed rate hike in 2017, boosting the US Dollar.
The Swiss Franc underperformed in overnight trade. The currency has been under pressure all week and is now working on its fifth consecutive daily drop, touching the lowest level since December 2015 against an average of its major counterparts. A clear-cut driver for the reversal is not readily apparent. Newswires have cited ECB tightening bets but evidence confirming as much is lacking.
The Japanese Yen traded broadly higher as most stocks fell in Asian trade, offering a lift to the standby anti-risk currency. The MSCI Asia Pacific regional equities benchmark slid 0.7 percent, led by the technology shares. The move echoed performance on Wall Street, a deep slide in IT-related names saw the S&P 500 spike down to a six-day low.


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Jamie McLeod-Skinner trails Greg Walden in the race for the congressional seat representing Malheur County, but her polling suggests he's not as popular as he once was in his district.
SALEM — Democrat Jamie McLeod-Skinner, who is running against longtime Congressman Greg Walden, R-Hood River in Oregon's second congressional district, is touting new poll numbers showing her opponent with less than 50 percent support among surveyed voters.
But the figures show she's still behind. The poll, commissioned by the campaign, shows 40 percent of respondents favored her, and 49 percent favored Walden.
About 5 percent of those surveyed were undecided and 7 percent favored the Independent candidate, Mark Roberts.
Patinkin Research Strategies surveyed about 400 likely voters in the district.
The poll's margin of error is 5 percent.
About 25 percent of respondents who identified as independent remained undecided, according to the poll.
In a statement, McLeod-Skinner touted the numbers as evidence of support for her platform against Walden, who helped design a failed plan last year to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
"The numbers that are starting to come out reflect what we've seen throughout this campaign," McLeod-Skinner said in a statement. "People are frustrated by what the current representative has done to threaten their access to affordable health care."
Walden has outraised McLeod-Skinner nearly 5-to-1, with about $4.9 million in campaign contributions.
And a McLeod-Skinner victory is a tall order in a district that's been labeled as a Likely" Republican victory by Ipsos polling and "Safe" Republican district by the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. The Cook Political Report and Inside Elections also label it a "Safe R" district.
Nate Silver's politics and sports news site, FiveThirtyEight, pegs McLeod-Skinner's chances of winning the race at 0.5 percent.
FiveThirtyEight expects Walden to clinch about 59 percent of the vote.
But the Democrat's campaign said that recent fundraising momentum and demographic changes in the district may work in her favor come election night. McLeod-Skinner has raised significantly more than prior Walden challengers —about $1.06 million as of late September.
The district, which includes southwest Oregon and covers central and eastern Oregon, has seen its population grow about 7 percent since 2010, according to the McLeod-Skinner campaign. Most of that growth, especially in cities like Medford and Bend, is people moving to the district from places like Portland, Seattle and California.
The number of nonaffiliated voters in the district (182,434) exceeds the number of registered Democrats (143,317), according to September figures from the state Elections Division. Republicans dominate the district with 188,755 registered voters.
There are another 28,576 voters in the district who identify as members of the Independent Party.
The poll released found that while 87 percent of Republicans surveyed supported Walden, 9 percent of them supported McLeod-Skinner. Meanwhile, 94 percent of Democrats surveyed said they supported McLeod-Skinner.
A spokesman for Walden said the campaign was "confident" in the incumbent's re-election.
"Greg Walden has a proven record of serving as a strong voice for rural Oregon in Congress," Justin Discigil, a spokesman for Walden, said in a prepared statement. "That is why Greg's campaign has the backing of thousands of local supporters in Oregon and we are confident in his re-election in November."
Reporter Claire Withycombe: cwithycombe@eomediagroup.com or 503-385-4903.
Withycombe is a reporter for the East Oregonian working for the Oregon Capital Bureau, a collaboration of EO Media Group, Pamplin Media Group, and Salem Reporter.


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The hotel's opening was delayed by 85 days, largely as a result of inclement weather and industrial disputes. The Burswood Convention Centre was opened on 20 November , and on 8 April , the entire Burswood Island complex had its official opening. The casino was expanded in , and an improved International Room for high-rolling punters was unveiled in In , the management of Burswood undertook an extensive refurbishment program of the hotel rooms. In , Burswood entered into a deal with land developer Mirvac Fini for the residential development of vacant land between the complex and the Graham Farmer Freeway.
Picking up from the long-neglected Stage 2 of the Burswood development plan, in the early s the management of Burswood made various plans to build a second hotel on the site. Eventually, in they entered into a joint venture deal with the InterContinental Hotels Group to run the existing Burswood Resort Hotel to be re-branded as Burswood InterContinental Hotel and a new, room Holiday Inn hotel to be constructed adjacent to the Burswood Theatre.
On 1 August , the Holiday Inn Burswood opened for business after 29 months of construction. In , Burswood closed its renowned fine-dining Windows Restaurant in order to make way for a newer, expanded VIP room for high rollers. It replaced the old International Room which closed its doors following the unveiling of The Pearl Room. In Publishing and Broadcasting Limited vested its gaming interests, which included Burswood, into Crown Limited , a company controlled by James Packer , the son and heir of Kerry Packer , who died in December Also in Burswood opened The Riviera Room - a new gaming room featuring higher stakes open to the general public.
The Riviera Room is located at the site of the old International Room, and has been refurbished to feature a contemporary design. Carbon Sports Bar opened in December and features a giant In December , Burswood opened its new world-class dedicated poker room featuring plasma screens, dedicated bar and lounge area. The shows at Burswood were Spears' first concerts in Australia. She was originally supposed to perform 5 shows in Australia during her Onyx Hotel Tour including one at the Burswood Dome , but the shows were canceled after Spears injured her knee while filming her video "Outrageous".


We just had to make the new album, so that's what first inspired it. We started thinking about it, then we had a title, a way to approach...then it was done.
No, I think we are way in it, maybe for 15 years. It's not a war that's being fought with blood only, but on the backs of the impoverished masses. Any sort of big super power government in the world that diverts from the cause of humanity makes the evil more evil.
Yeah, that's the main incentive. If it wasn't fun and making us happy, then we wouldn't be doing it, because there are certainly more lucrative ways to spend your time.
We don't really consider ourselves industrial. We always called our stuff ultra-heavy beat. But we've been lumped into this industrial thing, but we don't pay much attention to what we see as the industrial scene. There is a difference between European and American industrial. Industrial as we know it is late 1970s noise core stuff, like Throbbing Gristle, SPK and stuff like that. While in America, industrial is everything that blends guitars, computers and electronic music, like Ministry and Nine Inch Nails. We never felt a part of that camp because we don't adhere to the rules of that camp. Industrial, like many underground art forms, is very segregated and self-limiting. We've never subscribed to any genres or tags. For KMFDM, the rules do not apply.


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Q: Wrong color in Interface Builder's color picker I have an UIImageView with a brown image that will not always reach the top part. The UIImage view is inside a white UIView.
So, because the top part of the image is a linear brown color, I said I will make the UIView underneath it the same brown color, and the user will not see where the image ends. So far, so good.
My problem is, when I pick the color in the top part of the image, the color picker picks a more darker color than actually is there :(
Before I click the color picker:

After I click the color picker:

How comes ?

A: Just wanted to elaborate upon the accepted answer with some screenshots.
If you want to match RGB values between Photoshop and Xcode exactly (without conversion between colorspaces) then you need to save your images in generic RGB and enter any dropper values using the generic RGB colorspace.

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*When you choose "Save for Web & Devices" from Photoshop, uncheck the "Convert to sRGB" box.

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*In Xcode, click the colorspace popup in the color picker and choose "Generic RGB", then enter the red, green and blue values from Photoshop, NOT THE HEX VALUE as this reverts back to the sRGB colorspace for some reason (be careful not to tab to the hex field either, as that also changes the colorspace to sRGB).

More info here, including how to match screenshots.

A: Its because the component numbers don't spec a color. We also need to know the color space which xCode uses. Colorspace which encodes or decodes is available in the drop down  left to the RGB slider.

By default xCode chooses the "Generic RGB" and that is what UIColor uses spec color from RGB. If we use magnifying glass, it will change to "Device RGB" space and that is based on your current screen.
So "sRGB" or "Adobe RGB" would be the better or close to what you want if you are using the magnifying glass to pick a color.

A: I've managed to find out a solution/explanation (tho I'm still confused) in this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/9203647/460750
Basically, what I did to solve my issues, was to choose from the RGB "types" select (that little square under the color picker) the Apple RGB option, and enter the R, G and B values manually, instead of using the picker.
Odd...

A: I think Generic RGB also works.
the trick is you need to enter number of R G B manually
after change the RGB mode in dropdown list
Odd... (too)

A: UPDATE 10.10.4
I had this issue as well, I reported it to Apple, and it seems to have been solved on 10.10.4 (it was related to the color picker itself, not to Xcode/IB)
Can someone else confirm it?

A: This is an old question, but it was important for me to add some info.
The only method that has been working for me accurately over the years was to not use PS's Color Picker, but use macOS' built-in "Digital Color Meter".

It's bundled with every installation of macOS and the RGB values emitted from there with "Generic RGB" always reproduce the correct color in Xcode Storyboards.

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Welcome to Day 3 of Trainwreck'd Society's Annual Month of Horror Showcase! We have a fully loaded month of all things horror for you fine folks! October is our favorite month for this very reason, and we are so excited to share 31 full days of film showcases and interviews with some of the finest folks from the world of horror, just as we have been doing for the last 5 years. What started as a simple 5 day showcase, has now blossomed into a full blown month long event. You're going to love this! Enjoy!
Oh do we have another wonderful interview for you fine Folks today! We have some wonderful words from another absolutely amazing actress. It's Aimee-Lynn Chadwick Everyone! Aimee-Lynn has done some incredible work in the world of horror and beyond. I was absolutely ecstatic to talk to her about her work in the Return of the Living Dead franchise specifically. And while we may have different opinions on the the outcome of the films she worked on, she is indeed the expert and was so kind to give us a bit of insight on not just these couple of films, but some of the other amazing work she has done in and out of the world of horror, as well as letting us know what made her want to join the world of performance, as well as her work as a brilliant musician. There is so much to enjoy here, so let's just jump right into it!
So Folks, please enjoy some wonderful words from the amazing actress Aimee-Lynn Chadwick!
The first memory I have of Films and being drawn to them were Old Black and White movies I use to watch with my mom. Shirley Temple movies were my LIFE! Watching films like Rebecca of Sunny Brook Farm, White Christmas, anything with Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney in them. That is really where I knew, even in my young age, THAT was what I was born to do. It was something that really burned so deeply in me. Not the "fame part" necessarily, as I have always been a painfully shy and awkward, but I was always drawn to characters, and watching the transformation of an Actor really taking on a role. Whatever genre that may be. If someone really dives deep in a role, and brings depth, and vulnerability, and transports me into the story enough to believe they are that character.. THAT is everything for me. It's my favorite thing ever.
In 2005 you appeared in the brilliant additions to the Living Dead franchise, with Rave to the Grave and Necropolis. In your obvious expert opinion, what do you believe these two films have added to the franchise? What sets them apart from all the others?
Usually, when this topic is brought up It is presented to me in a "tongue and cheek" sorta way. Let me start by saying, there is nothing "BRILLIANT" about these 2 films, it's a kitschy genre, and in my humble opinion NOTHING can top the original ROTLD. With that said, these 2 movies HAD THE POTENTIAL, to be brilliant. My fellow actors and makeup team, and writers, are all brilliant in their own right. The problems that were faced on these productions were set against us from the start. Let's just say, we shot in Romania, and were faced with A LOT of obstacles on our 5 month journey. We shot both films back to back, out of sequence. One of our actresses got gravely ill and had to be med-flighted back to the states to save her life. So we had to recast her for Rave to the Grave. None of what we already shot made sense anymore, and we were running out of time, and money. So scripts were botched, story lines were cut, it was a frenzy. What do I believe these two movies add to the franchise? I think if one looks at them with less of a "judgy-troll eye" , and sees that there were so many things that the actors and director, had NO CONTROL over, you will find the heart of these movies. You will see that we all gave it what we could with what we had to work with. I signed on to this project as a ROTLD SUPER FAN! so just the fact I get to say I am part of the franchise family is EVERYTHING to me.
I can only speak for myself, but the time I spent filming these movies will last me forever. I made lifelong friends. I got to spend time in the most beautiful, magical country. I got to film 2 zombie movies. I got to work and learn from some of the greatest special effects artists of all time. It was a life changing experience I wouldn't trade for anything. The thing that sets these movies apart, is they are more on the modern side, and maybe they aren't perfect…but, like I said in the beginning, ROTLD [films] are kitschy! and suppose to be FUN! these aren't meant to be Oscar-winning movies. They are meant to take the horror fan away for an hour or so and have them throw tomatoes at us. So, I think we did our jobs perfect…despite it all being one uphill battle .
Beyond the world of acting, I've come to learn that you are an accomplished singer/songwriter as well. Can you tell us a bit about your journey into the world of music? And where can people learn more about your career as a musician?
Music and Acting have always gone hand in hand for me. I started my career doing local and professional musical theatre. I have been writing poems, and songs since I could write. So when I got to los angeles I started working at Tower Records and finally got the nerve to start really working on my own music, and collaborating with other people. Music has always been my sanctuary. Where acting I get to "be someone else for a bit", and Create characters, with my music it is like my diary, my therapy. It has literally kept me sane all my life. Even if I take a break from making music for a year or two, I always end up diving back in and writing a record full force. I love it so much. I have been so blessed to get to collaborate and write and perform music with some of the most talented humans ever.
My first Album is called Generation Next, you can find it on ITUNES and SPOTIFY. I also had a band called Chasing Aimee and a side acoustic project called The Charles Shaw Project. Currently, I am working on a solo project under the stage name FABLE. More to COME!
While the world of horror is far from being your mainstay in the world of film and television, you have had some great success in the genre. And this being our Month of Horror showcase and all, I am curious to know what it is you enjoy about working in the more frightening world of suspense and horror? What sets it apart from other projects you tend to work on?
I LOVE HORROR! It's so fun! Halloween is my Christmas. Plus, If anyone has ever done ANYTHING with or for the horror community they will know what I mean when I say, it is the most awesome, supportive, family. I love getting bloody, I love wearing weird contacts and freaking people out on camera. The art of it is so amazing. I had never been so giddy as I was the day I sat in the makeup chair for 4 hours for my prosthetics for Chromeskull: Laid To Rest 2! My death scene is SO gnarly and awesome! they had to basically build the side of my head, ear and pig tail and all, just so chromeskull can rip my face off ! It was pretty fun I must say. I think there is something exciting about working on suspense and horror projects. I have never been on a set of one where I didn't have the best time of my life. If I had to pick something that sets this genre apart I would say it's the fans, and people you meet from being in one. It truly is one big creepy, bloody, family. I love it.
My favorite scary movie? yikes! This is a tough one, I think I had like 104 at one point. But, off the top of my cranium, I will pick a classic…the original 1974 Black Christmas starring Olivia Hussey. This movie was SO good! A. because , OLIVIA HUSSEY! but , also I found it to remind me of an old italian horror film. Even for me it had a bit of a creepy voyeuristic Hitchcock vibe. I am obsessed with the camera angles from the Killer's point of view. It is not your average slasher film with really gory kills, or Un gratutious boobie shots…It felt more cinematic to me, and made it SOOO much more creepy and scary for me. That is just one of my faves, but I honestly have so many!
This Halloween I haven't quite decided on what I want to be! I know I will be doing on camera walk-thru's of some of the awesomest haunts in Salt Lake City with "CROWD SURFING UTAH" (you can find them on youtube) We will do walk throughs and interviews and get people into the halloween spirit all month long! Halloween being my favorite holiday I DO try and celebrate as MUCH as I can each year. As far as traditions? When I was younger ( I grew up in Massachusetts a.k.a. Witchy capital of the world) and we would always go to Salem each Halloween…Now, I just make sure I attend anything spooky related that is thrown at me , not just during Halloween season but ALL year long!


While all Opposition parties have welcomed the bill, they have also doubted the government's intentions.
New Delhi: Narendra Modi-led Centre has decided to provide 10 per cent reservation to economically weaker upper castes in civil posts and services in central government from February 1, 2019.
Referring to an Office Memorandum issued by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, the Department of Personnel and Training in its notification said that all direct recruitment vacancies notified on or after February 2, 2019 will incorporate the reservation.
The constitutional amendment to provide the 10 per cent quota was approved by Parliament during winter session earlier this month and had received assent of President Ram Nath Kovind on January 13.
Meanwhile various BJP-ruled states like Gujarat, Himachal Pradersh, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh implemented 10 per cent reservation in government jobs and education for the economically weaker sections (EWS) in the general category.
While all Opposition parties have welcomed the bill, they have also doubted the government's intentions. The Congress said it was merely a "gimmick" aimed at political gains in upcoming elections. Party leader KV Thomas said the legislation had been made in haste…and it should be sent to Joint Parliamentary Committee for examination.


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This year for Valentine's Day my husband did something a bit different. Sure I got flowers but this time they came wrapped in brown paper cut by a farmer earlier that day from The Bouqs Co!
Neither one of us had heard of The Bouqs Co before. Regardless, we're so impressed with their quality, mission and beauty. We'll definitely be ordering more not only for us but for friends and family as well!
The Bouqs Co is helping farmers all over the world grow their business – something I dearly love!
Their Farm to Table Bouqs, like the one I got, are cut the day you order and shipped from one of their farm partners so they last.
All the farms practice sustainable, eco-friendly farming, and they cut only what they sell.
This means they don't waste 1 out of every 3 stems like other flower delivery companies. I absolutely LOVE this.
A couple times we've gotten a bouquet with a handful of flowers that didn't looks so great and it's so refreshing to know that they stand by their bouquets! Nobody is perfect and it's always amazing to see companies that realize that and make it right.
The best part is the Bouqs Co flowers are extremely affordable. They also don't try to upsell you on dorky add ons like teddy bears or balloons – does anyone actually like those things? So the next time you want to make someone feel extra loved or you want to treat yourself, try them out! You won't be disappointed!
If you like flowers, check out this fun DIY flower crown tutorial!


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Une figure de Lichtenberg (parfois aussi dénommée «  » ou « arborescence électrique ») est une forme (ou son image) produite par un courant de décharge électrostatique dans l'air ou éventuellement à la surface d'un isolant ou à l'intérieur même d'un matériau isolant ( Plexiglas, ébonite, verre). Ce phénomène de claquage (destructeur quand il se produit dans la matière) apparait spontanément sur ou dans les isolants gazeux ou solides, à partir de certains seuils de tension électrique, et dans les contextes d'ionisation par haute tension ou moyenne tension ou par une source radioactive proche.

Ces figures sont ainsi nommées en l'honneur du physicien allemand Georg Christoph Lichtenberg qui les a originellement découvertes et étudiées. Au temps de leur découverte, on pensait que leur apparence aiderait à déterminer la nature des « fluides » électriques positif et négatif.

Les figures de Lichtenberg sont également des exemples de fractales et elles peuvent apparaitre sur la peau de personnes foudroyées.

Histoire
En 1777, Lichtenberg construit un important électrophore pour générer de l'électricité statique sous une forte tension électrique via l'induction électrostatique. Il observe les formes dessinées par les décharges électriques et se rend compte qu'après la décharge de cette tension à la surface d'un isolant, ces formes peuvent laisser des images fixées dans de la poussière : c'est aussi la découverte du principe de base de l'électrophotographie.

C'est d'autre part une découverte préliminaire à celle de la physique de l'état plasma.

En médecine

 Des formes de Lichtenberg peuvent apparaitre sur la peau des personnes foudroyées, qui conservent cette marque plusieurs heures ou plusieurs jours. On suppose que leur apparition résulte alors de la rupture de capillaires sanguins due à la diffusion du courant le long des zones cutanées les plus conductrices (zones microvascularisées…), pendant la décharge électrique.

 Très rarement un médicament ou vaccin peut être source dite « iatrogène » d'une figure de Lichtenberg

Études scientifiques
Elles ont commencé il y a plus de deux siècles avec l'étude des formes de Lichtenberg matérialisées dans la poussière. Ces figures présentent l'intérêt de révéler, au moins pour certaines matières et dans certains contextes, grâce au dessin très précis des figures de Lichtenberg la géométrie de surface ou tridimensionnelle des premiers stades des phénomènes de décharge et donc des moments importants de l'ionisation électronique, de la répartition et mouvement de charges dans l'espace, de la formation de plasma et de neutralisation des charges, connaissances ensuite réutilisables par exemple pour certaines applications de traitement de surface.

On ne sait pas encore précisément modéliser les phénomènes de décharge disruptive (dont les caractéristiques sont complexes, et qui semblent aussi dépendre du vieillissement du matériau isolant, de caractéristique de pureté du matériau ou d'humidité de surface ou intrinsèque) qui modulent le régime de décharge.  Ce phénomène continue donc à être étudié via des décharges créées dans un matériau transparent (( polyméthacrylate de méthyle) « PMMA ») qui va en conserver la forme tridimensionnelle qui peut alors être étudiée à loisir.

Cas d'une figure de Lichtenberg issue d'une ionisation radioactive
Dans le  de la revue de l'IRSN, Hortense Desjonquères (Ingénieure matériaux et procédés) et Céline Monsanglant-Louvet (Chercheuse sur l'épuration des gaz radioactifs) décrivent et interprètent un incident nucléaire d'un genre nouveau, qui pourrait avoir une importance dans le domaine de la vitrification des déchets nucléaires.

Le , alors que des chercheurs étudiaient dans une cellule confinée la capacité d'un matériau poreux à adsorber des gaz radioactifs, un bruit inhabituel et un éclair bleu sont survenus brutalement, justifiant qu'un opérateur donne l'alerte. Un réseau de fissures internes s'est brutalement formé, avec émission de lumière bleue, à l'intérieur du verre de protection du hublot de vision d'une cellule d'irradiation (dénommée « Irma ») située sur le site du Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies renouvelables () de Saclay (Essonne). Cette cellule était utilisée depuis 1969 pour étudier les effets des rayonnements ionisants sur divers équipements et matériaux. Elle abrite une source radioactive (scellée) constituée de  et est entourée d'épais murs en béton destinés à protéger les opérateurs ou personnels travaillant à proximité. Ce hublot de vision est composé d'une quadruple épaisseur de « verre au plomb » (verre devant confiner la radioactivité à l'intérieur de la cellule pour protéger les observateurs et télémanipulateurs ayant besoin d'observer l'intérieur de la cellule). Explications : durant ses quarante-huit ans d'utilisation le verre du hublot périodiquement chargé en électrons dont une partie générés au cœur du verre.

Ce jour-là un nombre trop important d'électrons s'est retrouvé piégé dans la masse de la première plaque de verre, créant un champ électrique supérieur à ce que la plaque de verre pouvait supporter. Cette dernière a fini par dépasser le seuil au-delà duquel se produit un arc électrique (de plus de  selon l'estimation faite ensuite par le  et l'). Depuis cet incident, le hublot a été réparé et un « temps de relaxation » des plaques de verre du hublot entre chaque irradiation a été rendu obligatoire, pour éviter que l'événement ne se reproduise.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Foudre
 Arc électrique
 Kéraunopathologie
 Ionisation
 Plasma (physique)

Bibliographie
  Ficker T (1999) . , 32(3), 219.

Électricité
Fractale
Foudre
Jouet basé sur des principes de physique


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Gantsi, more commonly known as Ghanzi
There's a widely held but misguided idea that Botswana towns that are far removed from the capital city, Gaborone are boring and have nothing to offer for entertainment, What's more, most other interesting places in Botswana are overshadowed by the more famous and popular areas such as the Chobe and Okavango Delta. Ghanzi is one such example, which is sad because the town does have a lot to offer! Gantzi is teeming with so much to see, do and experience, you just have to know where to go.
Aha Hills
Cheetah Conservation Botswana Gantsi Outpost
Gantsi Trail Blazers
Gcwihaba Caves
Ghanzi Craft
Kuru Art Centre
Kuru Dance Festival
The San Museum in D'Kar
Whatona Cultural Village
The Aha Hills straddle the Botswana and Namibia border. The hills lie about 50km North West of Gcwihaba and can be seen from it. The hills are mostly rough jagged, having been split by the elements into numerous faults and fractures. They cover an area of approximately 245 sq km, mostly in Botswana.
The infamous Central Kalahari Game Reserve lies about 150km from Gantsi. Is the most contested area due to the much-publicised conflict between the Botswana government and the San people. Many San people have been relocated from the area and resettled in settlements around Botswana.
Headquartered in Gaborone, a research and education field camp situated in the Gantsi farmlands of the western Kalahari, and an education base in Maun, just south of the Okavango Delta. The camp staff are very experienced in conservation and conduct research on cheetahs in and around the Gantsi region.
Julian Butler, a local businessman, set aside a former cattle ranch in Gantsi in order to set up as authentic hunter/gatherer community of the San with a view to helping them cope with the socio-economic pressures they face in modern day Botswana.
The caves are without a doubt situated in an area of Botswana counted among the wildest and most remote destinations in Botswana. Gcwihaba is a fascinating underground labyrinth of caverns and pits, linked passages, fantastical stalagmite and stalactite formations and beautifully coloured flowstones that appear like waterfalls of rack.
Run by the Ghanzi Craft Trust, a non-profit organisation that works to empower San communities in Botswana through craft production. The retail shop at Gantsi Craft has displays outlining the various skills and creativity that go into making the craft products, both in the past and present. Gantsi Craft works with craft producers in 16 remote settlements in the Ghanzi and Kgalagadi disticts.
Much like their ancestors before them did all over Southern Africa, the modern day San Artisits of the Kuru Art Projects use art as an outlet through which to express their traditions and recent life experiences. Kuru Art Project artists are well known the world over- their art pieces have been exhibited in over 15 countries globally.
Every year, the Kuru Dance Festival brings together various San groups from Botswana, Namibia and South Africa for an electrifying celebration of their rich cultural heritage of storytelling, song and dance.
D'Kar village, the site of the museum, is one of the San settlements located about 40km form Gantsi. Not much happens in D'Kar but the museum, which houses a wealth of San culture and history, a cultural centre and the Naro Language Project. A real treat awaits the History lovers in the form of information about hunting and gathering, craft production and traditional medicine there.
On the outskirts of town is a quaint cultural village run by a local woman. The idea behind the village is to share some of the Setswana culture and way of life. There are various traditional huts in different styles dotted around the area. A truly authentic experience of life in a typical Setswana village – with goats and chickens freely roaming around.
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